13 December 2011 - Rare Book Sale

#0216

Lot 1137/0216

SOLD Hammer price €180

Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, 8vo L. (Chatto & Windus) 1932. First Edn., orig. blue cloth, gilt spine. Good copy. (1)

Lot 1138/0216

SOLD Hammer price €120

Rackham (Arthur) Illus: Fitzgerald (S.J. Adair) The Zankiwank & The Bletherwitch, sm. 4to L. 1896. First Edn., frontis decor. title, & illus. thro.-out, uncut, orig. gilt cloth. V. Scarce. (1)

Lot 1139/0216

SOLD Hammer price €230

Early Works by A. Rackham

Rackham (Arthur)illus: Lever (Charles) Charles O’Malley The Irish Dragoon, L. 1897. First Edn., ilus. orig. cloth; Martineau (Harriet) Feats on the Fjord, 16mo L. 1899, illus.,cloth; also Edition for 1914, illus., decor. gilt cloth; The Greek Heroes, sm. 8vo L. 1910., cold. plts. & bl. & white illus., decor. cloth; & Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by Barrie, but re-told by May Byron, sm. 8vo L.n.d. 5 cold. plts. & bl. & white illus., orig. decor. cloth. Scarce lot. (5)

Lot 1140/0216

SOLD Hammer price €200

Rackham (Arthur) illus. Mother Goose The Old Nursery Rhymes, sm. 4to L. n.d. Profusely illustrated, cold. frontis & 12 cold. plts. plus bl. & wh. plts. text illus. etc; also Phillpotts (Eden) A Dish of Apples, sm. 4to L. n.d. [c. 1921], cold. frontis & 2 cold. plts. plus. bl. & white illus. thro.-out, both decor. cloth. Good. (2)

Lot 1141/0216

SOLD Hammer price €220

Rackham (Arthur) illus. The Romance of King Arthur…. Abridged from Mallory’s ‘Morte D’Arthur’ by A.W. Pollard, 4to L. 1917. Cold. frontis & 15 cold. plts., bl. & white plts. & illus.; also Gosse (Ed.) The Allies Fairy Book, sm. 4to L.n.d. Cold. frontis & 11 cold. plts. & other illus. by A. Rackham, both orig. decor. cloth, gilt. Good. (2)

Lot 1142/0216

SOLD Hammer price €250

Sowerby (John E.) The Ferns of Great Britain, 8vo L. 1855. Descriptions by Charles Johnson, 49 hd. cold. plts. cont. full mor. blind tooled borders, gilt spine. V. good. (1)

Lot 1143/0216

SOLD Hammer price €540

Fine hand-coloured Plates

Burbidge (F.W.) The Narcissus: its History and Culture, roy 8vo L. 1875. First Edn., 48 hd. cold. plts. hf. green mor. marbled sides, v. good copy. (1)

Lot 1144/0216

SOLD Hammer price €400

Lowe (E.J.) Beautiful Leaved Plants, roy 8vo L. 1861. First Edn., 60 fine cold. plts. includ. frontis cont. hf. crimson mor. tooled gilt spine. (1)

Lot 1145/0216

SOLD Hammer price €420

Bindings: Hemsterhusius (T.) & Gesnerius (M.)ed. Luciani Samosatensis Opera, 3 vols. 4to Amsterdam 1743. plus Animadversionum in Lucianum Appendix. 4to Leyden 1824. Vol. I engd. frontis 3 red & bl. titles with engd. vignettes, together 4 vols. full cont. blind stamp vellum, good. (4)

Lot 1146/0216

SOLD Hammer price €180

Lever (Darcy) The Young Sea Officer’s Sheet Anchor; or a Key to the Lending of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship. 4to L. 1808. First Edn., 110plts. some edges frayed, later cloth. (1)

Lot 1147/0216

SOLD Hammer price €160

With Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson

Kipling (Rudyard) A Song of the English, lg. 4to L. n.d. 30 mtd. cold. plts. & other illus., gilt decor. blue cloth; Shakespeare – A Midsummer – Nights Dream, lg. 4to L. 1914, 12 mtd. cold. plts. & bl. & white plts. cold. decor. green cloth; and Shakespeare – Twelfth Night or What You Will, 4to L. c.. 1911, 40 mtd. cold. plts. orig. gilt decor. green cloth. All v. good. (3)

Lot 1148/0216

SOLD Hammer price €100

Omar Khayyam: Fitzgerald (Ed.) trans. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, lg. 4to L. n.d. Fine mtd. cold. illus. by Ed. Dulac, decor. borders on text, fine fully gilt decor. cream cloth; another Edition of same, mtd. cold. illus. gilt decor. cloth; The Rubaiyat of ‘Umar Khaiyam, trans by Fred. Baron Corvo. Roy 8vo L. (Bodley Head) 1924. Cold. illus. by Hamzeh Carr, uncut, unopened decor. cloth; & another edition of same, with illus. by Rob. Stewart Sheriffs, cloth & decor. d.w. Attractive lot. (4)

Lot 1149/0216

SOLD Hammer price €200

Binding: The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. Thick 4to L. 1806. A.e.g. B.P. of Westport House, fine cont. straight grained crimson mor. lg. tooled gilt borders, & blind & gilt tooled panels, elaborate tooled gilt spine in panels, possibly by George Mullen of Dublin. V. good example. (1)

Lot 1150/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Engraved Plates: The Copper-Plate Magazine; or A Monthly Treasure for The Admirers of the Imitative Arts. 4to L. n.d. c. 1774. 100 full page engd. views, ports. etc. diced full calf, triple gilt fillet, attractive tooled gilt spine in panels, raised bands, mor. labels. (1)

Lot 1151/0216

SOLD Hammer price €250

Aesop – The Fables of Aesop, 2 vols. roy 8vo L. (for John Stockdale) 1793. Two engd. titles, & 110 engd. plts. L.P., attractive cont. full calf, blind tooled & gilt fillet borders with corner decorations, professionally rebacked, raised bands, blind & gilt tooled decor. V. good set. (2)

Lot 1153/0216

SOLD Hammer price €20

Rare Book Catalogues: Robinson (Wm. H.) A Selection of Precious Manuscripts, Historic Documents and Rare Books, Catalogue 81, lg. 4to L. 1950. Profusely illus. some fold. plts. Most of the contents from the renowned Collection of Sir Thomas Phillips; also Kraus (H.P.) Choice Manuscripts and Books, Bindings and Autographs, sm. folio N.Y. n.d. illus. thro-out, both orig. ptd. wrappers. V. good & scarce. (2)

Lot 1154/0216

SOLD Hammer price €110

Signed Limited Edition

[Kipling (Rudyard)] Songs of the Sea from Rudyard Kipling’s Verse, illus. by Donald Maxwell, lg. 4to L. 1927. L.P. Copy Limited to 500 Copies Signed by Kipling, mounted cold. plts. & tails, etc., uncut, orig. vellum backed boards, & ptd. d.w. (torn with small loss), orig. slip case. V. good. (1)

Lot 1156/0216

SOLD Hammer price €280

Sir W. Scott in Original Boards

Scott (Sir Walter) The Vision of Don Roderick; A Poem, lg. 4to Edin. 1811. First Edn. hf. title, IX, [II], 128pp., advert leaf at end, uncut, orig. paper boards, v. good copy. (1)

Lot 1158/0216

SOLD Hammer price €280

Illustrations by Robert Gibbings

Golden Cockerel Press: Swift (Jonathan) Miscellaneous Poems, lg. 4to 1928. Lim. Edn. No. 123 of 375 Copies. Fine engravings on wood by Robert Gibbings, uncut, orig. vellum backed boards. (1)

Lot 1160/0216

SOLD Hammer price €80

With Coloured Plates

Barnard (Geo.) The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting in Watercolours, sm. folio L. 1871. New Edn. cold. frontis & 25 cold. plates, orig. gilt decor. cloth. Good. (1)