Available Material

Original St Patrick’s Day greeting postcard with Dalkey coastal scene, shamrocks and Irish harp; postally used in the United States.

Italian manuscript notebook with prose, verse and pen-and-ink drawings. Approximately 78 pages; author and precise date unidentified. Three openings illustrated.

Six original Selfridge (Holdings) Limited dividend warrants, 400 Oxford Street, London; available individually. Two examples illustrated.

Original 1930 group photograph of the 8th Battery, Wendes Artillery Regiment (A 3), captioned “8:de Batt. A. 3. Regementsmötet 1930”. Mounted on its original studio card with a photographer’s embossed mark from Kristianstad.

1905 Paris Sole Authorised Edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, published by Charles Carrington. Original grey-green cloth with water-lily decoration; title in red and black, with visible foxing.

Second edition of A. P. Sinnett’s treatise on mesmeric phenomena, London, 1902. Original gilt-lettered red cloth retaining the historic bookseller’s label of the Theosophical Book Concern, Room 426, 26 Van Buren Street, Chicago.

A 1905 New York illustrated edition of George W. Cable’s documentary Louisiana narratives, in olive-green cloth with an elaborate gilt floral cover bearing the MA monogram, attributed to Margaret Armstrong.

A London-printed Italian political memoir with the engraved heraldic bookplate of Richard Rothwell of Rockfield, County Meath, High Sheriff of Meath in 1839. Family papers survive at the National Library of Ireland.

Paris, 11 November 1938: a Rimbaud volume signed and personally inscribed by vocal teacher Miguel Fontecha to Canadian pianist Gerna Gilmour; Fontecha later taught Luis Mariano.

Raphael Tuck Oilette by Flora Pilkington, addressed to Synolda Cholmondeley Clarke at Clifton, Shankill, County Dublin; possible connection to the future Lady Dillon. Original message and postmark.

Prescott’s first edition examining the identification of tobacco adulterants using botanical illustration and microscopy. Original green blind-stamped cloth.

Illustrated 1890 travel book based on Ida Pfeiffer’s journeys, retaining an original Robert Stewart bookseller’s label from 2 Nassau Street, Dublin, and a vivid pictorial red cloth binding.

Original manuscript copyhold admission recording James de la Mare’s inheritance in Homerton, East London, 5 April 1892. A documented survival of London’s manorial property system.

An original manuscript album presented by Louisa to her sister Ellen Theodosia on 30 December 1860. Around 42 handwritten pages of devotional poetry preserve an intimate record of Victorian family and religious life. Names and attribution remain subject to verification.

An 1869 collection with handwritten family remembrance, Writtle connections and a later presentation dated 1892.

Fournier · Medical History · Contemporary manuscript note

Period decorative binding and Rowlandson’s biting visual satire; an illustrated window onto Georgian society.

The armorial ex libris of Simon Little of Cullentra, County Wexford, connects popular astronomy to an Irish private library.

Guy Boothby — My Strangest Case, 1902 · Original Serpent Binding

First edition, first impression · Fine original unclipped Richard Chopping dust jacket · First price intact

A nineteenth-century travel narrative retaining evidence of its Irish educational provenance.

Signed first edition · Merlin Unwin Books, 2000

An individual copy whose Irish literary association is central to its history.

Mellifont Press historical popular edition in illustrated wrapper.

Rare early Zionist printed booklet, London, 1901.

Original studio photograph · Lower Sackville Street · c.1885–1892

Unidentified Victorian lady · 32 Westmoreland Street, Dublin · original printed reverse

Original 1957 Irish commercial correspondence on Sir James W. Mackey Ltd. seedsmen letterhead, 23 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin, retaining its stamped postal section and fertiliser advertisement.

Original red-and-black Poor’s Rate receipt for 6 Burlington Road, Donnybrook; dated 14 March 1883.

Christmas correspondence from Bray to Vienna, December 1912, with possible Odlum family association, original envelope and decorative card.

Original Raphael Tuck London Bridge colour postcard with a handwritten schoolgirl’s letter to Miss Byrne, 12 Wellington Road, Dublin.

Moore’s Irish Melodies, red-cloth Victorian edition with a 1950 family inscription recalling Edmund Edmunds singing to Thomas Moore; encounter unverified.

Original studio portrait · Westmoreland Street & Lower Sackville Street · c.1900–1910

Original studio portrait · 22 Westmoreland Street · c.1910

Original photographic portrait · 16 Henry Street · c.1912–1916

Signed Presentation Portrait to Harold Douglas · 1939

Original Dublin school group photograph · 1946

Original fine art gallery trade label · Dawson Street, Dublin

Three New York–Blackrock postcards · 1906–1907

Original Torch Theatre programme · Dublin, c.1935

Gaiety Theatre programme · Florence Austral · 1939

Original Olympia Theatre programme · 1942

Original Dublin medical & surgical working diary · 1904

Original letter concerning the Cussen Education Fund · 1959

Rare illustrated London coachbuilders’ catalogue · 64-index price list

Victorian/Edwardian score register · London

Original post-mortem memorial photograph · Stockport, c.1898–1907

Working plans and annotations documenting practical stage lighting in named theatres, 1931–1934.

An intact private photographic album recording Swedish life and early aviation. Offered as an archive, not broken into individual photographs.

Third Series · Read & Co., London · hand-shadow political caricatures of Palmerston, Derby and Disraeli

Two mid-nineteenth-century cased portraits, one of a woman and the other of a child, with gilt metal mats, red embossed velvet interiors and ornate stamped cases; one sharply legible, the other extensively deteriorated.

An original Argentine Ministry of War directive signed by Colonel Juan Domingo Perón in Buenos Aires on 14 December 1943, with departmental seals, registration marks and contemporary filing endorsements.

Original period black-and-white photograph of military ceremonial formation and artillery in the outer courtyard of Stockholm Palace, with Wretmarks Foto studio mark on reverse. Exact date and event unconfirmed.

An original letter on stationery of No. 9 Upper Ormond Quay, written in January 1853. The text concerns receipts and business matters. The premises were subsequently incorporated into the Ormond Hotel, later associated with the Sirens episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses. This is a subsequent location history only, not a direct Joyce association.

Original manuscript correspondence from the commercial premises of No. 9 Upper Ormond Quay, including references to financial arrangements. The premises were subsequently incorporated into the Ormond Hotel, later associated with the Sirens episode of James Joyce’s Ulysses. This is a subsequent location history only, not a direct Joyce association.

Original receipt issued on the stationery of Herbert D. Vaughan, solicitor, 11 Hume Street, Dublin, for two pounds paid toward rebuilding the headstone and side stones of Miss E. V. Sankey’s grave. Dated 13 October 1922, signed by William Barry. The reason for rebuilding and the location of the grave are unconfirmed.

Original unused printed letterhead for Pembroke Cricket Club, founded 1868, bearing its historic Sydney Parade address and naming honorary officers F. H. C. Salmon and T. C. Fox. Date line printed 193-, uncompleted.

Late-Victorian studio portrait of soprano Madame Fanny Moody (1866–1945), photographed by Chancellor at 55 Lower Sackville Street, Dublin. Prominent manuscript inscription on image, apparently including her married name Manners; autograph attribution has not been independently authenticated. Decorative royal patronage information to verso.

Two 9-carat gold mourning rings commemorating Second Lieutenant Noel John Davies, killed on the Western Front on 27 April 1916. Acquired separately from another dealer and reunited by Ten Bells; subsequently consigned by their present owner to Whyte’s, Dublin, in April 2026.

Original double-sided salmon-pink hair-restoration advertisement, with photographic testimonials, a hair-follicle diagram and a 1903 endorsement attributed to the wife of Irish nationalist politician T. P. O’Connor.

Original Selfridges Ltd. Oxford Street sales and delivery docket, apparently dated 16 October 1952, with handwritten customer details, departmental entries and administrative markings.

An original 1928 London Macmillan printing of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with John Tenniel’s forty-two celebrated illustrations and the publisher’s red cloth binding, gilt-stamped on the front cover.

Brend’s first edition (1906), extensively marked by an unidentified reader; stamps of Fannin & Co., 41 Grafton Street, and Fred Hanna, 29 Nassau Street, Dublin.

Fifth edition, c. 1870. Victorian animal stories with striking pictorial cloth cover; engravings associated with Harrison Weir.

German-language anthology edited by Victor Fleischer, published by Anton Schroll in Vienna, c. 1920–1924, with colour lithographs and decorative work by Fritzi Löw. Original painted binding; collation unverified.

London, Samuel Bagster, 1821. Italian New Testament translated by Giovanni Diodati; striking red gilt and blind-tooled binding, marbled endpapers, Harper of Cheltenham stationer label.

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1895. First edition of Lillie’s contemporary critique of Blavatsky and the Theosophical movement; original burgundy cloth.

Author-published in South Shields, 1899. A late-Victorian marriage and women’s health manual by a self-described phrenologist and hygienist, with portrait frontispiece.

Original colour-illustrated, double-sided programme for Logroño’s San Mateo festivities, announcing Manolete for 22 September 1947, after his death on 29 August.

New York, Dial Press, 1972. First edition, first printing expressly stated. Large signed and dated presentation inscription from Richard Condon to P. & C. Hyland, mentioning Dr. Philomena Quinn; original illustrated boards in attractive condition, without dust jacket.

An attractive first edition of Victorian biblical zoology, published by the Wesleyan Conference Office in 1876, with elaborate original gilt-and-black pictorial binding and wood-engraved illustrations.

A remarkable post-war Dublin customer account book, 93 handwritten pages beginning 17 February 1951, with numerous Irish fiscal stamp usages in three distinct designs and dated Patrick Heron & Sons payment marks to 1957.

Illustrated 1849 Halifax edition of James Bruce’s African travels, in original blind-stamped cloth, with a manuscript inscription dated 1867 referring apparently to the British Schools, Manchester.

First Thousand issue of an 1852 Victorian temperance and social-history pamphlet by “Common Sense”, issued with six illustrations attributed to George Cruikshank and a remarkable original Gutta Percha Company advertisement on the rear wrapper. Both printed wrappers are detached but retained; presence of all six plates requires checking.

25 original Swedish postal items (23 postal cards and two envelopes) concerning cadastral administration, property boundaries and professional land surveying meetings. Original archive offered intact; scans forthcoming.

1895 signed trade correspondence concerning pedigree livestock selection in Dublin, from the offices of a documented Shrewsbury agricultural auctioneer.