30 May 2017 - RARE BOOKS, LITERATURE & SPORTING COLLECTIBLES

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Lot 201/0297

SOLD Hammer price €150

Signed Limited Edition Kinsella (Thomas) Tear, sm. 4to Cambridge, Massachusetts (Pym – Randall Press) 1969. No. 28 of 200 Copies, Signed by the Author, orig. wrappers. Fine Scarce. (1)

Lot 202/0297

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Signed by Author & Illustrator Peppercanister: Kinsella (Thomas) One, Illustrations by Anne Yeats. Sm. folio D. 1974. Peppercanister 5 No. 29 of 124 Copies Only. Signed by the Author & Anne Yeats. Hd. made paper with illus., orig. calf, backed decor. boards. V. Fine Rare. (1) * The fifth publication from the authors press.

Lot 203/0297

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Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) Finistere, lg. 4to D. 1972. No. 115, Limited Edition of 250 Copies. Signed by Author, designs by Hugh Kearns. Mor. backed green cloth with blind decor. V. good copy. Miller 196. (1)

Lot 204/0297

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Dolmen Press: Kinsella (Thomas) Wormwood, sm. folio D. 1966. Limited Edition to 350 Copies, Signed, orig. vellum backed veneered boards, glassine cover. V. good. Miller 94. (1)

Lot 205/0297

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Signed Limited Edition Peppercanister: Kinsella (Thomas) A Selected Life, sm. folio D. 1972. No. 29 of Limited Edition of 150 Copies. Signed by Author, specially bound mor. backed blue boards. V. fine copy. (1) * The second publication from the author’s own press.

Lot 206/0297

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Hand-Coloured Plates: Sowerby (J. Ed.) English Botany; or, coloured Figure of British Plants, ed. by J.T. Boswell Syme. 12 vols. roy 8vo L. 1863 – 1886. Third Edn. approx. 1922 hd. cold. plts. (a few loose) orig. gilt decor. green cloth. As a coll., w.a.f. (12)

Lot 207/0297

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Fine Dublin Edition Miller (Philip) The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultiviating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and flower Garden… and Vineyard. Folio D. (S. Powell) 1732. First Edn., list of subs., engd. frontis, red & bl. title, & 3 full page engd. plts., cont. calf, raised bands, mor. label. Good copy. (1)

Lot 208/0297

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With Fine Coloured Plates Periodical: Robinson (W.)ed. Flora & Sylva, A Monthly Review for Lovers of Garden, Woodland, Tree or Flower; .. 3 vols. lg. 4to L. 1903 – 1905. First Edns., 66 fine full page cold. plts., & 247 bl. 7 white plts. illus., photos etc., uncut, orig. gilt lettered blue cloth. V. good. (1)

Lot 209/0297

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Ariel Press: Moreton (C. Oscar) The Auricula its History and Character, Folio L. 1964. Lim. Edn. No. 110 of 500 Copies, 17 full page cold. plts., buckram & pict. d.w.; Mannering (Eva) The Best of Redoute’s Roses, folio L. 1959, cold. title & 29 full page plts., cloth & d.w.; & Roses II, folio L. 1956, 24 full page cold. plts., decor. cold. wrappers; & 1 other sim. As a lot. (4)

Lot 210/0297

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Coloured Plates: Grigson (Geoffrey) Thornton’s Temple of Flora with Plates. Lg. atlas folio L. (Collins) 1951. fine cold. frontis & 11 full page cold. plts., also cellotype bl. & white plts. orig. buckram backed boards, & cold. pict. d.w.; also Blunt (W.) Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708 – 1770), folio L. (Chas. W. Traylen) 1953. First Edn., 12 lg. full page plts., wrappers. (2)

Lot 211/0297

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Oxlade (Diana) A Tropical Glen, A Florilegium of Belfast Botanic Gardens. Folio Belfast (Nicholson & Bass) 2000. First Edn., 46 cold. plts., mor. backed green cloth. (1)

Lot 212/0297

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Signed Limited Patrons Copy [Robinson (Wm.)] & Nelson (E.C.)ed. The Wild Garden, a New Illustrated Edition, 4to D. (Strawberry Tree) 2003, Signed Ltd. Edn. No. 12 (160), with a Ltd. Print 11 (11) for patrons, illus. throughout, full red mor. gilt lettering, slip case. Clean copy. (1)

Lot 213/0297

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Signed Ilustrated Limited Edition Walsh (W.) & Nelson (E.C.) Flowers of Mayo, Dr. Patrick Brownes Fasciculus Hiberniae 1788, folio, D. (Edmund Burke) 1995, Signed Ltd. Edn. 69 (150) Copies, illus. hd. made leather backed boards, paper label, slip case; together with portfolio of 15 digital prints by W. Walsh, Ltd. Edn. 40 (100). Attractive Set. (2)

Lot 214/0297

SOLD Hammer price €350

Signed Limited Subscribers Copy [Walsh (Wendy)], Nelson (E.C.)cont. Wendy Walsh, A Lifetime of Painting, folio D. (Strawberry Tree) 2007, Signed & Ltd. 47 (125), illus., mor. backed cloth boards, slip case. Clean Copy. (1)

Lot 215/0297

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Signed by the Artist Welsh (Wendy) An Irish Florilegium & An Irish Florilegium II; 2 vols., folio L. (Thames & Hudson) 1983 – 1987, illus., Signed Vol. I, cloth, decor. wrappers. (1)

Lot 216/0297

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With Fine Coloured Plates Krause (Georg) Oologia Universalis Palaearctica, 3 vols. lg. thick 4to Stuttgart 1906 – 1913. First Edn. text in English & German, 158 lg. cold. chromo plates on thick card (plus one extra plt. in orig. part loosely inserted). In fine blue cloth by R. Carswell, Belfast, with the orig. bill for binding. V. good set. (3)

Lot 217/0297

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Millais (J.G.) The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, 3 vols. lg. thick 4to L. 1905. Lim. Edn. No. 127 of 1025 Copies, 3 frontis, 61 fine full page coloured plates, plus photogravures and bl. & white plts, orig. buckram backed cloth. V. good copy. (3)

Lot 218/0297

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Johnstone (G.H.) Asiatic Magnolias in Cultivation, Lg. 4to L. 1955. First Edn., hf. title, cold. frontis 13 cold. plts., & 20 bl. & white plts., photos etc., fold. map & with one orig. watercolour loosely inserted, orig. cloth. (1)

Lot 219/0297

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With Mounted Coloured Plates Thornburn (A.) Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland, folio L. 1923. First Edn., 30 full page mounted coloured plates, orig. crimson cloth, gilt line borders. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 220/0297

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Millais (J.G.) The Natural History of British Game Birds, folio L. 1909. First Edn. Lim. Edn. No. 464 of 550 Copies cold. frontis & 17 other cold. plts., 17 photogravures, 2 bl. & white photographs, complete as per list, orig. buckram backed cloth. V. good copy. (1)