19 May 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0234

Lot 288/0234

SOLD Hammer price €300

Clarke (Harry) illustrator: Poe (Edgar Allan) Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 4to L. & N.Y. n.d. mtd. cold. frontis & 7 sim. cold. plts. plus 24 bl. & white plts. & text illus., cont. cloth, orig. cold. pict. label, v. good copy. (1)

Lot 290/0234

SOLD Hammer price €520

Borlase (Wm. Copeland) The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. roy 8vo L. 1897. First Edn. 2 cold. frontis fold. map & wd. cut illus. thro-out text, orig. gilt decor. green buckram, good. Scarce. (3)

Lot 291/0234

SOLD Hammer price €420

With Fine Coloured Plates

Couch (Jonathan) A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 4 vols. roy 8vo L. 1867. 252 fine cold. plates, orig. gilt decor. embossed cloth. A very good sound copy. (4)

Lot 292/0234

SOLD Hammer price €160

I.M.C.: The Annals of Loch Ce, 2 vols. D. 1939; Freeman (A.M.)ed The Compossicion Booke of Conought, plus Index 2 vols. D. 1936 – 1942; Pender (Seamus) A Census of Ireland, circa 1659, thick 4to D. 1939; 1 other sim. all orig. cloth. Good. (6)

Lot 293/0234

SOLD Hammer price €220

Genealogy: O’Hart (John) Irish Pedigrees: 2 vols. thick 4to N.Y. 1923. Lim. Edn., cold. illus., cloth; & 1 other related. (3)

Lot 294/0234

SOLD Hammer price €140

Irish & General Literature: A collection of over 20 varied titles by Anthony C. West, Patrick Boyle, Kevin Casey and others, mostly 8vo,mostly hardback, as a collection, w.a.f. (24)

Lot 295/0234

SOLD Hammer price €460

With Large Engraved Plates

Eustachi (Barth.) Tabulae Anatomicae, folio Rome 1728. Red & bl. title, engd. dedit, 46 (ex 47) full page plts. the fore-edges of some pps. & plts. repaired or stained, recent full mor. (1)

Lot 296/0234

SOLD Hammer price €220

Edwards (Lionel) My Hunting Sketch Book, lg. 4to L. & N.Y. 1928; A Leciestershire Sketch Book, lg. 4to L. 1935; and The Devon and Somerset Staghounds, lg. 4to L. 1936, all first gneral editions, cold. & other plts. & all orig. cloth. (3)

Lot 297/0234

SOLD Hammer price €300

Fine Clean Copy

Engraved Plates: Pardoe (Julia) The Beauties of the Bosphorus, 4to L. (Virtue & Co.) n.d. Engd. port. frontis, engd. add title, engd. port., engd. map & 85 engd. plts. all v. clean, a.e.g., cont. hf. green mor. tooled gilt spine.
* Clonbrook copy with B.P. V. clean copy. (1)

Lot 301/0234

SOLD Hammer price €50

Victorian Scrap Albums: Two large Victorian Scrap Albums with some fine cold. engravings, litho illustrations, hd. cold. prints, some attractive watercolour sketches, bl. & white cuttings, etc., an interesting lot, as albums, w.a.f. (2)

Lot 302/0234

SOLD Hammer price €200

Architecture: Barozzi (M. Jacobo) Gli Ordini D’Architettura Civile, sm. folio Milan 1814. Second, engd. frontis, vignette title with L.S., 44 (+1) full page plts. later hf. mor. (1)

Lot 303/0234

SOLD Hammer price €160

Ordnance Survey of Ireland – County of Londonderry, scale: six inches to one statue mile, 48 folding linen backed sheets, in 9 mor. boxes, some damp stains & wear. As a coll. of maps, w.a.f. (9)

Lot 304/0234

SOLD Hammer price €220

Kilkenny interest: Photographs – De Montmorency Family Albums. Two large folio albums, some views of Castle Morres, with lg. views of Cambridge, Newmarket Races, some good vies of India, Lahore etc., also c. 1880 – 90; and an oblong folio album with principally English views, c. 1900 – 1902, with some views in Bermuda, and other travels, etc. As a coll. of three albums of photos, w.a.f. (3)
Provenance: de’Montmorency, Burnchurch House; Castle Morres, Co. Kilkenny.

Lot 306/0234

SOLD Hammer price €290

With Fine Lithographic Plates

Paris: Charpentier (H.)publ. Paris dans Sa Splendeur Monuments, Vues, Scenes Historiques, Descriptions et Histoire, Vols. II & III, 2 vols. (ex. 3) lg. folio 1861. Full page cold. map, & 51 full page plts. some cold. tinted, orig. mor. backed gilt decor. cloth. As a coll. of plts. (2)

Lot 307/0234

SOLD Hammer price €90

Dore (Gustave) Illustrator, London, A PIlgrimage, v. large 4to L. 1872, fine plts. & other illus., Vivien, by A. Tennyson, folio L. 1867, plts. & illus.; also The Story of Elaine, text by Sir T. Mallory, L. 1871, with v. fine sepia type plts., all cloth. (3)

Lot 308/0234

SOLD Hammer price €100

Scott Russell (J.) The Modern System of Naval Architecture, Vol. I only (ex. 3) lg. atlas folio L. [1865] V. lg. fold. frontis plts. (dam.), 11 later cold. plts. (from another vol. tipped in, full cloth. S.N.S.R. (1)

Lot 309/0234

SOLD Hammer price €90

Britton (J.)ed. – Carter’s – The Ancient Architecture of England, 2 parts one vol. lg. folio L. 1837. One engd. frontis, 2 add. engd. titles, & 107 full page plts. complete, lower edge with damp stains, uncut, cont. hf. mor. Good. (1)

Lot 310/0234

SOLD Hammer price €540

Special Signed Limited Edition

Fine Coloured Plates: A Tropical Glen – A Florilegium of Belfast Botanic Gardens, lg. folio Belfast Lim. Edn. No. 276 (500), signed. Fine cold. plts. by Diana Oxlade, mor. backed cloth. (1)

Lot 311/0234

SOLD Hammer price €170

Kilkenny interest: Robertson (J.G.) Antiquities and Scenery of the County of Kilkenny, folio Kilkenny (Boethuis Press) 1983. Lim. Edn. 60 (585), illus. cloth & marble boards; Lalor (Brian) Kilkenny City & Topography, lg. folio Kilkenny (Roberts Books) 1983. Lim. Edn. 14 (100), 12 etched plts. loose, folder. (2)

Lot 312/0234

SOLD Hammer price €320

Architecture: Louis (M.) Salle de Spectacle de Bordeaux, folio, Paris 1782, engd. dedit, 22 plts. (complete) water stained; bound with Dalton (Richard) A Collection of Twenty Antique Statues …, folio L. (J. Boydell) 1770, 17 plts. (ex. 20), water stained, contemp. calf backed boards, worn & loose; Calliat (V.) Parellele des Maisons de Paris, Vol. II only, lg. atlas folio Paris 1864. Hf. title & 120 full page plts. (1 loose), some dirt marks, bind. dam. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (2)