Merwin Clayton Sales Company: Catalogue of A Valuable Collection of Books Relating to Ireland Formed by Stephen J. Richardson of New York City Part II To be Sold at Auction Friday Morning and Afternoon February 27th. 1914. By Merwin Sales Company, 16 East 40th Street, New York City., 548,

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 27, 1914 - February 27, 1914

Page Size: 483 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ABINGTON (MRS.)	The Life of. (Formerly Miss Barton.) Celebrated Comic Actress.	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
2	ABINGTON (MRS.)	The Life of. (Formerly Miss Barton.) Celebrated Comic Actress.	London	1888	USD -	Unknown
3	ALLINGHAM (HUGH)	Ballyshannon: Its History and Antiquities, with some account of the Surrounding Neighbourhood.	Londonderry	1879	USD -	1.00
4	Rev. James Henthron Todd,	ANCIENT CELTIC ART. Descriptive Remarks on Illuminations in Certain Irish Manuscripts.	London	1869	USD -	7.25
5		ANCIENT IRISH ANTIQUE ORNAMENTS.	London	1819	USD -	1.00
6		ANCLEAMBLE SOLUIS. Vols. 1-4. May 6, 1899, to Feb. 21, 1903.	Dublin	1899-1903	USD -	Unknown
7	O'Gorman	ANGLING. The Practice of Angling, particularly as regards Ireland.	Dublin	1845	USD -	Unknown
8	John O'Donovan	ANNALA RIOGHACTA EIREANN (Four Masters). Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters ...	Dublin	1851	USD -	60.00
9		ANTHOLOGIA HIBERNICA; or, Monthly Collections of Science, Belles-Lettres, and History. Vols. 1 (1793 ...	Dublin	1793-94	USD -	2.25
10	William Hamilton	ANTRIM COUNTY. Letters concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim.	Dublin	1790	USD -	1.25
11	Edwin, Third Earl of Dunraven	ARCHITECTURE OF IRELAND. Notes on Irish Architecture.	London	1875-77	USD -	37.00
12	ARDILL (JOHN R.)	Forgotten Facts of Irish History.	Dublin	1905	USD -	1.00
13	Sir Charles Coote, Bart	ARMAGH. Statistical Survey of the County of Armagh, etc.	Dublin	1804	USD -	3.00
14		ATLAS. Philip's Handy Atlas of the Counties of Ireland.	London	(1897)	USD -	1.50
15	BALL (J. T.)	Historical Review of the Legislative Systems Operative in Ireland, 1172-1800.	London	1889	USD -	Unknown
16	BARRINGTON (SIR JONAH)	Personal Sketches of his Own Times.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
17	BARTON (RICHARD)	A Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of Shankil in the Town of Lurgan (Dec. 18, 1745).	Dublin	1746	USD -	Unknown
17a		BATTLE OF THE BOOKS (THE) and other Short Pieces by Dean Swift; Who Fears to Speak of '98, by ...			USD -	Unknown
18	BENSON (CHARLES W.)	Our Irish Song Birds.	Dublin	1886	USD -	1.30
19		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, March, 1905. (Catalogue of Irish Books in the ...	New York	1905	USD -	1.90
20	Edited by Stephen J. Brown	BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Guide to Books on Ireland.	Dublin	1912	USD -	1.35
21	BICKLEY (FRANCIS)	J. M. Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement.	Boston	1912	USD -	Unknown
22	BIRKHEAD (ALICE)	Tales from Irish History.	Boston	1911	USD -	Unknown
23		BOGS OF IRELAND. Reports of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Nature and Extent of the ...	Dublin	1810-1814	USD -	5.00
24	James H. Todd	BOOK OF HYMNS OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH OF IRELAND (THE).	Dublin	1855-69	USD -	10.00
25		BOOK OF MAC FIRBIS. The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy.	Dublin	1839	USD -	1.25
26		BOOK-PLATES. Examples of Irish Bookplates from the Collections of Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of ...	N. P.	1894	USD -	23.00
27	BRENNAN (REV. JAMES J.)	A Catechism of the History of Ireland, Ancient, Medieval and Modern.	New York	1878	USD -	Unknown
28	BREWER (J. N.)	The Beauties of Ireland: being Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical and Biographical of ...	London	1825	USD -	2.55
29	BROOKS (SYDNEY)	Aspects of the Irish Question.	Boston and London	1912	USD -	Unknown
30	BRYCE (JAMES)	Handbook of Home Rule: being Articles on the Irish Question by Gladstone, Morley, and others.	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
31	BULLOCK (SHAN F.)	Ring o' Rushes.	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
32	BULLOCK (SHAN F.)	Ring o' Rushes.	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
33	BURKE (REV. T. N.)	Ireland's Case Stated in Reply to Mr. Froude.	New York	1873	USD -	1.00
34	BURTON (NATHANIEL)	History of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, near Dublin.	Dublin	1843	USD -	Unknown
35	CAIRD (JAMES)	The Plantation Scheme; or, the West of Ireland as an Investment.	Edinburgh	1850	USD -	1.60
36		CAMDEN'S IRELAND, 1610. Ireland and the smaller Islands in the British Ocean.	[London]	[1610]	USD -	2.25
37	[CAMPBELL (THOMAS)]	A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Wilkinson.	London	(1777)	USD -	Unknown
38		CARLOW COLLEGE MAGAZINE (THE). Vol. 1 (1869-70).	Dublin	1870	USD -	Unknown
39	CARR (JOHN)	The Stranger in Ireland; or, a Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country, in 1805.	London	1806	USD -	5.25
40		CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY OF IRELAND. Publications. Abbey Towns of Ireland (Boyle); Round Towers of ...			USD -	Unknown
41	Goss (W. L.)	CIVIL WAR. The Soldier's Story of his Captivity at Andersonville, Belle Isle and other Rebel Prisons ...	Boston	1876	USD -	Unknown
42	Toombs (Samuel)	CIVIL WAR. New Jersey Troops in the Gettysburg Campaign, 1863.	Orange	1888	USD -	1.00
43	Hely Dutton	CLARE COUNTY (IRELAND). Statistical Survey of the County of Clare.	Dublin	1808	USD -	2.75
44	Rev. P. White	CLARE COUNTY (IRELAND). History of Clare and the Dalcassian Clans of Tipperary, Limerick and Galway.	Dublin	1893	USD -	2.00
45	CONDON (CAPTAIN EDWARD O'MEAGHER)	The Irish Race in America.	New York	1887	USD -	2.50
45a	CONNELLAN (OWEN)	A Dissertation on Irish Grammar.	Dublin	1834	USD -	Unknown
46	CONYNGHAM (CAPT. D. P.)	The Irish Brigade and Its Campaigns; with . . . Sketches of the Principal Officers.	Boston	1869	USD -	2.25
47	Horatio Townsend	CORK COUNTY. A General and Statistical Survey of the County of Cork.	Cork	1815	USD -	1.75
48	COTTE (SIR CHARLES)	General View of the Agriculture and Manufactures of the King's County. Drawn up for the ...	Dublin	1801	USD -	1.00
49	CRAWFORD (WILLIAM)	History of Ireland, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time; In a Series of Letters Addressed ...	Strabane	1783	USD -	Unknown
50		CURIOUS. The Supernatural Magazine for 1809 (June-Sept.).	Dublin	1809	USD -	Unknown
51	W. H. Curran	CURRAN (JOHN PHILPOT). Life.	Edinburgh	1822	USD -	Unknown
52	W. H. Curran	CURRAN (JOHN PHILPOT). Life of.	Chicago	1882	USD -	Unknown
53	Charles Phillips	CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES.	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
54	CUSACK (M. F.)	The Present Case of Ireland Plainly Stated.	New York	1881	USD -	Unknown
55	CUSACK (M. F.)	The Present Case of Ireland Plainly Stated. A Plea for the People of My Race.	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
56	DAVIES (SIR JOHN)]	A Discoverie of the True Causes Why Ireland was never entirely Subdued, nor brought under Obedience ...	London	1747	USD -	1.00
57	Francis Davis	DAVIS (FRANCIS). Miscellaneous Poems and Songs.	Belfast	1847	USD -	Unknown
58	Sir Charles G. Duffy	DAVIS (THOMAS). The Memoirs of an Irish Patriot, 1840-46.	London	1890	USD -	1.30
59	DAVIS (THOMAS)	Prose Writings.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
60	DAVITT (MICHAEL)	The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland; or, the Story of the Land League Revolution.	London and New York	1904	USD -	Unknown
61		DENVIR'S BOOK OF IRISH SONGS AND RECITATIONS; Songs and Ballads of '98.	London	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
62	DICK (W. B.)	Dick's Irish Dialect Recitations.	New York	[1879]	USD -	Unknown
63		DISSERTATIONS (Dooley), 1906; Sketches of Irish Character (Mrs. Hall), London, 1831; Speeches of ...	V. B.		USD -	Unknown
64	DOHENY (MICHAEL)	The History of the American Revolution.	Dublin	1846	USD -	4.00
65	F. M. Allen	[DOWNEY (EDMUND).] Through Green Glasses. Andy Merrigan's Great Discovery.	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
66	Pepper (George)	DRAMA. Kathleen O'Neil; or, a Picture of Feudal Times in Ireland; a Melo-Drama.	Philadelphia	1832	USD -	3.00
67		DRAMA. Dawn, a Play in one Act and 3 Tableaux by Maud Gonne, also Dervorgilla, a Tragedy in one ...		n. d.	USD -	Unknown
68		DRAMA. Scrap-book containing excerpts from Magazines and Newspapers; The Stage of Dublin before the ...	V. P.	v. d.	USD -	Unknown
69		DRAMA. The West Briton: an Irish one-act Curtainraiser, used by the Gaelic League Branches in ...			USD -	Unknown
70	DRENHAM (WILLIAM)	Fugitive Pieces, in Verse and Prose.	Belfast	1815	USD -	Unknown
71	Lieut. Joseph Archer	DUBLIN. Statistical Survey of the County of Dublin.	Dublin	1801	USD -	1.75
72	J. Warburton, Rev. J. Whitelaw and Rev. Robert Walsh	DUBLIN. History of the City of Dublin, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. Containing ...	London	1818	USD -	1.60
73		DUBLIN. A Guide through Glasnevin Cemetery.	Dublin	1879	USD -	Unknown
74		DUBLIN. The Book of Trinity College, Dublin, 1591-1891.	Belfast	1892	USD -	1.75
75		DUBLIN CASTLE, 10th September, 1798. Dispatches received from the Headquarters of the Lord ...	Dublin	1798	USD -	Unknown
76		DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL (THE).	Dublin	1832-36	USD -	9.00
77	Taylor (W. B. S.)	DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.History of the University of Dublin: its Origin, Progress and Present Condition.	London	1845	USD -	Unknown
78	DUFFY (SIR CHARLES G.)	Young Ireland: a Fragment of Irish History, 1840-45.	London	1896	USD -	1.25
79	DUFFY (SIR CHARLES G.)	My Life in Two Hemispheres.	New York	1898	USD -	Unknown
80	ELLIS (GEORGE)	Irish Ethnology.	Dublin	1852	USD -	Unknown
81		EMANCIPATION OF IRELAND. Ode on the Emancipation of Ireland, 1782.	Dublin	1806	USD -	Unknown
82	Byrne (Rev. Stephen)	EMIGRATION.Irish Emigration to the United States: what it has been, and what it is.	New York	1873	USD -	Unknown
83	EMMET (ROBERT)	The Trial of Robert Emmet, Esq., for High Treason, Held before the Right Hon. Lord Norbury, the Hon ...	Dublin	1803	USD -	1.75
84	Joseph I. C. Clarke	EMMET (ROBERT). Robert Emmet; a Tragedy of Irish History.	New York and London	1888	USD -	1.10
85	George Morehead	EMMET (ROBERT). Robert Emmet, the Irish Patriot.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
86	EMMET (ROBERT)	A Historic Play in 3 Acts by Henry Connell Mangan. 52 pages, 8vo, sewed. Dublin, 1904. Also Robert ...	London	1902	USD -	Unknown
87	EMMET (THOMAS A.)	Catalogue of the Library belonging to Thomas Addis Emmet.	New York	1868	USD -	5.75
88	O'Rourke (Rev. John)	Famine OF 1847. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847.	Dublin	1902	USD -	1.25
88a		FENIANISM. An Address Presented to Dr. Denis Dowling Mulcahy by the People of Tipperary ...		1876	USD -	Unknown
88b		FENIANISM. An Address Presented to Dr. Denis Dowling Mulcahy from the Irish Nationalists of St ...		July 28, 1876	USD -	Unknown
88c		FENIANISM. An Address Presented to Dr. Denis Dowling Mulcahy by the Irish Nationalists of Manchester ...			USD -	Unknown
88d		FENIANISM. An Address Presented to Dr. Denis Dowling Mulcahy by the Irish Nationalists of Bolton and ...			USD -	Unknown
89	Rutherford (John)	FENIANISM. The Secret History of the Fenian Conspiracy.	London	1877	USD -	3.25
90	Major Henri Le Garon	FENIANISM. Twenty-Five Years in the Secret Service: the Recollections of a Spy.	Boston	[1892]	USD -	2.00
91	Denieffe (Joseph)	FENIANISM. A Personal Narrative of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood.	New York	1906	USD -	Unknown
92	Denieffe (Joseph)	FENIANISM. A Personal Narrative of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood.	New York	1906	USD -	Unknown
93	FERGUSON (SIR SAMUEL)	The Cromlech on Howth, a Poem.	London	1861	USD -	5.50
94	FERGUSON (SIR SAMUEL)	Hibernian Nights Entertainments. 1st, 2nd and 3rd series.	Dublin	1887	USD -	1.25

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