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Lot 16

Group of Books of Irish Interest

Estimate: $300 - $500
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$0 $25
$200 $50
$500 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000

Including: The Gardens of Ireland photographs by Michael George, text by Patrick Bowe, Hutchinson Ltd., 1986; The Lost Houses of Ireland by Randal MacDonnell, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002; In the Houses of Ireland photographs by Walter Pfeiffer and text by Marianne Heron, Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1988; Romantic Irish Homes by Robert O'Byrne, photographs by Simon Brown, CICO Books, 2009; The Great Cities: Dublin by Brenden Lehane, photographs by John McDermott and Laurie Lewis, Time Life International, 1978; Irish Houses: History, Archtecture, Furnishings by Klaus-Hartmut Olbricht and Helga M. Wegener, photographs by Günther von Voithenberg, translated by David Smith, Gill and MacMillian, 1984; Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland by the Knight of Glin, David J. Griffin, and Nicholas K. Robinson, Irish Architectural Archive and the Irish Georgian Society, 1988; A Guide to Irish Country Houses by Mark Bence-Jones, Constable and Co. Ltd., 1988; Magnum Ireland edited by Brigitte Lardinois and Val Williams, Thames and Hudson, 2005; Mrs Delany: Her Life and Her Flowers by Ruth Hayden, The Bath Press, 1992; Dublin Decorative Plaster Work of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by C. P. Curran, Alec Tirani Ltd., 1967, with some edge tearing to the jacket cover; The Follies and Garden Buildings of Ireland by James Howley, Yale University Press, 1993; The Houses of Ireland by Brian de Breffny and Rosemary Ffolliott, photographs by George Mott, Thames and Hudson, 1984; Life in an Irish Country House by Mark Bence-Jones, Constable and Co., 1996; The Houses of Ireland by Brian de Breffny and Rosemary ffolliott, photographs by George Mott, Viking Press, 1975, together with a sketch by Niall Smith; The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past: The Celtic Revival 1830–1930 by Jeanne Sheehy, photographs by George Mott, Thames and Hudson, 1980; Ireland's Traditional Crafts by David Shaw-Smith, Thames and Hudson, 1984; The Irish Country House: A Social History by Peter Somerville-Large, photographs by Mark Fiennes, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995; The Legacy of Light: A History of Irish Windows by Nessa Roche, photography by Hugh MacConville, Wordwell Ltd., 1999; Sweet Cork of Thee by Robert Gibbings, E. P. Dutton and Co., 1951, first edition, with engravings by the author; and In an Irish House edited by Sybil Connolly, photographs by David Davison, Harmony Books, 1988, first edition (21).

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