14 December 2010 - Rare Book Sale

#0210

Lot 21/0210

Binding: [Sharpe (Wm.)] Macleod (Fiona) The Divine Adventure Iona: By Sundown Shares, Studies in Spiritual History, 8vo L. 1900. THIRD EDN., a.e.g., hd. made end-papers, & full crushed green mor. dbl. gilt fillet borders with corner decorations & profusely tooled gilt spine in panels, raised band etc., by The Atalier Bindery, stamped. V. good. (1)

Lot 22/0210

SOLD Hammer price €520

Gaelic Script: Leabhar na Nornaightheadh Ccomhchoit – chionn “The Book of Common Prayer,” 8vo L. (E. Everingham) n.d. [1712] First Edn. Thus. Published by Rev. Richardson, with ‘The Elements of the Irish Language’ at end, cont. blind tooled polished panel calf, raised bands. Scarce. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 23/0210

Controversial Co. Limerick-born Female Novelist
Bulwer Lytton (Lady Rosina) Cheveley; or, The Man of Honour, 3 vols. 12mo L. 1839. Third Edn., Hf. titles, Vol. II & III, orig. cloth. V. good.
* A thinly disguised portrait of her husband as an aggressive bullying philanderer, by Lady Bulwer Lytton, nee Doyle Wheeler, of Co. Limerick. (3)

Lot 24/0210

SOLD Hammer price €100

Scarce Library Catalogue
Belfast: Biggar (Lt. Col. F.C.) Catalogue of Books and Bound Mss. of the Irish Historical, Archaeological and Antiquarian Library of the late Francis Joseph Biggar, M.A. M.R.I.A. – Presented to the Belfast Public Library …. Sm. 8vo Belfast 1930. FIRST EDN., 302pp + Postscript, orig. cloth backed boards, slight dam. to back board. (1)

Lot 25/0210

SOLD Hammer price €270

Signed by the Author
Beckett (Samuel) Worstward Ho, N.Y. (Grove Press Inc.) 1983. FIRST EDN., Inscribed on title, ‘For Barbara with love Sam, 7.9.83’, cloth backed boars, & d.w. Good. (1)

Lot 26/0210

SOLD Hammer price €160

Cuala Press: Mac Neice (Louis) The Last Ditch, 8vo D. (Cuala Pres) 1940. Lim. Edn. (250) O/S, orig. cloth backed boards, faded. (1)

Lot 27/0210

SOLD Hammer price €120

Bennett (Douglas) The Silver Collection Trinity College Dublin, D. (T.C.D. Press) 1988. FIRST EDN., profusely illustrated, d.w. V. good. (1)

Lot 28/0210

SOLD Hammer price €150

Genealogy: Brennan (Thos. A.) A History of The Brennan’s of Idough, County Kilkenny, roy 8vo N.Y. 1979. FIRST EDN., illus. cloth & d.w. (1)

Lot 29/0210

SOLD Hammer price €210

Wexford & Valentia Railway Co. (Solc. for) – Evidence and Opinions on the Harbour of Valentia (Ireland) as to its Fitness for a Western Packet Station, 8vo L. 1847. Second Edn. Lg. fold. map frontis, [1X], 51pp., title inscribed ‘From The Knights of Kerry…. 22 Nov. 1847,’ recent boards. Scarce. (1)

Lot 30/0210

Bibliography: Grant and Bolton – 1831 – A Catalogue of Old Books, Containing … English and Foreign Books including Divinity, Ecclesiastical History and Miscellaneous Literature,… 8vo D. (Grant & Bolton) 1831. 162pp. containing approx. 3328 entries, title & end leaf soiled, recent hf. cloth. Scarce. (1)

Lot 31/0210

SOLD Hammer price €300

Donovan (John) A Grammar of the Irish Language, 8vo D. 1845. FIRST EDN., hf. title, 2 engd. plts. of the Ancient Irish Alphabets, some m/ss notes in, orig. hf. calf, restored. V. good copy.
* Published for the use of the Senior Classes in The College of St. Columba, which was formerly housed at Stackallen, Co. Meath. From Bishop Reeves Library, see photocopied page. (1)

Lot 32/0210

SOLD Hammer price €400

Bibliography: [Shirley (E.P.)] Catalogue of the Library at Lough Fea, in Illustration of the History and Antiquities of Ireland. Thick 8vo L. (Chiswick Press) 1872. Privately Printed. [100 Copies Only] Pres. Copy. Inscribed by compiler to The Earl of Dartry, orig. cloth, gilt decor. V. good. Scarce. (1)

Lot 33/0210

SOLD Hammer price €240

From Earl of Leitrims Library
Somerville (Thos.) The History of Political Transactions, and of Parties from The Restoration of King Charles The Second to the Death of King William, 8vo D. 1793. FIRST EDN., Hf. title, full calf, finely bound with blind armorial of the Earl of Leitrim, gilt fillets and blind lines, spine in panels, mor. label. V. good. (1)

Lot 34/0210

From the Earl of Leitrims Library
Barruel (Abbe) Memoirs of the Antichristian Conspiracy, A Translation. 8vo D. 1798. Full calf, finely bound with blind armorial of the Earl of Leitrim, gilt fillets, blind line borders, spine in panels, mor. label. (1)

Lot 35/0210

Smith (Chas.) The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, 2 vols. 8vo Cork 1815. New Edn., port. frontis Vol. I, engd. plts. of arms, 2 lg. fold. maps, & plans, & 12 engd. plts. mostly fold., complete, all v. clean, orig. cloth backed boards, needs rebinding. (2)

Lot 36/0210

Andrews (J.H.) Plantation Acres, An Historical Study of the Irish Land Surveyor and His Maps, 8vo Omagh 1985. FIRST EDN., illus., d.w.; also A Paper Landscape, The Ordnance Survey in Nineteenth Century Ireland, Oxford 1975, FIRST EDN., cloth. Scarce. (2)

Lot 37/0210

SOLD Hammer price €150

Signed by Author
Heaney (Seamus) The Cure at Troy, 8vo Derry (Field Day) 1990. First Lim. Edn. No. 492 (500), cloth d.w. & cloth slip case; also Seeing Things, 8vo L. 1991. First Gen. Edn., cloth & d.w. V. good. (2)

Lot 38/0210

SOLD Hammer price €750

Cork Election Pamphlets: 1. Mathews (Michael) The Leading Speeches delivered at the City of Cork Election,… 8vo Cork 1812. 120, + [9]pp; 2. A Full and Correct Report of the Proceedings at the Election for The City of Cork… July 1818, 8vo Cork (J. Connor) 1818, 82pp + [1]; 3. Election Squibs, etc. etc, 22pp; 4. … Report of the proceedings at the Election for the City of Cork,… March 1820, Cork 1820, 130pp; 5. Diatribe (Dicky) Opera Electionis: or, The Election, An Opera … Cork (At the Election Squib Office) n.d. 16pp + 1 other item of squibs & songs. Together 6 items, bound in one vol., cont. hf. green mor. As a coll., w.a.f. Rare. (1)

Lot 39/0210

SOLD Hammer price €220

Richardson (Wm.) Bishop of Derry, The Irish Historical Library…, which maybe serviceable to the Compilers of a General History of Ireland. 8vo D. 1724. First 8vo Edn. XXXVIII, [1] & 246pp. & [10] Index, cont. calf, worn, single gilt fillet, raised bands. Good. (1)

Lot 40/0210

SOLD Hammer price €130

Modern Irish Literature: Murphy (Richard) The Battle of Aughrim, L. 1968. First, signed by Author; also The Mirror Wall, 1989, First; Montague (John) A Chosen Light, Chicago 1967, First, Signed by Author, illus. by L. le Brocquy, all d.w.’s; also Mc Guinness (Frank) Booterstown, Gallery Press 1994, First, Signed by Author; others by T. Kinsella, Roy Mc Fadden, Eithne Strong, & A. Kerrigan, mostly First,s & d.w.’s. (8)