8 December 2009 - Book Sale

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Lot 141/0198

SOLD Hammer price €90

Joyce (P.W.) Irish Names of Places, 3 vols. 1883, orig. cloth, gilt; = also Concise History of Ireland, D. 1897, cloth. (4)

Lot 142/0198

SOLD Hammer price €220

Bennett (George) The History of Bandon, sm. 8vo Cork 1862. FIRST EDN., orig. embossed cloth, gilt. V. good copy. (1)
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Lot 143/0198

SOLD Hammer price €160

Signed by the Author
Leech (A. Blennerhassett) Irish Riflemen in America, 8vo L. 1875. FIRST EDN., frontis & plts., some cold., text illus., fold. map & an addition fold. cold. Spex. cartoon from ‘Ireland’s Eye’ of the author, orig. cloth, gilt. (1)
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Lot 144/0198

SOLD Hammer price €160

Scarce Belfast Printing
Smyth (Rev. Ed.) Twelve Sermons on the Most Important Subjects, 12mo Belfast (J. Magee) 1778. For the Author., uncut, partly unopened, orig. boards. Rare. (1)
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Lot 145/0198

SOLD Hammer price €160

Medical: Butler’s Medicine Chest Directory, and Family Catalogue of Drugs, Chemicals, etc., 12mo D. 1832. THIRD EDN., engd. frontis & engd. interior view, some finger marks etc., orig. hf. calf, worn. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 146/0198

SOLD Hammer price €140

Rare Galway Printing
Neymo (P.A.O.) Similitude’s; or The Israelites and The Irish, 16mo Galway (Express Office) and [c. 1865]. Sole Edition, 156pp., orig. cloth. V. Scarce. Good. (1)
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Lot 147/0198

SOLD Hammer price €160

The Great Famine: Trevelyan (C.E.) The Irish Crisis, 12mo L. 1848. FIRST EDN. BK. FORM, hf. title, orig. cloth, gilt. Good & Scarce. (1)

Lot 148/0198

SOLD Hammer price €240

Wm. Smith O’Brien’s Plan
Connery (James) The Reformer: or An Infallible Remedy to Prevent Pauperism & Periodical Returns of Famine … on the Plan of William Smith O’Brien, Esq., 12mo L. 1837. SIXTH EDN., 3 wd. cut illus., orig. ptd. boards. V. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 149/0198

Bassett (Geo. H.) County Down Guide and Directory including The Borough of Newry, 8vo D. 1886. FIRST EDN., fold. cold. map, adverts etc; = also Armagh, 8vo D. 1886, lacks title & fold. map, uniform red cloth. (2)
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Lot 150/0198

Burns (John) of Monaghan. A Historical and Chronological Remembrancer of All Remarkable Occurrences from the Creation to this Present Year of Our Lord 1775, D. (Wm. Watson?) 1775. Printed for the Author, SOLE EDN., list of subs, errata, cont. calf, worn. Scarce.
* The Author was born deaf and dumb. (1)
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Lot 151/0198

SOLD Hammer price €170

Gatty (Mrs. Alfred) The Old Folks from Home; or, A Holiday in Ireland in 1861. 8vo L. 1862. FIRST EDN., hf. title, some finger marks, cloth. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 152/0198

SOLD Hammer price €220

Dodd (J.S.) The Traveller’s Directory through Ireland, 8vo D. 1801. FIRST EDN., fold. map of Dublin, & lg. fold map of Ireland (repaired), cont. calf, spine & joints cracked & worn, otherwise good. Scarce Directory. (1)
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Lot 153/0198

SOLD Hammer price €220

Ludlow (Ed.) Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq., 3 vols., 8vo Switzerland 1698-1699. FIRST EDN., Engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, hf. title, Vol. II, orig. calf, re-cased, new spines. Scarce. (3)
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Lot 154/0198

Killarney: Gallwey (Thos.) Lays of Killarney Lakes, Descriptive Sonnets and Occasional Poems. 12mo D. 1871. FIRST EDN., frontis, with orig. photograph mounted; Graves (A. Perceval) Songs of Killarney, 12mo L. 1873. FIRST EDN., hf. title, both orig. green cloth. Both Scarce. (2)

Lot 155/0198

SOLD Hammer price €700

Rare Dublin Printing
Langley (B. & T.) The Builder’s Jewel or The Youth’s Instructor and Workman’s Remembrancer …, 18mo, D. 1768, Twelfth Edition, frontis & 99 plts. (complete), later full mor., gilt lettered spine, clean. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 156/0198

SOLD Hammer price €180

[Swift] Observations upon Lord Orrery’s Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, 12mo D. 1754. Preface signed J.R., cont. calf, mor. label. Good. (1)

Lot 157/0198

SOLD Hammer price €220

Quaker interest: Haughton (Samuel) Memoir of James Haughton, 8vo D. 1877. FIRST EDN., orig. photo frontis; = Wright (Martha) Memoranda of Rachel Maria Jackson, 12mo D. 1854, FIRST EDN; = Grubb (Isabel) Quaker Homespuns 1655-1833, L. 1932, FIRST EDN., illus. by Hilda Roberts, all cloth. (3)

Lot 158/0198

SOLD Hammer price €450

Fishing: Greydrake (Gregory) The Angling Excursions … in the Counties of Wicklow, Meath, Westmeath, Longford and Cavan, With additions by Geoffrey Greydrake, 12mo D. 1832. FOURTH EDN., engd. frontis [IV], VI, 313pp., errata slip at end, uncut, orig. cloth. Good. (1)
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Lot 159/0198

SOLD Hammer price €400

By Direction of The Dublin Society
Agricultural Tracts: Baker (John Wynn) Experiments in Agriculture, made under the Direction of The Rt. Hon. and Honourable Dublin Society in the Year 1764, “With Some Account of The Red-Worm,” 8vo D. (S. Powell & Son) 1765. For The Author FIRST EDN., XII, 176pp., 6 fold. tables + Index 1 – V111, cont. sprinkled calf, rebacked, new mor. label. V. good copy. (1)
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Lot 160/0198

SOLD Hammer price €80

Behan (Brendan) The Quare Fellow, A Comedy-Drama. 8vo L. 1956. FIRST EDN., port. frontis; = also The Hostage, L. 1958. FIRST EDN., pict. d.w., both good copies. Scarce. (2)