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by Meredith (1812-1895). She was educated at home and was taught
by Thomas Lawrence to paint portrait miniatures on ivory. Her
attractive flower paintings display an easy blend of science and
imagination and were influential in England in popularising a
sentimental interest in the language of flowers.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1361
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TYNAN later HINKSON (Katharine).
Collected
Poems.
Macmillan and Co.,
1933
FIRST EDITION, pages xxiv, 381, (3, blank), 8vo, original
blue cloth: a nice, uncut and unopened copy in the dust-
wrapper, with just slight wear on the dust-wrapper headbands
Inscribed “To Padraic Colum / Frater in Arte / from Katherine
Tynan / October 11th 1930”.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SYNGE (John M.).
Some
letters of John M. Synge to Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats.
Selected by Ann Saddlemyer.
Dublin: The Cuala Press,
1971.
FIRST EDITION THUS, pages vii, 85, (2), 8vo, original cloth-
backed printed paper boards, with printed paper spine label: a
nice copy.
Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Another copy, fine but for
slight marking on spine, is available at £45.
(2)
SYNGE (John M.): - Howe (P. P.).
J. M. Synge: a critical
study. 1912. FIRST EDITION, portrait, pp 216, (16), adverts,
8vo, original cloth, gilt: binding lightly discoloured, slight wear
at headband, some light foxing, nonetheless a very good copy.
(3)
BIRMINGHAM (George A.),
pseud.
Irishmen All.
T. N.
Foulis,
1913. FIRST EDITION, with 12 striking mounted
coloured plates by Jack B. Yeats, pages (8),225, (6, adverts),
8vo, original green cloth, gilt, top edges gilt: the binding faded
and rubbed but sound and strong and otherwise a clean and
very good copy.
A study of representative contemporary Irish types strikingly
illustrated by Yeats.
(4)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1362
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UPTON (Florence K.).
The Golliwogg’s Bicycle Club.
By Florence K. Upton. Words by Bertha Upton … New
edition.
Longmans, Green, & Co …,
1903
With 31 full-page coloured and many sepia-tinted text
illustrations, pages 24,24*-25*, (25) - 56,56* - 57*, (57) - 62,
(1), oblong small 4to, original cloth-backed coloured pictorial
boards: with a short marginal tear in the blank margin on six
leaves, without loss, the binding lightly soiled and creased,
wanting the two free flyleaves and with the occasional
marginal finger mark: a better than average and good to very
good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
DERRICK (Freda).
The Ark Book.
Blackie, London,
c. 1925. Oblong 4to., original cloth backed
pictorial boards. (2)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1363
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USSHER (James).
The substance of that vvhich was
deliuered in a sermon before the Commons House of
Parliament, in St. Margarets Church at Westminster, the 18. of
February, 1620.
Imprinted at London: By Felix Kyngston, for Iohn
Bartlet: and are to be sold at the signe of the gilded Cup, in the
Goldsmiths Rowe in Cheapside,
1621
FIRST EDITION, pages (4),50, bound without the first and
final blank leaves, 4to, recent calf-backed marbled boards, gilt
lettered spine: a very good to nice copy.
NSTC 24553. 5. Sweeney, Ireland and the Printed Word,5365.
Ussher (1581–1656), Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh and
scholar, ‘learned to a miracle’. His “rapid rise was confirmed when he
was invited to preach before the two houses of the English parliament
on 18 Feb 1621 during a joint communion service. The invitation
placed him in an interesting position. The king wanted him to use the
occasion to urge parliament to grant supply as quickly as possible. But
the invitation seems to have come from the firmly protestant circle
around the earl of Pembroke, concerned about James’s reluctance to
support the protestant cause in Europe, and impressed with the
strongly anti-Catholic tone of Ussher’s sermons since his arrival in
London. Typically, Ussher sought to please both parties, reminding the
assembled company that ‘God loves a giver’, before going on to urge
firm measures against idolatrous, anti-Christian papists. ” - ODNB.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1364
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VALLANCEY (Charles).
Collectanea de rebus
Hibernicis. Number I. [- IV]. [i. e. Volume I]. A chorographical
description of the county of West-Meath. Written A. D. 1682.
By Sir Henry Piers, of Tristernaght, Baronet. Published from
the MSS. By Major Charles Vallancey.
Dublin: Thomas Ewing,
1770-75
With a large folding map of Meath and an engraved plate, pp
xiv, (6), 126; (2, blank), (127) - 130, (4), (131 - 208, (1); (12),
(215) - 407; (4), (413) - 636, (4),24, 8vo, contemporary calf,
with label, gilt (lettered ‘Collectanea’ without a volume
number): a fresh, attractive copy in a pleasing contemporary
binding, with contemporary signature of Sam: Cooper on title-
page and the small circular blindstamp with Cooper and crest
on the upper board.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1365. VAN DYCK (Sir Anthony). Iconographie, ou, Vies
des hommes illustres du XVII siecle ecrites par M. V**; avec
les portraits peints par le fameux Antoine van Dyck et
gravees sous sa direction …
Amsterdam & Leipzig: chez Arkstee
& Merkus,
1759
With 125 fine engraved portraits (5 folding), pages (4), ii,
(2), 106, (2): (4), 130, (2), with the half-titles,2 vols, folio,
contemporary calf: the binding heavily worn and the boards
loose, the five folding plates each has a short tear touching
the engraved surface without loss and all the other plates are
fresh and clean: with the occasional marginal stain in places,
but nonetheless a large and very good binding copy.
An anthology of portraits of artists, soldiers, statesmen,
administrators, and scholars, a conspectus of the most
distinguished men and women of his time. Its importance was
enormous, and it provided a repertory of images that were
plundered by portrait painters throughout Europe over the next
couple of centuries.
(2)
€800-€1,200 (£640-£960 approx.)
1366
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[VAN DYK (Henry Stoe)].
The Gondola.
Lupton Relfe,
1827
FIRST EDITION, pp vi, (2),246 and advert leaf, with the half-
title, large 12mo, recent boards, with label, uncut: with some
very light signs of use, but a very good, uncut copy.
Garside 1827: 73. Wolff 6939.. Ten stories, mostly German romantic
or supernatural tales, related by passengers aboard the brig ‘Gondola’
en route to Barbados. Van Dyk, a Dutchman resident in London,
joined with Sir John Bowring in translating the Batavian Anthology
of Dutch poetry.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SCOTT (Sir Walter).
The Lord
of the Isles; a poem... fourth edition
Edinburgh
1815. Pp (8),
447, (1), {444-7, (1) being ads}, 8vo, orig cloth-backed paper
boards, uncut: fine
The cloth spine is directly lettered in gilt “”LORD/OF THE/ISLES”
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