13 December 2011 - Rare Book Sale

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Lot 193/0216

SOLD Hammer price €80

Sharkey (P.A.) The Heart of Ireland, [Roscommon] 8vo Boyle 1927. First Edn., 1 cold. & other plts. & 3 maps; Hurley (Rev. T. Canon) St. Patrick and the Parish of Kilkeevan, Vol. I [All Published], D. 1943. First Edn., illus. both cloth; Mahaffy (J.P.) An Epock in Irish History, L. 1903; & 3 others. (4)

Lot 194/0216

SOLD Hammer price €850

With Original A.L.s. from the Author

Yeats (Jack B.) Life in the West of Ireland, 4to D. & L. (Maunsel) 1912. Lim. Edn. 150 Copies only (out of series), cold. frontis, & 7 mtd. cold. plts., orig. cloth, gilt decor.
* With single page A.L. signed from author dated Dec. 19, 1949. (1)

Lot 195/0216

SOLD Hammer price €200

Lenihan (Maurice) Limerick, its History and Antiquities Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military, from the Earliest Times. Roy 8vo D. 1866. First Edn., Pres. inscription on hf. title, fold. map frontis, 4 plts. & text illus. complete, with some newscuttings tipped in, orig. green cloth, gilt. (1)

Lot 196/0216

SOLD Hammer price €130

Genealogy: Hamilton (Sir J.) The Hamilton Manuscripts … Account of the .. Territories of the Upper Clandeboye, Great Ardes and Duffferin in the County of Down, 4to Belfast n.d. [1867] First Edn., vign. title, orig. cloth, gilt. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 197/0216

SOLD Hammer price €290

Irish Agriculture: Periodical – The Irish Farmer’s & Gardener’s Magazine, Vol. II No. 1 – Vol. II No. LXXXV. Together 4 vols. 8vo Jan. 1835 – Dec. 1840; also The Irish Farmer’s Journal, Vol. I (Jan. 1843) No. I – NO. 10 (Oct. 1843); & 1 other sim. all uniform hf. calf, mor. labels. As a periodical, w.a.f. (5)

Lot 198/0216

SOLD Hammer price €180

Genealogy: O’Hart (John) Irish Pedigrees; or The Origin and Stem of The Irish Nation, 2 vols. thick 8vo D. 1887. 2 hf. titles, port. frontis, Vol. II, orig. cloth, gilt decor. V. good. (2)

Lot 199/0216

SOLD Hammer price €200

Military: D’Alton (John) Illustrations, Historical and Genealogical of King James Irish Army List (1689), 2 vols. 8vo D. n.d. Second Edn., Enlarged. Printed for Subscribers, red & bl. titles, orig. cloth, spine worn at edges. (2)

Lot 200/0216

SOLD Hammer price €110

Irish Bibliography: Hogan (R.)ed. Dictionary of Irish Literature, 8vo D. 1985; Brady (A.M.) & Cleeve (B.) A Biographical Dictionary of Irish Writers, D. 1985; O’Neill (R.K.) Irish Libraries, Belfast 2002. All recent mor. backed marble boards. Nice lot. (3)

Lot 201/0216

SOLD Hammer price €460

Edgeworth (Richard Lovell) An Essay on the Construction of Roads and Carriages, 8vo L. 1813. First Edn. Hf. title, an orig. A.L.s. from F.G. Edgeworth, concerning the above work loosely inserted, uncut, orig. boards, rebacked. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 202/0216

SOLD Hammer price €160

Heaney (Seamus) Finder Keepers Selected Prose 1971 – 2001, 8vo L. 2002. First Edn., Signed by Author, d.w.; also Sarr (Kenneth) The White Bolle-Trie. A Wonder Story, 8vo D. 1927. First Edn., Illus. by Maurice Mc Gonigal cloth backed boards & pict. d.w. (2)

Lot 203/0216

SOLD Hammer price €320

Genealogy: Clare (Rev. Wallace) The Testamentary Records of the Butler Families in Ireland, roy 8vo Peterborough 1932. Lim. Edn. No. 37 (105) cloth; also Hanbidge (Mary)ed. The Memories of William Hanbidge, Agede 93, 1906. An Autobriography, .. Chronicles of his Family. 8vo St. Albans. 1939. For Private Circulation. Signed Pres. Copy, port. frontis & plts. cloth. (2)

Lot 205/0216

SOLD Hammer price €260

[Clarke (Harry)] Illustrator. Swinburne (A. Chas.) Selected Poems, roy 8vo L. 1928. First Edn., frontis & 10 plts. illus. by H. Clarke, uncut, purple decor. end papers, gilt decor. purple cloth, & black decor. d.w. V. good. (1)

Lot 206/0216

SOLD Hammer price €1050

Presentation Copy to the Earl of Clarendon

[Trevelyan (C.E.) The Irish Crisis, roy 8vo n.d. [Reprinted from The Edinburgh Review] Drop head title, 99pp. a.e.g. watered silk with gilt Irish Harp on both covers, spine dam. Rare.
* Inscribed presentation copy, ‘His Excellency The Earl of Clarendon from the Author.’ Trevelyan was Secretary of the Treasury during the Great Irish Famine, 1846. (1)

Lot 207/0216

SOLD Hammer price €140

Limited Illustrated Edition

Wilde (Oscar) The Ballad of Reading Gaol, roy 8vo L. 1924 [1925], First Lim. Edn. 70 (450), with wd. cut frontis 6 lg. plts. & numerous other small wd. cuts, by Frans. Masereal, & orig. biographical note / slip tipped in, cloth backed boards, upr. joint worn. Scarce. (1)

Lot 208/0216

SOLD Hammer price €300

Juvenalia: Praeger (S. Rosamond) The Olde Irishe Rimes of Brian O’Linn, folio L. 1901. First Edn., hf. title, decor. title & 23pp. of sketches by author, orig. pict. cloth backed boards; also The Child’s Picture Grammar, lg. 4to L. 1900. Hf. title, & 35 (71pp) pages of Sketches by artist, some in colour, lacks title page, orig. cloth backed decor. boards. Scarce. (2)

Lot 209/0216

SOLD Hammer price €130

Juvenalia: Praeger (Rosemond) Old Fashioned Verses and Sketches, 8vo Dundalk 1947. First Edn., mounted frontis & other plts., sketches thro-out, cloth backed boards, & decor. d.w. Scarce. (1)

Lot 210/0216

SOLD Hammer price €165

Juvenalia: Pretyman (Maureen) Dreaming Mountain, A Fairy Story of County Kerry. 4to L. 1944. First Edn., cold. frontis, 7 plts. & cold. illus. thro-out by author, orig. decor. cloth; also Brennan (Eliz.) The Wind Fairies, 4to D. n.d. First Edn., hf. title, & 6 cold. plts. (ex. 8) text illus. etc. by Naomi Heather, cloth backed boards. (2)

Lot 211/0216

SOLD Hammer price €280

Illustrations by Michael Mac Liammoir

O’Conaire (Padraic) Field and Fair, Travels with a Donkey in Ireland, 8vo D. 1929. First Edn., port. frontis & illus. by M. Mac Liammoir thro-out, uncut, orig. cloth, & pict. d.w.; also The Woman at the Window and other Stories, D.n.d. New Edn., frontis & other plts. by M. Mac Liammoir, uncut, cloth. Good & Scarce. (2)

Lot 212/0216

SOLD Hammer price €240

O’Sullivan (Seamus) Mud and Purple, Pages from the Diary of a Dublin Man. 8vo D. 1917. First Edn, Signed by Author. Frontis, orig. cloth backed boards; The Rose and Bottle & Other Essays, D. 1946, First Edn., orig. d.w., v. clean copy; Poems, 1930 – 1938, Being Number Four of Tower Press Series, 8vo D. 1938. First Edn., wrappers; O’Kelly (Seamus) Ranns and Ballads, D. (Candle Press) 1918. First Edn., frontis after Jack B. Yeats, Lim. Edn. 21 (450), cloth backed boards; & 2 other items by O’Kelly. (6)

Lot 217/0216

SOLD Hammer price €200

Beaslai (Piaras) Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland, 2 vols., 4to D. 1926. (Reprint), 2 cold. frontis (1 loose) & 16 plts. complete, orig. green cloth, gilt. Good. (2)