2 April 2014 - Rare Book Sale

#0228

Lot 88/0228

SOLD Hammer price €260

Golf: Duncan (Geo.) Golf for Women, n.d. illus. orig. decor. cloth; Hutchinson (Horace G.) ed. The New Book of Golf, L. 1912, illus.; Darwin (B.) Tee Shots and Others, L. 1911; The Golfers’ Referee, compiled by The Editor of ‘The Golfer,’ L. n.d. [c. 1897]; & 1 other sim. All Scarce. (5)

Lot 92/0228

SOLD Hammer price €240

[Smith (Chas.) & Harris (W.) ed.] The Ancient and Present State of County of Down,… with a Survey of the New Canal; as also, A New and Correct Map of the County. 8vo D. 1744. First Edn., lg. fold. engd. map, attractive recent calf backed cloth, gilt lettered spine, raised bands. Good. (1)

Lot 94/0228

SOLD Hammer price €110

Young Ireland & Fenians: Fogarty (L.) James Fintan Lalor, D. 1947; Gavan Duffy (Sir C.) Young Ireland A Fragment of Irish History 1840 – 1845, D. 1884, orig. cloth, v. good.; Bourke (M.) John O’Leary, Tralee 1967; O’Sullivan (T.F.) The Young Irelanders, Tralee 1945; Comerford (R.V.) The Fenians in Context, D. 1985; & 4 others sim. (9)

Lot 95/0228

SOLD Hammer price €150

Irish Diaspore: Hayes (Richard) Irish Swordsmen of France, D. 1941; Old Irish Links with France, D. 1940; Ireland and Irishmen in the French Revolution, L. 1932; and Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France, D. 1949; & 3 others sim. (7)

Lot 96/0228

SOLD Hammer price €60

O’Connor (Frank) Three Old Brothers and other Poems, L. 1936. First Edn., uncut, wrappers; The Midnight Court, D. (M. Fridberg) 1945. First, wd.-cut decor. cloth backed boards; Towards an Appreciation of Literature, D. 1945. First, pict. d.w.; & The Art of the Theatre, D. (M. Fridberg) 1947. First Edn., frontis by Louis le Brocquy, cold. boards. All v. good copies. (4)

Lot 97/0228

SOLD Hammer price €60

Stephens (James) The Crock of Gold, L. 1912, orig. gilt decor. cloth, in later wrappers; A Poetry Recital, L. 1925, boards; Strick Joy Poems, L. 1931, decor. cloth. All First Edns.; also Etched in Moonlight, L. 1928, decor. d.w. All good. (4)

Lot 99/0228

SOLD Hammer price €100

Joyce (James) Ulysses, Paris (Shakespeare & Co.) 1927. Ninth, hf. title, & with front ptd. blue wrapper bound in, hf. mor. worn; also Two Tales of Shem and Shaun, L. (Faber & Faber) 1932, cloth & d.w. (2)

Lot 101/0228

SOLD Hammer price €150

[Rowan (A.B.)] Lake Lore: or, An Antiquarian Guide to some of the Ruins and Recollections of Killarney, 12mo D. 1853. First, engd. frontis & illus. title & 1 plt.; Doyle (J.J.) Tours in Ulster: A Hand-Book to The Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Ireland, 12mo D. 1854. First, fold. cold. frontis & illus. & gen. title, orig. cloth. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 102/0228

SOLD Hammer price €80

Lover (Samuel) The Lyrics of Ireland, 8vo L. 1858. First Edn., port. frontis, wd.-cut text illus. orig. gilt decor. & embossed cloth, v. good; Crofton Croker (T.) Popular Songs of Ireland, L. 1886, unopened, cloth; Yeats (W.B.)ed. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, L. (Walton Scott) n.d. cloth. (3)

Lot 103/0228

SOLD Hammer price €570

Binding: [Lever (Charles)] Cornelius O’Dowd upon Men and Women and other things in General, 3 vols. sm. 8vo Edin. & L. 1864. First Edn. 2 hf. title,s all t.e.g., fine tan mor. dble gilt fillets, spine profusely gilt in panels, cold. mor. labels. V. good set. Scarce. (3)

Lot 104/0228

SOLD Hammer price €160

Dickens (Chas.) Oliver Twist, 3 vols. 8vo L. (R. Bentley) 1839. Second Edn. 3 hf. titles, (two with pce cut away not affecting text), 3 engd. frontis & 21 engd. plts. after Cruickshank, some staining or foxing, orig. blind stamp. (3)

Lot 105/0228

SOLD Hammer price €300

Boate (Dr. Gerald) & Molineux (Thos.) A Natural History of Ireland, In Three Parts, 4to D. 1755. Lg. plan of Giants Causeway and 10 plts. mostly fold. later calf backed marble boards; also Natuurlyke Historie… odd vol. Amsterdam 1776, fold. plts. cont. hf. calf. (2)

Lot 106/0228

SOLD Hammer price €65

Berkeley (G.F.-H.) The Irish Battalion in the Papal Army of 1860, 8vo D. 1929. First Edn., frontis plts. unopened, orig. cloth. Scarce. (1)

Lot 108/0228

SOLD Hammer price €80

Genealogy: Gallwey (Hubert) The Wall Family in Ireland, 1170 – 1970, 4to Naas 1970. First Edn., cold. frontis, map fold. tables, plts. etc. cloth & d.w.; also Magan (Wm.) Umma-More The Story of an Irish Family, 1983. First Edn., illus. cloth & d.w. (2)

Lot 111/0228

SOLD Hammer price €65

Franklin (Benjamin) The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics and Morals, 3 vols. 8vo L. 1806. Fold. table, 12 fold. plts. etc., lacks port? & title page Vol. III, cont. hf. calf. (3)

Lot 112/0228

SOLD Hammer price €70

Irish Diaspora: Shannon (Wm. V.) The American Irish, N.Y. 1964; Roberts (Ed. F.) Ireland in America, N.Y. 1931; Mc Caffrey (L.J.) The Irish Diaspora in America, L. 1976; & 3 others sim. (6)

Lot 113/0228

SOLD Hammer price €90

Republican: Mac Ardle (D.) The Irish Republic, D. 1951; Ryan (D.) The Rising, Complete Story of Easter Week, D. 1966; Martin (F.X.) The Howth Gun-Running 1914, D. 1964; Caulfield (Max.) The Easter Rebellion, L. 1963; & 3 others sim., all d.w.s. (7)

Lot 115/0228

SOLD Hammer price €90

Carleton (Wm.) Traits and Stories of The Irish Peasantry, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1869. Port. frontis, engd. plts. & text illus. cont. hf. mor. mor. labels (dam.) otherwise good. (2)

Lot 116/0228

SOLD Hammer price €500

Binding: [Lever (Chas.)] Charles O’Malley, The Irish Dragoon, 2 vols. roy 8vo D. 1841. First Edn. 2 frontis & 2 add engd. titles, & 40 engd. plts. t.e.g., with orig. wrappers bound in from orig. parts, in fine full tan mor. dble gilt fillets, spine profusely gilt panels & cold. mor. labels. V. good copy. (2)

Lot 117/0228

SOLD Hammer price €20

Rare Books Catalogue: Dulau & Co. – A Catalogue of Foreign books .. in the French and other Foreign Languages, roy 8vo L. 1845, engd. frontis hf. mor. rebacked; Willis and Sotheran – A Catalogue of Upwards of Fifty Thousand Volumes Ancient and Modern Books, roy 8vo L. 1862, hf. mor. dam.; also two catalogues of Bernard Quaritch, 1860 & 1884; and bound vol. of catalogues of Martinus Nijhoff, Holland, all cloth. as a coll., w.a.f. (4)