13 December 2011 - Rare Book Sale

#0216

Lot 876/0216

SOLD Hammer price €400

Kinloch (Col. Angus Airlie) Large Game Shooting in Tibet, The Himalayas, and Northern India, 4to Calcutta 1885. First Edn. frontis. photo. fold. map, errata leaf, & 29 plts. orig. pict. gilt green cloth. V. good.; also Baker (Sir. S.W.) The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon, 8vo L. 1874. New Edn. plts. pict. gilt cloth. Bookplates of John Madden. (2)

Lot 877/0216

SOLD Hammer price €280

Marcoy (Paul) A Journey across South America, From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, 2 vols. in 4, lg. 4to L. 1872 / 73. Map, plts., & text illus., orig. decor. cloth, gilt. Good bright copy. Bookplates of John Madden. (4)

Lot 878/0216

SOLD Hammer price €360

Salt (Henry) A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of that Country. Lg. 4to L. 1814. First Edn. hf. title, lg. fold. hd.-cold map (torn with loss) 4 fold. charts, 1 plan, 2 vignettes & 26 (ex. 27) engd. plts. some stains, orig. hf. calf, worn. (1)

Lot 879/0216

SOLD Hammer price €240

Pickney (Lt. Col. N.) Travels through The South of France and in the Interior of the Provinces of Provence and Languedoc, in the Years 1807 and 1808, 4to L. 1809. First Edn. VI, 282pp, uncut,orig. boards, recent professional reback, v. good. (1)

Lot 880/0216

SOLD Hammer price €700

Robertson (Wm.) The History of America, 2 vols. 4to D. 1777. First Dublin Edn., 2 hf. titles port. frontis, Vol. I, fold. plts. cont. full calf, raised bands, mor. labels, gilt. V. good set. Bookplate of John Madden. (2)

Lot 882/0216

SOLD Hammer price €260

Anderson (Chas. James) Lake Ngami; or Explorations and Discoveries, … of South Western Africa, roy 8vo L. 1866. Second Edn., litho frontis & 15 litho plts. & 1 bl. & white plt. also lg. fold. map,orig. pict. cloth, gilt. Bookplate of John Madden. (1)

Lot 884/0216

SOLD Hammer price €600

Rice (Wm.) Tiger Shooting in India, lg. 8vo L. 1857 First Edn. 12 tinted lithos (includ. frontis), attractive hf.mor. gilt spine; Ball (V.) Jungle Life in India, 8vo L. 1880. First Edn., frontis errata slip, lg. fold. map, 11 plts. & text illus. complete, hf. mor.; Inglis (James) Tent Life in Tiger Land, roy 8vo L. 1888 Second Edn, port. & 15 tinted plts. (some loose), orig. cloth; Fife-Cookson (Lt. Col. J.C.) Tiger Shooting in the Doon and Ulwar, 8vo L. 1887. Frontis & 9 plts. orig. pict. gilt cloth. Bookplates of John Madden. (4)

Lot 885/0216

SOLD Hammer price €260

Box: Poetry: Good collection of approx. 14 attractive leather bound vols. mostly of poetry; also Proctor (A. Anne) Legends & Lyrics, 2 vols. 12mo L. 1892, with Curragh Chase bookplate attractive cloth; The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, 12mo L. 1851 with O’Brien bookplate, & signed by Edward W. O’Brien, 1852, & Charlotte Grace O’Brien, 1862, St. Columba’s prize binding, & some others by Tennyson. As a box lot, w.a.f. Good. (1)

Lot 885A/0216

SOLD Hammer price €650

Mohr (Ed.) & D’Anvers (N.) trans. To the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi, 8vo L. 1876. First Edn. in English, hf. title, port. frontis (loose), fold. cold. map, 11 bl. & white plts. & 4 chromo-lithos, 24pp. Cat. etc. at end, orig. cloth, pict. gilt. V. good. Bookplate of John Madden. (1)

Lot 888/0216

SOLD Hammer price €160

Elzevir Press: Cluverius (Ph.) Introductionis in Universam Geographicam. Ed. by P. Bertius 20mo Amsterdam (Ex Officina Elzeviriana) 1672. Engd. title, 41 fold. engd. maps & plts. later full suede, mor. label. (1)

Lot 893/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Dickens (Charles) Pictures from Italy, sm. 8vo L. (Bradbury & Evans) 1846. For the Author. Advert. leaf at front, hf. title, vign. title, illus. head & tail, advert leaf at end, cont. embossed cloth; also American Notes for General Circulation, 8vo L. 1850. [Cheap Edn.] advert. leaf at front, hf. title, frontis adverts on end papers,cloth, gilt spine; & Sketches by Box. sm. 8vo L. (Chapman & Hall) 1850. Frontis by Cruikshank, cont. hf. mor. mor. label. (3)

Lot 897/0216

SOLD Hammer price €1100

Inscribed by Alfred Tennyson

Hallam (Arthur Henry) Remains in Verse and Prose, 12mo [L.] 1853. Privately Printed. Engd. port frontis a.e.g. cont. full block tooled dark mor.
* Inscribed on hf. title, ‘W.G. Marshall from A. Tennyson.’ (1)

Lot 898/0216

SOLD Hammer price €525

Signed Presentation Copies

Taylor (Henry) Edwin the Fair. An Historical Drama, 12mo L. 1842. First Edn., hf. title, cont. full vellum.
* With Curragh Chase Library bookplate, & inscribed ‘Aubrey de Vere from his very affectionate cousins T. Alice-Taylor and Henry Taylor, Rome April 6, 1844.’ Also, St. Clements Eve. A Play, 12mo L. 1862. First Edn., a.e.g., full brown mor.
* Inscribed on hf. title, ‘Mary Marshall from H. Taylor E. Sheen, 20 April 1862,’ Both v. good & scarce. (2)

Lot 899/0216

SOLD Hammer price €4300

Signed Presentation Copy by Author with Extensive Manuscript Notes & Original Verse?

Coleridge (Sara) Phantasmion, 12mo L. (Wm. Pickering) 1837 – First Edn., hf. title, 387pp, 14pp. of m/ss notes & orig. poetry by author? (on front & end blanks etc.) plus extensive notes & annotations thro-out the text, a.e.g. full cont. mor. tooled gilt borders, with corner decoration by Hayday, profusely tooled gilt spine.
* Signed presentation copy from author to Aubrey de Vere dated 27th 1846, & with Curragh Chase bookplate. Many of the m/ss notes are personal & sometimes intimate in nature to de Vere. (1)

Lot 900/0216

SOLD Hammer price €200

Bindings: La Roche Poucauld – Maximes, 12mo L. 1902. Red & bl. title, a.e.g. attractive full mor. Arts & Crafts type binding attractively decor. in gilt with small green mor. & gilt leaf overlays, raised bands; & Bacon, sm. sq. 12mo L. 1903, a.e.g. attractive sim. bind by Hatchards, v. good. (2)

Lot 901/0216

SOLD Hammer price €290

Potter (Beatrix) The Tailor of Gloucester, 16mo L. 1903. First Edn.,; The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 16mo L. 1903. First Edn.; The Tale of Pigling Bland, L. 1913. First Edn.; all very good with cold. plts. & orig. pict. boards; also The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Story of Miss Moppet, and Cecily Parsley’s Nursery Rhymes, some pps. loose, & bindings rubbed, otherwise a nice lot. (6)

Lot 902/0216

SOLD Hammer price €240

With Hand-coloured Illustrations

Juvenalia: Moncrieff (W.T.) Old Booty! A Serio-comic Sailor’s Tale, 12mo L. (Wm. Kidd) 1830. Hd. cold. engd. frontis & 8 plts. & illus. (4 hd. cold.), t.e.g. in fine full calf, treble gilt fillet borders, tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. labels. V. good copy. Rare. (1)

Lot 903/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

de Marcilly (M. Guillot) Relation Historique et Theologique d’un Voyage en Holland, et autres Provinces des Pays-Bas, 12mo Paris 1719. First Edn., errata leaf at end, cont. sprinkled calf, raised bands, mor. label, tooled gilt panels. V. good. (1)

Lot 905/0216

SOLD Hammer price €200

Prior (Matthew) Miscellaneous Works, 2 vols. 12mo D. (S. Powell) 1739; also Poems on Several Occasions, 2 vols. 16mo D. (for William & William Smith) 1768., all cont. calf, raised bands, mor. labels, good. (4)

Lot 908/0216

SOLD Hammer price €100

Presented by Dermod O’Brien, Painter

Stevenson (Rob. Louis) Catriona A Sequel to “Kidnapped” 8vo L. 1893. First Edn., orig. cloth.
* Pres. Copy, inscribed ‘Charlotte G. O’Brien from Dermod O’Brien, Sept.7, ’93,’ to poet from painter; also Weir of Hermiston, An Unfinished Romance… L. 1896. First Edn., hf. title inscribed ‘Nelly O’Brien, 1899,’ orig. cloth. (2)