13 December 2011 - Rare Book Sale

#0216

Lot 4/0216

SOLD Hammer price €360

All Signed by the Author

Dunsany (Lord) If A Play in Four Acts, 8vo L. 1921.; The Curse of the Wise Woman, L. 1933; My Talks with Dean Spanley, N.Y. 1936, frontis; The Odes of Horace, trans. by Dunsany. All First Edns., and signed & inscribed by the Author, all cloth. (4)

Lot 5/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Irish Sporting: O’Connor Morris (M.) Triviata or Crossroad Chronicles of Passages in Irish Hunting History, during the Season fo 1875 – 76. 8vo L. 1877. First Edn., orig. photo frontis add. litho title, & 7 litho plts. 32pp. cat. at end, orig. decor. cloth, gilt. V. good. (1)

Lot 9/0216

SOLD Hammer price €180

Irish Fishing: [Cody (H.S.) & Ettingsall (T.)] The Angling Excursions of Gregory Greendake, Esq. in the Counties of Wicklow, Meath, Westmeath, Longford and Cavan, with additions by Geoffrey Greydrake. 12mo D. 1832. Fourth, errata slip, 2 engd. maps, & 1 engd. plt., later hf. calf, mor. label. Rare. (1)

Lot 10/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Richardson (John) A Short History of the Attempts That have been made to Convert the Popish Natives of Ireland, to the Establish’d Religion; With A Proposal for their Conversion. Sm. 8vo L. (Jos. Downing) 1712. First Edn., title within dble. ruled border, pages complete but some mis-pagination, some worm holes in lower margin mostly not affecting text, later hf. crimson mor. Scarce. (1)

Lot 12/0216

SOLD Hammer price €150

Carte (Thos.) A Collection of Original Letters and Papers, Concerning the Affairs of England, from the Year 1641 to 1660, Found among the Duke of Ormonde’s Papers. 2 vols. L. 1739. First Edn., vign. titles, attractive cont. sprinkled calf, front covers inscribed in gilt ‘iber e Museo Alexandri Mac Pherson,’ Good. (2)

Lot 16/0216

SOLD Hammer price €90

Miniature Irish Books: Mitchel (J.) The Life and Times of Aodh O’Neill, 16mo D. n.d. Inscribed by ‘Wm. Smith O’Brien,’ cloth; Davis (T.) Literary and Historical Essays, 16mo D. 1846, bound with another sim. hf. mor; Meehan (Rev. C.P.) The Confederation of Kilkenny, 16mo D. 1848, bound with 1 other sim., cloth; & 2 others sim. (5)

Lot 18/0216

SOLD Hammer price €130

Dunsany (Lord) The Charwoman’s Shadow, N. York 1926. First Edn., orig. decor. cloth. Inscribed on front loose end by Padraic Colum, Sept. 1926; also the Sword of Wellaran and Other Stories, Sm. 4to L. 1907, First, illus. by S.H. Sime, gilt decor. cloth; and Plays of Gods and Men, D. 1917, First, cloth backed boards. Good. (3)

Lot 20/0216

SOLD Hammer price €420

Manuscript: An early 19th Century Manuscript Receipt Book, dated 1811, approx. 43pp. plus 22pp. of manuscript cures, remedies etc for humans & animals, latest date 1831., 4to in an old calf backed volume. As a m/ss., w.a.f. Good.
* Of Co. Limerick Provenance. (1)

Lot 21/0216

SOLD Hammer price €130

Signed by ‘Dev’ & Sinead de Valera

de Valera (Sinead) The Stolen Child and other Stories, D. n.d. Sole Edn., illus. by 14 year old Maire Eamoinn (de Valera), orig. pict. boards.
* Signed by author Sinead, & Eamonn de Valera. (1)

Lot 23/0216

SOLD Hammer price €65

Hutton (Mary A.) The Tain, An Irish Epic told in English Verse. Thick 4to D. (Maunsel) 1907. First this, uncut, buckram, gilt; Ussher (P. Arland) trans. The Midnight Court and The Adventures of a Luckless Fellow, 4to L. 1926, with Preface by W.B. Yeats, cloth. (2)

Lot 24/0216

SOLD Hammer price €170

From the Library of Wm. Smith O’Brien

Hardy (Francis) Memoirs of … James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, 2 vols. L. 1812. Second Edn., engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, both Vols. with inscribed engraved bookplates of William Smith O’Brien, later inscribed ‘Charlotte Grace O’Brien (Poetess) from her affectionate Father June 29 1861, P.M.P.’ and further inscribed by Nelly O’Brien, 1909. Gaelic Scholar. Good. (2)

Lot 26/0216

SOLD Hammer price €400

Presentation Copy in Fine Binding

De Vere (Sir Stephen)trans. Odes and Epodes of Horace, 8vo L. (G. Bell & Sons) 1893. One of 25 Copies (500) on Japanese vellum. Pres. Copy inscribed on hf. title to Robert Vere O’Brien from his Uncle the Author 29 June 1893. Marble ends, t.e.g. full crushed blue mor. with triple gilt fillet borders, raised band,s etc. by Birdsall & Son, Northampton. V. good. (1)

Lot 28/0216

SOLD Hammer price €180

Prendergast (John P.) The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, 8vo L. 1870. Second, fold. frontis. 3 fold. maps & 3 plts. recent attractive hf. mor. by Book Ends, v. good copy. (1)

Lot 29/0216

SOLD Hammer price €100

Mahon (Derek) Oedipus, Oldcastle 2005. Signed by Author; Poems 1962 – 1978, Oxford 1986; An Autumn Wind, Oldcastle 2010; Fenton (James) Out of Danger, L. 1995 First, Signed; Mathews (Aiden Carl) Windfalls, Dolmen 1977, First; & other items. (9)

Lot 30/0216

SOLD Hammer price €130

Banville (John) Mefisto, L. 1986; The Book of Evidence, L. 1989; Ghosts, L. 1993; The Untouchables, L. 1997; and The Sea, L. 2005, all First Edns. & orig. d.w.’s. V. good. (5)

Lot 32/0216

SOLD Hammer price €130

Beckett (Samuel) Happy Days, A Play in Two Acts. 8vo L. (Faber & Faber) 1962. First Edn., cloth, & d.w.; also Lessness, & Texts for Nothing, Signature 9 & 21, 2 vols. L. 1970 & 1974, d.w.’s; & 1 other. (4)

Lot 33/0216

SOLD Hammer price €340

Presentation Copy
Abridgment of Devon Report

Devon – Digest of Evidence taken … into the State of the Law and Practice in respect to the Occupation of Land in Ireland, Parts I & II complete. 2 vols. 8vo L. & D. 1847 – 48. First Edn., 4 fold. plans (3 hd. cold.) fold. tables, a few text illus., orig. cloth.
* Vol. II Pres. Copy to Limerick County, compliments of Captain Kennedy inscribed on title & with A.L.s. tipped in on inside cover. (2)

Lot 34/0216

SOLD Hammer price €260

O’Curry (Eugene) On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, A Series of Lectures, 3 vols. L. 1873. First Edn., ed. by W.K. Sullivan, 3 hf. titles, some text illus., partly unopened, orig. cloth, good set. (3)

Lot 37/0216

SOLD Hammer price €160

Cromwell (Thos.) Excursions through Ireland, 3 vols. (Province of Leinster) roy 8vo L. 1820, 3 add. engd. titles & 13 engd. views, cont. cloth, rebacked, new labels. (3)

Lot 39/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Northern Ireland: Hamilton (Rev. Wm.) Letters Concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim, 8vo D. 1790. First Edn., lg. fold. map frontis 3 fold. engd. plts. & 2 engd. vign. views, cont. tree calf, raised bands, mor. label. V. good copy. (1)