Wednesday, 25 February, 2004

Picture and Book Auction (incorporating 'The Celtic Sale')

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Books of Irish Interest

Lot Description
1 WESTROPP, M.S.Dudley. 'Irish Glass, An Account of Glass-Making in Ireland From XV1th Century to the present Day' Herbert Jenkins. nd. Green glt.cl.
Sold for £65
3 O'CONOR,Hon.Charles Owen.(ed) 'The O'Conors of Connaught; An Historical Memoir' compiled from M.S.of the late John O'DONOVAN Dublin, 1891. 4to Engd. frontis & Illus. (lacks 1 plt.p77). 1
Sold for £130
4 FALLEY, Margaret Dickson, 'Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research' Baltimore, 1984, 2vols. Plus O'RAITHBHEARTAIGH, Toirdhealbhach, (ed). 'Genealogical Tracts 1' Dublin 1932. 3
Sold for £35
5 LEECH, John (Ill) 'A Little Tour in Ireland' by An Oxonian. Bradbury & Evans, 1859. Fldg. cold.frontis. b&w. illus. light foxing. A.e.g. glt. cl. bumped.
Sold for £40
6 HANNAGAN, Margaret & CLANDILLON, Seamus,'Lonoub An Cairn, being songs of the Irish Gaels'. OUP. 1927. Tog.with CAMPBELL, J.F. 'Leabhar na Feinne...Heroic Gaelic Ballads' London, 1872. vol. 1. Gaelic Texts. fo. 2
Sold for £130
7 SHAW-SPARROW, Walter, 'John Lavery and His Work' Preface by R.B. Cunninghame Graham. Kegan Paul, [1911]. Illus.a.c.f. Rebound in 1/2 marbled bd. glt. spine.
Sold for £60
9 O'CONNELL, Mrs. Morgan John 'The Last Colonel of the Irish Brigade' Kegan Paul, 1892. 2 vols. 4to. cl. bumped. 2
Sold for £75
10 TAYLOR, W.B.S. 'History of the University of Dublin Its Origin, Progress and Present Condition' London, 1845.1st edn. 8vo. Hand cold. engrd. frontis, 3 cold.engrs. 9 b&w. Red stamp to verso of tp.Rebound 1/2 marbled, glt.spine.
Sold for £140
11 'Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of The Society of Friends during the Famine in Ireland in 1846-1847' Dublin, 1852. 8vo. rebound 1/4 marbled.glt spine. untrimmed pp.
Sold for £60
12 YOUNG, Robert, M. (ed) 'The Town Book of The Corporation of Belfast 1613-1816' Belfast, 1892. Maps & illus. Frontis fldg. map. untrimmed pp.351pp. Rebound, new endpp. full tan leather.
Sold for £130
13 STOKES, Margaret 'Early Christian Architecture in Ireland' London, 1878, Wdcts. 4to. cl. bumped.
Sold for £45
14 MARTIN, C.P. 'Prehistoric Man in Ireland' Macmillan, 1935. Plus LAWLOR, Henry Cairnes, 'Ulster: Its Archaelogy and Antiquities' Belfast, 1928. Plus MACALISTER, R.A. Stewart 'The Memorial Slabs of Clonmacnois, Kings County' Dublin, 1909. Fldg. Frontis. cl. bd. 2
Sold for £60
15 YEATS, Jack B. (Ill) 'A Catalogue Raisonne of The Oil Paintings' ed. Hilary Pyle. Andre Deutsch. 3 vols. 4to. 1992. ltd. edn. 174/1500. Tissue wrapper in slip-case. 3
Sold for £310
16 DWYER, Rev. P. 'The Siege of Derry in 1689' Elliot Stock, 1893. 4to. Frontis port. Glt. cl. bumped & worn.
Sold for £45
17 CONOR, William (Ill) 'The Irish Scene' Derrick MacCord, Belfast, 1944. 12 plts. a.c.f. Fo.
Sold for £110
18 PHILLIPS, Sir Thomas, 'Londonderry and The Companies 1609-1629' Belfast, 1928.
Sold for £60
19 MAHAFFY, Robert Pentland. 'Calendar of The State Papers Relating to Ireland...1669-1670', 1910. 4to. Rebound cl. Tog.with 3 others.
Sold for £85

Books of Scottish Interest

Lot Description
20 EADIE, Rev. Prof. (ed) 'Tytler's History of Scotland' William Mackenzie, Edinburgh, nd. 4to.Dec. tp. Illus. 2 vols. Hinges weak. 1/2 leather glt. spines. 2
Sold for £20
28 'Souvenir of Edinburgh' Nelson & son. fldg. cold. frontis of Forth Bridge. 24 cold. plts.
Sold for £48
29 MACLEAN, Magnus 'The Literature of the Celts' Blackie & son. 1902. T. e.g. 1/2 leather glt. spine. Tog.with GREGORY, Donald 'The History of the Western Highlands & Isles of Scotland' 2nd edn. 1881, Plus CAMPBELL,J.L. & MCDONALD, Rev. Fr. Allan, 'Gaelic Words and Expressions from South Uist & Eriskay' Dublin, 1958. 3
Sold for £20
29a HAGGART, David, 'The life of David Haggart, alias John Morison, alias Barney McCoul... written by himself while under sentence of Death', Edinburgh 1821. Handwritten Insg, written by author in Edinburgh Jail, July 1821. 8Vo. 170pp. browned. Illus Frontis, hinges weak, bds scuffed and worn.
Sold for £45

Books of Welsh Interest

Lot Description
30 A CATALOGUE of Original Manuscripts and Books of Oscar Wilde, Dulau & Co. ltd. Ltd.edn. nd. Inscd. to Harold Munro from Peter Quennell. 1/2 marbled bd. Tog.with some letters referring to Oscar Wilde's pirated editions. 2
Sold for £125
31 WILDE, Oscar 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3.' E.J. Clode, NY. Ltd.edn. 159/259. Bds.scuffed & bumped. Tog.with 'The Decay of Lying' by same. The Sunflower Company, 1902. ltd. edn. 473/1000. Plus 'Lady Windermere's Fan' Paris, 1903. Ltd. edn. 247/250. cl.bd.spine browned. Plus 'The Duchess of Padua and Salome' F.M.Buckles & co. NY. 1906. 4
Sold for £85
32 WILDE, Oscar. 'The Sphinx' London, 1901. Privately printed. Ltd. unumbered of 300. Printed one side of paper with design opposite. Paper covers almost disbound.
Sold for £140
33 WILDE, Oscar 'A Woman of No Importance' Paris, 1903. Ltd.edn. 168/250. 4to. foxing to endpp. Millard bkplt. Tog.with 'De Profundis' by same. Pirated edn. London, 1910, plus 4 others. 6
Sold for £100
34 WILDE, Oscar 'The Sphinx Without a Secret, The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionare' Privately printed, 1904. Ltd. unnumbered of 300. Paper bds. Tog.with another copy of same, plus 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime A Study of Duty' Privately printed, (1891). Paper wrappers. 3
Sold for £58
35 WILDE, Oscar. 'The Duchess of Padua' NY. Privately printed. Ltd.edn. Paper wraps. Tog.with 'Salome' Paris, 1906. cl. browned & bumped. Plus 'Essays, Criticism & Reviews by Oscar Wilde' Privately printed, 1901. sgd. C.S. Millard 1907. Annotations & notes to printer. upr. bd.det.
Sold for £110
36 WILDE Oscar 'A Critic in Pall Mall' Methuen, 1919. 1st edn. glt.cl. Tog.with 'The Soul of Man' Privately printed, 1904, 223/250. pencil annotation to text. paper wraps det. Plus 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism' Preface by Robert Ross, 1919. New imp. 3
Sold for £50
37 WILDE, Oscar 'The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales' Ill. Spencer Baird Nichols, NY. 1913. cl. browned. Tog.with 'The Young King, The Star-Child' Boston, 1895. Illus. Dec.cl. browned, Plus 'The Happy Prince' Ill. Charles Robinson, Piccolo, 1977. 3
Sold for £40
38 WILDE, Oscar. 'The Poems of Oscar Wilde' Bernard Tauchnitz, 1911. dec. cl.spine. Tog.with MONTGOMERY HYDE, H. 'The Trials of Oscar Wilde' William Hodge & co. 1949.Plus 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' The Living Library, Ill. Leo Manso, in d/w.Plus other Oscar Wilde & Lord Alfred Douglas interest. 15
Sold for £60
39 WILDE, Oscar 'The Poetical Works of Oscar Wilde' Biographical introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole. NY. 1913. Suede bds.almost disbound, Tog.with 'Poems' Ny 1881. Privately printed, pirated edn. plus other poems, plus 2 editions of 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' Brentano's NY. 1905. 1907, plus others. 7
Sold for £10
40 WILDE, Oscar 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3.' Leonard Smithers, 1899. Tog.with 3 other editions by same. 4
Sold for £35
41 BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (Ill.) 'Aubrey Beardsley' by Robert Ross. 16 illus. (1 det). Tog.with 'The Yellow Book' vol. 5, 1895. spine sunned, plus 'The Savoy' April, 1896. bds.scuffed & browned, plus one other. 4
Sold for £28
43 WILDE, Oscar 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3.' Leonard Smithers, 1898. 2nd. edn. 1/4 linen bd. bumped browned. Tog.with YEATS, W.B. (ed) 'Fairy and Folk Tales of The Irish Peasantry' London, 1888. The Camelot series. red cl. worn. Plus RODGERS, W.R. 'Europa and the Bull; Secker & Warburg, 1952, in d/w. Plus GRIFFIN, Gerald, 'The Collegians' The Talbot Press. Plus 5 others. 9
Sold for £120
44 BLOOMFIELD, Robert 'The Banks of Wye' A Poem in Four Books. London, 1813. 2nd. edn. Hinges weak. bds.scuffed & worn.
Sold for £20
45 NICHOLAS, Thomas, 'Annals and Antiquities of The Counties and County Families of Wales' Longmans, 1872. 2 vols. 4to. wdcts. A.e.g. Glt. cl. Rebacked. Orig.cl.laid down. 2
Sold for £20
46 JONES, W.H. 'History of the Port of Swansea' W.Spurrell, Carmarthen, 1922, 4to. cold. frontis. maps & illus. a.c.f. T.e.g. Glt.cl.scuffed. Tog.with BEANLAND,W.A. 'The History of The Royal Institute of South Wales, Swansea' Swansea, 1935. Ex.Lib. slim 8vo. plus The Philosophical and Literary Institute,'Proceedings at the Formation of The Society and The Annual General Meetings....also Meteorological Registers for the years 1836-7.'Swansea, 1838. 8vo. Joints weak, full diced cf.scuffed. 3
Sold for £40
47 PHILLIPS, D.Rhys 'The History of The Vale of Neath' Swansea, 1925. 4to. Sgd.'T.Griffiths esq.MP. subs. copy from D. Rhys Phillips, Swansea'. Tog.with 'An Antiquarian Survey of East Gower, Glamorganshire' 1899, by MORGAN, W.LL. Plus NORTH,F.J. 'The River Scenery at the Head of the Vale of Neath' Cardiff, 1949. 3rd.edn. plus others. 6
Sold for £290
48 PEATE,Iorwerth, C. 'The Welsh House' Liverpool, 1944, in chipped d/w. Tog.with INGLIS-JONES, Elizabeth 'Peacocks in Paradise' Faber, 1950. 1st edn. plus one other 1st.edn. w/o d/w.
Sold for £30
49 THOMAS, Dylan, 'Under Milk Wood' Folio Society in slip-case. Ill. Ceri Richards, 1972. Tog.with 'The Magic Horse' ill by same. Gollancz, 1930. 2
Sold for £100
50 GLYNN VIVIAN ART GALLERY, Swansea. Six Views of Swansea & Gower. b&w. litho prints in folder.
Sold for £5
51 THE CAMBRIAN Traveller's Guide. 1813. 2nd.edn. fldg.fronis map, with closed tear 1.5". Full leather, joints weak. Tog.with 'The Swansea Guide' Swansea, printed by Z.B.Morris. Full leather, plus other guides. 10
Sold for £90
52 WILLIAMS, Richard 'An Analysis of Medicinal Waters of Llandrindod' London, 1817. slim 8vo. 1/2 marbled bd. Tog.with 'A Journey To Llandrindod Wells in Radnorshire' by a Countryman. Ltd. edn. 1746. Rebound 1/2 marbled. Plus LINDEN, Diederick Wessel, 'A Treatise on the Three Medicinal Mineral Waters at Llandrindod' 1756, similarly rebound, (without 1/2 title).Plus 1 other. 4
Sold for £280
53 HOARE,Sir Richard Colt (trans) 'The Itinary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales' by Giraldus De Barri. London, 1806. Frontis port. Fo. Vol.1 only. Plts. 7 maps a.c.f. Lacks backstrip & leather to bds.
Sold for £20
54 ATKINSON,C.T. 'The South Wales Borderers 24th Foot 1689-1937' Cambridge, 1837. 4to. glt. cl. bumped.
Sold for £60
55 DAVIES, Edward 'Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions & Language of Ancient Britons' 1804. 8vo. new endpp. Rebacked. full cf. scuffed.
Sold for £10
57 GILPIN, William 'Observations on the River Wye' 1782, 4to. 15 Aquatint plts. bkplt. full tree cf. upr.joint weak. Tog.with the 5th edn. of same. 1800, with 17 aquatint plts. 2
Sold for £85
58 HEATH, Charles 'Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Tintern Abbey' Monmouth (1823). 10th edn. 4to. spotting to TP. 1/2 cl.worn. Tog.with REES,Rev. D.C. 'Tregaron Histrorical and Antiquarian Llandyssul' 1936. sgd. by author.plus A.L. S. 2
Sold for £65
59 WILLIAMS, Robert, 'A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshman' Llandovery, 1852. 4to. 1/2 marbled bds. Tog.with 2 others. 3
Sold for £35
60 WARNER, Ferdinando, 'A Full and Plain Account of The Gout' Dublin, 1769. 12mo. Full cf. worn. upr. bd. almost det.
Sold for £180

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