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 | AYLWARD, John. Letter signed to the merchant John Aylward in London concerning his mercantile interests in Sicily from his business partners Chamberlain, Slocomb & Lee. Messina [Sicily], 15 September 1698 (Irish Jacobite merchant trading with Sicily) Letter signed, ink on paper, in English. Folio. Written on one page with the integral address-panel on the verso; folded for posting; traces of wafer seal; small filing holes and edge wear not affecting sense; lightly toned, strong, legible hand in fine condition. This mercantile letter dated 15 September 1698… €885.00 |
 | BECKETT, Samuel. Autograph Letter Signed from Beckett to Deryk [Mendel] (1920-2013), a British ballet dancer, choreographer, actor and director, and friend of Beckett. “Prepare yourself for a handkerchief in the desert. Sorry. Indispensable. Shall explain” Headed “Ussy-sur-Marne / 29.9.56.” One page, quarto, written in blue ink on thin laid paper. Beckett wrote the short play Act Without Words I in 1956 for Mendel and the dancer first performed the mime at the Royal… €3,500.00 |
 | BEDELL, William. Leabhuir na Seintiomna ar na ttarruing go Gaidhlg tre churam agus dhuthracht an Doctuir Uilliam Bedel (EDITIO PRINCEPS IN IRISH) … The Books of the Old Testament translated into Irish by the care and diligence of Doctor William Bedel, Late Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland, for the publick good of that Nation. London: 1685. Quarto. pp. [2], 1142, [2]. Printed in double columns. Title enclosed by plain double rule border;… €12,500.00 |
 | CARROLL, Charles of Carrollton [Signer of the Declaration of Independence] An important late letter from Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic Signer of the American Declaration of Independence and, by 1822, the last surviving Signer, a national symbol of the Revolutionary generation. Three pages quarto, with integral address leaf; docketing and calculations. Dated, 15 April 1822. Written in a neat, flowing forward-slanting hand, attractively mounted. In very good condition. Autograph Letter Signed to Mr. William Gibbons, an estate manager, discussing accounts, repairs, wheat threshing machinery, labour, and health at the manor. Written… €4,750.00 |
 | CHARLES I, KING OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND & IRELAND. Copies of 2 letters from King Charles I to Lord Middleton, August and September, 1646. Manuscript. Large folio. Paris, Scots College, 3 November 1735. Three pages, written in a neat 18th-century hand in brown ink. Original fold marks, minor staining and slight creasing consistent with age, but in very good condition. Copies of 2 letters from King Charles I to Lord Middleton, Aug. and Sept… €1,850.00 |
 | COLLINS, Michael A quarto page of typescript, undated, possibly a carbon copy, addressed to Diarmuid O’Hegarty, Secretariat, listing two ‘Departments or Offices to be Taken Over’, viz. the Civil Service Commission in Stephen’s Green and the Stationery Office in Marlborough St. Signed with initials MÓC in Collins’ hand. COLLINS, Michael A quarto page of typescript, undated, possibly a carbon copy, addressed to Diarmuid O’Hegarty, Secretariat, listing two ‘Departments or Offices to be Taken Over’, viz. the Civil Service Commission in Stephen’s Green and the Stationery Office in Marlborough St. Signed with initials MÓC in Collins’ hand. Part of… €1,950.00 |
 | COLLINS, Michael. Typed Letter Signed in Irish (“Mícheál Ó Coileáin”) as Minister for Finance of Dáil Éireann, concerning the National Loan. Department of Finance, Mansion House, Dublin, 21 July 1920. One page, quarto, on official bilingual Dáil Éireann / Department of Finance letterhead, dated 21 July 1920, signed in ink “Mícheál Ó Coileáin” as Aire Airgid (Minister for Finance). Addressed to Mr J. P. Cooney, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Collins formally acknowledges receipt of £255 5s. sterling, requests the relevant application… €5,750.00 |
 | COLLINS, Michael. Who fired the fatal shot? (Rare letter) A carbon copy of a typed letter to an unnamed recipient (‘Sir’), from ‘J. McD. Capt. / Ex. I.O.F.S.A. (1922-1924) / Cork Command’, asking his correspondent ‘If the fatal shot fired at Beal-na-Bláth was not your doing, was it fired by one Michael Crowley? It is a well known fact… €695.00 |
 | COLUM, Padraic. Arthur Griffith (Inscribed by Mulcahy and Colum with letter from Richard Mulcahy) Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1959. First edition. Octavo. pp. xvi, 400. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Signed by the author. Presentation copy inscribed by Richard Mulcahy (Risteárd Ua Maolchatha) to Alice Lyons: “To Alice, 4.12.59, a hot cake, from the oven.” Loosely inserted is a two-page autograph letter signed from… €1,500.00 |
 | CROMORE HOUSE VALUATION. Inventory & Valuation of Furniture, Linen, Silver, Sheffield Plate, Plated Items, Ornamental Items, Books, Decorative China, Pictures, Jewellery, Sporting and Household Equipment at Cromore, Portstewart, Co. Londonderry. The property of R.A.C. Montagu Esq., J.P. Taken for the purposes of Insurance. London: Waring & Gillow Ltd., October 1913 – January 1914. Folio. pp. 81. Typed on one side only. Bound in contemporary full straight-grained green morocco, title lettered in gilt on upper cover. All edges gilt. Gillows Valuers… €1,650.00 |
 | DESPARD, Col. Edward Marcus. Autograph Letter Signed to William Wickham, Under Secretary of State at the Home Office, enquiring about allowances granted to state prisoners. Also a memorandum on the subject by the Duke of Portland, initialled by William Pitt. Written from Coldbaths Fields Prison, 15th May, 1799. FOR THE HONOUR OF BRITISH CIVILIZATION A LETTER FROM PRISON SOME YEARS BEFORE HIS HANGING Two pages folio and quarto, address leaf, seal and dockets. With an engraved portrait of Col. Despard published by Jas. Parry. Edward Marcus Despard (1751 – 21 February 1803), an Irish officer in the service of… €3,650.00 |
 | GOGARTY, Oliver. Wild Apples. (Limited to 50 Copies, Signed presentation copy from the author to Harry Clarke) Dublin: Cuala Press, 1928. First edition. pp. 33. Quarter cream cloth on grey paper boards, printed paper title along spine, with minute loss. Presentation copy, inscribed “To my friend, the Artist, Harry Clarke” and dated (22.v.’28) by the author on front free endpaper. With letter loosely inserted to Harry Clarke… €4,350.00 |
 | Heaney, Seamus: Columcille the scribe. A translation of a late eleventh or early twelfth century Irish poem. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES ON VELLUM. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press for the Royal Irish Academy, 2004. Portfolio. Limited to 150 copies, signed by Seamus Heaney. Columcille the scribe is a version by Seamus Heaney of an early Irish poem beginning ‘Sgith mo crob on scribhinn’. Calligraphy on vellum by Tim O’Neill each written out in a… €2,850.00 |
 | HEANEY, Seamus. Autograph Letter Signed to “Andy & Michele”. Dated 7 April 1998. Mentioning Beowulf, Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and James Joyce. Two pages quarto (300 x 210mm). Written in black ink on personal headed paper: 191 Strand Road, Dublin 4, Ireland. Signed “Seamus”. Folded as posted. Fine condition overall, with expected fold lines and light creasing from handling. A warm, highly personal and unpublished autograph letter by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney… €3,500.00 |
 | HENDRICK, Charles. Autograph Receipted Trade Bill for Woollen Drapery. Dublin: Woollen Drapers at the Sun, in High Street, 5 July 1759 (receipted 29 May 1763). Printed engraved trade bill, completed in manuscript and bearing an attractive engraved trade device depicting the radiant sun, the emblem of the business. Addressed to Edmund Hogan Esq., the account details the purchase of… €265.00 |
 | ILLUMINATED LEAF – BOOK OF CONDUCT FOR SERVANTS. Northern France or Flanders, c.1475-1525. A handsome illuminated vellum leaf from a late-medieval courtesy book, written in French in a fine bâtarde hand. The recto is enriched with a large miniature (c140 x 190mm.) framed glazed, showing a noble household at table with richly costumed attendants, a knight in armour, and a crowned sovereign. Flames… €2,950.00 |
 | IRISH LAND IMPROVEMENT – Irish Land Improvement Acts (1). An Act for the improvement of landed property in Ireland. 10 Vict.cap.32. [1847]. Demy octavo. pp. 29, [1]. Title from caption. Imprint from colophon. Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. COPAC with 1 location only. (2). Act to Facilitate the Improvement of Landed Property in… €1,250.00 |
 | IRISH TOPOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. A remarkable album of 108 original topographical drawings in a bespoke volume of 29 folios, with all but three of the leaves at the back carrying one or two drawings; these have been stuck to each page or to a fly-sheet attached to the page, executed during an extended tour of Ireland in 1840. Forming an unpublished and highly important visual record of the country immediately prior to the Great Famine. Oblong quarto. Half purple morocco on green linen boards, titled in gilt on matching morocco label to upper cover ‘SKETCHES / IN IRELAND / 1840’. The artist, likely connected to the Bourke family… €2,750.00 |
 | MULLAN OF BELFAST. Inventory of rare books relating to America mainly from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with extensive footnotes, possibly kept as a reference work. Titled in pencil ‘American Revolution & War of 1812.’ In alphabetical order. Cut and pasted into a ruled small quarto volume for William Mullan and Sons, Booksellers, 12 Donegall Place, Belfast. Numerous manuscript insertions, entries and notes. Some loosely inserted. Over 400 titles. In very good condition. A rare survival… €475.00 |
 | Ó GLAISNE, Risteard. Irish-language editor and journalist. A folder containing copies of various letters to him, other documents and ephemera possibly of interest to scholars of modern literature in Irish, including the novelist Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Séan Ó Tuama, Brendan Glacken, the poet Seán Ó Ríordáin and others. There are several news cuttings concerning Ó Cadhain (writer of Cré na Cille), and a copy of his controversial article ‘Do na Fíréin’; a copy of the catalogue for a Seán Ó Riordáin exhibition, a cutting of an article about Ó Ríordáin by Muiris Mac Conghail, copies of about six… €350.00 |
 | O’CONNELL, Daniel: An Original Dated Signature ‘Daniel O’Connell’, dated May 28th 1838, paired with a Modern Print of O’Connell titled The Champion of Liberty Autographed mounted display470 x 320mm with engraving of O’Connell 285 x 20mm. His original signature is written on a London postal label dated May 28th,1838. During that year O’Connell rejected the call of the Protestant tenant-righter William Sharman Crawford for the complete elimination of the Church of Ireland levy. In… €725.00 |
 | O’CONNELL, Daniel. A fine and desirable autograph letter panel from Ireland’s great national leader. 355mm x 280mm. Dublin, 27–29 January 1839. Mounted and handsomely presented with a coloured portrait of O’Connell. Oblong octavo folded letter, addressed in O’Connell’s hand to Sebastian C. Gardey Esq., 19 Cavan Street, French [sic] London. Red circular crowned FREE date stamps, 27 JA 27 1839 and 29 JA 29… €750.00 |
 | O’CASEY, Sean. O’CASEY, Sean. An interesting signed letter by Sean O’Casey, with his thoughts on Shakespeare O’CASEY ON SHAKESPEARE One page small folio, dated 5 September, 1956, on Flat 3, 40 Trumlands Road, St. Marychurch, Torquay, Devon, headed paper. to Mr. George Elliott Sweet. Important and interesting letter in which O’Casey agrees to read a book Sweet has sent him “Shakespeare, the Mystery’. In the opening… €875.00 |
 | O’CONNOR, Rory. A document signed by Rory O’Connor, and probably in his hand, 2pp, mostly in green ink, listing a series of pamphlets, documents and photographs in a collection or archive, mostly ticked off, including ‘File containing extracts from An tÓglach etc., Pamphlet on Burning of Cork, do. Limerick murders, Fr. Albert’s letter to De Valera’, etc. Presumably a list made during some movement of headquarters. Roderick O’Connor (1883-1922) engineer and Irish republican who was Director of Engineering for the IRA in the Irish War of Independence. Born in Dublin, he was… €1,250.00 |
 | O’MEARA, Barry Edward. Autograph Letter Signed, with Quotation from Napoleon. Autograph Letter Signed, one page, small quarto, Montague Square, London, Monday, 3 March [c.1827], addressed to “My Dear Sir” (Mr. Roy of Great Alie Street, Bloomsbury). O’Meara discusses the placement of a passage in a forthcoming publication, advising that it should appear “either at the beginning or the ending of… €2,250.00 |
 | ROOSEVELT, Franklin D: Original typed Letter during the Great Depression and what he feels are the qualities and values it will take to defeat it. Written to Dr. J.R. Gregy, Educator, he states: I believe that in the present worldwide economic derangement an attitude that reflects resolution, determination, grit, vigor, tenacity and stability, briefly common sense, will prove beneficial and ultimately successful. Business requires the nudge of encouragement, and I am certain that this International… €1,500.00 |
 | ROYAL ARTILLERY. Carson Royal Artillery account Navan, County Meath. Two account books bound in a leather cover with flap and gilt title to front. Tipped in is a gunnery certificate on vellum. With details of promotion; Marriage at Howth County Dublin, in 1887; Certificate of education; Afghan campaign medals and battles; Daughter born at Sutton, County Dublin, and next of kin – a sister who moved from Dublin to New Zealand. Also some newspaper… €475.00 |
 | STACK, Austin St. Ives. Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England. By Robert Louis Stevenson. (Austin Stack’s copy with a Biran O’Higgins Christmas card to Kay Buckley, addressed to his wife) London: William Heinemann, 1919. 12mo. pp. viii, 383. Green cloth, gilt decorated spine. Inscribed on front fly-leaf ‘A. de Staic / Cill Maighneann, 19 Samhain 1923’. Loosely inserted is a colourful Brian O’Higgins Christmas card with a manuscript note from ‘Una Bean A. de Staic’, to ‘Caitlin’ [Kay Buckley], from… €575.00 |
 | STEWART, Robert. Autograph letter signed from Robert Stewart to Dr. Frazer. STEWART, Robert. Autograph letter signed from Robert Stewart to Dr. Frazer. Two pages octavo written on both sides. In this letter he discusses books, autograph letters and relics: “P.S. I dare say that of Balfe’s rival Rooke, composed of “Amilie and the Love test in 1837 – a true genius… €375.00 |
 | TIPPERARY. General Rental of Artizans’ Dwellings and Account of the Property of the Cashel Union, Rental and Account of the Property of the Cashel Union, March, 1932 – March, 1940. Folio. pp. 200. Bound in half green morocco. Listed are the Streets, Tenants, Date when Tenant entered into Occupation; Rent, Arrears, Recoverable Arrears; Irrecoverable Amounts, etc. Together with: Rental and Account of the Property of the Cashel Union, September, 1931 – March, 1950. Small folio. pp. 172. Bound in half… €1,250.00 |
 | TRAYNOR, Oscar. AIKEN, Frank. & OTHERS. Invitation Card with Interesting Signatures. The invitation was issued Miss Dolan to attend a ceremony at Áras An Uachtaráin for the presentation of the Red Cross Perpetual Trophy. Reception in the grounds of Áras An Uachtaráin, 24th, July, 1943, at 4pm. Cream card, four pages octavo, folded, printed in green. Eire harp embossed on upper cover. Signed by Oscar Traynor, Daniel McKenna, Frank Aiken, Proinnsias Ó Fathaigh, E Devlin, Thomas Bouchier Hayes, Mrs Dunphy?, Martin O’Sullivan, Lord Mayor, etc. In very good condition. In 1943 was the first time the Trophy was presented. The trophy designed by Percy Oswald Reeves (1870-1967) who was an enameller, metalwork and designer who in 1943 had retired after decades teaching at the Metropolitan School of Art. According to newspaper reports 1500 people attended… €475.00 |