Adam's Works on Paper Art & Literature 12th March 2019

93 www.adams.ie Works on Paper 12 th March 2019 309 BESSBOROUGH (1825), TOUR IN ENGLAND, small oblong folio, with 34 finished watercolour studies accompanied by inscriptions and sketches, ticket of Bettinsons Lexington’, the crimson mo- rocco spine defective PROVENANCE: THE COLLECTION OF HUGH AND ANNE IREMONGER € 250 - 400 310 A COMMON-PLACE BOOK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, in different, but careful scripts, indexed, signed Rich. M. Mayberry, seems to be by an Irish subaltern with poems of Irish and military events, e.g. “An Irish Soldiers Farewell to Spain”, “The Shamrock”, “An Exercise at Clongowes-Wood College by Master M.D. O’Connell”, half-sheep, worn, with ticket of “O’Hara and Co; Patrick Street, Cork” - and a legal note- book by Robert Digby, Lincolns Inn, ticket of “Chambers; No. 5 Abbey Street, Dublin” PROVENANCE: THE COLLECTION OF HUGH AND ANNE IREMONGER € 200 - 300 311 MCGREGOR, THE HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY AND ANTIQUITIES OF LIMERICK, 2 vols, Dublin 1826, library stamps - FERRAR, The History of Limerick, plates (Watson) 1787, signature of Robert MacMahon, Prospect House, Limerick, bindings defective, (a rebind) PROVENANCE: THE COLLECTION OF HUGH AND ANNE IREMONGER € 150 - 200 312 STATISTICAL SURVEYS OF COUNTIES, Rawson, The County of Kildare, 1807, Coote, The County of Ca- van, 1802, DuBourdieu, The County of Down, 1802, Coote, The County of Armagh, 1804, Tighe, The County of Kilkenny,1802, Weld, The County of Roscommon, 1832, all with library stamps and requiring rebinding. (6) w.a.f PROVENANCE: THE COLLECTION OF HUGH AND ANNE IREMONGER € 250 - 350 309