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1881: The Poems of
Edgar Allen Poe first
edition
Full leather with
raised bands on the
spine and embossed
title, 172pp.
Kegan Paul Trench &
Co, London 1881. An
excellent example 6.45
x 4in. (16.38 x
10.16cm)
€150-€250 (£125-
£208 approx)
434
1905: The Venture, An
Annual of Art and
Literature Volume 2
Baillie, London 1905
Decorated cloth boards,
196pp.
Edited by Laurence
Housman and W. Somerset
Maugham Contains ‘Two
Songs (I) What Counsel has
the Hooded Moon. (II) Thou
leanest to the Shell of
Night.’ by James A. Joyce,
marking their first
appearance in book form;
later published in ‘Chamber
Music’. Two Volumes of The
Venture were published,
this volume preceded by
the 1903 issue. Other
contributors to this annual, include Chesterton, Hardy, Housman, Francis
Thompson, Maugham on the literary side, with Shannon, Ricketts, Moore,
Pissaro, Gordon Craig, and Rackham, among the illustrators. 10 x 8in.
(25.40 x 20.32cm)
€500-€700 (£417-£583 approx)
435
1837: Lewis’s Topographical
Dictionary of Ireland
S. Lewis & Co., London, 1837,
cloth boards.
Lewis’s Topographical Dictionary
of Ireland, comprising the
several counties, cities,
boroughs, corporate market, and
post towns, parishes, and
villages, with Historical and
Statistical descriptions;
embellished with engravings of
the arms of the cities,
bishopricks, corporate towns,
and boroughs; and of the seals
of the several municipal
corporations. In two volumes 12
x 10in. (30.48 x 25.40cm)
€100-€150 (£83-£125 approx)
436
18th-19th Century: Collection of Irish published and interest books
including travel, cookery and early Irish language books
Including Art of Cookery, Gilbert, Dublin 1791, Ireland’s Miseries, the
grand cause and cure Mullan, Belfast, 1809, 304pp, Old Irish postage
stamps and franks , Morley, London, 100pp, History of Ireland by Thomas
Moore, Bennis London 1845, 352pp, Varieties of Irish History by James J.
Gaskin, Kelly Dublin, 1869, 445pp, Archaeologica Hibernia by William F.
Warburton, Hodges Figgis Dublin 1891, 322pp, A guide to Belfast
McCaw, Belfast 1902, 283pp, O’Reilly’s Irish-English dictionary 1821, a
1712 Irish language sacraments book etc. (14 books)
€200-€300 (£167-£250 approx)
437
circa 1850: Ireland Pictorial, Descriptive and Historicalwith
engravings by W. H. Bartlett
Virtue & Yorston, New York, undated, 2 vols, quarter leather with gilt
titled front cover and spine.
Picturesque Ireland, Pictorial, descriptive and Historical, Comprising
engravings on steel of Its picturesque scenery, remarkable antiquities,
and present aspects, from original drawings By W. H. Bartlett and a
complete account of its cities, towns, mountains, waters, ancient
monuments and modern structures by Markinfield Addey. A good
example, also with a hand coloured framed map of Ireland by J. Rankin
decorated with engravings of Killarney, Wicklow, Limerick Castle etc. (3
items) 11 x 8.50in. (27.94 x 21.59cm)
€120-€150 (£100-£125 approx)
438
20th Century: Irish interest books including Irish Life & Landscape
Talbot Press, Dublin, original boards, 173pp.
Irish Life & Landscape by J. Crampton Walker with excellent illustrations
by Percy French, Harry Kernoff, Paul
Henry, William Orpen, William Conor
etc. Also with Myths and Legends,
The Celtic Race by T. W. Rolleston,
Nickerson, Boston, 457pp, The
Admirable Bashville or, Constancy
Unrewarded by Bernard Shaw,
Brentano’s New York 1917, 74pp and
a Giant’s Causeway fold out pictorial
album published by Lawrence. (4
items)
€100-€150 (£83-£125 approx)
439
1841-3: Hall’s Ireland Its Scenery
and Characters
Full morocco, gilt titled, three
volumes
How and Parsons., London. Vol 1
435pp, Vol 2 468pp and Vol 3 512pp.
An extremely interesting publication
illustrated with engravings and maps
throughout. (3 volumes) 10 x 7in.
(25.40 x 17.78cm)
€200-€300 (£167-£250 approx)
440
1850s: Hall’s Ireland Its Scenery and
Characters
Half calf, three volumes
The undated ‘new edition’ published
by Hall, Virtue and Co. London 10 x
7in. (25.40 x 17.78cm)
€200-€300 (£167-£250 approx)
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