24 April 2012 - Rare Book Sale

#0217

Lot 201/0217

Martin (Benj.) The Description and Use of Both the Globes, the Armillary Sphere and Orrery, 8vo L. n.d. [c. 1758] engd. frontis & 5 plts. (some fold.) cont. calf, raised bands, mor. label, worn covers, with post script (2pps) at end. (1)

Lot 202/0217

Wilde (W.R.) A Descriptive Catalogue of The Antiquities of Stone, Earthen, & Vegetable Materials, … Animal Materials and Bronze, .. Gold in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 3 works in one volume, 8vo D. 1857, 1861 & 1862. First Edns., wd. cut illus., cont. hf. blue mor. Good.
Bookplates of Lord Walter Fitzgerald, & Lord Killanin. (1)

Lot 203/0217

Nightingale (Florence) Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is Not, 8vo Lond. (Harrison) n.d. [c. 1850] First Edn., advderts on paste-downs, orig. gilt lettered black cloth. (1)

Lot 204/0217

[Eyre (Francis)] A Letter to a Friend on the Late Revolution in France, 8vo [L.] 1791. with Letters to a Friend, on the Late Revolution in France, 8vo [L.] 1792, but lacking as usual A Short Extract from Mr. Neckers Pamphlet to the French Nation, 8vo L. 1793, 15pp, First Edns., [IV], 80pp + [IV] 110pp, attractive full tree calf, tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. label. V. good. Scarce. (1)

Lot 205/0217

Joyce (James) Finnegan’s Wake, roy 8vo N.Y. (Viking Press) 1939. First American Edn., hf. title, orig., coloured printed d.w., with some stains, & head of spine chipped. (1)

Lot 206/0217

Scribble (Wm.) Erin’s Fairy Spell; or The Palace of Industry and Pleasure: A Vision, roy 8vo D. 1865. First Edn., port. forntis, add. pict. litho t.p., orig.cloth, gilt. Scarce. (1)

Lot 207/0217

Ryan (John) The Life of William the Third, 8vo D. 1836. First Edn., engd. port. frontis list of subs., fold. ‘Plan of the Battle of the Boyne,’ advert leaf at front, cloth. (1)

Lot 208/0217

Donaldson (Thos. Leverton) A Review of the Professional Life of Sir Joh Soane, Arch, 8vo L. 1837. First Edn., 2 fold. plts.; Bland (Wm.) Experimental Essays on the Principles of Construction in Arches, Piers, Buttresses, etc. 8vo L. 1839. First Edn., wd.-cut illus.; Gwilt (Jos.) A Treatise on the Equlibrium of Arches, 8vo L. 1839. Third, 5 engd. plts. 1 lg. fold., all orig. binds. (3)

Lot 209/0217

Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vols. 8vo D. (for Luke White) 1789-88. Engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, 2 lg. fold. maps by T. Kitchin, cont. calf, mor. labels. (lacks label). (6)

Lot 210/0217

Orpen (Goddard Henry) Ireland Under the Normans 1169 – 1216, 4 vols. 8vo Oxford (Clarendon) 1911. First Edn., 2 fold. maps, orig. cloth, good. (3)

Lot 211/0217

Very fine Copy in Original Condition

D’Alton (John) The History of Drogheda, with its Environs, and an introductory Memoir on the Dublin and Drogheda Railway, 2 vols. 8vo D. 1844. Published by The Author, 1 add. engd. title, 2 engd.frontis, list of subs, fold.map & 20 engd. plans, & plts. (some fold.) complete, orig. green cloth. V. good copy. (2)

Lot 212/0217

Burke (Oliver J.) Anecdotes of The Connaught Circuit, D. 1885. First Edn., red & bl. title, cont. crimson cloth. Good. (1)

Lot 213/0217

Dufferin (Rt. Hon. Lord) Irish Emigration and The Tenure of Land in Ireland, 8vo L. 1867. Second, orig. cloth. Good. (1)

Lot 214/0217

Signed Presentation Copy

[O’Nuallain (Brian)] ‘Flann O’Brien,’ The Dalkey Archive, L. 1964. First Edn., orig. pict. wrappers. Good.
* Inscribed ‘To Lord Killanin with the Regards of the Author Brian O’Nolan, 18 November 1964,’ and with Lord Killanin’s bookplate. (1)

Lot 215/0217

Moore & Gogarty: Moore (George) Memoirs of My Dead Life, 8vo L. 1921. Special Lim. Edn. 952 (1030) Signed by Author; also Conversations in Ebury Street, L. 1924. Lim. Edn. 96 (1030). Signed uncut vellum backed boards; also Gogarty (O. St. John) I Follow St. Patrick, L. 1938, First; O’Connor (U.) Oliver St. John Gogarty, L. 1964, First, d.w.; & 2 others on Gogarty. (6)

Lot 216/0217

O’Sullivan (M.D.) Old Galway, The History of a Norman Colony in Ireland. 8vo Cambridge 1942. First Edn., illus., cloth & d.w.; Hardiman (J.) The History … of Galway, 4to Galway (Conacht Tribune) 1926, illus., cloth; D. 1960. First Edn., illus. d.w. (3)

Lot 217/0217

Ronan (Myles V.) The Reformation in Dublin, 1536-1558, L. 1926; also The Reformation in Ireland Under Elizabeth, 1558-1580, L. 1930. Both First Edn., orig. blue cloth, good. (2)

Lot 218/0217

[Swift (Jonathan)] Pilkington (Mrs. L.) The Memoirs of Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington, Wife of Rev. Mr. Matth Pilkington, Written by Herself…. All Her Poems. Vol. I & II, 8vo & tall 8vo (as usual), D. (For the Author) 1748. First Edns. 1 leaf str. tear (no loss) uncut, orig. calf backed boards, worn. V. Scarce. (2)

Lot 219/0217

Dodsley (J.) A Colleciton of Poems… by Several Hands, 6 vols. 8vo L. 1765, 6 hf. title,s 6 engd. vign. titles, cont. calf (worn), raised bands, mor. labels. (6)

Lot 220/0217

Fitzgerald (Rev. P.) & Mc Gregor (J.J.) The History and Topography and Antiquities of The County and City of Limerick, 2 vols., D. 1826 & 1827, First Edn., 2 engd. frontis (1 lg. fold. map), 4 plts., 1 folding table and 1 folding map, new brown cloth. Clean copy. (2)