5 December 2012 - Rare Book Sale

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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)