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Our forthcoming History Sale will include important rare and unique Irish historical documents and artefacts.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 362
1916 LEADERS & WRITERS, A COLLECTION
MacDONAGH, Thomas.
Through the Ivory Gate, Dublin, n.d., green cloth boards with gilt; Thomas Campion...
Hammer Price: €280
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Lot 363
EARLIEST APPEARANCES OF OSCAR WILDE IN BOOK FORM
Mac Ilwaine (Rev. W.) Lyra Hibernica Sacra, 8vo, Belfast 1878. Original crimson red cloth...
Lot 366
FITZGERALD (WM. G.) The Voice of Ireland - Glor na h'Eireann, A Survey of the Race Nation from All Angles. By the Foremost Leaders at Home and...
Hammer Price: €20
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Lot 367
A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF BOOKS comprising, Michael Collins by Tim Pat Coogan; Frongoch by Sean O'Mahony; The Four Glorious Years by David...
Hammer Price: €50
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Lot 368
A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF BOOKS INCLUDING: The Day's Burden, Poems and Parodies and the Ways of War by Tom Kettle; Principles of Freedom by...
Hammer Price: €160
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Lot 369
A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF BOOKS including: Tales of War, Guerilla, Patches of Sunlight, Rory and Bran and Tales of Three Hemispheres by...
Hammer Price: €110
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Lot 370
A MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION OF BOOKS including: The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery; Father Browne's First World War by E.E. O'Donnell; The...
Hammer Price: €80
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Lot 372
MAP OF IRELAND, Irish school, circa 1950s, published by the Dublin General Steam Shipping Co. Ltd, coal merchants, 18 D'Olier Street, Dublin,...
Hammer Price: €30
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Lot 375
THE ART JOURNAL. L. 1849-62. 16 vols. Includes supplements for the industrial exhibitions 1851 & 1862. Contemp half calf. Raised bands, spines...
Lot 376
THE WORKS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY. "The English Opium Eater". Including all his contributions to Periodical Literature. 3rd ed. 8 vo. E. 1871. 16...
Hammer Price: €60
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Lot 377
CARLYLE, THOMAS (1795-1881). The Works. 15 vols. of 17. 8vo. Cont., crushed burgundy mor prize binding, generously gilted, a.e.g. & gilt arms...
Hammer Price: €120
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Lot 378
SCOTT, SIR WALTER (1771-1832). [Fine Binding] - The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. E. 1834-35. 12 vols. 12mo. 1st complete ed....
Lot 379
THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. 1860-83. 47 vols. complete. 8vo. Uniform cont., half calf, with marbled bds. Includes the first 47 volumes of this...
Lot 380
JOHN RUSKIN. The Poems. L., 1891. 2 vols. Full polished calf. Gilt tooling to bds. Raised bands, gilted panels, and morocco labels to spine....
Hammer Price: €200
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Lot 381
MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON (1800-59). [Fine binding] The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second. By Lord Macaulay with...
Hammer Price: €140
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Lot 382
GEORGE TOMLINE, MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE WILLIAM PITT. L. 1821. 2nd ed., 8vo. 3 vols. Finely Bound. Bookplate of Giles...
Hammer Price: €120
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Lot 383
SMOLLETT, TOBIAS GEROGE (1721-1771). The History of England, from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second. New ed., with author's last...
Hammer Price: €180
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Lot 384
GIBBON, EDWARD, (1737-94). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. L. 1815. 8vo. New Ed., in 12 vols. Full cf. rebacked...
Hammer Price: €300
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Lot 385
LORD JOHN RUSSELL, Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox. L. 1853. 1st ed., 4 vols. Half calf with marb bds. Black and red mor.,...
Hammer Price: €130
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Lot 386
DOUGLAS, JAMES, BOMBAY AND WESTERN INDIA. A Series of Stray Papers. 1st ed. Octave. L. 1893. 2 vols. Red buckram with gilt amorial shield to...
Hammer Price: €150
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Lot 387
BARON DE HOLBACH (1723-89). La Politique Naturelle. Ou Discours sur les Vrais Principes de Gouvernement. Par un Ancien Magistrat. L. (But...
Hammer Price: €100
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Lot 388
NICOLAS DUTOT (1684-1741). Reflexions Politiques sur les Finances et le Commerce. 1740. The Hague. 12mo. 2 vols. Contp. Vellum, spines gilt,...
Hammer Price: €220
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Lot 389
NICOLAS GERMAIN LEONARD (1744-93). Lettres de Deux Amans, Habitans de Lyon. London & Paris. 1783. 1st ed. 12mo. 3 vols. Cont., calf, spines...
Hammer Price: €130
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Lot 390
TREMBLEY, ABRAHAM (1710-84). Instructions d'un Pere a ses Enfans, sur le Principe de la Vertu et du Bonheur. Geneva. 1783. 1st ed. 8vo. 1 vol....
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Lot 391
PREVÔT, ABBE = L'ABBÉ PRÉVOST (1697-1763). Lettres de Mentor, a un Jeune Seigneur, traduites de l'Anglois. London [actually Paris]. 1764. 8vo....
Hammer Price: €90
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Lot 392
CHARPENTIER, LOUIS. Causes de la Decadence du Gout sur le TheatreParis, 1768. 1st ed. 8 vo. 2 vols bound in 1. H.t., woodcut headpiece...
Lot 393
GROSE, DANIEL (1731-91). The Antiquities of England and Wales. 1st ed. Quarto. The first 4 vols. with the bookplates of "the Vicar of Epsom"...
Lot 394
CLAVÈRE, E•üTIENNE (1735-93), & JACQUES PIERRE BRISSOT DE WARVILLE (1754-93) De la France et des E•ütats-Unis, ou De l'importance de la...
Hammer Price: €160
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Lot 395
FAUQUES, MARIANE-AGNES FILLEMENT (C.1720-1770). La Derniere Guerre des Betes. Fable pour Servir a l'Histoire du XVIII Siecle. Par l'Auteur...
Lot 396
THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS. L. 1808. 12 mo. 44 vols. Only missing vol. 28. Full cont diced calf, with gilt lettering, numbering and motif to spine....
Hammer Price: €400
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Lot 397
ECHARD, LAURENCE (1670?-1730), Trans. Plautus's Commedies, Amphitryon, Epidecus, and Rudens, made English with critical remarks upon each play....
Lot 398
KUHNER, RAPHAEL, trans. Xenophontis de Socrate Commentarii. Black et Armstrong. L. 1841. 8vo. I vol. 1st ed. Text in Latin and Greek. Includes...
Lot 399
ABEL BOYER (ATTRIBUTED TO). The English Theophrastus: or, the manners of the age. Being the modern characters of the court, the town, and the...
Lot 400
MAUVILLION ELEAZAR DE. Le Soldat Parvenu ou Memoires et Aventures de Mr de Verval dit Bellerose. Dresden, 1753. 8vo. 2 vols. 1st ed. Engd...
Lot 401
THOMAS BRODRICK. A Compleat History of the Late War, in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Spin. Together with an Abstract of the Treaty at...
Hammer Price: €200
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Lot 402
A COLLECTION OF SIX HODGES FIGGIS CATALOGUES, from the 1950s to 1980s, relating to rare Irish books, manuscripts and Celtic philology. Formally...
Lot 403
IRISH THEATRICAL INTEREST. JOHN WILLIAM COLE. THE LIFE AND THEATRICAL TIMES OF CHARLES KEAN F.S.A. Including a Summary of the English Stage for...
Hammer Price: €40
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Lot 404
IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS 1928-68. Plus other rare book catalogues. [7]
Lot 405
LAURENCE STRENE. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, a Gentleman. L. 1770. 12mo. 6 vols. Full cont calf, with gilt numbering to spine and...
Hammer Price: €90
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Lot 406
JOHNSTONE, CHARLES (C.1719- C1800). 8vo. 2 vols. 2nd ed. The Reverie: Or, a Flight to the Paradise of Fools. L. 1767. Cont cf. Spines with gilt...
Lot 407
EDMUND BURKE. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. L. 1822-27. 16 vols. 8vo. Rivington's new ed. Full polished calf. Mor labels....
Hammer Price: €300
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Lot 408
DUBLIN PRINTING MONTESQUIEU. THE CCOMPLETE WORKS OF M. DE MONTESQUIEU. Translated from the French. Dublin. 1777. 8vo. 4 vols. 1st Dublin ed....
Lot 409
MCGUIRE, JAMES & JAMES QUINN, Eds., Dictionary of Irish Biography from the earlies times to 2002. (Under the auspices of the Royal Irish...
Hammer Price: €200
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Lot 410
THE DUKE OF WESTMINER'S COPY. BINDINGS. GASKIN, J.J. THE VICEREGAL SPEECHESof the Late Earl of Carlisle, K.G., D. 1866. Engd. Port;, add....
Lot 411
KILDRARE BREWING INTEREST. VOLTAIRE. A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY FROM THE FRENCH OF M. DE VOLTAIRE. L. 1824. 8vo. 6 vols. Full cont diced calf....
Hammer Price: €180
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Lot 412
JOHN DALRYMPLE. Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland. 3 vols. 8vo. D. 1773. Fourth. Cont., full calf mor labels. V. good. [3]
Hammer Price: €100
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Lot 413
GORDON, REV. JAMES BENTLEY (1750-1819). A History of Ireland from the Earliest Account. To the Accomplishment of the Act of Union with Great...
Lot 414
PRIOT, JAMES (c.1790-1869). Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke; with specimens of his poetry and letters, and an...
Hammer Price: €160
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