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 963/0220
Equestrian: R.D.S., Skinner (Violet) artist Dublin Horse Show August 5 – 10, 1969, a large coloured Poster, ptd. Hely Thom, approx. 88cms x 56cms, framed; together with the miniature version of same, approx. 30cms x 23cms, ptd. on card; also Official Catalogue – R.D.S. Bi-Centenary Year Dublin Horse Show 1931, 8vo D. (Browne & Nolan) 1931, ilus. & adverts, ptd. wrappers, worn. Scarce, as a collection, w.a.f. (3)
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Lot 964/0220
Equestrian: R.D.S. Skinner (Violet) artist. Dublin Horse Show August 2-7, 1977, a large coloured Poster, ptd. Hely Thom, approx. 84cms x 55cms, framed; together with a miniature Promotional Poster – Dublin Horse Show August 7 – 11, 1979, approx. 32cms x 22cms, framed; also an Official Catalogue – Dublin Horse Show, 1970, illus. & adverts, ptd. wrappers, as a lot, w.a.f. (3)
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Lot 965/0220
Signed by the Artist
Print: Edwards (Lionel) A coloured lithographic Print of a Man on horseback leading the hunt, with m/ss signature in pencil on mount, approx. 46cms x 44cms, framed. (1)More details › -
Lot 966/0220
Large Pair of Guinness Posters
Posters: Guinness – Gilroy (artist) a large original coloured Poster for Guinness Advertisement depicting a disgruntled Zoo-Keeper with a bottle of Guinness in hand calling for his Guinness back from an Ostrich, who sports a smile and the shape of a pint glass half way down its neck; together with a compatriot of a Zoo-keeper trying to coax a bear with a bun to return his Guinness, ptd. by John Waddington Ltd., London each approx. 77cms x 100cms, some tears, no loss, as posters, w.a.f. (2)More details › -
Lot 967/0220
Posters: Guinness: Gilroy (artist) a collection of six reproduction Advertisement Posters for Guinness including the Zoo Series, Toucan Series and Ship Series, each approx. 76cms x 50cms, ptd. for the Guinness Museum, as a collection of Posters, w.a.f. (6)
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Lot 968/0220
Engraved Portraits: British Political Figures, mostly, approx. 13 bl. & white engraved prints, include. Ed. Cooke, Dublin Castle spy-master in the 1790’s, Charles Abbot, First Chief Sec. for Ireland, after the Union, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, Kenmare, Co. Kerry, & others c. 1810 – 1840. As a lot. (1)
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Lot 969/0220
Hand-coloured Political Caricature: The Reconciliation – 18th Nov. 1804. A good pirated edition, approx. 25cms x 35cms, in gilt frame. (1)
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Lot 970/0220
Hand-coloured Caricature: A Kick at the Broad -Bottoms, ie. Emancipation of All the Talents, 23 March 1807, 26cms x 36cms, approx. Not an orig. Gillray, but hd. cold. later edition, in hogarth frame. (1)
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Lot 971/0220
Print: O’Cruickshank (Phelim) The Irish Catholic Jubilee at Dublin or The Bulletin Express of the Late Majority; a hand coloured cartoon or caricature Print, m/ss notes on mount, approx. 25cms x 34cms framed. (1)
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Lot 972/0220
Prints: Vanity Fair (Irish Interest) A collection of thirteen coloured Prints of various Personalities to include Sir R.W.H. Palmer; The Earl of Lucan; viscount Ranelagh; George Errington; The Marquis of Headfort and others, each double page with text, loose, each approx. 38cms, a good clean lot. (13)
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Lot 973/0220
Prints: Vanity Fair (Irish Interest) A collection of 15 coloured Plates of various personalities to include: A. Loftus Tottenham; Earl of Munster; Earl of Mountcashell; Earl Fitzwilliam; Earl of Donoughmore; C.C. Boycott; Lord Dufferin, and others, each double page with text, loose, each approx. 38cms a good clean lot. (15)
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Lot 974/0220
Prints: Vanity Fair (Spy), a set of four coloured Prints of Scholars to include A.C. Benson; Rev. J.L. Joynes; Badger; and R.H.A. Mitchell, each approx. 36cms x 33cms, framed, as a lot, w.a.f. (4)
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Lot 975/0220
Spy Cartoons
Guinness Family: Rupert, (Hon. Rupert Guinness) and Guinness Trust, a pair, each approx. 35 cms x 22 cms (13 3/4″ x 8 1/2″), and signed by Spy, from Vanity Fair Magazine, c. 1891. In shaped wooden frames. (2)More details › -
Lot 976/0220
Prints: Vanity Fair [After Apes) two framed coloured Prints to include:
(a) Samuel Wiberforce – Bishop of Oxford;
(b) James Stansfeld, each approx. 35cms x 25cms, framed, as prints, w.a.f. (2)More details › -
Lot 977/0220
Prints: Vanity Fair [After Spy & Apes] a set of four coloured Prints of various Celebrities to include:
(a) H.R.H. The Princess of Wales;
(b) The Marquis of Hartington;
(c) Lord Lyons;
(d) The Reverend John Henry Newman,
each with text accompaniment, double mount, each print approx. 36cms x 24cms, in total 44cms x 76cms, attractively framed. (4)More details › -
Lot 978/0220
Political: Prints, a collection of six coloured Political Prints, to include Parnell, Weekly Freeman (Carlow Duty), United Ireland (The Irish Census 1891), John E. Redmond, and two others, framed, as a lot, w.a.f. (6)
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Lot 979/0220
Prints & Watercolours: a collection of Prints including shooting prints, after Henry Alken, Bird Prints, After Peter Scott, two Chinese watercolours, of Birds, and others, all framed, a collection, w.a.f. (a lot)
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Lot 980/0220
Signed by the Artist
Le Brocquy (Louis)artist – Eight Irish Portraits In Words and Watercolour, 4to, portfolio D. 1990, 8 lithographs with text, loose, pocket folder and slip case, Ltd. Edn. 468 (1000). Good clean copy. (1)More details › -
Lot 985/0220
Cinema: A collection of Promotional Posters for Films, c. 1950’s / 60’s, including Twice Round The Daffodils, Trader Hornee, The Criminal, The Silken Affair, and various titles of Romance, War and others, as a collection, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 986/0220
Irish Theatre & Opera: [Theatre Royal Dublin] c. 1907 – 1913, a collection of approx 55 Theatre Programmes for various concert, shows, etc., to include; [John Bulls other Island, Faust, The Moody Manners, La Traviata, The Merry Widow, The Last Heir, Peter Pan, [The Beranrd Shaw Plays], Robin Hood, Julius Caesar,] and many more, adverts, ptd. wrappers, as a collection, w.a.f. (1)
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