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Wed 4th December 2024 from 10am
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Agatha Christie - The Body in the Library, published by The Crime Club, London, 1942. First UK Edition, First Printing. Pp. 160. A true first edition, first printing (first impression) with [1942] and no statement of reprint. Orange cloth, light fading to spine ends, shadow of dust jacket text on boards, in original dust jacket which is not price-clipped (7s 6d net), A scarce wartime title, and rare in the original jacket.
Wed 13th November 2024 from 10am
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Andrew Smith. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. 1838. 1st. Folio. With 20 coloured plates of birds, snakes, rhinos, stoats etc. Rare
Wed 16th October 2024 from 10am
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Seamus Heaney; Door into the Dark, signed first edition, first print HB, Oxford University Press 1969
Wed 25th September 2024 from 10am
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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
Wed 21st August 2024 from 10am
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Wed 17th July 2024 from 10am
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Wed 26th June 2024 from 10am
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Birds of Ireland, Paintings by Richard Dunscombe Parker (circa 1805 – 81). Oblong folio, beautiful binding, leather spine, in a slipcase, Number 3 of limited edition of 250, signed by the editor and the designer. Contains 40 coloured plates. Bound by Sydney Aiken, Co. Down. Signed by Martyn Anglesea, Ulster Museum, also signed by the Designer Wendy Dunbar of Blackstaff Press. Paper border of one page with water stain.
Wed 29th May 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
France 1853/72-2009 Housed in Fifteen De Luxe Lindner Albums 95% complete fine unmounted mint, includes complete Front De L'Est 1942.
Wed 1st May 2024 from 6:30pm
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Rose Barton. Familiar London. 1904. 1st. edit. 61 fine colour plates by Tipperary born Barton. Fine book plate of Samuel Courtauld, millionaire art collector and founder of The Courtauld Institute of Art. Signed & inscribed by Rose Barton, presumably to Courtauld , a friend and patron.
Wed 17th April 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Good Original Guinness Outdoor Light Up Pub Sign (working), c.35in x 12in
Wed 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)
Wed 21st February 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Bingley, W. Animal Biography … Lives, Manners & Economy of Animal Creation. 1803, 3 vols., large folding plate. Beautiful copy in half yellow morocco, bookplate of John Pollock of Mountainstown near Navan, the lawyer who prosecuted the United Irishmen in 1798 and became a corrupt judge
Wed 24th January 2024 from 10am
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Ends Thu 4th January 2024 from 6pm
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W. B. Yeats Poems 1899-1905. London 1906. 1st. Original decorative blue cloth. Inscribed by Yeats on end paper "Miss Davigh from your friend the writer" Book plate of Dorothy M. Gladstone. Yeats has also written 5 lines in pencil of page 9 in relation to his work "The Shadowy Waters".
Wed 6th December 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
2nd Period Belleek Flower Pot (1891-1926), with scalloped top, floral detail on a swirling body and all raised the three legs. c.10.5in tall, 9.5in diameter
Wed 29th November 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Wed 8th November 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
The History, Topography and Antiquities of the County and City of Waterford by Rev. R. H. Ryland. With an account of the present state of the peasantry of that part of the South of Ireland. London: Murray, 1824. large folding coloured map of Waterford plus plates, some folding. lovely copy in original boards on quarter cloth
Wed 11th October 2023 from 10am
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Wed 13th September 2023 from 10am
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Wed 16th August 2023 from 10am
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