14 December 2010 - Rare Book Sale

#0210

Lot 279/0210

Genealogy: Tenner Shaw (La Verna) & J.W. Shaw, The Penner Genealogy, Beginning with Jacob Penner. Folio Kansas (Mennonite Press) 1971, typed, with illus. ports, maps etc., folder, boards. (1)

Lot 280/0210

SOLD Hammer price €340

Shannon Scheme: Siemens – Schuckert, The Electrification of the Irish Free State – The Shannon Scheme, folio D. n.d. c. 1924. First Edn., illus., plans, maps & fold. tables, boards; another item sim., Report of the Experts appointed by the Government, 8vo d. n.d. c. 1923, wrappers; Mac Laughlin (T.A.) The Shannon Scheme Considered in its National Economic Aspect, 8vo D. n.d., c. 1924, illus. fold. map, wrappers; also Shannon Navigation Act, 1874, folio House of Commons 1875; Penny (James S.) The Shannon Inundations – Tables of the heights of Water along the River Shannon, folio D. 1868, wrappers; Mc Carthy (M.) High Tension – Life on the Shannon Scheme, 8vo D. 2004, illus., pict. wrappers; & 2 other items. As a lot. (1)

Lot 281/0210

SOLD Hammer price €60

Durdin-Robertson (L. & O.) The Goddesses of Chaldaea Syria & Egypt, 8vo Carlow 1975. Signed by Author, illus; Juno Covella, Perpetual Calendar of the Fellowship of Isis, Carlow 1982, Pres. Copy; & The goddesses of India, Tibet, China and Japan, 8vo Carlow 1976 Signed by Author, illus., wrappers; & 4 other publications by same author. Scarce. (7)

Lot 282/0210

SOLD Hammer price €390

Talbot (Poter) Archbishop of Dublin, A Treatise of Religion and Government; With Reflections upon the Cause and Cure of England Late Distempers and Present Dangers, 4to [Ghent] 1670. FIRST EDN., title [17], 614, 34, [7] & contents [14], & errata leaf, some pp. badly browned, & 2 pps with some text cut out (pages repaired in blank), title inscribed Wm. Talbot, & Richard Coyne 1811, cont. calf, blind tooled panel, tooled gilt spine, mor. label, upr. joint broken. Sweeney 4909. Rare. (1)

Lot 283/0210

“A Frenchman who adorned the Church of Ireland”
Abbadie (Jaques) Dean of Killaloe: L’Art de se Connoitre Soy-Meme ou la Recherche des Sources de la Morale, 2 vols. in one, v. small 8vo The Hague 1700. Second Edn., red & bl. title Vol. I, printers wd.-cut device on both titles, [XVI], 492pp., orig. vellum mor. label. With an article & 2 A.L.s. about the Author inserted. V. Scarce.
* A French Huguenot Divine, one of the many who settled in Ireland at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th Century. (1)

Lot 284/0210

SOLD Hammer price €380

Bound by Colm O’Lochlainn
Three Candles Binding: Shaw (T.E.)ed. The Odyssey of Homer, 8vo N.Y. 1940, t.e.g. In fine white sheep-skin with overlaid crimson mor. title piece & spine label, gold corner decorations raised bands with gilt decor. mor. overlays, with Three-Candles gilt motif and signed Dublin, with orig. d.w. folded & laid in, in a later marble slip case. Rare. (1)

Lot 285/0210

SOLD Hammer price €240

Hart (H.C.) The Flora of Howth, with Map and an Introduction on the Geology and other features of the Promontory. 8vo D. 1887. First Edn., lg. fold. map frontis, orig. cloth. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 286/0210

SOLD Hammer price €180

Signed Presentation Copy
Baily (Wm. Hellier) Rambles on the Irish Coast, Especially relating to its Geology, Natural History and Antiquities. 12mo D. n.d. [c. 1876], First Edn., fold. hd. cold. map frontis, plts. & text illus., orig. blue cloth, gilt. Rare.
* Inscribed on title, ‘Capt. Gilbert Jones P.R.N. with the author’s respectful Complements.’

Lot 287/0210

SOLD Hammer price €160

Croker (T. Crofton) The Popular Songs of Ireland, 8vo L. (H. Colburn) 1839. First Edn., some wd. cut txt illus. [XX], 340pp., cont. hf. green mor. gilt lined spine, mor. label. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 288/0210

SOLD Hammer price €340

[Swift (Jonathan) & others?] A Collection of Political Tracts, 12mo D. (Geo. Faulkner) 1748. First Edn., circular wood-cut printers device on title & inscribed “John Congreve,” a few pps. of index browned, cont. mottled calf, raised bands, mow mor. label. V. good. Scarce. (1)

Lot 289/0210

Dublin Printing: Conybeare (J.) A Defence on Revealed Religion, 8vo D. (S. Powell) 1732. Third, in full calf, raised bands, mor. label, all orig. condition. (1)

Lot 290/0210

SOLD Hammer price €190

Association Copy
Madden (R.R.) Historical Notice of Penal Laws Against Roman Catholics, sm. 8vo L. 1865, cloth.
*Inscribed by R.R. Madden, Jun. Dec. 31st 1886, & Dr. T. More Madden, also with memorial Card of the author tipped in. (1)

Lot 291/0210

Cameron (Rev. Alex.) Reliquiae Celticae, Texts papers and Studies in Gaelic Literature and Philology, 2 vols. Inverness 1892. Ed. by A Macbain & Rev. J. Kennedy. First Edn., port. frontis & 1 other, orig. blue cloth. (2)

Lot 292/0210

SOLD Hammer price €180

Maud Joynt’s Copy
R.I.A. Todd Lecture Series: Gwynn (Edward) The Metrical Dindsenchas, 5 vols. in 4, 8vo D. 1903 – 1935. First Edn., orig. cloth, mor. labels. Good.
* Inscribed by Maud Joynt, Celtic Scholar. (4)

Lot 293/0210

O’Sullivan (Seamus) Mud and Purple, Pages from the Diary of a Dublin Man. 8vo D. 1917. First Edn, Signed by Author. Frontis, orig. cloth backed boards; The Rose and Bottle & Other Essays, D. 1946, First Edn., orig. d.w., v. clean copy; Poems, 1930 – 1938, Being Number Four of Tower Pres Series, 8vo D. 1938. First Edn., wrappers; O’Kelly (Seamus) Ranns and Ballads, D. (Candle Press) 1918. First Edn., frontis after Jack B. Yeats, Lim. Edn. 21 (450), cloth backed boards; & 2 other items by O’Kelly. (6)

Lot 294/0210

SOLD Hammer price €80

Adair (John) Hints on the Culture of Ornamental Plants in Ireland, 8vo D. 1878. Third, orig. cloth. Scarce. (1)

Lot 295/0210

SOLD Hammer price €340

For Private Circulation Only
Genealogy: Gubbins (Rev. G.G.) Memoirs of the Gubbin’s Family, sm. 8vo Limerick (G. Mc Kern & Sons) 1891. Sole Edn., Privately Printed, 121pp. (1 leaf loose) orig. cloth. Rare. (1)

Lot 296/0210

SOLD Hammer price €400

‘Recreative Tour to the Capital of Erins Green Isle’
Manuscript: A most interesting and detailed manuscript account of a short, 8 day journey, ‘by Land and Water a distance of nearly 600 miles,’ by an employee of the National Bank [Scotland?]. The journey by the author [A.M.C.] and his friend W., started from Scotland, Portpatrick on 18th August 1831, travelled thro Carlisle to Castledouglas, Stranraer, Donaghadee, Belfast, Newry, Dublin, Dunleary, Liverpool, Manchester and back to Scotland.’ Containing approx. 130pp in a very legible hand, with very detailed descriptions of scenery on route, and of cities and town visited. In a small cont. vellum bound notebook. As a m/ss w.a.f. Most interesting, worth further study. (1)

Lot 297/0210

[Power (Sir J.)]? Memoir of The Kilkenny Hunt, Compiled by One of Its Members in the year of its Centenary 1897. 8vo D. [1911]. Second Edn., port. frontis & 13 illus., orig. cloth. Good. (1)

Lot 298/0210

SOLD Hammer price €180

[Sarsfield, (Earl of Lucan)] Mac Donnell (J. de Courcey) The Life of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, 12mo Limerick 1895, port. frontis; Mac Donnell (Randal) My Sword for Patrick Sarsfield, D. 1907; Todhunter (John) Life of Patrick Sarsfield, D. 1901; & 3 others sim. (6)