14 December 2010 - Rare Book Sale

#0210

Lot 81/0210

SOLD Hammer price €280

Harry Clarke Illustrations: Walters (L. DÓ)ed. The Year’s at the Spring, An Anthology of Recent Poetry. 4to L. 1920. First Gen. Edn. Cold. frontis & 23 plts. (11 cold.), text illus., orig. gilt decor. cloth & orig. pict. dust wrapper illus. by H. Clarke. V. good. (1)

Lot 82/0210

Wright (G.N.) Ireland Illustrated, 4to L. 1831. FIRST EDN., Add. engd. title, & 80 engd. views on 40 plts., cont. hf. mor. (1)

Lot 83/0210

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Irish Binding: The Book of Common Prayer, 4to D. (Boulter Grierson) 1765. A.e.g. cont. full straight grained crimson mor. with attractive lg. decorated swag border inside Greek type roll, & with gilt tooled oval on both covers inscribed “Eleanor Thompson 1801,” rebacked with orig. gilt tooled spine in panels, laid down. As a binding, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 84/0210

SOLD Hammer price €580

Ware (James) De Praesulibus Hiberniae Commentaruis, A Prima Gentis Hibernicae Ad Fidem Christianam Conversione, Ad Nostra usque Tempora. Folio D. (J. Crook) 1665. FIRST EDN., red & bl. title, ex. manuscript list of Bishops bound in at end, attractive recent hf. calf, raised bands, mor. labels, marble sides. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 85/0210

SOLD Hammer price €100

Signed by Author

Cogan (Tim Pat) Michael Collins – A Biography, L. 1990, also De Valera Long Fellow, Long Shadow, L. 1993. Signed by Author; Longford (Earl of), & O’Neill (T.P.) Eamon De Valera, L. 1970; Foster (R.F.) Modern Ireland, 1600 – 1972, L. 1988; A New History of Ireland – Early Modern Ireland 1534 – 1691, Oxford 1978; & 1 other, all d.w.’s. (6)

Lot 86/0210

Genealogy: Burke (Sir B.) Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland, ed. by L.G. Pine, thick roy 8vo L. 1958. FOURTH EDN., coats of arms, recent cloth, orig. spine laid down. (1)

Lot 87/0210

SOLD Hammer price €320

Genealogy: Burke (Sir B.) A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland, Sm. folio L. 1899. NINTH EDN., illus. coat-of-arms, t.e.g., orig. crimson cloth, gilt decor. Good. (1)

Lot 88/0210

SOLD Hammer price €300

Signed by L. le Brocquy
Synge (J.M.) The Playboy of the Western World, sm. folio Barre, Massachusetts (Imprint Society) 1970. Lim. Edn. 1501 (1950). Signed by illustrator L. le Brocquy & the editor Stanley Sultan. Orig. gilt decor. yellow cloth, & slip case. (11)

Lot 89/0210

SOLD Hammer price €820

Le Brocquy (Louis) Eight Irish Portraits in Words & Watercolour, 4to D. 1990. Limited Edition, No. 712 (1000), Signed by Louis le Brocquy. 8 loose cold. portraits, orig. cloth portfolio in slip case. clean copy of this scarce item. (1)

Lot 90/0210

Petrie (George) Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Language, 2 vols. in one lg. 4to D. 1872. 130 full page plts. (includ. 1 fold. & 2 orig. photos.), appears to lack plt. 52 Vol. II, cont. hf. mor. mor. label. Good. (1)

Lot 91/0210

SOLD Hammer price €140

Goldsmith – Nowell (Rev. R.H.) The Poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, 4to L. 1811. Engd. dedit., 6 attractive sepia plts. cont. full calf, tooled gilt border, rebacked, mor. labels. (1)

Lot 92/0210

Walpole (E.H.) Mount Usher 1868 – 1952, A Short History of the Origin and Development of the Gardens, 4to [Dundalk (Dundalgan Press) c. 1952]. Sole Edn. Numerous photo plts. sketches etc., cloth backed pict. boards. (1)

Lot 93/0210

Co. Westmeath: Dease (Ed. F.) A Complete History of The Westmeath Hunt, lg. 4to D. 1898. FIRST EDN., Hf. title, profusely illus. with plts., ports. & sketches, some minor finger marks, orig. cloth, rebacked. Scarce. (1)

Lot 94/0210

R.I.A.: Mallet (Rob); Lloyd (Humphrey); Boole (George) & others, The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. XXI, Part I, 4to D. 1846. Engd. fold. plts. etc., some cold. orig. cloth backed boards. As an odd vol., w.a.f.
* Contains articles on earthquakes by R. Mallet, articles by George Boole, H. Lloyd, James Mc Cullagh, & others. (1)

Lot 95/0210

SOLD Hammer price €160

Dolmen Editions: Holinshed’s Irish Chronicle, folio D. 1979. Lim. Edn. (850), wd. cut title & illus. thro-out, orig. cloth & d.w., with slip case. (1)

Lot 96/0210

Coffee Table items: Shaffrey (P. & M.) Buildings of Irish Towns, folio D. 1984; Lyons (Mary Cecelia) Illustrated Incumbered Estates Ireland 1850 – 1905, folio 1993, profusely illustrated, fine reference; That Woman! A Festschrift for Mary ‘Paul’ Pollard, 4to D. 2005; Wright – Ireland Illustrated, 1989. Kilkenny Reprint, Lim. 227 (585); Martin (L.C.) A Look at Legal Dublin, oblong folio D. 1975. Lim.; & 1 other sim. (6)

Lot 97/0210

SOLD Hammer price €190

Signed Limited Edition
Craig (Maurice)ed. James Malton’s Dublin Views, oblong sm. folio D. (Dolmen Press) 1981. Limited Edn. No. 7 of 125 Copies, signed by editor & publisher Liam Millar, cold. plts., de-luxe mor backed boards, slip case. Good. (1)

Lot 98/0210

De Luxe Limited Edition
Sullivan (Ed. J.) illustrator: The Vicar of Wakefield, by Oliver Goldsmith. Sm. folio L. 1914. Lim. Edn., No. 280 of 500 copies, Signed by Artist, 16 cold. plts. (include. frontis) uncut, recent hf. blue mor. Good. (1)

Lot 99/0210

SOLD Hammer price €500

[Jack B. Yeats] Pyle (Hilary) Jack B. Yeats. A Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings. 3 vols. thick 4to L. 1992. Lim. Edn. 651 (1500), illus. thro.-out, orig. cloth & slip case. Good. (3)

Lot 100/0210

SOLD Hammer price €280

Lewis (Samuel) A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, plus Atlas. Together 3 vols. thick 8vo L. 1850. Second Edn. lg. fold. hd. cold. map of Ireland & 32 single page maps hd. cold. in outline, Ex. Libris copy, later blue cloth. Good. (3)