19 May 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0234

Lot 1/0234

SOLD Hammer price €180

Republican interest: Nine varied items on Sinn Fein & James Connolly. (9)

Lot 2/0234

SOLD Hammer price €70

Travel: [Holes (Dean R.)] A Little Tour in Ireland, sm. 4to L. 1859. First Edn., lg. fold. hd. cold. frontis plts. etc. cloth, gilt; Flinn (D.E.) Ireland: It’s Health – Resorts and Watering Places, D. 1895, Second, illus. cloth; & 1 other item. (3)

Lot 3/0234

SOLD Hammer price €580

Bassett (Geo. Henry) Wexford County Guide and Directory, D. 1885; Louth County Guide and Directory, D. 1886; & The Book of Tipperary, … Directory.. D. 1889. All First Edns. & fold. cold. maps, adverts. etc., orig. decor. cloth. Good & Scarce. (3)

Lot 4/0234

SOLD Hammer price €160

Co. Waterford interest: Hare (Aug. J.C.) The Story of Two Noble Lives, Being Memorials of Charlotte, Countess Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford. 3 vols. L. 1893. First Edn., illus. cloth; & 2 others by same author. (5)

Lot 5/0234

SOLD Hammer price €110

1798: Byrne (M.) Memoirs of Myles Byrne, ed. by S. Gwynn 2 vols. D. 1907. New Edn.; & 5 others on same subject. (7)

Lot 6/0234

SOLD Hammer price €220

Waterford interest: Cunningham (Timothy) Magna Charta Libertatum Civitatis Waterford, 8vo D. (A. Long) 1752. First Edn., red & bl. title, uncut, orig. marble wrappers; Egan (P.M.) History Guide & Directory of County and City of Waterford, sm. 8vo Kilkenny n.d. First Edn., fold. map, illus. etc, cloth, gilt. (2)

Lot 7/0234

SOLD Hammer price €130

Baker (John Wynn) An Abridgement of the Six Weeks, and Six Months Tour’s of Arthur Young, 12mo D. 1771. fold. plt., later hf. calf; Clergy (M.) A Journal of Occurences at The Temple, during the Confinement of Louis XVI, 12mo Cork 1798, later hf. calf; Lavater (J.C.) Physiognomy, 12mo L. n.d., c. 1790, frontis & 4 plts. cont. calf. (3)
Provenance: de’Montmorency, Burnchurch House; Castle Morres, Co. Kilkenny.

Lot 8/0234

SOLD Hammer price €130

Republican interest: Breen (Dan) My Fight for Irish Freedom, D. 1924; Mac Swiney (Terence) Principles of Freedom, D. 1921; Clarke (Tom J.) Glimpses of an Irish Felon’s Prison Life, D. 1922; Mac Manus (M.J.) Eamon de Valera – A Biography, D. 1944; O’Hegarty (P.S.) A Short Memoir of Terence Mac Swiney, D. 1922; Kerr (S. Parnell) What the Irish Regiments have Done, L. 1916; & 2 others, mostly First Edns. (8)

Lot 9/0234

SOLD Hammer price €220

Republican Publications: [O’Casey (Sean)] ‘P. O’Cathasaigh,’ The Story of the Irish Citizen Army, D. 1919; Stephens (James) The Insurrection in Dublin, D. 1916; Milroy (Sean) Memories of Mountjoy, D. 1917; Ryan (Desmond) The Man Called Pearse, D. 1919; Figgis (D.) The Gaelic State in the Past & Future, D. 1917, All First Edns.; & 3 others. (8)

Lot 10/0234

SOLD Hammer price €90

Attractive Coloured Plates

Bennett (A.W.) The Flora of the Alps, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1896. FIRST EDN., 120 fine cold. plts. orig. cloth, gilt. Good set. (2)

Lot 11/0234

SOLD Hammer price €85

Association Copies

Mac Liammoir (M.) & Edwards (Hilton) The Weekend Book, L. 1932. Inscribed ‘Hilton Edwards and Michael Mac Liammoir Dublin Gate Theatre, 1934; also Byrne (Patrick) The Wildes of Merrion Square, L. 1953, inscribed ‘Fior Hilton – always and forever Michael ’53’, both cloth. (2)

Lot 12/0234

SOLD Hammer price €290

Munster: O’Sullivan (Thos. F.) Romantic Hidden Kerry, Tralee 1931 First Edn., illus.; O’Mahony (J.) West Cork and its Story, Tralee n.d. First, d.w.; Begley (J. Archdeacon) The Diocese of Limerick, From 1691 to the Present Time., D. 1938. (3)

Lot 13/0234

SOLD Hammer price €100

Farquhar (G.) The Works of the late Ingenious Mr. George Farquhar, 2 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1772, a.e.g. attractive full calf, blind tooled borders, gilt spines. Good. (2)

Lot 14/0234

SOLD Hammer price €190

1798: Croker (T. Crofton) Memoirs of Joseph Holt, General of The Irish Rebels, in 1798, 2 vols. L. 1838. First Edn., 2 frontis, cont. hf. mor.; Maxwell (W.H.) History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798, L. 1864. Sixth, engd. plts., hf. mor.; Dickson (C.) The Wexford Rising in 1798, Tralee n.d., d.w. V. good. (4)

Lot 15/0234

SOLD Hammer price €180

M’Leod (John) Voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Alceste along the Coast of Corea to the Island of Lewchew, L. 1818. Second, port. frontis & some cold. plts.; & 2 others on travel, Irish etc. (3)
Provenance: de’Montmorency, Burnchurch House; Castle Morres, Co. Kilkenny.

Lot 16/0234

SOLD Hammer price €90

Evening Telegraph: Wakeman (W.F.), Joyce (W. St. J.) eds. etc. Evening Telegraph Reprints, Nos. 1 – 3, & 6 – 9, together 7 nos., 8vo D. 1890, wd.-cut illus., orig. ptd. wrappers, some loose or missing. Scarce. (7)

Lot 18/0234

SOLD Hammer price €150

Kilkenny: Hogan (John) Kilkenny, The Ancient City of Ossory, The Seat of its Kings, The See of its Bishops… 8vo Kilkenny 1884. First, list of subs., fold. map, plan & table; Egan (P.M.) The Illustrated Guide to the City and County of Kilkenny, sm. 8vo Kilkenny n.d. [c. 1884], First, illus. adverts etc. Both cloth. (2)

Lot 19/0234

SOLD Hammer price €320

Hayes (Rich.) Ireland and Irishmen in the French Revolution, L. 1932; Irish Swordsmen of France, D. 1934; The Last Invasion of Ireland (when Connacht Rose,) D. 1939; Old Irish Links with France, D. 1940; Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France, D. 1949, All First Edns. (5)

Lot 20/0234

SOLD Hammer price €220

Co. Wexford interest: Griffith (G.) Chronicles of the County Wexford, Enniscorthy n.d. First,; Kennedy (P.) Legendary Fictions of The Irish Celts, L. 1891; Doyle (Martin) [Wm. Hickey] A Cyclopedia of Practical Husbandry, 8vo L. 1844, ed. by Rev. W. Rham; also Works of Martin Doyle, Vol. I only D. 1831. Contains several separately printed items, cloth; Grattan-Flood (W.H.) A History of Irish Music, D. 1927, new cloth. (5)

Lot 21/0234

SOLD Hammer price €190

[Fox (Chas. James)] Substance of the Speech … upon a Motion for the Commitment of the Bill… “For Vesting the Affairs of the East-India Company…” 8vo D. 1784, FIRST EDN., hf. title, 35pp; also The Speech … in the House of Commons … on a Motion “That the House resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House to consider the State of the Nation,” D. 1795. FIRST EDN., 47pp. both recent 1/4 calf. Not in Bradshaw. (2)