26 September 2012 - Rare Books & Collectors' Specialist Sale
#0220
Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny
26 September 2012 - Rare Books & Collectors' Specialist Sale
#0220
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Lot 398/0220
Irish Literary interest: O’Casey (Sean) A small slip of paper, inscribed in m/ss ‘For Vincent Gill & Lonsford from Sean O’Casey with all good wishes. Devon 1949’; also two miniature plaster type busts of James Joyce & Brendan Behan, mounted on board & framed. (3)
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Lot 399/0220
Abbey Theatre: Yeats (W.B.) The King’s Threshold, a programme for Abbey Theatre, Dublin April 6th, 1922, 4pp in usual Abbey grey covers. With what maybe W.B. Yeats’ pencilled signature on upper cover? and with a group of about 11 others Abbey Programmes, all same period. As a coll.,w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 400/0220
Irish Stamps: Collection of Irish Stamps & First Day Covers, together with a small collection of booklets of Irish Language interest. As a lot. (1)
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Lot 401/0220
Co. Cork: Book Auction Catalogue – An Important and Highly Interesting Sale of The Entire Library from Doneraile Court, 8vo D. (Hamilton & Hamilton) Sale 17 & 18 December, 1969. Sole Edition,orig. ptd. wrappers. (1)
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Lot 402/0220
Important Dublin Sale
Earl of Iveagh: Catalogue of the Valuable, Antique and Interesting Contents of No. 80 St. Stephens Green, Dublin, By Direction of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Iveagh. To be Sold – Commencing 28th Day of September 1939, by Battesby & Co. 12 full page plts. & other illus., partly priced, orig. illus. wrappers. Scarce. (1)More details › -
Lot 403/0220
Costello (Mrs. E.) Amhrian Mhuighe Seola, Traditional Folk-Songs from Galway and Mayo, 4to D. 1923. FIRST EDN., some m/ss notes, orig. ptd. wrappers, stained. (1)
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Lot 404/0220
Military Medals: Cresswell (Oliver D.) Irish Medals, 4to Belfast 1961. LIM. EDN. 149 (150), cyclostyled typescript, in folder. As a typescript, w.a.f. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 405/0220
Military: Group of 12 Military Training Manuals, Regulations, etc., all 12mo c. 1901 – 1925, include. Field Almanac 1916, mostly cloth bound. as a coll., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 406/0220
Irish House of Commons: Key to the National Picture of The Irish House of Commons, A.D. 1790, College Green, Dublin, painted by Barraud & Hayter, & published by R. Turner, Fine Art Publishers, London, approx. 22 1/2″ x 31″, folded & in orig. ptd. boards. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 407/0220
Wexford interest
Political Photographs: John Redmond. Four original photographs by Keogh Bros., Dublin of John Redmond, addressing crowds at various locations, including one of a March / procession on The Quays in Waterford, each approx. 4 1/2″ x 6″, also larger group photo of Mr. Patrick Hogan, T.D. Ex-Minister for Agriculture, Mr. John Keating T.D. for Wexford, Major General Gearoid O’Sullivan, T.D., Army comrades Assoc.; & Mr. Wm. Corcoran The Free Press Wexford, taken c. 1932, approx. 6 1/4″ x 8 1/22, as a lot of photos, w.a.f. (1)More details › -
Lot 408/0220
Irish Defence Forces: Oglaigh na hEireann, Defence Force regulation Trumpet and Bugle Calls, 8vo, D. 1926, FIRST EDN., Ex. Libris Terry de Valera, with inscription on front loose-end, orig. cloth, with blind stamp; together with a black and white Photograph of Eamon de Valera at his desk writing, as a lot. Good. (2)
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Lot 409/0220
O’Ceallaigh (Sean T.) A brief A.L.s. on Sinn Fein headed paper, 26.8.24, 1pp. to C.S. [Chief of Staff?], acknowledging a sum of cash for repairs of a Ford Car, signed ‘De chara (Sean T.)’ inscribed in another hand, ‘Return Please.’
* Sean T. O’Ceallaigh [O’Kelly] was staff captain to Pearse in the G.P.O. in 1916. He evaded arrest at that time, and was afterwards a Sinn Fein T.D. and a Republican envoy in Paris. He was a founder member of Fianna Fail in 1926, later a Minister and in 1945 succeeded Douglas Hyde as President of Ireland. (1)More details › -
Lot 409A/0220
Michael Collins Shells The Rebels
Republican: Michael Collins: Newspapers, Irish Life – Special Number, exclusive Pictures of Ireland’s Tragic Week – July 14th, 1922, roy 8vo, D. 1922, illus. & adverts, 25pps. & loose cuttings relating to the Death of Michael Collins; Daily Sketch – Weekly Edition, A Complete Pictorial and News Record (Six Issues Bound) No. 520 – Thursday July 6th, 1922 – Michael Collins Shells The Rebels in Dublin, illus. & adverts, as newspapers, w.a.f. (2)More details › -
Lot 410/0220
Irish Army: D.F.R., First Aid & Hygiene and Sanitation, Training Regulations No. 14, 4to D. [1941]; D.F.R., Manual of The Light Machine Gun (Bren), Second Edn. D. 1959, and one other similar, as a lot. (3)
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Lot 411/0220
Republican interest: Irish Times – Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook, Easter 1916, roy 8vo D. (Weekly Irish Times) 1917. Illus. & fold. map, orig. ptd. wrappers; also The Red Path to Glory – With the I.R.A. in the Fight for Freedom 1919 to the Truce, 8vo Tralee n.d. [c. 1919], orig. ptd. wrappers. Both v. good. (2)
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Lot 412/0220
Meason (Geo. S.) The Official Illustrated Guide to the Midland & Great Western … and Dublin and Drogheda Railways, 8vo L. n.d., c. 1867, Pres. Copy to his sister, fold. maps etc; Martin (Hugh) Ireland in Insurrection, L. 1921, map frontis; The Sinn Fein Revolt Illustrated, oblong folio illus., & others. As a lot. (1)
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Lot 413/0220
Republican: [O’Donovan Rossa Committee) Diarmuid O’Donnabhain Rosa 1831 – 1915, 4to D. [Patrick Mahon] [1915], Official Souvenir, illus., ptd. wrappers; together with a m/ss 3 page transcription of Pearse’s Graveside Oration, loosely inserted. Unusual and Scarce. Good clean copy. (1)
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Lot 414/0220
Collins (Michael) An Saorstat – The Irish Free State, (Newspaper) Vol. 1 No. 28, for Tuesday 29, 1922, ‘Michael Collins Memorial Number’ 8pp lg. folio Original First Edition, each page with black border, numerous illus. thro-out, damp stain on lower end. Rare; together with a black and white Photograph of Michael Collins, w.a.f. (2)
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Lot 415/0220
Mac Bride (Sean) I.R.A. Accounts, October 1924: A typescript document summarising the IRA’s cash accounts for the month ending the 31st October 1924, certified correct by Sean Mc Bride, Director of Finance; sanctioned by Frank Aiken, Chief of Staff; accepted by M. Colivet, for Minister for Finance, and signed by all three; with the IRA rubber stamp dated 9.11.24. The accounts show total expenditure of £768-0-0, with balance on hands of £175.5.1d. As a manuscript, w.a.f.
* A remarkable document bearing the signatures of a future Nobel and Lenin Peace Prize laureate, and a future Minister for Foreign Affairs, the first Irish Minister to speak at United Nations(1)More details › -
Lot 416/0220
Ephemera: Attractive colour printed Admission Card for The Prime Minister’s Meeting in the Theatre Royal, Dublin, July 19th, 1912, Chairman John E. Redmond, issued to Mr. Wm. M. Corcoran [Free Press] Wexford & printed by Brown & Nolan Ltd; also a Fine Gael Membership Card issued to Capt. Liam Walsh, 1933. As Ephemera. (2)
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