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[Purser's diary, Royal Navy Armoured Cruiser HMS Cornwall and SS Balmoral Castle; Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn; opening of first Parliament of the Union of South Africa, 1910; golf] 99pp., in 'Army & Navy Octavo Scribbling Diary (with a week on an opening) for 1910'. Good, on aged paper, in worn boards, with some preliminary leaves torn out, and a few childish scrawls by Irene and Pauline Knott (grandchildren of the author?) at beginning and end (not affecting text) .... |
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[Lucien Achille Mauzan (1883-1952), French Art Deco poster designer and decorative illustrator] 8pp., 4to. In stiff printed wraps. Printed in black and white. Photographic portrait of the artist tipped-in as frontispiece, twenty illustrations in text, and loosely inserted in a wallet at the rear a facsimile (2pp., 8vo) of an article from the Argentine Magazine, Christmas 1929: 'How MAUZAN... |
£135.00 |
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'A Bird at Bromsgrove' [pseudonym of John Crane of Bromsgrove] [Grafton & Reddell, printers, Birmingham] [Printed pamphlet.] An Address to Bachelors. By a Bird at Bromsgrove. 36pp., 18mo. With frontispiece (preceding half-title) of 'I. CRANE / BROMSGROVE', showing a crane and a carriage lamp, within a circular border reading 'To make the Watch go faster turn the Regulator to the right & Slower the Contrary'. Side stitched in original pink printed wraps. In fair... |
£120.00 |
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George Cruikshank (1792-1878), English caricaturist and illustrator In ink on both sides of a 4to leaf of wove paper, watermarked 'J GREEN & SON / 1824'. None of Cruikshank's drawing or writing is affected, but one corner of the leaf has been cut away, and there is another thin strip cut from another. Fair, on aged paper. One page carries a full-length... |
£450.00 |
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‘An Irish Democrat’ [Henry L. Glasgow of Cookstown] [Untitled mimeographed report]. Untitled mimeographed report (place and date not stated [1916]). Document, 7 pp, fol., good condition. ‘The Irish constitutional problem is centuries old, but its terms are ever changing. The present factors in the problem may be set out as follows: –’. Dated from references to ‘An Act [...] to... |
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[Gaelic League of London] Seven issues of Guth na nGaedheal, ‘Half-Yearly’ and ‘Occasional Bi-lingual Magazine’ Printed by a variety of Dublin printers], 1904 (2 different issues), 1907, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1922), each issue complete in decorative coloured wraps, good condition. The two issues from 1904 are narrow 8vo, the others landscape 8vo. Contributions from a number of authors, including Pádraic Ó... |
£650.00 | |
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[Irish Volunteers, 1915] Handbill, 2pp., 4to, sunned and other minor defects, mainly good condition. One copy listed, NLI. This item is listed in my catalogue, Printed and Other Material From the Papers of Robert and Sylvia Lynd, all of Irish interest. Hard copy available. |
£400.00 | |
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[The Irish Volunteers, London] Maurice Sheahan, Provisional Secretary Autograph Letter Signed signed in (in Gaelic) from Maurice Sheahan to unnamed recipient. It begins ‘I enclose herewith an order from Dublin with regard to Arms Proclamation’, requesting the recipient to ‘write something’, in the hope that ‘it may be of some assistance in removing the ban on the importation of arms’. Sheahan admits that he does not ‘agree with Committee that Liberal... |
£800.00 | |
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Anon. [Printed broadside] Jackets Green Song Book. Jackets Green Song Book. Skibbereen | The Old Plaid Shawl | The Jackets Green | [...] | Bold Robert Emmett (publisher and date not stated). Sheet, 8pp, fol., full sheet folded twice.A different edition, with the same title, was published in 12mo as No. 26 in ‘McGlennon’s Song Book Series’ (... |
£150.00 | |
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Anon. [Printed] Can Ireland Stand Alone? Is She strong enough to set up as an independent nation? Handbill, 2pp, 12mo, with wear to extremities, mainly good. A clue to the date of publication is the giving of Ireland’s trade figures for 1914. It concludes, ‘Is not Ireland fooled and robbed long enough? The Hour for Freedom and the Irish Republic has struck!’ Headed with wholesale price in... |
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