13 December 2011 - Rare Book Sale

#0216

Lot 708/0216

SOLD Hammer price €100

O’Connor (UIick) Oliver St. John Gogarty, 8vo L. 1965, Signed by the Author; Sport is my Lifeline, L. 1984; Biographers and The Art of Biography, D. 1991; A Terrible Beauty is Born, The Irish Troubles 1912-1922. L. 1975; Celtic Dawn, A Portrait of the Irish Literary Renaissance. L. 1984, all with orig. d.w.’s; also Brian Friel: Crisis and Commitment. The Writer and Northern Ireland, D. 1989; and Sputnik and other Poems, N.Y. 1967. All First Edns., A good collection of the author’s work.. (7)

Lot 710/0216

SOLD Hammer price €600

Presentation Copy With corrections by The Author

Healy (T.M.) Stolen Waters. A Page in the Conquest of Ulster, 8vo L. 1913. First Edn. Lengthy inscription by Healy to E. Phelps, with extensive corrections throughout the book in Healy’s hand; also with later signature of President Sean T. O’Ceallaigh, and his bookplate recording his wife’s gift of this book. Interesting lot. In a later slip case. (1)

Lot 713/0216

SOLD Hammer price €1220

Very Desirable Copy

Pool (Rob.) & Cash (J.) Views of the Most Remarkable Public Buildings, Monuments and other Edifices in the City of Dublin, 4to D. 1780. First Edn. fold. map frontis, engd. vign. title, list of subs., fold. plan & 29 engd. full page views (1 fold.) cont. full calf, tooled gilt border, recent professional reback, tooled gilt spine in panel, orig. mor. label laid down. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 714/0216

SOLD Hammer price €240

Dublin – Pembroke Estate: Special Report of The Trial in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, on 2nd & 3rd July 1860 … in the case of The Corporation of the City of Dublin Versus The Rt. Hon. Sidney Herbert, roy 8vo D. 1886. First Edn. 134pp. recent hf. calf, mor. label. V. good Scarce. (1)

Lot 715/0216

SOLD Hammer price €500

Signed Limited Edition

Somerville (E.O.E.) & Ross (Martin) The Hitchcock Edition of Sporting Works, 7 vols. roy 8vo N.Y. (Derrydale Press) 1927. Privately Printed Limited Edn. No. 146 (500). Signed by E.O.E. Somerville. Frontis, text illus. thro.-out decor. ends, t.e.g., uncut orig. cloth, gilt. V. good set. (7)

Lot 716/0216

SOLD Hammer price €625

Signed by Author & Artist

Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thos.) Longes Mac n Usnig: Being the Exile and Death of the Sons of Usnech [translated from the Irish text in the Book of Leinster]. Illus. by Mia Cranwill. 8vo D. (Dolmen Press) 1954. Lim. Edn. NO. 13 of 25 Copies on L.P. Initials in red & blue, and signed by Kinsella & Cranwill, mor. backed boards, in slipcase. Miller 16.
* This is Kinsella’s first publication of material from the Tain stories. Cramwill’s signature is rare. (1)

Lot 717/0216

SOLD Hammer price €440

Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thos.) Moralities, roy 8vo D. (Dolmen Press) 1960. Lim. Ed. No. 19 or 25 Copies, Signed. Illus. after Durer hand-coloured. Specially bound in black and white cloth. Rare. Miller 17:XII. (1)

Lot 718/0216

SOLD Hammer price €110

Heaney (Seamus) Spelling it Out, In honour of Brian Friel on his 80th Birthday, 8vo Gallery, 2009. Lim. Edn. (400) Signed, cloth; 3 copies of the Honest Ulsterman, with contributions by S. Heaney; & 6 others, Heaney related. As a lot, w.a.f. (10)

Lot 719/0216

SOLD Hammer price €90

Co. Louth: D’Alton (John) The History of Drogheda, 2 vols. in one, 8vo D. 1853. List of subs. 1 add engd. title, & some engd. plts., later cloth; also Gogarty (Rev. T.)ed. Council Book of the Corporation of Drogheda, roy 8vo D. 1988, cloth. (2)

Lot 720/0216

SOLD Hammer price €350

Burke (Canon Wm. P.) History of Clonmel, 4to Waterford 1907. First Edn., engd. frontis & 13 plts. t.e.g., recased, orig. full gilt crimson mor. new similar spine mor. labels. V. good. (1)

Lot 723/0216

SOLD Hammer price €110

Leslie (Sir J.B.) History of Kilsaran Union of Parishes, in the County of Louth. roy 8vo Dundalk 1908. First Edn., fold. map frontis, another cold. map, & plts., uncut, orig. cloth. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 724/0216

SOLD Hammer price €80

Home Rule: Gwynn (S.) John Redmond’s Last Years, L. 1919; Wells (Warre B.) John Redmond A Biography, L. 1919; Anderson (Sir Rob.) Sidelights on the Home Rule Movement, L. 1906; Home Rule from the Treasury Bench, … with an introd. by Rt. Hon. H.H. Asquith, L. 1912, all cloth. (4)

Lot 725/0216

SOLD Hammer price €220

City of Dublin Election, 1835

[O’Connell (Daniel)] Proceedings at the Election for the City of Dublin, which commenced on Monday January the 12th… Saturday 17th, 1835, .. To which is added a List of the Voters. Candidates: – Daniel O’Connell, .. Ed. Southwell Ruthven,… John Beatty West… George A. Hamilton. 8vo D. 1835. First Edn., 156, + [1]pp., with annots. thro-out, recent mor. backed boards. Scarce. (1)

Lot 726/0216

SOLD Hammer price €130

Matheson (Rob. E.) Varieties and Synonymes of Surnames and Christian Names in Ireland, Roy 8vo D. 1901. First Edn., a.e.g., in attractive full crimson mor. binding gilt line & corner decoration. Good. (1)

Lot 730/0216

SOLD Hammer price €4200

Lady Louisa Connolly’s Transcript Letters

Connolly (Lady Louisa) [Seymour (Lady Albert)] A very important collection of nine quarto volumes containing manuscript transcriptions of Lady Louisa’s letters 1759 – 1821, mostly to her brother and sisters (the celebrated Lennox family), with a few letters from other family members. The volumes strongly bound in half moroco on heavy marble boards, transcribed in the clear mid-19th Century hand of Lady Albert Seymour. As m/ss, w.a.f.
Lady Lousia was the wife of Thomas Connolly of Castletown House. She was a daughter of the third Duke of Richmond; her brother Charles Lennox, the fourth Duke, organised the celebrated Ball on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo. One sister was married to Charles James Fox; another to Sir Charles Napier, historian of the Peninsular War, and another to the Duke of Leinster (hence Lord Edward Fitzgerald was her nephew).
The early volumes are mainly domestic in content, but Vol. 6 (1796 – 1803) is of particular interest. See especially her long letter to her brother 18 June 1798 (pp. 74-99), followed by her unfinished ‘Journal of the late Rebellion.’ Speaking of ‘the poor Duke of Leinster,’ (p. 74) she says ‘his distresses are great indeed. I do not believe that his excellent and amiable wife can live by all that I hear. His distress about the whole of poor Edwards business and end is of that nature that it must give him the deepest affliction and with his immense family, the derangement of his property for the present is a most alarming prospect. The County of Kildare where is his whole Estate, is in a manner laid waste, and no chance that I can forseee of his getting in his half years rent…’
Writing of her nephew Lord Edward Fitzgerald, she mentions his ‘most undaunted spirit and courage …. the total carelessness of his own life, and his firm adherence to those he considered under his protection .. he could have saved himself over and over, but spurned at the thought , and no intreaties of the tenderest kind would have kept him out of the scrape. That he originally flattered himself with the vain hope, that a redress of grievances might be affected without bloodshed. I am convinced of .. whatever danger was attached to the plan, he was to meet it, and to sacrifice himself to save others…’
* A most valuable and important historical collection, deserving of much further research. Some of the original Lennox letters have been sold at various times (including some at Mealy’s…) and other deposited in various libraries, but this is probably the most complete collection of their texts than exists anywhere else.
Provenance: From the family of Lady Albert Seymour, who was great-niece of Louise Connolly, the daughter of Lady Sarah Napier.

Lot 733/0216

SOLD Hammer price €130

Republican interest: Mac Giolla Choille (B.)ed. Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle – Intelligence Notes 1913 – 16, 4to D. 1966. First Edn., d.w.; & Gilbert (J.T.)ed. Documents Relating to Ireland, 1775 – 1804, Shannon Reprint 1970, d.w. (2)

Lot 734/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Bibliography: [Best (R.I.)] Bibliography of Irish Philology and of Printed Irish Literature, roy 8vo D. 1913, & Bibliography of Irish Philology and Manuscript Literature, Publications 1913 – 1941. Roy 8vo D. 1942. Both First Edns., buckram. Good. (2)

Lot 735/0216

SOLD Hammer price €260

Military: War Office – A List of the Officers of the Militia, The Gentleman & Yeomanry Cavalry and Volunteer Infantry of the United Kingdom, With an Index. Roy 8vo L. 1807. 1023pp. uncut, orig. boards. V. good. Useful Reference. (1)

Lot 736/0216

SOLD Hammer price €700

Signed by The Artist

Le Brocquy (Louis) Eight Irish Portraits in Words & Watercolour, 4to D. 1990. Lim. Edn. No. 698 (1000). Signed by L. le Brocquy., 8 fine cold. port. plts. Portfolio, orig. cloth backed grey boards, matching slip case. V. good. Scarce. (1)

Lot 737/0216

SOLD Hammer price €850

Warburton (J.), Whitelaw (J.) & Walsh (R.) History of the County of Dublin, 2 vols. lg. 4to L. 1818. First Edn., 2 engd. plan frontis (1 lg. fold.), lg. fold. map of Canals, fold. plan, & 24 engd. plts. (includ. 1 chart), & text illus. complete, in cont. hf. green mor. gilt raised bands, etc.
* A very good clean copy. (2)