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Lot 689/0210
SOLD Hammer price €90
O’Suillebhain (Sean) A Handbook of Irish Folklore, 8vo D. 1942. First Edn., port. frontis, orig. cloth backed boards. Good. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 690/0210
SOLD Hammer price €160
Republican interest: Mac Swiney (T.) Principles of Freedom 8vo D. (B. O’Higgins) 1936, d.w.; Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story, 8vo Tralee 1947; Harvey (D.) & White (G.) The Barracks, A History of Victoria / Collins Barracks, Cork, 8vo Cork 1997; Mackey (H.D.) Roger Casement The Secret History of the Forged Diaries, D. 1962; & 4 others sim. (8)
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Lot 691/0210
SOLD Hammer price €100
Engineering Ireland: Burnett (J.E.) & Morrison-Law (A.D.) Vulgar & Mechanick – The Scientific Instrument Trade in Ireland, 1650 – 1921, 4to D. (R.D.S.) 1989. First Edn., Signed by Authors, illus.; & 11 others sim. or related. (12)
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Lot 692/0210
SOLD Hammer price €500
Signed by Most of the Contributors
Heaney (Seamus) Patron – Irish Hospice Foundation, The Whoseday Book, oblong 8vo D. (Irish Hospice Foundation) 1999. Special Lim. Edn. of 42 Copies, signed by Seamus Heaney, John Banville, L. le Brocquy, Roddy Doyle, Maeve Binchy, Sabastian Barry, Colm Toibin, Felim Egan etc., (approx. 36 signatures), illus., orig. cloth, & d.w. V. Scarce. (1)More details › -
Lot 693/0210
SOLD Hammer price €200
Burke (Rev. Wm. P.) History of Clonmel, 4to Waterford (N. Harvey & Co.) 1907. First Edn., red & bl. title, engd. frontis + 13 plts. t.e.g., cont. full crimson mor., gilt decor., upr. joint cracked, some wear. Good & Scarce. (1)
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Lot 694/0210
SOLD Hammer price €1000
Boyle (Robert), Nobillissimi Angli et Societatis Regiae Dignissimi Socii, Opera Varia, Oubrum posthac exstat Catalogues. 4to Geneva (S. de Tournes) 1680. Red & bl. title, with wd. cut device, engd. port., separate title, & 5 engd. plts. (4 fold.), front blank loose, and both paste down torn, orig. sprinkled calf, spine tooled gilt in panel, raised bands. Good & Scarce. (1)
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Lot 695/0210
SOLD Hammer price €100
Irish Railways: Fayle (H.) Narrow Gauge Railway of Ireland, L. 1946; Nock (O.S.) Irish Steam, 1982; & 4 others on Railways, & 2 on Canals & Ships. (8)
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Lot 696/0210
Gogarty (Oliver St. John) In Memorial of My Friend Arthur Russell, Soldier & Airman, N.P. 1934, single sheet; Other to Adorn, 8vo L. 1938, First Edn.; Tumbling In the Hay, 8vo L. 1939, First Edn.,; Perennial, L. 1946, First Edn.; O’Connor (Ulick) Oliver St. John Gogarty, 8vo L. 1965 (Third Impression), cloth, as a lot, w.a.f. (5)
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Lot 697/0210
SOLD Hammer price €140
Smith (Aquilla)ed. Annales de Monte Fernandi (Annals of Multifernan), 4to D. (I.A.S.) 1842. First Edn., vellum backed boards. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 698/0210
SOLD Hammer price €75
[Reeves (Wm.) D.D.] The Book of Common Prayer, according to The Use of the Church of Ireland: Its History and Sanction. 8vo D. 1871, 54pp; Bound with Garstin (John Ribton) The Book of Common Prayer in Ireland: Its Original and History, D. 1871, 40pp., mor. backed boards. (1)
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Lot 699/0210
SOLD Hammer price €230
Dublin Histories: Gilbert (J.T.) A History of City of Dublin, 3 vols. 8vo 1978 Reprint, in slipcase; also Ball (F.E.) A History of County Dublin, 6 vols. 8vo Library Edn., 1995 Reprint, in slip case. (9)
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Lot 700/0210
Brash (Richard Rolt) The Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil in the British Islands, 4to L. 1879. First Edn., Ed. by Geo. M. Atkinson, hf. title, port. frontis fold. map & 50 plts., orig. mor. backed cloth boards. Good. (1)
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Lot 701/0210
Anderson (Ernest B.) Sailing Ships of Ireland, D. 1984, illus., d.w.; Mac Polin (D.) The Drontheim Forgotten Sailing Boat of the Irish Coast, 8vo D. 1992, illus., wrappers; Underhill (H.A.) Sailing Ship Rigs and Rigging, 4to Glasgow 1938, illus; & 5 others of sim. interest. (8)
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Lot 702/0210
Dublin interest: Gilligan (H.A.) History of the Port of Dublin, 1988; de Courcy (J.W.) The Liffey in Dublin, 1996; Meehan (J.) & Clarke (D.)eds. The Royal Dublin Society 1731 – 1981, D. 1981; O’Donnell (E.E.) The Annals of Dublin Fair City, D. 1987; Kinane (Vincent) A History of the Dublin University Press 1734 – 1976, D. 1994; & 3 others sim., all v. clean in d.w.’s. (8)
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Lot 703/0210
O’Brien (Conor Cruise) Memoir My Life and Thames, D. 1998. First Edn., Signed by Author; Writers and Politics, L. 1965; Murderous Angels, L. 1969; Passion & Cunning, N.Y. 1988; The Great Melody, L. 1992; & 1 other, all d.w.’s. (6)
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Lot 704/0210
SOLD Hammer price €80
Military: Ross – Lewin (Harry) Ross Hill, Co. Clare, With ‘The Thirty-Second’ Irish Peninsular and other Campaigns, 8vo D. 1904. Ed. by J. Wardell, First Edn., Pres. Copy to Lord Monteagle, & B.P., orig. cloth. (1)
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Lot 705/0210
Genealogy: O’Donoghue (J.) Historical Memoir of The O’Briens, D. 1860. First Edn., cloth, v. good; Gwynn (S.)ed. Charlotte Grace O’Brien, D. 1969, First Edn., port. frontis cloth, good; O’Brien Grania (R.) These My Friends and Forebears – The O’Briens of Dromoland, 4to Clare 1991, signed by Author. All with bookplate of Monteagle & Brandon. (3)
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Lot 706/0210
Brinsley Sheridan: Moore (Thomas) Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 2 vols. L. 1825. Third, engd. port. frontis, fold. fac-simile, hf. calf; also O’Toole (F.) A Traitor’s Kiss, L. 1997; Kelly (Linda) Richard Brinsley Sheridan, A Life, 1997, both Firsts, d.w. (4)
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Lot 707/0210
SOLD Hammer price €7000
One of Only 250 Copies
Signed by James Joyce & Henri Matisse
Limited Editions Club: Joyce (James) Ulysses, with an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse. Lg. 4to N. York 1935 Lim. Edn. (1500) of which Only 250 copies were signed by Author & Artist, 26 fine illustrations by Matisse including six soft-ground etchings, uncut, orig. gilt decor. brown cloth, in orig. publisher’s cardboard slipcase. Slocum & Cahoon. A22. An extremely fine copy of this rarity.
* Joyce only signed 250 copies apparently quiet annoyed that Matisse’s illustrations depicted the characters from Homer’s Ulysses & not his own version of it. (1)More details › -
Lot 708/0210
SOLD Hammer price €1200
First Edition Printed in England
Joyce (James) Ulysses, 4to L. (John Lane – Bodley Head) 1936. LIMITED EDN. No. 946 of 1000 Copies, printed on Japon vellum, t.e.g., uncut, fine green linen buckram with gilt design of Homeric bow designed by Eric Gill on front cover, spine somewhat faded, otherwise v. good copy. Rare. (1)More details ›