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A large Interchangeable part-orchestral cylinder musical box, by Samuel Troll,Circa 1885,Ser. No. unknown, Gam. Nos. unknown,With massive single-spring motor, left group of five and right group of three engraved buffet bells each with wasp strikers, flanking nine-hammer drum and seven hammer castanet all on lever-select, twin combs, on gilt cast bedplate, in ebonised interior under dustlid, in lavish walnut quarter-veneered case with double kingwood strung inlay and slight domed top, with one cylinder only – 41” wide, the cylinder 16.7/8”.Condition: F III 4(ttt>r) (OW)
[Christy Brown] Collis (Robert) Marrowbone Lane, 8vo D. (Runa Press) 1943. First Limited De Luxe Edition No. 50 Signed by Author, gilt decor. limp mor.; also The Silver Fleece, An Autobiography. L. 1940. First, wd. cut illus. by T.G. Wilson, cloth & d.w.; & To be a Pilgrim, Autobiography of R. Collis, Intro. by Christy Brown, roy 8vo L. 1975. First Edn., illus., cloth & d.w. (3)* The author was Christy Brown's physician & mentor.
[Yeats (W.B.) & Others] Hone (J.) W.B. Yeats - 1865 - 1939, 8vo L. (Mac Millan & Co.) 1942, frontis and various newscuttings tipped in, cloth; Mooney (Bel.) intro. The Tower - W.B. Yeats, 8vo L. (Folio Press) 1987, uncut, cloth backed marbled boards; Ellman (R.) W.B. Yeats Second Puberty, 8vo Washington 1985, illus., ptd. wrappers; Ellman (R.) The Use of Dependance, Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, annotated, 8vo, Vermont 1983, illus., ptd. wrappers; Beach (S.) Ulysses in Paris, 8vo N.Y. (Harcourt) 1956, Privately Printed for Friend as a New Year's Greeting, pictorial boards, glassine covers, as a lot, w.a.f. (5)
The Author's First BookROS (Mrs. Amanda M'Kittrick). Irene Iddersleigh. Belfast, Baird 1897, First Edn. of her First Book, orig. dec. cloth, slightly shaken. Scarce. Laid in is her card, addressed from the house she built at Larne Harbour with the proceeds of the book; tipped in is a TL (copy) dated Aug. 13 1900, discussing her spiritual beliefs. 'Of course I've given you my sincere views but as a writer I vary them'.Signed in pencil on h.t., W. Godfrey Macourt (?), 12 July 1898, and profusely decorated throughout with small attractive sketches, pencil and ink, unsigned, probably by Mr. Macourt, but just possibly by the author.On reverse of the final page, p. 189, is a passage headed 'Olive Oil' in manuscript, signed A. McK. R., possibly in the author's hand.An interesting copy of a scarce book, printed at the expense of the author's husband. (1)
Inscribed to W.B. Yeats'Fitzurse (R.)' (pseudo. of Geoffrey Phibbs), It Was Not Jones (poems). Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, L. 1928, First, Hogarth Living Poets No. 2, boards, scarce. Inscribed on t.p. 'To Mr. Yeats / with the writer's greatest respect / Geoffrey Phibbs 3.5.28'. (1)
With Fine Coloured PlatesKrause (Georg) Oologia Universalis Palaearctica, 3 vols. lg. thick 4to Stuttgart 1906 - 1913. First Edn. text in English & German, 158 lg. cold. chromo plates on thick card (plus one extra plt. in orig. part loosely inserted). In fine blue cloth by R. Carswell, Belfast, with the orig. bill for binding. V. good set. (3)
Ulster Poetry: Greacen (Rob.)ed. Poems from Ulster, 8vo Belfast (W. Erskine Mayne) 1942. First Edn., poets include R. Greacen, Roy McFadden, Maurice Craig and others, orig. pict. wrappers; Northern Harvest-Anthology of Ulster Writing, 8vo Belfast 1944. First Edn., cloth v. good; also Poems by "Ulster Poets," 8vo n.d. A typescript of 12pp., & typed wrappers. With poems by John Hewitt, James Mac Kinlay, Patrick Maybin, Mary Crawford, Geo. Musgrove & Jack M'Quoid. All scarce. (3)
[Barton (Robert) Treaty signatory] A copy of Douglas Hyde [An Craoibhín]'s play Casadh An tSúgáin, with a parallel translation by Lady Gregory, An Cló-Chumann, Dublin n.d. [1905], orig. wrappers, stapled, inscribed on front cover '1541 R. Barton', further inscribed on f.f.e.p., 'Riobard Bartún / & é i bpríosún i Sacsana / ón gCraoibhín'. (1)Robert Barton, a cousin of Erskine Childers, from a landed background in Wicklow, joined the British Army as an officer during the Great War, but resigned after he was posted to Dublin during the 1916 Rising. He joined the Irish Volunteers and was elected to the First Dail, where he was Minister for Agriculture. He was several times imprisoned for Republican activities, including the occasion recorded in this booklet. He was released from Portland Prison during the Truce, and was a member of the team that negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Though he signed the Treaty and voted for it in the Dail, he took the anti-Treaty side afterwards. After the fighting ended he retired from politics and returned to farming. He was later head of the Agricultural Credit Corporation under Fianna Fail.A rare and evocative item, illustrating the complexity of the Anglo-Irish struggle.
Hayward (Richard) Munster and the City of Cork, 8vo L. (Phoenix House) 1964, First Edn., Signed by the Author & Illustrator (Raymond Piper), all cloth & d.j.,Raine (Kathleen) The Lost Country, 8vo L. (The Dolmen Press) 1992, Reprint, Signed by the Author; Murphy (R.) The Mirror Wall, 8vo U.K. 1989, Review copy; Johnston (J.) Truth or Fiction, 8vo L. 2009; O'Brien (Edna) The Light of Evening, 8vo L. 2006, as a lot, w.a.f. (5)
The Irish House of Commons, 1790[After Baurraud & Hayter] The Irish House of Commons - A.D. 1790, College Green, Dublin, a large autotype sepiograph print, approx. 84cms x 80cms (33" x 31 1/2") in oak frame; togerther with a printed fold-out "Key to the National Picture of The Irish House of Commons," published by R. Turner. Scarce. (2)
Dickens (Charles) Martin Chuzzlewit, 8vo L. (Chapman & Hall) 1844, First Edn., engd. frontis & add. engd. t.p. & 38 plts. (complete) foxed, contemp. hf. leather, marble boards, gilt decor. spine; [Thackerey] Pendennis (Arthur)ed. & Doyle (R.) illus. The Newcomers, Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, 8vo L. (Bradbury & Evans) 1854, First Edn., 2 vols. in 1, 2 engd. frontis, 2 engd. add t.p., & 44 plts, contemp. hf. decor calf, cloth boards. Both Fine Copies. (2)
[Joyce (James)] & Ellmann (R.)ed. Giacomo Joyce, 8vo N.Y. (Viking Press) 1968, First Edn. (this format), with 4 full scale fac-simile pages of m/ss, cloth backed boards, slip case; Roe (D.)ed. Ulysses, thick 4to, D. (Lilluput Press) 1999, Ltd. Edn. 512 (1000), duck egg cold. cloth, slip case. (2)
[I.A.S.] O'Flaherty (R.) A Chronological Description of West or h-Iar Connaught, 4to D. (I.A.S.) 1846, map & fold. chart; O'Donovan (J.) The Tribes and Customes of Hy-Many, 4to D. (I.A.S.), map & fold. chart; Henthorn Todd (J.) Leabhar Imuinn. the Book of Hymns of the Ancient Church of Ireland, 2 vols.4to, D. (I.A.S.) 1855 - 69; O'Donovan (J.) The Topographical Poems of John O'Dubhagain and Giolla na Naomh O'Muidhrin, 4to D. (I.A.S.) 1862; Butler (Rev. R.) Registrum Prioratius Omnium Sanctorum, 4to D. (I.A.S.) 1845, & 2 others from the same series, all blind decorated purple cloth, clean set. (8)
A pair of Martin Brothers pottery Royal commemorative plaquesBoth worked with portraits of Queen Victoria, one dated 1837, the other 1897, both titled and signed R W Martin SC to recto and further signed to verso R W Martin SC Southall and dated 3.XI.98 and 10-1898 respectively. 15.5 cm diameter. (2) CONDITION REPORTS: Both generally in good condition, expected wear, some surface dirt/staining, some possible minor nibbles.
A Martin Brothers pottery vaseSgraffito decorated with herons and insects amongst water reeds, signed R W Martin Bros, London & Southall and dated 10-1889, converted to a lamp base. 18.5 cm high overall. CONDITION REPORTS: Generally in good condition, expected wear, probably previously with neck, drilled, some firing blemishes to foot.
WILLIAM LIONEL WYLLIE (1851-1931) BritishHMS President and Blackfriars BridgeLimited edition dry point etchingSigned in pencil to margin and published September 1st 1927 by R Dunthorne & Son Ltd, London40.5 x 20.5 cm, framed and glazed CONDITION REPORTS: Generally in good condition, expected wear, old label to verso.
South African Test Cricket Team 1970 (vs. Australia), team signatures on ten rand notesComprising: Dr Ali Bacher (Captain), A J Traicos, E J Barlow, B L Irvine, P H J Trimborn, M J Proctor, R G Pollock, D T Lindsay, H R Lance, B A Richards and P M Pollock, framed and glazed. 36 x 56 cm.Note: South Africa vs Australia at Port Elizabeth on 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th and 10th March 1970 was the last game of Australia's tour and completed a clean sweep for South Africa with what was probably the home team's greatest ever line up in their last game played before the international ban imposed on South African cricket which lasted until 1992. CONDITION REPORTS: Generally in good condition, expected wear, Pollock signature faded.
A pair of Chinese blue and white porcelain tea bowlsEach decorated with fruiting sprays and standing on a shallow foot, blue painted six character Yongzheng mark to base, old paper label for R. B. Collection. 3.75 cm high. (2) CONDITION REPORTS: Both generally in good condition, expected wear.
A Biedermeier mahogany cased eight day fusee bracket clock. With enamel dial having Arabic numeral markers signed Le Cems est court. With a brass four pillar two train movement having anchor escapement and striking hourly on a bell with pull repeater, stamped R. Maurer, Eisenbach, clock 43cm, with bracket 67cm. Condition Report. To be used as a guide only. Running. With pendulum but no key. Some alterations inside the case where the movement sits. Hair cracks and slight filled repair to the dial.
An early 19th century silver mounted cowrie shell snuff box. The hinged cover engraved J. N. to W. K. for auld lang syne. Hallmarks rubbed, maker I. R. 9cm Condition Report. To be used as a guide only. Slight chipping and hair cracking to either tip of the shell. Lid having difficulty fully closing.
An early 19th century Tower pattern flintlock pistol. With carved walnut full stock and steel ramrod. Lock plate stamped Tower and G. R. under a crown, Barrel length 23cm. Condition Report. To be used as a guide only. Action good. Hammer a replacement. Some splits to the stock. Metal pitted.

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