13 December 2016 - Rare Book Sale

#0294

Lot 632/10022

SOLD Hammer price €260

Petty (Sir W.) Political Survey of Ireland, 8vo L. 1719. Second Edn. [16], 223, & 26pp plus advert leaf at end, cont. mottled calf, tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. label, upr. joint worn. (1)

Lot 633/10022

SOLD Hammer price €420

Scarce Galway AuthorMartin (Francis) Scutum Fidei Contra Haereses Hodiernas; seu Tillotsonianae Concionis sub Titulo: Strena Oppertuna Contea Papismum, Refutatio; 8vo Louvain 1714. First Edn., 223pp; Bound with, Acta Ecclesiae Mechlininsis Anni M.D.C.C. circa Bullam Unigenitus, 8vo Brussels [1719] First Edn., [8] 152pp in cont. mottled calf, tooled gilt spine in panels, raised bands, mor. label. V. good Scarce. (1)

Lot 634/10022

Medicine: Stokes (W.) William Stokes His Life and Work (1804 – 1878), L. 1898. First, port frontis, cloth; Keynes (Geo.)ed. The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey De Motu Cordis 1628; De Circulatione Sanguinis 1649, (Nonsuch Press) Lim. Edn. 1097 (1450), uncut, full calf. (2)

Lot 635/10022

Buchanan (George) Rerum Scoticarum Historia, … De Jure Regni apud Scotos Dialogus. 8vo Edinburgh (A. Arbuthet) 1643. Red. & bl. title with device, L.S. on title, cont. calf, double gilt fillet borders. Good. (1)

Lot 636/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

Stilling-feet (Ed.) & Burnet (G.), with some Gentlemen of the Church of Rome. A Relation of a Conference, Held about Religion, at London, the Third of April, 1676, 8vo L. (Moses Pitt) 1676. First Edn., Imprim. leaf, advert leaf at end, some soiling, cont. panel calf. (1)

Lot 637/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

[Maxwell (W.H.)] Wild Sports of The West, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1833. New Edn. 5 litho plts. (2 frontis) text illus., cont. diced calf, mor. labels; Thackeray (W.H.) The Irish Sketch Book, L. 1860. Third Edn., frontis, text illus. cont. calf, with gilt armorials, lacks labels. (3)

Lot 638/10022

SOLD Hammer price €220

Charles Powell Leslie’s CopyByron (John) The Narrative of The Honourable John Byron, (Commodore in a Late Expedition round the World) Containing an Account of the Great Distresses Suffered by Himself and his Companious on the Coast of Patagonia, … 12mo D. 1768. First Dublin Edn., X, 244pp., title inscribed ‘Charles Powell Leslie,’ & with B.P. of Sir John Leslie, Glaslough House, orig. calf, mor. label. V. good. (1)

Lot 639/10022

Iona: Gordon (Rev. J.F.S.) Iona (56″ 59′ North Latitude), sm. 8vo Glasgow 1885. 2 dbl page plts., cloth; Alexander (Rev. Wm. Lindsay) Iona, 16mo L. (Religious Tract Soc.)., n.d., hf. mor. (lacks label). (2)

Lot 640/10022

SOLD Hammer price €180

Sewell (Rev. W.) Journal of a Residence at The College of St. Columba in Ireland, 12mo Oxford 1848. Second Edn. cat. at end, orig. cloth. Scarce. (1)

Lot 641/10022

SOLD Hammer price €280

Edgeworth (Maria) Belinda, 3 vols. 12mo L. 1811. Third Edn., 3 hf. titles, cont. hf. calf, mor. labels. (3)

Lot 642/10022

SOLD Hammer price €190

Ussher (James) Armagh, De Graeca Septuaginta Interpretum Versione Syntagma: 4to L. (James Crook) 1655. First Edn., errata leaf, 232pp orig. calf, upr. cover lacking. lower cover loose, mor. label. (1)

Lot 643/10022

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Taylor (Jer) Bishop of Down & Connor, Unum Necessarium: or The Doctrine and Practice of Repentance,… To which are added Two Treatises of Original Sin. 8vo L. 1711. Fourth, engd. frontis & fold. plt., cont. mottled calf with blind panel. Good. (1)

Lot 644/10022

SOLD Hammer price €290

Delany (Patrick) Dean of Down Eighteen Discourses and Dissertations upon various… subjects, 8vo L. 1766. First Edn. Errata at front, cont. sprinkled calf, gilt roll border raised bands, mor. label. V. good. (1)* The author was a great friend of Jonathan Swift.

Lot 645/10022

SOLD Hammer price €260

Cogan (Rev. A.) The Diocese of Meath Ancient and Modern, 3 vols. D. 1862 – 1870. First Edn., cloth; also Gilbert (John) A History of the City of Dublin, 3 vol. D. 1861. First Edn., all orig. cloth. (6)

Lot 646/10022

SOLD Hammer price €180

Religious Pamphlets: 1. Mac Donnell (Eneas) Further Consideration of the Catholic Oath in a Letter to Edward Blount, L. 1835, 112pp; 2. Kenrick (Rt. Rev. F.P.) A Letter on Christian Unity to the Rt. Rev. B.B. Smith, Protestant Bishop of Kentucky, Philadelphia 1836, 36pp; 3. Scott Porter (J.) A Discourse concerning Creeds, Their Origin, Authors and Effects; Preached in .. the First Presbysterian Congregation, Belfast,… in the Case respecting the Presbyterian Meeting House of Clough: 8vo Belfast 1836, 32pp.; 4. Blake (Rev. M.) Two Sermons: The First Preached on Palm Sunday, 1811 on the Lamented Death of the Very Rev. Thomas Betagh,D.D…., D. 1821, port. frontis, 48pp; 5. Crotty (Rev. B.) A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Lord Bexley in reply to the Charges against the College of Maynooth, D. 1829, 44pp; & approx. 10 other items of sim. interest, lacks covers. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 647/10022

SOLD Hammer price €100

[Mac Callaghan (John)] Vindiciarum Catholicorum Hiberniae, Authere Philopatro Irenaeo ad Alitophilum Libri Duo, quorum… Rerum in Hibernia gestarum ab anno 1641 ad annum 1649…. . 12mo Paris 1650, defective a few pps. lacking, some dam., later calf, S.N.S.R. (1)

Lot 648/10022

SOLD Hammer price €680

Clonmel Printing: Coyle (Rev. Dr.) Bishop of Raphoe, Timothy O’Sullivan’s Irish Miscellaney; To which is added A Poem on the Passion of Our Lord, 12mo Clonmel (T. Gorman) 1802. First Edn. Thus, 80pp. includ list of subscribers (mostly from Co’s Tipperary & Kilkenny), orig. calf backed marble boards. V. Scarce (1)

Lot 649/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

The Imitation of Christ in Irish[A. Kempis (St. Thos.)] O’Suilliobhain (Donal) trans. Searc-Leanmhain Chriosd, 16mo D. 1822. Some annots & notes in pencil, text entirely in Gaelic script, cont. hf. mor. V. good. Scarce. (1)

Lot 650/10022

SOLD Hammer price €1700

Rare Irish GrammarMolloy (Fr. Francis) Grammatica Latino – Hibernica, nunc compendiata. 20mo Rome (Typographia S. Cong. de Propag.) 1677. First Edn., hf. title, [12], 286pp., cont. name on hf. title, some minor stains, later hf. vellum, tooled gilt spine, mor. label. V. good copy of this v. scarce work. (1)

Lot 651/10022

SOLD Hammer price €460

In Gaelic Script ThroughoutMolloy (Fr. Francis) Lucerna Fidelium, seu Fasciculus Deserptus ab Authoribus magis versatis qui tractarunt de Doctrina Christina: Sm. 8vo Rome (Typis Sacrae Congreg. de Propaganda Fide) 1676. First Edn., [4] 391, VIIIpp., 19th Century hf. calf, gilt tooled bands, mor. label. Extremely good copy. V. Rare. (1)