19 May 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0234

Lot 369/0234

SOLD Hammer price €120

Box: Kilkenny Authors – The Banim Brothers: Tales By The O’Hara Family, 3 vols. 12mo L. 1825, cont. hf. calf; The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century, 3 vols. 12mo L. 1833, cloth; Fr. Connell, 16mo L. (Simms & M’Intyre) 1849; Murray (P. Jos.) The Life of John Banim, N.Y. 1896, hf. mor.; & 9 others sim., mostly leather bound, as a box lot. (1)

Lot 370/0234

SOLD Hammer price €170

Box: Irish Periodicals: Eriu … Devoted to Irish Philology and Literature. 27 vols., some reprints; Friends of T.C.D. – Annual Bulletin (Long Room), some loose copies & bound vol. with Nos. 1 – 13; The Irish Ancestor, 15 issues; County Louth Journal, a few issues; The Shanachie, Vol. I, 1906, buckram & other items, odd no’s. also some varied books. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 371/0234

SOLD Hammer price €190

Box: Collectors interest: Sibley (Brian) The Book of Guinness Advertising, folio L. 1985. First,; Davis (Jim) The Book of Guinness Advertising, lg. 4to L. 1998. First; Huges (David) A Bottle of Guinness Please, The Colourful History of Guinness. Folio 206 Lim. Edn. 952 (2000), Signed, all fully illustrated; books on Cigarette Packages, Cigarette Cards, Tobacco Tins, Whiskey Jars, Bank Notes, Stamps, Playing Cards etc. As a coll., box lot, w.a.f. V. good. (1)

Lot 372/0234

SOLD Hammer price €170

Box: Ulster interest: Horner (John) The Linen Trade in Europe, Belfast 1920. First, d.w.; & others sim. subject, also some travel & history; & some odd no’s of Ulster Journal of Archaeology, illus. etc. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 373/0234

SOLD Hammer price €440

Box: Irish interest: Gilbert (J.T.) History of the Viceroys of Ireland, D. 1865; Chart (D.A.)ed. The Drennan Letters, Belfast 1931; Gavan Duffy (Sir C.) Young Ireland, and Four Years of Irish History, L. 1880 & 1883; Healy (T.M.) A Word for Ireland, D. 1886; Mac Neill (c.) Liber Primus Kilkenniensis, D. 1931; St. John Joyce (W.) The Neighbourhood of Dublin, D. 1913; O’Conor (R.) History of Ireland, D. 1858; Jennings (L.J.) The Croker Papers, 3 vols. L. 1884; 8 others on Dublin; some novels, travel, etc., & some Folio Society edns., as a box, w.a.f. an interesting lot. (1)

Lot 374/0234

SOLD Hammer price €480

Box: Irish and General Theatre interest: A very large collection of approx. 120 varied items, including works by W.B. Yeats, Shaw, Beckett, Synge, O’Casey, Lady Gregory, A. Clark, Lady Longford, A Play with Concert Programme & a signed card from Author; Joseph O’Carroll, a play, signed; items on The Fay Brothers, The Abbey, on Actors & Actresses, and various plays. A very good lot. (1)

Lot 375/0234

SOLD Hammer price €150

Box: Irish Music: Good collection of Irish Sheet Music, 3 bound volumes etc; large Family Bible, with m/ss genealogical charts on vellum for Kennedy Family, N. Ireland, c. 1850 – 1916, hf. mor. in cloth box; an old Photograph album with some cards, & a Postcard Album. as a box lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 376/0234

SOLD Hammer price €500

Box: Varied Antiquarian & Modern Irish interest: Harris (W.) The History of the Life and Reign of William Henry Prince .. of Orange, folio D. 1749; Boyer (A.) The History of the Life and Reign of Queen Anne, folio L. 1722; Spelman (H.) Glossarium Archaiologicum: folio L. 1664; Jones (F.P.) History of the Sinn Fein Movement and the Irish Rebellion of 1916, N.Y. 1917. First, inscribed by ‘Ernie’ [O’Malley]; Mc Gahern (John) A Memoir, L. 2005, Signed, d.w.; also Amongst Women, N.Y. 1990, Signed & Inscribed by Author; Mac Bride (Maud Gonne) A Servant of the Queen, D. 1950; & approx. 24 other books, mostly Irish Republican, literature etc. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 377/0234

SOLD Hammer price €50

Box: Varied interest: Smith (David) Outlines of the Rocks of Antrim, sm. 8vo Belfast 1868. First, engd. frontis & 5 plts. orig. cloth; Joly (John) The Surface History of the Earth, Oxford 1925. First, cloth; & some others sim.; a folder of old newspapers including some 1916 Rebellion related, a few postcards of Leaders, some items on De Valera etc; also some part runs of Irish periodicals, including The Irish Naturalist, The Long Room, etc. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 378/0234

SOLD Hammer price €240

Box: Varied interest: A large 4to Photograph Album with orig. large photos of Italy, France etc., but with a good collection of approx. 23 photos of The Channel Islands by T. Singleton, some of Norway etc., hf. mor.; a 19th Century Koran, with orig. tooled mor. pouch binding; Dublin & Kerry’s Fighting Stories, pictorial wrappers; Miller (Liam) Dolmen XXV, An Illustrated Bibliography, D. 1976; & some other items, including a few signed. As a box, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 379/0234

SOLD Hammer price €40

Box: General interest, a large collection of Books on Biography, History, Literature, Genealogy and other subjects, as a box lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 382/0234

SOLD Hammer price €360

Fine Run of Important Arts Journal

Box: De Breffny (B.) – Mulcahy (John) Editors, Irish Arts Review, Vol. I No. 1, Spring 1984 – Vol. 31 No. 4, Feb. 2015, together 64 issues, lg. folio D. 1984 – 2015, a few nos lacking but a very large run of this Important Journal. (1)

Lot 400/0234

SOLD Hammer price €180

Novels: [Bulmer-Lytton (Sir E.G.E.L.)] Kenelm Chillingly His Adventures and Opinions, 3 vols. Edin. 1873. First, 3 hf. titles, errata slip; Payn (James) Under One Roof, 3 vols. L. 1879. First, 3 hf. titles; Fothergill (Jessie) The Wellfields, 3 vols. L. 1880, First, all decorative cloth; Yonge (Charlotte M.) Magnum Bonum or Mother Carey’s Brood, 3 vols. L. 1879, First, hf. mor.; also Stretton, 3 vols. hf. mor. As a lot. (15)

Lot 401/0234

SOLD Hammer price €200

Dublin Binding: Memoires de Maximilien de Bethune duc Sully, 10 vols. sm. 8vo Lond. 1778. Ports & plt, cont. tree calf, chain link roll, attractive tooled gilt spines in panels with urns etc. & mor. labels by Wm. Mc Kenzie. Some wear, as bindings, w.a.f. (10)

Lot 402/0234

SOLD Hammer price €210

Seward (Wm. Wenman) The Hibernian Gazetteer, being A Description of the Several .. Roads, Market, Post and Fair Towns in Ireland. Sm. 8vo D. 1789. First, cont. calf, recent reback, mor. label. Scarce. (1)

Lot 403/0234

SOLD Hammer price €200

Binding: Police District – Dublin Metropolis. Abstract of the Statute Laws in Force Relating to Carriages, Carts, and Horses… . 12mo D. (A. Thom) 1858. VIII, 128pp., cont. full crimson mor., single gilt fillet border with Royal cipher on front cover & inscribed His Excellency The Lord Lieutenant, gilt edges. (1)

Lot 404/0234

SOLD Hammer price €130

Lover (Samuel) Legends and Stories of Ireland, 12mo D. 1834. Third Edn. engd. frontis 5 engd. plts. by the author, & text illus., orig. cloth, recent reback. Scarce. (1)

Lot 405/0234

SOLD Hammer price €120

Signed by Author

O’Donnell (Peadar) Proud Island, 8vo D. (O’Brien Press) 1975. Lim. Edn. 10 of (50) only, Signed. Orig. calf backed boards, slip case. (1)

Lot 406/0234

SOLD Hammer price €50

Campbell (J.F.) Popular Tales of The West Highlands, Orally Collected 4 vols. Paisley 1890. New Edn., uncut, orig. cloth. Good. (4)

Lot 407/0234

SOLD Hammer price €150

Caulfield (Richard) Annals of St. Finbarrs Cathedral, Cork, sm. 8vo Cork (Purcell & Co.) 1871, frontis, illus. decor cloth, lacks spine, worn. (1)