13 December 2016 - Rare Book Sale

#0294

Lot 182/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

1798: Report of the Committee of Secrecy of the House of Commons of Great Britain, 8vo D. 1799. First Edn. 112pp. recent qtr. calf, mor. label. Scarce. (1)

Lot 183/10022

SOLD Hammer price €130

Lawless (John) The Belfast Politics Enlarged, … The Political History of Ireland, Belfast (D. Lyons) 1818, hf. mor. (1)

Lot 184/10022

SOLD Hammer price €2900

With Holograph Poem by Seamus HeaneyHeaney (Seamus) The Tree Clock, 8vo, Belfast (Linen Hall Library) 1990, signed Ltd. Edn., 11 (20) with holograph poem by Heaney, The Point, uncut, hand mark paper, cloth and marble paper binding, gilt lettering, in matching slipcase. Clean Copy. Rare. (1)

Lot 185/10022

SOLD Hammer price €210

Signed Limited EditionKinsella (Thomas) Finistere, 4to D. (Dolmen Press) 1972. Limited Edn No 87 of 250 Signed Copies, illus. by Hugh Kearns & Liam Miller, orig. mor. backed green cloth, gilt lettered spine. V. good copy. Scarce. (1)

Lot 186/10022

SOLD Hammer price €320

Signed & Limited EditionKinsella (Thomas) “Another September,” sm. 4to, D. (The Dolmen Press), Signed by the Author, Ltd. Edn. No. 22 (50), vellum backed marble boards, gilt lettered spine, slipcase. Scarce. (1)

Lot 187/10022

SOLD Hammer price €300

Signed by Seamus HeaneyHeaney (Seamus) trans. The Burial at Thebes – Sophocles Antigone, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 2004, Signed Ltd. Edn., 20 (250), cloth backed boards, slip case; Electric Light, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 2001, Signed Ltd. Edn. 115 (300), cloth backed boards, slip case, clean copies. (2)

Lot 188/10022

SOLD Hammer price €360

Signed CopiesHeaney (Seamus) trans. Beowolf, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1999, Signed Ltd. Edn. 293 (300), cloth backed boards, slip case; District & Circle, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 2006, Signed Ltd. Edn., 128 (300), cloth backed boards, slip case, clean copies. (2)

Lot 189/10022

SOLD Hammer price €380

Signed Limited EditionsHeaney (Seamus) trans. Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 2009, Signed Ltd. Edn., 54 (100), cloth backed boards, slip case; Seeing Things, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1991, Signed Ltd. Edn., 242 (250), cloth backed boards, slip case., clean copies. (2)

Lot 190/10022

SOLD Hammer price €520

Limited Editions Signed by the AuthorHeaney (Seamus) The Haw Lantern, 8vo N.Y., 1987, Signed Ltd. Edn. 76 (250), decor. cloth, gilt lettered spine, slip case; Opened Ground, poems 1966 – 1996, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1998, Signed Ltd. Edn. 233 (300), cloth backed boards, slip case, clean copies. (2)

Lot 191/10022

SOLD Hammer price €600

Limited Editions, Signed by the AuthorHeaney (Seamus) The Spirit Level, 8vo, L. (Faber & Faber) 1996, Signed Ltd. Edn. 48 (350), cloth backed boards, slip case; Human Chain, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 2010, Signed Ltd. Edn. 202 (300), cloth backed boards, slip case, both clean copies. (2)

Lot 192/10022

SOLD Hammer price €200

Signed Limited Edition: 100 CopiesDurcan (Paul) The Art of Life, 8vo L. (Harvill Press) 2004. First Lim. Edn. No. 87 of 100 Copies. Signed by Author. A.e.g., full mor. gilt corners, & gilt letter spine, in orig. slipcase. Excellent Copy. (1)

Lot 193/10022

SOLD Hammer price €1100

With Original Sketch by Jack B. Yeats To Colm O’LochlainnMac Greevy (Thomas) Jack B. Yeats, An Appreciation and An Interpretation, 8vo, D. (Victor Waddington Publication – Three Candles) 1945 – Lim. Edn. 250 Copies Only. Orig. cloth backed boards, now in special cloth bound clam case, mor. label. (1)* A unique association copy. Presented by the subject of the volume, the artist Jack B. Yeats, with a delightful sketch to the printer of the volume, Colm O’Lochlainn.

Lot 194/10022

SOLD Hammer price €460

Yeats (W.B.) W.B. Yeats – The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, 8 vols. 8vo, Stratford-on-Avon (Shakespeare Head) 1908, First Edn., red & black t.p., unopened & uncut, orig. buckram backed grey boards, clean set. (8)

Lot 195/10022

SOLD Hammer price €460

[Yeats (W.B.)] Coinage of Saorstat Eireann, 4to D. 1928, Sole Edn. 11 full page plts. (include frontis), orig. buckram, gilt lettering, some stains (Wade 317). Scarce. (1)

Lot 196/10022

SOLD Hammer price €160

Hand-coloured Plates: The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque, roy 8vo L. 1812, hd. cold. frontis title, & 29 hd. cold. plts. hf. calf, upr. cover loose; Souvenir de Nogent-le-Rotrou, orig. photo illus; Theatre de la Guerre en Italie, lg. fold. map Paris 1859, hd. cold.; Conversations on Harmony, roy 8vo L. 1855, signed Pres. Copy. a lot. (4)

Lot 197/10022

SOLD Hammer price €150

Adams (Richard) Watership Down roy 8vo Kestral Books 1976. First Illustrated Edn., illus. by John Lawrence, orig. cloth backed boards & pict. d.w., with orig. pict. slipcase. (1)

Lot 198/10022

SOLD Hammer price €300

Savage (Richard)ed. Son of the late Earl Rivers, Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, By Several Hands. Roy 8vo L. (for Sam. Chapman) 1726. First Edn., red & bl. title, list of subs., cont. calf, raised bands, worn. (1)* Ex. Libris, Dromoland Castle, Co. Clare.

Lot 199/10022

SOLD Hammer price €2200

Limited EditionFine Set in Red Morocco by BradstreetSwift (Jonathan) The Works of Jonathan Swift,… containing additional letters, and poems not hither to published 19 vols. roy 8vo Lond. 1883. Second Edn. Limited to 750 Set No. 511. Illus. ports. etc. thro-out, in hf. crimson levant mor. over marble boards, raised band,s gilt lettered spines. An exquisite set. (19)

Lot 200/10022

SOLD Hammer price €420

Fullarton & Co. Publishers: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, 3 vols. sm. folio D. L. & Edin. 1850, 1 cold. plt., 11 engd. plts. & 11 fold. & other maps, a.e.g., fine cont. hf. calf, mor. labels. V. good. (3)

Lot 201/10022

SOLD Hammer price €580

Sleater’s Dublin ChronicleIrish Newspaper: The Dublin Chronicle, Vol. IV, No. 576 – Vol. V No. 732, approx. 175 numbers (incomplete) 4to Dublin (W. Sleater) Jan. 1st 1791, to Dec. 31st, 1791, bound as one, in cont. hf. calf, raised bands, mor. label. As a newspaper, w.a.f. (1)