29 July 2010 - Rare Books & Collectors' Specialist Sale

#0207

Lot 802/0207

[Ware (Sir James)] The Whole Works of Sir James Ware Concerning Ireland, Revised and Improved. Ed. by Walter Harris, together with The History of the Writers of Ireland, 2 vols., folio D. 1764. Engd. port. frontis 20 lg. fold. plts. & 18 engd. port. plts. plus engd. vignettes, cont. full calf, tooled gilt spines, raised bands, some labels lacking. (2)
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Lot 803/0207

SOLD Hammer price €50

Engraved Plates: Picturesque Europe – The British Isles, 4to L. n.d. Engd. add. title, frontis & 11 engd. plts. full page bl. 7 white plts. text illus., hf. mor. (1)

Lot 804/0207

SOLD Hammer price €60

Binding: The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 3 vols. sm. folio L. (J. Tallis & Co.) n.d. c. 1860. Engd. frontis & add. engd. titles, fine plts. etc., all edges gilt, full cont. green mor., profusely tooled gilt borders & spines in panels, raised bands, by J. Tomkinson, High St., Coventry. V. good set. (3)

Lot 805/0207

SOLD Hammer price €90

Coins: Simon (J.) Essay on Irish Coins … with Mr. Snelling’s Supplement, 4to D. 1810., 12 engd. plts., uncut, orig. boards. (1)

Lot 806/0207

SOLD Hammer price €30

Moore (Thomas) Irish Melodies, 4to L. n.d. c. 1870. Port. frontis engd. plts. hf. green mor. mor. label; & 3 others sim. on Moore. (4)

Lot 807/0207

Titantic & Lusitania – Four varied modern illustrated books about The Titanic and The Lusitania. (4)

Lot 808/0207

Scarp Books: Airplanes & Motorcars, two 4to Albums of newscuttings and illustrations on airplanes and motorcars, cloth backed. As albums, w.a.f. (2)

Lot 809/0207

SOLD Hammer price €100

Irish Newspapers, Magazines: The Northern Whig, A Political, Commercial, and Literary Miscellany. Vol. I No. 1 – Vol. III No. 139, folio Belfast, Jan. 1st 1824 – Aug. 24th 1826, in 2 vols., boards; Honesty, 29 copies, 1928 – 30; some Bogs Journals; and various copies of newspapers reporting on Irish Historical Events, as a coll., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 810/0207

SOLD Hammer price €750

Periodical: Senan (Fr.) O.M.cap Editor. The Capuchin Annual, 1934 – 1977, together 39 vols. (ex. 43 lacking firs 4 vols.) 4to D. 1934 – 1977. FIRST EDNS., illus. orig. ptd. boards. As a periodical, w.a.f.
* A fine long unbroken run, with scarce volumes for 1936 & 1966, etc., covering the 1916 Rebellion.
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Lot 811/0207

Engraved Plates: Finden’s Beauties of Moore, folio L. (J. Tallis & Co.), engd. frontis engd. title & 47 full page plts. cont. hf. calf worn; also Portfolio of the National Gallery of Scotland, lg. atlas folio, plts. hf. cloth. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (2)

Lot 812/0207

SOLD Hammer price €110

Architecture: Gurlitt (Cornelius) Die Baukunst Frankreichs, 8 lg. folio Dresden n.d. approx. 200 full page photographic type plts., in orig. cloth portfolios. As a coll. plts., w.a.f. (1)

Lot 813/0207

SOLD Hammer price €80

Maps & Atlas: Swift (M.) Historical Maps of Ireland, 4to L. 1999; The Counties of Britain – A Tudor Atlas by John Speed, folio L. 1988; Blaeu (Joan) Atlas Maior of 1665, 2 vols. (England, Scotland & Ireland) lg. folio Hongkong 2004, in slip case; Mercatoris (Ger.) Atlas Europae, folio U.S.A. (Walking Tree Press) 1998, all FINE EDITIONS; & 1 other sim., all cold. plts. etc. As a coll. V. good. (7)

Lot 814/0207

SOLD Hammer price €200

Audsley (G. Ashdown) The Ornamental Arts of Japan, 4 lg. folio vols. in 5, L. n.d. numerous full large cold. & bl. & white plts., orig. colour decor. & gilt cloth port. folio’s dam. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (5)

Lot 815/0207

Fine Illustrations Plates, etc: Vasari Society Publications, 10 parts in 11, lg. folio L. 1905 – 1915. Numerous fine reproductions of Drawings by Old Masters, cloth backed portfolios & wrappers. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (11)

Lot 820/0207

SOLD Hammer price €130

Postcards: Album Shipping, a large collection of Shipping Cards depicting names ships at sea and dock, including White Star Line, Lusitania, R.M.s. Carmania, Union Castle Line, and other modern ships. As an Album, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 821/0207

SOLD Hammer price €80

Postcards: Album, a large collection of Greeting, Cartoon, Interior, Landmarks, Animals, Royalty, Floral and other type Postcards, as an Album, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 822/0207

SOLD Hammer price €90

Postcards: Album of approx. 150 varied postcards, mostly French, with many of 1914-16 War, showing destruction etc., some Charles Dickens interest, some Italian views, & various cards for Far East, Burma, India etc. As an Album, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 823/0207

SOLD Hammer price €280

O’Higgins (Brian) Attractive collection of over 50 Postcards, Bookmarks, & Prayer Sheets, printed and published by Brian O’Higgins in Dublin, with wonderful Celtic designs; also two Booklets, The Little Book of Blessing, and Laughter Lighted Memories, 16mo D. 1951, Signed by author, all in an Album; and a bundle of old postcards (unrelated). As a lot, w.a.f. Scarce. (1)

Lot 824/0207

SOLD Hammer price €125

Postcard: Political and Republican, a collection of original Postcards, good portraits of Major John Mc Bride, J.J. Walsh, Cardinal Mannix, Thomas Mac Donagh, and six others of the Sinn Fein Rebellion, Parnell’s Grave, the 1903 Royal Visit and three others, together with two membership Cars for Fine Gael, United Ireland, and Worker’s Union of Ireland, Contribution Card 1945, together 12 items, some used, as a lot. (12)

Lot 825/0207

SOLD Hammer price €55

Postcards: Irish Military, a group of 9 cards depicting crests of the various Regiments, Connaught Rangers, Royal Irish Regiment, R.I. Rifles, and others, as a collection, mostly unused. good. (10)