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 41/0220
Boate (G.), Molyneaux (T.) & others. A Natural History of Ireland, 4to D. 1726. 9 engd. plts. some dbl. page, some stains, some pps. shaved, cont. calf, worn, a working copy, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 42/0220
Northern Ireland: Marjoribanks (Ed.) The Life of Lord Carson, 3 vols. L. 1932; Irvine (St. John) Craigawon Ulsterman, roy 8vo L. 1949; Bleakley (D.) Faulkner, L. 1974, d.w. (5)
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Lot 43/0220
Pamphlets: 1. Brooke (Rev. S.) Coercion, Concession and Home Rule, 8vo L. n.d. fold. cold. map; 2. Arnold (Ed. A.) Plain Politics for the Working Classes .. The Utterances of the Rt. Hon. Randolph Churchill M.P., 8vo L. 1885; 3. Gladstone (Rt. Hon. W.E.) The Irish Question, L. 1886; 4. [Murphy (N.D.)] Some Thoughts on The Irish Difficulty, L. 1868; 5. Clancy (J.J.) The Irish Question – Irish Industries & Irish Legislation, L. 1886; & approx. 19 other pamphlets & leaflets, mostly on Home Rule, loosely inserted in hf. mor. binding. as a coll., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 44/0220
Cuala Press: Gogarty (P. St. John) Wild apples, with Preface by W.B. Yeats. D. 1930. Lim. Edn. (250); Rossi (Mario M.) Pilgrimage to the West, trans. by J.M. Hone. D. 1933, Lim. Edn. (300); Donaghy (Lyle) Into the Light and other Poems, D. 1934. Lim. Edn. (200); [Harmsworth]- Desmond’s Poems, D. 1930. Signed Pres. Copy & Lim. to 75 Copies only, all orig. cloth backed boards. Good. (4)
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Lot 45/0220
Dun Emer & Cuala Press: Yeats (W.B.) Stories of Red Hanrahan, 8vo Dundrum (Dun Emer) 1904. First, Lim. Edn. (400); also The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems, 8vo D. 1924, Lim. Edn. (500); also Pages from a Diary, 8vo D. 1944, Lim. Edn. No. 13 (280), all good in orig. cloth backed boards. (3)
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Lot 46/0220
Beaslai (Piaras) Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland, 2 vols. thick sm. 4to D. 1926. Second Edn., 2 cold. frontis (1 in fac-simile) & 16 plts. (complete), orig. cloth, gilt decor. (2)
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Lot 47/0220
Joyce (P.W.) A Social History of Ancient Ireland, 2 vols. L. 1903. First Edn., illus., orig. cloth, v. good. (2)
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Lot 48/0220
Celtic Society: O’Donovan (John) Miscellany of the Celtic Society, 8vo D. 1849. First Edn., Inscribed by Wm. S. O’Brien; also 3 odd vols. of Ossianic Society Transactions. All orig. cloth. (4)
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Lot 49/0220
Moore (T.) Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1826; Lever (Chas.) Roland Cashel, 8vo L. 1850, also The Martins of Cro Martin, L. 1856, both First Edns., illus. by Phiz.; also Past and Present Policy of England towards Ireland, L. 1845., all calf. (5)
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Lot 50/0220
Bibliography: Bradshaw (H.) A Catalogue of the Radshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge, 3 vols. Lim. Facsimile of the Original Edn., orig. cloth. Good. (3)
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Lot 51/0220
Bibliography: Wolff (Rob. Lee) Nineteenth-Century Fiction. A Bibliographical Catalogue…, 4 vols. in 2, 8vo N.Y. & L. 1981. Reprint, orig. cloth. (2)
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Lot 52/0220
Periodical: Journal of Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland, Vols. 65 – 69, together 5 vols., roy 8vo D. 1935 – 1939, illus. etc., green buckram, mor. labels. As a periodical, w.a.f. (5)
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Lot 53/0220
Hall (Mr. & Mrs. S.C.) Ireland: its Scenery, Character etc, 3 vols. roy 8vo L.n.d. New Edn., engd. views, maps & text illus. a.e.g., cont. hf. green mor. tooled gilt spines. V. good clean set. (3)
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Lot 54/0220
Graves (James)ed. A Roll of the Proceedings of the King’s Council in Ireland .. Reign of Richard the Second, roy 8vo L. 1877. Fold. litho frontis, cloth backed boards; Mac Neill (C.)ed. Liber Primus Kilkenniensis, D. 1931; Longfield (A.K.)ed. Fitzwilliam Accounts 1560-65, D. 1960, both cloth. (3)
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Lot 55/0220
Special Copy with Manuscript Letters from Author
King (Sir Chas. Simeon) A Great Archbishop of Dublin William King, D.D. 1650 – 1729, 8vo L. 1906. First Edn., port. illus., orig. cloth.
* Pres. Copy to H.B. Swanzy, inscribed by author, & with 3 A.L.s. (approx. 11pp.) from the author, tipped in at front & rear. (1)More details › -
Lot 56/0220
Bibliography: Pine-Coffin (R.S.) bibliography of British and American Travel in Italy to 1860, roy 8vo Florence 1974; Colas (R.) Bibliographie Generale du Costume et de la Mode, 2 vols. roy 8vo N.Y. 1869; also works on Volataire, Rousseau, & Montaigne’s Essays. (6)
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Lot 57/0220
Bibliography: Sawyer &Darton – English Books 1475 – 1900, A Signpost for Collectors, 2 vols. n.d.; Gaskell (P.) A Bibliography of the Foulis Press, 1964; T.S. Eliot, A Bibliography, by D. Gallup, 1952; Glover & Greene – Victorian Detective Fiction, 1966; 2 vols. on English Farming Books, & a vol. on Wm. Beckford. (8)
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Lot 58/0220
Yeats & Wilde: Wilde (Oscar) The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 12mo Portland Maine (T.B. Masher) 1907. Lim. Edn. (950), orig. boards; Yeats (W.B.) The Tower, 8vo L. 1928. First Edn., orig. attractive gilt decor. cloth after T. Sturge Moore; Yeats (Jack B.) In Sand, A Play, D. (Dolmen Press) 1964. First Edn., thus, d.w.; & 2 others, one on W.B. & the other on Jack Yeats. (5)
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Lot 59/0220
Co. Louth: D’Alton (John) The History of Drogheda, with its Environs, and … Memoir of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway. 2 vols. 8vo D. 1844. Published by the Author, 2 engd. frontis, add. engd. title Vol. I, & 20 engd. maps & plts. (lacks 1 plan), orig. cloth; Gogarty (Rev. T.) Council Book of the Corporation of Drogheda, 4to Cork 1988, cloth; & 1 other sim. (4)
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Lot 60/0220
Bibliography: Pollard (M.) A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800, roy 8vo L. 2000. First; Phillips (James W.) Printing and Book selling in Dublin 1670 – 1800, D. 1998. First, d.w.; Black (R.D. Collinson) A Catalogue of Pamphlets on Economic Subjects 1750 – 1900, 4to Belfast 1969 First, d.w.; Ward (Rob. E.) Prince of Dublin Printers The Letters of George Faulkner, Kentucky 1972; & 1 other, all cloth. (5)
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