15 September 2009 - Irish Literary & Sporting Memorabilia Sale
#0196
CASTLECOMER,CO.KILKENNY, EIRE.
15 September 2009 - Irish Literary & Sporting Memorabilia Sale
#0196
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Lot 226/0196
Maps: Lea (Philip) An Epitome of Sir William Petty’s Large Survey of Ireland, c. 1720, approx. 63cms x 58cms, (28″ x 22 1/2″), folded, some tears, no loss; = another framed, A Map of Part of the Counties of Carlow, Wexford and Wicklow, c. 1800, hand-coloured. As maps, w.a.f. (2)
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Lot 227/0196
Maps: Tindal – A Correct Chart of St. Georges Channel and the Irish Sea, attractive engd. map, c. 1770, approx. 46cms x 37cms (18″ x 14 1/2″), framed. (1)
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Lot 228/0196
Coloured Caricature: Collection of 38 attractive coloured Political Cartoons from United Ireland, and The Weekly Freeman, issued between January & June 1884, 4to folio size, loose in folder, all very good condition. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 229/0196
Genealogy: Bellew and Trafford Families. A good scrapbook mainly containing newspaper cuttings etc., relating to the family of Lord Bellew of Barmeath Castle, Dunleer, Co. Louth, also de Trafford family and other Anglo-Irish families mostly 19th Century. Folio calf backed Album, circa 100pp of cuttings neatly mounted some loosely inserted, portraits & other illus., also a hand painted Bellew coats of arms on silk, loosely laid in. As scrap album, w.a.f. Interesting. (1)
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Lot 230/0196
Exceptionally Good Copy
1916: Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, Easter 1916, compiled by ‘Weekly Irish Times,’ roy 8vo D. 1916. FIRST EDN., portraits + other illus., adverts etc., orig. pink wrappers. V. good copy. (1)More details › -
Lot 231/0196
Republican Poster: A pictorial Anti-Free State broadside Poster, One Promise That Hogan Will Keep – If You Vote for the Free State [ we will execute Irishmen.] approx. 51cms x 38.5cms (20″ x 15″) with black and white illustration by ‘Fionnbharr’ depicting Mr. Hogan, Free State Minister for Agriculture standing amidst corpes, with his hands dripping with blood, c. 1924. Rare. (1)
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Lot 232/0196
1922 Republican Broadsheets: Poblacht na h’Eireann – War News, Nos. 11 (2), 13, 19 (2), 20, 43, 52, 54, 111, & 1 other; = also Stop press Poblacht na hEireann War News No. 5, lg. sheet; = and An tOglach, Official Organ of the Army No. 3 (War Series), 2 copies for July 5th, 1922, all broadsides, printed one side only, some faults, 14 items in all, scarce. As a lot. (1)
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Lot 233/0196
Republican Newspapers: An Saorstat – The Free State, Vol. I No. 1, for 25 Feb., 1922; = Truth, No. 1 July 5th, 1922; = Poblacht na h’Eireann – Republic of Ireland, Scottish Edn., for Sept. 30th 1922; = 2 copies of United Ireland, for 1891 & 1894; = and 5 copies of The Fenian, nos. 4 – 52, 1922. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 234/0196
Northern Ireland Parliament 1921: Opening of the Parliament of Northern Ireland By His Most Gracious Majesty King George V. June 22nd 1921, Folio 1921. Cover design in colour by Neville R. Wilkinson, (creator of Titania’s Palace), 31pps. outlining programme, & listing guests etc, card wrappers, tied. Good & Scarce. (1)
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Lot 235/0196
Newspapers: Portfolio of varied Irish Republican Newspapers, including some copies of Young Ireland, Sinn Fein, Scissors & Paste, United Irishman, also Lepracaun, and others., as a lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 236/0196
Autograph Album: A good Autograph Album, mainly Victorian, containing signatures and short letters either tipped or laid in from theatrical, literary and religious personalities, with some Irish, & including Henry Irving, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Herbert Waring, Jean Cadell, Cyril Maude, Lord Kenmare, George Wyndham (Irish Secretary, of Wyndham Acts), A.J. Balfour, Walter Besant, Katherine Tynan, Aubrey de Vere, Weedon Grossmith, L. Waller, Fred Terry, ‘Ouida,’ writer, Solomon V. Solomon painter, John Everett Millais, painter, Robert Morley, Alfred Collier, composer, Queen Victoria, Archbishop Walsh of Dublin, Austin Dobson, & many, many others. Apparently compiled by Rev. Frederick Langbridge of Wellesley Lodge, Limerick. (Possibly the writer of stories for young people). In a hand decorated linen covered album, worn. As a coll. of autographs, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 237/0196
“Wuthering Heights” (1938) – Hollywood Adaptation
Fitzgerald (Geraldine) Actress. A small Archive including her personal copy, inscribed with her name, of the shooting script for the Hollywood adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” (1938), in which she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Isabella. Cyclostyled typescript with studio stamp, 140pp stapled. With a collection of original manuscript songs and lyrics probably by her first husband, Edward Lindsay-Hogg, with whom she moved to New York in 1938, a typed letter signed “Algy”, with a selection of printed music some with signature of Katherin Cadell. As an Archive, w.a.f. Rare.
* Geraldine Fitzgerald was a daughter of a Dublin solicitor William Fitzgerald, whose firm is said to be mentioned in Joyce’s “Ulysses.” She began her stage career at Dublin’s Gate theatre in the early 1930’s, where she acted with Oscar Wells, and also appeared in several films. After her marriage she moved to New York, where she appeared on Broadway in the production of Shaws “Heartbreak House,” and took the part of Isabella in William Wyler’s version of “Wuthering Heights,” for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress award. She signed with Warner Brothers, and appeared in major films including “Watch on the Rhine,” (1943), but was often side lined due to disagreement with the studio. In 1946 she and Edward Lindsay Hogg divorced, (they had one son, the director Michael Lindsay Hogg), and she married Stuart Scheftel, a grandson of one of the owners of R.H. Macy’s Store. She resumed her Broadway career in several important productions of Eugene O’Neill’s plays. In the 1960’s she founded the Everyman Street Theatre, took voice lessons and became a cabaret artist, as well as continuing to take character parts on stage. She died in 2005, aged 91. (1)
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Lot 238/0196
One of 60 Copies with Artist’s Proof
Rare Work Signed by Samuel Beckett
Beckett (Samuel) The Lost Ones, Seven Etchings by Charles Klabunde. Lg. folio New Overbrook Press, Connecticut, 1984. LIM. EDN. No. 46 of 60 Copies only, Stamford Proofs. (The General Edition limited to 250 Copies), in embossed portfolio box in Dutch linen. Very good & ex. scarce. (1)
* This elegant folio edition is signed by the Author, and illustrated with seven museum quality etchings by master American printmaker, Charles Klabunde. Each etching is signed,numbered in Roman numerals and hand pulled by the artist.
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Lot 239/0196
Malton (James) A Picturesque & Descriptive View of the City of Dublin, oblong folio, D. 1794, FIRST EDN., broken copy;= & A View of The Barracks of Dublin, (lacks other plates), contemporary hf. calf, & ptd. label, w.a.f. (2)
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Lot 240/0196
Walsh (Wendy) A Prospect of Irish Flowers, Ten Watercolour Paintings. Ed. by E. Charles Nelson. Lg. folio Belfast (Blackstaff Press) 1990. LIM. EDN. No. 69 of 125 Copies, Signed by Wendy Walsh and Charles Nelson. 10 fine cold. plts. orig. cloth backed flower decor. boards with matching slip case. V. good. (1)
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Lot 241/0196
Stock Bonds / Shares: Colony of Victoria, – Miner’s Right, c. 1890’s. A printed and engraved receipt, Series S., for Five Shillings, unused, rare; = also Great Northern Railway Company, Ireland, an engraved Stock Certificate. Issued for £128, in March 1920, No. 40149, signed by Secretary, & with official embossed Company Stamp. Good. (2)
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Lot 242/0196
Banking: Stocks, American 1917, International Mercantile Marine Company – Certifying Prince & Whitley, One Hundred Shares, signed by the Treasurer and Vice President, the front profusely decorated with cartouches, stamped, the back signed and receipt Sold to Clark, Dodge & Co., 100 shares @ $8.9000 / 00, dated 29.8.1917, pierced, fine; = together with Atlantic Richfield Company, certifying Cede & Co. two hundred shares, dated 20.10.1972, profusely decorated, pierced and stamped, as money, w.a.f. (2)
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Lot 243/0196
Bond Notes: Russian Bonds. Loan Notes for the City of St. Petersburg, c. 1913, a large collection. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 244/0196
Irish Banking: Nolan (Dom. Patrick) The History and Mystery of Banking in Ireland and Elsewhere, 8vo Brues 1923. FIRST EDN., 1 leaf supplied in fac-simile, disbound. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 245/0196
Woodcuts by Cecil Ffrench Salkeld
Milne (Ewart) Forty North Fifty West, 4to D. (Gayfield Press) 1938. LIM. EDN. (250), cover portrait & 5 full page illus. by Cecil Ffrench Salkeld, orig. ptd. wrappers. V. good. (1)More details ›