Adam's The History Sale Tuesday 24th April 2018

36 Tuesday 24th April 51 MAURICE PRIMROSE A view of Pontoon with Lakes Conn and Cullen, Nephin in the background Inscribed and dated June 24/49, and The Pattern at Pontoon, Co. Mayo June 24/49 A pair, each 245 x 345mm Primrose, an army officer, made a tour of Ireland just after the famine.These two views made on the same day record a part of his trip.The pattern which he stumbled upon gives a spontaneous view of the gathering at what is now Healy’s Hotel and with Lord Lucan’s lodge (and barracks to guard him). It is a very valuable and objec- tive study of the social conditions prevailing at a precise date in County Mayo. € 1,000 - 1,500 52 THE LEAP The seat of Admiral Sir Henry D. E Darby K.C.D, K.D fecit/c. Hallmandel’s lithog- raphy 260 x 395mm Leap castle, Coolderry, Co. Offaly, infamous for its ‘elemental’ ghost was an O’Carroll stronghold and passed by marriage to the Darby’s (not in Elmes/Hewson catalogue of IrishTopographical Prints, 1975) € 250 - 350 53 THE MARKEE CASTLE TELESCOPE “Temporary Mounting of an Achromatic RefractingTelescope, property of E. J Cooper, Esq. M.P, Diameter of the Object Glass 14 inches, Full length 25 feet” byW. Eldridge, lithographer and printed by Eagleman & Co., 280 x 360mm Maria Edgeworth records in her letters (ed. Pakenham 2018) that in the summer of 1835 scientists descended on Dublin and then proceeded to Markee to inspect the worlds most powerful achromatic telescope made byThomas Grubb, some ten years previous to the famous Birr telescope. She mentions Professor Rowan Hamilton and Sir John and Lady Franklin (of Artic fame).This rare, apparently unrecorded litho- graph, was probably produced to commemorate the event. Edward Joshua Cooper constructed a permanent observatory beside the castle, appointed professional direc- tors and published a catalogue of 60,066 stars in 4 volumes between 1851 - 1856. The last director was Frederick Henkel and the observatory was closed in 1902. € 100 - 200 51