15 December 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0237

Lot 603/0237

Fishing: Bowler (Chas.) The Art of Angling, 12mo Ludlow 1839. First? hf. title, hd. cold. frontis, orig. decor. ptd. boards; Walton (I.) & Cotton (C.) The Complete Angler, 2 vols. 24 mo L. 1837, a.e.g., orig. cloth. (3)

Lot 604/0237

Fishing: Miniature Books: – Walton(I.) & Cotton (C.) The Complete Angler, 2 vols. 20mo Chiswick 1824. Port. frontis & engd. titles, cont. calf, spines worn. Both copies signed Pres. Copies inscribed ‘Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, 1825, from Maria E.’; & 5 other miniature books on fishing. A lot. (7)

Lot 605/0237

Extremely Rare Edition

[Tennyson (Alfred Lord)] Poems MDCCCXXX – MDCCCXXXIII, Sm. sq. 8vo N.P. Privately Printed. 1862, pp. VIII, 112pp, uncut, entirely unopened, orig. blue printed wrappers. Ex. Rare.

Wise, Pt. III: I pp. 3- 7. The infamous Hotten piracy advertised in his 1862 catalogue as: The Lost Poems of the Poet Laureate – These are the choice poems that have been dropped or thrown aside by the Poet during his literary career [actually suppressed from Poems chiefly Lyrical 1830, and Poems 1833]… The little volume also includes variations in the text, and the successive changes that have taken place in the growing up of the poems. It is understood that only an exceedingly limited number of copies have been taken off… An injunction against the sale of the volume was obtained by Tennyson and Hotten was subsequently obliged to surrender all the copies in his power. The editorship has been confidently ascribed to J. Dykes Campbell, then Cochrane & Co.’s. representative in Toronto, but the printer, possibly Walford in England., remains obscure.

The rarity of the book appears to be somewhat disputed: according to Campbell only about 40 or 50 copies were “brought” to London: Wise himself possibly only acquired his copy latterly, since it is not mentioned until the Addenda to the Ashley Catalogue; and R.H. Shepherd in his Tennyson Bibliography 1896 states that he had never seen a copy. On the other hand Hotten himself while insisting on the volume’s extreme rarity and desirability, was selling it for 9/6d, and John Carter recently described it, deprecatingly, as appearing with “the by now familiar note that it was so rigorously suppressed that very few copies are now in existence.” See Book Collector Winter, 1963, pp. 492 – 3. Apparently some copies were also issued in large paper format, and others in green, not blue, wrappers.

Lot 606/0237

Plantin Press: Sacrosancti et Oecumenici Concilii Tridentini, Paulo III. Julio III. Pio IIII. Pontificibus Maximis Celebrati, Canones et Decreta, Sm. 8vo Antwerp (Ex. Officiane Plantiniana) 1604: Bound with, Catechismus Romanus, 8vo Antwerp 1606. Each title with wd.-cut printers device, orig. full vellum with Yapp edges. Good. (1)

Lot 607/0237

Stanihurst (Wm.) Dei Immortalis in Corpare Mortali Patientis Historia, sm. 8vo Antwerp 1660. Hf. title, add. engd. title, First, orig. full vellum, Yapp edges; also Edition of same printed in Campoduni in 1677, title with engd. vignette, cont. vellum with brass ties. An attractive pair. (2)

Lot 608/0237

Nary (C.) A Letter to His Grace Edward Lord Arch-Bishop of Tuam, 8vo D. 1728. First Edn. title repaired, some stains, recent boards; also Volume of Pamphlets, include. 1. Letters from the Rt. Hon. the late Earl of Shaftesbury, to Robert Molesworth, Esq. … 8vo L. 1721. XXIV, 48pp; 2. Letters to a Friend in the Country Published in The Old Whig… March 1736, 8vo L. 1736. 62pp., & with others, full cont. vellum, as a coll., w.a.f. (2)

Lot 609/0237

Dublin Printing: Hayes (Richard) Interest at One View, Calculated to a Farthing, 20mo L. (G. Keith) 1770, cont. full calf. Good. (1)

Lot 610/0237

[Dubois (Ed.)] ‘Knight Errant’. My Pocket Book; Or, Hints for ‘A Ryghte Merrie and Conceitede’ Tour, in quarto, To be Called ‘The Stranger in Ireland,’ in 1805. With Humorous Plates. 12mo L. 1808. Third Edn., Lg. fold. sepia frontis (no plts.); Bound with, Libel. Sir John Carr against Hood and Sharpe. Report of the Above Case, 8vo L. 1808. First Edn., [VI], 39pp. Cont. hf. crimson mor. Scarce. (1)

Lot 611/0237

Fishing: Schultes (H.) An Essay on Aquatic Rights, 8vo L. 1811. First Ed., lacks front blanks, uncut, boards; A Collection of Acts and Clauses of Acts relating to Inland Fisheries, 12mo D. 1829, orig. blue wrappers. Scarce. (2)

Lot 612/0237

Dickens (Charles) Little Dorrit, 8vo L. (Bradbury & Evans) 1857, First Edn., frontis & decor. add. t.p., illus., hf. mor., gilt spine; Our Mutual Friend, 2 vols. L. (Chapman & Hall) 1865, First Edn., 2 frontis illus., hf. calf, mor. labels; & 2 others by Dickens; Whittaker (G. & W.B.)ed. A Dictionary of Quotations from The British Poets, 3 vols. 8vo L. 1824, orig. cloth back boards, as a lot. (8)

Lot 613/0237

Phibsboro Dublin: Souvenir of Phibsboro’ Bazaar in Aid of Vincentian Church Phibsboro, Dublin, Rotunda, June 10th to 15th Inclusive, 1907, 4to D. 1907, profusely illus., orig. cold. pict. wrappers. (1)

Lot 614/0237

Lavery (John) The Life of a Painter, 4to L. 1940, First Edn., illus., cloth; Shaw-Sparrow (Walter) John Lavery and His Work, 4to, L.n.d., profusely illus., cloth, as a lot. (2)

Lot 615/0237

Cusack (M.F.) A History of the City and County of Cork, thick tall 8vo D. & C. 1875. First Edn., frontis, fold. cold. map, fold. table, & plts. & illus., orig. decor. cloth, gilt. (1)

Lot 616/0237

Privately Printed

Lawrence (D.H.) Lady Chatterleys Lover, 8vo Florence (Privately Printed) 1928, No. 565 (1000) pink paper boards, ptd. label. (1)

Lot 617/0237

Mant (Rev. Rich.) History of The Church of Ireland from The Revolution to the Union of the Church of England and Ireland, January 1st, 1801…, 2 vols. L. (John W. Parker) 1840, First Edn., fold. map forntis & 2 plts., hf. calf, marble boards, mor. labels. (2)

Lot 618/0237

Fraser (Robert) Statistical Survey of the County of Wexford, 8vo D. (Graisberry & Campbell) 1807, First Edn., lacks map, uncut, orig. boards. Scarce. (1)

Lot 619/0237

Medicine: O’Halloran (Mr.) A New Treatise on the Different Disorders Arising from External Injuries of the Head, 8vo D. 1793. First? uncut, some stains, 1 page torn & restored, recent cloth backed boards. (1)

Lot 620/0237

Presentation Copy to Lord Orrery

Binding: [Fitzgerald (Thomas)] Poems on Several Occasions, 8vo L. (J. Watts) 1733. First Edn., title with wd.-cut illus., a.e.g., attractive full crimson mor. the fine tooled border with bird ornament and intricate central diamond with various tools, spine tooled in 6 panels, rebacked. Fine Condition Signed & Inscribed by John Boyle, Fifth Earl of Cork & Orrery, and dated Sept. 25th, 1733, stating ‘Sent to me by the Author, Mr. Fitzgerald,’ & with part inscription crossed out. (1)

Lot 621/0237

Very Good Copy
Of A 19th Century Masterpiece

Stoker (Bram) Dracula, 8vo Westminster (Archibald Constable and Company) 1897. First Edn. (Later edition of the first leaf with advert leaf for ‘The Shoulder of Shasta’ on pp [392], followed by 16pp Catalogue at end. In original yellow cloth, with author & title printed in red on both covers and spine. Good copy. (1)

Lot 622/0237

African Travel: Selous (Fred. Courteney) Travel and Adventure in South East Africa, roy 8vo L. 1893. First Edn., hf. title, port. frontis, 22 full page plts. & fold. cold. map, 4pp. adverts at end, pict. cloth, gilt; & A Hunters Wanderings in Africa, L. 1911, hf. title, frontis fold. map & plts. cloth, worn. (2)