EASTER 2016
19 April 2016 - 3:00 pm
Our forthcoming History Sale will include important rare and unique Irish historical documents and artefacts. This year will mark the 10th year of this annual specialist auction which has proved to be the largest sale of its kind, attracting collectors throughout Ireland and further afield. Covering a broad range of political, literary and military history, this prestigious auction will continue to be the best place to buy and sell Irish collectibles.
We are currently preparing our forthcoming catalogue. Please contact us for more information and for complimentary and confidential advice.
Lot 277A
***ADDITIONAL LOT***
IRISH TRANSPORT & GENERAL WORKERS UNION A membership card issued to Wesley Higginson, dated 24.4.13, with the manuscript...
Hammer Price: €60
Full DetailsLot 278
ARMY OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC
JAMES CONNOLLY: HIS LAST DESPATCH FROM THE G.P.O., 1916
A cyclostyled document, printed in purple ink, 1 pp...
Hammer Price: €1,200
Full DetailsLot 278A
CAPTAIN ARTHUR DELANEY, 10th BATTALION OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS
An archive pertaining to Arthur Delaney, Captain in the 10th battalion...
Hammer Price: €720
Full DetailsLot 278B
GALOOT: THE JOURNAL OF THE 5TH BATTALION OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS
No 1 (Sep 1915), No 2 (Oct 1916), No 3 (Nov 1916), Nov 4 (Dec-Jan...
Hammer Price: €750
Full DetailsLot 279
THE MÁIRE GILL COLLECTION
A significant archive of letters and documents from the collection of Máire (Molly) Gill, a life-long employee of...
Hammer Price: €6,500
Full DetailsLot 280
CUALA PRESS.
A collection including about ten hand-coloured greeting cards, mainly early issues, with a few duplicates, an envelope...
Hammer Price: €100
Full DetailsLot 281
ST. DOMINICS PRESS, Ditchling, Sussex
A small collection of four printed Rhyme-Sheets, circa 8 ins x 5 ins, letterpress printed on laid...
Hammer Price: €80
Full DetailsLot 282
CLARKE, KATHLEEN. LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN. An attractive New Year remembrance card from the Mansion House, 4 pp (single folded sheet), on heavy...
Hammer Price: €270
Full DetailsLot 283
EAMONN CEANNT AND SIR CHARLES CAMERON
A menu card for the Ninth Annual Dinner of the D.M.O.A. (Dublin Municipal Officers Association), 4 pp...
Lot 285
50 COPIES ONLY PUBLISHED - ST. ENDAS COLLEGE.
AN SCOLÁIRE, 1913. Desmond Ryans set.
An extensive run (probably complete) of this very...
Hammer Price: €1,900
Full DetailsLot 286
PEARSE, P.H. (EDITOR). AN MACAOMH. VOL. II. NO. 2 [MAY 1913].
The final number of Pearses periodical published at St. Endas, ,...
Hammer Price: €70
Full DetailsLot 287
SELF-DETERMINATION LEAGUE OF GREAT BRITAIN PROPAGANDA POSTERS (5)
Hammer Price: €70
Full DetailsLot 288
THE SHAN VAN VOCHT, A MONTHLY RREPUBLICAN MAGAZINE EDITED BY ALICE MILLIGAN AND PUBLISHED IN BELFAST
Single issue, central pages in photocopy
Hammer Price: €110
Full DetailsLot 289
A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO PEACE NEGOTIATIONS OF 1921 including Dail Eirann Official Correspondence relating to the Peace...
Hammer Price: €300
Full DetailsLot 290
POLITICAL LEAFLETS
A very good collection of circa 30 political leaflets for the General Elections of 1932, 1938, 1943, 1944, 1947, also...
Hammer Price: €150
Full DetailsLot 291
CIRCA 1900S-1920S. REBEL SONGS AND VERSE INCLUDING THE SOLDIER'S SONG, THE WALLS OF DERRY, SAVE THE PEELERS, THE MEN OF THE BOLD IRA, ETC.
Hammer Price: €440
Full DetailsLot 292
THE FIRST DAIL
O'Connor (Fergus) Publisher. "The Declaration of Irish Independence." Official English Translation. Historic Pronouncement of...
Hammer Price: €520
Full DetailsLot 293
1919 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Declaration of Independence. Scéal on Dáil Chum Saor-Náisiun An Domhain. Message to the Free Nations and...
Hammer Price: €480
Full DetailsLot 294
1919 DAIL EIREANN FIRST MEETING ADMISSION TICKET
Issued to S. Ní Bhraonáin by Piaras Beaslaí TD who later wrote Michael Collins biography....
Hammer Price: €270
Full DetailsLot 295
1919 DAIL EIREANN FIRST MEETING 21 JANUARY ADMITTANCE CARD SIGNED BY HARRY BOLAND
Issued to Gregory Ashe (father of Thomas Ashe) and D....
Hammer Price: €500
Full DetailsLot 296
THE REPUBLICAN OATH
A printed document dated 13 June 1921, text in Irish and in English, addressed to Mrs. Clarke as duly elected member (of...
Hammer Price: €440
Full DetailsLot 297
SINN FEIN A RANGE OF PAMPHLETS, LEAFLETS, NOTICES, ARD FHEIS TICKETS including 1922, etc. Including Ethics of Sinn Féin, Scheme of Organisation...
Hammer Price: €320
Full DetailsLot 298
AUSTIN CLARKE The Sun Dances at Easter. A Romance. London, Melrose, 1952, First Edition. Inscribed on f.e.p., Sean MacBride / With best wishes...
Lot 299
***ADDITIONAL LOT***
REPUBLICAN PRISONER ART
A 'Volunteer Doll' made in 1929 by prisoner J. Bracken who was held at Ballykinlear internment...
Hammer Price: €80
Full DetailsLot 300
CLÁR NA CUAIRD. DECORATION DAY, 15 NOVEMBER 1917.
A printed List of Graves in Glasnevin of those who gave their lives for Ireland,...
Hammer Price: €100
Full DetailsLot 301
BATTLE OF ASHBOURNE, 1916 R.I.C. Defeated: Leabhar Cuimhneachain 1916 - Ashbourne Memorial Book, 8vo D. c. 1960. A Souvenir Booklet, illus....
Hammer Price: €280
Full DetailsLot 302
ODONOVAN ROSSA MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
A good example of the original photograph showing the full Committee, 1915, 11 x 15 ins, including De Valera...
Hammer Price: €520
Full DetailsLot 303
THOMAS ASHE FUNERAL
A card admitting bearer to the graveside, Glasnevin, Sunday Sept. 30th [1917], signed by Sean McGarry, President, Wolfe...
Hammer Price: €340
Full DetailsLot 304
DENIS 'DINNY' LACEY (1889-1923)
A monochrome memorial card, c. 14 x 8.5cm, with oval portrait between the inscriptions 'Died for Ireland, Feb...
Lot 305
A RECTANGULAR METAL PLATE LITOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE designed to produce the well known known oval portrait of Kevin Barry, the plate 12.5cm x...
Hammer Price: €50
Full DetailsLot 306
ASSOCIATION COPY
[Plunkett (Joseph M.)] Signatory of The 1916 Proclamation. Da Vinci (Leonardo). A Treatise on Painting, 8vo L. 1721 FIRST...
Hammer Price: €350
Full DetailsLot 307
DAIL EIREANN.
Minutes of Proceedings, Official Record, 1919-21; December 1921-January 1922 (Treaty Debate); August 1921-June 1922. 3 vols green...
Hammer Price: €170
Full DetailsLot 308
LIAM DE ROISTE'S COPY DAIL EIREANN 1919 - 1922 Minutes of Proceedings of the First Parliament of the Republic of Ireland 1919 - 1921 - Official...
Hammer Price: €200
Full DetailsLot 309
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST DAIL DAIL EIREANN: DAIL EIREANN.
Tuairisc Infheidhmeach ar Sheiseon an Mheithimh, 17adh - 19adh (Session June 17 -...
Hammer Price: €150
Full DetailsLot 310
MICHAEL COLLINS - DAIL EIREANN
An Cheud Tionol [First Assembly], Dia Mairt [Tuesday] 21 Eanair [January] 1919. Admission ticket issued to...
Hammer Price: €1,400
Full DetailsLot 311
"FOR THEIR COUNTRY THEY DIED"
An attractive contemporary memorial depicting Padraig Pearse, Tom Clarke, Edward Daly, Thomas MacDonagh and The...
Hammer Price: €120
Full DetailsLot 312
FIANNA FAIL. PRESIDENT DEVALERA AND HIS CABINET. Colour printed poster showing photographic portraits of De Valera and nine members of his...
Lot 313
ILLUMINATED ADDRESS OF WELCOME PRESENTED BY THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN TO IVOR BARON WIMBORNE, Lord Lieutenant General; and Governor General of...
Hammer Price: €480
Full DetailsLot 314
MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA
A copy of the Classiebawn Castle Guide Book, 1962, cover torn with loss, with a good ALS laid in on the Castles headed...
Lot 315
LORD MOUNTBATTEN
A TLS with handwritten additions dated 17th December 1962, on Ministry of Defence headed paper, in thanks for a Christmas...
Hammer Price: €70
Full DetailsLot 315A
[1798 REBELLION]
A commerative green silk panel, embroidered with repeated depictions of Robert Emmet and Henry Joy Mc Gracken, and Wolfe Tone...
Hammer Price: €30
Full DetailsLot 316
1916 ALLMANS PURE IRISH POT STILL WHISKEY
40 Under Proof (34%abv), fill level to shoulder, with driven cork showing visible shrinking, all...
Hammer Price: €6,600
Full DetailsLot 317
THEUNIS, JACOBSZ.(1606-1650)
Printer and publisher, also known as Lootsman (Pilot), issued in 1643 De Lichtende Columne ofte Zee-Spiegel. As...
Hammer Price: €550
Full DetailsLot 317A
AJOSEPH HUDDART
A Chart of the North Coast of Ireland
Laurie & Whittle (1794). 795 x 525
Provenance: The Richard S.J. Clarke...
Hammer Price: €70
Full DetailsLot 317B
ABRAHAM ORTELIUS (MINIATURE)
Ireland
Plate 3. Engraved by Philip Galle. Published by Peter Heyns (1603). English text. Abl P96.
Hammer Price: €50
Full DetailsLot 318
GERARD MERCATOR (1512-1594)
A Set a Five Maps
From the English Edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. This edition 1635. English text on verso...
Hammer Price: €90
Full DetailsLot 318A
GERARD MERCATOR (1512-1594)
The Complete Irish Section (five maps and six pages of text)
From Mercator's Atlas Minor with Cloppenburg...
Hammer Price: €240
Full DetailsLot 318B
JOAN BLAEU (1596-1673)
A Set of Six Maps
Ireland, the Four Provinces and Caterlogh. From the Latin edition of 1662, the maps having the...