19 May 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0234

Lot 90/0234

SOLD Hammer price €110

Brennan (Rev. M.) Schools of Kildare & Leighlin A.D. 1775 – 1835, D. 1935, First, d.w.; Leslie (Rev. J.B.) Ferns Clergy and Parishes, D. 1936. First; Moran (Rt. Rev. P.F.) The Letters of Rev. James Maher, D.D., late P.P. of Carlow-Graigue, D. 1877. First, all cloth Good. (3)

Lot 91/0234

SOLD Hammer price €90

Fishing: Young (Lambton J.H.) Sea-Fishing as a Sport, L. 1865. First, frontis + 7 plts. 4pp. cat. at end, orig. cloth, v. good; Wilcocks (J.C.) The Sea-Fisherman; L. 1868, Second, plts. & adverts; Cholmondeley – Pennell (H.) The Book of the Pike, L. 1865 First, cold. frontis plts. & illus. adverts., orig. green cloth, v. good; Walker (C.E.) Old Flies in New Dresses, roy 8vo L. 1898. First, frontis & 2 plts. orig. cloth. Good lot. (4)

Lot 92/0234

SOLD Hammer price €130

Kilkenny Interest: Pilsworth (W.J.) History of Thomastown and District, Kilkenny [1953]; Mac Donald (Rev. Walter) History of the Parish of Mooncoin, Kilkenny [1959]’ Langrishe (R.)ed. Handbook to the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny, Kilkenny 1879; Birth (Peter) St. Kieran’s College, Kilkenny, D. 1951. First, Signed, d.w.; & 10 others of sim. interest. (14)

Lot 93/0234

SOLD Hammer price €190

Orpen (G.H.) Ireland Under The Normans, 1169 – 1216, 4 vols. Oxford 1968, d.w.’s; Maxwell (C.) Dublin Under the Georges 1714 – 1830, L. 1946; & 2 others same author. (7)

Lot 94/0234

SOLD Hammer price €250

Tipperary interest: Maher (James)ed. The Valley near Slievenamon, Kilkenny 1941; Romantic Slievenamon, Mullinahone 1954; Chief of the Comeraghs, 1957, d.w.; & 3 others of sim. interest. (6)

Lot 96/0234

SOLD Hammer price €130

Mills (Thomas) M.D. An Essay on The Utility of Blood Letting in Fever, illustrated by numerous Cases; 8vo, D. (J. Barlow) 1813, First Edn., dedit, VIII, 222 pps, orig. boards, worn. Scarce. (1)
* Ex Collection R.C.P.

Lot 97/0234

SOLD Hammer price €340

Tuomy (Martin) A Treatise on the Principal Disease of Dublin, 8vo, D. (Wm. Folds.) 1810, First Edn. hf. title, XVI, 399pp, uncut, orig. boards. Good Copy. Rare. (1)
* Ex Collection R.C.P.

Lot 98/0234

SOLD Hammer price €100

Birmingham (Thos.) The Social State of Great Britain and Ireland Considered, with regard to the Labouring Population, 8vo L. 1835. First Edn., 2 engd. maps, lacks fold. map? 214pp, plus Additional Statements on the Subject of the River Shannon … 1831, 8vo L. 1834, 40pp, orig. boards, recent cloth reback. (1)

Lot 99/0234

SOLD Hammer price €110

Praeger (Rob. Lloyd) Irish Topographical Botany, 8vo D. 1901. First Edn., fold. cold. maps, orig. green cloth. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 101/0234

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Kilkenny interest: Bughclere (Lady) The Life of James First Duke of Ormond 1610 – 1688, 2 vols. L. 1912, First, illus.; Coffey (D.) O’Neill and Ormond, D. 1914, First, all cloth. (3)

Lot 102/0234

SOLD Hammer price €170

1798: Wolfe Tone (W.T.)ed. Memoirs of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 2 vols. L. 1827. Port. frontis. Vol. I, cont. hf. calf, mor. labels; Teeling (C.H.) History of the Rebellion of 1798, 8vo Glasgow, n.d., hf. mor. good. (3)

Lot 104/0234

SOLD Hammer price €170

The Father O’Keeffe Case

Co. Kilkenny: O’Keeffe (Fr. Robert) Callan, Co. Kilkenny, Ultramontanism versus Civil and Religious Liberty, D. 1875. First, hf. title, orig. cloth, gilt. V. Scarce. (1)

Lot 105/0234

SOLD Hammer price €120

Album: Irish Castles, Noble Houses & Ruins. An album of approx. 175 mostly wood-cut illus., a few postcards, & a few photos, in a 4to album, full block green mor., as an album, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 106/0234

SOLD Hammer price €210

Bindings: The Plays of William Shakespeare, 8 vols. L. 1823, port. frontis Vol. I, cont. hf. calf, profusely tooled gilt spines, mor. labels. V. good. (8)
Provenance: de’Montmorency, Burnchurch House; Castle Morres, Co. Kilkenny.

Lot 107/0234

SOLD Hammer price €420

With Folding Maps

Prize Bindings: Jones (Sir J.T. Maj. Gen.) Journal of the Sieges carried on by The Army under the Duke of Wellington, in Spain, 3 vols. L. 1846, one engd. port. frontis & 26 fold. plans & maps, a.e.g., full calf, gilt coat of arms, Royal Military College, Presented for … The Study of Fortification .. to Harvey J. de Montmorency, with book plate. V. good. (3)
Provenance: de’Montmorency, Burnchurch House; Castle Morres, Co. Kilkenny.

Lot 108/0234

SOLD Hammer price €270

Genealogy: Gallwey (Hubert) The Wall Family, in Ireland 1170 – 1970, 4to Naas 1970; O’Hart (J.) Irish Pedigrees, D. 1881; Mullen (T.H.) Families of Ballyrashene, Belfast 1969; ffolliott (R.) The Pooles of Mayfield, lg. 4to D. 1958; & 5 others, paperbacks. As a lot. (9)

Lot 110/0234

SOLD Hammer price €1400

Scale (Bernard) An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland, 4to L. 1776. First Edn., engd. title, dedit & index & text thro-out, plus 37 full page hd. cold. engd. maps, later hf. green mor., marble boards, clean copy. (1)

Lot 111/0234

SOLD Hammer price €160

Fine Printing: Horace – Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera, 2 vols. in one, roy 8vo L. (Wm. Sandby) 1749. Red & bl. title, frontis & 34 engd. plts. J.S. Muller, later tree calf, mor. label. Good copy. (1)

Lot 112/0234

SOLD Hammer price €100

Day (St. John V.) The Prehistoric Use of Iron & Steel, L. 1877. 4 plts. (loose), Signed Pres. Copy; also Papers on The Great Pyramid, Edin. 1870. Pres. Copy; Ashburner (J.) Physico-Physiological Researches … by Baron Charles Von Reichenback, L. 1851, all orig. cloth. (3)

Lot 113/0234

SOLD Hammer price €220

Kilkenny Genealogy: Anderson (of Kilkenny) 1680 – 1910, L. 1910. Sole Edn. Signed Pres. Copy; Doyle (Col. Arthur) A Hundred Years of Conflict, Being Some Records of The Services of Six Generals of The Doyle Family 1756 – 1856, L. 1911. First, illus., both cloth. Scarce. (2)