24 April 2012 - Rare Book Sale

#0217

Lot 301/0217

Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth) Tales of a Wayside Inn, 8vo, Boston (Ticknor and Fields) 1863, illus. hf. title, orig. cloth and a later custom-made leather holding case. Good clean copy. (1)

Lot 302/0217

[Voltaire (Francois M. Arouet de] La Pucelle d’Orleans Poeme, 8vo Lond. 1764. New Edn. hf. title. Engd. frontis, engd. title vign. & 20 engd. plts. 1 engd. head & tail, other wd.-cut decor., cont. calf,dble gilt fillet borders, profusely tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. label. (1)

Lot 303/0217

Volatire (Francois M. Arouet de) Elemens de la Philosophie de Neuton, 8vo Lond. 1738. New Edn., Hf. title, 2 Engd. ports, red & bl. title, 7 engd. plts. (1 fold.) engd. text illus. thro-out, errata at end, cotn. mottled calf, raised band, mor. label, spine gilt in panels, v. good. (1)

Lot 304/0217

O’Keeffe (John) Recollections of The Life of John O’Keeffe, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1826. First Edn., port. forntis. Vol. I, cont. hf. tan, marble sides, mor. labels, spine profusely tooled in panels, attractive set. (2)

Lot 305/0217

Cooke (T. Lalor) The Early History of the Town of Birr, or Parsontown, 8vo D. 1875. First Edn., hf. title, errata leaf, list of subs., orig. green cloth. Scarce. (1)

Lot 306/0217

Keill (J.) An Introduction to the True Astronomy, 8vo L. 1739. Third, 27 fold. plt., damp dam. at fore-edges, calf, mor. label. S.N.S.R. (1)

Lot 307/0217

[Dutens (Louis)] Recherches sur l’Origine des Decouvertes attribuees Aux Modernes, 2 vols. in one, 8vo Paris 1766. First Edn. 2 hf. titles, cont. full calf, tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. label. Good copy. (2)

Lot 308/0217

Baker (Henry) The Microscope Made Easy, 8vo L. 1744. Third Fold. engd. frontis & 14 engd. plts. (mostly fold.) & fold. table, cont. calf, raised bands, mor. label. (1)

Lot 309/0217

Baker (Henry) Employment for the Microscope, In two Parts, 8vo L. 1753. First Edn., 17 fold. plts. includ. fold. frontis, cont. calf, raised bands, mor. label. (1)

Lot 310/0217

Watson (R.) Chemical Essays, 2 vols. 8vo D. 1791, fold. table, some damp stains, cont. tree calf, mor. labels. (2)

Lot 311/0217

Locke (John) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, In Four Books, 2 vols. 8vo [L.] 1753. Fifteenth. Engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, cont. speckled calf, raised bands, mor. labels. Good. (2)

Lot 312/0217

Hume (David) Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1772. New Edn., sm. damp stains, cont.mor. (2)

Lot 313/0217

Signed by S. Beckett

Apollinaire (Guillaune) & Beckett (Samuel) trans., Zone, D. (The Dolmen Press) 1972, Signed Limited Edn., No: 34 (250), full calf, with gilt lettered spine, orig. slip case. Fine Copy. (1)

Lot 314/0217

Dolmen Editions: [Clarke (A.) & Halpern (S.)ed] His Life and Works, 8vo, D. 1974; The Impuritans, D. 1973; Fallon (P.) Poems, D. 1974; Deane (S.) Rumours, D. 1977; Kinsella (Th.) Night Walker and Other Poems, D. 1968; Miller L.)ed. Retrospect, The Work of Seamus O’Sullivan & Estella F. Solmons, D. 1973; Skelton (R.)ed. Riders to the Sea by J.M. Synge, D. 1969; and one other, mostly hard back, some ptd. wrappers, as a colleciton. Fine. (8)

Lot 315/0217

Muldoon (P.) Wayside Shrines, 8vo Meath (The Gallery Press) 2009, Signed Ltd. Edn., No. 178 (400), illus. by Kenth Wilson, cloth. Good. (1)

Lot 316/0217

Sporting etc: Herbert (H. Wm.) Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing of the United States, N.Y. 1850. First Edn., forntis & 10 plts. text illus. throughout, 16pp cat. at end; Radcliffe (F.P. Delme) The Noble Science: A Few Genral Ideas on Fox-Hunting, roy 8vo L. 1875, cold. plts., all cloth, gilt. (4)

Lot 317/0217

Dickens (Charles) The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 8vo L. (Chapman & Hall) 1870. First Edn. engd. port. frontis add. engd. title, & 12 plts. after S.L. Fildes, 1 leaf torn with some loss, 2pp. adverts at end; also No Thoroughfare by C. Dickens & Wilkie Collins, from…All the Year Round, Christmas 1867, 48pp at cont. hf. mor. (1)

Lot 318/0217

Washington (George) Epistles Domestic, Confidential, and Official, 8vo N. York 1796, First Edn., hf. title, a few leaves lightly browned, a few small marginal water-stains, unopened, original cloth. (1)

Lot 319/0217

Hardiman (James) Irish Minstrelsy or Bardic Remains of Ireland, 2 vols, L. Joseph Robins) 1831, First Edn., port. frontis, hf.mor., marbled boards, with gilt lettered spine, custom made box. (2)

Lot 320/0217

Atkinson (A.) Ireland Exhibited to England, in a Political and Moral Survey of Her Population, … Tour of Certain Districts… . 2 vols. 8vo L. 1823. First Edn., 1 hf. title, recent cloth; also Ireland in The Nineteenth Century, 8vo L. 1833. First, recent cloth. (3)