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 645/0220
Connemara: M’Manus (Rev. H.) Sketches of the Irish Highlands, Irish Missions in West Connaught since 1840 – 1846, sm. 8vo L. 1863. First Edn.,; also Shand (Alex. Innes) Letters from The West of Ireland, 12mo Edin. 1885. First Edn. Bk. Form, hf. title, advert at end, both orig gilt decor. cloth. Good & Scarce. (2)
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Lot 646/0220
Co. Wickow: Wright (G.N.) A Guide to the County of Wicklow, 16mo L. 1822. engd. frontis, lg. fold. map, & 4 engd. plts.;Bound with, A Guide to the Giants Causeway, 16mo L. 1823, engd. frontis, fold. map, & 3 engd. plts.; Bound with, A Guide to the Lakes of Killarney, 16mo L. 1822, engd. frontis, 4 engd. plts. & engd. plan, hf. calf; also A Third of Edn. of Wicklow Volume, 12mo D. 1835, map & plts. cloth; Fraser (J.) Guide to the County of Wicklow, 12mo D. 1842. Fold. map & illus., orig. cloth. All good. (3)
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Lot 647/0220
Irish Legal interest etc: Glover (W.E.) A Treatise on the Registration of Ownership of Land in Ireland, D. 1933; Hogan (James) Election and Representation, Cork 1945; Irish Free-State Standing Orders of Seanad Eireann… together with The Constitution 1930, 8vo D. 1930; Dail Eireann Standing Orders, 1923, cloth; Humphries (J.H.) Proportional Representation, A Study in Methods of Election, L. 1911; & 2 others. (7)
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Lot 648/0220
French Texts etc: Anecdotes sur M. la Comtesse du Barri, 12mo L. 1775, hf. calf; De Sanseverino (Mr.) Histoire de la Vie et de la Mort Tragigue de Bianca Capello Noble Venitienne et Grand – Duchesse de Toscane, Sm. 8vo Lausanne 1779 later hf. calf; de Girardin (Mme E.) Marguerite au Deux Amours, 12mo Paris 1856; de Lamartine (A.) Genevieve Histoire d’une Servante, 12mo Paris 1856, hf. mor. All good. (4)
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Lot 649/0220
Thompson (Hugh) illustrator, Dobson (A.) The Story of Rosina, L. 1895; The History of Henry Esmond Esq., by Thackeray ed. by A. Dobson, L. 1905; Coridon’s Song & other verses, L. 1894; Tristram (W.O.) Coaching Days and Coaching Ways, L. 1894. All illustrated by Hugh Thompson; also Spielman (M.H.) & Jerrold (W.) Hugh Thompson, His Art, Letters, Humour and His Charm, L. 1931. First, illus. (5)
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Lot 650/0220
[Wilde (Lady)] Poems, by Speranza. 8vo D. 1864 First Edn., orig. cloth loose; Strong (Rupert) The Challenger, A Choric Ode, roy 8vo D. (Runa Press) 1968, with A.L.s. loosely inserted; O’Sullivan (S.) Poems, D. (Orwell Press) 1938, soiled, but with slip signed by author loosely inserted; Skelton (R.) The Collected Plays of Jack B. Yeats, 1971, d.w.; & 2 other items, one Trinity Closet Press. As a lot, w.a.f. (6)
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Lot 651/0220
Ormonde – The Life of James, Late Duke of Ormonde, 8vo L. 1747. Engd. port. frontis, VI, 544pp & index, cont. calf, worn, new label. (1)
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Lot 652/0220
Sigerson (George) Political Prisoners at Home and Abroad, 8vo L. 1890. First Edn., lacks front & end loose blanks, cloth. (1)
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Lot 653/0220
Hawkey Classic: Q. Horatii Flacci Opera, sm. 8vo D. (E. Typographia Academiae) 1745. Title with engd. vignette (dam.) some annots. thro-out, lacks front blanks, cont. T.C.D. prize calf bind; Hickie (D.B.) Decimi Junii Juvenalis Satirae Selectae, 12mo D. 1818, calf; & 1 other vol. (3)
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Lot 654/0220
Edgeworth (Maria) Castle Rackrent; An Hibernian Tale, 12mo L. 1800 Second Edn., XVI, 214pp; also Essay on Irish Bulls, 12mo L. 1815. Fourth, engd. head & tail, both hf. calf, worn; [Brittaine (Geo. Rev.)] Irishmen and Irishwomen, 12mo D. 1831. Third, hf. title, 292pp., mor. worn. (3)
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Lot 655/0220
Novels etc: Rider Haggard (H.) Maiwa’s Revenge; or The War of the Little Hand, L. 1888. First, hf. title, orig. cloth; Wells (H.G.) Monking in the Making, L. 1900, gilt decor. cloth; Otter (John) A Summer Idyle, 8vo L. n.d. With A.L.’s from author to Edmund Downey; Conan Doyle (A.) The New Revelation, L. 1918; & 2 others. (6)
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Lot 656/0220
Avison (Chas.) An Essay on Musical Expression, 8vo L. 1753. Second Edn., hf. title, 4 fold. plts. of music, advert leaf at end, cont. calf, upr. cover detached, worn; [de Veil (H.)] Les Amusemens de Spa: Or, The Gallantries of the Spaw in Germany, 12mo D. 1740, lacks front & end blanks, calf; & 1 other. (2)
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Lot 657/0220
Black (John A.) The History and Position of The Sea Fisheries of Ireland, 8vo Waterford 1868. First Edn., For Private Circulation. Inscribed by ‘E Downey, Waterford 1906’ cloth; Williamson (Geo. C.) Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in Ireland, 8vo Brighton n.d. [c. 1890] boards; & 3 others. (5)
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Lot 658/0220
Healy (J.J.) Life and Times of Charles J. Kickham, D. 1915. First Edn.; Fitzpatrick (W.J.) Irish Wits and Worthies, 12mo D. 1879 Banim (M.) Peter of the Castle and The Fetches, D. 1866, cloth. (3)
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Lot 659/0220
Leamy (Ed.) Irish Fairy Tales, D. 1890. Inscribed Pres. Coy to Edmond Downey, & with 3 extra original pen & ink drawings; also The Barrow River and other Stories, D. 1907, First, port. cloth; Frederic (H.) The Return of the O’Mahony. A Romantic Fantasy, L. 1893, illus.; Downey (Ed.) Clashmore, Glasgow 1920. Signed Pres. Copy; Noble (Mrs. N.) Druidean The Mystic and other Irish Stories, 12mo Dundalk 1913. First Edn., illus. pict. boards. Good. (5)
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Lot 660/0220
With Illustrations after Hogarth
Dublin Edition: [Butler (S.)] Hudibras, In Three Parts, 12mo D. (S. Powell) 1732. Engd. port. frontis & 16 engd. plts. (5 fold.), cont. calf, raised bands, mor. label. (1)More details › -
Lot 661/0220
Fine Bindings: [de Greffigny (Francois)] Lettres d’ une Peruvienne, 2 parts in one vol. 12mo Amsterdam 1760-1767, 2 hf. titles; also Smollett (T.) Plays and Poems, 12mo L. 1777. Hf. title, engd. port. vign. on title, both attractive cont. tree calf, gilt roll borders, tooled gilt spines, mor. labels. Good. (2)
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Lot 662/0220
Burnett (Bp. Gilbert) The Life of William Bedell, D.D. Lord Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland, sm. 8vo L. 1692. First Edn. title within ruled borders, cont. blind tooled panel calf, reback with orig. label laid down. V. good copy. (1)
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Lot 663/0220
Moore (John) A View of Society and Manners in Italy, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1781; also A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland and Germany, 2 vols. L. 1781, Fourth; & A Journal during a Residence in France, 2 vols. L. 1793. FIRST EDN., all cont. full calf & mottled calf, mor. labels, a few lacking; & 2 others on Ancient Dames etc. (8)
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Lot 664/0220
Signed Presentation Copy
Gallagher (Patrick) ‘Paddy the Cope,’ My Story, 8vo Dungloe (Templecrone Co. Operative Society) n.d. c. 1948. First Edn., illus. etc., recent mor. backed boards. Scarce.
* Pres. Copy, signed with a lengthy inscription ‘To Mr. A. Swain … Auditor to Templecrone Co.-Operative Society. There is also a typed note, and a letter loosely inserted concerning the book and its author.’ (1)More details ›