2 April 2014 - Rare Book Sale

#0228

Lot 29/0228

SOLD Hammer price €150

With Manuscript Testimony

Leadbeater (Mary) Memoirs and Letters of Richard and Elizabeth Shackleton, late of Ballitore Ireland, 8vo L. 1822. First Edn., together with 6pp Manuscript Testimony .. concerning Margaret Grubb, dated 1829, cont. diced calf; Phillips (Chas.) Recollections of Curran, 8vo L. 1818, ports. attractive hf. mor., gilt spine. (2)

Lot 30/0228

SOLD Hammer price €100

Military: de Vauban – The New Method of Fortification, 8vo L. 1748. Fifth Edn. Dedit to The Duke of Ormonde, engd. frontis & 30 engd. fold. plts. (ex. 31?) cont. calf, mor. labels. Good clean copy. (1)

Lot 31/0228

SOLD Hammer price €130

Cork Printing: Robertson (Wm.) The History of America, 2 vols. Cork (Thos. White) 1778. cont. calf, re-cased, mor. labels. Scarce. (2)

Lot 34/0228

SOLD Hammer price €100

Heaney (Seamus) Selected Poems 1965 – 1975, L. 1980, d.w.; Beowulf, L. 1999, d.w.; Field Work, L. 1979, all First Edns.,; & 5 others by Heaney. (8)

Lot 35/0228

SOLD Hammer price €110

O’Brien (Flann) [B. O’Nolan] The Third Policeman, L. 1967. Ex Libris; Murphy (Rich.) The Battle of Aughrim, L. 1968; Nolan (c.) Under the Eye of the Clock, L. 1987; O’Connor (F.) the Midnight Court, D. (M. Fridberg) 1945, All First Edns & d.w.’s; also Montague (J.) The Rough Field, D. 1972 First; Synge (J.M.) Poems and Translations, D. 1911; Joyce (James) Chamber Music, L. 1945. (7)

Lot 36/0228

SOLD Hammer price €120

Curtis (Ed.) A History of Medieval Ireland, L. 1938; Maxwell (C.) Irish History from Contemporary Sources, L. 1923; Simms (J.G.) The Williamite Confiscations in Ireland 1690 – 1703, L. 1956; O’Rahilly (T.F.) Early Irish History & Mythology, D. 1957; 1 other. (5)

Lot 37/0228

SOLD Hammer price €120

Irish Law & Constitution: R.I.A. – Studies in Early Irish Law, D. 1936; Kelly (f.) A Guide to Early Irish Law, D. 1998; Donaldson (A.G.) Some Comparative Aspects of Irish Law, L. 1957; Kohn (Leo) The Constitution of the Irish Free State, L. 1932; & 5 others sim. (9)

Lot 39/0228

SOLD Hammer price €100

Carleton (Capt. George) Memoirs .. An English Officer, 8vo Edin. 1808, tree calf; Paul (Rev. Fr.) A Treatise of Ecclesiastical Benefices and Revenues, Westminster 1736. Third Edn., calf, dam; O’Connor Morris (M.) Hibernia Hodierna, or, Ireland To-day, L. 1897, cloth; & 1 other. (4)

Lot 40/0228

SOLD Hammer price €120

Keate (George) An Account of the Pelew Islands, .. Composed from the Journals .. of Capt. James Wilson. 8vo d. A88. first Dublin Edn., port. frontis lg. fold. map, fold. plts. (with str. tear), & 14 plts. charts & ports. complete, orig. calf, mor. label. (1)

Lot 41/0228

SOLD Hammer price €100

O’Rorke (T.) The History of Sligo: Town and Country, 2 vols. D. n.d. First Edn., maps & illus. orig. cloth, dam. (2)

Lot 43/0228

SOLD Hammer price €190

Henry (Francois) Irish Art, A.D. 800 – 1170, 3 vols. 4to L. 1965, 1967 & 1970, profusely illus. in colour etc., cloth & d.w.; Leask (H.G.) Irish Church and Monastic Buildings, 3 vols. 4to Dundalk 1955 – 1960. First Edn., illus. cloth & pict. d.w.s. All v. clean copies. (6)

Lot 44/0228

SOLD Hammer price €180

Reprints: O’Hanlon (Rev. J.) & O’Leary (Rev. E.) History of the Queens County, 2 vols. Kilkenny 1981. Lim. Edn. 244 (1000), illus. cloth & slipcase; O’Sullivan (M.D.) Old Galway, roy 8vo Galway (Kenny’s) 1983, orig. pict. d.w.; Wilde (Sir W.) Beauties and Antiquities of the Boyne, Cork 1978, illus. d.w. (4)

Lot 45/0228

SOLD Hammer price €50

Maps: Drugeon – Carte Complete de La France, a very large engd. linen backed map, Paris 1835; also Johnson (W. & A.K.) Map of South Africa, lg. linen backed fold. map showing Military Operations, 1900. As maps, w.a.f. (2)

Lot 46/0228

SOLD Hammer price €140

Praeger (R. Lloyd) Irish Topographical Botany, 8vo D. 1901. First Edn., frontis & 4 other fold. cold. maps, unopened; The Way that I Went, roy 8vo D. 1937, First, port. frontis plts. & lg. fold. map; also Some Irish Naturalists, Dundalk 1949, First, plts. d.w., all cloth. Good. (3)

Lot 47/0228

SOLD Hammer price €140

Trench (W. Steuart) Realities of Irish Life, 8vo L. 1868. First Edn., frontis & other plts., lg. fold. map, attractive recent mor. backed cloth, raised bands, tooled gilt decor. Good copy. (1)

Lot 48/0228

SOLD Hammer price €160

Irish Diaspore: I.M.C. – Jennings (Fr. B.)ed. Wild Geese in Spanish Flanders, 1582 – 1700, roy 8vo D. 1964; Walsh (M.) Spanish Knights of Irish Origin, D. 1960; Henry (G.) The Irish Military Community in Spanish Flanders, D. 1992; O’Duffy (Eoin) Crusade in Spain, D. n.d.; Hernan (E. Garcia) Ireland and Spain in the Reign of Philip II, D. 2009; & 2 other. (6)

Lot 50/0228

SOLD Hammer price €330

Townsend (Rev. H.) A General and Statistical Survey of the County of Cork, 2 vols. 8vo Cork 1815. First, 2 hf. titles, lg. fold. hd. cold. map, full cont. mor. blind tooled borders, mor. labels. V. good copy. (2)

Lot 52/0228

SOLD Hammer price €420

Hardiman (James) The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, 4to D. 1820. First Edn., fold. engd. frontis 2 lg. fold. Plans, & 8 engd. plts. complete, uncut, recent calf backed boards. Good. (1)

Lot 53/0228

SOLD Hammer price €380

Carr (John) The Stranger in Ireland; or A Tour…, 4to L. 1806. First Edn., lg. sepia fold. frontis hf. cold. map, & 15 sepia (4 lg. fold.) complete, all very clean, cont. hf. calf, mor. label. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 54/0228

SOLD Hammer price €360

Irish-English Dictionary: [O’Brien (J.)] Focaloir Gaoidhilge – Sax – Bhearla or An Irish-English Dictionary, 4to Paris (Nicolas F. Valleyre) 1768. First Edn, title page inscribed by ‘An t-Atha. Padraic O’Suilliobhan,’ in the old Gaelic script, & others, 19th Cent. hf. green mor. Good. (1)