19 May 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0234

Lot 408/0234

SOLD Hammer price €150

Co. Wicklow: Wright (Rev. G.N.) A Guide to the County of Wicklow, 12mo L. 1822. First, 5 plts. lg. fold. map, rebacked hf. calf; Fraser (J.) Guide to the County of Wicklow, 12mo n.d., text illus.; The Strangers Guide to the County of Wicklow, sm. 8vo D. (Chas. H. Wogan) 1866, dble page map, adverts, cloth; & 1 other sim. (4)

Lot 409/0234

SOLD Hammer price €70

Illustrated Volumes: Yeats (J.B.)illus. Defoe (D.) The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, 2 vols. L. 1895. Illus. by Yeats, cloth; Mc Guinness (Norah)illus. Sterne (Laurence) A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, 4to L. 1926. illus. by N. Mc Guinness, orig. cloth backed decor. boards. (3)

Lot 410/0234

SOLD Hammer price €80

Plays: Sheridan (R.B.) The School for Scandal, sm. 8vo D. 1792; The Critic, D. 1793; The Rivals, A Comedy, D. 1793; & A Trip to Scarborough, D. 1793, 4 items, hf. calf, worn; Hughes (S.C.) The Pre-Victorian Drama in Dublin, D. 1904, cloth. (2)

Lot 411/0234

SOLD Hammer price €130

Republican: Mac Suibhne (Toirdhealbhach) Battlecries, 8vo n.p. 1918. First Edn., 55 pp. orig. ptd. wrappers, v. good; also O’Hegarty (P.S.) A Short Memoir of Terence Mac Swiney, D. 1922. First; Chavasse (Moirin) Terance Mac Swiney, D. 1961. Inscribed by Author to Brian O’Higgins, d.w., Ni Shuibhne (Maire) The Republic of Ireland, 12mo Cork n.d., decor. cold. wrappers; also 2 others on P.H. Pearse. (6)

Lot 413/0234

SOLD Hammer price €250

Lyon (Capt. G.F.) A Brief Narrative of An Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse Bay, through Sir Thomas Rowe’s ‘Welcome’ in His Majesty’s Ship Griper. 8vo L. 1825. First Edn. Fold. map frontis & 7 plts. (complete) cont. hf. calf. Good. (1)

Lot 415/0234

SOLD Hammer price €80

Telephone: The Telephone Directory for 1898 – 9, 8vo L. 1899. Adverts etc., cloth, joints wear.
* Very early example, with Irish subscribers list, mostly Belfast & Dublin. (1)

Lot 416/0234

SOLD Hammer price €100

Economics: Hull (C.H.)ed. The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, 2 vols. Cambridge 1899. First Edn., 2 frontis, buckram; Keynes (J.M.) A Tract on Monetary Reform, L. 1924; The Means to Prosperity, L. 1933; Marshall (A.) Official Papers, L. 1926; & 4 others, cloth & wrappers. (8)

Lot 417/0234

SOLD Hammer price €110

Early Printings: Danaeus (L.) Vetustissimarum Primi Mundi Antiquitatum Sectiones… 8vo 1596; Bound with, Berosi Sacerdotis Chaldaici, Antiquitatum Libri Quinque, 8vo Witteberge 1612, old vellum, dam., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 418/0234

SOLD Hammer price €120

Clarke (Austin) The Fires of Baal, D. 1921; Pilgrimage and other Poems, L. 1929. Lim. Edn. (500); The Sword of the West, D. 1921; The Vengeance of Fionn, D. 1917; The Cattle Drive in Connaught, L. 1925; Flight to Africa, D. 1963; The Echo at Coole, D. 1968; The Third Kiss, D. 1976. Lim. Edn. (500), All First Edns., & 9 others by same author. (16)

Lot 420/0234

SOLD Hammer price €260

Atkinson (A.) Ireland Exhibited to England, in a Political and Moral Survey of her Population, 2 vols. L. 1823. First Edn., recent cloth. (2)

Lot 421/0234

SOLD Hammer price €60

Coloured Sporting Plates etc: Surtees – Plain or Ringlets, 8vo L. n.d. hd. cold. plts. by John Leech thro.-out, decor. cloth; Fair Diana, By Wanderer, 8vo L. 1884, attractive cold. litho plts., hf. calf, worn; Fores Sporting Notes & Sketches, Vol. XII, 8vo L. 1895, unusual sepia plts., orig. decor. cloth, rebacked. As a lot. (3)

Lot 422/0234

SOLD Hammer price €80

Fine Engraved Plates: Thornton (Rob. J.) Practical Botany, Being New Illustrations of the Genera of Plants. Vol. I only, roy 8vo L. 1807. First Edn., engd. port. after Bartolozzi, and numerous engd. plts. orig. boards. As a coll of plts., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 423/0234

SOLD Hammer price €320

American Civil War: Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; … By An English Combatant. N. York 1864. First Edn., 2 fold. maps, cont. hf. calf, tooled gilt spine mor. label. V. good. Rare. (1)

Lot 424/0234

SOLD Hammer price €110

Hand-Coloured Plates: Sowerby (John E.) British Wild Flowers, roy 8vo L. 1860. Hd. cold. frontis & 1600 hd. cold. illus. on 80 plts. cont. hf. mor. (1)

Lot 425/0234

SOLD Hammer price €180

Holmes (G.) Sketches of Some of the Southern Counties of Ireland, 8vo L. 1801. First, 6 fine sepia & 1 other plt., later mor. backed boards. (1)

Lot 428/0234

SOLD Hammer price €150

Cook (Capt. James) Captain Cook’s Third and Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, 8vo L. n.d. [c.1790]. Engd. port. frontis engd. t.p. with top cut away, also 11 plts. cont. calf, mor. label. (1)

Lot 429/0234

SOLD Hammer price €190

Pennefather (John P.) Thirteen Years on The Prairies, From Winnipeg to Cold Lake… . 8vo L. 1892. First Edn. Signed Pres. Copy, frontis & 23 illus., cloth; Hardy (Iza Duffus) Oranges and Alligators Sketches of South Florida Life. L. 1886. Hf. title; di Beauclerk (Lady) A Summer and Winter in Norway, L. 1868. First Edn., 4 plts. cloth. (3)

Lot 430/0234

SOLD Hammer price €220

Modern First: Francis (Dick) Blood Sport, L. 1967; Enquiry, L. 1969; Bonecrack, L. 1971; Whip Hand, L. 1979; Hemingway (E.) A Moveable Feast, N.Y. 1964; All First Edns., & orig. ptd. wrappers; also two by G. Greene. (7)

Lot 431/0234

SOLD Hammer price €110

Board of Works, Ireland: Wrottesley (The Hon. G.) Life and Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir John Burgoyne, Bart, 2 vols. L. 1873. First Edn. 2 frontis, cloth.
* Burgoyne was involved with Board of Works, – Ireland from its inception in 1831 up to 1845. (2)

Lot 433/0234

SOLD Hammer price €110

Tomblinson (Wm.) & Fearnside (H. Gray) Picturesque Beauties of the Rhine, roy 8vo L. c. 1832. Add engd. title, engd. frontis & 75 engd. plts. (all v. clean), orig. cloth; Sheppard (John) Letters Descriptive of a Tour through .. Parts of France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany in 1816, Edin. 1817, First, cont. diced calf. (2)