13 December 2016 - Rare Book Sale

#0294

Lot 592/10022

SOLD Hammer price €120

[Marshall (Mr.)] Planting and Rural Ornament, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1796. Second Edn., hf. titles, advert leaf end. Vol. II, L.S.s., cont. tree calf, mor. labels. V. good. (2)

Lot 593/10022

SOLD Hammer price €660

A Magnificent Complete CopyCo. Kilkenny: [Tighe (Wm.)] Statistical Observations… relative to the County of Kilkenny made in the Years 1800 & 1801 [Dublin Society]. Thick 8vo D. 1802. First Edn. v. lg. hand cold. Map of County & 10 plts. (some fold. & some sepia) plus fold. tables, complete. In sprinkled calf, raised bands, mor. labels. A magnificent Copy. (1)

Lot 594/10022

SOLD Hammer price €240

Early Limerick PrintingMeagher (Rev. Andrew) The Popish Mass, Celebrated by Heather Priests, … or A Sermon Preached at Thurles, on Sunday 2nd August 1767. 8vo Limerick (T. Welsh) 1771. Sole Edn., list of subs., one leaf of preface torn with some loss, errata at end, cont. sheep worn. Scarce. (1)

Lot 595/10022

SOLD Hammer price €280

Wilson (James) A Journal of Two Successive Tours upon The Continent, in the Years 1816, 1817, & 1818, 3 vols. 8vo L. 1820. First Edn., L.S. on titles, partly unopened, orig. cloth backed boards. (3)

Lot 596/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

Binding: Menesius (Sebastiano Casar) Sugillatio Ingratitudinis, 4to n.p. n.d., [c. 1650], engd. title & dedit, (L.S. on dedit), cont. calf, lg. blind tooled borders & panel, raised bands gilt in panels. (1)

Lot 597/10022

SOLD Hammer price €280

G.B.S. In Fine BindingGregynog Press: Shaw Gives Himself Away, An Autobiographical Miscellany. Roy 8vo Gregynog Press 1939. Lim. Edn. No. 54 (300), engraved port. frontis by John Farleigh, in fine Gregynog Press Binding to a design after Paul Nash. In Fine Condition. (1)

Lot 598/10022

SOLD Hammer price €100

Hogarth – Trusler (Rev. J.)ed. The Works of William Hogarth, 2 vols. in one, 4to L. n.d., port. frontis, one add. engd. title, & plts. thro-out, cont. mor. mor. label. (1)

Lot 599/10022

SOLD Hammer price €120

Duhamel (Georges) Le Voyage de Moscou, imp. 8vo Paris 1927. Lim. Edn. NO. 134 (244) on Hollande van Gelder paper, uncut, unopened, with orig. yellow ptd. wrappers bound in, bookplate of E. Gandouin, etc., in crushed crimson levant mor. V. good. (1)

Lot 600/10022

SOLD Hammer price €500

Complete First SeriesPeriodical: The Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vols. 1 – 9, complete, 4to Belfast (Archer & Sons) 1853 – 1862. First Edn., some litho titles, numerous litho plts., & other full page illus. coloured maps, text illus. etc. cont. hf. green mor. gilt lettered spines. As a periodical, w.a.f. V. good set of complete First Series. (9)

Lot 601/10022

SOLD Hammer price €260

From the Duke of Buccleaugh’s LibraryCicero: M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera, ed. by Jos. Olivertus. 9 vols. 4to Geneva 1758. Third Edn., red & bl. title. Vol. I, with bookplates of Duke of Buccleugh, cont. mottled calf, raised bands, tooled gilt spine in panels, gilt armorial stamp on all covers. (9)

Lot 602/10022

SOLD Hammer price €520

Purchas (Samuel) Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes, 20 vols. roy 8vo Glasgow 1905 – 06, fac-simile maps, etc. Uncut. Fine vellum backed, gilt decor cloth. V. good. (20)

Lot 604/10022

SOLD Hammer price €400

With 14 Large Folding MapsBlair (Rev. J.) The Chronology and History of the World, Atlas folio L. 1768. First Edn., engd. title & dedit, 56 engd. single & dble page tables, & 14 lg. fold. engd. maps, all v. clean, cont. tree calf, joint cracked. (1)

Lot 605/10022

SOLD Hammer price €250

Irish Architecture: Close (Samuel P.) Holy Cross Abbey, County Tipperary, A Series of Measured Drawing of the Church; with letterpress. Lg. Atlas folio Belfast (Marcus Ward) 1868. Sole Edition, decor. title, list of subs., 13 full page litho plts., cont. full vellum. Good Scarce. (1)

Lot 606/10022

SOLD Hammer price €420

With Large Original PhotographsIrish Architecture: Hill (Arthur) Monograph of Cormacs’ Chapel Cashel, lg. folio Cork 1874. Sold Edn., decor. title, list of subscribers, 2 original full page photos, full page litho plt. & 12 full page diagrams, & 1 other small plt., in full vellum binding. V. good. Rare. (1)

Lot 607/10022

SOLD Hammer price €3200

The Irish 9th Century Masterpiece[Book of Kells] Evanangliorum Quattuor Codex Canannensis, 3 vols. lg. folio Berne, Switzerland by Urs Graf-Verlag. 1950 Limited Edition No. 124 (500), with fine full page cold. plts., in orig. full vellum with Celtic designs, & quarter vellum. Ex. Fine Set. (3)

Lot 608/10022

SOLD Hammer price €150

Stanley (Thos.) The History of The Philosophy: Containing the Lives, Opinions, Actions and Discourses of the Philosophers of Every Seat, Folio L. 1701. First Edn., red & bl. title, 25 full page ports., cont. blind panel calf. (1)

Lot 609/10022

SOLD Hammer price €80

Photographs: A large 4to Album containing over 80 original photos of English Cathedrals, Churches & Buildings (44) others sim of Continental interest, & other items, all c. 1870 – 80, in cloth album. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 610/10022

SOLD Hammer price €200

Architecture: Clarke (Joseph) Schools and School Houses: A Series of Views, Plans and Details for Rural Parishes, Folio L. 1852. First Edn., litho frontis, list of subs., & 26 full page plts., orig. mor. backed cloth, gilt. (1)

Lot 611/10022

SOLD Hammer price €180

Architecture: The Building News, June 1877 – July 1878, folio L. 1877-78. A composite volume with approx. 88 full page plates (some with double designs) mostly of English interest, a few Irish plts., cont. hf. calf. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 611A/10022

SOLD Hammer price €100

Chearnley (Samuel) Miscelanea Structure Curiosa, ed. by William Laffan. Folio Tralee (Churchill House Press) 2005. First Edn., illus. thro-out, cloth & d.w. (1)