13 December 2011 - Rare Book Sale

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Lot 166/0216

SOLD Hammer price €260

All First Editions

Yeats (W.B.) Early Poems and Stories, 8vo L. 1925; Autobiographies, L. 1926. Port. frontis & 2 other port. plus 1 cold. plt. after Jack B. Yeats; and Last Poems & Plays, L. 1940. All First General Edns., & all orig. blind decor. cloth. Wade 147; Wade 151; Wade 203. (3)

Lot 169/0216

SOLD Hammer price €800

Signed by The Author

Yeats (W.B.) A Vision, 8vo L. 1925. Privately Printed for Subscribers Only. Lim. Edn. 538 (600) Signed by W.B. Yeats. Hf. title, port. frontis, & other plts., text diagrams unopened, uncut, orig. cloth backed blue/grey boards, & d.w. Good clean copy. Scarce. Wade 149. (1)

Lot 170/0216

SOLD Hammer price €220

Dun Emer Press: Yeats (W.B.) Stories of Red Hanrahan, 8vo Dundrum (Dun Emer) 1904. Lim. Edn. (500), with a pres. inscription on front plain blank; also Last Poems and Two Plays, D. (Cuala Press) 1939. Lim. Edn. (500), both orig. cloth backed boards, good & scarce. Wade 59: Wade 200. (2)

Lot 171/0216

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Cuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) The Green Helmet, and Other Poems, Dundrum (Cuala) 1910. Lim. Edn. (400); also The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems, D. (Cuala) 1924. Lim. Edn. (500) both orig. cloth backed blue/grey boards. Wade 84; Wade 145.. (2)

Lot 172/0216

SOLD Hammer price €900

Some of W.B. Yeats Earliest Publications

[Yeats (W.B.)] Periodical: – The Dublin University Review, Aug. 1885 – March 1886. together 11 issues, 8vo D. 1885 – 1886. First Editions, some issues uncut & unopened, in orig. decor. & printed wrappers. As a periodical, w.a.f.
* Contains The Seeker, Sept. 1885; An Epilogue, Oct. 1885; Life (A Poem) Feb. 1886; The Two Titans A Political Poem, March 1886; The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson, Nov. 1886. all First Edns., of works by W.B. Yeats. In addition there are many early appearances of some of the leading lights in the Irish Literary Revival includ. K. Tynan, Standish O’Grady, Ed. Dowden, Douglas Hyde, John Todhunter, Katherine Tynan, T.W. Rolleston & A. Percival Graves, together with Michael Davitt, John Boyle O’Reilly & many others. V. Rare.

Lot 175/0216

SOLD Hammer price €430

1798 & Emmetts Rebellion

1798 Pamphlets: [Musgrave (Sir R.)] ‘Verdicus’ A Concise Account of the Material Events and Atrocities which Occurred in the Late Rebellion, 8vo D. 1799. First Edn., [4] 101pp; Duigenan (Patrick) A Fair Representation of the Present Political State of Ireland, 8vo D. 1800. First Edn. [4] 253pp.; Emmets Rebellion; [Cody (H.B.)] The Insurrection of the Twenty-Third July, 1803, 8vo D. 1803. First Edn., (XIII) 110pp. Together 3 works, bound as one, hf. vellum, mor. labels. Rare collection. (1)

Lot 176/0216

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Smith (Chas.) The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford, 8vo D. 1746. First Edn., lg. fold. County map (edges frayed) plan of Waterford City, 3 lg. fold. engd. panorama plts. & 1 other fold. plt. all v. clean, cont. calf, worn, upr. cover lacking. (1)

Lot 177/0216

SOLD Hammer price €200

Life of St. Patrick

Certani (Jacob) Irrlandischer Moyses das ist Lugend = und Bunder = Leven Des Heilig = und Glorreichen Patritij Lateranensischen Regulirten Chor= Herrns / Apostls / und Primatis in Ireland / … 4to Passau 1722. First German Edn.? orig. sheep, blind tooled spine, raised bands, worn. Scarce. (1)

Lot 178/0216

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Leslie (Bp. John) De Origine Moribus & Rebus Gestis Scotorum Libri Decem, E quibus septem veterum Scotorum res in primis memorabiles contractius… . Sm. 4to Rome (in Aedibus Populi Romani) 1578 (1675). Wd. cut decor. on portrait t.p. wd. cut heads & tails, engd. coat of arms, & 11 full page genealogical & portrait plts. etc., cont. calf, upr. cover loose. V. Scarce. (1)

Lot 180/0216

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Pamphlets: Irish Catholics: 1. anon, An Argument for Searching the Scriptures, earnestly Addressed to The Roman Catholic Laity by a Presbyter of the United Church of England and Ireland. 8vo D. 1820. First, 84pp; 2. A Correspondence between a Roman Catholic Priest and A Protestant layman… on .. The Idolatry of the Church of Rome, 8vo D. 1821., 111pp; 3. Triamoirai: or A Publication Consisting of Three Parts; The First Addressed to the Roman Catholics of Ireland.. To the Protestant Clergy of Ireland; … to his King and his Ministers, upon .. The Religion of the Church of Rome. D. n.d. 118pp; 4. Fido (Pastor) Pastorini Proved to be a Bad Prophet, and a Worse Divine; in an Address to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, D. 1823., 20pp. together 4 works in one, cont. hf. calf, mor. label. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 181/0216

SOLD Hammer price €400

Signed Presentation Copy

River Shannon: Le Poer Trench (Maj. Hon. W.) Letters on the Subject of the Lowering and Drainage of the River Shannon, 8vo L. 1873. First Edn., Pres. Copy inscribed, 37pp, some m/ss annots, recent boards. V. good. Scarce. (1)

Lot 182/0216

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River Shannon: Forsyth (W.) & Manning (R.) Reports of Public Works on the Construction and Working of the Barrages on the Seine, Marne and Yonne and their Applicability to the Circumstances on the Shannon, 8vo D. 1873. First Edn., 32pp, lg. fold. diagram, some m/ss notes & annots, recent boards. V. good. Rare. (1)

Lot 183/0216

SOLD Hammer price €255

River Shannon: Lynam (James) Paper … On The River Shannon, its Present State and the Means of Improving the Navigation and Drainage,… [For British Association Section G. Dublin, 1878] 8vo L. 1878. First Edn., 46pp. fold. map, some m/ss annots, recent boards. V. good. Scarce. (1)

Lot 184/0216

SOLD Hammer price €360

Shannon Drainage: Beardmore (Nat.) A Report upon the River Shannon, its Condition and Requirements for the Purpose of Drainage and Navigation, To which are appended Letter .. by the Marquis of Clanricarde, 8vo D. 1865, 24pp.; also Lynam (James) The Shannon Drainage, To the Marquess of Clanricarde, 8vo n.d. 1868. 30pp. some m/ss notes thro-out, recent full boards. V. good. Scarce. (1)

Lot 185/0216

SOLD Hammer price €80

Northern Ireland Association Copy

[Neilson (Wm.)] Gilpin (Wm.) Dialogues on Various Subjects, published .. for the Benefit of his School at Boldre. 8vo L. 1807. Cont. calf, dble gilt fillet border, flat spine mor. label. Good by Upham’s Library, Both good.
* School Prize, inscribed on loose front blank to John Scott Porter at the College Belfast, 1818, & signed by William Neilson (1774 – 1821), renowned Irish scholar, author etc. of Rademon, Co. Down, Rev. John Scott Porter of Limavady was a biblical scholar & author. (1)

Lot 186/0216

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Edwards (Anthony) Cork Remembrancer; or Tablet of Memory .. City and County of Cork. Sm. 8vo Cork 1792. First Edn., hf. calf, good; Graydon (Wm.) Reflections on the State of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, 8vo L. 1825. Second Edn., tree calf, worn; O’Callaghan (J. Corn.) The Green Book, D. 1844. Second, cloth. (3)

Lot 187/0216

SOLD Hammer price €180

Signed by the Author

Cross (Eric) The Tailor and Ansty, sm. 8vo Cork (Mercier) 1975. Signed by author on hf. title, orig. pict. boards, in cloth backed slip case. Scarce. (1)

Lot 188/0216

SOLD Hammer price €50

Periodical: Murphy (Patricia)ed. Non Plus, Numbers 1 – 4 [All Published]. together 4 nos. 8vo D. (Dolmen) 1959 – 1960. Illus., orig. pict. boards, soiled. Scarce. (4)

Lot 189/0216

SOLD Hammer price €260

Rare Criticism of Diocesan History

‘G.P.O.’ [Guillimus Pastor Ossoriensis,] Criticism of the History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 8vo D. 1905. Sole Edition. 115pp. orig. boards. A very good copy of this rare work.
* The author was Fr. Wm. Healy, P.P., Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny. Rev. Wm. Carrigan was the author of the History of the Diocese of Ossory. (1)

Lot 191/0216

SOLD Hammer price €320

Binding: [Madden (Samuel)] Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland, 8vo D. 1816. XXII, [6], 224pp, attractive cont. mottled calf, tooled gilt borders & central oval decoration with harp & shamrock, spine profusely gilt in panels, mor. label. V. good copy. (1)