WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR Saturday 6 May 2017 at 10am

THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 6 MAY 2017 AT 10AM

The Time Traveller Collection

694

The Connemara Pony Breeders’ Society.

Connemara Pony Stud Book, 1937-1979.

Galway, The Connemara Pony Breeders’ Society,

1937-1979. 12mo, eleven volumes, Vol. 3 1937; Vol. 4

1939; Vol. 6 1947; Vol. 7 1951; Vol. 8 1955; Vol. 9 1963;

Vol. 10 1965; Vol. 11 1967; Vol. 12 1969; Vol. 13 1972;

Vol. 16 1979. (11)

The Stud Books of the Connemara Pony Breeders’

Society contain the registration details and the

names of the breeders and owners of Connemara

Ponies registered with the society in the years

spanning 1937 to 1979. They also include details of

the prizewinners at the Society’s Shows, members of

the Society’s committees, regulations relating to the

breeding of the ponies, and photograph plates. Each

volume is introduced with a report of the preceding

period.

Estimate €250-€350 (approx £212-£297)

695

Cooke, Christopher. Curiosities of Occult

Literature, author’s interleaved and annotated

copy.

London, Printed for the Author, 1863. 8vo. XI, 275

pages, plus 11 pages of a travel manuscript to

Palestine in 1862-63 in the rear of the volume,

blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine:

‘Occult Literature 1878 M.S.S.’ Ex libris Marci H.

Huthwaite, bookplate to front pastedown.

Provenance

This book purports to be ‘a plain, unvarnished

tale’ written in defence of his legal work and

pamphleteering on behalf of astrology. In effect

the 58 interleaved pages and marginal annotations

unpack and amplify the author’s opinions as

expressed in the printed text. Thus the author

appends a two page long explanation of the court

case that set in train the book’s narrative opposite

the title page. It’s not possible to do justice to

the range and eccentricity of the manuscript

interventions here.

Estimate €300-€400 (approx £255-£340)