14 December 2010 - Rare Book Sale

#0210

Lot 567/0210

SOLD Hammer price €1700

Walsh (Wendy) A Prospect of Irish Flowers, Ten Watercolour Paintings. Ed. by E. Charles Nelson. Lg. folio Belfast (Blackstaff Press) 1990. LIM. EDN. No. 120 of 125 Copies, Signed by Wendy Walsh and Charles Nelson. 10 fine cold. plts. orig. cloth backed flower decor. boards with matching slip case. V. good. (1)

Lot 568/0210

SOLD Hammer price €1550

Rare Signed Limited Edition

Piper (Raymond) Piper’s Flowers, Intro. & notes by E. Chas. Nelson, & designed by Wendy Dunbar. Lg. atlas folio Belfast (Blackstaff Press) 1987. Lim. Edn. No. 7 of 100 Copies only, Signed by Artist & Designers. 10 full page, coloured plts., orig. oatmeal cloth backed boards & cloth slip case. (1)

Lot 569/0210

SOLD Hammer price €320

Each Print Signed by the Artist

Piper (Raymond) Three Irish Orchids, lg. atlas folio Belfast (Blackstaff Press) n.d. (c. 1998) Fine Lim. Edn. Portfolio of 3 Prints. Each Print Signed and Numbered by Artist, No. 22 of 125 Copies Only, with letterpress booklet, in attractive cloth backed portfolio. (1)

Lot 570/0210

SOLD Hammer price €1400

Rare Irish Colour Plate Book

Sex (Susan) & Sayers (Brendan) Ireland’s Wild Orchids, lg. folio 2004. Lim. Edn. No. 586 (700) Copies, Signed by Artist & Author, 35 lg. full page cold. plts. & numerous other cold. decor. & illus., orig. cloth, with hf. vellum pict. front cover. & orig. cloth slip case. A magnificent production. (1)

Lot 571/0210

SOLD Hammer price €280

Fine Coloured Plates: Parker (Richard Dunscombe) The Birds of Ireland, lg. oblong atlas folio Belfast (Blackstaff Press) 1983. Lim. Edn. No. 73 of 250 Copies, Signed by Editor, & Designer, 40 fine mounted cold. plts., orig. full hf. calf, marble sides, & matching slip case by Sydney Aiken. V. good. (1)

Lot 572/0210

Fine Political Caricature Lithographs – after John Doyle

Mc Lean (Tho.) Publishers, Political Sketches, 4 vols., lg. atlas folio L. c. 1830-40, 4 litho titles, 4 frontis plts., & approx. 340 lithos, each attractively mounted on a full cut-out brown page, in cont. uniform strongly bound hf. mor., with mor. labels on front covers. Bookplate of Charles William Packe. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. Scarce collection. (4)

Lot 573/0210

SOLD Hammer price €170

Co. Monaghan: Manuscript – Rents & Farmers Accounts, 12mo Balleybee [Ballyboy] c. 1759 – 63., 12pp, in antique limp vellum cover. Interesting item. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 574/0210

SOLD Hammer price €360

Illustrations to Joyce’s Ulysses
Special Limited Edition, 250 Copies Only

Alberts (Julian) A Bouquet of Blooms, lg. folio Nice (Nightown Press) n.d. Lim. Edn., (650), This No. 33 of 250 Copies with 1 extra plate, Signed by artist, 11 wd. cut plts. in all, loose, in orig. folder. (1)

Lot 575/0210

Newspaper: The Belfast News Letter, No. 7379 – 7586, lg. folio, approx. 207 issues between Jan. 1st 1808 – Dec. 29, 1809, two years, all a very good condition, recent strong hf. tan calf, marble sides, raised bands, mor. label. V. good copy. As a periodical, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 576/0210

Signed by Geo. Cruikshank

Coloured Engraving: Ballad Sheet, A Bundle of Truths, Sung, with great Applause, by Mr. Henry Johnston, in Dublin, Cork, etc. Single sheet, with engrd caricature print after Geo. Cruikshank on top by Laurie & Whittle, London, c. 1811, approx. 14″ x 12″, and inscribed in ink, ‘Engraved from a drawing by me, – George Cruikshank, “Long Long Ago,” ‘ framed. Good & Scarce. (1)

Lot 577/0210

SOLD Hammer price €550

Fine Early Illuminated Manuscript Leaf

Book of Hours: Attractive original early illuminated vellum leaf from a French Book of Hourse, c. 1470, approx. 17cms x 12cms (6 3/4″ x 4 3/4″), containing Psalm 121 (K.J. 122) & prayer ‘Deus Qui Saltutis,’ with attractive and competent large painted floral borders, in various colours and highlighted in gilt, framed to display both sides. Rare & good. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 578/0210

Wm. Ward after Hugh Hamilton

Rare Irish Mezzotint: An attractive mezzotint engraving showing Walter Blake Kirwin, Dean of Killala, preaching to a fashionable audience, with young children around a pulpit, engraved by William Ward after the original by Hugh Hamilton, approx. 61cms x 69cms (24″ x 26 3/4″), published by 1st January, 1806 by Wm. Allen, Dublin. Dedicated to his Excellency, Philip Earl of Hardwicke, Ld. Lieutenant. Inscribed on an added slip at base, ‘The Governors and Guardians of the Female Orphan House, Dublin, intended by this print to express to the Revd. Walter Blake Kirwan … their most grateful sense… . What was meant to be mark of sincere respect to the living, they now publish as a just tribute to the Memory of the Dead.’ As a print, framed, w.a.f.
* Dean Kirwin (1754 – 1805) from Galway was firstly a Catholic clergyman and a professor at Louvain. He transferred to the Church of Ireland, 1787, but retained the respect of both denominations. A powerful speaker, he raised large sums for charity. (1)

Lot 579/0210

Botanic Gardens: A fine engd. Plan of the Botanic Gardens, near Glasnevin, engd. by H. Mutlow, 1820, approx. 40cms x 28cms (15 3/4″ x 11″), in black frame. Scarce. (1)

Lot 580/0210

SOLD Hammer price €850

Excessively Rare Engraved View of Howth, 1745

King (Giles) Engraver, after Wm. Jones, View of Hoth, To the Rt. Hon. Wm. St. Lawrence Lord Baron of Hoth in the County of Dublin, printed London (John Bowles) 1745., approx. 39cms x 50cms (15 1/2″ x 19 1/2″), in orig. hogarth type frame. Ex. Rare. (1)

Lot 581/0210

SOLD Hammer price €525

T.C.D.: A Prospect of the Library of Trinity College Dublin, a fine lg. hand cold. engraving, published in London, 1753, approx. 35cms x 51cms (14″ x 21″), on wash mount, unframed. (1)

Lot 582/0210

Original 18th Century Architectural Drawing

Co. Carlow?: Nowlan (Michael) Architect. A Plan of an Obilisque Pedestils and Orrens to be done for Samuel Faulkner Esq. To be erected over the gateway at the entrance to the Forth. December 3rd 1794. Drew at large by a scale of 2 feet to one Inch by Michael Nowlan. A large pen, ink & wash architectural drawing, approx. 40cms x 31cms (15 1/2″ x 12 1/4″), somewhat stained, wooden frame. As a m/ss., w.a.f. V. Rare. (1)

Lot 583/0210

SOLD Hammer price €450

Rare Work by Limerick Artist

Original Watercolour: Haydn (J.A.) 1881 – 1957. A large panoramic view of a Castle ruins, with ruined Ancillary buildings, entrance arch, church etc., watercolour, signed and dated 1931, approx. 29cms x 74cms (11 1/2″ x 29″), in recent gilt frame.
* John Armour Haydn, Architectural and landscape painter was the only son of the Ven. J.A. Haydn, Rector of Nantenan, near Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, and sometime Archdeacon of Limerick. He was first employed in Guinness in Dublin and later Limerick. He exhibited in the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1933 – 34. He died in 1957, and is buried in the grounds of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick. (1)

Lot 584/0210

SOLD Hammer price €350

Views of Cork Harbour

Stopford (Rob. L.) Cork Harbour from Spy Hill, and The Cork River from Lota Park, a pair of panoramic litho prints, after R.L. Stopford, published by Day & Son, London, stained, in gilt frames. (2)

Lot 585/0210

SOLD Hammer price €10500

Engraved by Gillray, Cruikshank, Humphries & Others

Hand-coloured Caricatures: A very large Album, A Select Collection of Humorous Engravings, Caricatures etc., by Various Artists, Selected and Arranged by Thomas McLean, 26 Haymarket [L.], n.d. Lg. atlas folio c. 1801 -1827.
A magnificent collection of approx. 175 orig. hand coloured engraved caricatures, by J. Gillray, George & Rob. Cruickshank, Theodore Lane, H. Humphries, G. Hunt & others, consisting of 18 lg. full page (approx. 32cms x 41cms), 25, three-quarter page (25cms x 36cms), 60 half page (22cms x 29cms approx); & 72 smaller examples, all attractively hand coloured, and each mounted lightly, edges only, several of Irish interest, and a few of French interest. In a strong contemporary full straight grained mor. binding, a.e.g., one gathering and one separate page loose, with lg. blind & gilt tooled borders, lg. gilt tooled panels and spine profusely tooled in panels. V. good. As an Album, w.a.f
* A wonderful collection – See Illustration Front Cover and Plates. (1)

Lot 586/0210

SOLD Hammer price €350

The Bogs and Rivers in Kerry

Co. Kerry: Nimmo (Alexander) The Bogs and Rivers of Laune and Lower Maine in Kerry, including area around Lake of Killarney, Beauford, Kilorglin, Cara Bridge, Inch Bridge & back to Castlemaine & Milltown. Published Lond. 1814, hd. coloured, approx. 59cms x 70cms (23″ x 27 1/2″), in black wooden frame. Good. (1)