13 December 2011 - Rare Book Sale

#0216

Lot 992/0216

SOLD Hammer price €1100

Camden (Wm.) Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of Great Britain and Ireland, together with the Adjacent Islands. 2 vols. lg. folio L. n.d. [c. 1722]. Second Edn., ed. by Ed. Gibson. Engd. port. frontis Vol. I, red & bl. titles, 51 lg. fold. maps, 10 full page plts. coins, etc., and wd. cut illus. thro-out text, a few tears, & repairs at folds, recent sturdy hf. calf, marble sides, raised bands. Scarce. (2)

Lot 993/0216

SOLD Hammer price €280

With Large Folding Maps

Saneto Paulo (Fr. Carol) Geographia Sacra, Sive Notitia Antiqua Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Universae. Large folio Paris (Melchior Tavernier) 1641. First Edn., red & bl. title (trimmed & laid down), 9 lg. fold. maps by Tavernier, some worm holes at front, a few leaves repaired, cont. vellum backed boards. (1)

Lot 994/0216

SOLD Hammer price €200

Atlas: Arrowsmith (A.) Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Novi Descriptio, A Comparative Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geography… For the Use of Eton School. Folio L. 1828. Engd. title & dedit. 53 full page engd. plts. hd. cold. in outline, cont. hf. mor. V. good. As an Atlas. (1)

Lot 999/0216

SOLD Hammer price €160

White (Lt. Geo. Francis) Views in India Chiefly among the Himalayan Mountains, Lg. 4to L. n.d. add. engd. title & 35 engd. plts. (lacks frontis), a.e.g., full blind tooled & gilt decor. (1)

Lot 1000/0216

SOLD Hammer price €80

Bibliography: Averley, Flowers, Robinson, Thompson & Wallis, Eighteenth Century British Books A Subject Catalogue, 4 vols. folio L. (Dawson) 1979, orig. cloth. V. good. (4)

Lot 1001/0216

SOLD Hammer price €460

Malton (James) The Young Painter’s Maulstick; Being a Practical Treatise on Perspective. Lg. 4to L. 1800. First Edn., 23 full page plts. & text illus. recent hf. sprinkled calf, marble sides. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 1002/0216

SOLD Hammer price €280

Signed by Artist and Editor

Hockeny (David) Hockney’s Alphabet, Ed. by Stephen Spender, L. 1991. Signed by Artist & Editor, 27 cold. plts. orig. yellow cloth, cloth slip case. Scarce. (1)

Lot 1005/0216

SOLD Hammer price €150

Bindings: Knight (Chas.) The Popular History of England, 8 vols. 8vo L. 1856. Illus. Full cont. green mor. T.C.D. Prize Binding; The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel de Foe, 7 vols. 8vo L. 1887, cont. hf. calf, profusely gilt spines, mor. labels; Russell (Wm.) History of Modern Europe, 6 vols. L. 1805-1810, attractive cont. mottled calf, mor. labels; Tooke (W.) The Life of Catherine The Great, 3 vols. D. 1800, full calf; & 2 others, bindings, w.a.f. (26)

Lot 1006/0216

SOLD Hammer price €300

Bindings – Dublin Printings: Robertson (Wm.) The History of America, 3 vols. D. 1777, full cont. calf, mor. labels; Ferguson (Adam) The History of the Roman Republic, 3 vols. D. 1783, cont. full calf, mor. labels; Stuart (G.) The History of Scotland, 2 vols. D. 1782, cont. full calf,mor. labels; & 15 others sim. As bindings, w.a.f. (23)

Lot 1007/0216

SOLD Hammer price €180

Bindings – Waterford Printing: Mc Gregor (J. James) History of the French Revolution, 12 vols. 8vo Waterford (J. Bull) 1816 – Dublin 1827. Fold. maps, plts. etc. cont. hf. calf, tooled gilt spines in panels, mor. labels. V. good. (12)

Lot 1008/0216

SOLD Hammer price €380

Bindings: Gibbon (Ed.) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 8 vols. 8vo L. 1872. Port. & maps, fine full polished calf, dbl. gilt fillet borders, spine profusely gilt in panels mor. labels. V. good, Bookplates of Robert Barton; also Austria and The Austrians, 2 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1837, cont. panel calf, new labels. Bookplate of Richard Gregory, Coole Park, Galway; Songs and Ballads of Scotland, 2 vols. Glasgow 1871, cont. hf. mor. Bookplate of Nathaniel Hone,; & 2 others. All bindings, as a lot, w.a.f. (14)

Lot 1009/0216

SOLD Hammer price €260

Bindings: Maynooth College Prizes: Murray (Patrick) Tractatus de Ecclesia Christi, 3 vols. D. 1860; Meehan (C.P.) Lives of Painters, Sculptors & Architects of The Order of St. Dominic, 2 vols. sm. 8vo D. 1852, full Maynooth prize calf bindings gilt & blind tooled, by Bellew, Dublin; & 7 others sim. A v. good lot. (12)

Lot 1010/0216

SOLD Hammer price €160

Bindings: Dublin Printings: Hume & Smollett – The History of England, 13 vols. 8vo D. (James Williams) 1780 – 1785 New Edn. Port. frontis. Vol. I, cont. full tree calf, mor. labels; & 2 other vols. sim. (15)

Lot 1011/0216

SOLD Hammer price €400

Bindings: T.C.D. Prize: Shakespeare (Wm.) The Plays of William Shakespeare, 21 vols. complete, 8vo L. 1813. Port. frontis, Vol. I, fold. plts. Fine cont. full diced calf, with T.C.D. prize label, & each cover stamped with T.C.D. oval coat of arms, roll tooled gilt borders. Good set. (21)

Lot 1012/0216

SOLD Hammer price €200

Bindings: Burnet (Bishop) History of Our Own Time, 6 vols. Oxford 1823. Port. frontis Vol. I, full sprinkled calf, Medlycott bookplate, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels; Clarnedon – History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland, 3 vols. in 6, 8vo Oxford 1819. Cont. full calf, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels; Robertson (Wm.) The History of the Reign of Charles V, 4 vols. 8vo L. 1777, port. & plts. full cont. calf, tooled gilt spines mor. labels; & 9 other sim. As bindings. Good. (25)

Lot 1013/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Bindings: The Works of Alexander Pope, 4 vols. 8vo L. 1778, frontis full cont. calf, mor. labels; Milton’s Works, 4 vols. 8vo L. 1790, ed. by T. Newton, cont. tree calf, single gilt fillet borders, mor. labels; & 17 others sim. As bindings. (25)

Lot 1014/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Bindings: Froude (J.A.) History of England, 12 vols. 8vo L. 1856 – 1870. First, cont. hf. mor. mor. labels; Lodge (Ed.) Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vols. 1 – 12 (lacking Vol. 7), sm. folio L. 1835. Engd. ports. a.e.g., cont. hf. mor. tooled gilt spines mor. labels. All v. good. As bindings. (23)

Lot 1015/0216

SOLD Hammer price €280

Bindings: Campbell – Naval History of Great Britain, 8 vols. 8vo L. 1813, ports. etc. cont. hf. mor. tooled spines gilt; Pope’s Homer, 5 vols. roy 8vo L. 1802, wd. cut illus. cont. speckled calf, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels; Mitford (Wm.) The History of Greece, 5 vols. 4to L. 1808, tooled gilt spines,hf. calf; Black (J.) Life of Torquato Tasso, 2 vols. 4to Edin. 1810, attractive hf. tree calf, mor. labels; Macaulay (C.) The History of England, 3 vols. 4to L. 1766, hf. calf, mor. labels. All v. good. (23)

Lot 1016/0216

SOLD Hammer price €340

Binding: Exceptionally fine mid-18th Century full brown mor. profusely tooled book covers, 4to, each cover with wide tooled floral borders, & with elaborate corner decorations, each with a peacock surmounted enclosing a shaped rectangular panel of overlaid green morocco, with a similar wide tooled border adorned with flowers on the outside, & with the central diamond lozenger shaped from eight stylized peacocks, and bearing the date 1753 in the centre, gilt spine tooled with single flower in each panel. As a binding, w.a.f. Good. (1)

Lot 1020/0216

SOLD Hammer price €380

The Jock Farmer Collection

Recording Memorabilia: An interesting collection of varied items from the Gramophone & Marconiphone Companies, collected by Jock Farmer who worked with, and looked after the radio side of things for H.M.V. The collection contains some promotional material for ‘G. Marconi’ Company, including cigarette case, cuff-links; & other items from H.M.V., including letter openers, record cleaners, groove indicators, records, photographs & scraps etc. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)