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Lot 81/0221
SOLD Hammer price €320
Bound by George Bellew
Maynooth Prize Binding: Kelly (Rev. M.)ed. Cambrensis Eversus, 3 vols. roy 8vo D. (Celtic Society) 1848 First Edn. Thus, port. frontis Vol. I cont. full calf, blind & gilt tooled borders & with oval stamp of Maynooth College, profusely gilt spine, mor. labels, by Bellew with stamp. (3)More details › -
Lot 83/0221
SOLD Hammer price €200
[Gogarty (Oliver St. John)] Tancred (F.W.) Poems, [Privately Printed] by W. Blackwood, n.d. 24pp. uncut, orig. decorated ptd. red wrappers, in recent fold. case with ties.
* Inscribed by Tancred on f.e.p. ‘to Miss MC Lean, Sept. 6th, 1909,’ and further inscribed below (presumably to the same lady) by Oliver Gogarty, same date, & with a 12 line verse in m/ss, possibly impromptu. A further verse by Tancred on verso of hf. title. Evidently the outcome of a friendly meeting of two poets with a single muse. (1)More details › -
Lot 84/0221
SOLD Hammer price €280
Fine Presentation Inscription
Gogarty (O. St. John) An Offering of Swans and Other Poems, roy 8vo L. [1929?] First Trade Edn., Full page port., preface by W.B. Yeats, orig. buckram gilt lettered.
* Inscribed “To Ernest Raymond, in the hope that this book may give him a trifle of the pleasure which ‘Through Literature to Life’ gave me, from Oliver St. J. Gogarty, Dublin 11.3.29.’ (Hogan dates this Work? 1934, which cannot be right, The Cuala edition was published 1923.), Rare. (1)More details › -
Lot 85/0221
SOLD Hammer price €320
Large Copy
Stafford (Thomas) Pacata Hibernia – Ireland Appeased and Reduced or A History of the Wars in Ireland, large paper copy, 2 frontis, L. (Reprinted for James Taylor) 1821, dedit, 18 plts. & fold.maps (complete), contemp. hf. green calf, with marble boards, gilt decor. spine with Maid of Eireann Emblem and gilt lettering, some foxing, otherwise fine copy. (2)More details › -
Lot 86/0221
SOLD Hammer price €140
The Bible in Modern Irish
O’Fiannachta (P.)ed. An Biobla Naofa, thick 4to Maynooth 1981. Cold. plts. a.e.g., crimson cloth, gilt.(1)More details › -
Lot 87/0221
SOLD Hammer price €1350
With Fine-Hand Coloured Plates
Bartlett (W.H.) The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. 4to L. n.d. First Edn., 2 titles, with hd. cold. map & 118 fine hand cold. plts. all edges gilt, cont. hf. crimson mor. V. good. Scarce. (2)More details › -
Lot 88/0221
SOLD Hammer price €210
Quinn (J.F.) History of Mayo, 5 vols. D. 1993 – 2002, First Edn., cold. & other illus., green mor. backed marble boards, in cloth slip box. V. good. (5)
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Lot 89/0221
SOLD Hammer price €1100
Rare Irish Dictionary
Begley (Conor) & Mac Curtin The English Irish Dictionary, An Focloir Bearla Gaoidheilge. 4to Paris (S. Guerin) 1732. First Edn., 19th Century hf. mor.mor. labels. V. Rare. (1)More details › -
Lot 90/0221
SOLD Hammer price €120
Hogan (Edmund) Onomasticon Gaedelicum, 4to D. 1910. Firt Edn., map frontis, cont.hf. mor. mor. label. Good. (1)
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Lot 91/0221
SOLD Hammer price €280
Wood-Martin (W.G.) The Lake Dwellings of Ireland, roy 8vo D. & L. 1886. First Edn., frontis 50 plts. (1 map) & numerous text illus. orig. gilt decor. cloth. V. good copy. (1)
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Lot 93/0221
SOLD Hammer price €600
In fine Contemporary Binding
Mac Geoghegan (M. Abbe) Histoire de L’Irlande Ancienne et Moderne, 3 vols. 4to Paris 1758. First Edn., 6 fold. maps (1 hd. cold. in outline), marble ends, in attractive & unusual cont. mottled calf, tooled gilt spines in panels, raised bands & mor. labels. Very good set. (3)More details › -
Lot 95/0221
SOLD Hammer price €210
Derricke (John) The Image of Irelande with A Discoverie of Woodkarne, 1581, Lg. 4to Edin. 1883. Ed. by John Smell, Notes by Sir Walter Scott. Lim. Edn. (286). 12 dbl. page plts., uncut, orig. mor. backed boards. (1)
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Lot 96/0221
SOLD Hammer price €350
With V. Fine Hand-Coloured Plates
[Goldsmith (O.)] Newell (Rev. R.H.) The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Lg. 4to L. 1811. First Edn., Hd. cold. frontis & 5 sim. plts. cold. dedit, uncut, later hf. mor. by Hynes Dower with ticket. V. good copy. (1)More details › -
Lot 97/0221
SOLD Hammer price €850
Genealogy: Howard (Jos. Jackson) Visitation of Ireland, 6 vols. (complete) folio L. 1897 – 1918. Lim. Edn. Privately Printed, ports. engd. bookplates, illus. etc. thro-out, uncut, later hf. crimson mor. Very good set. (6)
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Lot 100/0221
SOLD Hammer price €100
Bennett (Douglas) Irish Georgian Silver, 4to L. 1972. First Edn., illus. thro-out, cloth & pict. d.w. Good. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 101/0221
SOLD Hammer price €340
With Attractive Hand-Coloured Plates
Goldsmith (Oliver) A History of the Earth Animated Nature, 2 vols. sm. folio Edin. & L. Port. frontis Vol. I, 2 hd. cold. add. titles & 72 hd. cold. plts. (include 1 frontis) a.e.g. cont. hf. mor. V. good. (2)More details › -
Lot 102/0221
SOLD Hammer price €250
Inscribed Presentation Copy
Genealogy: Grace (Sheffield) Memoirs of the Family of Grace, Thick roy 8vo L. 1823. V. Lim. Edn., vign. title, & numerous ports. plts., & fac-similes etc: Bound with, Lines written at Jerpoint Abbey, L. 1820, uncut orig. mor. backed boards. Scarce. V. good. (1)More details › -
Lot 103/0221
SOLD Hammer price €170
Costello (Mrs.) Tuam. Amhrain Mhuighe Seola, 4to D. 1923. First Edn., orig. ptd. boards; O’Sullivan (Donal) Carolan. The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harper, 2 vols. 4to L. 1958. First, fold.maps, d.w.’s. (3)
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Lot 104/0221
SOLD Hammer price €220
Fishing: Inspectors of Irish Fisheries, Reports 1871, roy 8vo D. 1871. Lacks first title, diced mor. worn. (1)
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Lot 105/0221
SOLD Hammer price €310
Crofton Croker (T.) Researches in the South of Ireland, lg. 4to L. 1824. First Edn., Litho frontis & 16 litho plts. etc., cont. calf, dble gilt fillet borders, orig. tooled gilt spine laid down. V. clean copy. (1)
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