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1884: Picturesque Ireland
Edited by John Savage Quarter leather, marbled boards, bound in two
volumes, 649pp.
Picturesque Ireland, a Literary and Artistic Delineation of the Natural
Scenery, Remarkable Places, Historical Antiquities, Public Buildings,
Ancient Abbeys, Towers, Castles and Other Romantic and Attractive
Features of Ireland. Published by Thomas Kelly, New York, 1884.
Beautifully presented in two rebound volumes. Containing many
illustrations and maps. (2 items) 10 x 8.50in. (25.40 x 21.59cm)
€150-€250 (£125-£208 approx)
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1884: Picturesque Ireland
Edited by John Savage Quarter leather, marbled boards, 648pp.
Another similar copy of Picturesque Ireland, a Literary and Artistic
Delineation of the Natural Scenery, Remarkable Places, Historical
Antiquities, Public Buildings, Ancient Abbeys, Towers, Castles and Other
Romantic and Attractive Features of Ireland. Published by Thomas Kelly,
New York, 1884. Beautifully presented a single rebound volume.
Containing many illustrations and maps. 10 x 8.50in. (25.40 x 21.59cm)
€150-€250 (£125-£208 approx)
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1877: Earl of Dunraven Notes on Irish Architecture
Quarter calf, embossed with gilt, marbled boards.
First edition in two volumes, published by George Bell and Sons, London.
An excellent publication with fine illustrative plates. 15 x 10.50in. (38.10
x 26.67cm)
€4,000-€5,000 (£3,333-£4,167 approx)
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Familiar London painted by Rose Barton
A & C Black, London, 1904, 208pp.
Red cloth with red rose design. Illustrated throughout with colour plates
9 x 7in. (22.86 x 17.78cm)
€250-€350 (£208-£292 approx)
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Collection of Irish art interest books including
The Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland The Arts and Crafts movement
in Ireland, Friar’s Bush Press, Belfast, 1992, 232pp. The Arts and Crafts
movement in Dublin & Edinburgh, Irish Academic Press, 1998, 232pp.
Nano Reid 1900-1981 , Sunnyside Publications Drogheda, 1994, 142pp.
PS... of course, Patrick Swift 1927-1983 , Gandon Books, 1993, 274pp.
Procession, Louis Le Brocquy, Gandon Editions Kinsale, 1994, 65pp. A to
Z of all old Dublin cinemas, Dublin, 2005, 572pp. (6 items)
€200-€250 (£167-£208 approx)
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1931: Turning Points in History signed by William Orpen
Original boards, Hutchinson, London, 284pp
Turning Points in History by The Earl of Birkenhead. Signed and dated by
famous Irish portrait painter and war artist William Orpen inside front
cover. With additional manuscript note underneath “Purchased at
Christie’s 6th June 1932. Book sale; property of late Sir W. Orpen, K.B.E.,
R.A.” 9.50 x 6.50in. (24.13 x 16.51cm)
€100-€150 (£83-£125 approx)
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1889: The Woman’s
World edited by Oscar
Wilde with signed letter
Original boards, 664pp.
Scarce with articles by
Oscar Wilde (Editor),
Constance Wilde and
Lady Wilde. (Sperenza)
Also with a three page
handwritten and signed
letter from Oscar Wilde
at his London address 16
Tite Street, on embossed
“Lyric Club” notepaper.
12 x 9in. (30.48 x
22.86cm)
€5,000-€6,000 (£4,167-
£5,000 approx)
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W.B. Yeats books
collection including
Responsibilities
Collection of Yeats books including Responsibilities and other poems
Macmillan, London 1916, 188pp. Stories of Red Hanrahan and the Secret
Rose MacMillan, London 1927, 182pp. The Cutting of an Agate
MacMillan, London 1919, 223pp. Last Poems & Plays MacMillan, London,
1940, 126pp. The Winding Stair and Other Poems MacMillan, London
1933, 101pp. (5 items)
€200- €300 (£167-£250 approx)
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1910: W. B. Yeats handwritten and signed letter to Sir Hugh Lane
Single page manuscript, framed.
An excellent example of a handwritten letter by William Butler Yeats,
sent from London in 1910, to Sir Hugh Lane, arranging a meeting with
the famous art collector and nephew of Lady Augusta Gregory. Content
relates to the raising of money through subscriptions and mentions
author Violet Hunt. Attractively framed with a reproduction photograph
of Yeats. 6 x 4.50in. (15.24 x 11.43cm)
€500- €700 (£417-£583 approx)
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