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

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The Irish Guards in the GreatWar (2Vols)
Ist Edition, London, 1923, Macmillian & Co., in original red cloth binding with gilt
seal to front, gilt title to spine and partially gilt edge.
€ 200 - 300
History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, Cork, 1995,
Schull Books, a facsimile reprint of the first edition from Gale & Polden in 1927,
consisting of 2 hardback volumes of text and a map case of 41 large individual map
sheets.A fine set of the 3 oversize volumes in slipcase, limited edition copy num-
bered 196/200. Illustrated with colour plates; together with Lieutenant-Colonel H.
S Jervis,The 2nd Munsters In France, Cork, 1998, Schull books a facsimile reprint of
the first edition from Gale & Polden in 1922. (4)
€ 200 - 250
Stories of Old Ireland and Myself, 1st Edition, London 1924,William & Norgate,
Ltd, bound in original green cloth, illustrated with 34 photogravure plates after
paintings and drawings by the author.
€ 100 - 150
A collection including:
- An A.L.S from the painter and designer Norah McGuinness to Captain Jury
(part proprietor of the Shelbourne Hotel), 7 June [19]52, 2 pp, on her addressed
notepaper, concerning arrangements for mounting some ‘blow-ups’ [photographic?]
in oval frames or mounts.‘I inquired atWaddingtons about oval frames - difficult -
have to be imported fro m Belgium - I suggest as in enclosed drawing [not present[]
- gilt frame & plush or flocked mounts - It would be very nice.’
-Michael Scott (Architect). A sheet of detailed working drawings for a cocktail bar at
the Shelbourne Hotel, 29.3.[19]55, folded, hand coloured.
-The last will and testament of Mrs Margaret Jury (widow, part owner of the Shel-
bourne), 1885, leaving her property mostly to her son Charles Cotton Jury, with a
cash bequest to her daughter Agnes Fairbairn Mitchell and other minor bequests,
including an annuity of £20 to Miss Fanny S. Morrison,‘Linnen Keeper in the Shel-
bourne Hotel’. Ms., 4 pp legal folio, signed by Mrs. Jury and witnesses.
- A photograph of bedroom furniture at the hotel, an engraved share certificate (no
details entered), and a dinner menu for St.Andrew’s College Old Boys’ Donner at
the Shelbourne, 19 December 1924, toasts to include ‘The Governor-General and
Prosperity to Ireland’.
€300-500