13 December 2016 - Rare Book Sale

#0294

Lot 302/10022

SOLD Hammer price €180

1798: Musgrave (Sir R.) Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, 2 vols. D. (Robert Marchbank) 1802, Third Edn, fold map frontis, 2 fold. plates, & 10 maps charts, cloth (restored), orig. labels on spine laid down. Fine Copy; Maxwell (W.H.) History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798,… 8vo L. (G. Bell) 1903, illus, cloth. (3)

Lot 303/10022

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Bellesheim (Alpons) Geschichte der Katholischen Kirche in Ireland, 3 vols. 8vo Mainz 1890 – 91. First Edn., 3 frontis & other maps, recent hf. cloth, mor. labels. (3)

Lot 304/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

Bellesheim (Alpons) Geschichte den Katholischen Kirche in Schottland, 2 vols. Mainz 1883. First Edn., 2 cold. maps, orig. mor. backed boards. Scarce. (2)

Lot 305/10022

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Windisch (Ernst) Di Altirische Heldensage Tain Bo Cualnge, 8vo Leipzig 1905. First Edn., later hf. calf. Good. (1)

Lot 306/10022

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Crone (J.S.) Concise Dictionary of Irish Biography, D. 1937; also sim. works by Henry Boylan, A.M. Brady & Brian Cleeve, all recent cloth; also Hogan (R.) Dictionary of Irish Literature, 1979. (4)

Lot 307/10022

SOLD Hammer price €90

Irish Maps: Andrews (J.H.) Plantation Acres, Omagh 1985; also A Paper Landscape, D. 2006, & 7 other items on Irish & other Maps. (9)

Lot 308/10022

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[Robert (Boyle)] Fulton (J.F.) A Bibliography of The Honourable Robert Boyle, 4to Oxford 1932. First Edn., illus., uncut, recent full cloth, orig. wrappers bound in. (1)

Lot 309/10022

SOLD Hammer price €170

Hamilton (Rev. Wm.) Letters Concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim, roy 8vo D. 1786. First Edn., hf. title, fold. map frontis, uncut; Reeves (Rev. Wm.) Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore, 4to D. 1847. First Edn., both recent hf. calf, tooled gilt spines. Very good copies. (2)

Lot 310/10022

SOLD Hammer price €800

Very Fine in Rivera Binding, with Original WatercolourHand-Coloured Plates: Egan (Pierce) Life in London; or The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom,… in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis. roy 8vo L. 1821. First Edn., Hf. title, hd. cold. frontis & 35 hd. cold. plts., also fold. music plts., t.e.g., fine crushed blue levant, triple gilt fillet borders, spine profusely gilt in panels. V. fine copy, by Rivere & Son. (2)* Together with original contemporary oval miniature watercolour portrait of the Author, loosely inserted.

Lot 311/10022

SOLD Hammer price €210

O’Casey (Sean) The Mirror in My House – The Autobiographies of Sean O’Casey, 2 vols., N.Y. (Mac Mullen Co.) 1956, Signed by the Author to Herbert Bagge, with all good wishes, Devon 1960, cloth, pictorial box. (2)

Lot 312/10022

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Fine CopiesStuart (James) Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh, Newry 1819. First Edn., engd. frontis, fold. & other plts.; Owen (D.J.) History of Belfast, Belfast & L. 1921. First, illus., both recent hf. calf, raised bands, gilt decor. spines. V. good copies. (2)

Lot 313/10022

SOLD Hammer price €300

Harris (Walter) The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin, 8vo D. 1766. First Edn., 2 lg. fold. plans fold. table & 15 fine engd. plts. (mostly fold.), cont. sprinkled calf, mor. label, upr. cover loose otherwise v. good copy. (1)

Lot 314/10022

SOLD Hammer price €100

Winslow (Forbes) The Anatomy of Suicide, L. 1840. First Edn., frontis cloth. (1)

Lot 315/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

Medical: Hugman (Wm. Curtis) A Practical Treatise on Hip-Joint Disease, 8vo L. 1856. First Edn., L.S. on title, 6 plts. orig. cloth, good. (1)

Lot 316/10022

SOLD Hammer price €100

Medical: Cotton (R.P.) The Nature, Symptoms and Treatment of Consumption, L. 1852. First; Bright (James) A Practical Synopsis of Diseases of the Chest and Air Passages, L. 1854. Second; Bird (James) Vegetable Charcoal; Its Medicinal and Economic Properties, L. 1857. Second, all L.S.s. cloth. (3)

Lot 317/10022

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Medical: Johnson (James) Change of Air or The Pursuit of Health and Recreation, L. 1838. Fourth; Lavater (J.H.) Introduction to the Study of the Anatomy of the Human Body, L. 1824., 27 plts., mor. backed cloth; Curtis (J.H.) Observations on the Preservation of Health, sm. 8vo L. 1838. Second, frontis cloth. (3)

Lot 318/10022

SOLD Hammer price €170

Farley (J. Lewis) Egypt, Cyprus and Asiatic Turkey, L. 1878 First, L.S. on title etc., gilt decor. pict. cloth; Asboth (J. de) An Official Tour through Bosnia Herzegovina, roy 8vo L. 1890. Fold. cold. map, illus. thro-out, L.S. on title, orig. cloth. (2)

Lot 319/10022

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Pratt (A.E.) To The Snows of Tibet through China, roy 8vo L. 1892. First Edn., hf. title (with L.S.), port. frontis plts. & illus. & fold. map, orig. blue cloth, gilt decor. (1)

Lot 320/10022

SOLD Hammer price €420

Unique Collection on Concology etcNatural History: A bound Volume of Offprints (a few pamphlets) on Natural History, principally on concology, approx. 42 items bound as one, from various journals including The Irish Naturalist, The Journal of Concology, Proceedings of the Malacological Society, etc., and by numerous authors include R.L. Praeger, J.C. Melvill, R. Stander, F.J. Bigger, Fred Taylor, E.W.L. Holt, Chas. Oldham etc. etc. Some are inscribed presentation copies to Thos. Rogers. Many are illus. with plts etc. & most have their original ptd. wrappers bound in. There is one large orig. photograph, The Snail Hunters Morlough Bay, by W.H.W., & signed by all five, together with 3pp m/ss account entitled, Th Jubilee Trip of Naturalists to Ballycastle. By one of the Trippers. All c. 1890 – 1898. In cont. hf. mor. As an Album, w.a.f. A very fine & Rare Collection.* Front loose end inscribed “Presented to R. Standen by Mr. Leo Rogers in memory of the late Mr. Thos. Rogers, July 1901.”

Lot 321/10022

SOLD Hammer price €600

In Exquisite Modern Irish Binding by Antiquarian Bookcrafts[Charlemont] Historical Manuscripts Commission: The Manuscripts and Correspondence of James, First Earl of Charlemont. vols. I & II, 1745 – 1799. 2 vols. roy 8vo L. 1891 – 1894. First Edn., a.e.g., in a fine commissioned binding, full crimson mor. with blue overlays gilt tooled panels & decoration, raised bands, spine profusely gilt in panels, executed by Des Breen of Antiquarian Bookcrafts, Dublin in 2004, in the 18th Century Irish style, signed. In matching slipcase. An exquisite example. (2)