19 May 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0234

Lot 212/0234

SOLD Hammer price €60

Sullivan (Sir E.) Buck Whaley’s Memoirs, roy 8vo L. 1906. First Edn., port. frontis & plts, cloth. (1)

Lot 213/0234

SOLD Hammer price €400

Co. Antrim: Royal Dublin Society: Dubourdieu (Rev. J.) Statistical Survey of the County of Antrim, thick 8vo D. 1812. First Edn., fold. map & 17 litho type plts. plans etc. (10 fold), later hf. calf. V. good. (1)

Lot 214/0234

SOLD Hammer price €180

Cusack (M.F.) A History of the Kingdom of Kerry, 8vo L. 1871. First Edn. cold. map frontis text illus hf. mor. rebacked with orig. spine laid down. Good copy. (1)

Lot 215/0234

SOLD Hammer price €210

The Marquis of Kildare’s Own Copy

I.A.S.: O’Flaherty (Rod) A Chorographical Description of West or H-Iar Connaught, ed. by James Hardiman. 4to D. (Irish Arch. Soc.) 1846. First Edn. thus, engd. map frontis, fold. pedigree, cont. diced calf, gilt fillet borders, mor. labels & tooled gilt panels & with Carton Crest in gilt on spine. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 216/0234

SOLD Hammer price €120

Quakers: Advices and Rules agreed to by The Yearly Meeting of Friends in Ireland, 4to D. 1811. First Edn., with some Genealogical Notes on the Beale Family on front loose blank, cont. tree calf, upr. joint cracked. (1)

Lot 217/0234

SOLD Hammer price €220

India etc: Sheppard (S.R.) Bombay, 8vo Bombay 1932. Pres. Copy to Sir G.F. de Montmorencey: Bruce (J.F.) A History of the University of the Panjab, Lahore 1933; also Bonomi (Jos) Nineveh and its Palaces, L. 1853, Second, illus.; Pictures from Sicily, roy 8vo L. 1853. First, engd. ptls. (4)
Provenance: de’Montmorency, Burnchurch House; Castle Morres, Co. Kilkenny.

Lot 218/0234

SOLD Hammer price €70

Genealogy: Hamilton (Sir J.) The Hamilton Manuscripts, 4to Belfast [1867] First, cloth; Hitchcock (F.R. Montgomery) The Midland Septs of The Pale, D. 1908. (2)

Lot 219/0234

SOLD Hammer price €170

Wills (James) The Irish Nation: its History & its Biography, 4 vols. thick roy 8vo Edin, L. & D. 1875. Illus. cont. hf. mor. worn. (4)

Lot 220/0234

SOLD Hammer price €320

Fine Clean Copy

Grose (Francis) The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. folio L. 1791. First Edn., 2 engd. titles & 259 engd. plts., all very clean, in cont. sprinkled calf, roll borders, mor. labels. V. good. (2)

Lot 221/0234

SOLD Hammer price €280

Coloured Plates: Wooster (David)ed. Alpine Plants: Figures and Descriptions of Some of the Most Striking and Beautiful of The Alpine Flowers, thick 8vo, L. 1874, 2 vols. in one, Second Edn. Second Series, 107 chromo litho prints, leather backed cloth boards, gilt decor. (1)
Provenance: de’Montmorency, Burnchurch House; Castle Morres, Co. Kilkenny.

Lot 222/0234

SOLD Hammer price €220

Rare Limited Edition

Mac Donagh (Thomas) Lyrical Poems, 4to D. (The Irish Review) 1913. First Limited Edn. (500), t.e.g., uncut, orig. blue cloth & ptd. d.w. (frayed). Scarce. (1)

Lot 223/0234

SOLD Hammer price €220

Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.) Ireland: its Scenery, Character etc, 3 vols. roy 8vo L.n.d. New Edn., engd. views, maps & text illus. a.e.g., cont. hf. green mor. tooled gilt spines. V. good clean set. (3)

Lot 224/0234

SOLD Hammer price €500

Carrigan (Rev. Wm.) The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. 4to D. 1905. First Edn. port. frontis illus. plts. etc. orig. green gilt cloth; also [Healy (Fr. Wm.)] Criticism of History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 8vo D. 1907. Sole Edn., orig. boards, good. (5)

Lot 225/0234

SOLD Hammer price €100

Geoghegan (Ed.) A Commentary on the Treatment of Ruptures Particularly in a State of Strangulation, 8vo L. (Sm. Highlay) 1810, First Edn., hf. title, dedit, orig. boards, ptd. label, spine worn. Scarce. (1)
* No in Bradshaw, Wellcome or ESTC
* Ex Collection R.C.P.

Lot 227/0234

SOLD Hammer price €150

Todd (James Henthorn)ed. The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, roy 8vo L. 1867. First, 2 litho plts. (1 fold.) cloth; Graves (Rev. J.)ed. A Roll of the Proceedings of the King’s Council in Ireland… Richard The Second, roy 8vo L. 1877. Lg. fold. frontis. mor. backed boards. Both v. good. (2

Lot 228/0234

SOLD Hammer price €330

Martinelli (Vincenzo) Istoria Critica della Vita Civile, lg. 4to L. (G. Woodfall) 1752. First Edn., list of subs. [12], 311pp. cont. full calf, mor. label. (1)

Lot 231/0234

SOLD Hammer price €180

Galway interest: Griffith (R.) Valuation of Ratable Property in Ireland.. Union of Cliften … situated in the County of Galway, in which is included The Island of Inishbofin in the Co. of Mayo, Folio D. 1855. First, orig. blue ptd. wrappers, & recent cloth; Hardiman (J.)ed. .. Description of West or h’Iar Connaught .. by Rod. O’Flaherty, 4to Galway Reprint 1978. De Luxe Edn. mor. backed; also History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, 4to Galway Tribune 1926, illus., cloth. All v. good. (3)

Lot 232/0234

SOLD Hammer price €100

Morris (Rev. F.O.) A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 3 vols. roy 8vo L. 1853, approx. 225 coloured plts., a few loose, orig. gilt decor cloth. (3)

Lot 233/0234

SOLD Hammer price €100

Irish Forestry etc: Mackay (John) The Rape of Ireland, D. 1940; Forestry in Ireland, Cork 1934; Mc Cracken (E.) The Irish Woods since Tudor Times, 1971; Bean (W.J.) Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, 3 vols. L. 1937; & 3 others, all illus. & d.w.’s. (9)

Lot 234/0234

SOLD Hammer price €140

Mac Lysaght (E.) Irish Families, & More Irish Families, 2 vols. 4to 1957 & 1960; also Irish Life in the 17th Century, D. 1939; & 2 others. (5)