The Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny
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Lot 235/0234
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Photographs: The Viceroy Lord Reading on Tour in India, Gwalior 1922, & Mysare 1923. Also Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency, Governor of Punjab on Tour, c. 1928 – 29, and a few later photos. Three large oblong folio albums. Together with a group of large single mounted photos. inculding one of Queen Mary, signed. As photographs, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 237/0234
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Mardersteig (Gio.) The Officina Bodoni, An Account of the Work of the Hand Press 1923 – 1977. Folio Verona 1980, Lim. Edn., illus. buckram; Keynes (Geo.) Blake Studies, Notes on his Life and Works.. 4to L. 1949. Signed by Monk Gibbon, illus. d.w. (2)
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Lot 239/0234
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Barrington (Jonah) Historic Memoirs of Ireland, 2 vols. v. lg. 4to L. 1835. New Edn., port. frontis & many other port. plts. & illus. of documents etc., cloth. (2)
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Lot 240/0234
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Fisheries: Blue Books – First Annual Report of The Inspectors of Salmon Fisheries (England & Wales), Folio L. 1862 – 65. Bound with Reports of the Special Commissioners for Irish Fisheries, for 1864 & 1865. Folio D. 1864 & 1865. Cont. hf. calf, mor. label. Good. (1)
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Lot 242/0234
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Bindings etc: The Statues at Large… held in Ireland, Vols. I – VII, Vols. IX – XIII & Vols. XV – XIX, plus “Index” by Wm. Ball, together 18 vols. folio D. 1786 – 1804, full cont. calf, decor. borders with corner harp decorations, and large gilt Royal cipher, tooled gilt spines mor. labels. As a periodical, w.a.f. Good. (18)
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Lot 243/0234
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Waterford etc: Rennison (Rev. Wm. H.) Succession List of the Bishops, Cathedral & Parochial Clergy of Waterford and Lismore, 8vo Waterford [1920], fold. map, cloth, v.g.; Egan’s Waterford, 8vo Kilkenny n.d. [c. 1890], illus.; Maher (James) The Valley near Slievenamon, Mullinahone 1941; & 2 others. (5)
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Lot 245/0234
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Irish Literature: O’Sullivan (Seamus) An Epilogue to the Praise of Angus and Other Poems, D. 1914, & Essays and Recollections, D. 1944, both First Edns. & Signed; & 1 other same author; Higgins (F.R.) Island Blood, L. 1925, d.w.; & The Gap of Brightness, L. 1940, both First Edns.; Campbell (Jos.) Irishry, D. 1913. First; Gibbon (Monk) For Daws to Peck At, L. 1929, & This Insubstantial Pageant, L. 1951, First Edns; Figgis (D.) The Mount of Transfiguration, D. 1915, First, d.w.; & 2 works by James Stephens. (11)
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Lot 247/0234
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Beaslai (Piaras) Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland, 2 vols. D.n.d. Popular Edn., 2 cold. frontis & 16 plts., good; Tynan (P.J.P.) The Irish National Invincibles and their Times, L. 1894; Sheehy-Skeffington (F.) Michael Davitt, L. 1908. First; & 2 others sim. (6)
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Lot 248/0234
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Synge (J.M.) Letters to My Daughter, ed. by Rev. S. Synge, D. 1931. ports & plts., d.w.; Corkery (D.) Synge and Anglo-Irish Literature, Cork 1931; Bourgeois (M.) J.M. Synge and the Irish Theatre, N.Y. 1965; & 4 others. (7)
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Lot 249/0234
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Cuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) Two Plays for Dancers, 8vo D. 1919. Lim. Edn. 400 Copies; also On the Boiler, 4to D.[1938], wrappers; and Bradford (Curtis)ed. Reflections, by W.B. Yeats 8vo D. 1970. No. 16 (500), cloth backed boards. (3)
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Lot 250/0234
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Cuala Press: Mac Donagh (Don.) Veterans and other Poems, D. 1941. Lim. Edn. No. 14 (275); Masefield (John) Some Memories of W.B. Yeats, D. 1940. Lim. Edn. No. 271 (375) both orig. cloth backed blue boards. Good. (2)
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Lot 251/0234
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Cuala Press: Higgins (F.R.) Arable Holdings: Poems, D. 1933. Lim. Edn. 300 Copies; Rossi (Mario M.) Pilgrimage in the West, trans. by J.M. Hone, D. 1933. Lim. Edn. 300 Copies, both orig. cloth backed blue boards. (2)
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Lot 252/0234
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Scarce Pirated Edition
Wilde (Oscar) Poems, Together with His Lecture on the English Renaissance. (Now first Published) 8vo Paris 1903. Lim. Edn. No. 57 of 250 Copies. 216pp. wd. cut hd. piece, & initial letters, later cloth backed boards. Scarce. (1)More details › -
Lot 254/0234
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Russell (Wm. Howard) My Diary in India in the Year 1858-9, 2 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1860. First Edn. 11 litho plts. include 2 frontis, fold. plan, bookplates of Francis Robert Davies, cont. hf. calf, mor. labels. V. good copy. (2)
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Lot 255/0234
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Davies (Sir J.) A Discoveries of the True Causes Why Ireland was never entirely Subdued,…, 12mo D. 1761. Cont. calf, lower cover loose. (1)
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Lot 257/0234
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Mc Laverty (Michael) Lost Fields, A Novel, L. 1942, First,; The Three Brothers, 8vo L. 1948. First,; Truth in the Night, L. 1952. First; School of Hope, L. 1954; and The Choice, N.Y. 1958 First American Edn.,; Mac Laverty (Bernard) Cal, L. 1983. First Edn. Signed; also Secrets and other Stories, Belfast 1977 First, and the Authors First Book. All good in orig. ptd. d.w.’s. (7)
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Lot 258/0234
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O’Brien (Edna) Girls in their Married Bliss, L. 1964. Reprinted; August is a Wicked Month, L. 1965. First; Casualties of Peace, L. 1966. First; The Love Object, L. 1968. First; A Pagan Place, L. 1970 First; Zee & Co.,L. 1971. First; Night, L. 1972. First; Scandalous Woman, L. 1974. First, All with orig. dust wrappers. (8)
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Lot 259/0234
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Binding: Evered (Philip) Staghunting with the ‘Devon and Somerset’ 1887 – 1901, An Account of the Chase of the Wild Red Deer on Exmoor. sm. 4to L. 1902. FIRST EDN., frontis & other plts., & illus., a.e.g., most attractive full mor. with overlaid decor. of insects, buds, & yellow panel. Unusual. (1)
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Lot 261/0234
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Irish Religion: Ryan (Rev. J.) Irish Monasticism, roy 8vo D. 1931; Burke (Rev. Wm. P.) Irish Priests in The Penal Times, Waterford 1914; Meehan (Rev. C.P.) Lives of Painters, Sculpture & Architects of The Order of S. Dominic, 2 vols. D. 1852; Coonan (T.L.) The Irish Catholic Confederacy and the Puritan Revolution, D. 1954, All First Edns & d.w.’s; & 2 others. (7)
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Lot 262/0234
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Limerick Authors: O’Meara (Barry E.) Napoleon in Exile; or A Voice from St. Helena, 2 vols. L. 1822, 2 frontis & 1 plt., recent cloth; The Life of Arthur Vandeleur, Major Royal Artillery, 12mo L. 1885. Port & add. engd. title. (3)
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