8 December 2009 - Book Sale

#0198

Lot 677/0198

SOLD Hammer price €300

Anon – Irish Life: in the Castle, The Courts and the Country, 3 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1840. FIRST EDN., later diced calf, single gilt fillet borders, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels. Scarce. (3)
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Lot 678/0198

SOLD Hammer price €160

Irish Travel: The Tourist’s Illustrated Hand-Book for Ireland, sm. 8vo L. 1853. Great Exhibition Year fold. map illus. & adverts etc., cloth; = Loftie (W.J.) Views in Wicklow and Killarney, sm. 4to L. 1875, SECOND EDN., 6 mtd. cold. plts. & other illus.; = Irwin (G. O’Malley) The Illustrated Hand-Book to the County of Wicklow, 12mo L. 1844, 7 engd. plts. (ex. 9), cloth; = & 3 other items. (6)

Lot 679/0198

SOLD Hammer price €670

Inscribed by ‘Flann O’Brien’
[O’Nolan (Brain)] ‘Flann O’Brien” A Swim-Two-Birds, 8vo L. 1960. [Second Edition] Signed by the author, with orig. unclipped d.w. V. clean copy. (1)
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Lot 680/0198

SOLD Hammer price €100

[Joyce (James)] Budgen (F.) James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses, 8vo L. 1934. FIST EDN., Signed Pres. Copy; = also Myselves when Young, 8vo N.Y. 1970. Signed by Author; = Noel (L.) James Joyce and Paul L. Leon, The Story of a Friendship, 8vo N.Y. 1950. Signed by Author, Leon’s wife; = Freund (Gisele) Photographer, Three Days with Joyce, 4to N.Y. 1985. Signed by Author; = & Reflections on James Joyce – Stuart Gilbert’s Paris Journal, Austin Texas, 1993, d.w. (5)

Lot 681/0198

SOLD Hammer price €160

Carrickfergus interest: A thick scrapbook compiled by James Weatherup of Belfast, containing a large quantity of cuttings and documents relating to Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, most loosely laid in, including various copies, and also some original documents, a few letters with Carrickfergus postal stamps 1840 & 1847, a court document dated 1783, etc. etc. Includes an ‘In Memorial’ leaflet for James Weatherup, who died 1889, aged 77, formerly a deacon of the Baptist Church, Carrickfergus (probably father of the compiler). Some important m/ss material, newscuttings etc. A treasure trove for the local historian. As a scrap album, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 682/0198

SOLD Hammer price €240

Album: Catholic Affairs in N. Ireland: A quarto album containing press cuttings mostly concerning Catholic Church affairs in Northern Ireland, opening of new churches, bishops, addresses, church orders, building notices etc., c. 1900 – 1915, laid down neatly in a cloth album. As an album, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 683/0198

SOLD Hammer price €320

Wife of Irish Geologist
Sketch Book: Kinehan (N.A.) A good 19th Century sketchbook, oblong 4to, containing circa 35 good watercolours of scenery, buildings, ruins, interesting rock formations, flowers, etc., in Co’s Wicklow and Donegal and elsewhere, c. 1880’s and later, many inscribed and identified on rear, including Poinaquill Bay, Ballyarthur, Fogarty’s Hotel, Avoca, all Co. Wicklow; Blue Stack Mountians, Mt. Errigal, Loughabrack House & others Co. Donegal, Scariff Island, Co. Kerry, peasant cottages etc., also a few photographs by Mr. Adeney, 1880’s, & a number of pencil sketches, some copies of gravestones, etc. Interesting coll., some leaves loose. As a Sketchbook, w.a.f. The artist was the wife of G.H. Kinehan, Irish Geologist. (1)
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Lot 684/0198

Scarce Genealogical Manuscript
Genealogy: Anon. The Genealogy of the Family of Giffard or Gifford which was variously written, 4to c. 1840. A very good clear & legible manuscript in pen and ink of approx. 164pp. with varied manuscript family charts, coats of arms etc., the last entry dated 1st Sept. 1833, in a strong hf. mor. bound notebook, spine loose. V. Interesting & important. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 685/0198

SOLD Hammer price €230

[Clarke (Harry)] Illustrations – Swinburne (Algernon Chas.) Selected Poems, roy 8vo L. 1928. Decor. title, frontis & 10 plts., also text decor. by Harry Clarke, uncut, orig. gilt decor. cloth & decor. title. Clean copy. (1)

Lot 686/0198

SOLD Hammer price €750

Periodical: Carpenter (Andrew)ed. Eighteen-Century Ireland – Iris an da chultur. Vol. I – Vol. 19, unbroken, together 19 vols. 8vo D. 1986-2004. FIRST EDN., some illus. all orig. ptd. wrappers, first 16 vols. bound as 4, cloth. As a periodical, w.a.f. V. good. (19)
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Lot 687/0198

SOLD Hammer price €750

Rare Early 19th Century Manuscript in Irish
Manuscript: [Keating (Geoffrey)]? Tri Bior Gaoithe a Bhais, an original Gaelic manuscript, 4to, no author or place, paper watermarked 1812, & dated on page 151, 10th January, 1816, incomplete & disbound. Pages present consists of 81-175, 178-185, 204-235, 252-267, 270-293, 296-307, 310 – 325, & 328-339. some pen & ink decorations, the entire in attractive & competent hand. The entire disbound. As a m/ss., w.a.f. Extremely Rare. (1)
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Lot 688/0198

SOLD Hammer price €250

D’Alton (John) The History of Ireland, .. the Annals of Boyle, 2 vols. 8vo d. 1845. FIRST EDN., Published for The Author, 1 add. engd. title, & 1 engd. frontis, list of subs., & 13 engd. plts., some spotting, orig. cloth, a good clean tight copy. (2)
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Lot 689/0198

SOLD Hammer price €110

All Signed by the Author
Delany (Ruth) The Canals of The South of Ireland, Newton Abbot 1966; = The Grand Canal of Ireland, 1973; = Ireland’s Inland Waterways, 4to Belfast 1986; = & By Shannon Shores, roy 8vo D. 1987, all illus., FIRST EDNS & Signed, d.w.’s. (4)

Lot 690/0198

SOLD Hammer price €200

Albums: A good quality album containing autographs, pen & ink watercolour sketches, etc., compiled by Eva Hunter, 1909-10, including some interesting golfing cartoons, an attractive watercolour signed William Whitty (Waterford), some good caricatures signed G.B.B. (possibly George Belcher?), a few flower paintings etc., in a green suede covered album, generally in very good condition; = with an earlier Album, 1890’s compiled by Ida Glazier, similar material, disbound. As albums, w.a.f. (2)
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Lot 691/0198

Co. Meath: I.M.C.: Simington (R.C.)ed. The Civil Survey A.D. 1654 – 1656, County of Meath, Vol. V, 4to D. 1940. FIRST EDN., recent calf backed marble boards, gilt spine with raised bands. V. good. (1)

Lot 692/0198

SOLD Hammer price €2100

Signed by the Artist
Le Brocquy (Louis) Eight Irish Portraits in Words & Watercolour, 4to D. 1990. SOLE LIM. EDN. 713 (1000), Signed by Artist, 8 separate cold. plts., in orig. cloth folder, & outer slip case. V. good. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 693/0198

SOLD Hammer price €1000

Irish Binding: The Book of Common Prayer, 8vo D. (G. Grierson) 1753. Front & end loose marble leaves & a few leaves of text at end loose, a.e.g. cont. dark red mor., gilt tooled dbl. fillet border & centre gilt panel, spine tooled in panels; & in a later blind tooled mor. box, worn. As a binding, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 694/0198

SOLD Hammer price €525

Clanricarde (Earl of,) The Memoirs and Letters of Ulick Marquis of Clanricarde, and Earl of Saint Albans; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, .. Governor of the County and Town of Galway… Lg. folio L. 1757. FIRST EDN., cont. sprinkled calf, raised bands, mor. label. V. good. (1)
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Lot 695/0198

SOLD Hammer price €1300

Walsh (Fr. Peter) The History & Vindication of The Loyal Formulary, or Irish Remonstrance, So Graciously Received by His Majesty Anno 1661. Against All Calumnies and Censures. Folio [L.] 1674. FIRST EDN., pp. L11, [18], [II], 765, 81, [1], VI, 137, lacks front & end loose blanks, cont. calf, raised bands, lacks label, top & bottom of spine dam. Sweeney 5499. I.M.P. & I.N.T. Exceedingly Scarce. (1)
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Lot 696/0198

SOLD Hammer price €280

Whyte (Samuel) The Shamrock: or, Hibernian Crosses, A Collection of Songs, Poems, Epigrams etc. Latin as well as English, The Original Production of Ireland, … Thoughts on the Prevailing System of School Education. 4to D. 1772. FIRST EDN., advert. & errata leaf at end, list of subs., orig. calf, worn & torn. Scarce. (1)
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