13 December 2016 - Rare Book Sale

#0294

Lot 752/10022

Eastern Photographs: Constantinople, 1909, by W. Lewis White, approx. 24cms x 30cms, framed; other earlier of Egypt (4), The Pyramids etc; others of Tunis, Algeria, Garriques, Peridis etc., 11 photos in all. A lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 753/10022

SOLD Hammer price €5800

Highly Important Album Some of the Earliest Irish PhotographsDated 1855Coghill (Sir Joscelyn) First Secretary of the Dublin Photographic Society: A very important Album of original ‘Photographs, 1855’, dated on cover 1855, the album containing circa 100 numbered pages, oblong quarto, with about 140 images in various sizes, many neatly captioned, some about 6 x 8 ins, others smaller, mostly portraits but also including some important landscape photos.Portraits include Sir Joscelyn himself, his wife Katharine, the young Egerton (oval) dated June 1858, Honb. Emmeline Plunket acting a part as ‘Tragedy’, Thomas Greene and (presumably) his wife, various family members, various tradesmen and servants, Sir Joscelyn playing cards, a good family group at a gate, Coghill’s first carte-de-visite dated 1855, a splendid gentleman said to be Don Caesar de Bazant, a sleeping child, and many images of his wife and children.Landscape photos include Drumcondra House, a superb image of Drogheda harbour with sail-boats, important views of the Boyne Viaduct under construction, Muredach’s Cross at Monasterboice showing fine uneroded detail, the bridge at Finglas before the city swallowed it, the Rock of Cashel with the original village at its foot, Hore Abbey, Adare Abbey, Desmond Castle, the old Weir Bridge, Gap of Dunloe, Muckross Abbey, Holy Cross, Brickeen Bridge, Newtown near Trim, an exceedingly bare view of Killiney with the obelisk, the Meeting of the Waters, Sackville St. with the Pillar and GPO, a windmill at Feltrum, the village of Swords, Chapel Izod (still a village), and near the end Windsor and some Welsh or English views and portraits.The quality of the images is generally excellent, the prints are neatly laid down and are mostly unfaded and in good condition. The album itself is strongly bound in half leather buckram. The covers are somewhat soiled and shaken, a few early pages have been cellotaped, but in general it is holding strongly. (1)A wonderful album by one of the earliest pioneers from the very beginning of photography in Ireland. See Edward Chandler’s Photography in Ireland: The Nineteenth Century [Burke 2001] for further information about Coghill and his work, and his essay on ‘The Mutual Relations of Photography and Art’ [1859].Provenance: by family descent

Lot 754/10022

SOLD Hammer price €2200

Early Irish Photographic Prize CollectionCoghill (Sir Joscelyn) Amateur Photographic Association Prize 1867 [an Album submitted for, and awarded the prize]. Folio album strongly bound in full leather gilt, reinforced hinges, about 89 small portrait photographs, circa 4 x 2 ½ ins, not captioned but mostly family, neatly mounted up to 9 to a page, followed by two full page pencil sketches and about 28 full page landscape photographs, good quality, mostly Continental, including a fine lakeside shot, snow-covered mountains, an attempt at a panoramic shot with two photos joined, an old mill, various landscapes probably in the Swiss highlands, etc. The album in excellent clean condition. (1)·For further information on Sir Joscelyn, see previous lot.

Lot 755/10022

SOLD Hammer price €680

Rare Amateur PhotographsPhotographs: Penrose (Herbert F.) Cork. A large oblong folio album labelled on front cover, Photographs by Herbert F. Penrose, It contains some large photos of Cork, include. U.C.C., Spike Island etc., Dublin, Killiney, Dalkey, with some early street scenes, also other parts of Ireland, some of Dolmens, with figures posing, some group scenes, some of early motor cars, bicycles, etc., etc., from full page, approx. 7 1/2″ x 9 1/2″, down to 3″ x 4″, over 90 photos, c. 1870 – 1900, and a few later. In full gilt decor. mor. binding. as an Album, w.a.f. V. good. Rare. (1)

Lot 756/10022

SOLD Hammer price €1300

Unique Early Photographs of Co. CarlowPhotographs: Vigors (Capt. Philip Doyne) Photographer. A large folio Album containing some very rare photos of Holloden, nr. Bagnalstown, the photographers own home, including two dated 1864, (approx. 5 3/4″ x 7 3/4) & 8 lg. photos, views from the house & of the River Barrow, dated 1876 (each approx. 9″ x 12″0, also 10 others of Co. Carlow, (approx. 5″ x 7 1/2″) some dated 1863, 1874, & 1876; approx. 58 of Kilkenny, Kerry, Mayo, Sligo, Wicklow, Tipperary, Waterford, N. Ireland, & Dublin, some dated 1874, scenery, Abbeys, High Crosses etc., all in fine condition, together with some others loosely inserted. Over 100 photographs in all. In full mor. Album, with initials ‘P.D.V.’ in gilt on front cover. V. G. As an Album, w.a.f. *P.D. Vigors was the founder & editor of the periodical “The Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, 1879 – 1931”.

Lot 757/10022

English Royalty: A good collection of approx. 26 original unofficial and official Photographs of Queen Victoria’s Visit to Dublin in 1900, various sizes and mostly inscribed on reverse; Programme of Visit to Ireland of … King Edward VII & Queen Alexander 21st July – 1st August, 1903, folio D. 1903; The Form and Order of … Coronation of … King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, … 12 May 1937; The Coronation of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2nd June 1953, & other item. As a lot. (1)

Lot 758/10022

SOLD Hammer price €240

Irish Photographs: A large 19th Century oblong folio Photograph Album, containing orig. early photos of Galway U.C.G., The Quays, Kylemore, Glenoir, Brinkwater, Cregg Castle etc., Dublin & Cork, Limerick, also some photos of England, France & Spain etc., containing over 100 photos full page hf. page etc; together with two small Carte-de-Visite Albums, relating to Galway families etc. A lot. (1)

Lot 759/10022

SOLD Hammer price €1150

The Ulster Textile IndustryPhotographs, N. Ireland: Green (W.a.), Welch (Rob.) & Hogg (A.R.) The Ulster Textile Industry, a collection of approx. 58 (mainly platinotype) by the above photographers, plus a few by F. Bradbury Textiles. All mounted on card, now contained in a folio velvet lined solander box. As a collection of photographs, w.a.f. A Rare & Interesting Collection.* The examples by Welch were exhibited in 1907, & those by Green in 1912, at the Municipal Technical College, Belfast.

Lot 760/10022

SOLD Hammer price €950

Rare Photographs of Co. KerryPhotographsL Lawrence (W.) Photographer. A very good small oblong folio Album of 50 Photographs of Co. Kerry, including some rare examples including The Building of The O’Connell Church, Caherciveen, The Ruins of O’Connell’s Birthplace, The Lighthouse Valentia, The Knight of Kerry’s House in Valentia, Main St. Valentia, good views of Glenbeigh, Rossbeigh, Poor Clare Convent, Kenmare, Railway Terminus Killarney, others of Killorglin, etc. each approx. 5 1/2″ x 8″, all c. 1880, in hf. mor. Album. as a coll. of photos, w.a.f. Good. (1)

Lot 761/10022

SOLD Hammer price €540

Important Early Photograph Album of Irish & Other Military FiguresCo. Cork: Military Interest: Album (28cms x 39cms) in fine original green leather binding with blind and gold tooling. 48 ff (several blank). The owner was R. Roberts of the 9th Regiment and the album contains a large number of photos of officers in the regiment, some singly and some in groups, and also of the regimental sergeants and of officers in other regiments. They are captioned and one is dated 1864. The album also includes photos of famous paintings and sculptures, topographical views (Kilkenny, Cork, Malta, Venice, Gibraltar, Corfu, Pembroke Dock), and of men and women in costumes, including an attractive photograph of Mrs Jane D’Esterre Hill, presumably taken soon after her marriage in 1866 at age 22. There are also coloured cut-outs of French military uniforms.The 9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot fought in battles of the First Afghan and Sikh Wars, 1841-1846, and there is a photo of a monument to soldiers who fell in those actions.Many early photograph albums have no captions; this one clearly identifies the officers of a particular regiment in the 1860s and thus forms an important document of the period, in a contemporary full green and tooled décor mor. As an Album. (1)

Lot 762/10022

SOLD Hammer price €300

Rare Original Photograph of Lawrence of Arabia[Lawrence (T.E.) Col.] alias Aircraftman Ross. A contemporary Photograph, circa 10″ x 3 1/2″, showing Col. T.E. Lawrence (‘of Arabia’) in his ‘ranker’s uniform’ as ‘Aircraftsman Ross,’ probably 1920s, photographed at Farnborough, press photograph, details rear.T.E. Lawrence joined the Royal Air Force in 1922 as ‘Aircraftsman Ross,’ and changed his name in 1927 to T.E. Shaw. apparently he wished for privacy after the publicity about his achievements in Arabia during the First World War. He died in a motorcycle accident in 1935. he was Irish-born. (1)

Lot 763/10022

SOLD Hammer price €200

Photographs: Beresford Family, Milner, & Maude Families, some Royalty & Hierarchy, 4 small carte-de-visite albums, and a small Scrap Book. As photos, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 764/10022

Stitt 1963″Portrait of Patrick Coghill, with bow tie,” head and shoulders, O.O.c., 61cms x 76cms (30″ x 24″), signed and dated ’63, in gilt slip frame. (1)

Lot 765/10022

SOLD Hammer price €2300

Edith Oenone Somerville, 1858 – 1949Paddy, Oct. 1903, Patrick Coghill, nephew of the Artist, seated on a stool holding pencil and copybook, under the watchful eye of his pet Yorkshire terrier. A delightful interior. O.O.Canvas, approx. 52cms x 41cms (21″ x 16″), signed, in painted frame. (1)Provenance: The Coghill Family, by direct descent to the present owner. See Front Cover Illustration.

Lot 766/10022

SOLD Hammer price €460

Edith Oenone Somerville, 1858 – 1949Approaching Rain, O.O.Board, 29cms x 39.5cms (11 1/2″ x 15 1/2″), signed in modern gilt frame. (1)Provenance: The Coghill Family, by direct descent to the present owner.

Lot 767/10022

SOLD Hammer price €480

Edith Oenone Somerville, 1858 – 1949From Yokan (Looking towards Baltimore) September 1939, O.O.Board, 33cms x 41cms (13″ x 16″) signed and signed and inscribed on reverse, in gilt frame. (1)Provenance: The Coghill Family, by descent to the present owner.

Lot 768/10022

SOLD Hammer price €350

Edith Oenone Somerville, 1858 – 1949Wash on Paper: Sketch of head for The Goose Girl, (c. 1888), wash on paper, (5″ x 4 1/2″) signed, and with Exhibition label on reverse, gilt frame. (1)Note: The above is a study for the fine painting “The Goose Girl,” presently on loan to The Crawford Gallery Cork, from Cork Corporation.Provenance: The Coghill Family, by direct descent to the present owner.

Lot 769/10022

SOLD Hammer price €650

Edith Oenone Somerville, 1858 – 1949″Lake Scene with boat house, mountains beyond,” Bourget en Lac, Aix-le-Bains, O.O.Board, 26.5cms x 40cms, (10 1/2″ x 16″), signed with initials, inscribed on label on reverse, modern gilt frame. (1)

Lot 770/10022

Edith Oenone Somerville, 1858 – 1949The Bog Pond, West of Ireland Scene, O.O.Canvas, 33cms x 43cms (13″ x 17″), signed, in gilt frame. (1)Provenance: The Coghill Family, by descent to the present owner.

Lot 771/10022

SOLD Hammer price €500

Edith Oenone Somerville, 1858-1949Spring in County Cork, Coastal landscape with furze by a lane way, cottages beyond. O.O.Board, 40.5cms x 33cms, (16″ x 13″) signed twice, and inscribed on reverse, ‘May 1935. Not for Sale,’ also signed with initials on reverse, gilt frame. (1)Provenance: The Coghill Family, by descent to the present owner.