15 December 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0237

Lot 61/0237

Genealogy: M’Call (Hardy Bertham) Story of the Family of Wandesforde of Kirklington and Castlecomer, Lg. 4to L. 1904. First Edn. with plts. & other illus., t.e.g., orig. gilt decor. buckram. V. good. (1)

Lot 62/0237

Munro (Rob.) The Lake Dwellings of Europe, .. Rhind Lectures in Archaeology for 1888. Roy 8vo L. 1890. First Edn., illus. thro-out, cloth. Good. (1)

Lot 63/0237

Carr (John) The Stranger in Ireland, 4to L. 1806. Lg. fold. litho frontis (loose) & 15 litho views (some fold.), lacks map of Killarney, some soiled cont. tree calf, gilt spine. (1)

Lot 64/0237

O’Donovan (John) Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, 7 vols. lg. 4to D. 1856. Second Edn. (Best), cont. hf. mor. by Galwey & Co. mor. labels, joints worn. (7)

Lot 65/0237

Robertson (J. George) Antiquities and Scenery of the County of Kilkenny, oblong folio Kilkenny (Boetius Press) Reprint 1983. Lim. Edn. No. 4 (585), illus. full page plts. orig. hf. cloth, marble sides, mor. label. V. good. (1)

Lot 66/0237

R.I.A. – Petrie (George) The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, … comprising An Essay on The Origin and Uses of The Round Towers of Ireland. Lg. 4to D. 1845. First Edn., text illus., orig. cloth; also Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. XVIII, lg. 4to D. 1839, engd. plts. hf. mor. (2)

Lot 67/0237

Georgian Society: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin, Vols. I – V, Complete in 5 vols. Lg. 4to Vols. I & II Reprints Shannon 1969, Vol. III – V, First Edns., D. 1911 – 1913. Profusely illustrated orig. cloth. Good clean copies. (5)

Lot 68/0237

Mitchell (Flora) Vanishing Dublin, 4to D. (Allen & Figgis) 1966, First Edn., illus. cloth & illus. dust jacket. (1)

Lot 69/0237

Limited Editions Club: Heaney (Seamus) etc. Seamus Heaney, Poems and a Memoir, sm. folio, N.Y. 1982, Ltd. Edn. 1125 (2000), signed by Heaney, Thomas Flanagan and Henry Pearson, uncut, full decor. leather and slip case. (1)

Lot 70/0237

Irish Aviation: Avolon – A Century of Irish Aviation Pioneers and Aviators, Lg. 4to D. 2015. First, profusely illustrated, decor. d.w. & cloth slipcase. (1)

Lot 71/0237

[Barlas (Ed.)] The History of the Execrable Irish Rebellion, Folio L. 1680. First, red & bl. title, lg. fold. table, recent mor. backed boards. (1)

Lot 72/0237

Ware (James) Rerum Hibernicarum Annales, folio D. (J. Crook) 1664. First Edn., red & bl. title laid down, later hf. calf, marble sides. (1)

Lot 73/0237

Keating (Geoffry) The General History of Ireland, Trans. by Dermod D. O’Connor. Folio L. 1723. Engd. port. frontis (laid down), list of subs., 2 fold. maps (one by Moll), & 40 plts. include. coats of arms (1 dam), full gilt calf, upr cover detached. (1)

Lot 74/0237

R.I.A.: Harbison (Peter) The High Crosses of Ireland, An Iconographical and Photographic Survey. 3 vols. sm. folio Bonn 1992. First Edn., photo illus. etc. orig. cloth v. good; Hunt (John) Irish Medieval Figure Sculpture, 2 vols. D. (I.U.P.) 1974, illus. later cloth. (5)

Lot 75/0237

Fine Limited Editions with Woodcut Illustrations

Blackstaff Press: The Image of Ireland with a Discoverie of Woodkarne, by John Derricke, 1581. Lg. 4to Belfast 1985. Lim. Edn. 145 (286) De Luxe Copies. With illus. etc., fine vellum backed boards & slipcase; Dolmen Press – Holinshed’s Irish Chronicle, 1577. Sm. folio D. 1979. Lim. Edn. 850 Copies, text illus., cloth & d.w. (2)

Lot 76/0237

Atlas – Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge – Atlas for National Schools – Ireland, folio L. 1886. 30 dbl. page cold. maps; 2 folio volumes of 19th Century Irish & other Music; and a Victorian Scrapbook. As a lot, w.a.f. (4)

Lot 77/0237

Classics: Senecta (L.A.) … Philosophi Stoicorum Omnium Acutissimi, Opera quae extant omnia, Folio Bale 1573. Wd. cut device on title, some browning, orig. vellum; Smith (trans) Zenophon’s History of the Affairs of Greece, lg. 4to L. 1770, lg. fold. map. Cont. calf, tooled gilt spine, armorial of Thomas Conolly, & B.P. of Carton Library; Beresford (James) trans. The Aeneid of Virgil, Translated into blank verse, 4to L. 1794. First, list of subs, hf. calf. (3)

Lot 78/0237

With Louis Le Broquy Illustrations

Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thos.) trans. The Tain, folio D. (Dolmen Press) 1969, Limited Edn. 1750, with fine brush drawing by L. le Brocquy, cloth, orig. decor. d.w., & slip case. Good. (1)

Lot 79/0237

Archaeology: Westropp (Thos. Johnson) R.I.A. – The Ancient Forts of Ireland, lg. 4to D. 1902, illus.; Mahr (Prof. A.) Ancient Irish Handcraft, 4to Limerick 1939; Armstrong (E.C.R.) Catalogue of Irish Gold Ornaments, folio D. 1933, all illus. & recent cloth; Mac Alister (R.A.S.) Muiredach, Abbot of Monasterboice, 890 – 92, A.D., folio D. 1914, First Edn., illus. cloth backed boards; & 2 other publications of R.I.A. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 80/0237

Ledwich (Ed.) Antiquities of Ireland, 4to D. 1790. First Edn. engd. title, 19 engd. plts. incomplete; also The Antiquities of Ireland, 4to D. 1804. Second Edn. numbers engd. plts. some dam., uncut, recent calf backed boards. As a lot, w.a.f. (2)