Ireland - Association Copy, Historical Memoirs of Napoleon, ...

Hammer

£65

Ireland - Association Copy, Historical Memoirs of Napoleon, Book IX: 1815, Translated from the Original MS by B.E. O'Meara, London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1820, fold-out map with contemporary hand-tinting, 2 fold-out charts to verso, armorial title-page vignette of Napoleon's arms, contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, early 19th century Plain Crested bookplate: Shelton of Shelton [John Willington Shelton of Rossmore House, County Limerick, (1791-1847), wounded four times at Waterloo so severely he was obliged to reture from the army on half-pay], 8vo, (1); Burke's Landed Gentry 1852, two-volume set, 19th century green cloth, dated ink MS presentation inscriptions: Sarah Ridgway [of Blenheim, County Waterford]- 1853, from her sister Harriett, large 8vo, (2); Collins (Arthur), The Baronettage of England [...], London: 1732, defective copy, contemporary panelled calf, 8vo, (1), (faults); Carleton (William), Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, fourth edition, volumes I, II, IV & V only, London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1836, illustrated, contemporary cloth with Celtic knots, Spade Shield Armorial bookplates: Douglass of Tilquhillie, small 8vo, (4); Proctor (Richard A.), Old and New Astronomy [...], with Numerous Plates and Woodcuts, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1895, contemporary pictorial blue cloth gilt, crested bookplate: Ridgway of Ireland, ownership stamp of Egerton Castle (1858-1920, Victorian author, antiquarian and swordsman), 4to, (1); Akerman (John Yonge), A Numismatic Manul, London: Taylor & Walton, 1840, contemporary brown cloth, ink MS ownership inscriptions, 8vo, (1); Atkins (James), The Tradesmen's Tokens of the Eighteenth Century, London: W.S. Lincoln & Son, 1892, pictorial calf gilt over cloth, contemporary ink MS ownership inscription: R.G. Ridgway, 8vo, (1); Smiles (Samuel), The Huguenots [...], London: John Murray, 1880, pictorial cloth, 8vo; Sullivan (Serjeant A.M., Q.C.), The Last Serjeant, London: Macdonald, 1952, d/j, red cloth, 8vo; leather bindings, some with country house provenance; etc., [19]