Purcell Auctioneers - Auction Of A Collection Of Irish Historical Interest Books To Include Books From Eyrefield Lodge Stud (Co Kildare) And The John Nagle GAA Book Collection - Starts 17 Feb 2021
Lot 1 The United Irishmen and their Times by Robert R. Madden. 7 individual volumes from different editions 1843 on. Some plates, one attractive leather binding. Sold as a lot 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 A Nest of Simple Folk, 1937; and A Purse of Coppers. 1937 by Sean O’Faolain, first editions and others similar including Guests of the Nation by Frank O’Connor, 1937 first edition. 15 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 3 Music – musicians. 26 books on individual musicians, including Strauss, Bruckner, Bartock, Vaughan Williams, Montiverdi, Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, Hayden, Bach, Schubert, Brahms, Dvorak, Elgar, Chopin, Palestrina, and Wagner, and a few more modern autobiographies. 1940s to 1960s, all cloth bound, almost all in dust jackets. A good 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 4 Music – History. 14 books on the history of classical music and musical instruments (organ & piano), 1940s to 1960s. All cloth bound, all but 3 in dust jackets. Useful collection 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 Music – musicians. 20 substantial biographies or studies of the work of individual musicians, including Mozart (x3), Handel, Vaughan Williams, Greig, Brahams (x2), Hayden, Ravel, Schubert. Kodaly, Holst, Sibelius, etc. 1940s to 1960s, all cloth bound, all in dust jackets. An excellent collection of good works 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 6 Box: Irish Misc mostly: hist., bios and politics. (c20) 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 7 Box Irish Bios and Politics. (15) 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 8 Irish interest. Literature, biography, etc. Hidden Ireland by Corkery in dust wrapper and others similar in 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 9 Economic History of Ireland from Union to Parnell by George O’Brien; Famous Cities of Ireland by Gwynn illustrated by Thompson. 1915; Handbook of Saorstat Eireann, lacks map, 1948 Capuchin Annual, etc., etc. 2 boxes 38 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 10 Nineteenth Century Irish Fiction: Holy and Ivy; Lough Derg Pilgrim; Poems of Mangan; Irish Scripture Reader; Vicar of Goldsmith illustrated by Thompson; Orain published in 1792; Tales of the Trains 1845, etc. etc. 19 individual books including attractive items 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 11 Irish History and Literature: Works by George Moore, Frank O’Connor etc. and histories of Parnell, Wolfe Tone etc. 2 boxes. 27 hardback 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 12 Dublin Interest. The Villages of Dublin by Wren in 2 volumes with histories of Inchicore and Kilmainham and Drimnagh bound in plus others similar, some early titles. 23 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 13 Life of Hugh Roe O’Donnell, 1893; Stranger in Ireland by Maxwell; Medieval Province of Armagh and others similar. 13 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 14 DeBrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage 1966, 1995 and DeBretts Handbook 1982 along with Webster's International Dictionary with book-plate of Eustace Loder (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 15 Good Collection of Irish and World Maps incl. Six Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland (no.s 89, 90, 99, 100, 109 & 110) 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 16 A Season Of Sundays Collection and a Box of G.A.A. and other sports interest books (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 17 Two Boxes of G.A.A. and other sporting interest books (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 18 Two Boxes of Irish General Interest Books (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 19 Two Boxes of G.A.A. and other sporting interest books (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 20 Cork G.A.A.: A Man And A Stadium - Pairc Ui Chaoimh, Corcaigh, 1976 and An Illustrated History of the G.A.A. in East Cork 1924-2010 signed by the author Tom Morrisson, 2011, red gilt cloth in dj (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 21 Kilkenny G.A.A.: Kilkenny The G.A.A. Story 1884-1984 by Tom Ryann 1984, gilt brown cloth in dj; James Stephens G.A.A. Club - 100 Years of The Village 1887-1987, edited by Christy Leahy, 1987, Ten Decades Of Glory - A Pictorial History of Kilkenny in Senior Championship Hurling by Sean Courtney, 1996 and Kilkenny Senior Hurling County Finals 1887-2003 by Dermot Kavanagh (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
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Lot 22 Kerry G.A.A.: A Legion Of Memories, Killarney Legion G.A.A., 1929-1979 (a/f), "Face The Ball" Records of Kerry County Senior Championships 1889-1998 by Pat O'Shea, 1998, green gilt cloth in dj, North Kerry - A Hurling History 1925-2015 by Tommy O'Connor, 2015, blue gilt cloth in dj, Austin Stacks G.A.A. Club - A Centenary History 1917-2017, 2017; and Forged In Green & Gold - 125 Years of Kerry G.A.A. by Jimmy O'Sullivan Darcy, 2009 (5) 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 23 Roscommon G.A.A.: Roscommon Town G.A.A. A History 1889-1983 by Michael Cassidy, Ros Comain, 101 Years of Gaelic Games in County Roscommon 1889 to 1990 with dedication by the author, Tony Conboy, 1990 and History of Connacht G.A.A., edited by Tomas O Morain, 2000, blue gilt cloth in dj (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 24 G.A.A.: Croke Park, A History by Tim Carey, 2004, red gilt cloth in dj along with 2007 Updated Edition (pb), Brian Boru G.A.A. Club (London) Centenary Story by Tom Beatty, 1999, The Clash Of The Ash In Foreign Fields: Hurling Abroad by Seamus J King, 1998; and The History of the G.A.A. in New York by Fergus Hanna, 2014 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 25 Toomevara G.A.A.: The Green & Golden Years of Toomevara G.A.A. 1985, green gilt cloth in dj, 2000 Toomevara, Remarkable Images Of Our People and Toomevara G.A.A. 25 Glorious Years 1986-2000, 2011, in blue gilt cloth in dj (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 26 G.A.A.: St. Anne's Bohernabreena & The G.A.A. by Dermot Mara, 2015, In The Name Of The Game by J J Barrett, 1997, The Managers, The Tactics & Thinking that Transformed Gaelic Football by Daire Whelan, 2013 and All Ireland Glory - A Pictorial History of the Senior Football Championship 1887-2005 by Frank Burke, 2005 (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 27 Tyrone G.A.A.: Ceiliuradh Cead Bliain 1907 C.L.G. Fionntamhnach - A Century of Gaelic Games in the Donacavey Parish (Fintona, Co. Tyrone), 2007, A Kick On The Shore - The Story of Gaelic Football and the Times on the Tyrone Shore of Lough Neagh with Aughnamullan Erin's Hope, Washingbay Shamrocks and Derrylaughan Kevin Barrys by Brain McLernon, 2005 and The Plunketts 100 Years On - A History of Pomeroy Plunketts 1916-2016 (3 hard backs) 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 28 G.A.A.: Munster G.A.A. Story 1887-1984 by Jim Cronin, 1984, blue gilt cloth in dj; and Munster G.A.A. Story Vol II, 1985-2001 by Jim Cronin, 2001, blue gilt cloth in dj (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 29 The Days of the Little Green Apples by David Guiney, 1975, Glenanaar by Canon Sheehan, Knocknagow by Charles J Kickham, 1957, The Kerry Way - The History of Kerry Group 1972-2000 by James J Kennelly and Bertie Ahern The Autobiography (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 30 The G.A.A. In Louth, An Historical Record, The Centenary - The Millenium (1985 to 2000) by John Mulligan S.M., 2000, red gilt cloth in dust jacket, The G.A.A. County By County and Longford G.A.A. 1980-2005 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 County Kerry interest. I Am Kerry. Kerrymen’s Association 1881-1956, 75th Anniversary; Pictures in colour, Lakes of Killarney and South of Ireland, circa 1900; Castles and Monasteries in Killarney; By Dingle Bay and Blasket Sound; Killarney land and Lake; Kingdom of Kerry and Discovering Kerry, History, Heritage, Topography by Barrington. 7 books. 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 32 O Brien and Crookshank, A Portrait of Irish Medicine, D. 1984. Folio mint 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
Lot 33 Larmour, Paul The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland. Belfast, 1992 quarto, numerous illustrations, fine in dust jacket, virtually as new. Brilliant standard work on the arts and crafts movement in Ireland 1880s-1830s 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 34 Joseph Hone W. B.Yeats 1865-1939. London. 1942. First edit. Illustrated. Author’s inscribed presentation copy “From Joseph Hone to his friend Dermot McManus, Feb 1958” 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 35 Robert Hogan, Dictionary of Irish Literature, USA, 1979. Large 8vo of 816 pps. (1) 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 36 M.R. Mitford Our Village, 1910. Illustrated by Belfast born Hugh Thomson and tipped in colour plates by Rawling. Quarto. Original gilt 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 37 **withdrawn** Estimate: 0 - 0 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 38 Rev. J.A. Knowles St. Brigid – Patroness of Ireland 1907. 1st Illustrated; Alice Curtayne Saint Anthony of Padua, 1931. 1st; and A. Foley Bishop Healy: Beloved Outcast, 1956. (3) 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 39 Galway interest. Hardiman’s History of Galway, 1958; Signpost to Eyrecourt, the Eyre Family and Parish of Ballinasloe by Egan. 1960 first edition in dust wrapper. 3 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 40 Clarendon’s History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England begun in the year 1641, Vol II (Dublin 1719). Books VI to IX covering the years 1642 to 1645. Scattered references to situation in Ireland 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
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Lot 41 Atlas of Ireland. Map of Ireland and County Maps. Samuel Lewis. 1837 original edition in later cloth. 27 maps, the map of Ireland and 26 of the 32 county maps - lacks Tipperary, Tyrone, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford & Wicklow 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 Samuel McSkimin The History and Antiquities of the County of the Town of Carrickfergus. 1823. Illustrated. Half calf. 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 43 Townland Index. Census of Ireland, 1861 General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns of Ireland, Parishes, and baronies of Ireland, etc. Maryland, 1995, facsimile small type reprint of the 1861 edition, almost 1000 pages, blue cloth, fine. Lists all the almost 70,000 townlands in Ireland, giving their location on the 6-inch Ordnance Survey sheet(s) for that county and other information 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 44 Edna O’Brien, A Fanatic Heart selected stories, 1st edition, The Franklin Library, signed ltd first edition ; full leather with gilt filigree, marbled end papers; silk ribbon, aeg; mint copy of a most desirable vol. (1) 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 45 The Bank of Ireland 1783-1946 by F.G Hall 1969 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 46 Grosse’s Antiquities 2 vols in slipcase (1982 repr) along with A Supplement to Francis Grose (1991). 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 47 Lecky, W.E.H., Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, London, Longman Green & Company, 1871, new edition revised and enlarged, maroon 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 48 Sullivan, William K.; Sigerson, George & others Two Centuries of Irish History 1691-1870. London, 1888 first edition, over 500 pages, green cloth, lovely bright copy. Chapters by different writers aiming to provide a clear, non-partisan, account of Irish history to the British public at time when Irish affairs were having an increased impact on British political life 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 49 W.B. Yeats, The Unicorn and from the Stars, 1908, 8vo, 209 pps +4 ppps cat. Glassine cover, ex libris. Poems, Fisher Unwin, c1922 distinctive blind stamped cover, with frontispiece of Yeats 1899; 314 pps. Both vg copies. (2) Estimate: 60 - 90 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 50 D. M. Kiely John Millington Synge – A Biography. 1994 1st edit; Daniel Corkery Synge & Anglo-Irish Literature 1955; and Hugh de Blacam Gentle Ireland, 1935. 1st. Illustrated. (3) 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
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Lot 51 A collection on the Public General Statutes passed in the 42nd year of George III (Dublin, 1802). A total of 68 statutes from the second Session of the first United Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland 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 52 Georges Roualt, ills, Padraig de Brun poems, Maire Mac an tSaoi, translated , Misere, 1971, 4to, tweedlike cover in glassine wrap. 900 copies; beautiful copy of outstanding production from Gill and MacMillan. Also pamphlet by Padraig de Brun: Oidiopus I gColon, Magh Nuadat 1929. (2) Estimate: 60 - 90 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 53 Fahey, J. The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Kilmacduagh Galway, 1986, facsimile reprint of the 1893 first edition, virtually as new in dust jacket 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 54 Peter Biegel's Racing Pictures published by Michael Joseph, London 1983 from the Library of Tony Sweeney, in a slip case 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 55 Haigh, Paul The World's Greatest Racecourses, signed by the Author, No. 289 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 Vesey Fitzgerald, Brian (editor) The Book of the Horse, 1 Volume, 3rd edition 1949 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 Wood-Martin, W. G. The Lake Dwellings of Ireland: or ancient Lacustrine Habitations of Erin, commonly called Crannogs. Dublin, 1983 facsimile reprint of the 1886 edition numerous illustrations, blue cloth, very nice dust jacket. Classic work. 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 58 Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire, 1888. 12 hand coloured illustrations. Beautiful gilt crimson morocco with gilt hunting insignia on spine 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 59 George Moore, The Brook Kerith, L. 1927; large 8vo, quarter linen. The Apostle, L. 1923: ltd ed of 1030 copies of which this is a signed copy no 427, 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 60 W. B. Yeats Early Poems and Stories. 1925. First thus; and W .B. Yeats The Herne’s Egg and Other Plays, New York. 1938. First U.S. edition in scarce dust jacket. (2) 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
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Lot 61 Old English Plate by Wilfred Joseph Cripps, 4th edition & 9th edition along with Old French Plate which carries the book-plate of Eustace Loder (3) 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 62 Douglas Hyde Abrain Agus Danta an Reactabraig. 1933. 1st. Colour frontis of Raftery. Irish text; and Rev. M. Sheehan Sean- Caintna nDeise. The Idiom of living Irish (In Ring, C. Waterford) 1944. (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 63 The Judges in Ireland, 1221-1921. F. Elrington Ball. Round Hall Press. 1993. 2 volumes with ornate spine in slip-case. Great source 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 64 Rare Album of photographs by Robert Lyttle, Belfast, c. 1916 of the construction stages of a huge hangar style building erected near Belfast possibly for armament storage or concealment of light aircraft during the Great War. Scarce 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 65 W.B. Yeats Autobiographies, 1955. 1st. Original green cloth; and K. Worth The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett. 1978. 1st (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 66 Kathleen Keyes McDonnell There's a Bridge at Bandon – A Personal Account of The Irish War of Independence, 1972. 1st. Dust jacket. Scarce account of heroic Bandon family Estimate: 100 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 67 Irish Language Literature. De Hae, R. & Ni Dhonnchadha, B. Clar Litridheacht na Nua-Ghedhilge 1850-1936. I. Na Leabhra. II. Filidheacht i dTréimhseacháin Dublin, 1938-1939 first edition 2 large octavo vols. almost 1000 pages, green cloth, very good to nice. Vol.1 inscribed and dated by author. Valuable bibliography of publications in Irish 1850-1936. Vol. 1 lists books, including translations into Irish, with detailed lists of their contents. Vol. 2 records 6000 poems in Irish periodicals. A third volume on prose in periodicals followed in 1940 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 68 Hone, The Life of George Moore, L. 1936; large 8vo. Susan l. Mitchell, George Moore, 1916. Charles Morgan, Epitaph on George Moore, L. 1935; small 8vo in quarter vellum with marbled boards. All vg. (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 69 Important Illustrated Edition. Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels … A New Edition. With Explanatory Notes and A Life of the Author, by John Frances Waller ... Illustrated by the late T. Morten. London, [1860s] first edition in this form, numerous wood-engraved illustrations (many full-page), text printed inside woodcut border, contemporary half calf, a few of the illustrations. From the Pollock library at Mountainstown, Co. Meath, and with a few illustrations coloured in by a child. The illustrations by the painter and illustrator Thomas Morten (1836 - 1860s) were described by Forest Reid in his Illustrators of the Sixties. As a “mingling of fantasy and grotesque … strikingly original, and the book must be placed among the collector's indispensable items”. Waller, from Limerick, now rather forgotten was at the time an important figure in the Dublin literary scene 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 70 The Houses of Ireland by De Breffny; The Big House in Ireland by Pakenham; Ghosts in Irish Houses and Ireland, Art into History. 4 large format 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 71 Maxwell, W. H. History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798, 1 volume, London 1845 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 72 Royal Irish Academy Atlas of Ireland (1979). 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 73 Country Life Illustrated Vol IX and X c.1901 (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 74 Robertson’s Antiquities and Scenery of the County of Kilkenny. 1983 reprint of 1851 edition. A limited edition – 63/585 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 75 Michael Dolley Medieval Anglo-Irish Coins 1972. 1st. Quarto. Numerous illustrations from recognised authority on Irish coinage; and John D. Lusk. British and Irish Tradesmen & their Copper Tokens of 1787-1804. 2014. 1srt Large quarto. Fine colour plates (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 76 A. Flynn The Book of Kerry 1973 and New Survey of Clare Island, 1999 Two quarto illustrated volumes 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 77 Foreign Tour of Brown Jones and Robinson illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1854 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 78 A.M. Hayes The Horsewoman – A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 1893. 1st. Illustrated; and Whyte-Melville Riding Recollections, c.1898. Half calf. Both volumes stamped in gilt on covers “Vancroft Stud”. 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 79 Genealogical Source - Trinity College Dublin Burtchaell & Sadleir Alumni Dublinenses. London, 1924 large octavo, 906 pages, plates, very nice copy. Particularly scarce in this condition. Invaluable biographical source and research tool with information on about 28,000 persons from 1593. 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 80 Blanche Patch, Thirty Years with G.B.S. (New York, 1951). Lacks dust-jacket - sunning to spine - otherwise in very good condition. Blanche Patch was George Bernard Shaw's secretary and the frontispiece is a photograph of both of them 'in the study at Whitehall Court'. Author's inscription on half-title: 'Inscribed to Mrs L.A. Griffith with best wishes from Blanche Patch. 3rd November, 1951'. The background to this inscription is detailed in a letter of the same date from the author to Mrs Griffith Estimate: 60 - 80
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Lot 81 Life of the Most Rev Joseph Dixon, primate of all Ireland. L. and D. 556 pps; attractive gilt pictorial cover; subscribers copy as listed to Maison de Sacre Coeur Roscrea with their library ticket. And Robertson Catholic Univ of Ireland Lectures, 1860 to 1864. Also with Sacre Coeur Roscrea Pensionnat. (2) 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 82 The Ecclesiastical History of Diocese of Meath Ancient and Modern by Rev. Cogan. 1874. 3 volumes set. Preliminary pages of volume 3 appears to be a later copy. Sold as a working set. 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 Valerie Bary, Houses of Kerry, Ballinakella Press, 1994; mint, folio with dj; 247 pps plus lost demesnes, photographs, parishes, bibliography and index. Magnificent vol with line drawings by the author’s daughter Stephanie Walsh. (1) 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 84 Brigade Commandant Sean Finn, West Limerick Brigade Old IRA. Sixtieth Anniversary Commemoration. M. Madden, ‘Moville’, South Circular Limerick. 1981. Circa 100 pages. Typescript, printed on one side only. Presentation copy. Obviously only a few copies of this detailed study, ‘a labour of love’, were printed. A rare publication on an important Limerick republican 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 85 Griffith Valuation of the Barony of Cork, 1 Volume, 1852 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 Irish Famine Acts: To make Provision for the Poor Persons afflicted with Fever in Ireland. September 1848; For the Protection and Relief of the Destitute Poor evicted from their dwellings in Ireland, August 1848 and for the better Protection of crime and Outrage in certain Parts of Ireland. December 1847. Part of the ineffective government’s response to the appalling destitution. 3 books 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 87 Report on the Revenues and Condition of the Established Church [Ireland] Dublin, Thom. 1868. Large format. Binding disbound. Ends at page 586. Large folding colour maps of the dioceses. Manuscript insertions. Well used volume but contains a treasure trove of information and statistics on the Church of Ireland at the time of the disestablishment 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 88 18th and 19th century Irish Acts. Turnpike Road Dublin to Kilcullen-Bridge, 1787; Dublin to Mullingar, 1787; Carriage of Corn, 1787; Irish Currency 1816; Stamp Duties 1816; Excise and Tax, 1804; also on resident magistrates, linen, inland navigation, Prevention of Crime, to Restrain Party processions, Duty on Malt, Tobacco, Irish fisheries, Spirits, Duty on Hard Soap, importation of Salted Bacon, etc. Approximately 50 individual acts. 1766-1860 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 89 The Cromwellian Adventurers and Ireland: Public Records of Ireland. Eleventh to the Fifteenth Reports. 1821-1825. Folio bound in contemporary half leather. Contains the Acts of Settlement and Explanation prepared by Mr. Hardiman. 702 large format pages, record of individuals who received grants of land in Ireland with valuable details on people, acreage, address etc. a primary source for study of the Cromwellian Plantation in Ireland. 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
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Lot 90 Vetera Monumenta Hibernorum et Scotorum (Rome, 1864). Documents relating to Ireland and Scotland held in the Vatican covering the years 1216 – 1547, pp 616 (lacking last four pages). Dedicated to Archbishop Cullen. Text in Latin. 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 91 Handy Royal Atlas of Modern Geography by Johnston 1899 and Philips' Atlas of the Counties of England 1889 (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 92 Atlas of Ireland. Prepared by Irish National Committee for Geography. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 1979 folio, green cloth, fine copy. Fine coloured distribution maps on every conceivable subject. 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 93 The Aishling and An Charraig, approx 30 issues. A scarce journal printed on the Aran Islands, featuring religion and folklore, Irish language and environmentalism. 1980s and 90s 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 94 Dictionary of Irish Biography, Royal Irish Academy. 2009. Volumes 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Large format. wonderful source. 5 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 95 Irish Emigrants. Davin, Nicholas Flood. The Irishman in Canada Irish Universities Press, 1968 facsimile reprint of the 1877 first edition, over 700 pages, green cloth, fine in dust jacket. Davin, Limerick born journalist and war correspondent, went to Canada in the 1870s, where he became an M.P. and a famous orator. This important work deals with Irish emigrants in Canada from the viewpoint of both Irish and Canadian history; Dickson, R. J. Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775. London,1966 first edition, green cloth, nice copy in dust jacket; Doyle, David Noel Ireland, Irishmen and Revolutionary America, 1760-1820. Cork: Mercier Press, 1981 first edition, nice copy; Fitzpatrick, Rory God's Frontiersmen The Scots-Irish Epic. London,1989 quarto, numerous illustrations, blue cloth, nice in dust jacket. All nice copies. 4 vols. 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 96 Hall, S. C., Mr. & Mrs. Ireland: its Scenery, Character, &c. New Edition. Philadelphia, G. Barrie, [1860s] 3 vols. quarto 52 steel engraved plates of views, 13 lovely coloured chromolithographed plates of views of stately homes, 7 coloured maps (groups of counties), approx. 500 wood-engraved illustrations throughout text, original green cloth attractively gilt decorated, vol. 1 with half-title only apparently as published. A very rare American edition with fine coloured plates. Estimate: 180 - 300 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 97 Nice collection of Folio Editions in slipcases – all in superb condition: Daily Life in Ancient Rome; The Greek Myths (2 vols); A History of Chinese Civilization (2 vols); Beethoven; Three Men in a Boat 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 98 A Series of Letters all sign by Louis LeBrocquy for Les Combes, France c.1991 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 99 Answer to a Paper, entitled The Case of Lord Pigot, distributed at the door of the House of Commons. 29th March, Printed 15th April 1779 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 100 Cork Interest, large parchment lease between Thomas Wise of Cork city and Charles Daly, 24 September 1844, concerning lands at Ballintubber. Three sheets, revenue stamps, wax seals of parties, w.a.f. 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 101 COI related pamphlets: General Synods c 1874 x 5; Bible searching almanac, 1891; Lambs of the Flock; 1851 Wheat or Chaff; Popery; Living or Dead; Ir Church wardens handbook, 1954; Samuel first religious lessons, 1834 and two others. (12+) 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 102 18th Century Maps of Cork City. Kinsale and View of the City of Cork from the North. Thos. Chambers, Dublin, Sculpt. 1750. 2 interesting and decorative folding maps 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 103 Photographic folder: all approx. 240 mm x 180mm; 3 eviction scenes; Blackrock Park, Lagan Bridge, and four others. (9) Estimate: 25 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 104 Christies catalogue of the famed library of Irish books at Castle Hacket, Co Galway, assembled over 50 years by the renowned collector, Percy Paley. Two day sale 3rd and 4th July 1986 of the finest Irish library of rare books sold in the past century. Rare 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 105 Christies catalogue of the sale of the library of Col. H. Clements of Killadoon, Co. Kildare on the 4th & 5th of November 1966. Interesting price list enclosed with purchaser’s names. 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 106 The Electrification of Irish Free State, the Shannon Scheme. Report by Experts Appointed by the Government. Dublin 1924. 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 107 W.B. Yeats On The Boiler, 1938. 1st edit. Scarce Estimate: 100 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 108 Sixteen page Exhibition cat of Drawings and Paintings of the MacEgan, Gorry Galleries, Dublin 1940 with 2 page ms letter from Marie Mac Egan to Judge (Dermot) Gleeson with family notes and insertions: Notes on the family of MacEgan from Ir Genealogist;poem by Marion Power 1939 ‘Lines on the Ma Egan Narratives Irish lives: A Policeman’s Ireland; From Dublin Castle to Stormont; An Englishwoman in Belfast; As I was among the Captives; British Intelligence in Ireland, 1920-21; The Misfit Soldier; My Darling Danny. (7) Estimate: 60 - 90 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 109 Pamphlets: Watching for the Dawn, Bh Delaney; Fr John Sullivan, sj; Stories of Fr Willie; Patriotism, Bh Philbin; St Bernard; Ephesus and two others. Estimate: 25 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 110 Dublin Penny Journal. Vol. 1, no 1 – Vol. 1, 52, 1833, numerous woodcut engravings, fine topographical articles, etc., later attractive quarter green morocco, spine gilt with red label 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 111 Reminiscences of Irish Land Agent by Samuel Hussey 1904; Twenty-Five years of the Secret service by Le Caron and The Molly Maguires by Dewees. 1877. With interesting dedication. 3 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 112 L.M. Cullen Life in Ireland, 1968. 1st Illustrated; Nora Robertson Crowned Heir, 1960. 1st; and John Gibbons Ireland The New Ally, 1938. Castle Hacket book plate and signed by Paley. (3) 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 113 Connemara, The Angler and His Friend, John Davy, London, 1855, 308p, beautifully decorated green cloth, on front and spine, with angling motifs. Chapters on Derryclare, Inagh, Ballinahinch, Ballyshannon, Gweedore Estimate: 120 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 114 Three Railway Books Printed in Dublin c.1895 - Scarce 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 115 George Moore, In Single Strictness, Wm Heineman, 1922; ltd ed from hand-set type on Dutch hand-made paper, ltd ed of 1030 of which this is no 410 signed by Moore, dj over quarter vellum jacket, 312 pages, large 8vo. The Lake, Leipzig, 1906. The Pastoral Loves of Daphne and Chloe, 1927. (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 116 Mr. O'Leary's Defence containing a vindication of his conduct and writings during the late disturbances in Munster with a full justification of the Catholics and an account of the Risings of the Whiteboys. In answer to the false accusations of Theophilus and the grounded insinuations of the Right Reverend Dr. Woodward, Lord Bishop of Cloyne, 1 volume, Dublin 17??? and Mr. O'Leary's remarks on the Rev. John Wesley Letters in defence of the Protestant Association in England to which are prefixed Mr. Wesley Letters, 1 volume, Dublin 1780 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 117 Lady Gregory Spreading The News, 1935; and Elizabeth Coxhead Lady Gregory – A Literary Portrait, 1966. (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 118 Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Eimar O’Duffy Association Copy – First edition was published in 1898. This copy, published in 1899, is the 7th edition (Leonard Smithers, London), and came from the library of Eimar O’Duffy (1893-1935) and is inscribed by him on f.f.e.p. O’Duffy was a prolific writer of the 1920s (‘The Wasted Island’ – a novel about the 1916 Rising, and ‘King Goshawks and the Birds’ being his best known) Quarter linen – title-page re-attached with adhesive paper – otherwise very good. Estimate: 140 - 180 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person
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Lot 119 Limerick Interest. An Illustrated History of Ireland by P. W. Joyce. 1923; Recollections of Aubrey de Vere. 1897 and The History, Topography and Antiquities of County and City of Limerick by McGregor. London. 1826. Volume one bound in most attractive full leather, tooled spine with folding maps, plates. 3 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 120 W.B.Yeats The Land of Heart’s Desire/The Countess Cathleen. 1929. Original cloth, gilt spine; and William Butler Yeats Poems: Second Series 1913. Original quarter linen, green boards. (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 121 Maurice G. Moore An Irish Gentleman, His Travels, Racing & Politics, c. 1880. 1st. Illustrated; and Seventy Years Young – Memoirs of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingal, 1938. Illus. (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 122 The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, 1914. Ex Libris Brinsley McNamara with his signature dated Feb 22, 1927. (1) 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 123 Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story from 1916 to the Truce with Britain; and Limerick’s Fighting Story from 1916 to the Truce with Britain edited by Colonel J. M. McCarthy. original editions in lovely condition. 2 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 124 Edward A. Armstrong Birds of the Grey Wind 1946. Illustrated; John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism 1895; and Antoin E. Murphy. Economics and the Irish Economy, 1984. 1st 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 125 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Elsie Venner, c1883. Owner sig of (Senator) Joseph Connolly. Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde and Lady Windermere’s Fan. (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 126 Tourists Handbook for Ireland, London, 1852, highly decorated covers, shamrocks etc, many illustrations and maps, 163p, 54 pages of advertisements at the end 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 127 Hill, George Historical Account of the MacDonnells of Antrim Ballycastle, 1978 facsimile reprint of the 1873 first printing, quarto, very good in dust jacket. Standard history of an important Glens of Antrim and region family and clan. 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 128 Seamus Heaney Inscribed Selected Poems 1965-1975 (Faber & Faber. First Edition paperback, 1980). Inscribed on half-title ' Seamus Heaney January 1981' 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 129 Bundle of Irish History (6); The Amazon Journal of Roger Casement; Casement’s Last Adventure; Revolutionary Woman – Kathleen Clarke; and three other similar 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 130 Praeger, R.L.I. The Botanist in Ireland, 1 Volume, 1974; Lincoln, Colm Cork at the Turn of the Century; and Sommerville and Ross Irish Memories, 1 volume, 1925 (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 131 Samuel Beckett Proust and Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit, 1965. 1st London edit. Dust jacket; and S. Beckett The Unnamable. (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 132 Lady Gregory Mr Gregory’s Letter-Box 1813-1830. 1898. 1st. Edited by Lady Gregory. Loosely inserted is a 10 page manuscript: Deed of Appointment from William H. Gregory to Officers of the Provincial Bank dated October 1848 pledging the deeds of thousands of acres of Galway farm land, in various holdings, obviously as security for Gregory borrowings. Like many of the Anglo-Irish gentry of the 19th century the male side of the Gregory family were addicted to Racing, Hunting & Gambling, with the inevitable financial consequences . Scarce with the enclosure. 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 133 Leaves from a Prison Diary by Michael David, 1885 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 134 C. Day Lewis, Selected Poems, 1st 1940, dj; vg. Selected Poems, Ezra Pound, Faber,1939, dj. Alice Curtayne, A Recall to Dante, Dublin 1934, dj. Tiller, Poems, Hogarth Press 1942, dj. (4) 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 135 Lady Gregory The Kiltartan History Book, 1926. First edit. Fine copy in original maroon cloth Estimate: 140 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 136 Edward E Eagle. Re: Hope of the Future. Dedicated to Michael Collins with Blind Stamp of Linden Convalescent Home - last residence of Eamonn deValera. A curiousity - did dev own this book. 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 137 Analecta Hibernica, No. 24, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1967; and P.W. Joyce Irish Names of Places, Volume 2, Dublin 1875 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 Dail Courts. Kotsonouris, Mary. The Winding Up of the Dail Courts 1922-1925. Dublin, Irish Legal History Society, 2004, fine in dust jacket 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 139 Irish Literature, first editions: Jordan, Neil Sunrise with Sea Monster, 1994; Bolger, Dermot The Journey Home, 1990; Bolger & others Ladies Night at Finbar’s Hotel, 2000; Moore, Brian The Statement, 1995; Moore, Brian Lies of Silence, 1990; Sheridan, John D. God Made Little Apples, Dublin, 1962. 6 vols, all first editions, cloth bound and fine copies in dust jackets 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 140 Edgeworth, Richard Lovell. An Essay on the Construction of Roads and Carriages. London, 1813, first edition, 4 folding plates, lacks binding, some damp damage but a good working or binding copy. Scarce. 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 141 Patrick Kavanagh, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling and other Poems (London, 1961, 3rd Impression of First Edition). Brenda Fricker Association Copy: Apart from a small area of staining along top edge of front board, this book is in very good condition. It was first published in 1960, this copy is the third impression from the following year. As can be seen from the inscriptions on the f.f.e.p. and the following blank it was Oscar-winning Brenda Fricker's copy given to her as a present on her seventeenth birthday in 1962.Gift inscription on f.f.e.p. ‘To Brenda, Wishing you every Happiness on your seventeenth Birthday, Barbara’, and on blank prelim, the name of the recipient and year: ‘Brenda Fricker, 1962’ 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 142 Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, 1993. 1st; and M. R. Fitch Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation; and K. Morrison William Trevor, 1993. (3) 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 143 Republican Interest. The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers. 1911; The Civil War in Ireland by Neeson. 1966; An Independent Irish Parliament. The Path to Peace by an Irish King’s Counsel, 1921; and Sean Treacy and the Third Tipperary Brigade by Ryan. 1945. 4 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 144 H.H. Dixon Silk & Scarlet, 1862. Illustrated; Dixon The Post and the Paddock, 1862; and Dixon Saddle and Sirloin, 1870. 3 hunting works in contemporary quarter 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 145 J.H. Reynolds The Fancy, 1905. 1st. 13 plates by Jack B. Yeats. 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 146 Woman and Flying by Lady Heath and Stella Murray. 1929. Hardback. Photographs Very early book on flying by the remarkable Sophie Pierce, the Newcastle West born aviator 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 147 Seamus O Dubhghaill, Muinntear na Tuatha, BAC, 1910. Blue pictorial cover slightly faded. Signed presentation copy from ‘Seamus Ua Dubhgaill do’n Athair Peadar Ua Laoghaire, Canónach, 16/1/11.’ (1) Estimate: 40 - 70 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 148 Oscar Wilde De Profundis, 1949. first unabridged edition; and J. P. Mahaffy (T.C.D. Provost) A Survey of Greek Civilization. 1897. 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 149 Alice Curtayne Saint Brigid of Ireland, 1933. 1st; and A. Curtayne The Trial of Oliver Plunkett. 1953. 1st (2) 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 150 George Moore Ulick and Soracha, 1926. Signed limited edition in scarce dust jacket. 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 151 Dublin Fragments, A. Peter Hodges & Figgis, 1925, 218p, green cloth, illustrations 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 152 Memoir by John McGahern, Signed, First edition 2005 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 153 Wood, T.W. Curiosities of Ornithology with beautifully coloured illustration from drawings by T.W. Wood, 1 Volume, c. 1878 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 154 Otway, Sketches in Ireland…Donegal, Cork and Kerry, D. 1839. Small 8vo, 383 pps with new endpapers; original cloth covers somewhat worn; text good and intact. (1) Estimate: 40 - 70 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 155 Waugh, Evelyn. Wine In Peace And War with decorations by Rex Whistler, 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 156 B. Jennings Michael 0’Cleirigh of the Four Masters and His Associates. 1936. 1st; and Margaret Gibbons Glimpses of Catholic Ireland in the 18th Century, 1932. 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 157 W. B. Yeats The Cutting of An Agate, 1919. First edit. Original blue gilt cloth, Sturge Moore designed. Loosely inserted is a manuscript page of commentary by Yeats signed at top “W.B Yeats : Cutting of An Agate”. His comments reference The Iliad, The Odyssey, Blake (Heaven& Hell) and Spenser (The Faerie Queene). The above works and authors would appear to be major influences in Yeats’s work. Rare with manuscript comments. Armorial book plate Estimate: 1200 - 1500 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 Calendar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland 1937 and 1938. (2) 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
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Lot 159 Irish Georgian Society: Bulletin. Volume one 1958 on. 28 bulletins bound in cloth in 7 volumes. Lovely collection 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 Joyce, The Story of Irish Civilisation, L. 1907; signed presentation copy 7 March 1907 from P.W. Joyce to author and historian R. Barry O Brien. Later signature of bookseller and historian, Joseph H. Fowler; ex libris OFM, cap., Sraid an Teampaill. Rare association vol of significant literary figures. Attractive black dec cover; 175 pps with 4 page cat. (1). Estimate: 60 - 90 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 161 Samuel Beckett Play 1964. Pictorial dust jacket; and S. Beckett. Ill Seen Ill Said 1982 (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 162 A Social History of Ancient Ireland, Treating of Government, Military System, Religion, Learning, Law, Art, Trade, Manners and Customs and Domestic Life by P. W. Joyce, Dublin. 1920. 2 volume set in original cloth. lovely set. 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 163 Hilary Pyle Jack B. Yeats – A Biography. 1970. Illustrated; and Jack B. Yeats – Exhibition catalogue, Waddington Galleries-London March/April 1983. Illustrated in colour. (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 164 Peter Cheyney's Dark Omnibus 1st ed, and 2 other firsts, E. C. Bentley and Raymond Chandler 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 165 W.B. Yeats, Autobiographies, London 1926, 8vo blind stamped green cloth; 477+pps with unicorn endpapers; all five ills present including the wonderful Jack B. Yeats colourful Memory Harbour Estimate: 90 - 140 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 166 Wild Earth by Padraic Colum, Signed, with poem scribbled on front end paper stanzas to the star Betelguise Dated 2nd Jan 1959 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 167 Seamus Heaney, Crediting Poetry (the Nobel Lecture, 1995). Gallery Press, 12 December 1995. Light cover wear – otherwise very good. 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 168 George Russell (A.E.) The Interpreters, The National Being and 3 others 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 169 Rev. Patrick Dineen Focloir Gaedilge agus Bearla – An Irish-English Dictionary. 1927. Original green gilt cloth; and Sean Mac Maolain Cora Cainnte as Tir Conaill, 1933. Scarce Donegal work (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
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Lot 170 The Suir from its Source to the Sea by l. M. McGrath. Clonmel. 1912. Interesting photographs and advertisements 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 171 Elliott, Nicholas. Never Judge a Man by his Umbrella, with dedication by the author, 1991, blue cloth, gilt spine and dj 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 172 Lord Viscount Strangford, Poems 1805. Dedicated to Denham Jephson, Mallow Castle; Conor 0’Brien. Across Three Oceans, 1931; and Lady Morgan. 0’Donnell-A National Tale, 1856 (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 173 Lady Gregory Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations, 1905. 1st edit. Book plate Aberdeen University 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 174 Lennox Robinson Towards an Appreciation of the Theatre, 1945. 1st; and C. Boland Rare Clonmel, 1959; and Irish Varieties – A Victorian view of Dalkey, Killiney & Bray, 1987. Colour plates (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 175 The History of the British Turf from the Earliest Period to the Present Day, 2 Volumes, London 1840. Bound in full leather. 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 176 Holland, Anne Steeplechasing - A Celebration of 250 Years, 1 Volume, 2002 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 177 Onslow, Richard Royal Ascot, 1 Volume, 1990 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 178 Connolly. Arise and Go' W.B.Yeats, M.Kelly. Sligo in the 50s, 60s and 7os; and R. McHugh. Jack B. Yeats A Centenary Gathering 1971. (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 179 Clarke, Adam. An Account of the Infancy, Religious and Literary Life, of Adam Clarke. London, 1833 3 vols. first edition, contemporary half calf, bindings worn, contents sound, good working copy. Clarke, from Maghera, was important in Irish & British Methodist history and these memoirs are important for both religious & social history 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 180 Aidan Clarke, The Old English in Ireland, 1625-42, Cornell 1966; 8vo, dj. Vg. Now a very rare book. Definitive study. (1) 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
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Lot 181 Lady Gregory Seven Short Plays, 1912. Printed dedication to W.B. Yeats. Quarter linen cloth; and Lady Gregory Three Wonder Plays c. 1920. Original blue cloth, printed label on spine. (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 182 The Diocese of Kilmore Its History and Antiquities by Philip O’Connell. Dublin. 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
Lot 183 H. Adams Lady Gregory 1973. 1st; and D. N. Archibald John Butler Yeats 1974. 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 184 Complete Works of P. H. Pearse; and Tales of Tipperary by Kickham 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 185 Sean 0’Casey Collected Plays – Volume 2. Includes The Silver Tassie, Within The Gates and The Star Turns Red. 1909. First collected edit; and G. Fallon. Sean O'Casey – The Man I Knew. 1965. 1st. 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 186 Seamus Heaney Signed, Field Work (Faber & Faber. 1985). Signed by Seamus Heaney on half-title. Overall condition very good. Originally published 1979, this is the third reprint 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 187 Instructions for the Management of Harvey’s Sea Torpedo, 1871. 1st. Fine tinted lithographs. Nautical book plate. Original decorative gilt cloth 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 188 James Hogan Letters & Papers relating to the Irish Rebellion 1642/46. Dublin. 1936. 1st. 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 189 Bigger and Crone, The Reliques of ‘Barney Maglone, 1894. With the stamp of Bulmer Hobson and the bookplate of the writer Donn Byrne. Small 8vo, 75 pps, vg copy. Rocky Mountain O’Brien Birth and Adoption..prose and poetry. 1904; private copy signed to Miss Annie Lyons with her name printed on front cover. Rocky left Cork at the age of seventeen. Very unusual and rare vol. (2) Estimate: 60 - 90 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 190 Irish Families: Redingtons of Clarinbridge; Robinsons of North Kildare; Massys; White Knights, Dark Earls, the Kingstons; Six Generations of Friends in Ireland 1655-1890 [Quakers] and Bibliography of Irish Family history and Genealogy by de Breffny. 6 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 191 Three Interesting Photograph Albums depicting Racing Meetings - Epsom, Hurst Park, Kempton Park, City of London, Newmarket 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 192 A Monograph of the Pheasants by William Beebe. LIMITED EDITION No. 491 of 600 copies. In four vols published under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society by Witherby & Co, London 1918. With 90 Colour Plates. In red publisher's cloth. Bookplate of Sir Giles Loder; Bart (4) Estimate: 1500 - 2500 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 193 Ruff's Guide To The Turf - an extensive continuous run from the 1878-79 to 1913, being 35 volumes in half calf, gilt decorative spines and nice condition 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 194 An Early 20th Century Advertisement for The Stallion, Kilmucklin II Sanding at Castlemartyr at 3 Guineas - For further Particulars Apply S. Clifford 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 195 Three Boxes of General Interest 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 196 Two Boxes of 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 197 Book collecting: David Feldman Handbook of Irish Philately; Catholic Printers in Dublin by Wall; Hand-List of Irish Newspapers by Munter and others similar. 24 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 198 Works on and by G.B. Shaw: Michael Holroyd, Vols 1,2,4,5; Letters vol iv; Man and Writer; biographies and some first editions. (15) 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 Republican Interest. The IRA by Coogan; Padraig Pearse, St. Enda and its Founder and others similar. 9 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 200 Cath Mhuighe Leana, Eugene O Curry, Celtic Soc., D. 1855. Large 8vo. From the library of T.J. Westropp Sandymount Dublin with his distinctive book plate and inscription. Vg, blindstamped cover; and good association copy from the library of one of Ireland’s leading antiquarians. (1) 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 201 John Masefield Some Memories of W. B. Yeats, New York 1940 and 1973; and R. Skelton and Ann Saddlemyer The World of W. B. Yeats, Dolmen Press. 1965. 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 202 James Plunkett A Retrospect-P. J. Carroll & Co., Dublin and Dundalk. 1974. Illustrated in colour and Marching Workers. Exhibition catalogue of Irish Trade Union banners & regalia – Belfast & Dublin May/June 1978. (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 203 Foster, Roy F. Modern Ireland 1600-1972 London, 1988 over 700 pages, maps &c, black cloth, fresh in dust jacket; Foster, Roy F. The Irish Story. Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland London, 2001 black cloth, as new in dust jacket. One of Ireland’s leading modern historians. 2 vols. 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 Drummond, William Hamilton The Giants' Causeway, A Poem Belfast, 1811 first edition tall 8vo. map of Giant's Causeway, modern brown cloth, good working copy without engraved plate. As well as the poem includes over 100 pages with detailed topographical and historical notes on the region and its people. 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 205 The Lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages by Lydon. 1971; King’s Inn and the Kingdom of Ireland by Kenny; Ireland 1921-1985 by Lee; The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern by Martin Haverty of Askeaton; and Grangegorman by Reynolds. 5 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
Lot 206 Graham Greene, Stamboul Train, 1st ed and 4 other Greene 1sts 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 207 W.R. Rodgers (Editor) Irish Literary Portraits – Yeats, Joyce, Synge, etc., 1972. 1st;, and ,B. Quinn. Irish Poems for Young People, 1977; and Alice Curtayne More Tales of Irish Saints 1957. (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 208 World War One Interest (4): Kitchener’s Army and Territorial Forces; The Great War – I was there 3 vols – Sir John Hammerton (ed) (4) 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 209 W.B. Yeats The Herne’s Egg – A Stage Play, 1938. 1st; and J. Stallworthy Between The lines – W.B. Yeats’s Poetry in the Making, 1963. 1st (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
Lot 210 The Radical Cure for Ireland. A Letter to the People of England and Scotland concerning a New Plantation communicated through a Living Friend by Chichester’s Ghost with two maps. London. 1895. A fascinating though disturbing argument that the British government should remove hundreds of thousands of Irish people from the country, a new Plantation, and replace them with English people to ensure a majority of the population were loyal to the Crown. A strongly fascist argument 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 211 Daniel Corkery The Hidden Ireland 1925. 1st Signed twice by Liam 0’Buachalla, first Chairman of the Irish Senate; and J. P. Donleavy A Singular Country, 1989. 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 212 Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, inscribed by the author (later impression) and 4 other signed firsts. 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 213 Montgomery The Midland Septs and the Pale. 1908. 1st Scarce Offaly and Leix local history; and Richard Hayward In The Kingdom of Kerry, 1946. 1st Illustrated with scarce large folding map in pocket (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 214 Seamus Heaney Inscribed Human Chain (Faber & Faber, 2012). Inscribed on title page: 'For Victoria - fondest wishes - Seamus Heaney, 23 March 2012.' In excellent condition. Originally published 2010 Estimate: 100 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 215 Ireland Under the Normans by Orpen. Oxford 1920. volumes 1, 2 and 3. Later 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 216 Journal of The Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 1934-1962. 7 illustrated early editions 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 217 A New and Impartial History of Ireland, M. McDermot, London 1823, complete in four volumes, in worn bindings 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 218 Michael O'hAodha Siobhan – A Memoir of An Actress 1994. 1st Illustrated; and M. O'hAodha. Theatre in Ireland 1974. (2) 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 219 Irish Pedigrees or Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation. John O’Hart. Dublin. 1880; Vicissitudes of Families by Bernard Burke. Volumes one and two published in 1869 and 1883; and The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed gentry when Cromwell came to Ireland by John O’Hart. 1884. 4 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 220 Stephen Gwynn The Life and Friendships of Dean Swift. 1933. 1st and B. Acworth. Swift. 1947. 1st; and Swift and His Age – A Tercentenary Exhibition in Dublin 1967. Illustrated. (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 221 Ulster Question. Handbook of the Ulster Question. Issued by the North Eastern Boundary Bureau. Dublin,1923 4 large folding maps (1 in rear pocket) showing railways, population distribution, market catchment areas of towns, etc, Celtic-style cloth backed boards. 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 222 The Sham Squire and the Informers of 1798, W.J. Fitzpatrick, new impression, Gill & Sons, c1910, 377p. Effectively the third edition, green cloth cover, h/b, stamp of the National Bank Arran Quay! 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 223 Richard Hayward Ulster Songs and Ballads, 1925. 1st.; and J. Logan Ulster in the X-Rays, 1939. 1st. Presentation copy to D. Lindsay-Keir of Queens University. 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 224 Lady Gregory The Kiltartan Moliere – The Miser – The Doctor in Spite of Himself –The Rogueries of Scapin, Dublin. 1910. 1st edit. Book plate of Castle Hacket & signed by P. Paley. Scare with fine Galway provenance 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 225 Lynn Doyle, The Spirit of Ireland, 1936; An Ulster Childhood, (presentation copy from Maurice Craig to Trix, Christmas 1943); The Shake of the Bag, 1939; Ballygullion. (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 226 The McCarthys of Munster. The Story of a Great Irish Sept by Samuel Trant McCarthy. Dundalgan Press. 1922 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 227 Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore, 1863 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 228 Yeats. Yeats, John Butler Essays Irish and American, 1918, first edition; Kiely, Benedict Yeats’ Ireland An Illustrated Anthology, 1989; Ure, Peter W. B. Yeats & the Shakespearian Moment, 1966, wrappers; Telfer, W. L. Yeats’s Idea of the Gael, Dolmen Press, 1965; Saul, George Bandon In Luminous Wind , Dolmen, 1985; Bradford, Curtis Yeat’s ‘Last Poems’ Again, Dolmen, 1985; Malins, Edward Yeats & Music, Dolmen, 1985. 7 vols 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 229 Ethel Mannin Two Studies in Integrity, c. 1954; and Ethel Mannin South to Samarkan 1938. (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 230 Esther K. Sheldon Thomas Sheridan of Smock-Alley, 1967. 1st. Illustrated. Pictorial dust jacket. Scarce work re life of Actor/Manager of Dublin’s Smock-Alley Theatre 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 231 Where to Stay and Eat in Ireland 1960. Illustrated; Irish Bulls and Puns C. 1940, M. Mac Chosta, Tigh Laighean Leinster House. 1955. Illustrated; and N.F. Degidon How to improve the Cottage Homes of Ireland. 1926. (4) 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 232 Seamus Heaney, Sweeney Astray (1983), Field Work (1979), and four collections of Seamus Heaney’s works in unopened slipcase (Death of a Naturalist, Door into the Dark, Wintering Out, North). 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 233 Irish Literature, first edition fiction: Trevor, William The Old Boys, 1964; Trevor, William Felicia’s Journey, 1994; Share, Bernard The Moon is Upside Down, Dublin, 1962; Share, Bernard Inish, Dublin, 1966; Share, Bernard Inish, New York, 1967; Hone, Joseph The Private Sector, 1971. all first or first U.S editions, cloth bound in nice dust jackets (jacket of Hone torn and inset in book). 6 vols. 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 Bowen, Henry Cole Statutory Land Purchase in Ireland, 1 Volume, 1928. Henry Cole Bowen was the father of the Author Elizabeth Bowen Estimate: 120 - 250 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 Children of Castletown House by Sarah Connolly-Carew and Brothers Patrick & Gerald with foreword by Desmond Guinness with dedication signed by Sarah C-C (a/f); and The Horse in Ireland edited by Noel Phillips Browne (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 236 British and Irish Hunts and Huntsmen 3 vols (1982). Includes sections on twenty-four Irish Hunts drawn from all four provinces 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 237 W.B.Yeats Poems, 1895. Rare first edition. Gilt cloth with original iconic image by H. Grenville Fell. Limited to 750 copies. Preface dated at Sligo March 24th 1895 Estimate: 750 - 850 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 238 John Hewitt, No Rebel Word, 1st 1948, 56 pps, 8vo with dj, vg. Hewitt’s first public published work (preceded only by a privately published Conacre, 1943. Rowan cat stated that only 300 copies were sold with the rest having been pulped; newspaper cutting; Desirable copy from the library of Robert Farren. (1) 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 239 George Moore, Ulrick and Sorcha, 1st ed, limited and signed by the author, including 2 other signed limited editions, and another 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 240 Maurice Walsh Son of a Tinker, 1958. Pictorial dust jacket; and Lorcan 0’Byrne The Falcon King – or The Story of the Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ireland, 1907. Illustrated. (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 241 Songs of the Gael, c1915, Padraig Breathnach, nos 1-12; small 8vo. T.D. Sullivan, Songs and Poems, 1898, 12mo; The Irish Poems of Alfred Percival Graves, 1908, small 8vo. (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 242 Jasper Burns Irish Hammered Pennies of Edward 1V and Richard 111, 2009. 1st. Illustrated; and G. R. Humphreys A List of Irish Birds, 1937. Illus. 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 243 Kilkenny: The Ancient City of Ossory, the Seat of Kings, the See of its Bishops and the Site of its Cathedral by John Hogan. Kilkenny, Published and Printed by P. M. Egan. 1884. Original edition in cloth 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 244 Bindings - Art History. E. Chesneau L’Art et artistes modern en France et en Angleterre, Paris: 1864; A. Durande Joseph Carle et Horace Vernet, Paris, 1863; L. Lagrange Joseph Vernet et la peinture au XVIIIe siècle, Paris: 1864; Cellini Vita de Benvennuto Cellini, Milano, 1824. 4 vols., attractively bound in blue or green leather. 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 245 Twixy Foyle and Swilly by Harry Percival Swan and Killoran and Coolaney, a local history by Michael Farry (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 246 L. T. Meade Betty Vivian, 1909. 1st. Illustrated by A. S. Boyd. Attractive gilt cloth; and L. T. Meade Girls of The True Blue, 1904. 1st With 10 illustrations by Percy Tarrant. 2 first editions by Bandon born writer 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 Seamus Heaney Signed, The Spirit Level (Faber & Faber, 1996). Signed (and dated - 8/vii/98) by Seamus Heaney on title page, also on page 21 at the end of 'St Kevin and the Blackbird'. Light edge wear to covers with crease mark to top right corner and bottom centre. Also top right corner of p. 21 folded down. This was Heaney's first book of poems since he was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. It was also published in hardcover and as a limited edition Estimate: 100 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 248 Here and There Through Ireland by Mary Banim. Illustrations. Dublin, The Freeman’s Journal. 1892. 2 volumes bound in later 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 249 Four Manuscript Volumes - One c.1840's includes poetry and hymns including The Harp by Hector MacNeill Esq.. One includes Irish Townland/Place, their Parish and their translation from Ulster - Ballyaghran etc. with the name Alex McNeill. One c.1810-1820 includes numerous poems by different authors, R B Sheridan etc. etc. and the last one c. 1830's again with poetry and small drawings and decorations. A nice collection 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 250 Henry. R. Montgomery Specimens of the Early Native Poetry of Ireland, 1892. Frontispiece portrait of Carolan. Original green gilt cloth; and Thomas Moore Lalla Rookh, 1858. Illustrated Fine red crushed morocco binding. (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 251 Trevor West Horace Plunkett: Co-Operation and Politics. 1986. 1st. Author’s inscribed copy; and Fergus Kelly A Guide to Early Irish Law, 1991. Pictorial dust jackets. (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 252 W. B. Yeats The King of the Great Clock Tower, Commentaries and Poems. 1935. 1st U.S. edition. Dust jacket. Fine copy 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 Lady Gregory, The Kiltartan Poetry Book, facs reprint by IUP 1971 of original Cuala press 1918 ltd ed. Mint copy. Seamus O Sullivan, Poems, Tower Press, 1938. Selected poems by John Lyle Donaghy, Tower Press 1939. Patrick Kelly, The Salley Ring, D. 1941. All vg. (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 254 Irish Medical History. Rotunda Hospital Bicentenary. Dublin, 1949 almost 500 pages, cloth, worn dust jacket; Coakley, Davis Irish Masters of Medicine. Dublin,1992 370 pages, as new in dust jacket; Clarke, Richard The Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast A History 1797-1997. Belfast, 1997 quarto 304 pages, numerous illustrations & photos and diagrams, fine in dust jacket; Lyons, J. B. Brief Lives of Irish Doctors 1600-1965. Dublin, 1978 182 pages, photos, very good in dust jacket. [50 leading doctors]; Allison, R. S. The Seeds of Time Being a Short History of the Belfast General and Royal Hospital 1850-1903 Belfast, 1972 quarto, 318 pages, illustrations, fine in dust jacket; Farmer, Tony Patients, Potions & Physicians. A Social History of Medicine in Ireland 1654-2004, Dublin, 2004 254 pages, illustrations, fine in dust jacket. In all 6 vols., nice collection 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 255 Bundle of Irish History (7); Emmet (O Broin); Life of Wolfe Tone (Bartlett); Standing Orders and Regulations for the Army in Ireland (1969 – facsimile reprint of 1794 original); four other similar. 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 256 Dust jackets for Irish interest books: A collection of approximately 250 loose dust jackets removed from Irish interest books (historical, topographical & literary) published mainly in the 1960s to 1980s. Some with some wear but mostly in reasonable to very good condition. Some duplication but mostly different. A potential treasure trove for any bookseller of second-hand Irish interest books wishing to improve their stock both now and over the coming years as items without jacket are acquired. Estimate: 70 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 257 Dust jackets for Irish interest books: A collection of approximately 250 loose dust jackets removed from Irish interest books (historical, topographical & literary) published mainly in the 1960s to 1980s. Some with some wear but mostly in reasonable to very good condition. Some duplication but mostly different. A potential treasure trove for any bookseller of second-hand Irish interest books wishing to improve their stock both now and over the coming years as items without jacket are acquired. Estimate: 70 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 258 Atlas of Ireland. Memorial Atlas of Ireland showing Provinces, Counties, Baronies, Parishes, etc. in Thirty-Three Double Page Maps … Indexed. Philadelphia, L. J. Richards, 1901 only edition folio (55.7 x 39 cms.) 33 double-page maps (island of Ireland plus 32 county maps), title page and index, the county maps (54.5 x 74.8 cms.) printed in colours in parishes with barony boundaries in red, much topographical detail, publisher's half brown leather, left hand half of the Co. Down map missing (southern areas), some child's writing or drawings on the blank rears of some maps, some grubby marginal marks, binding worn but firm. Very detailed index, printed in ten columns, locates about 12000 places. Rare 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 259 Framed Collection of Autographs - John Masefield, Rudyard Kipling, Hillaire Belloc, Robert Browning, H.M. Bateman, A.A. Milne, Max Beerbohm, H.G. Wells, Alan P. Herbert and Robert Baden Powell Estimate: 300 - 600 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 260 Eight issues of Hibernia – Ireland’s best investigative journal from the 1980s. Topics include The Strange World of Ireland’s Masons; Trudder House Children’s Home; Capital Punishment for Garda Killers; Interview with Tomás MacGiolla of the Workers’ Party. 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 261 South Pole Exploration. Illustrated London News, May 18 1912, two small holes at left margin where previously bound, otherwise clean copy, photographs from Amundsen’s expedition. 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 262 Titanic Interest, Illustrated London News, May 4 1912, 46p, minor holes on left margin from original binding, small tears on front page margin. Many pages of contemporary photographs and reports, including a large centre-fold illustration of the ship. 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 263 The Scenery and Character of Kerry. Sean Feehan Junior, Gladys Leach illustrator. Cork, Feehan & Co. 1975. Very large format. Dust wrapper 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 264 Sean Feehan, The Scenery and Character of Kerry, 1975 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 265 Galway G.A.A.: La An Phaoraigh by Sean Og & Aoife de Paor, 2007 (pb), Annals of the G.A.A. in Galway 1902-1934 by Padraic O'Laoi (vol II), 1992 (pb), Mattie McDonagh - A Giant Among Men, c.2007 and History of Connacht G.A.A. 1902-2002, edited by Tomas O Morain (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 266 Galway G.A.A.: The First Forty Years , Fr. Griffin Gaelic Football Club, c.1985, The Kiltormer G.A.A. Story 1887-1995 by Paddy Goode, c.1995, Dunmore McHales, A History of Football in Dunmore Parish by Michael Leydon, 1983, For The Pride Of The Parish - A History of Gaelic Games in New Inn and Bullaun by David McGann, 2003; and A History of Kilconieron GAA Club 1885-2005, signed by the author, Michael Fahy, 2006 (5 pbs) 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 267 Wexford G.A.A.: Go On The Butters, Sarsfields G.A.A. Club History 1907-2010 by Alan Aherne, 2010, The Gallant Boys and Girls of Glynn-Barntown 1885-2010 by McGovern & Wickham, 2010, The Wexford Hurling & Football Bible 1887-2008 signed by the author, Dominic Williams, 2008 and Coming of Age in Wexford G.A.A. 1983-2004 by Jim McGovern (4 pbs) 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 268 Ulster G.A.A.: The Crossmaglen G.A.A. Story 1887-1987 with dedication from the author, Con Short, 1987, brown gilt cloth in dj; A Gaelic Graduation - a History of the G.A.A. in Fermanagh 1904-2004, edited by Tom Cullen, 2005; and 100 Years of St. Molaise Gaelic Athletic Club, Irvinestown 1906-2006 by Mahon and Duffy (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
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Lot 269 Tipperary G.A.A.: Tipperary's G.A.A. Story 1985-2000 with dedication from the author Seamus J King, 2005, blue gilt cloth in dust jacket, A History of the G.A.A. in the North Tipperary Division by Seamus J King 2001, blue gilt cloth in dj, Tipperary's G.A.A. Ballads, 2000 (pb) and Tipperary's G.A.A. Story 1985-2000 (pb) (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 270 Laois & Offaly G.A.A.: Uibh Fhaili - The Faithful County 1884-1984, A History of Daingean G.A.A. 1889-2014, 2017 and History of Portarlington A History of Daingean G.A.A. 1889-2014 125 Years 1888-2013 by Joe O'Dwyer, 2013 in gilt red cloth and dj (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 271 Limerick G.A.A.: Doon G.A.A. A History 1887-1990 by Tom O'Brien, gilt red cloth in dj, 1990, A History of Knocklong & Glenbrohane Parish "The Bouncers" 2004 (pb), Plassey's Gaels - A History of the G.A.A. at NIHE, NCPE, Thomond College and the University of Limerick 1972-2012, by John O'Callaghan, 2013, blue gilt cloth in dj; and The Boys of Claughaun, A History of Claughaun G.A.A. Club 1902-2002 by Sean Murphy, signed by Sean O Ceallaigh and with a letter from Claughaun G.A.A. to Mr Sean Kelly, President Elect C.L.G. inviting him to the book launch (4) 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 272 Tipperary G.A.A.: The Parish of Emly - History of Gaelic Games and Athletics by Mich O'Dwyer, 2000, red gilt cloth in dust jacket; and The Cappawhite G.A.A. Story 1886-1989, edited by John Kelly, 1989 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 273 G.A.A.: The Leathers Echo Wicklow G.A.A. 1884-1984 signed by the author Jim Brophy, blue gilt cloth in dust jacket; and Off The Ball Waterford's Re-Emergence As A Hurling Force From A Supporter's Point Of View by Patrick J Power, 1999 (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 274 G.A.A.: Munster G.A.A. Story 1887-1984 by Jim Cronin, 1984, blue gilt cloth in dj; and Munster G.A.A. Story Vol II, 1985-2001 by Jim Cronin with six signatures incl. Sean O Ceallaigh, 2001, blue gilt cloth in dj (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 275 Feakle by Kieran Sheedy, 1990. Dust wrapper. A comprehensive history of the east Clare parish. 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 276 More Irish Families by Edward MacLysaght. O’Gorman. 1960; Supplement to Irish Families 1964 and 4 other books of Irish interest. 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 276a Donegal Misc: Kilmacrenan; Year Book, 1987; Rathmullen; Mervagh; Glencolumbkille; Glenveagh x 57 others; Doe Castle; Dunafaanghy Presbyterian; Greesloug- Dunfanaghy and 7 others . (20+) 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 277 M. Clark (Editor) The Mansion House, Dublin – 300 Years of History and Hospitality; and W. Henry The Mayors of Galway City 1485-2001. 1st. Illustrated. (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
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Lot 278 A Collection of Irish Educational Journals from the 1950s and 60s including An Muinteoir Naisiunta, The Irish School Weekly, and The Teacher's Work 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 279 Bundle of Irish History (9); Bards of Gael and Gall (Sigerson); An so began the Irish Nation (McCall); The Felon’s Track; The Uncrowned King of Ireland (O’Shea); and five other similar 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 280 Dublin's Fighting Story, c. 1940; 1966 Capuchin Annual; and Tom Barry Guerrilla Days in Ireland, 1st Edition, Irish Press, 1949 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 281 Sadlier & Dickinson. Georgian Mansions in Ireland. With Some Account of the Evolution of Georgian Architecture and Decoration. Dublin, printed for the Authors, 1915 first edition large 4o. numerous plates, original buff cloth with a large decorative door knocker on front cover, some smoke marking to covers and a few page edges. Good sound copy of this classic work published in a limited numbered edition 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 282 Irish Language. Bachellery & Lambert. Lexique etymologique de l'irlandais ancient de J Vendryes. Lettres T-U par le soin de E. Bachellery et P. Y. Lambert. Paris,1978 stiff wrappers, Signed presentation inscription to Eric Mac Fhinn from Lambert, and a MSS note by MacFhinn on Lambert; O Donaill, Niall Foclóir Gaelige - Béarla Dublin,1977 large octavo, over 1300 pages, blue cloth gilt, nice in worn jacket; O DROIGHNEAIN, Muiris An Sloinnteoir Gaeilge agus an tAinmneoir Belfast, [1966] first edition stiff wrappers, rare surname dictionary in English & Irish, & 5 others. 8 vols in all. 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 283 Debretts Perage, 1953 Coronation Edition, 2080p, boards frayed 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 284 Clergy of Down, Elphin & Raphoe (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 285 Vikings. Jones, Gwyn A History of the Vikings. Oxford University Press, 1968 first edition photo plates, maps, etc, nice copy in dust jacket; Foote, Peter & Wilson, David The Viking Achievement. Society & Culture. London, 1980, fine in dust jacket. 2 vols 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 286 Molly Keane Good Behaviour 1981. 1st; Neil Jordan Sunrise With Sea Monster 1994; and Jarlath Waldron Maamtrasna 1993. Signed presentation copy by Waldron. (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 287 Military Histories (9): Uniforms and Insignia of the Soviet Army 1955; Queen Victoria’s Little Wars; A life of Cardigan of Balaclava; Regiments and Uniforms of the British Army; and five other similar 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 288 Irish Architectural & Decorative Studies. Journal of the Irish Georgian Society. Vol. 1 to 7, 1998- 2004 complete, about 200 pages per volume, profusely illustrated, fine copies, 7 vols. Wonderful historical articles on buildings and the decorative arts 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 289 Saorstat Eireann Official Handbook, 1932 - lacks 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 290 French Revolutionary Wars. Baines, Edward. History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the breaking out of the War in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815 London, 1817 quarto, 2 vols bound in 1, over 1100 pages, numerous plates and maps, contemporary calf, lacks rear board, text block, plates & maps very good. Deserves rebinding 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 291 Offaly Heritage, History of Birr and 9 others local history 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 Archaeology. Raftery, Barry Pagan Celtic Ireland. The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age. London, 1997 quarto, numerous illustrations; Bergh, Stefan Landscape of the Monuments. A Study of the Passage Tombs in the Cúil Irra [Sligo] Region. Stockholm,1995 first edition quarto, numerous figures & photos; Brindley, Anna Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan Dublin, 1986 first edition quarto, 4 coloured plates, maps, drawings, photos, black cloth gilt, dust jacket; Davies, Oliver Excavations at Island MacHugh. Belfast, 1950 quarto, numerous figures and drawings, photos folding plates, original printed wrappers, as new. Rare. Detailed excavation report of an important site at Baronscourt, Co. Tyrone occupied from neolithic times, through the bronze age, to the sixteenth century when a castle was built. 4 vols. All nice copies Estimate: 50 - 90 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 293 Yeats Family. William B. Yeats and Georgian Ireland by Torchiana; Literary Works of Jack B. Yeats and others similar. 8 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 294 Journal of the Galway Archaeological & Historical Society 1977/2004. 8 illustrated annual journals 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 295 Cookery. Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management. A Guide to Cookery in all its Branches. 1907, over 2000 pages, heavily used copy signed by Lady Foster, Glyde Court, Co. Louth; Beeton’s Every-Day Cookery and Housekeeping Book, about 1885, original decorative cloth; Lecointe, Jourdan Cuisinier des cuisiniers [2000 recipes], Paris, 1861, worn; and another earlier Beeton worn. 4 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 296 Anthony Hamilton, Memoirs of Comte de Grammont, Sonnenschein, c1890s. Wm Dobson, Political Ingenuities, 1882. Consecration of Matthew Parker. Henry James The Aspen Papers, vol 2, 1888. Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble. (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 297 The Curragh Incident by Sir J Ferguson, Ireland by Walker & Mathew, Eamon DeValera by the Earl of Longford and TP O'Neill, Ireland by Dale & Cooper and The Irish Republic by Macardle (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 298 Pamela Hinkson Irish Gold 1939. 1st Colour frontispiece by Letitia Hamilton. Castle Hacket book plate and signed by Paley; and Dorothy Hartley Irish Holiday 1938. 1st. Tinted plates 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 299 Drawings of Cork by Michael O'Brien and Recollections of a Rebel by J. J. Walsh 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 300 The Irish Civil War, illustrated history by Morrison; Lost Ireland by O’Connor; Keiller-Knowles Collection in National Museum; Ireland from Maps; In an Irish garden; Dublin be Proud and 5 others similar. 11 large format 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 301 Irish Gardens by Hyams & MacQuitty 1967, Russborough - A Great Irish House, it's Families and Collections by Laffan & Mulligan 2014, In An Irish House by Sybil Connolly, Reader's Digest Illustrated Guide To Ireland and Portrait of Ireland by DK and 2 others (7) 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 302 The Horse, Its Treatment In Health And Disease: Complete In 9 Volumes By Axe, Professor J. Wortley, 1907 with bookplate of Eustace Loder 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 303 The Book of Antelopes by Philip Lutley Sclater and Oldfield Thomas. In Four Volumes (Bound as two in half leather with decorative gilt spine). R H Porter 1894-1900 (Vol 1 & 2), 1897-1898 (Vol 3 & 4). With 100 hand-coloured lithographs and 139 illustrations in the text. Bookplate of Sir Giles Loder; Bart Estimate: 2000 - 4000 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 304 The Bloodstock Breeder's Review, half calf - an incomplete run of c.90 vols. from 1912 to 1981. The British Bloodstock Agency, Ltd. etc. 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 305 Two Boxes of 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
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Lot 306 Box of Archaeology and Anthropology including reports of acquisitions by NMI during the 1960s. (c30) Estimate: 25 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 307 Large Box of Illustrated Antique Reference Books - Art, Furniture, Ceramics, Oriental, 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 308 Large collection of Ulster interest items (approx. 70) including Belfast Shakespeare Festival 1905; Five collections of Sam McAughtry’s stories and essays; eight booklets on the use of the Public Record Office; ten issues of Ulster Local Studies, sixteen copies of North Irish Roots, and much more! 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 309 Large Collection of Gardening Interest 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 310 Box mostly Irish Historical Fiction, Politics and Bios. (25) 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 311 Box of Horse Racing and Breeding Books etc. 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 312 Two Boxes of Irish Architectural and Archaeological Interest 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 313 The Virtues of Herbs of Master Jon Gardener - Collector's Issue of 170, No. 28 of the Subscriber's Copies. Illustrated with original watercolours by Deborah Lambkin, Daphne Levinge, Raymond Piper, Frances Poskitt, Susan Sex and Wendy Walsh. Half leather and blue cloth within blue cloth case 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 314 An Irish Florilegium with 48 Watercolour Paintings by Wendy Walsh and an Irish Florilegium II with 48 Watercolour Paintings by Wendy Walsh, both volumes signed by Wendy Walsh and with dj's (2) 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 315 E. O E. Somerville Slipper’s ABC of Fox-Hunting, 1903. 1st edit. Pictorial boards, Some staining on cover but very fine coloured plates. Complete 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 316 Offaly Interest (3): The Book of Durrow (2000); Tullamore Catholic Parish (Byrne, 1987); Mapping Offaly (2006) 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 317 Burke’s Guide Country Houses Ireland by Mark Bence-Jones. First edition and Bonnetstown a House in Ireland. 2 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 318 Mainie Jellett The Artist’s Vision. Lectures and Essays on Art with an Introduction by Albert Gleizes edited by Eileen MacCarvill. 1958. Dundalgan. Dust wrapper. One of Ireland’s leading women artists 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 319 Co Wexford interest: photograph 1956, Coláister Charman; The Gorey Detail card poster; James Lyddy, Orpheus, published by Paul Funge; 2 NMI acquisitions from Wexford for 1963; Co Wexford family in the land War, Maynooth Study; T.C.Barnard, RIA, Iron Making at Enniscorthy, 1657-92; CYMS Soc 1858-2008, vol 1. (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 320 Kenneth Webb by Thomas Kenny and one other (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 321 Belfast. Bardon, Jonathan. Belfast. An Illustrated History. Belfast, 1987 quarto, as new in dust jacket; Owen, D. J. History of Belfast. Belfast,1921 first edition, almost 600 pages, plates, original buff cloth; O’Byrne, Cathal As I Roved Out in Belfast and District. Illustrations by Raymond Piper. Wakefield, 1970 red cloth, nice in dust jacket; Guide to Belfast and Northern Ireland. London: Ward, Lock: [1950 ca.] 3 folding coloured maps, photo plates, red cloth. In all 4 vols. 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 322 Mr. & Mrs. S. C. Hall Ireland: Its Scenery, Character etc., 1841. 1st edit. 3 volumes. Numerous maps & plates. Complete. Quarter calf, gilt floral designs on spines. (3) 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 323 Ireland: its Scenery, Character, by Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall. London. Circa 1840. Volumes 1 and 2 of 3. engraved titles, maps, attractive plates, as well as some engraved illustrations. Both volumes in contemporary, though not matching half leather bindings 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 324 Munn, Alfred Moore Notes on the Place Names of the Parishes and Townlands of the County of Londonderry. Quarto, green cloth, as new. A limited numbered 1985 facsimile reprint of the rare privately published 1925 first edition. Important work on Irish topography and place names 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 325 Michael Dolley and W. Seaby Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, Ulster Museum, Belfast – Anglo-Irish Coins. 1968. 1st. Part V – Hiberno-Norse and Anglo-Irish Coins. 1975. 2 illustrated books by Michael Dolley , the renowned authority on Irish coinage 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 326 Lady Francis Egerton Journal of a Tour in the Holy Land in May/June 1840. 1841. First edit. Lithographic plates. Signed presentation copy by the author. Scarce privately printed work for the benefit of The Ladies Hibernian School Society. The Society was formed in 1823, a major Protestant proselytising organisation, its main objective being the “conversion” of young Irish Catholic girls, particularly in Achill & Connemara by funding the local Mission schools. By 1841 the Society had 232 schools and 13,700 pupils the vast majority, children of Roman Catholics. Scarce signed work enhances by topographical views 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 327 Brendan Kennelly Inscribed Selected Poems (Edited by Kevin Byrne, Dublin, 1985). This copy is No. 577 of a limited edition of 750 copies, signed by Kennelly on copyright page. To f.f.e.p. is his poem ‘The Gift’ – It came slowly / Afraid of insufficient self-content / Or some inherent weakness in itself / Small and hesitant / Like children at the tops of stairs / It came through shops, rooms, temples / Streets, places that were badly lit / It was a gift that took me unawares / And I accepted it Estimate: 100 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 328 David Marcus, Oughtbiography, Dublin 2001; dj mint. Richard Murphy, The Kick ..a memoir, mint, 2002. Brian Aldiss, The twinkling of an Eye, 1998. All mint copies (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 329 Brendan Behan Borstal Boy, 1958. First edit. Scarce in dust jacket; and Frank Harris His Life and Adventures, 1947. 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 330 Duffy's Magazine, Vols 1 and 2 bound together and Vol 2 of Duffy's Irish Catholic Magazine 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 331 High Pheasants in Theory and Practice by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey Bart. 1995 With a new introduction by Colin McKelvie. Foreword by the Editor of The Field; and The Scallop; Studies of a shell and its influences on humankind, edited by Cox, 1957 (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 332 On Another Man’s Wound by Ernie O’Malley. 1937. London and Dublin. Three Candles Press. Later 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 333 Galway Ordnance Survey Letters, edited by M. Herity, Four Masters Press, 2009, 510p, in mint condition with d/w. A fine and invaluable aid to history studies 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 334 Land War in Ireland. Davitt, Michael. The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland or the Story of the Land League Revolution. New York,1904 first edition, over 750 pages, original green cloth. Classic work on the Land War by a central figure. 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 335 Rev. Ulick J. Bourke. The Bull “Ineffabilis” in Four Languages. Dublin. 1808. 1st and R.B. Savage. Catherine McAuley –The First Sster of Mary. 1955. Map end papers. (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 336 G. B. Shaw and Ellen Terry Correspondence 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 337 Irish Whiskey A History of Distilling, the Spirit Trade and Excise Controls in Ireland by E. B. McGuire. Dublin. 1973. Excellent copy in nicked dust wrapper 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 338 “Wanderer” Across Country, 1882. 1st. Coloured hunting plates. Armorial book plate. Fine contemporary half calf, gilt spine with hunting insignia 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 339 Max Beerbohm, Seven Men. Bradbrook, Andrew Marvel. Seymour, Tales of King Solomon. Foster, Colonial Consequences. Masefield, A Letter from Pontus. Stephen Spender, Selected Poems, 1940. (6) 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 340 William Tighe’s Statistical Observations relative to the County of Kilkenny. Reprint of 1802 edition – 2 vols in slipcase. Limited edition – 369/400. 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 341 Illustrated by Beatrice Elvery Heroes of the Dawn. Maunsel. Circa 1920. Old embossed stamp. Later 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 342 The South of Ireland illustrated with descriptive letter press and maps. Photographed and printed by Guy and Co. Ltd., c. 1900. In pristine condition 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 Sir James Hamilton The Hamilton Manuscripts containing some account of the settlements of the territories of Upper Clandeboyle, Ardes and Dufferin in Co. Down. 1867. Scarce Hamilton Pedigree. Original gilt cloth with gilt family crest on upper cover 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 344 Herbert, Ivor (editor) Horse Racing - The Complete Guide to the World of the Turf, 1 Volume, 1980 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 345 Nicholson, Rod The Track - Australian Racing Hall of Fame, 1 Volume, 1982 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 346 Thibault, Guy Un Siecle de Galop 1900-2000, 1 Volume, 2001; Auteuil Hier et Aujourd'hui, This volume inscribed by Author to Tony Sweeney 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 347 Morrissey, As One Sent, Peter Kenney, sj, 1996; mint copy 529 pps. The Irish Missionary Movement, 1830-1980. 1990. (2) Estimate: 25 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 348 Vanishing Dublin by Flora Mitchell, two reprints 2017 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 349 Halliday, Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin, IUP reprint 1969, 300p, h/b, green cloth, clean 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 350 W. H. Bartlett The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland. c. 1835. 2 volumes. Map and 120 engravings. Complete Contemporary half calf, marbled boards 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 351 My Story by Paddy the Cope. 1939 good copy in torn dust wrapper. Story of the legendary Patrick Gallagher of Donegal 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 352 Maire and Liam de Paor Early Christian Ireland, 1958. 1st. Numerous illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket; and W. R. Le Fanu Seventy Years of Irish Life, being anecdotes and reminiscences. 1894. 1st. Book plate. (2) 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 353 C. S. Andrews Dublin Made Me 1979. 1st; and A Book of Dublin, 1929. 1st. Illustrations by Paul Henry, Harry Kernoff and Flora Mitchell. (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 354 Young, Robert M., The Town Book of Belfast, de lux Edition, No. 56, signed by the Author 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 355 Irish Music: Hatton and Molloy, The Songs of Ireland, 4to, pictorial covers, aeg, 220 pps + cat. Boosey and Co London, new and enlarged ed. Really lovely copy. Michael Dervan, The Invisible Art: a century of music in Ireland, 1916-2016. 4to, dj mint copy. (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 356 Fenian Interest (3): Recollections of an Irish Rebel – A personal narrative (John Devoy, 1929); Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism 2 vols (1896 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
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Lot 357 County Clare. A Transplanted Family The McLysaghts in 16th Century by Edmond McLysaght. 1935 in cloth. an exemplary study of a family transplanted from Limerick to Clare in the 16th century 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 358 Seamus Heaney Inscribed, Writers on Howard Hodgkin, edited by Enrique Juncosa (Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2006). Signed on half-title by the subject of the work - 'Howard Hodgkin, 2006', but also inscribed by Irish poet Seamus Heaney: 'To Patsy, le grá, Seamus Heaney, 21 . ii. '06'. Address sticker of previous owner on f.f.e.p. Work comprises eleven essays on the British artist Howard Hodgkin Estimate: 100 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 359 R. W. Harden St. Johns Monkstown. The Story of an Irish Church, 1911. Illustrated; and F. E. Ball History of the County of Dublin – Leixlip, Lucan, Clondalkin, Drimnagh, Crumlin, etc. 1906. 1st. Map and illustrations. (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 360 A. P. Graves Irish Doric in Song and Story, 1926 1st; and M. Healy Stay Me With Flagons 1952; and Thomas Moore Essays in Irish Biography. 1993. 1st (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 361 Desmond Ryan The Phoenix Flame. A study of Fenianism and John Devoy. 1937; Remembering Sion. Chronicle of Storm and Quiet. 1934 and The Sword of Light. From the Four Masters to Douglas Hyde 1636-1938. 1939. dust wrapper. 3 books in excellent 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 362 Round About The County of Limerick: Illustrated. Rev. James Dowd. Limerick, McKern. 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 363 Cork International Exhibition and South of Ireland, 1902. Guy and Co. Ltd., Photographers and Printers Estimate: 70 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 364 Nimrod The Life of John Mytton, 1877. Numerous hand coloured sporting plates. Contemporary crimson half calf. Ornate gilt spine with hunting motifs 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 365 Irish Literature, signed: Moore, George A Story-Teller's Holiday London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by Cumann Sean-eolais na h-Éireann, 1918 first edition, publisher's parchment backed blue boards, limited edition signed by Moore. The Cumann Sean-eoilais (Society for Irish Folklore) never existed and was a device employed by Moore to avoid the legal difficulties he had experienced with earlier books; Moore, George Memoirs of My Dead Life London, 1921, publisher's parchment backed blue boards, limited edition printed from hand set type on hand-made paper and signed by Moore. 2 vols. 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 366 F. O. C. Meenan St. Vincent’s Hospital- 1834-1994, 1995. 1st; and Elgy Gillespie The Liberties of Dublin, 1977. 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
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Lot 367 The Irish Text of the Bible, edited by Kerryman, Padraig O’Fiannachta. An Bíobla Naofa. Arna aistriú on mBuntacs. Maigh Nuad. 1981. Large format. wonderful production. Wear to edges 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 368 Conor Cruise 0’Brien To Katanga and Back 1962; and C. C. 0’Brien The Suspecting Glance 1978. 2 first editions in dust jackets 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 369 Rev. John Healy Ireland’s Ancient Schools and Scholars, 1890. 1st. Large folding coloured map of Ireland; and Eoin MacNeill Phases of Irish History. 1919. 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 370 Colour Illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. Sean-Eoin le Mairin Ni Chriagain. Baile Atha Cliath. 1938 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 371 Dublin Interest (4): The Liberties of Dublin (1973); Cathal O’Neill’s Dublin (1998); Malton’s Dublin (Dolmen Press, 1978); Dublin – 1000 years of Wood Quay 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 372 Tipperary G.A.A.: Tour of the Tipperary Hurling Team in America 1926 by Thomas J. Kenny, contemporary gilt cloth, lacks plates 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 373 Cork G.A.A.: Stair de Chumann Luthchleas Gael Chill Uird (Kilworth). Commemorative History of Kilworth GAA Club. Soft covers 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 374 History Of The G.A.A. 1910-1930 by Phil O'Neill (Sliabh Ruadh), 1931, The Kilkenny Journal Ltd., in contemporary gilt 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 375 Tipperary G.A.A.: Hurling by Tony Wall, Bound facsimile of the 1965 original. 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 376 Cork G.A.A.: Macroom G.G.G. Club History 1886-1987 by Barry O'Brien, in original dust jacket along with Pairc Ui Chuana (Macroom) Official Opening Commemorative Book, 30th July 2000 (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 377 The Gaelic Athletic Association in Dublin 1884-2000. Editor and compiler: William Nolan, Contributors: Jim Wren, Marcus de Búrca, David Gorry (2005) 160 x 240 mm, 3 volumes in hardback in slipcase, c.1500 pages, 360 photographs 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 378 Caman, 2,000 Years of Hurling in Ireland by Art O'Maolfabhail, 1973, Dundalgan Press, Dundalk, green gilt cloth in original Dust Jacket along with Story of the G.A.A. by Seamus O Ceallaigh, covering a hundred years of Gaelic Endeavour (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 379 Roscommon Town G.A.A. A History 1889-1983, with dedication from the author Michael Cassidy. In original dust jacket, published by Roscommon Gaels Club 1984 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 380 Tipperary G.A.A.: Tipperary's G.A.A. Story by Canon Fogarty (Templemore) and published by The Tipperary Star 1960, original gilt red cloth 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 381 Cork G.A.A.: The Dohenys 1886-1986 signed by the author Raymond Lyons, Up The Youghal Boys 1891-1991 by Frank Keane and The History of Cobh G.A.A. (1984) (3 soft cover publications) 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 382 BINDINGS – Scottish Literature: Wilson, John Mackay Wilson’s Historical, Tradionary, and Imaginative Tales of The Borders and of Scotland. Manchester, 1840-1845 circa quarto, 6 vols. with glossary at end of vol. 6 (it is dated 1845), contemporary half dark purple leather, spines richly gilt decorated. Handsome. Classic tales by an itinerant Scottish lecturer. 6 vols. 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 383 1798 Rebellion, United Irishmen, & C. Maxwell, W. H. History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798. London, 1891 infamous engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank, green cloth; Pakenham, Thomas The Year of Liberty The Story of the Great Irish Rebellion of 1798 London, 1969 over 400 pages, plates, nice in dust jacket; Stewart, A. T. Q. A Deeper Silence The Hidden Origins of the United Irish Movement, London, nice copy in dust jacket; McNeill, Mary The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken 1770 – 1866. Dublin, 1960 red cloth, folding family tree, on the sister of Henry Joy; Curtin, Nancy The United Irishmen. Popular Politics in Ulster and Dublin 1791-1798, Oxford University Press, 1998, as new. Together 5 vols. 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 384 History of Ireland from Earliest Times to Present Day by D’Alton published by Gresham. Lovely 6 volume set in embossed green 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 385 Edgeworth, Maria Tales and Novels. In Ten Volumes. With Thirty-Eight Engravings on Steel. London, Routledge, about 1872 10 vols. complete, about 450 to 500 pages per vol., 38 engraved plates, publisher's green cloth attractively decorated in black and gilt, nice copy, exceptionally well preserved set of this attractive illustrated edition Estimate: 120 - 240 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 BINDINGS, Nineteenth Century: Half Hours with the Best Authors, London, 1850 4 vols. bound in 2, attractive half calf; Creasy, E. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, London, 1874, full calf, spine very richly gilt; The Songs of Scotland. London, 1870, half tan crushed morocco, spine attractively gilt; Smiles, S. Duty. London, 1880 full red polished calf, spine very richly gilt; Smiles, S. Character, London, 1879 full tan calf, spine very richly gilt; Smiles, S. Self-Help. London, 1875, full tan calf, spine nicely gilt; Lamartine Lectures pour Tous, Paris, 1860, quarter dark blue morocco, spine attractively gilt. All very nice copies. Lovely batch of bindings showing fine craftsmanship. 8 vols. in all. 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 387 James Bruce Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768 to 1773. Dublin. 1791. First Dublin edition. 6 volumes. Contemporary quarter calf., marbled boards. With 50 fine copper engravings and 3 large folding maps. Complete. Famous exploration work renowned for the quality of its numerous natural history plates. 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 388 Lecky, W. E. H. Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland Vol.I. Henry Flood Henry Grattan Vol.II. Daniel O'Connell London, 1912 new edition, revised & rewritten 2 vols., original brown cloth, nice bright copy; Lecky, W. E. H. A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, 11 miscellaneous vols., mixed editions, brown cloth, 1892-1919. In all 13 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
Lot 389 Marcel Dyf (French impressionist painter) Autograph - three signed pictures, all dedicated to Susan Warren (Roddie) Pearl, c.1969 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 Cuala Press. Cronán Mna Sléibhe. Cuala Press Hand Coloured Card No. 63 4 pages. Inscription in pen ‘ó Domhnaill le buiochas’; and Cuala Press Hand Coloured Card No. 25: 4 pages. A Christmas card. 2 attractive colour 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 391 C. S. Lewis. Re: The Abolition of Man 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 392 Samuel Foley - A Sermon 1683 (1) 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 393 Receipts with revenue and postage stamps mostly late 19th c. (10+). 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 394 Celtic Revival Illustrations: Carbery, Ethna & MacCathmaoil, Seaghan Songs from 'The Four Winds of Eirinn' Music set by C. Milligan Fox Pictures by Seaghan MacCathmaoil John Campbell [Mountcharles, Co. Donegal], about 1906 6 booklets with 8 pages, each with a fine coloured illustration by Campbell, a poem by Carbery and a page of music, stiff wrappers, very attractive Celtic Revival production. Campbell, from Belfast, had a very individual style and contributed to Gaelic League, Literary Revival and similar publications. This is probably his most attractive work 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 395 Wicklow Early Railway Guides. Bray to and from. Winter 1902-3. Issued by J. E. McCormick Merchants, Bray. Folded and Dublin Blessington & Poulaphouca Tramway Time Table July 1927. Folded with advertisements. 2 attractive 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 396 Padna: The Story of a Corn Porter, D. L. Kelleher, 34p, songs and ballads, 1924, paper covers. Possibly self-published? 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 397 The Worker's Republic, 1926 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 398 Cork’s Own Town, D. L. Kelleher, Dublin, Talbot Press, 1920, brown paper wraps, illustrated front, 40p. Verse, pages uncut, a very clean 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 399 Pamphlets: Craoibhin Aoibhinn, 1904, Ceithre Sgeulta; Seilg I Measc on nAlp, le Micheál Breathnach, 1933; Seamus O Beinr, An Dochtúir, 1904; Stories from the Táin, RIAQ 1944. (4) Estimate: 25 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 400 Limerick Interest: History of Adare, 1932; Bibliography of Limerick Hist and Antiqs, Nais; The Organ St Mary’s Cathedral, 1971; Misericords in St Mary’s 1969; Simms the Treaty of Limerick 1961. (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 401 Pamphlets: Martyrs for Ireland, B O'Higgins; The Hero of Cremona; Michael Davitt, Land League Proposals; Ireland and the War; B O Higgins Oliver of Ireland; The Missing lInk a new thought. Estimate: 25 - 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 Revenue and legal stamps on land registry, leases and receipts…c 25 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 403 Republican ephemera: Memorial card for O Donovan Rossa, d 1915; memorial postcard of Bishop O Dwyer, d1917; badge 1916- 1949 commeroration at Roundstone, Easter Monday 18th April 1949…Michael Burke; small card of Proclamation with photos of sigs; Republican News Feb 1974; Comoradh an Phiarsaigh, Vol1 no 1 1979; commemoration plans and saol an Phiarsaigh, (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 404 Catholic Writers Association, formation of 1948 and constitution; 4 foolscap typed pages. (4) 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 405 1814 receipt from the Ryall bank at Clonmel (l) for £811…14..7. A rare survivor of this early bank at Clonmel, possibly unique. 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 406 Cork West Special Military Area: Permit to travel to Bandon from Union Quay Cork on 9/2/1919….available for day of issue only for Frank Neville, 2 College Road, Cork. Stamped office of Dist Inspector, RIC, Cork South. Rare survivor. (1). 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 407 Permit to travel to West Cork on 29th Dec 1918; 120mm x 85mm; No 8781 from the office of District Inspector, Ric Cork South for Frank Neville of College Road Cork…available for one day only. Rare survivor(1) 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 408 The Longfords: The Vineyard, Yahoo, two plays by the Earl of, 1947; Christine Longford, The United Brothers, 1947; all Hodges Figgis, D. (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 409 Blunt, William Scawen. The Wind and the Whirlwind London, 1883 first edition, black cloth, His travels convinced Blunt of the evils of imperialism and in the 1880s he campaigned for Irish nationalism and his activities during the Land War led to a spell in gaol in Ireland. He was Lady Gregory’s lover. This verse work opposed British intervention in Egypt and Sudan 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 410 Old English at Present on Sale on the Antique Galleries, Tottenham Court Road, Maple & Co. Ltd and The Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company Ltd., 112 Regent St. Catalogue, c.1904 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 411 A History of St. John’s Hospital, Limerick. John F. Devane. Privately Published by Dublin University Press. 1970. Presentation copy from the author’s wife 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 412 Clare interest: Benedict Kiely, The Captain with the Whiskers, 1961; signed copy from the author BK to Rev Martin Ryan (later pp Lorrha): ‘ For Fr Martin Ryan who introduced me to Corofin and Lough Inchiquin and a very pleasant corner of Clare. Ben Kiely, Oct 1961.’ With newspaper cuttings on Ben Kiely loosely inserted. George Cunningham, Burren Journey West, Shannonside 1980, 1st ed, wraps, signed copy 2020. (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 413 The Whoseday Book , Hospice Foundation 1999 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 414 Liam 0’Flaherty I Went to Russia, 1931. 1st; and Liam 0’Flaherty The Ecstasy of Aengus. 1978. First illustrated edition. (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 415 Irish Literature, women writers: Bowen, Elizabeth The Little Girls, 1964; Bowen, E. The Hotel, 1981, 2nd. edition; Keane, Molly Good Behaviour ,1981; Keane, Molly Loving & Giving, 1988, 2nd. Impression; , Tracy, Honor The Man from Next Door, 1977; Johnston, Jennifer The Old Jest, 1949. 6 vols, all cloth bound and first editions except as noted, all in nice fresh dust jackets. 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 416 Archdall, Mervyn Monasticon Hibernicum, 1 Volume, 1786, Feather page duplicated Estimate: 70 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 417 Rev. L. M. Raucaz In The Savage Solomons, Dublin. 1928. 1st. Illustrated. Scarce M. H. Gill publication 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 418 Aodh de Blacam, First Book of Irish Literature, Talbot Press, nd with printed wrap over hard cover. James Stephens, Insurrections, D. 1909; copy owned by Killaloe historian Rev J Clancy. Wind from the North, signed copy from the author Joseph O Neill to SH Rev Mother Rita, at first SH Leeson St and then SH Roscrea. (3) Estimate: 40 - 70 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 419 Waterford & Lismore A Compendious History of the Diocese by Patrick Power. Cork University Press. 1937. Nice copy in later 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 420 Joseph Kennedy The Cudahys – An Irish-American Success Story, 1995. 1st. Illustrated 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 421 National University Handbook 1908-1932, Three Candles Press, 1932, 285p, very handsomely illustrated and printed, thick paper covers, edges of covers and bottom of spine slightly torn 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 422 A. E. The Interpreters, 1922. 1st; John Montague A Chosen Life, 1967. 1st. Le Brocquy dust jacket & plate; and John Masefield The Faithfull, 1st Irish book plates (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 423 Sligo and its Surroundings a descriptive and pictorial guide to history, scenery and antiquities by Tadhg Kilgannon, Sligo, 1926 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 G. Target Dear Dirty Dublin, 1974. 1st Illustrated; and Terence de Vere White Leinster, 1968 1st (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
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Lot 425 Fox, R. M. The History of the Irish Citizen, 1 volume, 1943; Barr, Tom Guerrilla Days in Ireland Anvil Books, 1955; and O'Donovan Rossa My Years in English Jails, Anvil Books 1967 (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 426 John McGahern - Amongst Women and Memoir - 2 1st edits (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 427 Flann O’Brien, The Third Policeman (London, 1967, First edition, 2nd impression). Loosely inserted a card-mounted photograph of the author, signed ‘Brian O’Nolan’, the author’s legal name. Embossed address of previous owner to front of card – Galtee Lodge, Howth, Co. Dublin. Estimate: 200 - 240 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 428 P. W. Joyce Old Celtic Romances. C. 1925. Illustrated; Brian 0’Higgins Songs of Glen Na Mona, 1929. 1st; and Joseph Campbell Irishry. 1913. 1st. Dust jacket (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 429 The Ancient and Present State of the County of Kerry. Containing a Natural, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Historical and Topographical Description Thereof. Charles Smith. 1969 reprint in dust wrapper. Lovely copy 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 430 George Moore Modern Painting; and Henry 0’Neil. Lectures on Painting delivered at the Royal Academy, 1866. 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 431 Lord Dunsany The Donnellan Lectures 1943, 1945. 1st fine in printed dust jacket; and Lord Dunsany Fifty Poems, 1929. 1st (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 432 M. McDonnell Bodkin Famous Irish Trials, 1928; and Warre B. Wells Irish Indiscretions. 1922. 1st. Scarce 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 433 Tipperary interest: Retrospections of Dorothea Herbert 1789-1806, 2 vols small 8vo quarter linen, L. 1930, rare edition from Gerard Howe; sig of Henry Stokes. Vg. (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 434 Lady Gregory The Image and Other Plays, 1902. 1st. Pristine in original blue cloth, label on spine. Rare in very fine illustrated 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 435 Bindings – Classics. Sophocles Tragoedia Septem Argentorati [Strasbourg], Treuttel, 1776-1779 4 vols., texts in Greek and Latin, full brown leather decorated in blind and gilt. First edition of this important version edited by the famous classical scholar R. F. P. Brunck of Strasbourg. The 4th volume published a few years after the others appears to be particularly rare. Estimate: 120 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 436 Binding – Vellum gilt. Poetae latini Veteres. Florence, Molini, 1829 2 vols., tall, full vellum, spines very richly decorated and with red and green labels. Very attractive. Bookplate of Pollard Urquhart of Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath 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 437 Seamus Heaney Signed Death of a Naturalist (Faber & Faber, 1969). Signed and dated (23/ii/89) on preliminary blank. This was Heaney's first published collection of poems appearing originally in 1966. First published in this edition in 1969 Estimate: 100 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 438 Irish Literature, literary fiction: Broderick, John London Irish, 1979; Carson, Ciaran The Star Factory, 1997; King-Hall, Magdalen Sturdy Rogue, 1942, 2nd. Impr; Guinness, Bryan The Girl with the Flower, 1966; Harbison, Robert The Far World, 1962; Moore, George Drama in Muslin, 1981 (with new introduction); McKeown, Belinda Solace, 2011, 2nd. Impr. 7 vols, all cloth bound and except as noted first editions and except for Harbison in very nice dust jackets. 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 Irish Language: Dinneen’s Irish-English Dictionary (1965); Irish Names and Surnames (Rev. Patrick Woulfe, 1923) 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 440 Lady Gregory: The Kiltartan History Book, 1909, illustrated in col by Robert Gregory; 52 pps + cat. Proof copy of later expanded edition but without ills 1926; small 8vo in brown wraps. Unusual to find both together. (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 441 Frank 0’Connor Towards an Appreciation of Literature 1945. 1st in dust jacket; and The Stories of Frank 0’Connor. 1970 (2) Estimate: 25 - 45 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 442 Seamus Heaney Signed North (Faber & Faber). Signed on preliminary blank. First published in 1975, this is a reprint from the same year. Apart from light rubbing to cover, this copy is in very good condition. 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 443 Books illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Highways and Byways in Donegal and Antrim by Stephen Gwynn. London. 1899; Famous Cities of Ireland by Gwynn. 1915; and The Fair Hills of Ireland by Stephen Gwynn. 1914. 3 attractive books with colour illustrations 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 W. B. Yeats. Stories From Carleton with an introduction by Yeats, 1889. Original red cloth. Scarce 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
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Lot 445 Rare Trial Report & first book printed in Newtownards: The Strean Will Case. A Full Report of the Celebrated Will Case of Kelly and others v. Armstrong and others ..in Court of Probate, Dublin, December 3rd., 1874. Newtownards, 1875 only edition, 306 pages, portrait of Strean. The will of the wealthy Thomas Strean was disputed resulting in this trial which is interesting as legal and local history and also as the first book printed in Newtownards. 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 446 Fifty Years in Parliament, Memories of The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 2 vols, Asquith was British Prime Minster During the Easter Rising 1916 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 447 Kevin R. O’Sheil The Making of a Republic; and Padraic Pearse Collected Works – Plays, Stories-Poems, 1917. Scarce first edition; and Warre B. Wells John Redmond – A Biography, 1919. 1st. Ex Castle Hacket library & signed by Percy Paley. (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 448 Ireland - French view. Warren, Raoul de. L'Irlande et ses institutions politiques Leur evolution - leur état actuel. Paris, 1928 500+ pages, map, original printed wrappers, A French view of the development of Irish political structures, and of the constitutional natures of both Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. Scarce. Interesting precursor of attitudes made more relevant by Brexit 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 The Place-Names of Decies. Log-Ainmneacha na nDeise by Rev. P. Canon Power. Cork University Press. 1952 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 Bundle of Irish Interest (7): Erasmus Smith Endowment; The Old Munster Circuit (1948); Byrne’s Dictionary of Irish Local History (2004); At Arms Length – Aristocrats in the Republic of Ireland (2004) and three others 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 451 Guide to St Patrick’s Cathedral Armagh, 1905. Special presentation copy quarter leather with gilt coat arms and signed ‘+Michael Cardinal Logue, Dec22nd, 1916. Very desirable copy vg. Ex libris George Cunningham and SH Convent Roscrea - to whom the presentation copy was given (1) 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 452 James Joyce Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man, 1924; and J. Joyce Exiles 1972 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 453 Nicholl, A History of the Irish Poor Law, 1856. 1967 reprint, 424p, h/b, green cloth, good condition. 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 454 Doctor Steevens Hospital, Dublin. Kirkpatrick, T. Percy. The History of Doctor Stevens' Hospital, Dublin, 1720-1920. Dublin, 1924 first edition, quarto, over 400 pages, photo plates, original buff wrappers, very good. Dublin's first public hospital for the sick and poor and the city's leading hospital during the 18th century and an important historic building. Author an important medical historian. 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 455 Ballads and Songs of the Irish Nation, 1858 - rebound 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 456 Timothy Wharton, The Coloured Kingdom, 1940, dj..poems mainly about the Wicklow countryside; review slip with note from Fr Mulcahy editor of the Irish Monthly to Robert Farren of Radio Eireann. Mary Davenport O Neill, (Irish poet d1967) Prometheus and Other Poems. L. 1929. W.R. Rodgers, Awake and Other Poems, 1941; first collection; dj ; vg. Thomas Boyd, Poems, 1906; scarce vols. (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 457 The Knights of Glin A Geraldine Family, by J. Anthony Gaughan. Kingdom Books. 1978. Dust wrapper. Lovely copy 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 458 Bundle of Irish interest (7): The Hidden Ireland (1941); A History of Lough Rynn (2006); The Earliest Irish Coinage (1950 – inscribed by author) and four others 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 459 Wexford interest: Kirk, Some Notable Conversions in the Co Wexford, 1901; small 8vo with gilt embellisments on cover; 114 pps with 16 page cat. Vow to Vigil Keep, Clericus Amicus….catholics in Wexford. D.1950. (2) Estimate: 70 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 460 Lady Gregory Seven Short Plays, 1909. Fine 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 461 Lady Gregory The Image A Play in Three Acts, 1910. 1st Original pictorial cloth. 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 462 Seamus Heaney Signed, District and Circle (Faber & Faber. First Edition, 2006 – also published in a limited edition). Signed on title page. In excellent condition throughout – in glassine cover. Loosely inserted is a ticket for a Seamus Heaney and Rutger Kopland poetry reading, 15 June 2006 at the Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar Estimate: 140 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 463 Pyrenees. Jackson, F. H. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent Districts. London, 1912 numerous illustrations, folding map, red cloth very attractively gilt blocked, a lovely book; Belloc, H. The Pyrenees. London, 1909, illustrations, maps, cloth, very good; Newman, Bernard Both Sides of the Pyrenees, London, 1952 photo plates, nice in dust jacket. 3 vols 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 464 Francis MacManus, Men Withering, 1st 1939, dj with shop ticket of Grafton Bookshop, Harry Street, Dublin. Sean Jennet, Always Adam, 1st 1943; with review request slip from Faber and Faber; author’s first book; dj royal 8vo. C. Day Lewis The Poetic Image, 1947 dj. A.M. Sullivan, The Three Dimensional Man, signed copy ‘to Robert Farren, cordially A.M. Sullivan, May 31st 1956.’ (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
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Lot 465 Micil Moir McNamara Place-names in County Dublin. 122. 1st. Buckram, gilt title on spine. Scarce 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 466 Sixty Year Experience as an Irish Landlord. Memoirs of John Hamilton of St. Ernan’s, Donegal, introduction by H. C. White. London, 1894, nice copy in original 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 467 Mary Magdalen Funerall Teares, London 1823; small 4to half leather worn; text vg. Presentation copy signed on front page: ‘from her affectionate brother Aubrey deVere to Eileen O’ Brien’ (a friend of the poet Wordsworth). A little piece of Thomond history concerning two of its leading families 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 468 Two unusual works centred on the Shannon Region: W.MacLysaght, Death Sails the Shannon, the authentic story of the Colleen Bawn, The Kerryman 1953; 158 pps, small 8vo. Tony Molloy, Caught in the Callows, a story for boys 1944. (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 469 History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries by William J. Fitzpatrick, continued and edited by his Son. 1900. Some wear to covers, internally excellent. Superb illustrations 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 470 Seamus Heaney Inscribed, Sweeney Astray (Field Day Publications, 1983). Inscribed on title page 'To Joan with good wishes Seamus Heaney'. Creasing to top right corner of cover, with some spotting to prelims and edges - otherwise very good. Also published in hardcover. 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 471 Garry Hogg Turf Beneath My Feet, 1950. 1st Illustrated walking tour from West Cork to Donegal; and W. J. Lockington The Soul of Ireland. 1920. (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 472 TCD notebook early 1830 of Logic notes; William Pigott T.C.D. Sandymount (later baronet) notebook supplied by Jordon, Whelan and Co Capel Street with their ticket. Small 8vo quarter leather. 12 chapters of 126 mss pages. Unique item. (1) 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 473 Limerick Clothing Factory: The Story of LCF 1850-1950. Designed by Kennedy Brindley Limited and Printed at Dollard Printinghouse. 1950. Large format, profusely illustrated. Illustrated. Wonderful record of a most important business. 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 474 Irish Texts Society – The Book of the Taking of Ireland 5 vols, R.A.S. Macalister editor. 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 475 Irish Texts Society – Bardic Poems of Tadhg Dall Ó Huiginn (1550-1591). Vol I only. Edited by Eleanor Knott 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 476 Irish Texts Society The Irish Aeneid an early translation of Virgil’s Aeneid into Irish. Intro and trans by Rev. George Calder. Complete in one volume. 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 477 Irish Texts Society – The Second Battle of Mag Tuired, edited by Elizabeth Gray. Complete in one volume 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 478 Irish Texts Society – Keating’s History of Ireland, Vol II only. Edited by P.S. Dinneen 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 479 Irish Texts Society – Keating’s History of Ireland. 3 vols of 4. Edited and translated by David Comyn and P.S. Dinneen 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 480 Irish Texts Society – Humphrey Sullivan’s Diary. 3 vols of 4. Edited and translated by Rev. Michael McGrath. An account of life in Kilkenny in the 1820s and 30s by Callan Schoolmaster and businessman 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 481 Wackerow, Charles. Tables of Pedigrees of Thorough-Bred Horses from the earliest accounts to the year 1897 inclusive, Vol II to the year 1902 inclusive and Vol III to the year 1909/10 inclusive. 1st vol Hungary 1900, 2nd & 3rd Vols Vienna 194 and 1911). All in half leather and green cloth with gilt decorative spines. Vol II with dedication from Conyngham Lodge 1908 and Vol III with bookplate of Eustace Loder (3) 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 481A Surtees, Robert Smith - The Sporting Novels comprising Plain Or Ringlets, Handley Cross, Sponge's Sporting Tour, Ask Mamma, Hawbuck Grange and Facey Romford's Hounds - 6 half leather and marble board vols., all with Illustrations by John Leech and H.K. Browne. London, late 19th Century 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 482 The Ornithology of Francis Willughby of Middleton in the county of Warwick Esq; fellow of the Royal Society. In three books. Wherein all the birds hitherto known, being reduced into a method sutable to their natures, are accurately described. The descriptions illustrated by most elegant figures, nearly resembling the live birds, engraven in LXXVII copper plates. Translated into English, and enlarged with many additions throughout the whole work. To which are added, three considerable discourses, I. Of the art of fowling: with a description of several nets in two large copper plates. II. Of the ordering of singing birds. III. Of falconry. By John Ray, fellow of the Royal Society. With the bookplate of J F Symons-Jeune. Leather bound, complete with 2 copper plates of netting birds and the 78copper plates of birds Estimate: 2000 - 3000 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 483 Siltzer, Captain Frank. The Story of British Sporting Prints. 1929 with numerous colour plates and Nimrod's Hunting Reminiscences by Alfred A Knopf, New York 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
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Lot 484 Portfolio of Irish Maps mostly Half inch O.S. some on washable paper. Irish Tourist Poster. Modern Sea Chart of the East Coast. 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 485 Map Ireland. by Heinrich Hubbe 35cm by 29cms 1824 from Stieler's Hand Atlas Justus Perthes, Gotha 1827 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 2 large coloured folding maps of Ireland divided into two folding sections, each 36 X 54 cms. Drawn by Edward Weller, London. C. 1865. 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 487 Maestro - The Final Classic from a painting by Jacui Jones, No. 153 of 850, signed by artist - A Tribute to Lester Piggott 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 488 A Framed Collection of Cigarette Cards of Derby and Grand National Winners 1907-1932 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 489 Early Print from The Graphic 1874 - Camp Life at the Curragh, The Irish Derby - The Preparatory Gallop 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 490 Cork Park Races: The Grand National Steeplechase, later the site for Ford Factory 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 491 Pair of Lady's Riding Boots with Spurs 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 492 Two Boxes of Modern Fiction, best sellers, mostly mint; h/b and card. (c20) 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 493 Irish History and Literature. Convicts and Colonies by Shaw; Recollections of Troubled Times by Sullivan; attractive Gerald Griffin titles and others similar. 33 hardback 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 494 Irish Biography. The O’Gorman Mahon; John Mitchell; Dean Hole; Maria Edgeworth; Thomas Davis; Archbishop Barnard; Great O’Neill; Seamus Fenton; A. E. Russell; Eamon de Valera; Wolfe Tone; Synge etc. etc. 26 hardback biographies. 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 495 Irish Biography. Mostly Victorian era. Irish Memories by Somerville and Ross, Memories by Rathcreedan etc. 27 biographies including scarce items 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 496 North Munster Antiquarian Journal, 1967—2007. 38 issues covering a 40 year run. Archaeology, history, genealogy, topography, placenames, folklore etc. etc Estimate: 120 - 240 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 497 Two boxes misc., Irish and others, diverse lot. (c30) 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 498 Irish Landscape and History. River Shannon by Hayward and many others similar. Archaeology, St. Patrick etc. Many with colour illustrations. 26 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 499 Music. 31 books on musical techniques, composition, counterpoint, harmony, orchestration, analysis, interpretation, etc. 1940s to 1950s, many by distinguished scholars. Cloth bound, most in nice dust jackets. An excellent collection 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 500 2 boxes of Irish Interest books on various topics. Some interesting titles 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 501 Two boxes: Antiquarian including Standard novels 1830s; Carlyle, Cooper. Irish including Alice Stopford Greene, Aubrey de Vere; corkerey; Gwynn; Eliz Bowen and others. (c35) 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 502 Legends of Connaught, Irish Stories Matthew Archdeacon, Dublin. 1839. Later cloth and traits and Stories of Irish Peasantry by William Carleton. Dublin. 1867 in 2 volume set in 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 503 Dermot O Byrne, Wrack and Other Stories, D and L. 1918. Others to Adorn, Oliver St Gogarty, 1st 1938, preface by WBY; dj; Kiely, Poor Scholar, Carolan; D.J. O Donoghue, Poems of James Clarence Mangan, D. 1922; the Yeats we knew, Thomas Davis lecture. (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 504 R. Dalton and S. Hamer The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century – Ireland. 1917. Numerous tinted lithograph illustrations of Irish Tokens from all major Irish towns & cities. Quarto. Scarce 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 505 Crokers Correspondence and Diaries, 2 Vols. Irish Stateman and Author ( 1780 - 1857) 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 506 The Land War in Ireland. A Personal Narrative by Scawen Blunt. 1912; Essays relating to Ireland, Biographical, Historical and Topographical by Litton Falkiner. 1909; Essays by Sarah Atkinson. 1895 Eugene O’Curry, etc. and Historical Geology of Ireland with maps (lacks title page) by Charlesworth. 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 507 Farmleigh 2001. Quarto. Colour illustrations. Farmleigh, a magnificent mansion on 78 acres was purchased by the State in 199 for £23m. and following refurbishment by the O.P.W. it is now a state residence for visiting dignitaries and a high for top level meetings. 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 508 The Cecil Aldin Book; and Lost, Stolen or Strayed, by Cecil Aldin, illustrated 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 Edith Sitwell, Green Song, 1944. George Barker, The View from a Blind 1 and News of the World. A.L Rowse, Poems Partly American. Currey, Tiresias. Edwin Muir, The Narrow Place. Fry Venus Observed. Sea Poems with original lithographs. All vg. (8) Estimate: 25 - 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 W.B. Yeats Poems 1927. Fine original blue cloth with gilt spine after design by Althea Gyles; and Prospectus for Cuala Press Publications and their prices dated August 1972. (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 511 Factory Acts in Ireland, Greer & Nicholson, Four Courts Press, 2003, 438p, h/b, green cloth with d/w. Large social history content 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 Irish Literature, 19th Century: Morgan, Lady Italy. London, 1821 2 vols, attractive richly gilt polished calf; Ferguson, Samuel Hibernian Nights Entertainments Dublin, 1887-04, 3 vols., first & second editions, blue cloth; Carleton, William Barney Brady’s Goose & other Irish Tales, Dublin, approximately 1880s, green cloth; Banim Peter of the Castle and The Fetches, New York, 1869, half leather; Banim John Doe and Peter the Castle, Belfast, Parlour Library, 1846, half plum leather. In all 8 vols. 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 513 1916 Interest (5); three volumes of the works of Padraic Pearse; The Victory of Sinn Féin; The Evolution of Sinn Féin 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 514 F.M. Pilkington Shamrock & Spear – Tales & Legends from Ireland, 1966. 1st. Illustrated; and Charles Graves Ireland Revisited, c. 1950. 33 illustrations; and T. McDonald Achill, 1992 (3) 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
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Lot 515 The History, Topography and Antiquities of the County and City of Waterford with an account of the peasantry of that part of the south of Ireland by Rev. R. H. Ryland. London. 1824. No page prior to title page. later cloth. 6 maps-plates, some folding 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 516 Equine Interest. A Compleat Treatise upon the Art of Farriery Henry Bracken, Dublin Printing. Two volumes bound in one. Vol I 1749, Vol II 1751. Disbound, lacks prelims to Vol I. Loosely inserted some handwritten notes on various treatments for horses 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 517 Nicholls, George Poor Laws Ireland, London 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 518 Jonathan Swift A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnnms by Lemeul Gulliver. 1970; and S. Grimes Ireland in 1804, 1980. Folding map. Ex Castle Hacket library & signed by Paley. (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 519 V. Holland, Son of Oscar Wilde 1954; and H. M. Hyde Carson, 1953. 1st. Despite being a contemporary of Wilde at Trinity College, Dublin. Carson savaged Wilde at his libel trial at the Old Bailey in April 1895. (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 520 Dickens, Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock. Illustrations by George Cattermole & Talbot Browne. London: 1840 first edition 2 tall vols. contemporary half brown calf, spine vol.2 chipped at foot, Dublin bookseller’s ticket on endpaper Estimate: 80 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 521 Archaeology. Powell, T. G. E . The Celts London, 1959 numerous photo plates & other illustrations in text, nice in dust jacket; MacCana, Proinsias Celtic Mythology London, 1970 quarto, numerous fine photos, black cloth, nice in dust jacket, by a leading scholar; Lawlor, H. C. Ulster: its Archaeology and Antiquities Belfast, 1928 quarto, illustrations, maroon cloth, very good; O Riordan, Sean Antiquities of the Irish Countryside London, 1953 revised, illustrations, black cloth, nice in dust jacket; De Caumont Abecedaire ou rudiments d’Archeologie, 1858. 5 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 522 The General History of Ireland Collected by the Learned Jeoffrey Keating, D. D. Faithfully Translated from the Original Irish Language by Dermod O’Connor, Antiquary of the Kingdom of Ireland. Two volumes in one. Dublin. 1841. Later 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 523 W. B. Yeats Sophocles’ King Oedipus A Version for the Modern Stage. 1928. 1st. 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 524 Seamus Heaney Inscribed Wintering Out, (Faber Paperback, 1978). Light wear/rubbing to covers - otherwise good. Extensive inscription on half-title: 'For Tricia Nelis - "We men of the north had a word to say / And we said it then in our own dour way / And we spoke as we thought best ..." Seamus Heaney, with good wishes, January 1979.' Originally published in 1972, this is the third reprint Estimate: 120 - 160 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person
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Lot 525 Two Worlds, June 1926. Scarce issue containing unpublished portion of Oscar Wilde’s “De Profundis”; and P. Van Caspel Bloomers on the Liffey, 1986. 1st; and Bernard Share Irish, 1966. 1st (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 526 S. Deane A Short History of Irish Literature 1986. 1st; D. Dunn Two Decades of Irish Writings, 1975. 1st; and Anglo-Irish Studies, 1976. 1st (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 527 Bundle of Irish History (4): 1966 Capuchin Annual; The IRA in the Fight for Freedom; For Ireland and Freedom (Roscommon); Saorstat Eireann Official Handbook (lacks map) 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 528 Early Modern Irish History (4): The Geraldines (1951); O’Hart’s Irish Pedigrees (2nd ed, 1880); Prendergast – Cromwellian Settlement (1870 with maps); Civil Survey – Donegal, Derry, Tyrone 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 529 Seamus Burke (S de Burca), signed copy to Micheál O hAodha, Jn of Ir Lit, 1984 with note saying it is the first copy. Nostalgia a Play without Scenery, 1985, again signed copy to MOhA; a comedy by SdeB, Murphy’s International Hotel. Down to the Sea in a Tanker, D. 1972; ltd ed of 250 copies; intro by Brendan Behan; with letter to MOhA. (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 530 James Joyce Chamber Music, 1949; and J. Joyce Stephen Hero, 1944. 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 531 Iris Murdoch An Unofficial Rose, 1962. 1st; and Desmond Hickey and G. Smith A Paler Shade of Green, 1st (2) 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 532 Lewis, Samuel A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. London, 1837 2 vols. large quarto, first edition, Large Paper Copy, original cloth, spine of vol. 1 loose (inset inside the book & easily repaired by book binder). Title page signed by Robert Maunsel of Merrion Square, Dublin, a member of the leading Co. Limerick family listed among the subscribers 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 533 Collections relating to Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin by Comerford. Dublin, 1883. 3 volume set in original 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 534 John Francis Maguire Removal of Irish Poor from England and Scotland. 1854. 1st edit. Fine original calf. Maguire, founder of the Cork Examiner and M.P. for Dungarvan describes how the old and infirm Irish were hounded out of the U.K. in the wake of the famine. Rare work reflecting contemporary indifference to the plight of “unsuitable” emigrant Irish in England & Scotland 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 535 Lady Gregory Poems and Dreamers : Studies and Translations from the Irish by Lady Gregory. Dublin. 1903. First edit. Provenance Castle Hacket & signed by Percy Paley. Original quarter linen, blue boards. Estimate: 150 - 180 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 536 A collection of Dolmen Press books including Chearbhall O Dalaigh, The Intermediate Man (13) 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 537 The Image and Other Plays, 1922, Lady Gregory, 8vo, Putnam plays, rare dj; 253 pps. Pamphlet Elixabeth Coxhead, J.M. Synge and Lady Gregory, 33 pps, (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 538 Pre-Famine Ireland by Freeman; Stolen Waters by T. M. Healy; Ireland in European System by Hogan and 2 others similar. 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 539 The Burren of Co Clare: a George Cunningham misc: Burren Journey (1978); Burren Journey West (1980); Burren Journey North, (1992); Exploring the Burren, (2000). All signed (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 540 Lady Gregory The Kiltartan Poetry Book – Translations from the Irish. 1919. First edit. Fine copy. 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 541 The Irish University Question by Archbishops of Dublin, 1897; and The Language of Irish Literature 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 Temple, Sir John The Irish Rebellion of 1641, Published 1646, 1st 3 pages in manuscript form 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 543 Seamus Heaney Limited Edition, Spelling It Out (Gallery Books, 2009). A publication 'in honour of Brian Friel on his 80th birthday'. 'A limited edition of four hundred copies signed by the author of which three hundred copies [were] for sale.' Signed on copyright page at rear. Drawing of Brien Friel by Basil Blackshaw. Estimate: 160 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 544 Munster. Re: The Print Trade in Ireland and 2 other bibliographical (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 545 Sligo by Jack B. Yeats. London. 1930 nice copy in later 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
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Lot 546 Maynooth Studies in Local History – Bundle of eleven issues 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 547 T.W. Freeman Ireland, 1950. 1st. Maps and plates; and Barry 0’Brien Two Centuries of Irish History. 1907. Castle Hacket book plate & signed by Paley. (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 548 A Collection of Gallery Press Poetry Books including Richard Murphy and Ciaran Carson 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 Lynn Doyle Ballygullion 1920. Illustrated by William Conor; and John Irvine By Winding Roads 1950. 1st. Illus by William Conor. (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 550 James Simon Irish Coins, 1975. Limited edition. Illustrated; and William O’Sullivan (National Museum of Ireland) The Earliest Anglo-Irish Coinage c. 1969. (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 551 Maurice Craig, Landor, Lilliput and Merrion, 1999, small 8vo, dj., signed copy. F.R. Higgins, The 39 Poems, The Bridge Press, 1992. Midland Moments, 1976, signed copy by G.O Brien and Leo Daly, ltd ed of 500 copies of which this is no 151. Carmel Cunningham, Unfolding Images, 2011. All mint very desirable 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 552 NI related: Heraldry; Historic Buildings and Mons; Banbridge jn vol 4; Index The London-Derry Jn, 1983; Des Wilson, The Demonstration and An End to Silence; Edward Dalty memoir; In search of a State. Catholics in NI and 5 more. (13) Estimate: 25 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 553 Lucania. Topographical, Biographical, Historical by Rev. Donegan 1902; St. Mary’s Church, Blessington 1683-1970; Ratoath by Rev. John Cogan and The Story of Our Parish (St. Peter’s Church Dublin) by Catherine Mary MacSorley 1917. 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 554 The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places by P. W. Joyce. Dublin. 1898-1922. 3 volumes. Nice set 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 555 Rugby: Hon Doc for Keith Woods at UL, 2004, citation. Progs: South Africa v Ireland, 1931; England v Wales, Twickenham, 1978; Ulster v Connacht, 1986; Scotland v Ireland, Murrayfield, 1988 (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
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Lot 556 Clonmel Printing: The Clonmel Chronicle, receipt 1863; National Coursing Meeting at Clonmel, 1948. Third Day, official card 2/-. Large 8vo on card. (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 557 Clonliffe Harriers, August International Sports, IRFU grounds 1948. 40 page programme with ads. Vg. (1) 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 558 Ireland's Case Against Conscription, Eamonn De Valera. Maunsel. 1918; Sinn Fein and its Enemies, William O'Brien, M. P. DUBLIN, Maunsel. circa 1917; Constitution of the Free State of Ireland [English Translation]. Dublin. 1922. decorative wrappers with colour drawing of the tricolour on the front cover 3 books, 2 in modern marble boards 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 559 Robert Hogan and Micheál Ó hAodha related: Moving out and a Garden Party, two plays by Brendan Behan, 1967, dir by MOhA); The Jn of Irish Literature 1985; 3 mss letters from RH to MOhA, 1966, 1967 and 1985; postcard from same; post card of PK, BB and FOB….three Irish writers. Interesting small archive. (7) 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 560 Waugh, Edwin, Irish Sketches, Manchester, 1869, 130p, first edition, green decorated cloth, skillfully relaid, very interesting, much on Rathlin Island, Portrush, the Coast Road etc. Extremely scarce and in very nice condition 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 561 Plunkett, William Studdert Lancelot, LLD, Report on the Solid and Gaseous Constituents of the Mallow Spa in the County of Cork, Dublin 1877 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 562 Austin Clarke, Ancient Lights, The Bridge Press, D. ed ltd to 200 copies, 1955 with interesting 2 page contemporary letter. Orphide and Other poems, The Bridge Press, 1970; ltd ed of 250 copies. All vg. (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 563 Ratti, (Pope Pius X1), Climbs on Alpine Peaks, L. 1929. Small 8vo. 128 pages with brown cloth cover. Interesting and unique memoir from a Pope. (1) 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 Pamphlets: O Donnell Lecture: Charles Gavan Duffy; the formation of the Old English Elite in Ireland; the Rise of the O Neill, presentation copy from author Francis J Byrne to colleague TDW. McCracken, Irish Parl in the Eighteenth century. Lyons, The Burden of our History QUB, 1978. (5) Estimate: 25 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 565 Rare Kerry Pamphlet: Leabhráin Locha Léin no 1, Mac an Ríogh, edited by sold by Miss E O’Connor, Lower New Street Killarney, price one penny; nd but probably early 2oth century. (1) 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 Alexander Pope and A. Beardsley, The Rape of the Lock, 1902; small 4to with Maurice Craig’s distinctive arch bookplate. Scarce. (1) 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 Clifford Bax, Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw, and W. B.Yeats, The Cuala Press, 1941, quarter linen, no 356 of 500 copies. Ex libris. (1) 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 568 A Copy of His Majesty’s Royal Charter for Incorporating the Dublin-Society, Dated the Second Day of April, 1750. Dublin, S. Powell. 1751. Modern leather 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 569 Folder of postcards and small photos of c1940s and 50s: Pc of Black Aces showband, Kilkenny; Greetings from Gweedore x3; greetings from St Mary’s Derrybeg, Gweedore x 3; 3 pcs; c13 small photos of houses; Achill Shark industry, 1951. (c25) 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 570 Laws of Croquet, official ed 1899. 12mo with some notes on play; 21 pps with ads. Laws of croquet, 1929; paper cover torn. (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 571 GAA: Treoraí Oifigiúil 188 pps, extended card covers, 12mo. Vg. Blath, official opening of the Hogan Stand, 1959. Both rare and vg. (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 572 Seasonable Thoughts Relating to our Civil and Ecclesiastical Constitution, Dublin, Printed in the year 1754. Modern half 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 573 The Savoy Cocktail Book by Harry Craddock, 1931 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 574 Gemma Cigarette Card Album 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 575 The Entertaining Medley; Being a Collection of True Histories and Anecdotes Calculated for Cottager’s Fire-side, Dublin by J Jones. 1821. Modern quarter leather 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 576 Padraig Pearse Bodach an Chota Lachtna. Padraic Mac Piarais do chuir i n-eagar. Connradh na Gaedhilge, 1906. Modern marble boards preserving original wrappers. Illustrated by Seaghan MacCathmaoil. John Patrick Campbell was a talented illustrator 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 577 Longford parchment Warrant, dated 17 June 1869, for production in court of James Kiernan from Longford Jail. In good condition, revenue stamps very clear, and also stamp of Court of Queens Bench 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 578 Jack B. Yeats A Little Book of Drawings, Cuala Press. 1971. Limited edition of only 200. Hand coloured plates. Rare unopened copy. Original gilt pictorial cloth of Pirate playing a mandolin. 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 579 Original Bing Crosby Autograph - a portion of a typed letter to Mrs. Ian Bailey, 3 Aubrey Road, London writing about the health of "Ian" 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 580 A Quaker’s Letter to that Quondam Favourite, The Irish Earl of Bath, Dublin, Printed in the Year 1755. modern quarter leather 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 581 Donegal: Portsalon [On the Lake of Shadows] Donegal Highlands with the Proprietor’s Compliments. 32 pages, with photographs of golf, hotel, views etc. Printed by Graham and Heslip, Belfast circa 1900. Original wrappers. Rare survivor 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 582 Monk Gibbon, Seventeen Sonnets, L. 1932. With Ms 2 page letter from Monk Gibbon in Swanage 1937 to the editor of the Irish Monthly Fr Mulcahy OP who passed it on with note to Robert Farren. Very interesting remarks on Hopkins, AE, Farren and Aodh de Blacam. (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 583 Medical Missions in Ireland: The Story of Limerick. Joseph John Long. Society for Irish Church Missions. 1925. Wrappers. Accused of proselytizing, the medical missioner was a victim of serious intimidation. Remarkable story 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 584 Mr and Mrs S.C. Hall, The West and Connemara, small 4to with embossed cover. Sig…/C. Hall his book on front page and photograph of ? Mrs Hall (c1850 photo) pasted on front endpaper. Unique. (1) 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 585 Pamphlet: Parish of Mallow, Diocese of Cloyne, Parochial Report for 1877-1878 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 Art Treasures in Thomond, the Limerick Art Gallery 1953: ill cat of 386 artistic items on display. Patrons, committee and exhibitors included all the worthies of Thomond; loosely inserted is a ms foolscap page (most likely in the hand of Justice Dermot Gleeson with practical suggestions and suggested exhibits. (1 plus mss), Rare association cat. 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 587 Padraig Pearse Iosagán agus Scéalta Eile, Padraic Mac Piarais do scríobh, Beatrice Elvery do Mhaisigh. Circa 1918; Story of a Success, St. Enda’s College edited by Desmond Ryan. 1918. modern marble boards preserving original wrappers. 2 books 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 588 ‘A Garden and a Grave’ Kilquade, John Masterson. Wicklow Press. 1952. Scarce history of Church of St. Patrick in Co. Wicklow; Old Times in the Barony [Luainford, Athlone], Rev. J. S. Conmee. Circa 1915. 2 books in 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 589 Cluna Studio and Dun Emer Guild Cards. Two 1916 Cuimhneachan cards printed in 1939 for the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Christmas Day and New Year’s Day and small Christmas card issued by Dun Emer. 3 attractive unused cards 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 590 Donegal: Mount Silver Looks Down, Being Supplement to a History of the Diocese of Raphoe by Canon Maguire by E. J. Mullen. Photos by Denis Tynan. ‘Hand-set, Mde and printed in 1952 in Teangavean, the Author, Mechanic, Electrician, compositor, Printer, Proof Reader, Stitcher and Designer being one and the same Person’. Addenda pages, loosely inserted. Virtually unrecorded 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 591 Desmond Ryan, St Eustace and the Albatross, 1st L. 1935; proof copy from the Edinburgh Press with mss corrections. Wraps 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 592 Some Account of St. Brigid by Sherlock, 1896 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 593 O'Neill, Eugene The Last Will And Testament Of Silverdene Emblem O'Neill. Printed for Carlooa Monteray O'Neill by her friends at the Yale University Press. 1956 1st edition. Inscribed for Campbell Williams, with my thanks for what he did for "The Iceman Cometh"", All good wishes - Carlotta Monteray O'Neill (wife of the author) March 17-1958. Also with a picture of Eugene O'Neill and Blemie (Silverdene), Long Island - summer 1931 written in the hand of Carlotta Monteray O'Neill. 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 594 Lady Gregory, My First Play, L. 1930; signed copy, no 164 of 530 copies. Small 8vo of 28 pages; pink dedc boards backed with lavender clothe; small printed label on front cover; with matching dj with same label on front, small gaps on spine of dj; ; in glassine protection cover. Lovely copy of rare LG vol becoming increasingly as copies disappear into institutions. (1) Estimate: 160 - 220 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 595 Lady Gregory Irish Plays: Hyacinth Harvey; The Dragon; The Full Moon; Spreading the News. All with original printed wraps. Lovely set. (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
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Lot 596 Seamus Heaney, Stations. Ulsterman Publications 1975. pp 24. A collection of twenty-one poems, a number of which had originally appeared in the 'Irish Times'. This was Heaney's fourth collection. Some fading/soiling to cover - strip from top of title-page removed - otherwise good. 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 597 O’Malley, Thadeus. Home Rule on the Basis of Federalism. London, 1873 light boards overlaid with green wrappers, boards and terminal leaves damp damaged. Scarce. This Co. Limerick priest had a controversial career and was several times suspended. He was outspoken on social questions and his paper The Social Economist fell under an ecclesiastical ban 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 598 Seamus Heaney, Kenneth Allcott lectures, The Making of a Music; Shelley In Dublin , Brendan Kennelly 1977; John Montague O Riada’s Farewell, one of 50 signed copies, The Golden Stone, Winter 1974. Three special vols. (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 599 Cork interest: O Donnell lecture, The Catholic middle classes in prefamine Cork; Professor O Rahilly’s Pig; Moral Principles, CUP 1948; Bantry-White Poems and Rhymes. (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 600 James Joyce. Time of Apprenticeship, Fiction of Young James Joyce; James Joyce’s Dubliners. Critical Essays by Clive Hart and others similar. 10 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 601 France, Travel & Topography. Treves, Frederick The Riviera of the Corniche Road, London, 1921 tall, photo plates, lovely book; Dearmer, P. Highways & Byways in Normandy. 1904 Illustrated by Joseph Pennell, very good; Freeman, E. A. Sketches of Travel in Normandy & Maine, London, 1897, very good; Lynch, Hannah French Life in Town & Country. London, 1901, very good; Topffer, R. Voyage Autour Mont-Blanc, Lausanne, 1969, dust jacket; Pugin, A. & Heath, C. Paris and its Environs … with Topographical and Historical Descriptions. London, 1831 2 vols. quarto, very numerous engraved plates (2 views per plate), diced calf, no title page in vol.2, boards detached; A New Handbook to the Riviera London, Ward Lock, about 1930, numerous maps, etc; Muirhead & Monmarche Southern France. Blue Guide, London, 1926, numerous maps etc, nice copy in dust jacket. 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 602 Irish Ecclesiastical Histories (5): Memoirs of the City of Armagh (Stuart, 1900); The Boulter Letters (2016); Dissertations Chiefly on Irish Church History (Kelly, 1864) and two others 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 603 Bundle on Famine and Emigration (5): Oceans of Consolation; The Workhouses of Ireland; Transactions of the Society of Friends during the Famine (repr) and two others 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 604 Kiely, Francis Stuart, 2007. Meyers, Watching the Door, a memoir, 1971-1978, 2006. Citizen Lord. Garrett Fitzgerald, an autobiography, 1992. (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 605 The Rebel Diamond Jubilee County Cork Men's Association of New York 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 606 American Interest: The Ends of Power; A New History of the United States by Miller; An American Wife by Jeb Hogarder; The Day America told the Truth; The Kennedy Imprisonment by Gay Wilis; The American Story; and Edmond Kennedy A Memoir 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 607 Irish Railways - 5 books and 1 pamphlet (6) 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 608 Bundle of books of Irish interest (7): Bibliography of Irish Philology (1913); The Fair Hills of Ireland (1914); The Soul of Ireland (1920); Early Irish Laws and Institutions (MacNeill) and three others 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 609 Histories of Cork. History of Cork by Windele; West Cork a History by Brehony; Franciscan Cork souvenir of St. Francis Church and Cork Lyrics or Scraps from the Beautiful City by Daniel Casey. Cork. 1857 in marble boards. 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 610 Sr Mary de Lourdes Fahy Education in the Diocese of Kilmacduagh in the 19th Century 1972. 1st; and A World of Stone- Life Folklore and Legends of The Aran Islands. 1978. 1st. Illustrated. Ex Castle Hacket Library. Signed by Percy Paley; and 2 booklets on the Aran Islands (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 611 History of Ireland by Pokorny. 1933; Jail Journal by Mitchell in attractive format; Lives of Irish Saints and Martyrs by Conyngham; Great Britain and Ireland Study in Political administration. 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 612 Beckett at Eighty – A Celebration, 1986. Limited edition. Illustration; and The Beckett Country. Dublin 1986. Illustrated (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 613 Bernard Shaw, An Intelligent Woman's Guide to Capitalism 1st ed and 6 others by or about Shaw 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 614 Callanan, The Parnell Split, CUP, 1992, mint. O’Shea, The Uncrowned King of Ireland, 2005 ed. Fenian Fire. Conor Cruise O Brien, Edmund Burke, 1997. Lyons, Wm Henry Drummond, 1994. (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 615 Jack Butler Yeats Biennale Art Exhibition. Venice 1962. Exhibition of 22 Oils by Yeats . Rare; and Jack B. Yeats Exhibition at Dawson Gallery, Dublin June/July 1966. 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 616 Jack B. Yeats Exhibition Catalogue – Victor Waddington, London Sept/Nov. 1967. Illustrated; and R. McHugh. Jack B. Yeats – A Centenary Gathering, 1971. (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 617 Archbishop William King Letter Book - 4 vols 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 618 Pamphlets: The Stalin Famine, Ukraine in the year 1933; The Struggle of Ukraine for Freedom; Carniola, Carinthia and Styria, 1920; Sudeten Deutsche Wohin, Problems des Sudetendeutschen Anti-Hitler Kampfes. (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 619 Peter Amo's Sizzling Platter and Cartoon Revue, Fattypuffs & Thinifers by Andre Maurois and a collection of Children Stories incl. Beatrix Potter etc. 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 620 Wexford: Wexford Friary; Hook Head, Billy Colfer 1992; Nicholas Furlong, Loc Garman; Fern Cathedral; Tacumshin Windmill; Talbot Hotel Wexford, Dinner Theatre, 1974; Castle Museum Enniscorthy; Wexford Wildfowl reserve; Michael Ryan, Urn Burial at Ballintubbrid, signed offprint; Co Wexford Guide 1971 and other co guides; No 19 and 23 OS 1;126,720; Bartholomews ¼ inch Wexford and Waterford; and five others. (c20) 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 621 Cork City: Bless them all; Cork’s Best; In Search of Thomas Sheahan; The Medical Profession in early 19th c. Cork; This is Cork; Cork City; Bishopstown House; Maritime Exhibition; George Boole; The History of Cork, McCarthy; Cork our city; The Story of Roches Stores; My City by the Lee; Cork’s Own Town. (14) 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 622 Co. Cork: Timoleague and Barryroe; History of Bandon; History of Crosshaven; Haulboline, Spike and Rocky islands; Glandore; Bandon Historical Jn 1989; Bandon Opinion 1979. (7) 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 623 West Cork: Sheep’s Head Way; Mizen Journal 1996; Seine Boat and Fishing on Beara; Geology of Allihies Mines; Where to go SW; An Cailleach Beara; Tubar Beannaithe, Allihies folklore; West Cork a place apart; Antiquities of West Cork plus map; Ring of Beara; guides. (15) 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 624 Cork G.A.A.: Clonakilty G.A.A. 1887-1987 written and signed by Tom Lyons, The Blues - St. Finbarrs of Cork by Sean Beecher and Ballincollig G.A.A., A Centenary in Action 1886-1986 (3 soft covers) 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
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Lot 625 Cork G.A.A.: The Spirit of the Glen - A Glen Rovers Presentation. Privately Issued, Cork, 1973. Card Covers. First Edition. Pp.150. Illustrated. 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 626 Cork G.A.A.: A History of the G.A.A. in Midleton, signed by Milo Corr (co-author), Privately Published, Midleton, 1986. Original Cloth with Dust Jacket. Fine. First 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 627 Cork G.A.A.: Fermoy G.A.A. Club History 1886-1995, signed by the author Michael Barry. Litho Press Co. Midleton 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 628 G.A.A.: Against The Grain - A History of Burt, it's People and the G.A.A. 2000, glue gilt cloth in dust jacket, Castlebar Mitchells 1885 to 1985, edited by Sean Rice and For The Record - A History of the National Football & Hurling League Finals by Tom Morrison (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 629 Thurles Sarsfields G.A.A. Story, Volume 1 1884-1959 with dedication by the author Liam O'Donnchu, 2017 and Tom Semple and the Thurles Blues by Liam O Donnchu 2015 with invite to the book launch (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 630 Tipperary G.A.A.: Boherlahan-Dualla, A Century of Gaelic Games by J MAher and P Ryan, 1987, blue gilt cloth in dust jacket, A History of Gaelic Games in Lattin and Cullen 1886-2000 by Jackie Hannon, 2001, green gilt cloth in dust jacket and The Cross Of Cashel, All Ireland Under 21 Hurling Finals 1964-2014 by Jim Fogarty, 2015 (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 631 Tipperary G.A.A.: Lothra agus Doire Ionaint agus Peil by Seamus King 1984, blue cloth in dust jacket, Tipperary's G.A.A. Story 1935-1984 by Seamus King and Tipperary's G.A.A. Ballads (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 632 Kildare G.A.A.: To Spooners Land & Beyond Naas GAA Club 1887-1987 by Liam McManus, Kildare Gaelic Athletic Association 1887-1975 by Tommy O'Hanlon and Kildare G.A.A. A Centenary History (3 soft covers) 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 633 Limerick G.A.A.: One Hundred Years Of Glory, A History of Limerick G.A.A. 1884-1984 by Seamus O'Ceallaigh and Sean Murphy, Green gilt cloth and The West Awake - A History of West Limerick GAA Board 1902-2002 by Sean Murphy 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 634 Clare G.A.A.: Feakle by Kieran Sheedy 1990, green gilt cloth in dust jacket, C.L.G Chill An Disirt 1886-1999 by Declan & Joseph Kelly 1999, Over 50 Years of Clare Hurling Teams 1949-2001 Pa Howard's Collection, Clare Hurling Captains 1887-2011 The Roll of Honour by Ollie Byrnes and Ballads of the Banner by Jimmy Smyth (5) 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
page 64 of 65 Purcell Auctioneers - Auction Of A Collection Of Irish Historical Interest Books To Include Books From Eyrefield Lodge Stud (Co Kildare) And The John Nagle GAA Book Collection - Starts 17 Feb 2021
Lot 635 History of the Church of Ireland - 1 large box c.150 items including Pleasant Places by George Birmingham 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 636 Unique collection of material relating to the Fenian and Nationalist movements in the United States from mid-nineteenth century drawing mostly on contemporary Irish-American publications. This archive was assembled by Sean Daly while he was resident in North America in the 1960s. A native of Cork, he returned to Ireland and established the publishing company Tower Books. The collection, in seven bound volumes, runs to almost 2000 A4 pages of typescript. It includes three volumes detailing The writings of John Devoy; Prelude to Fenianism 1848-56; Fenian Notebook – A collection of biographical material on persons associated with the Early Fenian Movement; Selected writings of John Mitchel; and Na Fianna Eireann from The Gaelic American by Liam Mellows which includes a section on Galway in 1916 Estimate: 800 - 1000 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids
Lot 637 Nine Irish interest coffee-table books 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 638 Very good box of Irish History interest – includes Seanchas Ard Mhacha (7 issues); Lecky’s History of Ireland (5 vols); Ireland from Documentary Sources (3 vols); James Stephens – A critical study; The land and people of nineteenth-century Cork 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 639 Very good box of Irish literary interest – Richard Murphy, James Plunkett, Declan Kiberd, Molly Keane, Anthony Cronin 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 640 Box of Game-Keeping/Poaching/Hunting etc. Books and a Box of Bird Watching etc. Books (2 boxes) 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
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