T.C.D. BOOKSALE - 2013 - AUCTION CATALOGUE – ILLUSTRATED 1) Devenish, Lough Erne: its History, Antiquities and Traditions, A. Weaver Enniskillen & M.H. Gill Dublin 1897, Anon [Rev. J.E.Canon McKenna M.R.I.A.], with local advertising at back. Donor: Gemma Donnelly [ 1 v.

2) The Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil in the British Islands, with a Dissertation on the Ogam Character etc. by the late Richard Rolt Brash, ed by George M. Atkinson, George Bell & Sons, London 1879, original ! leather, spine missing, with a presentation inscription from Jane Brash, the widow of the author. [ 1 v.

3) Records of the Tercentenary Festival of the University of Dublin held 5th – 8th July 1892, Hodges Figgis & Co, Dublin 1894, printed at the University Press, 4to, ! leather, gold decorated cloth, vg. Donor: Ciarán Nicholson [ 1 v.

4) Dublin Civic Week 1927 Official Handbook, Mansion House, Dublin 1927, Colm O’Loughlin for the Civic Week Council, at the Sign of the Three Candles, Illustrations by Harry Kernoff, Flora Mitchell, Sean O’Sullivan, Estella Solomons etc. Donor: Tony O’Donoghue [ 1 v.

5) An Anglo-Irish Miscellany: some Records of the Jephsons of Mallow by Maurice Denham Jephson, Allen Figgis, Dublin 1964, dj, author’s signed presentation copy. Donor: Ciarán Nicholson [ 1 v.

6) Dublin University Football Club 1866-1972, Dublin 1973. Donor: John Byrne [ 1 v.

7) The City of Dublin 1728 by Charles Brooking, with introduction and notes by Maurice Craig, Irish Architectural Archive & the Friends of the Library T.C.D., Dublin 1983; a facsimile of the first separately-published map of Dublin, with enlargements of the views of buildings etc from panels around the perimeter, vg in brochure. [ 1 v.

8) Irish Houses: History, Architecture, Furnishing by Klaus-Hartmut Olbricht & Helga M. Wegener, Photos by Günther von Voithenberg, translated by David Smith, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin 1984, hb, dj, 4to. Donor: Joan McCormick [ 1 v.

9) Ireland Illustrated, from original drawings by George Petrie, W.H. Bartlett, T.M. Baynes & others, with descriptions by G.N. Wright (1831); New edition with introduction by Maurice Craig and bibliographical and technical notes by Leslie Hewitt, Boethius Press, Kilkenny 1989, folio, in slip case, as new, limited edition (37 of 585). Donor: Don & Philomena Keogan [ 1 v.

10) Bonnettstown: a House in Ireland by Andrew Bush, Harry N. Abrams Inc, New York 1989, hb in dj, fine, 4to. Donor: Don & Philomena Keogan [ 1 v.

11) The Early History of the Town of Birr or Parsonstown (1875) by Thomas Lalor Cooke, with a new introduction by Margaret Hogan, Esker Press, Tullamore 1990, dj, editor’s signed presentation copy. Donor: Oakley family [ 1 v.

12) Set of 3 volumes, Reprints, in slip case: 1) The History and Topography of Co. Clare by James Frost (1893); 2) The History of Clare and the Dalcassian Clans by Patrick White (1893); 3) The Diocese of Killaloe from the Reformation to the 18th Century by Philip Dwyer (1878); each reprinted by O’Brien Book Publications, Newmarket on Fergus 1997, each no.57 in a limited edition of 250, 3 hb volumes in slip case, as new. Donor: Oakley family [ 3 v.

13) Historical Genealogical Architectural Notes on some Houses of Clare by Hugh Weir, with line drawings by the author, Ballinakella Press, Whitegate Co. Clare 1999, 2nd ed, vg in dj. Donor: Oakley family [ 1 v.

14) The Vikings in Ireland, ed by Anne-Christine Larsen, The Viking Ship Museum Roskilde, Denmark 2001. Donor: Anne Marie Madden / O’Dwyer [ 1 v.

15) Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies: The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society, vols 1 – 14 (1998 – 2011) & index vol. 1-10, gaps: wanting vols 3 & 6 only, Gandon Editions, Kinsale for the I.G.S. Donor: Boydell family et al. [ 13 v.

16) The Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England, or an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Lives, Public Employments and Most Memorable Actions of the English Nobility, who have flourished from the Norman Conquest to the Year 1806 …, by T.C. Banks, 3 vols + supplement, London 1807 – 37, 4to, original full calf, boards detached (2 missing), otherwise vg, w.a.f. {v.1 1807; v.2 1808; v.3 1808; v.4 1837, continued down to Jan. 1837, with corrections and appendices, and an index to vos 1 -3}. Donor: R.B. McDowell [ 4 v.

17) The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, to which is added an historical view of the affairs of Ireland, by Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 8 vols, a new edition … with the notes of Bishop Warburton, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1826, fine set in contemporary half leather on marbled boards & end papers, top-edge gilt, with the ownership signatures of “James H. Todd T.C.D.” & “R.B. McDowell October 1936”; WITH The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon … including a continuation of his History of the Grand Rebellion, written by himself, 3 vols, a new edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1827, en suite with the above, also fine. Donor: R.B. McDowell [ 11 v.

18) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, 12 vols, London 1816, contemporary " leather, marbled boards. Donor: R.B. McDowell [ 12 v.

19) A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of Letters to John Watkinson M.D., Anon [Dr. Thomas Campbell], Dublin 1778, contemp leather binding. Donor: R.B. McDowell [ 1 v.

20) The Vengeance of Fionn by Austin Clarke, Maunsel & Co, Dublin 1917, vg in dj. Donor: R.B. McDowell [ 1 v.

21) SIGNED TRINITY ASSOCIATION COPY: MOODY – McDOWELL Dictionary of National Biography 1951 – 1960, Oxford U.P. 1971, 1st ed. in dj, inscribed: “R.B. McDowell with best wishes and memories of over half a century of friendship from T.W. Moody, T.C.D. 25 February 1978.” Donor: R.B. McDowell [ 1 v.

22) The O’Donoghue by Charles Lever, William Curry Junior & Co, Dublin 1845, 1st ed, illustrated by “Phiz”, vg in " leather. Donor: Synge family [ 1 v

23) Irish Poets and Novelists by D.O. Crowley, San Francisco 1893, 3rd ed, 427pp, attractive gilt decorated cloth cover. Donor: Eileen & Rico Ross [ 1 v.

. 24) The Cabinet of Irish Literature by Charles A. Reade, new ed. by Katherine Tynan Hinkson, 4 vols, Gresham Publishing Co, London 1909, v.g. set in gilt green cloth, a.e.g. Donor: Tomás Ó Súilleabháin [ 4 v.

25) “Londubh an Chairn” being Songs of the Irish Gaels, vol. II, ed. by Margaret Hannagan & Seamus Clandillon, published for the Carnegie U.K. Trust by Oxford U. P. 1927, printed by Cahill & Co. Dublin, 4to. spine detached; WITH a collection of 27 booklets of Irish songs in Irish & English, most 20th Century. Donor: Tomás Ó Súilleabháin [ 28 v.

26) Irish Eclogues by Edward E. Lysaght (later MacLysaght), Maunsel & Co, Dublin & London 1915. [ 1 v.

27) Icarus Magazine T.C.D, vol. 1 no. 2 (Oct. 1950) – no. 51 (Hilary Term 1967), 32 issues (gaps), in original wrappers, ex library (cancelled) Donor: Ciarán Nicholson [ 32 v.

28) The Dublin Magazine 1952-58, 22 parts (gaps), ed. Seumas O’Sullivan. [ 22 v.

29) Fishing and Thinking by A.A. Luce [S.F.T.C.D.], Hodder & Stoughton, London 1959, 1st edition, vg in dj. Donor: Wendy Barrett [ 1 v.

30) Collected Poems 1927 – 1955 by Bryan Guinness, William Heinemann Ltd, London 1956, vg in dj, 1st edition; lengthy inscription by the author, with a 4pp autograph letter from author enclosed. [ 1 v.

31) Tides by John Montague, Dolmen Press, Dublin 1970, hb in dj, ex library. [ 1 v.

32) The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles’ Antigone, translated by Seamus Heaney, Faber & Faber, London 2004, 1st edition, vg in dj. [ 1 v.

33) The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Lothian edition, vols 1 – 14 (only), Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, London nd, half leather, clean set (incomplete). Donor: John Byrne [ 14 v.

34) The Yellow Book : an Illustrated Quarterly, vol. I April 1894, Elkin Mathews & John Lane, London. [ 1 v.

35) The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ed. Leslie S. Klinger, 3 vols, W.W. Norton & Co, New York 2005, djs, as new. Donor: Ruth Potterton [ 3 v.

36) Swan and Shadow by Raymond Lister, Golden Head Press, Cambridge 1965, folio; 1 of only 6 uncorrected proof copies, no more published, signed by the author, original wrappers, 11pp. Donor: Synge family [ 1 v.

37) Five Volumes of Poetry by R.S. Thomas, all first editions: 1) Between Here and Now, Macmillan 1981; 2) Later Poems 1972-82, Macmillan 1983; 3) Experimenting with an Amen, Macmillan 1986; 4) The Echoes Return Slow, Macmillan 1988; 5) Counterpoint, Bloodaxe Books 1990; All hb, in dj, first eds, clean copies. Donor: Ciarán Nicholson [ 5 v.

38) Marvel Chronicle: a year by year history, Dorling Kindersley, London 2008, folio in publisher’s decorated clam – shell box, 2 loose posters in sleeve. [ 1 v.

39) A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames with special American instances, by Charles Wareing Bardsley, Henry Frowde, London 1901, 1st ed, 837pp, with the book plate of the Kildare Street Club. Donor: Synge family [ 1 v.

40) A System of Phrenology by George Combe, John Anderson Junior, Edinburgh 1830, 3rd ed, illustrated, " leather. Donor: Synge family [ 1 v.

41) Manual of Musical Terms and various other subjects connected with musical art by John Parry, Thomas McLean, London nd [c. 1863], an album of 12 litho plates, neatly rebound in boards. Donor: Boydell family [ 1 v.

42) TE IKA A MAUI or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, illustrating the Origin, Manners, Customs, Mythology, Religion, Rites, Songs, Proverbs, Fables and Language of the Maori and Polynesian Races in General, etc by Rev. Richard Taylor, William MacIntosh, London & Ireson Jones, Wanganui NZ 1870, 2nd ed, disbound but otherwise appears a sound and clean copy, 730pp, illustrated, w.a.f. Donor: Louis Hemmings [ 1 v.

43) Gardening Illustrated, for town and country: a weekly journal for amateurs and gardeners, founded (and conducted) by William Robinson, London 1879/80 – 1883/4, 5 vols, in publisher’s binding, folio, with indexes etc.

Donor: Synge family [ 5 v.

44) Almanach de Gotha: Annuaire Généalogique, Diplomatique et Statistique, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1852 – 1907, 10 vols ( i.e. 1852/62/72/73/84/87/93/95; 1901/07) Donor: Louis Hemmings [ 10 v.

45) Pictures From Punch, ed F.C. Burnand, 4 vols complete, Bradbury Agnew & Co, London 1904, folio. Donor: Synge family [ 4 v.

46) The Historians’ History of the World ed. by Henry S. Williams, 27 vols bound as 15, 8vo, New York & London 1926, 5th ed, ! leather, with index, v.g. set. Donor: John Byrne [ 15 v.

47) A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston S. Churchill, 4 volumes, Casell & Co. Ltd, London 1956 – 58, first editions in pictorial dj, vg set. Donor: Wendy Barrett [ 4 v.

48) 2 volumes on the first year of the Great War: a) “1914” by Field-Marshal Viscount French of Ypres, Constable & Co, London 1919, 1st ed, 3 loose maps in pocket; b) The British Campaign in France and Flanders 1914 by Arthur Conan Doyle, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1916, 1st ed. Donor: -- Willis [ 2 v.

49) Get it at Harrods! The Harrods General Catalogue, 1929 ed, hb, small 4to, 840 pp, full index, many illustrations per page, original cloth, contents vg. [ 1 v.

50) What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell by Erwin Schrödinger, Cambridge U.P. 1947, 2 ed, vg in dust jacket. Donor: Ciarán Nicholson [ 1 v.

51) Narrative of a Recent Journey of Six Weeks in Ireland etc by William Bennett, Charles Gilpin & John Hatchard, London 1847, vg in original cloth. Donor: Ciarán Nicholson [ 1 v.

52) Archaeologia Hibernica: A Handbook of Irish Antiquities, Pagan and Christian etc, by William F. Wakeman, James McGlashan, Dublin 1848, 1st ed, vg in dec.cloth. Donor: Ciarán Nicholson [ 1 v.

53) “Kenny on Lunatic Asylums”: Short Hints and Observations on the Arrangement and Management of Lunatic Asylums by Eyre C. Kenny, Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum, Island Bridge, Philip Dixon Hardy & Sons, Dublin 1848, large folding plan. Donor: Eileen & Rico Ross [ 1 v.

54) The Story of the Irish Before the Conquest, from the Mythical Period to the Invasion under Strongbow, by Lady Ferguson, Sealy Bryers & Walker, Dublin 1903, 3rd edition, original green cloth. Donor: Ciarán Nicholson [ 1 v.

55) Twenty Years Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate by Frank Thorpe Porter, Hodges Foster & Figgis, Dublin 1880, 6th ed. Donor: Eileen & Rico Ross [ 1 v.

56) The History of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Rev. E.A. D’Alton, in 6 vols, Gresham Publishing Co, London 1910, 3rd ed, illustrated, decorated green cloth, t.e.g. [ 6 v.

57) Whence the “Black Irish” of Jamaica? by Joseph J. Williams S.J., Dial Press, New York 1932. Donor: Eileen & Rico Ross [ 1 v.

58) Dress in Ireland by Mairead Dunlevy, B.T. Batsford, London 1989, 1st ed, hb, dj. Donor: Madeleine Cooke [ 1 v.

59) Illustrated Incumbered Estates Ireland, 1850 – 1905 by Mary C. Lyons, Ballinakella Press, Whitegate Co. Clare 1993, folio, hb. Donor: Don & Philomena Keogan [ 1 v.

60) Treasures of the Royal Irish Academy Library, ed by Bernadette Cunningham & Siobhán Fitzpatrick, R.I.A., Dublin 2009, hb, dj, as new. Donor: Anne Marie Madden / O’Dwyer [ 1 v.

61) Prize Essays on the Repeal of the Union, printed and published for the Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland by James Duffy, Dublin 1845. Donor: Madeleine Cooke [ 1 v.

62) The Cause of Ireland Pleaded Before the Civilized World by Bernard O’Reilly, Collier, New York 1886, 514pp, publisher’s decorated cloth. Donor: Eileen & Rico Ross [ 1 v.

63) Ireland in ’98: sketches of the principal men of the time, based upon the published volumes and some unpublished MSS of the late Dr. Richard Robert Madden, ed. by J. Bowles Daly, with engraved portraits and contemporary illustrations, Swan Sonnenschein Lowrey & Co, London 1888, with the book plate of Lord James Butler. Donor: Madeleine Cooke [ 1 v.

64) Irish Conspiracies: recollections of John Mallon and other reminiscences by Frederick Moir Bussy, Everett & Co, London 1910, original cloth. [ 1 v.

65) The American Commission on Conditions in Ireland, Interim Report, Harding & More, London 1921, 72pp, pamphlet in original wrappers with a folding map of Ireland showing ‘Centres of Devastation’. Donor: Synge family [ 1 v.

66) “The Collected (or Complete) Works of Pádraic H. Pearse” – 3 vols only (ex 5): 1) Plays, Stories, Poems; 2) Scríbhinní; 3) St. Enda’s and its Founder: The Story of a Success & The Man Called Pearse by Desmond Ryan; WITH 4) Patrick H. Pearse, adapted from the French of Louis Le Roux and Translated by Desmond Ryan. All 4 vols published by the Phoenix Press, Dublin nd, uniform green cloth, clean set. [ 4 v.

67) Handy Royal Atlas of Modern Geography by the late Alexander Keith Johnston, a new edition, Edinburgh 1888, folio, 45 double page maps on guards, with index. Donor: Gemma Donnelly [ 1 v.

68) The Times Atlas, London 1895, folio, " leather Donor: Synge family [ 1 v.

69) The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazeteer, Carmelite House, London nd [c. 1907], folio, 210pp of coloured maps, a supplementary section of 32pp on the World’s Commerce, and a Universal Gazeteer of 284pp, rebound in " leather, maps by George Philip & Son. [ 1 v.

70) Atlas Général by Vidal-Lablache, Armand Colin, Paris 1926, new ed, folio. Donor: Synge family [ 1 v.

71) Atlas of Ireland, prepared under the direction of the Irish National Committee for Geography, edited by J.P. Haughton, J.H. Andrews et al, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin 1979, folio, vg in original green buckram. [ 1 v.

72) La Belle Assemblée or Court and Fashionable Magazine, 2 vols: v.11, Jan-June 1830 & vol. 13, Jan-June 1831, with all the many hand-coloured fashion plates and engraved portraits, " leather, vg, London edition (i.e. text in English) Donor: Boydell family [ 2 v.

73) The People’s Gallery of Engravings vols 1 – 3, ed. by Rev. G.N. Wright, Fisher Son & Co, London 1844-5-6, 4to. Donor: Gemma Donnelly [ 3 v.

74) The Holy Bible, Douay and Rheims translation, ed. Haydock & Husenbeth, George Henry & Co, London [1850], large folio, fine full leather binding, still sound. Donor: Gemma Donnelly [ 1 v.

75) Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial and Popular Antiquities ed. by Charles Knight, 2 vols folio, James Sangster & Co, London nd [c.1850?], vg in original decorated cloth boards. Donor: Gemma Donnelly [ 2 v.

76) Illustrated London News 2 bound vols: v. 57 for 1870/ July-Dec & v. 59 for 1871/ July-Dec, folio, with indexes of engravings (massive coverage of the Franco-Prussian War in the first volume) Donor: Kyle Hughes [ 2 v.

77) a) Our Earth and its Story by Dr. Robert Brown, 3 vols, Cassell & Co, 1887/8/9; b) The Sea: its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril and Heroism, 3 vols, by F. Whymper, Cassell & Co, London nd [c. 1888]. Both series in attractive decorated covers, many engraved illustrations. Donor: Gemma Donnelly [ 6 v.

78) The Scientific American: a weekly journal of practical information, art, science, mechanics, chemistry and manufactures, vols 68 & 69, Jan-June, July-Dec 1893, 52 parts, 2 vols bound as 1, New York, folio, illustrated, with indexes, contemporary marbled paper boards, lacks spine but fine internally, 832pp (16pp per week).

Donor: Don & Philomena Keogan [ 1 v.

79) PRIZE BINDING – The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, 2 vols, Smith Elder & Co, London 1910, neatly bound in tree calf with red labels on spine, Arms of Malvern College on front covers, Prize labels.

Donor: Ciarán Nicholson [ 2 v.

80) PRIZE BINDINGS – The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin, 3 vols bound as 2, George Allen & Sons, London 1911, illustrated by the author, neatly bound in tree calf, arms of Malvern College on front covers, prize labels. Donor: Ciarán Nicholson [ 2 v.

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