15 December 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0237

Lot 141/0237

Aviation: Corkey (A.) The Truth about Ireland or Through the Emerald Isle with an Aeroplane, 8vo Iowa [c. 1910], First Edn. frontis & 9 plts., orig. green cloth. Good. (1)

Lot 142/0237

Binding: Cromwell – Excursions through Ireland, Vols. I & II, 2 vols. roy 8vo L. 1820 – 1821, 2 engd. titles, & 95 engd. plts. (include. frontis) a.e.g. cont. str. grained purple mor. lg. gilt & blind borders. V. good. (2)

Lot 143/0237

O’Conor (Charles)ed: O’Flaherty (Roderick) The Ogygia Vindicated: Against the Objections of Sir George Mac Kenzie, 8vo D. (G. Faulkner) 1775. First Edn., cont. sprinkled calf, mor. label; also Hely (Rev. James) trans. O’Flaherty (R.) Ogygia, or a Chronological Account of Irish Events, 2 vols. in one, 8vo D. 1793. First Edn. Thus, later attractive hf. wine cold. mor. profusely tooled gilt spine, mor. labels. Both v. good. Scarce. (2)

Lot 144/0237

Anon. Fourty Four Queries To the Life of Queen Dick,” By one who will at any time work a Job of Journey-Work, To serve his Country. 4to [L.] 1659. Sole Edn.? 7pp a few leaves shaved, in recent marble boards. Scarce. (1)

Lot 145/0237

“J.K.L.,” Doyle (Rev. Dr. James) Bishop of Kildare & Leighlin. An Essay on The Catholic Claims, D. 1826, Second, hf. mor.; A Dissertation on Popery or An Analysis of Divine Faith, D. 1835, boards; A Defence of His Vindication of the Religious and Civil Principles of the Irish Catholics, D. 1824, hf. calf, worn; and Letters on the State of Ireland… to a Friend in England, D. 1825. First, hf. mor.; Fitzpatrick (W.J.) The Life, Times and Correspondence of The Rt. Rev. Dr. Doyle, 2 vols. D. 1861. First, illus., orig. cloth & another copy of same, later edn. (8)

Lot 146/0237

[Crowe (Eyre Evans)] To-Day in Ireland, 3 vols. 12mo L. 1825. First Edn., 3 hf. titles, 6 pp adverts, uncut, blue boards, recent paper labels, a very good set. (3)

Lot 147/0237

[Tyndall (John)] Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science – Forty-Fourth Meeting held at Belfast August 1874 8vo L. 1875. Fold. maps & plts. etc. Address by President John Tyndall, cloth; also The Glaciers of the Alps, L. 1896; Heat A Mode of Motion, L. 1870, and one other sim., all cloth. (4)

Lot 148/0237

Co. Clare: Armstrong (John Simpson) A Report of Trials under a Special Commission for the County of Clare, roy 8vo D.n.d. [1848]. Sole Edn. lacks front loose blank, cloth backed boards, soiled. (1)

Lot 149/0237

Francis (B. Bernard) Student in Divinity, The Christian Duty, This is the Way, Walk in it. 4to Aire (Claude Francois Tuliet) 1684. First Edn., [VIII] 306, 7pp. orig. cont. calf, raised bands, worn. Rare. Wing B. 1993. (1)

Lot 150/0237

Autograph Book of 19th Century Celebrities

Album: Autograph Album inscribed Jessy S.L. Jameson from her affectionate brother J.L. Jameson, 9/30/61. Containing 90 numbered pages, with over 240 entries, cut out signatures, notes, letters etc., starting with Queen Victoria, and her prime Minister Lord Palmerston, together with many other prime ministers, statesmen, M.P.’s, generals, authors (include. some women), bishops etc., include. Lord Raglan, ill-fated commander during The Crimean War, signs ‘before Savastopol’ in 1854. There are several curiosities, such as ‘Cheng or Woo Gow the Chinese Giant,’ and Mrs. Jermy, whose husband and father-in-law were shot by a demented tenant farmer in the notorious Stanfield Hall Murders in 1848. There are also numerous Irish names. Included in no particular order are such names as Marquis Wellesley; Mountifort Longfield, economist; Agnes Strickland, author; Anthony Trollope; Chas. Foster, Speaker; E.M. Ward, Artist; Robert Peel; Chas. Babbage, and many many more. As a coll., w.a.f. A fascinating collection of autographs of the most famous men and women of mid-Victorian Britain & Ireland. (1)

Lot 151/0237

Hand-Coloured Irish Atlas

Scale (Bernard) An Hibernian Atlas: or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland. 4to L. 1798. First Edn., engd. title, dedit, etc. & 36 full page hd. cold. maps (ex. 37 lacks Co. Clare), later hf. mor. mor. label. (1)

Lot 152/0237

O’Curry (Eugene) On the Manners and Customs of The Ancient Irish, 3 vols. roy 8vo L. 1873. First Edn., some text illus., orig. cloth, gilt. V. good copy. (3)

Lot 153/0237

1798: [Stock (Bishop)] A Narrative of what Passed at Killalla in the County of Mayo, and the parts adjacent during The French Invasion in the Summer of 1798, D. & L. Re-printed 1800. 182pp + advert. page, uncut, later cloth. (1)

Lot 154/0237

Rutty (John)ed. A History of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers in Ireland, L. 1800. Second Edn. full calf; Elements of Euclid, 8vo D. 1825, uncut boards; Moffat (J.) The Prognostic’s and Prorrhetics of Hippocrates, L. 1788, hf. title, calf, worn. (3)

Lot 155/0237

Catalogue: Junior Army & Navy Stores, Catalogue thick 8vo L. c. 1910, profusely illustrated, original cloth. V. good condition. (1)

Lot 156/0237

[Stafford (Th.)] Pacata Hibernia or a History of the Wars in Ireland, roy 8vo, 2 vols. in one, D. (Hibernian Press) 1810, two engd. port. frontis, and 18 fold. plts. (complete), later hf. mor. (1)

Lot 157/0237

Comerford (Rev. M.) Collections relating to the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, 3 vols. D. n.d. [c. 1883] First Edn., ports. & litho plts. orig. cloth; Mac Suibhne (Peadar) Paul Cullen and His Contemporaries, 5 vols. Naas 1961 – 1977. First Edn., Limited & some signed pres. copies, illus. cloth, & orig. d.w.’s. All v. good. (8)

Lot 158/0237

Limited Editions, Illustrated

McDonnell (Hector) The Night before Larry was Stretched, Belfast (Blackstaff Press) 1984. Special Lim. Edn. 217 (500) Signed. & with orig. etched plate loosely inserted, cloth, in slip case; O’Meara (John J.) The Voyage of St. Brendan, Dublin (Dolmen) 1976. Signed Limited Edn. 729 (750), illus, cloth & d.w.; O’Flaherty (L.) The Wilderness, D. 1978. First; also The Ecstasy of Angus, D. 1978; & 1 other. (6)

Lot 159/0237

Periodical: Wadge (E. Harvey) The Irish Industrial Magazine, Vol. I [All Published], 8vo D. 1866. First Edn., 4 cold. maps & sections, orig. gilt decor. cloth, v. good. (1)

Lot 160/0237

Engraved Plates: The Parsons Horn-Book, Parts I & II, 2 vols., 8vo D. 1831. Sole Editions. 2 engd. frontis & 17 engd. plts. text illus. etc., orig. cloth, spines dam., with. Part II Rare. (2)