24 April 2012 - Rare Book Sale

#0217

Lot 1312/0217

Newspaper: S.S. Titanic, [The Daily Mirror], dated April 16th, 1912 – “Disaster to The Titanic: World’s Larget Ship Collides with an Iceberg in the Atlantic during her Maiden Voyage,” tabloid size, L. 1912, 16pps, illus. & adverts, as a newspaper, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 1313/0217

Booklet: S.S. Titanic, [Lloyd’s Weekly News], The Deathless Story of the Titanic, lg. 4to, L. (Lloyds Weekly News) c. 1912 Second Edn., illus. & adverts throughout, 40pps, some-foxing, ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1)

Lot 1314/0217

The Titanic and The Carpathia

Two Un-transmitted Marconigrams from R.M.S Carpathia, April 1912, the first reading Laurel House.. Mrs. Compton and daughter on Carpathia: the second to Laval University, Montreal, Judge Mathieu Saved, both stamped NOT TRANSMITTED; TOGETHER WITH A Titanic Relief Fund Cheque to Mrs. Ada West, signed by Recipient on reverse. (3)
Rescue Items relating to the Carpathia are Scarce.
* RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson. Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 and became famous for rescuing the survivors of RMS Titanic after the latter ship hit an iceberg and sank on 15 April 1912. Carpathia herself was sunk in the Atlantic on 17 July 1918 during the First World War after being torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat.

Lot 1315/0217

TITANIC DISASTER 15 APRIL 1912.

Shipping Casualties. (Loss of the Steamship “Titanic”). Report of Formal Investigation into the circumstances attending the foundering on 15th April 1912, of the British Steamship “Titanic” of Liverpool, after striking ice ..
whereby loss of life ensued. Folio blue wrappers, 74 pp, recent buckram, HMSO 1912, Cd. 6352. In excellent condition, rare in this condition.

The authoritative and very detailed report, including an account of the ship, its safety and other features, the accident and rescue and the Court’s
conclusions, with a list of 24 recommendations.

Laid in is a Return of the Expenses incurred by the Board of Trade and
other Government Departments in the course of the investigation, HMSO 1913, 4 pp. (2)

Lot 1316/0217

Titanic: A printed 12 page Mass Booklet for St. Paul’s Cathedral, Friday 19th April 1912, at 12 noon, Memorial Service for those who perished through the foundering of the S.S. Titanic on Monday, April 15th, 1912, 4to, Moorefields (R.E. Thomas & Co.) 1912, ptd. wrappers, together with a reproduction postcard of the service, as a lot. Scarce. (1)

Lot 1317/0217

Titanic: An In Memoriam folded Card, the fornt “Peace Perfect Peace,” opening to reveal a black and white Photo of the R.M.S. Titanic, and “In Sacred Memory of The “Titanic”, which collided with an iceberg of Cape Race, on April 15th, 1912. The most appalling disaster in Maritime History with a loss of over 1,500 lives.” the reverse with a two paragraph poem, as a card. Scarce. (1)

Lot 1318/0217

Titanic: Dean (Millvina) A one page m/ss letter to a Mrs. Baker from Miss Dean dated January 22nd 2004 from “Wood Lands,” Southampon, S040 7HV, referring to a meeting with a Dr. Ballard, and referrin to her mother and her brothers survival of the Titanic Disater, she also refers to her mothers re-marriage, and when she first came to knowledge of her Titanic experience, signed “Best Wishes for 2004, sincerely Millvina Dean” on a folded paper card. An interesting letter. (1)

Lot 1319/0217

Ephemera: S.S. Titanic, a framed collage of replica documents and photographs relating to the “Titanic” to inlcude, advertisemtn for the White Star Line, 2nd Class Diner Menu, interior Photographs etc., as a replica, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 1320/0217

1798: Madden (R.R.) The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times, First – Fourth Series, 4 vols. 8vo D. 1858 – 1860. Second Edn., Ports. etc., cont. mor. backed cloth boards. V. good. (4)

Lot 1321/0217

1798: Byrne (Myles) Memoires d Un Exile Irlandais de 1798, 2 vols. in one, 8vo Paris 1864. First Edn. in French, engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, cont. mor. backed cloth. Scarce. (2)

Lot 1322/0217

Casement (Roger) The Crime against Europe, 8vo D. 1758, First Edn., d.w.; Monteith (R.) Casement’s Last Adventure, D. 1953; Maloney (Wm. J.) The Forged Casement Diaries, D. 1936, First Edn., d.w.; Gwynn (D.) The Life and Death of Roger Casement, L. n.d. (4)

Lot 1323/0217

1798: The Beauties of The Press; with an Appendix, Containing The Speech of Arthur O’Connor, on The Catholic Question… also His Letter to Lord Castlereagh. 8vo L. 1800. First Edn., cont. tree calf, mor. label. V. good. Scarce. (1)

Lot 1324/0217

Pearse (P.H.) Three Lectures on Gaelic topics, 12mo D. 1898. First Edn. of Pearse’s First Book, orig. cloth. Good; Griffith (A.) The Resurrection of Hungary, 8vo D. 1918, cloth; De Burca (P.) & Boyle (J.F.) Free State or Republic, sm. 8vo D. 1922 First Edn., d.w., v. good; Stephens (James) The Insurrection in Dublin, D. 1916. First Edn., cloth; Norway (MRs. H.) The Sinn Fein Rebellionas I saw it, L. 1916. First Edn., frontis & illus., cloth; & 3 othes. Good lot. (9)

Lot 1325/0217

Shiel (R.L.) Sketches Legal and Political by the Late Rt. Hon. Richard Lalor Sheil, 2 vols. sm. 8vo L. 1855. First Edn., ed. by M.W. Savage, cont. hf. calf, mor. labels; Mitchel (John) The History of Ireland, 2 vols. sm. 8vo D. 1869. cont. hf. green mor. All good. (4)

Lot 1327/0217

Signed by Jim Larkin

Fox (R.M.) the History of the Irish Citizen Army, sm. 8vo D. 1943. First Edn., Signed ‘Yours Fra. Jim Larkin, 1943,’ cloth, spine dam., d.w. (1)

Lot 1328/0217

Sigerson (George) Political Prisoners at Home and Abroad, 8vo L. 1890. First Edn., lacks front & end loose blanks, cloth. (1)

Lot 1329/0217

Signed by de Valera

Political: Bunreacht na hEireann (Constitution of Ireland), 8vo D. (Govt. Pub. Sales Office) 1945, signed by “Eamon de Valera 9-X-47,” cloth. Good clean copy. (1)

Lot 1330/0217

Collins (Michael) The Path to Freedom, 8vo D. (The Talbot Press) 1922, Fist edn., port. frontis, cloth, with illus. front cover. Good clean copy. (1)

Lot 1331/0217

World War I: Hennessy (T.F.) The Great War 1914 – 1918. Bank of Ireland Staff, – Service Record, roy 8vo D. (Alex Thom & Co. 1920. First Edn., illus. thro-out, uncut, cloth, d.w.; Redmond (Maj. Wm.) Trench Pictures from France, 8vo L. 1917. First Edn., port. frontis, cloth. (2)

Lot 1332/0217

1798 etc: Chart (D.A.)ed. The Drennan Letters, roy 8vo Belfast 1931. First Edn. frontis cloth. (1)