2 April 2014 - Rare Book Sale

#0228

Lot 556/0228

SOLD Hammer price €90

Begley (Rev. J.) The Diocese of Limerick, Ancient and Medieval, and … From 1691 to the Present Time, 2 vols. 8vo D. 1906 & 1938. Firsts, illus. orig. cloth. (2)

Lot 558/0228

SOLD Hammer price €80

Fishing: Grimble (Augustus) The Salmon Rivers of England & Wales, L. 1913 First Single Vol. Edn. illus.; Bickerdyke (John) The Book of the All-Round Angler, L. 1912. plts. & illus.; Menzies (W.J.M.) The Salmon, Its Life Story, Edin. 1931, illus; & 4 others sim., all cloth. (7)

Lot 563/0228

SOLD Hammer price €45

Signed by the Author

Mowlam (Mo.) Momentum, The Struggle for Peace, Politics and the People, 8vo L. (Hodder & Stoughton) 2002, First Edn., signed by the author, illus., cloth & illus. d.j. good. (1)

Lot 564/0228

SOLD Hammer price €20

Coloured Plates: Gilbert (John) illus. Shakespeare’s Songs and Sonnets, 4to L. n.d. c. 1870. decor. title, 10 cold. plts., & other plts. & illus., a.e.g., full tan mor. triple gilt fillet borders, spine gilt, mor. label. Attractive copy; Cary (Rev. H.F.) trans. The Vision: or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighiere, 3 vols. 8vo L. 1819. Second Edn., t.e.g., cont. hf. mor. marble sides. (3)

Lot 565/0228

SOLD Hammer price €90

Co. Clare: Frost (James) County of Clare Irish Local names Explained, sm. 8vo Limerick 1906. Sole Edn., orig. cloth; Wills (Rev. Canon) Kilkee: A Poem, Limerick 1889. First Edn., illus & adverts. orig. decor. cloth; Lloyd (J.) A Short Tour in County Clare 1780, ed. by H. Henn, sm. 8vo Cambridge 1893, boards; & 1 other a reprint of Frost – History and Topography of Co. Clare. (4)

Lot 566/0228

SOLD Hammer price €560

O’Nolan (B.)] ‘Flann O’Brien,’ At Swim Two Birds, 8v L. 1939. Rare First Edn., hf. title, green cloth, orig. black & green d.w. frayed & torn with loss. Rare. (1)

Lot 567/0228

SOLD Hammer price €160

Flynn (Paul J.) The book of the Galtees and The Golden Vein, 8vo D. 1926. first, fold. map frontis plts. orig. cloth; Gleeson (Rev. J.) Cashel of the Kings, D. 1927, First,; & Cotter (Rev. J.) Tipperary, N.Y. 1929, both recent cloth. (3)

Lot 568/0228

SOLD Hammer price €170

Very Fine Copy of First Edition

1798: Cloney (Thomas) A Personal Narrative of those Transactions in the County of Wexford in which the author was engaged during the awful period of 1798, 8vo D. 1832. First Edn., with errata tipped in at end, uncut, orig. cloth backed boards, paper label. Fine. (1)

Lot 569/0228

SOLD Hammer price €200

Hayes (Richard) Ireland and Irishmen in the French Revolution, D. 1932; The Last Invasion of Ireland when Connaught Rose, D. 1937, d.w.; also Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France, D. 1949, d.w. All cloth & First Edns. (3)

Lot 570/0228

SOLD Hammer price €160

Genealogies: Mac Carthy (D.) Glos, A Historical Pedigree of the … Mac Carthys of Glennacroim, 8vo Exeter c. 1850; Develin (Jos. Chub) The O’Develins of Tyrone – The Story of An Irish Sept, Vermont 1938; Carney (J.)ed. A Genealogical History of the O’Reilly’s, D. 1959, d.w.; & 1 other. (4)

Lot 571/0228

SOLD Hammer price €105

Economics: O’Brien (Geo.) The Economic History of Ireland in the 18th Century, D. 1918; The Economic History of Ireland in the 17th Century, D. 1919; and An Essay on the Economic Effects of The Reformation, L. 1923. All First Edns; Longfield – Anglo-Irish Trade in the 16th Century, L. 1929. (4)

Lot 572/0228

SOLD Hammer price €100

Blake-Forster (Chas. French) The Irish Chieftains; or A Struggle for the Crown, roy 8vo D. 1872. first Edn.; O’Hart (John) The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry, D. 1884, First; Meehan (C.P.) Fate & Fortunes of Hugh O’Neill and … Rory O’Donel, D.n.d., all cloth. (3)

Lot 573/0228

SOLD Hammer price €35

Leslie (Rev. James B.) Armagh Clergy and Parishes, roy 8vo Dundalk 1911. First, fold. cold. map, uncut, cloth; Stuart (J.) History Memoirs of the City of Armagh, 4to D. 1900, ed. by A. Coleman, maps & illus. cloth. (2)

Lot 574/0228

SOLD Hammer price €130

Dublin interest: MacAlister (Alex.) & M’Nab (Wm. Ramsay) Guide to the County of Dublin, for British Assoc. Meeting in Dublin 1878, 8vo D. 1878, lg. fold. map; Adams (B. Wm.) History and Description of Santry and Clogheen Parishes… 4to L. 1883, forntis & illus.; Carroll (W.G.) Succession of Clergy in the parishes of S. Bride, S. Michael le Pole and S. Stephen, Dublin, 4to D. 1884, fold. cold. plan, Al First Edns., & orig. cloth; MacNamara (M.A.) Placenames in Co. Dublin, 8vo D. 1922; & 1 other item. (5)

Lot 575/0228

SOLD Hammer price €220

O’Curry (Eugene) On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, 3 vols. 8vo L. 1873. First Edn., hf. titles, some text illus., adverts, orig. green cloth, gilt decor. Good. (3)

Lot 576A/0228

SOLD Hammer price €240

Beaslai (Piaras) Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland, 2 vols. thick sm. 4to D. 1926. First Edn. 2 cold. frontis & 16 plts. orig. cloth, v. good copy. (2)
** PLEASE NOTE – VOL. 1 IS A REPRINT AND IS RESTORED. ESTIMATE SHOULD READ 100 / 150

Lot 577/0228

SOLD Hammer price €160

Co. Louth: D’Alton (John) The History of Drogheda, thick 8vo, 2 vols. in one, D. 1863, engd. hf. title, illus. uncut, recent cloth; Gogarty (Rev. T.)ed. Council Book of the Corporation of Drogheda – Vol. 1, 4t, Dundalk 1988, cloth. Good. (2)

Lot 578/0228

SOLD Hammer price €180

Wight (T.) of Cork, & Rutty (John) A History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland, 4to D. 1751. Recent hf. brown mor. raised bands, mor. labels. V. good. (1)

Lot 579/0228

SOLD Hammer price €140

Stone (J. Harris) Connemara, 8vo L. 1906 First, illus., orig. cloth,; Hardiman (J.) History of Galway, 4to Galway (Connacht Tribune) 1926, orig. cloth. Good. (2)

Lot 581/0228

SOLD Hammer price €540

Very Good Set

Carrigan (Rev. Wm.) The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. D. 1905. First Edn. port. frontis plts. thro-out orig. cloth, gilt decor. V. good set. (4)