13 December 2011 - Rare Book Sale

#0216

Lot 519/0216

SOLD Hammer price €425

With Manuscript Map
Rt. Hon. Thomas Conolly – Kings Mills

Document: Celbridge, Co. Kildare: Indenture made October 1764, between Rt. Hon. Thomas Conolly of Celbridge, .. and John King of Celbridge.. All that and those the Corn and Tuck Mills of Celbridge .. with the Lands … . One large sheet on vellum, together with attractive map on vellum, A Map of the Mill Holding at Celbridge in the County of Kildare, the Estate of the Rt. Hon. Thos. Conolly, Esq. Set to Mr. Jn. King Surveyed Decr. 1763 by Patk. Roe, approx. 34cms x 57cms (13 1/2″ x 22 1/2″), signed by both parties and sealed. Good. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 520/0216

SOLD Hammer price €550

Large Manuscript Map of Towns and Lands of Ruskey

Document: Athlone, Co. Roscommon: Indenture made May 1797, between Incorporated Society… for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland and Rev. Pierce Goold of Athlone, 1 sheet on vellum, together with attached map, ‘A Map of Ruskey, situate in the Parish of Drum, Barony of Athlone and County of Roscommon,’ surveyed by Wm. Burke, 1770 & Copied by Jn. Brownrigg 1797, approx. 39cms x 36cms (15 1/2″ x 14 1/4″) covering an area of over 821 acres & identifying the different fields, bogs etc., and with attached seal of the Society. Good. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 522/0216

SOLD Hammer price €370

With Manuscript Map on Vellum

Document: Athlone, Co. Roscommon: Indenture made April 1763, between Incorporated Society .. for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland, and William Potts of Athlone, one sheet on vellum, together with attached map, A Map of a Lott of round lying on the North Eastside of Parade Street in the Town of Athlone,… Copyed by Thos. Reading… from the General Map of James Hanleys Survey… . approx. 39.5cms x 27.5cms (15 1/2″ x 10 3/4″), signed and sealed by Wm. Potts. Good. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 523/0216

SOLD Hammer price €450

Co. Westmeath, with large Manuscript Map

Document: Fara, Co. Westmeath: Indenture made May 1786, between Incorporated Society for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland, and Gertrude Fetherston of the City of Dublin, one large sheet on vellum, together large manuscript map, A Survey of Part of Fara in the Barony of Corkerry and County of Westmeath…, by Thomas Sherrard, 1786, approx. 53cms x 43.5cms (21″ x 17 1/4″), signed and sealed by G. Fetherston. Good. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 524/0216

SOLD Hammer price €160

Co. Westmeath: Appointment as Commission of the Peace to Richard Pakenham Esq. for County of Westmeath, 3rd Nov. 1844, lg. single vellum sheet, printed with m/ss additions. As a m/ss, w.a.f. V. good. (1)

Lot 525/0216

SOLD Hammer price €1000

Great Southern & Western Railway

Railways: An important Archive of material consisting of some manuscript material, original maps & schedules, petitions, awards of arbitration with numerous m/ss lists of land-owners in the different areas, Books of Reference & Plans, various printed Acts, covering principally Co’s Tipperary, Kilkenny, Cork, Kildare, Wexford & Dublin, and more particularly the following, Cashel Extension Railway, Goold’s Cross & Cashel Light Railway, Waterford & Limerick Junction Railway; Waterford Dungarvan & Lismore Railway Co.; Southern Railway-Colliery Branch, Southern Railway From Fethard to Clonmel, & lg. collection of Plans & Sections for New Railways, Works and Lands, etc, etc. An extensive and important collection. As an archive, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 526/0216

SOLD Hammer price €650

Manuscript Plan of Athlone

Co. Westmeath: Rare manuscript, Plan of the Town of Athlone (showing defences), approx. 18 1/2″ x 11″, ink and on paper, fully coloured, possibly early 18th Century. As a m/ss., w.a.f. V. Rare. (1)

Lot 527/0216

SOLD Hammer price €2300

County Cork Forfeitures 1702 – Chichester House

Manuscript: Co. Cork: An important very large atlas – folio size Volume, first page headed Forfeitures in the County of Cork; consisting of the Farms and Lands Following will be exposed for sale at Chichester House, Dublin on Thursday the 11th Day of March 1702 by Cant to the best Bidder, with a manuscript list of 24 properties giving extent, tenants’ names etc, & containing in 39 similar sheets, in all listing about 720 properties, land, houses and tenements. Index of names at front, cont. hf. calf,marble boards, recent reback, some damp stains, but perfectly legible. As a m/ss., w.a.f. Extremely Rare.
* Covers properties belonging to various Barrys, Coppingers, Nagles, Mc Carthys, etc., but also Earl of Cloncarty, Donagh O’Brien, Daniel O’Keefe, & Patrick Sarsfield. Part of the legal consequences of the Restoration in England.

Lot 528/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Irish Maps etc: Co. Mayo Ordnance Survey: Index to the Townland Survey of the County of Mayo, lg. folded engd. map, linen backed & hd. cold., approx. 66cms x 97cms, c. 1840; also 20 engd. maps of Irish Counties, from Lewis’s Topographical Atlas, & 13 engd. Views of Killarney, good. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 530/0216

SOLD Hammer price €60

Lough Neagh Navigation: Hancock (John) Lough Neagh under Drainage and Navigation Laws, Retrospect and Suggestions, 8vo Bristol 1883. First Edn., 36pp. interleaved, orig. ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1)

Lot 531/0216

SOLD Hammer price €360

Lough Erne to Shannon Navigation
Co’s Leitrim, Cavan & Fermanagh: Mac Mahon (John) Ballinamore and Ballyconnell Drainage and Navigation District, 8vo D. 1845. First Edn., fold. map of Ireland & 3 fold. sketches sections etc. ,(ex. 4); also other Reports & Supplementary Report, by Mc Mahon & C.P. Brassington, and Estimate of the Cost of Proposed Works of Navigation, … on the Lands in the above District, by R. Harding, D. 1846. Together 5 items, all orig. ptd. wrappers. Good. (5)

Lot 533/0216

SOLD Hammer price €90

Co. Cork: Russell (Ed.) Cork District Report … on the Proposed Drainage and Improvements of the South Slab at Cork, 8vo D. 1843. First Edn., lg. fold. hd. cold. map & section; Roberts (S.U.) Youghal District, Co. Cork, Report … of the Drainage and Improvement of the Lands in the above District, 8vo D. 1846, First, fold. hd. cold. map; also Reports on Washpool District, 1846; and Ballinhassig District, Co. Cork, D. 1849, together 4 item, all orig. ptd. wrappers. (4)

Lot 534/0216

SOLD Hammer price €440

Brusna River, Co. Westmeath, Offaly: Mac Mahon (John) C.E. Report on the Proposed Drainage of Lands along The River Brusna and Lough Ennell, 8vo D. 1844, fold. cold. map; also Supplemental Report … on the Drainage of Kilbeggan District Upper Brusna River, D. 1846; with Klasen (P.J.) C.E., Supplemental Report .. on Kilbeggan District, Counties of Westmeath and Kings, showing the present state of the Works, the expenditure of the Works executed, and total cost of completing the District. Including the Works proposed for the Improvement of Mill Power and Navigation, D. 1851. Fold map loose, & 2 very large fold. plans & diagrams all hd. cold.; and Supplemental Report .. Brosna (Ferbane) District, 8vo D. 1851, lg. fold. hd. cold. section, orig. printed wrappers, some tears. As a coll., w.a.f. (4)

Lot 537/0216

SOLD Hammer price €3200

Very Rare Cork Printing & Manuscript

Pope (Alexander) An Essay on Man, Folio Cork (by A. Edwards, Bookseller & Stationer, Castle Street) 1795., 42pp. finely printed in large type, broadly in the Baskerville style.
Bound with about 20pp. of original contemporary manuscript headed ‘Supplement to Pope’s Essay on Man,by S. Oliver Senr., 1796,’ including ‘Proofs of a God,’ 1pp; ‘On the Reasonable Expectation that Man Have of a Future State,’; ‘Oliver’s Scheme to give Government ample means to support the War, till France shall agree to a Peace that will protect Europe from her mad Ideas of Universal Domination, Robbery and Pillage without laying the additional,’ Burden of a Farthing on the Poor, on Manufactures or on Trade. (This I sent to Earl Camden soon after Lord Malmsbury’s return from Paris)’
– the scheme envisage that all with an income of more than £100 a year should contribute 25% to the cost of the war; ‘An attempt to give some ides of the Instinct impressed by God on Man’; Hints to increase the Quiet and Comfort of the Inhabitants of Ireland….’ etc., with other similar pieces on politics, economics and religion. The whole finely bound in full reversed calf, untitled, marble ends.
* A rare and interesting volume, COPAC records only four copies (of the printed text), of which three are in T.C.D., which suggests this may have been a very private printing, with very limited circulation.
Note: ‘S. Oliver’ is probably the Rt. Hon. Silver Oliver, of Castle Oliver, M.P. for Co. Limerick. d. 1817 (see Burke’s Landed Gentry). His suggestion of a tax on incomes may be the earliest such proposal, more than 100 years before Lloyd George put it into practice.

Lot 538/0216

SOLD Hammer price €850

The Stopford Family, Courtown House, Co. Wexford

Photographs: Five very good Family carte-de-visite, and other Photograph Albums from Courtown House, Courtown, Co. Wexford, home of the Stopford family, c. 1865-1940, most of the photographs relate to the family and their various residences, principally Courtown and local area, some are of travels in England and Abroad, but most of the photos are captioned underneath, with locations and dated, together with a good group of loose photos, some charming groups etc. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 541/0216

SOLD Hammer price €60

1798 Centenary: A blackened “Shillelagh” designed for the hundredth Anniversary Celebrations, the club face with a carved motif of a Pike and “98”, an unusual memento. Good. (1)

Lot 542/0216

SOLD Hammer price €150

1798: A good Victorian Staffordshire Figure of Theobald Wolfe Tone, inscribed ‘Who Fears to Speak of ’98.’ approx. 35cms high. (1)

Lot 543/0216

SOLD Hammer price €200

Parnell (Chas. Stewart) An attractive Memorial Plate for Charles Stuart Parnell, M.P., of octagonal shape with central portrait surrounded by sprays of flowers, with registration number on reverse, on stand. (1)

Lot 546/0216

SOLD Hammer price €2200

West Limerick Flying Column Hand-Gun

A heavy Colt Hand-Gun given to a Volunteer in the West Limerick Flying Column, c. 1920, with ebony grips.
Provenance: By descent to the present owner, with letter of provenance. (1)

Lot 547/0216

SOLD Hammer price €1100

“The Quare Fellas Rifle”

Behan (Brendan) An original Martini Rifle tracing back to the Howth Gun-Running of July 1914, trigger removed.
* Provenance: Reputed to have been Peadar Kearney’s (composer of A Soldier’s Song) who was the brother of Behan’s mother Kathleen, and an early member of the I.R.B. and a 1916 Volunteer: a gift from Behan to his friend Liam Creagh.
Mealy’s Rare Books sold items from the Creagh Collection in December 2010 (Lot 560).