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 725/0220
Bindings: Burns – The Works of Robert Burns, 8 vols., 12mo L. 1834, cont. full calf; Pope (A.) The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, 12 vols. 12mo L. 1813. Engd. plts., a.e.g., cont. str. grained blue mor., tooled gilt decor. & spines. V. good. (20)
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Lot 726/0220
Wilde (W.R.) Catalogue of the Antiquities, .. in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 2 Parts (ex. 3), 8vo D. 1857 & 1861, orig. cloth backed boards. From Monare Library inscribed by S. & E. de Vere; also MA Alister – Ancient Ireland, L. 1935; Wakeman’s Handbook of Irish Antiquities, D. 1903; Pope Hennessy Sir Walter Raleigh in Ireland, L. 1883; Lysaght –My Tower in Desmond, L. 1925. (6)
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Lot 727/0220
Dublin Printing: Hume (David) The History of England, 8 vols. D. (United Co. of Booksellers) 1775. New Edn. cont. sprinkled calf, gilt decor. spines & mor. labels. (8)
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Lot 728/0220
Bindigns: Belsham (W.) Memoirs of the Reign of George III, 4 vols. L. 1796; Southey – The Remains of Henry Kirke White, 2 vols. L. 1813; Mirabeau: A Life History, 2 vols. L. 1848; & 4 others, all hf. mor. or calf. Good. (12)
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Lot 729/0220
Gibbon (Ed.) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 12 vols. L. 1816. New Edn., fold. maps etc., cont. hf. mor. mor. labels. (12)
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Lot 730/0220
Lodge (J.) & Archdall (M.) The Peerage of Ireland, 7 vols. 8vo D. 1789. revised Edn., engd. plts. etc. (a few lacking) cont. hf. calf. (7)
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Lot 731/0220
Smith (Dodie) The Hundred and One Dalmations, 8vo Surrey (Windmill Press) 1956, First Edn., illus. by Janet and Anne Grahame – Johnstone, illus. end-papers, cloth, some wear & slight foxing. Rare. (1)
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Lot 731A/0220
Collectible’s: Hayden (A.) Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture,; chats on Royal Copenhagen Porcelain; Chats on Old Prints; Chats on English China; Masse (H.J.) Chats on Old Pewter,; Foster (J.J.) Chats on Old Miniatures; Blacker (J.F.) Chats on Oriental China; Lowes (Mrs. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework, and two others, all 8vo, L. (Fisher Unwin) 1904 – 24, illus., decor. cloth, as a collection, w.a.f. (10)
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Lot 732/0220
Children’s interest: Dickens (C.) A Christmas Carol, 4to L. n.d. attractive cold. & other illus., gilt pict. cloth; 11 others of Children’s interest, as a lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 733/0220
Television: Little (D.) The Coronation Street Story, Celebrating Thirty Five Years of The Street, 4to, L. 1995, illus., ptd. m/ss signatures on end papers, pictorial covers. Good. (1)
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Lot 734/0220
Golden Cockerel Reprint – [Gill (Eric)] Four Gospels, folio Wellingborough (September Press) 1988. Lim. Edn. (600), with prospectus loosely inserted, orig. black cloth, mor. label, & in oatmeal cloth slipcase. V. good. (1)
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Lot 735/0220
Bacon (Rt. Hon. Francis) The Historie of the Reign of Henry the Seventh, Folio L. 1622. Decor. title, cut down & remounted, lacks port.? cont. full panel calf, rebacked. (1)
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Lot 736/0220
Westropp (M.S. Dudley) Irish Glass, An Account of Glass-Making in Ireland. Lg. 4to L. n.d. FIRST EDN., fine photo & other illus., orig. green gilt buckram. V. good. (1)
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Lot 737/0220
Natural History: Bright (P.M.) & Leeds (H.A.) A Monograph of the British Aberrations of the Chalk-Hill Blue Butterfly, 4to Bournemouth 1938. FIRST EDN., 18 plts. List of Subs., cloth; Helme (Eleanor E.) Feathered Friends of Stream & Shore, lg. 4to L. n.d. [c. 1930], fine cold. plts. by Barbara Briggs, cloth backed boards; & 1 other sim. (3)
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Lot 738/0220
Bindings: Jerrold (D.)ed. The Illuminated Magazine, vols. I – IV, sm. folio L. 1843-44, illus. cont. hf. green mor; John Cassell’s Art Treasure’s Exhibition, sm. folio L. n.d. [c. 1840], illus. hf. calf; The Kodak Magazine, 3 vols. 4to L. 1925-1936, profusely illus., hf. mor., as a lot, w.a.f. (8)
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Lot 739/0220
Music: Mc Cormack (Lily) I Hear You Calling Me – The Story of John Mc Cormack, 8vo, Milwaukee 1949, illus.,cloth & d.f.; Leadbetter (G.T.) The Great Irish Tenor – John Mc Cormack, 4to D. 2003, illus., cloth & d.j.; Mc Cormick (Neil) U2 By U2, lg. 4to L. nd., illus.,cloth & d.j., as a lot, w.a.f. (3)
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Lot 740/0220
Needlecraft, Embroidery, etc. A very good collection of approx. 15 items of varied books etc on the above. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 741/0220
Box: Irish interest, a collection of Literary, Plays & Pamphlets, Music Sheets, including Down all the Days (Christy Brown); O’Casey (Sean) The Green Crow; Knowles (Rev. J.A.) Fethard It’s Abbey etc,; Eogan (G.) Catalogue of Irish Bronze Swords, and others, as a box lot, w.a.f (1)
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Lot 742/0220
One of 100 Copies
Facsimile: Ashmole (E.) The Institution Laws & Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Folio L. 1971. LIM. EDN. 24 (100), red & bl. title, port., cloth, & box. (1)More details › -
Lot 743/0220
Bindings: History of Ireland, 2 vols. sm. folio L.n.d. maps & plts.; Moore’s Irish Melodies, 4to L. n.d. illus.; Roscoe – Life of Leo The Tenth, 4 vols. Liverpool 1803, full tree calf; Lempriere Classical Dictionary, lg. 4to L. 1839, all calf. (8)
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