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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
Original "Power's Whiskey" Cast Metal Advertising Sign, c.54in x 24in
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
John G. Millais. British Deer and Their Horns. 1897. 1st. Folio. Colour frontispiece and 185 illustrations. Original pictorial cloth. Scarce work
24th January 2024 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Ends 4th January 2024 from 6pm
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
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".
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
29th November 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
8th November 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
An Outstanding collection of approx. 350 Irish antiquarian postcards, relating to Kilkenny City & County, Waterford City & County and some rare Easter Rising contemporary cards, all in excellent condition in one album
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
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
10th May 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
John Banville – Long Lankin, Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1970. Exceptional scarce proof edition of Long Lankin the author’s first book. In original orange wraps bright and unfaded clean, tight, and unmarked with no foxing, writing, creasing. A superb collectors copy. SIGNED by John Banville to the title page. One of approximately 50 copies. The author confirmed to the present owner that he does not have a copy.
19th April 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
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.
22nd March 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
15th February 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
18th January 2023 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
14th December 2022 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
Hand written (3 pages) letter from Daniel O'Connell,SIGNED, dated Clonmel 21st July 1830 to John Redmond Esq of Rathmines, Dublin; Top of front page " Private and most confidential"
23rd November 2022 from 10am
Co Offaly, PSRA Licence 003670
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