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Lot 160/0210
SOLD Hammer price €280
With drawing by Martin Gale
Heaney (Seamus) The Riverbank Field, 8vo Gallery 2007. Lim. Edn. 62 (450); Signed by Author, cold. & other illus., cloth & d.w. V. good. (1)More details › -
Lot 161/0210
SOLD Hammer price €240
1798: Bartlett (T.), Dickinson (D.), Keogh (D.) & Whelan (K.) 1798 A Bicentenary Perspective, 8vo D. 2003. Special Lim. Edn. 24 (100). Signed by all the authors cloth, & slip case; Epitaph of 1798, a photographic Record of 1798 Memorials on the Island of Ireland and Beyond. Folio Enniscorthy 2002. First Edn., profusely illustrated, d.w.; Whelan (Kevin) A Bibliography of the 1798 Rebellion, 8vo D. 2003, Signed, wrappers. (3)
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Lot 162/0210
Legal Interest: O’Higgins (P.) A Bibliography of Periodical Literature relating to Irish Law, 8vo Belfast 1966, hf. title, cloth & d.j. Good clean copy. (1)
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Lot 163/0210
SOLD Hammer price €190
Irish County Bibliographies: Kavanagh (Michael V.) A Bibliography of the History of County Kildare in Books, 1976; Maher (Helen) Roscommon Authors, 1978; also Galway Authors, 1976; Cullen (Sara) Books and Authors of Co. Cavan, 1965; Keaney (Marian) Westmeath Authors, 1969; Kavanagh (M.) A Bibliography of the Co. Galway, 1965; O’Suillebhain (S.) Longford Authors, 1978, all First Edns., all d.w.’s. (7)
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Lot 164/0210
Smith (Charles) The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, 2 vols. 8vo Cork 1815. New Edn., port. frontis. Vol. I, lg. fold. county map, engd. plts. of coats of arms, fold. engd. plan, & 12 engd. plts. (7 fold.), some browning cont. hf. calf. (2)
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Lot 165/0210
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Smith (Charles) The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford, 8vo D. 1746. For the Author, First Edn., list of subscribers, lg. fold. county map, lg. fold. plan, & 3 fold. plts. only, cont. calf, early prof. reback, tooled gilt spine, mor. label. Nice copy. (1)
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Lot 166/0210
SOLD Hammer price €320
Smith (Charles) The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford, 8vo D. 1774. Second Edn. Port. frontis, lg. fold. county map, fold. town plan, & 5 engd. plts. (3 lg. fold.) complete, all very clean, cont. calf, rebacked, orig. spine laid down. V. good copy. (1)
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Lot 167/0210
SOLD Hammer price €400
Smith (Charles) The Ancient and Present State of the County of Kerry, 8vo D. n.c. [c. 1750] Printed For the Author, first Edn., engd. port. frontis, vign. title, lg. fold. engd. county map, later hd. cold., 4 engd. plts. (3 fold.) all later hd. cold. & 1 lg. fold. plan, complete some L.S.’s, cont. calf, recent professional reback, mor. label. (1)
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Lot 168/0210
SOLD Hammer price €380
Smith (Charles) The Ancient and Present State of the County of Down,…With a Survey of the New Canal,… 8vo D. 1744. First Edn., lg. fold. engd. map, v. good, recent calf, mor. raised bands, clean copy. (1)
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Lot 169/0210
SOLD Hammer price €300
Rare Limerick Printing
Meagher (Rev. Andrew) The Popish Mass Celebrated by Heathen Priests, …. or A Sermon Preached at Thurles, on Sunday the 2nd of August 1767. 8vo Limerick (T. Welsh) 1771. First Edn., list of subs. XXXIII, [II], 330pp. & errata leaf at end, orig. sheep. Rare. (1)More details › -
Lot 170/0210
SOLD Hammer price €160
Guthrie (Thos. Ayres) The Apology of Thomas Ayres Guthrie, later a Protestant, and Clerk and Schoolmaster of the Parish of Abbey, near Clonmel. 8vo Cork (John Connors) 1830. Sole Edn.; bound with other items, hf. mor. worn. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 171/0210
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Fogarty (Canon Philip) Tipperary’s G.A.A. Story, 8vo Thurles 1960, hf. title, illus., Signed by Archbishop Thomas Morris (1960 – 88), cloth & d.j. Good clean Copy. (1)
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Lot 172/0210
SOLD Hammer price €120
Modern Irish Literature: Kavanagh (Patrick) Collected Poems, roy 8vo L. 1964. First Edn., also The Green Fool, L. 1971 (Second); Behan (Brendan) Hold Your Hour and have Another, roy 8vo L. 1963, and Confessions of an Irish Rebel, L. 1965, both First Edns; Brown (Christy) Down All the Days, L. 1970, First; all with orig. d.w.’s. (5)
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Lot 173/0210
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Mc Caw Stevenson & Orr – A Boke of Ye Olde Ulster Fancie Fayre, In ayde of ye Workshoppes for Industryous Blinde. Oblong 8vo Belfast 1882. Decor. text thro.-out, adverts, orig. cloth backed decor. boards. Unusual. (1)
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Lot 174/0210
Bodkin (Thos.) Four Irish Landscape Painters, sm. 4to D. 1920. FIRST EDN., frontis & varied plts. orig. decor. buckram. Excellent copy.
* Deals in detail with the works of George Barret, James A. O’Connor, Walter F. Osborne, & Nathaniel Hone. (1)More details › -
Lot 175/0210
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Orpen (Sir Wm.) Stories of Old Ireland & Myself, sm. 4to L. 1924. FIRST EDN., frontis & 33 plts., advert leaf at end, uncut, orig. cloth backed boards. Very good. (1)
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Lot 176/0210
Rare Irish Grammar
Vallencey (Lt. Col. Charles) A Grammar of the Ibermo – Celtic, or Irish Language, To which is Prefixed An Essay on the Celtic Language, 8vo D. 1782. SECOND EDN., 9 engd. plts. (2 fold) VI, 151, [IV], & 135pp., slightly later calf, worn. Extremely Rare. V. Good. (1)More details › -
Lot 177/0210
SOLD Hammer price €200
Association Copy
[John foster] Blackstone (Wm.) An Analysis of the Laws of England, 8vo Oxford 1759. Fourth, lg. fold. engd. table, cont. sprinkled calf, upr. joint weak, spine stained.
* Title page inscribed by ‘John Foster,’ last distinguished Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and with his bookplate. also later inscribed ‘Collen Library 5c.’ (1)More details › -
Lot 178/0210
Association Copy
De Lolme (J.L.) The Constitution of England, or An Account of the English Government, 8vo D. 1776. Fourth Edn., hf. title, cont. tree calf, raised bands, mor. label.
* Inscribed ‘Rev. Patrick Murray, Maynooth College, September 24th, 1835,’ author & former President of Maynooth College. (1)More details › -
Lot 179/0210
SOLD Hammer price €420
Co. Kilkenny: Kirkpatrick (H. Clare) Court of Queens Bench (Ireland). Report of the Action for Libel Brought by the Rev. Robert O’Keeffe, P.D. against His Eminence Cardinal Cullen, 8vo L. 1874. FIRST EDN., hf. title, 600pp. cont. hf. mor. Scarce.
* Details of a very high profile case. (1)More details ›