15 September 2009 - Irish Literary & Sporting Memorabilia Sale
#0196
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15 September 2009 - Irish Literary & Sporting Memorabilia Sale
#0196
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Lot 160/0196
Yeats (W.B.) The Poems, ed. by Daniel Albright, L. 1990; = Foster (R.F.) W.B. Yeats, A Life, No. 1 The Apprentice Mage, No. 2 The Arch-Poet, 2 vols. Oxford & N.Y. 1997-2003, Signed;= Brown (T.) The Life of W.B. Yeats, D. 1999; = Jeffares (A.N.) W.B. Yeats A New Biography, L. 1988, all d.w.’s; = & 2 other booklets of Yeats interest. (7)
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Lot 161/0196
Cusack (M.F.) A History of the City and County of Cork, roy 8vo D. & Cork 1875. Kenmare Publications. FIRST EDN., frontis, lg. fold. cold. map, & numerous plts., first gathering loose, cont. mor. backed cloth boards. Good. (1)
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Lot 162/0196
Brash (R. Rolt) The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, 4to D. 1875. FIRST EDN., engd. frontis & 54 plts., orig. gilt cloth. Clean copy. (1)
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Lot 163/0196
Genealogy: O’Conor Don (Rt. Hon. C. Owen) The O’Connors of Connaught: An Historical Memoir, Compiled from the Manuscripts of the late John O’Donovan. 4to D. 1891. FIRST EDN., frontis. plts. & fold. tables, hf. title inscribed ‘G.G. Fitzelle, Fermoy, 18.2.44,’ orig. cloth. Good. (1)
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Lot 164/0196
Todd (J. Henthorn) The War of the Gaedhill and The Gaill, roy 8vo L. 1867. FIRST EDN., lg. fold. cold. litho & 1 other frontis, ptd. cat. at end, cont. mor backed boards. V. good copy. (1)
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Lot 165/0196
Mahaffy (J.P.) The Plate in Trinity College Dublin, 4to L. 1918. FIRST EDN., hf. title, full page plts., orig. decor. cloth. V. good. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 166/0196
Buckley (J.J.) Some Irish Altar Plate, roy 8vo D. 1943. FIRST EDN., profusely illustrated, full cloth. V. good. (1)
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Lot 167/0196
Bennett (Douglas) Collecting Irish Silver, 1637-1900, 4to L. 1984. FIRST EDN., profusely illustrated in colour & bl. & white, cloth & d.w. V. good. Ex. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 168/0196
Bennett (Douglas) Irish Georgian Silver, lg. 4to L. 1972. FIRST EDN., illus. orig. cloth, & d.w. (frayed). New very Scarce. (1)
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Lot 169/0196
Cuala Press (I.U.P. Reprint) O’Connor (F.) A Lament for Art O’Leary, with illus. by Jack B. Yeats. Sm. folio Shannon 1971, cold. illus., cloth backed boards. (1)
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Lot 170/0196
Very Rare Printers Dummy
Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thos.) The Tain, ….with Brush Drawings by Louis le Brocquy. Folio D. (Dolmen Editions) 1969. A printers dummy or specimen copy of the Special Lim. Edition of 50 Copies Only, preliminary pages printed, remainder blank, bound in full crimson niger moroco with black overlays to designs by L. le Brocquy, in original box; also loose portfolio ‘Prospectus,’ with details of the publication and including a specimen page, signed by Thomas Kinsella, Louis le Brocquy & Liam Miller, with drawings etc., also invitation, and other items. A Rare Collection. (1)
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Lot 171/0196
Excessively Rare Edition
One of Only Six Copies
Bound in Vellum
Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) The Tain, translated by T. Kinsella … with Brush Drawings by Louis le Brocquy. Folio D. 1969. Limited Edition. ‘This Copy No. 3 of Six Copies only bound in calf vellum by P. Kavanagh, & C. Moore, Museum, Bookbindings, Dublin,’ and signed by Thomas Kinsella and Liam Millar. Illus. thro-out, full vellum with designs in gold after L. le Brocquy on both covers, orig. slip case. V. good copy. Excessively Rare. (1)
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Lot 172/0196
Signed by Louis le Brocquy
Synge (J.M.) The Playboy of the Western World, Sm. folio Massachusetts (Imprint Society) 1970. SPECIAL LIM. EDN. with brush drawings by L. le Brocquy, No. 443 (1950), signed by Artist & the Editor, orig. cloth with matching slip case. (1)
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Lot 173/0196
Petrie (George) The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland,…. comprising An Essay on The Origin and Uses of The Round Towers of Ireland. Sm. folio D. 1845. SECOND EDN., text illus., orig. cloth. Good. (1)
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Lot 174/0196
I.A.S.: O’Kelly (Col. Chas.) Macariae Exciduim, or The Destruction of Cyprus, 4to D. 1850. Ed. by John Corn. O’Callaghan. FIRST EDN.; = Butler (R.)ed. Jacobi Grace, Kilkenniensis, Annales Hiberniae, 4to D. 1842. FIRST EDN., both orig. cloth. (2)
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Lot 175/0196
[Petty (Wm.)] Larcom (T.A.)ed. The History of the Survey of Ireland, Commonly Called The Down Survey, 4to D. (I.A.S.) 1851. FIRST EDN., orig. cloth. good. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 176/0196
Blake-Forster (C. Ffrench) The Irish Chieftains; or, A Struggle for the Crown, roy 8vo D. 1872, cloth, dam.; = Mac Geoghegan (Abbe) The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern, roy 8vo N.Y. 1845, cont. hf. mor; = Archdall (M.) Monastican Hibernicum: or A History of the Abbeys, Priories and other Religious Houses in Ireland, Vols. I & II only [All Published] 4to D. 1873 – 1876, plts. some cold., fold. plans etc., hf. mor. not uniform but good. (4)
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Lot 177/0196
Modern Irish Authors: Collection of 9 modern hard back Volumes by W.R. Rogers, Brian Moore, William Trevor, John Mc Gahern, Colm Toibin, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Deane, all FIRST EDNS., & d.w.’s. (9)
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Lot 178/0196
Ledwick (Ed.) Antiquities of Ireland, 4to D. 1790. FIRST EDN., engd. frontis engd. vign. title, & 38 full page plts, includ. 2 fold. (1 hd. cold.), some damp stains, calf, dam., needs rebinding. (1)
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Lot 179/0196
Most Unusual Publication
Heaney (Seamus) The Door Stands Open, What Passed at Colonus. In Memory of Czeslaw Milesz. 1911-2004. 8vo Irish Writers Centre Ltd., Director Cathal Mc Cabe. Printed and made in Poland 2005. LIM. EDN. 144 (250), Signed by S. Heaney. On hd. made paper, uncut, steel covers, with outer printed cloth folder, and in a decorated folding case. (1)
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