13 December 2016 - Rare Book Sale

#0294

Lot 21/10022

SOLD Hammer price €100

Hamilton (Count Anthony) Fairy Tales and Romances, 8vo L. 1849. Engd. ports, cont. hf. mor. tooled gilt spine. V. good. Scarce. (1)

Lot 22/10022

SOLD Hammer price €220

Special Edition – King’s Inns: Jellett (Sergeant)ed. A Catalogue of the Portraits in the Hall of The King’s Inns, Published by the Authority of The Bankers. Sm. 4to D. (A. Thom & Co.) n.d. [c. 1900] Sole Edn., describes 32 portraits, each with a biography of the sitter, a.e.g., & full limp mor. gilt lettered. Rare. (1)

Lot 23/10022

SOLD Hammer price €425

Farley (John) The London Art of Cookery, and Housekeepers Complete Assistant. 8vo D. 1783. title soiled & with sm. pce. cut out, cont. calf, lacks label. (1)

Lot 24/10022

Irish Plays: A Volume of Farces, As they are Performed at the Theatre, Smoke-Alley, Dublin. 12mo [D] 1792. Eight works, some by J. O’Keeffe, Mrs. Inchbald, Thos. Otway etc., some mis-pagination, last leaf of last work lacking, bind dam., w.a.f. Scarce. (1)

Lot 25/10022

SOLD Hammer price €520

Almanacs: Stewart (J. Watson) The Treble Almanack, (Almanack, English Registry, & Wilson’s Dublin Directory) 1819, 1820, & 1822, 3 vols. sm. 8vo D. 1819 – 1822. First Edns., 3 fold. engd. maps, all orig. full crimson mor. Good. (3)

Lot 26/10022

SOLD Hammer price €90

Early Three CandlesLevy (Ferdinand) Flashes from the Dark, D. (Three Candles) 1941. Sole Edn. Lim. Edn. 132 Copies. Frontis portrait by Louis le Brocquy, cloth & decor. d.w. with inset Christmas Card, signed by Melanie [le Brocquy]; Bell (Clive) An Account of French Painting, L. 1932. Signed Pres. Copy, cloth. (2)

Lot 27/10022

SOLD Hammer price €270

Maxwell (Capt. W.H.) Wild Sports of the West, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1832. First, 5 plts. & text illus., cont. hf. calf, spines worn; [Blake (Mrs. H.)] Letters from the Irish Highlands, sm. 8vo L. 1825. First, hf. title, hf. mor. spine worn. (3)

Lot 28/10022

SOLD Hammer price €560

Signed Limited EditionYeats (Wm. B.) A Vision. An Explanation of Life founded Upon the Writings of Giraldus…., 8vo L. (T. Weener Laurie) 1925, frontis, Signed Ltd. Edn. (Privately Printed) 497 (600), paper backed boards, label, clean copy. (1)

Lot 29/10022

SOLD Hammer price €440

In Fine Presentation Binding, One of 50 CopiesWith Original WatercoloursSayers (B.) & Susan Sex, Ireland’s Wild Orchids – A Field Guide, 8vo 2008. No. 10 of 50 Copies Reserved for Patrons, Donors & Authors. Signed by Both., with orig. signed w/c plate, cold. illus. thro-out, in fine calf pouch binding, in outer case. (1)

Lot 30/10022

SOLD Hammer price €60

Cork Medical: Cummins (N. Marshall) Some Chapters of Cork Medical History, Cork 1957; also Cummins (R.C.) Unusual Medical Cases, a Cork Physicians Memories, Cork 1962. Both first Edns., ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (2)

Lot 31/10022

SOLD Hammer price €300

All in Fine BindingsLever (Charles) The Military Novels of Charles Lever, 9 vols. 8vo n.d. Lim. Edition de Luxe No. 94 (500), engd. plts., t.e.g. 19th Century fine hf. green mor., profusely tooled gilt spines by H. Young & Sons, Liverpool. V. good. (9)* Included are Charles O’Malley, Harry Lorrequer, Tom Burke, Jack Hinton, all 2 vols., & Arthur O’Leary.

Lot 32/10022

SOLD Hammer price €220

Yeats (W.B.) Poems 1899 – 1905, 8vo L. (A.H. Bullen) 1906., hf. title; Poems – Second Series, 8vo L. (A.H. Bullen) 1909, hf. title, portrait frontis, both uncut, blue cloth, gilt decor spine, clean copies. (2)

Lot 33/10022

SOLD Hammer price €600

Yeats (W.B.) The Tower, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1928, First, gilt decor. pictorial cloth, d.j. worn; The Wild Swans at Coole, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & co.) 1919, First Edn. Thus, gilt decor cloth, (lacks d.j.), otherwise fine copy. (2)

Lot 34/10022

SOLD Hammer price €260

Very Fine Set[Cromwell (T.)] Excursions through Ireland – Province of Leinster, 2 vols. roy 8vo L. c. 1820, 2 engd. frontis, 2 engd. titles & 93 engd. a.e.g., in full cont. str. grained purple mor., lg. tooled gilt borders, 7 spines. V. clean set. (2)

Lot 35/10022

SOLD Hammer price €400

Betham (Sir Wm.) Irish Antiquarian Researches, Parts I & II 2 vols. D. 1826. First Edn., 12 fold. & other plts. (include frontis) some hd. cold., cont. diced purple mor. mor. labels. Bookplates of Lucius O’Brien, Dromoland Castle. V. good. (2)

Lot 36/10022

SOLD Hammer price €340

Property of Lily YeatsO’Faolain (Sean)ed. The Bell. a Survey of Irish Life, Vol. I No. 1 – vol. 6 No. 1, Oct. 1940 – April 1943, together 11 issues (broken) in original ptd. wrappers. (11)* All signed by Lily Yeats.

Lot 37/10022

SOLD Hammer price €170

Irish Travel: Head (Sir F.B.) A Fortnight in Ireland, 8vo L. 1852. First Edn., fold. map frontis, 16pp cat. at end, fine in orig. cloth; [Thackeray (W.M.)] The Irish Sketch Book, by Mr. M.A. Titmarsh. 2 vols. 8vo L. 1845. Second Edn., hf. titles, 2 frontis, text illus., fine in orig. cloth. (3)

Lot 38/10022

SOLD Hammer price €80

Cork interest: M’Namara (Rev. J.F.) Curate of Saints Peter and Paul, A Funeral Oration on the Rev. Denis Lyons, Preached in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Cork, … 27th September, 1825, roy 8vo L. 1825. Sole Edn., port. frontis, 36pp. uncut, boards. Scarce. (1)

Lot 39/10022

SOLD Hammer price €80

Goldberg (Gerald Y.) Jonathan Swift and Contemporary Cork, 8vo Cork (Mercier) 1967. Sole Edition, with illus., cloth & pict. d.w. Scarce. (1)

Lot 40/10022

SOLD Hammer price €120

Co. Cork: Harvey (Dr. J.R.), Humphreys (J.D.) & Power (Dr. T.) Contributions towards a Fauna and Flora of the County of Cork, 8vo L. & Cork (Geo. Purcell) 1845, First Edn., title in fac-simile, otherwise complete, cloth backed boards. Rare. (1)