9 December 2014 - Rare Book Sale

#0232

Lot 3/0232

SOLD Hammer price €420

Almanacs – Watson Steward (J.) The Gentleman’s and Citizen’s Almanac – Triple Almanac, D. 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1818, & 1822, together 6 vols. sm. 8vo D. 1812 – 1811, 3 orig. fold. maps, all orig. full crimson mor., good. As periodicals. (6)

Lot 5/0232

SOLD Hammer price €140

Joyce (P.W.) The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places, 3 vols. L. 1910, cloth. Clean set. (3)

Lot 6/0232

SOLD Hammer price €90

Cork Printing: Moore (Lady) De La More; or Scenes in Many Lands, sm. 8vo Cork (Guy Bros.) 1860. Sole Edn. sepia frontis; Dudley (M.E.) Emmett, The Irish Patriot; and other Poems, 12mo L. 1836. First,; Brady (T.F.) Digest of the .. Acts of Parliament Relating to Irish Fisheries, D. 1876, all orig. cloth. (3)

Lot 7/0232

SOLD Hammer price €170

Clanricarde – Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Deputy General of Ireland, D. 1744. Orig. calf, recased, mor. label. (1)

Lot 8/0232

SOLD Hammer price €240

Irish Bibles: Bhedel (Wm.) Leabhuir an tSean Tiomna, thick 8vo D. (G. & J. Grierson & M. Keene) 1827; also edition Leabhair an tSean Tiomna, thick 12mo [D.] 1830, both with orig. full calf binding; and later edition, printed Lond. 1844, in recent calf. (3)

Lot 9/0232

SOLD Hammer price €140

Dickie (G.) A Flora of Ulster, 12mo Belfast 1864. First Edn., later qtr. cloth; [Kane (Lady)] The Irish Flora, comprising the Phaenogamous Plants and Ferns. sm. 8vo D. 1833. First Edn.? hf. title, lacks front loose blank, orig. cloth; Useful and Ornamental Planting, 8vo L. 1832, hf. calf. (3)

Lot 10/0232

SOLD Hammer price €160

Neave (Sir. D.) Four Days in Connemara, L. 1852, First Edn., [Otway (Caesar)] Sketches in Ireland, … Donegal, Cork and Kerry, 12mo D. 1839. Second; Carleton (W.) Irish Peasantry, 12mo L. 1854; Herbert (J.D.) Irish Varieties, … The First Series. 8vo L. 1836; Carlyle (Thos.) Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849, L. 1882, all cloth; & 1 other hf. calf. (6)

Lot 12/0232

SOLD Hammer price €180

Signed Pres. Copy & with A.L.

Egan (P.M.) Scullydom: An Anglo-Irish Story of To-day, sm. 8vo L. n.d. c. 1889. Sole Edn., hf. title, orig. decor. cloth. V. good copy. Rare.
* Signed Pres. Copy, ‘to Mr. M.J. Conlon during his imprisonment under the Coercion Act in Kilkenny Jail by the author P.M. Egan.’ also with 2pp. A.L.s. from Katherine Tynan to P.M. Egan, dated Dec. 10th 1887. (2)

Lot 13/0232

SOLD Hammer price €100

Lynch (Patricia) A Storyteller’s Childhood, 8vo L. & D. 1947. First Edn., with illus. by Harry Kernoff, orig. cloth & pictorial d.w. A fine copy of this scarce volume; also The Turf – Cutter’s Donkey Goes Visiting, L. 1935. First, cold. frontis & other illus., lacks front loose blank, cloth. (2)

Lot 14/0232

SOLD Hammer price €250

Somerville (E.O.E.) & Ross (Martin) In the Vine Country, L. 1893, First, illus. adverts + 32pp Cat. at end, also Beggars on Horseback, Edin. & L. 1895. First, illus., both hf. titles, & orig. pict. cloth; Kohl (J.G.) Travels in Ireland, L. 1849, New Edn., a.e.g. cont. full crimson mor. tooled gilt decor. All good. (3)

Lot 15/0232

SOLD Hammer price €170

Dermody (T.) The Harp of Erin, containing the Poetical works of the late Thomas Dermody. 2 vols. 12mo L. 1807. First Edn., recent qtr. calf, tooled gilt spines, orig. label, marble sides. Attractive set. Scarce. (2)

Lot 16/0232

SOLD Hammer price €340

Rare First Edition in Original Pictorial Dust Wrappers

Stoker (Bram) Dracula, 8vo D. (Oifig Diolta Foillseachain Rialtais) 1933. Rare First Edn. in Irish. Trans. by Sean O’Cuirrin, orig. cloth, & pict. d.w. cover. V. good. (1)

Lot 17/0232

SOLD Hammer price €220

Doyle (A. Conan) Cu na mBaskerville, [Hound of the Baskervilles] 8vo D. 1934. First Edn. in Irish, trans by Nicolas Toibin, cloth & pict. d.w.; also Butler (Gen. Sir Wm. F.) Neall Dearg, D. 1935. First Edn. in Irish, trans. by Niall Mac Suibhne, cloth. (2)

Lot 18/0232

SOLD Hammer price €460

Republican interest: Collins (Michael) The Path to Irish Freedom, L. 1922. First Edn., port. frontis cloth & d.w.; O’Connor (Batt) With Michael Collins Through the Fight for Irish Independence, L. 1929. First, cloth & d.w.; Briolley (S.) Ireland in Rebellion, D. 1922, First, cloth; Redmond-Howard (L.G.) Six Days of the Irish Republic, Boston 1916. First Edn., cloth & pict. d.w.; Breen (D.) My Fight for Irish Freedom, D.n.d. illus. cloth. All good. (5)

Lot 19/0232

SOLD Hammer price €380

Co. Kerry: Foley (Patrick) History of County Kerry – Corkaguiny, sm. 8vo D. 1907. First Edn., XV, 304pp, last leaf supplied in very good fac-simile, orig. ptd. boards, recased, recent cloth spine. V. good. Ex. Scarce. (1)

Lot 21/0232

SOLD Hammer price €200

Periodical: Transactions of the Ossory Archaeological Society, Vol. I (bound) – Vol. III No. 2 (loose), together 8 parts, 8vo Kilkenny 1879 – 1886, cloth & orig. ptd. wrappers. As a periodical, w.a.f. Good.
* A complete file of this scarce publication. (1)

Lot 22/0232

SOLD Hammer price €600

O’Conor (C.) The Ogygia Vindicated: Against the Objections of Sir George Mac Kenzie,.. (A Posthumous Work) By Roderick O’Flaherty, 8vo D. 1775. First, List of subs., cont. tree calf. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 23/0232

SOLD Hammer price €100

Private Press: Mc Cormick (Malachi) Colum Cille His Life and Times, 8vo N.Y. (Stone Street Press) 1996. Lim. Edn., orig. wrappers; 7 other items sim. from same press. All v. good. Unusual collection. (8)

Lot 25/0232

SOLD Hammer price €210

The Duke of Westminster’s Copy

Binding: Gaskin (J.J.) The Viceregal Speeches a …of the Late Earl of Carlisle, K.G., D. 1866. First Edn., engd. port., add. engd. title, a.e.g., full crushed green mor. dbl. gilt fillet borders, gilt spine in panels, raised bands, with B.P. of Duke of Westminster & with his gilt armorial on front cover, by Holloways. Attractive copy. (1)

Lot 26/0232

SOLD Hammer price €150

Smith (F.W.) The Irish Linen Trade Hand-Book and Directory, Belfast 1876. First, orig. cloth. Good copy. (1)