Purcell Auctioneers - Auction of a Collection of Irish Historical Interest Books, Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Ephemera etc. etc. Viewing by appointment from June 8th, in accordance with government guidelines - Starts 24 Jun 2020

Lot 1 Irish interest books pamphlets and booklets. 2 boxes Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 2 Two Boxes of Irish and General Interest Books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 3 Journal of Royal Society Antiquaries c.1890's on. 2 boxes of over approximately 130 issues. Very interesting articles by Westropp etc. Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 4 Two Boxes of Irish and General Interest Books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 5 Megalithic Tombs of Ireland Vol. 3, Galway etc & Wadding Papers by Jennings & Civil Survey of Limerick 1937 & Kenmare Manuscripts & 2 others. All dis-bound, most sewn. 6 books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 6 Captain James Cook. Volumes One and Two and Captain James King –Volume Three. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken by the Command of His Majesty for Marine Discovery in the Northern Hemisphere. 1785. 3 volumes. Folio. Second edition. (Vol 1 lacks title page) Ex library. Folding maps etc. Quarter calf. Estimate: 300 - 500 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 7 John Plaw. Rural Architecture. 1796. 1st edit. Folio. 62 fine aqua-tinted plates. Irish book plate. Fine binding, half calf. Rare Estimate: 300 - 400 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 8 Tullaroan Co-Op Creamery, Co. Kilkenny. Minute book of the management committee from March 1947 to April 1966, over 350 pages in manuscript Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 9 An Act for improving road from Newcastle, Co Limerick to the City of Limerick & Charleville, Co Cork. 1830. Attractive modern binding Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 10 Jim Fitzpatrick a Portfolio Ltd Edition of 500 Copies Inquisition Press – this copy from the Victoria and Albert 1973 also contains his Irish Writers series of images of Brendan Behan, W.B. Yeats, Joyce and Wilde. Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 11 Irish Education. Six books, including ‘The Catholic Case Stated’ (1859), a withering criticism of the national school system by a former prominent Board of Education official, J.W. Kavanagh; and ‘The Ruin of Education in Ireland’ (1902), an equally damning criticism of Catholic Church ‘interference’ in the government-funded scheme. Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 12 S. O’Kelly. Waysiders – Stories of Connacht, Mat Mulcaghey. Ballymulcaghey Calling. 1944 and Kuno Meyer. The Irish Odyssey 1886. (3) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 13 Hibernia Venatica with photographs by M O’Connor Morris. London 1878. Deals with fox-hunting in various parts of Ireland and includes photographs of a number of ladies who followed the hunt. First Edition. Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 14 O’Donoghue, David. The Poets of Ireland. Part I (A to F). London, Paternoster Steam Press, 1892. Octavo. Cloth Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 15 Griffith, Arthur Re: Resurrection of Hungary and two other books on Arthur Griffith (3) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 16 Lennox Robinson. Ireland's Abbey Theatre a History 1899-1951 W.G. Fay and Catherine Carswell, The Fays of the Abbey Theatre 1935 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 17 W.H. Grattan Flood. History of The Diocese of Ferns. Waterford. 1915 1st edit. Illustrated. Interesting ephemera re-wedding of Miss Fitzgerald of Johnston Castle, Wexford Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 18 Irish History Bundle includes ‘A New History of Ireland VIII’, ‘The Tribes of Ireland’ (Tower Books), Foster’s ‘Modern Ireland’, and four similar (7). Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 19 Brendan Kennelly. A Time For Voices. 1990 and Sean McManus. A Book of Irish Quotations. 1984. Fine dust jackets. (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 20 Pedigree of the Family of Greene of Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford etc., 1899 by J J Greene. Limited to 150, nice copy Estimate: 200 - 300 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 21 E.R. Dix : Catalogue of Early Dublin Printed Books 1601-1700 parts 1-3 volume one (of 2) Burt Franklin of new York reprint of original and Henry Bradshaw’s Correspondence on Incunabula with J.W. Holthrop and M.F.A.G. Campbell 1966 maroon hardback , published by Menno Hertzberger and Co Amsterdam (2) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 22 The Antiquities of Ireland by Francis Grose. Wellbrook Press, 1982. 2 volumes in a boxed set in slip case, from a limited edition. Numerous engravings. Attractive reprint of the original 1797 edition Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 23 Recollections of Ireland Collected from Fifty Years Practice and Residence in the Country by A Late Professional Gentleman. [William Pryce Maunsell] Printed for the Author. 1865. Old ownership stamps on preliminary pages . important reminiscences relating to Limerick city and county Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 24 R.N.D. Wilson. The Holy Wells of Orris. 1927. First. Signed presentation copy & manuscript from Wilson (Belfast poet) inserted. And Elizabeth Shane. Piper’s Tunes from Donegal. 1927. 1st (2) Estimate: 60 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 25 [Achill Missions] Incidents in Life and Ministry of Rev. Alex. R. C. Dallas, Secretary to Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics by his Widow. 1873. Cloth. Superb copy Estimate: 100 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 26 Roger Casement - A scrap book containing a 35pp handwritten essay on him, probably unpublished, and newspaper clipping etc mainly from the 1930's Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 27 Hugh Taylor. A Treatise on Physical Chemistry. 1924. 2 volumes. Illustrated. Fine blue gilt calf Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 28 Banim John Tales of The O Hara second series in three volumes London 1826 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 29 Tim Robinson. Connemara – Listening to the Wind. 2006 and K. McNally. The Islands of Ireland. 1978. 2 first edits with pictorial d.j.s Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 30 Irish Biography. Lives of Robert Lloyd Praeger, John Tyndall, James Mangan, Henry Joy McCracken, Thomas Moore, Owen Roe O’Neill and Bryan Cooper by Lennox Robinson. 7 hardbacks Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 31 History and Mystery of Banking in Ireland by Dom Patrick Nolan. 1923 & Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian Movement by Rev. E. Cahill. 1930 & Confraternity Work and its Problems by James Cleary C.SS.R. 1932. 3 important books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 32 Rivers, Elizabeth. Stranger in Aran. With illustrations by Elizabeth Rivers, some hand-coloured. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1946. Octavo. 1st. edition. Quarter cloth on light brown decorated papered boards. Limited edition of 280 copies for sale Estimate: 200 - 300 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 33 Anne Crookshank & The Knight of Glin. The Painters of Ireland. 1979. Prof. illustrated. Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 34 Arthur Dobbs Esquire 1689-1765- Surveyor General of Ireland, Prospector and Governor of North Carolina, Desmond Clarke, Chapel Hill, 1957, First Edition with DJ, Patriot Adventurer- extracts from the memoirs of Wolfe Tone, Denis Ireland, Rich and Cowan Ltd., 1936, First edition with DJ, Ireland from 1798-1898, William O’Connor Morris, A D Innes & Co., 1898, H/C,First Edition, Maurice Davin 1842-1927 - First President of the GAA, Seamus Ó Riain, H/C, First Edition with DJ and Storm ( A Story of the Irish War), Peadar O’Donnell, Talbot Press, 1925, First Edition (5) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 35 (Queen Victoria) Letters From the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861. 1st edit. Original gilt cloth and A. Ponsonby. Henry Ponsonby – Queen Victoria’s Private Secretary. 1942. (2) Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 36 Bound volume of pamphlets. Memoir of Miles Byrne & John Bull’s Other Island & the Liffey at Ebb Tide. 1901 & 5 other works. 8 individual works. Binding detached. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 37 Percy Fitzgerald. The Romance of The English Stage. 1874, 1st. Edit. 2 volumes. Fine half calf binding Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 38 Chorological Description of County of West-Meath written 1682 by Sir Henry Piers & Dissertation Concerning ancient Irish Laws called Gavel-kind. Dublin. 1770. Volume 1 of Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 39 D A Webb and Mary J P Scannell, Flora of Connemara and the Burren,1983, RDS & Cambridge University Press, Signed by author, First Edition in DJ Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 40 James H, Todd. The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill. 1867. 1st edit. 2 colour plates of manuscripts from The Book of Leinster. Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 41 Rita Anne Higgins, Goddess on The Mervue Bus signed first ed. softback Salmon 1986 and four volumes of poetry Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 42 Seamus Heaney - Seeing Things, Beowulf and Making Music - all first editions Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 43 W B Yeats 1865-1939, Joseph Hone, Macmillan, 1942, H/C, First Edition and W B Yeats and his World, Micheál Mac Liammóir/Eavan Boland, Thames Hudson, 1974, H/C in DJ (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 44 Tour of Ireland. Sketches of History, Politics and Manners taken in Dublin and the North of Ireland in Autumn of 1810. London. 1811. Half-leather Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 45 Dunboy and Other Poems, Timothy Daniel O’Sullivan, John F Fowler, 1861, H/C, First Edition Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 46 Banim John. Tales of The O'Hara Family 2 vols 1846 Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 47 Kerry interest. Petty Papers & Economic Writings of Petty & St. Michael’s College Listowel & Ward lock Guide to Killarney circa 1900. 4 books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 48 Rare eighteenth century tour of Ireland. A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D. [Thomas Campbell]. 1777. engraved plates. Estimate: 60 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 49 The Book of the Galtees and the Golden Vein by Paul Flynn 1926, reasonable condition Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 50 O’Connell’s Centenary Record, 1878, Daniel O’Connell Centenary Committee, Joseph Dollard, First Edition and Daniel O’Connell and his World (with 79 illustrations), R Dudley Edwards, Thames and Hudson, 1975, First Edition with DJ (2) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 51 Yeats, Jack B (Illustrator) A Lament for Art O'Leary by Frank O'Connor. Cuala Press, Dublin, un-dated Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 52 Irish Artists. Four Books: ‘Dark Beauty – Hidden Detail in Harry Clarke’s Stained Glass’; Wilhelmine Geddes – Life and Work’; ‘The Art of Jack b. Yeats’; ‘Tony O’Malley’ Estimate: 50 - 70 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 53 S.R. Praeger. How They Went To School. C 1910. Colour illustrations and D. Trelawney. The King’s Friend. C. 1890. Illustrated. (2 Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 54 Arthur Champneys. Irish Ecclesiastical Architecture. 1910. Folio. Illustrated. Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 55 Signed First Ed. Kevin Barry, There are Little Kingdoms Stinging Fly 2007 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 56 Mitchel John. History of Ireland from the Treaty of Limerick to the Present Time. 2 vols 1869. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 57 Wilde, Oscar. Ballad of Reading Gaol, London 1898 Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 58 C. Phillips. Curran and his Contemporaries. 1850 1st and Agatha Christie. Endless Night. 1967 and The Last of the Sailing Coasters (3) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 59 Three Lectures on Questions, should principles of political economy be disregarded in the Present Crisis and if not, how can they be applied towards the Discovery of Measures of Relief by W. Neilson Hancock, Professor of Political Economy in University of Dublin. Hodges and Smith. 1847. modern cloth. Regarding condition of labourers during the famine etc. Estimate: 60 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 60 3 volumes of Irish Catholic Truth Society pamphlets with biography, fiction, history, etc.; Lives of the Irish Saints Extracted from the Writings of the Rev. Alban Butler. Dublin 1823 and 4 other books. 8 books Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 61 Talbot, Hayden. Michael Collins' Own Story. Told to Hayden Talbot. London: Hutchinson, [1922]. Octavo. 1st edition. Cloth. Very good. Rare Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 62 Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits. Macmillan and Co. 1876, Twelfth Thousand, with nine illustrations. Small Booksellers label, ”J. Haddock Bookseller and Co Ipswich“ inside of front board. Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 63 Michael Longley & Sarah Longley. Out of the Cold. 1999. Limited edition (500) Signed by the author and his daughter who illustrated this work. Scarce Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 64 Kinsella, Thomas. Downstream. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1962. Octavo. 1st edition. Beige cloth. Signed by Thomas Kinsella. Very good in dust jacket. Perhaps the best of Kinsella's early collections. Downstream was Kinsella's second Poetry Book Society Choice, the first occasion on which the Society had chosen two consecutive books by the same poet Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 65 Thomas Kinsella. Godhead. 1999. Limited edition (350). Signed by Kinsella. Fine copy in pictorial dust jacket Estimate: 130 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 66 [Ballinrobe Printing]. County of Galway. Abstract of Undischarged Queries and New Presentments after Summer Assizes, 1869. At the chronicle Office. modern cloth Estimate: 80 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 67 Collections on Irish Church History, from the Mss. Of the Late Rev. Laurence F Renehan, D.D. Edited by Rev. Daniel McCarthy. Irish Archbishops. 1861. half-leather binding, a Bellew Prize binding Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 68 W.B Yeats and his World. by Michael Mac Liammoir, Evan Boland 1971. inscribed "For you my dearest Hilton, go do na ndeor---as always----Micheail 1971" Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 69 M Stokes. Early Christian Architecture in Ireland I Vol. 1878 Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 70 Cuala Press Broadsides A Collection of New Irish and English Songs 1937 1971 Reprint Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 71 Atlas of Ireland. Map of Ireland and 32 County maps. Samuel Lewis. 1837 original cloth. lovely copy Estimate: 80 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 72 Sir William Chambers. A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture. 1825. 1st edit. Numerous architectural drawings. Original gilt calf Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 73 Tipperary 1702. The Case of Lieut. Colonel Redmond Morres of Knockagh, County of Tipperary, Baronet. Offer’d to the Consideration, of House of Commons. Circa 1702. 2 old British library stamps with ‘Duplicate Discarded’ stamps. Request for relief for Morres from the stringent impact of the recently enacted Penal Laws. rare item Estimate: 80 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 74 Irish Peerage Claims. Somerset Richard Earl Belmore, of Castle Coole, Fermanagh. 1856.; Lord Graves, Gravesend, Londonderry. 1906 and George John Danvers Earl of Lanesborough. 1848. important family histories. 3 books, all bound in modern cloth Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 75 Irish Peerage Claims. Francis Earl of Bandon, Viscount Bernard of Bandon Bridge in the County of Cork. 1857 and Charles Stanley, Viscount Monck of Wicklow. 1849. important family histories. 2 books, all bound in modern cloth Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 76 Griffith’s Valuation of Cork 1852 Estimate: 150 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 77 Galway Election Petition Judgement 1872.1 vol Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 78 Road Improvements in King Williams Town, County of Cork 1839 Estimate: 150 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 79 Notitia Eccleciastica - History of the Church Councils 1725 Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 80 Clements Homiliae. Rome. 1722. Folio. Illustrated. Contemporary vellum. Scarce Estimate: 150 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 81 War of Independence. Official Correspondence relating to the Peace Negotiations June to September 1921 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 82 Griffith's Valuation of the Barony of Barrets, Co. Cork. 1851. Complete minus blue covers Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 83 Correspondence relating to Arklow Harbour. D. 1886. 4 maps, one with original colouring. Blue printed wrappers. Estimate: 150 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 84 Correspondence relating to provision of his majesty’s government for An Irish Settlement. 1921. Copies of historical correspondence between Lloyd George, British P. M. and DeValera Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 85 Vagrancy. Report of the Select Committee on the Laws Relating to Irish and Scotch Vagrants, London 1828 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 86 Report from Committee appointed re John O’Donnell of Limerick and John Bouchier & Ors, Co Clare. 1820. Disbound Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 87 Two Reports from the Select Committee on the State of Disease, and Condition of the Labouring Poor in Ireland. House of Commons. 1819 with 8 plates including to coloured maps of Geashil Bog, Co. Offaly. Folio. It would appear that in 1818, Ireland experienced a major Epidemic similar to the current Virus 200 years later. Major work describing Government’s medical, financial & aid provisions. Rare work, highly relevant to the Ireland of Summer 2020 Estimate: 400 - 600 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 88 Arrangements Governing the Cessation of Activities in Ireland which came into force on July 11, 1921. End of the War of Independence and British Rule in The Republic of Ireland Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 89 Shipping Casualties from July 1897 to June 1899 with 6 large coloured folding maps including fine Irish map. Original blue printed wrappers Estimate: 200 - 300 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 90 Census of Ireland. 1911. Province of Munster – County Clare. Blue wrappers Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 91 The Census of Ireland 1861 Part 1 Area population and Number of Houses by Townland and Electoral Divisions No 5 Kings County Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 92 Report: Sale of Corn. House of Commons 1834. Relevant to the subsequent famine in Ireland Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 93 Returns Of Agricultural Produce for the year 1853 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 94 Census Of Ireland 1881 Estimate: 180 - 220 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 95 Dublin Corporation Reports 1930-40 plus other ephemera from the library of Alderman Tom Kelly T.D. founder of the Old Dublin Society Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 96 Large Box of General Interest Books Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 97 Box of Various Bookseller's Catalogues, early editions of The Book Collector, British Bookplates by North Lee and various other book collecting reference guides, etc. Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 98 Two Boxes of Irish and General Interest Books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 99 Box of mostly Ulster interest books, including ‘Landscapes of South Ulster – a parish atlas of the diocese of Clogher’ (working copy); ‘The Hooded Men’ (Faul and Murray); ‘Ancient Monuments of Northern Ireland’ Vols I & II; ‘Elm Park’ (Co. Armagh); ‘A Fermanagh Childhood’ Estimate: 20 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 100 Periodicals - One Box, Kildare Journal, Tipperary Journal, Kilkenny Magazine, etc. Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 101 H. Helmers. Harry Clarke’s War – Illustrations for Ireland’s Memorial Records 1914-1918 and James Whyte and Ml. Wynne. Irish Stained Glass Windows. Coloured plates, Harry Clarke, Sarah Purser etc. (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 102 John W. Hanna. A Pilgrimage Through the Bye-Ways of Lecale. 1857. Transcribed from the Downpatrick Recorder by Rev. R. Blackwood in 1937. Quarto. Scarce Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 103 J. T. Cleland. Annals of Downpatrick. Transcribed from the original manuscript by R. Blackwood in 1937. Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 104 R.H. Wallace. Historical Collection relating to Downpatrick. Transcribed from the original manuscript by R. Blackwood. 1937 Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 105 Ml. McLiammoir & Eavan Boland. W. B. Yeats & His World. 1974 Illus. and B. Kiely. Yeats’s Ireland – An Anthology. 1994. (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 106 Days Without End, Faber and Faber, 2016, Signed, S/C, Fist Edition, On Canaan’s Side, Faber and Faber, 2011, S/C, First Edition, John Montague, The Pear is Ripe, Liberties, 2007, 1st Edition, 1st Printing in DJ, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury, 2006, 1st Edition, 1st Printing in DJ, Eoin Colfer, Plugged, Headline, 2011, 1st Edition, 1st Printing in DJ, Dublin Made Me, Peter Sheridan, Viking, 1999, 1st Edition, 1st printing in DJ, Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, The Dancers Dancing, Review, 2011, Signed, S/C, Conor Bowman, Life and Death and in Between, 2004, Ltd Edition of 750 copies, this is No 425/750. and O’Conner, Irish Ulick Tales and Sagas, Illustrated by Pauline Bewick, Granada, 1981, First Edition with DJ (9) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 107 (Aubrey de Vere). Inisfail; A Lyrical Chronicle of Ireland. In Three Parts. dedication to Lord Monteagle from the author, dated 1869 and Ireland’s Church Property and the Right Use of It. 1867. marble boards. Old college stamps. 2 books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 108 Bundle of 5 books relating mainly to the Irish Military and Weapons Training Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 109 Seamus Heaney, District and Circle, Faber and Faber, 2006, First Edition, First Printing with DJ Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 110 Sir Robert W. Tate. Carmina Dublinensia. D. 1943. 1st edit Ephemera includes 2 signed letters from Tate to the Rector of Exeter College, Oxford and a contemporary review of this book from Oxford magazine. Scarce with letters Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 111 Smyth William. Lectures on the History of The French Revolution 2 vols 1860, bound in full leather. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 112 J. Anthony Gaughan. Thomas Johnson. 1980 and J.A. Gaughan. Olivia Mary Taaffe. 1995. Signed inscribed copy by Gaugan. (2) Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 113 Teeling. Personal Narrative of the Irish Rebellion London 1823 First Ed. Rebound Charles Hamilton Teeling (1778–1850) was an Irish journalist and writer from Lisburn, County Antrim, Ulster Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 114 London: Pine, 1733-1737,. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2 volumes, 9 inches tall. A wonderful 18th century full crushed morocco, fresh. With gilt raised bands and delicate gilt tooling to the panels. Gilt rolls and corner tools to the boards. Dentelles and all edges gilt. The first edition of both volumes. The finest example of an 18th century English books in which text and illustrations are entirely engraved. With exquisite rococo decoration to almost every page. First Edition, first issue, with the misprint 'post est'in the medallion of Caesar on p. 108, Volume II. Lowndes, p. 1113; Dibdin, Volume II, p. 108; Blumenthal, Art of the Printed Book, p. 24. *John Pine (1690-1756) was an engraver, and a friend of William Hogarth. This edition of the works of Horace, for which he engraved both the text and illustrations, is considered one of the masterpieces of the 18th century book arts. The Subscribers list included both Jonathan Swift and Charles Ford and George Friedrick Handel. The enclosed copy is accompanied with a letter by Thomas Bodkin Dated December 1927 , the year in which he took up the Directorship of the National Gallery in Dublin to Professor Alton the Professor of Latin at Trinity College Dublin who subsequently went on to become the Provost in 1942. The letter confirms that Bodkin had been left the volumes by Mr Waldron, presumably Laurence Waldron the Dublin Stockbroker and friend of Harry Clarke. “Pines edition should be in worthier hands.” Estimate: 700 - 900 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person

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Lot 115 Nolan, Dom Patrick Re: History and Mystery of Banking in Ireland and Elsewhere. Printed for the author, Bruges 1923 - presentation copy Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 116 Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate and Other Reminiscences of the South of Ireland. Henry Robert Addison. London. circa 1880. Lovely copy in original decorative boards. most important printed sources for the study of law and disorder, particularly in the counties of Clare, Limerick and Tipperary, in the pre-Famine years Estimate: 70 - 140 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 117 M. O’hAodha. The Abbey – Then and Now. 1969. 1st and P.C. O’Donovan. The Irish in France. 1990. (2) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 118 Celtic Studies. Pour le Centenaire de Gaspar Zeuss Philologie Celtique. Paris 1906 & Keltic Researches Studies in history and Distribution of ancient Goidelic Language and Peoples by Edward Nicholson. 1904. 2 books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 119 Heaney, Seamus. The Last Walk. First. Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 2013. Royal octavo. Green linen. Limited edition. Signed by Publisher, Peter Fallon. One of 575 numbered copies, of which 500 are for sale. Published posthumously, the book is a translation by Seamus Heaney of Giovanni Pascoli's L'ultima passeggiata published in 1891. Heaney's last work, a most attractive publication with coloured plates by Martin Gale Estimate: 200 - 300 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 120 Moseley Rev Henry The Mechanical Principals of Engineering and Architecture 1 vol. 1843. This book was a prize awarded in Queens Collage Cork in 1852 bound in full leather Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 121 Two vols Irish Text society Vol 3 The Poems of Egan O'Rahilly, Dineen 1900 Vol 7 Duanaire Finn part 1 Eoin Macneill 1908 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 122 Lord Dunsany. Tales of War. 1918. 1st edit with copy of Lady Dunsany’s letter inserted Decorative cover and George Noble Plunkett. Arrows – Poems. 1921. 1st (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 123 The Reliques of Father Prout, Late P.P. Watergrasshill - London 1866 Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 124 Rev. D. Murphy. Triumphalia Monasterii Sanctae Crucis in Hibernia. 1891. 1st edit. Colour & other plates. English text Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 125 W.B. Yeats. Stories from Carleton. With an introduction from W.B.Yeats 1903. Original gilt cloth. And Liam Miller. Thoor Ballylee – Home of W.B. Yeats. Dolmen Press. 1965. Illus. Quite scarce Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 126 Liam O'Flaherty - The Black Soul, 1st ed of author's first book, The Puritan - Signed by the author 1st ed and one other Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 127 Go Set A Watchman, Harper Lee, Heinemann, 2015, First UK Edition, First Printing - Rare Limited Misprint copy with publisher's printing errors (lines of text missing at the bottom of six pages between 252 and 277) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 128 Frost's History and Topography of Clare, 1893, Dublin, some staining to cover Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 129 A Tour in Connaught Comprising Sketches of Clonmacnoise, Joyce Country, and Achill. [Caesar Otway]. 1839. cloth. Information on the Achill mission Estimate: 70 - 140 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 130 Bundle of ‘Old Irish’ language books, 9 in total Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 131 Bracken Henry Farriery Improved or A Compleat Treatise upon The Art of Farriery 1 Vol.1742 Estimate: 60 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 132 The Hon Mrs Ward. The Microscope. 1st edit Colour plates and Dr.Lankester. Half Hours with the Microscope. 1918. Illustrated. (2) Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 133 Fianna Fail. The Land Annuities. Reply to the Arguments of the Last Government. 1932; John Mitchell. A Study of Irish nationalist by Emile Montegut and 6 other pamphlets. 8 items Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 134 Masefield, John. Some Memories of W. B. Yeats. Dublin, Cuala, 1940. Octavo. 1st. edition. Limited to 370 copies. Quarter cloth on paper boards Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 135 The Story of an Irish Sept [McNamaras], Their Character & Struggle to Maintain their lands in Clare, by a Member of the Sept. [Nottige MacNamara]. 1896. excellent copy in original cloth. Interesting enclosures Estimate: 60 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 136 Douglas Hyde - A Literary History of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (The Library of Literary History) 1901. Pages xvi, 653. Ex-library usual stamps; Dominic Daly – The Young Douglas Hyde. 1974. Pages xix, 232, Both hardcovers, clean copies. (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 137 Francis Plowden. An Historical Letter to the Rev. Charles 0'Conor, D.D. Heretofore Styling Himself Columbanus: Upon His Five Addresses or Letters to His Countrymen Publisher: Dublin, Sold by Hugh Fitzpatrick 1812 First Ed. Rebound Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 138 P. Gregory. Ireland: A Song of Hope. 1917. 1st and Galloping Hogan C. 1900 and Francis McManus. Statue For A Square. 1915. 1st (3) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 139 ‘Proceedings of the Irish House of Lords 1771-1800’ (3 vols complete). Irish Manuscripts Commission publication (2008) in mint condition. Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 140 Medbh McGuckian The Book Of The Angel Softback 2004 first ed. signed and four more vols of Poetry Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 141 Mc Gregor John James. New Picture of Dublin Comprehending A History of the City 1 vol. Dublin 1821. Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 142 Seamus Heaney. The Government of the Tongue. 1988. 1st edit. Fine copy in dust jacket Estimate: 120 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 143 Ryan, Desmond. Sean Treacy and the 3rd Tipperary Brigade. Tralee, Kerryman, 1945. Octavo. Quarter cloth on paper Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 144 Tony Blair - A Journey - Signed by author on the title page, while on a visit to Dublin Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 145 The Irish Miscellany or Teagueland Jests, the Second Edition, London 1747, Printed for; and sold by R Adams at Drydens Head Holborn-Bars. With portrait, Pages 1-89 only sold as is Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 146 Irish Biography etc. Assassination. Sir Henry Wilson; John Fitzgibbon Earl of Clare; Life that is Exile. Daniel Corkery and Political Odyssey. Thomas O’Donnell and May It Please the Court by Fenton & John Redmond National Leader. 6 hardback books Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 147 Seamus Heaney. The Spirit Level. 1996 and E. Malins. A Preface to Yeats 1974. (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 148 Oscar Wilde. The Ballad of Reading Gaol 1910 and G. Renier. Oscar Wilde. 1933. Limited edition. Signed by the author. Original fine vellum style cream binding. (2) Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 149 Derek Mahon, Life on Earth, Gallery Books, 2008, H/B, First Edition with DJ, Derek Mahon, Life on Earth, Gallery Books, 2008, S/C, First Edition and Paul Muldoon, Maggot, Faber & Faber, 2010, First Edition, First Printing with DJ (3) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 150 The Ardmachian. Magazine of Armagh Royal School. Volumes 1-3 1912/1915 and vols 4-9 dated 1915/1922. Two bound vols relating to the first 9 vols 1912/1922 of Armagh College Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 151 A Selection of Moore's Melodies: Translated into the Irish language the most Reverend John Machale Archbishop of Tuam. Dublin 1871 Scarce Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 152 Heaney, Seamus. Spelling It Out. Loughcrew: The Gallery Press, 2009. Royal octavo. 1st Edition. Publisher's green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to front board, bound within with brown card endpapers. Edition limited to 300 copies for sale. Signed by Seamus Heaney. Essay in honour of Brian Friel on his eightieth birthday. Drawing by Basil Blackshaw. Fine Estimate: 100 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 153 Muldoon, Paul. Out of Siberia. Hand-coloured woodcut by Timothy Engelland. Published by The Deerfield Press / The Gallery Press, Dublin & Massachusetts, 1982. Octavo. Cloth. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by Paul Muldoon. Fine in dust wrapper Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 154 Patrick Healy - The Modern and the Wake. Softcover. Lilliput Press 1992. First limited edition of 1000 only copies. Pages 116 quarto. In black and white soft card covers. This copy has been numbered, M on the last page 116 and signed by the author – making the 1000th copy of the 1000 only published. It also has a signed and dated inscription from the author to the title page and is thus – A very collectible item…. (1) Estimate: 120 - 180 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 155 Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose, W B Yeats, Macmillan 1927, Illustrated by Norah McGuinness, 1st Edition in Dust Jacket, clean copy. Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 156 An Analysis of History and Antiquities of Ireland prior to Fifth Century, a Review of the General History of the Celtic Nations by William Webb. 1791. Modern quarter leather Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 157 Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret Rose by W. B. Yeats. Illustrated & Decorated by Norah McGuinness. Macmillan. 1927. Superb copy Estimate: 70 - 140 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 158 The History of West Cork and Diocese of Ross by Rev Holland P.P. 1949 (well worn) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 159 Sean McCann, The Story of the Abbey Theatre and 12 issues of The Honest Ulsterman 1968/69 and others, 16 in total Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 160 A New System of Domestic Cookery by a Lady London 1824 Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 161 Head Sir Francis. A Fortnight in Ireland 1 vol 1852 complete with map. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 162 Mairin Ni Chriagain. Sean-Eoin. 1974. Illus in colour by Jack B. Yeats and Exh. Catalogue J. B. Yeats at Waddington Galleries, London Feb/March 1965 and Charles Lambe. Lambe in Connemara. Illus in colour (3) Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 163 Brian Keenan, An Evil Cradling signed First Ed 1992 Frost on Nixon first ed. 1978 signed by Frost Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 164 Fraser James. Guide Through Ireland. 1 vol Dublin 1838 Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 165 Bill Long and Raymond Standun, Voices of Connemara 2010; Marie Fahey Supervisor,The Parish of Lackagh Turloughmore and Portrait of a Parish, Ballynakill, Connemara (3) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 166 W.B. Yeats Plays in Prose and Verse. 1928. 1st U.S. edit. And Collected Plays 1960 and Yeats at The Municipal Gallery. 1959. (3) Estimate: 50 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 167 W.B. Yeats. Dramatis Personae. 1936. 1st edit. And The Hour Glass: A Morality. 1907 and he Pot of Broth. 1911. 3 scarce Yeats’s works Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 168 Irish literary lot - James Carney – Studies in Irish Literature and History 1979. Pages xi, 429; William Maguire – Irish Literary Figures 1945. Pages 221; Douglas Hyde - The Story of Early Gaelic Literature 1920. Pages 174, all hardcovers, clean copies; also two softcovers - Peadar O’Donnell – the Knife a novel of Strife and Love in Ireland’s Times 1980. Pages 287; Fiana Griffin - Extracts From Irish Literature 1992. Pages 137: (5) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 169 Mac Domhnaill agus Ó Meadhra. The Spirit of Tipperary. Nenagh, [1938]. 1st. edition. Small octavo. Cloth Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 170 Box Set – Seamus Heaney – Box Set of the Works of Seamus Heaney published by Faber and Faber in 2006 complete Estimate: 60 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 171 Remarks on Franciscans in Ennis, from Earliest period to the Present Time with Sermon by Rev. Sylvester Malone, M.R.I. A. of Sixmilebridge by F. A. [Rev. Father Augustine Holohan] Ennis. 1877. Some wear and piece cut from top of title page Estimate: 80 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 172 Samhain, Edited for the Irish Literary Theatre by William Butler Yeats. Sealy, Bryers and Walker. 1901, October. modern marble boards Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 173 Joyce, James. James Joyce. The Last Journey. By Leon Edel. New York, 1947. Octavo. Quarter cloth. Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 174 The Roman Catholic Claim to the Elective Franchise Discussed upon the Principles of Civil Liberty and of Free Government by Charles Francis Sheridan. Dublin, M. Mills. modern cloth. 1793 Estimate: 80 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 175 Temple Lane, Curlews, Talbot Press, 1946, First Edition, First Printing with DJ, An Philibín, Tristram and Iseult, Talbot Press, 1924, S/C, First Edition, An Philibín, A Tale of Thule, Talbot Press, S/C, Ltd. Edition of 500 copies, S. Michael Crevequer, Leaves on the Wind, Talbot Press, 1918, S/C, First Edition, Jumping Off Shadows-Selected Contemporary Irish Poets, Greg Delanty/Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Cork University Press, 1995, S/C, First Edition and Poetry in Modern Ireland, Austin Clarke, With illustrations by Louis Le Brocquy, At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1951, S/C, First Edition (6) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 176 Croker, Thomas Crofton Narratives of the Rebellions in 1641 and 1690. Published London 1841 Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 177 O'Callaghan John Cornelius. History of The Irish Brigades in the Service of France 1 vol. 1886 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 178 Dineen Patrick. Focloir Gaedhilge Agus Bearla an Irish English Dictionary 1 vol.1927. Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 179 J. T. Ball. Historical Review of the Legislative System operating in Ireland. 1888. 1st. and W. H. Kisbey. Statutes Relating to Bankruptcy and Debtors in Ireland. 1876. (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 180 A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language. Owen Connellan. 1844. 120 pages. Excellent copy in embossed cloth binding Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 181 Kinsella, Thomas. Another September. Poems. Dublin: Dolmen, 1962. Octavo. New edition. Beige cloth. Signed by Kinsella on title page. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in dust jacket with Book Society paper slip Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 182 Whitaker, T K Financing by Credit Creation 1st edit, 1947 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 183 Lays of Killarney Lakes, Descriptive Sonnets and Occasional Poems. Thomas Gallwey Hodges, Foster. 1871. full page photographic illustrations. embossed cloth Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 184 A Dissertation on Popery or an Analysis of Divine Faith with an Appendix on Tithes, Poor Laws and Elections by Rev. James Doyle Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin. Dublin. 1835 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 185 Tuckey, Frances. The County and City of Cork Remembrancer; or Annals of the County and City of Cork. Cork, 1837. Octavo. Recent half goatskin Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 186 Kilkenny Magazines 6 Issues 1961-66, includes early Seamus Heaney Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 187 A Detailed report of the speeches in both Houses of Parliament on the Irish Roman Catholic Petition 1 vol London 1805. Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 188 Signed by Jack Kyle and Ollie Campbell George Hook This is Rugby 2013 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 189 Evil Literature. Some Suggestions. Rev. R. S. Devane, Foreword by Right Hon. Sir Evelyn Cecil. Dublin. [circa 1926]. wrappers. Limerick priest campaigning ‘to extend the powers of the State to prohibit or restrict the sale and circulation of printed literature’. Fascinating Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 190 A Call to Ireland. The Irish-Speaking Districts by A. B. C. Dublin, Gill; The Irish Revolution by James Connolly. 1897; Return of Columkille or Saving of the Bards. Play in 2 Acts by Rev. J. M. Costello. 1912; and The Last Irish King. A Drama in Three Acts by T. O. Russell. Gill. 1904. & 2 others. 6 books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 191 [Most attractive colour illustrations]. An t-Aillean. Tadhg O' Donnchadha do Scriobh. Seoirse Ua Fagain, nach Maireann a Dheisigh an Chead eagar. Froinnsias Brandt a Rinne na Pictiuiri agus Micheal Ua Briain an Litriu do'n. 1924. Large format Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 192 [Very early and rare time Irish railway item] Great Southern and Western Railway. Time Tables 1st November 1864, for the Use of the Company’s Officers and Servants only and not to be shown to the Public Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 193 The Saga of King Lir by George Sigerson Maunsel and Company 1913 cro 8vo hand-made paper, with page pasted in signed “with the authors compliments” and signed by Sigerson. Slight marking to front board, worn Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 194 W.B.Yeats Mosada 1970 Irish University Press reprint of the 1943 Cuala Press printing fine copy Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 195 Catalogue of the Library of Books Manuscripts and 17th century pamphlets to be sold by auction at ‘Graigue’ Richmond Ave, Palmerstown Park Dublin 28th Feb 1961 James Adam and Sons Exors sale Henry Mangan Dec’d priced catalogue [also contains obituary (31/1/1961) of Henry Mangan who was an accountant who had travelled to London as a financial advisor to Michael Collins during financial talks after the signing of the treaty Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 196 Lord Macauley Oliver Goldsmith Department of Printing College of Art Wolverhampton 1963 maroon boards, Michael Smith: Homage to James Thomson (B.V.) at Portobello, Dublin New Writers Press 1968 signed by Michael Smith Number 7, The Rehearsal Copies of George Bernard Shaw’s Plays – a bibliographical study by F.E. Lowenstein and Oscar Wilde, Salome A drama in One Act, music by Richard Strauss. Published by F Rullman New York. 53 Pages. Paper very good copy, slight tear of 1 cm to bottom of cover (4) Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 197 Íosagán agus Sgéalta Eile. Padraic Mac Piarais do scriobh, Beatrice Elvery do Mhaisigh. Connradh na Gaedhilge. Circa 1918. original wrappers. Attractive illustrations, some in colour by Beatrice Elvery. 2 copies Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 198 The Inner and The Outer Ireland by A. E. [George Russell]. Talbot Press. 1921; and Thoughts for a Convention. Memorandum on the State of Ireland. Maunsel. 1917. 2 books. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 199 A Handbook for Rebels. A Guide to Successful Defiance of the British Government. Compiled by Thomas Johnson. Maunsel. 1918. Fragile Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 200 The Constructive Work of Dáil Eireann. No. 2. Department of Agriculture and the Land Settlement Commission. Talbot Press. 1921; The Industrial Problem. Letters by John Sweetman to Irish Homestead. [1914] and The Robbery of Ireland and the Remedy. J. J. O’Kelly. Sinn Fein. 1928. 64 pages and 2 other similar. 5 books in wrappers Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 201 Oliver Goldsmith, An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex Mrs Mary Blaize. R Caldecotts Picture Books, George Routledge and Sons, price One Shilling 1885 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 202 Kinsella, Thomas. One. With line drawings by Anne Yeats. Dublin: Peppercanister, printed (for the author) at the Dolmen Press, 1974. Imperial octavo. 1st. edition. One of 750 copies. Printed wrappers. Inscribed and signed by Thomas Kinsella and the artist Anne Yeats. An attractive production. Includes the long poem 'Finistere'. His first trade collection, preceded only by small limited editions Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 203 Battles of 1798 Series (Art Kavanagh). Five issues giving accounts of battles at Carlow, Newtownbarry (Bunclody); Oulart, Enniscorthy, the Harrow Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 204 Lady Gregory. The Kiltartan Poetry Book. 1918. Cuala Press limited edition (400) Fine Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 205 Samuel Beckett. Play. 1964. 1st. Fine dust jacket and Not I. 1973 (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 206 Jack B. Yeats. Ah Well – A Romance in Perpetuity. 1942. First edition in dust jacket and Samuel Beckett. Footfalls. 1976 1st. (2) Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 207 De La Salle Brothers, Hospital Co. Limerick. Centenary 1893 1993 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 208 Wilde, Oscar. The Harlot's House. Carpathian, 1990, Amsterdam. R. J. Dolinski, A. S. Dolinski, N. P. Nagy. 46 Campbell Road, Woodley, Royal Berkshire. Pictorial oblong folded card. Limited edition 91/100. Fine Estimate: 20 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 209 Wilde, Oscar. The Soul of Man under Socialism. With an introduction and notes. London, Porcupine Press, 1948. Octavo. 1st. edition. Mustard paper wrappers. It remains the most complete declaration of Wilde's social attitude, and was the most damning contribution to the upper-class hostility towards Wilde Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 210 F.E. Warren. The Manuscript Irish Missal. 1879. 1st edit. Illustrated with 5 tinted lithographs. Scarce work Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 211 The 1641 Rebellion: ‘Narratives illustrative of the Contests in Ireland in 1641 and 1690’ (Crofton Croker) (working copy); ‘The Bloody Bridge and other Papers relating to the Insurrection of 1641’ (Thomas Fitzpatrick, 1903); ‘the Earl of Castlehaven’s Memoirs … of the Civil Wars in Ireland’ (1815) Estimate: 150 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 212 Ireland Industrial and Agricultural, Browne & Nolan, 1902 H/B First Edition, The Industrial Resources of Ireland, Robert Kane, Hodges and Smith College Green, 1844, First Edition, The Industrial Resources of Ireland, Robert Kane, Irish University Press, 1971 reprint, H/B and Geological Notes of Ireland, William Hughes, McGlashan & Gill, Upper Sackville St, 1876, First Edition (4) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 213 Max Caulfield. The Easter Rebellion. 1964. 1st. Illustrated and Pat McCrory. The Siege of Derry. (2) Estimate: 20 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 214 The Irish Country House, a social history by Somerville Large and five other books Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 215 Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, 1999, Faber and Faber, 1999, First Edition in DJ, Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level, Faber and Faber,1996, S/C, First Edition and Seamus Heaney, Finders Keepers, Faber and Faber, 2002, First Edition, First Printing with DJ (3) Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 216 R.B. Sheridan. Pizarro- A Tragedy and William Shakspeare. Two Gentlemen of Verona. 1823. Half calf. (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 217 Harman Murtagh. Athlone: History and settlement to 1800 William Magan. Umma-More. The Story of an Irish Family J. Rice and Thanks for the Memory. first ed. 1952 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 218 Dr. G. Hartwig. The Harmonies of Nature. 1866. 1st Illus. and A Roman Catholic Clergyman. A Letter to F. Plowden c.1820. Recent binding (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 219 Henry Marleburrough. The Chronicles of Ireland. Dublin. 1809. Contemporary calf. Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 220 John Canon O’Hanlon - History of the Queen's County –Hardcover. Roberts 1981. Facsimile reprint, two volume set in slipcase. Limited, numbered edition of 1000 copies, of which this is No. 244. Pages xii, 439, 440 -814. No jackets as issued. Very clean set. Scarce local interest set. (2) Estimate: 120 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 221 Francis Plowden, Plowden’s State of Ireland- an Historical Review of the State of Ireland, 1803, 3 vols. H/C Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 222 W.B. Yeats. The Shadowy Waters. 1907. 1st Acting edition and Yeats The Collected Poems. 1933. (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 223 Masefield, John. John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections, with Biographical Notes. Dublin, Cuala, 1915. Octavo. 1st. edition. Limited to 350 copies. Quarter cloth on paper boards Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 224 James Joyce, Envoy, Vol. 5 No. 17 with contributions from Brian Nolan (Flann O'Brien) and Patrick Kavanagh, 1951, S/C, Patrick Kavanagh, Collected Poems, S/C, 1972 Edition and James Liddy, Versheet 3- Homage to Patrick Kavanagh, New Writers Press, 1971, S/C, First Edition (3) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 225 Debbrett’s Peerage Baronetage and Knightage .1 vol 1890. Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 226 Pilcher Jonathan and Hill, Valerie – Flora Hibernica 2001. Page 203, quarto, Illustrated.; Michael Viney - A Year’s Turning 1996. Pages 232, 8vo. Illustrated line drawings; Ireland – 2003. Pages xvi, 336, Illustrated photos, maps, etc; H. M Fitzpatrick – Ireland’s Countryside 1973. Pages 168, illustrated; all hardbacks in original jackets very clean; also Stephen Mills Nature in its Place 1987. Pages x, 1986. Softcover Illustrated colour photos, line drawings, maps etc. (5) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 227 George Moore. The Passing of The Essenes. 1930. Limited edit (775) Signed by Moore. Fine gilt vellum Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 228 Eamon De Valera, The Earl of Longford and Thomas P. O'Neill. 1st ed. 1970 signed by De Valera Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 229 The Works of Donn Byrne Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 230 Carlo Bossoli. The War in Italy. 1859. Folio. 40 beautiful coloured lithographs. Fine later three quarters calf binding. Estimate: 800 - 1200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 231 Maurice Semple. Where The River Corrib Flows. 1988. 1st. With ephemera and M. Semple Some Galway Memories. 1990. 2 finely illustrated Galway works. Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 232 Militaria: ‘The Battle of Waterloo … with circumstantial details previous and after the Battle … to which is added an alphabetical list of the officers killed and wounded’ (1815). Two fold-out maps/illustrations with a number of contemporary newspaper comments on the battle tipped in; ‘Medals of the British Army and how they were won’ (Thomas Carter, 1861). Deals mostly with campaigns in India and China Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 233 Van Voris, Jacqueline Constance de Markievicz and three other books on Irish Republicanism (4) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 234 George O’Brien. The Economic History of Ireland in the New Century. 1919, and The Scotch-Irish in America June 1894 and F.W. Wilson. The Coming of the Earls. 1918. Limited edition. (3) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 235 The Great Irish Famine. A bundle of six books including a presentation copy to Richard Dowden, Mayor of Cork in 1845, by the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends of its ‘Transactions during the Famine in Ireland in 1846 and 1847’ (Later binding). Also ‘Souperism – Myth or Reality’ (Desmond Bowen) Estimate: 150 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 236 Ralph Payne Gallwey, The Fowler in Ireland, 1882, 1st edition. Very clean condition. Charles Lancaster, The Art of Shooting, 1903 - 2 vols Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 237 W.B. Yeats. Irish Fairy & Folk Tales. C. 1890 1st edit. Illustrated by J. Torrance and A. Parkin. The Dramatic Image of W.B. Yeats. 1978 and W.B. Yeats. Autobiographies. 1961. (3) Estimate: 60 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 238 Seamus Heaney, Opened Ground, Faber and Faber, 1998, First Edition, First Printing with DJ, Seamus Heaney, Finders Keepers, Faber and Faber, 2002, S/C First Edition, First Printing, Seamus Heaney, Station Island, Faber and Faber, 1984, S/C and Seamus Heaney, Anything Can Happen- a poem and essay in support of Amnesty International, Townhouse, 2004, S/C, First Edition (4) Estimate: 60 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 239 Laws & Regulations of The Grand Royal Architectural Chapter of Irelands’ Masonic Lodges. Dublin 1920. Masonic illustrations. Original gilt cloth and T. Hamilton. History of The Presbyterian Church. 1887. (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 240 Irish Biography etc. Captain Boycott and the Irish & Joseph Brennan & Mary Ann McCracken & Justice Robert Day & Fenian Memories by Ryan & Letters of Swift & Secret societies of Ireland, limited edition & Socialism and Nationalism by Connolly. 8 hardback books Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 241 John McGahern - That They May Face the Rising Son, Faber and Faber, 2002, H/B, First Edition, First Printing and Memoir, Faber and Faber, 2005, H/B, First Edition, First Printing (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 242 P. Lynch. The Turf-Cutter’s Donkey. 1935. Illustrated in colour by Jack B. Yeats and Jack B. Yeats Exhibition catalogue March 1963 at Waddington Galleries and Hilary Pyle. Jack B. Yeats – A Biography. 1970. First. Pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated (3) Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 243 Oscar Wilde. A House of Pomegranates. 1909 and Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest. 1910 (2) Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 244 Ordnance Survey Maps of Irish Districts. Circa 1880-1920. Folding, colour. The Curragh, Templemore, Ennis etc. Mostly vellum. circa 29 individual maps Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 245 Muldoon, Paul. Wayside Shrines 1st edit, signed limited edition of 400 copies Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 246 J. Hogan The Description of Ireland in 1598. Dublin. 1878. Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 247 Murray Patrick Joseph. The Life of John Banim.1 vol. 1857. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 248 Milner J. An Inquiry into certain vulgar opinions concerning the Catholic Inhabitants and the Antiquities of IRELAND. In a series of letters from thence, Addressed to a Protestant Gentleman in England. 1 vol 1808. Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 249 The Midland Septs and the Pale, F R Montgomery Hitchcock, Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1908, H/C, First Edition and The Spirit of Tipperary, P O’Meara, ‘The Guardian’ Nenagh, Signed, H/C, First Edition (2) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 250 Edward Moore. Fables For The Female Sex. 1746. Numerous fine copper engravings. Half calf and The Diary of John Evelyn. C. 1818. Fine half vellum (2) Estimate: 60 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 251 Redemption, Francis Stuart paperback reprint signed Francis Stuart 1994 also Memorial by Stuart Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 252 Seamus Heaney. The Spirit Level. 1996. 1st edit. Mint in dust jacket Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 253 Jack B. Yeats. Life in The West of Ireland. 1912. 1st edit. With 8 colour plates, 32 line drawings & 16 reproductions from paintings. Loosely inserted fine manuscript letter from Yeats discussing his attitude to illustrating books. Rare with important signed letter. Book plate Estimate: 400 - 600 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 254 Padraic MacPiarais. Iosagan Agus Scealta Eile. C. 1907. 4 colour plates by Beatrice Elvery. And The Irish Review. April 1911. Articles by Piarais, MacDonagh, A.E. Dunsany & plate by Jack B. Yeats. (2) Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 255 O’Connor, Frank. Lords and Commons: Translations from the Irish. Dublin, Cuala, 1938. Octavo. 1st. edition. Limited to 250 copies. Quarter cloth on paper boards Estimate: 200 - 300 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 256 Robert D. Joyce. Ballads of Irish Chivalry. C. 1908 and 3 others Estimate: 15 - 25 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 257 Kavanagh Michael V A Bibliography of The History of Kildare in printed books 1 vol 1976 Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 258 Longley, Michael. Broken Dishes. Newry & Belfast, Apple Press, 1998. Octavo. 1st. edition. Black linen. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by Michael Longley. Fine in dust jacket Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 259 Mr John Gay. Poems on Several Occasions. 1757. Earl of Clanricarde book plate and Keepsake Francais, 1833. Fine plates. Gilt calf. Balfour book plate (2) Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 260 Sir Charles Gavin Duffy. Young Islanders- A Fragment of Irish History 1884. Pictorial cloth and Young Ireland – Part 2. 1887. (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 261 A History of Ireland (with 5 Maps), Edmund Curtis, Methuen, 1936, H/C, First Edition, Ireland in the World, Garret FitzGerald, Liberties, Signed, First Edition with DJ, Ireland 1607 – 1782 (From the Flight of the Earls to Grattan’s Parliament), James Carty, C J Fallon Ltd., 1949, H/C, First Edition, The Life of Wellington, W H Maxwell, W P Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1893, H/C, First Edition and The Oxford Companion to Irish History, Oxford University Press, 1998, First Edition in DJ, as new (5) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 262 John Fowles, The Aristos first U.S. edition 1964 Graham Green, Travels with my Aunt 1st ed. 1969 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 263 Banba 1921-1922, 8 issues Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 264 Four illustrated works: Richard Doyle – ‘The Foreign Tour of Messrs Brown, Jones and Robinson’ (1854); ‘Jack and the Giants (1858); ‘Jack the Giant Killer’ (1888). Daniel Maclise – Shakespeare’s ‘Seven Ages’ (1850). Richard Doyle, the noted ‘Punch’ illustrator was son of Irish-born John Doyle (‘HB’) whose eleven volumes of ‘Political Sketches’ firmly established him as a political satirist. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was Richard’s nephew. Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 265 Wexford, 12 Sketch Books by E W Donovan, Adelaide Donovan and Agnes Donovan of Camolin, Co Wexford c.1890 - many local scenes depicted. There are approximately 40 watercolours, 160 sketches and some mixed media Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 266 Album of original scarce Victorian photographs of County Down towns by William Lawrence, Dublin. Including : Newry, Newcastle, Warrenpoint, Dromore, Hillsborough, Rostrevor, Ballinahinch, Newtownards etc. Many scarce street images Estimate: 150 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 267 19th Century full gilt morocco binding with recessed decorative panels on cover titled “Excelsior Album”. Album contains many rare original photographs of Ulster Topography and several beautiful watercolours of floral subjects. Rare Estimate: 200 - 400 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 268 122 illustrations by Jack B. Yeats from Punch period March 1911 to May 1934 all signed with his pseudonym “W. Bird" Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 269 Proceedings of The Royal Irish Academy Volume XLIX, Section C, No. 3. R.A.S. MacAlister – A preliminary Report on the Excavation of Knowth 1943. S/B. Pages 131 – 166, plus two b/w plates at rear. In blue cloth covers present but disbound. Scarce; George Eogan – A decade of excavations at Knowth, Co. Meath 1973. Pages 16. Both softcovers, illustrated (2) Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 270 Re Shan Van Vocht, December 1898 plus 4 issues of the Gaelic Journal 1895 and one other (6) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 271 Book of Kells. Celtic Ornaments from the Book of Kells, complete if 6 parts, Bernard Quanitd, London 1892 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 272 Belfast News Letter Annual Review 1957-1961 (5) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 273 Newspaper Commemorative Supplements. Irish Independent 1955, Sligo Champion 1986, Mayo News 1994 and Clonmel Nationalist 1990 (4) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 274 The Dublin Chronicle, c.29 issues from September 16th 1790, with notice of Irish State Lottery with prizes up to £20,000 to February 19th, 1791 with notice of a Public Auction in the town of Birr, King's County, of the chattles of the late Dr. Heinan. Also "To Set" two houses at William Street, Birr, the fields at Drumbawne and Ballinree and the Factory Field in Birr ..... Also includes innumerable notices of book publications, political articles, prominent court cases of the day etc. Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 275 Folio Society - One Box Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 276 Box of mostly Irish interest books Estimate: 20 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 277 Northern Ireland 1968-1998 three boxes of pamphlets c.200 items, loyalist & nationalist, many rare Estimate: 100 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 278 Box of approx. 100 Theatre Programmes, mainly productions of plays in the Gate, Gaiety and Abbey theatres Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 279 Box of Irish Interest Books Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 280 W Lawrence - Photograph of O'Connell Street, Dublin with horse drawn trams, pre 1896 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 281 J.J. Howard & Frederick A. Crisp. Visitations of England and Wales. 1893/1902. 10 volumes. Folio. Quarter vellum. Numerous illustrations of Coats of Arms, family crests etc., (10) Estimate: 300 - 400 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 282 Hilary Pyle. Jack B. Yeats in the National Gallery. 1986. Oblong folio, colour plates and J.B. Yeats. A Centenary Exhibition 1971. Illus. (2) Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 283 Nineteenth Century Topography and Commentary: ‘An Essay on the Age and Antiquity of the Book of Nabathean Agriculture’ (1862); ‘Among the Mongols’ (Rev. James Gilmour, 1888); ‘Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas and Regions’ (1831); ‘The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean’ (Vol I of two, 1807). Five fold-out maps – Plan of the Coast of Mekran; Map of territory bordering Gulf of Persia; Sketch of the River Indus; Chart of the Gulph of Persia; Map of Susiana or Khoozistan. Estimate: 150 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 284 Lincoln, Colm. Cork at the Turn of the Century and three others on Cork (4) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 285 Patrick Murray - Church of Saints Peter and Paul Athlone: An Illustrated History and Guide. Hardcover. Saint Peter and Paul's Parish Forum / Pastoral Council, 2007. Pages 224, folio. Illustrated. colour and b/w photos. In black cloth covers with gilt title to spine. Very clean in original jacket. Signed and dated by the author on the half-title page. Scarce and collectible Estimate: 65 - 85 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 286 Irish humour – Martyn Turner - Our work here is done 2011, and Pack up Your Troubles 1995; Scratch – The Legend of Charlie Haughey 1988; Stephen Dixon and Deirdre Falvey 1999. All softcovers illustrate cartoons etc. (4) Estimate: 25 - 35 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 287 Seven titles of Dublin interest plus bundle of five Irish Heritage books - as follows: Constantia Maxwell – Dublin Under The Georges 1714-1830 –Hardcover 1946. Pages 33; St John" Weston Joyce - The Neighbourhood of Dublin, Its Topography, Antiquities and Historical Associations. Hardcover 1939. Pages xx, 512; The Corporation Of Dublin - A Book of Dublin. Softcover 1929. Pages xvi, 90, xcviii. Illustrated b/w and sepia photos, maps, line drawings etc; Thomas C. Butler - John's Lane A History of the Augustinian Friars in Dublin 1280 - 1980 – Softcover. Pages x, 220; Kevin C. Kearns - Stoneybatter - Dublin's Inner-urban Village Hardcover 1989. Elgy Geillespie - Liberties of Dublin. Softcover 1974. Pages 120; Jimmy Wren- The Villages Of Dublin. Softcover 1987, new enlarged edition. Pages 105; All illustrated colour and b/w and nice clean copies. Also five Irish Heritage titles on Dublin’s buildings, plus one other as follows – University College Dublin, Georgian Dublin, City Hall, Trinity College, The Irish House, and a Historical Guide to Dublin Castle. All very good. Nice lot. (12) Estimate: 120 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 288 Dr Seuss – The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Vanguard Press New York 1938 the authors second book. Worn Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 289 J.B. Lyons: Brief Lives of Irish Doctors 1600-1965 Blackwater Press 1978 in Dust Jacket and John B Lee The Evolution of a Profession and of its Dental School in Dublin Linden Publishing 2008 fine copy in Dust Jacket’ (2) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 290 Irish Review 1911 to 1913 (8 issues) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 291 Mark Bence-Jones. Burkes Guide to Country Houses. Vol.1 Ireland 1978 John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland 2 vols. 1847 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 292 Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society - 13 volumes as follows for the years – 1941, 1942, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. As a collection (13) Estimate: 100 - 140 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 293 The ‘Big House’ and Irish Architecture. Five books including ‘Irish Houses and Castles’ (Desmond Guinness); Abandoned Mansions of Ireland (Tarquin Blake); ‘Ireland Observed’ (Craig and the Knight of Glin). Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 294 Isaac Weld, Illustrations of the Scenery of Killarney and the Surrounding Country, 1807, contains 19 plates (one fold-out); Kerry’s Fighting Story 1916 – 21, publ. by The Kerryman Ltd, 1st edition Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 295 Desmond Guinness - Irish Houses and Castles 1973. Pages 352, folio; Brian Breffny and George Mott – Castles of Ireland 1977. Pages 208; Tarquin Blake – Abandoned Mansions of Ireland 2010. Pages ix, 338. All hardback copies, in original clean jackets. Illustrated colour and b/w photos. Very good lot. (3) Estimate: 45 - 55 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 296 Irish history lot - T O'Sullivan - The Young Irelanders 1945. Pages xvi, 686, lacking some plates; Edmund Curtis – A history of Ireland 1956. Pages viii, 434, folding map at rear; Leon O Broin – Fenian Fever – An Anglo-American Dilemma 1971. Pages x, 264; Barry O’Brien– Munster at War 1971. Pages 237; All hardbacks with two others softcovers – Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffery – A military history of Ireland 1997. Pages xxv, 565, illustrated and Sean Duffy - Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf 2014. Pages xvi, 349, illustrated. (6) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 297 Irish Architectural and December Studies Re: Journal of the Irish Georgian Society (8) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 298 Bundle of eleven books of Irish Interest, including ‘The Life of Michael Davitt’ (Cashman); ‘The Sword of Light’ (Desmond Ryan, 1939); ‘the Jacobite Movement’ (Petrie, 1948); ‘The Curragh Mutiny’ (1956); ‘The Irish Parliament – what it was and what it did’ (Swift MacNeill, 1912). Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 299 Richard Lovett - Ireland One Hundred Years Ago 1985. Pages 224; Roslyn Dee - A Sense of Place 2000. Pages 107; Sean Duffy - The Concise History of Ireland 2000. Pages 256; Andrew Pagett - Ireland: The Emerald Isle 1999. Pages 125; Margaret Hickey - Irish Days: Oral Histories of the Twentieth Century 2001. Pages 192. All hardbacks, quarto, in original clean jackets. Illustrated colour and b/w. Clean copies. (5) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 300 Irish Poetry lot some signed – Kieran Furey - Sixteen Stories 1986. Pages 111, Signed by the author; (local interest Roscommon); Carmel Cunningham – Unfolding Images – 2011. Pages 90, Signed by the author (local interest Roscrea); Oscar Wilde- The Ballad of Reading Gaol 1980. Pages 56, and Woodcuts; Bridie Quinn – The Wolfhound Book of Irish Poems for Young People 1982. Pages 192, illustrated; Mairead Byrne – Nelson & the Huruburu Bird 2003. Pages 123; Mac Gearailt, Christoir, - Griffon Group: a Collection of Stories and Poems By New Writers in Galway 1994. Pages 144, illustrated, and two others. All softcovers 8vo, in card covers, clean copies. (8) Estimate: 50 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 301 Roddy Doyle - A Star Called Henry, Jonathan Cape, 1999, Signed, H/B, First Edition, First Printing, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Secker and Warburg, 1993, H/B, First Edition, First Printing, The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Jonathan Cape, H/B, First Edition, First Printing and The Deportees, Jonathan Cape, 2007, First Edition, H/B, First Printing (4) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 302 John McGahern Amongst Women 1st ed 1990 Faber and Faber with dust jacket, Seamus Heaney The Aeneid Book VI 2016, Winter Papers Edited by Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith Curlew Editions Ltd 2017 195 pgs Navy Boards fine copy and Paul O’Brien; Shelley and Revolutionary Ireland published by Redwords 2002 paperback (4) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 303 Paul Lacroix, The Eighteenth Century, France 1700 – 1879, publ. 1876, with beautiful coloured and black and white plates covering all aspects of French life; Edith Sichel, Catherine De Medici and the French Reformation, 1905; Edith Sichel, Women and Men of the French Renaissance, 1903; Sainte-Croix de la Ronciere, Josephine, 1934 Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 304 Irish Archives Bulletin, 18 issues Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 305 Irish Railway interest – Derek Young –Ulster Transport Authority 2006. Pages 128 folio; Brian Mac Aonghusa – The Harcourt Street Line – Back on Track 2003. Pages 112. H.C. Casserley - Irish Railways in the Heyday of Steam no date stated. Pages 96; C. R. Potts - Newton Abbot to Kingswear Railway, 1844-1988 (Oakwood Library of Railway History) 1989. Pages 218; Jas. T and Chas. S Lake Hodgson - Locomotive Management: Cleaning, Driving, Maintenance eight edition 1942. Pages xi, 492. All hardcovers, illustrated, some in original jackets. Nice clean lot (5) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 306 Michael Collins A Biography, Tim Pat Coogan, Hutchinson, 1990, Signed, H/C with DJ, Michael Collins Himself, Chrissy Osborne, Mercier Press, 2003, S/C, Michael Collins A Life in Pictures, Chrissy Osborne, Mercier Press, 2007, H/B, First Edition, Michael Collins, Colm Connolly, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, H/B, First Edition with DJ and In Great Haste – the letters of Michael Collins and Kitty Kiernan, Leon O'Broin, Gill & Macmillan, 1996, H/C, First Edition with DJ (5) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 307 Bundle of books of local historical interest – includes ‘Inishmurray Ancient Monastic Island’, ‘Kilkenny through the Centuries’; ‘St Cronan’s Roscrea’, ‘The Hearts Townland – marking boundaries in Ulster’, ‘Kildress – Rolling back the Brambles’, and six others. Estimate: 70 - 90 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 308 Reeves-Smyth Terence and Oram Richard - "Avenues to the Past": Essays Presented to Sir Charles Brett on His 75th Year 2003. Hardcover. Pages 365 quarto. As new in jacket; Journal of the Irish Georgian Society Vol xii 2009. Softcover. Pages 224, quarto. Illustrated; and Matthew J McDermott- Ireland’s Architectural Heritage 1975. Softcover. Pages 200, illustrated. Clean copies (3) Estimate: 35 - 45 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 309 1916 Rebellion - eight titles - Cronin Sean – Our Own Red Blood 1966. Pages 66; Conor Kostick / Lorcan Collins - The Easter Rising 2000. Pages 141. This Copy has been signed by Collins. Willis Clair Dublin 1916, Published 2009. Pages 259. Illustrated; Townshend Charles - Easter 1916, Marcus Bourke – The O’Rahilly 1967; Sean Cronin - Kevin Barry 1965; Herbert O’Mackey - Roger Casement – the truth about the forged diaries 1966; Ruth Dudley Edwards - Patrick Pearse - The triumph of failure 1979. All softcovers except one. Nice lot (8) Estimate: 50 - 70 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 310 - COUNTY MAY0- Aine Ni Cheannain- The Heritage Of Mayo, 1982. Pages 118; J. A. Fahy - The Glory of Cong 1986. Pages 56; Thomas Egan- The Story of Ballintuber Abbey1967. Pages 32; Knock Shrine annual two issues - 1982 and 1983; Seamus Caulfield - Celtic Fields, Ballycastle Co. Mayo no date c. 1992; Pages 16; Harry Hughes – Croagh Patrick 2010. Pages 80; and one other. All softcovers, illustrated b/w or colour. Clean lot. (8) Estimate: 35 - 45 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 311 Ronaldshay, The Life of Lord Curzon, in 3 volumes with bookplates of the Earl of Rosse. Estimate: 15 - 25 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 312 Brian O’Driscoll, The Test, 2014, Signed First Edition in DJ, Atonement, Ian McEwan, Signed, First Edition, 4th Printing in DJ, People’s Gallery of Engravings, edited by Mrs Milner, Peter Jackson, Late Fisher & Co, Vol IV, 68 engraved plates, Original Hardcover, The Bosphorus and the Danube, 23 tissue covered plates drawn by WH Bartlett and School Atlas of Physical Geography, Alex Keith Johnston, 1887, New and Enlarged Edition in original hard cover (5) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 313 Peter Somerville-Large - The Irish Country House: A Social History 1995. Pages x, 372, index; Breffny Brian and Mott George - The Churches and Abbeys of Ireland. S/B. 1976. Pages 208; Marianne Heron - Gardens of Ireland 1999. Pages 160; John FitzMaurice Mills - Noble Dwellings of Ireland 1987. Pages 223. All illustrated colour and b/w, three hardbacks and one softback. Very clean solid lot (4) Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 314 Edward Quin. An Historical Atlas in a Series of Maps of the World as Known at Different Periods. 1830. First edition. Folio. With 21 fine maps engraved with aquatints in contemporary hand colouring. The final 6 maps in this rare first edition are extremely large, canvas backed Estimate: 3000 - 5000 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 315 Divi Ambrosii Epi. Scopi Mediolanensis Operum Complectens. 1538. Two volumes in one. Ex diocesan college library, Carlow with their brand on title page. Folio. Contemporary calf, raised bands. Latin text. This is the oldest work ever sold in our rooms. Estimate: 500 - 700 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 316 Dublin Bill Heads and Invoices etc. period 1880s mostly relating to whiskey and ale purchased by a Clare merchant. Approximately 60 items Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 317 The Limerick Scandal. Complete History. 12 pages. [Limerick, circa 1901]. Original as issued, very fragile with old damage to folds etc. A contemporary and pro Dr. Long defence of his medical mission in Limerick City which resulted in controversy and sectarian tension. A rare survivor Estimate: 80 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 318 [Killed by the Invincibles]. 3 documents dated 1880 re distress in Ireland in 1879-1880. A Public Notice plus circular from Secretary to local government Board, Tomas Henry Burke a native of Tuam, Galway, shot dead in the Phoenix Park in May, 1882 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 319 Slane. Lady Day, 1932. Westmeath Examiner. Fragile. During the Eucharistic Congress a Mass was held on the Hill of Slane attended by up to 60,000 people Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 320 Ballinafad, Castlebar, Mayo. Letter dated 1818, addressed to George Blake & memorial dated 1710, James Dunbar, Mark Blake etc. single leaf, folded, seal. 2 historical documents Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 321 Programme of Munster Senior Hurling Final, Thurles, July 16th, 1944. Cork v. Limerick. fragile wrappers. Played during the Second World War, ‘the bicycle final’ with no fuel available, tens of thousands of supporters cycled and walked, to watch two of the greatest teams in the history of hurling. Apparently the only match that Mick Mackey lined out against Christy Ring Estimate: 70 - 140 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 322 A unique publication. Cawnpore Conspiracy Case. Cecil H. Clendining, Dun Laoghaire. [1926]. 4 pages. disbound as issued. The printed and fascinating case of Clendining, a lieutenant in the Royal Irish Rifles found insane after an incident in Cawnpore in 1917 Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 323 John Redmond Accuses England. 1919. Fragile wrappers. A clandestine publication, without name or place of publisher using Redmond’s previous speeches as a Republican argument. Rare publication Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 324 The Case of Ireland. Sinn Fein Series. [1919]. Colour Map & Irish Bishops and English Rule. [1918] & Robbery under Arms. Sinn Fein. 1917 & Sinn Fein. Celebration in Honour of Centenary of birth of John Mitchell. 1915. & one other. 5 books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 325 The Significance of Sinn Fein – Psychological, Political and Economy J. R. White. Lester. 1919 and Two Years of English Atrocities in Ireland 1917-18. [a wealth of information]. 2 books. Fragile wrappers Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 326 Árd-Fheis Sinn Fein. An Clár. 8ádh Lá D’Aibreán, 1919. Original printed wrappers. Rare item Estimate: 60 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 327 Coffey, Brian and Denis Devlin Poems 1st edit, printed for the authors. Signed by Coffey and Devlin Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 328 Clarke, Harry Advertising Flyer for J J Clarke & Sons, circa 1922 (scarce) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 329 Caroline, Countess of Dunraven. Memorials of Adare Manor. 1865. First edit. Numerous colour tinted lithographs & other plates. An outstanding association copy as it is inscribed “To Philip Charles Hardwicke Esq., with the kind regards of the Author May 10th, 1865”. Philip Hardwicke worked as the main architect on the reconstruction of Adare Manor & gardens for 10 years 1855 to 1865. A particularly rare copy. Original green cloth with gilt coronet of Dunraven family on cover Estimate: 1500 - 2000 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 330 Family album of Sybil Roche. (Lord Fermoy’s daughter) and her husband Nigel Baring containing press cuttings relating to their major Society Wedding in 1908 and numerous original photographs of Limerick gentry including Wyndham-Quin hunting party at Adare Manor , Limerick Hunt at Rockbarton, Kilmallock, the home of the Barings, being served stirrup-cups by liveried butlers prior to start of hunt. Nigel Baring who bank-rolled the Limerick Hunt for years, was Master of Limerick Fox Hounds and album also included photos of his famous racehorse “Roman Bachelor”. Among the individual photographs of Limerick Hunt members are Cpt. Lyons, Cpt. Maxwell, P. Feore. Major Sweetman, Cpt G. W. Stacpoole, Cpt. D.R. Browning and many lady members of the Hunt. Estimate: 500 - 800 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 331 William Enfield. An Essay Towards the History of Liverpool. 1774. Folio. Large folding maps with very fine topographical plates. Contemporary half calf with armorial Limerick book plate. Fine Estimate: 200 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 332 Groses’s Antiquities of Ireland 1791 2 vols with 266 plates I coloured big paper edition Estimate: 350 - 450 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 333 The Stapleton Collection. Designs for the Irish Neoclassical Interior by Conor Lucey. Churchill house Press. 2007. Large format in dust wrapper. Near fine. Study of Georgian plaster work Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 334 Newgrange and a Bend in the Boyne - Signed by the author and one other Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 335 Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, illustrated by Stephen Reid 1907 Gowans and Gray Ltd. Green Boards with slight discoloration to upper right front board but a good copy now scarce in commerce Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 336 “The Sham Squire” and the informers of 1798, W J Fitzpatrick, M H Gill & Son,1895, H/C, The Life of Michael Dwyer, Charles Dickson, Browne and Nolan, 1944, H/C, First Edition, Wolfe Tone – a Picture of his Times, Aodh De Blacam, Talbot Press, 1935, H/C, First Edition with DJ and The Big House of Inver, Somerville & Ross Heinemann, 1925, H/C, First Edition (4) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 337 Yeats, William Butler. The King and the Great Clock Tower Commentaries and Poems. Dublin, Cuala, 1934. Octavo. 1st. edition. Limited to 400 copies. Quarter cloth on paper boards Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 338 Atlas D’Histoire Naturelle: Reptiles, Poisons, Mollusques, etc. composes par Dr g h DE Schubert Paris with 30 plates (each A3 approx) beautifully coloured. Not dated but presumed to be mid 1800’s, Showing various collections of reptiles, fish, sharks, etc Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 339 Leslie John Killarney a Poem, William Wilson, Dame Street, Dublin 1772. Estimate: 350 - 450 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 340 Crofton Croker. Researches in the South of Ireland 1 Vol.1824 Beautifully bound by Morrell Estimate: 300 - 400 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 341 Colby Major General. General Ordinance Survey Abstracts of Principal Lines of Spirit Levelling in Ireland. 1 vol 1855. Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 342 Faces in a Bookshop. Irish Literary Portraits. introduced by Gerald Dawe 1990 Signed by Clare Cryan, Marjorie Fitzgibbon, Benedict Kiely Edward McGuire and Francis Stuart. From Clare Boylan's library. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 343 Guinness, Desmond & William Ryan Irish Houses and Castles Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 344 Census of Ireland for Cork 1891 Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 345 The Irish & Commercial & Railway Gazetteer 1893. Scarce and H. Fayle and A.T. Newham. The Waterford and Tramore Railway. 1972. Pictorial dust jacket (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 346 James Cook. A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round The World. 1777. Second edition. 2 volumes. Illustrated with folding maps charts and views. Many of maps in vol one have been professionaly rebacked. Ex library. Quarter calf Estimate: 200 - 300 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 347 Captain Cook’s Journal During his First Round The World edited by Cpt. W. Wharton. 1893. Folding maps, illustrations. Fine quarter calf Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 348 McDonagh Michael The Life of William O Brien 1 vol 1928 Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 349 Poems by W. B. Yeats. Fisher Unwin. 1901. Original gilt-designed dark blue cloth, with lettering to spine and side designed by the Irish poet and artist Althea Gyles. Interesting signature on front free page Estimate: 70 - 140 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 350 Synge J.M. The Playboy of the Western World Maunsel and Co Dublin 1912, vellum spine, Herbert Davis Jonathan Swift – Essays on his Satire and other Studies Oxford University press 1964 and Darrell Figgis, The Return of the Hero by Michael Ireland [Darrell Figgis] Chapman and Dodd 1923 1st Ed scarce (3) Estimate: 60 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 351 Yeats, William Butler. Last Poems and Two Plays. Dublin, Cuala, 1939. Octavo. 1st. edition. Limited to 500 copies. Quarter cloth on paper boards Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 352 Defence of Ireland including observations on some other aspects connected therewith. Dublin, P. Byrne. 1795. modern cloth. 3 folding plates of armed peasant etc. rare publication Estimate: 80 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 353 Illustrations on Ireland. Trois Mois en Irlande par Marie Anne de Bovet. 1889. 208 pages. original French language edition of Three Months in Ireland, contains many attractive illustrations not found in any other edition Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 354 Westropp Irish Glass - Library stamps to the verso of some of the plates, working copy Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 355 O’Reilly Edward Irish English Dictionary 1st edition, 1817 Dublin. Last 29 pages expertly restored and book rebound by Aitkin Estimate: 180 - 220 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 356 L. McCraith. The Romance of Irish Heroines. C. 1910 and Sir Jonah Barrington. Rise and Fall of The Irish Nation. 1833. Illustrated. Half calf. (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 357 Irish Military History: ‘The Wild Geese’ (Maurice Hennessy); ‘Franco-Irish Military Connections 1590-1945’ (David Murphy); ‘A History of the Irish Soldier’ (Brigadier Bredin). Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 358 The Genera of South African Plants arranged according to Natural system. William Henry Harvey, Professor of Botany University of Dublin. Cape Town. 1868. Harvey was born in Limerick Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 359 Robert Lynd. The Little Angel. 1926. 1st and Diarmid Coffey. O’Neill and Ormond – A Chapter in Irish History. Signed by Robert Lynd on end paper. (2) Estimate: 60 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 360 History of Clare and the Dalcassian Clans by Rev White, with 2 maps of Clare, Dublin 1893, well worn Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 361 A Report of the Trial of Daniel Waring upon the prosecution of Roger O’Connor Esqr. for perjury. By Richard Greene. Dublin. 1817. Modern quarter leather Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 362 Programme – Wexford Opera Festival 1956 – sixth annual festival. Softcover. Illustrated b/w. List of subscribers at rear. Rare early festival programme Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 363 John M. Leighton. Select Views on the River Clyde. 1830. 1st edit. Steel engravings Rare contemporary gilt morocco binding. Nautical book plate Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 364 Wood Martin W: The Lake Dwellings of Ireland, Dublin, 1983 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 365 Heaney, Seamus. District and Circle. London: Faber, 2006. Octavo. 1st. edition. Green papered boards. Signed by Seamus Heaney on title page. A very fine copy in fine dust jacket Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 366 Rev. P. Dwyer. The Siege of Londonderry in 1689. 1893. Illustrated. Original very decorative gilt blue cloth. Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 367 Essays Irish and American, John Butler Yeats, R.H.A. Talbot Press, 1918, H/C First Edition, Ancient Light, Viking, 2012, S/C, First Edition, A Death in Summer, 2011, Signed B Black aka John Banville, S/C, First Edition, Seumas MacManus, The Rocky Road to Dublin, Talbot Press, 1947, H/C, 1st Ed. and From ‘Life’ to ‘The Big Picture’, Anna Nielsen, ANP, 2002, H/C, Signed Sample Copy, Ltd. Edition, No. 1/500 (5) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 368 Bookbindings From the Library of Jean Grolier, Trustees of the British Museum 1965, Catalogue of a loan exhibition 1965. Containing 138 plates of Bindings and 11 of toolings used. Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 369 (Dublin University Defence Pamphlets 1907). Trinity College, Dublin and the Proposed University Legislation for Ireland. Contemporary cloth. An important collection of pamphlets relating to Mr. Bryce’s Proposed University Legislation for Ireland in 1907 Estimate: 60 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 370 Irish Literature. Cutting of an Agate by Yeats. 1919; The Western Island by Flower. 1946; Cards of the Gambler by Kiely with jacket. 1953; The Apostle a Drama by Moore. 1911; Pride of Summer by Broderick with jacket. 1976; White Light and Flame by MacManus in jacket 192; Edna Brien’s Casualties of Peace and The Love Object in jacket. 8 hardback books Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 371 The Treble Almanack for the Year 1821. John Watson Stewarts Almanack, II. The English Court Registry, III. Wilson's Dublin Directory. Dublin, Stewart. Contemporary full red calf. Signature of Lord Killeen, Dublin Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 372 Yeats, William Butler. Reflections by W.B. Yeats. Transcribed and Edited by Curtis Bradford from the Journals. Dublin, Cuala, 1970. Octavo. 1st. edition. Limited to 500 copies. Quarter cloth on paper boards in protective wrapper Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 373 Guide to Belfast and the Adjacent Counties by the Belfast Naturalists Field Club. 1874; and Ulster Nature Notes by Robert Paterson. 1908. 2 books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 374 Claregalway. Parish History Seven Hundred Years and Kiltullagh; and J. Claffey Glimpses of Tuam since the Famine. (3) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 375 Seamus Heaney Sweeney Astray 1983. 1st edit and Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes. The School Bag 1997. (2) Estimate: 120 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 376 Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Ireland Sir Bernard Burke edited by Ashworth Burke. 1904. Lovely copy in embossed cloth Estimate: 100 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 377 The O Doyne (Ó Duinn) Manuscript, K W Nicholls, Stationery Office, 1983, H/C, First Edition with DJ and fold out genealogical tables and fold out map Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 378 The Rivals and the School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Macmillan and Co 1896 with an introduction by Augustine Birrell Q.C. and illustrated by Edmund J Sullivan. Excellent copy. Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 379 Realities of Irish Life by William Stuart Trench, 1869 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 380 An t-Oileánach, The Voices of Valentia, Sean O’Shea, Muintir Dairbhe, 1972, S/C, this is the first issue- scarce. Irish Pictures-Drawn with Pen and Pencil, Richard Lovett, with a map and 133 illustrations, 1888, First Edition and The Book of Kells, Described by Sir Edward Sullivan, 1914, H/C with Colour Plates (3) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 381 Charles Dickson. The Wexford Rising in 1798. 1955. 1st; and Francis McManus After The Flight. Eye-Witness Sketches from Irish History 1607-1916. 1938. 1st. (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 382 Alexander G More “Contributions Towards to a Cybele Hibernica” being outlines of the geographical distribution of plants in Ireland, 1866, First Edition, Signed presentation copy from the author, Gilt cloth. Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 383 Heaney, Seamus. Redress of Poetry London, Faber, 1995. Octavo. 1st. edition. Paper boards. Fine in pictorial dust jacket Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 384 Irish theatre plus three books on Brendan Behan – J. P Harrinton – Modern Irish Drama; Sean McCann – The story of the Abbey Theatre; Trocadero – Curtain Call – Trocadero celebrates Irish Theatre; Brendan Behan – Confessions of an Irish Rebel and Hold Your Own and have another ; all softcovers and John Cowell - No Profit but the Name: The Longfords and the Gate Theatre. Hardcover; and E. H Mikhail – The Art of Brendan Behan hardcover. All clean copies as an interesting lot (7) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 385 O'Brien Barry. The Autobiography Theobald Wolf Tone 2 vols Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 386 P. Limborch. The History of The Inquisition. 1816. Plates. Fine contemporary binding and John Bunyan The Pilgrim’s Progress. 1904. Illustrated by Cruikshank. Fine half calf. (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 387 Sainthill Richard. The Old Countess Of Desmond An Enquiry Did She Ever Redress at The Court of Queen Elizabeth 1vol 1861. Vol. 2 The Old Countess Of Desmond An Enquiry when Was She Married with Numismatic Crumbs 1 vol 1863. 2 Books from the library of Gurteen De Le Poer with 2 manuscript letters pasted at front and back cover Estimate: 180 - 220 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 388 Irish Art History. Three Books: ‘Henry O’Neill’ (Peter Harbison); ‘Wicklow through the Artist’s Eye – its historic gardens’ (Patricia Butler); ‘Waterford Treasures’ (Eamonn McEneaney and Rosemary Ryan). Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 389 Maighread Ni Annagain agus Seamus De Chianndioluin Londubh an Cairn being songs of the Irish Gaels. Oxford 1927. Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 390 Art Books – ‘The Complete Works of William Hogarth’ (150 steel engravings – half-leather and crushed morocco binding), ‘Erté’ – the works of Russian-born painter Romain de Tirtoff (1995); ‘F. Wheatley – His Life and Works (1910). Francis Wheatley (1747-1801) now best remembered for the ‘Cries of London’ series, spent time in Ireland and produced two iconic paintings ‘The Irish Volunteers’ and ‘The Irish House of Commons’ Estimate: 20 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 391 W.J. Mills. Modern Practical Farriery. A Complete System of The Veterinary Art. C. 1890. Folio. Fine coloured frontis and other illustrations Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 392 The Rebellion in Dublin. Easons. 1916. Oblong quarto. Illustrated Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 393 Herbert O. Mackey. The Life of Thomas Moore. 1951. Signed by author on title page and Tribute To Sir Hugh Lane. 1961. 1st. Illustrated (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 394 3 Official Guides, Donegal, Cork and Kerry. All c. 1930. Maps & illustrations (3) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 395 W.B. Yeats. The Tower. 1928. 1st edit. Book plate. Sturge Moore designed gilt cover and The Resurrection. No date, paper covers. (2) Estimate: 150 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 396 James Talbot or the Importance of Recollecting. Dublin, Printed by John Jones, 40 South Gt Georges St, 1820 72 pgs with History of the Honest Widow Riley with an account of Mrs Buckley the huxters Wife, Dublin Printed by John Jones, 40 South Gt Georges St, 1820 72 pgs 2 complete Sunday school chapbooks , front board nearly off Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 397 Report of the Speeches at a Meeting in Clonmel - for the purpose of establishing an auxiliary branch of the London Hibernian School Academy. Dublin 1824 Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 398 The Germans in Cork being the letters of the Baron Von Kartoffel and others Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 399 Cotton Sergeant Major. A Voice from Waterloo A History of the Battle Brussels 1847. Complete with map and plates Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 400 Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. London: Faber, 1991. Octavo. Paperback edition. Green pictorial card. Signed and inscribed by Seamus Heaney on half-title, 'To Peggy O'Reilly / Well met in Drogheda / Seamus Heaney / 15. XII/. 99.' Fine Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 401 Pleasure Motoring in Northern Ireland. C. 1930 Ulster Guide 1925. Illustrated and Anna McClure Warnock The Way of a Woman C. 1930 (3) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 402 B. Mac Giolla Phadraig. Ely House. 1982. 1st edit. Colour illustrations, Irish Houses and Landscapes. 1963 and Avondale-Parnell home 1975. (3) Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 403 Tom Barry. Anglo/Irish war 1920/21 in West Cork, 1974.1st and Lorg na Laoc – Clonakilty district 1916 and M. 0’Suilleabhain. Where Mountainy Men Have Sown. 1965. 1st. 3 scarce War of Independence works relating to West Cork. Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 404 Poems by Lord Ashtown with manuscript poem enclosed, privately printed 1965 by Dolmen Press Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 405 Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Manuscripts formerly belonging to William Reeves D.D. P.R.I.A. Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 406 Eamon de Valera National Dicipline and Majority Rule Three Speeches by Eamon de Valera. Fianna Fail Pamphlet No.1 1936 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 407 Duryee, Mary Ballard. Words Alone are Certain Good. William Butler Yeats: Himself - The Poet - His Ghost. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1961. Small octavo. Printed in red and black. Quarter linen on blue paper boards. Edition limited to 500 copies. Signed presentation copy from the author, dated Sept. 1961. A very good copy. Very scarce Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 408 Campbell, Nancy. Agnus Dei. Illustrated by Joseph Campbell. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1920. Small octavo. Stitched wrappers. Fine. Very rare. 1 copy only on Copac. Joseph Campbell poet and lyricist, wrote under the Gaelic form of his name Seosamh Mac Cathmhaoil. He is now remembered best for words he supplied to traditional airs, such as My Lagan Love and Gartan Mother's Lullaby; his verse was also set to music by Arnold Bax and Ivor Gurney. He married in 1910 Nancy Maude, and they moved shortly to Dublin, and then County Wicklow. She was the daughter of Col. Aubrey Maude of the Cameron Highlanders; her grandfather was Col. Sir George Maude, who had been Crown Equerry to Queen Victoria for 35 years. The marriage was against her family’s wishes, and she became permanently estranged from them Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 409 Hewitt, John. Tesserae. Published by Festival Publications, Queen's University, Belfast. [1968]. Octavo. 1st. edition. Publisher's original stapled sage green card covers. A slim collection of 10 poems by this Irish poet and writer. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 410 National Museum of Science and Art. Catalogue of Water-Colour and Oil Paintings, Chalk and Pencil Drawings, etc. by A. McGoogan. Prefatory note by J.J. Buckley, Keeper, Art and Industrial Division. Frontispiece in colour, sixteen reproductions in black and white. Dublin, Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, 1915. Octavo. First and only edition. Illustrated green wrappers. A very good copy. The British Library copy only located on Copac Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 411 Seamus Heaney/Michael Longley, An Upstairs Outlook- Commemorative Programme, 4 May 1989, S/C, First Edition Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 412 Night Pilot, by Francis Stuart, Published by the Raven Arts Press to mark the author’s 86th birthday on 29 April, 1988 in a limited edition of 500 copies Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 413 James Stephens, Insurrections, 1909 Maunsel and Co in its original Tissine cover Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 414 Oscariana – Oscar Wilde London Arthur L. Humphreys MDCCCXIV (1914) In original boards Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 415 Agamemnon, A Tragedy acted at the theatre royal in Drury Lane by Mr Thomson 1738 Dublin printed by R Reilly for G Risk, G Ewing, W Smith in Dame St and S. Pepyat in Skinner Row Booksellers. With Booksellers Catalogue for Risk Ewing and Smith - dis-bound Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 416 Swift, Doctor. Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift. Written by Himself: Nov. 1731. London, Bathurst, 1739. Octavo. Third edition. Pencil note states: 'First Octavo Edition / Advocates Library / Scotland.' Later green cloth. Very good. Rare Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 417 St. Patrick's Breastplate. Text with illuminated initials, hand-coloured by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. Dublin, Cuala Press, Dundrum, [1912]. Oblong octavo. Blue-grey stitched wrappers, title printed on upper cover, with an illustration of a Celtic cross. Exceedingly rare Estimate: 200 - 300 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 418 Heaney, Seamus, Tom Paulin and Seamus Deane. An Open Letter, A New Look at the Language Question and Civilians and Barbarians. Published by Field Day, Derry, 1983. Octavo. 1st. edition. Tan wrappers. Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 419 Kearney, Peadar. The Soldier's Song and other Poems. With introduction and music. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1928. Octavo. Printed grey wrappers. Rare Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 420 Stanihurst, Richard. Aqua Vitae: Its commodities describ'd by Richard Stanihurst, & delineated by Bridget Swinton. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1956. Octavo. Quarto buckram on grey boards. Early description of Irish whiskey. The exuberance of Stanihurst's writing is echoed in the vigorous linocuts made by Bridget Swinton. Very good. Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 421 Paul Muldoon, Out of Siberia, Hardback with Dust Jacket, Limited Ed of 300 Signed by the author and hand coloured by the illustrator (Timothy Engelland). The Gallery Press and the Deerfield Press a fine copy Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 422 Dail Eireann Buan-Orduithe Standing Orders 1927. Published by the Stationary Office Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 423 R.B. Sheridan. The School for Scandal, 1792 Printed at Boston, Belknap and T Hall sold at their office, State Street. MDCCXCII Estc w2917. 9 Institutional copies. Some text loss to page 96 a decommissioned copy of the Vermont historical society. Some minor losses, scarce imprint Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 424 Kilmurry Church Limerick by D. Stewart. Ballysimon. 1955. Limerick Chronicle. Wrappers Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 425 Marrowbone Lane. Robert Collis. Marrowbone Lane. Deluxe edition. No. 100, Signed by Author. No. 142. Runa Press, 1943. full crushed calf, signed by author, dedication to Hilton and Michael with admiration for their work for Irish Theatre’ Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 426 Sebastian Barry Tales of Ballycumber Faber and Faber plays 1st Ed World premiere at the Abbey Theatre 7th Oct 2009 and signed by the original cast including Stephen Rea, Lisa Hogg, Liam Carney who was a cast change from Dessie Gallagher who had been listed to play the role of Andrew) Aaron Monaghan and Derbhle Crotty. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 427 Irish Tunes for the Scottish and Irish War-Pipes. Compiled by William Walsh, Chicago, arranged by David Glen, Edinburgh. circa 1890. Oblong shape. Attractive item in original wrappers Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 428 Munster-Connacht Exhibition, Limerick. 1906. Fine Arts and Archaeological Section. Limerick, Guy. 1906. Excellent copy in wrappers. The Committee chairman was Dermot O’Brien, A. R. H. A Estimate: 70 - 140 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 429 (Bruree Limerick). An Saol Gaelach. Leabhar-Chuimhneachain Feis Chontae Luimnighe I mBrugh Riogh ar an Domhnach Meitheamh 25, 1950. 1950. Articles in Irish and English. wrappers Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 430 Early Limerick Printing. A Relation of Sufferings of Irish Monks of La Trappe, who were persecuted and dispossessed of their Monastery by French Government. Translated by Rev. M. V. Ryan, Mount Melleray, Cappoquin, Waterford. Limerick, Printed by C. O’Brien. 1832. original wrappers Estimate: 60 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 431 The Way to Peace outlined by Eamon De Valera. Speech delivered in Dáil Eireann, March, 1934. Original wrappers. On the Wearing of Uniforms Bill, a measure to deal with the emergence of the Blueshirts. Scarce. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 432 O’Flaherty, Liam. A Cure for Unemployment. London, Lahr, 1931. Octavo. Stiff printed card. Signed by Liam O’Flaherty Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 433 Portrait photograph from Chancellor Dublin of a WWI Queen Mary's AAC (army auxiliary corps) woman in full uniform and insignia Estimate: 20 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 434 A New and Accurate Map of the Kingdom of Ireland, with the roads from the latest survey. London: J. Bew, 1782. Map Size 13 ¼ x 14 ¼ folded in the Political Magazine, Parliamentary Naval Military and Literary Journal for April 1782. Includes a brief textual description of the map and several articles on Ireland including the announcement of the Duke of Portland’s appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Declaration of Rights of Ireland, in the House of Commons(ca 6 double columned pages) additional items related to Irish Volunteers, Benjamin Franklin at the French Court, West Indies and Jamaica and the American Rebellion (total pgs 225-280) lacking wraps but apparently otherwise complete according to the list of contents. Some Foxing and age darkening, small tear lower portion of the map Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 435 Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung Foreign Languages Press Peking 1966 the red book Estimate: 20 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 436 Ussher, Arland. An Alphabet of Aphorisms. Cuts by Michael Morrow. Dublin, Dolmen Press, October,1953. Octavo. 1st. edition. Rare 12th book issued by the Dolmen Press. Signed and inscribed by the author on verso of cover. Near fine copy in original illustrated light card covers. Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 437 Westport Printed at the Mayo News. Feis Connacht 1933. Connradh na Gaedhilge. Cathair na Mart. Printed wrappers. Interesting advertisements Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 438 Patrick Kavanagh. Self Portrait. Dolmen Press. 1964. excellent copy in dust wrapper The Dolmen Press 1975 edition. 2 books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 439 Practical Gardening. Clear, Simple and Concise for all Classes Containing Many, New and Valuable Directions for Improved Culture and Early Production by Martin Doyle [William Hickey]. Dublin. 1833. Original printed wrappers Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 440 Rules and Regulations of the County Cork Club. Cork, Francis Guy. 1874. Original cloth. a wonderful association item of the elite landlord class which dominated Irish social and business life Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 441 Wilde, Oscar. Requiescat. Four Poems. An appreciation of his Poetry. A personal selection by: Peter Nagy, Richard & Andrew Dolinski. Woodley, Royal Berkshire: Carpathian Press, 1991. Octavo. Original publisher's cream stapled covers, lettered black on the front cover. Edition limited to 115 numbered (28) copies, signed by Peter Nagy, Richard & Andrew Dolinski. Fine. Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 442 Louis le Brocquy, by Dorothy Walker 1981 Pauline Bewick, Ireland, an Artist's Year.1st ed. hardback 1990; and The Irish Impressionists. Julian Campbell 1984 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 443 Book Plates of Irish Medical Doctors and 8 others on bibliography and reference Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 444 Eilis Dillon. Across The Bitter Sea. 1974. 1st Signed by author on title page and Elizabeth Bowen. The Little Girls 1964. 1st edit. With attractive D.j.s Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 445 Brendan Behan. Confessions of an Irish Rebel. 1965. Rare uncorrected Proof Copy on proofing paper. Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 446 Seven Ages, Pauline Bewick, Arlen House, 2006, Signed, S/C, First Edition Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 447 Richard Ellman, Oscar Wilde 1987 2nd printing excellent copy in dust jacket Estimate: 20 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 448 History Ireland. Vol. 1, no. 1 Spring 1993-Vol. 8, No. 4, winter 2000. Specially bound in 8 volumes Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 449 Four Plays for Dancers. W. B. Yeats. London. 1921. decorative grey and black boards by Sturge Moore, illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Limited to 1500 copies Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 450 Mrs Hamilton Norway (Wife of Post Offices Secretary in Ireland) The Sinn Fein Rebellion As I Saw It. 1916. 1st edit. Frontis shows the wreck of the G.P.O. and Elizabeth Conlan Cumann na mBan and The Women of Ireland. 1969. 1st (2) Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 451 History of the Revolutions in Portugal 1735 and 2 other antiquarian (3) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 452 The Volunteers and the Irish Parliament by John Gunning. Limerick 1903 Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 453 Tom Clarke and the Irish Freedom Movement by Louis Le Roux. Lovely copy in jacket; and Legion of the Rearguard and 2 other items. (4) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 454 Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, or letters of a Chinese Philosopher residing in London to his friends in the East. 2 vols 1775 Dublin printed for the united Company of Booksellers. Bookplate of William Henry Cope, spine damage to 1 vol Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 455 Samuel G. Bayne. On An Irish Jaunting Car Through Donegal and Connemara. 1902. 1st edit Author’s inscribed presentation copy Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 456 Heaney, Seamus. The Cure at Troy. A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Derry: Field Day, 1990. Octavo. 1st. edition. Grey paper boards. Limited edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered by Seamus Heaney. Original errata bookmark. A very nice copy in dust jacket with design by Basil Blackshaw. Estimate: 300 - 400 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 457 Clonakilty and District Past and Present with a tourist guide to the area. 1959. West Cork and its Story. Jeremiah O'Mahony 2nd. ed.1975 and 4 more items of Cork interest. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 458 Cooke On the Union. 1798 – Arguments for and against an Union, original Hardcover and Travels of an Irish Gentleman in search of a Religion, Thomas Moore, A & W Galignani, 1833, First Edition, half leather (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 459 Hugh Lane and his Pictures, Thomas Bodkin, Stationery Office, 1956, First Edition with DJ, Evie Hone Catalogue, Exhibition 29July-5 September 1958, Dolmen Press, Onlookers in France Irish Realist and Impressionist Painters, 1993, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Published to coincide with the exhibition in the Gallery, Paul Henry 1876-1958, S B Kennedy, Town House, 1991, H/C, First Edition, William Orpen 1878-1931, Bruce Arnold, Town House, 1991, Signed, First Edition and Caricatures of the Peoples of the British Isles, Tim Clayton, British Museum Press, 2007, First Edition with DJ (6) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 460 Militaria: ‘The History of the Cheshire Regiment’; ‘The Roll of Honour – Biographical Record of all members of H.M. Naval; and Military Forces who have fallen in the [Great] War’ (Vol IV only); ‘Irish Officers in the British Forces 1922-1945’; ‘A History of War Times – American Heroes on Land and Sea’ (1898) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 461 Samuel Prout. The Continental Annual for 1832. Steel engravings. Original calf; and South Wales Illustrated. C 1835. Illustrated Fine gilt morocco. Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 462 Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray. A Version from the Irish by Seamus Heaney. Derry: A Field Day Publication, 1983. Octavo. 1st. edition. This is the true first Edition, first Impression. Greyish-white rexine boards, drawing by Colin Middleton in black on upper cover. Signed and dated by Seamus Heaney on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket Estimate: 250 - 350 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 463 Poetry and Legendary Ballads of the south of Ireland by Various Writers. Cork 1894 Historic and descriptive notices of the city of Cork etc by J. Windle 1835 both need repair Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 464 Thomas Kinsella. Citizen of The World. 2000. 1st. Limited edit. Signed by author on title page and Thomas Kinsella. The Tain. 1970. Illus by Le Brocquy. (2) Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 465 John Shearer. Rural Life. C. 1890. Thick quarto. 100 steel engravings. Half calf Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 466 Frank Harris and Lord Alfred Douglas. New preface to “The Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde”. 1927. Signed presentation copy from Alfred Douglas and W. Freeman. The Life of Lord Alfred Douglas – Spoiled Child of Genius. 1948. 1st (2) Scarce works. Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 467 The Dublin Magazine. Softcovers. Three issues Spring 1971, Winter / Spring 1971/1972, Autumn 1972. Contributions from some of Ireland’s best known writers of the time. All very good. Very collectible. (3) Estimate: 35 - 45 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 468 Erin Mor: The Story of Irish Republicanism, PM Diers & CO San Francisco,1892, original cloth and Ireland Preserved, or The Siege of Londonderry and Battle of Aughrim, Rev John Graham, Hardy & Walker 1841, H/C, First Edition (2) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 469 Hugh Kelly (Killarney born) Memoirs of a Magdalen. C. 1795. 2 vols in 1. Fine engravings. Fine calf and The Satires of Juvenal Translated. Dublin 1769 (2) Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 470 Synge, J.M. Queens. With nine colour reproductions of stained-glass by Harry Clarke. Notes on the panels by Nicola Gordon Bowe. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1986. Octavo. 1st. edition. (9 colour plates). Blue cloth. 'Queens' was written by Synge about 1903 and first printed in his 'Poems and Translations' at the Cuala Press in 1909. These poems inspired Harry Clarke to design his 'iconographically intriguing' frieze of miniature stained glass panels in brilliant colours, which is here reproduced for the first time. Fine. Scarce Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 471 Binding Set. Oeuvres De Bourdaloue. Versailles. 1812. 15 volumes of 16. Contemporary leather. Some sides detached but impressive tooled binding Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 472 Synge, J.M. Poems and Translations. Introduction by W.B. Yeats. Printed for John Quinn, New York, 1909. Octavo. First American edition. Limited to 50 copies only. Publisher's cloth and paper covered boards with a printed label on upper cover. The preface by Yeats is dated ten days after Synge's death. Yeats wrote, "The whole book is of a kind almost unknown in a time when lyricism has become abstract and impersonal". Top edge gilt. Fine in protective wrapper. Estimate: 350 - 450 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 473 One and Other Poems; and Fifteen Dead. Thomas Kinsella. The Dolmen Press. 1979. 2 volumes in slipcase. A fine set. Number 48 of a limited edition of 150 numbered and numbered sets Estimate: 80 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 474 The Geraldines, Earls of Desmond, and Persecution of the Irish Catholics. Translated with Notes and Illustrations by Rev. C. P. Meehan. 1847. embossed cloth, re-backed preserving the original spine. Stamp of G. Bellew bookbinder on front cover Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 475 Russell, George (AE) New Songs with frontis by Jack B Yeats, Dublin 1904 and A Little Garland of Celtic Verse, published by Thomas B Moshen, Portland Maine 1907 (2) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 476 Ethel Mannin. Men Are Unwise. 1934. 1st edit. Signed & inscribed by author on title page and Elizabeth Bowen. Pictures and Conversations. 1978. 1st Bowen’s last work. (2) Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 477 Murdoch, Iris. Joanna Joanna. A play in two acts. London, Published by Colophon Press, 1994. Octavo. Cloth. Limited to 125 [No.3] copies, printed on Mohawk Superfine. 1st Edition. Signed by Iris Murdoch. Fine in original cellophane wrapper Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 478 O'Ceallaigh Seamus. Gaelic Days. Illustrated Handbook, Hurling, Football, Athletics, Handball. Tralee: The Kerryman, 1944. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Articles on: Champions I have Trained. By Jim Barry; The Vital Ireland of Magnificent Hurlers. By Gertrude Gaffney; Memories of Some Famous Athletes. By Dick Casey; The "Lime" in Limerick. By Michael L. Kennedy; Half a Century's Reminiscences. By Sceilg; Some Grand Handballers; From New York to the Golden Gate. By Frank McGrath; When Kilkenny First Hurling Honours; A Grand Kildare Runner. By P.J. Devlin, and many other interesting features Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 479 Elsie Sands. Enlisted. 1915. Printed at The Curragh Military Camp and Woman’s Work. Missionary work of the Zenana Mission of The Irish Presbyterian Church 1915/17. Illustrated work relating to Irish women missionaries in Africa. Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 480 Carrigmore or Light and Shade in West Kerry by Rev. John Kennedy. Wangaratta. 1909. 128 pages. Embossed cloth Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 481 Scottish Keepsake Album – 1892-1934 jessie Davidson Campsie, containing a number of illustrations, 5 full page and several pages of music and many quotations many from Edinburgh Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 482 Thomas Kinsella, Downstream 1st edition and 10 other Kinsella firsts and Dolmen publications. Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 483 Moore, George. Pure Poetry. An anthology edited by George Moore. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1924. Octavo. 1st. edition. Quarter vellum parchment over gray paper boards. Edition limited to 1,250 copies. Signed presentation copy from George Moore to P.T.R. Gillett dated October 21st, 1929. Also loosely inserted is an autographed letter signed from Moore to Mr. Gillett. Fine copy with dust wrapper. In decorative paper slipcase Estimate: 250 - 350 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 484 Fitzgerald, Thomas. Poems on Several Occasions. London, 1733. Octavo. First edition: the author's only book. Full calf, with rubbing. Fitzgerald dedicated this work to the Earl of Middlesex, later the Duke of Dorset, who had been his pupil. Fitzgerald was a friend of the dramatist Thomas Southerne, to whom one of the poems here is addressed. Some of the poems are very charming: such as 'Upon the Poets Corner in Westminster-Abbey', 'A Puppet-Show (from the Latin of Addison), and 'Upon the Burning of the Cottonian Manuscripts at Ashburnham-House, 1731'. The first and longest piece is called 'Bedlam', and describes the well-known asylum Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 485 Connemara Blues, John O'Donohue, Signed 1st. ed hardback.2000 with Echoes of Memory signed 1st. ed. softcover 1994 and two vols. of poetry by Brendan Kennelly Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 486 Fraser R. Gleanings in Ireland Particularly Respecting its Agriculture Mines and Fisheries 1 vol 1802. Lacks map Estimate: 60 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 487 Benedict Kiely. Counties of Contention. 1945. 1st edit. Signed by Kiely and Donagh MacDonagh, son of 1916 hero Thomas MacDonagh Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 488 Samuel Beckett. Disjecta. Miscellaneous Writings and A Dramatic Fragment. 1983. 1st and S. Beckett. Endgame. 1964 (2) Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 489 The Gill History of Ireland Series – Complete in eleven volumes Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 490 W.H. Bartlett. The Scenery & Antiquities of Ireland. C. 1835. 2 volumes. Topographical plates. Fine contrasting bindings Estimate: 150 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 491 F.J. Bigger. William Orr. 1906. 1st. Illustrated. Signed presentation copy by relative of Orr; Rev. J. Hamilton. Bangor Abbey. 1958 and W.M. Brady The Irish Reformation. 1867. Ex library Percy Paley and signed by him. (3) Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 492 Duke of Ormond - A Copy of Two Letters - 1649, pamphlet, lacks one leaf pp 7/8 Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 493 The Jungle Book, Macmillan & Co, 1894 First Edition, reprint August 1894 and The Second Jungle Book, Macmillan & Co, 1895, First Edition, First Printing (2) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 494 Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union. Publications issued during year 1887. Hundreds of pamphlets and leaflets on The Plan of Campaign, Jury-Packing at Sligo, Evictions, Agrarian Crimes, The Cowper Commission, Glenbeigh, Cooles Mangerton Mountain, incidents in Newmarket on Fergus, Dreemnacurra Kerry, Louisburg in Mayo, murder of constable Gerald Whelehan of Ennis, boycotting of Thomas Sexton in North Clare etc etc. lovely copy. Estimate: 160 - 320 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 495 Monk Gibbon This Insubstantial Pageant first ed. 1951. inscribed "To Barbara Wright From Monk Gibbon Sept 1967" and four volumes of Irish poetry Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 496 A.E. Voices of The Stones 1925. 1st and A.E. The Candle of Vision. 1938. (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 497 Madden R R. The History of Irish Periodical Literature 2 vols 1867 Estimate: 80 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 498 Thomas Leland (Fellow of Trinity College Dublin) The History of The Life & Reign of Philip, King of Macedon. 1820. 2 volumes. 1st. Fine original calf with gilt oval arms of Trinity College on covers. (2) Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 499 Songs and Recitations of Ireland (3 Vol set) together with 4 others on ballads/Irish Folk Music, a Guide to Set Dancing and Irish Myths and Legends along with a Bundle of old Irish Roadmaps Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 500 Bundle of Irish Historical Interest Booklets (9) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 501 Bundle of Irish Historical Interest leaflets/pamphlets Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 502 Dublin Historical Association – Irish History Series – five booklets as follows – No. 3 - The Medieval Irish Annnals, No 4. The tenant League and Irish Politics in the eighteen- fifties. No. 8 – the Graces 1625 – 41. No. 9 – The Irish Parliament in the Eighteenth Century. No. 10 – Arthur Griffith. All very good clean copies. (5) Estimate: 25 - 35 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 503 Australian Cricket Tour 1938 Programme Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 504 Australian Cricket Tour 1938 - newspaper cuttings Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 505 Jack Butler Yeats. Exhibition catalogue June/July 1966. Illustrated and Jack B. Yeats. A Centenary Exhibition 1971. 1971. Colour plates and J.B. Yeats – The Masters 1966. Folio. Illustrated (3) Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 506 Jack B. Yeats. Exhib. Catalogue Waddington Galleries 1987 and Jack B. Yeats. A Centenary Exhibition. Illustrated and Jack B. Yeats & his contemporaries at AIB Sligo 1995 (3) Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 507 B.J. Mooney. Place-names of Rostrevor 1950. Illus and Ulster Links with the White House. C. 1942. Illus (2) Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 508 Gibbon, Monk A Ballad 1st edit Re: Greyhound Press, Winchester 1930 Ltd Edit of 500 copies, complete with envelope Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 509 Limerick Socialist 1972-1981 Edited by Jim Kemmy. 6 issues including the scarce 1st issue January 1972 (6) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 510 Two Boxes of Irish and General Interest Books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 511 Box of Irish and General Interest Books Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 512 Two Boxes of Irish and General Interest Books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 513 Box of Irish interest books, various authors Estimate: 10 - 20 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 514 Collection of Irish pamphlets and booklets. Approximately 100 items on diverse subjects, mostly historical, also printing etc. 2 boxes Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 515 The Irish Book published by Dolmen Press. Vol 1-4. 1959 & 9 issues of Irish Book Lover & 15 other related items including early Celtic studies catalogues Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 516 O'Gorman, Fergus, and Wymes Enda (Editors) - The Future Of Irish Wildlife - A Blueprint For Development. Hardcover 1973. Pages 218; Ditty Kummer - Ireland Explored: An Illustrated Travel Guide. Hardcover 1986. Pages 184, Illustrated. Eamon De Buitlear - Ireland's Wild Countryside. Softcover 1993. Pages 192, folio. Illustrated. All clean copies. (3) Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 517 Yeats, William Butler. On the Boiler. Dublin: The Cuala Press, [1939]. Quarto. Original blue wrappers, titles to cover in black, design by Jack B. Yeats in black of McCoy, the mad ship's carpenter, leaf of publisher's advertisements at back. Original green-grey wrappers. Covers clean with spine evenly faded. First trade edition, following the unprocurable privately printed edition published a year earlier in Dundrum. Only four copies of the Dundrum edition were issued when it was decided to reprint the book, all of which now reside in institutions. Published just before Yeats's death in January 1939, On the Boiler contains several essays which illuminate some of Yeats's own reactionary and often controversial political views. It was published by the Cuala Press, one half of the Cuala Industries and a co-operative business run by Yeats's sisters Lily and Elizabeth. Cuala Industries was founded with the aim of reviving the craft of book printing in Ireland and "to give work to Irish girls" (McMurtrie, p. 472). Wade 202 Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 518 [Yeats, William Butler] A Catalogue of English and American First Editions of W. B. Yeats by William M. Roth. Published by New Haven for Yale University, 1939. Octavo. Softcover. Prepared for an exhibition of his works held at Yale University Library beginning May 15, 1939. Gray wrapper, spine chipped. Good Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 519 S.A. Stewart and T. Corry. A Flora of the North-East of Ireland. 1938; E. E. Evans. Irish Heritage 1945; and B. Boyd. A Heritage from Stone. 1986. (3) Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 520 Yeats, William Butler. If I Were Four-and-Twenty. Dublin, Cuala, 1940. Octavo. 1st. edition. Limited to 450 copies. Quarter cloth on paper boards Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 521 Wolf Tone Prophet of Irish Independence by M. Elliott 1989; and Theobald Wolf Tone by Frank MacDermott 1935 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 522 Edward MacLysaght - Guide to Irish Surnames. Hardcover. 1964. First edition. Some annotations, in jacket; Brian De Breffny - Irish family names: Arms, origins, and locations.1989. Illustrated colour; John Grenham- Tracing your Irish Ancestors 1997; and one other, softcovers. (4) Estimate: 45 - 55 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 523 Observations on appropriating the Parliament House to the Bank of Ireland by Different Hands. Dublin, James Draper. 1803. modern cloth. Some old staining to pages. Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 524 Yeats, William Butler. New Poems. Dublin, Cuala, 1938. Octavo. 1st. edition. Limited to 450 copies. Quarter cloth on paper boards Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 525 A Popular History of East Kerry, T M Donovan, Talbot Press 1st edit, 1931 Estimate: 60 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 526 Maurice Headlam. Irish Reminiscences. 1946. 1st edit. Signed presentation copy from author dated Christmas 1946 and a hand written signed letter from author thanking the recipient for his contribution to the book re his Easter Rising experience. Scarce with ephemera Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 527 John Bickerdyke. Wild Sport in Ireland. 1897. 1st edit. Tinted illustrations. Gilt cloth Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 528 James Clarence Mangan - The Poets and Poetry of Munster: A Selection of Irish Songs. Undated, fifth edition. Pages Ix, 355. Decorated blue cloth covers with wear, contents clean; Sparling H. Halliday- Irish Minstrelsy: being a selection of Irish songs, Lyrics, and Ballads 1888. Pages xxviii, 516. In original dark green quarter cloth covers. Both hardcovers contents clean. (2) Estimate: 35 - 45 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 529 Irish History Bundle, including ‘Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story’, ‘John O’Leary’,’ James Fintan Lalor’, ‘Dílseacht’ (signed by Ruairí Ó Brádaigh), and three other similar (7) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 530 Watson, Charles. Re. Parish of Glenavy, Belfast 1892 plus 11 pamphlets on County Antrim (12) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 531 Seamus Heaney. Human Chain. 2010. 1st. Dust jacket Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 532 Yeats, William Butler. Essays by W.B. Yeats 1931 to 1936. Dublin, Cuala Press, 1937. Octavo. 1st. edition. Limited to 300 copies. Quarter cloth on paper boards Estimate: 150 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 533 The Irish Republic. Dorothy Macardle. 1937 new edition 1951 Kevin O'Higgins, T. de Vere White 1948 La Vie de Patrice Pearse, Louis n. le Roux 1932 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 534 Seamus Heaney. Beowulf. 1st U.S. Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 535 Early Irish Studies: ‘Bibliography of Irish Philology’ (R.I. Best, 1969); ‘Lebor na Huidre’ (Best and Bergin, 1929). Estimate: 20 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 536 Kipling, Rudyard. Departmental Ditties. 9th edition. 150 copies only of this Edition de Luxe have been printed with 2 extra illustrations numbered and signed by the publisher W. Thacker Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 537 The Singapore Grip, J.G. Farrell 1st ed. 1978 The Italian Girl, Iris Murdoch 1st. ed. 1964 Hungry Hill, Daphen du Maurier 1st.ed. 1943 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 538 Five Irish railway titles - Nelson Poots (Ed.) – Five Foot Three – magazine of the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland - Winter 2008/9 and Winter 2009/10, additional Society Newsletters enclosed; Journal of the Irish Railway Records Society June 2000 issue; Irish Railways in Pictures No. 2 – The Midland Great Western Line 1990; and one other Guide to Ireland’s Railway Heritage. All softcovers, clean copies (5) Estimate: 25 - 35 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 539 W.B.Yeats. The Winding Stairs. 1933. 1st edit. Sturge Moore designed cover and Yeats. The Countess Cathleen. 1916. (2) Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 540 Henry Inglis, A Journey throughout Ireland During 1834, 1835, 2 vols, Folding Maps, Half calf Estimate: 60 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 541 The Master, Picador, 2004, Signed, H/B, First Edition, The South, 1990, S/C, First Edition, Mothers and Sons, Picador, 2006, H/B, First Edition, Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush, Picador,2002, S/C, First Edition and The Empty Family, Viking, 2010, S/C, First Edition (5) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 542 Liam O Flaherty Shame the Devil signed by the author 1936 Grayson and Grayson Ltd Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 543 Paul Muldoon The Wishbone 1/750 ltd Ed 1984 The Gallery Press and Paul Muldoon Hay uncorrected proof copy Faber and Faber 1998 (2) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 544 The Works of Peter Pindar. 1797. 2 vols. Fine binding Estimate: 20 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 545 Spanish Armada - Niall Fallon - The Armada in Ireland. Hardcover 1978. Pages x, 236. Illustrated. In original jacket. Ex-lib; Peter Kemp - The Campaign of the Spanish Armada. Pages 159, 4to. Illustrated. In original jacket. Both hardcovers; Michael Lewis –1970. The Spanish Armada 1979. Pages 237, Illustrated; T. P. Kilfeather - Ireland – Graveyard of the Spanish Armada 1979. Pages 142. Both softcovers. All clean copies. (4) Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 546 Irish Step Dancing. Cleachta Lutha D'Aos og Eireann with 18 plates and numerous illustrations. Published in Dublin c.1900 scarce Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 547 B. Willis. Notitia Parliamentaria or An Ancient History of the Counties, Cities & Boroughs in England & Wales. 1730. 3 volumes. Original calf. Vignette engravings to chapter headings in volume one Estimate: 200 - 250 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 548 R. Skelton. J.M. Synge & His World. 1971. 1st and J. M. Synge – In Wicklow, West Kerry & Connemara – Essays by Gmelch & Saddlemyer. 1986. (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 549 Micheail O hAirtneidh, An Damh-Mhac 1st. ed. 1987 scarce. Michael Hartnett. Translations paperback 1st .ed. 2003 signed by Nuala Ni Domhnaill whose poem "Celebration" is on page 119 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 550 Joseph McMinn - Jonathan's Travels: Swift and Ireland. H/B 1994. Pages 160; R Wyse Jackson - Swift and His Circle: A Book of Essays. H/B 1945. Pages 112; Ian Campbell Ross - Swift's Ireland (Irish Heritage) S/B 1983. Pages 28. All very clean copies. (3) Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 551 Famous Irish doctors - John Horgan – Noel Browne – Passionate Outsider 2000. Pages viii, 344. Illustrated b/w photos; J. B. Lyons- Brief Lives of Irish Doctors 1600 – 1965. Pages 182. Illustrated. Both hardbacks in original jackets; also Risteard Mulcahy – Memoirs of a Medical Maverick 2010, softcover. Illustrated b/w photos. All clean copies. (3) Estimate: 20 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 552 G.N. Wright. Ireland Illustrated. 1823. 80 steels engravings Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 553 Isaac Weld. Illustrations of the Scenery of Killarney. 1807. 1st edit. Fine plates Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 554 Samuel Beckett. More Pricks Than Kicks. 1973 and S. Beckett. Mercier and Camier. 1974. 1st D.J. (2) Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 555 Journal – Irish Historical Studies – the Joint Journal of the Irish Historical Society and the Ulster Society for Irish historical Studies – sixteen volumes as follows : Nos 91 and 92 - May and November 1983, Nos. 93 and 94 May and November 1984, Nos. 95 and 96 May and November 1985, Nos. 97 and 98 May and November 1986, Nos. 99 and 100 May and November 1987, No. 102 November 1988, No.103 May 1989, Nos 106 and 107, May and November 1991, and No. 106 November 2010. (16) Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 556 Irish Bookbinding, Birr Castle and 11 other books from the Irish Heritage Series Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 557 Robert Walsh. Fingal and Its Church. 1888. 1st. Illustrated. Scarce local history and Rev. John Wesley. A Collection of Hymns for Methodists. B.C. 1800 with Parsonstown book plate. Calf. (2) Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 558 Kiskeam Versus The Empire by J J O'Riordan (well worn), presented to Joe Cahill while in Prison 1974 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 559 John B. Keane. Change in Name McFadden and 17 other vintage paperbacks Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 560 Proceedings of The Royal Irish Academy Volume 66, Section C, No. 2 - G D Liversage - Excavations at Dalkey Island Co. Dublin 1956-59. S/B 1968. Pages 53 – 233, plus map and 16 b/w plates at rear; David Keeling and Valerie Keeley - Excavations Of Flint Scatter On Paddy's Hill (Robswalls), Malahide, County Dublin 1994. Pages 23, illustrated line drawings. Both clean copies in blue card covers – Scarce. (2) Estimate: 25 - 35 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 561 Tony Whilde - The Natural History of Connemara 1994. Pages 336 clean jacket; Anna Rackard - Fish Stone Water: The Holy Wells of Ireland 2002. Pages 160; Hugh Kearns – The Mysterious Chequered Lights of Newgrange 1993, clean jacket. Pages 147; Charles Hepworth Holland - The Irish Landscape: A Scenery to Celebrate 2003. Pages vii, 180. All hardbacks, illustrated b/w and colour photos, line drawings maps, etc. All clean copies (4) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 562 Brendan Behan’s Island. 1962. 1st edit. Pictorial dust jacket. Signed twice by the author in English & Irish on the title page. Rare Behan work in that he rarely signed his books & hardly ever twice. Estimate: 250 - 350 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 563 Letters of Cardinal Paul Cullen Vol 1-3 (3) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 564 The Book of the Home, Mrs. C.E. Humphry 5 vols 1914 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 565 Gay Byrne, The Time of My Life; Micheál ÓMuircheartaigh, From Dún Síon to Croke Park; Mary O’ Rourke, Just Mary. All signed autobiographies. (3) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 566 Desmond Ryan. The Fenian Chief – A Biography of James Stephens. 1967. 1st and Alice Stopford Green. The Making of Ireland and its Undoing. 1200-1600. 1972 (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 567 Eva Gore-Booth. The House of Three Windows. 1926. 1st edit. Tipped in slip on title page “From the Author” and Austin Clarke. Old-Fashioned Pilgrimage. 1967. 1st. (2) Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 568 Jack Yeats, The Careless Flower 1st ed 1947 and 4 other Yeats related items Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 569 The British Cyclopaedia Partington 3 vols over 50 double page maps 1836 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 570 Ulster Journal of Archaeology. Third Series Volume 1, Part 1, January 1938 to volume 63, 2006. 63 journals plus indices. Important journal Estimate: 80 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 571 Two Boxes of Irish and General Interest Books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 572 The Novels of Charles Lever edited by His daughter. London, 1899. c.37 Volumes. A wonderful collection Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 573 Two Boxes of Irish and General Interest Books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 574 The Dublin Magazine. Stephens, Colum, 1923 on. Approximately 113 issues. Wonderful run Estimate: 60 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 575 F. Crisp & J. Howard. Visitations of Ireland 1897/1918. 6 volumes. Limited edition (500) All signed by Crisp. Original quarter vellum. Small folio Rare history of 170 Irish families including, Guinness, Edgeworth, Inchiquin, Shackleton, Viscount Powerscourt & Marquess of Sligo. Scarce complete set. (6) Estimate: 300 - 500 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 576 Irish Maritime lot - Basil Peterson – Turn of the Tide, an outline of Irish Maritime History 1962. Pages 212, illustrated; Tom MacSweeney – Seascapes 2008. Pages 252. Illustrated; John De Courcy Ireland – History of Dun Laoghaire Harbour 2001. Pages xiii, 183. Illustrated; O'Coineen Enda - Sail Ireland NCB - Ireland Challenge in the Whitbread Round the World Race, 1989-90. Pages 112 folio. Illustrated; Niall Fallon– The Armada in Ireland 1978. Pages 236. Illustrated b/w photos, maps, line drawings etc. All hardbacks, very clean copies in original jackets; plus three softcovers - Daire Brunicardi - The Sea Hound: The Story of an Irish Ship; Damien Tiernan – Souls of the Sea, and one other all clean copies. Nice lot. (8) Estimate: 60 - 70

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Lot 577 James Joyce. Hugh MacDiarmid. In Memoriam James Joyce 1956. And 3 other Joyce related items Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 578 Charles Nelson & Aidan Brady – Irish Gardening and Horticulture. Softcover 1979. Pages 235 folio, Illustrated; Brunker, J.P. (ed.) - A Supplement to Colgan's Flora of the County Dublin. Softcover 1961. Pages xii, 95; Scannell Mary - Census Catalogue Of The Flora Of Ireland. Softcover 1972. Pages xvi, 127, 8vo. Colour map at rear; Robert Lloyd Praeger - The Way That I Went 1997. Softcover. Pages xii, 394; E. Charles Nelson - An Irish Flower Garden: The Histories of Some of Our Garden Plants 1984. Illustrations by Wendy Walsh. Pages 218. All clean copies. (5) Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 579 Edward McParland Public Architecture in Ireland 1680-1760 Yale University Press 2001 fine copy in Jacket, Christine Casey, Dublin the City within the grand canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park. The Buildings of Ireland. Yale university Press, 2005. Excellent Copy, Stephen Gwynn Dublin Old and New. Browne and Nolan First Ed illustrated in original Dust Jacket and Gillian O’Brien and Finola O Kane EDITORS : Georgian Dublin Four Courts Press 2008 fine copy (4) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 580 Dolmen Press. Collection of prospectuses, catalogue and associated material, mostly Dolmen, a few other publishers. 1968 on. Approximately 45 items Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 581 Irish Art Lot – National Gallery of Ireland - Michael Wynne – Fifty Irish Painters. S/B 1983. Pages 50; Royal Hibernian Academy 166th exhibition. S/B 1996; Dublin Castle Art – Roisin Kennedy. H/B 2010. Pages 136; In The Mind's Eye – OPW. S/B. Pages 87; The Owner – Peter Curling. H/B Unpaginated folio. Illustrated colour. All very good plus, illustrated. Nice lot (5) Estimate: 35 - 45 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 582 Frank O’ Connor, Leinster, Munster and Connacht, with fold-out map; Seán Jennett, Connacht, 1970; Michael Floyd, The Face of Ireland, 1937, with map; George Fletcher, Ireland, publ. 1922 (4) Estimate: 15 - 25 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 583 Equestrian interest. Seven books including ‘Showjumping Legends’ (Michael Slavin); ‘Nimrods Hunting Tours’ (1926), ‘The North Tipperary Foxhounds’ Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 584 Co. Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal 10 odd issues from 1950 to 1983 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 585 A Tribute to John F Kennedy, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1964, In Slipcase, Kennedy or Nixon – Does it make any difference?, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Macmillan New York, 1960, First Edition in DJ, The Kennedy Years and the Negro, Doris E Saunders, Johnson Publishing Co, 1964, S/C First Edition, A Keepsake Album-John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, 2009, S/C and Framed photograph of John F Kennedy laying a wreath at the Arbour Hill Memorial on 28 June 1963 (5) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 586 Irish Railways. Private. Great Southern Railways, working time table. 1931. 4 parts, with typescript alteration pages adhered at rear. Includes many defunct lines including the West Clare Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 587 Patterson, Edward M. Re: County Donegal Railways, 1st edit 1962 and 7 others on the County Donegal Railways Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 588 Ten books of Irish Interest, including ‘Fifty Years of Liberty Hall’; ‘The Print Trade in Ireland 1550-1775’; ‘The First Printers in Waterford, Cork & Kilkenny’ Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 589 F. D. Barker, An Angler’s Paradise, 1929, scarce 1st edition; Hugh Falkus, Salmon Fishing; Hugh Falkus, Sea Trout Fishing; Hugh Falkus and Fred Buller, Fresh-Water Fishing. All in good condition (4) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 590 Drawings of Cork by Michael O'Brien, The O'Brien Press, Dublin, 1974. Frank O'Connor The Midnight Court 1945 and Crab Apple Jelly 1944 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 591 Hunting and Practical Hints for Hunting Men, George F Underhill, Bliss, Sands & Co. 1897, H/C, First Edition, Pot Luck - Rough Shooting in the West of Ireland, Gerald Fitzgerald, Herbert Jenkins Ltd. First Edition, First Printing 1938, with DJ, Partridge Driving, Charles Alington, John Murray, 1904, Second Edition, The Twelfth. This a story about grouse shooting in the decade prior to the second World War. J K Stanford. Faber and Faber, H/C, First Edition, The Horse-Owners Safeguard. A handy medical guide for horse owners. George S Heatley Wm. Blackwood & Sons, 1882, H/C, First Edition, Dog Breaking, W N Hutchinson, 1848, John Murray, H/C, First Edition, The Angler’s Guide to Ireland, Irish Tourist Board, 1957, H/C, Trout Fishing in Brooks, Illustrated, G Garrow-Green, George Routledge & Sons, c.1920, First Edition. and Green Memory of Days with Gun and Rod, Captain J B Drought recounts almost 40 Years of Irish sport. Philip Allan, 1937, First Edition with DJ (9) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 592 Irish Church History – eight books dealing with Quakers, Presbyterians, Anglicans and Catholics. Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 593 Bundle of books/pamphlets on mainly Irish Railways - 8 items Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 594 Trees of Ireland (hard back) and five other books Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 595 David Rowe - Sketches in South Dublin. S/B 2010. Pages 137 folio. Illustrated full–page sketches by the author; Brian-Mac Aongusa - Hidden Streams: A New History of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown. H/B 2007. Pages 191, quarto. Illustrated b/w photos, maps, line drawings etc; and one other local interest booklet. All fine. (3) Estimate: 35 - 45 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 596 World War II: ‘Jersey under the Jackboot’ (1946); Three volumes published by the Control Commission for Germany (British Element) dealing with administrative arrangements for post-War Germany, covering period June 1948 – Dec. 1952; Manuscript Notebook belong to J.L.C. Stewart, Flying Training command Instructors School, Brize Norton, 1943. Almost 100 pages of notes Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 597 The Committee, Political Assassination in Northern Ireland, Sean McPhelim 1998 and 7 more Troubles related items Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 598 Dublin interest - 7 titles - Desmond Clarke – Dublin 1977. Pages 182. Kevin Kearns – Dublin Pub Life and Lore 1996. Pages 273; Kevin Kearns - Dublin Tenement Life 1994. Pages 237; Helen Burke – The Royal Hospital Donnybrook 1993. Pages 378; Deirdre Lindsay - Dublin’s Oldest Charity 1990. Pages xi, 177. All hardbacks illustrated b/w some colour. Very clean copies in original jackets; Also two softcovers - Frank McDonald – Saving the City and Desmond Moore – Dublin. (7) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 599 The Irish in Ireland; Outlines of Irish Railway History by Casserley & Brendan; Behan’s Ireland; and Robert Kee’s Ireland; Noble Dwellings of Ireland; Irish Houses and Castles and The Irish Today. 7 hardback books Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 600 Olbricht Klaus-Hartmut and Wegener Helga M- Irish Houses - History, Architecture, Furnishing 1984. Unpaginated; Randal MacDonnell - The Lost Houses of Ireland: A Chronicle of the Great Houses and the Families who Lived There 2002. Pages 224; Robert O'Byrne - Romantic Irish Homes 2009. Pages 175; Brian De Breffny - Castles of Ireland 1977. Pages 208; Tarquin Blake - Abandoned Mansions of Ireland Vols 1 and 2, 2010, 2012. Pages 338, and 338; All hardback, quarto first edition copies. Illustrated colour and b/w. Clean copies in original jackets. Lovely lot (6) Estimate: 80 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 601 Dublin interest titles Brian Lalor - Dublin Bay from Killiney to Howth 1989. Pages 160; Brian Lalor – Dublin ninety drawings 1981. Pages 135; Peter Pearson – Decorative Dublin 2002. Pages 158; Christopher Ryan – Dundrum, Stillorgan, and Rathfarnham 2003. Pages 91; Joseph Hone - the New Neighbourhood of Dublin 2002. Pages 254. All quarto hardbacks, in original clean jackets, and illustrated colour and b/w, photos, drawings etc. Also three softcovers – Maurice Craig – Dublin 1660 - 1860; Nicholas Maxwell – Digging up Dublin; and John R Tobin - Leinster House Seat of Seanad Eireann. Nice lot. (8) Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 602 Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 2 boxes. Science, archaeology, history etc. 1860s to modern. Some very interesting material. 2 boxes Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 603 Two Boxes of Irish and General Interest Books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 604 Two Boxes of Irish and General Interest Books to include James Anthony Froude's 'The English in Ireland' - 3 Volume set, signed Lord Inchiquin, Dromoland along with book plate in each Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 605 Collection of Irish books and pamphlets. Some interesting items. 3 boxes Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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