13 December 2016 - Rare Book Sale

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Lot 732/10022

SOLD Hammer price €400

Book of Dun CowGilbert (John)ed. Leabhar na H-Uidhri: A Collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, in The Irish Language. Compiled and Transcribed about A.D. 1100, by Maolmuire Mac Ceileachair. Lg. 4to D. (Royal Irish Academy) 1870. Limited to 200 Copies Only, fac-simile thro-out, 2 cold. lithos, errata slip, orig. mor. backed boards. V. good. (1)

Lot 733/10022

SOLD Hammer price €440

Liber ArdmachanusRoyal Irish Academy: Gwynn (John)ed. The Book of Armagh, lg. thick 4to D. (R.I.A.) 1913. Lim. Edn. No. 331 of 400 Copies. Hf. title, uncut, unopened, fine blind Celtic design suede. (1)

Lot 734/10022

SOLD Hammer price €1600

With All the Maps & PlatesBogs in Ireland: Griffith (R.) & others, The First-Fourth Report of the Commissioners Appointed to enquire into the Nature and Extents of the Several Bogs in Ireland, In 3 Vols. Folio L. 1810-1814. Sole Editions, Complete Set, with 66 fold. & other maps plates etc. (complete), cont. hf. calf, marble sides, all joints loose.* A very good complete set, with all the maps very clean. unusual to get in this condition. (3)

Lot 735/10022

SOLD Hammer price €180

Fourth Edition – Dublin PrintingJohnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vols. thick 4to D. (T. Ewing) 1775. Fourth, L.S. on t. pages, some damp stains, 1 leaf loose, cont. full calf, raised bands, mor. labels. (2)

Lot 736/10022

Ussher (James) Archbishop of Armagh Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates: folio L. (Benj. Tooke) 1687. First Edn. Imprim leaf at front, cont. calf, worn. (1)

Lot 737/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

Dublin Printing: Salmon (Mr.) A New Abridgement and Critical Review of the State Trials, 2 vols. folio D. (J. Leathley etc) 1741. Second, red & bl. titles, fore-edges of Vol. II dampened, cont. calf, mor. labels. Tervoe Copy with B.P. (2)

Lot 738/10022

Illustrated Volume: Hart (Lt. Col.) The Guards and The Line, oblong folio L. 1851 First Edn., 12 full page double plts., illus by Alfred Crowquill, mor. backed pict. boards. (1)

Lot 739/10022

SOLD Hammer price €120

Noble (James) An Arabic Vocabulary and Index for Richardson’s Arabic Grammar, In which the Words are Explained… in the Hebrew, Chaldee, and Syriac Languages. 4to Edin. 1820. First Edn., engd. frontis [XVIII], 118pp, uncut, orig. boards. (1)

Lot 740/10022

SOLD Hammer price €280

Messingham (Thos.) Florileguim Insular Sanctorum seu Vitae et Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, folio Paris 1624. First Edn., red & bl. title with engd. vignette, last leaf supplied in fac-simile, cont. calf, worn. (1)

Lot 741/10022

SOLD Hammer price €60

Stuart (Gilbert) The History of Scotland, from the Establishment of the Reformation till the Death of Queen Mary, 2 vols. 4to L. 1782. First Edn., adverts end of Vol. II, cont. tree calf, mor. labels. (2)

Lot 742/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

Signed Limited EditionKeith (E.C.) Gun for Company, lg. 4to L. (Country Life) 1937 Illus. by J.C. Harrison Limited Edn. No. 131 of 175 Copies, Signed by Author & Artist, 12 full page cold. plts. & other plts., orig. cloth. (1)

Lot 743/10022

SOLD Hammer price €150

Milton (John) Paradise Lost, 2 vols. 4to Lond. 1749. New Edn., Edited by Thomas Newton, D.D., 2 engd. port. frontis, engd. heads etc., 12 engd. plts. & list of subs., some ink or finger marks, cont. mottled calf, worn, mor. labels. (2)

Lot 744/10022

SOLD Hammer price €200

Rivard (M.) Elements de Mathematiques, 4to Paris 1768. Sixth Edn. 13 fold. plts., title creased, with L.S. & cont. owners name, otherwise a good copy in orig. mottled calf, raised bands spine tooled in panels, mor. label. (1)

Lot 745/10022

SOLD Hammer price €6000

An Exceptionally Rare Pair in Uniform BindingsColgan (John) Acta Sanctorum veteris et maioris Scotiae, seu Hiberniae Sanctorum Insulae,… Tomus Primus, Qui de sacris Hiberniae Antiquitatibus est Tertius Januarium, Februarium, and Martium complecteus. Folio Louvain (Everardum de Witte) 1645. First Edn. Hf. title, [28] 906pp, first few & last few leaves stained, otherwise v. good. together with: Colgan (John) Triadis Thaumaturgae, seu Divorum Patricii, Columbae et Brigidae, trium veteris et naoris Scotiae, seu Hiberniae Sanctorum Insulae, Communium Patronorum Acta,… Tomus Secundus Sacrarum ejusdem insulae Antiquitatum, nune primum in lucem prodiens. Folio Louvain 1647. First Edn. Hf. title, pp[24], 740, [2, errata]. some mispagination.The pagination omits 153, 154, 387, 388, some damp weakening at fore-edge at front, a few leaves strengthened, in matching contemporary style 18th Century bindings with blind decoration, raised bands, gilt tooled floral decoration in panels, mor. labels. (2)* Each volume exceptionally rare, but the auctioneers have never handled the pair in near contemporary matching bindings. Shane Leslie in his article on ‘The Rarest Irish Books,’ 1935, mentions the above volumes, ‘which are the desire of every Irish Collector.’ ‘..Bishop Reeves calculated there were about fifteen sets of Colgan in Ireland. There cannot be more than fifty in the world at a very large estimate.’

Lot 746/10022

SOLD Hammer price €150

Photographs etc: An interesting Album containing mostly reprints of early and rare Irish historical photos; an Album of early carte-de-visite photos, some on tin, some stereoscopic photos, photographic ephemera, etc., also a box of glass slides, and a good collection stereoscopic cards, on original winder. As a coll., w.a.f. A lot. (1)

Lot 747/10022

Photographs etc: A good quality mahogany cased printer, “The ‘Renaud’ Quick Bromide Printer,” by Marion & Co., c. 1907; and a mahogany Developer for single Prints with original glass dish; together with various lenses etc. As a lot, w.a.f. (3)

Lot 748/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

A good electric slide Projector, by Mason, Dublin, in its original case. (1)

Lot 749/10022

SOLD Hammer price €800

Photographs: A very good large mahogany cased Wet-plate Camera, c. 1855, with brass mounts and original lens. (1)

Lot 750/10022

Photographic Group ScenePhotographs: Chancellor, Photographer, Masonic Bazaar. Ye Old Streete, Dublin, April 1882, approx. 21″ x 33″, on printed mount, some dam. As a photograph, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 751/10022

SOLD Hammer price €900

The John Shaw Smith Photographic Albums** One of a Set of 5 Original Calotypes by the Inventor of this Process John Shaw Smith** Photographs: Four Albums of almost 300 Photographs after the originals now in the National Photographic Archive, by John Shaw Smith, taken c. 1850 – 52 in Ireland, Egypt, & The Middle East, all carefully mounted in black oblong folio albums, & each neatly captioned underneath. As photographs, w.a.f. (4)* The prints are of very high quality.John Shaw Smith (1811 – 1873) owned the estate of Clonmault, Midleton, Co. Cork, Ireland. He was the amateur par excellence. Travel was his passion, photography a means of recording.In August 1849, he and his wife Mary Louisa Richardson of Lisburn “determined to make a tour of some parts of Europe and Egypt & Palestine”. In February 1850, while making preparations for the tour in London, he writes in his diary: “I also obtained many letters of introduction to the different countries we proposed to visit and purchased a photographic camera with its appendages for taking Views of the various objects on our journey.”Shaw Smith dated separately each of some 300 calotype negatives 9″ x 7”, in the three years 1850 – 52 inclusive, and the dates are confirmed by those in his diaries, which his descendants still hold. His wife accompanied him by Nile boat and on camel-back through Upper and Lower Egypt, Nubia and the Sinai Peninsula, to Petra and the Holy Land. Although conducted by a Sheikh, they ran considerable risks. Having climbed Mount Hor, Shaw Smith entered Petra from the high ground near El Deir, made the first photographic record of the hidden city, and left by way of the Sik: thus reversing the usual procedure of travellers.Quite early in the tour, “appendages” ran out and he improvised a calotype process on paper negatives, details of which are lacking. The most modest and retiring of men, Shaw Smith had no thought of publicity.He rented two town houses successively in Dublin on his return, and was thus in touch with the P.S.I. from early days. But the quality of his work remained unknown until the Exhibition of Victorian Photographs from the Gernsheim Collection, during the Festival of Britain, 1951.