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Purcell Auctioneers - Online Auction of a Collection of Irish Historical Interest Books, Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Ephemera etc. Viewing by appointment only in accordance with current government guidelines - Starts 02 Sep 2020

Lot 1 Four Boxes of General Books (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 2 Administration Year Book of Ireland, Irish Almanacs, etc. - 2 boxes 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 3 Women Revolutionaries: No Ordinary Women; Terrible Beauty; Sisters against the Empire and 8 others. (11) 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 4 Ó Mordha (Rinn a dAistrigh), Tús agus Fás Óglaigh na hÉireann, 1913-1917, (1936); B’Fiú an Braon Fola, 1958 and trans of same by Twohig, Blood on the Flag, 1996; Cuimhní Cinn, (1951); Ó Conaire, Seacht Bua an Éirí Amach, 1978, agus 1921 ed. (6) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 5 The Irish Convention and Sinn Féin, 1918; Kiely, Counties of Convention; The Irish Future, O’Donnell; Holt, Protest in Arms; The Day’s Burden, Kettle, 1937. (5) 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 6 Barry, Guerilla days in Ireland, 1st, 1949; Butler, Barrys Flying Column, cards, 1972. (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 7 Terence McSwiney: Freedom, 1921; Enduring the Most, Costello, 1995; Memorial Lectures, 1986; Traolach Mac Suibhne, 1979 – signed copy. (4). Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 8 Leon O Broin, Revolutionary Brotherhood, 1976, d/j, vg; Lord Longford, Peace by Ordeal, 1972; Crowned Harp; Meech, This Generation, Vol 1, 1900-1914; Tempestuous Journey, Lloyd George, 1954; Patrick Maume, The Long Gestation, 1999; (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 9 Weale, Patriot Traitors, 2001; Parmiter, , 1936, St Stephens Green Club, ‘not to be removed from the Reading Room’; lovely map endpapers; Gwynn, The Life and Death of RC; Mitchell, Casement; Inglis Casement; McCormack, RC in Death; Laubscher, Who is RC. (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 10 Special ed of The Black Diaries, ltd to 1500 copies of which this is no 606, 1959; dj in laminated cover; Sir RC Diaries, ed Curry, 1922, Sean Lester’s copy with his signature. (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 11 Florence O Donoghue, Tomás MacCurtain, 1958, The Kerryman; Remember it’s for Ireland. (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

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Lot 12 Lord Longford, Peace by Ordeal, 1st 1935, ’s copy with his sig; O’Shiel, The Making of a Republic; Lyons, Culture and Anarchy in Ireland, 1890-1939; D.O Corrain, James Hogan, 2001, mint; J.A. Gaughan, A Political Odyssey, 1st 1983, mint; Martin FX and F.J.Byrne, The Scholar Revolutionary, 1973, vg. (6) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 13 Gaughan, Austin Stack, 1977, d/j, vg; District Insp John A. Kearney, signed copy from the author, Donal O’Sullivan: Stack led a major smear campaign against Kearney for allegedly mistreating Casement. (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 14 1916: Foy and Barton, The ; Coogan, 1916; Portraits and Lives; We Declare, 4tO. All mint copies . early 1920s: Belfast’s Unholy War, 1920-1922; From Pogrom to Civil War; The Outrages. McGee, The IRB, 384 pps, 2005. All mint. (8)) 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 15 Labour history: all card covers: Hesitant Comrades; Radical or redundant; Labour and Partition; The Origins of modern , 1881-1896; Making the difference, Ir , 1912-2012. Horace Plunkett, C0-operation and Politics, 1986, dj, signed copy to Paddy (Lynch) from the author Trevor (West?; Just like Yesterday, Paddy Lynch’s copy; The Modernisation of Irish Society, 1848- 1918, card; Before the Revolution 1879-1922, card; American Opinion and the Irish Question, 1910-1923, dj; Politicians by Accident, Skinner, 1946, ex libris vg. (11). 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 Jacob, The Rise of the United Irishmen, 1st 1937. Prelude to Union, Kelly, CUP 1992. McFarland, Ireland and Scotland, Edinburgh 1994; Stewart A Deeper Silence…origins of United Irishmen, Faber 1993. Grattans Parliament, NLI hist docs. And three others similar. (8) 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 17 Michael Dwyer: Upon the Mercy of Government; The Tellicherry Five; In Search of Michael Dwyer; Citizen Dwyer. Memoirs of Miles Byrne; Notes of an Irish Exile, Miles Byrne, Maunsel , nd. Botany Bay; Furlong Fr John Murphy. The Forge of Clohogue. and two others. (11) 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 18 M Ó Dubhaill, Insurrection Fires at Eastertide, 1966; Memoirs Sen James G. Douglas, ed by J. Anthony Gaughan, 1998. Creel, Ireland’s Fight for Freedom, USA, 1919; The Poems of Joseph Mary Plunkett, book stamp of F. Kennedy educ bookseller, Belfast. Worse could have happened. (5). Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 19 The O’Hara Family – Banim’s Works. 1866/69. Half calf. 8vols (Ex 10) U.S. edition of works of the O’Hara family written by Michael Banim, the survivor of the family. (8) 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 20 Dr. . The Works of Jonathan Swift, Dean of |St. Patricks, Dublin. 1784. Fine tight complete seventeen volume set in original speckled calf, twin morocco labels. (17) Estimate: 400 - 600 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 21 The Wolfe Tone Annuals. An excellent collection. 1932 - 1955 Complete, plus 1959, 1961 and 1962 Estimate: 150 - 300 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 22 James Bruce. Travels to Discover The Source of The Nile in the Years 1768/1773. 1805. 7 volumes (octavo) and matching folio Atlas volume containing the following plates & maps : 19-3- 57 and 3 large folding maps totalling 83 plates & maps. Quarter contemporary calf, armorial book plates. Rare set Estimate: 1000 - 1200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 23 Edouard Detaille. Mes 28 Jours. 1898. Folio. Colour plates of French military 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 24 Allestree, Richard The Works of the Learned and Pious Author of the Whole Duty of Man. Dublin 1723. Folio with a subscriber's list of 250 names including Rev. Patrick Delaney and Rev Alexander Know. 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 25 Pharmacy Prescription Ledger, Grealys Medical Hall William St., April 1942-Jan 1944 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 26 Hermann Hamelmann. Oldenburghisch Chronicon Das Ist Beschreibung. 1599. First edition. Numerous fine plates and 2 maps of the City of Oldenburgh. Very attractive binding of faux medieval manuscript. Small folio. A rare 16th century illustrated work of a famous medieval German city. Estimate: 1000 - 1200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 27 The Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland, Dublin 1763 in contemporary binding and gilt lettering 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 28 An Irish Florilegium with 48 Watercolour Paintings by Wendy Walsh in original slip case and an Irish Florilegium II with 48 Watercolour Paintings by Wendy Walsh (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 29 Sale of Hamilton Estate Balbriggan 1875, Balbriggan and District Historical Society, 2003, Limited to 250 copies. This is No. 186/250. A facsimile of the information regarding the sale of the Hamilton Estate, Balbriggan in 1875. Large oblong folio with 17 folding maps. Black cloth in a similar slip case with gilt title on cover. Good overall condition. Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 30 & Ted Hughes. The School Bag. 1997. First edit in fine dust jacket 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 31 The Guinness Dublin Brewery, published in limited edition by Arthur Guinness Son & Co, For Private Circulation Only. 1994 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 32 Philips' Atlas And Geography Of Ireland by P W Joyce with 33 coloured maps by Bartholemew. London c.1883. Loose 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 33 The Life of St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland. M. F. Cusack. Kenmare, Irish National Publication Office. 1869. Large format. contemporary half-leather binding. By the Nun of Kenmare. 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 Gonzo, The Life of Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner & Corey Seymour, 1st UK Edition, 2007, Sphere, in DJ. The Joke is Over, Memories of Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2006, Heinemann, in DJ. Kingdom of Fear, Hunter S Thompson, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2003, Penguin, in DJ. 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 35 Collected Works of Padraic H.Pearse. 1924. Loosely inserted inside cover an original typed carbon copy of a anonymous sinister letter to an I.R.A. member with an obvious death threat sent by a Crown fanatic or Black & Tan. Scarce. Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 36 George Benn. A History of the Town of Belfast. 1877. 1st. Folding maps & plates and Belfast Harbour Centenary 1847-1947. Illustrated (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 37 Departures, Brian Leyden, 1972 1st.Ed. Signed and six vols of 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 38 The Winnie-the-Pooh Collection, A. A. Milne, Egmont. Set of 4 Titles in Dust Jackets and in a Slipcase. 1. Winnie-the-Pooh, 2. Now We Are Six 3. The House at Pooh Corner 4. When We Were Very Young. For the First time in this edition the Illustrations by Earnest H Shepard have been coloured by artist and author Mark Burgess bringing new life to A. A. Milne’s poems. A lovely set. (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 39 A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian & Gothic Architecture. 1840. 2 volumes with colour & b/w illustrations. Original blind stamped cloth (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 40 Calder, John. Pursuit, signed by John Calder, Solo, signed by Calder and The Godot Company 2009 Programme - Godot was founded by John Calder, signed by all four cast members. John Calder was 's publisher and friend (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 41 John McGahern: The Pornographer, Faber and Faber, 1979, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, in D/J. Excellent copy. Creatures of the Earth New and Selected Stories, Faber and Faber, 1992, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, in D/J. Memoir, Faber and Faber, 2005, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, in D/J. John McGahern, Amongst Women, Faber and Faber, 1991, Paperback, 1st Edition (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 42 Belloc, Hilaire. Cautionary Tales For Children, The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts, Advice, The Modern TravellerMOre Beasts For Worse Children, New Cautionary Tales and a Moral Alphabet (7) 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 43 Sean O’Casey. The Green Crow. 1956. 1st edit and Gabriel Fallon. Sean 0’Casey. The Man I Knew. 1965 (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 44 Calder, George; 'Auraicept NA N-ECES - The Scholar's Primer - being the texts of the Ogam Tract from the Book of Ballymote and The Yellow Book of Lecan and the Text of the Trefhocul from the Book of Leinster - 1 Volume, Edinburgh 1917 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 45 W.M.Kennedy. The Poets & Poetry of Munster. 1860 and Sean Jennett. Munster. 1967. 1st edit. Illustrated. (2) Estimate: 20 - 25 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 46 Signed , Dead as Doornails Paperback reprint . Inscribed 'For Dan & Ashley with love from , Tony Cronin, March 18th 1987 and five vols of Irish Literature Interest 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 47 Ireland. Dublin, Shannon, , and the Kilkenny Races, Round Towers, Lakes of Killarney, County of Wicklow, O'Connell and the Repeal Association; Belfast, and the Giant's Causeway by Johann George Kohl. modern quarter 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 48 . Fame and The Poet. c.1940 and Lord Dunsany Up In The Hills. 1955 1st and Liam 0’Flaherty. The Assassin. 1928 (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 49 Paddy Clarke: Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle, Secker & Warburg, 1993, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, in D/J. The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Roddy Doyle, Jonathan Cape, 1996, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, in D/J. Charlie Savage, Roddy Doyle, Jonathan Cape, 2019, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, in D/J. Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt, Harper Collins, 1996, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, in D/J (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 50 Ó Snodaigh, Comhghuailithe na Réabhlóide, 1913-1916, 1966; signed presentation copy from the author to Prof Williams, 27th Jan 1967; Ó Dochartaigh, Cathal Brugha, 1969; Seán Ó Luing, Art Ó Gríofa, beathaisnéis, 1953; Booklet, Richard Davis, Arthur Griffith, 1976. (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 51 East Cork 1798, card covers 133 pps, 1998. Leslie Hale, John Philpot Curran, 1st 1958 dj., with slip from Manchester Guardian seeking review from TD Williams. Hames, Arthur O’Connor, United Irishman, Collins 2001 dj, mint. (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

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Lot 52 The Botanical Garden by Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix, Vols 1 and 2 in original slipcase 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 53 Edgar A. Poe and Harry Clarke. Tales of Mystery and Imagination. 1935. 1st edit. Numerous coloured & B/W plates. Rare in original pictorial dust jacket 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 54 Irish Literature and Poetry. Hanrahan’s Oath by & Lough Derg by Kavanagh & Bullán, first four issues & works by Montague, Kinsella, Barry, etc. (14) 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 55 Irish Antiquarian Researches by Sir William Betham. William Curry. 1827. 498 pages. Contemporary half-leather on marble boards. Front and final covers detached. 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 56 Lord Macaulay. Lays of Ancient Rome. 1899. Illustrated. Beautiful full gilt crimson morocco, gilt decorative spine & raised bands. Very fine. 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 57 McCarthy, Daniel 'The Life and Letters of Florence McArthy Reagh', Tanist of Carbery Macarthy Mor - 1 Volume, London 1867 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 58 Peter and the Wolf, with CD., Bloomsbury, 2003, Illustrated by Bono. Paul McCartney in His Own Words, Paul Gumbaccini, 1st Edition, 1976, Flash, soft back. Morrissey Autobiography, (Special Edition) 2013, Penguin Classics, 1st Edition in DJ. That Close, Suggs, 1st Soft Back Edition, 2013, Quercus, signed by Suggs. (4) 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 59 Pauli Manutii. In Epistolas Cicerons ad Atticum. Published Venice 1547. 1st edition. Decorative title page with putti & cornucopia. Vellum. Very early printing. 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 60 Cork History. Crosshaven, Mallow, Kilcrea Friary, Newmarket, Utopia in Glandore, Cork Franciscan Records, Finn Barr of Gougane, Cork Airport, West Carbery and South presentation Convent. 1903. (10) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 61 . The Figure in the Cave. 1989 and Robert Welch. A History of Verse Translation from the Irish. 1988. 1st and M. McAteer. Standish 0’Grady, A.E. and W.B. Yeats – History Poetry and Culture. 3 first edits in pictorial dust jackets 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 62 O’Callaghan, For Ireland and Freedom, Roscommon, 1964..lovely copy; Sligo, The Irish Revolution, 1912-1923, Michael Farry, 2012, mint copy; Sligo 1914-1921. (1992). (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 63 Erskine Childers, father and son: Proof copy by Jim Ring, 1966, Patrick Lynch’s copy and large p/b 1997; Burke Wilkinson, The Zeal of the Convert, 1976; A bio of the President of Ireland, Erskine H. Childers, 1985. (4) Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 64 Ireland: Its Scenery and Character by Mr & Mrs S C Hall, Hall, Virtue and Co., 1850 New Edition, 3 Volumes, half leather bindings, marbled boards, good set with all illustrations of approx. 600 engravings, maps and woodcuts, some in colour. 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 65 Seventeenth century work by Irish cleric. Dei Immortalis in Corpore Mortali Patientis Historia, Moralis Doctrinae Placitis et Commentationibus Illustrata. Auctore R. P. Guilielmo Stanihursto Societate Iesu. [William Stanihurst]. Antverpae. 1660. Excellent copy in contemporary vellum binding. Old college stamp on title. 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 66 Maud Gonne, A biography by Levenson; Servant of the Queen, review copy with slip from the publishers 1950; Maud Gonne’s Writings, 2004. (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 67 Eamonn O Flaherty, The Catholic Question, 1774- 1793, UCD, MA thesis 1981, Folio typescript, bound in black cloth Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 68 The National Monuments of the Irish Free State, The Stationery Office. A short account, illustrated by examples, of monuments in the care of the Commissioners of Public Works, with a schedule of the monuments and notes on their preservation. The National Museum of Ireland- A Brief Guide to the Collection of Irish Antiquities, Joseph Raftery, The Stationery Office, 1960, presentation copy from the Director of the National Museum. The High Crosses of Western Ossory, Helen M Roe, The Kilkenny Archaeological Society, 1958, 1st Edition. Antiquities of the Irish Countryside, Sean P Ó Riordain. Contains information and images on many archaeological sites throughout the country. Hardback. Glendalough Co Wicklow, H G Leask, The Stationery Office, Official Historical and Descriptive Guide containing many illustrations of the site. (5) 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 69 Hon. Mrs Ward. The Telescope. 1889. 1st edit. Coloured plates & Rev. G. Wood. Common Objects of the Microscope. 1864. 1st edit. Colour plates. (2) 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 70 Aubrey Glynn. Medieval Studies. 1961. 1st and R. Breathnach. Folia Gadelica. 1983 (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

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Lot 71 The Honorary Consul, Graham Greene, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1973, Bodley Head, in DJ. The Human Factor, Graham Greene, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1978, Bodley Head, in DJ. Monsignor Quixote, Graham Greene. 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1982, Bodley Head, in DJ. (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 72 Harold O’Sullivan. John Bellew A 17th Century Man of Many Parts. 2000. 1st, Father Mathew. 2002 and Colm Lennon. An Irish Prisoner of Conscience. 2000. 3 first edits in pristine condition (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 73 W.B.Yeats. Poems. C. 1932. Fine Gyles binding, blind stamped blue cloth, gilt decorative spine and Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley. 1940 1st and G. Fraser. W.B. Yeats. 1958 and W. Gould. Yeats’s Collaborations. 2002. Dust jackets (4) 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 74 An Answer to Address of Henry Grattan to his Fellow Citizens of Dublin. With The Address of Catholics of Dublin, to Henry Grattan by Patrick Duigenan. J. Milliken Dublin. 1798.; bound with State of the Catholic Cause, from the Issuing of Mr. Pole's Circular Letter, to the Present Day with the Proceedings on the Trial of Doctor Sheridan. H. Fitzpatrick. 1812. Title page of second work not bound in. Contemporary half-leather 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 75 The Last Speech of Mr. Oliver Plunket, Titular Primate of Ireland, who was Executed at Tyburn on Friday the 1st of this instant July, 1681. Written by His Own Hand. 1681. Specially bound in modern cloth folder with leather label. 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 76 The Re-Making of Ireland. Lord Northcliffe. Privately Printed by Clement Shorter. 1917. modern marble boards preserving original wrappers. Only 25 copies of this pamphlet were published, this is number 22, initialed by Clement Shorter, Sir Alfred Harmsworth. 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 77 English Protestant Working-schools in Ireland. A Sermon preach’d before the Incorporated Society in Dublin March 19th by Isaac, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. 1740. Includes contributors, financial statement etc. 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 78 A manuscript Treatise headed ‘What is Happiness’, in six numbered chapters, 164 numbered pp folio in a neat 18th century hand, stitched in marbled paper covers in two volumes, on laid paper with watermark of a leaping beast in a circle, inscribed inside covers ‘R. Wilson His Book’, the volumes dated 1726 and 1727, marked later ‘To be Preserved’. Evidently a scholarly and careful study, quoting various learned authorities, mainly classical. 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 The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641. Written by Edward Earl of Clarendon, published Dublin 1719, in three original calf bound volumes Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 80 Chronicles, Bob Dylan, 1st UK Edition, 1st Printing 2004, Simon & Schuster, in DJ. Mood Swings, Bob Dylan, Exhibition Catalogue 2013, Halcyon Gallery. (No dust jacket as published) (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 81 Muintir Acla ( Achill Island Journal Issues 2- 9): This is a large bound volume in slipcase of issues 2-9 of the Journal which captures many aspects of the way of life on Achill Island, including, Emigration, Arts & Culture, Environment, History, Sport and more. With Many interesting articles and photographs. Excellent Condition. 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 82 Irish Families their Names, Arms and Origins. 1957 & More Irish Families 1960 by Edward MacLysaght. Both first editions. 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 83 The Irish Stamp Year Book. 1989-1990. Contains all stamps as required. No 4855 of a limited edition of 8000 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 84 The John McGahern Year Book 2008. Articles by Heaney, Kiberd & Joseph O’Connor. Presentation copy signed “John”. 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 85 Discovering Kerry, T.J. Barrington, 1986 previous owners notes on title page Skellig Island Outpost of Europe. Des Lavelle. 1981 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 86 'Book of Finagh', I.M.C., 1939 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 87 The Shackelton Voyages. Folio. 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 88 Irish Land Acts. Report of the Estates Commissioners 1913 – 1914; Bound with Irish Land Acts. 1914 to 1915. With Appendix; Bound with Congested Districts Board for Ireland. 1914; Bound with Congested Districts Board for Ireland. 1915. Modern 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 89 Robert C. Simington. The Civil Survey – Counties of Donegal, LondonDerry & Tyrone. 1937. 1st 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 90 Robert C. Simington. The Civil Survey of County Kildare 1952, 1st. Estimate: 60 - 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 91 Griffith's Valuations of Leitrim (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 92 [An Act] An Act to Enable the Barrack-Master-General to carry into Execution an Agreement lately made with the Trustees of the Ulster White Linen-Hall, near Newry, for the sale of their Interest therein .. D., Grierson, 1800. Folio, pp. 725-733, black letter 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 92a An Act for the Division of the Barony of Idrone, in the County of Carlow. D., Grierson 1799, pp. 445-446, black letter, disbound from a larger volume 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 An Act for Repairing the Road leading from the town of Castlecomer, in the County of Kilkenny, to the City of Kilkenny. D., Grierson 1793, pp. 641-670, black letter, stitched, disbound from a larger volume 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 94 An Act for Repairing the Road leading from the town of Newcastle, in the County of Limerick, to the City of Limerick, and from thence to the City of Cork. D., Grierson 1793, pp. 673-713, black letter, stitched, disbound from a larger volume 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 95 [Reynolds, Sir Joshua]. A Discourse delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy on the Distribution of Prizes, Dec. 10 1790 by the President. Quarto, as issued, stitched but unbound, (iv), 31 pp, laid paper. Outer leaves soiled and bruised, some corners turned, some foxing. Issued at three shillings, which was a substantial amount in 1790. Rare in this state. Reynolds was the first President of the Royal Academy, founded in 1768 as a self-governing institute of artists, and held that position until his death in 1792. He was regarded as the greatest British portrait painter of the age. His Discourse is mainly a tribute to Michelangelo 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 96 Act to Authorise the Construction of a Railway between Dublin and Kingstown 1831. Re: Dublin and Kingstown Railway opened in December 1834. This was Ireland's first railway Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 97 The Nation, c 45 issues of a periodical, large folio, 1919-1923 on politics, art and culture with much sympathetic Irish interest. (45) 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 98 An Saorstát. The Free State. No. 1. Vol. I. Dublin, Saturday, February 25, 1922. Folio. 8 pp. Crease mark to centre fold. In the February issue Arthur Griffith sets out the case for the Treaty which had been signed in London ten weeks before and De Valera's anti-Treaty stance. With: Daily Sketch, for Thursday 24 August 1922 with headline 'How the Last of the Rebels Surrendered'. With: Daily Sketch Newspaper July 7th, 1922. Headline - How the Last Of the Rebels Surrendered. With: Daily Sketch Newspaper March 24th, 1914. Eighteen pages, complete. Front page headline: The Amry Crisis at the Curragh. Seely sees the King - War chiefs confer at Whitehall and the Cabinet meets, "with relevant photographs - The 14th Lancers, whose Officers tendered their resignation; Transport wagon of the troops for Ulster; Colonel Seely reaches War Office. The Manchester Regiment; Infantry entraining for Ulster and Unloading luggage-en route for the North. Inside, headlines: With the Army divided over Ulster the Government calls for a Truce in Ireland; Home Rule Cannot be Forced on Ulster; How Soon will Fact Rival Fiction in Ireland; Devlin's Attack on Carson; Movement of Troops to Ulster. Also included in this issue: The Ulster Crises of 1886 and 1914 Contrasted in Pictures ... "The Carson Army", drawings of rioting in Belfast in 1886, etc. Front page tanned, otherwise good. Together with: Two page extract from , Saturday, December 24, 1921.

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Headline: "Army Withdrawal. How it will hit the Curragh. Every class of Trade and Property affected, etc. Together with: Four page extract from Daily Sketch. Thursday, May 18, 1922. Headline: "Handing over Curragh Camp to the I.R.A." With eight photographs. Some other similar items. 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 99 Kavanagh, Patrick. Ed. by. Kavanagh's Weekly. A Journal of Literature and Politics. Vol. 1.; No. 1. Saturday, April 12, 1952. First issue. Vol. 1. No. 3. Saturday, April 26, 1952; Vol; 1, No. 5. Saturday, May 10, 1952; Vol. 1. No. 7. Saturday, May 24, 1952; Vol. 1. No. 10., Saturday, June 14, 1952; Vol. 1. No. 12. Saturday, June 28, 1952. Six issues. Dublin: Printed for the publisher, Peter Kavanagh, 62 Pembroke 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 100 MacSwiney, Terence. Death of Terence MacSwiney: Saturday Herald Newspaper. Dublin October 30, 1920. Broadsheet, four pages. Banner Headlines: City of Silence: To-Day's Mourning Scenes in Cork. Beneath ... Among His Own - Lying-in State of Lord Mayor's Body - Remove Remains From Military Custody. Also, "Hell Let Loose"! Armed Men Run Amuck in Templemore. Front page illustration of Erin tolling bell bearing inscription, "1920 . Proclaim Liberty throughout the land". Inside pages, Appeal for Reprieve of Kevin Barry [with photo], etc. Together with Sunday Pictorial October 31, 1920, London, outer pages only. Front page. Scenes at the funeral, "Mrs Maud Gonne McBride, a pathetic figure in the procession". The hearse filled with wreaths and escorted by 50 priests and leading Sinn Feiners .. etc. Scene outside the Pro-Cathedral, etc. Together with Irish Determination League of Great Britain (Richmond Branch). Souvenir Programme of the Commemoration of the Second Anniversary of the Death of Terence MacSwiney held at St. John's Hall, Richmond, Monday, October 16th, 1922. Eight pages, with medallion portrait of Terence MacSwiney, integral wrappers. Three lots. V. g. Rare. Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 101 Irish Independent Eucharistic Congress Souvenir 1932, Irish Independent Eucharistic Congress June 1932 and The Belfast Newsletter 200th Anniversary Supplement 1737-1937 (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 102 Nugent’s Irish Songsters. A collection of eight of these popular song-sheets, including Irish Emerald Songster; Irish Minstrel Songster; Irish Concert Songster; Irish Standard Songster; Irish Linnet Songster; Irish Bard Songster; Irish Diamond Songster; Irish Fireside Songster, including the words of all the old Irish ballads and songs, mostly 19th-c. Each 4 pp folio (single folded sheet), Nugent & Co., Middle Abbey St., Dublin, sold at 2d., no date, circa 1900-1910. Fold marks, a little scuffed, but a very good collection of a scarce and ephemeral publication 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 103 [Newspapers] A small collection of newspapers mostly from the 1920s-1930s, mostly odd issues, including Saint Enda’s [for children], six issues 1920-21 (not consecutive); To-Morrow V.1 no.2, September 1924; New Ireland 22.12.1917; The Southern Cross, Buenos Aires, 19.3.1937; and a few Republican items. As a collection, w.a.f. 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 104 The Penal Laws Facsimile Pack. 1990 and The Landed Gentry. Facsimile Documents and The ’98 Rebellion and collection of historical newspapers including issues of the 1950s militant Republican The United Irishman etc. Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 105 1798 related: small box of c19 vols on all aspects of the time. (19) 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 106 Small box: Robert Emmet: 2 vols Ruan O Donnell; Landreth In Pursuit of Robert Emmet; Stephen Gwynn, Robert Emmet; Remember Emmet; Bodenstown Revisited, Caitriona Mcleod – 7 vols on Emmet. Wolfe Tone: Sean o Faolain; Belmont Castle; Leo McCabe vol 1; and three others – 6 vols on Tone. (13) Estimate: 40 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 107 1798 related: small box of 15 vols; diverse and interesting lot. (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 108 Ireland Insurgent; small box c22 vols mostly bios et all, including ‘Not While I have ammo’. Good collection with some scarce items. (22) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 109 Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, edited by his brother, 8 vols, 1848 on; embossed cloth of large 8vos. Ex libris St Stanislaus college (Jesuits, Tullabeg, Offaly). Text throughout vg. Vol 3 and 4 1849; Second series in four vols: vol 5 – 8, 1851. Rare to find all 8 vols in such good condition. Estimate: 80 - 140 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 110 Good Box Irish and General Interest 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 111 Small Box: De Valera, Dwane, 1922 and 1927, O Faoláin, Ryle Dwyer x 3; McManus, Dev and his Alma Mater, signed copy; Irish Times de Valera – signed copy from one of the editors Michael McInerney…….; Mary C. Bromage; De Valera and his times, O’Carroll and Murphy; Tim Pat Coogan. (12) 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 112 Small Box of c13 vols including , Senator Connolly, The Amazon Jn, Daire Keogh, 20th c Ireland, Vivid Faces, and eight others. (13) 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 113 Cycling: R. J. McCredy 'The Art and Pastime of Cycling'; 'Cycling' - 11 Issues, 1912; and seven others (small box) 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 114 Head Dress Badges of the British Army, 2 vols. signed Augustus Andrew "Justy" Spence, Long Kesh Prison Camp, Christmas 1978 and one other book with his signature (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 115 Friend Songs, translated by Pearse Hutchinson, Signed 1st Dublin 1970 and eleven vols of Irish poetry 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

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Lot 116 Blue at the Mizzen, Patrick O’Brien, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1999, Harper Collins in DJ. The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O’Brien,1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1997, Harper Collins, in DJ. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy, 1st Canadian Edition, 1997, Random House, in DJ. Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2003, Cannon Gate, in DJ. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2008, Atlantic Books, in DJ. (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 117 Masonic Female Orphan School of Ireland Grand Centenary Celebration, 1892. Book of the Centenary. Thomas Stuart, Lodge 125 , Editor and Compiler. Numerous advertisements. a very scarce work. Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 118 [Dicuil, an Irish monk and geographer]. Recherches Géographiques et Critiques sur le Livre de Mensura Orbis Terræ, Composé en Irelande. Paris. 1814. Contemporary paper covers. Dicuil was the earliest documented Irish geographer; his work was regarded to have been of great merit, particularly on the continent, hence this Parisian printing. 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 119 Terence de Vere Whyte. The Story of the Royal Dublin Society. 1955, C.S. Andrews. Man of No Property. 1982 and Thomas MacIntyre. The Dublin Arms Trial. 1971. 3 first edits in dust jackets. 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 120 Colonial Ulster by R Gillespie, History of Mediaeval Ireland 1110-1513 by Curtis and four others (6) 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 121 Edmund Spenser. The Faerie Queene. 1856. Original red gilt morocco, all edges gilt, and N. Hawthorne. Twice-Told Tales. Fine red calf, gilt spine. With College brand on cover and A.C. Swinburn. Poetical Works. 1887. Fine binding. (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 122 Absenteeism by Lady Morgan. London, Colburn. 1825. Excellent copy in later boards. The well known writer and friend of the Irish poor wrote this book on the scourge of Irish social life in the early nineteenth century, Absenteeism 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 123 Amsterdam, Ian McEwan, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1998, Jonathan Cape, in DJ. Atonement, Ian McEwan, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2001. Jonathan Cape, in DJ. Black Dogs, Ian McEwan, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1992, Jonathan Cape, in DJ. Saturday, Ian McEwan, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2005, Jonathan Cape, in DJ. On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2007, Jonathan Cape, in DJ. (5) 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 124 The Book of Erin or Ireland's Story told to the New Democracy. J. Morrison Davidson. circa 1880. near fine copy in attractive original embossed cloth. A great deal of information on aspects of Irish history and the principal individuals involved in same. 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 125 Signed by John O'Donohue, Connemara Blues 1st ed 2000, Signed by Arland Ussher, Journey Through Dread 1st ed 1955. and two more by John O'Donohue 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 126 Jeremiah Curtin. Myths and Folk-Lore in Ireland. 1890. 1st and J.C. Foster. Ulster Folk Lore. 1951. (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 127 Donegal born philosopher. Christianity not Mysterious: or, a Treatise Shewing, that there is nothing in the Gospel Contrary to Reason, nor Above it, and that no Christian Doctrine can be properly call’s a Mystery By John Toland. London. 1702. Facsimile title page. modern cloth binding. 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 128 A treatise of ecclesiastical benefices and revenues : Containing, among other very curious particulars. Written originally in Italian, by the Learned Father Paul. Translated by Tobias Jenkins. Dublin. 1737. Modern 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 129 The Donegal Annual (11 issues) c.1966-91 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 130 Life and Scenery in Missouri. Reminiscences of a Missionary Priest. [John O’Hanlon 1890. original cloth. life among the pioneers and Indians in 1843-53, with a chapter on the Mormons. 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 Rev. J. Hely. Translates from O’Flaherty Ogyia or a Chronological Account of Irish Events. Dublin. 1793. Original calf and John Chamberlayne. Magnae Britanniae or The Present State of Great Britain. 1755. Calf. (2) 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 132 The Industrial Resources of Ireland by Robert Kane M.D., 2nd edition. Dublin 1845 (front board detached) Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 133 Signed by Bryan MacMahon, Inscribed 'to Dan Boland as a little Souvenir of the ... esteem and friendship in which I held his ..... and brilliant brother, the late Robert Lester Boland of ...., Kerry , Ireland. ...Bryan MacMahon, 14th January 1956. Children of The Rainbow 1st American Edition 1952. and Children of The Rainbow 1st U.K. edition 1852 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 134 Album of Photographs. Wise Family with scenes of New Ross, Wexford and Waterford. Some Northern Ireland and abroad (1) 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 135 Kevin B. Nowlan. The Making of 1916 .The History of The Rising. 1969 and Michael Martin. Freedom to Choose. Cork & Party Politics in Ireland 1918-1923. 2009. First. (2) Estimate: 50 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 136 Ritchie Leith: 'Ireland Picturesque and Romantic' - 1 Volume, London 1838 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 137 Seamus Heaney. Finders Keepers. 2002. First U.S. edition. Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 138 Tipperary North Riding: 'An Abstract of the discharged and undischarged Presentments and the Passed by the Grand Jury....', at Sring Assizes, March 15, 1841 and at Summer Assizes, August 1841. Bound in modern cloth. 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 139 W.M. Pawnbroking – A Sketch. Published Cork 1882. Scarce publication re defects of pawnbroking and John Healy. No One Shouted Stop. 1988 and G.P. Moran. The Mayo Evictions of 1860. 1st edit. Illustrated. (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 140 Critical and Historical Essays by Lord MacAulay, in four calf bound volumes. London 1866. Some boards detached (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 141 Walsh, Charles, Editor: 'The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics' - 2 volumes, New York 1929 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 142 Dungeons Deep by Captain Peadar Cowan (Captain Cowan was a Solicitor by profession and a member of the Clann naPoblachta Party and a Minister in the First Coalition in 1949 along with Wolfe Tone Annuals 1942 and 1950 (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 143 Nineteenth Century Irish literature. The Irish Scholar. Or, Popery and Protestant Christianity. A Narrative. Rev. Thomas Aveling. [1882] & Nugents of Carriconna an Irish Story. Tighe Hopkins. 1891. story was based on Irish agrarian affairs. & Monks of Kilcrea and Other Poems. 1861. Dedication from the author Arthur Geoghegan poet, civil servant, collector of Irish antiquities to Revd. James Graves. 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 An Historical and Critical Review of Civil Wars in Ireland from Reign of Queen Elizabeth to Settlement under King William with State of Irish Catholics to the Relaxation of the Popery Laws in 1778. By J. Curry, M.D. Dublin. 1810. full leather binding. 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 145 L. Earl. The Battle of Baltinglass. 1952. Illustrated . Scarce 1st re closure of rural post office & far reaching political consequences and Rev. Mark OL’Byrne. Thunder An’ Turf. 1925 & Francis McManus. Watergate. 1902 (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

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Lot 146 Signed by Conor Brady author Guardians of the Peace 1st ed 1974. The Garda Siochana Guide 5th ed 1981 and three police related 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 147 Michael Collins The Man who Won the War, T Ryle Dwyer, Mercier Press, 1990 1st Edition, The Troubles Ireland 1912-1922, Ulick O’Connor, Bobbs-Merrill, 1975, 1st Edition in D/J (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 148 Caroli Paschalii. Coronae Opus X Libris Distinctum. 1681. Decorative frontispiece. Latin text. Contemporary vellum. Gilt warrior recessed images on covers 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 149 . E. Carbery. The Four Winds of Eireann. 1903. 1st edit and The Mysteries of Ireland. C. 1895 (2) Estimate: 30 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 150 Dorothy McArdle, The Irish Republic (1951), dj; Without Fanfare; Tragedies of Kerry; A life, Nadia Clare Smith, (4) Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 151 Dangerfield, The Damnable Question, 1976; The Greening of Dublin Castle, 1991; Irish Foreign Policy, 1916-1966, Kennedy and Skelly; signed presentation copy from Skelly to Mary and Paddy (Lynch); British Policy and the Irish Admin, 1920-1922, 1983; Barrington, The Irish Admin System, 1981. (5) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 152 Fitzpatrick: Secret Service Under Pitt, 2nd 1892. Scarce and sought after. (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 153 Report of the Secret Committee of the House of Commons with an appendix. Dublin James King 1798. 8vo with modern cloth cover bound at Mt St Joseph Abbey with binding book plate. Signature of James Wheeler or Wheelan on page 3. 334 pages with seemingly mispagination 208 to 217 with ? no loss of text. Folding plate at end is part of this appendix and could be meant to be paginated here? bound with report from the Secret Committee of the House of Lords with an appendix and large folding plate of returns found in the house of Edward Rattigan (part of appendix xx1). Bound with Report from the Secret Committee of the House of Lords with an appendix. Dublin1798, Sleator printed to the House of Lords, 67 pages. Rare and of the utmost value for information on 1798. (1) 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 154 Caesar Otway. A Tour in Connemara, The Joyce Country and Achill. 1845. Map and other illustrations. With Achill Mission content and The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle. 1832. Fine half calf (2) 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 155 Memoirs of Captain Rock, the celebrated Irish Chieftain with some account of his ancestors. Written by Himself. 1824. 376 pages. Lovely copy in modern quarter-leather. Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 156 Irish Plays. Brian Friel, Performances 1st ed, 2003. Brian Friel , Philidelphia, Here I Come 1st U.S. 1966 Brian Friel , Aristocrats reprint 2005 , Eugene Roma ,1st ed 1978 Maeve Binchy, Deeply Regretted by... 1st 1976 Hugh Leonard, Da 1975 Dennis Johnston Collected Plays Vol 1, 1960 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 157 J.T.R. Sharrock. The Natural History of Cape Clear Island. 1973. 1st. Illustrated and Tiny Houses & Their Builders. 2 scarce bird books. Estimate: 60 - 70 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 158 Sharkey, P. A. 'The Heart of Ireland' - 1 Volume, Boyle 1927 Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 159 . One and Other Poems. 1979. 1st and Seamus Heaney. Seeing Things (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 160 Play Back, Raymond Chandler, 1st UK Edition, 1958, Hamish Hamilton, in DJ. The Arrow of Gold, Joseph Conrad, 1st UK Edition, First Printing, 1919, T Fisher Unwin Ltd. The Rover, Joseph Conrad, 1st UK Edition, 1st Printing, 1923, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. Two Years Before The Mast, Richard Henry Dana, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham, No date, Collins, (A prize inscription is dated 1904). (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 161 Dail Eireann, MionTuairisc An Chead Dala (Minutes of Proceeding of the First Parliament of Ireland) 1919-1921. Official Record. Hardback. Dail Eireann, Siosan Mi na Nollag1921- Eanair1922 (Session December 1921- January 1922. Official Report. Debate on the Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland signed in London on 6th of December,1921. The Talbot Press, Hardback. Scarce. (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 162 Edward Hull The Physical Geology & Geography of Ireland. 1891. Coloured map. Illustrated Original green cloth and J.K. Charlesworth. The Geology of Ireland 1953. Illustrated. (2) Estimate: 40 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 163 The Story of a Success by P. H. Pearse. Record of St. Enda's College 1908 to 1916. Editor Desmond Ryan. Maunsel. 1920. Lovely copy. & My Fight for Irish Freedom. Dan Breen. Anvil Press. 1989. & Easter Commemoration Digest and one other. 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 164 A New Treatise on the Glaucoma or Cataract. Silvester O'Halloran of Limerick, Surgeon. Classics of Ophthalmology Library reprint of the 1750 edition. limited edition bound in full leather. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 165 John Lavery – The Life of a Painter 1940. 1st. Illustrated and K.M. Heleniak. William Mulready. 1980. 1st edit. Life of Ennis born artist. Proof, 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 166 Wilde, Oscar (C.3.3.) The Ballad of Reading Gaol, 1894 Leonard Smithers and Co - partially un-opened 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 167 Johannis Rhenii. Aurea Clavis Grecae Linguae. 1639. Venice. 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 168 The Two First Books of Pentateuch or Books of Moses; A Preparation for Learners to Read the Holy Scripture. Types Cut by Mr. Edmund Fry Letter Founder to His Majesty Under the Care and Direction of T. Connellan. 1819. old college stamp on title page. excellent copy in modern boards. most attractive Gaelic type. 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 169 Hancock, Survey of British Commonwealth Affairs, Oxford, 2 vols, large 8vo, 1937, 1939. Ex libris Bibliothek Auswartigen Amts (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany), stamped on cover and title page with official winged creature and swastika; acquired 1939 and 1942. Vol 1, Ch 111, pps 92-164 has a chapter on Saorstát Éireann. Copies used by TD Williams while researching Germany. Unusual and scarce in this condition and association. (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 170 A Practical Grammar of the . Rev. Paul O'Brien. 1809. Lovely copy in original boards. 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 171 Limerick Interest. Historic and Descriptive Sketch of St. Mary’s Cathedral & Worthies of Thomond by Herbert; Story of an Ascendancy Family, The Massys; Pery Square Tontine Company; Reminiscences of Old Limerick by Bennis & Limerick History. Ada Rehan; and 2 Mungret Annuals and 25 other items. Circa 32 books and booklets. 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 172 Dréacht Bhunreacht (Draft Constitution - As approved by Dail Eireann). The Stationery Office, 1937. Text in both English and old Irish on opposite pages. Some light tanning to page edges but otherwise in good original condition. Headquarters Battalion, Easter Week 1916, John M Heuston, 1966, Printed by the Nationalist, Carlow. This is an account of the events which took place in Dublin during Easter Week 1916. (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 173 History of The Queen's County in two volumes - reprint complete in a limited edition on 1,000 copies, 1981 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 174 Patrick McCabe. The Butcher Boy. 1922 and Breakfast on Pluto. 2 first edits; and Christy Brown. A Shadow on Summer. 1974. All in dust jackets. (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 175 The Ancient And Present State of the County of Down containing a Chorographical Description, with a Survey of the New Canal and a New and Correct Map of the County. Dublin 1744 Estimate: 400 - 500 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 176 , A Farewell To English, limited edition soft cover and eight other books of Irish poetry 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 177 Gleeson, Dermot F. 'Roscrea Town and Parish' - 1 Volume. Three Candles, Dublin 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 178 C. O’Regan and A. Lacey. Abbeyknockmoy. 1996. Illus.; Rev. P. Egan. Clonfert Museum and Its Collection. 1957. Signed by Egan; and Frank Brew The Parish of Kilkeedy. 1999. Illus. (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 178a 'The Dark' by John McGahern 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 179 Stereoscopic Views, various. A collection of eleven photographic double views mounted on card, three showing views of the Giant’s Causeway; others Muckross Abbey, Killarney; Lower Lake, Killarney; three Dublin views including O’Connell Memorial and St. Patrick’s Cathedral; ‘Shooting a Weir’; Blarney Castle (coloured); and a family party outside a cottage. Various publishers, mainly 1880s-90s (the Blarney image probably later), in very good clean condition except the last, which is creased at a corner 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 180 Stereoscopic Views, Killarney. A collection of ten photographic double views mounted on card, showing views in Killarney including the Upper Lake; the Lakes; view from Lord Kenmare’s Mansion; Ross Castle with Jaunting Car; a boating party; Queen’s Cottage; ‘By Killarney’s Lakes and Rills’; The Tunnel; Colleen Bawn Rock; Muckross Abbey. Various publishers, mainly 1880s-90s, in very good clean condition. Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 181 Stereoscopic Views, mostly Co. Cork. A collection of ten photographic double views mounted on card, showing views including Blarney Castle; Blarney, another view; Cathedral, Queenstown; Queenstown Quay and Cathedral; St. Patrick’s Bridge; Cork Harbour, Glenbrook; The Mardyke; Mill near Bantry; and a cottage interior. Various publishers, mainly 1880s-90s, in very good clean condition Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 182 Stereoscopic Views, mostly rural. A collection of ten photographic double views mounted on card, showing a country school in Co. Monaghan; Cliff over Kilkee Bay; a cottage in Glenoe; Valley of Glendalough; Cloughmore overlooking Rostrevor; Round Tower, Monasterboice; ‘A Letter from Pat in America’; Giant’s Causeway (titled in Italian); Denis O’Shaughnessy’s Home, Co. Tipperary; and Ross Cottage, Killarney (coloured/tinted). Various publishers, mainly 1880s-90s, in v. g. clean condition Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 183 Irish Railway Tickets. Collection of approximately 160 vintage and historical tickets. Many closed lines and railway stations. Castlefinn, Dunkineely, Ballintra etc 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

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Lot 184 Foynes, County Limerick. Ship’s mail from the controversial Czechoslovakian ship ‘Radhost’ stamped Foynes, 20/10/1979, addressed to Prague. Small stain. Unique. 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 185 1918 Colour Christmas Card. Souvenir of the Occupation of Jerusalem by the British Troops on December 9, 1917. Interesting contemporary handwritten note in French on rear. 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 186 Irish Postal History. 2016 Commemoration. Set of 4 First day covers, each cover having 4 of the executed leaders featured on stamps. 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 187 [Marcus Ward] A collection of about 17 chromolithographs, each circa 17 x 11 cms, in three envelopes, some from Vere Foster’s Watercolour Drawing book, subjects include landscapes, seagoing boats, animals etc., a few lightly creased or with traces of mounting, generally g/vg 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 188 Dickey, E.M. O’R. Invitation to an exhibition of paintings and drawings in the Stephen’s Green Gallery, Dublin, February, no year, circa 1950, stiff card with a linocut illustration 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 189 Postal Interest. First day covers including Concorde’s Final Flight 2003, Israel, rome, Egypt etc, plus selection of Soviet era decorative envelopes with architectural views etc. circa 40 collector’s 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 190 [Drawings] A small collection of about 12 loose drawings, 13 x 14 cms and smaller, mostly pen-and-ink, mostly good quality, various subjects, mainly illustrative, one signed H. Egersdorfer ’78. 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 191 Private time table issued by Pennick’s Delgany Nurseries Greystones. Dublin and South Eastern Railway Pocket Time table. 1st February 1915. Wrappers. Small format. 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 192 A Brass Plaque - He died for Freedom and Honour - Michael Flynn- c. 5ins diameter 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 193 Appointment of Charles O’Brien of Clare by the French king as a Marshal of France. Lettres Patentes du Roy M. Charles OBrien, Comte de Thomond, Vicomte de Clare, Pair d'Irlande, Chevalier des Ordres du Roy, Maréchal de France. Donnes a Versailles le 23 Avril 1757. Disbound. Charles O'Brien 6th Viscount Clare was an Irish military officer in French service. Charles O'Brien fought for France against Spain in 1718 with the rank of colonel in the service of his father's regiment and later fought in the War of the Polish Succession in the Siege of Philippsburg in June 1734, where he was wounded. Exceptionally rare item. Estimate: 350 - 550 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 194 Printed at Missionary Settlement, Dugort, Achill Island. The Achill Missionary Herald. November 1852. 16 pages. As issued. detail on activities in Protestant Mission in Mayo by Edward Nangle on a small printing press at Achill. Rare and important publication. 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 195 Collins and Griffith, Pictorial History c1923, Lester, 62 pps large 4to; cover ill by Harry Clarke, card covers intact by spine torn in places. Interior vg. Newspaper photo of Sculptor Seamus Murphy with his bust of Collings at the RHA pasted on ftp. (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 196 Photographic Collection, mostly 1920s to 1930s, some later. approximately 180 views. Limerick City, camping at Bray, Killarney, railways etc. some rare photos of work on the Shannon Scheme. Some signed Stan Stewart, Limerick Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 197 Maps of Waterford Two 25" Ordnance Survey maps. Waterford sheets 9 XII and 9 XVI 1950 and three 50" Maps of parts of Waterford City 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 198 Maps of Tullamore Two 25" Ordnance Survey maps . Kings County (Ballycowan) Sheet XVII. 5 and XVII. 9 1912 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 199 Three Maps from Petty's Hiberniae Delinato Atlas of Ireland Frank Graham. The County of Roscommon, The county of County of Westmeath and The County of Longford 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 200 Three Maps from Petty's Hiberniae Delinato Atlas of Ireland Frank Graham, The County of East -Meath, The County of Lowth and the County of Dublin on one sheet and The County of Kildare Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 201 Two Maps from Petty's Hiberniae Delinato Atlas of Ireland Frank Graham. The County of Clare and the County of Limerick 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 202 Five Maps from Petty's Hiberniae Delinato Atlas of Ireland Frank Graham, A General Map of Ireland, The Province of Ulster, The Province of Munster, The Province of Leinster and The Province of Connacht. 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 203 Declan Kelly. Ballinasloe from Garbally Park to the Fair Green. 2007. 1st. Illustrated; The Diary of Loughrea. 2003. Illus.; and C. 0’Regan. Molylough – A People’s Heritage. 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

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Lot 204 J.M.Synge. The Shadow of the Glen. 1905 and Riders to The Sea. 1905. First collected edition and J.M. Synge Collected Works – Plays. 1968 (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 205 Acts and Monuments, Signed by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Gallery Press 1972 and five vols of Irish Poetry. 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 206 Ulster: Elliott, The Catholics of Ulster, a hHstory, 2000, large 8vo of 642 pages. Wright, Two Lands on One Soil, 8vo, 595 pps. Hirst, Religion, Politics and Violence in mid-nineteenth-century Belfast, 8vo, 2002, 223 pps. (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 207 John Mitchell. The History of Ireland from the Treaty of Limerick to The Present Time. C. 1890 and W.H.Phillips. The Revolution in Ireland. 1926 (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 208 The Quakri at Lurgan and Grange. James Richardson. No title page as such. Pencil note states edition printed in 1899, Bessbrooke. Cloth. photographs. Quaker interest. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 209 James Plunkett. The Trusting and The Maimed. 1959, Hugh Leonard. Home Before Dark. 1979 and Maura Laverty. No More Than Human. 1944. 3 first edits in dust jackets. Estimate: 40 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 209A 'The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics' edited by Alan Aldridge; and 'The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics 2' edited by Alan Aldridge 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 210 Walsh, Bitter Freedom; IT book of the Rising; Duffy, Children of the Rising; ; Green against Green, the Ir civil War, Hopkinson; Ireland and the Crown, 1922-1936. (5). 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 211 Frank O’Connor. Domestic Relations. 19567 and P. Maume. Life That is Exile – Daniel Corkery. 1993. 2 first edits in dust jackets. 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 212 Some Notable Conversions in the County of Wexford by Francis J. Kirk. Burns and Oates. 1901. Excellent 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

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Lot 213 David Hogan, Frank Gallagher, The Four Glorious Years, 1918-1921, 1st ed 1953 using his nom de plume, David Hogan and signed by him as such; second ed 2005 under Frank Gallagher; The Indivisible island, 1957, ex libris SH, Monkstown; Days of Fear, 1928. (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 214 D. Donoghue (Editor) W.B. Yeats. Memoirs. 1972 and R.J. Finneran (Editor) The Correspondence of Robert Bridges and W.B. Yeats. 1977 and G.S. Fraser. W.B.Yeats. 1954. 1st edit. (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 215 For the Love of God, The Making of the Diamond Skull, Damien Hurst, 1st Edition, 2007, Other Criteria/White Cube, (inscribed by Author but not signed) in DJ. From Van Eyck to Bruegel, Max J Frielander, 1st Edition, 1956, Phaidon Press, in DJ. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Folio Society 1956, in Slipcase, I Claudius, Robert Graves, Folio Society 1956, in slipcase. South from Granada, Gerald Brenan, Folio Society, 1988, in slipcase. 84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff, Folio Soiety, 2007, in slipcase. (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 216 Forester, Michael Collins, the lost leader, 1971; The Dark Secret of Béal na Bláth, 1991, ex libris; McDowell, MC and the Brotherhood, 1997. Mick, the Real MC, Hart, 2005. (4). Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 217 H. C. Lawlor. The Monastery of St. Mochaoi of Hendrum. 1925. 1st. Book plate Percy Paley and signed by him. Plates. And Two Hundred Years with the Redemptorists. 1933. 1st. Illustrated; and Rev. Dr Moran. History of the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. 1864, Vol 1. (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 218 The Revolution in Ireland 1906-1923, W Alison Phillips, Longmans Green & Co., 1923 1st Edition, H/C The Irish Struggle 1916-1926, Edited by Desmond Williams, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Hardback in D/J (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 219 Pakenham, The Year of Liberty, 1st 1969, dj large 8vo. Vg; 1798 A Bicentenary Perspective, dj mint, 2003, large 8vo, 756 pages. (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 220 Standish 0’Grady. The Bog of Stars and Other Stories. 1893; Gerald Griffin. The Poetical & Dramatic Works. 1887; and The Life of Gerald Griffin by His Brother. 1857 (3) Estimate: 35 - 45 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 221 George Sheils, Programme for his play The Rugged Path at the Oct. 1940 and bundle of Irish theatre programmes George Spelvin's Theatre Book, Ria Mooney and five books on the Irish Theatre 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 222 Journal of The Galway Archaeological & Historical Society. 7 vols covering the period 1977/2004 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 223 Deane, Arthur (Editor); 'The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society' - Centenary Volume 1821-1921 - 1 Volume, 1924 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 224 The Northern Leaders of 98 (No.1), Henry Joy McCracken and his Times, World War 1 and Nationalists Politics in Co. Louth, Before The Famine, The Modern Industrialisation of Ireland 1940-88, Cromwell Our Chief of Enemies, The French are Landing, The Sunshine Patriots, The 1798 Rebellion and The Spirit of the North is High (10) 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 225 Musgrave, Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland. Dublin and London 1st 1801. Large 4to with modern cloth covers; 636 pages with 166 pages of appendices and 8 pps of indices and errata page. Folding maps present: Map of part of counties Carlow, Wexford and Wicklow; Wexford Harbour; Plan of the town of Arklow; the Town of Antrim. Other plates not present. Scarce and desirable. (1) 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 226 William Winstanley. Worthies from Constantine The Great to . 1660. 1st; and B. Nichols. Words and Days 1899. Fine binding (2) 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 227 Richard Hayes, Irish Swordsmen of France, D. 1934, dj., 8vo 307 pps. Signed presentation copy from Hayes of Prof WJ Williams, ‘who helped to make this book’. With newpaper review from wjw. Old Irish Links with France, D.1940; 230 pps with dj. Both very desirable copies. (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 228 J. Genet. The Big House in Ireland. 1991. Illustrated; and John F. Mills The Noble Dwellings of Ireland. 1987. Illus. 2 first edits in good dust jackets. Estimate: 50 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 229 Ten Irish History related books. 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 230 M. Fournier. Le Theatre Francais. C. 1910. 2 volumes. Hand coloured plates. French text. Original red cloth. Book plates Estimate: 50 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 231 Gamble, John: 'Sketches of History, Politics and Manners in Dublin and The North of Ireland' 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 232 David Hogan. The Four Glorious Years. 1954; and Ernie O’Malley Raids and Rallies. 1982. 1st edit. (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 233 Maxwell, W. H.; 'The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran' - 1 Volume, London 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 Sitwell, Sacheverell. All Summer In A Day, An Autobiographical Fantasia, New York 1926, original cloth and with slipcase. This is a Presentation Copy inscribed to Lady Hazel Lavery, Jan 5 1926. Hazel, Lady Lavery was a painter and the second wife of portrait artist Sir John Lavery. Her likeness appeared on Banknotes of Ireland for much of the 20th century 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 235 Early Irish Poetry. Idylls of Ireland. Some Celtic Legends done into Metre by Samuel Cowan. 1896; Hymns and Other Poems by Rev. Piers Edmund Butler, Chaplain of Molyneux Asylum, Dublin. 1828; Poems of Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood. MacDonagh, Pearse, Plunkett, Casement. Boston. 1916. Old college stamps; Songs of Sunrise by Denis McCarthy. 1918. dust wrapper. Dedication from author; and Glendalloch and Other Poems by Drennan. 1859; and Via Crucis and other poems by Rev. John Jackman. 1884. (6) 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 236 The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2000. Bloomsbury, in DJ. Heat and Dust, Ruth Pruwer Jhabvala, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1975, John Murray, in DJ. The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1986 Hutchinson, in DJ. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, 1st Edition, 1966, Hamish Hamilton, in DJ. (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 237 Somerville & Ross. Mount Music. 1919; and All On the Irish Shiore. 1916. Illustrated; and Liam O’Flaherty. Skerret .1977 (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 238 Michael Gallagher. The Irish Labour Party in Transition. 1982 and J.A. Gaughin. Thomas Johnson. 1980 and 50 Years of Liberty Hall –Golden Jubilee of the I.T.G.W.U.. 1959. Illustrated. 3 scarce Labour interest. 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 239 Murphy, Richard. Sailing To An Island, 1st edit 1963 and one other (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 240 Sonny Enright. The Life of a Cattle Dealer. 1st edit and 3 other Galway works relating to Ahascragh, Ballinasloe and Abbey of Kilnalagh. (4) Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 241 Lynn Doyle. Green Oranges. 1947, Rosabell. 1933. Yesterday Morning 1943 and The Shake of The Bag. 1939. Four first edits. Estimate: 40 - 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 Personal Narrative of the Irish Rebellion, Teeling 1828; original boards (rear cover loose). Kavanagh, The Insurrection of 98, Centenary ed Cork 1898. Fitzpatrick The Sham Squire, new ed D. In Dark and Evil Days, Skeffington, 1836. (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 243 . The Importance of Being Earnest. 1960. Dust jacket; and L. Broad. The Friendships and Follies of Oscar Wilde. 1954. Illustrated (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 244 Signed by Sean Magee, G.W. Robinson and Peter O'Sullivan. Arkle, The Life and Legacy of 'Himself' and three books on racing and horses 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 245 Townsend, The British Campaign in Ireland, 1919-21, Oxford 1975, d/j, 242 pps, scarce. Mary Kenny, Crown and Shamrock, card covers; O’Halpin, The Decline of the Union, 1987, dj,258 pps; scarce; Shannon, Balfour and Ireland, 1874-1922; dj, 362 pages, vg. Costello, The Irish Revolution, Years of Revolt, 452 pps, mint; Townsend, The Republic, the fight for Ir independence, 536n pps, mint; O’Connor, The Troubles, Ireland, 1912-1922, dj, 1975, 181 pps. (7) 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 246 James Gleeson, Bloody Sunday, 1st 1962, dj. 212 pps, scarce. Sean MacBride, that Day’s Struggle, a Memoir, 1904-1951, dj, 2005, mint. Jordan, Sean MacBride. Clare and the Great War. (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 247 Handbook of the Ulster Question, Stat Office, Dublin, 1923; large 8vo, vii+164 pps with five folding maps (including large folding); pictorial covers by Theodora Harrison. Truly magnificent copy. (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 248 Jim Maher, The Flying Column West Kilkenny, 1916-1921, 2015; pictorial covers, large 8v0; 332 pps. Mint. (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 249 Burns, Irish Parliamentary Politics in the 18th century, 2 vols 1989 USA. 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 250 Aunt Louisa’a Sunday Book. C. 1880. Quarto. 48 fine coloured illustrations. Gilt cloth. 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 251 Wild Sports of the West of Ireland, W.H. Maxwell reprint 1986 and three other books on Mayo 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 252 McCarthy, Daniel 'A Historical Pedigree of the Slioch Feidhlimidh, The McCarthy's of Gleannacroim', 1 Volume, Exeter 1849 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 253 M. Gorman. Ireland From Old Photographs. 1971. 1st edit. Illustrrated; and Peadar 0’Laoghaire. My Own Story. 1973 (2) Dust jackets. (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 254 Cusack, M. F. 'Life inside the Church of Rome' 1 Volume, London 1893 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 255 Album of scarce original large photographs of Kasmir, India. C. 1890. 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 256 De Valera Broadcast to the Nation, May 1945; copy of Cuirm Ceoil I nonoir Eamonn de Bhaléra agus dha laochra eile, An Clár and na Gaillimhe, Dec 1921; Ir independent, The Nation Tribute on Dev’s death; 4 newspaper cuttings on Dev. Newspaper supplements: A Tribute to Michael Collins (1966) 24 elephant folio page plus newspaper Sunday Press cuttings on MC 1981; IR Times 1966 supplement 16 pps; The Sunday Times Mag Feb 1966..on 1916; Lessons of Remembrance 1919 – 1969 supplement 12 pps. (12) 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 257 Menu Signed by: , Charlie Haughey Eileen Lemass, , Martin O'Donohue, , Padraig Faulkner, Brian Hillery, Rory Doyle, Michael Woods, , T.J. Killeen, Eoin Ryan, Joe Potter, . Gerard Brady. Cairde Fail , Victory '77 's Dinner in the Burlington Hotel . Fianna Fail Clar 50u Ard-Fheis Fianna Fail General Election 1977 Manifesto 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 258 Joyce, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle, 1st edit, London 1930 and Chamber Music and Pomes Pennyeach (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 259 Saint Patrick 461-1961, Patriotism by Rev Philbin, List of Members of the Irish Bank Officials' Association and 4 others (7) 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 260 Arklow Evictions - 26 reproduction photographs 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 261 [Sligo Survey] Index to the Townland Survey of the County of Sligo. Coloured. The map depicts market towns, municipal boundaries, parish churches, parks and demesnes, villages, castles, gentlemen’s seats, antiquities, parishes, baronies, townlands, lime kilns, forges, Canvas backed. Unobtrusive water stain. V.g. 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 262 A Genealogical table of the noble family of Courtenay. C. 1860. Decorative armorial title page & folding table. Large folio. 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

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Lot 263 A Genealogical Table of the noble family of Maynard, Viscount Maynard – Baron Maynard of Wicklow in Ireland. CV. 1860. Decorative armorial title page & folding table. Large folio. 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 264 [Yeats, William Butler] Ad Multos Annos. William Butler Yeats in his seventieth year. By Joyce Mayhew. Decorated capital. Mills College (California): Printed at the Eucalyptus Press, 1935. First edition. One of 500 copies printed for Albert M. Bender of Oakland, California. Folio (257 x 327mm). pp. [4] (including colophon page). Original cream stitched wrappers printed in black with a vignette printed in brown of a flying horse. V.g. Very scarce. Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 265 [Victorian Sampler] A Victorian Sampler from the Family of Moore of Trim. The two samplers are signed by Mary and Kate Moore and dated Sept. 14th, 1876. With letters of the alphabet in capitals and lower case, also numbers one to twelve. Measuring 280 x 400mm. Stitched with coloured wool. in fine condition. 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 266 [Eucharistic Congress] A collection of nine items relating to the Eucharistic Congress which was held in the Phoenix Park, Dublin in June, 1932: (1) Congress Photographs. A Souvenir of the Thirty-first International Eucharistic Congress with eleven illustrations of various events taking place during the congress. Dublin: Hely's Limited, n.d. (1932). Oblong octavo. Fine copy in stitched wraps. (2) Eurcharistic Congress banner, 74 x 110cm, with the Eucharistic Cross in gilt in centre with the legend 'Eurcharistic Congress' / '1932' above and below. Blue linen with gold braiding. Manufacturer's label 'Elliott's Irish Poplin' stitched to front. Slight wear to folds. (3) Map Showing Churches, Hostels, Phoenix Park, etc. (4) Thirty First International Eucharistic Congress Pictorial Record. Dublin, at the Sign of the Three Candles, for Veritas, 1932. Oblong 4to. 175 pp. Pictorial boards. Good / very good. Rare collection. (5) The Book of the Congress. Edited by Canon P. Boylan for the Supreme Governing Committee of the Congress, and the Archbishop of Dublin, Sponsor of the Congress. Profusely illustrated with many interesting articles. Presentation copy from Fr. Glynn of Crossboyne and with the Ex. Libris of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles, Castlemacgarrett. Small folio. 227 pp. Coloured wraps, designed by Ailbhe Ó Monacháin. (6) Commemorative Plate. Eucharistic Congress. Dublin. A.D. 1932. Beautifully decorated to a Celtic design with the Papal coat of arms, the O'Connell monument, a round tower with inscription 'Eire go Bragh' and the old Irish House of Parliament, enclosing in the centre a portrait of Pope Pius XI with the Papal and Irish flags. With maker's stamp on rear. Royal Ivory. John Maddock & Sons Ltd., England. (7) Silver Medal on a blue ribbon. With 'Choir' bar. Congressus Eucharistic Internat Dublinensis. Dublin, P. Quinn & Co., with hallmarks. These medals were of a limited edition issued only to members of the choir. (8) The Handbook of the Eucharistic Congress. Issued officially by the Organising Committee. 31st International Eucharistic Congress. Dublin. 1932. 160 pp. Wraps. V.g. (9) Irish Press Eucharistic Congress Souvenir Supplement, 1932. Good. The thirty-first International Eucharistic Congress was held in Dublin, 22-26 June, 1932. It was formally opened by His Eminence Cardinal Lorenzo Lauri, in the presence of nine cardinals, over one hundred bishops and over one thousand priests and religious. The congress attracted many thousands of pilgrims from overseas. An altar was erected on O’Connell Bridge where the Cardinal Legate imparted Benediction. Masses were celebrated in the Phoenix Park, and over one and a half million people attended them. John McCormack sang ‘Panis Angelicus’ to the multitudes. 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 267 A collection of six 18th century Dublin newspapers. (a) [Dublin News-Letter] The Dublin News-Letter. From Tuesday August 17, to Saturday August 21, 1742. (Vol. VI. Number 589). Dublin: Printed by Edward Exshaw, at the Bible over against the Old Exchange, on Cork Hill; And A. Reilly, at the Stationers-Hall on Cork Hill: At which Places Advertisements are taken in, and nowhere else. Broadside, 4 pp.. Paper repair to centre fold. With: Facsimile of The Dublin News-Letter. for June 5th. 1784. (2) V.g. With reports on national and international news: Turkey, Russia, Sweden, Bohemia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Scotland, England and Dublin. There are several advertisements by Dublin publishers of works just published. There is also proposals for printing by subscription the Peerage of Ireland by John Lodge. There is also a notice of a stolen white Cambrick handkerchief, deserters and on goods imported from England. Hugh Crofton has a notice to the Gentlemen, Clergy and Freeholders of the County of Leitrim on the Vacancy in Parliament by the death of Theophilus Jones. (b) [Pue's Occurrences] Pue's Occurrences; From Saturday, April 23rd, to Tuesday April 26th, 1748. Broadside. 4 pp.. Folded. V.g. The News topics of the day included: To be sold at Public Auction by William Ross at Dick's Coffee-House in Skinner-Row on Monday 9th day of May next, the entire Libraries of the Most Rev. Fathers in God, Dr. Hugh Boulter, and Dr. John Hoadly, late Archbishops of Armagh ... being a most valuable collection of books in most faculties and languages ... History Antient and Modern, Philosophy, Antiquities, Voyages, Travels, ... The Sale to begin precisely at six 'Clock every evening. Catalogues to be had at the place of sale"; Announcement of the Opening of the Robin Hood Inn in Dame Street by Owen Sullivan, brother of Tim Sullivan of Kill, and to Con Sullivan of Timolin. There was 'Right Genuine Whisky' to be sold at Dick's Coffee-House in Skinner-Row at reasonable rates!, etc. (c) [Dublin Evening Post] The Dublin Evening Post. Saturday, June 5, 1784. Broadsheet. 4 pp. Folded. V.g. The News topics of the day included: Theft of one black mare in County Leitrim by Michael Kelagher, horse stealer; Notice by William Carr thanking the Linen Board for his appointment "I

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have been bred up from my infancy, under the care of my father, who all know the principle instrument in promoting and establishing the Linen and Yarn Market of Castlebar"; Miss M'Mahon and Miss Younge inform their friends and the public that they are continuing their Boarding School in Henry-Street; Notice by William Gilbert of his new edition of Cullen's practice of Physic; Notice by Pat Byrne Bookseller of his forthcoming publication 'The Source of the Evil', attributed to the celebrated Ed. Burke and Sheridan's 'Dictionary', etc. (d) [Dublin Chronicle] The Dublin Chronicle. Tuesday, July 6, 1790 (Vol. IV. No. 499). & March 5, 1791. Dublin: Printed by W. Sleater, 28, Dame-street, 1790. 8 pp. quarto. g/vg. (2) With reports on the French National Assembly, the Parliament of Ireland, action in the Baltic between the Swedes and Russians. There is a list of books offered for sale, recently imported by W. Sleater; Part VIII of Ledwich's Antiquities of Ireland just published by Grueber and M'Allister. There is also notice of plays at the Theatre Royal and linen drapery for sale at Arthur Donnellan's, Werburgh Street. 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 268 Book collecting. Catalogues of premier Irish book auctions plus associated items. Mealys, Adams, including the History sales etc etc. excellent reference. Circa 60 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 269 Folio Society - 1 box 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 270 Studies - An Irish Quarterly Review (14), Capuchin Annuals (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 271 Box of Winston Churchill Interest, and History of England 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 272 Small box of c20 vols all card covers but mint, Insurgent Ireland including 1916, the Curragh Incident et al. (20) 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 273 Box of Irish and 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 274 History Today a collection of bound and loose magazines; and The British Empire - a collection of Magazines 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 275 Large Collection of Irish Sporting Interest Programmes etc. GAA, Soccer, Athletics etc. 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 276 Large Collection of Irish International Rugby Match Programmes 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 277 George Bernard Shaw - Box Set of 12 Novels, c.1926 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 278 Bellinter House, The Glebe House and Gallery, The Hammers of Invicta, Warrenpoint Official Guide, Lough Swilly 1971, Carrickfergus Castle (2), Guide to Dunluce Castle, The Orange Order and 10 other similar interest guides etc. (19) 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 279 Foster, Vivid Faces; Jeffrey, 1916; Ferriter, A Nation and Not a Rabble. All three vols mint in djs,. Tim Pat Coogan, 1916, The Easter Rising; Gibney, A History of the Easter Rising in 50 objects; Bunbury, Easter Dawn; O’Keeffe, To Speak of Easter Week. Four 4to mint vols. (7) 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 280 Jack Yeats, Bruce Arnold, 1998 and three Yeats related books 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 281 Haunted Ireland by Tarquin Blake and four books on Ireland 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 282 The Union: Acts of Union, d. 2001, dj mint. Geoghegan, The Irish Act of Union, D. 1999 dj, mint. Brown, Geoghegan and Kelly, The Irish Act of Union, 1800, D. 2003, dj, mint. Girvan, From Union to Union, D. 2003. (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 283 The ViceRoys Postbag, L. 1904, large 8vo, 468 pps by Michael McDonagh; bookplate of historian Caesar Litton Falkiner and later owned by economist and historian George O’Brien. (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 284 Women of 98: Mrs Concannon 1920; Protestant Women’s Narrative of 1798; dj., 2001; Keogh and Furlong, Women of 98; Rebel Daughters, Janet Todd, dj 2003. Unusual lot in vg condition. (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 285 Feeney, Sinn Féin a Hundred Turbulent Years, 2002; Hanley, The IRA, 1926-1936; 2002; Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, 2002; Kee, The Green Flag and Coogan, The IRA. (5). 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 Limerick’s Fighting Story, 1916-21; Limerick, the Ir Revolution, 1912-1923; The War of Independence in Limerick, Toomey, 2010, mint. (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 287 Gallagher, My Story, Dungloe/Templecrone Co-Op; A History of Northern Ireland, 1920-1996; I Did Penal Servitude; Freedom to Achieve Freedom, The Irish Free State, 1922-1932; Fatal Influence; The Irish Tangle for English Readers; Brian Inglis’s copy, scarce. (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 288 Cork: Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story; Freedom to Choose, Micheál Martin; Hart, The IRA and its Enemies; Republican Cobh; Baptised in Blood, Cork Brigade Volunteers, 1913-1916; Kiskeam versus the Empire, JJ O Riordan cssr; 4to typescript, 100 pps; very scarce and rare. And two others similar. (8). Estimate: 50 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 289 Atik, Anne. How It Was - A Memoir of Samuel Beckett, signed and dedicated by Anne Atik, Offshore, signed and dedicated, Major/Minor by Alba Arihka (daugfher of Anne Atik and a Marlbrough Galleries exhibition catalogue Avigdor Arikha with inscription to Anne Atik (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 290 Burke's Landed Gentry 1937 Centenary Edition Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 291 Fr. Browne's Ireland, Lost Ireland by O'Connor, Ireland's V.C.s, Art of Down, Shell Guide To The Shannon 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 292 Boyle, The Irish Labour Movement in the c19; Labour and Partition; Limerick Boycott, 1904; Lynch, Radical Politics in Modern Ireland, 1896-1904. (4). Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 293 , The Triumph of Failure, Ruth Dudley Edwards, 1977: Carty, In Bloody Protest, the tragedy of PP; PP A life in Pictures, Brian Crowley, 2013’; Sisson, Pearse’s Patriots; Boy Republic, PP and Educ. (5). 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 294 Maryann Valiulis, Gen , large 8vo, 1992, dj, vg; Richard Mulcahy (1886-1971), a Family Memoir by Risteárd Mulcahy 1999; signed copy to Mary and Paddy Lynch (20/X1/2000); invite to launch and newspaper review of same included. (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 295 Ulick O Connor, Executions, 1992; Stuart, Opportunity Knocks Once, 1952; appendix on 1916; Ir Times book of 1916, 4to; Githen-Mazer, Myths and Memories of the Easter Rising, 2016. And three other similar. (7) 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 296 The Easter Proclamation, de Paor, 2nd 2016; Letters from Dublin; The Road to Freedom, Kenny, NMI; Irwin, Betrayal in Ireland, - a personal record of the years, 1916-1924 by a Dubliner who was a member of the Loyalist minority group; published by the Northern Whig, Belfast. The Splendid Years, The Abbey, 1916; Co Tipperary in 1916, booklet. Wolfe Tone Annual 1961. (7) 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 297 Irwin, Betrayal in Ireland, - a personal record of the years, 1916-1924 by a Dubliner who was a member of the Loyalist minority group; published by the Northern Whig, Belfast. Cuimhneachain 1916, NGI 1966; Wolfe Tone Annual, 1950, devoted to 1916; Offprint from TD Williams of The Irish Struggle. And three others (7) 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 298 Emily Duchess of Leinster by Brian Fitzgerald and seven items of Irish History and Biography 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 299 James Connolly: The Reconquest of Ireland; In Search of the Man (Connolly); Tart na Córa (Mac an Bheatha); A biography, (Levenson); A life (Greaves), Patrick Lynch’s copy. (5). 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 300 Women Studies: Maire MacSwiney Brugha; From Pardon and Protest; Kathleen A. Browne’; Cumann na mBan; Mary Travers; Eva Gore-Booth; Kathleen Clarke and 4 others. (11) Estimate: 40 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 301 Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, edited by his brother, 4 vols, 1848/1849; embossed cloth of large 8vos. Vol 4 repaired using original covers. Vol The Irish Rebellion; Vol 2 Arrangements for a Union; Vol 3 Completion of the legislative Union; Concessions to Catholics ete..Emmet’s Insurrection. VG set and essential for background to the period. (4) 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 302 Edmund Burke: Public and Domestic Life of, Peter Burke, L. 1854, small 8vo in full leather. Crowe, Ed Burke, his life and legacy, 1997, dj, 8vo mint; Reid, EB and the practice of Pol Writing, 1985, Dj , vg; Stanley Ayling, Ed B, 1988, dj large 8vo, vg; O’Brien, EB; Nick Robinson, EB a life in Caricature,wide 4to, 1996, vg in dj. (6) 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 303 Carey, Hanged for Ireland, 2001, 4to, vg; and 7 mint card covers of significant p/bs: Arming the Protestants; Hearts and Minds; In Defence of Ireland; The Spy in the Castle; Irish Rebels in English Prisons; IRA Jailbreaks, 1918-1921; Prisoners of War, Ballykinlar, 1920-1921. A most interesting lot. : One Day in My Life, long dedication from Tommy McCann to a monk at Mt St Joseph Roscrea; The Writings of Bobby Sands; Freedom Fighter; Hunger Strike of 1981, dj mint; Reflections of a Quiet Rebel, dj. (13) 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 304 Signed. Christy Moore, One Voice, My life in Song. 2000 and four books on music in Ireland 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 305 Ulster Journal of Archaeology. Second Series. 1894 to 1911. 8 volumes, bound in contemporary half-leather. colour plates, folding maps etc. Estimate: 250 - 450 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 Gossiping Guide To Co. Louth, Round Our North Corner, Official Guide To Louth & Meath, The Crane Bag, The Olympian and The Leprechaun, Belfast Before 1820 - a Bibliography of Printed Material, Monasticon Hibernicum etc. (30), 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 307 ‘Killarney Sketches’, etc. by Fitz-Erin. [Reverend John Fitzgerald Day]. Dublin, George Herbert. 1863. original embossed cloth binding. Presentation inscription from ‘Fitz-Erin, Beaufort, June 1863’ 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 308 The Hand-book for Youghal, Historic Annals of Town; St. Mary’s Church; Franciscan and Dominican friaries; Sir Walter Raleigh’s House; ’98 Rebellion; Rising &. 1896. original wrappers Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 309 An Abstract of Certain Deposition, by virtue of His Majesty's Commission taken upon oath concerning the Traiterous intention of the Rebels in Ireland, in respecting the Government of His Majesty in having a King of their own; and who that King should be'. Pamphlet, London 1642 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 310 [Mayo]. Foxford and the Providence Woollen Mills. The Story of an Irish Industry. Rev. T. A. Finlay, S. J. Fallon. 1932. plates. Original printed wrappers. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 311 James Connolly - A Study of his Work and Worth by Gerard O'Connor. Dublin 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 312 The Illustrated Guide To Waterford for 1918, with a New Guide to Dungarvan. Published at the offices of The Waterford News 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 Bigger, Francis Joseph. Four Shots From Down. Belfast 1913 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 314 Bibliography of the Works of William Reeves D. D., Late Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore, President of the Royal Irish Academy by John Ribton Garstin, Dublin 1898 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 315 Privately Printed at the Cuala Press. Six Poems by Gerard Norman Reddin. Original printed wrappers. A very rare private printing. 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 316 Ennis in the Banner County by Very Rev. P. J. Canon Vaughan, P. P. Quin, County Clare [Chairman Vocational Education Committee]. [ 1946]. original wrappers. 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 317 Canon Hannay D. LITT [George Birmingham] As I Knew Him by Hilda Martindale. Circa 1948. Wrappers with Form of Service for Induction of James Owen Hannay to benefice of Holy Trinity, June 1934 and a 2 page letter from Rev. J. O. Hannay, December 1943 Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 318 Home Again by John Montague. Festival Publications, Queen’s University of Belfast. wrappers. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 319 Wilde, Oscar. Programme. Theatre Royal Haymarket - Lady Windermere's Fan. A Plat in Four Acts. John Gielgud’s Production. Decor by Cecil Beaton. No date. Fine Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 320 Belfast and County Down Railway Timetable. November 1862, very early railway timetable 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 321 Wilde, Oscar. Programme. Gaiety Theatre - The Picture of Dorian Gray. Micheal Mac Liammóir’s dramatization of Oscar Wilde’s only Novel. Printed by Hely’s. Illustrated stapled wraps. Cast included Mac Liammóir. Fine. Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 322 [Ballyshannon Drama] Ballyshannon All-Ireland Drama Festival. Souvenir Programme of the Ninth Festival at the Abbey Theatre, Ballyshannon Friday, 1st April to Sunday, April 10th. Adjudicator: Micheal Mac Liammoir. Ballyshannon, Printed at The Donegal Democrat, n.d. [16] pages. Stapled printed wraps. Signed 'for Eithne - congratulations - , / Micheál Mac Liammoir' on fifth page. Light fraying to edges, otherwise in very good condition. Rare. The presentation inscription from Mac Liammoir was to Eithne Dolan who played the part of Christine in 'The Blind Wolf'. 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 323 [Sligo Feis Ceoil] Souvenir Programme Sligo Feis Ceoil 13th to 18th April, 1936. English Recitation Tests for 1936. To be held at the "Sligo Independent" Office, and Sligo Stationery Shops, also at Feis Halls during the Competitions. Adjudicator Mr. Michael Mac Liammoir. Sligo: W.D. Peables, "Independent" Works, 1936. 13 pages. Green printed stapled wraprs. Signature of Eithne Dolan 61 John Street, Sligo on upper wrapper. A good copy. Rare. The Recitations included: Shakespeare's Sonnet (65); 'The Bells' by Edgar Allan Poe; 'The Voice' by Rupert Brooke; 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens; 'Lullaby' by Seumas O'Sullivan; 'The Island' by A.A. Milne; 'The Stolen Child' by W.B. Yeats; 'A Day in Ireland' by Michael Cavanagh, 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 324 [Sligo Feis] Feis Shligigh. Souvenir Programme. Sligo's Noble Six Commemoration 50th. Anniversary. Present Irish Evening with Buffet Supper, at Hotel, Silver Swan, Sligo, 20th. September, 1972. Sligo: 1972. Pictorial card with Celtic border and arms of the four provinces in corners. Fine. With portraits of: Capt. Harry Benson; Lieut. Paddy Carroll; Div. Adjt. Brian McNeill; Brigadier Seamus Devins; Volunteer Joseph Banks and Volunteer Tommy Langan. 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 325 Limerick Arch-confraternity. Golden Jubilee of the Holy Family, Mount St. Alphonsus, Limerick 1868-1918. photographs. wrappers. A very interesting item. 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 326 Punchestown Races. Annual Auctions attendant upon the Punchestown Races Monday 27th - Friday 29th. April, 1892. To be sold by Messers. Sewell, Lower Mount Street, Dublin. Printed by Atkinson, Dublin [1892]. 20 pp. Stapled printed wraps. Mild staining. G vg 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 327 MacLiammóir, Micheál. Programme. The Ford of The Hurdles, A Masque of Dublin. An Historical Pageant-Play to be performed at the Mansion House, Dublin, on September 9th - 15th at Eight o'clock pm. Illustrated. Dublin: [1929]). Quarto. 20 pages. Printed stapled wraps. Fine 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 328 [Irish Sportsmen] A Series of Fifty Cigarette Cards on Irish Sportsmen. The cards display portraits of famous Irish Sportsmen of the 1920s and 1930s. Published by W.D. & H.O. Wills. Issued by the Imperial Tobacco Co. (of Great Britain & Ireland), Ltd. All in very good condition. The Sportsmen include: Mawell, Arnott; J.L. Brennan; Sean Burke; W. Burke; Joe Canty; R.N. Case; G. Comerford; W.E. Crawford; Maurice Davin; John Doyle; R.J. Duggan; S.Fenning; Lord Fingall; Willoughby Hamilton; G. Hamlet; George Hutchinson; R.H. Lambert; John McDonald; Joe McGrath; Trevor McVeagh; Sean Oge Murphy; William Nolan; P. O'Donoghue; George Ormsby; J.J. Parkinson; T. Soye; Mr. Justice Wylie, and many more. 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 329 Sinn Fein. Nomination form for officers and committee for annual Ard Fheis 1937, with list of delegates from Tomás Daibhis Cumann, 2 pp, cyclostyled typescript, ms. entries with some amendments. Nominations include Mrs. Buckley as President and P. de Paor as Vice President (replacing original choice of Count Plunkett). 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 330 [Chronoscope] By Permission of the LORD MAYOR. Just arrived from London, with the celebrated Mr. Astley, and to be seen at Mr. Clark’s, Hosier, in Dame-Street .. This curious piece of MACHINERY is call’d The CHRONOPSCOPE’ or, The Manners of the Eastern World displayed. Being a most elegant piece of mechanism, compos’d of Achitecture. Scuplture, Music and Painting .. representing in great Pomp and Magnificence, An Eastern Monarch mounted on his Elephant .. Admittance only ONE BRITISH SHILLING. Single sheet, circa 29 x 22 cms, double-column, fold marks, frayed at edges with loss of a few letters, extremely rare. Not found in NLI online catalogue 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 331 [Parody] A manuscript parody of the popular song ‘Let’s Fall in Love’, with verses referring to various Irish issues and figures of the 1960s including Noel Browne, the ESB, Brendan Behan, etc., attributed in an attached note to the journalist Liam MacGabhann. Single sheet, worn, tearing at fold. 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 332 A manuscript contract or draft contract between six named subscribers, for the purpose of constructing a blacksmith’s shop on the property now owned by Alexander Noble, Buffalo township, Washington C. Pa. Not dated, apparently 19th century. The subscribers (signed individually) are William Grimes, 1 Share; John Sawhill, 1 Share; Milton Omer (?) ¼ Share; Alexn. LeValls (?)1 Share; George Mitchell, ½ Share; Jas. Alliser, 1 Share. No stamps or witnesses. Single sheet of book-keeper’s paper, verso blank. Fold marks, a little soiled, o.w. v.g. There was a large Irish community in Buffalo after the Famine 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

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Lot 333 [LETTER FROM ACCRA] ALS in an youthful hand dated Accra, 23-7-16, 2pp, to ‘My dear Mother’ from W.H.S. Truell, discussing flowers sent home, also a parrot which makes a mess and will very likely die on the voyage,. ‘NB. I am not going to clean its cage out at home. Here my boys do it. If you will pay his passage I’ll bring you a black boy, like all the best people in England had 150 years ago. I expect they’d like him in the Kitchen 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 334 Abbey Theatre, Dublin. London Press Opinions of the acting of the Second Company. D. n.d., 4pp quarto (single folded sheet), with a taller sheet laid in printed in two colours, giving details of four productions including Yeats’ Deirdre and two short plays by Lady Gregory. [The ‘Second Company’, so-called, included such great names as J.M. Kerrigan, Arthur Sinclair, F.J. Fay, Sara Allgood and Maire O’Neill. Their performances were at the Court Theatre, London]. 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 335 [Letter from Johannesburg] Lindsay, Henry, Solicitor, Johannesburg. Interesting TLS to H.H. Jones of Ballina, Co. Mayo, 8 Sept. 1914, concerning the management of a property in South Africa, advising that Findlay is doing nothing to improve the farm. ‘He seems to be doing nothing there except, we presume, collecting rents from Kaffirs’. After discussing other tenants, he advises that the property should be sold if possible, and the money put at interest. 2pp 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 336 [Coppin, Capt. William (1805-1895)]. A collection of typescript and manuscript documents, apparently materials for a biography of this Kinsale-born sailor, shipbuilder and inventor, who did much to establish shipbuilding in . About 80 pp typescript, irregularly numbered or unnumbered, unsigned, with a few pages in manuscript. [A biography of Capt. Coppin was published by the Foyle Trust in Derry in 1992]. Offered as a draft, w.a.f. 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 337 The Anglo Saxon Review September and December 1899. Illustrated. Folio. Bellingham book plate. Fine gilt decorative binding. (2) 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 338 A. Hanslip and W. Mackay. The Prize ABC. 1890. Folio. Colour and other plates and Liline and Farrot. c.1895. Folio with colour plates. (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 339 Healy, Rev. John: 'Maynooth College' 1 Volume (1895) - it's Centenary 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 340 L.D. 0’Walters. The Year’s at the Spring. 1930. First edit. Illus in colour by Harry Clarke. Attractive floral cover 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 341 Vanishing Dublin by Flora Mitchell. Two "Perfect Bound" reprints 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 342 Maeterlinck, M Hours Of Gladness, illustrated by E J Detmond, 1912 with full colour illustrations in gilt decorated cloth. Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 343 Vere Gregory, The House of Gregory, 1943 and four Galway related items Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 344 Brendan Scott. Religion and Reformation in The Tudor Diocese of Meath. 2006; and Noel Garnham The Courts, Crime & the Criminal Law in Ireland. 1996 1st; and James Kelly. Prelude to Union. 1992 With stamp and book plate of Carroll Institute (U.K. based Offaly institution). First in dust jackets. 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 345 Sylvester O’Halloran of Limerick. A General History of Ireland from the Earliest Accounts to the Close of the Twelfth Century by Mr. O’Halloran. London, Printed for the Author. 1778. 2 volumes in one. Contemporary plain leather binding. Bookplate of Samuel Caswell, Blackwater, Limerick. 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 346 Edward A. Freeman. The Historical Geography of Europe. 1882. 2 volumes. Vol one – Text and Vol 2 Atlas with numerous folding coloured maps. Contemporary calf, gilt spines with gilt college brands on covers. Fine set. 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 347 1798 Rebellion In Co. Down, Dublin 1660-1860 by Maurice Craig, The Way That I Weny by Robert L Praeger and The Irish Free State And It's Senate by Donal O'Sullivan (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 348 Trevor West. Horace Plunkett. 1986. 1st Signed presentation copy from author; and M. McNamara & P. Mooney. Women in Parliament. (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 349 Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1984, Victor Gollancz, in DJ. London Fields, Martin Amis, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1989, Jonathan Cape, in DJ. Shame, Salmon Rushdie, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1983, Jonathan Cape, in DJ. The Children of Men, P. D. James, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1992, Faber & Faber, in DJ. The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1990, Faber & Faber, in DJ (5) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 350 Elizabeth Twigg. Songs & Poems. 1904, Richard Hayward. Belfast Through The Ages 1952 and Guide to Belfast and The Adjoining Counties. 1874. Maps & plates. Gilt cloth marked Presentation Copy 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 351 Cookery Notes For the use in Schools and Classes for Girls....1939 and two Irish cookery books Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 352 Rev. T. Brett. Life of Dr Patrick Duggan, Bishop of Clonfert. 1921 Illustrated; and J. Murphy. The Reddingtons of Clarinbridge. 1999. 1st. Illustrated (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 353 The Speckled People, Hugo Hamilton, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2003, Fourth Estate, in DJ. Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann, 1st Edition, First Printing, 2009, Bloomsbury, in DJ. Zoli, Colm McCann, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2006, Weidenfield & Nicholson, in DJ. Transatlantic, Colum McCann, 1st US Edition, 1st Printing 3013, Random House, in DJ. Crucible, Donal O’Neill, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1986, Macdonald, in DJ. The Circus Animals, James Plunkett, 1st Edition 1st Printing, 1990, Hutchinson. In DJ. (6) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 354 The Return of Eva Peron, V.S. Naipaul, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1980, Alfred A. Knopf, in DJ. The Mimic Men, V.S. Naipaul, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1967, Andre Deutsch, in DJ. Finding The Centre, Two Narratives, V. S. Naipaul, 1st Edition, First Printing, 1984, Andre Deutsch, in DJ. Half A Life, V.S. Naipaul, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2001, Picador, in DJ. (4) 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 355 Heaney, Seamus. The Government of the Tongue. London: Faber, 1998. Hardback edition. Signed and inscribed by the Nobel Laureate on the title page on the front endpaper. V.g.in d.j 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 356 Dineen, Patrick S. 'Focloir Gaedilge agus Bearla/ An Irish English Dictionary', 1 Volume, 1975 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 357 Our Inish Eoghain Heritage, Brian Bonner. 1972 Derry, an Outline history of the Diocese. Brian Bonner. 1982 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 358 J.J. Connolly. Contested Island – Ireland 1460-1630. 2007; and John M. Regan. The Irish Counter Revolution 1921-1936. Illustrated. 1999. 2 first editions in pictorial dust jackets. Pristine. 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 359 Nora McGuinness. The Literary Universe of Jack B. Yeats 1962 and Exhibition catalogue Jack B. Yeats at Victor Waddington Galleries, London Sept/Oct 1967. (2) Estimate: 50 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 360 Six Volumes of Irish Fiction: Joseph O'Connor, John Banville , Franceis Stuart, Claire Boylan, Gerald Hanley and John McGahern. 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 361 By The Corribside, Maurice Semple 1981 Inscribed by author on title page thus: For Sir John and Lady Esmonde With my Compliments Maurice Semple, 21.XI . 1981. plus letter of thanks to Sir John Esmond. 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 362 Herman Melville. Typee. 1950. Introduction by Robert Gibbings. Illus.; and P. Mathers. Salambo. 1940. Illustrated. 2 dcor bindings. 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

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Lot 363 Christmas Tales, John B. Keane, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1993, Mercier Press in DJ. Dance Hall Days, George O’Brien, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1988, Lilliput Press, in DJ. The Pear is Ripe A Memoir, John Montague, 1st Edition, 1 Printing, 2007, Liberties Press, in DJ. Hazel, The Life of Lady Lavery, Sinead McCoole, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Lilliput Press, in DJ. (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 364 Politicians by Accident, Liam Skinner 1941; , Eithne MacDermott, 1998 (2) Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 365 Gleeson, Rev. John; 'Cashel of the Kings' 1st Edition, 1 Volume, Dublin 1927 Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 366 S.P.B. Mais. I Return to Ireland. 1948 and Leon 0’Broin. Parnell. 1937. Two illus. firsts 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 367 The Face of Ireland by Floyd, The Maiden City and The Western Ocean by Cooke, Through The Window - Paddington to Killarney (G.W.R.) and Northern Ireland a New Guide Book with a portrait by E Estyn Evans (5) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 368 Journal of a Voyage Round the World by Capt. W.D. Seymour, J.P. Queenstown Co. Cork. and two Cork related books. 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 369 L.C. Ingleby. Oscar Wilde. C. 1920. 1st edit.; and William Wilde. Irish Popular Superstitions. 1972. (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 370 A. Hoare. In Green and Red – The Lives of Frank Ryan. 2004. 1st. Signed presentation copy from author and James Connolly. Between Comrades – Letters & Correspondence 1889-1916. Edited by Donal Nevin (2) Estimate: 40 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 371 Novum Testamentum Graece. Published Antwerp. 1583. Rare Latin/Greek New Testament work from the diocesan library Carlow with their brand on title page. Half calf. Rare early work 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 372 St. Patrick. His Life and Mission by Concannon; Prince Patrick by Arnold; In the Steps of St. Patrick; St. Patrick’s Purgatory by Leslie and one other (5) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 373 Four books on: Casement , De Valera , MacBride and Collins 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 374 Rev. Patrick Lavelle, Cong. The Irish Landlord since the Revolution. 1870. First edition (Heroic Land League priest) Original cloth. Scarce. 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 375 Orders for the Captain, Capt. James Kelly, 1971, 1st Edition, signed by author. In 1970 Capt. Kelly, an army officer, was one of 5 people (including 2 Government Ministers, and Neil Blaney) who were arrested and charged with attempted gun running. During the subsequent trials all of the accused were acquitted. This is Capt. Kelly’s account of events. 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 376 Heather Island, Joan McBreen, Salmon Publishing, 2009, 1st Edition, inscribed by author, S/C You First, Mia Gallagher, 2005, Printed by Kilkenny People, Limited Edition 50/150, S/C (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 377 From Jamie Macken To his father Eddie Macken Christmas 1998 Michael Slavin, Show Jumping Legends Ireland, 1868-1998. Inscribed “To Dad, Happy Christmas ’98 I hope you enjoy reading this and looking at yourself! (P147). All my love Jamie” Signatures on front end paper: Paul Duffy, Tom Slattery, Con Power, Capt. William Hayes, Ann Smurfit , Deirdre ?, Iris Kellitt, Patricia ?,Paddy ?, Eli ?, Leslie Fitzpatrick, On Title page: To the greatest of them yet, Michael Slavin 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 378 Characters of the Turf, Peter A. Mason, 1st Edition, 2007, Avalon Promotions, in DJ. Best Mate, Anne Holland, 1st Edition, 2004, Orion Books, in DJ. Lester, Return of a Legend, John Karter, 1st Edition 1992, Headline Publishing, in DJ. Vintage Crop, Dermot Weld, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2009, Gill & MacMillan, in 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 379 So Far So Good, Liam Brady, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1980, Hutchinson, in DJ. My Liverpool Home, Kenny Dalglish, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, 2010, Hodder & Stoughton, signed by Kenny Dalgleish, in SC. (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 380 A Football Man, John Giles, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2010, Hachette Books, signed by John Giles, in DJ. The Rocky Road, Eamon Dunphy, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2013, Penguin, inscribed by Author, in DJ. (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 381 Heroes All, Darren Clarke, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2006, Hodder & Stoughton, signed by Darren Clarke, in DJ. An Autobiography, Peter Alliss, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1981, Collins, in DJ. (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 382 Tipperary Hurling Interest. The Tubberadora-Boherlahan Hurling Story by Philip F. Ryan. 1973. and The Burgess Story. A History and 3 others. (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 383 Bundle of Sporting Books Estimate: 20 - 30 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 384 Seamus O’Riain. Maurice Davin – First President of the G.A.A. 1st edit. Illustrated. Loosely inserted Dinner menu for Irish & England International rugby teams at London Hilton Hotel, Park Lane on Saturday 12th Feb. 1972. Also 2 All Ireland Football Final programmes 1998 & 2000 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 385 G. Cloherty. Annals of the G.A.A. in Galway 2006. Illustrated and David McGann. For The Pride of the Parish (History of Sarsfield’s Club, Galway) 203. (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 386 Watson, Samuel. Stewart, Thomas. and Stewart, John Watson. The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, compiled by Samuel Watson, Bookseller, For the Year of our Lord, 1770, 1775, 1779, 1781, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800, 1802, 1803, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1819, 1820, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1827. Containing, The Days of the Year and Month; Week-Days; Sun's Rising and Setting; Moon's Age and Changes; a Table of Equation; the times of High Water at Dublin-Bar. Several Tables, Altered, Renewed, or Continued. The Marriages and Deaths of the Princes of Europe. The Names of the Lord Lieutenant; of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and of The Lords and Commons of Parliament. Also the Judges, and several other Persons in places of High Trust and Office in Ireland both Civil and Military; The Dublin Society: The Hospitals; The Roads and Fairs; The Post-Towns, Noted Places, referring to them, and Foreign Postages. Bound with: The English Registry, For the Year of our Lord 1770 to 1827. Also contains An Alphabetical List of the Names, Occupations, and Places of Abode (numbered) of the Merchants and Traders of the City of Dublin. Dublin: Printed for Samuel Watson, at No. 71, in Grafton-Street, Thomas Stewart, Bookseller, No. 1 King's-Inns-Quay, and George Draper, Jun., 1770 - 1827. Recent cloth. A few volumes lacking titles and some pages at beginning. Contemporary worn full polished calf, title and volume number in gilt in contrasting morocco labels on spine. In ink on upper cover 'Henry Alcock / his book / not / Madam Alcock'. Henry and Catherine Alcock's signatures on titlepage. Fine. 42 volumes. As a collection w.a.f. Samuel Watson (c.1739–1801), bookseller, was no blood relation to John Watson. He was the son of Francis Watson (d. 1749), saddler, and had been apprenticed in 1752 to his older brother, Thomas Watson (c.1731–1782), a bookseller with premises in Capel St. (1753–6) and Bridge St. (1758–71). In 1759 Watson began a solo practice after taking over the house and stock of a late bookseller, James Rudd in Virgil's Head, near Trinity Lane, 48 Dame St. (1759–84). After marriage (27 January 1765) to John Watson's daughter, Elizabeth, he began selling in 1768 with Thomas Stewart the Gentleman's Almanack, and they continued to sell this until 1794; from 1770 the almanack was compiled by Samuel Watson. He retired in 1789 in favour of his wife's nephew George Draper, son of John Watson's daughter Margery, but as Draper went bankrupt by November 1793, Watson was back in business the following year and continued publishing and selling works until 1798. He died in Grafton St., Dublin, on 1 January 1801. Estimate: 2500 - 3500 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 387 [Georgian Society Records & Georgian Mansions] The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth-Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin. Together with: Georgian Mansions in Ireland. With some account of the evolution of Georgian architecture and decoration. By Thomas U. Sadlier & P.L. Dickinson. List of subscribers. Six volumes. With numerous plates and illustrations. Dublin: Printed for the Society, 1909-1915. Large 4to. Damp staining on all volumes. Needs conservation, recasing, etc. Sold as a collection w.a.f. 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 388 [Sligo’s Heroes] Broadside. Sligo's Nobel Six. With portraits of: Div. Adjt. Brian MacNeill; Brigadier Seamus Devins; Capt. Harry Benson; Lieut. Paddy Carroll; Vol. Joseph Banks and Vol. Tommy Langan. 180 x 254mm. Sligo: No date. Some crease marks. In good condition. On the side of Ben Bulben on the 20th of September, 1922, Sligo's Noble Six, captured by a rouse, as unarmed prisoners of war, were deliberately butchered by the British Colonial Forces 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 389 [Talbot] A linocut portrait of Matt Talbot, born 1856, died 1925, on blue card, signed Moncha Uí Charrthaigh 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 390 Broadside Ballads. Roy Neil; or Dublin Bay. Broadside ballad, 3 verses of 8 lines, with woodcut; also ‘Larry Doolan, or My Irish Jaunting Car’, 6 verses and chorus, references to Sebastopol and the . Single sheet, printed one side only, flimsy paper. No printer, no date, circa 1860. 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 391 [Frank Ryan] Easter Week and After by ‘Seachranaidhe’. National Publicity Committee. Circa 1929. modern marble boards preserving original wrappers. Ryan, a militant Republican born in County Limerick, had a dramatic life in Ireland, Spain and Germany. 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 392 Behan, Brendan. Programme. Pike Theatre Club presents The Quare Fellow 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 393 Beckett, Samuel. Programme. Pike Theatre Productions presents Waiting for Godot. Touring: Dundalk, , Drogheda, Cork, Clonmel, Waterford, Carlow. Production, and lighting directed by Alan Simpson. Fine 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 394 Cashel. A charge delivered to Clergy of the Dioceses of Cashel and Emly at Primary Visitation in September 1822 by Richard Lawrence, Archbishop of Cashel. Modern quarter leather. Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 395 Byron, Lord. Guiseppino. An occasional story. London: Davidson, 1821. First edition. Wraps. Fine. 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 396 Byron, Lord. Beppo. London: Murray, 1818. Fifth edition Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 397 Moore, George. The Talking Pine. Paris: The Hours Press, 1931. First edition. pp. 8. Edition limited to 500 copies hand-set and printed in brown ink on Maillol hand-made paper. Fine in stitched printed wraps 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 398 [Athlone Drama] Eighth All-Ireland Amateur Drama Festival (sponsored by the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland) Programme Saturday, 14th May 1960 in Dean Crowe Memorial Hall, Athlone. To-morrow Adjudication and Presentation of Trophies - Esso Trophy - Premier Award. Athlone: Printing Works Co. Ltd, 1960. [4] pages. Fine. Rare. Featured the play 'You Never Can Tell' by Bernard Shaw with the Newport Players. Adjudicated by Michael O hAodha and Hubert Wilmot 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 [Guinness] Alice Versary 1759 - 1959 The Guinness Birthday Book. Illustrated by Ronald Ferns. London: Guinness, 1959. First edition. pp. [12]. Pictorial wrappers. Guinness complimentary card inserted. Fine. A humorous parody of Lewis Carroll's, 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland', in prose and poems. Beautifully and extensively illustrated in brilliant colour by Ronald Ferns, in the manner of Tenniel. The booklet was designed for Guinness by their advertising agency S.H. Benson Ltd and printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd. 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 400 [Dissertation on the Spanish in Ireland] Die Spanier in Irland [1588-1603] Inaugeral-Dissertation der Hohen philosophischen Doktorwurde eingereicht von John B. Kelso aus Allegheny, Pa. Leipzig. 1902. printed wrappers. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 401 [Clarke, Austin] A Tribute to on his Seventieth Birthday 9 May 1966. Compiled and edited by John Montague and Liam Miller. Illustrated. Dublin: Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1966. Small folio. Wraps. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. V.g. in d.j. Contributors include: Thomas Kinsella; John Montague; Hugh Mac Diarmuid; Serge Fauchereau; ; Ted Hughes; Richard Weber; Christopher Ricks; Anthony Kerrigan; Denis Donoghue; Charles Tomlinson, and Liam Miller. 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 402 Clarke, Austin. Sister Eucharia. A Play in Three Scenes. Dublin: The Orwell Press, 1939. 32 pages. Quarto. Stiff white paper wrappers. Edition limited to 300 copies. V.g. Dust jacket. Austin [Augustine Joseph] Clarke (1896-1974), poet, playwright and novelist was born in Dublin. Educated at Belvedere College and U.C.D., he studied under and Thomas MacDonagh. He graduated with a first in English Language and Literature, and obtained an M.A. on the Jacobean dramatist John Ford. In 1917 he succeeded to the lectureship left vacant after the execution of MacDonagh the previous year. He worked as a book-reviewer in London for a number of years before returning to Ireland. In the 1940's with Robert Farren he established the Dublin Verse-Speaking Society, and in 1944 its theatrical offshoot, the Lyric Theatre Company Estimate: 60 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 403 A Lecture on ‘The Necessities of the Age’ by Rev. W. J. Mulcahy, P. P. Croagh in Aid of St. Joseph’s Orphanage and Industrial School, Limerick. 1900. printed wrappers. 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 404 Lists of the Freemen and Freeholders, Alphabetically Arranged, Who Voted at the Cork Election, December 1826. Cork, Printed by J. O’Connor with Appendix. Biographical Memoir of the Honourable C. H. Hutchinson. Disbound 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 405 A Report of the Proceedings at the Election for the City of Cork 9th July, 1829. Candidates Gerard Callaghan, Esq. Sir. Augustus Warren, Bart. Cork, Printed and Sold by J. O’Connor. Disbound 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 406 Heaney, Seamus. Crediting Poetry. Loughcrew, Gallery Press, 1995. Signed by the Nobel Laureate on the title page. Paperback edition. Fine 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 407 [Grand Canal] The Engineering Plagiarist; or, Dodd from Phillips Exposed. Newcastle: Printed by and for J. Whitfield, [1795]. Introductory material dated: Newcastle, June 1, 1795. (iii), 21 pp. (double column). Recent quarter morocco. V.g. Among the engineering works examined is the Grand Canal, "where several capital mistakes had been committed in the levels". 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 408 Seamus Heaney. Door Into The Dark Signed by Heaney, pb Estimate: 150 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 409 Lough Derg In Ulster by Shane Leslie, Illustrated by Clare Frewen. Dublin 1909. With all four 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 410 The Franciscan Church, Limerick. No place of publication or date. Circa 1930. pages of interesting photographs. original wrappers. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 411 Ann M. Stewart. R.H.A. - Index of Exhibitors 1826-1979. Volume one. 1985 and Anne Crookshank & The Knight of Glin. The Painters of Ireland 1660/1920. Quarto. Illustrated. Dust jacket. Two useful reference works 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 412 A Century of Golf at Lahinch 1991 , Enda Glynn 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 413 Catalogue of the Highly Important and Valuable Collection of Naval and Military Medals & Decorations, the property of Robert Day Esq. of Myrtle Hill House, Cork (a four day sale in April 1913). Along with 1999 Sale Catalogue of the Collection (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 414 Ireland Illustrated, From Original Drawings by G. Petrie and others. Historical and Topographical Descriptions by the Rev. G.N. Wright. [1840] 40 plates, few facsimiles. modern half-leather. Reasonable copy only. 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 415 Swift and His Circle, R Wyse Jackson, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1943, Talbot Press, in DJ. The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Toibin, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1999, Picador, in DJ. The Story of the Night, Colm Toibin, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1996, Picador, in DJ. Cowboys and Indians, Joseph O’Connor, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1991, Sinclair & Stevenson in DJ. The Book of Evidence, John Banville, 1 Edition, 1st Printing, 1989, Secker & Warburg, in DJ. (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 416 John L. Mosheim. De Rebus Christianorum. 1753. Latin text. Book plate Fine vellum binding & outstanding provenance as the book is marked “Cardinal Manning’s Copy” in a contemporary hand on the front end paper. 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 417 Nicholls, George: 'Poor Laws Ireland' - 3 Reports, London 1838 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 418 Modern Irish Drama. Lady Gregory, Mervyn Wall, , Noel Marian, George Sheils. Some scarce plays. Approximately 26 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 419 John C. O’Callaghan. History of The Irish Brigade in the Service of France. 1869. 1st edit and Colm Breen. The Gaelic Lordship of The 0’Sullivan Beare. 2005. 1st.Attractive dust jacket. (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 420 Sneem, The Knot in the Ring, T.E. Stoakley, and five books on the Kerry Islands 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 The Táin, , 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2007, Penguin, in DJ. Give Me Your Hand, , 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1994, Macmillan. Citizen Burke, Eilis Dillon, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1984, Hodder & Stoughton, in DJ. A Shadow on Summer, Christy Brown, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1974, Secker & Warburg, in 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 422 Owen Dudley Edwards, Eamon de Valera, Political Portraits, card covers, 1987. A unique association presentation copy with significant words from the author on the half title to his father R. Dudley Edwards, 26/11/1987; later on 17/June/ 1988 following the death of RDE, Owen further inscribed and presented the copy on the title page to his father’s friend, Patrick Lynch, ‘as father would have wished with love and gratitude. Owen’ . Unique copy. (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 423 James Connolly, Socialism and Nationalism: A selection from the writings of James Connolly with introduction and notes by Desmond Ryan, At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1948 1st Edition in Dust Jacket. 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 424 Field and Fare and The Woman at the Window by O’Conaire in dust wrapper. The Rising of the Moon and 2 other hard backs. 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 425 Crazy about Women, Paul Durcan, Published by the National Gallery of Ireland on the occasion of the exhibition Crazy About Women 15 Oct.- 20 Dec.1991. 1st Edition in D/J 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 426 Thomas Ingoldsby. The Ingoldsby Legends. 1840. Poems of Robert Browning. 1907 and Selected Poems of Francis Thompson. 3 volumes all in fine binding 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 A Legend of Dundrum Castle, within the County of Dublin: being a chronicle of the House of Bagod De La Rath. Done into English by Mrs. Faber. 1869. contemporary embossed cloth. 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 428 Beekeeping: R.O.B. Manley 'Honey Production in the British Isles', 1936 and Ivrad 'The Mystery of the Hive', 1923 and two others Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 429 Rev. P. Hickey. Insfail or Distant Days in Tipperary. 1906. 1st edit.; and A. Bourke The Burning of Bridget Cleary 1999; and G. Carville The Heritage of Holy Cross. 1973. (3) Estimate: 40 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 430 Bishop of Cloine: A Miscellany containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects', London 1752 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 431 Northern Ireland Troubles: Burntollet, Irish Songs of Resistance, Fianna Fail and The IRA Connection and 6 others Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 432 R. Gillespie. The Medieval Manuscripts of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. 2006. Illustrated; and B. 0’Sullivan. Medieval Irish Dominican Studies. 2009. Two 1st edits in pictorial 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 433 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1993, Secker & Warburg with DJ. The Snapper, Roddy Doyle, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1990, Secker & Warburg, in DJ. The Van, Roddy Doyle, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, 1991, Secker & Warburg, in DJ. 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 434 Galway interest. The Abbey of Ross. 1908; Annaghdown and the Aran Islands; and Aran of the Saints. 9126; White Sheeted Fort; and Kinvara History & 4 others. 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 435 No Earthly Estate, God and , Tom Stack, 1st Edition, 2002, Columbia Press, in DJ. The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2012, Viking, in DJ. The Gathering, Anne Enright, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2007, Jonathan Cape, in DJ. The Lemur, Benjamin Black, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2008, Picador, in DJ.(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 436 Wexford and Waterford Interest. Enniscorthy St. Aidan’s Cathedral 1846-196. Souvenir Publication & Our Lady’s Island Wexford. Circa 1940; Templetown Church; and From the Old Waterford House and 3 others. 7 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 437 The Evolution of Sinn Fein, Robert Mitchell Henry 1920 and three books relating to the struggle for Independence 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 438 Heaney, Seamus. New Selected Poems 1966 - 1987. London: Faber, 1990. First edition. Signed by the Nobel Laureate on front endpaper, with line of verse ‘I rhyme to see myself ... ‘ Hardback edition. in d.j. V.g. Estimate: 350 - 450 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 439 Lennox Robinson, Crabbed Youth and Age a Little Comedy and two other volumes by Robinson 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 440 Anthony C. West. The Ferret Fancier. 1963. 1st edit in fine dust jacket. Scarce. 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 441 Thomas Murphy. The Sanctuary Lamp. 1984. And . The Battle of Aughrim. 1968. 1st. 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 442 Cpt. Robert F. Scott. The Voyage of the “Discovery”. 1905. 2 volumes. Fine plates & maps. Original gilt decorative cloth. Estimate: 200 - 220 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 443 B. Schotani. Examen Judicicum. 1711. Frontispiece. Vellum. Scarce. 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 444 Seamus Heaney. Beowulf. 2000. First U.S. edition Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 445 Deacon's Book Of Dates, sean by Sean T O'Kelly and Devenish (Lough Erne) signed by Cearbhall O'Dalaigh and 1963 Diary with newspaper obituaries. Signatures of Ireland's 2nd and 5th Presidents (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 446 Fred Holroyd, Nick Burbridge, War Without Honour lacks title page and four books on 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland 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 447 Elizabeth Bowen. The Shelbourne. 1955. Illustrated; and M.J. McManus So This is Dublin. 1927. 1st; and T. Cooke (Editor)The Dublin Book of Irish Verse. 1915. 1st (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 Signed by , Love of Ireland Poems from the Irish 1989 and five other books of Irish Poetry. 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 449 Saints Patrick and Columba. Writings of Patrick by Wright. Circa 1880; Saint Patrick in History by Shahan. 1904; St. Patrick Apostle of Ireland by Rev. Arthur Ryan, Thurles. 1890; and Life of Saint Columba by Daniel McCarthy, Bishop of Kerry. Circa 1880. 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

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Lot 450 Wolf Brother, Michelle Paver, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, 2004, Orion, signed by the Author, in DJ. Spirit Walker, Michelle Paver, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2005, Orion, in DJ. Soul Eater, Michelle Paver, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2006, Orion, in DJ. Bath Breaker, Michelle Paver, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2008, Orion, in DJ. (4) 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 451 A.T. Lucas. Cattle in Ireland. 1989 Carroll Institute library book plate and brand; and K. Hickey Wolves in Ireland. 2011. Two illustrated firsts Estimate: 40 - 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 Hardy, Francis Re: Life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, 2 vols 1812 (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 453 Ward & Locke's Illustrated Guide to the Popular History of Dublin, The Giant's Causeway and Belfast (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 454 Irishmen All by George A. Birmingham. Twelve Illustrations in Colour by Jack Yeats. 1st ed. Foulis 1913 Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 455 Rev John 0’Sullivan. A Commentary on the Book of Psalms. Translated from the Latin 1866. Small folio. 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 456 Gerard, Francis; 'Picturesque Dublin, Old and New' - 1 Volume 1898 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 457 O'Connell Calling by J. J. O'Kelly and three books on early 19th century Ireland 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 458 Brendan Kennelly. Getting Up Early. 1966. 1st; and B. Kennelly. Good Souls To Survive. 1968. Fine dust jackets. (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 459 Fridtjof Nansen. Farthest North. 1898. 1st edit. 2 volumes. Numerous maps and plates. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Estimate: 130 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 460 Trim Castle, Richard Butler 1978. Riocht na Midhe Vol. 1, Numbers 1-4, 1955-1958 reprint 1996 and three Meath related items Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 461 Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Irish literature. Father Butler. The Lough Derg Pilgrim by William Carleton. 1839; Orain Ghaidhealach agus Bearla air an Eada-Theangacha le Coinneach MacCoinnigh 1792; and Tales of the Trains being some Chapters of Railroad Romance by Tilbury Tramp [Charles Lever]. 1845; The Vicar of Wakefield by illustrated by Hugh Thompson. 1894. (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 462 Michael Combrune. The Theory and Practice of Brewing. 1804. Fine half calf. Very scarce Estimate: 150 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 463 Collection of Irish Pamphlets on monasteries, saints, churches, social life etc etc. approximately 60 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 464 Totamas on Eirinn, Sean Mac Suibhne, and two other books in Irish 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 465 R. Tagore. The Crescent Moon. 1914. Coloured plates. Dedicated to T. Sturge Moore (Yeats’s famed book designer) and this volume is beautifully designed by Sturge Moore & initialled by Moore on cover 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 466 Foot, Charles, H.: 'The Grand Jury Laws of Ireland' - 1 Volume 1884 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 467 David 0’Hara. English Newsbooks and Irish Rebellions 1641/49. 2006 and B.T. Fitzsimon; and J.H.Murphy. The Irish Review Reappraised 2004. Two first in dust jackets 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 468 Railway Guides - Great Northern Railway, Great Southern Railway, Tralee and Dingle (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 469 T. Boccalini. Advertisements From Parnassus. Translated frm Italan. 1704. 3 volume set in contemporary panelled calf. Provenance famous Carton House library with armorial book plates and book case numbers 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 470 Coughlan, Napper Tandy (1976); Kelly HGenry Flood, 1998; A H Rowan IUP reprint 1972; Speech of John Foster in the Irish House of Commons, D. 1799, modern boards with paste down leather title on front cover. (4) 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 471 Lynch, The Mystery Man of Banna Strand, 1959 – signed presentation copy to Colum Gavin Duffy; Moynihan, Casement’s Last Adventure, 1953; The Mystery of the Casement Ship, card covers, 1965. (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 472 Dublin: The GPO and 1916; GPO Staff; The Siege of the GPO; Dublin Castle and 1916, p/b; Dublin in Rebellion; Dublin’s fighting Story; and three others. (9) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 473 Bew Castlereagh, thick 8vo, 722 ppps, dj mint, 2011. The Strange Death of Lord Castlereagh, Hyde, 1959. Geoghegan, Life and times of Lord Castlereagh, card covers. Unusual bound facsimile pps from a Sunday paper 1822 on the death and inquest of Castlereagh. Compiled and bound by St Stanilaus College, Tullamore; board covers; most unusual item. (4) 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 474 Ulster 1798 and 1803: Teeling; Antrim and Down in 98; Betsy Gray or Hearts of Down; Antrim and Down in 98, Madden; Henry Joy McCracken; The Trial of Wm Drennan; Double Traitors, Belfast Volunteers etc; Thomas Russell: Soul on Fire, James Quinn, and Woods, Journals and Memoirs; Charles Dickson, Revolt in the North, Antrim and Down 1798; The Nabob; Earl of Masserene. Diverse and unusual lot. (12). 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 475 Conceiving Revolution, Propaganda during WW1; Family Histories of the Revolution; Irish Voices, 1916-1966; The News from Ireland and 2 others. (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 476 Life of Tom Clarke (1936); Tom Clarke, Foy. The Reconquest of Ireland. Tyrone, 1912-1923; Derry 1912-23. (5) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 477 De Paor Easter Proclamation 1916; The GPO Garrison Easter Week 1916. 1916 50 0bjects. (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 478 Towards the Republic, Aodh De Blacam c1918; Timothy Healy. Limerick Forgotten Rev, 1919; The Story of the Limerick Soviet 24 pps. Terror in Ireland; McGarry, Eoin O Duffy Oxford 2007. Royal Roots. Division and Consensus. Ireland in the 1930s. James Larkin; In the Footsteps of Big Jim; 1913 Larkins Labour War, folio ill. (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 479 1916: Duff, Six Days to Shake an Empire; 1916, The Easter Rising; Dublin 1916; The Easter Rebellion, Caulfield. Four seminal works all with d/js. Good collection. (4) Estimate: 30 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 480 Ulster: Healy, The Great Fraud of Ulster; Belfast, approach to crisis; Ulster and the British Empire; The Northern Ireland Question; The Irish Border as a Divide; Ulster Unionism; The factory of Grievances, Ni, 1921-1939 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 481 dj mint; O Shaughnessy et al, Rebellion in Wicklow. (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

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Lot 482 Wexford 1798: Kavanagh 98 (3rd 1913); Wexford and Wicklow Insurgents 1798, Luke Cullen, (1959); The People’s Rising; The Mighty Wave , h/b; The Wexford Rising, Dickson, 1997, dj8vo, mint; Weather and Warfare, 1798; Rebellion, TV History 1798, cards 4to. (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 483 Noyes, The Accusing Ghost of Justice of Casement, Gollancz, 1957, dj; Sir Roger Casement, Meine mission….1925, pictorial covers; Sir Roger Casement, und die deutsch-irischen…Wolf, 1972; TD Williams copy with notes in his hand. Famous Trials, 9 Hyde. (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 484 Madden, 9 parts of the lives and times of United Irishmen; General Thomas Cloney; Reluctant Rebel; The Mighty Wave; the People’s Rising; Epitaphs of 1798; and 6 pamphlets and booklets similar. (20). 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 485 Sean Milroy, The case of Ulster. Ireland and the Ulster legend (1921). Ulster Voices. The Winding Up of the Dail Courts; The Secret Court Martials of the Easter Rising. The Irish Counter Revolution, 1921-1936 and 2 others. (8) 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 486 Carlow in 98, 1949, dj , 8vo; Furlong, Fr John Murphy, 1991, dj 8vo, signed copy; Rebellion in Kildare; Laois and Kilkenny in 1798, Tesch; Power, Courts Martial; Dunne, Rebellions; Remember Emmet; Ulster Local Studies, 1997; pamphlets Jemmy Hope and Henry Flood. 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 487 Mackey, The Crime against Europe, ltd, 1958; Roger Casement, the Secret History of the forged diaries, 1962, signed presentation copy; The Life and Times of RC, poor review copy 1954; The Amazon Journal of RC;, 1997; The Dream of the Celt,2012. (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 488 De Valera: De Valera in America; Longford and O Neill, EdeV, 1970; Tim Pat Coogan, Long Fellow Long Shadow; Fanning, A Will to Power. (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 489 Jim Maher, The Oath is Dead and Gone, 2011, vg; Leon O Broin, The Chief Secretary, 1969; Fanning, Independent Ireland, h/b 1983; The , Osprey; Matthews, Fatal Influences, 2004. (5). 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 490 O Halpin, The Irish Administration in Crisis, 1916-1920; 1978 MA thesis for UCD, bound folio typescript signed presentation copy from author Eunan O Halpin to Prof Williams, Nov 1978. (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 491 De Valera: 2 vol De Valera, O Neill agus O Fiannachta, Cló Morainn, 1968; Speeches, 1917-1973, Moynihan, 1980; The Life and Times of Dev, large 4to, 1973; Up Dev, Kevin Boland. Great Contemporaries, essay on Dev by Francis Stuart, 1st 1935. (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 492 Daniel Defoe. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders. 1895. 15 volumes, all illustrated by J.B. Yeats. Interesting book plates. 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 493 Exhibition catalogue. Jack B. Yeats and His Family. Sligo County Library Oct/Dec 1971. Illustrated; and Exhibition Catalogue Jack B.Yeats Waddington Galleries, London May/June 1987 . (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 494 Clare interest. Cahercommaun a Stone Fort on County Clare. 1938; Vandeleur Evictions in Kilrush 1888; Kilfenora. A History by Flanagan; The Old Friaries of Ennis and Quin; Ralahine The Land War & Stone-Age Country by Honor O’Neill; A Rambler from Clare and 4 others. 11 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 495 Clare interest. Parish of Tuamgraney & Edward MacLysaght a Memoir; Kilnasoolagh Church; An Irish Commune. Story of Ralahine by Craig [1922]; and Eamon de Valera and the Banner County (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 496 Life of St. Finn Barr, founder and patron of the City and Diocese of Cork. Illustrated. Rev. C. M. O’Brien. Guy & Co. 1902. Printed wrappers; St. Francis Church, Broad Lane Cork; and one other (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 497 Joyce, James. Haveth Childers Everywhere, 1st edit, 1930 and Pomes Pennyeach and pamphlets, newspaper clippings and film stills of the 1967 film of Ulysses 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 498 Rev. Patrick Egan. Ballinasloe 1953, Tadg MacLochlainn. A Signpost of Ballinasloe, 1987; and T. MacLochlainn The Parish of Aughrim & Kilconnell. Signed copy. (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 499 Church and Parish Histories. Holy Trinity Church Dunfanaghy 1874-1974; Story of Belfast Cathedral by Young; St. Columb’s Cathedral Londonderry 1957; Historical Sketch of Cathedral of Down 1904; Church, Chapel and Meeting House; 1840-1940 Story of a Centenary by Davey; Glens of Antrim Grey Abbey Church Down. 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 500 Tipperary Interest. Royal and Saintly Cashel by Andrew Finn; The Rock of Cashel by Kenneth MacGowan; Songs of Ormond by Dermot Gleeson; Cashel and its ancient Corporation by Finn. 1930; Erasmus Smith Endowment by Ronan. 1937 and 3 others. (8) 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 501 [Limerick Hurling Club] Heroic Deeds. Cumann Dún Bleisce. History of Doon GAA Club. Tom O’Brien. 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 502 Most attractive colour illustrations by Frank Brandt. An tAillean. Tadhg O' Donnchadha. Froinnsias Brandt a Rinne na Pictiuiri . 1924. original large format decorative wrappers. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 503 Northern Ireland Troubles. RE: Casement Accused, Battle of Belfast, C.S. Gas and Northern Ireland (2 pamphlets) and leaflets by Fr. Denis Faul and Fr. Raymond Murray (8) 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 504 Signed Programme. Ireland v Australia Sat. 26th Oct 1968 Landstown Rd. Programme. Signed by: Irish Team.Michael Gibson, Ken Goodall, Roger Young, Ken Kennedy, Mike Molloy, Mick Hipwell, Mick Doyle, Sid Millar, Jim Tydings, Australian team, D. Taylor, S. Gregory, B. Honan, J, Cole, Alex Pope, and eight more 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 505 Signed Programme. Ireland V France Sat, 30Th Jan. 1971 Landsdown Rd. Programme Signed by Alan Duggan, Eddie Grant, Billy Brown, Roger Young, Barry McGann 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 Capuchin Annuals, Studia Hibernica etc. - a box 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 507 Ireland Insurgent, small box of 18 vols, mostly bios et al. VG and scarce. (18) 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 508 Box: Jones 'Live Stock of the Farm' 5 Vols., Department of Agriculture Leaflets, 1941 including many folding diagrams and others, mainly animals and gardening 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 509 Box of Irish Interest Books and a Box of General Interest Books (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 510 The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. 1891-1900 in 10 bound volumes. Numerous articles on archaeology, history etc etc by Thomas J. Westropp etc etc. please note other part sets of the RSAI are available also. Please enquire from auctioneer. 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 511 Box of Large Format Books to include: 'A Century of Golf at Carlow' and Sybil Connolly 'In an Irish House' 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 512 3 boxes of books. Irish literature and Irish periodicals including Irish Review, Eighteenth Century Ireland, historical journals etc 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 513 Castles and Fortifications In Ireland 1485-1945, Irish Statndard Gauge Railways, Transport In Ireland 1880-1910, A Railway Atlas Of Ireland and The Industrial Archaeology of County Down (5) Estimate: 40 - 80 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 514 J. White & M. Wynne. Irish Stained Glass – A Catalogue of Stained Glass Windows by Irish Artists. 1963. Colour plates after Harry Clarke etc.; and Ml. Wynne Irish Stained Glass – Irish Heritage Series. Colour plates; and M.M. Stenson. A Bibliographical Checklist of The Work of Harry Clarke. 2003. A scarce Clarke item. (3) Estimate: 80 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 515 Iolsciol na Mumhan, Colaiste na Rinne, Gearr-Stair, Micheail O Domhnaill, and four other titles in Irish. 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 516 A Period of Adjustment, Dirk Bogarde, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1994, Viking, signed by the author, in DJ. Cleared for Take-Off, Dirk Bogarde, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1995, Viking, in DJ. Great Meadow, An Evocation, Dirk Bogarde, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1992, Viking in DJ. An Orderly Man, Dirk Bogarde, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1983, Chatto & Windus, in DJ. A Short Walk from Harrods, Dirk Bograde, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1993, in DJ.A Gentle Occupation, Dirk Bogarde, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1980, Chatto & Windus, in DJ. (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 517 Nevill Johnson, Artist Writer Photographer, Edited by Eoin O’Brien, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2014, Lilliput Press, in DJ. Signed by Eoin O’Brien. Beastly Beasts, Birds, People & Places, J.P. Dunleavy, Molesworth Gallery Catalogue. 2006. Signed by J.P. Dunleavy. (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 518 J. Irvine. A Treasury of Irish Saints. 1946. 1st; and H.A. Jefferies. The Irish Church and The Tudor Reformation 2010. 1st edit; and Eithne Carbery. The Four Winds of Eirinn. 1918 (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 519 Elegy for April, Benjamin Black, Henry Holt & Co., 2010, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, in D/J. Unread copy. Eclipse, John Banville, Picador, 2000, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, in D/J. Ancient Light, John Banville, Viking, 2012, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, S/C Emerald Germs of Ireland, Patrick McCabe, Picador, 2001, First Edition, 1st Printing, in D/J. Unread copy. (4) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 520 Five books on 1916-1922 in Ireland 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

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Lot 521 Paul Vincent Carroll. Shadow and Substance, Farewell to Greatness and The Wise Have Not Spoken (all signed) and 13 other plays by Irish Dramatists (16) Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 522 Sir H. Robinson. Further Memories of Irish Life. 1924. 1st edit.; and Halliday Sutherland. Irish Journey. 1956. 1st (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 523 Hippisley, Sir John Cox, Bart. The Substance of the Speech of Sir John Cox Hippisley, Bart. on seconding the motion of The Right Honourable Henry Grattan, to refer the Petition of the Roman Catholics of Ireland to a Committee of the House of Commons, on Friday, the 18th of May, 1810. The second edition, corrected: with an appendix greatly enlarged, and additional notes. London: Printed for Faulder, and Booker ... Cadell and Davis ... Stockdale, Hatchard, and Ridgway ... and Stockdale Jun., Pall Mall, 1810. Papered boards, printed title on rebacked spine. Sir John Coxe Hippisley, 1st Baronet (c.1746-1825), British diplomat and politician who pursued an 'unflagging, though wholly unsuccessful, quest for office' which led King George III of Great Britain to describe him as 'that busy man' and 'the grand intriguer'. While a member of the House of Commons, for Sudbury, he "seconded Grattan's motion for a committee on the Catholic claims in an exhaustive speech, intended for publication, which indicated the surviving obstacles: the reconciliation of Catholic doctrine with adequate securities against Papal interference and the role of the King in the appointment of Catholic bishops." [Hist. of Parl. IV p.205]. 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 524 Maggot, , Faber and Faber, 2010, First Edition, S/C 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 525 C.H. Wilson, Historical Facts relating to Ireland, history of volunteering and complete collection of resolutions of the volunteers, 1782. Vol 1 but no further vols. Title page missing but supplied in dark facsimile. Pps: CLX1V +281 + 3 pps index. 8vo in full worn leather. Birr historian Thomas Lalor Cooke (Parsonstown) book plate with later ownership sig of Patrick J, Hamell, pp Birr and formerly of Maynooth; sig of Thomas L. Cooke on first page; small tear thereon. Text throughout vg with no foxing. Very rare volume. Rowan cat says not in Bradshaw or BL. Entries which appeared in cats sought high three figs or four figs. A truly remarkable book full of detail not found elsewhere and with an association with leading Birr personages of former times. Estimate: 200 - 350 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 526 Francis Stuart. Black List – Section H. 1975. 1st edit; and Richard Murphy The Mirror Wall. 1989. 1st edit in dust jacket (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 527 Barlow, Jane: 'Irish Idylls' 1 Volume (1897) 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 528 Broderick, John. Re: Fugitives, Proof copy of the author's 2nd novel, 2nd October 1961 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 529 The Volunteers and the Irish Parliament, Gunning 1903, small 8vo. O Snodaigh, The Irish Volunteers 1715-1793, 1995, mint. The Irish Militia, 1793- 1818, McAnally, dj 1st 1949. (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 530 Maxwell, History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 and memoirs of the Union and Emmet’s Rising in 1803. 3rd ed 1852 with ills. 477 pps with superb ills by Cruikshank. Half leather with gilt ills on spine. Lovely copy of the best edition. (1) 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 531 Eoin Colfer. Airman. 2008. 1st edition. Signed by author on title page; and E. Colfer Half Moon Investigations. 2006. 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 532 With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom, 1919 to the Truce c1950, The Kerryman, pictorial covers, 238 pps. Kerry’s Fighting Story, 1916-21, told by the men who made it; Kerryman c1947, pictorial card cover, 197 pps; The IRA in Kerry, card, 2005. Rebel Kerry ed Simon Brouder. (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 533 Richard Hayes, Ireland and Irishmen in the French Revolution, D. 1932, 314 pages 8vo. Gaeilge version translated by Máire in 1933, Eire and Eireannaigh I Muirthéacht na Frainnce. (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 534 Oidhreacht 1916--1966, James Connolly 'A Full Life' Donal Nevin 2005., The Civil War in Ireland, Eoin Neeson. 1966 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 535 George A. Birmingham. The Lighter Side of Irish Life. 1911. 1st. 16 tipped in colour platers. Gilt cloth binding; and D. Barker An Angler’s Paradise – Rod and Line in Ireland. First (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 536 Lays and Legends of Thomond Part 2, by Michael Hogan. Limerick 1924. and five song pamphlets 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 537 Bennett, The Black and Tans and p/b copy; From Public Defiance to Guerrilla Warfare; Townsend, The Republic; Survivors; Mutiny for the Cause, p/b. Days of Fear. (7) 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 538 William Mavor. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. 1812. 1st; and Robert Forsyth The Principles and Practice of Agriculture. 1804. Two scarce works on farming. 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 539 Winter in the Eye New and Selected Poems, Joan McBreen, Salmon Publishing, 2003, 1st Edition, inscribed by author, S/C 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 540 Dame Vera Lynn. Some Sunny Day – My Autobiography. 2009. Signed on title page by Vera Lynn. Fine pictorial D.j 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 541 The Fighting Irish in the Congo by Raymond Smith and 9 other paperbacks on Irish ghosts, trials, islands, witchcraft, dueling. (10) 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 Ireland – Industrial & Agricultural. 1902. 1st edit. Illustrated; and Myles Dillon Early Irish Literature. 1948. 1st edit. (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 543 C. Gribben. God’s Irishmen. 2007; and P. Fagan. The Irish Bishops in Penal Times 1993. 2 first edits in dust jackets. Estimate: 15 - 20 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 544 The Whoseday Book With over 80 Signatures. Various Published by The Irish Hospice Foundation, Dublin (1999) Signed by 86 of the contributors Dorothy Cross, Connor Horgan, Peter Harbison, Felim Egan, Mary O’Donnell, Michael D. Higgins, Mick Cullen, Olivia O’Leary, Colm Tobin, Deirdre Purcell, Philip Casey, Eimear O’Connor, Nell McCafferty, Anita Groener, Michael O’Siadhail, Ciaran O’Gaora, Aidan Higgins, Vivienne Roche, Messrs MacDermitt & MacGough, , James Plunkett, Anne Haverty, John F Deane, Declan Hughes, Meave Ingoldsby, Paul Brady, Louis Le Broquy, Marie Heaney, Enda Wyley, John Meagher, Gavin Friday, Barbara Cullen, Polly Devlin, Mary Beckett, Peter Reddy, . Peter Reddy, Patricia Scanlon, Gerry Cahill, Gerald Barry, Michael Harding, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Amelia Stein, Louise Kennedy, Patrick Scott, Norin Ni Rian, Seoirse Bodley, Patrick O’Reilly, Colm O’Gaora, John Stephenson, Stephen Averill, Frank Ormsby, Dermot Seymour, Guggi, Anthony Cronin, Fr, Patrick O’Brien, Desmond O’Grady, Anne Madden, Marian Keys, Gwen O’Dowd, Samuel Walsh, John Connelly, Daphne Wright, Stephen McKenna, Katie Donovan, Derek Spiers, Alice Hanratty, Mary Avril Gillan, Eamon Delaney, Ivor Browne, Nick Kelly, John Kindress, Blaise Drummond, Alice P. Maher, Hugh Carr, Mary Morrissy, Charles Cullen, Frank Harte, Ted McCarthy, Pauline Bewick, , Carolyn Mulholland, Felim Dunne, William Crosier, Paolo Tullio, Anne Marie Hourihane, Peter Sheridan. In late1999 contributors assembled in the R.D.S for the launch and were available to sign copies for anyone who turned up and bought the book. A lady Pauline managed to get over eighty of the contributors to sign this 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 545 Republican Interest. Craigavon in the Dock and Episode at Easter by Sean MacEntee and 11 others.(13) 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 546 Edna O'Brien 'The Country Girls', 1960; 'Mrs. Reinhardt and Other Stories', 1923 and four others 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 547 Thoms Official Directory of Ireland. 1929. 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 548 Cusack, M. F. 'The Story of my Life' 1 Volume, London 1893 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 549 Fiery Cross - The Story of Jim Larkin, Revolutionary Movements of the Past, Labour and The Republican Movement, Marx and The Irish Question, The Irish Tragedy:Scotland's Disgrace and 24 others (29) 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 550 H. Ludlam. A Biography of Dracula – The Life Story of Bram Stoker. 1962. 1st. Illustrated; and Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book. 1936. Illustrated in fine binding. (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 551 The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin, Viking, Exclusive Signed Edition, Sept. 2013. In Dust Jacket. Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 552 The Life and Death of Lord Ed Fitzgerald, , L. 1831, 2 vols in original boards, 8vo. Frontispiece of Fitz in vol 1 and folding map in vol 2. 12 page cat of Longmans bound in vol 1 and with bookseller/circulating ticket from Kennedys of Anglesey St Dublin. Ex lib Galway. (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 553 Pamphlets: Michael o Flanagan; Brian O Higgins; George Gilmore; Tragedies of Kerry; Sean Harrington; Sean Cronin 1916; The Reconquest of Ireland, 1920; and 7 others . (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 554 Liam Deasy, Towards Ireland Free, West Cork Brigade, 1917-1921, 1st 1973, d/j. vg and scarce. Barry, The Reality of the A/G war in 1920-21 in West Cork..refutation etc of Deasy’s book..pamphlet, 1974. (2) Estimate: 30 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 555 Gaeilge; Liam O Briain, Cuimhni Cinn, céad cló 1951: signed copy from LOB dUachtarán Corcaighe, (President of UCC); B’Fiu and Braon Fola; Casadh na Taoide, 1891-1925, presentation copy from the udar, Eilis Ní Thiarnaigh to Mainistir Cholm Cille, Teampall Mór. (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 556 Eilish Dillon. Blood Relations. 1978. 1st edit. Yeats dust jacket; and Myles na Gopaleen The Best of Myles 1968, 1st; and Rae Jeffs Brendan Behan Man and Showman. 1966 1st. (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 557 Scoil Treasa Naofa, Donore Avenue, Dublin Golden Jubilee Souvenir. 1930-'31 1980-'81. Scarce 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 558 Sean Cronin, Frank Ryan, 1980, h/b, d/j, vg; Adrian Hoar, In Green and Red, the lives of Frank Ryan, 2004, d/j, h/b, vg; Booklet: Frank Ryan ..journey to the centre (1987); Ireland and Hungary, with an Arthur Griffith biblio, 2001, 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 559 Kevin B. Nowlan. The Politics of Repeal 1965. Brian Farrell. The Irish Parliamentarian Tradition. 1973. 2 first edits with good dust jackets (2) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 560 Robert Brennan. Allegiances. 1950. 1st edit. Illustrated; and Thomas J. Clarke. Glimpses of an Irish Felon’s Prison Life. 1970; and Desmond Ryan. The Rising 1957. (3) Estimate: 40 - 50 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 561 Yeat’s Ireland, an Illustrated Anthology, Benedict Kiely, Tiger Books, 1994 Hardback in Dust Jacket. Great Irish Speeches with foreword by Colm Toibin, Richard Aldous, Quercus, Hardback in Dust Jacket. Contains CD with 50 speeches which have shaped Irish History. (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 562 MacGill, Patrick. Moleskin Joe; Nineteen Acres by John Healy; and The Deserted Village - A Poem by Dr Goldsmith. (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 563 Signed by, Meave Binchy, Nell McCafferty, Mary Leyland, Elgy Gillespie, Renagh Holohan, Changing the Times, 2003. Paper Tigers, Hugh Oram, 1993 Man Bites Dog Donald Foley No. 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 564 P. O’Siochain. Aran – Islands of Legend. 1990. Illustrated Sean Keating cover; and Beagh – A History and Heritage. Illus; and J. Lynam The Mountains of Connemara. 1988 (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 565 Belfast. Bombs on Belfast and 2 others on Belfast 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 566 Martyrs for Ireland. Story of Mac Cormick [Mullingar] and Barnes [Banagher] by Brian O’Higgins. 1968; The Partition of Ireland. How and Why it Was Accomplished. David O’Neill. 1947; and Freedom Struggle by the Provisional IRA. P. O’Neill. Irish Republican. [1972]. Wrappers. 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 567 Some Poems Of Roger Casement - The Talbot Press Booklets, 1918 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 568 Manuscript Poems by Westmeath poet Michael Walsh. Brown Earth and Green. Poems. Michael Walsh, foreword by Katherine Tynan. Talbot Press. 1929. original wrappers, old college stamps. Six pages of original poems and a photograph loosely inserted. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 569 [Royal Irish Academy] An Alphabetical List of the Royal Irish Academy. 8pp, single multi-folded sheet, uncut, unbound as issued. No date, probably circa 1790. The Academy was founded in 1785. Members listed here (about 150) include Rev. Mervyn Archdall, Sir Joseph Banks, Rev. Augustus Beaufort, Earl of Charlemont (President), John Philpot Curran, Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Samuel Hayes Esq., Sylvester O’Halloran Esq., Rt. Hon. Earl of Portarlington, Archibald Hamilton Rowan Esq., Whitley Stokes F.T.C.D., Col. Charles Vallancey, etc. etc. Minor fold marks, o.w.v.g. Rare in this state 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 570 William Butler Yeats. The Tower. W. B. Yeats. Macmillan. 1928; William Butler Yeats. Aetat 70. Sean O'Faolain et als. 1935. 2 books in excellent copy in 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 571 Hone, Nathaniel. Catalogue of Exhibition of Pictures by the late Nathaniel Hone, R.H.A. at The Victor Waddington Galleries, 28 South Anne Street, Dublin. 13th to 20th April 1937. Broadside folded, printed on three pages only. One of the rarest Waddington Catalogues 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 572 Clonmel Hibernian School Society. Report of the Speeches delivered at a Meeting held in the County Court House for the purpose of establishing an auxiliary branch of the London Hibernian School Society. 1824. Modern quarter leather. Estimate: 50 - 100 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 573 French Fraternity and French Protection as promised to Ireland, and as Experienced by Other Nations. Dublin. 1798. 12 pages [incomplete] & Second Letter to Earl Grey on State of Ireland by Skeffington Gibbon. 1831. 2 works in modern quarter leather. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 574 Donovan, Patrick. Military Tatoo. Cuimhnighimíd 1798-1948. Military Tattoo Commemorating the Battle of Ross by the Ross Battalion, F.C.A. in Barrett's Park, New Ross. Sat. & Sun. 5th & 6th June, 1948 at 10 p.m. Souvenir Programme containing Special Study of Contemporary Ross and of the Battle. New Ross: Printed by "The New Ross Standard", 1948. 32 pp. Wraps. V.g. With: O MUIRTHILE, an tAthair Seosamh. National Graves Association Kildare 1798 Commemoration. Suim seanchais na gCilldara i dTaobh Eirghe-amach na Bliana 1798. Translated by Tomas O'Kelly. Carlow, The Nationalist & Leinster Times, 1948. 16 pp. Wraps. Scarce. With: Another similar - ’98 Who Fears to Speak? 3 items. 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 575 The Treaty and the Original Document No. 2. Clauses set out for Comparison. Those of No. 2 are the ORIGINAL CLAUSES, Not those as Revised by Mr. De Valera AFTER the TREATY had been signed. [DUBLIN, 1922]. original wrappers. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 576 [Rivers, Elizabeth] The Dove. A Christmas Sequence by Elizabeth Rivers. Printed (in two colours) at the Dolmen Press 1959. Sequence of seven linocuts illustrating the story of The Annunciation, Christ's birth, the Three Wise Men etc., printed on a long sheet of thick paper folded concertina-style to make a small booklet. Not in Miller's bibliography. A most attractive item, very rare. Elizabeth Rivers designed a number of Christmas and greetings cards printed by Dolmen, of which this is by far the most elaborate. Probably a very limited printing. Fine. Unrecorded Dolmen Press item 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 577 A Sketch of Ireland in 1824: the sources of her evils considered and their remedies suggested. By Sir William Hillary. 1825. modern quarter leather. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 578 Heaney, Seamus. From The Republic Of Conscience. Illustrated by John Behan. Published by Amnesty International, 1985. pp. [8]. Stiff stapled wrappers, title and author printed in blue on upper cover. Fine. 'From the Republic of Conscience' by Seamus Heaney was written in response to an invitation from Amnesty International and produced by Peter Fallon [The Gallery Press] for Amnesty International Irish Section Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 579 Heaney, Seamus. The Midnight Verdict. Gallery Press, 2000. First paperback edition. Signed by the Nobel Laureate on the title page and with line of verse ‘lighting sky and heart.' 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 580 Byron, Lord. The Prisoner of Chillon, and other poems. London: Murray, 1816. First edition, (presumed) first state with recto of E8 (p. 61) blank and with both Murray's list of Byron's poems and the imprint on p. 62. [vi], 60, [ii] pp., + 2 leaves of ads dated November 1816 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 581 Byron, Lord. Seven New Poems. Hone’s Complete Edition of Lord Byron’s New Poems. London: Hone, 1816. Fifth edition. Original printed stitched wraps. V.g. 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 582 Byron, Lord. Mazeppa. A Poem. London: Murray, 1819. First Edition. Second issue with the imprint of the printer on the verso of p. 71, not p. 70. In original wraps. Label of Archer, Bookseller, Dublin on upper cover. Fine. 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 583 The Colleen Bawn, true history of Ellen Hanley, by one who knew her in Life and Saw her in Death. Rev. Dr Fitzgerald, Protestant Clergyman of Ballydonohe, Glin, County Limerick. The Kerryman. 1931. 64 pages. excellent copy in wrappers. 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 584 The Nash Family. [compiled by Edward Nash, Justice of the Peace for County Kerry]. no place of publication. Circa 1910. fragile wrappers. interesting pedigree of this Irish family. Little publishing information Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 585 [Religious Notes]. On Original or Birth Sin, etc. A series of manuscript sermons or meditations, unsigned, in a small quarto notebook. Ascribed on f.e.p. to Dr. Pusey, an associate of Cardinal Newman, but with letter inserted from the Pusey Archivist, P.M. Meadows, stating the handwriting is not Pusey’s. With a second manuscript on religious themes, unsigned, circa 50pp in a neat hand, partly stitched with domestic thread. As a collection, w.a.f 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 586 Heaney, Seamus. The Haw Lantern. London: Faber, 1990. Paperback edition. Signed by the Nobel Laureate on the title page. Fine. Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 587 The Fanad Patriots. Full Authentic Story of the Killing of Lord Leitrim, April 1878. 1978; and The Complete Grammar of Anarchy by Members of the War Cabinet and Their Friends compiled by J. J. Horgan. Maunsel. 1918. original wrappers. 2 books Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 588 Yeats, W.B. Last Poems and Two Plays. The Cuala Press, 1939. First edition, title in black on upper cover and on paper label on spine. Edition limited to 500 copies. Fine. 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 589 Exceptionally rare Limerick printing. Metrical Reflections on the Death of Rev. Henry Hewson, Curate of Kilscannel, Union of Rathkeale who died suddenly February, 1830. Limerick, R. P. Canter. [1830] Disbound. Estimate: 150 - 300 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 590 [College Races] Dublin University Harriers and Athletic Club. Programme for College Races, 6 June 1945, giving names of competitors, and a collection of 1940s ephemera including High School (Dublin) Prize Distribution programmes 1940 & 1941, a few items from the Zion Youth Fellowship, Dublin (with an ALS from the Archbishop of Armagh regretfully declining an invitation to address the fellowship), and some items of Irish Scouting interest, about 15 items in all. 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 591 Robertson, Manning (ed.). Cautionary Guide to Dublin, with 64 (mainly photographic) illustrations. Published for the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland by Gordon X. Kelly, Three Candles printing, D. 1933, tall green wraps, presentation slip from publisher laid in. Interesting guide to 1930s Dublin architecture, the good and the bad 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 [Sligo Remembers] Davis Centenary Week Sligo. November 26 to December 2, 1945. Souvenir Programme. Sligo: Printed by the Champion Publications Ltd., Wine Street, 1945. pp. 12. Pictorial stapled wrappers. Medallion portrait of Thomas Davis in centre of upper cover with the tricolour background. V.g. The festival included: A Book Exhibition and a Lecture on 'Davis and the Means to Freedom' by Professor Roger McHugh. This was followed by a Lecture on 'Irish Field Antiquities' by Professor S.P. O'Riordan. It also includes the 'Lament for Thomas Davis' by and extract of John Mitchel's 'Last Conquest of Ireland', on Young 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 593 [Folklore of Kiltimagh and Sliabh gCua]. Ocht Sgealta o Choillte Maghach. An Craoibhin Aoibhinn do scriobh o bhéal Thomais O’Cathasaigh. 1936; and Seanchas Sliabh gCua. Padraig O’Milleada. Cumann Bealoideas. Circa 1920. Original wrappers. (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 594 Irish Freemasonry. Grand Black Chapter of Ireland. Ceremony at Installation of officers to be used by Provincial, County, district Chapters, and Preceptories. Also Ceremony to be observed at the Burial of a Black Knight. Belfast Newsletter. 1910. Rare item. Estimate: 60 - 120 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 595 A Defence of the Establish'd Church and Laws: in Answer to a Book Entitul'd, A Vindication of Marriage, as Solemniz'd by Presbyterians in the North of Ireland. [Edward Synge, Bishop of Tuam]. Dublin. 1705. stamps of a defunct library. 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 596 Heaney, Seamus. Translated by Laments by Jan Kochanowski. Also translated by Stanislaw Baraczak. London: Faber, 1995. Paperback edition. Fine Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 597 Exhibition. A Loan Collection of Pictures by Nathaniel Hone, RHA and John Butler Yeats, RHA. Will be held at 6 St. Stephen’s Green, October 21st to November 3rd [1902]. White Printers, Dublin. 16 pages. Lithograph of John B. Yeats, loosely inserted. Stapled wraps. Fine Estimate: 100 - 200 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 598 [Tubbercurry] Souvenir Programme Western Drama Festival 1958. To be held in St. Brigid's hall, Tubbercurry Commencing on Sunday, 23rd February, and Ending on Sunday, 2nd March, 1958. Adjudicator: Harry Brogan, Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Printed in Sligo at the Stationery Depot, 1958. 15 pages. Cream printed stapled wraps. V.g. Rare. Including in the cast for 'Ten Little Niggers' (By Agatha Christie) was Eithne Dolan. 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 599 Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. H.M.V. Junior Record Club. 45 Record. Narrated by Vivien Leigh. The story dramatised with music and full cast. In original sleeve with professional repair. Rare 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 600 Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. H.M.V. Junior Record Club. 45 Record. Narrated by Vivien Leigh. The story dramatised with music and full cast. In original sleeve. Rare. 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 601 Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy Winkle. H.M.V. Junior Record Club. 45 Record. Narrated by Vivien Leigh. The story dramatised with music and full cast. No sleeve. Rare 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 602 Heaney, Seamus. The Burial at Thebes. Antigone, London: Faber, 2005. First paperback edition. Signed by the Nobel Laureate on the title page. Fine. Estimate: 100 - 150 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 603 [Irish Civil War ] Irish Racing Calendar. Races Past up to and including May 29th 1922. While the country was facing civil-war, racing continued. Estimate: 30 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 604 The Oath of Allegiance; what it imports by Historic Truth. Belfast, Printed by W. & G. Baird. 1877. original wrappers, covers somewhat dust stained. A strident Defence of Presbyterian opposition to the ‘Oath of Allegiance to the British Crown and Sovereign’. 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 605 Heaney, Seamus. Selected Poems 1965 - 1975. London: Faber, 1984. Signed by the Nobel Laureate on the title page. Paperback edition. Fine. 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 606 Byron, Lord. Manfred. London: Murray, 1815. First edition, first issue(with no quotation from Hamlet on the title page and the printer s imprint on two lines on verso of title page) in original wraps. Upper joint starting, otherwise fine 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 607 Thomas Kinsella Butcher’s Dozen 1972; and M. Harmon. The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella. 1974. (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 608 Rev. H. Cooke. The Voluntaries in Belfast. 1837. Attractive binding. Estimate: 50 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 609 Byron, Lord. Hebrew Melodies. London: Murray, 1817. First edition. This copy contains the half-title and terminal advertisements and the inserted titles and half-titles. Wraps. Fine 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 610 Two Albums a) The Album of Cork and Killarney; and b) Album of the Lakes of Killarney c. 1905 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 611 McSkimmin, Samuel. History of Carrickfergus, 1814 with subscriber's list. Lisburn Historical Society Journal (2 issues) and 4 others regarding Antrim, Armagh and Belfast (7) 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 612 The Baronial Railways of the M.G.W.R. Loughrea and Ballinrobe Branches. Articles of Association 1884/85 and the History of the Lines by Padraig O'Cuimin 1972 (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 The Steam Age in Ireland, The Lord O'Neill, and three books on Irish Railways 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 614 7 Issues of The Bell, Tribute to Thomas Davis by W B Yeats, Centenary, Songs, Ballads & Poems of and 5 others (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 615 Ulster Journal of Archaeology. First series. Volume 1, 1853 to 1862. 9 volumes, bound in later attractive green cloth. colour plates, folding maps etc. one of the most highly-regarded sources of archaeological information on Ireland and is internationally recognised as such. The Journal also publishes papers on history, material culture and folklore. Estimate: 250 - 450 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 616 Power, The Courts Martial of 1798-99, 8vo dj specially bound ed ltd to 1000 copies of which this is no 837 signed by Patrick C. Power; vg. An Ascendancy Army, Blackstock, 8vo, dj mint, D. 1998. Knox Rebel Informers, L. 1997, 8vo dj mint. Uniforms of 1798-1803, oblong folio card, vg; Armies of the Irish Rebellion, 1798, cards 2011. Kavanaugh, John Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare, D. 1997, 8vo, dj almost mint. (6) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

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Lot 617 Politics and Constitution; The Irish Free State and its Senate (1940); De Valera’s Constitution; Chubb, Pols and the Irish Constitution; Constitutional Law and Rights; Morgan Constitutional Law of Ireland. (5) 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 618 Sheila Lawlor, Britain and Ireland, 1914-23, 1983; includes letter from the Dean of Peterhouse saying that he had invited Sheila Lawlor to ‘high table’ and inviting TD Williams to join them; Controversial Issues in A/I Relations, 1910- 1921, 2004, mint copy; John Chartres , 1995; Morley Ayearst, The , its Government and Politics, 1970; Kendle, Walter Long, Ireland and the Union, 1905-1920, 1992. David Hogan, Four Glorious Years (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 619 The Divided Province, The Troubles in Northern Ireland 1969-1985. and three other volumes on 'The Troubles' 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 620 Womenfolk of the Glens of Antrim and the Irish Language, Patrick, Brigid and Colmcille, Island City, Democracy Be Damned, Belfast is Burning 1941, Titanic, Tyrella Parish Church, Irish Army Armoured Cars etc. (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 621 Insurgent Connacht: Civil War in Connacht, Ó Gadhra, 1999; Pathway to Rebellion, Galway 1916; Galway and Great War; The Battle of Tournameady 2008; The Case of the Craughwell Prisoners, Finnegan; Co. Galway perspective on the 1916 Rising. (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 622 One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Dr. Seuss, 1st UK Edition, 1962, Collins Harvill. (Damage to Spine) Bugs Bunny Keeps A Promise, Ralph Heimdahl & AL Dempster, 1951, World Distributors (Manchester) Ltd. Walt Disney’s Ugly Duckling, 1939, Collins, in DJ. Missee Lee, Arthur Ransome, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1941, Jonathan Cape. The Light House Keeper’s Son, Nan Chauncy, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1969, Oxford University Press, in DJ. The Thief of Always. Clive Barker, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1992, Harper Collins, in DJ. (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 623 Lord Edward Fitzgerald, biographies from Katherine Tynan, 1916; Patrick Byrne, 1955, card covers; Stella Tillyard, 1997, large 8vo, dj 337 pps. And one other c19th bio 12mo half leather worn with title page missing but text good and bookplate of Ferdinand McVeagh. 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 Ulster Political Lives, 1886-1921; Senator Joseph Connolly, Gaughan. The Indignant Muse; A Voice of Insurgency. The 1916 Poets. In Search of Bulmer Hobson. Cathal O Byrne. (7) 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 625 Miller, Liam The Works of Seumus O'Sullivan and Estella F Solomons and 7 others on Irish Art 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 626 Sir Thomas H. Grattan Esmond, Hunting Memories of Many Lands 1925.Esmonde's home, Ballynastragh House, located near Gorey, County Wexford, and dating from the 17th century, was burned down on 9 March 1923 by members of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army; and three more Wexford related items. 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 627 Bacon's Motoring and Cycling Road Map of Ireland, Ordnance Survey Maps of portions of North & South Ireland, Bartholemew's Maps, AA Touring Department Map etc. etc. (19) 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 628 The Irish Civil War, large 4to; The Seven, Ruth Dudley Edwards; Ireland 1916-2016; Harry; Why did they Lie; ill life of Michael Collins; Derry 1912-23; Special Aspects of the Irish Problem (Gladstone) and 3 others (10). 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 629 Bartlett, TW Tone, thick 8vo, 1998, signed by author, mint. Writings of TWT, Vol 2; Frank McDermott, TWT. O Siochfhradha, Beatha. Scrapbook with cuttings of TWT from 1826 life. (5) Estimate: 40 - 60 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 630 Weber, The United Irishmen and Hamburg, d. 1997; Sir Ed Newenhan; An invasion that failed; United Irishmen ; Sir Richard Musgrave; The French Disease; Ireland Irishmen and Rev American, signed presentation copy from author David Doyle to Desmond Williams, Cork 1981. All vg, a diverse collection. (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 631 Percy French Chronicles and Poems and four items relating to Music in Ireland 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 632 William O Brien MP: Recollections, 1905, presentation copy; The Irish Revolution and how it came about; Le Linn ár nÓige; Morrissey, William O Brien, 1881-1968, 2007, mint copy. (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 633 Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings by Harold G. Leask. 3 volumes set in dust wrappers. 1967-1977. 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 634 Golf Interest: Seve, Alistair Tait, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2005, Virgin Books, in DJ. Dead Heat, The 69 Ryder Cup Classic, Paul Trevillion, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1969, Stanley Paul & Co. in DJ. Training A Tiger, Earl Woods, 1st UK Edition, 1st Printing, 1997 Hodder Stoughton, in DJ. An Open Book, Darren Clarke, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2012, Hodder Stoughton, in DJ. Christy O’Connor, , 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1985, Gill & Macmillan, in DJ. (5) 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 635 Golf Interest: Ryder Cup ’89, First Edition, 1989, Virgin, in DJ. Ryder Cup Ireland, Brian Cox, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2006, New Island, in DJ. The Book of Irish Golf, John Redmond, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1997, Gill & Macmillan, in DJ. The Best Golf Tips Ever, Nick Wright, 1st Edition, 1 Printing, 2003, Contemporary Book, in DJ. Pictorial Golf, H.B. Martin, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 1928, Bodley Head. This Game of Golf, Henry Cotton, 1948, Country Life Ltd. 1st Edit. (6) 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

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Lot 636 Agrarian Disturbancs around Crossmaglen, Property Ownership and Urban and Village Improvement in Provincial Ireland, Tipp Historical Society George Plant and the Rule of Law, Why Shouldn't I Be A Freemason and 13 others (17) and 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 637 Bundle of Irish and General Interest Books Estimate: 20 - 40 Fees: 20% inc VAT for absentee bids, telephone bids and bidding in person 23.69% inc VAT for Live Bidding and Autobids

Lot 638 The Problem of Undesirable Printed Material. Suggested Remedies evidence of the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland presented to Committee of Enquiry, 1926. original wrappers. The definition of undesirable was extremely wide. 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 639 H. De Vere Stackpoole. Love on the Adriatic. 1st. Signed by the author on a slip attached to half title page. 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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