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Click here to subscribeRare First Edition 1798 etc: Wolfe Tone (Wm. Theo.)ed. Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, Founder of The United Society... 2 vols., 8vo Washington 1826. First Edn., port. frontis Vol. I, some browning as usual, later hf. green mor., red mor. labels, & harp motif on spines. Rare bookplates of Mariga Guinness & inscribed by her. (1)
Latchford (Benjamin) The Loriner Opinions and Observations on Bridle Bits and the Suitable Bitting of Horses, with illustrations. 4to L. 1871. First Edn. 28pp. of illus.; Bound with, Segundo (Don Juan) A Treatise on Suitable Bitting of Horses, 4to 1832, dbl. page illus., orig. hf. mor. worn, spine dam. Unusual. (1)
Sullivan (Sir Ed.) Buck Whaley's Memoirs, roy 8vo L. 1906, First, illus.; Tynan (P.J.P.) The Irish National Invincibles and their Times, L. 1894; Robinson (J.R.) The Lost Earls of Barrymore 1769 - 1824, L. 1894; Mc Donnell (Bodkin (M.) Grattan's Parliament Before and After, L. 1912, all cloth. (4)
Young (Arthur) A Tour in Ireland, with General Observations on the Present State of that Kingdom: Made in The Years 1776, 1777, and 1778 ... End of 1779. 4to L. 1780. First Edn., engd. frontis, list of subs., & 1 engd. plate, cont. tree calf, single gilt fillet, tooled gilt spine in panel, in the style of Mackenzie. Very desirable copy. Ex. Libris James Stewart, Esq., Kilymoon, with his bookplate, & with Furness Library Stamp. (1)
Swinburne (Henry) Travels through Spain in the Years 1775 and 1776, In which several Monuments of Roman and Moorish Architecture are illustrated ... 4to L. 1779. First Edn., lg. fold map (with tears), 13 plts. as called for, (but with extra views not called for, bound in), cont. calf, spine worn. With Borris Library & Furness stamps. (1)
Langley (Batty) The City and Country Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs: or, The Art of Drawing, and Working The Ornamental Parts of Architecture. Illustrated. 4to L. 1740. First Edn., lacks list of subs, 186 full page plts., cont. calf, worn, upr. cover. Ex. Coll. Earl of Fitzwilliam with B.P. (1)
[Shakespeare] Pope (A.) The Works of Shakespeare, 6 vols. 4to L. 1723 - 1725. First 4to Edn. of Shakespeare's Works Engd. port. frontis & red & black title Vol. I, list of subs, cont. sprinkled calf, dble gilt fillet, & blind tooled borders, some mor. labels, worn. Scarce. (6) * Ex. Libris Earl of Ormonde, Kilkenny Castle, with bookplates.
Barrington (Sir Jonah) Historic Anecdotes and Secret Memoirs of The Legislative Union Between Great Britain and Ireland, 2 vols. lg. 4to L. 1809. First Edn. L.P., 36 engd. portraits, 3 fac-similes & 2 other plts., cont. hf. calf. tooled gilt & blind decor & gilt spine in panels bookplate's of 'Celeberrima insula ortus' and the Mariga Guinness bookplate. (1)
[Chesterfield] Stanhope (Mrs. E.) Publisher, Letters Written by the Late Rt. Hon. Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield to His Son..., 2 vols. 4to L. 1774. First Edn., engd. port. frontis, cont. hf. calf. (2) * Bookplate of James Fuller, & inscribed by Mariga Guinness, purchased at Nayler's Auction, Dublin.
Complete Set of Irish Georgian Society Records I.G.S.: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin, Vols. I - V, together 5 vols. complete lg. 4to D. 1909 - 1913. Lim. Edns; plus Supplementary Volume,;Sadlier (T.U.) & Dickinson (Page L.) Georgian Mansions in Ireland, lg. 4to D. 1915. First Edn., Lim to 700 Copies Only, with 3 orig. A.L.s. (loosely inserted) from Walter Fitzgerald & others concerning same. All above profusely illustrated with photos, orig. decorated cloth & buckram. Scarce. (6)
Home (Robert) Select Views in Mysore, The Country of Tippoo Sultan; From Drawings taken on the Spot. Lg. 4to L. (Published by R. Bowyer) 1794. First Edn. L.P., 3 lg. fold. plans, 2 printed on blue, fold. hd. cold. map & 27 engd. plts., 13 leaves printed Arabic, full cont. calf, dble gilt and blind fillet borders, and with armorial? in gilt on both covers, upr. cover loose. (1)
Staunton (Geo.) An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China, 2 vols. 4to L. 1797 - 98. First Edn. 2 engd. frontis, engd. vignettes, [Folio Vol. lacking] cont. calf, tooled gilt decor. (2) George MacCartney, an Irishman, was appointed first envoy of Britain to China. * Ex Libris O'Grady, Kilballyowen, with bookplate.
Engraved Views: Bartlett (W.H.) The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. in one, lg. 4to L. n.d. First Edn., 2 engd. add. titles, engd. map, & 118 engd. plts., cont. hf. mor.; also Scotland Illustrated in a Series of Picturesque Views L. 1845. Ed. by Prof. Wilson, add. engd. title, 80 engd. plts. cont. full mor. (2)
Orme (Robert) A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, 2 vols. in 3, 4to L. 1763 - 1778. First Edn., 35 engd. fold. & single page maps & plts. (1 lg. map lacking one folded section, & 1 leaf p. 512, dam. with loss), cont. mottled calf, joints cracked & rubbed. (3)
[Kennedy (James)] A Description of the Antiquities and Curiosities in Wilton House, 4to Sarum (Printed for E. Easton) 1781. First Edn., hf. title, 25 full page engd. plts. by J.A. Gresse, wd.--cut head & tails no subscribers list, full cont. tree calf, single gilt fillet borders, profusely tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. labels. B.P. of Chas. Willm. Bury. (1)
O'Flanagan (Rev. M.)ed. Letters .. Relative to the Antiquities of the County of Meath (from) Ordnance Survey in 1836, 4to Bray 1928, typescript; The Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society, Vol. I 4to D. 1846; Nicholl (Geo.) Three Reports of Poor Laws - Ireland, 8vo L. 1838; Vallancey (Lt. Col. C.) A Grammar of The Iberno - Celtic or Irish Language, 8vo D. 1781, First, 9 engd. plts., calf, worn etc. A lot, w.a.f. (1)
After John Rocque Maps: "Plan de la Ville, Havre, Baye & Environs de Dublin," sur la meme Echolle de ceux de Londres, Paris, et Rome, dated 1757 (possibly Paris), 54cms x 76cms (21" x 30") hogarth frame; and its companion "The First Sheet of an Actual Survey of the Environs of the City of Dublin", both in hogarth frames. (2)
After Joshua Reynolds "Mrs. Horneck," in Eastern Attire, a sepia engraving by R. Dunkarton, published by W. Shropshire, London 1778, 52cms x 37cms (20 1/2" x 14 1/2"), with publishers label on reverse, claiming "First State," gilt frame. (1) * The sitter, Mrs. Hannah MacArdell, widow of Captain Kane William Horneck, was known as the Plymouth Beauty.
A mid 19th century carved coconut 'Bugbear' flask and three unmounted flasks: the first finely carved overall with a colonial military scene and mask head terminals, the white metal mounted bugbear spout applied with glass eyes [one lacking],17 cm ; together with three similar coconut shells, one carved with a bottle, birds, a building and a cornucopia of fruit and flowers, the others with bands of foliage and scrollwork, 10 and 11 cm [3]
Gaston Jolly Fils à Paris, a brass portico clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours and half-hours on a bell with an outside countwheel, with the nine-rod brass pendulum, the round white enamel dial having black Roman numerals, blued steel moon hands and signed Gaston Jolly Fils à Paris, the gilded case having four columns adorned with a helter-skelter of mythical figures in the manner of Trajans' column, with further decorative mouldings to the base and standing on matching bun feet, height 45cm. * Biography Gaston Jolly Fils were founded by Francois-Pierre Gaston who married in 1784, becoming Gaston Jolly prior to 1806 when first recorded at Rue de Pavé-Saint-Sauveur, moving to Boulevard Poissonière in circa 1815 and still there in 1850, by 1870 their address is recorded as Rue de la Chapelle.
William Thompson, Wolverhampton, a mahogany longcase clock: the eight-day duration movement, striking the hours on a bell, the thirteen-inch painted break-arch dial having black Roman numerals, Arabic outer five-minute numerals, raised gilt-work decoration on a blue ground to the four corners, a subsidiary seconds dial and date aperture to the dial centre and signed Wm. Thompson, W: Hampton, the arch having a depiction of Britannia within an oval and further raised gilt decoration, with decorative blued steel hands, the rear of the dial embossed with the dialmaker's name Ashwin & Co, the mahogany case having a swan neck pediment with giltwood ball and spire finials, the hood with full fluted columns with cast-brass capitals, with fluted quarter-columns to the trunk with cast-brass capitals, with a shaped top to the trunk door and a raised shaped panel to the base with fluted canted corners, height 223cm (not inc. finial) * Biography William Thompson is recorded as working in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire from circa 1780 until at least 1805 having been apprenticed in 1767 to William Parkes. * Thomas Ashwin, born circa 1758 and married to Mary in 1774, was a dial maker working in Birmingham from 1777 when he is recorded as a japanner of all sorts of wares at 5, Paradise Street. He traded as Ashwin & Co from 1787 until his death in 1791. It was in this year that a mob gathered outside a hotel to protest at a meeting taking place within, which was celebrating the first anniversary of the French Revolution. Ashwin was recruited as a special constable whereupon he was hit on the head by a rock and died of his injuries. His wife continued the business alongside their fourteen year old son, but within a year they had formed a partnership with another dial maker, Thomas Byrne, who may well have also formed a personal relationship with Mary. In her book The Art of the Painted Clock Dial, Mary Tennant notes that only a few Ashwin dials are known - all of high quality, and that it is likely that Byrne continued to use the remaining stock of Ashwin falseplates on his own dials making it sometimes difficult to tell if a dial is an Ashwin or a Byrne, especially as they are of very similar styles.
Joshua Brace, Lydney, a moonphase longcase clock: the eight-day duration movement striking the hours on a bell, the twelve-inch brass break-arch dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals, fleur-de-lys half-hour markings and outer Arabic five-minute numerals, the matted dial centre with subsidiary seconds dial, engraved decorative surround to the date aperture, and engraved to a silvered name plate with the maker's name Joshua Brace, Lydney, the corners with cast-brass urn spandrels, the arch having a moonphase disc with date and time markings, with the silvered arched surround engraved High Water at Bristol Key, the mahogany case with typical Bristol cresting to the hood, wavy-edge moulding to the hood door, shaped inlaid stringing to the base and trunk door, canted corners, fluted wood pillars to the hood with cast-brass Corinthian capitals and surmounted by a brass eagle-and-ball finial, standing on bracket feet, height 225cm (inc. finial) * Biography Joshua Brace is first recorded as working in Chepstow from 1752 until 1763 having originally been from Martley in Worcestershire where he had been apprenticed to Richard Munkland, a gunsmith and clockmaker. He then moved along the River Severn to Lydney in Gloucestershire prior to 1780.
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