13 December 2011 - Rare Book Sale

#0216

Lot 1111/0216

SOLD Hammer price €310

Attractive Coloured Plates

Hey (Mrs.) Sylvan Musings, 8vo L. 1849. New Edn. 23 hd. cold. plts., a.e.g., orig. cloth, gilt decor. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 1112/0216

SOLD Hammer price €700

George Noble Count Plunkett, His Copy

Maffei (Scipione) La Verona Illustrata. Ridotta in Commpendio Principalmente Per Uso de forestieri con varie Agguinte. 2 vols. 8vo Verona 1771. Frist Edn., engd. port. frontis Vol. I & fold. map Vol. II, & 22 fold. plts. & plans, wd. cut heads & tails, later tree calf, mor. labels. V. good.
* Maurice Craig’s copy, with his bookplate. (2)

Lot 1116/0216

SOLD Hammer price €130

Bindings: Opera Poetiche di Dante Alighieri, 2 vols. 8vo Parigi 1836. Port. frontis, Vol. I, fine tree calf, two sets of dble gilt fillets; Crabb (Rev. G.) Tales of the Hall, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1819. First Edn., no hf. titles, cont. full tan calf, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels. Bookplates of Robert & Florence Vere O’Brien. (4)

Lot 1117/0216

SOLD Hammer price €130

Malet (Capt.) Annals of the Road or Notes on Mail and Stage Coaching in Great Britain, 8vo L. 1876. First Edn., fine cold. frontis & 9 fine cold. plts., errata slip, fine crushed crimson mor. gilt fillet borders & tooled gilt spine by Bickers and Son; Beauford (Duke of) Driving, L. 1890, illus., decor. cloth; & 1 other on coaching days. (3)

Lot 1118/0216

SOLD Hammer price €30

Yule (Col. Sir H.)ed. & trans. – The Book of Ser Marco Polo, The Venetian, concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of The East. 2 vols. L. 1929. Port. frontis, fold. maps, plts. fac-similes etc., orig. decor. cloth. v. good. (2)

Lot 1119/0216

SOLD Hammer price €50

Hedin (Sven) Overland to India, 2 vols. thick 8vo L. 1910. 2 cold. frontis & 200 plts. (4 cold. & 4 fold.) 2 lg. fold. maps complete, orig. blue cloth, gilt. Good. (2)

Lot 1121/0216

SOLD Hammer price €1200

Bible: Douay: The New Testament of Jesus Christ Faithfully Translated into English, sm. 4to Antwerp (Daniel Vervliet) 1600. Rheims Version Second Edn. Title within wd.-cut border, lack loose blank ends, cont. sprinkled calf, raised bands, gilt decor. in panels, mor. label. (1)

Lot 1123/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Rackham (Arthur) illus: Lamb (Charles & Mary) Tales from Shakespeare, 4to L. (Temple Press) 1909. Cold. frontis & 11 cold. plts., gilt decor. red cloth, & pict. d.w.; also Gullivers Travels, roy 8vo L. 1909. Cold. frontis & 11 cold. plts. orig. gilt decor. cloth, top of spine dam. (2)

Lot 1124/0216

SOLD Hammer price €160

Coloured Illustrations: Miller (Thos.) Common Wayside Flowers, 4to L. 1863. Attractive cold. illus. through-out, a.e.g., unusual cold. pict. gilt cloth, profusely gilt. (1)

Lot 1125/0216

SOLD Hammer price €120

Attractive Edition: The Book of Common Prayer, 8vo L. (John Murray) 1850. Cold. & gilt decor. hf. title, title with gilt border, 6 cold. & gilt plts., & with colour decor. initials & borders throughout, gauffered gilt edges, & full block decor. mor. (1)

Lot 1126/0216

SOLD Hammer price €340

Fine Reprint: Pickering (Wm.) The New Testament in English translated by John Wycliffe circa MCCCCLXXX. Thick 4to Chiswick (By Chas. Whittingham for Wm. Pickering) 1848. Red & black printed hf. title, frontis & title wd. cut initials, cont. block mor., blind fillet decor., raised bands, mor. label dam. (1)

Lot 1127/0216

SOLD Hammer price €90

[Edgecombe Daniel (John)] Journal of An Officer in the Commissariat Department of the Army: comprising A Narrative of the Campaigns.. in Portugal, Spain, France and the Netherlands in 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, & 1815; … 8vo L. 1820. First Edn., list of subs., errata leaf at end, uncut, orig. boards. (1)

Lot 1128/0216

SOLD Hammer price €400

Bibliography: Reportoruim Bibliographicum; or, Some Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries. Roy 8vo L. 1819. First Edn., engd. frontis & 13 plts. & wd. cut,s uncut & cont., hf. mor. V. good. (1)

Lot 1130/0216

SOLD Hammer price €40

Harris (Thomas) The Silence of the Lambs, 8vo N.Y. 1988, First Edn., orig. cloth backed boards, pict. d.w.; Levin (Ira) Rosemary’s Baby, N.Y. 1967. First Edn., cloth. (2)

Lot 1131/0216

SOLD Hammer price €160

Fleming (Ian) The Man with the Golden Gun, L. (Johnathan Cape) 1965; Thuderball, L. (Johnathan Cape) 1961; Octopussy and the Living Daylights, L. (Johnathan Cape) 1966; Diamonds are Forever, N.Y. (The Mac Millan Co.) 1956; Gardner (John) Licence Renewed, L. (Johnathan Cape) 1981; For Special Services, L. (Johnathan Cape) 1982, all 8vo, cloth and pict. d.j. Good copies. (a lot)

Lot 1132/0216

SOLD Hammer price €270

Fleming (Ian) The Spy who Loved Me, 8vo, L. (Johnathan Cape) 1962, First Edn., cloth with silver lettering and a dagger on the front board, engraved Mark between E. & M. of Fleming on t.p., orig. pictorial d.j. Good clean copy. (1)

Lot 1133/0216

SOLD Hammer price €170

Hemingway (Ernest) A Farewell to Arms, 8vo L. (Jon. Cope) 1929. First Edn. Second Issue (with error on p. 66 corrected), purple cloth, orig. decor. d.w. by Lee Elliott, with price. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 1134/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Hemingway (Ernest) For Whom the Bell Tolls, 8vo L. (Jon. Cope) 1941. First Edn., orig. blue cloth, unclipped decor. d.w. after Tisdall. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 1135/0216

SOLD Hammer price €60

Hemingway (Ernest) A Moveable Feast, 8vo L. (Johnathan Cape) 1964, First Edn., cloth & unclipped d.w., worn at edges; also For Whom the Bell Tolls, L. 1941, First Edn., blue cloth, soiled. (2)

Lot 1136/0216

SOLD Hammer price €190

Faulkner (Wm.) The Sound and The Fury, 8vo N. York [1929] First Edn., orig. decor. boards, cream cloth spine, nicked at head. (1)