2 April 2014 - Rare Book Sale

#0228

Lot 57/0228

SOLD Hammer price €70

Dublin Reprints: Ball (F.E.) A History of the County Dublin, 6 vols. roy 8vo D. (Sackville Library) 1978, illus.; also Gilbert (J.T.) A History of the City of Dublin, 3 vols. D. (Sackville Library) 1978, in orig. slipcase. Clean copies. (9)

Lot 58/0228

SOLD Hammer price €100

Poleon (Liam), Quinn (J.F.) History of Mayo, 5 vols. Ballina 1973, illus. cloth & d.w.’s; White (Rev. P.) History of Clare and the Dalcassian Clans, 1997, Lim. Edn. Re-Print 206 (250), cloth; & 1 other. (7)

Lot 59/0228

SOLD Hammer price €170

Dolmen Editions: Holinshed (R.) Irish Chronicle, folio D. 1979. Lim. Edn. 850 copies only., wd. cut illus., cloth & pict. d.w., slip case. Good. (1)

Lot 60/0228

SOLD Hammer price €60

Genealogy: Eight large volumes by Burke, Lodge and Debretts, as a coll., w.a.f. (8)

Lot 61/0228

SOLD Hammer price €80

I.M.C.: Jennings (Brendan) ed. Wadding Papers 1614 – 38, roy 8vo D. 1953; Mc Neill (Chas.)ed. The Tanner Letters, roy 8vo D. 1943; Eustace (P.B.) & Goodbody (Olive C.)eds. Quaker Records Dublin – Abstracts of Wills, D. 1957. (3)

Lot 64/0228

SOLD Hammer price €120

Brash (R.R.) The Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil, 4to L. 1879. First, photo, frontis, fold. map & 50 plts. Presentation Copy; de Valera (R.) & O’Nuallain (S.) Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, Vol. III, folio D. 1972. Illus. & fold. plts., cloth & d.w. (1)

Lot 65/0228

SOLD Hammer price €100

Co. Cork Legal Cases: A collection of 3 lg. Scrapbooks containing numerous news cuttings relating mostly to varied Court Cases held in Cork, or of Cork interest, relating to murders, accidents, compensation, robberies, rape cases, etc., 1958 – 1960; 1962 – 1967, & 1967 – 1972, all cases indexed at front of each vol., two folio and one 4to vol. all cloth. As scrap albums, w.a.f. Very unusual & useful. (3)

Lot 67/0228

SOLD Hammer price €320

Georgian Society: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin, 5 vols. (complete) 4to Shannon, 1969 reprint. Intro. by Desmond Guinness. Illus photo plts. orig. mor. backed ptd. boards. (5)

Lot 68/0228

SOLD Hammer price €80

Military: Jourdain (Lt. Col. H.F.W.) & Fraser (Ed.) The Connaught Rangers, 3 vols. Schull Books Reprint 1999. Illus. etc. cloth & slipcase. (3)

Lot 69/0228

SOLD Hammer price €200

Periodical: The Dublin Penny Journal, Vols. 1 – 4, 208 Nos, 1832 – 1836, in 2 vols. sm. folio D. 1832 – 1836. Illus., orig. cloth; & another copy of Vol. I of same, hf. calf. As periodicals, w.a.f. (3)

Lot 70/0228

SOLD Hammer price €110

Crookshank (a.) & Knight of Glin – The Watercolours of Ireland, folio L. 1994; also Ireland’s Painters 1600 – 1940, folio L. 2002; Kennedy (Brian P.) Irish Painting, folio D. 1993. (4)

Lot 72/0228

SOLD Hammer price €420

Walsh (Wendy) & Nelson (C.) An Irish Florilegium, Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland, Folio L. 1983. First Edn., fine mounted cold. plts., cloth, & pict. d.w. Good. (1)

Lot 73/0228

SOLD Hammer price €120

O’Brien (Jacqueline) & Guinness (Desmond) Great Irish Houses and Castle, folio 1992; Pakenham (Valerie) The Big House in Ireland, 4to L. 2000; Blake (T.) Abandoned Mansions of Ireland, Cork 2010; Somerville-Large (Peter) The Irish Country House, 4to L. 1996; & 1 other sim. (5)

Lot 74/0228

SOLD Hammer price €160

Petrie (Geo.) The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, Sm. folio D. 1845. Second Edn., illus. thro.-out, cont. full calf, dble gilt fillets, & profusely tooled gilt spine, mor. label. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 79/0228

SOLD Hammer price €100

Tinted Plates: Switzerland its Scenery and People, Pictorially represented. Lg. folio L. 1881. Hd. cold. frontis pict. title, & profusely illustrated with plts. etc., a.e.g., orig. gilt decor. cloth. Good. (1)

Lot 80/0228

SOLD Hammer price €230

Scrapbook: A good large extensive Victorian Scrap Album, consisting of over 180 folio pages, of hd. coloured and bl. & white engravings, prints etc., watercolours, elaborate printed cuttings, portraits and other items, many adorned with original exotic feathers, a.e.g., in an attractive embossed full leather binding As a Scrap Album, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 81/0228

SOLD Hammer price €70

R.I.A.: – Atlas of Ireland, lg. folio D. (R.I.A.) 1979., 97 full pages of cold. maps & charts, orig. cloth, gilt; Brett (C.E.B.) Georgian Belfast 1750 – 1850, maps, buildings and trades. Lg. folio D. 2004, illus. thro-out, cloth & pict. d.w. (2)

Lot 83/0228

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Quakers: Wright (Th.) & Rutty (J.) A History of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers in Ireland, 8vo L. 1800. Second Edn., orig. tree calf, upr. cover loose. (1)

Lot 84/0228

SOLD Hammer price €80

Medical: Brodie (Sir Benj. C.) Lectures illustrative of Various Subjects in Pathology and Surgery, 8vo L. 1846. First, VII, 411pp; Bound with, Lectures on the Diseases of the Urinary Organs, L. 1832, VI, 306pp, cont. hf. mor.; also Roth (Bernard) The Treatment of Lateral Curvature of The Spine, L. 1889 First, illus. & orig. photo illus. cloth; Walker (Alex.) Inter marriage, L. 1838. First, cloth. (3)

Lot 87/0228

SOLD Hammer price €260

Niven (Ninian) The Visitor’s Companion to the Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, 12mo D. 1838. First Edn., add. engd. title, engd. frontis, 2 plts. fold. plan, text illus., adverts at end, orig. cloth. Good. (1)