13 December 2016 - Rare Book Sale

#0294

Lot 41/10022

SOLD Hammer price €340

Yeats (J.B.) Life in the West of Ireland, 4to D. (Maunsel & Co.) 1912, First Edn., cold. frontis & 55 plts. (7 cold.) complete, gilt lettered cloth, d.j., clean copy. (1)

Lot 42/10022

SOLD Hammer price €360

Society of Gentleman: A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; 4 vols. 8vo L. 1763. Second Edn., engd. frontis Vol. I & 288 engd. plts. (ex. 302), sm. L.S.s. on titles, cont. calf, raised bands, mor. labels. (4)

Lot 43/10022

SOLD Hammer price €360

Yeats (W.B.) The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1933, First English Edn. decor. green cloth, d.j. (worn) [Wade 169]; The Winding Stair & Other Poems, 8vo, N.Y. (Mac Millan Co.) 1933, First U.S. Edn., decor navy cloth. (2)

Lot 44/10022

SOLD Hammer price €240

Kipling (R.) The Jungle Book, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1895, Reprint; The Second Jungle Book, 8vo L. (Mac Millen & Co.) 1895, First Edn., both gilt decor blue cloth; Puck of Pooks Hill, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1906, First Edn., illus. red cloth; Travers (P.L.) Mary Poppins Comes Back, 8vo N.Y. 1935, First Edn., illus., decor. cloth; Carroll (L.) Rhyme? and Reason?, 8vo N.Y. (Mac Millen & Co.), illus., red cloth, as a lot, w.a.f. (5)

Lot 45/10022

SOLD Hammer price €220

Yeats (J.B.) Ah Well, A Romance in Perpetuity, 8vo L. (Routledge) 1942, signed and dated, cloth back boards, d.j.; Yeats (W.B.) Representatives Irish Tales,; 12mo, N.Y. (n.d.), Second Series, hf. calf, marble boards; Croly (Rev. George) Gems, Principally from the Antique, drawn and etched by Richard Dagley, 8vo L. 1822, hf. title, frontis, plts. (incomplete), hf. mor., marble boards, as a lot. (3)

Lot 46/10022

SOLD Hammer price €190

Yeats (W.B.) Plays In Prose and Verse, 8vo, L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1922, First,; Essays, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1924, First; Early Poems & Stories, L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1925, First; Autobiographies, 8vo, L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1926, First, illus., all green blind decor cloth. (4)

Lot 47/10022

SOLD Hammer price €360

Kildare & Leighlin: Comerford (Rev. M.) Collections Relating to the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, 3 vols. D. n.d. First Edn., illus. & ports., orig. cloth; also Brennan (Rev. M.) Schools of Kildare and Leighlin A.D. 1775 – 1835, D. 1935. First, cloth & d.w. (4)

Lot 48/10022

SOLD Hammer price €900

[White (Thomas)] Anglo (Thoma) De Mundo Dialogi Tres Quibus Materia, Hoc est, Quantitas, Numerus, Figura, Partes, partium qualitas & genera: … 4to Paris 1642. First Edn., 2 pages of figures, cont. calf, raised bands. (1)

Lot 49/10022

SOLD Hammer price €200

Maimbourg (P. Louis) S.J. Histoire de la Decadence de l’Empire apres Charlemagne, 4to Paris 1679. First Edn., add. engd. title, engd. heads & tails and initial letters, cont. calf, raised bands, spine gilt in panels, repaired top & bottom. (1)

Lot 50/10022

SOLD Hammer price €320

Archdall (Mervyn) Monasticon Hibernicum: or A History of the Abbeys, Priories and other Religious Houses in Ireland. Vols. I & II [All Published], 4to D. 1873. Ed. by Rt. Rev. P.F. Moran. Fold. maps, cold. plts. & engd. views, fine cont. hf. mor. Good. (2)

Lot 51/10022

SOLD Hammer price €280

Stone (J. Harris) Connemara and the Neighbouring Spots of Beauty and Interest, L. 1906. First Edn., illus. map etc.; O’Sullivan (M.D.) Old Galway – The History of a Norman Colony in Ireland, Cambridge 1942, First, illus.; The Present State of Great Britain and Ireland, In Three Parts L. 1738. Port frontis all recent hf. mor. (3)

Lot 52/10022

SOLD Hammer price €180

O’Hart (John) Irish Pedigrees: D. 1881, Third; Perraud (Fr. A.) Ireland Under English Rule, D. 1864; Prendergast (J.P.) The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, L. 1865. First, fold. maps, all recent mor. backed boards. (3)

Lot 53/10022

SOLD Hammer price €120

Walsh (Paul) Irish Chiefs and Leaders, D. 1960, also Irish Men of Learning, D. 1947. Both Three Candles Printings, First Edns., cloth & d.w.’s. V. good copies. Scarce. (2)

Lot 54/10022

SOLD Hammer price €110

[Touchet (James)] The Earl of Castlehaven’s Memoirs or, His Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland;…, 8vo D. (Epsy & Cross) 1815, later cloth binding. (1)

Lot 55/10022

SOLD Hammer price €290

Co. Donegal: Harkin (Wm.) Scenery & Antiquities of North West Donegal, 8vo Derry (David Irvine) 1893, fold. map, adverts & illus., buckram; Allingham (Hugh) Ballyshannon its History and Antiquities, 8vo, Ballyshannon (Donegal Democrat) 1937, cloth backed wrappers; Percival Swan (H.) The Book of Inishowen, 8vo Buncrana (Wm. Doherty & Co.) 1938, illus., ptd. wrappers., clean copies. (3)

Lot 56/10022

SOLD Hammer price €180

Yeats (W.B.) Ideas of Good and Evil, 8vo, L. (A.H. Bullen) 1903, First, cloth backed boards; Wheels & Butterflies, 8vo L. 1934, First, cloth & d.j.; Four Plays for Dancers, 8vo L. 1921, First, illus. boards, worn; Dramatis Personal, 8vo L. 1936, First English Edn., cloth backed boards, as a lot. (4)

Lot 57/10022

SOLD Hammer price €160

Maxwell (W.H.) History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798, L. 1845. First Edn., port. frontis plts. etc. by Geo. Cruikshank, cloth; Carleton (Wm.) Valentine M’Clutchy, The Irish Agent, D. 1847. First Edn., illus. by Phiz., hf. title, orig. cloth, gilt spine; also Lever (C.) Luttrell of Arran, L. 1865. First, illus. by Phiz, cloth. All v. good. (3)

Lot 58/10022

SOLD Hammer price €750

Ryland (Rev. R.H.) The History of Topography and Antiquities of the County and City of Waterford, 8vo L. 1824. First Edn., Fold. hd. cold. map, & 7 plts. & maps (5 fold.), t.e.g., fine in hf. green mor. (1)

Lot 59/10022

SOLD Hammer price €150

Equestrian Interest: Rarey (J.S.) The Art of Taming Horses, 12mo L. 1858, frontis & other illus., full calf, mor. label; Leech (J.) illus. Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour, 8vo L. (Bradbury, Agnew & Co.) 1852, cold. plts., hf. calf, mor. label; The Horse, His Beauties and Defects, By a Knowing Hand, 8vo L. (Wm. Tegg) 1866, illus. tp., & 18 cold. plts., cloth, as a lot, w.a.f. (3)

Lot 60/10022

SOLD Hammer price €80

Vicars (Sir A.) Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536 – 1810, roy 8vo D. 1897. First, buckram; Berry (H.F.) Register of Wills and Inventories of the Diocese of Dublin… 1457 – 1483, roy 8vo D. 1898, cloth. (2)