13 December 2016 - Rare Book Sale

#0294

Lot 222/10022

SOLD Hammer price €1700

Spencer (Ed.) The Faerie Queene, 1611, lacks t.p., some pps. torn, … The Shepherds Calendar, folio L. 1611, … wd. cut illus.; Drayton (M.) Poly-olbion, c. 1612, also Mother Hubberds Tale, a manuscript, 11pp folio in a cont. hand, later full calf; also Sidney (P.) The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, folio L. 1638, incl. title, lacks leaf at end ‘Supplement’, cont. full calf. S.N.S.R. (2)

Lot 223/10022

SOLD Hammer price €340

From Gregg Castle, Co. GalwayScrap Albums etc: A sm. 4to Heraldic Album, very complete and most crests identified, all within attractive watercoloured frame; a small sim. Album with some watercolour drawings, Baxter Prints etc; & 2 other Scrap Books, a lot. (4)

Lot 224/10022

SOLD Hammer price €360

Venuti (Ridolfino) Accurata, e Succinta Descrizione Topografica della Antichita di Roma, Vol. I 4to Rome 1763. Engd. title vignette lg. fold. map, engd. vignettes etc. + 59 full page plts., all extremely clean, early 19th Century hf. calf. (1)

Lot 225/10022

SOLD Hammer price €280

Craven (Hon. Rich. Keppel) A Tour through the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples, 4to L. 1821. First Edn., 14 full page plts. (include. sketch map), all v. clean, orig. diced calf, blind tooled & gilt fillet border, mor. label. Good. (1)

Lot 226/10022

SOLD Hammer price €420

With Illustrations by Robert BallaghLimited Editions Club: Joyce (James) Dubliners, lg. 4to 1986. Intro. by Thos. Flanagan, & photogravures by Robert Ballagh. Lim. Edn. No. 403 of 1000 Copies, Signed by both, fine mor. backed cloth boards, slipcase. Scarce. (1)

Lot 227/10022

SOLD Hammer price €200

Illustrated Volume: Plunkett (Grace) Twelve Nights at the Abbey Theatre, oblong 4to D. (Three Candles) 1929, Signed Ltd. Edn. No: 199 (200), 12 illus., cloth backed boards, clean copy. (1)

Lot 228/10022

SOLD Hammer price €2000

With Fine Hand Coloured PlatesPerry (George) Conchology, or The Natural History of Shells, lg. folio L. [1811]. First Edn., hf. title, 61 fine hand cold. plts., cont. hf. mor., marble sides, tooled gilt spine. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 229/10022

Limited EditionShakespeare Reprint: Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, … Facsimile of The First Folio Edition 1623. Lg. folio Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1902. Lim. Edition No. 777 (1000) Signed by Editor. Uncut, reversed calf. V. good. (1)

Lot 230/10022

SOLD Hammer price €700

The Miniatures of St. GallenDuft (Dr. J.)ed. Die Irischen Miniaturen der Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, folio Olten Bern und Lausanne (Urs Gref-Verlag) 1953. Lim. Edn. No. 431, 43 full page cold. & other illus., orig. full calf, tooled with fine Celtic design. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 231/10022

SOLD Hammer price €540

Hakewill (James) A Picturesque Tour of Italy From Drawings made in 1816 – 1817, Folio L. 1820. First Edn., hf. title, add. litho title, 63 full page plts., cont. hf. calf, mor. label. (1)

Lot 232/10022

SOLD Hammer price €120

Bolton (Arthur T.) The Architecture of Robert & James Adam, 2 vols. lg. folio L. (Country Life) 1922. First Edn., profusely illustrated thro-out, orig. green cloth with gilt medallion portraits. (2)

Lot 233/10022

SOLD Hammer price €480

With 60 Hand-Coloured PlatesSmith (Chas. Hamilton) Selections of the Ancient Costume of Great Britain & Ireland, folio L. 1814. Hd. cold. frontis & hd. cold. dedit. (loose) plus 60 full page plts. very clean, cont. hf. mor. mor. label. (1)

Lot 234/10022

French Edition of MaltonMalton (James) Architecture Anglaise dans Le Genre Champetre, oblong folio Leipzig 1805. trans by M. de Lestiboudois., 21 plts., rebound hf. calf. Scarce. (1)

Lot 235/10022

SOLD Hammer price €220

Malton (James) The Young Painter’s Maulstick; Being A Practical Treatise on Perspective. Folio L. 1800. First Edn., 23 plts. uncut, orig. boards, rebacked. (1)

Lot 236/10022

SOLD Hammer price €400

Puteo (Fr. Andrea) S.J. Perspective Pictorum atque Architectorum, 2 vols. folio Augsburge 1719, 2 engd. frontis, engd. port. & an engd. add. title, 217 (ex 218), plus 4 other plts., 2 plts. with sm. tears, orig. mottled calf, raised bands, spine gilt in panels. A good set. (2)

Lot 237/10022

SOLD Hammer price €720

Archdall (Mervy) Monasticon Hibernicum or An History of the Abbbies, Priories, and other Religious Houses in Ireland, 4to L. 1786. First Edn., fold. map frontis, L.S.s., 18 engd. plts., errata leaf at end, recent crushed hf. brown mor., raised bands, mor. labels, v. good by Sidney Aiken. (1)

Lot 238/10022

SOLD Hammer price €150

Broholm (H.C.), Larsen (W.P.) & Skjerne (G.) The Lures of the Bronze Age, An Archaeological, Technical and Musicological Investigation. Folio Copenhagen [1949] Sole Edn., profusely illustrated, orig. pict. boards. In fine modern hf. mor. box. Scarce. (1)

Lot 239/10022

SOLD Hammer price €80

Ackermanns (R.)publ. Selection of Ornaments in Forty Pages for the Use of Sculptors, Painters Carvers…, in Two Parts. Folio L. 1817, 2 Engd. titles & 80 plts., some browning, cont. hf. mor. (1)

Lot 240/10022

SOLD Hammer price €120

Private PrintingBrydges (Sir Egerton) Original Poems, never before published, by William Browne…, Lg. 4to, Kent (The Private Press of Lee Priory – Johnson & Warwick) 1814, additional vignette t.p., dedit, advert, uncut, leather backed boards, worn. Scarce. (1)

Lot 241/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

Napoleon: Choix de Gravures a L’Eau Forte, d’apres Les Peintures Originales et Les Marbres de La Gallerie de Lucien Bonaparte, Folio L. 1812, 142 (complete) engd. full page plts., a.e.g., cont. full str. grained crimson mor. blind & gilt tooled, spine gilt in panels with Napoleonic motif. (1)