8 December 2009 - Book Sale

#0198

Lot 817/0198

Dore (Gustave) Illustrator: The Fables of La Fontaine, thick lg. 4to L. & N.Y. n.d. Portrait frontis, full page plts. & text illus., a.e.g., heavy gilt tooled block mor.; = also The History of Don Quixote, by Cervantes. Lg. thick 4to L. n.d., frontis, full page & other illus. cont. hf. mor. mor. label. (2)

Lot 818/0198

SOLD Hammer price €480

Johnston (Robert) Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland…, lg. 4to, L. 1815, FIRST EDN., hf. title, dedit., & 24 plts. (21 cold.) [complete], contemp. hf. green mor., marble boards, gilt decor. spine, mor. label. Good. (1)
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Lot 819/0198

Architecture: Pugin (Augustus) Gothic Ornaments Selected from Various Ancient Buildings both in England and France, 4to L. 1844, 91 litho plts. complete, cont. mor. backed cloth boards, v. good copy. (1)

Lot 820/0198

SOLD Hammer price €100

Early Genealogy: Imhoff (J.W.) Regum Pariumque Magnae Brittaniae Historia Genealogica, Folio Nuremberg 1690. Hf. title, engd. frontis, red & bl. title with name cut from margin not affecting text, fine cont. sprinkled calf, blind panels with corner decor., profusely tooled gilt spine, mor. label & raised bands. V. good. (1)
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Lot 821/0198

Signed by Author & Illustrator
Special Edition: Thomas (Alan G.) Great Books and Book Collectors, lg. 4to L. 1975. SPECIAL LIM. EDN. 82 (100), Signed by author, & with original engd. title page by Reynolds’s Stone, & signed by him. Cold. & other illus., a.e.g., full brown mor. by Weatherby Woolnough, in slip case. V. good. (1)

Lot 822/0198

Brandon (R. & J.A.) An Analysis of Gothic Architecture, 2 vols. Lg. 4to Edin. 1903. NEW EDN., 158 plts. orig. cloth. Good. (2)

Lot 823/0198

Grant (James) The Clans of Scotland, folio Edin. & L. 1886. FIRST EDN., dbl. page cold. map, & 72 cold. coats of arms, recent attractive hf. cloth, mor. labels. Good. (1)

Lot 824/0198

SOLD Hammer price €500

Private Irish Printing Press
Bibliography: Lalande (Joseph de) The Art of Papermaking, folio Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare (The Ashling Press) 1976. LIM. EDN. 104 (355), Signed by Printer & Papermaker, illus., uncut, orig. full blue mor., gilt decor. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 825/0198

Bibliography: Dudin (M.) The Art of the Bookbinder and Gilder, folio Leeds (Elmeta Press) 1977. LIM. EDN, 180 (490), illus., uncut, orig. mor. backed oatmeal cloth. V. good.

Lot 826/0198

SOLD Hammer price €110

Kemble (John M.) Horae Ferales; or Studies in the Archaeology of the Northern Nations, lg. 4to L. 1863. FIRST EDN., hf. title, list of subs., 34 plts. (11 hd. cold.) complete, orig. cloth, gilt. (1)
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Lot 827/0198

SOLD Hammer price €60

Limited Edition: Miller (Henry) My Life and Times, 4to N.Y. n.d. LIM. EDN. 415 (500), Signed by Author, illus., cloth, d.w. & slip case. (1)

Lot 828/0198

SOLD Hammer price €100

Pindar: West (R.) & Welsted (Rob.)eds. Pindari Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia, Trans. by No. Sudorium. Folio Oxford (Sheldon Press) 1697. Text in Latin & Greek. Engd. frontis., vign. title, orig. panel calf, rebacked, mor. label.
* Formerly the property of James Stopford, Fellow of T.C.D., & Bishop of Cloyne, & with his signatures, also of Bp. R. Sinclair Brooke, and Bp. James Welland Bishop of Connor & Dromore, with their bookplates. (1)

Lot 829/0198

SOLD Hammer price €210

Bacon (Sir Francis) Sylva Sylvarum or A Naturall Historie, roy 8vo, L. (J.H. for Wm. Lee) 1631, THIRD EDN., engd. port. frontis & add. engd t.p., bound with New Atlantis, A Work Unfinished, contemp. full calf, recent reback & labels. (1)
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Lot 830/0198

SOLD Hammer price €140

Chevalier (N.) Histoire de Guillaume, III – Roy D’Angleterre, D’Ecosse, De France, et D’Irlande, Prince D’Orange…, roy 8vo, Amsterdam 1692, engd. frontis, (loose), red & black t.p., dedit, 12 full page plts. illus. of coins etc., vignettes throughout, wd. cut decor. contemp. full calf, gilt decor. spine, worn & dam. (1)

Lot 831/0198

Hope (Wm. H. St. John) The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 – 1485, Folio L. 1901. 90 chromo plts., orig. green buckram, later professional mor. back. V. good. (1)

Lot 832/0198

SOLD Hammer price €110

Burlington Fine Arts Club: Exhibition of English Mezzotint Portraits from circa 1750 to circa 1830, Folio L. 1902, 30 fine mezzotint plates, uncut, orig. buckram. (1)

Lot 833/0198

SOLD Hammer price €70

Shaw-Sparrow (W.) Frank Brangwyn and His Work, Lg. folio L. 1910. LIM. EDN. 111(160). Etched frontis, with signature, decor. title, fine plts., mounted etc., some cold., uncut orig. wrappers. (1)

Lot 834/0198

SOLD Hammer price €110

Binding – Der Grosse Baum – Barten, 24 mo Nurenberg 1731. Engd. frontis & numerous engd. plts., a.e.g., rebacked cont. plain black mor., with elaborate silver? mounts, & decor. clasp. As a bind, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 835/0198

SOLD Hammer price €9250

Unique Collection of Original Botanical Studies
The Sketch Books of Sir Charles Langham 1894 – 1972
Langham (Sir John) A unique collection of approx. 300 original sketches and drawings contained in 5 original Albums, each titled, “Fungi”; “Ferns Sedges;” “Fermanagh, Ireland;” & “England, Ireland,” vols. I & II, all sketches identified, and mostly signed with initials, the location and date is also mostly given, the sizes vary from small, approx. 10cms x 13cms (4″ x 5″) to 27cms x 23cms (10 1/2″ x 9″), some loose in folder, but all in pristine fresh condition. As drawing, w.a.f.
* Sir John Langham was born in Northern Ireland. a well educated gentleman who travelled extensively. He became a land agent and managed some v. large estates in Ireland, including Coollattin, Shillelagh, for the Earl of Wicklow. His unique style, his accurate knowledge of botany, and his love of the countryside are all beautifully captured in this unique collection of drawings.
Provenance: Purchased from the Artist Family some years ago by the present owner.
Literature: Butler (Patricia) Irish Watercolours & Drawings, London 1990; also Irish Botanical Illustrators and Flower Painters, Suffolk 2000.
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Lot 836/0198

SOLD Hammer price €260

Ex- Libris George Richard Pain
Architecture: Durand (J.N.L.) Recueil et Parellele des Edifices de Tout Genre.., oblong folio, Paris [1801, An 1x], 90 full page engd. plts., damp stained, at lower edge, contemp. hf. calf, worn & boards loose. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (1)