Executors Auction, Contents from DeCourcey House, Kinsale with the contents of a Co. Cork Georgian bungalow removed to our Auction Rooms.
The Worthies of Warwickshire who lived between 1500 and 1800 by F.L. Colvile 1869; also The History of the County of Lincoln by Thomas Allen, Leeds 1830, illustrated, front cover loose & History of Hampshire by T.W. Shore 1892. (3)
Atlas to the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough containing maps & plans, illustrative of the campaigns, fac-simile autographs, armorial bearings etc. London 1848. (1)
Adventures Amidst The Equatorial Forests and Rivers of South America also in the West Indies and The Wilds of Florida by Villiers Stuart of Dromana 1891. (1)
Box of books - 19th century travel interest and others.
The Land of the Lakes being the midland railway companies illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of Co. Donegal by E.S. Shrubsole. 1906.
The Railways of the United Kingdom, statistically considered by H. Scrivenor, 1849. (Colonel Grove-Whites copy) (front cover loose, backs spine)
The Essays of Emerson, 2 Volumes, Arthur L. Humphreys 1899, unopened. (2)
Rare Somerville/Ross item. Lunch Menu/Card, University Philosophical Society-Swift Bicentenary 1945, Metropole Hotel, Cork. Guest of Honour- Edith Somerville-menu clear silver fox, kidney strayaways, real Charlotte Russe, etc with a postcard from EOE Somerville to Geraldine Cummins re: her coming to stay.
Catalogue of Paintings, drawings & illustrations of Dr. Edith Somerville, Sept. 1984 with newspaper cuttings by Peter Lennon and Patricia Hutchins.
Three Biographies of Somerville & Ross, Geraldine Cummins 1952, Maurice Collis 1968, John Cronin 1972 & Ireland of the Welcomes 1984-Somerville Edition. (4)
Somerville & Ross, seven first editions Dan Russel The Fox, Mount Music; Sarah's Youth; French Leave; An Enthusiast; An Irish RM and all on the Irish Shore. (7)
My Life and Loves by Frank Harris, privately printed 1922; Illustrierte Sittengeschichte by Eduard Fuchs, Munchen 1912. (2)
Illustrated London News, 1848, 1855, 1869, 1874 and 1870 and Cornation Record number, George V and Queen Mary. (6)
The Graphic Jubilee number 1887 bound with the Stanley number, black and white 1896, Illustrated London news 1897, India and The Prince of Wales, The Ashantee War, The Pictorial World Christmas 1882, Illustrated Australia News 1891, interesting volume, great illustrations and adverts.
An album of over 80 Christmas cards, 1896-97. Some Cork addresses.
Sketches in India taken at Hyderalad and Secunderabad by Captain Allan N Scott, London 1862 with 101 photographs - loose cover.
A Patrick's Day Hunt by Somerville and Ross. 8 coloured plates & numerous line drawings.
Nine books on book collecting.
The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, 1897.
Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts - manufactures, mining and engineering. Illustrated. 3 volumes 1866, half calf. (3)
Geology, Familiarly illustrated by G.M.W. 1859 - illustrated with a continuous fold out view containing 31 hand coloured lithographed scenes in a humorous vein.
Volume I - Palais Chateaux Hotels Et Maisons De France by Claude Sauvageot 1867. Over 80 fine engravings, bookplate of H.H. Hill & stamp of Arthur Hill. Cork
Volume I and II Encyclopaedia of Sport, 1897; Wild Sports of the West of Ireland, 2 volumes; Sportsman and his Dog, 1850. (5)
Large quantity of old books.
Quantity of 18th and 19th century leather bound books mostly odd volumes.
Three folders of train photographs.
Southern Star Centenary Supplement 1989 also Commerative Supplements by the Southern Star & Cork Examiner marking the centenary of the birth of Michael Collins. Commerative Booklet on Tomas MacCurtin and Terence MacSwiney (John A. Murphy 1995) etc.
Angela Bolster - A History of the Diocese of Cork, 4 volumes 1972-1993, Tower Books.
The Council Book of the Corporation of Cork from 1609-1643 and 1690-1800, by Richard Caulfield 1876.
Alicia St Leger - A History of the Royal Cork Yacht Club 2005.
William O'Sullivan - The Economic History of Cork City from the earliest times to the Act of Union, 1937.
Alexander Cromie - Presbyterians in the City of Cork.
William O'Brien - Mount Gabriel- Bronze Age Mining in Ireland, 1994.
Archaeological Excavations in Cork City 1984-2000; Excavations at the Dominican Priory also at The North Gate, Cork; Excavations at South Main St., 2003-2005. (4)
Bundle of approximately 25 Cork local History Journals including Duhallow Magazine, Mallow Field Club Journal, Bandon Historical Journal, Kinsale Historical Journal, Rosscarbery Past & Present.
Bundle of 18 modern books/booklets on various aspects of Corks History and Heritage; includes a History of Irish Steel (Sarlsfield Hogan), The Coast of West Cork (Peter Somerville-large), Kenmare (Sr. Philomena McCarthy), The Land and the People of nineteeth century Cork (James Donnelly, paperback)
Bundle of 25 and Booklets of various aspects of Cork County History, Gravestone inscriptions for Ballymodan & Killbrogan, seine boats & fishing (Allihies Forklore Group). Booklets on Kinsale & 250 years of the Butler Road (Aubane Historical Society, etc.)
The Germans in Cork being the letters of the Baron Von Kartoffel and others. A spoof suggesting to Irish Nationalists during the great War that life under German occuping forces might not be anymore pleasant than under the British.
A bundle of 25+ booklets of Cork City interest; Cork Franciscan Records 1764-1831, Salute to Cork 800, Port of Cork Year Book, The Collegiate Chapel, Cork, etc.
Lewis's Atlas for Ireland, 1846 - (no covers)
Box of Books - Irish interest.
Ireland anf the early Church by J.M. Flood, 1920 also Catholicity and Progress in Ireland by M.O'Riordan, 1905. (both books signed by the author). (2)
A long run of The Capuchin Annuals including the 1966 edition.
Saorstat Eireann offical Handbook, complete with map.
Box of books.
Dalton's History of Ireland, 8 volumes.
Two postcard albums.
Mixed lot of books - Young Ireland, etc.
Quantity of books - Glorious Gardens of Ireland, etc.
Somerville & Ross - 6 books.
The Holy Bible.
M.F. Cusack - The History of the Irish Nation & 2 other books. (3)
Quantity of books relating to Maynooth & Volumes I and 3 of the Diocese of Meath.
Brother Saul by Don Byrne, signed copy, 1928.
Box of books - W. Somerset Maugham, etc.
Box of books to include, History of Ireland, Volume I.
