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Click here to subscribeRacing interest - Menu Card belonging to William (Billy) Bullock for a dinner at The Georgian Room, Piccadilly Hotel London 26.11.1935 autographed by Bullock, Gordon Richards, Billg Griggs, Harry Wragg, Tommy Weston, etc. Bullock was the first ever winner of the 'Double' The Oaks and Derby Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Books - Snaffles: A Half Century Of Memories pub Collins 1950 and 'Osses and Obstacles pub. Collins 1935 Lionel Edwards: Sketches in Stable & Kennel pub. Putnam & Co 1936 George Lambton The Hon.: Men and Horses I have known pub Thornton Butterworth 1924 John Masefield: 1922 Booted and Spurred edit. and illus. Peter Biegel first edition pub. Adam & Charles Black 1949 Francis Burnand:Roger Longrigg: The History of Horse Racing, The Benson & Hedges book of racing colours Scrope's days of salmon fishing pub. John Murray 1854 (8) Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
A pair of 19th century Sevres porcelain cabinet plates decorated with the Imperial Coat of Arms of the French First Empire (1804-1815), each 23.5cm diameter CONDITION REPORT: There is wear to the gilding on the rim of both plates. The plate with the pink border has an area of glue to the base with remains of printed paper attached, and incised mark also. The other plate has an indistinct worn green painted mark to the interior of the base rim. Otherwise condition good - no damage
'The Rambler' by Samuel Johnson, published by J Parsons, London, 1793, leather bound, Volume three only, 19.5cm x 9.5cm, and 'The Court and Reign of Francis the First King of France', by Pardoe, published by Richard Bentley, London, 1849, leather bound, Volume one only, 22.3cm x 14.5cm CONDITION REPORT: If you require further images of this lot or a condition report please contact us with your request as condition reports have not been included in the description
Ford, Ford Madox (Editor). The Transatlantic Review a Collection of 7 Issues of (only 12 published) Vol. 1. No. 1. January - Vol. 1. No. 4. April & Vol. 2. Nos 1, 5 & 6 July, November-December 1924. London & Paris: Duckworth & Three Mountains Press, 1924. First Edition. Royal 8vo. Among the contributors & those with extracts from works in progress are E.E. Cummings, A.E. Coppard, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, T.S. Eliot, Braque, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce April issue pre-publication extract from a work in Progress: Finnegan's Wake, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Cocteau, Ford Madox Ford, Havelock Ellis. Only 12 issues were published. This collection lacks 2 issues of vol. 1. & 3 of vol. 2. Covers worn, stained, & nicked.
Heaney, Seamus. First US editions, published by Farrar Straus Giroux. Station Island, 1985, cased; The Haw Lantern, 1987, cased; Selected Poems 1966-1987, 1990, signed by author, cased; The Cure at Troy: A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, 1991, cased; The Redress of Poetry, 1995, cased; The Spirit Level, 1996; and Electric Light, 2001. (7)
The Trial of Robert Emmet and End of the Irish Invasion, prints. The Trial of Robert Emmet depicting Emmet orating from the dock, a supplement with 'The Shamrock', Christmas 1892, mounted; End of the Irish Invasion or The Destruction of the French Armada, after James Gillray, hand coloured print first published 1797, framed. (2) Frame size 18.50 by 23in. (47 by 58.4cm)
Heaney, Seamus. The Spirit Level, special edition and Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996, first US edition. Spirit Level, 1996, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, first US edition thus. in slipcase by with audio cassettes of the poet reading; Opened Ground, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, first US edition. 8vo, in custom-made slip-case with title etc, in gilt on spine. (2)
1851 Scottish silver snuff box, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. A Victorian Scottish silver, regimental, presentation vesta box, rectangular form, engine-turned decoration, engraved armorial to the cover, with two hinged compartments, the interiors gilt, the inside of one cover with a striking pad, the interior inscribed ' R.D. BARBOR, 6th Dragoons, from W.C. Morshead, 1851', by James Naysmith and Co, hallmarked Edinburgh, 1850. 1oz troy (31g) approximately. Robert Douglas Barbor was first commissioned Cornet, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons on 15th March 1827. He served with the Regiment for 24 years, being promoted Lieutenant on 9th April 1829 and Captain on 28th April 1837. He was appointed Regimental Paymaster on 16th February 1849, and retired on 11th November 1851 with the rank of Major. After retiring from the Regiment he subsequently continued for many years as a Barrack Master at Glasgow, only relinquishing that post in 1869, after 42 years' service with the colours. Sir Warwick Charles Morshead, Baronet, of Tenant Park, Cornwall, Justice of the Peace for Berkshire and Cornwall, was born in 1824. He succeeded as 3rd Baronet in 1828, at four years of age, and was first commissioned Ensign, 15th Foot, on 2nd June 1843. He transferred to the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons as Cornet in 1845, was promoted Lieutenant on 9th June 1846, Captain on 22nd March 1850, and retired in 1853. He died in 1905, when the title became extinct.
Mitchell, Flora H. Vanishing Dublin. 1966, Dublin: Allen & Figgis, First Edition. 4to, green cloth gilt. Illustrated with 50 full page colour plates by the author. Many of the 600 copies of this book have subsequently been broken up for the prints which were then sold individually. Other editions remain in public and special collections, thus Vanishing Dublin is a highly rare and desirable collectors' item.
Heaney, Seamus. Faber & Faber first editions. New Selected Poems, 1966-1987, 1990; Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, 1998, slip case; Beowulf: A new translation, 1999, slip case; Electric Light, 2001; Human Chain, 2010; also Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes (Eds), The School Bag, London, Faber and Faber, 1st trade edition, dust jacket and The Rattle Bag, 1982. (7)
Defoe, Daniel. The Life And Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Written By Himself. 1862, Dublin: Printed For the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society By Alexander Thom, First Edition. Royal 8vo. Edited in the original Irish from Mss. in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, with translation, notes, and Introductory Dissertations. Original light brown cloth.
1902-1918 Lieut.-Col Edgar Monteagle-Browne - DSO. Royal Munster Fusiliers, archive of correspondence, documents and ephemera. Relating to his military career and especially his command of 2nd, 8th and 9th Battalions, Royal Munster Fusiliers. Includes 47th Infantry Brigade, Plan of Battle, Raid on Petit Bois Salient by 8th Royal Munster Fusiliers, 6 November, 1916 and his reports on the raids; a telegram 1915, 25 July, from the War Office to Mrs E M Browne, informing her that her husband was wounded; recommendation of Monteagle-Browne for a DSO; his dog-tag; his will; photographs and correspondence. Who's Who, 1922 entry: Monteagle-Browne, Lieut.-Col Edgar. DSO. 1916. b. 15 June, 1878; e. of four surv. S. of J. Monteagle-Browne, Tullycarnen, Ardglass. M. 1915, Osra y.d. of late Fleet Paymaster Sydney Brougham-Hinshelwood. R.N. and g.g.d. of Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Fairfax Moresby, G.C.B.; two s. one d. Educ. Privately. Entered army 1898; served with 1st Batt, R. Irish Fusiliers throughout South African War (Kings and Queens Medals with 5 clasps); Staff Captain for Railway Transport in Cape Colony Staff 1902-3; resigned Commission, 1905, and took up political work, standing twice for Parliament as an Advocate of Universal Military Service for which he was thanked by the late Earl Roberts; he has travelled extensively in Europe, S. America and Africa; started Rifle Clubs at sea in Merchant Service, 1908; Captain and Adjutant 10th (S) Batt. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment; Major, 194; Served European War, at first 2nd in Command of Warwicks; later on in Railway Transport Establishment for five months; 2nd in Command 1st & 7th Batts, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1915; commanded in succession 9th, 8th, and 2nd Batts, R. Munster Fusiliers, 1916-17 (wounded four times, D.S.O. Mons Star, dispatches thrice); Order of Damilo 4th Class. Recreations: shooting, polo, hunting and travelling. Address: Broncroft Castle, Craven Arms, Shropshire. T.A.: Monteagle, Munslow.
O'Donovan, John (Ed.) The Topographical Poems of John O'Dubhagain and Giolla Na Naomh O'Huidhrin. 1862, Dublin: Printed For the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society By Alexander Thom, First Edition. Royal 8vo. Edited in the original Irish from Mss. in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, with translation, notes, and Introductory Dissertations. Original light brown cloth.
Hobson, Bulmer, A Short History of The Irish Volunteers, signed presentation copy to Eimar Ultan O'Duffy. Dublin, The Candle Press, 1918. .first and only edition. Volume 1 (all that was ever published) 12mo, IX, 205 pages, with a preface by Eoin MacNeill.green cloth gilt. Inscribed by Bulmer Hobson 'Eimear O'Duffy from his friend Bulmer Hobson'. John Bulmer Hobson (1883- 1969) was a leading member of the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) before the Easter Rising in 1916. Though he was a member of the IRB which had planned the Rising, he opposed its being carried out, and attempted to prevent it. He swore Patrick Pearse into the IRB in late 1913. Eimar Ultan O'Duffy (1893-1935) was born in Dublin and educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and at University College Dublin. He and Bulmer Hobson caused disaster to the plans for the 1916 Easter Rising when they told Eoin MacNeill that the Rising was planned for the next week; MacNeill, nominal head of the Irish Volunteers, reacted by sending messengers around the country to call off the manoeuvres which were the cover for the Rising, and advertising in newspapers to cancel them.
Heaney, Seamus. First editions, published by Faber and Faber. New Selected Poems, 1966-1987. 1990, first UK edition; Sweeney's Flight, 1992, in custom-made slip-case; The Redress of Poetry, 1995, in custom-made slip-case; The Spirit Level, 1996; North, 1996, first edition in Faber; Opened Ground, 1998; Beowulf: A New Translation, 1999; Electric Light, 2001, first paperback edition; also The Haw Lantern, 1987; and The Cure at Troy: A version of Sophocles' Philoctete, 1990, first paperback editions. (10)
Mitchell, Flora. Vanishing Dublin. Allen and Figgis, Dublin, 1966. First edition. A glimpse of old Dublin with fifty full colour plates and an introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. Quarto; original green cloth with gilt titled spine and dust jacket. Many of the 600 copies of this book have subsequently been broken up for the prints which were then sold individually.
Hall, Rev. James. Tour Through Ireland: Particularly the interior & least known parts, containing an accurate view of the parties, politics, and improvements, in the different provinces; with reflections and observations on the union of Britain and Ireland; the practicability and advantages of a telegraphic communication between the two Countries and other matters of importance. London, 1813, first edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, vi, 340, [4 index]; iv, 324, [6 index], folding map, rebound quarter green calf, gilt and marbled boards.
Japanese sword. A Japanese Shinto tachi in black lacquer saya, the heavy blade decorated with a horimono of a dragon to one side and a figure holding a tsurugi in a mountain landscape to the other. Signed and inscribed with reference to cutting test. Obverse, Kato Tsunatoshi on orders of Fujiwara Teifuku - On a day of the second month Tenpo eight (1837). Reverse, On the 27th day of the tenth month of the same year at Senju Yamakado Yazaemon [cut through] a head and into the earthenmound below. Boshi to habaki 23.50in. (59.7cm) Received as a gift by Colonel Sean O'Driscoll, US Army, aide to General Douglas MacArthur in Japan in 1945.Gifted to the current owner by O'Driscoll's widow in 1992. Kato Tsunatoshi, real name Kato Hachiro, originally came from Dewa´s Yonezawa and was, like his father Kato. Kunihide, a student of Suishinshi Masahide, he moved to Edo during the Bunsei era (1818-1830) where he worked in the residence of the Uesugi family, the daimyo of Yonezawa. Around the first year of Ansei (1854) he left his go Chounsai to his son Koretoshi and changed his pseudonym to Chojusai, he died in 1863.
Sean Scully, Prints, Catalogue Raisonné 1968-1999, signed and Paintings, Pastels, Watercolours, Photographs, 1999-2000. Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Wien, 1999. First Edition. 4to, 151 pp. Fine cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Text in English, French & German. Catalogue raisonne of the prints of Sean Scully, signed by the artist. together with Sean Scully, Paintings, Pastels, Watercolours, Photographs, 1999-2000. Richter Verlag, 2001, printed boards. (2)
Cusack, Cyril. Timepieces, signed with intimate inscription. 1970, Dublin, Dolmen Press, first edition, 8vo. printed wrappers, 'For Maureen Hurley There was a time when time stood still for us in Grafton Street, round five (Some might have deemed we'd missed the bus). But you and I we fully understood what time it should be & how very good it was to be alive. From Cyril Cusack Feb. 1975.'
Samuel Beckett, How It Is, limited advance edition, signed. London: John Calder, 1964. First edition, limited issue, of Beckett's translation of 'Comment C'est', 36/100 numbered copies in series 'B', hors commerce, signed by the author. Large 8vo. Tan morocco, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, in publisher's slip case.
1879-1884 Champion Irish Red Setter Garryowen, his show collar. A white metal collar engraved 'Garryowen - The Champion - Irish Red Setter - Owner, JJ Giltrup' suspended with 23 white metal discs, each engraved with one of Garryowen's show honours. Worn by Garryowen at the Dog Show held at the Royal Zoological Society in Dublin in August 1884, where he won first prize in the champion class of Irish Setter dogs. Garryowen was born in 1876, bred by H S Moore of Dublin, sired by Champion Palmerston out of Champion Belle. He was owned by James J Giltrap, a law agent. From his first entry in a dog show, he won prizes. The Chicago Tribune, 22 February 1890 wrote about his show career: 'Champion Garryowen [was] the hero of every bench show in Europe until his death two years ago. Garryowen never had a rival worthy of the name. His record in brief is thirty-seven firsts, both champion and challenge prizes. He won the Grand Prix de Honeur of the Belgian Kennel Club as the best of 978 sporting dogs of all breeds, including five champions, eighty first-prize, forty-two second-prize, and fifteen third-prize winners, at Antwerp in 1884.'Garryowen now appears in the extended pedigree of nearly every Irish Setter anywhere in the world.Garryowen's portrait was commissioned by Col. J.K. Millner, from William Osborne RHA and is in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland. JJ Giltrap was James Joyce's great-uncle. Joyce's Ulysses mentions Garryowen in three of the episodes ('Cyclops', 'Nausicaa', and 'Circe'): ".. famous old Irish Red Setter Wolfdog formerly known by the sobriquet of Garryowen"; "Old Garryowen started growling again at Bloom that was skeezing round the door"; "old Giltrap's dog and getting fed up by the ratepayers and corporators"; "Giltrap's lovely dog Garryowen that almost talked it was so human". Spillane's was a well-known Limerick family of tobacco manufacturers established in 1829 who named its Plug tobacco after the famous dog. The logo for the brand shows him resplendent in the collar decorated with some of his prize medals. Large metal advertising signs featuring the logo and the words 'Smoke Garryowen Plug it satisfies' were a familiar sight all over Ireland.See also Lots 145-147
1893 GAA All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winner's medal to Cork. A rose and yellow gold medal by Long of Cork. The obverse engraved with a view of Blackrock Castle, Cork; the reverse engraved, 'G.A.A. - Hurling Championship - 1893 - All Ireland'. Cork was represented by Blackrock National Hurling Club; together with a parcel-gilt, white-metal medal, by O'Connors Cork, engraved, 'Challenge Match - Blackrock - & - Aghab Ullogue - Mallow - Oct 31. 97'. (2) The 1893 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was won by Cork, who secured the title following a 6-8 to 0-2 defeat of Kilkenny in the final. The match was held at the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on 24 June 1894 with Cork represented by club side Blackrock, and Kilkenny, represented by Confederation. This was Cork's third All-Ireland title and they were the defending champions, becoming the first county to win back-to-back All-Ireland titles.
Minihan, John. (b.1946) Original photograph of Seamus Heaney at his 70th birthday in his home in Dublin, 2009 Together with the original commemoration Stamp and First Day Cover (The photograph was used for the An Post Stamp). Vintage Photograph on archival paper / Vintage First Day Cover with extra signature by John Minihan. Dublin, 2014. From the library of Irish photographer John Minihan. Titled and signed by John Minihan. Framed together. Frame size 19.75 by 26in. (50.2 by 66cm)
[Joyce, James]. Transition 22 and Transition 23 edited by Eugene Jolas, 1933 and 1935, including parts of Finnegan's Wake. The Serviere Press, The Hague, 1933 and 1935. Printed wrappers, covers stained and creased, interiors very good. Includes the first publication of Finnegan's Wake. Scarce. There are two copies of No. 22. Also Broadsheet, a complete run 1-95, 1980 to 2013. (98) Broadsheet: first conceived at the Joyce Symposium in Zurich in 1979 the Broadsheet's function, as stated in the editorial of the first issue, was to provide "a means of contact between Joycean readers and scholars that would allow enthusiasms and contacts made transiently at symposia and conferences to be sustained, and the variety of news items, usually limited to private correspondence, to be more widely available."
Heaney, Seamus. Sweeney Astray and The Haw Lantern and The Government of the Tongue, first editions. 1983, Derry, Field Day, first edition, 8vo, grey cloth, illustrated front cover, dust jacket; together with Sweeney Astray, 1984, London, first Faber and Faber edition, boxed in custom-made slip-case with title etc, in gilt on spine; also The Haw Lantern, 1987, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, first US edition, 8vo, red cloth gilt, dust jacket; The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose 1978-1987, 1989, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, first US edition, 8vo, papered boards, cloth spine gilt, dust jacket; (4)
Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. History of European Morals and an autograph signed letter. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1894. 2 volumes, 12mo, brown morocco, gilt embossed to the front with the badge of St Columba's College, marbled edges, endpapers and pastedowns; together with a signed autograph letter, May 5, 1900, from Lecky, on Atheneum notepaper. William Edward Hartpole (1838-1903) was educated at Kingstown, Armagh, at Cheltenham College, and at Trinity College, Dublin.In 1861 he published Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, containing brief sketches of Jonathan Swift, Henry Flood, Henry Grattan and Daniel O'Connell, originally anonymous, republished in 1871; the essay on Swift, rewritten and amplified, appeared again in 1897 as an introduction to an edition of Swift's works. Two surveys followed: A History of the Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe (2 vols., 1869), and A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (2 vols., 1869). Lecky then concentrated on his major work, A History of England during the Eighteenth Century, Vols. i. and ii. of which appeared in 1878, and Vols. vii. and viii., which completed the work, in 1890. A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century can be regarded as the first attempt at an objective history of the age.
1933-1938 German Anschluss and Sudetenland medals and three National Socialist 'Day' badges. First Anschluss (Austria) 15 Marz 1938 medal; Annexation of the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) 1st October 1938 medal; 1933 Day of German Art badge; 1934 German Labour Day badge; and 1935 German Labour Day badge. (5)
Heaney, Seamus. Hedge School, signed limited edition. 1979, Salem, Janus Press, first edition of "Sonnets from Glanmore" with coloured woodcuts by Claire Van Vliet, 8vo, letterpress printed on hand made paper for Charles Seluzicki, signed to the endpaper in pencil by Heaney and Van Vliet and numbered 56 of special limited numbered edition of 285. Boxed in custom-made slip-case, title etc, in gilt to spine. Rare.
James Bond Casino Royale Starring David Niven as "Sir James Bond". French release film poster. 60 by 46in. (152.4 by 116.8cm) Casino Royale is a 1967 spy comedy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel. The film stars David Niven as the "original" Bond, "Sir James Bond 007". It is the only Bond film not to have been produced by Eon Productions. Niven was actually Ian Fleming's preference for the first Bond film, Dr. No, so it is apt he was chosen for this satire.
Yeats, W. B. The Tower. First American Edition. New York, The MacMillan Company, 1929. first American edition, 8vo, 110 pages, illustrated cloth with gilt lettering and ornaments after a design by Sturge Moore. The Tower was a book of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1928. The Tower was Yeats's first major collection as Nobel Laureate after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of the poet's most influential volumes and was well received by the public. The title, which the book shares with the second poem, refers to Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower which Yeats purchased and restored in 1917. Yeats Gaelicized the name to Thoor Ballyllee, and it has retained the title to this day. Yeats often summered at Thoor Ballylee with his family until 1928. The book includes several of Yeats' most famous poems, including "Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," and "Among School Children." All of the poems included in The Tower had previously appeared elsewhere in print collections and periodicals. Many of the poems featured in Seven Poems and a Fragment, The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems, and October Blast released by Cuala Press. Other poems had been collected in A Vision. Yeats commissioned Thomas Sturge Moore to create the cover for the volume in 1927. The gold wood-cut style image depicts Thoor Ballylee and its reflection in waters below the tower all on a light green background. The poet praised Moore's artwork, noting that the cover was both a true representation of Thoor Ballylee and a successful symbolic design for the collection. Moore's work on The Tower and other collections solidified Yeats's modern image in both American and English print editions. Many of the poems in The Tower demonstrate Yeats's disillusionment with the limitations of the physical world and his withdrawal from ordinary life. The poet seeks to transcend the conflicts between the dichotomies of mind/body and thought/action by allowing poetry to exist in the world of vision rather than the world of reality.
Flann O'Brien, At Swim Two Birds, First Edition Longmans, Green and Co., 1939, 8vo, first edition, first issue, black cloth gilt. Originally published by Longmans in 1939, At Swim-Two-Birds was a commercial failure with less than 240 copies sold by the outbreak of the war. Additionally, the Longmans London premises and all unsold copies with it were destroyed by the Luftwaffe in 1940.
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