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Art and Architecture of Ireland. Medieval Art and Architecture 400 – 1600; Painting 1600-1900; Sculpture 1600-2000; Architecture 1600-2000 and Twentieth Century. Yale University Press. authoritative and fully illustrated exploring all aspects from high crosses, illuminated manuscripts to Georgian houses and Modernist churches, from tapestries and sculptures to oil paintings, photographs and video art. A monumental project. Large format set of five volumes. Near fine in djs. Seldom appears on the market
16th October 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Ancient Funerall Monuments Within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands adiacent; with the dissolved Monasteries therein contained; their founders, and what eminent persons have beene in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certaine of the bloud. Roiall, the nobilitie, and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations with other matters mentioned in the insuing title. John Weever. 1631. London: Thomas Harper. Folio. Very Rare. Original full calf binding.
25th September 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
MBE (OBE): UK WW1. An excellent condition 5th class Member's (M.B.E.) 1st type breast badge with English silver hallmarks on reverse, for London, 1917 (gothic letter 'B'). This is an item of insignia struck in the very first year of the award (the Order of the British Empire was only instituted in 1917), and which would have been used on awards in 1917 and 1918. The insignia is complete with: - Plush leatherette hinged case of issue. The inside silk panel with King's Crown & 'Garrad & Co Ltd' logo, and with title of award in gilt tooling on outer lid - The silk medal riband retaining its original mounting brooch, this latter with hinged pin & clasp fittings as issued All such awards during the Great War, regardless of whether military or civilian, had the same general issue insignia, ribands and cases of issue up to December 1918. It was only then - more than a month after the 'Armistice', that the statutes were amended with the creation of separate Military and Civil divisions, with insignia issued thereafter having either military or civil ribands
21st August 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
17th July 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
26th June 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Eugene 0'Curry. Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History. Dublin 1861. With 26 facsimile manuscript tinted litho plates in Irish & Latin. Rare copy with one brand Irish College, Salamanca. Fine half calf
29th May 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
French Polynesia 1958/60 to 1982 Housed in De Luxe Lindner Album 100% complete fine unmounted mint
1st May 2024 from 6:30pm
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Thomas Kinsella. The Tain – Translated by Kinsella from the Irish Tain Bo Cuailnge. 1969. Dolmen Press, Dublin. Limited edition (1000) Illustrated by Louis Le Brocquy. Original signatures of Thomas Kinsella and Louis Le Brocquy on limitation page (tipped in). Fine pictorial dust jacket in the original decorative slip case. Rare.
17th April 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Georgian Cast Iron Garden Seat with elaborate cast decoration, c.5ft long
20th March 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
W. B. Yeats. Collected Works of William Butler Yeats in Verse and Prose. 1908. Shakespeare Head Press. 8 volumes. First major collection of works of Yeats bound in contemporary quarter vellum, gilt titles on spines & covers. With tipped in note signed by Yeats on printed paper "To Time and Time's Old daughter Truth. W.B.Yeats". This set is the scarcest and most renowned of the Poet's works, enhanced by inscribed note and signature. Yeats's portrait appears as the frontispiece on four of the volumes. (8)
21st February 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
The Beckett Country by Eoin O'Brien SIGNED by Samuel Beckett. Limited edition No. 43 of 250. The Beckett Country. Samuel Beckett’s Ireland. Photography by David H. Davison, Foreword by James Knowlson. Illustrations by Robert Ballagh and Design by Ted and Ursula O’Brien. Dublin: The Black Cat Press, 1986. Oblong 4to, finely bound in full grey goatskin, gilt, watered silk endleaves and endpapers, edges gilt, in matching watered silk and goatskin slip-case.
24th January 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Ends 4th January 2024 from 6pm
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Dennis Wheatley - THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, inscribed by the author, published by Hutchinson & Co Ltd, 1934. First UK Edition, First Printing. 328pp. With 46 pages of advertisements at the rear, beginning with Wheatley’s The Forbidden Territory and ending with The Dog Encyclopedia. With no date on the title page or copyright page as called for therefore indicating a true first printing, original bright red boards with lettering in black to front panel and spine. The map style end-papers present. Professional repair to the title page which suffered from a scrape, rubbing, not ex-library. Signed by Dennis Wheatley to the title page [ With every good wish from Dennis Wheatley] Uncommon especially as a first and especially so when signed. FASCIMILE jacket supplied.
6th December 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
19th Century Flemish Oil on Panel Rural Landscape Painting with a fine quality carved and gilded frame. Overall size, c.22.5in x 20in, visible panel c.14.5in x 12in
29th November 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
8th November 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Swifts's Works - The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, accurately revised in six volumes, adorned with copper-plates with some account of the author's life and notes historical and explanatory by John Hawkesworth. London 1755. Each vol in 2 parts with titles. Vol VII being an additional vol again in 2 parts. London 1764. (7); along with Swift's Letters - Letters written by the late Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin and several of his friends from the year 1703 to 1740. Published from the originals with notes explanatory and historical by John Hawkesworth. London: 1766 (4) (11 vols in fine original gilt calf binding). Rare 4to edition
11th October 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
13th September 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
16th August 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
5th July 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
7th June 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
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