2 April 2014 - Rare Book Sale

#0228

Lot 466/0228

SOLD Hammer price €100

[Hickey (Rev. Wm.)] ‘Martin Doyle’ An Address to the Landlords of Ireland on Subjects connected with the Melioration of the Lower Classes, Sm. 8vo D. 1831. First Edn., hf. title, some spotting, lg. fold. frontis plan, orig. cloth, V. good. Rare; also [Hickey (Wm.)] ‘Martin Doyle,’ An Address to the Landlords of Ireland, sm. 8vo D. 1825, Second Edn., recent cloth; also Hints originally intended for the Small Farmers of the County of Wexford, 12mo D. 1846. New Edn., disbound, both v. scarce. (3)

Lot 467/0228

SOLD Hammer price €60

Knott (Mary John) Two Months in Kilkee, 12mo D. 1836, Sole Edn., engd. add. title, frontis, fold. plan, & 3 plts. (ex 4) hf. calf, joint cracked. (1)

Lot 468/0228

SOLD Hammer price €180

Co. Cavan: Sketches of the Highlands of Cavan, and of Shirley Castle in Farney, taken During the Irish Famine. by a Looker-On. Sm. 8vo Belfast 1856. First Edn., orig. cloth. Scarce. (1)

Lot 469/0228

SOLD Hammer price €90

Joyce (P.W.) Irish Names of Places, Vols. I & II, 2 vols. L. & D. 1898; Hitchcock (F.R. Montgomery) Types of Celtic Life & Art, D. n.d.; Stokes (M.) Early Christian Art in Ireland, sm. 8vo L. 1887, illus.; & another copy of same, all green cloth. (5)

Lot 470/0228

SOLD Hammer price €140

Irish Pamphlets: 1. I.T.G.W.U.: The Attempt to Smash the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, 8vo D. 1924, Sole Edn., 170pp; Bound with, Connolly (James) The REconquest of Ireland, 8vo D. (Liberty Hall) 1915. First Edn., 64pp. orig. wrappers bound in, cloth. Both Very Scarce; also 3 other vols. of pamphlets, approx. 20 items in all, Irish language, archaeological, etc. As a coll., 4 vols., w.a.f. (4)

Lot 471/0228

SOLD Hammer price €40

1798: Toibin (N.) Deoraidhe Gaedhil ag Eachtradh ar Bhlain a 1798, D. 1937, FIRST EDN., thus, d.w.; Landreth (H.) The Pursuit of Robert Emmet, N.Y. 1948; O’Gaora (Colm) In Aimsir Emmet, D. 1937; Nolan (Wm.) They First Arose, Naas n.d. c. 1948, d.w.; Mac Giolla Easpaig (S.N.) Tomas Ruiseil, D. 1957, d.w.; & 2 others. (7)

Lot 473/0228

SOLD Hammer price €40

Hempton (J.)ed. The Siege and History of Londonderry, sm. 8vo Londonderry 1861. Engd. frontis; Witherow (Thos.) Derry and Enniskillen in the year 1689, 8vo Belfast 1873. 6 maps & plts. (include. forntis); Bradshaw (W.H.) Enniskillen Long Ago, D. 1878, plts.; Dundas (W.H.) Eniskillen – Parish & Town, Dundalk 1913, fold. map, illus. all First & cloth; & 1 other (5)

Lot 474/0228

SOLD Hammer price €100

Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, L. 2000; also Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, L. 2003; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, L. 2005; Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, L. 2007, all first Edns, pict. boards; also 6 others, paperbacks. (10)

Lot 475/0228

SOLD Hammer price €120

Periodical: Millett (B.)ed. Collectanea Hibernica, Sources for Irish History No. 1 – No. 30, unbroken run, together 26 nos. complete to date. D. 1958 – 1988, orig. ptd. wrappers. As a periodical, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 476/0228

SOLD Hammer price €110

Monahan (Rev. J. Canon) Records Relating to the Diocese of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise, 8vo D. 1886, First, cold. map frontis; Sheehan (J.) South Westmeath Farm and Folk, D. 1978,First; Hurley (Rev. T. Canon) St. Patrick’s and the Parish of Kilkeevan, Vol. I [all published] D. [1943] First; Shaw (Rose) Carleton’s Country, D. 1930, d.w.; Mc Namee – History of the Diocese of Ardagh, fold. map & plts., lacks t.p., cloth. (5)

Lot 477/0228

SOLD Hammer price €300

Very Good Set

Irish Fighting Stories: Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story,; Limerick’s Fighting Story; Kerry’s Fighting Story; Dublin’s Fighting Story, all Told by the Men Who Made it, with unique Pictorial Records of the Period; also The Red Path to Glory – With the I.R.A. in the Fight for Freedom, 1919 to the Truce, all Tralee Printed; together with Eleven Galway Martyrs, executed at Tuam and Athlone in 1923; and Antrim’s Patriot Dead 1797 – 1953, illus., all orig. ptd. wrappers, & v. good. Scarce. (7)

Lot 478/0228

SOLD Hammer price €110

British Association in Ireland: Reports of the Meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 44th Meeting, Belfast 1874; also 47th Meeting, Dublin 1878; & 78th Meeting held at Dublin 1908. Together 3 vols. uniform 8vo L. 1875-1909. Plts. (some fold.) orig. & other photos, tables etc. orig. orange cloth. As a periodical.
* An important collection, much of Irish interest. (3)

Lot 482/0228

SOLD Hammer price €120

Bodkin (Tho.) Four Irish Landscape Painters, 4to D. & L. 1920. First Edn., illus. orig. buckram.
* Important with details and list of works by Geo. Barret, James A. O’Connor, Walter F. Osborne, & Nat. Hone. (1)

Lot 484/0228

SOLD Hammer price €200

Signed Limited Editions

Mahon (Derek) Somewhere the Wave, with cold. illus. by Bernadette Kiely, roy 8vo Gallery Press 2007. Lim. Edn. 195 (450) signed by Author,; Wayside Shrines, illus. by Keith Wilson, roy 8vo Gallery Press 2009. Lim. Edn. 240 (350) Signed by Author; Sextus and Cynthia, 8vo Gallery 2009, Signed Lim. Edn.; Dreams of A Summer Night, 8vo Gallery 2010, Signed Lim. Edn.; An Autumn Wind, 8vo Gallery 2010, d.w.; & Collected Poems, Gallery 2008. (6)

Lot 485/0228

SOLD Hammer price €100

I.M.C.: Curtis (Ed.)ed. Calendar of Ormond Deeds, Vols. I – V, 5 vols. D. 1932, cloth (except Vol. 2). (5)

Lot 486/0228

SOLD Hammer price €110

Tatlow (Joseph) Fifty years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland, sm. 4to L. 1920. First, frontis & illus.; Watson (Ed.) The Royal Mail to Ireland, L. 1917. First, frontis & plts. both cloth. Scarce. Good. (2)

Lot 487/0228

SOLD Hammer price €150

Caird (James) The Plantation Scheme; or The West of Ireland as A Field of Investment, 8vo Edin. 1850. First, dble page map frontis & 1 plt. adverts at end, orig. cloth. Scarce. (1)

Lot 488/0228

SOLD Hammer price €580

Bindings: Gurwood (Lt. Col.) The Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington, K.G., 12 vols. plus Index & Supplement, together 14 vols. 8vo L. 1834 – 1839. Cont. full diced calf, blind & gilt fillet borders, mor. labels by Hennington & Gallabin, London. (14)

Lot 489/0228

SOLD Hammer price €220

Periodical: Tipperary Historical Journal, 1988 – 2012, together 25 volumes, complete file to date, illus. etc. All orig. ptd. & illus. wrappers, v. good set. As a periodical, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 490/0228

SOLD Hammer price €30

Alison (Sir A.) Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart, Second & Third Marquess’s of Londonderry, 3 vols. Edin. & L. 1861. First, cloth. (3)