2 April 2014 - Rare Book Sale

#0228

Lot 169/0228

SOLD Hammer price €120

Original Photographic Illustrations

Tarbottom (M.O.) History of the Old Trent Bridge with a Descriptive Account of the New Bridge, Nottingham, 4to Nottingham 1871. First Edn. 12 orig. mtd. photo illus., orig. cloth. * With orig. A.L.s. from author loosely inserted; also Supplement – Nottingham its Castle, A Military Fortress…, 4to Nottingham 1879, illus. cloth. (2)

Lot 171/0228

SOLD Hammer price €260

Early Printing: Fitzherberts Abridgement, La Secounde Part du Graund Abridgemente Collect par le Judge tresreverent mons. Anthony Fitzherbert … Folio (Rich. Tottelli) 12 Nov. 1565. Wd.-cut title page, wd.-cut initials B.L. thro.-out, orig. reserved calf, mor. label. As an example of early printing, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 172/0228

SOLD Hammer price €190

Finely Bound Limited Edition

Shirley (Evelyn P.) The History of The County of Monaghan, folio, Belfast (P.O.D. Fox) 1988, (Reprint edition) Limited Fine Binding Edition 10 (20) full green leather, with gilt design borders, and mor. labels, in custom made box, a desirable copy. (1)

Lot 173/0228

SOLD Hammer price €70

Clarke (A.) Pilgrimage and other Poems, L. 1929. Lim. Edn. (500); Old Fashioned Pilgrimage, D. 1967; The Horse-Eaters, Poems & Satires, D. (Bridge Press) 1960. Lim. Edn. (200); & 4 others same author, mostly First Edns. (7)

Lot 174/0228

SOLD Hammer price €70

Ellis (George) Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, 3 vols. L. 1805. First Edn. a.e.g. cont. full calf, blind tooled & gilt line borders, with centre gilt tooled panels, tooled gilt spines, good. (3)

Lot 175/0228

SOLD Hammer price €55

American Printings: Bryant (Wm. Cullen) Letters of a Traveller, or Notes of Things seen in Europe and America, 8vo N. York 1850. First Edn., orig. cloth; Cabinet of Curiosities, Natural, Artificial and Historical.., 2 vols. Sm. 8vo Hartford [Connecticut] 1822. First Edn. 2 add. engd. titles, cont. hf. calf. (3)

Lot 178/0228

SOLD Hammer price €150

Quaker Pamphlets: 1. Kendall (J.) Remarks on the Prevailing Custom of attending Stage Entertainments; … 8vo L. 1801, 24pp; 2. Dell (Wm.) Christs Spirit A Christian Strength, L. 1801, 38pp; 3. Brook (Mary) Reasons for the Necessity of Silent Waiting, L. 1804, hf. title, 46pp; 4. Hull (Henry) An Address to the Youth of the Society of Friends, L. 1812, 22pp; 5. Phillips (Catherine) ed. Some Discourses Epistles and Letters by the late Samuel Fothergill, L. 1803. First Edn., 195pp; & 2 other tracts, together 7 works in one volume, cont. hf. calf. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 179/0228

SOLD Hammer price €85

Egan (P.M.) History Guide and Directory of County and City of Waterford, sm. 8vo Kilkenny n.d. [c. 1890], First Edn., errata slip, plts. orig. cloth, rebacked. (1)

Lot 181/0228

SOLD Hammer price €80

Beckett (Samuel) En Attendant Godot, sm. 8vo Paris (Les Editions de Minuit) 1973; also Krapps Last Tape and Embers, 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1959; & one other on Beckett, all ptd. wrappers; Joyce (James) Ulysses, 2 vols. sm. 8vo Zurich [1927], limp buckram & orig. ptd. d.w.’s. As a lot. (5)

Lot 183/0228

SOLD Hammer price €75

[Allan] ‘A Cosmopolite’ – The Sportsman in Ireland, 2 vols. 12mo L. 1840. First Edn., 1 hf. title, 2 litho frontis & text illus. adverts at end of each vol. orig. cloth. V. good. (2)

Lot 185/0228

SOLD Hammer price €110

Henry (Francois) Irish Art, [In the Early Christian Period to A.D. 800; 800 – 1020 A.D.; & 1020 – 1170 A.D.,] 3 vols. sm. 4to L. 1965 – 1970. Illus., cloth & d.w.’s. (3)

Lot 186/0228

SOLD Hammer price €55

Bibliography: A good collection of 9 varied books on book-collecting, book-collectors, book-binding etc. (9)

Lot 187/0228

SOLD Hammer price €70

O’Neill (Phil)aka [“Sliabh Ruadh”] Twenty Years of the G.A.A. 1910 – 1930, thick 8vo Kilkenny [1931] Reprint, portrait frontis, photo-stat, cloth. Good reference. (1)

Lot 188/0228

SOLD Hammer price €60

Northern Ireland Poetry etc: Montgomery (J.W.) Downpatrick, Rhymes Ulidian, 8vo Downpatrick (Recorder) 1877, Sole Edn., orig. cloth; Rowley (Richard) City Songs and Others, D. 1918, and The City of Refuge and other Poems, D. 1917; Hayward (H. Richard) Love in Ulster and other Poems, D. 1922; Bell (Sam Hanna) Erin’s Orange Lily, L. 1956, d.w.; Watters (L.) Oman of Lagan, D. 1972; & 2 others by John Hewitt, All First Edns. Good Collection. (7)

Lot 189/0228

SOLD Hammer price €110

Dublin Printing: Campbell (Dr. J.) & Kent (J.) Biographia Nautica: or Memoirs of Those Illustrious Seamen…. . 5 vols. 8vo D. 1785. Some engd. plts. & ports., cont. tree calf, mor. labels. (5)

Lot 192/0228

SOLD Hammer price €280

Irish Travel: Twiss (Richard) A Tour in Ireland in 1775, With a View of the Salmon – Leap at Ballyshannon, 12mo D. 1777. Third Edn., hf. title, engd. frontis, orig. full calf, recased & rebacked, mor. label. (1)

Lot 193/0228

SOLD Hammer price €45

Bacon (Sir F.) The Essays or Councils, Civil and Moral of Sir Francis Bacon, 8vo L. 1701. cont. panel calf, binding loosening. S.N.S.R. (1)

Lot 194/0228

SOLD Hammer price €100

[King (Bp.)] The State of the Protestants of Ireland under the Late King James’s Government, sm. 8vo L. 1692. Third Edn. cont. mottled calf, later reback. Good. (1)

Lot 195/0228

SOLD Hammer price €240

A Very Fine Set

Periodical: Irish Georgian Society Bulletin, Nos 1 – 38, together 38 nos., 8vo D. 1958 – 1995. Illus. etc. all individually cloth backed marble boards and now in 4 cloth slipcases. As a periodical, w.a.f. A very good set. (4)

Lot 196/0228

SOLD Hammer price €140

Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.) A Week at Killarney, 4to L. 1843, engd. plts. & text illus.; O’Flanagan (J.R.) The Blackwater in Munster, 4to L. 1844, engd. plts. & illus., both gilt cloth; Smith (G.N.) Killarney and The Surrounding Scenery, sm. 8vo D. 1822. First, frntis, 2 fold. maps & plts., uncut, recent cloth; and The Apostle of Kerry, D. 1868, cloth. (4)