24 April 2012 - Rare Book Sale

#0217

Lot 792/0217

Aquines (Thomas) Sancti Thomae Aquinatis… Opusculum Aureum … 12mo Louvain 1676. M/ss inscriptions on t.p., at one time housed at Franciscan Monastery, Wexford 1750, orig. vellum. Good. (1)

Lot 793/0217

Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin de) Les Oeuvres de Monsieur de Moliere, 8 vols. 12mo Paris (Par la Campagnie des Libraires) 1730. New Edn., red & bl. titles, engd. port. & 31 engd. plts., cont. calf, some wear, gilt., decor. spines with raised bands & mor. labels. (8)

Lot 794/0217

Le Sage (Alain Rene) Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, 4 vols. 12mo Paris 1732. Fourth Edn. 26 engd. plts. cont. mottled calf, raised bands, mor. labels, spine gilt in panels. Good. (4)

Lot 795/0217

Dublin Printings: Vanbrugh – Plays Written by Sir Joh Vanbrugh, 2 vols. 12mo D. 1765. Cont.calf, gilt ruled spines mor. laels. V. good. (2)

Lot 796/0217

Machiavelli – Opere di Nic Machiavelli, 4 vols. 12mo 1726. Engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, 4 hf. titles, 1 fold. plt. & 8 fold. tables, cont. sprinkled calf, raised bands,mor.labels, spine profusely gilt in panels. V. good. (4)

Lot 797/0217

Dublin Edition: [Anon] Letters from Several Parts of Europe, and the East, Written in the Years 1750 etc., 2 vols. D. (Geo. Faulkner) 1754-1753., leaf at end, cont. calf, (covers wonr), raised bands mor. labels. (2)

Lot 798/0217

Presentation Copy from the Publisher

[Lamb (Charles)] Elia. Essays which have appeared under that Signature in the London Magazine. Sm. 8vo L. (for Taylor and Hessey) 1823. First Edn. Second Issue. Inscribed on hf. title ‘From Mr. Taylor the Publisher’. Dbl. page engd. port. of author, from another work tipped in at front, 6pp. adverts at end, a.e.g. blind tooled dark mor. binding by Mc Kelvic, Binder, Greenock. V. good copy of this scarce work. (1)

Lot 799/0217

The Author’s Scarce First Novel

[Galsworth (John)] ‘John Sinjohn’ From the Four Winds, 8vo L. (T. Fisher Unwin) 1897. First Edn. One of 500 Copies. Hf. title, [VI] 246pp later hf. mor. with gilt crest of Thackeray Hotel. Ex. Scarce. (1)

Lot 800/0217

Irish Fishing: Green (Philip) What I have Seen while Fishing and How I have Caught My Fish, L. 1905. Second Impresion, illus. etc., mostly Irish content; Kingsmill Moore (T.C.) A Man May Fish, L. 1960. First Edn., d.w.; & 2 others sim. (4)

Lot 801/0217

Farmer (John S.) Americanisms – Old & New, A Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Colloquialisms Peculiar to the United States. Thick 8vo L. 1889. No. 260 Privately Printed, Limited Edition. Signed by Author, t.e.g., cont. hf.crushed mor. riased bands. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 802/0217

Wood-Martin (W.G.) The Rude Stone Monuments of Ireland, (Co. Sligo and the Island of Achill). 8vo D. 1888. First Edn., text illus. recent cloth; also Pagan Ireland, 8vo L. 1895. First Edn., plts. & illus. orig. gilt decor. cloth. (2)

Lot 803/0217

Scarce Life of St. Patrick

[Faleoni (Celso)] Teatro delle Glorie e Purgatorio da’ Viventi del Gran patriarca ed Apstole dell’ Ibernia S. Patricio Canonico Regolare Lateranese, 4to Bologna 1660, lacking portrait frontis. Some m/ss inscriptions, later calf backed boards. Sweeney 1870 (a different date). V. Rare. (1)

Lot 804/0217

Fine Copy

Newenham (Thos.) A Statistical and Historical Inquiry into the Progress and MAgnitute of the Population of Ireland, 8vo L. 1805. First Edn., 3 fold. tables, VI, XIX, 360pp., last lef advert, cont. mor. backed boards, mor.label. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 805/0217

Healy (Rev. Wm.) History and Antiquities of Kilkenny (County and City), Vol. I [All Published] 8vo Kilkenny (P.M. Egan) 1893. Sole Edn. ttractive litho plts. orig. cloth. V. good copy. Scarce. (1)

Lot 806/0217

Co. Kilkenny: Comerford (Rev. M.) Comerford (Rev. M.) Some Account of the Parishes of Graig-na-Managh and St. Mullins, D. n.d. c. 1880. Frontis & 3 litho plts.; Sparks (May) & Bligh (E.) Kilkenny Pen and Picture Pages of its Story, Kilkenny 1926, illus.; Lahart (R.) The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Dunnamaggan, 1956. illus.; Nolan (Wm.) Fassadinin, D. 1979. First, illus., d.w., all cloth. (4)

Lot 807/0217

Woods (James) Annals of Westmeath Ancient and Modern, 8vo D. 1907. First, frontis & plts. cloth; Walsh (Paul) The Placenames of Westmeath, D. 1957. First, d.w. (2)

Lot 808/0217

Co. Donegal: Swan (H.P.) ‘Twixt Foyle and Swilly,’ D. 1949; Romantic onegal Its Songs Poetry and Ballads, Belfast 1964; Romantic Stories and Legends of Donegal, Belfast 1965; Highlights of the Donegal Highlands, Belfast 1958, all illus. & orig. pict. wrappers. (4)

Lot 809/0217

Gregory (Lady A.) Cuchulain o Muirthemne, The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, 8vo L. 1902, First Edn., decor. cloth, good; Yeats (Jack B.) Teh Amaranthers, 8vo L. (W. Heinemann) 1936, cloth & dust jacket. Good clean copies. (2)

Lot 810/0217

Signed by the Author, with M/ss Verse

Stephens (James) Deirdre, 8vo L. 1923. First Edn., orig. cloth. Good.
* Inscribed on front loose end,
‘When a son you shall desire
Pray to Water and to Fire
But when you would have a daughter
Pray to Fire, and then to Water.”
and signed by the Author. (1)

Lot 811/0217

The Authors First Play

Shaw (George Bernard) Widowers’ Houses, (Being Numer One of the Independent Theatre Series of Plays) Gein (J.T.)ed, 8vo, L. (Henry & Co.) 1893, First Edn., uncut, advert leaf at end, orig. green cloth, with gilt lettering, some wear. V. Scarce.(1)