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Lot 741/0216
SOLD Hammer price €300
Newenham (Thos.) A View of the Natural, Political and Commercial Circumstances of Ireland, lg. 4to L. 1809. First Edn., hf. title, lg. fold. map frontis, uncut, orig. boards, covers loose, otherwise v. good copy. (1)
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Lot 743/0216
SOLD Hammer price €6200
Duke of Ormonde’s Copy
Association Copy: Clarendon (Edward Earl of,) The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland, Tall 8vo L. 1720. First Edn. L.P. Copy, engd. port. frontis of James, Duke of Ormonde after Kneller, wd.-cut heads & tails, a.e.g., very fine full cont. crimson mor. dble gilt fillet borders enclosing two tooled box panels with corner & other tooled decorations, raised bands,profusely tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. label, with bookplate of Duke of Ormonde. Note in pencil states ‘From the Library of Marquess of Ormonde, Kilkeny Castle Sale, 1935’ In a later fine mor. bound cloth box. V. desirable lot. (1)More details › -
Lot 744/0216
SOLD Hammer price €720
Rare Hand-Coloured Copy
Carr (John) The Stranger in Ireland, or A Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country, in the year 1805. 4to L. 1806. First Edn., hd. cold. Map of Killarney & 15 hd. cold. plts. (15 lg. fold. includ. frontis), cont. calf backed marble boards, recent label. Good copy of this scarce work. (1)More details › -
Lot 745/0216
SOLD Hammer price €150
[Shaw (G.B.)] Holroyd (Michael) Bernard Shaw, 5 vols. in 4, thick 8vo L. 1981 – 1992. First Edns. Signed by Author, cloth & pict. d.w.’s. V. good. (4)
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Lot 750/0216
SOLD Hammer price €340
Book of Kells: Sullivan (Sir Ed.) The Book of Kells, lg. folio L. (The Studio) 1914. Fine full page mtd. cold. plts. on card, orig. Celtic decor. clean cloth; also Edition of same for 1952, cloth & d.w.; also Henry (Francoise) The Book of Kells, folio N.Y. 1974, fine cold. plts. orig. cloth, & slip case. All v. good. (3)
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Lot 752/0216
SOLD Hammer price €90
Chandler (Eddie) Photography in Ireland – The Nineteenth Century, folio D. 2001, First; Gorham (Maurice) Ireland from Old Photographs, 4to L. 1971; Dublin: The People’s City The Photographs of Nevill Johsnon 1952-53, oblong 4to D. 1981. Signed by Author; & 3 others, Photographs of Ireland. (6)
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Lot 753/0216
SOLD Hammer price €160
Irish Art: Strikland (W.) A Dictionary of Irish Artists, 2 vols. Shannon Reprint 1969. Illus. etc., cloth & d.w.’s, v. good; also The Irish Arts Review, Vol. 5 – Vol. 18, together 14 vols. folio Belfast 1988 – 2002, profusely illustrated, orig. wrappers. (16)
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Lot 754/0216
SOLD Hammer price €480
Ferguson (Samuel) The Cromlech on Howth, A Poem with Illuminations from the Books of Kells & of Durrow. With Notes on Celtic Ornamental Art, Revised by George Petrie. Folio L. (Day & Co. Lithographers) [1861]. First Edn., with add. decor. title, decor. text & 7 full cold. plts., some spotting, a.e.g., orig. full decor. Celtic design, gilt cloth, professionally rebacked, with orig. spine laid down. V. good. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 757/0216
SOLD Hammer price €500
River Shannon Navigation – With Maps
Shannon River: Burgoyne Colonel (John F.) Letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bart.; and further Reports of Mr. Rhodes on the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Shannon, Folio L. (Hse. of Commons) 1833. 42 (in 44) lg. fold. hand. cold. maps, plans & plts., (some soiled or repaired), cont. hf. calf. As an Atlas, w.a.f. V. Scarce. (1)More details › -
Lot 758/0216
SOLD Hammer price €100
Signed by the Artist
Bewick (Pauline) Seven Ages, lg. atlas folio Galway 2005. First Edn., Signed by the Artist, profusely illus. thro.-out, cloth & d.w. V. good. (1)More details › -
Lot 759/0216
SOLD Hammer price €1700
Signed by Artist & Writer
Walsh (Wendy) & Nelson (Chas.) An Irish Florilegium, and An Irish Florilegium II, 2 vols. folio L. 1983 and L. 1987. First Edns. Signed by W. Walsh and Chas. Nelson on first hf. title, fine mtd. cold. plts. thro.-out, orig. cloth & pict. d.w.’s, also orig. slip cases. (2)More details › -
Lot 760/0216
SOLD Hammer price €130
Wilkinson (Nick) Wendy Walsh – A Life of Painting, Folio D. (Strawberry Tree) 2007. First Edn. full plts. & illus. in colour thro.-out, cloth & d.w. V. good. (1)
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Lot 761/0216
SOLD Hammer price €440
Of Outstanding Local Interest
Co. Leitrim: Bawnboy Rural District, and Ballinamore Rural District. Two lg. folio ledgers, partly printed, with typed or m/ss additions, but principally with extensive manuscript notes about the above Rural Districts,. The first covers period 19th Oct. 1899 – 21st May 1900, and Ballinamore, for 23 Feb. 1903 – 21st Aug. 1905, covering minutes of meetings, decisions arrived at, attendees, costs, etc., and much of local interest, in heavy bound mor. ledgers, some damp stains. As m/ss., w.a.f. (2)More details › -
Lot 763/0216
SOLD Hammer price €500
Baltimore Industrial Fishing Schools
Co. Cork: A folio Visitors Book, for Industrial Fishing Schools, Baltimore, Co. Cork. From c. 1887 – 1896. An amazing collection over 3500 signatures on approx. 100 pages with visitors from all over Ireland, many from Cork, also N. Ireland, England & Scotland, some American, and some from Spain etc., a few pages torn or soiled, orig. hf. mor. mor. label, worn. As a m/ss., w.a.f.
* Containing many interesting and famous signatures includ. Archbishop Croke of Cashel, Standish O’Grady, Edith O.E. Somerville, Wm. Lane Joynt, Eugene Davis of ‘Nation’ and many others. (1)More details › -
Lot 767/0216
SOLD Hammer price €240
Field Day: Deane (S.), Carpetner (A.), Williams (Jon.) & others. The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, 5 vols. Derry 1991 – Cork 2002. First Edn. last vol. signed by Editors, orig. blue cloth, in two cloth slip cases. Good. (5)
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Lot 768/0216
SOLD Hammer price €100
Box: Irish Language: Leabhar na hUrnuighe Comhchoitchinne, sm. 8vo L. 1861; Sayers (Peig) Peig – A Sceal Fein, D. 1936; O’Suilleabhain (Muiris) Fiche Blian ag Fax, D. 1933; O’Siothchain (C.) Seanchas Chleire, D. 1936; O’Criomhthain (Tomas) An tOileanach, D. 1929; O’Conaire (Padraic) Ceachta Cainnte Gramadaighe, D. 1910; & various others sim. many signed by Maighread or Neilli O’Brian of Munster. A good lot, as a box, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 770/0216
SOLD Hammer price €200
Box: Irish Art – Cruikshank (Anna) & Knight of Glin, The Watercolours of Ireland, folio L. 1994. First Edn. Signed by both Authors. d.w.; others on Modern Irish Art, Mainie Jellett, Ed. Maguire, The Figurists, and some no’s of Irish Arts Review; also The Second World War, by Churchill, 6 vols., etc. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 800/0216
SOLD Hammer price €320
Fortune (Robert) Two Visits to the Tea Countries of China, 2 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1853. Third Edn., 2 frontis, 2 add. decor. titles, fold. hd. cold. map & 3 plts. orig. gilt decor. cloth; also A Residence Among The Chinese: Inland, On the Coast and At Sea, 8vo L. 1857. First Edn., hf. title, frontis, 4 plts. & text illus., 12pp. cat at end, orig. cloth. Bookplates of John Madden. All v. good. (3)
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Lot 801/0216
SOLD Hammer price €580
Russell (Wm. Howard) My Diary in India in the Year 1858 – 9, 2 vols. L. 1860. Fourth, hf. title, 2 frontis fold. map & 9 tinted plts. V. good stamped cloth; also Cave – Browne (Rev. J.) The Punjab and Delhi in 1857, 2 vols. Edin. 1861. First Edn., errata slip, 2 hf. titles, 2 port. frontis lg. fold. map / plan & 8 plans, orig. pict. gilt cloth. All v. good. Bookplate of John Madden. (4)
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Lot 803/0216
SOLD Hammer price €240
Pruen (Dr. Septimus Tristram) The Arab and The African, 8vo L. 1891. First Edn. port. frontis. 8 plts., text illus. advert leaf at end, orig. brown cloth, gilt. V. good. Bookplate of John Madden. (1)
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