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USHER’S RARE BOOK AUCTION at THE AUCTION ROOMS, John Street, Kells, Co. Meath TUESDAY 23 RD AUGUST 2011 AT 11 A.M. “On behalf of the representatives of William Battersby, Cannon Row, Navan – deceased” Viewing: Sunday 2-6, Monday 11-7 & Morning of Sale Oliver Usher, Auctioneer & Valuer, John Street, Kells, Co. Meath. (046) 9241097 & (086)1706767 www.usherauctions.com [email protected]

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Page 1: IMPORTANT RARE BOOK AUCTION - Oliver Usher ... · Web viewRARE BOOK AUCTION at THE AUCTION ROOMS, John Street, Kells, Co. Meath TUESDAY 23RD AUGUST 2011 AT 11 A.M. “On behalf of

USHER’SRARE BOOK AUCTION

atTHE AUCTION ROOMS,

John Street, Kells, Co. Meath

TUESDAY 23RD AUGUST 2011 AT 11 A.M.

“On behalf of the representatives of William Battersby, Cannon Row, Navan – deceased”

Viewing:

Sunday 2-6, Monday 11-7 & Morning of Sale

Oliver Usher, Auctioneer & Valuer, John Street, Kells, Co. Meath.

(046) 9241097 & (086)1706767

www.usherauctions.com [email protected]

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1. Catholic Biblical Encyclopaedia

2. 3 Vols Rank’s History of the Pope

3. History of the Wars of the French

Revolution 1817

4. Dublin University Magazine 1842

5. Catholic Emancipation Centenary

Record

6. History of Bandon + 2 others

7. 2 Vols Errata of the Protestant Bible +

Holy Bible

8. The Book of the O’Byrnes

9. Schielmann’s Excavations 1891

(Archaelogy)

10. Philips’ Atlas of the Counties of

Ireland 1882

11. Curtis – A History of Medieval Ireland

+ O’Rahilly, Early Irish History and

Mythology

12. Dowling: The Hedge Schools of

Ireland

13. Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress + Castles

+ Abbeys

14. 9 Parts Hall Ireland (1841 – 1843)

15. 4 Commission Reports

16. Kilcock Church 1869 book of the

Sacraments + Roman Missal

17. Lot of National Geographic Magazines

18. Economic + Banking lot

19. Box working journals of Mr. Battersby

20. Lot of Magazines

21. Section of Philosophy Books

22. Books about St. Columba/Colmcille

23. Section of St. Patrick interest Books

24. Another section of St. Patrick books

25. Mixed section books incl. The Iliad

26. Saint Oliver Plunkett Books

27. 6 Vols. Modern History Philosophy

28. Mixed lot incl. Medieval Catalogue

29. Italian interest Books

30. Church + Vatican Books (5)

31. Box mixed religious

32. Box mixed religious

33. Box mixed religious

34. Crete + Mycenae Book

35. Latin Books (Top shelf)

36. Rome interest books

37. Ancient Classics (shelf)

38. Greek + Ancient Greek books (Bottom

shelf)

39. Irish Painting N.G.I. etc

40. Lot Printing + Painting books

41. British Art + Artist books

42. Irish Artists + Art books

43. The Passion in Art – Harries + The

Crucifixion in Irish Art – Peter

Harbison etc

44. Miscellaneous Art books

45. History of Art etc

46. 3 Irish Art books incl. Municipal

Gallery etc.

47. Lot Art Noveau books

48. Italian Art Renaissance + other misc

49. Misc. European Artists + movements

50. Essential Dali etc

51. Gainsborough, Turner + Constable

books

52. Lot general Art books incl. The Social

History of Art etc

53. 5 Capuchin Annual 40’s, 50’s + 60’s

54. Collection Eucharistic Congress books

(Dublin 1932)

55. 3 Printing industry books

56. Tara Mines + Gold Fields

57. Lot Ireland related magazines + Comic

History of Ireland

58. First Aid + Nursing books

59. History of the Church of Ireland books

60. The 1608 Royal Schools book

61. St. Bernard + St. Malachy books

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62. Lindisfarne + Treasures from the

National Library Book

63. 1890’s Art Journal books

64. From the Stone Age to Christianity –

Albright, Ireland + The Celtic Church

+ Ardagh + Clonmacnoise (4)

65. Large Box mixed books

66. Box of Newspapers incl. The

Kerryman 1904 – 1954

67. Box religious magazines etc

68. Box of religious incl.Eerdmans

Commentary on the Bible

69. 2 Vols Tommasini Irish Saints in Italy

70. Section of Religious incl. 2 Vols The

Psalms etc

71. Section of Religious incl. Biblical +

Semetic Symbolism

72. The Irish Rosary + England’s best

Churches etc

73. A lot Dictionaries etc (on top)

74. Section of Religious

75. Section of Religious Histories incl.

Classical Antiquities

76. Section of Religious incl. The power

of the Jesuits

77. Irish Religious Section

78. Religious section incl. 2 Vols The

Psalms, Boylan etc

79. Hastings Dictionary of the Bible +

other religious

80. Box Biblical studies incl. Lutterworths

Dictionary of the Bible

81. Large box Religious incl. The Book of

Job etc

82. Box of Religious incl. The Golden

Bough

83. The Holy Bible King James version +

others

84. Box of Religious some Irish incl. Fr.

James A. Cullen S.J

85. Lot on top of bookcase incl. 2 Vols

The Book of Isaiam

86. 4 - Shelves of books in the bookcase

87. Box Religious incl. SJOT magazines

etc

88. Large box mixed books + magazines

89. Book shop Catalogues containing

prices etc

90. Lot late 19th C. Magazines

91. 1930’s etc Fashion Magazines

92. Large Box General books

93. Collection Dead Sea Scroll books

94. 3 - Pope John Paul 11 Books

95. Butler Feasts + Fasts + Parish

Churches of England & Wales by

Betjeman

96. O’Hanlon: Irish Saints (1 Vol)

97. Loves of the Irish Saints by John

0’Hanlon 40 copies

98. Thames & Hudson copy of The Book

of Kells

99. The Book of Kells proceedings edited

by Felicity O’Mahony + other Book of

Kells related books

100. Large Box General interest books

101. 2 Vols. Pictures of People + The

Education of Mr. Pipp by Charles

Dana Gibson

102. Strains of other Days – favourite Irish

Airs for Piano Forte + Dedicated to

Irish Harp Societies

103. The Etruscans Books

104. 4 – 1913 Wildlife magazines

105. Portraits from North America Indian

Life + 500 Nations

106. George 111 + Queen Charlotte + King

Henry V111 books (2)

107. 4 Royalty books incl. The Queens

House + The Wellington Memorial

108. 9 Kings Story & Hail + Fair Well

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109. 5 Royalty Books incl. Richard the

Third

110. Kings & Queens of England (9)

111. Queen Elizabeth 11 (9)

112. Books relating to the Coronation of

Queen Elizabeth 11

113. Buckingham Palace limited edition

number 5 of 750 copies by H. Clifford

Smith

114. 10 English Design books

115. Atlas Hierarchicus

116. Coaching Days of England

117. Glastonbury official 20th Anniversary

Souvenir Programme

118. Queen Anne by Herbert Paul 1906 No.

86 of eight hundred copies

119. Painting of the Royal Collection + 6

others

120. Coronation Pamphlets

121. The Queen’s Empire + 3 other Queen

Victoria books

122. The Coronation of Edward V11 + 3

others

123. The Coronation Book of King George

V1 + Queen Elizabeth + 2 others

124. Box of Royalty books incl. The Royal

Collection

125. Box of Religious incl. Two

Flamboyant Fathers etc

126. Box mixed incl. Mary Queen of Scots

127. General Box incl. Bill Bryson – a short

history of nearly everything

128. Wooden box Religious incl. Dead Sea

Scrolls

129. Bundle of Bird books incl. In Praise of

Birds by Raven etc

130. Bundle of Fish + Fishing Books

including The Complete Angler

131. Bundle of Sporting Books – Golf,

Rugby, Hockey etc

132. Camera – Books incl. Ilford

133. Movie + Cinema incl. The Quiet Man

by Des McHale etc

134. John Ford by Andrew Sinclair

135. Books about advertising labels incl.

The Art of Cigar Label by Davidson

136. Pottery, Porcelain + Furniture

including Belleek Reference Book

137. Box Religious etc. Books

138. Lot American interest Books incl. The

American Experience + Bill Clinton

etc

139. Millers Antiques Price Guides etc

140. 4 Books – Einstein

141. War Books incl. war Diary

142. Ciphergrams + Cryptography

143. Enid Blyton 7 Vols

144. Childrens Books incl. Snow Goose,

Lucie Attwell + Dickens

145. 7 Countryside Books incl. Round the

Year in the Farm

146. Boys + Girls Books incl The Girls

Own Annual

147. A Crate of C.D.’s (Large Amount)

148. Newspaper Cuttings + Scrap Album

149. Lot old Magazines

150. Box Historical etc Books

151. Bibby’s Annual 1936 + Belfast

Newsletter + Northern Standard

152. Photograms 1951, 1952, + Ireland

1860 – 80

153. 2 Bound 1940’s Illustrated

154. 2 Scrap Albums

155. 1953 bound Copies of The Times

156. The Weekly |Freeman – 6 Copies

157. The Sphere + pamphlets etc

158. Irish trade Journals + Surveys from the

1950’s

159. Julian Cope; Megalithic (1 Copy)

160. Times + Irish Times books on trolly

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161. Lot Archaelogy Magazines

162. Glendalough + other National

Monument Booklets

163. Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the

Year 1939

164. 2 Vols. John Hunt – Irish Medieval

Figure Sculpture 1200 – 1600

165. Rise of the Great Families by Sir

Bernard Burke (Authors signature)

166. 1938 Molua

167. Coimisiun Na Gaeltachta Report 1925

containing map

168. New Scientist Magazines

169. Box Historical + Religious Pamphlets

+ Books

170. Graphic + London Illustrated News

(Lot)

171. The Listener Magazine

172. The Living Torch + Candle of Vision

by AE + 5 other Irish interest

173. The Stone Ages in North Britain +

Ireland by Frederick Smith

174. Union Locks, Oil lamps + Stoves +

other household books

175. Superstitions of Sailors + Ghosts +

Poltergeists

176. Canal Books etc (11)

177. 11 Museum Guide Books

178. Lot of Studies – An Irish Quarterly

Review

179. Lot of Waterways Magazines

180. 2 Domesday Books + magazines

181. 2 David Attenborough + Richard

Dawkins, The greatest show on earth

182. 1950’s Pagan Mission Magazines

183. Collection of Penquin 60’s (Published

for Penquin 60th Anniversary)

184. Lot of Irish Interest Books incl. Peg o’

my heart, New mains way, Daughters

of Banba etc

185. 6 Constable Art Books

186. Cased set of Gutenberg Bible

187. A Catalogue of Lambeth Manuscripts

889 – 901

188. Lurgan Masonic Bazaar – 1895

189. Irish Dialects past and present – T.F.

O’Rahilly + 4 other Irish interest

190. 2 Vols. Butler – Ancient Coptic

Churches of Egypt

191. Devonshire – Counting my Chickens

(signed) + Accidents of Fortune + 2

Vols Life of the Duke of Devonshire

1833 – 1908

192. Seymour Vandeleur + Arthur

Vandeleur Books

193. Marija Gimbutas – The language of

the Goddess + other archaeology

books etc (5)

194. Annals of Westminster Abbey by E.T.

Bradley – 1895

195. The Agricultural Revolution in

Prehistory by Graeme Barker _ The

Harmony of Symbols

196. Field Guide to Butterflies, Water life

and Animals of Britain

197. David Sweetman – The Medieval

Castles of Ireland + 3 more medieval

books

198. 6 – G.K. Chesterton Books

199. 2 Vols. The Women Bonapartes by

Noel Williams

200. Vols. 1 + 2 History of England by

Lecky + other single volumes –(11)

201. Vol 1 + 2 British National

Bibliography 1977 + shelf of misc.

English interest Books

202. Shelf of Medieval + Gothic Books

incl. The Book of Hours

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203. Shelf of Scottish interest books incl. 2

Vols. Of The Silver Bough by Marian

McNeill

204. Lot of Wales interest Books incl. The

Welsh Marches

205. Shelf of Sitwell Novels

206. Lot Eric Gill Books

207. Shelf of Books in the Gaelic language

208. Another shelf of Irish language Books

209. Bundle of Russian interest Books incl.

The fold of the Kremlin

210. 10 Hebrew Books

211. French + French interest Books

212. Israel interest Books incl. Ancient

Israel

213. Lot of American Books incl. The

American Scene

214. Australian interest Books

215. China + other countries Books

216. 9 Churchill Books incl. 4 Vols

“History of English speaking Peoples”

217. Top shelf Irish Biographical Books

218. Another shelf Irish Biographical

Books

219. Another shelf Irish Biographical

Books

220. Another shelf Irish Biographical

Books

221. Conor Cruise O’Brien – States of

Ireland + 2 others

222. The lost Distilleries of Ireland by

Brian Townsend + 3 others

223. Bundle of Geology Books incl.

Romance of Modern Geology

224. Top shelf of Irish interest Books incl.

O’Kelly – Ireland Elements of her

early story

225. 6 Vols. Livestock of the Farm

226. 4 Vols of The Farmer’s Magazines

227. 2 Vols Colman’s British Agriculture

228. Shelf of Irish interest Books incl. The

Oxford Companion to Irish History

229. The Archaelogy of the Transport

Revolution 1750 – 1850 + other

transport interest

230. Two stroke Motor Cycles + Auto

Cycles + The Book of the A.J.S

231. Early Flying Machines + 2 others

232. English Railway Books incl. a book of

Railway Journeys by Ludovic

Kennedy

233. Irish Steam by O.S. Nock + Coras

Iompair Eireann etc concerning Irish

Rail

234. Bundle of Irish Guide Books + maps

235. Large collection of Pelican paperback

Books

236. Shelf mixed interest Books incl.

Studies in Folk Life + Science for the

Citizen

237. Prehistoric Communitees of the British

Isles etc

238. The Dawn of Civilization, Times Atlas

of World History + 4 other books

239. Lot of Humerous Books incl. Pick of

Punch + Humor of Graphic Coctail

240. Roses Books (with plates)

241. 2 Vols. Engineering practice +

building Books

242. 2 Vols Lives of Irish Saints – Charles

Plummer

243. The Farmer’s Year – Clare Leighton +

Agricultural Drainage + cereal

diseases in Ireland

244. MacNeill – Phases of Irish History 2

Vols Halls Ireland + 3 others

245. 2 Shell Guides by Lord Killanin +

Frank Mitchell _+ AA Guide book

246. 3 Bundles of Gardening + flower

books incl. Flowers of the Field by

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C.A. Johns, Sweet peas + Carnations

etc

247. Richard Burton – The Source of the

Nile

248. Irish Interest Pamphlets + Books

249. One Hundred Gems of English

Scenery

250. Francis J. Byrne – Irish Kings and high

Kings, Brian Boru + The Counsels of

Cormac

251. Walking Books

252. Catherine Swift – Ogam Stones,

McManus – A guide to Ogam + royal

Irish Academy – Ogham inscriptions

253. Plant Books, Countryside Books,

Country Cures etc

254. From Galaxies to Turbines – Garrett

Scaife

255. Historic Britain Books incl. The Story

of English

256. A Box of Irish interest Books incl.

Daithi O’Hogain – Fionn Mac

Cumhaill

257. Hillaire Belloch collection of Books

258. A lot of Pamphlets incl. Angle Irish

Relations – Sean McBride etc

259. Lot Irish Economic + Industrial Books

260. Box Irish interest Books incl. R.F.

Foster – Paddy + Mr. Punch

261. Hallel Magazines

262. Newgrange + other Boyne Valley

Books

263. Shelf of Irish Interest Books

264. Lot of Paperbacks

265. Origins of writing books incl. The

story of Writing

266. The Cave of Lascaux – Ruspoli + The

Bayevx Tapestry

267. Great Libraries + 3 other Vols

268. Box English Castles etc Books

269. York + Yorkshire + York Minster

Books

270. London Books

271. Canterbury + Shropshire + Silbury

Books

272. English interest Books

273. Another Lot British

274. English Architecture incl Simon

Jenkins – England’s Thousand best

Houses

275. English interest Books incl. Lewis –

Temples in Roman Britain

276. British interest incl. Hero Myths +

legends of the British Race

277. Gardens + Gardening incl.

Encyclopaedia of Gardening of the

Royal Horticultural Society

278. Irish Garden Books incl. Irish Gardens

and Demesnes from 1830 by Malins +

Bowe

279. Cathedrals incl. The Sun in the Church

by Heilbron

280. Choir Gaur – The Grand Orrery of the

Ancient Druids Stonehenge 1771

281. Barclay – Stonehenge and its Earth-

Works – 1895

282. Symbols of Power at the time of

Stonehenge

283. Stonehenge Books incl. John North

Stonehenge

284. Prehistoric Avebury Books

285. Irish Agriculture + Farming incl.

Fergus Kelly Early Irish Farming + a

History of Irish Forestry – Nelson –

Beekeeping etc

286. Barry Cunliffe – Europe between the

Oceans 9000 BC – 1000AD + other

Prehistoric interest Books

287. Traditions of Heroic + Epic Poetry –

A.T.Hatto, Robin Lane Fox –

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Travelling Heros + Antropology

Books

288. House, Castles + Palaces of Britain

(Lot in box)

289. The Implements of Agriculture by J.

Allen Ransome + other Agriculture

Books

290. Agriculture Books

291. Agriculture Books

292. 4 - Irish Family History Journals

293. Part 1 and Part 2 – The Festival of

Lughnasa by Maire Mac Neill

294. D. P.. McCarthy – The Irish Annals +

other Irish interest

295. Tractor books incl. Harry Ferguson

296. Lot of Cookery Books incl. Mrs.

Beeton + Maura Laverty

297. Mixed lot incl. Anglo Saxon England

etc

298. 12 Copies of Bar British Series Works

299. Arthurian Legends

300. Aaron Schade – A Syntactic Literary

Analysis of Ancient North West

Semitic Inscriptions + 3 others

301. German Books incl Hitler’s Mein

Kampf

302. 2 Vols Ray’s – Celtic Folklore

303. 2 Vols Sheridan – The Lives of the

Sheridans

304. Frazer – The Golden Bough 13 Vols.

305. Shelf of Books with 1 x 3 Vol. The

Lives of the Norths, 3 x 2 Vols -

Jorgesen, Blessed Robert Bellarmine

Defoe

306. Thom’s Directory, Whitaker’s

Almanach 1947 + 3 others

307. Shires Pamphlet Books

308. Irish Famine Books incl. Lyons,

Ireland since the Famine

309. Mitchell – Reading The Irish

landscape Mark Clinton – The

Souterrains

310. A collection of William Battersby

published Books - my 25 years at

Moynalty, The Hospitallers at

Kilmainham, The Book of Kells. The

Synod of Kells, The Three Sisters at

the Well, The Age of Newgrange +

Knowth 10 Ages (7 Titles)

311. A Collection of Vict. Photo Albums

some with Photos

312. A Photograph Album + 2 Post Card

Albums (Bought at Slane Castle 2004)

313. Postkarten – Album

314. Post Cards Album

315. Post Cards Album

316. Post Card Album (Irish + English)

317. Album of 1920’s Photos of Palestine

with olive wood covers

318. Large Blue cover Album of Postcards

319. Album of Postcards

320. Post card Album (more than 300

Cards)

321. Post Card Album (Figure on front)

322. Post Card Album

323. Post Card Album (blue)

324. post Card Album (Brown/floral)

325. Early tinted Postcards of Germany

326. Post Card Album (Blue gilt)

327. Post Cards (Many Irish)

328. Post Cards (Red cover)

329. Lot Archaeology Books incl. The

Stone Circles

330. Lot Archaeology Books incl. Waddell

– The Prehistoric Archaeology of

Ireland

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331. Lot of Archaeology Books incl. Bahn

– Archaeology

332. Mythology Books incl. World

Mythology

333. Mythology incl. Richard Cavendish

Mythology

334. Neolithic incl. Inside the Neolithic

Mind

335. Sidney Heath – The Romance of

Symbolism + Birch – Egyptian Texts

336. Donaldson – Varronianus

337. Character of The Royal Martyr King

Charles 1

338. The Graphic Newspaper – January to

June 1887

339. The Will + The Way 1906 – 1956 ,

The Beit Trust

340. The River Gods – Michael Scott +

other Irish interest Books

341. A History of Writing

342. 2 Books – The Splendour of Lascaux +

return to Chauvet Cave

343. Journey Through the Ice Age + 5

others

344. Irish International Exhibition 1907

Catalogue + 2 Reports – Population

Problems 1948 – 1954 + flour + bread

Committee 1956

345. Box Archaeology + other Books

346. Lot Mixed Books

347. Edward Eves Rolls Royce + other Car

Books

348. Box Mixed Books

349. Box Mixed Books

350. Box Mixed Books

351. Plays + Play Scripts

352. Mixed Pamphlets Books

353. Irish Interest Books

354. Lot Law Books

355. Shakespeare Books

356. Lot English Literature

357. Language Books

358. language Books

359. Language Books

360. Journals of Indo-European Studies

361. 8 Vols. Harmsworth History of the

World

362. Celtic Interest Books incl. The Celtic

Consciousness – Robert O’Driscoll

363. Celtic Interest incl. The Celtic World –

Miranda J. Green etc

364. Celtic Interest incl. Bompiani – The

Celts

365. Box Lot Celtic Interest incl. The

Goddess of the Stones by George

Terence Meaden etc

366. 4 Vols Boxed Set – The Egyptians,

The Hittites, The Babylonians + The

Persians

367. Egypt Interest Books incl. 2 Vols.

Osiris and The Egyptian Resurrection

by Wallis Budge etc

368. Egypt Interest Books incl. Ancient

Egypt – David P. Silverman etc

369. Egypt Interest Books incl. Egypt by

Joyce Tyldesley etc

370. Astronomy Books incl. Hutchinson’s

Splendour of the Heavens, Cashford –

The Moon Myth + Image etc

371. Science Books incl. The Scientific

Apparatus of Nicholas Callan

372. Sean MacBride – A message to the

Irish People + Sheridan by Lewis

Gibbs

373. Horse – Hoeing Husbandry by Jethro

Tull 1829

374. The Code of Agriculture by Sir John

Sinclair 1832

375. James Connolly Labour in Irish

History + The Reconquest of Ireland

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376. Encyclopaedia of Indo-European

Culture by Mallory + Adams

377. Box of Greeting Cards

378. Box of Greeting Cards

379. Assorted box of Journals

380. Lot Historical Books incl. The Court

of Louis X111 by Patmore etc

381. Historical Books incl. Walsh – The

Thirteenth greatest of Centuries etc

382. Historical Books incl. Omar – England

before the Norman Conquest etc

383. 2 x 2 Vols. History of Mankind +

trends in Linguistics

384. Leather writing case

385. 2 Shelves of Mixed Books incl. The

Collegians – Griffin, Canon Sheehan,

Kickham – Knocknagow, McManus –

Stand + Give Challenge etc etc ( 2

shelves)

SHORT BREAK

386. Illustrated Guide to Ireland circa 1890

387. Conversion of the Irish Bishops by

Maziere Brady 1866

388. Russell – The State of Ireland 1868

389. Vol. 1 Hall – Tour Through Ireland

1813

390. Wilhelm Des 111 - (1689)

391. Ireland V Scotland Rugby Programme

1929

392. Burne – The Handbook of Folklore

1914

393. Discovery of the Tomb of Ollamh

Fodhla by Conwell 1873

394. Paul Walsh – Irish Men of Learning +

The O’Cleirigh Family of Tir Conaill

(2)

395. The Life of William 111 illustrated

with divers cuts, medals etc 1703

396. Inniskilling Album of Photos + 2

Journals of The Royal Inniskilling

Fusiliers

397. A Speech delivered in the castle

Chamber at Dublin – November 1622

censuring officers who refused to take

the oath of Supremacie by James

Bishop of Meath 1631

398. An accurate report of the Speech of the

Right Hon. John Foster (1798)

399. Observations on Church Reform by

Dr. Dickinson –Bishop of Meath

(1833)

400. Beaufort – A short account of the

Doctrine and Practices of the Church

of Rome (William Watson 1788)

401. Stopford Archdeacon of Meath – A

report of the state of Elementary

Schools in the Diocese (1844)

402. 6 Slane Castle Concert Tickets – The

Glass Spider Tour 1987 x 1 Queen

Ticket

403. The Roll of the House of Lacy by De

Lacy –Bellingari (signed)

404. The Schools & Scholars of Breiffne by

Philip O’Connell 1942

405. O’Connell – The Diocese of Kilmore –

Its History and Antiquities (1937)

406. Evil Eye in the Western Highlands by

Maclagan (1st Ed 1902)

407. McAdam – System of Road Making

(1823)

408. Ancient Names by Dyer (1805)

409. Book with Drawings from Lissadell

House on first page

410. Gentleman Farmer by Home (1802)

411. 50 years among Shorthorns by Robert

Bruce (1907)

412. Ration Book, Coldwells Tables

Irish/British Currency, Identity Card

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and Centenary of the Melrose tea

house (4)

413. Proceedings against Dame Alice

Kyteler (1843)

414. Weld – Illustration of the Scenery of

Killarney and the surrounding Country

(1807)

415. Kells Interest books incl. The Story of

Kells and “It commenced with two …”

416. Sales Catalogues incl. Balrath Bury,

Tisdall Charlesfort etc

417. Encyclopaedia of Needlework by

Dillmont

418. Rev. Paul O’Brien Irish Grammar

1809

419. History of the Dublin Bakers by John

Swift

420. Diplomats in Dublin by Kees Van

Hoek signed 1943

421. Registrum De Kilmainham by Charles

McNeill

422. Club House Golf Links, Kells, Co.

Meath + Golf Links Bettystown

423. John Sweetman Nationality Papers +

Others

424. Sean Duffy – Medieval Dublin in 6

Vols.

425. Dublin Interest Books incl. Douglas

Bennett Encyclopaedia of Dublin,

Desmond Guinness – Portrait of

Dublin etc

426. Dublin Interest Books incl. James

Collins – Life in Old Dublin, 1908

Handbook to the Dublin District etc

427. Dublin Interest Books incl. Land and

Learning by R. B. McDowell.

Handbook Dublin civic week 1927 etc

428. Trinity College Books incl. History of

Trinity College 1591 – 1892 by

Maxwell etc

429. St. Patricks Cathedral Books and

Pamphlets

430. Collection of Brian O’Higgins

designed cards + booklets (Bought at

J. Nulty, Newmarket Street, Kells)

431. Glimpses of an Irish Felon’s prison life

by Thomas J. Clarke – introduction by

P.S. O’Hegarty 1922

432. 2 Thomas Clarke + 2 Roger Casement

+ 2 Oliver Plunkett with Brian

O’Higgins Designs

433. Collection of Brian O’Higgins Books

incl. Billy to Jack, Glen Na Mona,

Hearts of Gold

434. 5 Brinsley McNamara Books incl The

Valley of the Squinting Windows, +

O’Farrell – The Burning of Brinsley

McNamara etc

435. Collection of Westmeath Books incl.

Westmeath authors, Westmeath as

others saw it etc

436. The Great Delvin by Hannah

Fitzsimons

437. Annals of Westmeath by Woods

438. Athlone Book

439. Register of Tristernagh by

M.V.Clarke, Stephen Montressor by

The Earl of Westmeath and Westmeath

by Sir Henry Piers (3)

440. Sport and Society in Victorian Ireland,

The Case of Westmeath and The

Architectural Heritage of County

Westmeath (2)

441. Fore Publication

442. 2 Vols. The Rindoon Journal

443. Mullingar Books

444. Lot of the Parish of Delvin Magazines

etc

445. Property in the Eighteenth Century by

Paschal Larkin

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446. The Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset

Dialect 1905

447. A Hundred years a-Milling by William

Maddin Scott (Inscribed by author)

448. The Book of the Cuilleach by Gearoid

O’Crualaoch

449. Fr. Luke Wadding (2 books)

450. The Latin and Irish Lives of Ciaran

451. Gasquet – The Black Death of 1348

and 1349

452. Sir William Orpen – Stories of Old

Ireland and Myself

453. 7 Viking Books incl. The Fourth

Viking Congress

454. Lot Pamphlet Booklets incl. The

Gaelic State in the past and future

455. Stevenson – The Church Historians of

England Vol 1V - Part 1

456. The Lore of Ireland by Daithi

O’Hogain

457. Alice Stopford Green – The old Irish

World + 2 others

458. The Patriot Parliament of 1689 and

The Volunteer of 1782

459. History of the Celtic Place – Names of

Scotland by W. J. Watson

460. The Book of Magauran by McKenna

1947

461. Schliemann’s Excavations by Dr. C.

Schuchhardt 1891

462. 3 Wolfe Tone Annuals 1942, 1949 and

1955

463. Finn and his Companions by Standish

O’Grady

464. 7 Books and Pamphlets – Sheela –Na –

Gigs

465. Fasciculi Zizaniorum Thomas Netter

of Walden

466. Early Christian Ireland – Maire and

Liam De Paor

467. The Endless Web – John Dickinson &

Co Ltd 1804 – 1954 by Joan Evans

468. Archaelogy – 7 Vols (bundle)

469. Ulster N.I. – 9 Vols (bundle)

470. Geography of Ireland including

Canals, 12 Vols (bundle)

471. Dublin Interest – 12 Vols

472. Louis Cullen/Economic History – 8

Vols (bundle)

473. Archives and Bibliography -7 Vols

(bundle)

474. Irish History – 7 Vols

475. Irish Interest – 14 Vols

476. Michael Herity – Irish Passage Graves

477. Lot Hardback Vols – Arthur Young

Tour in Ireland 1776-79 2 Vols,

Charles Smith State of Waterford

1746, Edward MacLysaght - Irish Life

in the 17th century, Robert Simington –

Civil Survey of Co. Kildare, Robert

Kane – Industrial Resources of Ireland

1845, Otway Ruthven – History of

Medieval Ireland

478. A History of the Parish of Kilskyre and

Ballinlough

479. The Parish of St. Ultan – Bohermeen,

Cortown and Boyerstown

480. The Oldcastle Centenary Book

481. Box of Greeting Cards etc

482. Dunboyne, Kilbride and Clonee Book

483. The Parish of Duleek and “Over the

ditches”

484. Moynalty Parish “The Millinium

Record”

485. A History of the Parish of

Clonmellon/Killallon

486. The Book of St. Ultan

487. Lot of Irish Interest Books incl.

Twenty Years a Growing, The Last

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Invasion of Ireland and The Best from

the Bell etc

488. Meath local history pamphlets and

guide books incl. A Life by the Boyne,

The Hopeful Traveller etc

489. Meath Books incl. Seventy Years

Young, The Old House by the Boyne,

A Meath Anthology by Tom French.

Confessions of a Poacher etc

490. John McCullen 5 Vols, Outstanding in

the Field, Shoulders to the Wheel, My

dearest Annie, Jingles of the Harness,

Bill Cummins Drogheda

491. 19 Vols (mixed) Riocht Na Midhe

492. 3 Books – Bruce Dean – Who Dares to

Dream

493. O’Riordan – The Rath of Synods Tara,

Michael Slavin – The Book of Tara,

The Mound of the Hostages by Muirris

O’Sullivan and other books and

pamphlets about Tara

494. Knowth by George Eogan, 4 historical

Knowth Excavations (8 Vols)

495. Uncovering Medieval Trim and other

Trim publications

496. Navan by the Boyne and other Navan

publications

497. Collection of Meath Historical and

Interest books incl. Rathcormick by

Homan Potterton

498. Archaelogical Inventory of County

Meath and other Meath Books

499. 6 Vols Newgrange Books incl.

Newgrange by Michael O’Kelly and

Newgrange by George Coffey etc

500. Collection of Mary Lavins writings

incl. The Stories of Mary Lavin, Tales

from Bective Bridge, The Long Ago,

The House in Clewe Street, The Patriot

Son etc, etc

501. Large Collection of Meath Books and

Pamphlets incl. Whaley – The Gardens

of Ireland, Where Toll Roads Meet etc

502. Co. Meath Guides and Histories

503. A Box of the Diocese of Meath

Publications by Cogan

504. Meath G.A.A. Books

505. Royal County Meath G.A.A.

Yearbooks

506. Lord Dunsany Books incl. Up in the

Hills, While the Siren Slept, A Journey

etc (Contents of top shelf)

507. Lord Dunsany Books incl. My Ireland

Rory and Bran, A Dreamer’s Tales etc

(Contents of second shelf)

508. Lord Dunsany Books incl. Tales of

Wonder, tales of War, fifty One Tales

etc etc (Contents of third shelf)

509. Lord Dunsany Books incl. My Ireland,

Patches of Sunlight, The Blessing of

Pan (Contents of fourth shelf)

510. Jonathan Swift – selection of Books

incl. Jonathan Swift, The Brave

Desponder by Patrick Reilly, Jonathan

Swift and the Church of Ireland 1710-

1724 by Christopher J. Fauske and

other Books

511. 6 Vols Evie Hone and Irish Stained

Glass Books

512. Wedgewood International Seminar

Reports – 7 Vols

513. G.A.A. Football Programmes incl.

Meath V Kerry 1954

514. Calendar of the Gormanstown Register

by Mills & McEnery

515. The Priory of Llanthony Prima and

Secunda in Ireland 1172 – 1541 by

Arlene Hogan

516. Trim Castle – Richard Butler and 5

other Vols.

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517. Not so Much to one Side by Valentine

Farrell

518. Paul Connell – The Diocese of Meath

under Bishop John Cantwell 1830 –

66, Land and People of Meath 1750 -

1850, Fagan – Diocese of Meath in the

Eighteenth Century – 3 Vols

519. 2 Vols Martin Brennan – The Stars and

The Stones and The Boyne Valley

Vision

520. Clergy of Meath and Kildare J. B.

Leslie

521. 14 Meath drama festival Programmes

1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s

522. Census of Ireland 1871, 1951 and

Polling Districts (3 Vols)

523. Newgrange – The Late Neolithic

Beaker Period Settlement edited by

Claire O’Kelly

524. The Transactions of the Royal Irish

Academy Vol XV Antiquities 1828

525. Seventy Years Young Elizabeth

Countess of Fingall 1937

526. County Meath register of Electors

1938-1939

527. Meath County Council Book of

standing orders, Collectio Nova and

bound copies of proceedings of Meath

County Board of Health

528. Michael Regan – Ten in a Bed

529. Leabhar in Thar Eoghan by Agnes

O’Farrelly

530. Michael Farrell – The Life and Work

of an Irish Artist by David Farrell +

others

531. Irish Families by Edward MacLysaght

1957

532. Prehistoric Europe J.G.D. Clarke 1952

533. Griffiths Valuation Co. Meath. An

index of Surnames of Householders

and Tithe applotment Books 1966

534. The Civil Survey 1654 Vol V County

Meath

535. Ordance Survey letters Meath edited

by Michael Herity 2001

536. Hunting Lore by Crascredo and The

Way 1928

537. Stanislaus Lynch – Echoes of the

Hunting Horn, Hounds are Running

538. History of the Westmeath Hunt by

Edmund F. Dease 1898

539. First Edition Limited – A Fallwelle

Hunt Diary by J. Green-Harris

540. Trencher + Kennel by Charles

Simpson 1927

541. Mount and Man by M.F. McTaggart

542. 4 Moss Bros. Riding Books

543. “In my Opinion –“ Edited by Major

W.E. Lyon 1928

544. 3 Vols. The Hunting of Surtees, Mr.

Jorrocks’s Thoughts on Hunting +

Young Tom Hall, His Heartaches and

Horses – illustrated by Armour

545. Verses + Rhymes of the Meath Hunt

Reminiscences and Rhymes of the

Ward Hunt; Annals of a record season

and some pamphlets

546. The History of the Racing Calendar

and Stud Book by C. M. Prior 1926

547. Thoughts on Fox and Hare Hunting by

Peter Beckford 1810 and The Noble

Science on Fox Hunting by Radcliff

1839

548. The Chase and the Turf by Nimrod

1927

549. 5 Vols. The Horse by Duncan, The

Turf by Hislop, Horses of Britain by

Wentworth, An Assemblage of 19th C

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Horses and Carriages by Freelove and

Horse Drawn Heavy Goods Vehicles

550. Mr. Jorrocks’ Lectors by Surtees illus.

by Armour, John Jorrocks and other

Characters – 2 Vols

551. The Sport of our Ancestors ill. By

Armour 1921

552. 6 Vols illustrated by Lionel Edwards,

They’re away, Over the grass, The

Fox, Hunting Songs and Royal

Newmarket

553. 2 Vols. Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour by

Surtees (colour plates) by John Leech

and Nimrod’s condition of Hunters by

Barton (Turner Lithographs)

554. 9 Breifne Journals

555. The Heart of Breifne Journals (8)

556. The Ring Fort Annual (6)

557. 11 Manuscripts incl. Analecta

Hibernica

558. Shelf of Co. Cavan Books, History

Pamphlets and Guides to Co. Cavan 1

559. Co. Cavan 11 including Parish

Histories and Memories

560. 2 Boxes Drogheda Emigration

correspondence from USA 1893 -

1907 and Drogheda interest 1916 –

1940

561. County Louth interest Books incl. The

Story of Mellifont, Monasterboice by

MacAllister etc etc

562. A Collection of Drogheda interest

Books incl. Drogheda, Its Place in

Ireland’s History by Ted Greene

563. 9 Vols Dundalk Interest

564. A Bundle of Journals of the Old

Drogheda Society

565. Irish Ecclesiastical Records (a batch)

566. Irish Historical Studies

567. Irish Theological Quarterly + a bound

volumn

568. Excavations 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

and 2006 by Isabel Bennett

569. 32 Vols Ancient Peoples and Places

(all with dust covers)

570. The Cistercians by Geraldine Carville,

Cistercian Abbeys, 6 Vols + 3

Pamphlets in lot

571. Worlds Columbian Exposition

572. 3 Vols. Cogans – The Diocese of

Meath

573. 17 Vols Hunting and Racing Horse

interest Books including The Hunting

Gene by Robin Page + Irish Horses

and The History of Steeplechasing etc

574. 9 Vols Horse Interest Books

Racecourses of Great Britain and

Racing Calendar 1866

575. Meath Hunt item 1872

576. 22 Vols of Jack Fitzsimons Books incl.

Bungalow Bliss etc

577. Headfort Estate pocket rent book of

Kells + District

578. Conifers in the Parks and Gardens of

Ireland by the Marquess of Headfort

579. Townlands – Poor Law Union Booklet

Division, Parish + Barony Book –

Naper, Bligh, Earl of Meath

580. Headfort House and Robert Adam

581. Inventory of Silver Plate etc at

Headfort House

582. Headfort House Cards and Place Mats

583. 7 Vols Kevin Casey incl. The Sinners’

Bell etc

584. The Tourist’s Illustrated Hand Book

for Ireland with numerous engravings

1853

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585. Collection of Francis Ledwidge Books

incl. The Minstrel Boy by Hubert

Dunn

586. Co. Galway + Galway City Books incl.

Old Galway by M.D.O’Sullivan etc

587. Selection of Co. Carlow Books incl.

The Carlow Fence by Michael Conry

588. Co. Limerick interest lot incl. Gille of

Limerick by John Fleming

589. Box mixed County Books incl.

Roscommon, Longford, Laois, Clare,

Donegal, Waterford etc

590. Box of County Books of Offaly,

Leitrim, Monaghan etc

591. John McCormack interest incl. John

McCormack by Gordon Ledbetter etc

+ 4 Records

592. 4 Large Vols. German Art + 1001

Schweizer Bild

593. A Collection of Lease Documents +

Deeds

594. Box Lease + Deed Documents

595. Framed Photo of John A. Costello

596. Album Views of Meath

597. 2 Shop Book Ledgers

598. 6 Captain Bligh Estate Books

599. 3 County Meath Maps

600. 4 Photograph Albums of the Boylan

Family Hilltown House, Bellewstown,

Co. Meath

601. Facsimile – Verlay, Luzern Publishers:

THE BOOK OF KELLS – Facsimilie.

Edition of Manuscript, MS 58, in the

Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

This edition limited to 1,280 copies

worldwide. Published in 1990.

Contained in a specially created

presentation box

602. Lot of Indentures etc

603. Tin Trunk containing lease documents

etc

604. Ledwich’s Antiquities of Ireland –

Dublin 1803

605. 2 Vols. British Husbandry 1834

606. 2 Vols Scenery and Antiquities of

Ireland. Illustrated from drawings by

W. H. Bartlett

607. 2 Vols. Prescott’s Conquest of Mexico

1856

608. 2 Vols. Customs of the World

609. Macalister – Ecclesiastical Vestments

+ Text Book of European Archaelogy

(2)

610. 2 Vols The Antiquities of Ireland by

Francis Grose 1791, 1797

611. 2 Vols. Registrum Malmesburiense

Malmesbury Abbey by Brewer &

martin 1879- 80

612. 2 Vols. The Book of Silchester by

Thomson 1924

613. 4 Vols. Chips from a German

Workshop by Max Miller

614. Life of Sir Rowland Hill and History

of Penny postage by Geo. Birkbeck

Hill 1880

615. 2 Vols. Joyce – A Social History of

ancient Ireland

616. Report of the O’Connell Monument

Committee by John Canon O’Hanlon

1888

617. 3 Vols. Historians of the Church of

York and its Archbishops by Raine

618. Folklore by the Northern Counties 1

Vol by William Henderson 1879

619. 2 Vols Dictionary of Folklore

Mythology and Legend

620. Comic History of Rome by Beckett,

The Grandeur that was Rome by

J.C.Stobart, Primitive Italy and

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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

(4)

621. 2 Vols. Personal Memories

P.H.Sheridan 1888

622. Jewish Historical Society of England

A bibliographical Guide to Anglo

Jewish History by Cecil Roth

623. 2 Vols. The Prymer 1892

624. History of the Diocese of Meath by

John Healy in 2 Vols

625. 4 Vols - A Short History of the

English People by John Richard green

626. 3 Vols Cathedrals, Abbeys and

Churches of England and Wales

627. History of the Church of Ireland in 3

Vols 1933

628. Wyclif Works 1880 – 1 Vol

629. The Iliad of Homer – Earl Derby in 2

Vols

630. 2 Vols – The Stately Homes of

England by Jewitt & Hall 1877

631. 2 Vols – Elder Faiths of Ireland

Pre-Christian Traditions 1902

632. Layards Nineveh incl 2 Volumes 1850

633. 3 Vol. – The History of the Knights

Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem

1818

634. 5 Vols- The Legend of Saint Columba

by Padraic Colum 1936, The Life of

Colmcille – O’Donnell, Adomnan’s

Life of Columba, Isle of Colmcille, 3

Sorrows of Story telling – Douglas

Hyde

635. The History of St. Cuthbert by

Archbishop Eyre

636. 3 Vols M.S. Book of Common Prayer

for Ireland with letter from

Archdeacon Stopford in 1869

637. 4 Vols – The Roman Breviary for

Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter

638. Naper Loughcrew Estate Books

639. Sheridan’s Watergate Street, Navan

Account Books in bag + Firearms

Book etc

640. 2 Farm Account Books + 3 Milk pass

Books (Abbotstown ?)

641. Holmpatrick Estate Books c. 20 + A

Skerries Town Map

642. Hamilton & Holmpatrick Books etc

(under table)

643. 2 Boxes of Estate leases etc from

Holmpatrick Estate

644. Mixed lot estate Books including List

of Agencies De Ros & Caddington,

Rathnally + Collins/Nobber

645. Kerry Interest Books incl. The Kerry

Way and Listowel and its vicinity

646. Kildare interest Books incl. Maynooth

College 1795 -1995

647. Offaly interest Books incl. Stories

from a Sacred landscape

648. Wicklow interest Books, Guides and

pamphlets incl. The Landed Gentry

and Aristocracy of County Wicklow

and Wild Wicklow etc

649. 5 Vols. Cathedrals and History, St.

Pauls Cathedral 604 -2004, English

Cathedrals, Daily telegraph 1855-

2005, A Study of History by Arnold

Toynbee and The Times History of the

World

650. Top Shelf of Irish Poetry

651. 2 Shelves of English Poets and

poetical Works

652. W. B. Yeats Books incl. W. B. Yeats

Works + Days, W. B. Yeats Memoirs

etc

653. James Joyce interest Books incl.

Dubliners, Finegans Wake etc

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654. Goldsmith Works incl Vicar of

Wakefield + Goldsmith interest

Church Year Book etc

655. 3 Vols London News - 1900, 1912,

1914

656. Martyrologium Romanum and 1908

Missale Praedictatorum

657. Historical Ms Commission Fourth

report 1874

658. Irish churches and Monastic Buildings

in 3 Volumes

659. Septuaginta Interpretum Vetus

Testamentum 1707 by Grabe

660. British Waders by E.C. Arnold

661. Book Kells interest 6 Vols incl. Book

of Kells – Sir Edward Sullivan

662. 6 Vols Art Interest Books incl. Maine

Jellett & Paul Henry

663. Album of Dutch Scene Photographs

664. David Wilkins – Concilla Hiberniae

(Tomus 1V)

665. Gaiety Theatre Anniversary 1896, The

Queen Royal Theatre, Longford

productions Dublin Gate Theatre, Tom

Lawlor at the Gate and The Shop Girl

Gaiety Theatre (5 Vols)

666. Antique Bible Geneva Bible 1560?

667. Psalms of David and Antique Bible

668. Nova Vulgata Bibliorum Sacrorum

669. Book of Common Prayer in England

and Irish 1832

670. 5 Vere Foster’s Drawing Copy Books

671. 1949 Jessen Quaternary Flora History

Ireland

672. The Book of Common Prayer 1743

Earl of Kilmorey

673. 1852 Bedel Old Gaelic writing Bible

674. The Ruined Abbeys of Britain by

Frederick Ross

675. 2 Vols George Bernard Shaw by

Michael Holroyd

676. The Grey Festival – Dinner given to

Earl Grey at Edinburgh 1834

677. A Stuart Sketch Book 1542 – 1746 by

Frank Wallace illustrated by Lionel

Edwards

678. Veters Monumenta Hibernorum et

Scotorum by Augustinus Theiner 1864

679. Celtic Illuminative Art by Stanford

Robinson 1908

680. 2 Vols Fishing – A.A. Luce Fishing

and Thinking and Fly Fishing in

Ireland by Thomas Hanna

681. 5 Vols. Brendan Behan Books

682. Egypt and its Monuments by Robert

Hichens + Cleopatra’s Needle by

Wallis Budge (2)

683. Early History of Ireland Ecclesiastical

by James Kenny and The Sutton Hoo

Sceptre by Michael Enright

684. 8 Vols Parnell interest incl Divine

Right? The Parnell Split in Meath

David Lawlor + 2 Vols – A History of

the Irish Parliamentary Party by F. H.

O’Donnell

685. 4 Vols – The Cabinet of Irish

Literature

686. Shelf of Northern Ireland Ulster Books

and pamphlets incl. Navan Fort

687. Another Shelf incl. The Ulster

Anthology by Patricia Craig and

Armagh interest Books

688. 48 Vols. Riocht Na Midhe – full set

1955 – 2009

689. Joyce – 3 Vols Irish Names of Places

690. 9 Vols. Classical Reference Books

691. Hitler’s Mein Kampf

692. J. D’Altons History of Drogheda – 2

Vols 1844 with an introductory

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memoir of the Dublin and Drogheda

Railway

693. 8 Vol Set of History of Ireland by E.A.

D’alton

694. 11 Vols. Daniel O’Connell incl. Daniel

O’Connell and The Story of Catholic

Emancipation

695. 4 Vols. Shane Leslie – St. Patrick’s

Purgatory, The Letters of Mrs.

Fitzherbert, The end of a Chapter and

Songs of Oriel

696. Lawrence’s Series local views framed

originally in Nulty’s , Newmarket

Street Shop, Kells

697. Brabazon Pot Pourri – Earl of Meath

and The Diaries of Mary Countess of

Meath (2 Vols)

698. Bill of Sale for Sale of Estate of John

Barnes, Co. Meath 1859

699. The High Crosses of Castledermot and

Durrow by Margaret Stokes

700. Michael Herity – Irish Passage Graves

signed by Author

701. Skyrne and the Early Normans by

Elizabeth Hickey

702. The Cistercians by Geraldine Carville

in slip case

703. Statistical Survey County Meath by

Robert Thompson 1802

704. Politics and War in Meath 1913-23 by

Oliver Coogan

705. The Boyne and the Blackwater by

W.R.Wilde (Oscar’s Father) and The

Waters of the Boyne and Blackwater

by Cyril Ellison

706. The Kingship of Tara by Edel

Breathnach (Discovery Programme)

707. Saint Patrick at Tara by professor

Glover

708. Orwen and Sabina by Anne Ahern

Getty Signed by author

709. Kells and Navan Ordnance Survey

Maps

710. Buildings of Meath by Kevin Mulligan

711. Saorstat Eireann – official handbook

712. Sinead De Valera – The Stolen Child,

The Verdant Valley and The Four

Leafed Shamrock

713. Iona - 9 Vols incl. Marian MacNeill

Iona

714. The Church and the two Nations in

Medieval Ireland by J.A.Watt

715. The Soldier’s Song – The Story of

Peadar O’Cearnaigh by Seamus De

Burca

716. The Manuscript |Materials of Ancient

Irish history by Eugene O’Curry 1878

717. The History of Land Holding in

Ireland by fisher 1877 and The

Economic History of Livestock in

Ireland by John O’Donovan

718. 8 Christine Longford Books incl

Country Places

719. Dark Days Lennox Robinson After

Easter + Noblesse Oblige by Horace

Plunkett and a short History of Irish

Parliament House by Brunskill

720. Scenes in Ireland by G. N. Wright

1834

721. Hunting Memories of many Lands by

Grattan Esmonde

722. De Annatis Hiberniae Rev.

M.A.Costello Vol 1 Ulster

723. The Way that I went by Robert Lloyd

Praeger 1939

724. 3 Vols. Terence de Vere White –

Kevin O’Higgins, The Story of Royal

Dublin Society and The Road of

Excess

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725. The Warren Commission Report and a

Memory of John F. Kennedy

726. 12 Vols High cross Books and

Pamphlets

727. When Cromwell came to Drogheda. A

Memory of 1649 by Randal

McDonnell

728. The Houses of Ireland and a View of

Ireland

729. A Guide to Irish Country Houses by

Mark Bence-Jones

730. Desmond Guinness + William Ryan –

Irish Houses and Castles

731. Christopher Fitzsimon – The Most

Beautiful Villages of Ireland

732. Valerie Pakenham – The Big House in

Ireland and The Lost Houses of Ireland

by Randal MacDonnell

733. The Gardens of Ireland by George and

Bowe and Irish Gardens by Hyams &

MacQuitty

734. Ireland’s Treasures by Harbison and

The Antiquities of Ireland by Grose

735. Dublin A Grand Tour – O’Brien &

Guinness

736. The Illustrated London News, new

York Times and United Ireland (5)

737. 2 Vols. – The Gaelic Churchman

738. Catalogue to the Collection of Lace by

Longfield and Pageant of St. Patrick

Easter 1954

739. Illustrated London news relating to the

Trial of Daniel O’Connell 1843/4

740. The Times + other Newspapers

741. 2 Irish Times 23/6/11 Coronation of

George V and visit to Ireland. 1 1959

Centenary Supplement

742. The British Gazette, Telegraph and

Mirror and an Italian Newspaper

743. Address the Bishop Nulty from Navan,

Trim + Oldcastle

744. RHYL North Wales Rail Poster

745. may Day 1971 Poster

746. Rathcarn, Kieran Well + Laytown

Races Posters

747. Proclamation by the Lord Lieutenant

and Council of Ireland 1843 for Repeal

of Act of Union

748. Poster Proclamation – Catholics of

Kells and Mr. Stopford of the

Deaconry

749. Anti Internment Posters

750. Reprieve The Murrays Posters (Garda

Reynolds Murder) - 2

751. Fine Gael posters

752. 3 Local Posters Navan incl. Anti-

Nuclear

753. Save Wood Quay and Trade Union

Poster

754. Coole Rural District Poster 1908

755. Official IRA Poster Northern Ireland

756. 3 Vols Ireland – Its Scenery and

Character -3 Vols by Hall

757. 9 Vols Fine Gael 1923-1987 by Brian

Maye, James Dillon, The Blue Shirts +

a bundle of Fine Gael Pamphlets

758. 2 Vols – Mrs. S.C. Hall – Marian 1840

759. 8 Vols Garda + R.I.C. interest incl.

The Irish Constabularies 1822-1922

760. Section of T.E. Lawrence Books

761. Another Section on T.E. Lawrence

762. Another Section T.E. Lawrence Books

763. Bottom Section T.E. Lawrence Books

764. Fianna Fail & De Valera Books incl.

The Power Game – 7 Vols

765. Shelf of Irish Interest incl. 4 Vols. Irish

Penny readings, The Voice of Ireland,

Turners Golden Visions, Studies in

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early Irish laws, Dinneen Irish English

Dictionary etc

766. Shelf Irish interest incl. The Hidden

Ireland Oriel by Duffy, BoswellLife

of Johnson 3 Vols, Man of Aran

Proceedings of the Archaelogical

Institute, Extents of Irish Monastic

Possessions 1840-41

767. 22 Vols Irish Interest Books

768. 17 Vols Irish Interest

769. Top Shelf – 20 Vols incl. History of

Ireland under the Union 1801 – 1922,

History of the Bank of Ireland, The

people of Ireland by Liam De Paor

770. Irish Art by Francoise Henry

771. The Battle of the Boyne -

D.C.Boulger

772. Beauty Spots in the South East of

Ireland with Road Map

773. Imagination and Reveries by AE

774. The Lighter Side of Irish Life by G.A.

Birmingham

775. Analecta by David Rothe

776. The Archaelogy of Ireland by R.A.S.

MacAllister

777. Orange and Green by G.A.Henry

778. Records of the Dioceses of Ardagh and

Clonmacnoise by Monahan

779. History of the Diocese of Ardagh by

McNamee 1954

780. Last Conquest of Ireland by John

Mitchel

781. Literature in Ireland ; Studies Irish and

Anglo Irish by Thomas MacDonagh

1916

782. Ireland Picturesque and Romantic by

Leitch Ritchie 1837 (with 20

engravings)

783. The Edgworth Society + 2 Edgworth

Books

784. 11 Vols. Incl. Defenders of the Ford by

Helena Concannon, The Moth & The

Star etc

785. Irish Interest incl. Daniel Maclise,

Ireland Explored etc

786. Journals of R.S.A.I. + some Dail

journals

787. The Tree 1836 -1936 (Ulster Society

for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)

788. Irish Stone Bridges by Peter O’Keeffe

+ Tom Simmington

789. Ireland – Michael MacLiammoir

790. Waterford –An Irish Art by Grehan

791. Irish Midland Studies – H. Murtagh

792. 8 Vols Ireland Scenery and Antiquities

793. Knock Shrine Books (10)

794. Figures from the Past by Etienne

Rynne, From Megaliths to metal ,Irish

Art + Architecture, Early Ireland +

Island of the setting sun (5)

795. Antiquity Journals + 2 Vols Prehistoric

Society

796. 6 Vols. St. Patrick incl. J.B. Bury,

Mulchrone, Todd, MacNeill,

Concannon + Ardill

797. Battle of the Boyne + William of

Orange incl. William of Orange G.J.

Renier, 10 Vols

798. In Search of Remarkable Trees by

Thomas Pakenham (5 Vols total)

799. Peace by ordeal – Packenham +

Soldier Sailor – Eliza Packenham (2)

800. Scramble for Africa – Thomas

Packenham

POSTCARDS

801. Tara Postcards

802. Navan Postcards

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803. Kells Postcards

804. Trim Postcards

805. Oldcastle Postcards

806. Athboy Postcards

807. Slane Postcards

808. Slane Castle

809. Laytown, Mosney + Duleek

810. Newgrange, Knowth + Dowth

811. The Boyne Valley

812. Large Box of Worldwide Postcards

813. Lot General Irish Postcards

814. Postcard views – Foreign + Irish

815. Irish Canal Postcards

816. English Canal Postcards

817. 2 Postcard Books – The Postcard

Century + Picture Postcard

818. Animal Theme Postcards

819. Irish Peatland

820. House Postcards General

821. French + German Cards

822. U.S.A. + Canada Cards

823. Cathedral Postcards

824. Postcards related to Movies + Cinema

825. Portrait Postcards

826. Postcard Holder

827. Box of Greeting Cards from Navan,

Kells + other towns

IN THE CABINET

(Lots 828 to 832)828. Old Irish Political Postcards

829. Modern Irish Political postcards

(Internment etc)

830. World War 11 Postcards (4)

831. German World War 11 (Hitler +

Swastica Post Mark)

832. Irish + other Political

833. Dublin “A” lot Postcards

834. Dublin “B” Postcards

835. Irish Interest Postcards

836. Longford Postcards

837. Tullynally Castle Co. Westmeath

838. Fore Co. Westmeath

839. Drogheda Postcards

840. Mellifont + Monasterboice Co. Louth

841. Co. Louth Postcards

842. Mellifont + Collon Co. Louth

843. Carlingford Co. Louth

844. Ardee Co. Louth

845. Cavan

846. Mullagh, Virginia, Sheelin +

Kilnacrott Co. Cavan Postcards

847. Baileborough Co. Cavan (note

superimposed Tram in Baileborough)

848. Cootehill Co. Cavan Postcards

849. Donegal Postcard

850. Wicklow Postcards

851. Cork Postcards

852. Kerry Postcards

853. O’Connell + Derrynane Postcards

854. Limerick Postcards

855. Wexford + Waterford Postcards

856. Meath House Postcards

857. Lisadell + Sligo Postcards

858. Kildare Postcard

859. Birr Co. Offaly Postcard

860. |Lot of Humerous Postcards

861. Northern Ireland Postcards

862. Fermanagh Postcards

863. Armagh Postcards

864. Antrim Postcards

865. Down Postcards

866. British + Foreign Cards

867. Mainly British Cards

THIS AUCTION IS PART ONE OF WILLIAM

BATTERSBY’S ESTATE. THE NEXT PART

WILL TAKE PLACE LATER ON IN THE

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YEAR WITH ANOTHER SPECIAL

AUCTION.

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