28 September 2011 - Rare Books & Collectors' Specialist Sale

#0215

Lot 2/0215

SOLD Hammer price €70

Russell (T.O.) Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland, L. 1897; Joyce (P.W.) The Wonders of Ireland, L. 1911; Hunt (B.) Folk Tales of Breffny, L. 1912, First Edn.,; Flower (R.) The Irish Tradition, Oxford 1948; Ford (H.) Sketches of Olden Days in Northern Ireland, Belfast 1926; 1 other. (6)

Lot 3/0215

SOLD Hammer price €110

Travel etc: Bulfin (Wm.) Rambles in Ireland, D. 1908. SECOND EDN., fold. maps etc, gilt cloth; Taylor & Skinner – Maps of the Roads of Ireland, roy 8vo Shannon Reprint 1969, 1 fold. & 289 single page maps; De Latocnaye – A Frenchman’s Walk through Ireland 1796-7, Belfast 1984 d.w.; Haliday (C.) The Scandinavian Kingdom of Ireland, Shannon 1969. (4)

Lot 4/0215

SOLD Hammer price €90

Fine Printings: Homer – Odyssea, [In Greek] 8vo Oxford 1705, engd. frontis, vignette title, lacks front & end loose blanks, B.P., cont. panelled mottled calf, mor. label; Catullus, Tibullus & Prospertius, Opera, 16mo L. 1715, engd. frontis, red & bl. title, with engd. vignette wd. cut heads & tails, cont. calf, raised bands, gilt in panels, mor. label. (2)

Lot 6/0215

SOLD Hammer price €300

Co. Wexford interest, etc: Statues Diocesis Fernesis, 12mo Wexford (J. Greene) 1832, L.S. on title, full calf, Scarce Wexford printing; Hayes (R.) Ireland and Irishmen in the French Revolution, L. 1932, First, cloth; & 4 others Wexford interest. (6)

Lot 7/0215

SOLD Hammer price €140

Inscribed Presentation Copy
Moore (David) The Mosses of Ireland. Synopsis of all the Mosses Known to inhabit Ireland up to the Present Time. 8vo D. (R.I. Academy, from Proceedings) 1873. Pres. Copy, inscribed on title to ‘The Rev. J.F. Crouch…’ Bound with other items, 17 plts. some referring to above orig. cloth. As a coll. of papers w.a.f.; Hart (H.C.) A List of the Plants found in The Aran Island, Galway Bay, 8vo D. 1875. First Edn., map frontis annots thro-out, orig. wrappers. (2)

Lot 8/0215

SOLD Hammer price €160

Hyde (Douglas) Abhrain Gradh Chuige Connacht or Love Songs of Connacht, 8vo D. 1893, wrappers; Abhrain ata leaghtha ar An Reachtuire or Songs Ascribed to Raftery, D. 1903; Mise agus an Connradh (go dti 1905), D. 1937; Abhrain agus Danta An Reachtabhraigh, D. 1933; Ocht sgealta O Choillte Maghach, D. 1936, wrappers; & 1 other sim. (6)

Lot 9/0215

SOLD Hammer price €120

Dublin Society: Transactions of the Dublin Society, Vol. III, 8vo 1803. An interesting collection of papers on weather, agriculture, manufacturing, Wicklow Gold Mines, etc., fold. plts. & tables, unopened, uncut, boards. As an odd vol., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 11/0215

SOLD Hammer price €210

Yeats (W. Butler) The Cat and The Moon and Certain Poems, 8vo D. (Cuala Press) 1924. Lim. Edn. 500 Copies Only Printed. Unopened, orig. cloth backed boards; also Poems, L. 1924, port. frontis, attractive blind embossed cloth, fine gilt spine. (2)

Lot 14/0215

SOLD Hammer price €100

Mangan (James Clarence) Songs of the Munster Bards, revised by W.M. Hennessy, 12mo D. 1925. Attractive decor. green cloth, & d.w.; Essays by J.C. Mangan, ed. by C.P. Meehan, 16mo D. 1884, cloth; Poems of James Clarence Mangan, ed. by D.J. O’Donoghue, 8vo D. & L. 1903, decor. cloth; & 2 other items on Mangan. (5)

Lot 15/0215

SOLD Hammer price €70

Praeger (R. L.) Beyond Soundings, D. 1930, First; A Populous Solitude, D. 1941, First, illus; Natural History of Ireland, L. 1950; & The Way That I Went – An Irishman in Ireland, D. & L. 1947, all cloth. (4)

Lot 16/0215

SOLD Hammer price €130

Praeger (R.L.) A Tourist’s Flora of the West of Ireland, sm. 8vo D. 1909. First, illus. cloth; Brady (Sir T.F.) Digest of the Irish Fisheries Acts with Appendices, 12mo D. 1891, cloth; Kenealy (Ed. V.) A New Pantomime, 12mo L. 1865, cloth; Wakeman (w.F.) A Handbook of Irish Antiquities, 12mo D. 1848. First Edn., illus. cloth.
N.B. this was John Swanwick Drennan’s copy, the poet, & contains some m/ss poetry signed by him with initials & dated, 1847. Rare. (4)

Lot 18/0215

SOLD Hammer price €70

Illustrations by M. Mac Liammoir

O’Floinn (T.) & Mac Cana (P.) Scealaiocht na Rithe, sm. 4to D. 1956. First Edn., cold. plts. after Mac Liammoir; also by Mac Liammoir Ceo Meala Re Seaca, D. 1963, decor. wrappers; Mac Manus (S.) Hibernian Nights, N.Y. 1966; Shelton (R.)ed. the Collected Plays of Jack b. Yeats, N.Y. 1971, d.w. (5)

Lot 19/0215

SOLD Hammer price €90

Andrews (J.H.) Plantation Acres, Omagh 1985, First, d.w.; Feehan (John) The Landscape of Slieve Bloom, 4to D. 1979, First illus & d.w.; Hannigan (K.) & Nolan (Wm.)ed. Wicklow History and Society, D. (Geography Publ.) 1994, First, d.w. (3)

Lot 21/0215

SOLD Hammer price €50

Irish Dialects: Sheehan (M.) Sean Chaint na nDeise, D. 1944; Breathach (R.B.) The Irish of Ring Co. Waterford, A Phonetic Study. D. 1947; De Bhaldraithe (T.) The Irish of Cois Fhairrige, Co. Galway, D. 1975; O’Cuiv (B.) The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork, D. 1975; O’Rahilly (T.F.) Irish Dialects Past and Present, D. 1972; & 2 others sim. (7)

Lot 22/0215

SOLD Hammer price €230

1916 etc: Nowlan (K.B.) The Making of 1916, D. 1966; Neeson (Eoin) The Civil War in Ireland, 1921 – 23, Cork 1966; & 8 others sim. Good. (10)

Lot 24/0215

SOLD Hammer price €150

Juvenalia: Potter (Beatrix) The Roly-Poly Pudding, sm. 4to L. 1908. First, cold. frontis & 17 cold. plts. text illus., title loose, orig. cloth; Wain (Louis) In Nurseryland, roy 8vo L. n.d., illus. & decor. boards; Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, sm. 4to L.n.d. cold. plts. etc. by Rackham; The Pie and The Patty-Pan sm. 4to L. [1905]. First, 10 lg. cold. plts. text illus., orig. decor. & pict. boards, lacks spine. As a coll., w.a.f. (4)

Lot 25/0215

SOLD Hammer price €180

Shaw Mason (Wm.) A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland, Vol. II (ex. 3), 8vo D. 1816. FIRST EDN., Pres. Copy signed, on hf. title, 9 fold. maps, uncut orig. cloth backed boards. (1)

Lot 29/0215

SOLD Hammer price €80

Northern Ireland interest: Macafee (Rev. D.) The Anatomy of Popery, including Letters to O’Connell, 8vo Belfast 1860, cloth; Killen (W.D.)ed. Mackenzie’s Memorials of the Siege of Derry, 4to Belfast 1861, mor. backed boards, with Bookplate of John Gillespie Mayor of Londonderry; Armour (W.S.) Armour of Ballymoney, L. 1934. FIRST EDN., port. frontis cloth & d.w. Armour was a staunch defender of Catholic Rights. (3)

Lot 30/0215

SOLD Hammer price €130

De Vere (Aubrey) Recollections of Aubrey de Vere, L. 1897, Third Edn., port. frontis, signed Presentation Inscription from Florence Vere O’Brien, hf. mor.; Ward (W.) Aubrey de Vere, A Memoir, L. 1907, cloth; Gunning (J.P.) Aubrey de Vere, A Memoir, Limerick 1902, First Edn., cloth; Reilly (S.M.P.) Aubrey de Vere, Victorian Observer, D. 1956, d.w.; & 2 others related. (6)

Lot 32/0215

SOLD Hammer price €200

Irish Farming etc: Kelly (F.) Early Irish Farming, D. 1997; Keane (T.) Climate Weather and Irish Agriculture, D. 1986; Logan (P.) Fair Day, The Story of Irish Fairs and Markets, D. 1986, d.w.; & 5 others. (8)