24 April 2012 - Rare Book Sale

#0217

Lot 772/0217

Nesfield (W. Eden) Specimens of Medieval Arhcitecture, Chiefly selected from Examples of the 12th and 13th Centuries in France & Italy. Lg. folio L. 1862. Decor. title & 100 full pae plts. complete, orig. fine decor. cloth, recased with new mor. spine. V. good. (1)

Lot 773/0217

Limited Edition: Alecto Historical Editions – Domesday Book, Studies, Survey, Folios & Maps Intro. & Translations, 3 vols. folio L. 1987. Lim. Edn. No. 166 (1000), illus. plts. etc. orig. cream cloth backed boards, in slip case. (3)

Lot 774/0217

Attractive Hd-coloured Plates

Doyle (Richard) Fairyland, A Series of Picture from the Elf-World. Folio L. 1870. First Edn., With a Poem by Wm. Allingham. Fine hd. cold. forntis + 15 full page plts., a.e.g., orig. gilt decor. green cloth. V. good. (1)

Lot 775/0217

State Trials: A Complete Collection of State Trials, and Proceedings for High Treason, Vol. I, IV & VII, 3 vols. only (ex. 8), folio L. 1730 – 1735. Second Edn. full calf, good; Coke (E.) The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: or A Commentary upon Littleton. Folio L. 1719. Engd. port. frontis, & another port. & table (dam.), some damp stains, calf. (4)

Lot 776/0217

Tinted Plates: Switzerland its Scenery and People, Pictorially represented. Lg. folio L. 1881. Hd. cold. frontis pict. title, & profusely illustrated with plts. etc., a.e.g., orig. gilt decor. cloth. Good. (1)

Lot 777/0217

100 Copies Only
For Private Circulation

Spencer: Grosart (Rev. A.B.)ed. The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser, Vols. I – IX [All Published] Spencer Society Edn. Lim. 100 Copies Only. For Private Circulation Only. End. plts. frontis etc., uncut, unopened, orig. buckram backed boards. (9)

Lot 778/0217

Dryden (John) Dramatic Works, 6 vols. 12mo L. 1735. Engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, red & bl. titles; also Miscellany Poems, 12mo L. 1727. Fifth, engd. frontis, all cont. full calf, raised bands, mor. labels. V. good. (12)

Lot 779/0217

Anon. The Lawyers Library, A New Book of Instruments Consisting of Precedents Fitted for the Use of Attorneys… Scriveners, Merchants, Solicitors, Owners of Ships, Mariners: and Generally for all Persons concerned in Trade and Commerce. Sm. 8vo L. 1709. Second Edn. Advert. leaf at end, lacks front blanks, cont. calf, blind tooled panel, mor. label. Scarce. (1)

Lot 780/0217

Clayton (Dr. Rob.) Bishop of Clogher. A Vindication of the Histories of the Old and New Testament, in Two Parts, 12mo D. (Geo. Faulkner) 1754. Fourth Edn., 12 engd. plts. (some fold.) cont. calf, raised bands, mor. labels. V. good copy. (2)

Lot 781/0217

Bracken (Henry) Farriery Improv’d; or, A Complete Treatise upon The Art of Farriery, 2 vols. 12mo L. 1742. Fourth Edn., adverts on verso of hf. title, & at end of Vol. II, cont. calf, raised bands, mor. lables. V. good. (2)

Lot 782/0217

Dublin Printing etc: Le Sage (Alain Rene) Le Diable Boiteux: or The Devil upon Two Sticks, 12mo D. (a. Rhames) 1728. Sixth, engd. frontis, red & bl. title, & with printed red wd. cut decor., cont. calf, mor. label; also Le Diable Boiteux, 2 vols. 12mo Paris 1737. New Edn. hf. title Vol. I & 1 engd. frontis, also 12 engd. plts., cont. mottled calf, tooled gitl spines mor. labels. V. good. (3)

Lot 783/0217

Ellis (George) Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, 3 vols. L. 1805. First Edn. a.e.g. cont. full calf, blind tooled & gilt line borders, with centre gilt tooled panels, tooled gilt spines, good. (3)

Lot 784/0217

Rare Irish Travel Volume

Bennett (Wm.) Narrative of a Recent Journey of Six Weeks in Ireland, in connection with The Subject of Supplying Small Seed to Some of The Remoter Districts, 2mo L. 1847. First Edn., Hf. title, 1 leaf at end supplied in fac-simile, orig. cloth.
* With The Irish Famine, mostly in the West of Ireland. V. Rare. (1)

Lot 785/0217

Egan (P.W.) History Guide & Directory of County and City of Waterford, sm. 8vo Kilkenny n.d. [c. 1890], dbl. page map, illus.; also The Illustrated Guide to the County and City of Kilkenny, sm. 8vo Kilkeny n.d. [c. 1880] plts. & illus. & illus. adverts, both orig. cloth. (2)

Lot 786/0217

Co. Donegal: [M’Devitt (Rev. Dr.)] The Donegal Highlands, sm. 8vo D. n.d.; Illustrated Handbook of The Scenery and Antiquitis of South-Western Donegal, 12mo D. 1872, First, forntis & plts.; Doherty (Wm. J.) Inis-Owen and Tirconnell, Being Some Account of Antiquties and Writers of the County of Donegal, sm. 8vo D. 1895; Inishowen: its History, Traditions and Antiquties, by Maghtochair, sm. 8vo Carndonagh 1935, all orig. cloth. Good. (4)

Lot 787/0217

Gregory (Lady A.) The Kiltartan Wonder Book, sm. 4to D. n.d. First Edn., cold. frontis & 7 cold. plts. orig. decor. cloth.
* Cold. illus. by Margaret Gregory, who was married to Lady reorys only so, who was killed in First World War. (1)

Lot 788/0217

Illustrated by Margaret Gregory

Gregory (Lady A.) The Golden Apple, A Play for Kiltartan Children. Sm. 4to L. 1916. First Edn., hf. title, cold. frontis & 7 cold. plts. by M. Gregory, orig. decor. green cloth.
* Margaret Gregory was daughter-in-law to Lady Gregory, and was married to her only son, who was killed in World War I. (1)

Lot 789/0217

Martyn (Edward) The Heather Field and Maeve, sm. 4to L. 1899. First Edn., intro. by Geo. Moore, decor. cloth; Gregory (Lady) The Kiltartan History Book, sm. 8vo D. 1909. First Edn., cold. frontis & 3 cold plts. by Rob. Gregory, orig. cloh backed boards. Scarce. (2)

Lot 790/0217

Railways: Tatlow (Joseph) Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland andIreland, sm. 4to L. 1920. First Edn., port. frontis & others; Mc Grath (W.) Some Industrial Railways of Ireland and other Minor Lines, 8vo Cork 1959. First, illus, cloth; Jackson (G. Gibbard) The Railway of Great Britain, L. [1923], cold. illus., pict. cloth; Lardner (D.) Steam and its Uses, 12mo L. 1856, illus. cloth. (4)

Lot 791/0217

Holdsworth (Joseph) Geology, Minerals, Mines & Soils of Ireland, Sm. 8vo L. 1857. First Edn., engd. frontis add. engd. title, recent cloth; Hughes (Wm.) Geological Notes of Ireland, 12mo D. 1876. Second Edn.,; also Geological Notes of Ireland, 12mo D. 1882. Fourth, text illus. thro-out, both orig. cloth. (3)