2 April 2014 - Rare Book Sale

#0228

Lot 261/0228

SOLD Hammer price €120

Box: The Lonsdale Sporting Library, 11 vols. (incomplete) 8vo L. 1932 + illus., orig. buckram, with vols. on fishing wild fowling, shooting, foxhunting, polo and beagling; also some other vols. of literary interest also some art and gardening. As a box, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 262/0228

SOLD Hammer price €90

Box: Irish interest: Yeats (W.B.) Land of Heart’s Desire, and The Countess Cathleen, Vols. I & II of Dublin Plays, 2 vols. L. 1912, ptd. wrappers; The Hour-Glass and other Plays, N.Y. 1914; also Ideas of Good and Evil, L. 1914, cloth; Mac Mahon (Bryan) Children of the Rainbow, L. 1952, First; Neligan & Seymour – True Irish Ghost Stories, D. 1926; & approx. 17 others, as a box lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 263/0228

SOLD Hammer price €220

Box: Irish History etc: A very good collection including Connell (K.H.) The Population of Ireland, 1750 – 1845, Oxford 1950; Whyte (J.H.) The Independent Irish Party 1850 – 9, Oxford 1958; Clarke (A.) The Old English in Ireland, 1625 – 42, L. 1966; & approx. 22 others. A good lot, as a box. (1)

Lot 264/0228

SOLD Hammer price €50

Box: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 32 vols. lg. 4to L. & N.Y. c. 1922, Twelfth Edn., illus. thro.-out, full mor. gilt tooled decor. (32)

Lot 265/0228

SOLD Hammer price €130

Box: Irish Literature: Gogarty (O. St. John) Tumbling in the Hay, L. 1939; also Going Native, L. 1941, both Firsts,; Yeats (W.B.) Ideas of Good & Evil, L. 1914; O’Flaherty (Liam) Insurrections, L. 1950, d.w.; O’Connor (F.) Guests of the Nation, L. 1931; Synge (J.M.) Four Plays, D. 1911; Gregory (Lady) Gods and Fighting Men, L. 1905; O’Casey (S.) The Plough and the Stars, L. 1930; Strong (R.A.G.) The Lost Enemy, A Study of Youth, L. 1936; & others by Patrick Campbell, Eliz. Bowen etc., together with some odd no’s of Bell, approx. 40 items in all. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 266/0228

SOLD Hammer price €45

Box: Mac Grath (Raymond) & Frost (A.C.) Glass in Architecture and Decoration, lg. 4to L. 1961; Junius, 8vo L. 1810, cont. decor. calf; Hayes (R.) Ireland and Irishmen in the French Revolution, L. 1932; Johnston (Ed.) Formal Penmanship & other Papers, 4to L. 1971; Bowen (E.) Bowen’s Courts, L. 1942; Reminiscences of Sir Chas. A. Cameron, D. 1913; & 3 others on music. A box, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 267/0228

SOLD Hammer price €10

Box: Various Dictionaries, English, French, German etc. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 268/0228

SOLD Hammer price €50

Box: Irish Periodicals & Booksellers Catalogues etc., a large quantity, as a box lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 269/0228

SOLD Hammer price €85

Box: Modern Paperbacks, varied interest Irish & general interest, a large collection. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 270/0228

SOLD Hammer price €80

Box: Irish interest: good lot of varied books, approx. 30 volumes, all of Irish interest, six on G.B. Shaw etc. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 271/0228

SOLD Hammer price €140

Malone (Ed.) – The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, 16 vols. 8vo D. (J. Exshaw) 1794. Port. frontis, Vol. I & other engd. illus., some damp stains, orig. tree calf, worn. S.N.S.R. (18)

Lot 272/0228

SOLD Hammer price €40

Box: Varied items, some books of Irish interest, odd vol. of Burns Works, etc. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 273/0228

SOLD Hammer price €90

‘Moores Dublin Edition’: Encyclopaedia Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts, Science and Miscellaneous Literature. 18 vols. 4to D. (James Moore) 1791. Numerous engraved plts. in each vol., damp stained, orig. tree calf, worn & dam. S.N.S.R. (18)

Lot 274/0228

SOLD Hammer price €130

Box: Royal Irish Academy, a good collection of original numbers, & offprints etc. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 275/0228

SOLD Hammer price €170

Box: Irish interest: box of varied publications, books, booklets, offprints, etc., a multiplicity of items, as a lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 276/0228

SOLD Hammer price €110

Periodical: Hayes Mc Coy (G.A.)ed. The Irish Sword, Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland. Vol. 1 No. 1 – Vol. 28 No. 114, roy 8vo D. 1949 / 50 – 2012. Illus. etc. Fine complete set in orig. wrappers. (113)

Lot 277/0228

SOLD Hammer price €160

Periodical: Edwards (R. Dudley) & Moody (T.W.) & others, eds. Irish Historical Studies, No. 1 Vol. I – No. XXXV No. 139, together approx. 120 nos. (some lacking) D. 1939 – 2007, all orig. ptd. wrappers. As a periodical, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 278/0228

SOLD Hammer price €280

Box: Irish Sale Catalogues: Large collection of catalogues for Irish Art Sales and Irish House Sales, together with many other items. A good reference lot, some scarce items, as a coll., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 279/0228

SOLD Hammer price €90

Bindings: Prior (James) Memoir of the Life and Character of Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke, 8vo L. 1839; Kinglake – Invasion of the Crimea, Vols. I – IV, Edin. 1863; Boswell’s Life of Johnson, 6 vols. Oxford 1887; Foss – The Judges of England, 4 vols. L. 1848- 51; & 3 others, mostly leather bound. (18)

Lot 281/0228

SOLD Hammer price €170

Box: Irish Periodicals: good collection of Royal Society of Antiques of Ireland, and others, large box. As periodicals, w.a.f. (1)