The Clyde Court Hotel Dublin
-
Lot 181/0237
Hogan (Ed.) Onomasticom Gaedelicum, lg. 4to D. 1910. First Edn., map frontis, orig. cloth; also I.M.C.- The Annals of Loch Ce, 2 vols. roy 8vo D. 1939, fold. frontis, cloth. (3)
More details › -
Lot 182/0237
Genealogy: Grace (Sheffield) Memoirs of the Family of Grace, Thick roy 8vo L. 1823. Lim. Edn., L.P., profusely illus. portrait, plts. etc. a.e.g., cont. full calf, covers detached. (1)
More details › -
Lot 183/0237
Usher (James) A Body of Divinitie, or the Summe and Substance of Christian Religion. Folio L. 1645. First Edn., engd. port. frontis, cont. panelled sprinkled calf, later mor. label, raised bands. V. good. Sweeney 5328. (1)
More details › -
Lot 184/0237
With Illustrations by Louis le Brocquy
Heaney (Seamus) Ugolino Folio D. (Andrew Carpenter) 1979. No. 12 of Limited Edition of 125 Copies, Signed by Author, publisher, ilustrator & printer Liam Miller and by bookbinder, Paddy Kavanagh, 2 full page illus., uncut, orig. limp black mor., in black slipcase. Ex. Fine. (1)More details › -
Lot 185/0237
Heaney (Seamus) Beowulf A Verse Translation, sm. folio L. (The Folio Society) 2010. Illus. & decorations by Becca Thorne. Attractive mor. backed Celtic decorated crimson cloth, in slipcase. V. fine copy. (1)
More details › -
Lot 186/0237
Wright (Thos.) Louthiana: or An Introduction to the Antiquities of Ireland, In Upwards of Ninety Views and Plans…. Engraved by Paul Foudrinier. Lg. 4to L. 1758. Second Edn. red & bl. title, engd. frontis, 68 plts. & other engd. heads tails etc. All v. clean, orig. mottled calf, upr. cover loose. Scarce. (1)
More details › -
Lot 187/0237
Kilkenny interest: De Burgo (Thos.) Hibernia Dominicana, 4to Coloniae Agrippinae (Kilkenny) 1762. First Edn., cont. calf rebacked.
* Pg. 137 – 146 relating to James’s II Irish Parliament, lacking as in 95% of copies. A very good copy of this rare work. With a file of papers relating to same. (1)More details › -
Lot 188/0237
Hill (Rev. Geo.) An Historical Account of the Plantation of Ulster … 1608 – 1620, 4to Belfast 1877. First, fac-simile title, fine recent mor. backed marble boards, mor. labels; also An Historical Account of The Macdonnells of Antrim, 4to fac-simile edition Belfast 1978, cloth. (2)
More details › -
Lot 189/0237
Bullingbroke (Edward) The Duty and Authority of Justices of the Peace and Parish Officers for Ireland, 4to, D. (G. Grierson) 1788, Revised Edn., full calf, recent reback, mor. label. (1)
More details › -
Lot 190/0237
Northern Ireland: Reeves (Rev. Wm.) Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor and Dromore… 4to D. 1847. First, recent buckram; Praeger (R.L.) The Way that I Went, tall 8vo D. & L. 1937, First Edn. uncut, blue cloth & d.w.; Brooke (W.A.A.) Sketches from Nature in the North of Ireland, 4to Belfast 1935, illus., cloth, all good. (3)
More details › -
Lot 191/0237
Hand-Coloured Plates: Goldsmith (Oliver) A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, 2 vols. roy 8vo L. 1850. port., 2 hd. cold. add. engd. titles, & 61 hand cold. plts., cont. hf. green mor. Good. (2)
More details › -
Lot 192/0237
Essays by Belfast Naturalist Robert Patterson
Manuscript: Patterson (Robert) Essays on Logic and Belles Lettres, 1820. A thick 4to volume containing approx. 750pp of manuscript in a clear hand. The essays were written in 1818-19 when Patterson was a student at the Belfast Academical Institution and the volume begins with a testimonial from his professor William Cairns. There are some 25 essays on varying topics such as syntax, philosophy, memory, the senses, poetry and figures of speech. As a m/ss w.a.f. Ex. Rare.
* Robert Patterson (1802 – 1872) was a distinguished Belfast naturalist and businessman. At the age of nineteen he was one of the founders of the Belfast Natural History Society and he played a leading role in its affairs for the rest of his life including the establishment of Ireland’s first museum to be built by public subscription. He published many learned articles and several books and was also a successful businessman, and a leader of the movement for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Among his descendants were several prominent naturalists, including the siblings Rosamond and Robert Lloyd Praeger.
The present manuscript is an important insight into the studies of a prominent Irishman at a formative stage in his career.More details › -
Lot 193/0237
Presentation Copy by Thomas Kinsella
Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) trans. Longes Mac n’Usnig: Being The Exile and Death of the Sons of Usnech, 8vo D. (Dolmen) Nov. 1954. Lim. Edn. No. 166 of 225 Copies, illustrations by Mia Cranwill. Inscribed ‘To Michael Dempsey – Thomas Kinsella,’ orig. decor. vellum backed boards; also Synge (J.M.) Riders to the Sea, sm. folio Dolmen Edns. VIII, Lim. Edn. (750), cloth backed marble boards. (2)More details › -
Lot 194/0237
Rare Presentation Copy
Wilde (W.R.)M.R.I.A. The Ethnology of the Ancient Irish, roy 8vo D. 1844. First Edn. in Bk. Form, 16pp. with wd.-cut illus., orig. ptd. wrappers. inscribed ‘Ed. Getty Esq. with the Author’s kind rega,..” with orig. decorated & illustrated ptd. wrappers, bound in recent hf. cloth. V. Scarce. (1)More details › -
Lot 195/0237
With Original Photographs etc added
Co. Kilkenny: R.I.A.: Butler (Constance Mary)transcribed, The Charters of the Cistercian Abbey of Duiske in the County Kilkenny, Ed. by J.H. Bernard, D.D. Folio D. c. 1918, with illus. Also with 16pp. of additional manuscript notes, some newspaper cuttings & 14 extra original photographs, postcards etc. related to above, tipped in, orig. cloth. (1)More details › -
Lot 196/0237
Fine Copy, Uncut & in Original Boards
Lynch (Wm.) A View of the Legal Institutions, Honorary Hereditary Offices and Feudal Baronies Established in Ireland during the Reign of Henry the Second, roy 8vo L. 1830. First Edn., title inscribed ‘H. Villiers Stuart’, with tipped-in 16pp cat. at front, uncut, orig. boards, with label. V. good tall copy. (1)More details › -
Lot 197/0237
Rackham (Arthur)Illus: Shakespeare (Wm.) The Tempest, 4to L. 1926. First Edn. decor. title, & 20 mtd. cold. plts. (include. frontis) decor. cloth, & orig. pict. d.w. V. good. (1)
More details › -
Lot 198/0237
Lenihan (Maurice) Limerick; its History and Antiquities, roy 8vo D. 1884. Second Edn. fold. map frontis & other plts. maps, ports & text illus., cont. hf. mor. mor. label, good; O’Neill Hencken (H.) Cahercommaun: A Stone Fort in County Clare, roy 8vo D. 1938, fold. & other illus., cloth. Good. (2)
More details › -
Lot 199/0237
Co. Kildare: O’Donovan (J.) Letters … relative to the Antiquities of the County of Kildare … collected during … the Ordnance Survey in 1837. Reproduced under … Rev. Michael O’Flanagan. 2 vols. in one 4to Bray 1930. Typescript, orig. cloth, worn. (1)
More details › -
Lot 200/0237
In Fine Gilt Morocco Binding
Burke (Rev. Wm. P.) History of Clonmel, 4to Waterford 1907. First Edn. red & bl. title, engd. frontis, & 13 full page plates, t.e.g., full crimson morocco binding gilt decoration and coat of arms. V. good. (1)More details ›