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Lot 447/0210
Co. Cork: Russell (Ed.) Cork District Report … on the Proposed Drainage and Improvements of the South Slab at Cork, 8vo D. 1843. First Edn., lg. fold. hd. cold. map & section; Roberts (S.U.) Youghal District, Co. Cork, Report … of the Drainage and Improvement of the Lands in the above District, 8vo D. 1846, First, fold. hd. cold. map; also Reports on Washpool District, 1846; and Ballinhassig District, Co. Cork, D. 1849, together 4 item, all orig. ptd. wrappers. (4)
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Lot 448/0210
Lough Erne to Shannon Navigation
Co’s Leitrim, Cavan & Fermanagh: Mac Mahon (John) Ballinamore and Ballyconnell Drainage and Navigation District, 8vo D. 1845. First Edn., fold. map of Ireland & 3 fold. sketches sections etc. ,(ex. 4); also other Reports & Supplementary Report, by Mc Mahon & C.P. Brassington, and Estimate of the Cost of Proposed Works of Navigation, … on the Lands in the above District, by R. Harding, D. 1846. Together 5 items, all orig. ptd. wrappers. Good. (5)More details › -
Lot 449/0210
Co’s Roscommon, Sligo and Mayo: Mulvany (Thos. J.) Surveyor, Lough Gara and Mantua District, Counties Roscommon & Mayo, Report and Supplementary Reports 2 vols. 8vo D. 1846 & 1849. First Edn., hd. cold. fold. map, orig. ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (2)
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Lot 450/0210
SOLD Hammer price €200
Report of the Commissioners on the Drainage and Improvement of Lands in Ireland
Co. Galway: Farrell (Martin & Rankin (W.H.) Killimor District, Co. Galway, 8vo D. 1846. Lg. fold. map hd. cold. in outline, covering area between Portumna to Killimor, Kiltormer & Gurtymadden, some damp dam to edge, orig. ptd. blue wrappers. Rare. (1)More details › -
Lot 451/0210
SOLD Hammer price €320
River Shannon: Lynan (James) C.E. Paper o the River Shannon, its Present State, and the Means of Improving the Navigation and th Drainage, 8vo L. 1878. First Edn., fold. plan, 46pp., orig. ptd. boards. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 452/0210
Lough Neagh Navigation: Hancock (John) Lough Neagh under Drainage and Navigation Laws, Retrospect and Suggestions, 8vo Bristol 1883. First Edn., 36pp. interleaved, orig. ptd. wrappers. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 453/0210
SOLD Hammer price €340
Flax Growing in Ireland
Board of Works – Erection of Buildings suitable to Scutch Mills for Flax in Ireland, and for the Formation of Water Courses and Weirs necessary for Providing Water-Power for the same. 8vo D. (g. & J. Grierson) 1852. First, 10pp. 2 cold. litho plts., orig. limp cloth. Scarce. (1)More details › -
Lot 454/0210
SOLD Hammer price €340
Shannon Drainage: Stoney (F.G.M.) On the Construction of Large Sluices for Irrigation and Navigation: also a Letter to the Landed Proprietors and Gentleman interested in the Drainage of the Shannon, 8vo D,. 1875. First Edn. in Bk. Form, 7 lg. fold. litho plts., orig. cloth backed printed boards. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 455/0210
SOLD Hammer price €100
Engraved Portraits: Group of approx. 90 engraved portraits, many of Irish interest, mostly from Grace’s Family Memoirs, c. 1820, all in good condition, also some of English interest, Oliver Cromwell, Geffrey Chaucer, Ed. Campion, Sir Christopher Wren, Wm. Shakespeare, but mostly Irish related. As a portfolio, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 456/0210
Rare Litho View of Cove of Cork
Music: D’Albert (Chas.) Composer, Ireland, Quadrille of Irish Airs, 12pp. folio L. (Chappell) n.d. c. 1860, 12pp. with litho cover with rare View of the Cove of Cork, as issued. Scarce. (1)More details › -
Lot 457/0210
SOLD Hammer price €220
Fine Engraved Sepia Plates
O’Callaghan Newenham (Rob.) Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Ireland, 4to L. 1826. titles & 67 sepia plts. on India paper, mostly v. clean, in orig. parts, disbound. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. Good. (1)More details › -
Lot 458/0210
Agostino Aglio?
Co. Kerry: An attractive landscape view possibly a pen, ink & wash drawing? Upper Lake of Killarney, approx. 20cms x 28cms (8″ x 11″), on brown paper, inscribed underneath, and on reverse, in gilt frame. (1)More details › -
Lot 459/0210
Early 20th Century Irish School
Artists Sketch Book: An interesting album of original watercolours and pencil drawings, 29 pictures in all, mostly of scenery in the West of Ireland, Killarney, Brikeen Bridge, Ross Castle etc., and some attractive pencil sketches of characters in Cork, Bantry, with famous Cork Shawl, etc., all very competent, in an oblong tied album. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)More details › -
Lot 461/0210
SOLD Hammer price €420
Sketch Books: Two large oblong folio Artist Sketch Books, which have the remains (many items cut out) of an interesting collection of orig. watercolours, pencil and pen and ink sketch’s, drawings etc., with a good proportion of Irish interest, including varied views of Castle Caldwell, Florence Court, pen and ink of Slade Castle, also of Tintern Abbey, views near Passage East, Duncannon Fort, Glenbrook and others in Enniskerry, landscapes, panoramas, flowers, etc. As sketchbooks, w.a.f. (2)
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Lot 462/0210
SOLD Hammer price €4000
Exceptionally Fine Copy of Rare Irish Plate Book
Fisher (Jonathan) A Picturesque Tour of Killarney, Described in Twenty Views,.. Together with A Map of the Lake and its Environs. Lg. oblong atlas folio L. 1789. Sepia full page map, & 20 full page plates, in recent hf. green mor. marble sides, gilt lettered spine. An exceptionally fine copy of this rare volume, one of the most sought after of Irish plate books. (1)More details › -
Lot 463/0210
“The South of Ireland, 1809”
Artist Sketchbook: Sketches in the South of Ireland, 1809, A large folio sketchbook of approx. 85 original pen and ink sketches, & wash drawings by a competent hand, mostly full page size approx. 23cms x 33.5cms (9″ x 13 1/4″), and each tipped into a contemporary Album. The drawings consists of views of Co. Wicklow, Bray, Arklow and Glendalough, Wexford Town, Ferns & Enniscorthy, Co. Tipperary, Carrick-on-Suire & Ardfinnan, Lismore in Waterford, views of Cork Harbour, County Kerry, mostly in the Killarney area, others in Co. Limerick at Adare, & County Tipperary at Roscrea, together with some studies from nature, the majority which are identified in manuscript on the original There is no help as to the identity of the artist, and while the majority are sketches, it is very clear they are by a competent hand. As an Album, w.a.f. (1)More details › -
Lot 464/0210
SOLD Hammer price €190
19th Century Irish School: A sepia watercolour of a castellated country seat probably Glanstall Castle, ancestral home of the Barringtons of Limerick, mounted, but unframed. As a drawing, unusual. (1)
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Lot 465/0210
SOLD Hammer price €300
Stage Design: Mac Liammoir (Michael)? An attractive unframed watercolour, probably a stage design, c. 9″ x 15″, mounted, showing an exterior garden setting by moonlight with flowering trees, a garden house, a bench, a stone cupid, etc., unsigned but of fine quality.
Provenance: Collection of Lona Moran, close friend and associate of Michael O’Liammoir. (1)More details › -
Lot 466/0210
SOLD Hammer price €260
Prototype design for “The Tain”
le Brocquy (Louis) Proof Lithograph (black on grey) for the cover of “The Tain” Thomas Kinsella’s translation, published by Liam Miller at Dolmen Press, 1969, approx. 34cms x 47cms (13 1/2″ x 18 1/2″), mounted.
* The eventual design for the cover was printed white on black. (1)More details › -
Lot 467/0210
R. Caton Woodville, 1910
Original Sepia Drawing: Run to Earth, The interior of an Inn, with armed highway men holding up a diner seated at a table, a maid and others looking on in background and with another saddled bandit waiting outside the window. A sepia drawing, approx. 31cms x 23cms (12 1/4″ x 9″), signed and dated & inscribed on mount. An exceptionally fine drawing. (1)More details ›