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WHYTES
SINCE 1783
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circa 150 million BC: Collection of fossils gathered in the North Kilkenny
coalfields
A collection of various fossil specimens and minerals including a number of
ammonites, a large fossil lycopod tree bark etc. Collected over a number of
years by the late historian Thomas Lyng, author of Castlecomer Connections.
(35 items)
€
300-
€
500 (£250-£420 approx)
2
Collection of antiquities including Chinese Han Dynasty stove
25AD-220AD
Chinese Han Dynasty stove with brown glaze and decorated with incised fish.
circa 2nd Century AD European bronze votive bell, c.2000BC Syro-Hittite
horse figure Chalcothic deep terracotta bowl from the Holy Land, Roman
bottle and bowl, late Bronze Age Syrian arrowhead, Levantine Juglet. Twin
handled Neolithic pot. Pear shaped East Mediterranean Roman bottle made
of yellow glass with areas of iridescence, 10cm. Roman bottle of almost clear
glass etc. (15)
€
150-
€
250 (£130-£210 approx)
3
circa 100BC-100AD. Celtic bronze votive horse.
Mounted on stone. With Coincraft Certificate of Authenticity. Stated to have
been found in France. 1½ x 1¾in. (3 x 3cm)
€
500-
€
600 (£420-£500 approx)
4
No Lot
5
O’Connor, Roger. Chronicles of Eri; Being the History of the Gaol Scist
Iber: Or, the Irish People.
London: Phillips, 1822. First Edition. Large 8vo. Half Black & Original Cloth.
Good / No Jacket. 2 vols in one. Pp, cclxii, 509, adverts. Frontispiece & 4
folding maps at front of vol 1, folding hand coloured frontispiece, map &
plate at front of vol 2. Library no. on lower spine. Cloth stained & worn, but
good overall.
Roger O’ Connor claimed to have translated the ancient Irish manuscripts in
1822, from “Original Manuscripts in the Phoenician Dialect of the Scythian
Language”. The contents are alleged to have been written by a Scythian chief
called Eolus which detail the early history of Ireland, treating the Milesian
occupation as told in Irish mythology as literal history. The Chronicles of Eri
are widely now considered to be a literary fraud. O’ Connor never revealed
the ancient manuscripts he claimed to have translated and most believe they
never existed. The archaeologist R. A. Stewart Macalister reviewed the work
in 1941, calling it a clear fraud and its contents “cloud-cuckoo”, comparing
it to the Book of Mormon
€
150-
€
200 (£130-£170 approx)
6
Edward Ledwich ‘The Antiquities of Ireland...’
‘... the second edition, with Additions and Corrections, to Which Is Added a
Collection of Miscellaneous Antiquities...’ Printed By and For John Jones 90
Bride Street, Dublin. 1804. With many fine engravings by J. Ford. Very good.
€
150-
€
250 (£130-£210 approx)
7
Archdall, Mervyn. Monasticon Hibernicum; Or, An History of the Abbies,
Priories, and Other Religious Houses in Ireland.
Interspersed with Memoirs of Their Several founders and Benefactors, and of
Their Abbots and Other Superiours, to the time of the Final Suppressions.
Dublin: Printed for C.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1786. First Edition. 4to. Calf Gilt.
Good. An Account of the Manner in which the Possessions belonging to
those Foundations were disposed of, and the Present State of their Ruins.
Collected from English, Irish and Foreign Historians, Records, and other
Authentic Documents, and from many Curious and Valuable Manuscripts.
with Engravings of the several religious and military habits, and a map
illustrating the history. Folding map of Ireland Pp. (4, Subscriber list), xxiii
(including 18 full page engravings), 820, index, errata. Corners and spine
ends bumped and rubbed. Occasional internal marks. Overall a vey good copy
of a rare volume
€
500-
€
700 (£420-£580 approx)
8
Nicholson, Asneath. Lights and Shades of Ireland.
.. London: Houlston and Stoneman, 1850. First Edition. 8vo. Original Cloth
Gilt. Very Good In Three Parts. Part I.- Early History. Part II - Saints, Kings and
Poets of the Early Ages. Part III - The Famine of 1847 ‘48 & ‘49. Pp. xii, 444.
Very scarce.
€
150-
€
200 (£130-£170 approx)
9
Cox, Richard. Hibernia Anglicana: or, the Second Part of the History of
Ireland from the conquest thereof by the English, to this present Time. By
the Author of the First Part ..
London: Printed By Edward James for Joseph Watts et. al., 1690. First Edition.
Folio. Hard Cover. Good Vol. 2. only of 2. Pp. (2), Title page, (38), 206, 72,
212. Pp. 9-12 & 4pp. of tables at the end of the volume are in mss. form.
Small loss to bottom corner of last mss. leaf. Not in Wing. Rare.
€
200-
€
300 (£170-£250 approx)
10
Harris, Walter: The History and Antiquities of the City of Dublin, from the
Earliest Accounts
Compiled from Authentick Memoirs, Offices of Record, Manuscript
Collections, and Other Unexceptionable Vouchers.. Dublin: Printed for
Laurence Flinn, in Castle Street; and James Williams, in Skinner Row, 1766.
First Edition. 8vo. Full Calf. Very Good With an appendix containing, a history
of the Cathedrals of Christ Church and St. Patrick, the University, the
Hospitals and other Public Buildings. Also two plans, one of the city, as it
was in the year 1610, being the earliest extant; the other as it is at present,
from the accurate survey of the Late Mr. Rocque; with several other
embellishments. Pp. [8] + 509. With 2 folding copper engraved maps and 11
plates. Recent full calf.
€
300-
€
400 (£250-£330 approx)
11
15th Century sculpted stone plinth.
Possibly a pillar capital from a castle or from the old market place in
Loughrea, Co. Galway. The motifs on its sides are animals - cow, bull, goat,
horse etc. - so not thought to be the base of a cross or the base of a Celtic
cross. Further there is a central depression but no sign of mortar and no hole
to support a cross. The estate it was in was established by Sir Ulick Burke (de
Burgo) in the 14th century. A historic piece of Irish masonry.
Provenance:
Hubert de Burgh-Canning, Lord Clanricard, The Clanricarde
Estate, Co. Galway; Thence, circa 1890, to the present owner’s family
20 x 20 x 9½in. (51 x 51 x 23cm)
€
500-
€
700 (£420-£580 approx)
12
Gilbert, John T:. Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, in the possession
of the Municipal Corporation of that City
Dublin, Dollard, 1889., Vols 3-17 only of 19 vols. Illustrated with facsimiles of
documents, charters, deeds, rolls, etc covering the period 1477-1796. Dublin
City emblem in gilt on front cover of each vol. Title in gilt on spine.
€
200-
€
300 (£170-£250 approx)
13
1810: Pacata Hibernia or a History of the Wars in Ireland in the Reign of
Queen Elizabeth
Hibernia-Press, 1810. Original cloth, 8vo. 2nd Edition. Two Volumes. Dublin:
Hibernia-Press, 1810. Pages (1) [8] 334; with two portraits, folded map of the
Province of Mounster (after J. Speed) and 7 folded plates; (2) 707, [8] with 9
plates (8 folded) and folded map of Ireland at end. First published in London
in 1633, the Pacata offers an impartial, contemporary account of affairs in
Ireland during the latter stages of the Nine Years War, as well as details on
the conduct of the campaign in Munster. Very good, some foxing.
€
500-
€
700 (£420-£580 approx)
