14 December 2010 - Rare Book Sale

#0210

Lot 120/0210

SOLD Hammer price €1100

Signed by The Artist
Walsh (Wendy)artist. Flowers of Mayo. Dr. Patrick Browne’s ‘Fasciculus Plantarum Hibrenico’ 1788. Introd. by E. Chas. Nelson, Folio D. (de Burca) 1995. Lim. Edn. (150), out of series, but signed by artist, Wendy Walsh, fine cold. plts., & decor., orig. crushed mor. backed oatmeal boards, & slip case. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 121/0210

Ross (Martin) & Somerville (E.O.E.) A Patrick’s Day Hunt, lg. oblong folio L. n.d. Second, decor. title, 8 cold. plts. & other illus., orig. pict. boards, rebacked. (1)

Lot 122/0210

SOLD Hammer price €400

Somerville (E.O.E.) Slipper’s A.B.C. of Fox-Hunting, lg. folio L. 1903. FIRST EDN., vignette title, 20 fine full page cold. plts., orig. full pict. cloth, re-cased. Plts. v. clean. (1)

Lot 123/0210

SOLD Hammer price €380

Limited to 50 Copies Only
Solomons (Estella F.) Twenty Etchings, folio D. 1973. Lim. Edn. 36 (50), 20 inscribed full page (loose) etchings printed by Pat Hickey, loose as issued in cloth portfolio. Scarce. (1)

Lot 124/0210

SOLD Hammer price €80

Reprint: Thompson (Wm.) Appeal of one Half of the Human Race, Women, against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain them in Political, and Thence in Civil and domestic Slavery, 8vo cork Reprint 1975. Lim. Edn. No. 6 of 500, Signed by publisher Cal Hyland, & ed. Joseph Lee, hf. calf; also Protestantism in Spain, its Progress and its Extinction, 16mo D. (J. Porteous) 1835. Wd.-cut frontis, & 2 plts. cloth, scarce chapbook. (2)

Lot 125/0210

SOLD Hammer price €380

Signed Hand-Coloured Copy
Dolmen Press: O’Meara (John J.) The Voyage of Saint Brendan: Journey to The Promised Land, 8vo D. 1976. Lim. Edn. No. 16 of 50 Copies Only, Signed by Author & Publisher, Liam Miller. With 8 hand coloured illus. & 2 hd. cold. titles, initials, & with orig. hd. cold. & signed Prospectus loosely inserted specially hd. bound calf, blind & gilt tooled decor., & orig. slip case. Fine copy. (1)

Lot 126/0210

SOLD Hammer price €200

Special Limited Edition
Longley (Michael) Snow Water, 8vo L. (Cape Poetry) 2004, Lim. Edn. No. 92 of 100 Copies Only, signed by Author, & specially bound in full pale goatskin, slipcase. (1)

Lot 127/0210

Signed by Jack B. Yeats
Masefield (John) Lost Endeavour, L. 1910. FIRST EDN., cold. frontis, decor. end-papers, orig. cloth & signed, orig. cold. pict. d.w. In later mor. backed cloth slip case.
* Signed Pres. Copy from Author to Jack B. Yeats, & inscribed by Jack B. Yeats. V. good. (1)
** WITHDRAWN.**

Lot 128/0210

SOLD Hammer price €120

[James Joyce] Beckett (Samuel) & others, Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, Sm. 4to L. (Faber & Faber) n.d. c. 1929. First English Edn.? orig. blue cloth, & ptd. d.w. with circle design. V. good. (1)

Lot 129/0210

Fine Irish Binding – De Vesci Copy
Hayley (Wm.) The Poetical Works of William Hayley, Esq., 3 vols. 12mo D. (Wm. Porter) 1785. In attractive full cont. tree calf, gilt fillet each cover, profusely tooled gilt spines, mor. labels, & bookplate of Viscount De Vesci, Abbeyleix. V. desirable set. (3)

Lot 130/0210

Irish Binding: [Burney (Fanny)] Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress, By the Author of Evelina. 5 vols. 12mo L. 1782. Lacks leaf C5 in Vol. IV, otherwise a very clean set, in cont. full calf, profusely tooled gilt spines, in panels. mor. labels. Good. (5)

Lot 131/0210

[Lawrence (J.) The Crevalier de Lawrence] A Picture of Verdun or The English Detained in France, 2 vols. 12mo L. 1810. SECOND EDN., some Irish content, cont. hf. calf, mor. labels, & with the ticket of Dunlap, Coleraine, bookseller & binder. Scarce. (2)

Lot 132/0210

SOLD Hammer price €450

[Synge (Ed.)] A Defence of the Established Church and Laws, sm. 8vo D. (J. Brocas.) 1705. FIRST EDN., title within dbl. ruled border, orig. panel calf, raised bands, mor. label. V. good. Rare. (1)

Lot 133/0210

SOLD Hammer price €260

Inscribed by Sir Roger Casement’s Father
[Creech (Thomas)]ed. Lucretuis Carus (T.) The Spiecerean Philosopher, His Six Books De Natura Rerum, Done into English Verse, with Notes. 8vo Oxford 1682. FIRST EDN., title within lined borders, errata leaf at end, cont. panel calf, upr. joint cracked.
* Title page inscribed in ink by R. Casement, father of the Irish Patriot, Sir Roger, who was executed by the British Government for his part in the Rising of 1916. Purchased from Casement Library, at Magherintemple, Cushendal, Co. Antrim. Fine Association copy. (1)

Lot 134/0210

Connor (Bernard) Evengelium Medici: sev Medicina Mystica; De Suspensis Naturae Legibus sive de Miraculis,… Sm. 8vo Jene (H. Christophorum Croekerum) 1724. Fourth Edn. [XVI] 193, [11]pp., almost cont. hf. calf, professional re-back, raised bands, mor. labels. Rare. (1)

Lot 135/0210

SOLD Hammer price €240

Early Dublin Printing: Hoyle (Edmund) The Polite Gamester, 12mo D. (For G. & A. Ewing) 1745. First Dublin Edn., general title page, some stains, recased, cont. full calf, new label. Rare. (1)

Lot 136/0210

Association Copy

Ware (James) De Hibernia & Antiquitatibus ejus, Disquisitiones, 12mo L. 1654. FIRST EDN., red & bl. title, engd. Map of Ireland, & Plan of Lough Derg, but lacking frontis & signature K.p. 128 / 129, later full vellum, decor. spine.
* G. Noble Plunketts copy inscribed by him; also inscribed J.F. Knott, 27 April ’81. (1)

Lot 137/0210

SOLD Hammer price €460

Fishing: Greydrake (Geoffrey) The Angling Excursions of Gregory Greendrake, Esq., in the Counties of Wicklow, Meath, Westmeath, Longford and Cavan, 12mo D. 1832. Fourth, engd. frontis, VI, 313pp. some pencil marks, cont. mor. backed boards. Scarce. (1)

Lot 138/0210

Irish Catholics: Relation of Two Free Conferences, Between Fataer L’Chess, and Four Considerable Jesuits, … Sent in a Letter from Paris, to a Considerable Popish Lord in England. Sm. 4to [L.] 1680. FIRST EDN., [IV], 34pp., title, torn & some repair, recent boards. (1)

Lot 139/0210

[Crowe] To-day in Ireland, 3 vols. 12mo L. 1825, uncut, orig. boards, worn; Drennan (Dr.) Glendalloch, and Other Poems, 12mo D. 1859. Second Edn., cloth. (4)