131. [Walter Benjamin Collection] – Benjamin, Walter.

Neuester Orbis Pictus oder Die Welt in Bildern für fromme Kinder. Aus der Sammlung von Walter Benjamin. Faksimiledruck im Inselverlag.

Frankfurt am Main, Insel Verlag, 1970. 16 x 24 cm. Unpaginiert. Ca. 50 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

132. [Walter Benjamin Collection] – Benjamin, Walter.

Eine Kommunistische Paedagogik: Spielzeug und Spielen – Programm eines Proletarischen Kindertheaters – Baustelle + Diskussion + Anhang.

Raubdruck mit allen Merkmalen der Erstausgabe dieses Raubdrucks. Berlin, Zentralrat der sozialistischen Kinderläden, 1969. Octavo. 93 Seiten. Original Softcover / Stapled. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear / Guter Zustand mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren. Mit einigen Anstreichungen im Text. (Anleitung für eine revolutionäre Erziehung, herausgegeben vom Zentralrat der sozialistischen Kinderläden West-Berlin, Nr. 2).

133. [Walter Benjamin Collection] – Benjamin, Walter.

Angelus Novus. Mit 4 ganzseitigen Holzschnitten von Gisela Oberbeck.

Limitierter Privatdruck in nur 90 signierten Exemplaren. München, Handsatzwerkstatt Fliegenkopf, 1992. 24,5 cm x 25 cm. 8 nn. Blatt mit 4 ganzseitigen, dramatischen Holzschnitten. Original Softcover / Blockbuchform mit handgebundenem Wellpappen-Umschlag der interessanterweise die Vergänglichkeit des Themas symbolisiert. Sehr guter Zustand. Signiert / Mit persoenlicher Widmung der Kuenstlerin. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of wear.

134. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Bay, Kenneth E.

How to Tie Freshwater Flies. A Step-by-Step, Fully Illustrated Guide for the Beginning Fly-Tier. Photographs by Matthew M. Vinciguerra.

New York, Winchester Press, 1976. 26cm x 18.5cm. vii, 151 pages. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

135. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Ardley, Denis H.

A Handbook of Fly-Tying. Photographs by John Tarlton and Drawings by Herbert Marshall.

First Edition. London, H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd., 1977. 22.4cm x 13.8cm. 175 pages. With 5 colour plates and over 80 text illustrations. Original hardcover in original price-clipped dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

136. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – American Fisheries.

Directory and Reference Book.

Camden, National Fisherman, 1978. 27.8cm x 21.4cm. 559 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Library stamp from Bank of Ireland, 1980.

137. Gilpin, William. [Castle-Freke Library Bookplates]

Collection of four Volumes (bound in two) by Gilpin – All from the historical library at Castle Freke (Castlefreke, West Cork / Ireland). The Volumes include: I. & II. Observations Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-Lands of Scotland. [Second Edition, with an “Account of the Prints” bound to the rear] / III. Observations on the River Wye and several Parts of South Wales &c. relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; Made in the summer of the Year 1770 (Third Edition). / IV. An Essay on Prints – [″The chief intention of the following work was to put the elegant amusement of collecting prints, on a more rational footing; by giving the unexperienced collector a few principles and cautions to assist him”] (Fourth Edition with the printed dedication “To the Honorable Horace Walpole in Deference to his Taste in the Polite Arts; and the Valuable Researches he has made to improve them; the following work is inscribed by his most obedient and very humble servant, William Gilpin”). [Volumes I & II with 40 original illustrations and vintage 18th century maps [correctly 39 illustrations and one table], for example of Loch Lomond and the Firth of Forth/ all illustrations are vintage mezzotint-plates].

Mixed Editions. Four Volumes (bound in two). London, Printed for R. Blamire, Strand, 1792. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: XI, [1], 221 pages with 24 mezzotints / Volume II: 195, XVI pages with 16 mezzotints and an “Account of the Prints” as well as “Translations of Latin Passages” / [Volume III]: [River Wye]: XVI, 152 pages with 16 (of 17) full – page mezzotints / [Volume IV]: [An Essay on Prints]: XIII, [3], 174 pages plus XI pages Index and 1 page Errata. Hardcover / Early 19th century quarter – morocco with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Both volumes bound in unison. Very good + condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pages 185 – 191 of Volume I with some stronger browning. Otherwise the interior very clean. All mezzotints in very good or even better condition. This is the original copy from the historical Castle-Freke Library in West Cork (Ireland), with two armorial bookplates to front and rear pastedown with the family’s motto ‘Pro Patria’. With two pages of manuscript annotations by a contemporary hand with a reference between the common name “Tarbet” in Scotland and a place-name in County Kerry in Ireland” (pages 13 of Volume II) / another entry is on page 12 of Volume II regarding the name-sake “Loch-Loung” for a Lake of ships in Scotland and Ireland.

138. [John Minihan Collection] – Minihan, John / McCabe, Eugene.

Shadows from the Pale: Portrait of an Irish Town. [Signed / Inscribed]

London, Secker & Warburg Ltd., 1996. 25cm x 28cm. Introduction 20 pages / Photographs 117 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed and inscribed by John Minihan on titlepage.

139. [John Minihan Collection] – Minihan, John / Heaney, Seamus.

Original photograph of Seamus Heaney at his 70th birthday in his home in Dublin, in the year 2009 / Titled and Signed by John Minihan in 2014 / The vintage photograph is here framed together with the original commemoration Stamp and signed First Day Cover of Anpost [The photograph was used as a Template for the creation of the Anpost Stamp in 2014].

Vintage Photograph on archival paper / Vintage First Day Cover with extra signature by John Minihan. Dublin, 2014. Image of the Photograph: 16 cm x 24 cm / First Day Cover: 18 cm x 12 cm. Overall Framed Size: 79 cm wide x 53,5 cm high. From the personal library of irish photographer John Minihan. Titled and signed by John Minihan. Beautifully framed (see multiple images on our website). Our company knows of an edition of four photographs and signed First Day Covers, which we bought from John Minihan in 2014 and which he signed in 2014. Later, signed First Day Covers are circulating and we have some of those in our archive for sale. But since John Minihan has sold the rights to most of his iconic images to UCC in Cork, none of the photographs are reprinted by the photographer and that makes this combination of the signed Seamus Heaney photograph, combined with the First Day Cover, signed actually on August 28th of 2014, very scarce. We have an edition of 3 (three) left. One is part of the “John Minihan Photography Collection”, which we are selling on our website (see under “Libraries & Collections”) and two are for sale on the free international market. The here offered, beautifully framed version, is one of these two. The price includes free shipping as a framed version within Ireland / The price includes free international shipping per UPS Courier but only unframed (we pay for framing in your home-country) !

140. [John Minihan Collection] – Minihan, John. (*1946)

Seamus Heaney – photographed for his 70th birthday at his Dublin Home.

Extra Large Original Photograph on archival paper. Dublin, 2009. 31 cm x 43 cm (Image only) / Framed 62,5 cm x 73 cm. From the private library and personal archive of irish photographer John Minihan. Titled and signed by John Minihan below the image. Unusual, large print of this stunning and intimate photograph of Irelands beloved poet. Beautifully framed.