15 December 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0237

Lot 241/0237

With Hand Coloured Map

Co. Cork: Townsend (Rev. H.) Statistical Survey of the County of Cork, 8vo, D. 1810, First Edn., lg. fold. hd. cold. map, errata leaf, 749 + 104 pps, contemp. hf. calf, marble sides, mor. label. Good copy. (1)

Lot 242/0237

Irish Travel: Head (Sir Francis Bond) A Fortnight In Ireland, 8vo, L. 1852, Second Edn., fold. map, 16pps adverts at end, gilt decor. cloth. (1)

Lot 243/0237

Medicine: Hallaran (Wm. Saunders) Practical Observations on the Causes and Cure of Insanity, 8vo Cork 1818 Second Edn., hf. title, fold. table, 4 illus. on 2 plts. recent brown cloth. (1)

Lot 244/0237

Medicine: Watt (Robert) Treatise on the History, Nature and Treatment of Chincough:… To which is Subjoined An Inquiry into the Relative Mortality of the Principal Diseases of Children. 8vo Glasgow 1813. First Edn., uncut, boards; Nicholl (Whitlock) Practical Remarks on Disordered States of the Cerebral Structures, occurring in Infants, First Edn., later vellum boards; Marley (Miles) On the Nature and Treatment of the most frequent Diseases in Children, L. 1830. First Edn., orig. uncut cloth backed boards. (3)

Lot 245/0237

Medicine: Saunders (J. Cunningham) A Treatise on Some Practical Points relating to the Diseases of the Eye, 8vo L. 1816. New Edn., 8 plts. (7 hd. coloured), cont. tree calf, tooled gilt spine laid down. (1)

Lot 246/0237

Fishing: Aflalo (F.G.) The Salt of My Life, L. 1905; also Sea Fish, L. 1898; Wheeley (C.H.) Coarse Fish, L. 1897; Jardine (A.) Pike and Perch, L. 1898; Senior (Wm.) Pike and Perch, L. 1900, all illus. & orig. cloth. (5)

Lot 247/0237

Medicine: Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, 12mo D. 1788. Cont. full calf; also Pharmacopoeia Collegii Medicorum Regis et Reginae in Hibernia, 8vo D. 1826, hf. mor. upr. cover loose. (2)

Lot 248/0237

Medicine: Rutty (John) A Chronological History of the Weather and Seasons and of the Prevailing Diseases in Dublin, 8vo L. 1770. First Edn., cont. calf, covers loose. B.P. of The Rt. Hon. George Lord Macartney. (1)

Lot 249/0237

Travel: Hall (Capt. B.) Extracts from a Journal written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, 1820, 1821, & 1822, 2 vols. Edin. 1824. Third, 2 hf. titles, lg. fold. map, uncut, orig. boards, spines dam.; also by same author, Schloss Hainfeld,; or A Winter in lower Styria, Edin. 1836 First, 4pp. adverts at end, cont. hf. calf. (3)

Lot 250/0237

Novels etc: [Brunton (Mrs. Mary)] Discipline: A Novel, by The Author of ‘Self-Control,’ 3 vols. 8vo Edin. 1815. Third; Mitford (Mary Russell) Our Village: Sketches of Rural Life and Scenery, 3 vols. 8vo L. 1824. Second Edn., all cont. hf. mor. (6)

Lot 251/0237

Kipling (Rudyard) & Balastier (Walcott) The Naulahka: A Story of West and East, L. 1892. First Edn. hf. title, cat. at end, orig. orange cloth; [Thackeray (Wm. M.)] The Kickleburys on the Rhine, sm. 8vo L. 1851. Third, hf. title, frontis, sepia title, & sim. plts. & illus., a.e.g., cont. crimson mor.; & two vols. by Jules Verne. (4)

Lot 252/0237

Fishing: Luce (A.A.) Fishing and Thinking, L. 1959. First Edn. Signed by Author, aged 93; others sim; & some small angling books & paperbacks. A lot. (1)

Lot 253/0237

O’Kelly (Seumas) The Weavers Grave, 8vo D. (Talbot Press) 1919, First Edn., cold. frontis & eight illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, decor. cloth. (1)

Lot 254/0237

Rare First Edition

O’Brien (Flann) [O’Nolan (Brian)] At Swim-Two Birds, 8vo L. (Longmans, Green & Co.) 1939. First Edn., hf. title, orig. black cloth, gilt lettered spine. Good copy. (1)

Lot 255/0237

Signed Limited Edition

O’Meara (John J.) The Voyage of Saint Brendan – Journey to the Promised Land, 8vo, D. 1976, Ltd. Edn. 49 of 50 Copies, signed by the author, 2 hd. cold. titles, & 8 hd. cold. illus., special hand bound calf, blind and gilt decor, orig. slip case. Fine Copy. (1)

Lot 256/0237

An Attractive Set with Illustrations by Jack B. Yeats

Synge (J.M.) In Wicklow West Kerry and Connemara, 8vo D. (Maunsel & Co.) 1911, with illus. by Jack B. Yeats; The Aran Islands, D. (Maunsel & Co.) 1911, illus. by J.B. Yeats; and also Poems & Translations, 1911; Two Plays, D. 1911; and Four Plays, D. 1911; together with The Aran Islands, D. 1912, together 6 vols., all uniform blue cloth. (6)

Lot 257/0237

Fishing: Marston (R.B.) Walton and Some Earlier Writers on Fish and Fishing, sm. 8vo L. 1894, cloth, gilt; Shepherd (R.H.)ed. Waltoniana Ineditede Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton, 8vo L. 1878, cloth; and 4 Editions of The Complete Angler, 1857, 1872, 1875, & 1911. As a lot. (6)

Lot 258/0237

Lee (Grace Lawless) The Hugeunot Settlements in Ireland, L. 1936. First Edn., map frontis; Seymour (St. John D.) Irish Witchcraft and Demonology, D. & L. 1913. First Edn., both cloth. (2)

Lot 259/0237

Bernard (J.H.) & Atkinson (R.)eds. The Irish Liber-Hymnorum, 2 vols. L. 1898. First Edn., fac-simile, orig. cloth. (2)

Lot 260/0237

Lodge (John) The Peerage of Ireland, 4 vols. 8vo D. 1754. Some mis-pagination, no plates, attractive recent hf. calf, raised bands, mor. labels. (4)