ADAM'S - THE HISTORY SALE - APRIL 26TH 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

The History Sale

comprising:

- ‘The CompleteWorks of P.H. Pearse: Scríbinní (single volume)

- ‘Irish Names of Places’ (Volumes I, II & III), P.W. Joyce

- ‘The Crane Bag: Book of Irish Studies 1977-1981’, by M. P. Hederman & R.

Kearney

- ‘A History of Irish Flags from EarliestTimes’, by G.A. Hayes-McCoy

- ‘Ireland Since the Rising’, byTimothy Patrick Coogan

- ‘The Poetry and Song of Ireland’, by John Boyle O’Reilly

- ‘Some Irish Altar Plate:A descriptive list of chalices and patens, dating from the

fourteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Now preserved in the National

Museum.’

€ 300 - 500

Two books from his library, comprising;

- George Hope of Fenton Barns. A Sketch of his Life compiled by his Daughter [Miss

C. Hope], Edinburgh 1881, signed by her and inscribed on half-title‘Mr. Davitt,

With best wishes for his success in bringing about the destruction of landlordism and

the abolition of English rule in Ireland.’With an original photo of George Hope laid

down. In the chapter on Hope’s Irish visit, a passage on p.293 is marked, probably by

Davitt. George Hope was an East Lothian tenant farmer and a life-long campaigner

for agricultural reform. He built his holding into a model farm, but in 1875 his

landlord refused to renew his lease, and he had no choice but to leave. He died the

following year.

A fine association copy.

-WilliamAllan. Sunset Songs. Sunderland 1897. Quarto red cloth gilt, a.e.g.,

printed rectos only, with a portrait, inscribed on the portrait ‘To Mrs. Michael Davitt

/ FromWm.Allan’. Fine copy.

(2)

€ 300 - 400

OTHER ITEMS,Two political labels/stamps:We will not have Home Rule with im-

age of Carson Carson & Red hand of Ulster image; Unionist Association blank mem-

bership card;T.S. Frank Battersby. 60 Points against Home Rule; 4 1960’s unionist

Election leaflets; Belfast Cathedral Service programme for the Life andWork of Basil

Stanlake (Viscount Brookeborough) August, 1973; An Ulster Constitution Defence

Committee Poster issued by the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee. 1966. (10)

€ 80 - 120

with scalloped rim and decorated with a broad band of interlacing shamrocks, design

registration number 84747, 25.4cm diameter

€ 250 - 350