Sale of Art, Literature and Important Irish Historical Documents

VIEW IN IRELAND watercolour over pencil on paper <BR>17 by 25cm., 6.5 by 9.75in. <BR><b>Provenance:</b><BR> Agnew'...

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S YOUNGER SISTER LILLY MURPHY AS A CHILD, AGE EIGHT, plus two others watercolour (1); pencil drawings (2) various dimensi...

THE MOUNTAINEER signed and dated [1850] on reverse; inscribed in lower margin pencil heightened with white on tinted paper (unframed) <BR>23 b...

A HUNTSMAN AND TWO DOGS and AN OLD FARMSTEAD (A PAIR) the former signed with initials and dated [1856] lower right; the latter signed in full and date

THE SCOURGING AT THE PILLAR - SKETCH FOR THE NINTH WINDOW FOR THE LADY CHAPEL, ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, NEW YORK inscribed label on reverse wate...

ROSEMOUNT, CLONSKEAGH inscribed in another hand on reverse watercolour on paper, unframed <BR>23 by 30cm., 9 by 12in. Accompanied by a hand-ti...

VARIOUS DRAWINGS, 1864-1900 some initialled, some fully signed pencil, pen and ink, watercolour (26 in total) various dimensions <BR><b>...

DUNLUCE CASTLE, CO. ANTRIM signed lower left watercolour heightened with white <BR>27 by 19cm., 10.7 by 7.5in.

PORTRAIT OF MRS JANE O'CONNOR AND HER SON JOHN MARTIN O'CONNOR, circa 1898 oil on canvas (unframed) <BR>91 by 71cm., 36 by 28in. <B...

PORTRAIT OF ANNE FITZGERALD dated [Xmas 1887] lower left oil on panel <BR>20 by 15cm., 7.75 by 6in. Literature: Richard Pryke, Norman Garstin:...

PORTRAIT OF A MAN signed and dated [1936] upper left oil on panel <BR>34 by 27cm., 13.5 by 10.5in.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN A BLUE DRESS, SEATED signed lower right; with the framing label of J. D. Spence, 38 Westmoreland Street, Dublin, on reverse wate

STILL LIFE WITH FRUIT AND GAME signed upper right pastel on paper mounted on canvas <BR>65 by 81cm., 25.5 by 32in. <BR><b>Provenan...

Michael Herity, Irish Passage Graves: Neolithic Tomb-Builders in Ireland and Britain 2,500 BC. Irish University Press, Dublin, 1974. Special presenta

Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777 G. Nicol, London, and W. Wilson, Dublin, 14th November 1778. First edition. With folding map of Ireland a

The Gentleman's and Connoisseur's Dictionary of Painters Thomas Cadell, London, [1770]. First edition, and scarce thus. The author was the ...

Marine Views by J. M. W. Turner R.A. Published by W. B. Crook, London, 1825. Folio containing two steel-engraved plates, The Edystone, A Storm and A

Killarney's Lakes and Fells: Twelve Mezzotint Engravings by Francis S. Walker. With some Accounts of Killarney, its Legends and its Poems, edite...

Slipper's ABC of Fox Hunting Longmans, Green and Co., London, New York and Bombay, 1903. First edition. Somerville's delightful comic look ...

Catalogue of the Exhibition of Works by Irish Painters, Guild Hall, London, 1904 Published by the Art Gallery of the Corporation of London, 1904. SIG

A Dictionary of Irish Artists , two volume set Maunsel and Company, Dublin and London, 1913. The rare first edition (normally only the later facsim

Thomas Bodkin (1887-1961) Hugh Lane and his Pictures An Chomhairle Ealaion / The Arts Council, Dublin, 1956. With a SIGNED typescript letter from Bod

[Irish Revival] A Celtic Christmas: The Christmas number of the Irish Homestead Irish Homestead, Dublin, 1903. With contributions from Lady Gregory,

[Irish Revival] The Shanachie: An Illustrated Irish Miscellany, Vol. I Maunsel and Co., Dublin, 1906. With literary and artistic contributions from

Tower Press Booklets Five booklets from the Second Series Individual titles are Charles Weekes' About Women, 1907, Eva Gore-Booth's The Egy...

Dublin Gate Theatre Productions Michéal MacLiammóir's Diarmuid and Grainne, Maura Laverty's Tolka Row and three others A set of f...

George Russell "Æ"Collected Poems, signed by Æ and with an original sketch by him Macmillan and Co., London, 1926. Second editi...

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) and the Irish Revival George Russell "Æ'" (ed.), New Songs: A Lyric Selection Made by Æ fr...

Jack Butler Yeats RHAJohn M. Synge, The Aran Islands with Drawings by Jack B. Yeats Maunsel and Co., Dublin, and Elkin Mathews, London, 1906. First

Jack Butler Yeats RHAPadraic Colum, The Big Tree of Bunlahy: Stories of My Own Countryside, illustrated by Jack B. Yeats MacMillan, New York, 1933. F

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) John M. Synge, In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara Maunsell and Co., Dublin, 1911. First edition, with eight bla

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) George A. Birmingham, Irishmen All T. N. Foulis, London and Edinburgh, 1913. First edition. With twelve colour pl

Jack Butler Yeats RHAJohn Hamilton Reynolds, The Fancy, With a Prefatory Memoir and Notes by John Masefield and Thirteen Illustrations by Jack B. Yeat

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) Thomas MacGreevy, Jack B. Yeats: An Appreciation and An Interpretation Victor Waddington Publications, printed at t

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) The Wren Boys Cuala Press, Dublin, [circa 1936]. Three pages of letterpress plus colophon and title-page, on which

Jack Butler Yeats RHA (1871-1957) A Broadside, No. 9, Third Year Cuala Press, Dublin, February 1911. Limited to 300 copies only. Single folded sheet

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) The Poems of W. B. Yeats , 2 volume boxed set Macmillan and Co., London, 1949. Limited edition of 375 copies; this

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age Dun Emer Press, Dundrum, 1903. Limited to 325 copies

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Reveries Over Childhood and Youth MacMillan and Co. Ltd., London, 1916. First edition. The author's sister L...

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) The Trembling of the Veil T. Werner Laurie, London, 1922. First edition. No. 61 from a limited edition of 1,000, eac

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Plays for An Irish Theatre, With Designs by Gordon Craig A. H. Bullen, London and Stratford-Upon-Avon, 1911. First e

James Joyce (1882-1941) Ulysses Shakespeare and Company, Paris, December 1925. The seventh printing of the original Shakespeare and Co. edition. Octa

Harry Clarke RHA (1889-1931) Selected Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne, With Illustrations and Decorations by Harry Clarke John Lane, Bodley Head,

Harry Clarke RHA (1889-1931) Nicola Gordon Bowe, The Life and Work of Harry Clarke Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1989. Special edition of only FIFTY

Harry Clarke RHA (1889-1931) Nicola Gordon Bowe, Harry Clarke: His Graphic Art Dolmen Press, Mountrath, 1983. Also with this lot, Roderic Knowles, Co

James Stephens (1882-1950) Irish Fairy Tales, illustrated by Arthur Rackham Macmillan and Co., New York, 1920. First American edition to have the R

Sir William Orpen RA RI HRHA (1878-1931) An Onlooker in France Parkgate Books, Dublin, 1996. A finely produced reissue of Orpen's 1921 memoir o...

William Conor RHA RUA ROI (1881-1968) The Irish Scene Published by Derrick MacCord, Belfast, 1944. First edition. A series of twelve tipped in colour

Modern women artists of Ireland Stella Frost (ed.), A Tribute to Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett Browne and Nolan, Dublin, 1957. First edition. Contains

Basil Ivan Rákóczi (1908-1979) The Caged and the Free Privately printed by the "Friends of the White Stag", Paris, 1955, at the...