13 December 2016 - Rare Book Sale

#0294

Lot 322/10022

SOLD Hammer price €400

LIAM O’FLAHERTY [1896-1984]Born on Inismore on the Aran Islands, O’Flaherty was the ninth child of a small farmer with 15 acres of stony ground. He showed great promise at school, and was given scholarships to Rockwell and Blackrock College. He completed one year at University College Dublin, initially as a seminarian, but in 1915 became bored and joined the Irish Guards, using his mother’s name. He served in France on the Somme, where he suffered shell-shock. He was discharged in 1917 and returned home to convalesce. He had become interested in left wing politics, and in 1921, back in Dublin, he led a group of dockers who seized the Rotunda and hoisted a red flag. During the Civil War he joined the Republican side for a time, before going to London to write.He established himself as a writer with the help and encouragement of Edward Garnett, reader for Jonathan Cape publishers in London, who noticed an early story in a socialist weekly. On Garnett’s recommendation, Cape published O’Flaherty’s first novel Thy Neighbour’s Wife in 1923, and he never looked back._____________________________________________________________________________With Signed InscriptionO’Flaherty (Liam) I Went to Russia, 8vo L. (Cape) 1931. First Edn., hf. title, port. frontis, advert leaf tipped in at end, orig. decor. oatmeal buckram. A good clean copy. (1)* Inscribed on f.e.p. to ‘Dear Maude, I’m terribly [sorry] about missing your blooming party at the Mayfair, but you should look at it this way. I would probably shortened your life by a day or two’, with a good signature. We have not identified Maude?

Lot 323/10022

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Limited to 100 Copies, SignedO’Flaherty (Liam) The Child of God [Story], 4to L. (E. Archer) 1926. Privately Printed. Lim. Edn. NO. 80 (100), Signed by Author. Orig. ptd. marble wrappers, preserved in green cloth sleeve, with quarter mor. slipcase. Fine Copy. (1)

Lot 324/10022

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Limited to 100 Copies, SignedO’Flaherty (Liam) The Terrorist [Story], 4to L. (E. Archer) 1926. Privately Printed Lim. Edn. No. 26 (100). Signed by Author. Orig. ptd. marble wrappers, preserved in green cloth, with quarter mor. slipcase. Fine Copy. (1)

Lot 325/10022

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Limited to 100 Copies, SignedO’Flaherty (Liam) Darkness, A Tragedy in Three Acts. 4to L. (E. Archer) 1926. Privately Printed Lim. Edn. No. 54 (100), Signed by Author. Port. frontis by Wm. Roberts, also Signed. Uncut, ptd. marble wrappers, preserved in green cloth, with quarter mor. slipcase. Fine Copy. (1)

Lot 326/10022

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Limited to 100 Copies, SignedO’Flaherty (Liam) Civil War [Story,] 4to L. (e. Archer) 1925. Privately Printed. Lim. Edn. NO. 25 (100). Signed by Author. Orig. ptd. marble wrappers, preserved in green cloth sleeve, with quarter mor. slip case. Fine Copy. (1)

Lot 327/10022

SOLD Hammer price €340

Complete Third SeriesPeriodical: Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol. I No. 1 – Vol. 51, Third Series, plus Index for Vols. 31 – 45, together 53 vols. 4to Belfast 1938 – 1988. Illus. etc. (some fold.) all orig. ptd. wrappers, very good. As a periodical, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 328/10022

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With Coloured PlatesAckermann (Randolph) The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter’s Westminster, 2 vols. L. 1812, folio, cold. frontis (Vol. I), engd. portrait, (80 plts. as called) 8pps list of subs., contemp. hf. calf, marble boards, later mor. labels. Clean Copy. (1)

Lot 329/10022

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Scarce German Travels in IrelandVon Lasaulx (Dr. A.) Aus Irland. Reiseskizzen und Studien roy 8vo Bonn 1877. First Edn., lg. fold. cold. map, engd. landscape vignettes, & photogravures of The Giants Causeway, recent mor., gilt spine, mor. labels. Scarce. (1)

Lot 330/10022

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Continental Travel Diary, 1836Manuscript: A m/ss Travel Diary, from 5th April to 22 July 1836. Contains an account of a journey undertaken by a lady and her children from Leamington, via London, to France (with a long stay in Paris), continuing on to Geneva, Lausanne, the Rhincland, Belgium, and home. The writer is not identified, alas, but the family is evidently Catholic as they attend mass. There are amusing and often caustic comments on hotels, churches, food, entertainments, weather and scenery. The return ‘all looking very thin and starved, and in great need of fattening!!!’ In 4to album, approx. 38pp., with some notes at end, in vellum backed marble boards. V. good.* A very readable account of the experience of travelling in Europe in the 1830s.

Lot 331/10022

With Fine Early Woodcuts & Engraved IllustrationsHamelmann (Herman) Oldenburgish Chronicon Das ist Beschreibung… Folio Oldonberg 1599. Engd. title (laid down), engd. port., 3 dbl. page tables, fold. map & numerous engd. & wd. cut illus. [84], 494, [16]pp., in recent full vellum, using a page from a musical manuscript. Attractive & v. good. (1)

Lot 332/10022

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A Wexford Businessman of 1806 Struggles with MathematicsCo. Wexford Interest: Keogh (Peter) A folio Ledger of approx. 152pp manuscript pages, containing a series of problems in all branches of mathematics, and their solutions, a building work etc, in a copper plate hand thro-out, and many with fine hand coloured decorations, drawings and illustrations. Signed in various places by Peter Keough, with date 1806, some damp stains and damage. A most delightful and curious item. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 333/10022

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Hardy (Francis) Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, Knight of St. Patrick etc., 4to L. 1810. First Edn., engd. port. frontis, errata leaf at end. Fine full calf, double gilt fillet borders, tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. label. V. fine copy. (1)

Lot 334/10022

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Blackstaff Press: Derricke (John) The Image of Irelande with A Discoverie of Woodkarne, lg. 4to Belfast 1985. Lim. Edn. No. 186 (286) Signed by Publisher, lg. fold. illus., vellum backed boards, slipcase. V. good. (1)

Lot 335/10022

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Juvenalia: Pop-Up- Book Giraud (S. Louis)ed. Bookano Stories and Hans Andersen’s Fairy Stories, 3 vols. L. Strand Publications, n.d., with bl. & white, & cold. pop-up illus., cold. pict. cloth backed boards; Christie (G.F.) Round de Ole Plantation, folio L. n.d. hf. title & cold. illus., pict. cloth backed boards; Tarrant (M.W.) Mother Goose Nursery Tales, folio L. n.d., cold. plts. orig. cloth backed pict. boards. All v. good. (5)

Lot 336/10022

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Hozier (H.M.) The Franco-Prussian War, 2 vols. 4to L. n.d. c. 1875, 1 engd. add. title, 21 ports (include. 2 frontis) 27 engd. plts. & 22 maps, some cold. & mostly dbl. page cont. hf. green mor. v. good. (2)

Lot 337/10022

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Dolmen Press: Holinshed’s Irish Chronicle, ed. by Liam Miller & Eileen Power. Folio D. (Dolmen Press) 1979. Lim. Edn. 850 Copies, illus. thro-out, cloth & d.w.; O’Grady (Des) The Gododdin, folio Dolmen Editions 1977. Illus. by Louis le Brocquy, cloth; Hogan (W.J.) Out of Season, folio Galway 1978. Illus. by Geo. Campbell, cloth & d.w. (3)

Lot 338/10022

SOLD Hammer price €750

Ex Libris Colebrooke Co. FermanaghTrinity Prize Bindings: M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera, cum de lectu commentariorum. 9 vols. 4to Paris 1740. Add. engd. frontis after Soubeyran. Cont. full mottled calf, single gilt fillet borders, with oval T.C.D. prize stamp in gilt on both covers, profusely tooled gilt spines in panels,mor. labels (1 spine dam. at base), otherwise very good set.* With the original rare early T.C.D. prize bookplate issued to Arthur Brooke in 1744, a descendant of Arthur Brooke, later became Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Purchased at Colebrooke by present owner. (9)

Lot 339/10022

Complete Set with Volume 19Gilbert (John T.) Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, Vols. I – XIX, together 18 vols. roy 8vo D. 1890 – 1930. First Edns., ports. & fold. cold. & other plts. & illus., partly unopened, orig. mor. backed cloth boards, gilt decor. Very good clean set.* Full sets are very rare, as Volume XIX was publsihed much later, and was edited by his wife Lady Gilbert. (19)

Lot 340/10022

SOLD Hammer price €550

An Unbroken RunPeriodical: Bealoideas. The Journal of the Folklore of Ireland Society, Vol. I No. 1 – Vol. 83, together 83 volumes D. 1927 – 2015., orig. ptd. wrappers, & cloth with pict. wrappers. A fine clean unbroken set. (83)

Lot 349/10022

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Limited EditionAn elephant and coral Stipula Fountain Pen, from the “Saints” Series (with Saint Andrews Cross) with an exclusive retractable mechanism, made from lathe turned celluloid, herringbone design and sterling silver, No. 49/88, in custom leather case. (1)* All Proceeds going to the Kilkenny S.P.C.A.