14 December 2010 - Rare Book Sale

#0210

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)

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)

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)
* A very useful reference for legal researchers.

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)

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)

Lot 165/0210

SOLD Hammer price €300

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Lot 171/0210

SOLD Hammer price €80

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)

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)

Lot 173/0210

SOLD Hammer price €110

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)