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Rev. James Kirkpatrick.. An Historical Essay on the Loyalty of Presbyterians in Great Britain and Ireland from The Reformation to the Present Year. Belfast 1713. 1st. Quarto. Fine contemporary calf. Rare

Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Rare & Signed First Editions, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Ephemera, Etc.

29th May 2024 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

France 1853/72-2009 Housed in Fifteen De Luxe Lindner Albums 95% complete fine unmounted mint, includes complete Front De L'Est 1942.

Specialist Sale of Postage Stamps (Ireland, France, Monaco etc.), Irish Postal History, Irish and World Postcards, First Day Covers and also Coins.

1st May 2024 from 6:30pm

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

Seamus Heaney. Eleven Poems. 1965. Published by Festival Publications, Belfast. Heaney's first book, this being the first edition , third impression. Loosely inserted signed note "Seamus Heaney - Manchester 1973" Housed in a custom made solander box. Rare in such pristine condition

Irish Interest to include Signed, First & Rare Editions - Heaney, Kinsella etc., Antiquarian Books, Maps, Literature & Poetry, GAA & Sport, Local Histories, Irish Language & Ephemera.

17th April 2024 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

Good Original Guinness Outdoor Light Up Pub Sign (working), c.35in x 12in

Antiques, Collectibles & Rarities - to Include Original Irish Pub, Shop, Garage & Pharmacy Advertising Signs & Paraphernalia, Antiques & Rarities, etc. from two Portumna, Co. Galway Businesses

20th March 2024 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

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)

c.640 Lots to include Signed, First & Rare Editions including WB Yeats, Antiquarian Books, Maps, Broadsides, Literature & Poetry, GAA & Sport, Local Histories, Irish Language, Postcards & Ephemera.

21st February 2024 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

Jack B Yeats: Elkin Matthews, London, [1901]. Chap Book, foolscap octavo, in original printed brown wrappers, hand-coloured. Matthews published three such miniature plays of Yeats'of which James Flaunty was the most successful.

c.670 Lots to include a Collection of Signed First & Rare Editions including a Very Fine Signed Special Edition of The Beckett Country, Fine Antiquarian Books, Maps, Broadsides, Modern Literature etc.

24th January 2024 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

Timed Auction - Antiquarian Books, Irish & World Literature and Poetry, Maps, Fine Bindings, Local Histories, Ephemera, Postage Stamps, Postcards etc.

Ends 4th January 2024 from 6pm

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Timed

John B. Keane; Sharon’s Grave, signed & dedicated first edition, first print HB, Progress House 1960. Exceptionally scarce in this HB edition

Christmas Sale of Rare, Signed, First & Limited Editions, Antiquarian Books, Maps, Sports Programmes, Postcards, Broadsides, Ephemera etc. c.670 Lots

6th December 2023 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

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

Collectibles And Rarities - Irish Coins & Tokens, Irish & UK Fishing Reels, Rods & Paraphernalia, Antique Firearms & Edged Weapons, Paintings incl. Bingham McGuinness etc. etc.

29th November 2023 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

A Superb Collection of Rare, Signed, First & Limited Editions, Fine Antiquarian Books, Maps, Postcards, Broadsides, GAA Interest, Modern Literature, Poetry, Ephemera, Periodicals, Journals etc.

8th November 2023 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

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

c.680 Lots to Include a Collection of Signed, First & Rare Editions, Fine Antiquarian Books, Maps, Irish Postcards, Broadsides, Modern Literature, Poetry & Ephemera.

11th October 2023 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

Sale of Irish Interest Books - Antiquarian Books, Letter Signed by W B Yeats, Maps, Irish Postcards, Library of the Late Sean Marrinan (Clare/Limerick Interest).

13th September 2023 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

Collectibles and Rarities - To Include Alcock & Brown First Transatlantic Flight Plane Rib and Photographs, Paintings From St. Jarlath's College, Tuam, Irish Shop & Pub Signs & Paraphernalia Etc.

16th August 2023 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

Sale of Rare & Signed First Editions (Seamus Heaney, John B Keane etc.), Antiquarian Books, Manuscripts, Fine Bindings, Travel Guides, Maps, Irish Postcards, Ephemera.

5th July 2023 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

Sale of Rare & Signed First Editions (Oscar Wilde, W B Yeats, Seamus Heaney etc.), Antiquarian Books, Manuscripts, Fine Bindings, Travel Guides, Maps, Periodicals, Irish Postcards, Ephemera - 667 Lots

7th June 2023 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

Exceptional 19th Century Illuminated Manuscript Book Of Prayer - "Passages And History Of Divers Servants Of God writ for the edification of devout Xns" (symbol for Christians). Full calf and brass bound with clasps stamped "HM" and with a 3-leaf shamrock. 5 raised bands on spine, gilt lettering A.M.D.G. (Ad maiorem Dei gloriam) Latin motto of the Society of Jesus, an order of the Catholic Church. It means "For the greater glory of God". Silk endpapers, 66pp, 12 fully illuminated pages, 2 half illuminated pages and the remainder with 10 lines of text per page. Triple fore-edge decoration of 6-pointed stars within circles. Un-signed but "Done in the Convent of our Lady of Mercy on the Epiphany of our Lord, mdccclv" (1855). Inscription reads "Ellen Maria John Preston won at the Bazaar in aid of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy, January 19th, 1858". Also previous owners inscriptions - John Hannon P.P. Shinrone, Offaly and S.B. O'Grady. "Now it pleased God to bring back a novice to his monastery in the North Riding of Yorkshire", "Now St. Watheof has miraculously confirmed in his vocation to be a Cistercian. When the aforesaid St. Alfred had been an Lord Abbot of Rievaulx, Waltheof, sometime prior of Kirkham", etc. etc. 5in x 5.5in. Unique

Exceptional Sale of Rare & Signed First Editions (Yeats, Beckett, Kinsella etc.), Antiquarian Books, Manuscripts, Fine Bindings, Travel Guides, Maps, Posters, Periodicals, Irish Postcards, Ephemera.

10th May 2023 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

Robert Bloch – Psycho. Published by Robert Hale, 1960. First UK edition, First printing. In striking jacket. Laid in is an original photo from the 70s taken of Robert Bloch at a author book signing, this has been signed by the author Robert Bloch. Basis for the 1960 film of the same name directed by Alfred Hitchcock staring Anthony Perkins in his infamous role as Norman Bates.

Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Rare & Signed First Editions, Travel Guides, Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Postcards, Ephemera Etc.

19th April 2023 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

John Behan RHA, b.1938, Bronze Bull, signed John Behan & dated 1975. On a simple softwood base. Total weight c.4.6KG. Measures c.29cm long, c.18.5cm tall (incl. base). With original Exhibition Catalogue of John Behan's Work at the Kenny Art Gallery in September 1975 and John Behan Poet of Sculpture, with Text by Hayden Murphy, 1970.

Collectibles And Rarities - To Include Allcock & Brown Dynamo Propellor, John Behan Bronze Bull, Rare Irish Coins, Original Irish Shop & Pub Signs & Paraphernalia from and Shop/Pub in Co. Clare Etc.

22nd March 2023 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

Auction of a Collection of Irish & World Interest Books - Rare & Signed First Editions, Maps, Journals, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Postcards, Ephemera Etc.

15th February 2023 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

c.625 Lots to include a Collection of Signed First & Rare Editions, Fine Antiquarian Books, Maps, Irish Postage Stamps, Posters, Broadsides, Modern Literature, Postcards & Ephemera.

18th January 2023 from 10am

Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670

Closed

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