13 December 2011 - Rare Book Sale

#0216

Lot 330/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

All Signed by The Authors

Johnston (Denis) Nine Rivers from Jordan, L. 1953. Signed by Author & James Plunkett Kelly; Plunket (James) Strumpet City, L. 1969. First; O’Connor (U.) Oliver St. John Gogarty, L. 1964. First; Gibbon (Monk) The Velvet Bow and Other Poems, L. 1972, First,; Cronin (A.) Collected Poems, D. 1973. First; Leonard (H.) Home Before Night, L. 1979, First,; Bodkin (T.) My Uncle Frank, L. 1941. All Signed Copies, & d.w.’s. (7)

Lot 331/0216

SOLD Hammer price €130

Wilde (Wm. R.) A Descriptive Catalogue of The Antiquities of Stone, Earthen and Vegetable Materials in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 8vo D. 1857. First Edn., hf. title, text illus., VIII, 642 (10)pp; bound with A Descriptive Catalogue .. of Gold in the Museum of R.I.A., 8vo D. 1862. First Edn., [IV], 100, [IV]pp, cont. hf. calf, mor. label. Good. (1)

Lot 333/0216

SOLD Hammer price €170

Signed by the Author

Shaw (Bernard) The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, roy 8vo L. 1928, First Edn., Signed on t.p. by G.B.S., orig. decor. cloth, orig. decor. d.w., dam. (1)

Lot 334/0216

SOLD Hammer price €200

Kavanagh (Patrick) Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, 8vo L. 1960. First Edn., cloth; also Self-Portrait, sm. 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1964. First Edn., illus., boards, d.w.; Quinn (A.) Patrick Kavanagh, D. 2001, First, Signed by Author, d.w.; & Kavanagh (Peter) Patrick Kavanagh, A Life Chronicle, N.Y. 2000, d.w. (4)

Lot 335/0216

SOLD Hammer price €260

Pristine Copies

Kavanagh (Patrick) A Soul for Sale, L. 1947. First Edn., cloth & d.w.; also Lough Derg, 4to L. 1978. First Edn., with forward by Paul Durcan, frontis green cloth & d.w. V. good copies. (2)

Lot 336/0216

SOLD Hammer price €240

Harris (Walter)ed. Hibernica: or some Ancient Pieces relating to Ireland, Never hither to made publick (No. VI excepted). Folio D. 1747. First Edn. list of subs. B.plate of Rev. Henry Murphy, later hf. green mor. tooled gilt spine. (1)

Lot 337/0216

SOLD Hammer price €2400

Daniel O’Connell Association Copy

Republican: Flanedy (John)ed. A Special Report of the Proceedings in the Case of the Queen, Against Daniel O’Connell, Esq., M.P. John O’Connell, Esq. M.P. Thomas Steele, Thomas Matthew Ray, Charles Gavan Duffy, John Gray M.D. & others. … Indictment for Conspiracy and Misdemeanuour, roy 8vo D. 1844. First Edn. with bookplates of Daniel O’Connell, and another plate of O’Connell, together with that of W.E.H. Lecky, historian. Recent hf. calf, marble sides, & cloth slip case.
* The present volume is signed & mostly dated by all of the above mentioned defendants on the second page. V. Rare. (1)

Lot 338/0216

SOLD Hammer price €1500

Baskerville Press

Trinity Prize Bindings: Milton (John) Paradise Lost, & Paradise Regain’d, 2 vols. 4to Birmingham (John Baskerville) 1759. Engd. port. Vol. I, T.C.D. prize plates to Samuel Synge, 1773. Cont. full Irish calf binding with oval T.C.D. prize stamp, tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. labels. V. good. (2)

Lot 340/0216

SOLD Hammer price €220

Periodical: The Irish Review, A Monthly Magazine of Irish Politics Literature and Art. Vol. I No. 1 March 1911 – Vol. IV No. 41, Sept. – Nov. 1914, together 41 Nos. (ex 42, lacking only April 1914), illus. plts. etc. uncut, orig. wrappers. As periodical, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 342/0216

SOLD Hammer price €340

Complete File

Periodical: English (N.W.)ed. & others. Journal of the Old Athlone Society, Vol. I No. 1 – Vol. II No. 8, together 8 Nos. 4to Athlone 1969 – 2005. Illus. thro-out, orig. wrappers bound in, recent calf backed cloth, mor. labels. Attractive Set. (1)

Lot 343/0216

SOLD Hammer price €1800

Signed by the Artist
Limited to 170 Copies Only

[Clare (Harry)] Poe (Edgar Allan) Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Lg. 4to L. 1919. Lim. Edn. No. 160 of 170 Copies Only, Signed by Harry Clarke, frontis, & 23 full page bl. & white plts. plus decor. title & illus. thro-out text, unopened, uncut, orig. full vellum, gilt decor. slip case. A most desirable copy of this rarity. (1)

Lot 345/0216

SOLD Hammer price €300

From Library at Christ Church

Binding: Dobson (Wm.) Ed. Poema Joannis Miltoni, Latine Redditum. 2 vols. lg. 4to Oxford (Sheldon) 1750. Titles with engd. port. vignettes, cont. mottled calf, with rare oval armorial gilt stamp of Christ Church, Dublin. Rare. (2)

Lot 346/0216

SOLD Hammer price €100

Conner (Constance Ramillon) Pascal Grousset et L’Irlande, Folio Paris 1985. A doctoral thesis presented at the Sorbonne University. Presentation copy, inscribed. Approx. 420pp., text in French, green wrappers. (1)

Lot 347/0216

SOLD Hammer price €320

Periodicals: The Illustrated Dublin Journal, No. 1 – 37, 4to D. Sept. 7th, 1861 – May 17th, 1862, illus., recent hf. mor.; The Dublin Penny Journal, Vol. I No. 1 – Vol. IV No. 208, together 4 vols. sm. folio D. Jun. 30, 1832 – June 25, 1836, profusely illus., cont. hf. calf. As periodicals, w.a.f. (5)

Lot 349/0216

SOLD Hammer price €480

With lengthy Inscription by the Author

Orpen (Wm.) Contemporary British Artists: Sir William Orpen, sm. 4to L. (Benn) 1923. First Edn., illus. cloth backed boards & orig. decor. d.w. In slip case.
* Inscribed on f.e.p. by Orpen to Cara Copland, evidently a child, with a droll inscription mentioning self determination and the freedom of the smaller states, signed 1923, & with a short verse in his hand, headed ‘Sllab’ (read it in reverse), and with a monogram drawing. A curios item. (1)

Lot 351/0216

SOLD Hammer price €480

Limited Edition: The Irish Fiants of the Tudor Sovereigns, 4 vols. roy 8vo D. (de Burca) 1994. Lim. Edn. No. 90 (350), orig. cloth & matching slip case. (4)

Lot 353/0216

SOLD Hammer price €360

Political Cartoons

[Doyle (John)] ‘H.B.’ Political Sketches, Vol. VI, VII, VIII, & IX, together 4 vols. lg. folio L. 1837-1848., 4 ptd. titles, & Contents page, & 398 fine sepia litho plts., a.e.g. uniform cont. hf. mor. mor. labels on front covers, Good. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (4)

Lot 360/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Coloured Political Caricatures – Gladstone & the Gladstone Cabinet, ports. & scenes, some mounted, 6 items, all large, 1887-8 & 1902. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 361/0216

SOLD Hammer price €300

Prints & Engravings: A portfolio of various portraits and prints includ, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, Thomas Wentworth and another early engraving, 17th-19th Century political cartoons, c. 1830 – 40, HB. Sketches Published by Mc Lean, 43 cartoon supplements from “The Union” mostly by Lex, 1 cold. cartoon from “United Ireland,” cut-down portrait of Henry Irving, a printed title page for “Speeds Ireland;” and a series of anti-British, pro-Boer French prints; also collection of approx. 23 engd. Prints of Irish Scenery, etc., some hd. cold. & some mounted, 6 other political prints includ. port. of D. O’Connell, 4 varied maps, some cold., & 2 framed prints “Curraghmore, Co. Waterford,” & “Lady Blessington,” and a cold. aquatint print “Rural Scene,” published by Ackerman. As a lot, w.a.f. (a lot)

Lot 365/0216

SOLD Hammer price €240

Caricature Prints: collection of 6 hand-coloured caricatures, mostly political, one about the Westminster Election of Nov. 1806 won by Sheridan, one about the Reform Bill, May 1831, and one about the inferior condition of the poor at home to that of the slaves overseas, c. 1830, all hand coloured; also approx. 12 sheets of Mc Lean’s monthly caricatures, 1833, includ. one of O’Connell, and one about the Irish Church Bill, all bl. & white, As a lot, w.a.f. (1)