13 December 2016 - Rare Book Sale

#0294

Lot 390/10022

SOLD Hammer price €200

Programme for Lord Roberts’s Return from South Africa, 1900Official Programme: Return of Lord Roberts, Single page, printed on linen, with coloured borders depicting Chinese figures. Details the arrangements for the procession conveying Field Marshal Lord Roberts from Paddington Station to Buckinham Palace on his triumphant return in December 1900 from South Africa. he was greeted as a conquering hero for his aggressive campaign resulting in the defeat of the Boer armies (in fact the Boers resorted to guerilla tactics and the war lasted another two years), 41cms x 34cms. (1)

Lot 391/10022

SOLD Hammer price €770

MNA na hEIREANNA small collection including an Easter 1916 Memorial Card signed by Kathleen Clarke (widow of Tom), signed at rear by others including M[arie] Ffrench-Mullen, Nell Humphreys, Winifred Carney [James Connolly’s secretary, who served with him in the Post Office] and [Dr.] Kathleen Lynn, medical officer to the Citizen Army; with a prayer card signed by Mrs. Pearse (mother of Padraic), 1930; an unsigned ink sketch of an actor in Celtic costume, well executed; and a leaflet headed ‘English Horrors in Irish Jails’, July 1918, signed at head by Sighle nic Amhlaoibh [niece of Michael O’Rahilly].As a collection, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 392/10022

SOLD Hammer price €3600

Sligo’s Noble Six’Murdered After Surrender’ The Noble Six[Sligo Interest] Oglaigh na hEireann. Irish Republican Army. A collection of eight pre-printed Casualty Forms (Deaths), with manuscript entries, relating to deaths in the Sligo area during the Civil War, June 1924, with details of circumstances, record of deceased, nearest relatives etc. The deceased are Paddy Carroll, ‘murdered on Benbulben mountain after being taken prisoner’, 3 June 1924, James Devins, ‘murdered by Free State soldiers on the side of the mountain about fifteen minutes after his surrender’, Thomas Langan, Joseph Banks, Harry Benson, Betty Noone, Michael McCrann, Eugene Kelly. Betty Noone died in a motor accident, McCrann and Kelly were ‘killed accidentally by our own forces’; the other five [from the group known as ‘Sligo’s noble six’] are said to have been murdered on the mountain after they had surrendered.A few stains, generally good condition. These I.R.A. casualty forms are rare.As a collection, w.a.f. A Rare Collection. (1)

Lot 393/10022

THE HEROES OF JADOTVILLEA comprehensive collection of internal Army documents and published works, chronicling the day-to-day operations of the Irish Army units which served under United Nations command in the (formerly Belgian) Congo, 1960-61, including the Jadotville siege, as follows:A.Unit History. 32 Bn. In The Congo. Cyclostyled, circa 150 pp foolscap, in a military issue loose-leaf binder. Foreword and summary by Col. M. O Buachalla [Col. Mort Buckley]. Covers events involving the 32nd Batt., which established the Irish mission in the Congo, in minute daily detail from 22 July 1960 to 20 January 1961, various reports and appendices, personnel lists etc., map at end. [The 32nd was not the unit involved in the Niemba ambush].B.Stair 35 Cathlán Coisithe sa Chongo [Unit History of 35 Bn. Infantry], [June-Dec.] 1961 (includes the Jadotville siege and associated events). Circa 70 pp, with a further 80 pp appendices, cyclostyled typescript, in a plastic binder.C.Stair Aonaid 2ú Grúpa Coisithe [Unit History, 2nd Infantry Group], Náisiúin Aontaithe, An Congo, D. Fhóir 1963 – Bealtaine 1964 [October 1963 – May 1964, the last Irish Army unit to serve in the Congo], 54 pp, with annexes, cyclostyled typescript, foolscap, tie-bound.D.Record of Award D.S.Ms for Service in the Congo. Ordaithe Gnathaimh Ginearálta, 1967, cyclostyled typescript, 12 pp, stapled.E.Clarke, Sergeant Jim. A Record of the Service of ‘A’ Co. 36th Infantry Battalion in the Congo. December 1991. About 50 pp foolscap, mainly photocopied press reports, with a roll of names at rear, tie-bound.Items A to C, drawn directly from the military record, include the greatest possible detail of every aspect of operations, including personnel, logistics, equipment, food, medicine and health, tasks, orders, relations with the local and expatriate community, the political background, and a daily narrative of events as seen on the ground. Various pages are marked ‘Restricted’ or ‘Rúnda’ [‘Secret’]. For the crucial episode of the Battle of Jadotville (13-17 Sept. 1961), item ‘B’ includes at Appx. B a very detailed 11-page report of events (marked ‘Secret’) by Comdt. Patk Quinlan, O/C of ‘A’ Co., the unit which was besieged and taken prisoner by Katangan forces under Belgian direction; at Appx. C the report of the unsuccessful attempts by ‘Force Kane’ to relieve ‘A’ Co. during the siege; Appx. D reports on Operation ‘Morthor’, Appx. G gives Comdt. Cahalane’s report of his detention and questioning by white (i.e. Belgian) personnel, etc. With a collection of published works, as follows, some with annotations from a clearly well-informed reader:Doyle, Rose, with Leo Quinlan. Heroes of Jadotville. The Soldiers’ Story. 2006. + McCaughren, Tom. The Peacemakers of Niemba. The Full Story of the Congo Ambush. 1966. + O’Donoghue, David (ed.). The Irish Army in the Congo. The FarBattalions. 2006. + O’Neill, John Terence & Rees, Nicholas. United Nations Peace-Keeping in the Post-cold War Era. 2005. + Power, Declan. Siege at Jadotville. The Irish Army’s Forgotten Battle. 2005. + Raeside, Archie. The Congo — 1960. The First Irish United Nations Peacekeepers. 2004. + Smith, Raymond. The Fighting Irish in the Congo. 1962. + [United Nations]. The Blue Helmets. A Review of United Nations Peace-keeping. Second edition. 1990. + Whelan, Michael. The Battle of Jadotville. Irish Soldiers in Combat in the Congo 1961. 2006. Many of these are out of print and unobtainable. The experience of the Jadotville siege has recently been highlighted in the acclaimed film, ‘The Heroes of Jadotville’.A unique and important collection, of compelling interest to any person or institution wishing to study the Irish Army’s contribution to U.N. peacekeeping operations in the 1960s and later.As a collection, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 394/10022

SOLD Hammer price €950

Important collection of press photographs recording the Early Years of the Northern Ireland TroublesA file of approx. 100 black and white photographs taken by members of the press relating to the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland, late 1960s and early 1970s. Most are uncaptioned and unprovenanced but ten do have captions and five are by Kjell Hedlund of the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet.The photographs mostly measure an average of either 17 x 22 cm or 13 x 20 cm and are of excellent quality. They feature civil rights marches and Orange parades; confrontations and battles between soldiers, police and protestors; rallies and speeches. Celebrities of the period are easily recognisable: Ian Paisley, Bernadette Devlin, Terence O’Neill, Brian Faulkner, Cardinal Conway, Lord Carrington, James Chichester Clarke, Paddy Devlin and Jerry Fitt.The photographers were in the midst of the action and recorded some graphic scenes: casualties on all sides, the funeral of IRA man Tony Henderson, police and forensic experts examining the scene of the explosion at the house of Austin Currie, smiling British soldiers heading for home. There is a photograph of the meeting between Terence O’Neill and Sean Lemass in 1965, and a portrait photograph of the then Governor of Northern Ireland, Lord Erskine of Rerrick.Also included: Page from Irish Times of 15 August 1969 reporting the Bogside Riots in Derry, and a copy of Torch magazine for 27 Nov 1943.In all, a visually impactful and important record of a disturbing period in modern Irish history. As photos, w.a.f. As a lot. (1)

Lot 395/10022

SOLD Hammer price €360

Co. Wexford, 1916: Printed Poster, .. In Proud Memory of All Co. Wexford Men who fell in the Fight for Irish Independence from 1916, It lists 53 names which appears on monument unveiled April 8th, 1928 by Rev. Dom Sweetman O.S.B., with colourful border. Printed by Hanrahan, Wexford. Scarce. (1)* Inscribed at bottom ‘Joseph Ranson, C.C. Enniscorthy 1933’

Lot 400/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

Cockson (Edw.) The Quakers Pedigree Trac’d, or, Some Brief Observations on their Agreement with The Church of Rome,… 8vo L. 1703. First Edn., title with ruled border, [16] 276pp., browned thro-out, last leaf loose, bind. dam. lower cover lacking. (1)

Lot 401/10022

SOLD Hammer price €680

Scarce Kilkenny ImprintButler (James) A Letter from the Most Reverend Doctor Butler, Titular Archbishop of Cashel, to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Kenmore, 8vo Kilkenny (C. Finn) 1787. Sole Edn., 8pp, unopened, uncut, orig. blue wrappers. Extremely Scarce. (1)

Lot 402/10022

SOLD Hammer price €230

Early Edition of StatutesMaynooth: Statuta Collegii R. Catholici apud Maynooth, 8vo D. (Fitzpatrick) 1820., hf. title, 49pp, sewn as issued. Scarce. (1)

Lot 403/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

Rare Privately Printed Tract on Educating the Poor[Murray (Archbishop D.)] Epistolae Emo. ae revmo. D.D. Card. Praef. Sac. Cong. de Prop. Fide inscriptae De Instituto Hiberno-Nationale Pro Educandis Pauperibus, 8vo [Not Published] n.d. [c. 1839] Drop head title, 35pp, many marked ‘Private,’ sewn, boards. Rare. (1)

Lot 404/10022

SOLD Hammer price €170

Windele (J.) Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork and its Vicinity; Gougan, Barra, Glengarriff, and Killarney, 12mo Cork 1839, First Edn., advert leaf at back, green cloth, ptd. label. Clean Copy. (1)

Lot 405/10022

SOLD Hammer price €230

[“Nemo” pseudo] A Brief Record of the Female Orphan House, North Circular Road, Dublin .. from 1790 to 1892, 8vo D. 1893, First Edn., frontis, double page cold. plan, illus., 4pps of adverts at back, gilt lettered cloth. Scarce. (1)

Lot 406/10022

SOLD Hammer price €90

Art Union of Ireland: Mulvany (Geo.) Secretary, First Report of The Art Union of Ireland, Established 1858 … For the Promotion of the Fine Arts and Improvement of Taste in Ireland. 8vo D. 1859 – 59., 28pp plus adverts & related items loosely inserted. orig. ptd. wrappers. V. Scarce. (1)* The Earl of Charlemont was President of the Union.

Lot 407/10022

SOLD Hammer price €280

Inscribed Presentation CopyDwyer Gray (E.) The Treatment of Political Prisoners in Ireland, 8vo D. (Freemans Journal) 1889. First Edn., L.S. on title, orig. ptd. boards. (1)* Pres. Copy, inscribed on front cover, ‘The Most Rev. D. Croke with E. Dwyer Gray’s Compliments.’

Lot 408/10022

SOLD Hammer price €230

With Rare Illustrations – Irish Arts & CraftsIrish Homestead – Some Irish Industries – Special, 4to D. 1897. Sole Edn. port. frontis of The Countess Cadogan & other rare and unusual illus., orig. pict. wrappers, good. Scarce. (1)* Inscribed by Hildegarde A. Coghill, sister of Edith Sommerville.

Lot 409/10022

SOLD Hammer price €240

Co. Mayo: House Auction Sale Catalogue: An Important and Highly Interesting Sale .. by Order of the Rt. Hon. Lord Oranmore and Browne .. at Castle MacGarrett, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, July 1960, Hamilton & Hamilton Auctioneers. Roy 8vo D. 1960, with 10 illus, orig. ptd. wrappers, cover & first 5pp dam. stained. Scarce. (1)

Lot 410/10022

SOLD Hammer price €320

Rare Sale Catalogue for Kilkee CastleCo. Kildare: Kilkee Castle, Co. Kildare, Ireland, A 54pp illustrated Sales Brochure, with history of the Castle by Rev. Fr. Peadar Mac Suibhne, for the disposal of the property in 1965, by John H. Traynor & Co. Carlow, and signed by the principal of the firm W.E. Byrne. Sm. oblong folio with 34 full page illus. of The Castle, the grounds, the Castle including some rare photos of areas & rooms not seen by the general public. In fine condition. As a catalogue, w.a.f. V. Scarce. (1)

Lot 411/10022

SOLD Hammer price €260

Co. Sligo: Classiebawn Castle Guide Book, Owner Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 2 Parts. 4to n.d., profusely illustrated, fold. & other maps etc. approx. 114pp, orig. ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (2)

Lot 412/10022

SOLD Hammer price €250

The Effects of a late 17th Century Warwickshire GentlemanManuscripts: A file of 10 documents arising from the will of Job Potter of Berkswell in Warwickshire, gent, who died in 1686. The contents include an inventory of his effects, which totalled £666 and consisted principally of money (cash, mortgages, bonds); a quaint and mis-spelt letter to his widow from a niece and her husband; and a series of acknowledgements of sums received under the will. The legatees are mostly local people but include also his niece Mary Alcock and her husband Lewis Alcock, a Waterford clergyman. As m/ss, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 413/10022

SOLD Hammer price €210

The Irish Protecting Jamaica’s Fort Charles, 1758Military: A very large m/ss Sheet, an inventory of a Jamaica garrison and its equipment, headed “Fort Charles June 1st, 1758. A Return of Clothing, Linnen Necessaries etc of Captain George Frower’s Company in His Majesty’s 49th Regiment commanded by Col. George Welsh,” List all 81 men in the company with details of their equipment, approx. 153cms x 53cms (60″ x 21″), folded. As m/ss, w.a.f. (1)* The 49th Regiment was founded in 1743 when the six independent companies that formed the garrison of Jamaica were formed into one single regiment. Lt. Gen. George Welsh from Ardagh, Co. Lough was its second colonel. He died in 1761 and is buried in Westminster Abbey. Capt. Frowers company was stationed at Fort Charles, which had been built in 1655, to guard the entrance to Kingston Harbour. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)