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Captain Karl Spindler. The Mystery Of The Case-
ment Ship, author signed.
1931, Kribe-Verlag, Berlin, green cloth, pp288. Oc-
tavo. Signed on frontispiece photograph of Spin-
dler, New York, 27 January 1935.
Estimate €100-€150 £78-£117
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Casement’s Last Adventure by Captain Robert
Monteith, and The Mystery Man of Banna Strand
by Florence Monteith Lynch, author signed.
Privately printed, Chicago 1932, first edition, fron-
tispiece photograph of Monteith in Irish Brigade
uniform, signed and inscribed in ink “Yours in
Ireland’s Cause”. Pp188 plus pp12 Appendix, black
cloth gilt. The second inscribed to a previous owner
and signed on flypage “Florence Monteith Lynch”,
Blue Point N.Y., 1967. Vantage Press, New York,
1959, first edition, pp 203, green cloth gilt, with
slightly distressed dust jacket.
Mrs Monteith Lynch was Robert Monteith’s daugh-
ter and biographer. She “turned the sod of turf ” at
the opening of the Casement Memorial at Banna
Strand in 1966. Include with this lot is her own per-
sonal Casement pamphlet from that 1966 event.
Captain Robert Monteith travelled with Sir Roger
Casement and Daniel Julian Bailey on the German
submarine U-19 from Heligoland to Tralee Bay in
1916. Monteith managed to evade arrest after the
three men were landed on Banna Strand.
8½ x 5½in. (21.59 x 13.97cm)
Estimate €200-€300 £156-£234
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1966 (8 April) Commemoration of the landing
of Roger Casement at Banna Strand in 1916.
Programme signed by President de Valera.
Pp4, quarto, green - Coiste Cuimhneachain Tra
Bheanna. Including illustration of the monument
at Banna Strand, signed in ink “Eamon de Valera”
given to Fred Schmitz, Signalman from the Aud,
during a visit to Áras an Uachtaráin for the 50th
Anniversary of the 1916 Rising.
10 x 7½in. (25.40 x 19.05cm)
Provenance: Fred Schmitz; Thence to his
grandson, John Scmitz, from whom acquired by
the present owner.
Estimate €100-€150 £78-£117