13 December 2011 - Rare Book Sale

#0216

Lot 909/0216

SOLD Hammer price €360

Eliot (T.S.) Four Quartet: East Coker; Little Gidding; The Dry Salvages, & Burnt Norton, 4 vols. L. 1941 – 42. All First Edns., orig. ptd. wrappers. Good.
* Maurice Craig’s copies with his bookplate. (4)

Lot 910/0216

SOLD Hammer price €120

Rennie (Rev. R.) Essays on the Natural History and Origin of Peat Moss, 8vo Edin. 1807. First Edn., uncut, orig. boards. (1)

Lot 911/0216

SOLD Hammer price €260

Smith (George) Essay on the Construction of Cottages, suited for the Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, 8vo Glasgow 1834. First Edn., hf. title, engd. title, text illus. & 11 fold. plts. adverts at end, orig. cloth, paper label. Good. (1)

Lot 912/0216

SOLD Hammer price €600

Fine Copy of First Edition

Shelley (Percy Bysshe) Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama. In Four Acts with other Poems. 8vo L. (C. & J. Ollier) 1820. First Edn., Second Issue (with ‘Miscellaneous’ corrected on Contents leaf), hf. title, advert leaf at end, a.e.g. full crushed crimson mor. single gilt fillet borders, raised bands by Sawyer, marble ends. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 914/0216

SOLD Hammer price €1200

With Manuscript Card from Author
[Whitman (W.)] Rosetti (Wm. M.)ed. Poems by Walt Whitman, L. 1908. New Edn., engd. port. frontis buckram.
* With orig. manuscript card, dated Sept. 20, 1884, from 328 Mickle St., Camden, N. Jersey, in the hand of the author & signed by him. Rare. (1)

Lot 916/0216

SOLD Hammer price €240

Special Limited Edition

Binding: [Wordsworth (Wm)] Arnold (Mathew)ed. Poems of Wordsworth, 8vo L. 1879. Special Limited L.P.Edition (750), port. vign. on title, a.e.g., full crimson mor. profusely tooled with multi borders, central decor. panel with lozenger inside & front cover inscribed ‘F.M.A. – F. to J.O’B MDCCCLXXX,’ with attractive gilt decor. vellum paste downs, & free-ends by Morley, Oxford. V. good.
* Front loose blank inscribed ‘Julia Mary O’Brien from Florence Vere O’Brien.’ (1)

Lot 917/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

[Dodgson (Chas. L.)] ‘Lewis Carroll’ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 8vo L. 1867. Ninth Thousand. Hf. title, frontis & illus. by J. Tenniel, a.e.g., a few small stains or finger marks, in recent full crushed green levant, dbl. gilt fillet borders, raised bands. (1)

Lot 919/0216

SOLD Hammer price €220

Lawrence (D.H.) Sons and Lovers, L. (Duckworth) 1913. blue cloth; The Virgin and the Gipsy, L. (M. Secker) 1930, brown cloth; The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, L. (Duckworth) L. 1924, orig. blue cloth; Pansies, Poems 8vo L. (M. Secker) 1929, orig. blue cloth backed decor. boards. All First Edns. (4)

Lot 920/0216

SOLD Hammer price €180

Burke (Edmund) Reflections on the Revolution in France, 8vo L. 1790. Fifth; & The Correspondence between Great Britain and France on the Subject of the late Negotiation presented … To .. Parliament, 18th May 1803, 8vo L. 1803. First, both cont. hf. calf, marble sides. Good. (2)

Lot 921/0216

SOLD Hammer price €300

With Manuscript Letter from Engraver to Publisher

Finden (Ed.) Engraver, Illustrations of Byron, 2 vols. (no titles) L. 1832. Engd. port. of Byron, & 119 engd. plts., & ports. a.e.g. in full green mor. with large gilt decor. panel & gilt fillet borders, spine gilt tooled in panels. As a coll. of plts.
* With A.L.s. from engraver to Messrs. W. & R. Chambers, Edinburgh, forwarding the enclosed volumes as a gift, & requesting a mention in their Journal. With the bookplates of Charles C.S. Chambers. This copy sold as Lot 114 by Sothebys, 7 May 1914. (2)

Lot 924/0216

SOLD Hammer price €60

Montagu (Lord Rob.) Naval Architecture: A Treatise on Ship Building and The Rig of Clippers, sm. 8vo L. 1852. Second, cloth gilt; Low (Chas. R.) Maritime Discovery: 2 vols. L. 1881. First Edn., orig. cloth.
* Ex. coll. Monare Library, Co. Limerick, titles inscribed by Stephen de Vere. (3)

Lot 929/0216

SOLD Hammer price €380

Stack (Rev. John)F.T.C.D. A Short System of Optics, Principally Designed for The Use of the Undergraduates in the University of Dublin. 8vo D. (Wm. Mc Kenzie) 1793. First Edn., 5 fold. plts., some pencil marks, orig. hf. calf. Good. (1)

Lot 932/0216

SOLD Hammer price €180

Gibbings (Rob.) Lovely is The Lee, L. 1945, d.w.; Till I End My Song, L. 1957, d.w.; also Proof Copy of same work; Coming down The Seine, L. 1953, d.w.; Cappard (A.E.) Rummy That Noble Game, Boston & N.Y. 1933; Waddell (H.) Beasts and Saints, L. 1934, d.w.; Blue Angels and Whales, L. (Penguin) 1938, boards, all First Edsn., and all illus. by Gibbings. (7)

Lot 933/0216

SOLD Hammer price €80

Wood (James) The Elements of Algebra Designed for the Use of Students in the University, 8vo Cambridge 1820; bound with Wood (J.) The Principles of Mechanics…, 8vo Cambridge 1824, interleaved copy, both uncut, partly unopened, cont. hf. mor.; Bridge (Rev. B.) A Treatise on the Elements of Algebra, 8vo L. 1821, uncut orig. boards; Dana (James D.) Manual of Mineralogy, L. 1854, text illus. cloth. (3)

Lot 934/0216

SOLD Hammer price €120

Travel: Bell (John) Travels from St. Petersburgh in Russia to various Parts of Asia, 8vo Edin. 1806. New Edn. 2 Fold. maps (1 frontis), hf. title, cont. hf. calf; Stanley (A.P.) Sinai and Palestine, 8vo L. 1860. Fifth, fold. cold. frontis & 6 fold. hd. cold. maps, text illus., attractive cont. full prize mor. bind, ‘Brighton College,’ tooled gilt spine. Good. (2)

Lot 935/0216

SOLD Hammer price €110

Brasey (Lady) 14,000 Miles in the ‘Sunbeam’ in 1883, 8vo L. 1885. First Edn., decor. title & dedit, 2 fold. & 7 other maps, text illus. thro.-out the text, later hf. calf, mor. label, spine tooled gilt in panels. Good. (1)

Lot 937/0216

SOLD Hammer price €160

Juvenalia: Hilda Cowham’s Blacklegs and Others, 4to L. 1911. First Edn. cold. frontis illus. thro.-out, decor. ends & attractive pict. gilt cloth; Evans (Gwendolen Mary) The House in The Little Green Wood, sm. 4to L. 1928. First Edn., cold. frontis & 20 cold. plts. decor. ends, & pict. cold. boards; Scott (Lucy M.) Dewdrops from Fairyland, sm. 4to L. n.d. [c. 1913], cold. frontis & 8 cold. plts. text illus., uncut, decor. ends, & decor. gilt cloth; Sherwood (Mrs.) Margot and the Golden Fish, sm. 4to L. [c. 1910], cold. frontis, & 6 (ex. 7) cold. plts. decor. cloth. (4)

Lot 938/0216

SOLD Hammer price €180

Byron (Ld. Geo. Gordon) Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice… The Prophecy of Dante, A Poem, 8vo L. 1821. First Edn., Second Issue, hf. title, 2 advert leaves & 6pp cat. at end, uncut, orig. boards; Sardanapalus, A Tragedy… Cain: A Mystery, 8vo L. 1821. First Edns., hf. title, later calf, spine dam.; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, 8vo L. 1818 First Edn., uncut, orig. boards; Hebrew Melodies, 8vo L. 1815 First Edn., lacks hf. title, later boards; Lara, A Tale – Jacqueline, A Tale, 12mo L. 1814, First Edn., hf. calf; & 1 other sim. (6)

Lot 939/0216

SOLD Hammer price €160

Hayes (A.A.) New Colorado and The Santa Fe Trail, L. 1881. Map frontis & text illus; Gillmore (P.) Prairie and Forest, L. 1874. First, frontis & plts., decor. cloth, gilt; Olmsted (F.L.) A Journey through Texas, and A Journey to the Back Country, 2 vols. L. 1800. One fold. map, cloth. Bookplates of John Madden. (4)

Lot 940/0216

SOLD Hammer price €70

Muir (Sir Wm.) The Life of Mohammad, 8vo Edin. 1923. Frontis & 8 fold. maps & plts. cloth; also by same author Mahomet and Islam, sm. 8vo 8vo L. n.d. frontis & lg. fold. map, text, illus, cloth. (2)