5 December 2012 - Rare Book Sale

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Lot 327/0221

SOLD Hammer price €1400

With Beautiful Hand-Coloured Maps

Scale (Bernard) An Hibernian Atlas: or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland. 4to L. 1776. First Edn., engd. title, dedit. & index & text thro-out, plus 37 full page hd. cold. engd. maps, later tree calf, professional re-back, mor. label. V. clean copy. (1)

Lot 328/0221

SOLD Hammer price €100

Genealogy: Develin (Joseph Chubb) The O’Develins of Tyrone – The Story of an Irish Sept, Now Represented by the Families of Devlin, Develin, Develyn…, 8vo Vermont (The Tuttle Publishing Co.) 1938, cold. crest frontis, cloth. Scarce. (1)

Lot 329/0221

SOLD Hammer price €140

Co. Mayo: Knox (H.T.) The History of County Mayo, D. (De Burca) Reprint 2000; Reilly (T.) Dear Old Ballina, roy 8vo Ballina 1993. First Edn., illus.; 5 others onMayo & Sligo. (7)

Lot 333/0221

SOLD Hammer price €380

1798: Crofton Croker (T.) Memoirs of Joseph Holt, General of The Irish Rebels in 1798. 2 vols. 8vo L. 1838. First Edn., 2 hf. titles, port. frontis Vol. I & 1 other fac-simile, uncut, orig. boards. (2)

Lot 334/0221

SOLD Hammer price €180

Moryson (Fynes) An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeares Travell through … Germany ..Poland, Italy.. France, England, Scotland & Ireland, 4 vols. Glasgow 1907. Maps, plans, some fold. & ports. t.e.g., orig. gilt decor. cloth. V. good set. (4)

Lot 335/0221

SOLD Hammer price €140

Carey (M.) Vindiciae Hibernicae or Ireland Vindicated; 8vo Philadelphia 1819. First, Only 500 Copies, cont. hf. calf, tooled gilt spine,mor. label. (1)

Lot 336/0221

SOLD Hammer price €300

Kilkenny Trial: Mongan (James) Report of the Trial of John Kennedy for the Murder of Edmund Butler at Carrickshock on the 14th December 1831, 8vo D. 1832. Sole Edn., 65pp recent mor. backed boards. V. good. (1)

Lot 337/0221

SOLD Hammer price €200

Smyth (Geo. Lewis) Ireland: Historical and Statistical, 3 vols. 8vo L. 1844. First Edn., new full green cloth. (3)

Lot 338/0221

SOLD Hammer price €450

Wright (Thomas) Louthiana: or, an Introduction to the Antiquities of Ireland, 4to L. 1758. In Three Books. Second Edn., red & bl. title, engd. frontis, 66 engd. plts. & 8 engd. vignettes, later hf. purple mor. tooled gilt spine. V. good clean copy. (1)

Lot 340/0221

SOLD Hammer price €200

[Smedley (E.)] Erin. A Geographical and Description Poem, In Two Parts. Roy 8vo L. 1810. First Edn., hd. cold. fold.map frontis, vignette title, & engd. ends, wd. decor. list of subs., uncut, recent hf. green mor. V. good tall copy. Scarce. (1)

Lot 341/0221

SOLD Hammer price €450

Warburton (J.), Whitelaw (J.), Walsh (R.) History of The City of Dublin, 2 vols. lg. 4to L. 1818. First Edn., 2 engd. plans as frontis (1 dbl. page), & 25 engd. plts. (some dble page) recent hf. calf, marble sides, mor. labels. Good. (2)

Lot 343/0221

SOLD Hammer price €90

Herity (M.) & Eogan (Geo.) Ireland in Pre-history, 4to L. 1977. First Special Edn. Signed by Author, illus. fine mor. backed vellum, in slipcase; Bartlett (T.) Ireland A History, roy 8vo Cambridge 2010, d.w. Fine. (2)

Lot 345/0221

SOLD Hammer price €100

Joyce (James) Ulysses, thick 8vo D. (Lilliput Press) 1997. Ed. by Dams Rose. Lim. Edn. 42 (1000) Signed, & bound in quarter leather, slip case. (1)

Lot 347/0221

SOLD Hammer price €260

Walker (Joseph C.) An Historical Essay on the Dress of the Ancient and Modern Irish, 4to D. 1788. First Edn., engd. frontis, 13 plts. (1 hd. cold.), some browning, uncut, later cloth backed boards. (1)

Lot 348/0221

SOLD Hammer price €380

Beaufort (Daniel Augustus) Memoir of a Map of Ireland, 4to D. 1792. First Edn., errata slip at front, list of subs., fold. map, hd. cold. in outline, tree calf, mor. label. Good copy. (1)

Lot 349/0221

SOLD Hammer price €1300

Semple (George) A Treatise on Building in Water, In Two Parts. Lg. 4to D. 1776. First Edn., 63 full page engd. plts. some L.S. on title etc., otherwise v. clean copy of this scarce work., calf backed boards, mor. label. (1)

Lot 352/0221

SOLD Hammer price €130

Irish Travel: [Anon] – London To Dublin, With a Trip To the Irish Lakes and The Mountains of Connemara, 4to, L. (William S. Orr & Co.) n.d., fold. map frontis, engd. t.p., illus. throughout, orig. green cloth, blind tooled design, gilt letter front cover, worn spine. Scarce. (1)

Lot 353/0221

SOLD Hammer price €240

Bible in Irish: Bedell (Wm.) Leabhuir an tSean Tiomna, thick roy 8vo D. (G. & J. Grierson & M. Keane) 1827. In recent full brown goatskin, inlaid white diamonds, and mor. label, slipcase. (1)

Lot 355/0221

SOLD Hammer price €130

“Tipperary Bibliography.” 4 vols. lg. 4to A Comprehensive Collection, all in typescript, photocopied or zerox, over 950pp in all, green cloth. Unusual & Scarce. (4)
N.B. This should read One Volume not 4.

Lot 357/0221

SOLD Hammer price €1400

Fine Copy of Complete Set

Hore (Philip Herbert) History of the Town and County of Wexford, 6 vols. 4to L. 1900 – 1911, First Edn., fold. & other frontis, numerous full page & fold. plts. illus. etc., orig. gilt decor green cloth. Complete Sets are V. Rare. (6)