1 July 2014 - Rare Book Sale

#0230

Lot 193/0230

SOLD Hammer price €180

Bartlett (W.H.) & Beattie (Wm.) The Danube, its History, Scenery and Topography, thick 4to L. 1844. add. engd. title, engd. map, 78 engd. plts. (v. clean) a.e.g., orig. gilt block decor. green mor. spine dam.; Bartlett (W.H.) Beattie (Wm.) Switzerland Illustrated, 2 vols. 4to L. 1834. 1 Engd. title & 72 engd. plts. cloth; also Bartlett (W.H.) The Christian in Palestine, 4to L. n.d. Engd. add. title & 79 engd. plts. cont. hf. mor. (4)

Lot 194/0230

SOLD Hammer price €580

Special Limited Edition with Original Painting

Toibin (Colm) & Lohan (Mary) Ballyconnigar, lg. 4to D. (Tuskar Rock Press) 2008 Special Edn. Copy E of 12 lettered Copies, Signed by both. In a special cloth box with original painting by Lohan. Very Scarce. (1)

Lot 196/0230

SOLD Hammer price €50

Famine: Crowley (J.), Smyth (Wm. J.), & Murphy (Mike) Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, lg. 4to Cork 2013, profusely illus. cloth & d.w. (1)

Lot 197/0230

SOLD Hammer price €600

Gwynn (John) Liber Ardmachanus – The Book of Armagh, 4to D. 1913 Lim. Edn. 280 (400) L.P., uncut, plts. & text illus, orig. full suede with Celtic embossed decoration. (1)

Lot 198/0230

SOLD Hammer price €220

Attractive Collection of Cartoon Drawings

Juvenalia: Scrap Album, Cartoons, a unique collection of approx. 80 original watercolour drawings of various Nursery Rhymes including “Old Mother Hubbard,” “Humpty Dumpty,” “Three Men in a Boat,” “Goosie Goosie Gander,” “Old Woman in a Shoe” “Me & Mrs. Pig” (possible original), together with a collection of various drawings of sightings (ie animals, events etc.), compiled by Mr. Price for his daughter Ivy Price, sent home during his time in camp during 1910, an attractive and unusual item. As an Album, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 199/0230

SOLD Hammer price €220

H.B. Sketches by Doyle

[Daniel O’Connell, Duke of Wellington & Others] An Album of 68 large Political Caricatures, published by T. Mc Lean, London, c. 1830 – 40’s, and with many featuring representations of Daniel O’Connell, Duke of Wellington, Sir R. Peel, Lord John Russell & other political characters of the period, some stained, each approx. 42cms x 28cms (16 1/2″ x 11 1/2″), lg. folio, in cont. hf. mor. worn. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 207/0230

SOLD Hammer price €100

Irish Music: Petrie (George)ed. The Petrie Collection of The Ancient Music of Ireland, Vol. I & Vol. II pt. 2 vols. 4to D. 1855 – 1882, cloth; Hannagan (M.) & Clandillon (S.) Londubh an Chairn – Songs of the Irish Gaels, 4to Oxford 1927. First, buckram; O’Sullivan (D.) Songs of the Irish, 4to D. 1960, First, cloth. (4)

Lot 208/0230

SOLD Hammer price €60

Scottish Music: Leabhar na Feinne, Heroic Gaelic Ballads Collected in Scotland Chiefly from 1512 to 1871. Folio Shannon (I.U.P.) 1972, cloth; Fergusson (D.A.)ed. From the Farthest Hebrides, Bho na h’Innse Gall as Iomallaiche. Lg. 4to L. 1978. First, cloth & pict. d.w.; Orain a’Mhoid, Gaelic Songs for Solo Singing, Poem and Prose for Recitation Book 1 – 10, together 10 nos 4to Glasgow 1924 – 1932, orig. ptd. wrappers. As a coll. (1)

Lot 209/0230

SOLD Hammer price €1800

In Fine Tooled Gilt Binding

Aldine Press: Medici Antiqui Omnes qui Latinis Literis Diversorum Morborum Genera et Remedia persecuti sunt,… Ed. C. Grassi Folio Venice (Aldus M.) 1547, with wd. cut device on title & end leaf, wd. cut initials, library stamp removed from title, and sm. library stamp on end leaf, a.e.g., in fine full calf with profusely tooled gilt floral borders, & corner decorations with classical head with helmet orig. tooled gilt spine in panels. Good copy. (1)

Lot 213/0230

SOLD Hammer price €170

1798: Dickson (C.) The Wexford Rising in 1798, Tralee n.d. First, d.w.; de Blacam (A.) Wolfe Tone, A Picture of his Times, D. 1935, First, d.w.; Ronan (Myles) Insurgent Wicklow 1798, D. 1948, d.w.; Cashman (D.B.) The Life of Michael Dwyer, Glasgow n.d.; & 7 others, all hardbacks. Good lot. (10)

Lot 214/0230

SOLD Hammer price €150

Smith (Chas.) The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford, 8vo D. 1774. Second Edn., lg. fold. linen backed map, 1 sim. fold. plan, & 5 plts. mostly folding and line backed, complete, some finger marks, later full mor. mor. label. (1)

Lot 218/0230

SOLD Hammer price €170

[Thackerary (W.M.)] Titmarsh (M.A.) The Irish Sketch-Book, 2 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1845. Second Edn., 2 frontis & text illus. by the author, attractive cont. hf. calf, tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. labels. V. good. (2)

Lot 219/0230

SOLD Hammer price €400

[Allan (Robert)] ‘A Cosmopolite’ The Sportsman in Ireland,… 2 vols. Sm. 8vo L. 1840. First Edn., 2 litho. frontis & text illus., attractive full green mor., dble. gilt fillet borders, profusely tooled gilt spine, mor. labels. Very good set. (2)

Lot 220/0230

SOLD Hammer price €200

[Bush (J.)] Hibernia Curiosa, A Letter from A Gentleman in Dublin, to his Friend in Dover in Kent, 8vo L. 1767. First Edn., lg. fold. plan of Dublin, & 5 fold. plans & plts. 1 wd.-cut illus., recent calf backed boards, raised bands, mor. label. Good & Scarce. (1)

Lot 221/0230

SOLD Hammer price €80

Hamilton (Rev. W.) Letters concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim, sm. 8vo Belfast 1822. Port. silhouette frontis. fold. map, & 6 engd. plts. hf. calf, mor. label, good; M’Skimin (S.) The History and Antiquities of the County of the Town of Carrickfergus, 8vo Belfast 1832, engd. frontis, text illus. & plts. title & some illus. in zerox, hf. calf, mor. labels. (2)

Lot 222/0230

SOLD Hammer price €360

Egan (Anthony) Rome A Great Custom-House for Sin, or, A Table of the Dispensations and Pardons for Villanies and Wickednesses of various Kinds etc. With the several Summs of Money given and to be Paid for them formerly Publish’d by Anthony Egane B.D. Sometime Confessor General of the Kingdom of Ireland. Sm. 8vo L. 1714. First Edn. title within dble lined borders, recent mor. backed marble boards. Rare. (1)

Lot 223/0230

SOLD Hammer price €320

Lawrence (Richard) The Interest of Ireland in its Trade and Wealth Stated, In Two Parts. Sm. 8vo D. 1682. First Edn., with some cont. m/ss notes on front loose blank, in fine recent tooled panel calf, raised bands, mor. label. V. good copy. Sweeney 2754. (1)

Lot 228/0230

SOLD Hammer price €400

Fleming (Ian) Dr. No, L. 1958. First Edn., orig. pict. d.w. top of spine dam. with loss; Thunderball, L. 1961. First Edn. d.w. dam. with loss; You Only Live Twice, L. 1964. First Edn., orig. d.w.; The Golden Gun, L. 1965 First Edn. pict. d.w.; Octopussy and Living Daylights, L. 1966 First Edn., orig. d.w.; and For Your Eyes Only, L. 1960. Second Impression, pict. d.w. (6)

Lot 229/0230

SOLD Hammer price €170

Rare Irish Poetry

Mac Carthy (D. Florence) Ballads, Poems and Lyrics, Original and Translated, sm. 4to D. 1850. First,; The Bell Founder and Other Poems, sm. 8vo L. 1857. New Edn., & 1 other same author; [Waller (J. Francis)] The Revelations of Peter Brown Poet and Peripatetic, 12mo L. [1870] First; Irwin (Thos.) Versicles, 12mo L. 1856 First, hf. title; Drennan (Dr.) Glandalloch and other Poems, 12mo D. 1859. Second, cloth; Murray (Rev. Dr. P.) Prose and Verse, 12mo D. 1807. First, Pres. Copy Inscribed, L.S. on t.p., cloth. All Scarce. (7)

Lot 230/0230

SOLD Hammer price €180

Trimmor (Mrs. Sarah) The Oeconomy of Charity; or, an Address to Ladies; Adapted to the Present State of Charitable Institutions in England. Sm. 8vo L. 1801. First Edn., cont. sheep, gilt lined spine,mor. labels. Good. (2)