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 505/0196
Photographs: Irish Scenery, London, etc. Collection of approx. 47 orig. photos by W. Lawrence (loose & unmounted) & 10 by J. Valentine; also 37 orig. photos, mostly of London, & published by Stengel & Markert, Dresden; some group scenes, & a few other items, all circa 1890 – 1905, various sizes. As a coll. of photos., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 506/0196
Magnificent Collection of Irish Views
Photographs: Irish Scenery: A unique collection of original photographs, c. 1890/1920, mostly published by P.G. Hunt, Eason & Son, T.H. Mason & Keogh Bros. In all over 380 photos., various sizes, some with multiple views. The counties represented include Cork City & County, Donegal, Dublin, Fermanagh, Galway, Kildare with Curragh Camp, Kerry & Kilkenny, Laoise, Leitrim & Longford, Offaly, Waterford & Wicklow, and some others of N. Ireland interest. As a coll., w.a.f. Good Lot. (1)
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Lot 507/0196
Photographs: Lg. folio Album inscribed Harda Perry, 1885, with numerous mounted photos, principally scenes in Italy, mostly 2 per page, some full page, but damp damage. As photos., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 508/0196
Photographs: Irish Scenery etc: A large folio album containing orig. mounted photos of Queenstown, Blarney, Glengariff, Killarney, Ross Castle, On the Blackwater, Co. Waterford, St. Finbarr’s Cathedral, Cork, Co. Wicklow, Lismore, Cappoquinn, Kenmare, Youghal, etc., and a couple of non-Irish. Together approx. 56 photos, 6 large (21cmx 27cms – 8 1/4″ x 10 1/2″), and 50 small (10.25cms x 17.25cms, 4″ x 6 3/4″), all circa 1860/70, and in very good condition, some posed with figures, some leaves loose, album damaged. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 509/0196
Photographs: Arundel Society: Thompson (Thurston) Photographer The Sculptured Ornament of the Monastery of Batalha in Portugal, Folio L. 1868. FIRST EDN., 20 full page mounted photos (complete), loose from binding, orig. mor. backed boards. As photos., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 510/0196
Photographs: Rome – Ricordo di Roma, oblong folio Rome c. 1870, 36 full page mtd. photos, approx. 8 1/2″ x 11″, binding dam. As photos., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 511/0196
The Shore Family Album
Photographs: Large oblong Victorian folio Album containing many carte-de-viste and Cabinet Photographs of members of The Shore Family, Lord Teighmouth. Contains approx. 120 photos of the family and its related families, several of which were in the military and naval service, artists etc., oblong folio in mor. lettered on front cover “G. Battery, 4th Brigade.” As an Album, w.a.f.
* The Lord’s Teighmouth lived at Brownsbarn, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, from whence purchased. (1)
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Lot 512/0196
Hutton Family, Dubin, Coach Builders
Photographs: Degeurrotypes etc. A good group of 10, Degeurrotype & other early portrait photographs & miniatures of The Hutton Family of Dublin. Included are 4 gentlemen, 4 ladies, one child, & a miniature portrait of gentleman, mostly in orig. leather cases. As photographs, w.a.f.
* By Family descent. Thomas Davis’s girlfriend, was a member of this family. (1)
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Lot 513/0196
Box: Irish Books – Travel interest mostly, approx. 30 hardback vols., some interesting titles. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 514/0196
The Shannon Charts & Plans
Navigation: River Shannon Navigation, Copies of a Letter from the Chief Secretary of Ireland, respecting the River Shannon and of Answers to the Same. Folio L. (House of Commons) 1832., 21 fold. plts. & maps, mostly hd. cold., orig. blue wrappers, broken; = Letter from Col. J.F. Burgoyne to the Rt. Hon Sir John Com. Hobhouse; = and further Reports of Mr. Rhodes, on the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Shannon. Folio L. (House of Commons) June 1833., 44 fold. maps, charts & plans, hand-coloured; = Second Report of The Commissioners for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Shannon, folio D. 1837, 75 fold. maps, plans & sections, hd. cold. cloth backed boards; = third Report .. of the River Shannon, folio L. 1838, 1 fold. plt.; = Fourth Report .. of the River Shannon, folio D. 1839, 53 fold. maps & plans etc., cloth backed boards; = Fifth Report … Shannon, folio D. 1839, orig. ptd. wrappers., together 6 vols. L. & D. 1832 – 1839, 204 maps & plans etc., in all as a coll., w.a.f. Very Scarce. (6)More details › -
Lot 515/0196
Coloured Plates: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulutre…, Vol. X only, 4to L. 1876. Port. frontis & 27 fine coloured plates, plus bl. & white illus., cont. hf. mor. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 516/0196
Topographical: Atlas – Lewis (S.) A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. & Atlas, lg. 4to, D. 1995, Reprint, orig. green cloth & slip case. Good. (3)
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Lot 517/0196
Box: Irish interest etc: Arnold (B.) Jack B. Yeats, 4to Yale University Press 1998; = O’Brien (Eoin) The Beckett Country, 4to 1986; = Walker (D.) Louis le Brocquy, 4to D. 1981; = Lyndsay (Roy) The Character of Dublin, oblong folio D. 1988, illus.; = Haverty (M.) The History of Ireland, 4to N.Y. n.d. (c. 1870), engd. plts. views, hf. mor.; = Leslie (C.R.) Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, R.A., folio L. 1843. Fine Mezzotint plts., hf. mor; = 18 others of Irish interest, all hard backs. As a box, w.a.f. Good lot. (1)
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Lot 518/0196
Bindings: Eliot (George) Works, 13 vols. sm. 8vo Edin. & L. (Wm. Blackwood) 1901. Warwick Edn., on fine paper, t.e.g., cont. hf. green mor. tooled gilt spines with flowers, raised bands. (13)
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Lot 519/0196
Bindings: Hugo (Victor) Works, 13 vols. 8vo L. (G. Routledge) 1895. Illus., t.e.g., good hf. crimson mor. raised bands, tooled gilt panels, mor. labels. Good. (13)
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Lot 520/0196
Bindings: [Clemens (Sam L.)] ‘Mark Twain’ Works, 20 vols. 8vo L. (Chatto & Windus) 1910. Illustrated thro-out, t.e.g., cont. hf. green mor., raised bands, gilt decor. spines. (20)
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Lot 521/0196
Bindings: Barrie (J.M.) The Works of J.M. Barrie, 22 vols. sm. 8vo L. (Hodder & Stoughton) 1924. Uniform Edn., t.e.g., full limp blue mor. tooled gilt spine in panels. Good. (22)
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Lot 522/0196
Bindings- Mostly French interest – The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, 2 vols. roy 8vo Privately Printed 1896. LIM. EDN. (1000), engd. plts., attractive hf. crushed levant by Root & Son, t.e.g, raised bands; = Gaxotte (Pierre) La Revolution Francaise, 2 vols. 8vo Paris c. 1920, illus., t.e.g., cont. hf. crimson mor., raised bands; = 24 others all attractive leather bound vols. (28)
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Lot 523/0196
Bindings: Balzac (Honore de) Works 21 vols. 8vo Boston (Hardy Pratt & Co.) 1900. The Standard Wormeley Edition, illus. plates, t.e.g. cont. dark blue mor., marble sides, gilt decor spines. Good. (21)
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Lot 524/0196
Bindings: Scott (Sir W.) Waverley Novels, 48 vols. 8vo L. (John C. Nimmo) 1894. Border Edition numerous etched plates, t.e.g., uncut, fine hf. purple mor. by Bayntun of Bath, raised bands, tooled gilt spines. V. good. (48)
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