Adam's Works on Paper ONILNE Auction Ending August 10th 2020

127 Works on Paper 351 CROKER, THOMAS CROFTON Keen of The South of Ireland: as illustrative of Irish political and domestic history, manners, music, and superstitions Collected, edited and chiefly translated by T. Crofton Croker. bound with: Six Ballads, with burdens. Edited by James Goodwin. Bound with: Lyrical Poems, selected from musical publications between the years 1589 and 1600. Edited by J. Payne Collier. London, lix, [1], 108, xii, 15, vii, 92, 8 pp. Half red morocco, spine richly gilt. Scarce. € 150 - 250 352 CLIMBING BOYS Address of the Committee of the Dublin Society for supersed- ing the Necessity of Climbing Boys in Sweeping Chimneys With Extracts from the Reports of both Houses of Parliament on their Em- ployment, supported by Facts. Dublin, 1829. 24pp. Disbound. Rare and interesting pamphlet. € 150 - 250 353 RADCLIFF, REV. THOMAS. A Report of the Agriculture and Live Stock of the County of Wicklow, prepared under the directions of The Farming Society of Ireland Folding map of the county of Wicklow in which the Great Features are de- lineated. Dublin, 1812. xiv, [iv], 374, 3 (Notice of sale of fine wool - Farm- ing Society of Ireland) pp. Recent quarter goatskin COPAC locates the Southampton copy. The addenda has a large folding table of the annual sale of clothing wool shorn in Ireland, sold by auction at the Farming Society House, Summer Hill, Dublin, by Ebenezer Dix, July the 23d, 24th, and 25th, 1811. Listed are the owners, breed of sheep, quality, no. of fleece, weight in pounds, average weight, average value of each fleece, etc. Early in 1800 a General Farming Society was started by the Marquis of Sligo and the Right. Hon. John Foster. The new body agreed to be called the Farming Society, “under the patronage of the Dublin Society”. € 300 - 400