29 July 2010 - Rare Books & Collectors' Specialist Sale

#0207

Lot 662/0207

SOLD Hammer price €60

Bindings: Moore (Thomas) Lalla Rookh, 8vo L. 1846. NEW EDN., engd. plts., a.e.g., cont. full green mor. T.C.D. Prize binding, tooled gilt decor.; Whymper (Ed.) Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69, 8vo L. 1871, illus., hf. mor. tooled gilt spine; & 1 other sim. As bindings. (3)

Lot 663/0207

SOLD Hammer price €260

Savage (John)ed. Picturesque Ireland: A Literary and Artistic Delineation … Romantic and Attractive Features of Ireland. 4to N.Y. [1884], lg. fold. & dbl. page cold. map frontis, cold. full page maps, text illus., & engd. plts. a.e.g. cont. hf. mor. gilt decor. Good copy. (1)
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Lot 664/0207

SOLD Hammer price €180

Early Dolmen Publication
Dolmen Press: Merriman (Bryan) Cuirt an Mheadhon Oidhche – The Midnight Court, sm. folio D. 1953. LIM. EDN. 134 (200) Printed for Subscribers, decor. by Michael Biggs, orig. cloth backed decor. boards. (1)
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Lot 665/0207

SOLD Hammer price €170

Webster (Rev. C.A.) The Church Plate of the Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, lg. 4to Cork 1909. FIRST EDN., illus., pencil annots. throughout, orig. cloth, rebacked; Buckley (J.J.) Some Irish Altar Plate, roy 8vo D. 1943. FIRST EDN., with add. notes in m/ss., & cutting etc., loosely inserted, cloth. (2)

Lot 666/0207

SOLD Hammer price €120

Fine Coloured Plates & Bindings: Lacroix (Paul) The Arts in the Middle Ages, & at The period of the Renaissance; and The XVIIIth Century, Its Institutions, Customs, and Costumes, 2 vols. roy 8vo L. n.d. Numerous fine cold. & sepia plts., text illus., a.e.g, extremely fine full crimson mor. lg. tooled gilt borders, raised bands, and gilt tooled spines in panels, mor. labels by Bickers, London. V. good copies. (2)

Lot 667/0207

SOLD Hammer price €100

[Pennant (Thomas)] History of Quadrupeds, 2 vols., L. 1781, FIRST EDN., 2 engd. titles, 52 plts., m/ss notes throughout, contemp. tree-calf, joints cracked, & worn. (2)
* Ex-libris Captain Charles Joseph Harford of Frenchay Lodge, Bristol, England. He was leader of the Twelfth Lancers.

Lot 668/0207

SOLD Hammer price €30

Reprint: White (G.) The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, 4to Menston (Scholar Press) 1970. Exact Reprint of FIRST EDN., fold. frontis plts. hf mottled calf, marble sides, mor. label. V. good. (1)

Lot 669/0207

SOLD Hammer price €160

Genealogy: Lenox-Conyngham (M.) An Old Ulster House, and the People who Lived in it. 4to Dundalk 1946. FIRST EDN., illus., cloth. (1)

Lot 670/0207

SOLD Hammer price €150

Periodical: Tipperary Historical Journal, 4to Roscrea / Kilkenny 1988 – 2005, together 18 vols. (unbroken run) illus., orig. ptd. wrappers. V. good set. (18)
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Lot 671/0207

I.M.C. Mc Lysaght (Ed.)ed. Calendar of The Orrery Papers, roy 8vo D. (Irish Manuscript Comm.) 1941; Mc Neill (C.) & Otway-Ruthven (A.J.)ed. Dowdall Deeds, roy 8vo D. 1960; White (Newport B.) The Red Book of Ormond, D. 1932, all orig. cloth. Good. (3)

Lot 672/0207

SOLD Hammer price €220

From the Library of Female Collector
Mac Geoghegan (Abbe) Histoire de l’Irlande Ancienne et Moderne, 3 vols. 4to Paris 1758. FIRST EDN., 6 fold. maps, 1 hd. cold. in outline, B.P. of ‘Anne Therese Ph: D’Yve,’ cont. full French mottled calf, tooled gilt spines in panels, raised bands, mor. labels. V. good set. (3)

Lot 673/0207

Architecture: Gwilt (Jos.)ed. Chamers (Sir W.) A Treastise of the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, 2 vols. folio L. 1825. Port. frontis Vol. I, engd. plts. thro.-out, a few loose, mor. backed boards; worn; Rickman (T.) An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, 8vo L. n.d. engd. plts., hf. mor. As a lot, w.a.f. (3)

Lot 674/0207

SOLD Hammer price €480

Signed by The Translator
Beckett (Samuel)trans. Zone, by Guillaume Apollinaire. 4to D. (Dolmen Press) 1972. LIMITED EDN. No. 226 (250), signed by Beckett, uncut, orig. mor. backed black cloth, & slip case. V. good. (1)
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Lot 675/0207

SOLD Hammer price €650

Joyce (James) Haveth Childers Everywhere, sm. folio Paris (Fountain Press) 1930. LIM EDN. No. 192 (600), hf. title, uncut, some wear to top and bottom of spine, with orig. transparent d.w. good. (1)
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Lot 676/0207

SOLD Hammer price €70

[Joyce (James)] O’Driscoll (R.)ed. Dream Chamber, Joyce and the Dada Circus. A Collage; Cage (J.) About Roaratorio, 8vo 1982. LIM. EDN. (900) not numbered, corrugated cardboard cover. Unusual & Scarce. (1)

Lot 677/0207

SOLD Hammer price €500

Signed by Most of the Contributors
Heaney (Seamus) Patron – Irish Hospice Foundation, The Whoseday Book, oblong 8vo D. (Irish Hospice Foundation) 1999. Special Lim. Edn. of 42 Copies, signed by Seamus Heaney, John Banville, L. le Brocquy, Roddy Doyle, Maeve Binchy, Sabastian Barry, Colm Toibin, Felim Egan etc., (approx. 36 signatures), illus., orig. cloth, & d.w. V. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 678/0207

SOLD Hammer price €400

Yeats (Jack B.) Life in the West of Ireland, 4to D. & L. (Maunsel) 1912. FIRST GENERAL EDN., 8 cold. plts. & 32 line drawings, & 16 reproductions from paintings, orig. cloth, gilt decor., spine faded & loose one side. Fair good copy of a much sought after volume. (1)

Lot 679/0207

SOLD Hammer price €220

Dolmen Press: Rivers (Eliz.) Out of Bedlam, 4to D. (Dolmen Press) 1956. LIM. EDN. No. 126 (225), 27 fine wood engravings by Eliz. rivers, on Irish made paper, orig. decor. wrappers on limp boards. V. good.
* A most desirable item in fine condition. (1)

Lot 680/0207

SOLD Hammer price €160

I.A.S.: O’Kelly (Col. Chas.) Macariae Exciduim, or The Destruction of Cyprus, 4to D. 1850. Ed. by John Corn. O’Callaghan. FIRST EDN.; Butler (R.)ed. Jacobi Grace, Kilkenniensis, Annales Hiberniae, 4to D. 1842. FIRST EDN., both orig. cloth. (2)

Lot 681/0207

SOLD Hammer price €120

Clarendon (Ed. Earl of,) The History and The Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, 3 vols. in 6, roy 8vo Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1807. NEW EDN., hf. titles, & with fine engd. vignette on each title, bookplates of John Kettle, full attractive tree calf, gilt spines, mor. labels. (6)