WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR TIMED ON-LINE AUCTION 17 MAY TO 7 JUNE 2024

9 History THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2024 13 1726. Jonathan Swift. Travels into Several remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver. Three volumes bound in one. An early edition with four plates comprising three maps and a diagram. Condition: Lacking frontispiece and title page, bound in 20th century boards, extensive water stains but all text legible. A good reader’s copy. Estimate €500-€700 (approx £430-£600) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 13 14 George Benn. A History Of The Town Of Belfast. Marcus Ward, Belfast, 1877. 770 pages, with all maps and illustrations present. Previously owned by Robert Mitchell (1868- 1950) distiller of Belfast, who made Mitchell’s and Cruiskeen Lawn whiskey. With his bookplate and signature. 8.50 by 5.50in. (21.6 by 14cm) Condition: Original cloth, slightly shook and bumped, toned edges of pages, very good. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 14 15 1745. ‘Penal Cross’. With usual carvings - ‘INRI’, ladder, spear, skull, bones, cockerel and pot; reverse ‘IHS’, ‘1745’. 9 by 1.50 by 0.50in. (22.9 by 3.8 by 1.3cm) Condition: Very good, some wear. National Museum of Ireland: “It has been argued that the crosses, through similarities in style and technique, have a single origin. They were likely carved and sold in the vicinity of Lough Derg, Co. Donegal to those undertaking the pilgrimage to Station Island. The dates carved onto the crosses recorded the year a pilgrimage was undertaken. Similarities can be seen in the inscriptions. On the obverse (front face), INRI (Latin: Iesus Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum / English: Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews) and on the reverse is normally found the monogram IHS (an abbreviation of the name ??S??S (Jesus) from Greek). They also have in common certain symbols – although these are not always present in every instance. Amongst these can be seen the pincers, hammer, dice, ladder, spear, cock-in- a-pot, scourges and three nails.” Estimate €1,000-€1,500 (approx £850-£1,280) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 15