5 December 2012 - Rare Book Sale

#0221

Lot 34/0221

SOLD Hammer price €300

Fine Binding: Gerard (Francis) Some Celebrated Irish Beauties of the Last Century, 8vo L. 1895. First Edn., illus. a.e.g., full crushed crimson mor. tooled gilt borders & panels, raised bands, gilt spine in panels. V. good. (1)

Lot 35/0221

SOLD Hammer price €110

Legal: Smith (Geo. Hill) The North East Bar, A Sketch Historical and Reminiscent. 8vo Belfast 1910. First Edn., port. frontis, cloth. (1)

Lot 36/0221

SOLD Hammer price €120

Sadlier (M. Thos.) Ireland; its Evils and their Remedies, … to which is prefixed .. The Law of Population. 8vo L. 1828. First, recent mor. backed boards. (1)

Lot 37/0221

SOLD Hammer price €200

[Daniel O’Connell], Levy (John)ed. A Full ahnd Revised Report of The Three Days’ Discussion In The Corporation of Dublin on The Repeal of the Union, 8vo D. 1843 (Repeal Year), cloth, worn, otherwise scarce. (1)

Lot 38/0221

SOLD Hammer price €300

Phelan (Rev. Wm.) & O’Sullivan (Rev. Mortimer) A Digest of the Evidence Taken before Select Committees .. Appointed to Inquire into the State of Ireland; 1824 – 1825, 8vo L. 1826. First Edn., fold. table, cont. hf. mor. good. (1)

Lot 40/0221

SOLD Hammer price €300

Three Candles Press: Walsh (Paul) Irish Chiefs and Leaders, D. 1960. First Edn.; Irish Men of Learning, D. 1947; Gleanings from Irish Manuscripts, D. 1933, all d.w.’s; The Four Masters and Their Work, D. 1944; & The Will and Famiy of Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, D. 1930, mostly First Edns., good lot. (5)

Lot 41/0221

SOLD Hammer price €150

Mac Neven (Wm. James) Pieces of Irish History, Illustrative of the Condition of the Catholics of Ireland, of the Origin and Progress of the Political System of the United Irishmen… 8vo N. York 1807. First Edn. later attractive hf. marbled calf. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 42/0221

SOLD Hammer price €360

Presentation Copy in Fine Binding

O’Connell (Rev. Sir John R.) Saint Thomas More, 8vo L. 1935. Port. frontis, with long pres. note from author tipped in at hf. title, a.e.g., in attractive tooled gilt decor., the corners adorned with Tudor Rose by Zaenhsdorf; also Morley (J.) Oliver Cromwell, L. 1901, port. frontis, a.e.g., full tan mor. gilt fillet borders, profusely tooled gilt spine in panels, by Bumpus. (2)

Lot 43/0221

SOLD Hammer price €220

Fine Copy of The Autor’s ‘Maquis Opus’

Newman (Card. J.H.) Apologia Pro Vita Sua: 8vo L. 1864. First Edn. in Bk. Form. A.e.g., cont. full dark blue mor. dbl. gilt fillet borders, spine gilt in panels. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 45/0221

SOLD Hammer price €170

Somerville (Thos.) The History of Political Transactions and of Parties, from the Restoration of King Charles II to the Death of King William, 8vo D. 1793. Hf. title, later full mor., blind stamp armorial bearing of Clements, Lord Leitrim on each cover and dble gilt fillet borders, gilt highlighted panels, mor. label. V. good. (1)

Lot 46/0221

SOLD Hammer price €170

O’Curry (John) … Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1786. Ed. by C. O’Conor. first Edn., armorial full calf from Signet Library, rebacked. (2)

Lot 47/0221

SOLD Hammer price €70

Nolan (Christopher) Under the Eye of the Clock, The Life Story of Christopher Nolan. 8vo L. 1987. First Edn., also First American Edn., N.Y. 1987, both d.w.; Plunkett (James) Strumpet City, L. 1969. First Edn. d.w.; O’Brien (Flann) The Third Policeman, L. 1975, d.w. All clean copies. (4)

Lot 48/0221

SOLD Hammer price €140

Kennedy (John) A Treatise upon Planting, Gardening, and the Management of the Hot-House, 8vo D. 1784. First Edn., cont. full calf, mor. label. Good. (1)

Lot 49/0221

SOLD Hammer price €280

Knox (Alex.) Essays on the Political Circumstances of Ireland, 8vo L. 1799. First Edn. in Bk. Form, XVIII, 240pp, mor. backed boards, recent labels. Scarce. (1)

Lot 50/0221

SOLD Hammer price €130

O’Conor (C.) of Balenager, Dissertations on the History of Ireland, D. 1812. Third, fold. map frontis; also O’Connor, Chronicles of Eri, Being the History of the Gael Sciot Iber: or The Irish People. 2 vols. L. 1822. Fold. maps & plts., some hd. cold. (a few in fac-simile), all cont. hf. calf, worn. (3)

Lot 51/0221

SOLD Hammer price €380

Coulter (Henry) The West of Ireland: its Existing Condition, and Prospects, 8vo D. 1862. First Edn., litho frontis 2 fold. maps & 35 litho plts. (many hd. cold.), adverts at end, orig. gilt decor. cloth. V. good. (1)

Lot 52/0221

SOLD Hammer price €240

Presentation Copy for Duke of Bedford

Ferguson (Wm. Dwyer) & Vance (A.) The Tenure and Improvement of Land in Ireland, … The Relation of Landlord and Tenant and Tenant-Right. 8vo D. 1851. Privately Printed. uncut, orig. cloth, v. nice copy. (1)

Lot 54/0221

SOLD Hammer price €1100

Signed by Elizabeth Bowen

Shelbourne Hotel: Bowen (Eliz.) The Shelbourne Hotel, 8vo N.Y. 1951. First American Edn., also First English Edn. L. 1951. both signed by author; The Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, 12mo D. 1909. A small attractive promotional volume, fold.map illus. cold. ptd. wrappers, ad an original Shelbourne Hotel Share Certificate. As a lot. (4)

Lot 55/0221

SOLD Hammer price €100

Froude (James A.) The English in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, 3 vols. L. 1872. Cont. hf. crimson mor., raised bands, mor. labels. Good. (3)

Lot 56/0221

SOLD Hammer price €340

Bradshaw Society: Warner (Geo. F.) The Stowe Missal, … in the Library of the R.I.A., Dublin, 2 vols. L. 1906. First Edn., plts. orig. cloth. Scarce. (2)