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
95	FERGUSON (SIR SAMUEL)	Father Tom and the Pope.	Philadelphia	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
96	FIELDING (HENRY)	Works.	London	1857	USD -	Unknown
97	FISHER (JOSEPH)	The History of Landholding in Ireland.	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
98	FISHER (JOSEPH)	The History of Landholding in Ireland.	London	1877	USD -	Unknown
99	McGregor (John James)	FOLKLORE. True Stories from the History of Ireland. Second Series.	Dublin	1830	USD -	1.70
100	Curtin (Jeremiah)	FOLKLORE. Myths and Folk-Lore.	Boston	1890	USD -	1.20
101	O'Connor (Barry)	FOLKLORE. Turf-Fire Stories and Fairy Tales of Ireland.	New York	(1890)	USD -	1.00
102	Lonargan (John P.)	FOLKLORE. Cwan and Genevieve. A Tale of Love and Romance in the Days of Roderick, last Monarch of ...	New York	(1904)	USD -	Unknown
103	Templeton (Herminie)	FOLKLORE. Darby O'Gill and the Good People.	New York	1906	USD -	Unknown
104	Higginson (T. W.)	FOLKLORE. Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic.	New York	1910	USD -	Unknown
105	T. W. Rollestone	FOLKLORE. The High Deeds of Finn and Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland.	New York	(1910)	USD -	1.00
106		FOLKLORE. Scrap-Book containing selected excerpts from newspapers and magazines--Irish Fairies ( ...		n. d.	USD -	1.00
107		FOUR-MASTERS, The Transactions of.	Dublin	1831	USD -	Unknown
108	FRENCH (HENRY W.)	Our Boys in Ireland (being the experiences of Eight American Boys during a Tour of the Green Isle).	New York	1891	USD -	Unknown
109		GAELIC LEAGUE. Publications. Simple Lessons in Irish; Parts 4 and 5 (several duplicates), etc.			USD -	Unknown
110	John Rooney	GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF IRISH FAMILIES. With their Crests and Armorial Bearings.	Washington	1895	USD -	34.00
111	GIBBONS (PHEBE EARL)	Pennsylvania Dutch, and other Essays (including a chapter on Irish Farmers).	Philadelphia	1882	USD -	Unknown
112	GILBERT (J. T.)	History of the Viceroys of Ireland; with Notices of the Castle of Dublin and its Chief Occupants in ...	Dublin	1865	USD -	2.00
113	GILBERT (J. T.)	A Contemporary History of Affairs in Ireland, 1641-1652.	Dublin	1879-80	USD -	5.25
114	GILES (HENRY)	Lectures and Essays on Irish and other Subjects.	New York	1869	USD -	Unknown
115	GORTON (JOHN) and WRIGHT (G. N.)	A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland.	London	1831-33	USD -	Unknown
116		GRAHAM, the Apostle of Kerry (Campbell). Life and Times of Cloncurry; The Crime of the Century and ...			USD -	Unknown
117		GRAMMAR OF THE IRISH LANGUAGE (Joyce); The Pursuit of Diarmud and Grainne (O'Duffy), Part 1; Irish ...			USD -	1.75
118	GREEN (ALICE S.)	The Making of Ireland and its Undoing, 1200-1600.	London	1909	USD -	1.25
119	GREGORY (WILLIAM)	Sir William Gregory, Formerly Member of Parliament and Sometime Governor of Ceylon: an Autobiography ...	London	1894	USD -	Unknown
120	GWYNN (STEPHEN)	Fishing Holidays (in Irish Waters, etc.).	London	1904	USD -	Unknown
121	GWYNN (STEPHEN)	English Men of Letters. Thomas Moore.	New York	1905	USD -	Unknown
122	GWYNN (STEPHEN)	A Holiday in Connemara (Ireland).	New York	1909	USD -	Unknown
123	HALL (MRS. S. C.)	Sketches of Irish Character.	London	1844	USD -	Unknown
123a	HALL (MRS. S. C.)	Popular Tales of Irish Life and Character, etc.	Glasgow	(1860)	USD -	1.00
124	HARRIS (WALTER)	Hibernica; or, some Ancient Pieces relating to Ireland.	Dublin	1770	USD -	1.20
125	HAYES (PATRICK)	The Ballads of Ireland.	Boston	1856	USD -	3.25
126	HEALY (FATHER--of Little Bray)	Memoirs of.	London	1904	USD -	1.80
127	HEALY (TIMOTHY M.)	Stolen Waters: a Page in the Conquest of Ulster.	London	1913	USD -	1.30
128	HILL (REV. GEORGE)	Plantation Papers containing a Summary Sketch of the great Ulster Plantation in the year 1610 ...	Belfast	1889	USD -	1.50
129		HISTORICAL REPRINTS. Including: News from Dublin in Ireland, relating how Colonell Jones, Governour ...	Edinburgh	Reprinted (1902)	USD -	Unknown
130		HISTORY OF EPIDEMIC PESTILENCES IN IRELAND. The Census of Ireland for 1851. Part V. Tables of Deaths ...	Dublin	1856	USD -	2.00
131	Finerty (John F.)	HISTORY OF IRELAND. Ireland; the People's History of Ireland.	New York	[1904]	USD -	1.50
132	W. C. Taylor, Esq.	HISTORY OF IRELAND. From the Anglo-Norman Invasion Till the Union with Great Britain.	New York	1844	USD -	1.50
133	Henneberry (Rev. F. S.)	HISTORY OF IRELAND. Short History of Ireland. For supplementary reading in Parish Schools.	[Chicago]	[1901]	USD -	Unknown
134	HITCHCOCK (F. R. M.)	Types of Celtic Life and Art.	Dublin	(1906)	USD -	Unknown
135	W. E. Gladstone, W. E. Macartney, Justin McCarthy, F. F. V. Knox and others	HOME RULE. The Government of Ireland.	London	1890	USD -	Unknown
136	HULL(ELEANOR)	A Text Book of Irish Literature.	Dublin	1906	USD -	2.25
137	HUTCH (WILLIAM)	Nano Nagle: her life, her labours, and their fruits.	Dublin	1882	USD -	1.25
138	H. L. Williams	Drake (S. G.). INDIANS. The Aboriginal Races of America.	New York	(1880)	USD -	Unknown
139	INGLIS (HENRY D.)	Ireland in 1834. A Journey Through Ireland during the Summer and Autumn of 1834.	London	1835	USD -	Unknown
139a	INGRAM (T. DUNBAR)	A History of the Legislative Union of Great Britain and Ireland.	London	1887	USD -	Unknown
140	INGRAM (T. DUNBAR)	A Journey Throughout Ireland during 1834.	London	1836	USD -	Unknown
141		IRELAND ILLUSTRATED in a Series of Views of Cities, Towns, Public Buildings, Streets, Docks ...	London	1833	USD -	1.80
142		IRELAND ILLUSTRATED in a Series of Views of Cities, Towns, Public Buildings, Streets, Docks ...	London	(1840)	USD -	1.05
143	M'Elheran (John)	IRELAND. The Condition of Women and Children among the Celtic, Gothic and other Nations.	Boston	1858	USD -	Unknown
144	T. D., A. M. and D. B. Sullivan	IRELAND. Speeches from the Dock; or, Protests of Irish Patriotism. The Manchester Tragedy, and the ...	New York	1893	USD -	Unknown
145		IRELAND. Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation (Barrington); Wilson's Dublin Directory, 1830; History of ...			USD -	Unknown
146		IRELAND. Painted by Francis S. Walker, R. H. A., and Described by Frank Mathew.	London	1912	USD -	1.10
147		IRELAND. Pictures of Dublin (lacking title-page); Catholic Penny Magazine, 1834-35; The Irish in ...		v. d.	USD -	Unknown
148		IRELAND AND THE IRISH; Speeches of the Irish Bar (Sheil), 2 vols., Curran and his Contemporaries ...			USD -	Unknown
149	Sir John T. Gilbert	IRISH BIBLIOGRAPHY. Two Papers on Irish Bibliography.	Dublin	1904	USD -	3.00
150	E. R. McC. Dix	IRISH BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Earliest Dublin Printing, with List of Books, Proclamations, etc.	Dublin	1901	USD -	2.00
151	Edward Evans	IRISH BIBLIOGRAPHY. Historical and Bibliographical Account of Almanacks, Directories, etc ...	Dublin	1897	USD -	2.25
152		IRISH BIBLIOGRAPHY. King's Bibliography of Irish Pictorial Postal Cards.	London	1903	USD -	Unknown
153		IRISH BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Subject Guide to Irish Books forming Part I of King's Irish Bibliography.	London	1903	USD -	Unknown
154	E. R. McC. Dix	IRISH BIBLIOGRAPHY. The Earliest Periodical Journals Published in Dublin.	Dublin	1900	USD -	1.25
155		IRISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Tracts Relating to Ireland.	Dublin	1841	USD -	1.25
156		IRISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. The Miscellany.	Dublin	1846	USD -	1.35
157		IRISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. The Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiacharch, commonly called ...	Dublin	1844	USD -	4.00
158	Roderic O'Flaherty	IRISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. A Chorographical Description of West or H-iar Connaught.	Dublin	1846	USD -	2.25
159		IRISH COM-ALL-YE'S, and Ballads of Ireland.	New York	n. d.	USD -	1.00
160		IRISH DRAMA. Familiar Epistles to Frederick E. Jones, on the Present State of the Irish Stage.	Dublin	1805	USD -	Unknown
161		IRISH EMERALD (THE). Vols. 11, 12, 13. Jan., 1902, to Nov., 1904.	Dublin	1902-4	USD -	Unknown
162		IRISH HISTORIC PAGEANT. Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory, New York, 1913; Book of Irish Historic Pageant ...			USD -	Unknown
163	Howe (George)	IRISH IN AMERICA. The Scotch-Irish and their First Settlements on the Tyger River and other ...	Columbia	1861	USD -	2.75
164	Maguire (John Francis)	IRISH IN AMERICA. The Irish in America.	New York	1868	USD -	2.70
165	Byrne (Stephen)	IRISH IN AMERICA. Irish Emigration to the United States.	New York	1873	USD -	2.75
166	Bagenal (Philip H.)	IRISH IN AMERICA. The American Irish and Their Influence on Irish Politics.	Boston	1882	USD -	Unknown
167	P. H. Bagenal	IRISH IN AMERICA. The American Irish and their Influence on Irish Politics.	Boston	1882	USD -	Unknown
168	Edited by T. H. Murray and T. B. Lawler	IRISH IN AMERICA. Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society.	Boston	1898-1904	USD -	9.50
169	Barry (P. T.)	IRISH IN AMERICA. The First Irish in Illinois.	Chicago	[1902]	USD -	2.25
170	Danaher (F. M.)	IRISH IN AMERICA. Early Irish in Old Albany, New York.	Boston	1903	USD -	1.00
171	Casson (H. N.)	IRISH IN AMERICA. The Irish in America.	N. P.	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
172		IRISH JOKES AND WITTY SAYINGS.	Philadelphia	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
173		IRISH IN AMERICA. Scrap-Book. Contains excerpts from Newspapers and Magazines, some illustrated ...		n. d.	USD -	Unknown
174		IRISH IN AMERICA. Scrap-Book. Containing selected excerpts from Newspapers and Magazines. Early ...		n. d.	USD -	3.25
175		IRISH INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904. Catalogues. Parts 1, 2 and 3.			USD -	Unknown
176	Justin McCarthy, Editor-in-Chief. Maurice F. Egan, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory and James J. Roche, Associate Editors	IRISH LITERATURE.	Chicago	[1904]	USD -	8.00
177		IRISH MANUSCRIPT (Typewritten). Translation of the opening chapters of O'Sullivan; Beare's Latin ...			USD -	1.25
178		IRISH NAMES AND SURNAMES.	Dublin	1906	USD -	1.50
179		IRISH PARLIAMENTARY REPORTS, 1613-1776. The Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of ...	Dublin	1763-1776	USD -	60.00
180		IRISH PENNY JOURNAL (THE).	Dublin	1840-41	USD -	2.00
181		IRISH PERIODICAL. The Irish Homestead. Vols. 5, 6 and 7. January, 1899, to April 6, 1901.	Dublin	1899-1901	USD -	Unknown
182		IRISH PERIODICAL. St. Patrick's. Vols. 1-4. March 17, 1900, to November 14, 1903.	Dublin	1900-3	USD -	Unknown
183		IRISH PERIODICAL. The Irish Packet. Vols. 1-8. October 3, 1903, to January 29, 1907.	Dublin	1903-7	USD -	Unknown
184		IRISH PERIODICAL. Ireland's Own. Vols. 1-14. February 4, 1904, to November 3, 1909.	Dublin	1904-9	USD -	Unknown
185		IRISH PERIODICAL. The Gael: Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society; Journal of ...			USD -	1.10
186		IRISH RACE CONVENTION, Dublin, 1896; Proceedings of.	Dublin	1896	USD -	Unknown
187a		IRISH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (THE), by James J. Walsh, M. D.; A Review of Some Irish MSS. Publications ...		V. D.	USD -	Unknown
187	John Abernethy	IRISH REBELLION. A Sermon Preached in Wood Street, Dublin, in 1735; Being the Anniversary of the ...	Dublin	1735	USD -	1.00
188		IRISH STATUTES. The Statutes at Large, passed in the Parliaments held in Ireland, from 1310 to 1761 ...	Dublin	1765-1769	USD -	8.00
189	Shane Na Gael	IRISH TOASTS.	New York	[1908]	USD -	Unknown
190	JESSOP (GEORGE H.)	Where the ShamrockGrows. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of an Irish Family.	New York	n. d.	USD -	Unknown
191	JOYCE (P. W.)	A Grammar of the Irish Language.	Dublin	1896	USD -	1.20

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