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Catalogue 132

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CATALOGUE 132 Christmas 2017

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WITH COLOURED SKETCH BY THE AUTHOR 1. A.E. [George Russell] The Avatars A Futuristic Fantasy. London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. First edition. pp. vii, 188. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine with coloured sketch on titlepage, initialled by AE. A fine copy in repaired dust jacket. Extremely rare. €875

George Russell (1867-1935) was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, where his father was a book-keeper. The family moved to Dublin, and George attended the Metropolitan School of Art, where W.B. Yeats was a classmate and became a lifelong friend. He became interested in rural co-operation, and divided his time between organisation, poetry and painting. He also edited the Irish Homestead, organ of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, and later his own weekly journal the Irish Statesman. A pacifist and mystic, much influenced by Hindu spirituality, he wrote several powerful essays during the great Dublin strike of 1913 in defence of the rights of labour.

SIGNED BY BUZZ ALDRIN 2. ALDRIN, Buzz Men From Earth. Buzz Aldrin and Malcolm McConnell. Illustrated. New York: Bantham Books, 1989. pp. xix, 312, [2]. Quarter black cloth on purple boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by Buzz Aldrin on half-title. A fine copy. €325

Buzz Aldrin (born 1930) is an American engineer and former astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, he was one of the first two humans to land on the Moon, and the second person to walk on it. He set foot on the Moon at 03:15:16 on July 21, 1969 (UTC), following mission commander Neil Armstrong. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer with the Command Pilot rating.

WHALLEY'S ALMANACK WITH CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT NOTES ON CULLYBACKEY MILL

3. [ALMANACK] Whalley Rev v'd, or an Almanack for the Year of Christ, 1696. Being Bissextile, or Leap Year, And from the Creation, according to Scripture, 5645. Furnished with variety of Matter ... Fitted to the Meridian of Dublin ... Dedicated to the Parliament of Ireland. By John Whalley, Student in Physick and the Mathematicks, At the Blew Posts, next door to the Wheel of Fortune on Stephens-Green, Dublin. Dublin: Printed by, and for, Joseph Ray, Printer to the Honourable City of Dublin; and are to be Sold at his House on College-Green, and by the Booksellers in Dublin, [1696]. 12mo. pp. [40], 56 (pages of early eighteenth century manuscript entries bound in at back, being mostly receipts for rents for Cullybackey mill). Housed in a modern full calf solander box, titled in gilt on red morocco label. Paper restoration to titlepage, some holing with minute loss of text. Of the utmost rarity. €1,250

Not in Wing. Not in Sweeney. Not in Bradshaw. Not in BL, TCD or NLI. ESTC R477882 noting the Royal Irish Academy copy only.


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John Whalley (1653-1724), quack, astrologer, and compiler of almanacs, was born in 1653, son of a Cromwellian adventurer. He worked as a cobbler in England before arriving in Dublin (March 1682), and compiled his first almanac in the following year. His notorious publication was initially titled Vox Urani, then Syderus Nuncios from 1686, and finally Mercurius Hibernicus, or, An Almanac through the 1690s, gradually becoming known simply as Whalley Rev v'd Almanack. He had the knack of behaving in ways that were guaranteed to ensure his unpopularity among the native population. He was fiercely anti-Irish and anti-Catholic. His willingness to play the role of informer did not endear him to many either, and especially not the poet Ferdoragli O'Daly, whose brother was hanged after being shopped by Whalley. The poet penned a satire which has been described as one of the bitterest in the Irish language. Whalley was pilloried for sedition in 1688 during the brief Jacobite revival, for publicising accounts of the activities of William of Orange; this prompted his removal to England, where he briefly ran a coffee house, returning the following year. Regularly complaining of the incompetence of his printers, he set up his own press in 1699. With a range of elixirs and potions which he offered for sale, his prophetical publications served him well in creating demand for his wares. Keenly promoting astrology and favouring a return to traditional Aristotelian naturalism. Whalley was admitted a freeman by Dublin corporation, who styled him a 'chuirurgeon', in January 1709. Between July 1714 and August 1723 he published Whalley's News-Letter twice, and sometimes thrice, weekly. Pollard notes that Whalley's controversial, polemical output had a greater impact than his significance to the contemporary book trade would imply; he is regarded by some as one of the progenitors of 'yellow' journalism in Ireland, alongside Samuel Carter. A rabid anti-catholic and virulent whig, Whalley engaged in a protracted war of invective with John Harding, the printer of Jonathan Swift, continually squabbling with other members of the book trade who were not as anti-catholic, anti-Irish, and pro-Hanoverian as himself. One such combatant was John Coates, a Cork almanac publisher, who prophesied that Whalley's death would occur in February 1723, the inaccuracy of which Whalley publicly celebrated. On the failure of an anti-popery bill to pass the House of Lords (August 1719), Whalley petitioned the upper house to banish or castrate priests, destroy all popish books, and bar catholics from the printing and bookselling trades. Initially living on the west side of St Stephen's Green (1691-8), he moved to St Nicholas Street (1698-1701) and then spent a year in St Patrick Street. Styling himself 'Dr John Whalley, student in astrology and physick', he advertised and sold his famous 'golden pills and elixir cardiac' from his premises at the Blue Ball in Arundel Court, near St. Nicholas St., where he lived for the remainder of his life. Whalley was a rarity amongst those who engage in these pursuits, he was prepared to stand his ground over both his predictions and his remedies alike, advertising that "such as have occasion to speak with the Author may enquire for him at the "Golden Last on the Upper Comb." He married (6 December 1712) Mary Galloway. He referred to Mary as his last wife. The daughter of a John and Susanna Whalley is recorded as being baptised on 20 July 1686 in St Audoen's church, Dublin. On his death (17 January 1724) Whalley was succeeded by Mary, to whom he bequeathed the rights to his almanac and patent medicines. John Gilbert in his History of Dublin refers to an epitaph which was circulating round Dublin after Whalley's death, assuming him to be the subject of the verse. It reads as follows: "Here five foot deep, lies on his back A cobbler, starmonger, and quack, Who to the stars in pure good will Does to his best look upward still. Weep all ye customers that use His pills, his almanacks, or shoes. And you that did your fortunes seek, Step to his grave but once a week, This earth which bears his body's print, You'll find has so much virtue in't, That I durst pawn my ears 'twill tell What e'er concerns you, full as well In physick, stolen goods, or love, As he himself could when above." The manuscript entries in our Almanack commence October 21, 1701 and run up to 1829. They are almost all receipts for rent paid in the early eighteenth century for the mill, or mills, of Cullybackey


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(from Irish Coill na Baice, meaning 'wood of the river bend'), a village in County Antrim, that lies three miles north-west of Ballymena, on the banks of the River Maine. Most are paid by a John Murdoch (a name spelt in various ways) and later by a Mrs Murdoch, presumably his widow. Some other items relate to nearly a century later. On April 5th 1730: "Recd from Mr. John Murdogh Seventeen pounds Nine Shillings & Nine pence ... for one years Rent & fees due to Robt Colvill, Esq at May last for the Mill at Cullybackey ... Jn. Jordan." There are several entries for these rents, last record: August 10th 1751 "Recd from Mr. John Murdogh Eighteen pounds Eleven Shillings & Ten pence ... rent due for the mills at Cullybackey ... Hill Wilson." Some interesting names occur in the early eighteenth century, such as a Henry O'Hara, Hill Wilson, Jn. Jordan and an R. Adair. Provenance: Purchased from an American lady whose ancestor brought the Almanack to the U.S. in the late eighteenth century.

4. A LOOKER ON [R. McCULLAM] Sketches of the Highlands of Cavan, and of Shirley Castle, in Farney, taken during the Irish Famine. By a Looker-On. Belfast: J. Reed, Bookseller, 97, Victoria Street, 1856. pp. 316. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Light foxing to prelims. Repair to spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €385

No copy located on COPAC.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 5. ANDERSON, Sherwood. Alice and The Lost Novel. Being Number Ten of The Woburn Books. London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1929. pp. 28. Blue pictorial boards, title in blue on upper cover. Edition limited to 530 copies (No. 114) signed by the author. Pages uncut. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €85 6. ANDREWS, John. Ireland in Maps. An Introduction. With a Catalogue of an Exhibition mounted in the Library of Trinity College Dublin, 1961 by the Geographical Society of Ireland in conjunction with the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. With 5 maps. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1961. pp. 36. Illustrated stiff wrappers. A very good copy. €25 7. [ANON] An Essay on the Nature, Use, and Abuse, of Tea, in a Letter to a Lady; With an Account of its Mechanical Operation. Dublin: Printed by Pressick Rider and Thomas Harbin, for Edward Hamilton, at Corner of Christ-Church-Lane, 1725. pp. 63, [1]. Modern marbled wrappers. Unobtrusive stain to lower right hand margin of some pages. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €675

COPAC locates 7 copies only. WorldCat 1. Sometimes attributed to Richard Helsham.

See items 2 & 8.


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8. AN OXONIAN [S. Reynolds Hole] A Little Tour in Ireland. Being a Visit to Dublin, Galway, Connamara, Athlone, Limerick, Killarney, Glengarriff, Cork, etc. Illustrated with large coloured frontispiece and numerous other illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury, n.d. Small quarto. pp. vi, 203. Maroon decorated cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. €175

9. AN PHILIBIN [J.H. Pollock] The Desire of the World. A Book of Wonder Tales. With pictures drawn by Seán MacManus. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1932. pp. xl. Illustrated stitched wrappers. Some minor foxing, otherwise a fine copy. €35 De Búrca 48. John Hackett Pollock (1887-1964), poet, novelist and playwright was born in Dublin and studied at C.U.S. Leeson Street and the medical school in Cecilia Street, taking the M.B. and B.Ch. from the National University in 1913. Attached to the Richmond Hospital, he helped the wounded on the streets during the 1916 Rising. His love of nature and appreciation of landscape are apparent in his writing. He was a founder member of the Gate Theatre and sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "An Philibín" (the Plover). 10. ARCHDEACON, M. Shawn na Soggarth, The Priest Hunter; An Irish Tale of the Penal Times. Dublin: James Duffy, 1844. First edition. pp. viii, 416. Original blind-stamped cloth. Spine

professionally rebacked preserving original backstrip. Some minor stains to upper cover. Lacking frontispiece, as usual. From the library of Robert Montgomery of Convoy with his signature and stamp. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,250

No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. Brown 133. Sadleir 60. Loeber A78. NSTC locates only 3 copies. The author was born in Castlebar, County Mayo in 1800. He taught in the academy there and wrote several historical novels, all founded on fact. This novel is set in West Mayo during the Penal Days relates the escapades of John Mullowney (Shawn na Soggarth), the infamous priest-hunter in trying to capture Fr. Bernard Kilger, lately returned from Portugal, and his nephew, Friar Bourke. His plans are thwarted by Johnny McCann, the pedlar. The severity of the Penal Laws is vividly described.

11. [ASHWORTH, John Harvey] The Saxon in Ireland: or, the Rambles of an Englishman in Search of a Settlement in the West of Ireland. With a frontispiece and map. London: John Murray, 1851. First edition. pp. xi, [1], 292, 32 (Murray's list). Olive-green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Some light staining to covers, corners lightly bumped. Spine expertly rebacked. A very good copy. €175

In the introduction the author states: "We seldom know the real value of anything till we lose it". With a lithograph of Slievemore and Croughan mountains from the Plains of Ballycroy, and a detailed map of Erris and Galway.

12. BAGENAL, Philip H. Vicissitudes of an Anglo-Irish Family 1530-1800. A Story of Irish Romance and Tragedy. With illustrations and large folding pedigree of the Irish Bagenals. London: Clement Ingleby, at the Sign of the Boar's Head, Great James Street, 1925. Quarto. pp. xii, [i], 166, xii. Modern buckram. A very good copy. Very rare. €375

Sir Nicholas Bagenal or Bagenall (1509-1591) was an English-born soldier and politician who became Marshal of the Army in Ireland during the Tudor era. He was born the second son of John Bagenal (died 1558), a tailor who served as Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme, by his wife Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Whittingham of Middlewhich, Cheshire and cousin of William Whittingham, Dean of Durham. His elder brother, Sir Ralph Bagenal, was one of Henry VIII's courtiers. In 1538 Nicholas fled to Ireland to escape justice for killing a man in the Staffordshire village of Leek; his two brothers were apparently also involved in this crime. In Ireland he became acquainted with Con O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone and on 7 December 1542 the Irish council, at the suit of Tyrone, begged the King to pardon Bagenal, who returned to England in April 1544 and took part in the campaign in France in the following summer. In January 1586 Sir John Perrot complained that Nicholas Bagenal was too old to perform his duties as marshal; a feud between Bagenal and Perrot lasted until the lord deputy was recalled. On one occasion (15 July 1587) there was an affray between the two in Perrot's house, where they were both drinking


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heavily. Bagenal was pushed to the ground after lunging out at Perrot. In 1590 Bagenal resigned the office of marshal asking for the post to be conferred on his son, Sir Henry. The contents include: Sir Ralph Bagenal; Sir Samuel Bagenal; Sir Nicholas Bagenal; The Marshal's Army; Sir Henry Bagenal; The Love Story of Mabel Bagenal and Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone; The Battle of the Yellow Ford; The Barony Idrone, County Carlow; Dudley Bagenal; Colonel Walter Bagenal; His Part in the Rebellion of 1641; His Trial; Colonel Bagenal's Family; Colonel Dudley Bagenal in Exile; Mrs Bagenal - Her Second Son George and their Jacobite Adventures; Walter Bagenal II; Beauchamp Bagenal; His Further Political Adventures; Beuchamp's Family and Descendants.

13. BAGWELL, Richard. Ireland Under The Tudors. With a succinct account of the earlier history. Three volumes. Illustrated with 7 maps. Somerset: Holland Press, 1963. pp. (1) xxii, 440, (2) xi, 391, (3) xvii, 502. Red cloth, titled in gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A fine set in fine dust jackets. Scarce. €265

This work deals at length with: The Celtic Constitution, Tribal System and Celtic Land Law; The Northmen, Turgesius, Danes and Norwegians, Battle of Clontarf; The Reign of Henry II, Ireland given to England by the Popes, Anglo-Normans in Ireland, Strongbow, Henry II in Ireland, Viceroyalty of John; From John's Visit in 1210 to the Bruce Invasion, John Lord and King of Ireland, Leinster Divided after Strongbow's Death, The De Burgos in Connaught, Colony declines under Henry III, The Colonists become Hibernis ipsis Hiberniores, Irish Corporate Towns, Anglo-Norman Families; From 1346 to the Accession of Henry VII, Lionel, Duke of Clarence, The Statute of Kilkenny, Richard II's first visit, His second visit, Henry IV and V neglect Ireland, Richard of York made Lord-Lieutenant; The Irish Parliament, Growth of Representative Institutions, The Sphere of English Law, The Parliament of Kilkenny not representative of Ireland, The Peerage, The Clergy, The Viceroy; The Reign of Henry VII, The Fitzgeralds were Yorkists, The Butlers Lancastrians, Lambert Simnel Crowned in Ireland, The York Yorkists cut to pieces at Stoke, Mission of Sir Richard Edgcombe; The Butlers and the Geraldines, Power of the Kildare family, Battle of Knocktoe; From the Accession of Henry VIII to the year 1534, The Kildare and Ormonde families, O'Donnell and O'Neill, Desmond and the MacCarthies; The Geraldine Rebellion - Skeffington's Administration; The O'Neills, Grey in the West of Ireland, Grey and the O'Connors, The O'Carrolls, The O'Mores, Case of the O'Tooles, Henry VIII made King of Ireland by Act of Parliament; 1541 to the close of the reign of Henry VIII, MacWilliam Burke made Earl of Clanricarde, The MacDonnells in Antrim, The Lord of the Isles in Ireland; The Irish Church under Henry VIII; The Reign of Mary, etc.

14. BANIM, Michael. The Mayor of Wind-Gap and Canvassing. By the O'Hara Family. A New Edition, with introduction and notes, by Michael Banim, Esq. Dublin: James Duffy, 1865. pp. [i], iv, [i], 395. Two volumes bound together in one, continuously paginated. Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards, spine divided into five compartments by four gilt raised bands; title in gilt on spine. New endpapers. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €145

COPAC locates 3 copies only. Loeber B 34. A story of morality with melodrama in an idyllic evocation of rural Ireland in a past age. Set in County Kilkenny in 1779, it tells a sensational story of stolen inheritance involving jealousy, revenge, and murder, and featuring a mysterious villain who is in fact an ex-pirate.

15. BARRINGTON, Sir Jonah. Personal Sketches of His Own Times. Second edition revised and improved. With a memoir of the author; an essay on Irish wit and humour; and notes and corrections. By Townsend Young. Engraved portrait of the author at frontispiece. Three volumes. London: Colburn & Bentley, 1827/1832. pp. (1) xxiv, 478, (2) xiv, 444, [445-448-Prospectus], (3) xxxvi, 436. Original blue papered boards, spines rebacked. A very good set. €385

Sir Jonah Barrington (1760-1834) lawyer and chief anecdotal historian of Anglo-Irish society before the Act of Union, was born at Knapton, near Abbeyleix, County Laois, which was subsequently lost to his family. Educated in Dublin and at TCD before being called to the Bar in 1788, he took silk in 1790 and became an Admiralty Court Judge in 1798. Between 1798 and 1800 he was MP for Tuam and then Clogher. Though opposed to the legislative Union (reputedly refusing the solicitorship offered in return for his influence), he was also closely involved in the traffic of bribes required to pass the measure, it is very difficult to reconcile this. He failed to be elected to Westminster for Dublin in 1802-3 but was knighted in 1807. For some years Barrington occupied a house in Harcourt Street, adjacent to his great rival John Scott, Lord Clonmell. From 1815 he lived mostly in France to escape creditors. His Personal Sketches of His Own Times first


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published in 1827 (volume 3 appeared in 1832), contain the vivid portraits of contemporary political and legal figures for which he is best remembered, besides a gallery of bibulous landlords and their stage Irish retainers, with an unruly army of actors, wits, gamblers, hacks, and impostors. A most interesting account of the social, political and cultural life in Ireland in the late eighteen and early nineteen century. He describes at length the 1798 Rebellion, Wolfe Tone, Hamilton Rohan, Fr. O'Leary, Curran and Grattan, Irish Inns, Wexford elections, etc. In the third volume he discusses medicine in Ireland, recruiting, the Mayo election at Castlebar, Donnybrook Fair, Weddings and customs, etc. In 1830 he was removed from office after a parliamentary commission found he had embezzled from the Admiralty Court several times between 1805 and 1810. He died in Paris.

16. BARRY, Edmond. Barrymore. Records of the Barrys of County Cork from the earliest to the present time. With pedigrees ... Reprinted from the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archæological Society. Cork: Guy & Co., 1902. pp. 214. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €475

COPAC lists only 3 copies. The Barrys came to Ireland in the wake of the Anglo-Norman invasion. Like the Bourkes, Fitzgeralds, Butlers, Prendergasts, Roches, etc.- they became Hibernis ipsis Hiberniores (more Irish than the Irish themselves) and can now be regarded essentially Irish. As early as 1179 Philip de Barri obtained extensive grants of land in County Cork (in the baronies of Barrymore, Orrery and Kinelea). The family prospered and multiplied, and the several branches of the family formed septs in the Irish fashion, the chief of which were the important Barry Mór, Barry Óg, Barry Roe, while minor branches became Barry Maol (Bald) and Barry Láidir (Strong). Among the many distinguished members are: two soldiers of the 1641 war - David Barry, Earl of Barrymore and Gerald Barry (also an author); James Barry (born c.1591) is regarded the first Irish dramatist; Sir Samuel Barry, John Milner Barry and Sir David Barry, all physicians wrote extensively on medical subjects; In art James Barry was one of our most celebrated painters; John Barry of Wexford is known as the "father of the American navy". The patriot Kevin Barry was hanged for his part in the Irish War of Independence.

17. BARTLETT, W.H. A Pilgrimage through the Holy Land, Explanatory of the Díorama of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, painted under the direction of Mr. W. Beverly, from original sketches, made on the spot, by Mr. W.H. Bartlett. Now Exhibiting at the St. George's Gallery, St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner. London: n.d. (c.1853). pp. iv, 67. Modern wrappers, with the original printed wrapper mounted on upper cover. A very good copy. €135

18. BECKER, Bernard H. Disturbed Ireland. Being the letters written during the Winter of 1880-81. With route maps. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. pp. ix, 338. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €350

With the land war at its height, Bernard Becker, a journalist with the Daily News was sent to Ireland to report on the distressed conditions of the disturbed districts. Becker claimed to be an "intelligent foreigner" with no Irish connections, suitable for the purpose. He confined his travels to the hot-spots of the agrarian troubles - Counties Kerry, Clare, Galway and Mayo. The letters are claimed to be unbiased descriptive accounts of "a strange phase in national life." But he was critical of tenants and


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their demands, sympathetic to landlords and lodged with Richard Stacpoole, one of the largest and most unyielding landlords in County Clare. At Lough Mask he praises the courage of Captain Boycott who is "garrisoned at home and escorted abroad." When published Disturbed Ireland aroused great interest and led to debates on the 'Irish Question' in the House of Commons. There are three pages of manuscript entries at front in the form of an index, which is very useful as there was no index published.

A SUPERB COPY 19. BECKETT, Samuel. Murphy. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1938. First edition. Octavo. pp. [6], 282, 4 (advertisement). Smooth green cloth, titles to spine in gilt. Booksellers neat label on lower pastedown. Housed in a fine quarter green morocco solander box. A superb copy of the rare first edition. €2,850

Federman & Fletcher 25. The author's first published novel. This copy is in the first binding state of smooth green cloth with gilt lettering, and is one of no more than 718 copies thus. Samuel Beckett was one of the truly seminal and influential writers of the 20th century. The Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to him in 1969 symbolized his acceptance by the international community.

ONE OF 26 BRENDAN BEHAN'S COPY?

20. BEHAN, Brendan. The Hostage. New York: Grove Press, 1958. First American edition. pp. [vi], 92. Quarter brown cloth on grey papered boards, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. Limited to 26 lettered copies. This copy lettered 'A' for Brendan Behan, and signed by him. Card inscribed from Brendan's wife, Beatrice, who gifted the book to Frank and Una Harvey in 1989: "Do Pronnsias & Agnes agus a Chlann, & The Hills of Dún-na-nGall, May your shadows never grow less, Chonnaiceamar an dá lá le céile, le mór bhuiochas agus grá, ó Beatrice, 1989." Light stain to boards, otherwise a fine copy. €2,500

Brendan Francis Behan (1923-1964) poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright was born at 13 Russell Street in Dublin's north inner city into a republican family. He wrote in both English and Irish. He was also an Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army. Behan joined the IRA at sixteen, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in England and was also imprisoned in Republic of Ireland. During this time, he took it upon himself to study and he became a fluent speaker of the Irish language. Subsequently released from prison as part of a general amnesty given by the Fianna Fáil government in 1946, Behan moved between homes in Dublin, Kerry and Connemara and also resided in Paris for a period. In 1954, Behan's first play The Quare Fellow was produced in Dublin. It was well received; however, it was the 1956 production at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in Stratford, London, that gained Behan a wider reputation - this was helped by a famous drunken interview on BBC television. In 1958, Behan's play in the Irish language An Giall had its debut at Dublin's Damer Theatre. Later, The Hostage, Behan's English-language adaptation of An Giall, met with great success internationally. Behan's autobiographical novel, Borstal Boy, was published the same year and became a worldwide best-seller. He married Beatrice Salkeld in 1955. Behan was known for his drinking problem, which resulted in his suffering from diabetes, which ultimately resulted in his death on 20 March 1964. He was given an IRA guard of honour which escorted his coffin and it was described by several newspapers as the biggest funeral since those of Michael Collins and Charles Stewart Parnell.


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21. [BEHAN, Brendan] Who Killed Brendan Behan ? By "Feicreanach." Reprinted from the "Irish Democrat," May 1964. pp. 12. Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €65

He was "enslaved by the alcohol that has now killed him," and suffered from "what seem to amount to a compulsive death wish." So he "committed Hari Kari the liquid way." COPAC locates 2 copies.

22. BENNETT, C. J. B. The Galweys of Lota by C.J.B. Bennett. Dublin: Hodges Figgis 1909. pp. [viii], 166. Green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Extra leaf inserted with the genealogical details of Rev Charles Galwey, Archdeacon of Derry. Signature of the historian, Henry B Swanzy on front pastedown. Occasional light spotting. A very good copy. Rare. €375

COPAC locates 7 copies only. WorldCat 1. Frontispiece: The Galwey monument in St. Mary's Limerick. Printed: Edinburgh & London: Ballantyne. Includes bibliographical references.

23. BERKELEY, G.F.H. The Irish Battalion in the Papal Army of 1860. Illustrated. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1929. pp. xxii, 254. Blue cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €165

As a result of his researches in Rome the author has written a book which is not only a valuable side-light on the Italian Risorgimento, but a brilliant and reliable account of Ireland's military effort on behalf of the Temporal Power. It is a major reference work of importance to all who are interested in religious, political and military history.

24. [BETHAM MANUSCRIPT] The Compossicion Booke of Conought. Manuscript in Sir William Betham's neat, forward-slanting and legible hand. Large quarto. Consisting of 149 numbered folios. Paper watermarked 'Swift Brook Mills'. No date, circa 1820s. Bound in contemporary dark green morocco over green cloth boards. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper 'This Book belongs to / John Kelly / Essex Lawn / Roscommon.' Light wear to spine. A fine copy. €2,350

Sir William Betham (1779-1853), antiquarian and genealogist, born at Stradbrook in Suffolk. He began life as a printer, and came to Ireland in 1805, where he distinguished himself in genealogy, a taste derived from his father; he was knighted in 1812, and next year succeeded Sir Chichester Fortescue as Ulster King at Arms. He devoted himself with indefatigable industry to his favourite study, collecting an immense mass of materials, and partially reducing to order, and making available, the collections in the Birmingham Tower and the Remembrancer's Office. He published several works of a somewhat speculative character connected with the study of Irish antiquities, and contributed largely to the leading literary societies of which he was a member. His greatest MS. work was his index to the names of all persons mentioned in the wills at the Prerogative Office in Dublin. It consists of forty large folio volumes, begun in 1807, and not completed


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before 1828, during a great part of which period he devoted to it from eight to ten hours a-day. His "philological Deductions were not generally deemed satisfactory; and it may be regretted that these speculative studies withdrew his attention from those more tangible questions affecting our political and constitutional history, of which he had made himself a master, and for the illustration of which he had formed such ample collections." The Compossicion Booke of Conought details the inquisitions and agreement made in July - October 1585 between the chieftains of Connaught and the Royal Commission under Sir Richard Bingham for resettlement of the county on feudal lines. The Booke is divided into sections: The Office of Thomond, Clare, Clare and Thomond, Clanrickard, Ireconought, Dunmore, Longford, Bealamoe, Office of Mayo, Mayo, Office of Sligo, Sligo, O'Rurkes Contry, Office of Leotum, Leotum, Maghery Conought, Imany. Prime historical & genealogical source for the Connaught families and placenames.

25. BICHENO, J.E. Esq. Ireland, and its Economy; Being the Result of Observations Made in a Tour Through the Country in the Autumn of 1829. London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1830. First edition. pp. xvi, 308. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco labels on rebacked spine. All edges marbled. A very good copy. Very rare. €875

COPAC locates only 3 copies. WorldCat 1. James Ebenezer Bicheno, (1785-1851), author and colonial official, was born at Newbury, Berkshire, the only surviving son of James Bicheno, a well-to-do Baptist minister and schoolmaster at Newbury, who wrote politico-theological works, and his wife, Ann. James Ebenezer spent the first part of his life at Newbury, and there wrote An Inquiry into the Nature of Benevolence attacking the system of poor-law administration then prevailing in England. Bicheno married in 1821 but his wife died in childbirth within a year. In 1822 he was called to the bar by the Middle Temple and joined the Oxford circuit, but continued his economic and scientific studies. He had been elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1812, was secretary from 1825 to 1832, and wrote many papers on botany, zoology, and ornithology. In May 1827 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1842 Bicheno was appointed colonial secretary in Van Diemen's Land where he proved an efficient, though conservative, administrator. In 1848, Bicheno presided over the first public exhibition of pictures in Australia; he was one of the founders, foundation fellow, vice-president, and councillor of the local Royal Society, and contributed to its papers; he was a vice-president of the Mechanics' Institute and showed his interest in gardening, art, music, and good living. He died at Hobart Town of heart failure in 1851. He left an estate of about £1,500, bequeathing his herbarium to the public museum at Swansea in Tasmania and his 2,500 books to the Tasmanian Public Library. In 1829 Bicheno visited Ireland, recording his impressions in Ireland and its Economy. In the preface to this work he states: "I had long harboured the desire of visiting a country, which contradicts the received theory of population and the established doctrines of political economists … Ireland is, therefore, to the moral and political philosopher what Australia is to the naturalist, - a land of strange anomalies; and he must be a very dull observer, who does not bring home, from either of these countries, something new and interesting … No convenient opportunity occurred, until last year, to fulfil my wishes … I could no longer delay the execution of my project … Our route lay through the counties of Waterford, Cork, Kerry, the western part of Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, Kilkenny, Carlow, Kildare, Dublin; then northward direct to Belfast returning through Armagh, whence I diverged through Monaghan to Enniskillen and Sligo". The chapters include: The Face of the Country - Peasantry - Travelling; Produce; Bogs; Habitations; Roads; Of the Confiscations - Cromwellian Settlement; Plantation of Connacht; Tenures of Land - Landlord and Tenant; Of the Catholics; Of the Protestants; Of Poor-Laws; Of Education, and Of Absentees. From 1833 to 1836 he served on the commission, chaired by Archbishop Whately, investigating the condition of the Irish poor, but disagreed with its report which advocated extensive public works.

26. [BLACKROCK] Hill's Guide to Blackrock, with a Description of the Neighbourhood and Excursions. Dublin: Freeman's Journal, n.d. (c.1890). pp. xvi, [iv (Medical Directory, Blackrock Post Office, Churches, Train Timetable, Advertisment)]. Recent wrappers. Very good copy. €75 27. [BLACK'S GUIDE] Black's Tourist's Guide to Ireland. Illustrated with a map and several plans and views. Nineteenth edition. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1886. 16mo. pp. vi, 350, 120 (advertisements), [1]. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. A good copy. Very scarce. €65


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28. BLAKE-FORSTER, Charles Ffrench. The Irish Chieftains; or A Struggle for the Crown: Numerous Notes and a copious Appendix. Dublin: McGlashan and Gill, 1872. pp. xiii, 728. Green cloth, with heavy ornate gilt to spine and front board. A very good copy. €475

The first part of this book is an historical account, in the form of a tale, of the Williamite Wars, from the landing of James II at Kinsale to the surrender of Galway, mentioning all the battles and sieges, except that of Derry. The second part, consisting of 300 pages, has woven into it large sections of notes, appendices, pedigrees, reports, documents, etc. on families of County Galway, but especially the Prendergast, O'Shaughnessy and Blake-Forster clans. The latter is carried on past the Treaty of Limerick down to the final dispossession of the O'Shaughnessys in 1770. It includes many narratives on the history of the Irish Brigade in France, affairs in Ireland at that time (Penal Laws, Rapparees, etc), combined with much topographical knowledge and local tradition. The author was the eldest son of Capt. Francis Blake-Forster of the Connaught Rangers, and was born at Forster St. House, Galway, in 1851. He was educated privately by a tutor, and in England. The first place he visited on his return home was Fidane Castle, and gazing on its ruins, he resolved, like Gibbon in the Coliseum, to write its history. He played a prominent part in the public life of the City of the Tribes, as town councillor, guardian of the poor, and in 1874 was appointed High Sheriff. He was popular as a public figure and a landlord, for no tenants were ever evicted from his estate at Kinvara. He died at the very young age of twenty-three years; this would explain why the six interesting historical titles listed on the verso of the half title were never published. His nephew wrote that he: "was expelled from the County Clubs of Galway and Ennis, and the principal Clubs of Dublin, on account of the opinions, Jacobite and Nationalist, expressed in his Irish Chieftains, and because the binding bore an uncrowned harp."

29. BOLINGBROKE, Lord Viscount. Memoirs of the Life and Ministerial Conduct, with Some free Remarks on the Political Writings, Of the Late Lord Visc. Bolingbroke. Dublin: Printed for J. Exshaw, on Cork-hill, R. James and R. Main in Dame-street, Booksellers, 1753. 12mo. pp. [16], 330. Contemporary full calf. Joints starting but very firm, title in gilt on red morocco label in second compartment; armorial crest in gilt in the first. Corners lightly bumped. Initials of G.W.N. on titlepage. A very good copy. Very rare. €475

COPAC with 4 locations only. ESTC T110908. Attributed to David Mallet. 30. BOUCICAULT, Dion. Esq. (Dionysius Lardner) The Colleen Bawn: or the Brides of Garryowen. A Domestic Drama, in Three Acts. Illustrated. London: Dicks, n.d. (c.1880). pp. 22, [4 (Adverts)]. Original pictorial wrappers. Traces of folding, otherwise a good copy. €45

Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (1820 (or 1822)-1890), commonly known as Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the nineteenth century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre. The New York Times heralded him in his obituary as "the most conspicuous English dramatist of the 19th century." Boucicault died in 1890 in New York City, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Hastings, Westchester County, New York.

OLIVER ST JOHN GOGARTY'S COPY 31. BRIDGES, Robert. Eros & Psyche. A Poem in Twelve Measures. The story done into English from the Latin of Apuleius. London: George Bell and Sons, 1885. First edition. Octavo (176 × 105 mm). pp. [vi], 158, [2]. Titlepage printed in red and black. Head and tail-pieces; initials. Original gilt decorated full vellum, title in gilt on green morocco label on spine; board-edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt; grey-green endpapers. Ex libris William O'Brien, Milltown Park Trust, with label and stamps. Armorial bookplate of Oliver St John Gogarty on front pastedown. Top edge gilt. €375

Robert Seymour Bridges, OM (1844-1930) was Britain's poet laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is the author of many well-known hymns. It was through Bridges' efforts that Gerard Manley Hopkins achieved posthumous fame.


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32. BULFIN, William. Rambles in Eirinn. By William Bulfin (Che Buono). With Illustrations, and Maps especially made under the Author's direction. Two parts in one volume. Dublin: M.H. Gill, n.d. pp. xi, 456. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in rare lightly frayed dust jacket. €95

The author emigrated to Argentina in 1884 and after some years contributing to The Southern Cross in Buenos Aires became its proprietor and editor. Because of his close links with Arthur Griffith he wrote frequently in The United Irishman, and Sinn Fein. This is an excellent account of his travels in 1902 by cycle throughout the length and breadth of Ireland, nothing escaping his keen observation.

33. BURKE, Edmund. A Letter from the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, M.P. to Sir Hercules Langrishe, Bart. M.P. on the subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and the Propriety of Admitting them to the Elective Franchise, Consistently with the Principles of the Constitution as Established at the Revolution. The second edition corrected. London: Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, 1792. pp. 88. Disbound. A good copy. €135

Goldsmiths'-Kress 15432. ESTC T37953. Todd 59a. 34. BURKE, Edmund. Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by F.G. Selby. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1955. pp. xxxv, 127. Red cloth, title in black on upper cover and along spine. Some notes in pencil. Ex lib. A good copy. €25 35. BYRNE, Francis John. Irish Kings and High-Kings. With numerous maps, plates, and genealogical chart of the official genealogy of the Uí Néill. London: Batsford, 1973. First edition. pp. [vii], 341. Green papered boards, titled in gilt. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy in price-clipped dust jacket. Scarce. €65

Important and original study exploring the nature of the traditional Five Fifths of Ireland, the mythology of Tara, and the growth of the high-kingship of all Ireland.

36. CAIRD, James. The Plantation Scheme; or, The West of Ireland as a Field for Investment. With folding map of Ireland and plan of farm buildings. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1850. First edition. pp. vii, 191, 4, 4 (publisher's lists). Blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Top of titlepage torn with some loss of title. A good copy. Very scarce. €250 37. CAIRNES, Thomas Plunket. Thomas Plunket Cairnes, J.P. A Memento of the Address and Presentation so kindly made to Thomas Plunket Cairnes by Clerical and Lay Members of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Meath, on the 14th day of March, 1894. Together with various Biographical Sketches and Pulpit References. London: Printed by Strangeways & Sons for Private Circulation only, n.d. (c.1894). Quarto. pp. viii, 56. Pages with deckled edges. Mauve cloth, title in gilt on upper cover within a gilt border, soiling to cloth, internally a fine copy. €125

COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 3. 38. [CAMPBELL, Thomas] A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters to John Watkinson, M.D. With six copper engraved plates, (2 folding). Dublin: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand, 1777. First edition. pp. xvi, 478. Brown pebbled cloth, title in gilt direct on spine within gilt bands. All edges sprinkled. A fine copy. €275

Kress B.107. Bradshaw 5550. Thomas Campbell (1733-1795) was born in Glack, County Tyrone, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was curate of Clogher until 1772, when he was collated to the prebend of Tyholland, and in 1773 he was made chancellor of St Macartan's Cathedral, Clogher. In 1777 he published (anonymously in London) A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland in a series of letters to John Watkinson, M.D. (a second edition was published in Dublin in 1778). It recorded the tour of an Englishman in the south of Ireland, and gives a description of the major towns, remarks on the trade of the country are thrown in, and Campbell advocates a political and commercial union with England. A friend of Dr. Johnson, his Survey was regarded by Boswell as "a very entertaining book, which has, however, one fault - that it assumes the fictitious character of an Englishman". In the Survey Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith appeared for the first time in print. The engraved plates includes: Ruins of Kilmallock; Round Tower at Kildare; Abbey of St. John in Kilkenny; Rock of Cashel; The Crown - The Sword - A Tumulus near Tipperary; Collar of Gold.


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39. [CANNON, Richard] Historical Record of the Eighty-Eighth Regiment of Foot, or, Connaught Rangers; containing an account of The Formation of the Regiment in 1793, and of its Subsequent Services to 1837. Illustrated with a coloured plate, portraits and maps. London: Printed by William Clowes, 1838. pp. [xi], vi-viii, 103. Green cloth, regimental badge in gilt on upper cover. Spine professionally rebacked. A very good. Very scarce. €285

COPAC locates 6 copies only. Attributed to Richard Cannon--National Union Catalog, pre-1956 imprints. The Connaught Rangers, the 'Devil's Own', the 'Gallant Fighting 88th', was raised at Portumna in 1793 by Colonel the Honourable John Thomas de Burgh, later 13th Earl of Clanricarde. The first gathering of recruits was under the Clanricarde standard at Portumna Castle in County Galway. The Regiment saw service in Flanders, Holland, West Indies, East Indies, Egypt, South America, Portugal, Lower Canada, etc.


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FAR FROM A JOYFUL OR BEAUTIFUL SPECTACLE 40. CARLYLE, Thomas. Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849. With a preface by J.A. Froude. London: Sampson Low, 1882. pp. vii, 263. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine. Light foxing to prelims, otherwise a very good copy. €165

This work was not intended for publication by the author, Thomas Carlyle, the noted essayist and historian, as it was based on letters to his family but on the advice of J.A. Froude it was published. The author travelled extensively throughout the country and for much of the journey was accompanied by Gavan Duffy. "Have half forcibly recalled all my remembrances, and thrown down on paper since my return. Ugly spectacle: sad health: sad humour: a thing unjoyful to look back upon. The whole country figures in my mind like a ragged coat; one huge beggar's gabardine, not patched or patchable any longer: far from a joyful or beautiful spectacle."

WITH EXQUISITE HAND-COLOURED AQUATINTS

41. CARR, John Esq. The Stranger in Ireland; or, A Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country, in the year 1805. With 16 folding hand-coloured aquatints and engraved map of the Lakes of Killarney. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, No. 6, Bridge-Street, 1806. Quarto. pp. xv, [2], 530, 16 (plates). Contemporary full tree calf. Flat spine divided into six compartments by gilt chain-link roll, gilt fillets and dotted lines, title in gilt on recent morocco label in the second compartment, the remainder tooled in gilt to a neo classical design. All plates in magnificent hand-colouring. A fine copy. €2,350


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Sir John Carr (1772-1832), a native of Devonshire, was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, but for health reasons found it advisable to travel and published accounts of his journeys in different European countries. Carr's Stranger in Ireland is a lively account of his impressions and experiences during his travels throughout the country in the year 1805. He supplemented his own experience with extensive reading of the works on this country available at that time. Of particular interest and value are his descriptions and accounts of County Wicklow, Killarney, Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Kilkenny, illustrated with sixteen magnificent hand-coloured aquatints. It was a very popular work and 1,500 copies were sold of the first edition, this was followed by French and American editions. So successful were his previous works that the publisher, Phillips, paid Carr £600 in anticipation of its success. He was knighted by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of Bedford.

42. [CATALOGUE] Books on Ireland. Leabhra ar Éirinn. List compiled by National Library of Ireland. Dublin: Published for the Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland by Colm Ó Lochlainn, At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1953. pp. 45 [3]. Stapled printed wrappers. A very good copy. De Búrca 197. €35 43. CAULFIELD, Richard. Ed. by. Journal of the Very Rev. Rowland Davies, LL.D. Dean of Ross, (and afterwards Dean of Cork), from March 8, 1688-9, to September 29, 1690. Edited with Notes, and an Appendix, and some Account of the Author and his Family. London: Printed for the Camden Society, 1857. Quarto. pp. xiv, 188, 8 (Publisher's works). Green cloth, title in gilt along spine. Marbled endpapers. Mild staining to cover. A very good copy. Very scarce. €385 44. CAVOUR, Count. Thoughts on Ireland: Its Present and its Future. Translated by W.B. Hodgson, LL.D. London and Manchester: Trubner & Ireland, 1868. pp. xi, 110. Recent green buckram with original gilt title on upper cover. A very good copy. Very scarce. €235

This work by Count Cavour first appeared in Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève in January and February, 1844. It was written when the Repeal agitation in Ireland was at its height. On the 10th of September, 1843, at a great Repeal meeting, O'Connell promised he would have his Protection Society of three hundred sitting before Christmas. "I hope", he said, "to be able to give you, as a New Year's Gift a parliament in College Green". On the 7th October, a massive 'monster meeting' was held at Mullaghmast, the Irish government moved swiftly and prohibited a great Repeal meeting which was to be held at Clontarf the following day. In obedience to a proclamation issued, O'Connell complied and the meeting was not held. A week later O'Connell, John O'Connell, and several other Repealers, were arrested on a charge of conspiracy, sedition and unlawfully conspiring, but were held to bail. On 24th May, 1844, the Irish judges, having refused the motion for a new trial, sentenced O'Connell to imprisonment for twelve months, with a fine of £2,000, and bound him in his own recognizance in the sum of £5,000, and two sureties of £2,500, to keep the peace for seven years. O'Connell appealed to the House of Lords and on the 4th September, the Law-Lords decided that the judgement of the court ought to be reversed. It was, then, while the case was still pending in the Irish court, that Cavour's Essay appeared. The contents include: Sympathy with Ireland; Oppression of the Celts; The Stuarts and the Commonwealth; The Penal Code; The United Irishmen; Character of Pitt; Provisions of the Union; The Union, a Benefit to Ireland; The Reform Bill; Lord Melbourne's Ministry; Municipal Reform; O'Connell's Consistencies; The Tories and Sir Robert Peel; Ireland Agricultural; The Potato and Population; The Protestant Church; The Sub-letting Act; National Schools; Proposals for a Third Parliament; Alleged Benefits of Repeal; Financial Position of Ireland, etc.

45. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA (Miguel de). The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, by Charles Jarvis, Esq. Now Carefully Revised and Corrected; with a New Translation of the Spanish Poetry. To which is Prefixed a Copious and New Life of Cervantes. Embellished with Engravings, and a Map of Part of Spain. Engraved portrait, One folding map, nineteen engraved plates. Four volumes. London: Printed for William Miller, 1810. Contemporary full polished calf. Boards decorated with a wide elaborate gilt border of interlacing strapwork. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and volume number in gilt direct in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt with elaborate Maltese crosses in gilt with background decorated in blind; board edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins with gilt floral roll; splash-marbled endpapers with matching marbled edges. Some light spotting, one joint with minor cracking otherwise a superb set. €1,250


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COPAC locates 9 sets only. There are two ESTCs citations: [ESTC T59877 - seven names on last page of subscribers; ESTC N61306 with twelve names]. Our copy is a variant with twenty two names. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. His major work, Don Quixote, considered to be the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written. His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called la lengua de Cervantes ("the language of Cervantes"). He has also been dubbed El príncipe de los ingenios ("The Prince of Wits"). In 1569, in forced exile from Castile, Cervantes moved to Rome, where he worked as chamber assistant of a cardinal. In 1571, he decided to join the Spanish Navy, and participated in the battle of Lepanto, a major clash between the Catholic states and the Ottomans for the control of the Mediterranean. Following this, Cervantes' military career was cut short when he was captured by Ottoman pirates and taken to Algiers, which had become one of the main and most cosmopolitan cities of the Ottoman Empire, and was held there for ransom between the years of 1575 and 1580. In 1580, after his captivity, he was released by his captors on

payment of a ransom by his parents and the Trinitarians, a Catholic religious order, and he subsequently returned to his family in Madrid. In 1605, he was in Valladolid when the immediate success of the first part of his Don Quixote, published in Madrid, signalled his return to the literary world. The second part of his great work was published in 1615.

46. [CHAPBOOK] Mungo; or, The Little Traveller. To which is annexed, The Seven Wonders of the World. Illustrated with eight woodcuts. Dublin: Printed by J. Jones, 40, S. Gt. George's-St., 1822. pp. 178. Contemporary full calf. All edges sprinkled. Upper joint split but firm and holding. A very good copy. Rare. €235

COPAC locates 5 copies.

One of the most innovative and popular publishing ventures in Ireland almost two hundred years ago was that inaugurated by the Kildare Place Society. Aided by a grant of £6,000 per annum from Parliament, the Society prospered and between 1814 and 1825 over one hundred thousand books were sold. The neat wood-cut illustrations were the work of Dublin engravers. The Chapbooks as they became known, were sold in shops, hawked about by pedlars and chapmen at markets and fairs and exported in large quantities. One of their books met with the disapproval of the Catholic Archbishop. Daniel O'Connell denounced the Society in Parliament, the grant was withdrawn, and the books ceased to be published thereafter. 'Mungo' is a well-preserved example of this popular genre.

47. CHATTERTON, Lady. Rambles in the South of Ireland during the year 1838. With eight lithographic plates and numerous engravings. Two volumes. London: Saunders, 1839. Second edition. pp. (1) xi, 312, (2) iv, 305, 2. Contemporary blind-stamped cloth, spines neatly rebacked preserving original backstrip, titled in gilt. Ex libris Yorkshire Agricultural Society, stamped 'Withdrawn'. Lacking plates to volume one. A very good set. Scarce. €145


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Elmes and Hewson 2012. Lady Henrietta Chatterton (1806-76), author, was born in Piccadilly, the only child of Rev. Lascelles Iremonger, prebendary of Winchester. She married in 1824 Sir William Abraham Chatterton, of Castle Mahon, County Cork. The Great Famine deprived them of rents from their estate and they retired to England. After his death in 1855, she married secondly Edward Heneage Dering, retired Coldstream Guards officer. Shortly after their marriage Dering was received into the Catholic church and was followed ten years later by Lady Chatterton. A prolific writer of wide interests with over thirty publications to her credit, Cardinal Newman praised the refinement of thought in her later works. Her high moral standards and her desire to do good are reflected in her writings. Lady Chatterton's heartfelt enthusiasm is evident as she discovers the hidden delights of counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Clare. In the advertisement she acknowledges the kindness of Mr. Crofton Croker for historical material, and states: "My principal object in publishing this book is to endeavour to remove some of the prejudices which render so many people afraid either to travel or reside in Ireland ... and to furnish the most decided proofs that a tour in some of its wildest districts may be keenly enjoyed by an Englishwoman". The work is enhanced by a series of delightful plates: Mitchelstown Castle; Kingston Caves; Quin Abbey; Part of St. Dominick's Friary.

48. [CINCÍGHISE, Dhomhnach] Oimili, No Seanmóin, mar ġeall air Theacht Anshuas an Spioraid Naoimh, agus air a Mhorán Sort do Thiodhlacadhaibh. Do Dhomhnach Cincíghise. Lunnduin: Air na Cur a Gcló air ċosda Chomluadair an Leaḃair Urnúiġe, 1851. pp. 19. Stitched printed paper wrappers. A scarce and curious item. €65 49. CLARKE, Isabel C. Maria Edgeworth. Her Family and Friends. With 11 illustrations. London: Hutchinson, 1949. pp. 208. Black cloth with wear to extremities. A very good copy. €25

RARE CORK PRINTING 50. CLÉRY, M. A Journal of Occurrences at the Temple, during the confinement of Louis XVI, King of France. By. M. Cléry, The King's Valet-De-Chambre. Translated from the original manuscript, by R. C. Dallas, Esq. Cork: Printed by A. Edwards, J. Haly, M. Harris, and J. Connor, Booksellers, 1798. 12mo. pp. [2], 169, [1]. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on blue morocco label on spine. Light foxing to prelims. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €375

COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat ebook only. ESTC T186374.

TRINITY CLOSET PRIVATE PRESS 51. [CLOSET PRESS] A Collection of 26 Broadsides and Pamphlets from the renowned Closet Press at Trinity College, Dublin:


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1. [SPECIMEN] Specimen of Printing Types barely available at Trinity Closet Press. Dublin: Printed at the Trinity Closet Press on the occasion of its Christening, November 1973, in the presence of the Sponsors School of Printing, Bolton Street ... & St Sepulchre's Press. Set in Perpetua 18 point & 24 point italic. Broadside, folio. Single sheet, printed on one side only. This was the first printing from the press.

2. O DIREÁIN, Mairtín. An Bile a Thit. Omos do Mhairtin O Cadhain. Preas Cloistin ne Trionoide, 1974. Octavo. pp. 4. Folded sheet. 3. [ANGLO-NORMAN] Mult Bel Essample pur Chastier Amorus. Anglo-Norman poem of the twelfth century. Au Cabinet des Curieux sous La Signe de la Trinite, 1975. Folded octavo sheet, printed in red and black. 4. [SWIFT, Jonathan] Morning MDCCXLV. A Description of a Country Morning. In imitation of Dr Swift's City Morning, publish'd in the Tatlers. From Faulkner's 'Dublin Journal', 5 January 1744/5. Description of a City Sunday Morning. From Faulkner's 'Dublin Journal', 29 January 1744/5. Single small folio sheet, folded. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1976. 5. [WINTER] Winter. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1977. Octavo. pp. 4. Limited to 100 copies, November, 1977. Single folded sheet.

6. BERKELEY, George. Bishop of Cloyne. Maxims concerning Patriotism. By a Lady. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1978. Octavo. pp. [8]. Stapled printed brown wrappers. This pamphlet is a reprint of the first, and only, separate issue of 'Maxims concerning Patriotism', Dublin, 1750. It is now printed in an edition of 250 numbered copies. 7. BERKELEY, George. Bishop of Cloyne. Maxims concerning Patriotism. By a Lady. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1978. Octavo. pp. [8]. Stapled printed grey wrappers. This pamphlet is a reprint of the first, and only, separate issue of 'Maxims concerning Patriotism', Dublin, 1750. It is now printed in an edition of 250 numbered copies. 8. BERKELEY, George. Bishop of Cloyne. Maxims concerning Patriotism. By a Lady. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1978. Octavo. pp. [8]. Stapled printed blue wrappers. This pamphlet is a reprint of the first, and only, separate issue of 'Maxims concerning Patriotism', Dublin, 1750. It is now printed in an edition of 250 numbered copies.


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9. KENNELLY, Brendan. Evasions. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1979. pp. [8]. Fifty copies printed at TCP in July 1979, being the first printing done at the Press in the Printing House of Trinity College, Dublin. Printed stapled wrappers. Signed by Brendan Kennelly. 10. [SWIFT, Jonathan] The Place of the Damn'd by Jonathan Swift & The Devil's Reply. Introduction by James Wooley. Limited to 150 copies. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1980. Small folio. pp. 8. Stapled. 11. [WAKE of TEDDY] The Wake of Teddy the Tiler. An Incomplete Text of the Version sung in about 1900 by the blind Ballad Singer of Sackville Street Bridge-foot. Can you Supply the Missing Lines? The aptest Verses will be Printed! No prizes offered! No epics considered! Trinity Closet Press, Trinity College, Dublin 2, 1981. pp. 4. Single sheet folded. 12. [SONETOS] Sonetos de la Academia que se celebro en La Real Advana de Madrid. Impresos por primera vez en 1678 en la Imprenta del Reyno, y ahora en Dublin, en la Imprinta del Gabinete del Colegio de la Trinidad. La presente edicíon consta de cincuenta ejemplares venales. Se terminó de imprimir en la Imprinta del Gabinete del Colegio de la Trinidad, en Dublin, el día de San Francisco de Borja del año de Nuestro Señor de 1982. pp. [8]. Stapled printed wrappers. 13. [WEDDING] The Wedding of Ballyporeen. Dublin: Reprinted from 'The Exile of Erin's Songster', Philadelphia, circa 1850. Trinity Closet Press, 1984. Broadside, folio. Single sheet, printed on one side only.

14. [SWIFT, Jonathan] The Last Will and Testament of the Revd Dr Jonathan Swift. Preface by Vincent Kinane. Dublin: Printed at Trinity Closet Press for the Ussher Press (Friends of the Library), 1984. pp. 12. Printed stitched wrappers. Limited numbered edition of 500 copies. Hand-set in 12 point Caslon and printed on an Alexandra hand-press. Finished 5 May 1984. 15. [KEEPSAKE] Keepsake printed on the occasion of a visit by friends to Trinity Closet Press for the publication of Denis Johnston's 'Alicorn at fifty five'. Printed on a common press on loan from Bœthius Press, 27 August 1986. Single large octavo sheet printed on one side only. 16. BARBER, Mary. 'True poetical Genius' a selection from the Poems of Mary Barber. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1987. Royal octavo. pp. [8]. Stapled printed white wrappers, publisher's device on upper cover. Printed in an edition of 30 copies as part of the seminar Historical Bibliography in Practice organised by the Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland, January 30th., 1986. 17. BARBER, Mary. 'True poetical Genius' a selection from the Poems of Mary Barber. Dublin:


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Trinity Closet Press, 1987. Royal octavo. pp. [8]. Stapled hand-made salmon card, title in blue on upper cover. Printed in an edition of 30 copies as part of the seminar Historical Bibliography in Practice organised by the Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland, January 30th., 1986. 18. BARBER, Mary. 'True poetical Genius' a selection from the Poems of Mary Barber. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1987. Royal octavo. pp. [8]. Stapled hand-made green card, title in blue on upper cover. Printed in an edition of 30 copies as part of the seminar Historical Bibliography in Practice organised by the Rare Books Group of the Library Association of Ireland, January 30th., 1986. 19. [TASTE of DUBLIN] An Excellent New Ballad on the Present Taste of Dublin. With some Remarks on Miss W-----n, &c. Address'd to the Young Gentlemen and Ladies of this City, by an Irish Gentleman in London. Dublin: Printed by Tho. Taylor in Bridge-Street, c. 1740. Not recorded in D. Foxon 'English Verse 1701-1750'. Here reprinted from the TCD Library copy, at Trinity Closet Press, 1987. Broadside, folio. Single sheet, printed on one side only. 20. KOSTICK, Gavin. Sensible Sonnets. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1991.Octavo. pp. [8]. Printed stitched wrappers. Fifty copies hand-printed by M. Phil. students in Text and Visual Studies, February 1991. 21. [ELIZABETH I] Elizabetha Dei Gratia Anglicæ, Franciæ, et. Folded square quarto cream sheet, printed in black and red. In Latin with English translation. Being a petition from Henry Ussher, Archdeacon of Dublin for the establishment of a College the Mother of a University. Dublin: Hand-printed at Trinity Closet Press, in celebration of Trinity College's Guater centenary, 1992. 22. [SWIFT, Jonathan] The Gentleman's Study. Attributed to Miss W ---. In answer to Jonathan Swift's 'The Lady's Dressing Room'. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1993. Octavo. pp. 8. Printed stapled wrappers. Fifty copies hand-printed by M. Phil. students, February 1993. 23. [DUBLIN] A Day in Dublin. To the Right Honble Lady Blayny. Trinity Closet Press, 1994. pp. 4. Large octavo. Fifty copies hand-printed by M. Phil. students, March, 1994. Grey stapled printed wrappers. 24. O'CALLAGHAN, Julia. The Long Room Gallery. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1994. Octavo. pp. [8]. Stitched printed wrappers. Hand-set and printed by Library Staff, July 1994, in an edition of 50 copies. 25. SHINE, Mary C. Three Poems. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1995. Small folio. pp. 4. Stapled printed grey wrappers. 26. DAVIS, Thomas. Thomas Davis Three Poems to Annie Hutton. Dublin: Hand-set and fifty copies printed by M. Phil. students, at Closet Press, February 1995. All fine copies. €2,350

A magnificent collection, in fine condition, of the publications and printings of 'The Closet Press', a private press, which was housed in the basement of the Printing House in Trinity College, Dublin. It was founded in 1973 by Mary Pollard, who was head of the Department of Early Printed Books in the Library, as a teaching tool to give students and staff at the university first-hand experience of book production methods in the hand-press period. It was founded in 1973 by Mary Pollard and ceased in 1995. It includes many rare items, signed and limited editions, broadsides, and booklets, a total of 26 items, which constitutes almost eighty per cent of the output from this press. All in excellent condition. In Vincent Kinane's 'Trinity Closet Press 1973-1974: a Chronology and a Bibliography' Long Room, Number 29, 1994, are listed the items printed at the Press. There are a total of 31, our collection constitutes almost ninety per cent of the printings.


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52. COFFEY, Rev. H.W. A History of Milltown Parish The Birches North-West Armagh. Illustrated. Portadown: The Portadown News, 1950. pp. 86, [48 (advertisements)]. Blue wrappers. Presentation inscription from the author on titlepage. A fine copy. €35 53. COLLINS, James. Life in Old Dublin. Historical Associations of Cook Street. Three Centuries of Dublin printing. Reminiscences of a Great Tribune. With numerous plans and illustrations. Dublin: James Duffy & Co., 1913. pp. [xii], 206. Green wrappers. Arms of Dublin on upper cover. A very good copy. €45 54. [COLT, Margaret] A Hunting Holiday in the County Cork. Foreword by Gordon Grand. Illustrated. New York: Privately Published, 1936. pp. viii, [2], 99, [2]. Olive-green coarse linen, title in red on cream linen panel on upper cover and spine. Light fading to spine. A very good copy. Rare. €175

Map on front endpaper with Fox Hunts throughout Ireland. Detailed account of almost six weeks hunting trip in North Cork by O'Malley Knott, Kate Clark, Margaret Colt and Lord Dorchester. They resided at Longueville House near Mallow and hunted with The Dunallow, The Scarteen & The Limerick. Their preferred whisky was Bushmills!

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 55. COLUM, Padraic. Three Men. London: Elkin, Mathews & Marriot, 1930. First edition. pp. [iv], 36. Quarter linen on illustrated papered boards, title and author on printed paper label on upper cover. Edition limited to 530 numbered copies, signed by the author. Also with inscription by the author: "Every good wish." A fine copy. €165

Denson A39. 56. [COMMON PRAYER] The Book of Common Prayer. The Coronation Prayer Book. Oxford: At the University Press and sold by John and Edward Bumpus, Ltd. Booksellers to the King, 30 Oxford Street, W., 1911. pp. xl, 572, 43, [1]. Printed in red and black. Extra illuminated titlepage. Bound by Bumpus of London in contemporary full straight-grained red morocco; covers framed by a chain-link, with a gilt floral border. Royal monogram in corners. Inner gilt panel enclosing the Royal Coat of Arms; board edges ruled in gilt; wide gilt ruled doublures with a rose at corners and binder's name in gilt on lower panel. Triple red silk markers. All edges gilt. A superb copy. €275

ATHLONE INTEREST 57. CONMEE, Rev. John S. Old Times in the Barony. Illustrated. Dublin: C.T.S., n.d. (c.1910). pp. 36. Modern wrappers. A very good copy. €25


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IN FINE BINDING 58. [COOK, Captain James] A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World performed by Captain James Cook with an account of his life, during the previous and intervening periods. With twelve illustrations reproduced in exact facsimile from drawings made during the voyages. By A. Kippis. London: Bickers & Son, 1889. pp. xii, 404. Bound in contemporary full polished calf by Kelpe Brothers of London, with their signatures at the top of the first endpapers. Covers framed by a gilt wave roll enclosing in the centre of the upper cover a gilt badge. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on dark blue morocco label in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design with floral tools. Board edges hatched in gilt, turn-ins blind stamped; splash-marbled endpapers with matching marbled edges. Prize label on front pastedown. Occasional light spotting. A most attractive copy. €375 59. COPPIN, Captain. Two Notebooks relating to Captain Coppin, Shipbuilder in Derry. Typescript consisting of approximately 100 pages. Large thick notebook containing interesting notes in manuscript relating to various ships, emigration, statistics, etc. €685

The typescript relates to the career and achievements of Captain Coppin, born in Kinsale, County Cork in 1805. Later shipbuilder and inventor in Derry from c. 1834. Apart from the life of Coppin, this notebook includes copious extracts from newspapers and a great variety of other sources, relating to Coppin and his ships. The name and address, in pen of 'Rev. Henry Skewes Vicar (Holy Trinity Church Vestry), Holy Trinity Parish, Liverpool, Dec. 31 1889' appears on front wrapper. Also included in manuscript is a ten page list of ships of the Corkell Line and an account of the fate of some of them. What a strange and curiously discouraging thing is the history of shipbuilding in Derry. Sixty years ago, when the Lagan at Belfast was but a drain compared with the lordly Foyle and Harland Wolff and their wonderful ways were not dreamt of, shipbuilding flourished (in Derry) and was the admiration of men - etc". Captain William Coppin was the remarkable and innovative sailor and engineer who, more than anyone else, established Derry's 19th century shipbuilding industry - at one time the largest in Ireland. Born in Kinsale, County Cork, he trained as a shipwright and at age 17 went to the Canadian port of St John, New Brunswick to work for a relation who owned a shipbuilding firm. That port was where most of Derry's fleet was built and a "St John ship" was a guarantee of top class workmanship. So Coppin was in the best place to learn quality in design and construction. In 1829 he built his first ship, the 101 ton Kathleen. Skilled also in navigation, he commanded many ships to the Caribbean where he met Derry merchants. One of these, John Kelso, ordered a ship for the timber trade. This was the Edward Reid which Coppin built and sailed to Derry in a speedy 19 day voyage across the Atlantic in 1831. This led to Coppin being offered the command of the Prudence, a passenger ship between Derry and Philadelphia which he captained for three years until he moved to captain the Queen Adelaide ferry between Derry and Liverpool. When he took command in 1835 of the company's sister ferry the Robert


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Napier he reduced the sailing time between Derry and Liverpool from 21 to 18 hours. In 1839 he bought Skipton's shipyard at Strand Road and went back to building ships. His first ship, the City of Derry on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Madras, India, achieved a record time of 104 days. In 1840 he opened a foundry and engineering works to make engines and boilers and enlarged the slipway to take ships of up to 700 tons. With 500 employees it was the largest shipyard in Ireland at the time. In 1840 he built the Barbara for local businessman Daniel Baird & Co to serve the sugar trade from Mauritius and Puerto Rico. In 1841 ten thousand people gathered to watch the launch of the Maiden City at Strand Road. Coppin's most famous vessel was the Great Northern launched in July 1942 - at 1,750 tons, 220 feet long and with a 370-horsepower engine, the largest screw-propelled steamship in the world. He wanted the Government to buy or lease it and its maiden voyage took the huge ship to London's East India Dock where it was the object of general astonishment. But neither the Admiralty nor any other customer took the vessel and it was eventually sold for scrap to pay the London harbour dues. Coppin himself had invested £45,000 in the ship. Coppin went on to build four smaller paddle steamers. After 1846 he started out on a new business strategy of ship repair and salvage which proved surprisingly profitable, saving 140 sunken or grounded ships. In 1873 Coppin sold his shipyard and moved to live in Sackville Street where died in 1895 aged 90 years. "Throughout his life", wrote Gerald Hasson in Thunder and Clatter, Guildhall Press's history of Derry shipbuilding: "he was a man of ideas, bursting with energy and a self-belief that verged on arrogance". Those are, of course, two of the qualities of an entrepreneur - "without him there may never have been a shipbuilding industry in Derry".

60. [CORK] Postcard of the West Cork Caravan Company. Depicted is a gentleman standing beside a horse-drawn caravan, with a sign in the background 'Skibbereen 20 / Dunmanway 14'. In very good condition. €75 61. [CORK] Cork and the Beautiful South West of Ireland. Tourist Programme of the City of Cork Steam Packet Co. With coloured folding map and numerous illustrations. Cork: Purcell & Co., n.d. (c.1905). pp. 117, [1]. Pictorial stapled wrappers, printed in gold. Repair to upper cover. Light foxing to covers, otherwise a fine copy. €125 62. COSGRAVE, E. MacDowel, & STRANGWAYS, Leonard R. The Dictionary of Dublin. Being a Comprehensive Guide to the City and its Neighbourhood. Illustrated by numerous photographs taken by the authors. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1897. pp. [9], 299, [3] (advertisements). Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. Spine damp stained. Internally a very good copy. €165

A very thorough description of Dublin in 1908, covering the history, walks through the city, and various buildings & topics (in alphabetical order) such as Abattoir, Royal Irish Academy, Alexandra College, Archbishops, Architecture, Meath Hospital, Nelson's Pillar, Tramways, Trinity College, etc., etc. E. MacDowel Cosgrave was Physician to Cork Street Hospital and lived at No. 5, Gardiner's Row (ref. Thom's, 1913).

63. COSTELLO, Nuala. John MacHale. Archbishop of Tuam. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1939. pp. 159. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €45

THE ABOMINATIONS OF DERRYCOOSH 64. COULTER, Henry. The West of Ireland: its Existing Condition, and Prospects. Illustrated with thirty-four lithographic plates (some coloured) and one folding map. Dublin: Hodges & Smith, 1862. pp. xii, 372, 20 (Adverts). Pebbled green cloth, title in gilt on spine, Hibernia and Britannia in gilt on upper cover and in blind on lower. Some light spotting to a few plates. Lacking the telegraph map, as usual. A very good copy. Scarce. €375

This work contains the letters of the special correspondent of Saunders' News-Letter from the West of Ireland, in relation to the condition and prospects of the people, consequent upon the partial failure of agricultural produce. Travelling extensively throughout the western seaboard counties from Clare to Galway, Mayo through Sligo and up to Donegal he gives a graphic description of the social condition of the peasantry, state of the country, workhouses, distress of the small-holders, liberality of the local gentry and landlords, Castlebar and 'Gombeen' Men, emigration, fisheries, etc. On his way from


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Westport to Castlebar he passed through the village of Cloonkeen: "There are many instances, however, of lands being held in rundale on joint lease where the tenants have been comfortable and prosperous … Cloonkeen, a village on Lord Lucan's estate, is an example of this kind. It goes by the soubriquet of 'Cabbage Town', from the immense quantity of that excellent vegetable cultivated there; but the inhabitants are not pleased at the name, and any stranger who ventured to utter aloud the obnoxious epithet in the hearing of the villagers would probably find himself assailed with a shower of cabbage-stalks." The tenant farmers here kept a large number of milch cows, and carry on a most profitable trade by supplying the towns with milk, butter, and cabbage. "There is another rundale village, called Derrycoosh, about three miles from Castlebar, on the Newport road, which exhibits in an exaggerated form all the characteristics of the village I have just described. The cottages are built most irregularly, here, there, and everywhere – some parallel with the road, others at right angles with it. The walls are black, green, and brown – in short, every colour but white; there is scarcely a clean thatch to be seen; every cabin has its pond of liquid and its heap of solid manure directly opposite and within a few feet of the door; the road through the village is ankle deep in mud; and pigs, poultry, and children are to be seen running about in every direction. Words fail to convey an adequate idea of the filthy and disorderly appearance which this village presents. So bad it is, that a road is actually in course of construction for the purpose of avoiding the abominations of Derrycoosh."

RARE LARGE PAPER COPY 65. COX, Richard. Hibernia Anglicana: or, The History of Ireland from the Conquest thereof by the English, to this Present Time. With an Introductory Discourse touching the Ancient State of that Kingdom. Two volumes. With large folding map being an Epitome of Sir William Petty's Large Survey of Ireland and engraved frontispieces of William and Mary. London: Printed by H. Clark, for Joseph Watts at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1689-1690. Folio. pp. (1) [lii], 456, 4 (index), (2) [xxxix], 206, 72, 20, 211, [5]. Title of volume two printed in red and black. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, spines with seven thick raised bands, title in gilt on brown morocco labels, remaining compartments elaborately tooled in gilt. Armorial bookplate of Victor Albert George Child Villiers, Earl of Jersey, on front pastedowns. Ex libris William O'Brien, Milltown Park Trust, with shelf label, bookplate and stamp. Some occasional foxing and toning to volume one. Joints starting, but very firm and holding. Large paper copy, with generous margins (348 x 235mm.). A very good set of the large paper edition. €750

Wing C 6722 & C 6722A. ESTC R5067. Sweeney 1234. The author was born at Bandon, County Cork in 1650, qualified as a lawyer and studied at Gray's Inn, where he was called to the Bar in 1673. The following year he says: "by my uncle Bird's advice, I married my wife, Mary Bourne, she being but fifteen, I not full twenty-four old ... I retired to the country and lived at Clonakilty". Some years later he was appointed Recorder of Kinsale, with an


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income of £500.00 per annum. It is recorded that "with the zeal and sincerity of a good Protestant, he took occasion to expose in his charge the villainies, the cruelties and the impositions of Popery, with such good spirit and sense that he mightily amused the Protestants, and as highly provoked the Papists." On the accession of James II he vacated the post and moved to Bristol where he set up a very successful business. It was here he compiled the present work "to show that the Irish did continue in their barbarity, poverty, and ignorance, until the English conquest, and that all the improvements themselves and their country received ... is to be ascribed to the English government". The present work is enhanced by a contemporary manuscript insertion on the Treaty of Limerick.

66. [CRAIG, Maurice] Memorable Dublin Houses. With illustrated anecdotes. By Wilmot Harrison. With a new introduction by Maurice Craig. Dublin: Republished S.R. Publishers, 1971. pp. viii, [2], viii, 144. Red papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €65

SIGNED BY MAURICE CRAIG 67. CRAIG, Maurice. Irish Bookbindings 1600-1800. With coloured frontispiece and numerous plates. London: Cassell, 1954. Quarto. pp. xi, 47, 58 (plates). Blue buckram, titled in gilt along spine. Signed by Maurice Craig. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €375 68. CRAIG, Maurice. Classic Irish Houses of the Middle Size. With photographs and floor plans. London: Architectural Press, 1977. Folio. pp. viii, 170. Cloth, titled in gilt. Owners inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy in dust jacket. €145

An excellent work by Ireland's leading expert in this field. The book deals at length with those 17th, 18th and early 19th-century houses of the middle size - neither the seats of the mighty, nor the simple vernacular buildings of the rural tradition. Stylistically and culturally these houses are extraordinarily interesting.

69. [CRESWICK, Thomas] Picturesque Scenery in Ireland. Drawn by Thomas Creswick, R.A. Engraved on Steel. With descriptive jottings by A Tourist. London: Virtue, n.d. (c.1873). Small quarto. pp. x, 126. Green cloth over bevelled boards, decorated in gilt to a panel design on upper cover. Occasional light foxing. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €165

70. CROKER, T. Crofton. Ed. by. Killarney Legends. A New Edition. Revised by T. Wright, with an introduction by T.F. Dillon Croker. Illustrated. London: William Tegg and Co., 1879. Second edition. pp. xvi, 287. Engraved half-title. Pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. A very good copy. Very scarce. €125


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71. CROKER, Thomas Crofton. Researches in the South of Ireland. Illustrative of the Scenery, Architectural Remains and the Manners and Superstitions of the Peasantry with an Appendix containing a Private Narrative of the Rebellion of 1798. Illustrated with fourteen lithographs, from drawings by Alfred Nicholson and Miss Marianne Nicholson. London: John Murray, 1824. First edition. pp. vi, 393, 17 (plates), + errata. Quarto. Original quarter linen on paper boards. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with stamp and labels. Light foxing to frontispiece, as is usual, occasional foxing to some margins of other plates. A good copy. €475

NSTC 2C43668. A pioneering work in Irish folklore for, unlike his contemporaries, Crofton Croker recognised that the realities of Irish rural life were equally as important as the old tombstones, decaying castles, and other features of the Irish countryside. Croker in the advertisment tells us: "The pretensions of this little volume are very humble, as it consists of little more than an arrangement of notes made during several excursions in the South of Ireland between the years 1812 and 1822". Dedicated to Alfred Nicholson and his daughter Marianne whom Croker married in 1830. For the students of '1798' history there is by way of appendix, an eye-witness narrative of the Rebellion in Wexford by Jane Adams.

72. CROMMELIN, Maria Henrietta de la Cherois. Orange Lily. [A novel.] By M. Crommelin author of "Queenie", "My Love She's but a Lassie" "A Jewel of a Girl". London: George Routledge & Sons, New York: 416 Broome Street, 1880. pp. 374, 12. Pictorial green papered boards. Ex libris with stamp. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise a nice copy. €375

COPAC locates 4 copies only. No copy on WorldCat. Loeber C498. Maria Henrietta de la Cherois Crommelin, known as May de la Cherois Crommelin, (1850-1930), novelist, poet and travel writer born at Carrowdore Castle in County Down. While growing up, she and her family often lived elsewhere because of the political situation at home, and Crommelin was educated by governesses. The family moved to Devon in the 1880s at the height of the Land War, and after the death of her traditionalist father in 1885 she lived independently in her own flat in London. Though her family were "French gentry", descended from the Huguenot linen merchant Louis Crommelin, they were not at all wealthy, and Crommelin earned a living by writing. One of her cousins was the astronomer Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin. She travelled widely, going to the Andes which she described in her 1896 work Over the Andes from the Argentine to Chile and Peru, the West Indies, North Africa and elsewhere. She wrote 42 novels, which were often based upon her travels. Her first novel, Queenie, was published in 1874. Orange Lily of 1879 is set in Ulster, where she was born.

73. CRONIN, Sean. The Story of Kevin Barry. With foreword by Comdt.-General Tom Barry. Illustrated. Cork: National Publications Committee, 1971. pp. 44. Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €35

Kevin Barry (1902-1920) was hanged in Mountjoy prison, after a trial by court martial, on 1 November 1920. He had been a student at Belvedere College and was attending the Medical School of UCD. Barry had already taken part in several I.R.A. actions before he was captured on 20 September 1920 after an attack on a military lorry in Upper Church Street, Dublin, in which three British soldiers were killed. At the end of October a sworn statement by Barry alleging that he had been tortured by British soldiers was released to the press. Lord French, however, confirmed the verdict of the Court Martial on 31 October and Barry was executed on the following day, All Saints Day. The religious significance of


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the day, combined with his youth and the manner of his death, all combined to make Kevin Barry a martyr in Ireland's cause. This pamphlet, by a former Chief of Staff of the I.R.A., provides valuable information on the life of Barry based on research and on contact with many who knew Barry. The upper cover depicts a portrait of Kevin Barry against a backdrop of the Irish tricolour.

74. CROZIER, F.P. A Brass Hat in No-Man's Land. Fifth Impression, photo plates. London: Cape, 1930. pp. 254. Red faded cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €95

In Ireland, he was put in command of the 'Auxiliary Division, R.I.C.' to form, train, equip, and deploy units but did not control its operations. Sections of the Auxiliaries committed lawless actions - the burning of Cork city and incidents in Trim. Crozier dismissed a number of the Auxiliaries but was overruled by Gen. H. Tudor who had them back again. Crozier was subsequently promoted Major, second in command of the Royal Irish Rifles and helped form the Ulster Volunteer Force which suffered such devastating losses at the Battle of the Somme. He survived the war and died in August 1937.

75. [CUALA PRESS] A Fine Collection of 21 Cuala Press Christmas Cards (4 uncoloured). With designs by Jack B. Yeats, his wife Mary C. Yeats, his sister Elizabeth Corbet Yeats; Beatrice Elvery RHA, Victor Brown; Elizabeth Rivers; Hilda Roberts, etc. With Verses by An Chraoibhín Aoibhinn (Douglas Hyde); F.R. Higgins; Susan Langstaff Mitchell; Edmund Bolton; Monk Gibbon; Michael Scot; Katharine Tynan etc. The colouring fresh and clean throughout. Most are 175 x 125mm. (single folded sheet). Unused and in very good condition. €850

This collection represents not only the finest but also some of the rarest of Cuala's productions from the 1910s to the 1950s. Printed in outline from zinc blocks, each card was then individually hand-coloured by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, herself an established artist, or by other Cuala staff under her supervision. Many of the cards have the quality of original watercolours. Commissioned from leading contemporary Irish artists, many of them women, the designs show typical west of Ireland landscapes or scenes from the Christmas story. Some have verses by Stephen Gwynn, Susan Mitchell, Katharine Tynan and other Irish writers, others just simple Christmas greetings. All were printed on Irish paper specially made for the Cuala Press at the Saggart mill near Dublin. Although large numbers of these cards were issued, they are by their very nature ephemeral and very few examples remain, especially in this condition. A magnificent collection of the finest work of this distinguished hand-press, run by the Yeats sisters with the help of their brothers Jack and W.B.

76. [CUALA PRESS CARDS] A Collection of Cuala Prints and Cards: 23 Hand-Coloured and 13 uncoloured (including a few duplicates), 1910s-1970s. With designs by Jack B. Yeats, his wife Mary C. Yeats, his sister Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, Beatrice Elvery RHA, Hilda Roberts, Dorothy Blackham, and other artists. Included in this collection are the following prints: Walking in the Woodlands with Verse by Susan L. Mitchell; Mountain Scene with Verse by A.E. The Jockey; In Green Ways with Verse by James Stephens; Bringing Home the Turf with Ass and


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Creels with Verse by Henry van Dyke; Weather-wise; Two Ladies Walking in Dublin with Verse by Charles Lamb; A Lady at her Study by the Window with a quote from 'Letters, of Mrs. Delany 1726'; The Grand Road; Ireland a Poem by Stephen Gwynn; An Old Slave; The Fiddler; The Fiddler with Children Watching on and Verse by James Stephens; The Mountain Heights; Country Cottage by a Hillside with Verse by Stephen Gwynn; Island People; Sailor Boy by the Quay; College Green Dublin. Various sizes, small and large format. All in very good to fine condition. €950

The colouring fresh and clean throughout much of it by Anne Yeats herself. This collection represents some of the finest and rarest of Cuala's productions from the 1910s to the 1970s. Printed in outline from zinc blocks, each broadside and card is individually hand-coloured by Elizabeth C. Yeats, herself an established artist, by her niece Anne Yeats or by other Cuala staff under her supervision. Many of the cards have the quality of original watercolours. Commissioned from leading contemporary Irish artists, many of them women, the designs show typical Irish landscapes, Irish Characters. All were printed on Irish paper specially made for the Cuala Press at the Saggart mill near Dublin. Although large numbers of these cards were issued, they are by their very nature ephemeral and very few examples remain, especially in this condition. A magnificent collection of the finest work of this distinguished hand-press, run by the Yeats sisters with the help of their brothers Jack and W.B.


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77. DAVIS, Thomas. MANGAN, J.C. & OTHERS. The Spirit of the Nation. By The Writers of The Nation Newspaper. Second edition, revised. Bound with: The Voice of The Nation. A Manual of Nationality. Fourth edition. Dublin: James Duffy, 1844. 24mo. pp. viii, 76, viii, 193, 1. Green patterned cloth with a harp blind-stamped on both covers, title in gilt on spine. Presentation copy from J. McIlwaine, J.P. to [Earl of] Roden, dated August 16, 1847 on titlepage. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375

The Ballads and Songs were originally published in The Nation newspaper. The contributors include: Thomas Davis, James Clarence Mangan, William Drennan, Michael Doheny, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, M.J. Barry, Edward Walsh, John C. O'Callaghan, Hugh Harkin, J. Keegan, D.F. McCarthy, etc.

78. DAVITT, Michael. Leaves From a Prison Diary; or, Lectures to a 'Solitary' Audience. In two volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. First edition. pp. (1) xv, 251, (2) x, 256. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good set. €265

Michael Davitt, (1846-1906), 'The Father of the Land League' was born at Straide, County Mayo. His father was a member of a secret agrarian society and at the age of six he saw his family evicted in 1852 during the clearances that followed the Great Famine. They emigrated to Lancashire, where Michael was employed on a cotton mill; at the age of eleven his arm was badly injured by a machine and had to be amputated just below the shoulder. He joined the I.R.B. and in 1870 was arrested for his involvement in arms trafficking on a charge of treason-felony, and was sentenced to fifteen years penal servitude. Due to degrading and inhuman conditions in prison and ill health, he was released seven years later. He later wrote an account of his experiences in the book on offer here Leaves from a Prison Diary. On Saturday 16th August 1879 in James Daly's Hotel (now known as the Imperial Hotel), Castlebar, the Land League was founded. His Fall of Feudalism in Ireland narrates the ways and means by which a revolution on the lines of passive resistance was accomplished. How men and women of Ireland, scattered all over the globe by eviction and evils of unsympathetic rule in Ireland were 'enlisted' in the final struggle for the land and rule of the Celtic fatherland. It shows how the generosity of the Irish people at home and abroad raised one million pounds to fight the evils of landlordism, to subsidise the evicted families and uphold the cause of Irish self-determination. He was only 24 years when he was imprisoned as a convicted felon for terrorist activities. Yet, Davitt learned from such adversity while in prison. He came to the conclusion, as he records in this tome that violence was self defeating, and that membership of an underground, armed conspiracy merely invited the counter-productive attention of State agents infiltrating the movement and recruiting informers.

79. DAY, Brother John. Memoir of the Honble. Elizabeth Aldworth of Newmarket Court, Co. Cork who was initiated into the Ancient Order of Freemasonry at Doneraile Court. Third edition, with revisions and additions. Cork: Printed by Guy, 70, Patrick Street, 1941. pp. [iv], 37. Blue cloth, titled in gilt. Small stain on upper cover, otherwise a very good copy. €245

COPAC locates 1 copy only. No copy on WorldCat. The Honourable Elizabeth Aldworth (1693-1775?), born the Hon. Elizabeth St. Leger, was known in her time as "The Lady Freemason", and was the first recorded woman to be initiated into Regular Freemasonry. Aldworth was the daughter of Arthur St Leger, 1st Viscount Doneraile, of Doneraile Court, County Cork. She was married in 1713 to Richard Aldworth, Esq. Nothing else of her life is known between her initiation into Freemasonry as a young girl and her death almost sixty years later. She has gone down in history as Ireland's first Lady Freemason.

80. DE MANDAT-GRANCEY, The Baron. Paddy at Home. ("Chez Paddy"). Translated by A.P. Morton. Second edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. pp. xvi, 307. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Minor wear to head and tail of spine, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €165

A Frenchman's account of Ireland, its socio-economic and political problems at the close of the nineteenth century. The chapters include notices of: The Land League; Castle Connell; The Shannon; Limerick; Mallow; Killarney; A Dinner in Kerry; Advice to tourists on the art of kissing Englishwomen; Captain Moonlight; Boycotting; Anglers on the Shannon; How we travel in Kerry; The distress of tax-payers at Kenmare; Meeting the Irish Constabulary; The Cork Defence Union; Pretty Miss M'Carthy and her leg of mutton; Christmas Night 1880 at Shaunganeen, etc. The author in the preface states: "The Irish attribute their misery to England's tyranny; the English, indignant at the accusation, reply that the laws that rule Ireland are the same which render the English


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people rich and prosperous; they assert the Irish have only themselves to blame for their misery ... It was in order to verify this theory that I determined last year to go and pass some weeks in Ireland. The notes which I now ask you to read have been collected from day to day. As far as possible, I have named the persons who have given me information, and designated by their right names the localities through which I passed."

81. DE MORSAN, Le Fèvre. The Manners And Customs Of The Romans, Translated from French. Dublin: Printed by and for George Faulkner, 1740. pp. [12], 360, [12 (Index)]. First edition in English. Contemporary full tree calf, upper joint starting but very firm, lacks letterpiece to spine. Early owner's signature of Richard Wolseley, dated 1748 on titlepage. Light wear to extremities, internally very fine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €375

COPAC locates 3 copies only. Not in the British Library. Not in the Bodleian. ESTC T172579 with 7 locations. Anonymous. By Le Fèvre De Morsan. With an index. The Wolseley Baronetcy, of Mount Wolseley in the County of Carlow, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 19 January 1745 for Richard Wolseley, who sat as a member of the Irish House of Commons for Carlow. He was the younger brother of the fifth Baronet of the 1628 creation. Consequently, the holder of the baronetcy is also in remainder to the Wolseley Baronetcy of Wolseley. As of January 2014 the present Baronet has not successfully proven his succession and is therefore not on the Official Roll of the Baronetage, with the baronetcy considered dormant since 1991. The family seat was Mount Wolseley House, near Tullow, County Carlow.

82. DEMPSEY, G. Drysdale. Rudimentary Treatise on the Drainage of Districts and Lands. Illustrated. London: John Weale, 1849. 12mo. pp. 4, [ii], 142. Blind stamped red cloth, title on printed label on upper cover and spine. Owners signature on front free endpaper. Ticket of Henry Greer, Bookseller, Belfast on front pastedown. A fine copy. Very rare. €235

COPAC locates 6 copies only. This edition not in NLI. 83. [DESMAIZEAUX, Pierre] The Life of Mr. Bayle. In a Letter to a Peer of Great Britain. London: Printed in the Year 1708. pp. 224. Recent quarter blue morocco on cloth boards. Spine divided into five compartments by four raised bands; title in gilt on black morocco label in the second. Inoffensive water stain to top margin. A very good copy. Scarce. €265

ESTC T144351. Pierre Bayle 1647-1706 was a French Philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, published beginning in 1695. He was a self-pronounced Protestant, and as a fideist he advocated a separation between the spheres of faith and reason, on the grounds of God being incomprehensible to man. As a forerunner of the Encyclopaedists and an advocate of the principle of the toleration of divergent beliefs, his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment.

See 79, 84 & 89.

84. [DE VALERA, Eamon] An Tríomhadh Cath Sean-Bhriogáid Atha Cliath. Céilidhe Mhór in aid of 3rd Battn. Benevolent Fund. The Gresham Hotel, Dublin, 3 May 1935. Souvenir Programme. Decorative wraps with drawing of De Valera, Commandant 3rd Batt. Easter Week 1916 on front cover. Dublin: Printed at The Sign of the Three Candles, [1935]. Octavo. pp. [20 (including advertisements)]. Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare Three Candles item. Not in De Búrca. €225


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85. DOHERTY, William James. Inis-Owen and Tirconnell. Being some account of Antiquities and Writers of the County of Donegal. Second series. Illustrated. Dublin: Patrick Traynor, 1895. pp. [xii], 609. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Publisher's device blind-stamped on both covers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €295

IN THE SERVICE OF FAITH AND FATHERLAND IN ORIGINAL FRENCH BINDING

86. [DONLEVY, Rev. Andrew] An Teagasg Críosduidhe Do Réir Ceasda agus Freagartha ... The Catechism, or Christian Doctrine by way of Question and Answer, Drawn chiefly from the express Word of God, and other pure Sources. English and Irish text. With the 'Elements of the Irish Language' by Hugh MacCurtain at end. Paris: Printed by James Guerin, 1742. First edition. pp. lvi, 518. Contemporary full worn calf. Ex libris Milltown Park Charitable Trust, with their stamps and labels, paper fault to Hij with paper repair, wear to extremities of covers. Lacking front free endpaper. Internally a very good copy. All edges red. Rare. €650

Dr. Andrew Donlevy was born in the barony of Tirerrill, County Sligo in 1680. Educated at a hedge-school near his native Ballymote, he secretly escaped to France in 1700 and began his studies at the Irish College there, where he later became Prefect. Donlevy was a noted Irish scholar and assisted Walter Harris the great historian, who said of him: "for many favours I received from him, particularly in his transmitting to me, from time to time, several useful collections out of the King's and other libraries in Paris ... out of gratitude". The author was a man in every way eminently qualified to undertake the Catechism. This rare and valuable work by which he is principally remembered, contains a full treatise on both dogma and morals and was designed for the instruction of the great masses of Irish people who knew no English. In the preface the author explains: "It is the great scarcity of those large Irish Catechisms, published upwards of an hundred years ago, by the laborious and learned Franciscans of Louvain, and the consideration of those great evils which arise from ignorance, partly from want of instructive books, together with a great desire of contributing to the instruction of the poor Irish youth, that gave birth to the following Irish Catechism ... The plainest and most obvious Irish is used throughout and care is taken to explain certain words not used in some districts of the Kingdom by other words set down at the bottom of the page". This edition contains a treatise on The Elements of the Irish Language, introduced for the benefit of those who wished to learn and read Irish, which was omitted from the two later Dublin editions of 1822 and 1848. It is generally accepted that it was widely used by the Irish Brigades in the service of France. Dr. Donlevy's Catechism was the last book of Catholic religious instruction printed on the Continent in Irish characters. This Paris Irish type was first used in O'Begly's Dictionary and Donlevy makes an interesting comment regarding the type: "to such as have no better, nor much time to spare: They will likewise see, that the print is large, and much waste occasioned, through the necessity of placing the questions and answers, of both languages, directly opposite to each other; and that some paper is taken up by quotations from Scripture". While the presses of Louvain, Rome, and Paris were thus contributing to perpetuate our language and instruct our people, the persecuted Catholics of Ireland had not at home a letter of Irish type within their reach, even if they could dare to use it. Dr. Donlevy died in Paris in 1746 and was buried in the old Irish College, the 'College des Lombards'. This illustrious son of County Sligo, exiled for almost half a century, spent most of his life in the service of his faith and fatherland.

SIGNED BY TONY DONOHOE 87. DONOHOE, Tony. Local Songs, Poems and Ballads from the Shadow of Nephin. Illustrated. Ballina: 1996. First edition. pp. 67. Illustrated wrappers. Signed by the author. A fine copy. Rare. €45

Included in this excellent collection compiled by one of Mayo's finest historians: Castle Hill Evicted Tenants; The Crossmolina Conspiracy; Ballad on the Death of Archbishop John McHale; Coolnabinna; Daisy in the Glen; The Immigrants Return; Flow Gentle Moy; God be With Mayo, etc.

88. DOWNEY, E. [F.M. Allen] Anchor-Watch Yarns. London: Ward & Downey, 1893. Sixth edition. pp. 315. Printed wrappers. Spine rebacked. A good copy. Exceedingly rare. €375

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James Duffy of Westmoreland Street, Dublin. Edmund Downey (1856-1937) publisher and novelist, was born in Waterford, son of a ship owner. He was educated at the Catholic University School and John's College, Waterford. In 1878 he moved to London and worked for the publisher Tinsley Brothers and two years later became editor of Tinsley's Magazine. In 1884 he established his own publishing house, Ward and Downey. He is credited with one of the few publisher's who facilitated the publishing of works by living Irish authors, greatly contributing to the popularisation of the Irish novel. His own fiction includes Through Green Glasses (1887), Green as Grass (1892), Merchant of Killogue' (1894), Clashmore (1903) and the present work which is exceedingly rare.

ONE OF HURLING'S IMMORTALS 89. [DOYLE, Tommy] A Lifetime in Hurling. By Tommy Doyle as told to Raymond Smith. Foreword by Phil Purcell. Illustrated. London: Hutchinson, 1955. First edition. pp. 191. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in rare but slightly frayed dust jacket. Rare. €275 90. DRAKE, Capt. Peter. Amiable Renegade. The memoirs of Capt. Peter Drake 1671-1753. Illustrated. Stanford: U.P., 1960. pp. xliii, 410. With neat library stamp of previous owner on front free endpaper. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45

Irish soldier of fortune, adventurer, swordsman, gambler, small time Casanova, of Anglo-Irish stock from the Barony of Kells, County Meath.

91. [DRUMCREE PARISH] Historical Sketch of Drumcree Parish Diocese of Armagh. Compiled from original sources. Illustrated. Belfast: Printed at "The Witness" Office, Royal Avenue, 1927. pp. 39, [2]. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover. Presentation inscription on front endpaper. A very good copy. €35

PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO W.E. GLADSTONE

92. DUFFERIN, The Rt. Hon. Lord. Irish Emigration and the Tenure of Land in Ireland. Illustrated with a coloured map, charts and tables. London: Wills, Sotheran & Co, 1867. First edition. pp. xxii, [ii], 402. Contemporary full green morocco, title and author in gilt direct in the second and third compartments; turn-ins gilt; gold, red and blue endbands. Presentation copy from the author to the Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone. Inscribed on front free endpaper 'The Rt. Hon. / W.E. Gladstone / from the Author / 1865'. Signature of Robert H. Farrell, 1892, on titlepage. All edges gilt. A near fine copy. €1,250

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), Liberal politician. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate terms. Gladstone's first ministry saw many reforms including Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland and the introduction of secret voting. After his electoral defeat in 1874, Gladstone resigned as leader of the Liberal Party, but from 1876 began a comeback based on opposition to Turkey's Bulgarian atrocities. His Midlothian Campaign of 1879-80 was an early example of many modern political campaigning techniques. After the 1880 election, he formed his second ministry, which saw crises in Egypt (culminating in the death of General Gordon at Khartoum in 1885), and in Ireland, where the government passed repressive measures but also improved the legal rights of Irish tenant farmers. The government also passed the Third Reform Act. Back in office in early 1886, Gladstone proposed Irish Home Rule but this was defeated in the House of Commons in July. The resulting split in the Liberal


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Party helped keep them out of office, with one short break, for twenty years. In 1892 Gladstone formed his last government at the age of 82. The Second Irish Home Rule Bill passed the Commons but was defeated in the Lords in 1893. He resigned in March 1894, in opposition to increased naval expenditure. He left Parliament in 1895 and died three years later aged eighty-eight. Gladstone is famous for his oratory, his religiosity, his liberalism, his rivalry with the Conservative Leader Benjamin Disraeli, and for his poor relations with Queen Victoria, who once complained, "He always addresses me as if I were a public meeting". Gladstone was known affectionately by his supporters as "The People's William" or the "G.O.M." ("Grand Old Man", or, according to Disraeli, "God's Only Mistake"). Gladstone is consistently ranked as one of Britain's greatest Prime Ministers An important and significant historical association copy. Gladstone said of Ireland before the Great Famine: "Ireland, Ireland! that cloud in the West, that coming storm, that minister of God's retribution upon cruel and inveterate and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us these great social and great religious questions - God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face and to work through them ". He was a champion of Irish grievances and a year after the publication of this work he announced his proposal for the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland. On forming his first administration he stated: "My mission is to pacify Ireland".

93. [EASTER RISING] Cogadh na Saoirse (War of Independence, 1917-21) Service Medal. In original presentation box. With bar and clasp on black and amber ribbon. Extremities of original box a little worn, otherwise fine. €465

See items 93, 94 & 99.

94. EDDY, Daniel C. The Percy Family. A Visit to Ireland. Illustrated. Boston: Andrew F Graves, 1859. pp. 255. Blue blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Some minor wear to endbands and corners. A good copy. Very scarce. €265

COPAC locates the BL copy only. Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. 95. EDGEWORTH, Maria. Belinda. Illustrated by Chris Hammond. With an introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Illustrated. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1896. pp. 485. Red patterned cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €65 96. EDWARDS, Anthony. Edwards' Cork Remembrancer; or, Tablet of Memory. Enumerating every remarkable circumstance that has happened in the City and County of Cork, and in the Kingdom at large. Including all the memorable events in Great Britain; with an account of all the battles by sea and land in the present century. Also, the remarkable earthquakes, famines, inundations, storms, frosts, fires, and all other accidents of moment, in every quarter of the globe, from the earliest period, to the year 1792. Cork: By Anthony Edwards, Printer, Bookseller, and Stationer, Castle-Street, 1792. pp. iv, 301, 8 (Edwards Catalogue). Modern quarter calf over marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. A fine copy. Scarce. €375


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97. EDWARDS, David. Ed. by. Regions and Rulers in Ireland, 1100-1650. Essays for Kenneth Nicholls. Illustrated. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. pp. 288. Brown papered boards, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €65

The chapters include: The Synod of Cashel; Finghin MacCarthaigh, King of Desmond and the Mystery of the Second Nunnery at Clonmacnoise; The MacMahon Pedigree: A Medieval Forgery; The Lords of Galloway, Earls of Carrick, and the Bissetts of the Glens; The Geraldine Clerical Lineages of Imokilly and Sir John fitzEdmund of Cloyne; Cardinal Wolsey, Native Affinity, and the Failure of Reform in Henrician Ireland; Tipperary Liberty Ordinances of the "Black" Earl of Ormond; A Scholar's Notebook: NLI MS G1 and the Cultural World of a Sixteenth Century Irish Chronicler; The End of the O'Reilly Lordship, etc.

98. EGAN, Rev. Thomas. The Story of Ballintubber Abbey. Illustrated. Mayo: Published by Rev. Thomas A. Egan, P.P, 1967. pp. 32. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €10 99. EGERTON, Harriet Catherine, Countess of Ellesmere. Outlines of Irish history. Written for the use of young persons. Illustrated. Second edition. London: John Harris, 1835. pp. xii, 247, 4 (Books for Young Persons). Contemporary quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Occasional foxing and some pencilling. A good copy. €95

COPAC locates only 1 copy of this edition. 100. ELLIS, George. Irish Ethnology Socially and Politically Considered: embracing a general outline of the Celtic and Saxon races, with practical inferences. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1852. pp. v, [1], 156, [4], 8 (adverts). Blue blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Some mild foxing, otherwise a very good copy. €195

COPAC locates 8 copies only.

MASTERPIECE OF REALISM 101. ESSE, James [James Stephens] Hunger. A Dublin Story. Dublin: The Candle Press, 158 Rathgar Road, 1918. pp. 30, 2 (Publisher's list). Superb copy in wrappers, with title, publisher's details and Three Candles emblem printed in green on upper cover. A very good copy. Rare in this condition. €175

De Búrca 9. A graphic tale of the struggle and sufferings of a Dublin workingman's family in their fight against the conqueror 'Hunger'. There is no tirade against the upper classes, yet the story demonstrates the sufferings that are silently endured by the poverty-stricken people of the metropolis. James Stephens (1880-1950), poet and storyteller, was born in Dublin. He went to Paris in 1912 and returned three years later to become Registrar of the National Gallery until 1924 when he moved to London. He was a founder member of the Irish Academy of Letters, and received a civil list pension in 1942. In his later years he was a frequent broadcaster for the B.B.C.

102. FEEHAN, John M. An Irish Publisher and his World. Cork: Mercier, 1985. pp. 110. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €25 103. FERGUSON, Sir Samuel. Lays of the Western Gael, and Other Poems. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, and London: George Bell & Sons, 1897. pp. [ii], 192, [3 (adverts)]. Original blue cloth, gilt decoration on upper cover, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. €125

Boylan's Dictionary of Irish Biography records that Ferguson's house in Dublin was open to 'everyone interested in Irish art, literature and music'.

104. FFOLLIOTT, Rosemary. The Pooles of Mayfield. And other Irish Families. With illustrations and genealogical charts. Dublin: Hodges, 1958. Quarto. pp. 294. Cloth. Signed limited edition [122/500 copies]. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €265

In addition to giving us an excellent history of the Poole family in Ireland, the author also highlights the Morrises of Castle Salem, the Jellets of Tullyard, Morgans of Tinoli, Morrisons, the Meades of Ballintober and Ballymartle. There are over eighty pedigrees, the Flemings of New Court, the Courthopes, Crokers, Townsends, Wynns, Barrys, Somervilles, Brownes, Bechers, Turners, Davies, Boyles, Rogers, Hulls, FitzGerald, Holmes, etc.

105. FIGGIS, Darrell. The Gaelic State in the Past & Future or "The Crown of a Nation". Dublin: Maunsel, 1917. pp. [iii], 84. Printed lightly soiled wrappers. A good copy. Scarce. €125

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A careful historical analysis in clear and simple terms for the layman, outlining a state for the future that claims to be a continuity of Ireland's historic past. The author writes as a Sinn Feiner.

BOUND IN PRISON CLOTH 106. FIGGIS, Darrell. A Chronicle of Jails. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1917. pp. [vi], 130. Coarse linen with horizontal red strip and arrowhead. A very good copy. €175

Carty 814. Edward Darrell Figgis (1882-1925) was an Irish writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent politician. He was born at Rathmines in Dublin but spent some of his childhood in India. As a young man he worked in London as a tea importer. He joined the Irish Volunteers in Dublin in 1913 and was deeply implicated in the Kilcoole gun-running of 1914 by Irish Republicans. Although he did not participate in the 1916 Easter Rising, he was arrested and interned by the British authorities between 1916 and 1917 in Reading Gaol. After his release, he returned to Ireland and was elected an honorary secretary of Sinn Féin. In May 1918, he was deported. Figgis supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty. He was extremely critical of the Collins/De Valera pact for the June 1922 elections. On May 25 1922 he attended a meeting of the executive council of the Farmers' Union and representatives of business interests and encouraged them to put forward candidates in constituencies where anti-Treaty candidates may otherwise head the poll. As Figgis was a member of the Sinn Féin Ard Chomhairle at the time, he was expelled from the party. In the June 1922 and August 1923 general elections he was elected an independent T.D. for the Dublin County constituency and was deputy chair of the committee which drafted the Constitution of the Irish Free State. In 1924, after learning that her husband had a mistress, Figgis's wife Millie committed suicide. A year later and after the death of his mistress, Rita North, (allegedly after an unsuccessful abortion) Figgis himself committed suicide in London. Dedicated to 'The Lady at the Gate'. Prefatory note signed D.F. 'On the Run', 5th June, 1917.

107. FITZGERALD, Brian. The Geraldines. An Experiment in Irish Government 1169-1601. With genealogical charts, and map on front flyleaf. London: Staples, 1951. First edition. pp. 322. Modern green cloth, title in gilt on original label on spine. Proof copy with stamps of Browne and Nolan, paper repair to half title. A very good copy. €65

The FitzGeralds of Ireland trace their descent from the famous Maurice, son of Gerald, who accompanied Strongbow to Ireland during the Anglo-Norman invasion in 1169. The family formed two main branches one in Kildare (headed by the Earls of Kildare) and the other in Munster. The latter who were headed by the Earls of Desmond were crushed and deprived of their lands during the Elizabethan conquest of Munster. The author in this work traces the fortunes of the family from their coming into Ireland to the Battle of Kinsale.

108. FITZHENRY, Edna C. Compiled by. Nineteen-Sixteen: An Anthology. Golden Jubilee Edition. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1935. pp. 112. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Top edge blue. A fine copy in dust jacket. €75

With contributions by Yeats; Casement, Plunkett; MacDonagh; Ledwidge; Pearse; A.E.; Lady Gregory; Eva Gore-Booth, Joseph Campbell. Includes: Sixteen Dead Men by W.B. Yeats.

109. FOLEY, Patrick. Irish Historical Allusions. Curious Customs and Superstitions. County of Kerry. Corkaguiny. By Patrick Foley. Published by the author. Printed in the United States, [1916]. pp. [vii], 104. Printed green wrappers. Light stain to upper cover. One margin lightly nicked, otherwise a very good copy. Of the utmost rarity. €650

No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. No copy in NLI or TCD. 110. FORBES, John. M.D. Memorandums Made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852. With map and illustrations. Two volumes. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1853. pp. (1) xv, 308, 16 (publishers list), (2) xv, 414. Green blind-stamped cloth, arms of Ireland in gilt on upper covers, harp within a garland of shamrocks blind-stamped on lower covers. Stamp of De La Salle Hall, Ely Place Dublin on front free endpaper. Occasional light foxing to verso of frontispiece. A very good set. Scarce. €275

Dr. Forbes strives to dispel prejudices against Ireland and the Irish in this work. Travelling through the southern, western and northern parts of the country he gives an accurate and impartial account of the condition of the people both moral and physical; the state of trade and commerce in Ireland.


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111. [FORTESCUE, Thomas Knox] Jack's Edition of Life at Sea, or the Jervian System in 183- being a Series of Letters by an old Irish Captain of the Head to his Nephew. To which are added a set of orders. Dublin: Samuel J. Machen. London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1843. pp. xi, [1], 455, [1], 4 (advertisement). Green blind-stamped cloth, title, sailing ship and anchor in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from the author to his kinsman Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Charlemont. A very good copy. €375

COPAC locates 3 copies only (all in U.K.). NLI copy with no author ascribed. Thomas Knox Fortescue was born in 1818. He served in the Royal Navy for thirteen years and lived in Clontarf. He was married to Emily Magee. Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont (1815-1887), Whig politician was the son of Chichester Fortescue, of Dromisken, County Louth, and his wife Martha Angel, daughter of Samuel Meade Hobson, a barrister, of Muchridge House, County Cork. Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford was his younger brother. Thomas was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. In 1833 he succeeded to the Ravensdale Park estate in Derbyshire on the death of Sir Henry James Goodricke, 7th Baronet, son of Sir Henry Goodricke, 6th Baronet, by Charlotte, sister of the first Earl of Clermont. Fortescue was High Sheriff of Louth in 1839. In 1840 he was returned to parliament as one of two representatives for County Louth, a seat he held until the following year. In 1852 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Clermont, of Dromisken in the County of Louth, a revival of the Clermont title held by his kinsman. The peerage was created with special remainder to his younger brother, Chichester. In 1866 he was also created Baron Clermont, of Clermont Park in the County of Louth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. This peerage was created with normal remainder to his heirs male. Lord Clermont married Lady Louisa Grace, daughter of James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde, in 1840. There were no children from the marriage. He died at Ravensdale Park in July 1887, aged 72. The English peerage became extinct on his death while he was succeeded in the Irish peerage according to the special remainder by his brother Chichester, who had already been elevated to the peerage in his own right as Baron Carlingford. Lady Clermont died at Ravensdale Park in November 1896, aged 80. Lord Clermont wrote the definitive history of the ancient Fortescue family, titled History of the Family of Fortescue in all its Branches, published 1880 in London. He produced a Supplement in 1885 containing new information following his discovery of two 13th-century Fortescue charters in Eton College library.

112. FRASER, James. Hand Book for Travellers in Ireland, descriptive of Its Scenery, Towns, Seats, Antiquities, etc. With various statistical tables. Also, an outline of its mineral structure, a brief view of its botany, and information for anglers. Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1859. Fifth edition. pp. xii, ii, 727 (double-column). Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on gilt decorated spine. Some fading to cover, otherwise a very good copy. €150 113. FRASER, Maxwell. Southern Ireland. Illustrated. London: G.W.R. 1932. pp. 64. Recent quarter goatskin on marbled boards. A fine copy. Scarce. €150

Illustrated guide through Munster and back to Dublin via the West Coast.

RARE GOTHIC NOVEL BY CORK AUTHOR 114. [FULLER, Anne] The Son of Ethelwolf; an historical Tale. Two volumes. By the Author of Alan Fitz-Osborne. Two volumes. London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789. 12mo. pp. (1) [28], 235, [5], (2) [2], 209, [1]. Half calf on marbled boards. Flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, title and volume number on contrasting labels, decorated with a gilt flower tool in remaining compartments. A very good set. Exceedingly rare. €1,250

COPAC locates 5 copies only. Loeber F149. This edition not in TCD or NLI. Anne Fuller fl. 1786, died at Cork 1790, probably at a young age, according to Loeber. She was descended from a landed family who were resident at West Kerries, near Tralee, County Kerry. Her parents were William Fuller and Jane Hartnett. She is mentioned in the Gentleman's Magazine (1790) as the "authoress of several interesting and ingenious novels", and in the Dublin Chronicle (25 Sept. 1790) as "the late Miss Anne Fuller of Cork". It is reasonable to assume that she was connected to court circles as she dedicated this work to the Prince of Wales. Her Gothic historical novels were very popular and were reprinted several times in England, Ireland and the Continent. Anne Fuller did not marry and died of consumption.


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This novel is set in England during the time of Alfred the Great and the threat of Danish invasion. A resourceful female character in disguise fights alongside Alfred in battle. The novel can be read as an allegory of contemporary conditions in Ireland.

115. [GAA] How to Play Gaelic Football. By Dick Fitzgerald. Cork: Guy, 1914. pp. 78. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy of an exceedingly rare G.A.A. item. €475

Dick Fitzgerald (1884-1930) was born in College Street, Killarney. His introduction to competitive football occurred during his studies in St. Brendan's College Killarney, where his wonderful football technique and ability became apparent. He later became a household name for his screw-kicking and ball control as well as the utmost respect from his fellow players through his captaincy. He played Gaelic football with his local club Dr. Crokes and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1903 until 1923. Fitzgerald captained Kerry to back-to-back All-Ireland titles in 1913 and 1914. However it was not until 1903 that 'Dickeen', as he was familiarly called, came before the public eye, when Kerry played Kildare in the All-Ireland final. Fitzgerald captained the two winning teams of 1913 and 1914 against Wexford but retired from the game he loved so much after their defeat in 1915 against the same opposition. This did not stop Fitzgerald's fascination with the beautiful game. He later proceeded to write this book on Gaelic football which was the first of its kind in the organisation. Dick was also a member of Killarney UDC from 1917 until his death. Immediately after his death the Dr Croke Club began a campaign to develop a field in his honour. In 1936 Fitzgerald's Stadium in Killarney opened and stands today as one of Ireland's finest sporting arena.

116. [GAA] The Art and Science of Gaelic Football. Ealadhantacht i bPeil Gaedheal. By Éamon Naomh Micheál Ó Suilleabhain. Tralee: The Kerryman, 1958. First edition. pp. x, 90. Pictorial wrappers. Small crease to upper cover. A very good copy. €65 117. [GAA] Coaching Gaelic Football for Champions. With diagrams and illustrations. By Joe Lennon. Newry: Lennon, 1964. pp. xvii, [1], 119. White papered boards. A fine copy in repaired pictorial dust jacket. €150

SIGNED BY MICK O'CONNELL 118. [GAA] A Kerry Footballer. By Mick O'Connell. Illustrated. Dublin and Cork: Mercier Press, 1974. pp. [v], 158. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from Mick O'Connell, dated 29/4/74. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €265

Michael "Mick" O'Connell (born 4 January 1937) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer. His league and championship career with the Kerry senior team spanned nineteen seasons from 1956 to 1974. O'Connell is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the game. Born on Valentia Island, O'Connell was raised in a family that had no real link to Gaelic football. In spite of this he excelled at the game in his youth and also at Caherciveen CBS. By his late teens O'Connell had joined the Young Islanders, and won seven South Kerry divisional championship medals in a club career that spanned four decades and included a spell playing with Waterville. He also


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lined out with South Kerry, winning three county senior championship medals between 1955 and 1958. O'Connell made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of eighteen when he was selected for the Kerry minor team. He enjoyed one championship season with the minors, however, he was a Munster runner-up on that occasion. O'Connell subsequently joined the Kerry senior team, making his debut during the 1956 championship. Over the course of the next nineteen seasons, he won eight All-Ireland medals, beginning with lone triumphs in 1959 and 1962, and culminating in back-to-back championships in 1969 and 1970. O'Connell also won twelve Munster medals, six National Football League medals and was named Footballer of the Year in 1962. He played his last game for Kerry in July 1974.

119. GARVEY, Stella. The Haunted Husband; or, The Lord of Carra Isle. A Tale of Ireland and Spain in the Reign of James II. Dublin: Published in 'Young Ireland' An Irish Magazine of Entertainment and Instruction, 1887/88. Folio. pp. [67 (double column)]. A fine facsimile edition, bound in full modern green buckram. Rare. €245 120. [GAS COMPANY] Alliance and Dublin Consumers' Gas Company. Acts containing Clauses for the Protection of the Company. London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1880. Small folio. pp. 42, 18, 14, 24, 20, 24, 48, 25, 58, 11, 36, 12. Title in manuscript. Contemporary full maroon morocco, title and solicitors 'D. & T. Fitzgerald' in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. Rare. €150

The contents include: The Dublin Main Drainage and Purification of Liffey Act; The Great Southern and Western Railway Act; The South Dublin Railway Act; The Dublin Port and Docks Board (Bridges) Act; The Dublin (South) City Market Act; The Rathmines and Pembroke Main Drainage and Improvement Act; Drumcondra, Clonliffe and Glasnevin Township Act; London and North-Western Railway (Additional Powers) Act; Great Southern and Western Railway Act; Rathmines and Rathgar Water Act; Rathmines and Rathgar (Milltown Extension) Act.

121. GASKIN, James J. Varieties of Irish History: from Ancient and Modern Sources and Original Documents. With four coloured lithographs and folding map. Dublin: W.B. Kelly, 1869. pp. xvii, 446. Original green cloth, decorated in gilt. A good copy. €75 122. GATTY, Mrs. Alfred. The Old Folks from Home; or, A Holiday in Ireland in 1861. London: Bell and Daldy, 1862. Second edition. pp. viii, 256, 30 (publisher's list). Original green blind-stamped pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. New endpapers, spine neatly rebacked. A very good copy. Scarce. €225

Margaret Gatty (1809-1873) was an English writer of children's literature. She was the daughter of the Rev. Alexander John Scott, D.D., a Royal Navy chaplain, who served under, and was the trusted friend of, Lord Nelson onboard the HMS Victory before and during the Battle of Trafalgar. She married the Rev. Alfred Gatty, D.D., Ecclesfield, Yorkshire in 1839 and moved into the vicarage of Church of St. Mary shortly after. She became a highly useful and popular writer of tales for young people. She became fascinated with marine biology, possibly on the advice of William Henry Harvey, whom she had met in Hastings in 1848. Mrs. Gatty undertook this visit to Ireland in the summer of 1861 and sent detailed descriptions, in the form of letters to her husband and daughters. An interesting, informative and light hearted work of her travels. She travelled extensively throughout the country: Dublin, Kildare, Limerick, The Shannon, Kilkee, Miltown-Malbay, Tarbert, Killarney and Cork.

123. GILBERT, John T. A History of the City of Dublin. With folding map and portrait frontispiece. Three volumes. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972. Second edition. pp. (1) xvi, 445, (2) vi, 372, (3) iv, 382. Green buckram, title in gilt along spines. A fine set in repaired dust jackets. €165

This work includes an index (not in first edition) prepared by Diarmuid Breathnach, making this edition more suitable for the researcher.

124. GILBERT, Lady. Ed. by. Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, in the Possession of the Municipal Corporation of that City. Volume XIX. Published by authority of the Municipal Council. Dublin: Dollard, 1944. Crown octavo. pp. xxiii, 448. Quarter morocco on pebbled cloth with the arms of Dublin in gilt on cover, title in gilt on spine. Light fading to cloth, otherwise a fine copy. Exceedingly rare final volume. €165

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early age he was interested in the history and antiquities of his country, and when he published the History of the City of Dublin in 1861, he won the Cunningham Gold Medal, of the Royal Irish Academy. His appreciation of the importance of editing and publishing manuscript documents, and his attacks on the treatment of Irish historical documents led to the founding of the Irish Public Record Office in 1867. He was, with the general approval of the public, appointed Secretary, and retained this post until 1875, when it was abolished.

125. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B. With the Life of the Author Embellished with Woodcuts By T. Bewick. Glocester: Walker, 1809. 12mo. pp. 93, [1]. Five vignettes and a headpiece. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, title in gilt along spine, red endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Gaisford on front pastedown. A very good copy. €125

COPAC locates 2 copies only. Hugo 241. 126. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Traveller, A Poem. By Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. The Ninth Edition. London: Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery Junr. in St. Pauls Church Yard, 1774. Quarto. pp. viii, 31, [1]. Engraved vignette titlepage. Modern vellum marbled boards, title in gilt on label on upper cover. Light browning to corner-margin of titlepage. A very good copy. €165

ESTC T146165 Oliver Goldsmith was born in 1728 in Pallas, County Longford, the son of a clergyman; he was educated at T.C.D. After a period of wandering, Goldsmith settled in London where he became a famous poet, dramatist, novelist and occasional writer. He was a constant companion of Dr. Johnson who greatly admired Goldsmith's most famous poems, The Deserted Village, and The Traveller. The first of these recounts the effect of the 'luxury' of the modern world on the traditional values of the countryside, then being rapidly de-populated, and the second the feelings of the "pensive" traveller whose fortune leads him "to traverse realms alone, - And find no spot of all the world my own". Despite their sentimentalism, these two poems remain among the most popular written in English in the eighteenth century. Goldsmith's philosophical poem is the first of his works to bear his name on the title-page. Taking its cue from the French philosophies the poem is recounted by a lonely wanderer observing the character of the inhabitants of the nations, noting the effects of climate and the deleterious influence of wealth and luxury. 'Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, / And honor sinks where commerce long prevails'. Samuel Johnson contributed lines 420 and 429-38 (and reviewed the work for the Critical Review, Dec. 1764). Goldsmith made numerous early revisions and this copy is an example of


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WITH FINE HAND-COLOURED AQUATINTS

127. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With remarks, attempting to ascertain, chiefly from local observation, the Actual Scene of the Deserted Village; and illustrative engravings by Mr. Alkin, from drawings taken upon the spot. By Rev. R.H. Newell, B.D. London: Printed by Ellerton and Henderson, Johnson's Court, Fleet Street for Suttaby, Evance, and Company, Stationers' Court, Ludgate Street, 1811. Quarto. pp. [2], iv, v, [1], 8-182. Contemporary dark purple straight-grain morocco, covers framed by gilt fillets and a gilt floral roll. Spine divided into six compartments by five thick raised bands, title in gilt direct in second, the remainder tooled in gilt. Board edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins gilt. New endpapers. Illustrated with six fine hand-coloured aquatints and one vignette. Minor wear to corners. A fine and very attractive copy. €1,250

COPAC with 6 locations only. WorldCat 2. With a dedication to William Payne. Hand-coloured illustrations are aquatints by Samuel Alken after Rev. Newell. Plates include an engraved dedication leaf with aquatint vignette.

128. GRAVES, Alfred Perceval. Songs of Killarney. London: Bradbury 1873. First edition. pp. viii, 175. 16mo. Original illustrated green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Covers lightly faded. A very good copy. Very scarce. €95

Alfred Perceval Graves, poet and educationist, was born on 22 July 1846 at 12 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, second of the eight children of Charles Graves, Bishop of Limerick. In 1864 he went to Trinity College, where he later won a university scholarship in classics; but in 1867 he joined the English civil service before completing his degree course. In London he combined the duties of a clerkship in the Home Office with literary work, and contributed lively poems to Punch, the Gentleman's Magazine, and other periodicals. Graves's first book of poems, Songs of Killarney (1873) was well received, especially by The Spectator, to which he became a regular contributor. On 29 December 1874 he married the beautiful Jane Cooper eldest daughter of James Cooper of Cooper's Hill, near Limerick. Graves (a devout protestant, who was reputed never to have made an enemy) presided in 1891 over the inaugural meeting of the 'Irish Literary Society' of London, of which he was twice president. In 1912 he was installed as a Welsh bard under the name Canwr Cilarne (Singer of Killarney); and in 1919 he retired to 'Erinfa', his holiday home at Harlech in north Wales.


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129. GREER, James. Ed. by. Guide to Londonderry and Highlands of Donegal. Illustrated. Londonderry: William Gailey, 1885. pp. 104. Recent paper wrappers. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275


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130. GREER, Rev. James. The Windings of the Moy with Skreen and Tireragh. Illustrated. Dublin: Alex Thom, n.d. (c. 1923). pp. xi, 232. Publisher's green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €245

A feast of articles chiefly on topography without as the author states: "any thought of publication, just to pass away time, at a period of life when the writer suffered much from insomnia". The underlying theme of the articles is the scenic beauty and grandeur of mountain, river, lake and sea. They include notices of: Moyne Abbey; Killala - The Mouth of the Moy; The Wreck of the Arethusa; Enniscrone now and then; Antiquities of Kilglass Enniscrone; From Bunree to Barnacolleen; Pullaheenyeaskey; Skreen; Dromore West; The Great Nangle of Skreen; Ballina; Ard na Ree; Foxford; The Grave of Michael Davitt, Straide; Meelick Round Tower; Swinford; Banada; Cnoc na Shea, etc.

131. GUNNING, John P. The Volunteers and the Irish Parliament. With notices of Current Events. Limerick: Guy, 1903. pp. 140, 2 (opinions of the Press). Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €125

No copy located on COPAC. 132. GUTHRIE, William. An Improved System of Modern Geography: or, A Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; containing the ancient and present State of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics in the known World .... to which are added, I. A Geographical Index ... II. A Table of the Coins of all Nations ... III. A Chronological Table of remarkable Events from the Creation to the present Time. A new edition, considerably enlarged and corrected. Inscribed by permission to the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin: Printed by John Chambers, No. 5, Abbey-Street, 1789. Quarto. pp. xvi, 994, [14], 1 (one plate of 27 called for). Modern brown buckram over marbled boards. Partial loss to text to 3P (p.473/4). Armorial bookplate and signature of Richard Drew on front pastedown. Lacking 26 plates. A very good working copy. €475

ESTC N31605 With 6 locations. At head of titlepage: "Chambers' Edition." With a list of subscribers. First published in 1770 as A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar. Includes index.

133. HALL, Rev. James A.M. Tour through Ireland; particularly the Interior & Least Known Parts: containing An Accurate View of the Parties, Politics, and Improvements, in the different provinces; with Reflections and Observations on the Union of Britain and Ireland; the practicability and advantages of A Telegraphic Communication between the two countries, and other matters of importance. Illustrated with a map to delineate the route of the Revnd. Jas. Hall's travels in Ireland. Two volumes. London: Printed for R.P. Moore, 1813. pp. (1) vi, 344, (2) iv, 330. Modern papered boards, linen spine with printed labels (matching original binding). A very good copy. Extremely rare. €950

Not in Gilbert Bradshaw 7759. NSTC locates only 4 copies. James Hall of Walthamstow, Essex, was a native of Clackmannan, Scotland. Educated at the University of St Andrews, little, unfortunately, is known about him. In 1812 he made a comprehensive tour of Ireland visiting practically every county in the country. He tells us: "I determined to gratify my wish by actual observation, and so procured letters of introduction to some of the most respectable and most informed persons in that country ... that I might be able to form accurate ideas of the situation, manners, customs, notions, peculiarities, &c of the Irish, to visit even the lowest of their cabins; to sit and talk with them, hear their complaints, and, by mingling with them familiarly, obtained that information which I could not have gained by distant observation". He was preoccupied with economic improvement and comments at length on social customs and living conditions. He observed Ireland at its best, enjoying the boom years of the Napoleonic wars before the economic collapse of 1815. Hall was among the first to discuss the practical advantages of telegraphic communications between Ireland and England. Being a committed unionist he was convinced of the


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benefits that would accrue to Ireland from the Union with Britain. After giving us a detailed account of Dublin and its environs he proceeds to Monasterevin, Athy, Carlow, Gorey's or New Bridge, Graige na Managh, New Ross, Wexford, Waterford, Carrick-upon-Suir, Clonmell, Fermoy, Cobh of Cork, Blarney, Mill-Street, Killarney, Tralee, Ardfin, Listowel, Newcastle, Rathkeale, Adair, St. Patrick's Well, Limerick, Killaloe, Eyrecourt, Clonfert, Shannonbridge, Athlone, Ballymenach, Edgeworth Town, Longford, Rusky, Carrick, Boyle, Sligo, Manor Hamilton, Inniskillen, Fintinach, Lifford, Londonderry, Ballykelly, Coleraine, the Giants'-Causeway, Ballintoy, Cloch Mills, Ballymenagh, Antrim, Belfast, Lisburn, Dromore, Newry, Dundalk, Collon, Drogheda, Balbriggan, and back to Dublin. The last chapter contains a 'Description of Ireland and the Irish, A.D. 1619' by William Lithgow.

134. HALL, Mrs. S.C. Popular Tales of Irish Life and Character. Illustrated by Maclise, Franklin, Brooke, Herbert Harvey, Nicholl, Weigall and others. Glasgow and London: Morison & Simpkin, n.d. pp. 365, 15 (publisher's list). Green cloth, title and decoration in gilt on spine. Cover lightly faded. A very good copy. €65 135. HALL, Mr. & Mrs. S.C. A Week at Killarney. Illustrated with twelve steel engravings from drawings by T. Creswick and W.H. Bartlett, two maps and numerous engravings on wood. London: Virtue, 1850. Sm. 4to. pp. 217, [4 (Publisher's list)]. Original cloth with a garland of shamrocks in blind on lower cover and in gilt on upper cover enclosing the title, also in gilt. Spine rebacked. Usual foxing. A very good copy. €125

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 136. HALL, S.C. Ireland: Dublin; Wicklow; Waterford; Cork; Limerick; Killarney; etc., etc. The South: a lecture for the magic lantern, and a guide to the tourist. The letterpress descriptions by S.C. Hall. Bound with: Poulton's Catalogue of New and Complete Series of Artistic Photographs of Irish Scenery. London: Poulton, n.d. (c.1851). pp. 48, 42. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover within a garland of shamrocks with a rose and two thistles. Signed presentation inscription from the author on front endpaper. Small stain to upper cover. A very good copy. Rare. €165 137. HALL, Mr. & Mrs. S.C. Hand-Books for Ireland. The South and Killarney. With map and many illustrations. London: Virtue, Hall & Virtue, Paternoster Row, 1853. Small octavo. pp. viii, 172 [4]. Brown cloth, title and garland of flower in heart shape on upper cover. Signature of Geo. T. Moore / 1853 on titlepage. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €135

Anna Maria Hall (1800-1881), a native of Dublin, was brought to Wexford in 1806, where she lived and mixed a good deal with the country people until the age of fifteen, when she was taken to London by her mother. In 1824 she married Samuel Carter Hall (from Cork), who collaborated with her on this work. She wrote plays, sketches, short stories and novels and her works were immensely popular both in England and Ireland.

138. HANCOCK, Thomas. The Principles of Peace exemplified in the Conduct of the Society of Friends in Ireland, during the Rebellion of the Year 1798, with some Preliminary and Concluding Observations. Boston: Printed by Whipple & Damrell, for the American Peace Society, 1843. Stereotype edition. pp. 108. Original green patterned cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Ex lib. Earlham College Library. Some browning. Spine faded. A very good copy. €125 139. HARKIN, William. Scenery & Antiquities of North-West Donegal. With folding map showing roads, railways, towns, villages and steamer courses. Illustrated Londonderry: Printed by David Irvine, Old Post Office, Castle Street, 1893. pp. viii, 120, 32 (advertisements). Green cloth, titled in gilt. Presentation inscription on front endpaper. Previous owner's blind-stamp bookplate. A very good copy. €275


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140. HART, H.C. The Flora of Howth. With an introduction on the geology and other features of the promontory. Large folding map of Howth at end. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1887. pp. [iv], 137, + errata. Original green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signature of previous owner A.J. Fetherston Haugh' dated 1887 on titlepage. Paper repair to map. A very good copy. Rare. €375

RARE SIGNED COMPLIMENTARY COPY 141. HARVEY, R. The Shannon and Its Lakes; or A Short History of that Noble Stream, from its Source to Limerick. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1896. pp. xii, 194. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed complimentary copy from the author to Sir Charles Harvey, Bart. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €285

COPAC with 5 locations only. 142. HAYES, Richard. Ireland and Irishmen in the French Revolution. With a preface by Hilaire Belloc. Illustrated. London: Benn, 1932. First edition. pp. xx, 314. Modern black buckram. A very good copy. Scarce. €165

From the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, to the fall of Robespierre in 1794, Irishmen played a leading role in that tremendous event which remodelled Europe. They fought nobly in the armies of their adopted country and gave their lives for the new France that was to rise like a phoenix from the ashes of the old regime. Others suffered in the crowded prisons, some fell under the merciless blade of the guillotine and a few played a sinister role in the intrigues and conspiracies of the day. The memory of the Abbé Edgeworth, the King's confessor, facing every danger on the scaffold beside the hapless French monarch; Arthur Dillon, courageous soldier routing the enemies of the young Republic from her sacred soil; the brave Kilmaine, swordsman of renown, saviour of France when disaster threatened the revolution; the descendants of the 'Wild Geese', will forever be remembered. The author has left no stone unturned in researching this excellent work, a monument to the Irishmen of the Revolution.

143. [HAYMAN, Samuel] The Hand-Book for Youghal. The Historical Annals of the Town, St. Mary's Collegiate Church (including memorials of the Boyles), The College, Sir Walter Raleigh's House, The Franciscan and Dominican Friaries, The Templars' House at Rhincrew, The Monastery of St. John's, The '98 Rebellion, and The Fenian Rising. Illustrated. Youghal: Printed and Published by W. G. Field, 1896. First edition. pp. [10], xvi, 99. Pictorial printed wrappers. Signature of T.P.S. Crosthwait on upper cover. Some wear to spine. A very good copy. Very rare. €285

COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 2.

SIGNED FIRST EDITION 144. HEANEY, Seamus. Selected Poems 1965-1975. London: Faber and Faber, 1980. First edition, first impression. pp. [9], 136. Blue papered boards, title in gilt along spine. Signed and dated by Seamus Heaney on front endpaper. A fine copy in dust jacket. €585

Brandes and Durkan A26. Seamus Heaney was born near Castledawson, County Derry, and grew up on his father's small farm. He was the eldest in a Catholic family of nine children. Heaney attended St. Columb's College, Derry, and moved in 1957 to Belfast to continue his studies. In 1961 Heaney graduated from Queen's University, Belfast, and was then trained as a teacher at St. Joseph's College of Education. After one year as a secondary school teacher, Heaney returned to St. Joseph's, where he was a lecturer for three years. In 1966 he became a lecturer at Queen's University. In 1972 Heaney gave up his work at Queen's and moved to Glanmore, County Wicklow, working for a time as a freelance writer and later lectured at Carysfort College. Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. According to Heaney, poetry balances the "scales of reality towards some transcendent equilibrium". From the early collections, Heaney has combined in his work personal memories with images of Irish heritage and the landscape of Northern Ireland. There are also references to English-Irish and Catholic-Protestant conflict. However, Heaney's view is much more visionary and allegorical than bound to contemporary issues.

RARE BROADSIDE SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 145. HEANEY, Seamus. Mint. Concord: Published by William B. Ewart, 1991. Broadside. Limited edition, signed by Seamus Heaney. In fine condition. Very rare. €175


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Mint is dedicated to the Corbett family of Boston, in whose home the author enjoyed many a meal of minty soup and lamb. Text copyright 1991 by Seamus Heaney. Original woodcut copyright by Mary Azarian. 136 copies, designed by John Kristensen, were printed at Firefly Press, Somerville, Massachusetts, in May, 1991. This is 42/100.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 146. HEANEY, Seamus. Seeing Things. London: Faber and Faber, 1991. pp. [ix], 113. First edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by Seamus Heaney. Quarter linen on brown papered boards. A fine copy in slipcase. €850

SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 147. HEANEY, Seamus. Electric Light. London: Faber and Faber, 2001. First edition. pp. [x], 81. Black paper boards, titled in white. Signed by Seamus Heaney on titlepage. A fine copy in dust jacket. €475

SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 148. HEANEY, Seamus. Human Chain. London: Faber and Faber, 2010. pp. [8], 85. First edition. Brown papered boards, title in gilt on spine. With an inscribed note to Julian Crosby from Seamus Heaney and signed by the Nobel Laureate, tipped in. Fine copy in dust jacket. €685 149. HEATHER, J.F. A Treatise on Mathematical Instruments, including most of the instruments employed in drawing, for assisting the vision, in surveying and levelling, in practical astronomy, and for measuring the angles of crystals: in which their construction, and the methods of testing, adjusting, and using them, are concisely explained. Second edition, with corrections. With plates. London: John Weale, Architectural Library, 1851. 12mo. pp. vi, 170, 4. Blind stamped red cloth, title on printed label on upper cover and spine. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €185

COPAC locates the Leeds copy only. 150. [HELY'S LIMITED] Memorandum and Articles of Association of Hely's, Limited. The Companies Acts 1862-1893. Dublin: 1896. pp. 38 (inter-leaved). Manuscript index at end. Contemporary full maroon morocco, title in gilt on upper cover. Minor wear to extremities and spine. A very good copy. €175

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151. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Vintage Press Photograph of Ernest Hemingway. Stamped on verso Svenska Dagbladets / Bild-Arkiv / Inf. 29-10-1954. 150 x 205mm. A very good copy. €325

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.

152. HENNESSY, Maurice. The Rajah from Tipperary. Illustrated. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1971. pp. xx, 183. Green papered boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €65

The life story of George Thomas (c.1756-1802) an adventurer who was born in Roscrea. Recognised as one of the great military leaders of eighteenth-century India, particularly by his opponents, the British, who when they captured him sportingly gave a dinner in his honour. Being concerned for the welfare of his troops and their families, he was ahead of his time, in that he set up pension schemes for the widows and orphans of his soldiers.

RARE MASTERPIECE ON IRISH HIGH CROSSES 153. HENRY, Françoise. La Sculpture Irlandaise pendant Les Douze Premiers Siècles de l'ère Chrétienne. Illustrated with one hundred and seventy one plates. Two volumes in one. Paris: Leroux, 1933. Large quarto. pp. (1) 234, 1, (2) 11, 171 (plates). Modern quarter brown morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. Rare. €675

The tall stone crosses of Ireland were described by the American art-historian Kingsley Porter, in 1931, as being "among the remarkable manifestations of medieval art". It is difficult to write in a calm and restrained manner about this supremely excellent tome. Since Petrie's Round Towers, since Dunraven's Notes on Irish Architecture, no such worthy contribution has been made to the scientific study of Irish Christian Archaeology. Françoise Henry's work was one of the most comprehensive studies ever carried out on the high crosses of Ireland. Speaking of which, Dr. Peter Harbison states: "it provides us not only with a detailed discussion on the sculpture and ornament of the crosses, but with a formidable array of photographs and attentive chronology as well, ranging from the 7th century, for the monuments at Fahan and Carndonagh to the 12th century crosses in Munster and Connacht". The French had developed in the 1930's a very high standard of photographic reproduction. The plates are of an excellent quality, depicting the minutest details of the carved stonework on these crosses, some of which have since deteriorated. Francoise Henry having been for a number of years on the staff of the Musée des Antiquités Nationales, St. Germain-en-Laye, made Irish Archaeology her special study and was attached to the National University of Ireland. She has published many studies in Irish art, both in French and English.

154. HENRY, Sam. The Story of St. Patrick's Church, Coleraine. Its History, Heraldry, Sculptured Stones, Stained Glass, Old Families and Alliances, Architecture and Traditions. Illustrated. Coleraine: Printed and Published by The Coleraine Chronicle Company, n.d. pp. 108. Grey wrappers, coat of arms of Neill on upper cover. A fine copy. €20 155. [HIBERNIAN ACADEMY] Praemium Label for the Hibernian Academy School in Dublin. An engraved label awarded to Simon Newport on December 18, 1765 "Answering remarkably well." Signed by the Head Master, Andrew Buck. Text within a decorative cartouche, with Hibernia awarding laurels to a pupil, with a ship and castle in the background. €375

The Hibernian Academy had its premises at 8 North King Street, Dublin. The celebrated Samuel Whyte was solicited in 1759 to accept the Professorship of the English Language at this academy, founded in that year on the plan laid down by Thomas Sheridan (whose wife Frances Chamberlaine was a first cousin of Samuel). Whyte conceiving, however, that the latter had not been honourably treated by the managers of the new institution, declined the proffered chair, and applied himself assiduously to the business of his own establishment in Grafton Street, which advanced so rapidly in reputation that before it had been many years founded he was enabled to reckon among his pupils the sons and daughters of the principal families in Ireland. In the 1760s the Hibernian Academy was under the tutelage of Rev. Andrew Buck (Fellow of TCD 1781-7 and Rector of Desertereat and Clonoe). See illustration on following page.


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156. HOARE, Sir Richard Colt. Journal of a Tour in Ireland A.D. 1806. London: Miller ... and for J. Archer, and M. Mahon, Dublin, 1807. pp. cix, [1], 336. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Spine expertly rebacked, title in gilt on dark green morocco label in the second compartment, the remainder elaborately tooled in gilt. Inscription in ink on title 'Reading's / Library'. Toning to titlepage from frontispiece. A very good copy. Very scarce. €285

Early travel book which seldom appears on the market. Details of a tour starting in Dublin onto Meath, Offaly, Clare, Limerick, Kerry, Cork, Waterford, Tipperary, Kildare, Cavan, Donegal, Derry, Antrim, Down, Louth, returning to Dublin. With general remarks on antiquities, stone crosses, religious buildings, dress, agriculture, bogs, climate, roads, turnpikes, and topographical description.


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157. HOBSON, Bulmer. Ed. by. Saorstát Eireann. Irish Free State Official Handbook. With numerous illustrations and large multi-folding map in pocket at end. Edited by Bulmer Hobson. Dublin: Talbot, 1932. pp. 324, 150 (Adverts). Quarter black linen on colour illustrated papered boards, title in gilt on spine. Minor wear to corners, otherwise a fine copy. €95

The Official Handbook of the Irish Free State, printed in Dublin by Hely's Ltd. Paper by the Swiftbrook Paper Mills and plates by the Irish Photo Engraving Co. This is a very handsome book, with brightly illustrated papered boards in a beautiful Celtic design. Profusely illustrated by many prominent Irish artists; over thirty chapters on all aspects of the history, culture, government, geology, art, literature, etc of the country. With chapters on: The Country and its People; The Fauna and Flora; Geology, Structural and Economic; History; Religion; Constitution; Judiciary; Ownership of Land; Fisheries; Agriculture; Archaeology; Libraries; Early Christian Art; Modern Irish Art; Irish Language; Folklore, etc. etc. The contributors include, Eoin MacNeill, R.L. Praeger, George O'Brien, A. Mahr, J.H. Delargy, C.P. Curran, etc. Superbly illustrated from paintings by Paul Henry, John Keating, Sean O'Sullivan, Maurice MacGonigal, Harry Kernoff, etc. It is a still a very useful reference work.

158. HOLDSWORTH, Joseph. Geology, Minerals, Mines, & Soils of Ireland, in Reference to the Amelioration and Industrial Prosperity of the Country. With one engraved plate and half-title depicting Ballinahinch Lake and Castle; vignettes in text. London: Houlston & Wright, Paternoster Row, 1857. pp. xv, [2], 18-240. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on titlepage. A very good copy. Scarce. See illustration below. €185

159. [HOLY WELL] The Holy Well. An Irish Story. To which is added: An Irish Convert's Letter. Little Dot Series. With coloured frontispiece and wood engravings. London: The Religious Tract Society, n.d. (c.1874). pp. 64. Original green blind-stamped cloth. A very good copy. €150

Loeber Anon 91. Religious story set in County Cork, the birthplace of a retired old soldier who returns to his native land. He refutes the belief that the well is holy saying it is superstition and with the help of the Bible in Irish he converts the locals to Protestantism.

160. [HOME RULE] Home Rule. A Reprint from 'The Times' of Recent Articles and Letters. London: Printed and published by George Edward Wright, 1888. 32mo. pp. 526. Quarter linen on printed red boards. Some wear to corners, otherwise a very good copy. €35 161. HORE, Herbert J. & GRAVES, The Rev. James. Ed. by. The Social State of the Southern and Eastern Counties of Ireland in the Sixteenth Century: being the Presentments of the


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Gentlemen, Commonality, and Citizens of Carlow, Cork, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford, and Wexford. Made in the Reigns of Henry VIII, and Elizabeth. Printed from the originals in the Public Record Office, London. Dublin: Printed at the University Press, 1870. pp. [iv], 286. Blue cloth, titled in gilt. Spine expertly rebacked, new endpapers. Previous owner's signature on titlepage. Mild foxing to prelims. A very good copy. Very rare. €675


TCD PRIZE FOR RICHARD HELY HUTCHINSON ON HIS GRADUATION?

162. HUME, David. The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688. Eight volumes. London: Cadell, 1773. Bound in Dublin in smooth sprinkled calf. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, compartments elaborately tooled in gilt, red and green letterpieces; edges of the leaves stained green. Trinity College prize label awarded to Richard Hely Hutchinson in 1775 on front pastedowns; badge of TCD in gilt on all covers. A good set. €475

Provenance: The signature of Richard Hely Hutchinson, appears on title page. Richard Hely Hutchinson, first Earl of Donoughmore (1756-1825), eldest son of John Hely-Hutchinson was born in 1756, was educated at Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1775. In 1777 he was called to the Irish bar, and in the same year he was elected M.P. for the university of Dublin; but, being unseated on an election petition, he was returned for Sligo, which he represented till 1783. From 1783 to 1788, when the death of his mother, the Baroness Donoughmore, raised him to the upper house, he represented the borough of Taghmon, County Wexford. He was a man of liberal sentiments and an ardent friend of Catholic emancipation, and took an active part in the debate in parliament. In 1794 he raised a regiment of foot (the 112th), of which his brother John was appointed colonel. He was created Viscount Suirdale in November 1797, and commanded the Cork legion during the rebellion of 1798. He voted for the union, hoping to secure Catholic emancipation thereby; was created Earl of


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Donoughmore (21 Dec. 1800), and elected one of the twenty-eight representative peers of Ireland. In 1805 he was raised the rank of major-general, and in the following year was appointed co-postmaster-general of Ireland, but resigned his office on the dissolution of the Portland administration in 1809. From 1810 till his death in 1825 he championed the cause of the Irish Roman Catholics in the House of Lords, strenuously opposing every attempt to rule Ireland by purely coercive measures. On the question of the veto he sided with O'Connell and his bishops, holding domestic nomination to be a sufficient security against papal interference. On the trial of Queen Caroline, however, he supported the government, and voted for the Bill of Pains and Penalties. He opposed the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, but gave 'a reluctant consent' to the Irish insurrection Bill of 1822. In the spring of 1825 he became unwell, but recovered sufficiently to move the second reading of the Catholic Relief Bill on 17 May in the same year. He died, however, on 25 Aug. following, and never married, was succeeded by his brother John Hely-Hutchinson. Notwithstanding a certain waywardness of opinion, Lord Donoughmore was really an enlightened man, and did much to advance the cause of Catholic liberation. At a meeting of the Catholic Association on 10 Nov. 1825 a warm tribute was paid to his memory as 'the hereditary patron of the Catholics.'

163. [HURLER ON THE DITCH] The Trail of the Black and Tans. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1931. pp. vii, 230. Beige cloth, title in black on upper cover and on spine. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €285 164. HUSSEY, S.M. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent being those of S.M. Hussey. Compiled by Home Gordon. With two portraits. London: Duckworth, 1904. pp. viii, 312. Green faded cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Rare. €165

The town of Dingle owes its origin to the Husseys. It contains chapters on their Ancestry, Education, Farming, Fenianism, Kerry Elections, Drink, Priests, Gladstonian legislation, Constabulary and Dispensary Doctors, Murder Outrage and Crime, the State of Kerry, etc.

SUNDAY'S WELL BOATING & TENNIS CLUB

165. [ILLUMINATED ADDRESS] Illuminated Address to James Hurst, Esq., Secretary Sunday's Well Boating & Tennis Club, on the occasion of his marriage. There are two hand-painted illuminated leaves and four leaves with names inscribed, within a sunken panel on thick card. The calligraphy is of the highest quality by Gilbert of Cork. With a frontispiece photograph (hand-painted) of the tennis club with umpires and numerous club members in the foreground. The first leaf contains an oval portrait of James Hurst within the illuminated floral border. Cork: n.d. (c.1904). Quarto. Bound possibly by Guy of Cork in full sumptuous red morocco over


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bevelled boards. Cover decorated with a wide floral border elaborately tooled in gilt enclosing the title in gilt in the centre. Spine divided into five compartments by four raised bands, with a floral tool in gilt in the centre of each, turn-ins gilt; red, white, black and gold splash-marbled endpapers; red and gold endbands. All edges gilt. Occasional light foxing. A unique item relating to one of the country's foremost clubs. €1,250

Sunday's Well Boating & Tennis Club was founded in 1899, shortly after a successful "Sunday's Well Regatta and Water Carnival" had been held on the Lee. It was formed by some of the regatta committee organisers, who were boating and tennis enthusiasts from the locality. The aforementioned committee then leased a plot of ground off the Mardyke Walk alongside the river and that is the ground which the Club occupies today. The clubhouse was built by the Exhibition Committee of the Cork International Exhibition (1902/03) for visiting dignitaries, which included King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. In 1904, the Club took possession of the clubhouse. After the Cork Exhibition, Sunday's Well had, in addition to its magnificent new clubhouse, five excellently laid out and perfectly manicured grass courts. Set in peaceful and beautiful surroundings, they became the pride of the country. A most beautiful and exquisitely illuminated address to James Hurst, who was a well-known Cork businessman, listed in the 'Cork Directory' for 1907 as having premises in Patrick Street.

LORD VENTRY'S COPY 166. INGLIS, Henry D. A Journey Throughout Ireland, during the Spring, Summer, and Autumn of 1834. With folding maps. Two volumes. London: Whittaker, 1835. Second edition. pp. (1) xii, xii, 349 [2] (2) viii, 348. Green cloth, title on worn printed label on spines. Signature of Lord Ventry on front pastedown and titlepages, label removed. Occasional light foxing. A very good set. €135 167. INGOLDSBY, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends on Mirth and Marbles. Popular edition. With sixteen illustrations by Cruikshank, Leech, Tenniel, and Barham. London: Richard Bentley, 1887. pp. xi, [1], 468. Black morocco, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €75 168. [IRELAND MAP] Wilkinson's Ireland. Showing provinces, counties, baronies, cities & towns, market, villages, mail roads, post roads, canals, mountains, rivers, bays, heads, polling stations in each county, etc. Scale: 10 English Statute miles to 1 inch. Coloured. London: Republished by Darton, Holborn Hill, n.d. (c.1821). 545 x 640mm. Folded, linen-backed, in original embossed cloth binder with gilt title in gilt decorated cartouche. A very good copy. €275



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169. [IRELAND MAP] London Atlas Map of Ireland. By Stanford. Showing provinces, counties, baronies, cities & towns, railways, stations, canals, mountains, rivers, bays, heads, etc. Scale: 12 English miles to 1 inch. Coloured. London: Edward Stanford Ltd., n.d. 555 x 660mm. Folded, linen-backed, in cloth binder with printed label on upper cover. Gypsum deposits marked in ink on Monaghan / Louth border and coal deposits in ink in County Tipperary. Owner's signature on verso of map. A fine copy. €345

170. [IRELAND TOUR] Ireland Gem of the Sea. Touring for Health and Pleasure on Great Southern Railways (Ireland) Transport Services during the Season to the Tourist and Seaside Resorts in the Irish Free State. With folding map and illustrations. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1935. pp. [6], v-xliv (adverts). Coloured pictorial wrappers. Some light staining, otherwise a very good copy. €75

171. [IRELAND TREASURES] A Series of Twenty-five Cigarette Cards on the Treasures of Ireland. The cards display items of Irish Medieval Art, Prehistoric Gold Objects, Round Towers, Harps, and Shrines. Published by John Player & Sons, Branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co. (of Great Britain & Ireland) Ltd. All in very good condition. €150

The items include: Ardagh Brooches; The Tara Brooch; The Ardagh Chalice; The De Burgo-O'Malley Chalice; The Cross of Cong; The Cross of Muiredach; The Clonmacnoise Crozier; The Tau Crozier; Dish-Ring; The Dolmen, Glendruid; The Dallway Harp; The O'Neill Harp; Silver Loving-Cup; Methers; The Oratory, Gallerus; Prehistoric Objects; The Round Tower, Antrim; The Round Tower, Ardmore; The Satchel of the Breac Moedoig; The Shrine of Saint Molaise; The Shrine of Saint Patrick's Bell; Celery-Bowl and Sugar-Bowl; Scent-Bottle and Butter-Bowl.

172. [IRISH AMERICAN] Sixth Annual Dance. Irish American Society Of The Oranges. Saturday, November 28th, 1959. Celtic Hall, Hotel Benzel, Newark, New Jersey. New Jersey: Midland Press, 1959. pp. 36. Printed in green. Stapled pictorial wrappers, embossed on the upper cover are the flags of the United States and Ireland. In very good condition. €35

Established in 1951, The Irish American Society of the Oranges is a charitable organization composed of Irish descendants who engross themselves in the community promoting both Irish culture and charity all over. The Irish and Irish-Americans come together to celebrate culture, tradition, and do good in the community for those in need. In addition, the organization strives to promote, preserve and perpetuate the art, culture and traditions of Ireland. There are a wide variety of lively and fun events throughout the year to promote fellowship and cultural appreciation. The Irish-American Society of the Oranges organises and runs some of the events, while its members also support, assist and participate in events organized by other like-minded organisations. With numerous advertisements. Irish and American music by the Martin Costello orchestra.

173. [IRISH BINDING] The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the original Greek: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. By His Majesty's special command. Appointed to be read in churches. Dublin: Printed by Grierson, Printer to The King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1801. Tall octavo (148 x 245mm). Bound at the Grierson Bindery in full red morocco. Covers decorated with a gilt chain-link roll with fleurons of gilt vases incorporating a central octagonal cream morocco onlay, dissected in gilt and decorated with gilt flames, flowers, stars, leaves, and petals within a circular border; flat spine with similar gilt tooling, title in gilt direct in second compartment; board edges and turn-ins gilt; gutter strengthened in red morocco; black, gold, green, white, and salmon splash-marbled endpapers. Wear to top of spine. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €1,850


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174. [IRISH COLLEGE PARIS] Album of the Irish College, Paris 1930-1931. 5, Rue des

Irlandais. Illustrated. Paris: Editions J. David et E. Vallois. n.d. (c.1931). Oblong octavo. pp. 10 (plates). Green stapled wrappers, title in black on upper cover within a gilt cartouche border. In

fine condition. €165

The Irish College in Paris (Collège des Irlandais) was for three centuries a major Roman Catholic educational establishment, for Irish students. It was founded in the late sixteenth century, and closed down by the French government in the early twentieth century. From 1945-97 the Polish seminary in Paris was housed in the building. It is now an Irish cultural centre, the Centre Cultural Irlandais. The founder was the Reverend John Lee, an Irish priest who came to Paris, in 1578, with six


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companions, and entered the Collège Montaigu. Having completed his studies he became attached to the Church of St. Severin, and made the acquaintance of a French nobleman, John de l'Escalopier. He was President of the Parliament of Paris, and placed at the disposal of the Irish students in Paris a house, which served them as a college, of which Father Lee became the first rector about 1605. Thomas Messingham was an Irish hagiologist, born in the Diocese of Meath. He studied in the Irish College, Paris, proceeding to the degree of S.T.D. Among the Franciscan Manuscripts in Dublin is an interesting tract sent by David Rothe, Vice-Primate of All Ireland, addressed to my "loving friend Mr. Thomas Messingham at his chambers in Paris", dated 1615. It is evident that at this date Messingham was one of the staff of the Irish College in that city, and was commencing his studies on Irish saints. In 1624 he published his magnum opus Paris. The plates include: The Chapel; The Refectory; General Group of the Students; Recreation Hall; The Library; Country House at Arcueil; Gaelic Football Team; The Hurling Team; The Game in Progress; The Soccer Team.

175. [IRISH PARLIAMENT] A List of the Members of the Hon. House of Commons of Ireland, who voted on the Question previous to the Expulsion of Arthur Jones Nevill, Esq; late Engineer and Surveyor-General of that Kingdom. London [i.e. Dublin]: Printed by Robert Scot, 1753. Single broadside, folded to octavo and printed on one side only. Price in square brackets: (Price Six-pence). In old paper wrappers. €195

ESTC T7655 According to ESTC the imprint is false; possibly printed in Dublin - Also issued as part of: The Patriot Miscellany, Volume 1, Dublin, 1756.

176. [IRISH TRADE] An Answer to a Letter from a Gentleman in the Country, to a Member of the House of Commons: on the votes of the 14th Instant. Relating to the Trade of Ireland. London: Printed for George Huddleston at the Blackmoors Head near Exeter-Change in the Strand, 1698. Octavo. pp. 39 [1]. Later marbled card covers, preserved in a cloth portfolio. Old age brown stains on blank verso of title, otherwise a large, crisp copy. €495

Wing A3314. Kress 2061. Not in Goldsmiths. ESTC R213992 locates 7 copies. Sweeney 174 notes the second edition printed in Dublin. First edition, although it was reprinted in Dublin later in the same year A pro-Irish essay about the natural prosperity of Ireland alongside the unfair and highly prejudiced rules imposed on Irish traders with regard to transport and distribution of Irish goods by British and Foreign ships, not by the Irish themselves.


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177. [IRISH TOURIST] The Irish Tourist's Illustrated Handbook for Visitors to Ireland. With numerous folding maps and illustrations. London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, & Dublin, McGlashan, 1852. pp. 16, xvi, 167, 56 (advertisements). Original decorated cloth, evenly tanned, new endpapers. A very good copy. €195 178. [IRISH TRAVELLING GUIDE] The Official Irish Travelling Guide. March 1887. Index to Railway Stations and General Contents. With large folding map. Dublin: 1887. pp. 130 (including adverts and folding map). Modern green cloth, title in gilt along spine. A good copy of a very rare travel book. €125 179. JACOMB-HOOD, George Percy. Pay Day in an Irish Cotton Mill. Etching, 250 x 185mm. Late nineteenth century. Signed in the plate, lower left. Light browning. Very good. €185

All over Lancashire and Yorkshire water driven cotton mills using Arkwright's patent were springing up and were seen as a way of making a lot of money very quickly and indeed fortunes were made but only by astute hands-on operators. Many mills were built on streams that did not provide an adequate water supply to constantly turn the mill wheel, especially in dry weather. Bankruptcies were common. In Ireland, from about 1780 the Linen Board gave grants for machinery and the Dublin Society gave bounties on the sale of all-cotton goods using Irish warp and weft. The Irish parliament was anxious to protect and promote industry and was open to petitions for grant assistance to new cotton enterprises-outside a 10 mile radius of Dublin. The fortunes being made in the North of England and to a lesser extent around Glasgow caught the attention of landlords, merchants and others in Ireland with capital to invest. One such was Baron Hamilton, the landlord at Balbriggan, where there was a short tradition of cotton stocking weaving. He set up jenny shops, distributed looms and employed a succession of Lancashire manufacturers to instal water spuming frames, perhaps the first in the country (Dickson, David, 'Aspects of the Rise & Decline of the Irish Cotton Industry'). The majority of these gentlemen, it seemed, migrated because of financial embarrassment at home.

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY JOYCE 180. JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle. With a preface by Padraic Colum. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First edition. pp. xviii, [1], 61. Bound in brown cloth, blind-stamped and with inverted gilt triangle in the centre of the upper cover. Spine with gilt title and decorations. Edition limited to 800 numbered copies, signed by James Joyce. Gutter of titlepage strengthened. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €2,450

Slocum & Cahoon A32. Signed Joyce material is now very scarce. This, the section of Finnegans Wake which personifies the River Liffey, is particularly desirable.


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"LITERATURE - THE ETERNAL AFFIRMATION OF THE SPIRIT OF MAN" 181. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition. Finely rebound in recent full blue morocco, double gilt rule to spine and boards, board edges and dentelles, top edge gilt, original blue printed wrapper bound in. No. 251 of 750 copies on hand-made paper numbered from 251 to 1000. Fine in matching morocco slipcase. €32,500

Slocum & Cahoon A17. Ulysses, Joyce's mock-heroic epic novel, celebrates the events of one day (16 June, 1904) in the lives of three Dubliners and modelled on episodes in Homer's Odyssey. The central characters, Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, and his wife Marian (Molly), correspond to Telemachus, Ulysses, and Penelope. This June day is known to Joyceans throughout the world as 'Bloomsday'. Published on Joyce's fortieth birthday (2 February, 1922), Ulysses is a landmark in twentieth-century literature, and one of the most famous and celebrated in modern literature. Written over a seven-year period in three different cities, it has survived legal action, bitter controversy and persistent misunderstanding. Literature, as Joyce tells us through the character of Dedalus is "the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man". A unique opportunity to acquire one of the finest copies of this masterpiece.

182. JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: The Bodley Head, 1963. Octavo. pp. [viii], 933. Third Impression of the Re-set Edition. Including appendix with index of corresponding pages. Mild stain to fore-edge. A very good copy in lightly frayed dust jacket. €65

SCARCE FIRST EDITION 183. JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach. Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1927. First edition. Small 12mo. pp. [24] + errata. Original pale green papered boards, titled in black on upper cover. Price and printer in black on lower cover. With errata slip tipped in on lower pastedown. Slight sun-tanning to spine. A very good copy. €750

Slocum & Cahoon A24 Pomes Penyeach contains thirteen poems, beneath each poem is printed in italics the place and year of composition. Sylvia Beach and the author were in agreement that this book should be printed as "cheaply" as possible, consistent with the book's title and brilliant concept. The original price was a shilling (twelve francs). Just as Greek blue was James Joyce's colour of choice for Ulysses, an even more special colour Irish-Calville Apple, was chosen for this edition: "Colors were emblematic and symbolic for Joyce, who was very particular about this shade of green, which unfortunately fades fast!" (Sylvia Beach and The Lost Generation, page 263).

184. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Local Names Explained. Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, 1902. pp. 107. Original green blind-stamped cloth. A very good copy. Scarce. €75 185. JOYCE, P.W. Keating's History of Ireland. Forus Feasa air Éirinn. Book I. Part I. Dublin: Gill, 1904. pp. vi, [1], 168. Green pebbled cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Binding lightly faded. A very good copy. €30 186. JOYCE, P.W. A Child's History of Ireland. Coloured frontispiece from The Book of MacDurnan. With numerous illustrations and folding map of Ireland. London: Longmans and Dublin: Gill, 1901. pp. xvi, 508, 4 (publisher's list). Green cloth with gilt Celtic designs and title. Presentation inscription from the Bibliographer John S. Crone on front free endpaper. New front endpaper. A very good copy. €65

P.W. Joyce followed in the footsteps of Bunting and Petrie, of O'Donovan and O'Curry, reaching, however, a larger public than any of these four had reached, for the fields he laboured in were more numerous and, as well as that, he principally wrote not for scholars but for the ordinary people of Ireland, people such as he had known in that lovely and never-forgotten countryside round about Glenosheen.

187. JOYCE, Robert Dwyer. Deirdre. Dublin: Gill, 1877. pp. 262. Green cloth, decoration in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €165

Robert Dwyer Joyce (1830-1883), a brother of the more famous, P.W. Joyce, was born at Glenosheen, County Limerick, and was also a gifted writer. After teaching for a short while he switched to medicine, graduated M.D. at Queen's College, Cork, and emigrated to America where he practised in Boston and lectured at the Harvard Medical School. During his time there he became closely associated


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with the Fenian movement and was friends with leading Irish nationalists John Devoy and Michael Davitt. He is best remembered as a songwriter: 'The Boys of Wexford' and 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley' are among his best known works. He died at his brother's home in Rathgar within a month of returning from the States. Deirdre is a narrative poem dealing with ancient Ireland. Joyce presented a copy of this work to Oscar Wilde when he visited Boston in 1882.

188. JOYCE, Robert Dwyer. Ballads of Irish Chivalry by Robert Dwyer Joyce. Edited with annotations, by his brother P.W. Joyce. Illustrated with drawings by John O'Hea. London: Longmans, & Dublin, Gill, 1908. pp. xi, 212, 4 (list of P.W. Joyce's works). Green cloth, title and crosses in gilt on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Ex lib. with stamp. A very good copy. €135 189. KAVANAGH, Art. & MURPHY, Rory. The Wexford Gentry. Volume 1. Illustrated. Bunclody: Irish Family Names, 1994. pp. viii, 239. Blue arlen, title in gilt on spine. A fine in pictorial dust jacket. Scarce. €175

This book deals with twenty four of the leading families of County Wexford including: Alcock, Annesley, Barrington, Blacker, Boxwell, Boyd, Boyce, Bradell, Bruen, Carew, Cliffe, Colclough, De Rinzy & Dundas, Devereux & Skrine, Donovan, Doyne, Ely, Esmonde, Goff, Hall-Dare, Harvey, Hore, Hughes, Jameson, Kavanagh, Lambert, Leigh, Levinge, Maher, Maxwell, Barry, Nunn, O'Morchoe, Power, Ram, Redmond, Richards, Stopford, Synnott, Talbot and Tottenham.

190. KAVANAGH, Patrick. A Soul For Sale. Poems. London: Macmillan, 1947. First edition. pp. vi, 55. First edition. Green cloth, title in gilt along spine. Lightly frayed dust jacket with minor spotting to lower cover. A very good copy. €185

In this, his second collection of poems, Kavanagh takes his themes from the life about him in his native Ireland, or from her tragic past, treating them sometimes in the mood of the mystic, sometimes with a sharp realism. His portrait of an old Irish peasant in the famous poem, The Great Hunger, shows his qualities as a writer of marked power and insight.

191. KAVANAGH, Patrick. Ed. by. Kavanagh's Weekly. A Journal of Literature and Politics. Vol. 1.; No. 1. Saturday, April 12, 1952. First issue. Vol. 1. No. 3. Saturday, April 26, 1952; Vol; 1, No. 5. Saturday, May 10, 1952; Vol. 1. No. 7. Saturday, May 24, 1952; Vol. 1. No. 10., Saturday, June 14, 1952; Vol. 1. No. 12. Saturday, June 28, 1952. Six issues. [Each €75]. Dublin: Printed for the publisher, Peter Kavanagh, 62 Pembroke Road, Dublin, by The Fleet Printing Co., Ltd., 6 Eccles Place, 1952. Quarto. Exceedingly rare. Each. €75

Patrick Kavanagh contributed most of the articles and some poems, using numerous pseudonyms. Designed, published and distributed by his brother Peter, who wrote a number of articles either anonymously or under the pen-name John J. Flanagan. It was vehemently opposed to the contemporary Fianna Fail Government and highly critical of the economic and cultural achievements since the foundation of the Irish State. It failed to attract advertisers and in the penultimate issue it published an ultimatum that unless a donation of one thousand pounds were made to it, they would cease publication.

192. KAVANAGH, Patrick. Collected Poems. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1964. First edition. pp. xv, 202. Natural linen, title in gilt on blue paper label on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in lightly frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €375 193. KAVANAGH, Patrick. The Great Hunger. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1971. pp. [i], 33, [1]. Quarter linen on grey papered boards. A fine copy. Scarce. €175 194. KELLY, John S. The Bodyke Evictions. Illustrated. Scariff: Fossabeg Press, 1987. pp. 184. Pictorial wrappers. Signed by the author on titlepage. A fine copy. €65

In County Clare, the disturbances that took place on the Bodyke section of Colonel John O'Callaghan's estate during the 1880s, culminating in the notorious evictions of June 1887, form one of the most dramatic episodes of the entire Land War in Ireland. The Bodyke evictions were central to the debate over the land question, a debate argued in the local and international press, and played a significant part in the overthrow of the prevailing land holding system in the country.

195. KENNEDY, John. A Treatise upon Planting: Gardening, and the Management of the Hot-House. Containing I. The Method of planting Forest-Trees … II. The Method of Pruning forest-Trees … III. On the Soils most proper for … Forest-trees. IV. The Management of Vines … V. A


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new and easy Method to propagate Pine Plants … VI. The best Method to raise Mushrooms without Spawn … VII. An improved Method of cultivating Asparagus. VIII. The best Method to cultivate Field Cabbages, Carrots, and Turnips …IX. A new Method of managing all Kinds of Fruit-trees … By John Kennedy, Gardener to Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Bart. Dublin: Printed for W. Wilson, No, 6 Dame-Street, 1784. pp. [iii]-xiii, [3], 462, [2]. Bound in original tree calf, spine professionally rebacked, titled in gilt direct. Armorial bookplate of Charles Hamilton of Hamwood on front pastedown. A very good copy. €375

In his Advertisement, the Irish editor recommends Kennedy's 'excellent instructions' as being 'the result of many years experience' and states that members of the Dublin Society had requested this reprint, offering; 'the author's last corrections and improvements … for only half of the London price'. The first edition was published in York in 1776; the greatly expanded second edition in two volumes, including an additional section on the management of fruit trees, followed in 1777 and this would have been the basis for the first Dublin edition. A second appeared in 1788 with an extra treatise added at the end. The early part of the book is largely concerned with the planting of forest trees, especially on moor and heath land. Other sections cover fences, vines, fruit trees and fruit and nut cultivation and the raising of mushrooms, asparagus, turnips and field cabbages and carrots. Kennedy had experience of gardening and planting work in the north of Scotland and in County. Durham, before he entered the employment of Sir Thomas Gascoigne (1743-1810) at Parlington, near Barwick in the West riding of Yorkshire. According to Henrey, Kennedy died in 1790. The reception given to this book reflects the ever increasing public interest in gardening and horticulture in the eighteenth century. Provenance: From the library of Charles Hamilton of Hamwood House, County Meath who was land agent for the Dukes of Leinster whose principal seat, Carton, was nearby. The Duke made him a present of the impressive fights of granite steps leading to the doors in the end pavilions. Successive generations of the family acted as the Leinsters' land agents.

196. KENNEDY, P.G. An Irish Sanctuary. Birds of the North Bull. With coloured frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1953. pp. 168. Quarter linen on illustrated boards, title in red on upper cover and on spine. A very copy in frayed dust jacket. €95

De Búrca 200. The North Bull island near Dublin is the most famous bird sanctuary in Ireland. Father Kennedy's book was the first of its kind to be published, providing an excellent guide, with lists of birds that were observed at different times. This rare item is beautifully illustrated with twenty three colour and monotone plates, and fifty black and white drawings by Roland Green.


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SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 197. KENNELLY, Brendan. Evasions. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1979. pp. [8]. Printed stapled wrappers. Signed by Brendan Kennelly. Fifty copies printed at TCP in July 1979, being the first printing done at the Press in the Printing House of Trinity College, Dublin. €375

Brendan Kennelly was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, and was educated at the inter-denominational St. Ita's College, Tarbert, County Kerry, and at Trinity College, where he edited Icarus. Kennelly graduated from Trinity and wrote his Ph.D. thesis there. He graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in modern languages and later he was awarded a further scholarship which enabled him to pursue a course of research at Leeds University into the 'Irish Epicy'. Kennelly was Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College, Dublin for almost 40 years. He retired in 2005 and now lives in his beloved Kerry. A prolific and fluent writer, he has more than 30 books of poetry to his credit. His long (400-page) epic poem, The Book of Judas, published in 1991, topped the Irish best-seller list. He also has edited several anthologies.

198. KERR, W.S., B.D. Walker of Derry. Illustrated frontispiece. Londonderry: James Colhoun at the "Londonderry Sentinel" Printing Works, 1938. pp. 144. Quarter cream cloth on red boards, title in black on upper cover. Bookplate of D.M. Skelly on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €35

IN A FINE BINDING THE ASTRONOMER POET OF PERSIA

199. KHAYYÁM, Omar. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. The Astronomer Poet of Persia. Rendered in English Verse. London: Macmillan, 1909. 16mo. pp. [6], 111, [1]. Finely bound in full red straight-grained red morocco. Covers framed by triple gilt fillets and chain-link roll, enclosing the title and gilt decoration on upper cover. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design, with a gilt crescent in centre. Wonderful red geometrical endpapers. With the slightest signs of rubbing to the extremities, spine evenly tanned. All edges gilt. A very attractive copy. €575


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Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), poet and translator, was educated at Bury St. Edmunds and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1830. He has been described by Benson as "a literary recluse of Irish origin, son of a member of Parliament of great wealth and position as a landowner". A great friend of Thackeray, Tennyson, Spedding and Carlyle, he first published his translation in 1859, which is the text reproduced here. Fitzgerald managed to convince Bernard Quaritch to put his imprint on the wrappered volume; finding he could not sell it, Quaritch relegated it to a stall in St. Martin's Lane. It came to the attention of Rosetti and Swinburne who bought them for a penny apiece. Having gone through four editions in the author's lifetime and thousands since his death, its immortality was ensured by its popularity with the public as one of the most quoted poems of all time. Omar Khayyám the eleventh-century mathematician, astronomer and poet was born at Naishapur in Persia (Iran). The political events of that time played a major role in the course of his life. A literal translation of the name Khayyám means 'tent maker' and this may have been the trade of Ibrahim, his father. Omar studied philosophy at Naishapur and one of his fellow students wrote that he was "endowed with sharpness of wit and the highest natural powers". Renowned in his own country for his scientific achievements, in the English-speaking world he is chiefly known for the collection of rubaiyat or quatrains translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Another copy of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, affectionately known as the 'Great Omar', executed at the renowned craft bookbinding firm of Sangorski and Sutcliffe, took over two years to create. Bound in full green goatskin and boasting 1,000 precious and semi-precious stones and 1,500 separate pieces of leather, it was lost when it went down with the 'Titanic' in 1912. It now lies at the bottom of the Atlantic in an oak casket. Pogany's artwork appears in full-colour inserted plates and green monochromatic decorative borders, initial letters and decorative devices. A remarkable work in a fine binding.

200. KINANE, Dean. Very Rev. The Life of Dr. O'Hurley, Archbishop of Cashel. Dublin: Gill, 1893. 12mo. Fourth edition. pp. xii, 108. Red cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. €165

Archbishop O'Hurley was born c.1519 near Limerick. His was appointed by Pope Gregory XIII to See of Cashel. He was hunted and followed for two years by Government spies and finally arrested. Under torture he refused to acknowledge the Queen's supremacy in matters of religion. He was hanged on a tree on the 19th June, 1584, and was buried in St. Kevin's, Dublin.

ANTI-JACOBITE TRACT 201. [KING JAMES] An Address given in to the late King James, by the Titular Archbishop of Dublin: from the general Meeting of the Romish Bishops and Clergy of Ireland, held in May last, by that King's Order. Wherein several things relating to the Popish designs upon these three Kingdoms, are discovered. The original whereof was found in the late King James's closet, in the Castle of Dublin, at his leaving that city: and the copy whereof was found in the titular Archbishop's lodgings. Now publish'd with reflections on each paragraph. London: Printed for Ric. Baldwin, in the Old Baily, 1690. Quarto. pp. [2], 34. Modern boards. Ink inscription on titlepage: "Stamford; 20 May: 1716." Armorial bookplate of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury laid down on verso of title. Some browning, new endpapers. A very good copy. Very rare. €585

Wing A542. Sweeney 4554. COPAC locates 8 copies only. An anti-Jacobite tract. The titular Archbishop of Dublin is either Francis Marsh or Patrick Russell (both were archbishops of Dublin at the same time), but it appears unlikely that the address is genuine. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), Scottish Theologian and Historian, was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. He was respected as a Cleric, a Preacher, and an Academic, as well as a Writer and Historian and was associated with the Whig party. On Easter 1689 Burnet was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury and three days later was sworn as chancellor of the Order of the Garter. He was present at King William's death bed. He was out of royal favour in the reign of Queen Anne. Burnet began his History of My Own Time in 1683, covering the English Civil War and the Commonwealth of England to the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713. He wrote The Life of William Bedell in 1685.

202. [KING'S VISIT] The King's Visit, as Discoursed Over by Andrew Walsh, Darby Morris, and John Simpson. Dublin: Printed by G. Bull, 3, Redmond's-Hill, n.d (c.1823). pp. 12. Engraved titlepage. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. Extremely rare. €365

COPAC locates the Cambridge copy only. NLI holds The O'Kelly copy.


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203. [KINGSTOWN HARBOUR] Photograph of Kingstown Harbour, circa 1860. Published from an original in the late Eddie Chandler Collection. 220 x 590mm. In fine condition. €125 204. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Irish Guards in the Great War. Edited and compiled from their diaries and papers. Volume I The First Battalion. Vol II The Second Battalion and Appendices. With numerous maps. Two volumes. New York: Doubleday, 1923. First American edition. pp. (1) xvi, [2], 334, (2) x, 307. Black cloth, regimental badge in gilt on upper cover, title on paper labels on spines. Ex lib Imperial War Museum with neat stamps. A fine set. €125

"The Irish Guards had been so fortunate as to find their historian in the greatest living master of narrative. No other book can ever be written exactly like this, and it seems likely to endure as the fullest document of the war-like record of a British regiment, compiled by a man of genius who brings to his task not only a quick eye to observe and a sure hand to portray, but a rare spirit of reverence and understanding ..." John Buchan. In August 1914 Kipling's son John, not yet seventeen, volunteered for a commission in the Army but being under age and with poor sight, was initially refused. He next proposed to enlist in the ranks, but his father's friendship with Lord Roberts was used to gain him a commission in the Irish Guards, of which Roberts was Colonel-in-Chief. In 1915 he went to France and his Battalion was at once deployed in the costly battle of Loos. John Kipling, now aged only eighteen, was among the earliest casualties: the whereabouts of his grave was a mystery in 1992. Kipling was devastated. When he was approached about writing a regimental history of the Irish Guards, 'not on business terms but as a monument of his son's service', he accepted at once and started without delay. Five and a half years of intermittent but laborious research and toil were devoted to the work, which was based on official and private records, diaries and personal interviews with members of the regiment. 'This will be my great work' said Kipling, 'it is done with agony and bloody sweat'.

205. KNOTT, Mary John. Two Months at Kilkee, a Watering Place in the County Clare, near the mouth of the Shannon, with an Account of a Voyage down that river from Limerick to Kilrush, and Sketches of objects of interest in the neighbourhood, which will serve as a guide to the coast scenery. Added engraved titlepage, folding map, and one plate. Dublin: William Curry Jun. and Co.; G. Ridings, Cork: C. O'Brien, Z. M. Ledger, G. M'Kern, Limerick, 1836. 12mo. pp. 255. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Upper joint strengthened. Compton armorial bookplate on upper cover. Marbled endpapers. A good copy. €285

COPAC locates 7 copies only. 206. KOHL, J.G. Travels in Ireland. London: Bruce and Wyld, 1844. pp. xii, 9-417, [2 (publisher's list)]. Publisher's blind-stamped olive-green cloth, title and crowned harp in gilt on spine. Mild inoffensive stain to lower cover. A near fine copy. Scarce. €175

Johann Georg Kohl, the German travel writer came to Ireland in September 1842 "without" as he said himself, "any object in view other than to become acquainted with the country, and to see everything that was interesting and remarkable in it". Kohl was an experienced and astute observer and his widespread travels allowed him to compare Irish conditions with the general European experience. His book on Ireland is therefore an unbiased account from a neutral traveller unlike many of his contemporaries and provides a most valuable insight into the conditions of pre-Famine Ireland. Landing in Dublin, he found the houses and buildings there much the same as those in English cities. From there he proceeded to Edgeworthstown, on to Athlone, Shannon, Limerick, Kilrush, Tarbert, Tralee, The Lakes, Bantry, Cork, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford, Belfast, Giant's Causeway, Coast of Antrim - the MacQuillans and MacDonnells, Fair Head, etc.


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THE DACENT LACY 207. LACY, Thomas. Home Sketches, on both sides of the Channel. Being a Diary. London: Hamilton, & Dublin: M'Glashan: 1852. pp. xi, 300, + errata. Publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine with original backstrip laid on. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Very scarce. €165

Thomas Lacy of Wexford, sometimes styled 'the dacent Lacy' was employed as assistant to the solicitor responsible for negotiating the acquisition of land for the extension of the Dublin to Wexford railway. This volume deals with south and eastern Ireland and also included chapters on Bristol, Liverpool and London. It is of particular interest because of the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin Railway project with which he was engaged. That line was projected by Mr. Brunel and it was promoted by the Earl of Courtown and Sir Thomas Esmonde.

208. LACY, Thomas. Sights and Scenes in our Fatherland. With engraved frontispiece and vignettes. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Dublin: M'Glashan and Gill, 1863. pp. viii, 720, + errata. Blind-stamped cloth with a Celtic design in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Recent endpapers. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €275 209. [LAND OWNERS IN IRELAND] Return of Owners of Land of one acre and upwards, in the several Counties, Counties of Cities, and Counties of Towns in Ireland ... Showing the owners alphabetically in each county, their addresses, acres, valuation etc. To which is added a summary for each province and for all Ireland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1988. pp. viii, 325. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy. €85

Listed are the names of owners, addresses and acreage with valuation in each county in the year 1876.

POWERFUL RHETORICAL POLITICAL SATIRE 210. [LANGRISHE, Sir H. FLOOD, Henry. & GRATTAN, Henry] Baratariana. A Select Collection of Fugitive Political Pieces, Published during the Administration of Lord Townshend in Ireland. The second edition, corrected and enlarged. With engraved frontispiece and folding plate. Dublin: 1773. pp. xx, [vi], 354, 34 (appendix and errata). Near contemporary full sprinkled calf. Covers ruled in blind. Spine with raised bands and titled in gilt on black morocco letterpiece. Early owner's signature crossed out in ink on titlepage, later signature on front free endpaper. From the library of the Loyal National Repeal Association and King's Inns with their stamp on verso of titlepage. Paper repair to one margin and folding plate. Light wear and rubbing to extremities and spine. All edges red. A very nice copy. €375

Bradshaw 4592 Gilbert 50. The author of this political satire was Sir Hercules Langrishe of Knocktopher, County Kilkenny. In April and May of 1771 he published anonymously in the Freeman's Journal a covert attack on the government of Lord Townshend, who had succeeded in alienating the Irish parliamentarians. These lampoons along with a number of letters by Flood and Grattan, who was then a young lawyer, were published in this volume.


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ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS SERIES 211. LAWLESS, Emily Hon. Maria Edgeworth. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd, 1904. pp. viii, 219, [4]. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €35 212. [LE FANU, Joseph Sheridan] Morley Court: Being A Chronicle of Old Dublin City. By the Author of "Uncle Silas." New edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1873. New edition. pp. iv, 418, 14. Modern blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. Occasional foxing. Inscribed on contents leaf. All edges marbled. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €275

No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 2. Loeber L102. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) author of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are Uncle Silas, Carmilla and The House by the Churchyard. Le Fanu was born at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family of Huguenot, Irish and English descent. He had an elder sister, Catherine Frances, and a younger brother, William Richard. His parents were Thomas Philip Le Fanu and Emma Lucretia Dobbin. Both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights (his niece Rhoda Broughton would become a successful novelist), and his mother was also a writer, producing a biography of Charles Orpen. Within a year of his birth his family moved to the Royal Hibernian Military School in the Phoenix Park, where his father, a Church of Ireland clergyman, was appointed to the chaplaincy of the establishment. The Phoenix Park and the adjacent village and parish church of Chapelizod would appear in Le Fanu's later stories. He spent most of his working life as a Dublin editor and newspaper proprietor. It was not until late in life that he wrote the books for which he is remembered: and foremost among these is the collection of stories called The Cock and Anchor: Being A Chronicle of Old Dublin City. Our London Chapman edition of 1873 has a variant title: Morley Court: Being A Chronicle of Old Dublin City.

213. LEIGH, Samuel. Leigh's New Pocket Road-Book of Ireland, on the plan of Reichard's Itineraries; Containing an Account of all the Direct and Cross Roads; together with a Description of every Remarkable Place. Its Curiosities, Manufactures, Commerce, Population, and Principal Inns; the whole forming a Complete Guide to Every Object worthy the attention of Travellers. Illustrated with a Table of the relative Distances between the Principal Towns, a plan of Dublin, and a map of the Lakes of Killarney. With hand-coloured folding map of Ireland in superior facsimile. London: Printed for Samuel Leigh & Dublin: R. Milliken, 1827. 12mo. pp. viii, 360. Modern half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Some mild foxing. A very good copy. Very rare. €175

COPAC locates 8 copies only. 214. LEVER, Charles. The Widow Malone. Illustrated by Yeend King. London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, n.d. (c.1889). Designed in England. Printed in Germany. pp. [12]. Illustrated stitched wrappers. Some light foxing, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €85



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WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY LAWRENCE

215. [LISDOONVARNA] Guide to Lisdoonvarna, including twenty views of the district. Lisdoonvarna: Improvements Committee, n.d. (c.1900). pp. 49, + adverts. Quarter blue morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. Very rare. €125

The promoters of this guide expresses their gratitude to Dr. Conor McGuire of Claremorris for his massive contribution to this publication. With excellent photography by William Lawrence.

216. LOFTUS, Simon. The Invention of Memory. An Irish Family Scrapbook. Illustrated. London: Daunt Books, 2013. pp. [14], 442. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €25

From the arrival of his first ancestor in Dublin in 1560, Simon Loftus traces the fascinating story of his family's heritage in Ireland - piecing together fragments of legend and biography that span over 350 years of Irish history. "A wonderful excursion through history, illuminating Anglo-Irish history through the delicious, inconsequential details of Loftus's family" - Matthew Fort.

217. [LONGFORD PRESENTMENTS] County of Longford. Abstract of Undischarged Queries Presentments Granted at Spring Assizes 24th February 1862. Dublin: John Falconer, 1862. pp. 114. Original soiled printed wrappers. Signature of Francis Little on upper cover. Some browning at end and soiling to some leaves. A good copy. €95 218. LYDON, J.F. The Lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1972. pp. 295. Green papered boards titled in gilt. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €50

This work examines the feudal lordship of Ireland as a whole, and in tracing the origins of the conflicting Gaelic and Anglo-Irish traditions which were to determine the whole pattern of Irish history in succeeding centuries.

ILLUSTRATED BY JACK B YEATS 219. LYNCH, Patricia. The Turf-Cutter's Donkey. An Irish story of Mystery and Adventure. Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats. London: Dent, 1934. First. pp. viii, 245. Pictorial cream cloth with a drawing by Jack B. Yeats in blue. Mild discolouration to spine. A very good copy.€475

Patricia Lynch (1898-1972), children's author, was born in Cork. The family moved to London following her father's death and she was educated there, in Scotland and Belgium. Her first book won the Tailteann silver medal in 1932. The Turf-Cutter's Donkey was serialised in the Irish Press, and many of her stories were broadcast on Radio Eireann. She wrote over fifty books which were translated into many European languages. Illustrated with five colour plates, eight line drawings, pictorial endpapers and upper cover by Jack B. Yeats.


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220. LYONS, Geo. A. Some Recollections of Griffith & His Times. Frontispiece. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1923. pp. vii, 76. Tan cloth, title in black on upper cover and along spine. Light stain to upper cover and light wear to spine ends. A good copy. €65 221. [LYRA GERMANICA] Lyra Germanica: Hymns for the Sundays & Chief Festivals of the Christian Year. Translated by Catherine Winkworth. With Illustrations by and Engraved under the Superintendence of John Leighton. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. Quarto. pp. xx, 272. Full blind stamped morocco to an arabesque design over bevelled boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five hatched raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt with a floral device; green and gold double-endbands; comb-marbled endpapers; edges of leaves cross-gauffered. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Some minor wear to extremities. A near fine copy in a fine binding. €150 222. MACARDLE, Dorothy. Tragedies of Kerry 1922-1923. Dublin: Irish Book Bureau, n.d. (c.1960). Twelfth edition. pp. 60, [4]. Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €25

First published in July 1924. A.E.'S COPY

223. MACAULAY, Lord. Lays of Ancient Rome with Ivry and the Armada. New edition. London: Longmans, Green, 1877. pp. 167, 12. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spine. George Russell's copy with his signature on front free endpaper. Loosely inserted is an envelope with his signature and an address presumably to visit on a Sunday night. A very good copy. €125 224. [MacBRAYNE, David] Summer Tours in Scotland. Glasgow to the Highlands. The Royal Route with Time Tables and List of Fares. By David MacBrayne's ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS, "Columba", and "Iona", etc. Official guide, New edition. With coloured map and numerous illustrations. Glasgow: n.d. (c.1894). pp. 104, 32 (adverts), [1]. Gilt pictorial red cloth. Covers lightly faded. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €125 225. McCARTHY, Daniel Trant D.L. J.P. M.R.I.A. The McCarthys of Munster. The Story of a Great Irish Sept. (The McCarthy Mor). Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1922. pp. [viii], 399. Modern cloth, with original letterpiece. Inscribed with the Author's Compliments, dated May 1923. Previous owner's stamp on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €285 226. McCARTHY, Justin Huntly. The Illustrious O'Hagan. Frontispiece. London: Hurst & Blackett, Ltd., n.d. pp. 320. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Scarce. €25 227. McDONNELL, John. Dr. The Light of History respecting the Massacres in Ireland from about A.D. 1580 to the end of the Civil War of 1641. Dublin: Webb & Son, 1886. pp. 51. Stiff printed wrappers. Light staining and minor wear to cover. Internally a very good copy. Rare. €95

COPAC with 1 location only. 228. McGEE, Thomas D'Arcy. A Memoir of the Life and Conquests of Art Mac Murrogh, King of Leinster, with some notices of the Leinster Wars of the 14th Century. Dublin: Duffy, n.d. (1847). Second edition. pp. xxiv, 200, 16 (Publisher's list). Publisher's green-decorated cloth. New front endpaper. A very good copy. €275

COPAC locates the TCD copy only. WorldCat locating 1 copy only [First edition].

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229. M'GREGOR, John James. The New Picture of Dublin: or, Stranger's Guide through The Irish Metropolis; containing a description of Every Public and Private Building Worthy of Notice, and a correct account of the Various Commercial, Benevolent, and Religious Institutions. To which is added, A Brief Notice of the Various Pleasure Tours round the Metropolis. With a map of the City and sixteen beautiful hand-coloured engravings. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Co. Sold by all respectable booksellers in Ireland, 1828. 12mo. pp. viii, 373, [1]. Contemporary full green morocco, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. A fine copy. €1,250

No copy located on COPAC. Complete with 16 plates and large folding map. One of the plates engraved by W.H. Lizars, Edinburgh, and two by J. Martyn, Dublin, after T.H. Sweetman. The rest of the engravings are unsigned.

230. McGUINNESS, Charles John. Nomad. Memoirs of an Irish Sailor, Soldier, Pearl-Fisher, Pirate, Gun-runner, Rum-runner, Rebel and Antarctic Explorer. With 11 illustrations. London: Methuen, 1934. First edition. pp. xi, 288, [1]. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Some light spotting. A very good copy. Very rare. €265

COPAC locates 6 copies only. Charles "Nomad" McGuinness, sailor and adventurer, was born in Derry in 1893. His mother, Margaret Hernand was of Spanish descent, and his father, Charles McGuinness, was an Irish ship's captain. Margaret died when Charles was young. Not much fact is known about the life of Charles McGuinness. His life is a mixture of truth and legend. Whatever we know about him can be found in this work, his many articles, as well as popular legends of the time.

231. McKEVITT, Mgr. Peter. James Connolly. Dublin: C.T.S. n.d. pp. 15. Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €15

232. MacMANUS, Seumas. Donegal Fairy Stories. Collected and told by Seumas MacManus. Illustrated. London: Isbister & Co., Ltd. 1902. pp. xv, 256. Green pictorial cloth. Title in blue on upper cover and on spine. A very good copy. See illustration opposite. €65 233. McPARLAND, Edward. James Gandon, Vitruvius Hibernicus. With photographs by David Davison and numerous illustrations. London: Zwemmer, 1985. Quarto. pp. xv, 222. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. Very scarce. €175 Eighteenth-century Dublin was a great European city. The best of its architecture reflects this, in scale, quality and sophistication. James Gandon, an Englishman of Huguenot descent and William Chambers' greatest pupil, was Dublin's most distinguished neo-classical architect. This is the first illustrated study of Gandon's life and buildings. 234. MacSWINEY, Terence. Death of Terence MacSwiney: Saturday Herald Newspaper. Dublin October 30, 1920.

Broadsheet, four pages. Banner Headlines: City of Silence: To-Day's Mourning Scenes in Cork. Beneath ... Among His Own - Lying-in State of Lord Mayor's Body - Irish Volunteers Remove Remains From Military Custody. Also, "Hell Let Loose"! Armed Men Run Amuck in Templemore. Front page illustration of Erin tolling bell bearing inscription, "1920 . Proclaim Liberty throughout the land". Inside pages, Appeal for Reprieve of Kevin Barry [with photo], etc. Together with Sunday Pictorial October 31, 1920, London, outer pages only. Front page. Scenes at the funeral, "Mrs Maud Gonne McBride, a pathetic figure in the procession". The hearse filled with wreaths and escorted by 50 priests and leading Sinn Feiners .. etc. Scene outside the Pro-Cathedral, etc. Together with Irish Determination League of Great Britain (Richmond Branch). Souvenir Programme of the Commemoration of the Second Anniversary of the Death of Terence MacSwiney held at St. John's Hall, Richmond, Monday, October 16th, 1922. Eight pages, with medallion portrait of Terence MacSwiney, integral wrappers. Three items. All in very good condition. Very scarce. €175


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235. MacTHORMAID, Brendan Mary. Deathless Glory. Illustrated. Dublin: Massey, 1966. pp. 58, [2]. Green, white and gold stiff wrappers, with medallion portrait of P.H. Pearse in centre of upper cover. A very good copy. Scarce. €45

Humbly and reverentially dedicated to the Teachers of 1916. Scholarly account of the leaders and events of the Easter Rebellion.

DENIS FLORENCE MacCARTHY'S COPY 236. MADDEN, Richard Robert. The History of Irish Periodical Literature, from the end of the 17th to the Middle of the 19th Century, its Origin, Progress, and Results; with Notices of Remarkable Persons Connected with the Press in Ireland during the Past Two Centuries. Two volumes. London: Newby, 1867. pp. (1) vii, 338, (2) [ii], 531, + errata. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib Christian Brothers, with stamps. Signature of Denis Florence MacCarthy on front free endpaper of volume one. Some light browning. A very good set. Very rare. €185

Richard Robert Madden, 1798-1886, miscellaneous writer, youngest son of Edward Madden, silk manufacturer, of Dublin, by his second wife, Elizabeth, was educated at private schools. He studied medicine in Paris, Italy, and St George's Hospital, London. While in Naples he became acquainted with Lady Blessington and her circle. He returned to England in 1828, and in the following year was elected a member of the College of Surgeons, of which he was made a fellow in 1855, and practised as a surgeon in Curzon Street, Mayfair. Madden was employed in the British civil service from 1833, first as a justice of the peace in Jamaica, where he was one of six Special Magistrates sent to oversee the eventual liberation of Jamaica's slave population, according to the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. From 1835 he was Superintendent of the freed Africans in Havana. In 1839 he became the investigating officer into the slave trade on the west coast of Africa, in 1847 the secretary for the West Australian colonies. In 1847 he was appointed colonial secretary of Western Australia, where he exerted himself to protect such rights as still remained to the aborigines. Returning to Ireland on furlough in 1848 he interested himself in the cause of the starving peasantry, and in 1850 resigned his Australian office for that of secretary to the Loan Fund Board, Dublin Castle, which he held until 1880. Madden is best known as the author of The United Irishmen, their Lives and Times, published in London, 1843-6. He was a devout Roman Catholic, a patriotic Irishman, and an excellent host and raconteur. He died at his residence in Vernon Terrace, Booterstown, on 5 Feb. 1886, and was buried in Donnybrook graveyard. Madden married in 1828 Harriet, youngest daughter of John Elmslie of Jamaica, who survived him and died on 7 Feb. 1888. By her he had issue three sons, of whom two survived him. Denis Florence MacCarthy (1817-1882) was an Irish poet, translator, and biographer, born in Lower O'Connell Street, Dublin. He was born in Lower O'Connell Street, Dublin, on 26 May 1817, and educated there and at St Patrick's College, Maynooth. He acquired an intimate knowledge of Spanish from a learned priest, who had spent much time in Spain, which he was later to turn to good advantage. In April 1834, before turning seventeen, MacCarthy contributed his first verses to the Dublin Satirist. He was one of a coterie of writers whose works appeared in The Nation, which had been started by Charles Gavan Duffy in 1842. Writing under the pseudonym "Desmond", most of MacCarthy's patriotic verse appeared in this organ. In 1846, he was called to the Irish bar, but never practised. In the same year he edited The Poets and Dramatists of Ireland, which he prefaced with an essay on the early history and religion of his countrymen. About this time he also edited The Book of Irish Ballads (by various authors), with an introductory essay on ballad poetry in general. His Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics, appeared in 1850, original and translated. His attention was first directed to Pedro Calderón de la Barca by a passage in one of Percy Bysshe Shelley's essays, and from then on the interpretation of the "Spanish Shakespeare" claimed the greater part of his attention. Until 1864, he resided principally on Killiney Hill, overlooking Dublin Bay. The delicate health of some members of his family then rendered a change of climate imperative, and he paid a prolonged visit to continental Europe. On his return MacCarthy settled in London, where he published - in addition to his translations - Shelley's Early Life, which contains an account of that poet's visit to Dublin in 1812. MacCarthy had already resettled in his native land of Ireland for some months, when he died on Good Friday, 1882 at Blackrock, Dublin. His poetical gifts were inherited by his daughter, who became a nun, and wrote as Sister Mary Stanislaus.


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237. [MANUSCRIPT MAP] A Map of Ashfield Farm, Cottage ... being parts of the Lands of Ballybrittas and first of the Freehold Estate of the Reverend Dean French ... Ninety five Acres, one Rood and four Perches Plantation measure. Surveyed in May 1811 by Edward Wall. With Reference Key to the Map. 447 x 395mm. In very good condition. €250

See item 237.

SCARCE NATIONALIST PAMPHLET 238. MARKIEVICZ, Constance. A Call to the Women of Ireland. Being a Lecture delivered to the Students' National Literary Society, Dublin, under the title of 'Women, Ideals, and the Nation'. Dublin: Fergus O'Connor, 1918. 16 pp. A fine copy. €250

Constance Gore-Booth (Countess Markievicz, 1868-1927), revolutionary, was born to an Anglo-Irish ascendancy family, and was educated at the family seat in Lissadell, County Sligo. She is one of the most romanticised political figures of the early twentieth century. She studied painting in Paris, where she met her Polish husband Casimir Markievicz, whom she later amicably separated from. She became a follower of Sinn Féin but disagreed with the approach of its leader, Arthur Griffith. She founded a youth organisation, Fianna Eireann and joined Inghinidhe na hEireann for which she wrote A Call to the Women of Ireland and contributed also to the suffragette newspaper, 'Bean na hEireann'. Later she worked closely with James Connolly, ran a soup kitchen in Liberty Hall during the Dublin lock-out of 1913. She became an officer in the Irish Citizen Army, this prompted the resignation of its general secretary, Sean O'Casey. During the Easter Rebellion of 1916 she served as second-in-command to Michael Mallin at St. Stephen's Green, sentenced to death but was reprieved on account of her sex. She was the first woman ever elected to the House of Commons in 1918, but as a member of Sinn Féin did not take her seat.

PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR 239. MASON, Henry J. Monck. Primitive Christianity in Ireland. A letter to Thomas Moore, Esq. exhibiting his misstatements in his history, respecting the introduction of Christianity into Ireland, and the religious tenets of the early Irish Christians. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Co., 1836. pp. 144. Original patterned cloth, title on printed label on spine. Signed presentation copy to Dean Burgh from the author. Minor fading to cover, otherwise a very good copy. €575 240. MATSON, Walter J. Salmon & Trout Fishing in Ireland. The Angler's Pocket-Book and Guide. With folding map showing fishery districts and six coloured plates. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1910. 16mo. pp. vii, 199. Blue decorated cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. Some fading to spine, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €95

SIR EDWARD SULLIVAN'S COPY 241. MAXWELL, W.H. Esq. History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; with Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803. With numerous hand-coloured illustrations drawn and engraved by George Cruikshank. London: Baily Brothers, 1845. First edition. pp. vii, [1], 477.


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Bound green polished calf. Covers framed by triple gilt fillets, enclosing a gilt inner panel with outer Shamrock fleurons, spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on contrasting red and black morocco labels in the second and third, the remainder tooled in gilt with a large Shamrock. Board-edges and turn-ins gilt; splash-marbled endpapers; red and gold endbands. Armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Sullivan on front pastedown. Ex libris William O'Brien, Milltown Park Trust, with bookplate, label and stamp. All edges gilt. A fine copy. €465

Maxwell's History of the Rebellion is considered pro-establishment, but nevertheless it is an important work with twenty-seven fine illustrations, mostly by Cruikshank, depicting the scenes of battles, massacres, executions etc. He wrote a total of twenty books in all. He died near Edinburgh in destitute circumstances in 1850. William Hamilton Maxwell was a lively and gifted story-teller with genuine interest of the ordinary people and how they lived. Born at Newry in 1792, he was educated locally and later went to Trinity. He took holy orders and was translated to the prebendary of Balla, County Mayo, an area which afforded good shooting and fishing. Having befriended the Marquis of Sligo, he was given the use of his shooting box, Croy Lodge, at Ballycroy. It was here he spent most of his time fishing, shooting and pursuing his literary career. It was in the Officers Mess at Castlebar Barracks, that he heard all the army gossip, being a good listener and with an excellent memory he put pen to paper and wrote Stories of Waterloo. He wrote a total of twenty books in all. He died near Edinburgh in destitute circumstances in 1850. 242. MEADOWS, J. McC. A Review of The Peat Question; Its Position and Prospects, in Four Papers Upon Peat: With Suggestions for the Promotion and Extension of Turf Industry. Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1873. pp. 85. Stiff cloth

boards, title on printed label on upper cover. Owner's signature on titlepage. With annotations and some scoring. Occasional foxing. New endpapers. A good copy. Extremely rare. €275

COPAC locates 2 copies only. Peatlands have been exploited in Ireland for over a thousand years. From the 17th century there was pressure to develop bogs, seen as wastelands, for agriculture. In the 19th and early 20th centuries the emphasis changed to encouraging the development of Ireland's peatlands for fuel and improving the quality of turf as a fuel. The author was a member of the Irish Peat-Fuel Commission.

243. MEEHAN, C.P. The Rise, Increase, and Exit of the Geraldines, Earls of Desmond, and Persecution after their Fall. Translated from the Latin of Dominic O'Daly, O.P., with memoir and notes. Dublin: James Duffy, n.d. (c.1878). 16mo. Fourth edition. pp. xxiii, 280, 20. Blind stamped green linen, a harp with cluster of shamrock in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Ex libris with stamps. New endpapers. A good copy. €95 244. MEEHAN, Rev. C.P. The Confederation of Kilkenny. New edition, revised and enlarged. Dublin: James Duffy, n.d. (c.1878). 16mo. Fourth edition. pp. xxiii, 280, 20. Blind stamped green linen, a harp with cluster of shamrock in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Ex libris with stamps. A good copy. €65

By the time the civil war between the King and Parliament had broken out in England, all Ireland, except Dublin, and East Ulster, was in the hands of the insurgent forces. The English army in Ireland was divided, those in Ulster, led by the Scottish General, Monroe, were on the side of the Parliamentarians; those who held Dublin remained loyal to King Charles. But neither of those two parties was willing to grant concessions to the Irish. The Irish leaders, Gaill and Gaedhil, saw that they must take measures to preserve law and order and defend the country. A General Assembly was established, composed of lords spiritual and temporal and of members elected by counties and towns. The Assembly, first met on October 23rd, 1642, at Kilkenny and was known ever after as the Confederation of Kilkenny. The Assembly elected a 'Supreme Council' of twenty-four members - six from each province. There were two distinct parties in the Confederation: (1) The Gaelic Irish or 'Old


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Irish', who were strongest in Ulster and Connacht. They aimed to overthrow the previous plantations and to restore the Catholic religion. (2) The Anglo-Irish Catholics, who were strongly represented in Leinster and Munster. They demanded security in their lands, but not the overthrow of the plantations and were satisfied with toleration in matters of religion.

IN EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL STITCHED PINK WRAPPERS 245. MILTON, Thomas. The Seats and Demesnes of the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland, In a Collection of the most interesting and Picturesque Views, Engraved by Thomas Milton, from Drawings by the most Eminent Artist, with Descriptions of each View. Five parts. Twenty views (complete). Published by T. Milton, No. 35, Great George's Street, and sold by W. Wilson, No. 6, Dame-Street, Dublin, 1783/1787. Loosely inserted is the titlepage, list of subscribers and dedication. Original mauve stitched wrappers, with minor tears and fraying to edges, three lower wrappers missing. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy in custom made solander box. Extremely rare. €1,465

No copy of this edition located on COPAC or WorldCat. Not in TCD of NLI. Thomas Milton (1743-1827), engraver, was born in England, his grandfather, Sir Christopher Milton was brother to John Milton, the poet and author of Paradise Lost. His father, also named John, was an artist who worked in London. Thomas came to Dublin in 1783, and in January of that year, his first four engravings were published with descriptive text. These were 'Phoenix Park, Leinster House, Lucan House' and 'The Dargle'. All were after pictures by J.J. Barralet, the well known Dublin painter.


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Later in 1783 Milton published four more engravings: 'Marino, Belan House, Malahide Castle' and 'The Scalp ', from drawings by Francis Wheatley and William Ashford. Subscribers had to wait until 1785 for the third set of four engravings: 'Bessborough, Brockley Park, Beau Parc' and 'The Salmon Leap'. The artists were Ashford, Wheatley, Thomas Roberts and William Pars. The next four appeared in July, 1786: 'Lismore, Howth House, Florence Court' and 'Glen Molaur'. The fifth series appeared the following year, the plates being 'Tullymore Park, Mount Kennedy, Ballyfin' and 'Lucan.' This series completes the first edition of 1783/1787. It was to be six years before the sixth and final series appeared: 'Glenarm, Shane's Castle, Tarbert' and 'Dunran', which were included in the second edition, published in 1793. The reason for the long delay is explained in an announcement which is laid on the front free endpaper. This extended publishing period led to differences in printings, which make the Milton a fascinating book. Different manufactures of paper were used in the originals, each with their own distinctive watermarks, some of them beautiful in themselves. There were at least two different typesettings of the descriptive texts and many variations in the printings of the plates have been noticed. These engravings of Thomas Milton are arguably the finest there are of their kind. Milton (1743-1827) was not prolific. His output was small, his work superb. Sometime a governor of the Society of Engravers, London. Quite clearly, Milton was an engraver of the front rank with a powerful and distinctive technique. W. C. Bell Scott, in his Autobiographical Notes had this to say. Milton "... had the unique power of distinguishing the foliage of trees and the texture of all bodies, especially water, as it had never been done before and never will be done again." Strickland described the engravings as the "work of singular beauty, engraved with great delicacy and strength, and constitute the most charming record of Irish scenery and places which have ever been published". The list of subscribers includes: Sir John Blaquire, Rev. Dr. Berkeley, Dean of Tuam, Rick Fred. Burke, Esq., Loughrea, The Earl of Charlemont, Lord Viscount Carlow, Hugh Crofton, Austin Cooper, Cornelius Callaghan (12 sets), The Rt. Hon. John Foster, John Fitzgibbon, The Duke of Leinster, Peter Digges Latouche, The Earl Moira, Thomas Salkeld, The Earl of Tyrone, William Westby, Mr. Samuel Whyte, Joseph Cooper Walker, etc. Andrew Bonar Law, Ireland's leading expert in prints, engravings and maps states that he has never seen a set in the original wrappers. An item of the utmost rarity.

246. MITCHEL, John. An Ulsterman for Ireland. Being letters to the Protestant Farmers, Labourers, and Artisans of the North of Ireland. Dublin: The Candle Press, 158 Rathgar Road, 1917. pp. vii, 46. Printed grey wrappers, repair to spine. A very good copy. €45

De Búrca 4. 247. MITCHEL, John. The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps). Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson, n.d. pp. 220, 4 (publisher's list). Pictorial yellow back. Repair to spine. A very good copy. €35



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GALLEY PROOF SIGNED BY THE ARTIST 248. MITCHELL, Flora H. College Green. Galley proof of the illustration from her 'Vanishing Dublin,' [Dublin: Figgis, 1966]. Signed and titled by Flora Mitchell. 230 x 176. Fine. €95

Flora Mitchell, 1890-1973, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and moved with her family to Ireland as a result of the Sioux Indian Rising in the 1890's. She studied drawing and painting at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art developing a reputation for her life sketches and her watercolours. After a period of voluntary work in Dublin during the First World War, she went to teach art in Canada but by the end of the 1920's, she was back in Dublin. In 1935 she began exhibiting with the Water Colour Society of Ireland, which was her only showcase until the mid-1950's, when she exhibited with the Dublin Painters' Gallery and the Royal Hibernian Academy. Much of Flora Mitchell's work encompassed drawings of Dublin landmarks, not only the known sights but forgotten corners of the old city, especially in the liberties, as well as cityscapes in oils and watercolour paintings, exemplified in her excellent illustrated book, Vanishing Dublin. She also produced some fine pencil sketches of London buildings. Examples of her works are in the National Gallery of Ireland, the Civic Museum, Dublin and the James Joyce Museum. She was married to William Jameson, great grandson of John Jameson, founder of the whiskey distillery.

GALLEY PROOF SIGNED BY THE ARTIST 249. MITCHELL, Flora H. Stephens Place. Galley proof of the illustration from her 'Vanishing Dublin,' [Dublin: Figgis, 1966]. Signed and titled by Flora Mitchell. 230 x 164. Fine. €75

GALLEY PROOF SIGNED BY THE ARTIST 250. MITCHELL, Flora H. The "Irish House". Galley proof of the illustration from her 'Vanishing Dublin,' [Dublin: Figgis, 1966]. Signed three times, and titled by Flora Mitchell. 250 x 177mm. In fine condition. €75 251. MOORE, Sidney O. The Family of Glencarra; A Tale of the Irish Rebellion. Illustrated. Bath: Binns, n.d. (c.1858). pp. xi, 154, + publisher's list. Blue cloth, a mother and her three children in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt. Presentation inscription on front pastedown. Minor wear to spine ends, old water stain to frontispiece and title. A very good copy. €375

COPAC locates 3 copies only. Loeber M529. With engraved frontispiece, half-title and two other plates. The story is set in County Mayo at the time of Humbert's Invasion, from the standpoint of the 'Irish Society' (a proselytising organisation). The author highlights the "ignorance and degradation peculiar to the Romish districts of Ireland", and tells how Aileen who was engaged to one of the rebels (a murderer) is converted, and endeavours to convert others, with some degree of success. A grotesque misrepresentation of the Catholic Church. The engraved titlepage depicts Moyne Abbey, which was founded by Richard Bourke, Chieftain of the Mayo Bourkes in 1460.



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THE BARD OF IRELAND AND THE TSARINA OF RUSSIA 252. MOORE, Thomas. Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance. Engraved title illustrated by Daniel Maclise. London: Longman, Brown, 1853. pp. [xiv], 287, [1]. Contemporary full green morocco. Covers tooled in gilt to a panel design, spine with decorations and title in gilt. Pencil inscription on front endpaper. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €250

We did not know of any connection between Thomas Moore and the Tsars of Russia until we had an enquiry some years ago for a first edition of Lalla Rookh. Our customer informed us that it was going to the Summer Palace of the once mighty Romanoffs. Seemingly Tsarina Alexandra, Consort of Tsar Nicholas I, loved Thomas Moore's work and her favourite book in all the world was this classic oriental romance. It took pride of place in the Summer Palace Library at Peterhoff. The Tsarina Alexandra is still venerated and her birthday is celebrated each year on the 12th of July in St. Petersburg. The streets are strewn with white roses and parts of Lalla Rookh are re-enacted. This work was a bestseller in the early nineteenth century. In six months it ran into six editions, and into as many European translations. Its appearance in Persian inspired the playful verse: 'I'm told, dear Moore, that your lays are sung Can it be true, you lucky man! By moonlight in the Persian tongue Along the streets of Ispahan'.

253. [MUNSTER BANK] The Munster Bank (Limited) Liquidation Act, 1887. An Act to facilitate the winding up of the Munster Bank Limited to vest the remaining assets of the Munster Bank in the Munster and Leinster Bank Limited and for other purposes. London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1887. Royal octavo. pp. 11. Bound by Dollard of Dublin in contemporary full maroon morocco, title and 'D. & T. Fitzgerald' Solicitors in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. Rare. €125 254. [MUNSTER COAL-FIELD] Coloured Map of the Munster Coal-Field. Produced by - The Commission of Inquiry into the Resources and Industries of Ireland. Dublin, 1920. (Based on Information obtained from the Geological Survey and other sources). Inset. Key to the Kanturk Area. Linen backed. 760 x 595mm. In fine condition. €95

Label pasted to top left hand margin: "This Map, originally produced by O'Loughlin, Murphy & Boland, Ltd., Dublin, for the Commission of Inquiry into the Resources and Industries of Ireland [appointed by Dáil Eireann in 1919], to accompany their Report on 'The Coalfields of Ireland', is distributed free to Schools, by permission of the Chairman, Col. Maurice Moore."

255. MURPHY, Gerard. Saga and Myth in Ancient Ireland. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1961. pp. 64. Printed maroon wrappers. A very good copy. €10

De Búrca 209. Gerard Murphy (1900-1959), was Professor of the History of Celtic Literature, U.C.D. from 1938 till his death.

256. [MURRAY'S HANDBOOK] Handbook for Travellers in Ireland. With travelling maps. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1864. pp. lxvi, 354. Recent buckram. School stamp on titlepage. A very good copy. Scarce. €135

The contents include: Enniskillen to Sligo by Coach; Coleraine to Belfast, by Portrush, the Giant's Causeway and Ballycastle; Dublin to Mullingar, Athlone, Ballinasloe, and Galway; Galway, Aran Islands, Lough Corrib; Galway to Clifden; Clifden to Leenane, Westport and Sligo; Dublin to Wexford through Wicklow, Arklow and Enniscorthy; Cork to Kenmare, via Bandon, Bantry, and Glengarriff; Limerick to Waterford; etc. The author gives us some advice before making a journey by car: "Ascertain which way the wind is blowing, if the weather is cold or likely to be bad, and choose your side accordingly, as the tourist will find it no slight comfort to hear the rain beating on the other side".

257. [NEALE, Samuel] Some Account of the Life, and Religious Labours of Samuel Neale. Dublin: Printed by Robert Napper; for John Gough, No. 20, Meath-Street, 1805. First edition. pp. v, [ii], 92. Contemporary full tree calf, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on spine. A very good copy. €175



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Samuel Neale (1729-1792), a Quaker, the son of Thomas and Martha Neale succeeded to an estate in County Kildare in his late teens, where he spent much of the time hunting, coursing and 'frequenting the playhouse'. In his early twenties impressed by the preaching of Catherine Peyton and Mary Paisley he travelled with them to Bandon and Kinsale and returned a changed man becoming a Quaker minister in 1752. He travelled throughout Ireland, England, Scotland and America but made his home at Rathangan, County Kildare.

CONNEMARA CALLING 258. NEAVE, Sir Digby, Bart. Four Days in Connemara. London: Bentley, 1852. pp. vi, 306. Modern green buckram, with original title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €265

Interesting tour of post-famine Connemara, with topographical, social and historical notices of this most scenic part of Ireland.

EXTREMELY RARE BELFAST PRINTING 259. NEVIN, Thomas. M.A. A Letter to the Rev'd Mr. William Smith of Ballee. Belfast: Printed by James Blow, and are to be Sold at his Shop, Anno Dom., 1724. pp. [2], 8. Modern half calf over marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. Paper repair to top inner corner of pages, slightly affecting a few words, some toning. Ink signature of Henry Blair on titlepage. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €950

ESTC T228813 locating the NLS and Linen Hall Library copies only. WorldCat 1. Thomas Nevin (c.1686-1744), Presbyterian Minister, was born at Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, grandson of Hugh Nevin, Vicar at Donaghadee, County Down. Educated at Glasgow College, he graduated M.A. (1703). He was ordained in 1711 and ministered at Downpatrick. The Presbyterian meeting house was built for him there at Stream Street. During the non-subscription controversy in 1720 he sided with Samuel Haliday and Samuel Dunlop, who did not subscribe to the doctorian of the Trinity. Although he made a strong profession of faith in the deity of Christ at the Synod of Ulster in 1721, he was one of twelve ministers who did not subscribe to the Westminster Confession of Faith, and he was embroiled in controversy soon after. In 1724 he was charged by Charles Echlin with being an arian after he was quoted at a dinner party as having said that it was no blasphemy to believe that Christ was not God. This pamphlet is a refutation of that charge. Nevin denied this vehemently, brought a libel action against Echlin, and attempted to explain his position in this letter to the Rev. William Smith. It seems that he had been discussing the position of the Jews and was merely pointing out that for them it was not a case of blasphemy deserving civil action. This should have settled the matter but Nevin was careless in this letter and wrote a number of comments that cast further suspicion on his beliefs. The general synod met at Dungannon shortly after receipt of this letter and he was tried for heresy, with six articles of impeachment brought against him. He was called to make a declaration of belief in the supreme deity of Christ but refused to submit to the request, which he deemed to be too inquisitory. On hearing this, the Synod stopped the trial and stripped him of his seat in the church court. The punishment was more symbolic than real, as Nevin retained all his other functions as a minister, and his status in every other respect was unchanged.

260. NEWBY, P.H. Maria Edgeworth. The English Novelists Series. London: Arthur Barker, Ltd., 1950. pp. 98, [4]. Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €35 261. NEWCOMER, James. Maria Edgeworth the Novelist. 1767-1849 A Bicentennial Study. With illustration. Texas: Christian University Press, 1967. pp. ix, 172. Printed green wrappers. A very good copy. €25


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RARE GALWAY PRINTING 262. NEYMO, P.A.O. Similitudes; or, the Israelites and the Irish. Galway: Printed at the "Express" Office, Eyre Square, n.d. (c.1860). Square octavo. pp. [iv], 156. Red blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Spine a little worn, otherwise a very good copy. €275

COPAC locates 4 copies only. A lively and interesting commentary on the Irish and the Jews: "However, I linger too long on my way, which was sufficiently agreeable while it lay along the shore of the lake, but became less interesting as I turned into the upward path leading to O'Malley's homestead, and met at every step wretched cabins, but half visible, in damp hollows; huts, or rather caves, burrowed under beetling rocks; fresh coloured healthy young women, clothed in filthy rags, gathering sticks, or 'kippeens', for the evening fire; while children with bright eyes, curly hair, dirty faces, half-naked, and plentiful as wild flowers, gambolled about, seeming equally to enjoy a summersault on a manure heap, and a roll down a green slope". "Per Mac atque O tu veros cognoscis Hibernos, His duobus demptis, nullus Hibernus ad est". "By Mac and O you always know, An Irishman, they say, And if they lack both O and Mac, No Irishmen are they".

263. NORMAN, E.R. The Catholic Church and Ireland in the Age of Rebellion 1859-1873. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1965. pp. xi, 485. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €35

INTERESTING FILE OF LETTERS - "1964 A ROTTEN YEAR FOR ME" 264. O'BRIEN, Flann [Brian O'Nolan] A most interesting collection of letters from Flann O'Brien or relating to his work, including: (a) An original autographed letter signed (mounted on card) from 'Brian O'Nolan', undated, written at 21 Watersland Road, Stillorgan, to an Editor [of the 'Irish Times', presumably], apologising for "another lapse in the supply of material" because "I have been pulled into hospital again ... A good job that I'm an Easter Voluntary!". (b) An original typescript letter signed 'Brian' (O'Nolan), from Stillorgan, 7 December 1964, to 'Maeve' (Sister M. Petronilla), at the Dominican Convent in Portstewart. One page quarto, neatly typed, sending her a copy of the new Dolmen edition of his novel in Irish, 'An Béal Bocht', " ... and the absolutely new style of typeface should finally put an end to all the damn nonsense and bickering about 'Gaelic type' ... That leg of mine is all right so far as the broken bone is concerned but I'm still having trouble with the muscles, and tire easily when walking. I'll be happy to say goodbye to 1964, for it was a rotten year for me ... ." He also discusses his 'Dalkey' book "a richly deserved attack on the Jesuits." With stamped addressed envelope. (c) A typed letter signed from Hilton Edwards to Brian O'Nolan, Esq., 11 Belmont Avenue, Donnybrook, on Dublin Gate Theatre headed paper, dated, 7 November 1959. One page quarto. Enquiring about television use of his sketch 'Thirst', seeking the rights and a copy of the play: "Although we have not been associated as much as I should like you must know that I am an admirer of your work and if this venture is at all successful I should like to feel that you would be willing to write frequently for us to our mutual benefit." (d) A carbon copy of a reply from O'Nolan, dated 22 November, 1959, at 10 Belmont Avenue, Donnybrook: "The situation about this little play is a bit complicated though what may seem at first a difficulty may in fact be a boon ... It appeared on BBC television ... For this occasion I re-wrote the whole ..." He goes on to discuss his experiences with the BBC and mentions Larry Morrow. One page quarto. With manuscript corrections in O'Nolan's hand. (e) A second typed letter signed from Edwards to Brian O'Nolan, on Radio Éireann / Irish Television headed paper, dated, 20 February 1962, about an important film for Television and wanting to include his script 'The Man with Four Legs'. He goes on to discuss the production of this play: "We would have to use a good deal of film - Telecine - so that the various changes could be made rapidly and with amusing effect ... Now there is a way out of this whereby the


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play could be re-shaped in such a way that it could be played 'live' in the studio but this as far as I can see would necessitate making the action cumbersome and protracted by including passages to allow the physical changes to be made ... I don't know whether I am expressing myself clearly, - probably not - but between the two horns of this dilemma (1) the need for Telecine which we have not got available and (2) the re-writing of the script which we can produce but only by the loss of the effect we want to achieve ... ." (f) A carbon copy of a reply from O'Nolan to 'Dear Denis', expressing his unhappiness about a performance of his (unnamed) play. One page quarto, dated at Stillorgan 16 October, 1965: "The last time you saw me I was in that hospital in Leeson Park. You did not realise (nor did (g) that I was being subjected everyday to dangerous radiation ... Nevertheless I managed to see the whole play last night and was shocked by some things. The Augustine episode, which should be perhaps the finest scene, should to anybody who has read the book a dim and solemn thing, the wit and laughs being in the lines and made bigger by reason of that very solemnity. Instead F Johnston plays for J. O'Dea Pantomine music-hall crudity, looks for personal guffaws, and just about wrecks the play." He further states that Denis had no responsibility for the terrible printed programme "but what is the meaning of the atrocity 're' used twice under the title, center part'? ... I am made out to be still another illiterate slob." With a manuscript correction in O'Nolan's hand. (h) An amusing copy letter from Brian O'Nolan to Mr. M. Baker (Publican), Kill o' the Grange, County Dublin. 1 page quarto dated 25, November, 1961, at 21 Watersland Road, Stillorgan. He discusses "a ferocious dose of flu ... I have however managed to do some quarrying in bed in the matter of cheques. You said that prior to the recent call of self and younger brother, I owed you money which I had not paid. I said I was certain I had paid. I enclose the paid cheque, which please return." He further states that he knows nothing about "the bottle of whiskey and half doz. stouts connected with our visit. It is quite true that I am capable of drinking the contents of a bottle of whiskey, but not the bottle itself." He goes on to stay that he is contacting his brother at Tuam to see if he can throw any light on the whiskey! (i) Typed letter signed from Colin W. Lecky Thompson, Programme Controller, Ulster television, on their headed paper, dated 15 August, 1962 to Brian O'Nolan at 21 Watersland Road, Stillorgan. In this brief letter he thanks the author for sending his play 'The Boy from Ballytearim' and states that he will revert as soon as they have given it full consideration." (j) Typed letter signed from Michael Fenton, Drama Department, Radio Telefís Eireann, on their headed paper, dated 16 November, 1964, to Brian O'Nolan, 21 Watersland Road, Stillorgan. In this brief letter he thanks O'Nolan for sending his script 'The Time Freddie Retired', which, their readers found unsuitable for television requirements. (k) Typed letter signed from Brian Tobin, Drama Department, Radio Telefis Eireann, on their headed paper, dated 12 July, 1963, to Brian O'Nolan, 21 Watersland Road, Stillorgan. In this brief letter he returns the only copy of 'Thirst' in his possession: "The one dated November, 1959, is, as far as I can remember, the stage version, which Hilton got from his archives." (l) A hand written letter from an uncle of Flann O'Brien to the Controller of RTE drama, undated and unsigned, on Gormley Bros., Importers and Distributors, Strabane, headed paper, two page quarto (probably incomplete). In this scathing letter the unnamed correspondent complains bitterly about a film on Flann O'Brien, stating that he also written to the 'Times'. He requests a factual review of how this film came to be shown: "The whole offence was contained in a tailpiece to the Film which was added on to the bottom of the Film. This edition showed Flann O'Brien in a grossly drunken state and rambling in a drunken manner, and was irrelevant to the main picture. The joining of this tailpiece was clearly visible and was done by some of your operatives. What I want you to do is to call for the Film to be shown to you making sure that the Tailpiece has not been detached." He goes on to suggest that Flann O'Brien must have been "set up" for the picture: There is something devious about this whole affair ... ." (m) A typed letter signed from Peter Barry T.D., Minister for Foreign Affairs, to Mr. Micheál Ó Nualláin, Senior Inspector, Department of Education, Appollo House, Dublin 2, dated 19 April,


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1984, on official government paper, about O'Nuallain's suggestions for President Reagan's visit, expressing interest in his proposal to give the President a facsimile of the American Declaration of Independence as printed by, Ulsterman, John Dunlap. (n) Autograph letter signed from Mervyn Wall, to Micheál Ó Nualláin, dated 9 October, 1994 on his Sandycove headed paper. In his letter he thanks Micheál for sending his portrait of Brian "which I value greatly and which I have placed opposite my armchair where I see it all day long." He goes on to state that he had not know of the Flann O'Brien Exhibition but regrets that he could not attend "I am almost a complete invalid, aged 86." (o) A miscellaneous collection of sixteen letters and copy replies to Brian's widow Evelyn O Nualláin, mostly to do with copyright enquires from various American Academic Institutions about the use of her late husband's work. There are also a couple of letters from Ben Kiely to Flann O'Brien. €2,250

Brian O'Nolan (1911-1966), novelist, journalist, short story writer, playwright and humourist was a native of Strabane, County Tyrone. He was better known by his pseudonyms Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen, but he also had other pseudonymic incarnations: Brother Barnabas, George Knowall, Count O'Blather, and John James Doe. His most celebrated novel At Swim-Two-Birds was published in 1939, was hailed critically, and much relished by James Joyce, but it sold poorly. For twenty years Flann O'Brien contributed a humorous column 'Cruiskeen Lawn' to the Irish Times. Some of the material was simply humorous - puns, word games, fantasies, and anecdotes - satirically directed against politicians, bureaucrats, and mediocrities in office. A series of accidents and illnesses led to bouts of drunkenness, and when, in 1953, it was felt that his attacks on establishment figures in his column could no longer be ignored he was persuaded to retire from the Civil Service. In 1960, the re-issue of At Swim-Two-Birds brought tremendous success, restored his confidence, and he went on to produce more best-selling novels. The late Mícheál Ó Nualláin was Brian's brother.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM BRENDAN BEHAN TO THE POET FRANK HARVEY

265. O'BRIEN, Flann [Myles na gCopaleen] At Swim-Two-Birds. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1960. pp. 316. Black papered boards, title in gilt on spine. Inscribed on front endpaper "Frank, / Aitníonn tú / an ciaróg eile seo - / ón ciaróg eile fós - / Brendan Behan 26 VII 60." Pencil note in Behan's hand on page six. Dust jacket lightly frayed with light foxing on lower cover, minor spotting to prelims. A fine copy. €950 266. Ó BROIN, Leon. Dublin Castle and the 1916 Rising. Dublin: Helicon, 1966. pp. 200. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €15

The story of the Rising, of the events that led up to it, and of its consequences, as seen from inside Dublin Castle, the centre and symbol of British domination over Ireland for seven centuries. Based on a number of original sources hitherto untapped, including the papers of Sir Mathew Nathan, the effective head of the British Administration in Ireland who was trapped in the Castle at the outbreak of the Rising; the memoirs of Arthur Hamilton Norway, whose office in the G.P.O. became the insurgents' headquarters; and the papers of Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister of Great Britain, among which were found two poems written by Patrick Pearse on the eve of his execution, and a letter to his mother, now published for the first time.


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RARE TRINITY CLOSET PRESS ITEM 267. Ó CADHAIN, Mhairtín. An Bile a Thit. Omos do Mhairtín Ó Cadhain. Mairtin Ó Direain. [Baile Átha Cliath] Preas Cloistin na Trionoide: 1974. Octavo. Single sheet folded. In fine condition. €275

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268. Ó CATHÁIN, Riobeárd. Tiomna Nuadh ár dtighearna agus ár slánuightheóra Íosa Críosd: agus anois ata aisdrighthe do réir na gréigise céadna go gaodhailge Chúige - Múmhan le Riobeárd Ó Catháin ó Chontae Chláir. Baile Átha Cliath: Air na chur a gló le Hodges Smith, 1858. Small quarto. pp. vi, 373, + errata. From the library of Fathers P. Delaney and D. Foley with their bookplates on front pastedown. Presentation inscription to Rev. Dr. Foley from the translator Robert Keane dated February 1859. Contemporary full green morocco, title in gilt on spine. Light browning to top margin of a few leaves and discolouration to titlepage and errata from pressed flowers. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. €475

New Testament in Irish, revised to represent the Munster dialect by Robert Keane. 269. O'CONNELL, Mrs. M.J. The Last Colonel of the Irish Brigade. Count O'Connell and Old Irish Life at Home and Abroad 1745-1833. Frontispiece. Two Volumes. London: Kegan Paul, 1892. pp. (1) xix, 335, (2) xii, 361. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. A very good set. €95

These letters of the O'Connell family are mostly of a personal nature. Besides their biographical and genealogical interest, they, to some extent, reflect the social and political state of the Catholics of Ireland prior to Emancipation. They are also an important contribution to the history of the County of Kerry. The author was daughter-in-law to Daniel O'Connell.

270. O'CONNOR, Rev. Daniel. Lough Derg and its Pilgrimages. Illustrated. Dublin: Joseph Dollard, 1879. pp. xii, 208. Brown worn cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Wanting map at end. Signed presentation copy from the author dated 11th June 1883. A good copy. €75 271. O'CONOR, Matthew Esq. Military History of the Irish Nation, comprising a Memoir of the Irish Brigade in the Service of France; with an appendix of official papers relative to the brigade, from the archives at Paris. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1845. pp. xi, 421. Recent maroon buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very rare. €285

COPAC locates 9 copies only. WorldCat 5. A detailed history of those valiant Irishmen who filled the ranks of French and Spanish armies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. High honours were bestowed on Bourke, Dillon, Mahony, and Lord Clare to mention but a few. The author covers the period 1550 to 1738 treating: The Campaign of Tyrone; Campaign of Sir Edward Stanley; Campaigns in the Service of France, Spain, Ireland (1690); Campaigns till the Peace of Ryswick; War of the Spanish Succession, etc. Matthew O'Conor, historian and lawyer was born in 1773 at Belanagare. He was the grandson of Charles O'Conor Don (1710-1791) the famed Irish antiquarian of the eighteenth century. His brother the Rev. Charles O'Conor (1767-1828), was a noted scholar and antiquary. Matthew O'Conor Don was educated for the priesthood in Rome, but changed his mind and became by profession a lawyer. He was highly regarded by fellow Irish scholars such as George Petrie and John O'Donovan. To the latter he gave unstinting aid during his field work in Roscommon for the Ordnance Survey; O'Donovan held him in very high regard, not only because of his historical efforts and political work, but also because of his noble descent and status as a Prince of the Royal Family of Connacht. In this he was not alone; during the Tithe War a large assembly of Roscommon Catholics unanimously elected him King of Connacht (in his absence) and sent word to him to meet them at Carnfree for the formal inauguration.

272. O'CRITICAL, Colonel [Francis Sadlier Stoney] Don't Pat. A Manual of Irishisms. Dublin: McGee, & London, Simpkin, 1895. Second edition. 12mo. pp. 71. Recent cloth. A very good copy. Very scarce. €65 273. O'DEA, James J. The Beauties of Nature, and other Lectures, Letters, and Essays on Literary, Political, Social, Philosophical, and Scientific Subjects. Dublin: James Duffy and Co., 1892. pp. xiv, 252. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €65


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274. O'DRISCOLL, Dennis. Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney. Illustrated. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. First edition. pp. xxx, [4], 522, [1]. Cream papered boards, title in maroon on spine. A very good copy in lightly frayed pictorial dust jacket. €75 275. O'GRADY, Hugh. Strafford and Ireland. The history of His Vice-Royalty. With an Account of His Trial. Portrait frontispiece of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. Two volumes. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1923. pp. (1) xvi, 592 (2) 593-1142. Blue buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and on spines. Light wear to covers. A very good set. Scarce. €165

Thomas Wentworth (1593-1641), Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1632, until his recall in 1641. He adopted the policy of making Ireland remunerative for the crown, as is borne out in a letter written to the Lord Treasurer he made his position clear: "I am of opinion that all wisdom advises to keep this kingdom as much subordinate and dependent upon England as is possible, and holding them from the manufacture of wool (which, unless otherwise directed, I shall by all means discourage), and then to fetch their clothing from thence [England] and to take their salt from the King (being that which preserves and gives value to all their native staple commodities). How can they depart from us without nakedness and beggary? Which in itself is so weighty a consideration as a small profit should not bear it down". In his introduction O'Grady states "These Two Volumes comprise a series of essays on the Vice-Royalty in Ireland … I have found it impossible to write a consecutive narrative of that historic epoch … I have to make an apology for certain, what at first sight, seem digressions. No small part of these pages is devoted to incidents which occurred before Strafford landed in Ireland. In some cases I have been actually compelled to discuss movements and currents at the very dawn of Irish History … every theory advanced and fact narrated is vital to the main object of these volumes, viz. the elucidation of what Strafford had to encounter, what he achieved, where he failed, and why he perished on the scaffold."

IN RARE DUST JACKET 276. O'GRADY, Standish. Lost on Du-Corrig or 'Twixt Earth and Ocean. With frontispiece and map. Dublin: The Talbot Press, n.d. pp. ix, 284. Maroon paper boards, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. With a fine decorative bookplate for Dame Christian by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala Press. A very good copy. €45 277. Ó hAIRTNÉIDE, Mícheál. [Michael Hartnett] An Lia Nocht. Baile Átha Cliath: Coiscéim, An Chéad Chló, 1985. pp. 20. Grey stapled printed wrappers with flaps. Staples starting to rust, otherwise a fine copy. €35

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 278. O'HICKEY, Ben. From Prison Cells. A Collection of Songs and Poems. Portrait frontispiece. Signed and inscribed by the author. Dublin: The Elo Press, n.d. (c.1935). pp. 64. Green cloth with illustrated wrappers laid on. Signed by the author on the frontispiece. Very good copy. Very scarce. €175 COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 1. The collection of verses includes: Easter Week; The Irish Volunteer; A Rebel's Letter; The Saxon Must Go;

Galtee More; A Call to Arms; etc. 279. O'KEARNEY, Nicholas. The Prophecies of Saints Colum-Cille, Maeltamlacht, Ultan, Senan, Bearcan, and Malachy. As Compiled, Translated and Annotated by the late Mr. Nicholas O'Kearney, and Published in 1856 by John O'Daly, 9 Anglesea Street, Dublin. Dublin: James Duffy, 1932. pp. xii, 137. Green papered boards, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spine. A fine copy. Scarce. €45


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280. O'LOUGHRAN, Rev. Robert. Redmond's Vindication. Portrait frontispiece of John Redmond. Dublin: Talbot, 1919. First edition. pp. xx, 212. Black cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on paper label on spine. Ex lib. A very good copy. €75 281. Ó MUIMHNEACHÁIN, Aindrias. Radio Éireann. Listen and Learn. An elementary series of Irish lessons, vocabulary, idiom phrases, narrative and dialogues to be taught through the medium of Broadcasting. Baile Átha Cliath: Comhlucht Oideachais na hÉireann, Tta., pp. 52 (+blank lined pages for exercises). Stapled wrappers. Owner's signature on front free endpaper and pencil annotations on some exercise pages. A good copy. €25 282. Ó MUIRGEASA, Enri. Amhrain Airt Mic Cubtaigh. Art Mac Cooey's and other Poems. Two parts. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1926. Second edition. pp.(1) xxviii, 81, (2) [iv], 102. Stiff printed wrappers. In very good condition. Rare. €125

MacCooey's life was short and stormy. He was excommunicated by the local priest Fr Terry Quinn for having run off with his second cousin Mary Lamb whom he eventually married in a Protestant wedding ceremony at Creggan Church (which, apparently to some people's surprise is still a Protestant church). MacCooey was ostracised by his neighbours and had to leave. He went to Howth where he composed Aisling Airt Mhic Cumhaigh (which in English became entitled By Howth's Fair Haven. In this poem he dreams of the memory of Creggan churchyard and the O'Neills which he imagines have been restored to The Fews. Of course, in his dreams Fr Quinn, his nemesis has been ousted. Eventually the excommunication was lifted. Fr Quinn's grievance with the poet was, it was believed, on account of a vicious poem that MacCooey had written about his sister, the priest's housekeeper. Apparently MacCooey had one time sought succour in the priest's home but Mary Quinn had offered him only buttermilk and confined him to the kitchen, well away from some gentry then being regaled in the house. MacCooey in his verse brought her eyesight defect to attention and entitled the poem Maire Chaoch or Blind Mary.

283. O'REILLY, John Boyle. Ed. by. The Poetry and Song of Ireland. With the publisher's supplement to the second edition. The whole forming a standard Encyclopaedia of Erin's Poetry and Song; and a biographical portrait gallery of her poets. Illustrated with over one hundred choice engravings. New York: Gay Brothers, 1887. pp. cxxi, 1027 (double column), [1]. Thick quarto. Recent maroon buckram. A very good copy. €145

John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890), Fenian, poet, patriot, sportsman and orator, was born at Dowth Castle in County Meath, where his father was master of the national school. Apprenticed as a printer to the Drogheda Argus, later he became a reporter on the Guardian in Preston. He joined the Fenians and came to Dublin in 1863 to enlist in the 10th Hussars so that he could recruit Irishmen for the Fenian movement. Betrayed by a fellow-countryman in his regiment, he was tried and sentenced to death, but this was later commuted to transportation to Van Diemen's land. From there he made a daring escape and arrived in Boston in 1870 where he joined the Boston Pilot newspaper. He became editor and later joint proprietor of that newspaper. He was the most influential Irishman in Boston at that time.

284. O'RORKE, T. Archdeacon. History, Antiquities, and Present State of the Parishes of Ballysadare and Kilvarnet, in the County of Sligo. With notices of the O'Hara's, the Coopers, the Percevals, and other local families. Illustrated. Dublin: Duffy, 1878. pp. xiv, 544. Green cloth, gilt device on upper cover and title in gilt on repaired spine. Booksellers stamp and signature of Arthur Cooper on front pastedown. All edges red. A very good copy. Scarce. €385

285. ORPEN, Richard. Fitzwilliam Square A Lawn Tennis Lay. Illustrations by Orpen. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. n.d. (c.1885) pp. [24 (printed on one side only)]. Pictorial stitched wrappers, advert for Marcus Ward & Co. on lower cover. Some spotting and dusting to cover. A good copy. See illustration opposite. €125



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286. OSSORY, The Earl of. A Short History of the Cathedral and Parish Church of St. Canice in Kilkenny. Kilkenny: Kilkenny People, 1930. pp. 16. Blue printed stapled wrappers. A fine copy. €25 287. O'SULLIVAN, Thos. F. Romantic Hidden Kerry. Legendary, Antiquarian and Historical Associations, Political, Economic and Social Conditions, & Scenic Attractions of the Barony of Corkaguiny. With illustrations and folding map of the barony of Corkaguiny. Tralee: The Kerryman Ltd., 1931. Small octavo. pp. xiv, 656. Original quarter green cloth on recent green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €465 288. OTWAY, Caesar. Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting and hitherto unnoticed Districts, in the North and South. Dublin: William Curry, London: Charles Tait, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1827. pp. vi, 411, [2]. Original blue papered boards, title on printed label on spine with neat repair. A very good copy. €225

Rev. Caesar Otway (1780-1842) was born in Tipperary and educated at T.C.D. He became a Church of Ireland chaplain, and with Joseph Henderson Singer founded the Christian Examiner and Church of Ireland Magazine in 1825 and edited it for the following six years. With George Petrie he founded the Dublin Penny Journal in 1832 and wrote under the name of 'Terence O'Toole', beside his more frequent pseudonym 'O.C.'

289. PARNELL, Dr. Thomas. Poems on Several Occasions : Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, late Archdeacon of Clogher: and published by Mr. Pope. With the life of Zoilus: And his Remarks on Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice. A new edition. To which is prefixed, the life of Dr. Parnell, written by Dr. Goldsmith. London: Printed for T. Davies, 1770. pp. xxxv, 242, [2]. Contemporary full calf. Inscribed on front free endpaper 'Richd. Dickson / T.D.C.'. All edges green. Lacks label. A very good copy. Very scarce. €125 290. PARNELL, Dr. Thomas. The Poetical Works of Dr. Thomas Parnell, late Archdeacon of Clogher. Glasgow: Printed by Andrew Foulis, 1786. Folio. pp. xii, 388, 4 (list of subscribers in double column). Contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards. Armorial bookplate of Daniel McKay on front pastedown. Ex libris Milltown Park Charitable Trust with label and stamp. Occasional light spotting. A very good copy. €275

Thomas Parnell (1679-1717), cleric and poet, was born in Dublin and educated Trinity College. Ordained deacon 1700 and in 1705/06 was appointed Archdeacon of Clogher. In 1712 Parnell's wife died and he is said to have given way to intemperance. He was to find Jonathan Swift, who was at this time a trusted adviser to the ruling Tory government, helpful in getting him the entrée to literary circles, resulting in his contributing verse to Addison's Spectator as well as to Steele's Guardian. Swift procured him the living of Finglas in 1716. He was not to enjoy this plum appointment for long. In July 1718 he took ill at Chester on his way to Ireland and died there aged thirty eight. He is buried in Trinity church, Chester. Parnell is the great survivor among the Irish poets of the eighteenth century. The literary company he kept during a short life had a spin-off effect in keeping his memory green throughout that century, with a short biography by Goldsmith, inclusion in Johnson's Lives of the Poets, and the highly prestigious folio edition of his collected works in Glasgow in 1786. In modern times the Cuala Press, Dublin, published a selection of his verse in the 1920s, and the final accolade was Rawson and Lock's edition of his Collected Poems (1989), where he is accorded the full American treatment.

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291. PAYNE, John. Universal Geography formed into a new and entire System; describing Asia, Africa, Europe, and America; with their subdivisions of Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics: The extent, boundaries, and remarkable appearances of each country; cities, towns, and curiosities of nature and art. Also giving a general account of the fossil and vegetable productions of the earth, and of every species of animal. The History of Man, in all climates, regions and conditions; Customs, Manners, Laws, Governments, and Religions: the state of Arts, Sciences, Commerce, Manufactures, and Knowledge: sketches of the Ancient and Modern History of each Nation and People. To which is added, A Short View of Astronomy, as Connected with Geography; of the Planetary System to which the Earth belongs; and of the


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Universe in General. With a set of maps, drawn from the best materials, every one of which is coloured; and a great variety of copper-plates, descriptive of the most remarkable curiosities of nature. Hand-coloured botanical frontispiece to each volume. Large list of subscribers. Three volumes. Dublin: Printed by Zachariah Jackson, (No 5), New Buildings, Sackville Street, 1794. Quarto. pp. (1) [ii], vi (subscribers), [i], x-xiii, 894, (2) [ii], 792, (3) [ii], 416, xxxiii, [1], 10. (Double column). Contemporary full tree calf, spines professionally rebacked, preserving original contrasting labels. Armorial bookplate of Sir William Chatterton, Bart. on front pastedowns. An exceptionally fine and fresh set. Very rare. €5,750

Zachariah Jackson, printer, publisher, bookseller, and bookbinder, was one of the most active members of the Dublin book trade from 1788 to 1799. Between 1793 and 1795 he printed and published a number of titles including the Universal Family Bible, issued in fifty numbers, illustrated with engraved plates, and with list of subscribers. The King's printer, George Grierson, challenged Zachariah for printing the 'Bible', which had annotations by Benjamin Kennicott; in the Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Clare, refused to give a ruling until the patent privileges had been established at law. The case was dismissed and that decision infuriated Grierson, who did not take any further action. It was during this dispute that Jackson also published Payne's Universal Geography, with a greatly enlarged and illustrated Irish section. This work along with Chambers' Cyclopaedia (D. 1787), and the Dublin edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, were the most ambitious and impressive book productions of late eighteenth century Dublin. The illustrations and maps are superbly engraved and complement this magnificent publication, with its three hand-coloured frontispieces. Zachariah Jackson left Ireland for France at the beginning of the nineteenth century, where according to himself, he spent up to eleven years in 'captivity'. From France he went to London where he continued publishing for the next twenty years. The subscribers include: Major Sirr, Dr. O'Halloran, Dr. Ledwich, Archibald Ham. Rowan, James O'Conner, Ben Johnson and P. Moore, Bookseller, who ordered 100 copies. It is very rare in spite of the very large subscription. Our set is the only complete copy extant.

THE ORIGINAL OF ONE OF THE ICONIC IMAGES OF IRISH HISTORY 292. [PEARSE, Patrick] Fine original portrait photograph possibly by Lafayette of Dublin, half-length, mounted. 200 x 253mm (including mount). This appears to be the original source of the familiar and much-reproduced image of Pearse, posed in profile looking right, head tilted slightly upward. It is a fine example of portraiture, carefully lit and posed to show Pearse's sensitive mouth as well as his determined chin. In fine condition. Rare in this state. €1,275


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293. PETTY, Sir William. Hiberniae Delineatio - Atlas of Ireland. Newcastle upon Tyne: Graham, 1968. Oblong folio. Reprint of the first edition first published in 1685. Limited to 500 copies. Red buckram, title on printed label on upper cover. A fine copy. €285

Sir William Petty (1623-1687), political economist, physician to the Parliamentary army in Ireland, and Surveyor-General of Ireland, was one of the most successful adventurers to benefit from Irish confiscation and one of the greatest benefactors to Ireland with his survey and economic writings. Major General Larcom said of Petty his "survey will always remain one of the most remarkable undertakings of which we have any record. We are not to estimate its merits as a topographical work by the precision which has been attained in modern times ... as well as the circumstances under which it was executed, and the short time (13 months) in which the whole operation was performed". Petty became a very wealthy man out of all of this. "It was" said John Mitchel, "in the County of Kerry that Dr Sir William Petty had his principal estates. For years the vales of Dunkerron and Iveragh rung with the continual fall of giant oaks. There was a good market; Spain and France were searching the world for pipe-staves, in English dockyards there was steady demand for ship-knees ... There was no source of profit known to the commerce and traffic of that day in which Sir William did not bear a hand". A truly remarkable man, it is said of him that he had talents capable of achieving anything to which he turned his hands to.

294. [PICTORIAL GUIDE] Ireland. Where To Go to and What To See. A Pictorial Guide. With folding maps and numerous illustrations. Manchester: The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, n.d. (c.1900). pp. [iv], 274. Modern quarter morocco on original pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €245

"The wide range of interests offered by the Sister Island will be gathered from the following pages and their illustrations. They are, broadly speaking, scenic and picturesque, civic and industrial, archaeological, historical and architectural, sporting and (let us add) humerous."

295. [PLAYS] I. The School for Scandal : A Comedy; as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Crow-Street. By Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The fourth edition. Dublin: Printed in the year 1782. II. Politicks in Miniature : Or, The Humours of Punch's Resignation, A Tragi-Comi-Farcial-Operatical Puppet-Show with A New Scene of Punch's Levee, and the Surprising Metamorphosis of his Puppets. To which is added, The Political Rehearsal. Harlequin Le Grand: Or, The Tricks of Pierrot Le Primier. London, 1751. III. The Shepherds Lotti A Musical Entertainment as it is Perform'd by His Majesty's Company of Comedians at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. The Music comp'd by Dr. Boyce. Fore-margin close trimmed affecting a few letters. London, 1751. Dublin: [By P. Wogan?], Printed in the year, 1782. 12mo. Original worn calf, boards detached. Previous owner's bookplate and signature, label of Foyles Booksellers. Internally a very good copy. €235 296. PLOWDEN, Francis. The History of Ireland, from its Invasion under Henry II, to its Union with Great Britain. In two volumes, with emendations. London: Edited, Printed and Published by Wm. Eusebius Andrews, 1831. pp. (1) xxiii, 336 (2) xii, 443. Full green linen, title in gilt on black label on spines. From the library of St. Benedict's Monastery, with their bookplate. Spines rebacked, with new letterpieces. A very good set. €275

COPAC locates only 2 copies of this edition. Francis Plowden (1749-1829) was born at Plowden, Shropshire and educated at the English Jesuit College at St. Omer. His Historical Review of the State of Ireland was apparently written "under the patronage of the government; but, as it failed to answer their views, he attacked the ministry in a preliminary preface. In 1813 a prosecution was instituted against him at the Lifford assizes by a Mr. Hart, who was connected with the government, for a libel contained in his History of Ireland. A verdict was returned for the plaintiff, with £5,000 damages, and to avoid payment of this sum Plowden fled to France, and settled in Paris, where he was appointed a professor in the Scots College". D.N.B. The book deals extensively with the eighteenth century and in particular the period leading up to and including the 1798 Rebellion and the Union.


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297. PLUMPTRE, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland during the summer of 1814, and that of 1815. Illustrated with an engraved portrait of the author and eleven aquatints of remarkable scenery. London: For Henry Colburn, 1817. Quarto. pp. xv, 398. Recent half calf on marbled boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands; title in gilt on black morocco label in the second. Magnificently hand-coloured. Occasional light foxing. A very good and attractive copy. Very scarce. €1,650

COPAC locates 7 copies only. WorldCat 2. Abbey 457. Elmes & Hewson 2087. Bradshaw 7780. Goldsmiths'-Kress 21733. Anne Plumptre (1760-1818), author, was the daughter of Dr. Robert Plumptre, president of Queens' College, Cambridge. She was well educated and versed in many languages. From 1802 to 1805 she resided in France and some years later published her observations in the Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in France. She made two visits to Ireland during the period 1814-15 and recorded her experiences in this splendid volume. Includes bibliographical references and index.


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298. POPE, Richard T.P. and MAGUIRE, Rev. Thomas. Authenticated Report of the Discussion Which Took Place between the Rev. Richard T.P. Pope and the Rev. Thomas Maguire in the Lecture Room of the Dublin Institution on the 19th, 20th, 21st, 23rd, 24th and 25th April 1827. Dublin: R. Coyne, Capel-St. R.M. Tims, Grafton-St. and W. Curry, Jun., Sackville-St., 1827. pp. viii, [1], 373, [1]. Contemporary full calf, covers framed by a blind floral roll. Spine divided into five compartments by four raised bands, title in gilt on red morocco label in the second, the remainder with a gilt (worn) floral device in centre. Previous owner's signature and bookplate on front free endpaper. A fine copy. €275 299. PORTER, James. Paddy's Resource: being a Select Collection of Original Patriotic Songs, for the use of the People of Ireland. Engraved frontispiece. [Belfast], 1796. 12mo. First edition. pp. viii, 88. Modern panelled calf, titled in gilt along spine. Previous owner's signatures on pages 27 & 31. Frontispiece laid on paper. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €1,750

ESTC T228606 locating the Linenhall Library copy only (defective - lacking four pages). WorldCat locating the second edition only, published in Philadelphia, 1796. Porter, James (1752/3-1798), Presbyterian minister and satirist, was born in the townland of Tamnawood, near Ballindrait in the Laggan district of County Donegal. His parents, who were Presbyterians, were natives of the place and had three younger sons and four daughters. The father (Alexander Porter) worked a farm there and a scutch-mill on the River Deal. Porter was taught by a local schoolmaster and eventually attended Glasgow University but did not graduate. At the age of twenty or so he moved to Dromore, County Down, apparently as a tutor or schoolmaster. There he began studying Latin, Greek and theology, and eventually married Anna, daughter of Alexander Knox of Edenhill in 1780. The officiating Presbyterian minister was Robert Black. The couple soon moved to Drogheda, County Louth, where Porter opened a school. His studies in Glasgow from 1784 were limited to divinity for three winter sessions. Subsequently he was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Bangor and a call came from the congregation at Greyabbey, County Down, for which he was ordained on 31 July 1787. As well as an impressive preacher, he was a practical, progressive farmer with technical ability; he gave lectures on science and constructed sundials, a surviving example of which is dated 1771. Drawn into the radical politics of the day, he became antagonistic towards the high-handed local protestant squirearchy of the Ards peninsula. In the 1790s he became a regular contributor to the


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Northern Star, the organ of the Belfast Society of United Irishmen. He may have written The Irish Bard, a poem influenced by James Macpherson and attributed to a mysterious 'Rev. James Glass, A.M.' (Northern Star, 16 May 1792), and some other poems that appeared in the paper (Thuente). Undoubtedly Porter's chief literary work was a series of satirical prose pieces known as 'Billy Bluff and Squire Firebrand' (Northern Star, 30 May, 2 Dec. 1796). Very popular, it was first published in book form in Belfast in 1796 and frequently republished in pamphlet form, and there were many reprints in the nineteenth century, as late as 1879 in Belfast and 1886 in Glasgow. Billy Bluff was a local farmer who spied on his neighbours to ingratiate himself with Squire Firebrand (most probably John Cleland), agent to Lord Mountmumble (Lord Londonderry), father of Viscount Castlereagh. Though he undoubtedly shared the aims of the United Irishmen, no evidence has been found for Porter being ever a sworn member, or in arms during the rebellion that broke out in Ulster in June 1798. Nonetheless he was arrested and charged with being with a party of insurgents who intercepted the mail from Belfast to Saintfield. At his trial by court martial at Newtownards on 28 June there was only one testimony against him. Porter was found guilty and sentenced to death; Londonderry refused to recommend a reprieve (despite a plea from his own daughters, who had attended Porter's lectures); in consequence Porter was executed on 2 July, aged forty-five. He was hanged near his manse and meeting-house at Greyabbey and buried in the local churchyard (on the site of an old Cistercian abbey), the only Presbyterian minister to suffer capital punishment in 1798. A collection of songs by James Porter, which originally appeared in issues of the Northern Star. The Songs include: Teague and Pat, Freedom Triumphant, Advice to Hibernians; The New Irish Drum, The Blazing Rush Light, St. Patrick's Delight, A Call to Irishmen, The Charter of Brotherhood, Honest Pat, The Shamrock, Hibernia in Woe, Paddy's Advice to John Bull, The New Granu Wale, Liberty's Address to her Friends in Ireland, The Exiled Irishman's Lamentation, etc.

300. POWER, Arthur. From the Old Waterford House. Recollections of a Soldier and Artist. Illustrated. Waterford: Ballylough Books, 2003. pp. viii, 157. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €20 301. PRAEGER, Robert Lloyd. Belfast and County Down Railway Company. Official Guide to County Down and the Mourne Mountains. With seventy photographs of scenery by R. Welch, Belfast, maps, and other illustrations. Second edition, revised. Belfast: M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, Ltd., The Linenhall Press, 1900. pp. xv, 235, + adverts. Pictorial green cloth, worn at edges. A good copy. €75

PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY 302. PRATT, John. Pratt Family Records. An Account of the Pratt's of Youghal and Castlemartyr (Co. Cork, Ireland), and their Descendants. By John Pratt of Milton Cumberland. Printed for Private Circulation. Millom: Dickinson, 1931. pp. 82, 10 (Genealogies), 6 (index). Green cloth, titled in gilt. With copious additional manuscript biographical entries. War to spine. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €475 303. QUIN, E.G. Edited by. Dictionary of the Irish Language. Based mainly on Old and Middle Irish materials. Compact edition. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2007. Folio. pp. viii, 632. Mauve papered boards, title in silver on upper cover. A fine copy. €65 304. RICHARDSON, John. Rector of Annagh. Seanmora ar na Priom Phoncibh, na Chreideamh. Ar na Ttaruing go Gaidhlig, agus ar na Ccur a Ccló a Lunnduin tre Ebhlin Everingham, 1711. Sermons upon the Principal Points of Religion translated into Irish. With a second Sermon by Seon Tillotson Ard Easbug Canterbury. London: Printed by Elinor Everingham, 1711. pp. vii, 155, 1 (Irish Alphabet). Modern antique style panelled calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Occasional light browning. A very good copy. €2,250

John Richardson (c.1669-1747), clergyman, was born in County Tyrone, one of the five sons and four daughters of William Richardson, gentleman, possibly at his father's home at Tullyreavey, near Cookstown. His father's means were comparatively modest and Richardson trained for the church, entering TCD at the age of 14 in 1683 and graduating in 1688. He was ordained in 1693 and was rector of Derryloran (Cookstown), County Tyrone, in 1694-1709 and of Annagh (Belturbet), County Cavan, from 1709. A brother, William Richardson, made his fortune as an agent of the Irish Society of London, acquired the Somerset estate near Coleraine, and was MP for Augher, County Tyrone.


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Richardson was a prominent advocate of the use of the Irish language as a means of converting the Irish Roman Catholics by means of the Bible and liturgy in the native language. In 1711 he travelled to London to present a petition calling for the publication of testaments, prayer books, catechisms, and sermons in Irish, to the lord lieutenant, the Duke of Ormond, to whom he was introduced by Jonathan Swift. In the same year he published he published a Proposal for the Conversion of the Popish natives of Ireland to the Established Church at the New Post-office Printing House in Essex Street. There was a good argument put forward in this pamphlet for the publication of Books in Irish. This of course was strongly opposed by the Government of the day on the grounds that it would keep the native language alive and foster national consciousness. Contemporaries give us a vivid picture of this energetic clergyman. Swift in his Journal to Stella for March 6th, 1710-11, wrote "I presented a parson of the Bishop of Clogher's, one Richardson, to the Duke of Ormonde today; he is translating prayers and sermons into Irish". Richardson, who was Servant and Chaplain to the Duke of Ormonde, dedicated these Sermons to him. Richardson's first publication in Irish, a collection of sermons entitle Seanmora ar na Priom Phoncibh na Chreideamh, appeared in 1711 and contained an original sermon by himself as well as translations by Seon Ó Maolchonaire and Philip Mac Brádaigh. Also in 1711, the House of Commons voted him £200 in recognition of his 'zeal and service'. Richardson succeeded in winning the endorsement of the lower House of Convocation for his project, but the proposal was opposed by bishops in the upper House despite being strongly supported by Archbishop William King of Dublin. Having failed to obtain the official backing of the church for his strategy, Richardson turned to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (SPCK) for assistance and in 1712 his Short history of the attempts that have been made to convert the popish natives of Ireland to the establish'd religion was distributed to the society's members. In the same year, the SPCK helped to partially defray the costs of printing Leabhar na nOrnaightheadh cComhchoitchionn' - a revised version of the Book of Common Prayer, based on the previous translation of 1608 - and a bilingual edition of The Church Catechism. There was little demand for either work and most of the copies printed were still in the SPCK's warehouse five years later. Richardson suffered a loss of several hundred pounds and was forced to abandon the project. Richardson's efforts to reverse his church's neglect of the Irish language had antagonised certain members of the episcopal bench and one, Archbishop Thomas Lindsay of Armagh (1714-24), tried to have him deprived of his living on grounds of neglect. Richardson was repeatedly passed over for preferment, but in 1731 he finally obtained the deanery of Kilmacduagh on the recommendation of Lindsay's successor, Archbishop Hugh Boulter, who represented him to government as having met with 'great opposition, not to say oppression' (King: A Great Archbishop, 293n). Richardson continued to live at Belturbet and was disabled by gout in later life.


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305. [RIVERS, Elizabeth] The Dove. A Christmas Sequence by Elizabeth Rivers. Printed (in two colours) at the Dolmen Press 1959. Sequence of seven linocuts illustrating the story of The Annunciation, Christ's birth, the Three Wise Men etc., printed on a long sheet of thick paper folded concertina-style to make a small booklet. Not in Miller's bibliography. A most attractive item, very rare. Elizabeth Rivers designed a number of Christmas and greetings cards printed by Dolmen, of which this is by far the most elaborate. Probably a very limited printing. €585 306. RIVERS, Elizabeth. Linocut Greeting Card Guardian Angel. By Elizabeth Rivers. Printed at The Dolmen Press. In fine condition. Rare. €150

307. RIVERS, Elizabeth. Three Christmas Greeting Card.. Illustrated by Elizabeth Rivers. Hand printed at the Cuala Press. In fine condition. €150 308. [ROAD MAP] New Map of Ireland; exhibiting all the Turnpike Roads, Railways, Rivers and Canals, also the Borough and Market Towns. Folding linen-backed coloured map. 380 x 455mm. Scale in British Statute miles. Published by J. Reynolds, London and sold by James Gardner, Regent Street, n.d. Attached to linen-backed folder with title on green printed label on upper cover. A very good copy. Rare. €275 309. ROBINSON, Bryan. Observations on the Virtues and Operations of Medicines. Bound with: A Dissertation on the Food and Discharges of Human Bodies. With illustration and tables. London: Printed for J. Nourse at the Lamb, 1752. pp. xii, 216, vi, 120, [2] (publisher's list). Contemporary full worn calf. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands; title in red morocco label in the second. Bookplate of Robert Fisher Tomes. Slight tear to one leaf not affecting illustration. A very good copy. Very rare. €275

Bryan Robinson (1680-1754), physician and writer graduated M.B. in 1709 and M.D. in 1711, at Trinity College, Dublin. He was anatomical lecturer there and in 1745 was appointed Professor of Physic. He was three times president of the College of Physicians and was also a member of the College of Surgeons. He practised in Dublin and attended Vanessa, who bequeathed him £15 sterling 'to buy a ring'. This work was highly acclaimed when first published.


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310. RODENBERG, Julius. The Island of the Saints. A Pilgrimage Through Ireland. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. pp. [iv], 323. Recent green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex. lib. with stamp. A good copy. Exceedingly rare. €350

No copy located on COPAC. Julius Rodenberg (1831-1914) was a German Jewish poet and prolific writer. He studied law at the universities of Heidelberg, Göttingen, Berlin, and Marburg, but soon abandoned jurisprudence for literature. Between the years 1855 and 1862 he travelled extensively throughout Europe, and wrote numerous travel books. He visited Britain, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, and Switzerland. Despite some misgivings at the beginning of his visit to Ireland, he ended up thoroughly enjoying the friendliness and hardship and its people. He learned, however, that humour and the whiskey bottle were his best allies on his Irish travels, and these probably helped him endure the dreadful transport service of the time. It was lashing down with rain in Limerick when he mounted a Bianconi coach for Galway: "It was a long open cart on four wheels drawn by two half-lame nags. The middle of the vehicle was taken up by herring barrels, large boxes and poles. On both sides along the full length of the cart were benches which the unfortunate creatures, referred to as passengers, were clinging to for dear life, rather than sitting on ... ". The coach stopped every quarter of an hour, and with copious changes of horses, and a lot of whipping, and God knows how many days, they eventually arrived into Galway. He enjoyed the city and people of the Claddagh and delighted in their stories of courting rituals. He had equal fondness for the people of Connemara and Mayo. On his journey from the Killery to Westport, he travelled along the Errif Valley: "Waterfalls poured sheer down the rocks and rushed across the road into the stream. They seem to be born of the clouds. Only rarely a cabin stood by the wayside or on the mountains". As he neared Westport he wrote: "Then came human beings again - peasants returning to their cabins from the town - ponies mounted by girls, with baskets hanging on both sides, or fathers with wives and children. To me, these people seemed handsomer, and kindler, and better off." Like Thackeray he was overawed with the outstanding beauty of the town and surrounding countryside. This was indeed in contrast to Belfast where he was saddened by the great divide between wealth and poverty: "There are in Belfast dirty dens of corruption, dark nooks of crime, leaving far behind what the most notorious spots in the capitals of the world have to show. The great northern metropolis of Ireland has much to do yet ere it has reached the solid wealth, the firm patrician position of its English prototypes, but it has surpassed them all in the horrors of its dangerous localities."

311. RUSKIN, John. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. With Illustrations, drawn and etched by the author. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 65 Cornhill, 1849. First Edition. pp. viii, 205, [1], 14 (plates). Half vellum over marbled boards, title and year in gilt on brown morocco label on spine; splash marbled endpapers; red and green endbands. Armorial bookplate of Edward Fry on front pastedown. Light foxing to prelims. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €225


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John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin also penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded by a preference for plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation. Provenance: From the library of Sir Edward Fry (1827-1918), who was a judge in the British Court of Appeal (1883-1892) and also an arbitrator on the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He was a Quaker, son of Joseph Fry and Mary Ann Swaine. In 1897 he accepted an offer to preside over the Royal Commission on the Irish Land Acts.

312. RUSSELL, C.W. & HORE, H.F. The Irish and Anglo-Irish in the Sixteenth Century, with a facsimile of an ancient Irish Deed: two papers read before the Royal Irish Academy, May 24th, and June 14th, 1869. Bound with: An Agreement, in Irish, between Gerald, Eighth Earl of Kildare, and The Mageoghegan. By the late Herbert F. Hore, Esq. With facsimile of an original Irish Charter inserted in the Kildare Rental Volume [Reprinted from the Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society]. Dublin: Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy and Printed at the University Press, by M.H. Gill, 1870/1871. pp. 19, 7. Contemporary full calf, covers framed by a blind-stamped floral roll, title in gilt along spine. Ex libris William O'Brien Milltown Park Trust, with bookplate and neat stamps. Armorial bookplate of William Edward Kelly on front pastedown. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €475

COPAC and WorldCat locates 1 copy only of 'The Irish and Anglo-Irish in the Sixteenth Century'. No copy of the Hore pamphlet located on COPAC or WorldCat.

FOR THE CHILDREN OF DUBLIN'S POOR 313. [SAINT ULTAN] Leabhar Ultáin. The Book of Saint Ultan. A collection of pictures and poems by Irish artists and writers, compiled and arranged by Katherine MacCormack with numerous illustrations. Dublin: The Candle Press, and Sold for the Benefit of Saint Ultan's Hospital by Martin Lester, Ltd., 78 Harcourt Street, 1920. Quarto. pp. 32, 8 (plates). Brown stiff wrappers with pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy of a most attractive book. €475


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Designed and printed under the direction of Colm O Lochlainn, and sold for the benefit of St. Ultan's hospital by Martin Lester (pseud. Bulmer Hobson). With eight tipped-in plates by Jack B. Yeats, A.E., Paul Henry, Grace Henry, Patrick Tuohy, Mary Duncan, Estella F. Solomons and Cecil Salkeld. Illustrations in text by Maud Gonne, Anna Griffin, Evelyn Gleeson, Lily Williams, W. MacBride and Beatrice Elvery. Poems by An Craoibhín (Douglas Hyde), Susan L. Mitchell, Nancy Campbell, Seumas O'Sullivan, Beatrice Elvery, Joseph Campbell, Alice Milligan, Nell Byrne, Thomas Bodkin, Geraldine Plunkett, and Katherine MacCormack. St. Ultan's, in Charlemont Street, Dublin, was the hospital opened in 1919 and founded by Dr. Kathleen Lynn, to cater for the children of Dublin's poor. Kathleen Florence Lynn (1874-1955) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician, activist and medical doctor. She was born in Mullafarry, County Mayo, to a Dublin, Church of Ireland family and educated in England and Germany before graduating as a doctor in 1899 from the Royal University of Ireland. An active suffragette, labour activist and nationalist, Lynn was a member of the Irish Citizen Army and chief medical officer during the 1916 Easter Rising. For her part in the rising she was imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol, with her friends Constance Markievicz, Madeline ffrench-Mullen and Helena Moloney. In 1923 Lynn was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála for the Dublin County constituency at the 1923 general election. She lost her seat at the June 1927 general election. Lynn's medical career was defined by her work at Saint Ultan's Hospital for Infants, which she established in Dublin in 1919, with a group of female activists. Colm Ó Lochlainn was on the organising committee. Lynn's work with Dublin's inner city poor had convinced her of the need for a hospital to provide medical and educational facilities for impoverished mothers and infants. Earlier in her career Lynn has experienced discrimination in applying for hospital position due to her gender, and Saint Ultan's was the only hospital in Ireland entirely managed by women. Saint Ultan's Hospital grew rapidly, and from 1937 became the centre for BCG vaccination in Ireland. The hospital closed in 1984. Lynn lived in Rathmines from 1903 to her death in 1955, sharing her home with her friend and confidante Madeline ffrench-Mullen. She died in September 1955, and is buried in the family plot at Deansgrange Cemetery. In acknowledgement of the role she played in the 1916 Rising and the Irish War of Independence, she was buried with full military honours. Lynn's personal diaries for the period 1916-1955, and the administrative papers of Saint Ultan's Hospital are held by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland archive.

WITH A CHAPTER ON THE WARDS OF BELFAST 314. SALA, George Augustus. Notes and Sketches of the Paris Exhibition. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1868. pp. vi, 396. Green blind-stamped cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on spine. Name clipped from top of titlepage. A very good copy. €275

The contents include: The Opening Day of the Exhibition; The Fine Arts; The Terra Cottas of Leopold Harzé; British Sculpture; Illuminations - The Wards of Belfast; Dolls and Toys; Pottery; Glass; Jewellery and Goldsmiths' Ware; Bronze; Carpets and Tapestry; Distribution of Prizes; English Newspapers in the Exhibition; Fancy Goods; Furniture; English Workmen in the Exhibition; The Emperor of the Blackings; American Restaurant; Burglar-Proof Safes, etc.

315. SCURRY, James. Remarks on the Irish Language, with a Review of its Grammars, a Model of a comprehensive Irish Dictionary. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry for the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1828. Quarto. pp. [iii], 86. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on upper cover. A fine copy. Rare. €295

The contents includes grammatical treatises on the Irish grammars of O'Molloy, Lluyd, MacCurtain, Vallancey, Haliday, Neilson, O'Brien, O'Reilly and on 'Uraicept na n-Eigeas', and Irish manuscript. He also deals with the glossaries and dictionaries of Cormac, O'Dugan, O'Clery, Lluyd, MacCurtain, Shaw, Vallancey, O'Brien, O'Reilly. He concludes with a Model of an Irish Dictionary, and Specimen of correct Orthography and Grammar. The author states: "The ancient language of this country is neglected, and on the decline these two hundred years. The discouragement that every attempt for the revival of the Irish language has met with, is a serious injury to ancient history and antiquities, not only to those of this country, but to those of Europe in general, for there is not extant a language, except that of Ireland alone, in which the roots and Etymologies of many words can be satisfactorily explained. The Irish has been deemed difficult in its attainment and in the printing of it, which caused an apathy in many of the learned to apply themselves to its study. There are, therefore, many remotely-ancient authentic histories and precious documents of this country buried in oblivion.


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The motives that induced the author to undertake this work were to revive this excellent and appropriate language, and to adduce undeniable proofs that learning, arts and sciences flourished in this country when the adjacent nations were immersed in ignorance. He does not presume that his undertaking is near being perfect or truly erudite, but considers it to contain more of the systematic mode of the Syntax of the Irish language than any other work hitherto written or printed. And through consideration of his being a foreigner, in case that blunders or errors should be discovered therein, he hopes, that they shall be passed over in silence, rather than be criticised and censured in public as faults. Accept, therefore, from a good will, this little present, by which the author does not intend more than to give some knowledge of their ancient mother-tongue to those who are ignorant of it, and to the learned in other languages; but particularly, to stimulate the literati of Ireland to give a better and more perfect work of this kind".

316. SEABHAC, An [Pádraig O Siochfhradha] Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla. Learner's Irish-English Pronouncing Dictionary. In new standard spelling. Dublin & Cork, The Talbot Press, 1963. Third edition. pp. vii, 173. Green papered boards, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €45

BY SWIFT'S BUILDER 317. SEMPLE, George. A Treatise on Building in Water. In two parts. Part I - Particularly relative to the Repair and Re-building of Essex Bridge, Dublin, and Bridge-Building in general, with Plans properly suited to the Re-building of Ormond Bridge. Part II - Concerning an Attempt to contrive and introduce quick and cheap Methods, for errecting substantial Stone-buildings and other works in fresh and salt Water, quaking Bogs or Morasses, for various purposes; fully laid down and clearly demonstrated ... Principally addressed and peculiarly adapted to young and inexperienced Readers. Illustrated with sixty-three Copper-Plates. A Treatise on Building in Water: In Two Parts, by George Semple, second edition to which is added Part III, 1780, 63 engraved plates, engraved map, some spotting and marginalia, bookplate, contemporary half calf, rebacked, edges rubbed, Dublin: Printed for the Author by J.A. Husband, (No. 28) Abbey-Street, 1776. Quarto. pp. [8], 157, [1], 63 (plates). Contemporary full sprinkled calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Minor wear to extremities. Minute traces of old ink sprinkling to lower part of front cover encroaching on fore-edge. A very good copy. Very scarce. €1,650

George Semple (1700-1781), architect, engineer and master-builder was the most distinguished member of a family who were for centuries builders in Dublin. They are to be found in the Guild of Plasterers, Carpenters and Masons from before 1744. Jonathan Swift in his will left money for the building of a hospital for the insane, St. Patrick's Hospital usually called Swift's Hospital was built on land donated by the directors of Dr. Steevens's and adjacent to it. "He left the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad, And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much". The architect for this project was George Semple. He had another connection with Swift, his earliest known work is the granite steeple of 100 feet in St. Patrick's Cathedral, which he designed and erected in 1749. Swift as far back as 1714, by obstruction and procrastination, prevented Archbishop King from adding such a spire in 'brick'. He must therefore have known Semple and approved of his work. George built houses in Dublin and at least one country mansion. His magnum opus was the rebuilding of Essex Bridge. The present bridge is the third on the site, the first was built in 1676, by Humphrey Jervis, Lord Mayor of Dublin, from stones obtained from the ruins of St. Mary's Abbey. This structure had many faults and was frequently damaged by floods. A major failure of part of two spans occurred in 1751, and Semple repaired the old bridge within ten days for the sum of one hundred guineas. So


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successful was his repair that he was given the contract to rebuild the whole bridge. In 1753 he began demolition of the existing structure. He travelled to London where he bought £40 worth of books on engineering matters. He was however very disappointed on his return to Dublin, realising that these books were virtually useless: "I cannot describe the indignation and sorrow I felt at finding an art of such public utility as that of building bridges confessedly is so shamefully neglected. Eventually he managed to acquire a copy of 'Architecture Hydraulique' by Belidore, although in French, which he could not read, the plans were sufficient for his purpose". Its design was based on the magnificent Westminster Bridge, and it had five semicircular arches. Semple preferred to build timber cofferdams, which were pumped dry, thus enabling in-situ construction to proceed below water level. On 10 April 1755 "the (new) Bridge was left open for the use of the Public in general", at a cost £20,661 and was completed in two years and eight days. Zozimus (Michael Moran), the blind balladeer, often took his stand on the bridge. Unfortunately the city planners replaced Semple's bridge in 1873, with what is now called Grattan Bridge. The lack of reference books on bridge building prompted Semple to undertake the present work. It is a pioneering study, and surely, is one of the most adventurous classics of engineering technical writing, in which the author gives a very full and vivid description of the rebuilding of Essex Bridge.

318. SEWARD, William Wenman Esq. The Hibernian Gazetteer, being a Description of the several Provinces, Counties, Cities, Towns, Rivers, Lakes, Harbours, Mountains, Boggs, Castles, Churches, Seats, Mines, Collieries, Principal Buildings, Minerals, Roads, Market, Post and Fair Towns, in Ireland. Alphabetically arranged; and exhibiting a compleat view of the antiquities, natural curiosities, trade and manufactures of that Kingdom, with the distances of the respective places; their latitude and longitude; state of Parliamentary Representation; remarkable occurrences; the patronage of boroughs; fair days, with other particulars useful and entertaining. With a concise historical and geographical account of Ireland: and an appendix descriptive of its antient topography. With map of the Kingdom of Ireland and folding map of Ancient Ireland. Dublin: by Alex Stuart, 1789. 12mo. pp. lxvii, [1], [265], 336-351, (treble column). Contemporary full tree calf. With bookplate on front pastedown. Occasional faint foxing. Spine expertly rebacked. A fine copy. Rare. €385

ESTC T133124. William Wenman Seward, (d.1805), attorney and writer, may have been born in Dublin. Little is known of his family or early life. In May 1776 he was admitted as an exchequer attorney at King's Inns, Dublin, and from c.1782 he lived at Prussia Street, conducting his legal practice from there. He later moved to 151 James's Street, where he lived briefly and shared premises with a Thomas Seward, perhaps his son or nephew, who was a solicitor in chancery. He died at this address in 1805, probably in December. During his lifetime he achieved some fame as a political and topographical writer. He was active on the fringes of the Volunteer movement in the 1780.

HEATHENS OF INISKEA 319. SHAND, Alexander Innes. Letters from The West of Ireland 1884. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1885. pp. viii, 227, 4. Blue decorated cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Paper repair to top margin of titlepage, minor wear to extremities. A very good copy. Very scarce. €475

COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 1. Alexander Innes Shand (1832-1907) was a Scottish barrister and author, critic, biographer, novelist and travel writer. As a correspondent for The Times he toured the western sea-coast counties of Ireland in 1884, during the height of the Land War. Starting at Buncrana on August 21, he travelled through Donegal, Lough Erne, Sligo, Ballina, Westport, Croagh Patrick, Achill Island, Cong, Joyce Country, Connemara, Lough Corrib, Galway, Limerick, Kerry, and after one month ends up at Bantry. He gives us a graphic description along his route of the destitution of the tenantry; evictions; angling at Gweedore; beauties of Lough Gill; the heathens of Iniskea; emigration from Mayo; murders in Joyce Country; antiquities of Athenry; fishing on the Shannon; sport at Mucross; wayside beggars; an enterprising railway, etc.

320. [SHANNON ELECTRIC POWER SCHEME] A Series of 40 Will's Cigarettes Cards of The Shannon Electric Power Scheme. Issued by the Imperial Tobacco Co. (of Great Britain & Ireland) Ltd. [c.1928]. All in very good to fine condition. Very rare. €275

The cards illustrate: The General Plan of Works, The Head Race Intake, Construction of the Weir, The Weir, The Fish Pass, Exploding a Charge; Construction of the Head Race, The Head Race, The Head


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Race (B), Blackwater Bridge Over Head Race, The Power Station (Cross Section), The Power Station, Intake Building, The Power Station, Intake Building, Construction of the Power Station, Construction of the Power Station, Construction of the Power Station, The Rail Lift, Construction of the Penstocks, Construction of the Penstocks, Intake Building and Penstocks, Interior of Penstock, Interior of Spiral Casing, Turbine Speed Ring and Guide Vanes, Turbine in Position, Construction of the Generators, Construction of the Generators, 30,000 H.P. Generator, Interior of Power Station, The Control Room, The Power Station To-day, Excavations for Navigation Locks, Waste Channel and Locks, Waste Channel and Locks, Bridge Over the Tail Race, The Tail Race, The 30,000 K.V.A. Transformers, Erection of Steel Masts, Spanning the River Suir, 110,000-Volt Outdoor Sub-Station, The High Tension Transmission System. The Full Development of the Scheme. Ardnacrusha power plant is a hydroelectric power station which was originally referred to as 'The Shannon Scheme'. It is Ireland's largest river hydroelectric scheme and is operated on a purpose built canal connected to the River Shannon.

321. [SHAW, George Bernard] Royal Academy of Dramatic Art London (RADA) certificate awarded to Winifred Farr in 1932 signed by: George Bernard Shaw, Sir Kenneth Ralph Barnes, Maud Tree (Helen Maud Holt actress) known as Mrs Beerbohm Tree, later Lady Tree, whose husband founded the academy. Single printed sheet, with signatures. Royal Cypher in gilt at top. 208 x 235mm. A couple of small nicks to one edge. A very good copy. €375

The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) is a drama school in London, England that provides training for film, television and theatre. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious drama schools in the United Kingdom, founded in 1904 by Herbert Beerbohm Tree. RADA is an affiliate school of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. Its higher education awards are validated by King's College London (King's) and its students graduate alongside members of the departments which form the King's Faculty of Arts & Humanities. It is based in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, close to the Senate House complex of the University of London. In 1905, RADA moved to 52 Gower Street, and a managing council was set up to oversee the school. Its members included George Bernard Shaw, who later donated his royalties from his play Pygmalion to RADA, and gave lectures to students at the school.

322. SHEIL, Sir Justin. Translated by. French Thoughts on Irish Evils. Translated from the 'Revue des Deux Mondes' with notes. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. pp. [v], 67. Printed wrappers. Some pencil annotations. A very good copy. Rare. €185

COPAC lists only 1 copy of this edition. 323. SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal : A Comedy; as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Crow-Street. The fourth edition. Dublin: [By P. Wogan?], Printed in the year, 1782. 12mo. pp. 76, 2 (epilogue), 2 (books sold by P. Wogan). Recent wrapper, some light browning. A very good copy. €135

ESTC N21597. 324. SHERLOCK, Thomas Lord Bishop of Salisbury. A Sermon Preached at the Cathedral - Church of Salisbury, October 6, 1745. On Occasion of the Rebellion of Scotland. Published at the Request of the Mayor and Corporation. Dublin: Printed by G. Faulkner, 1745. pp. 24. Recent quarter green morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. €125

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With an interesting list of books just published by George Faulkner, which includes the Works of Jonathan Swift, Pope's Works, Voltaire's Letters, Chamber's Dictionary, Tale of a Tub, etc.

325. SHRUBSOLE, Edgar S. Picturesque Donegal: Its Mountains, Rivers, and Lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway Company's Illustrated Guide to the Sporting and Touring Grounds of the North of Ireland. With two coloured plates, numerous maps and other illustrations. London: William Cate, 1908. pp. vii, 159, + adverts. Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275

COPAC locates 2 copies only. 326. SMITH, George. Essay on the Construction of Cottages, suited for the Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, for which the Premium was voted by the Highland Society of Scotland. Illustrated by Working Plans of Single and Combined Cottages, on different scales of accommodation and cost. Also with Specifications, Details, and Estimates. Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1834. First edition. pp. 38, 11 (folding plates), 4 (publisher's list). With a half-title and engraved titlepage. Worn cloth, title on printed label on upper cover. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. €385

COPAC locates 11 copies only. 327. SMITH, Pamela Colman. Widdicombe Fair. London and New York: Harper, 1899. Folio (334 x 298mm.). Pictorial boards. Limited numbered edition [114 of 500 copies]. Thirteen coloured plates, with cover featuring additional plate of musical notation. Illustrations to a popular Devonshire song, with words and music. Loose as issued within green cloth portfolio featuring illustration on upper cover and smaller illustration on lower cover. Original ties, some browning, extremities of portfolio worn. A very good copy. Rare. €875

Pamela Colman Smith is best remembered today for her illustrations to the well known Rider-Waite tarot deck of 1910. Along with Yeats, Aleister Crowley and Arthur Edward Waite, she was a member of the occult group the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, founded in 1888. She illustrated Bram Stoker's last novel, The Lair of the White Worm in 1911. Born in London in 1878 to a merchant from Brooklyn, Smith spent time in New York City, London, and Kingston, Jamaica. Nicknamed Pixie, she was an early twentieth century illustrator inspired as much by nineteenth century symbolists as Art Nouveau. When Alfred Stieglitz staged the first non-photography exhibition at his Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (later called 291), in 1907, he chose Smith's work. At different points in her life, you could call her an illustrator, a children's book author, a storyteller, a set designer, and an active member of the twentieth century occult movement. She collaborated with Jack B. Yeats, younger brother of W. B., on a series of 1902–03 Broadsheets with coloured prints and published collected and illustrated Jamaican stories.

PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY 328. SOMERVILLE, Edith OEnone and SOMERVILLE, Boyle Townshend. Records of the Somerville Family of Castlehaven & Drishane. From 1174 to 1940. Illustrated. Cork: Printed and published by Guy & Co., 1940. Quarto. pp. [viii], 134. Quarter linen on grey-green papered boards, title and coat of arms illustrated on upper cover. In very good condition. €475


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SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL WRITINGS OF ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPLORERS OF THE DARK CONTINENT

329. STANLEY, Henry Morton. In Darkest Africa, or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. Portrait frontispieces, 36 full page illustrations, over 100 illustrations in text, 2 large coloured folding maps. Two volumes. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. First edition. pp. (1) xv, 529 (2) xv, 472, [2 (adverts)]. Original brick red cloth gilt-lettered and with elaborate pictorial decorations in gilt and black on spines and upper covers. A bright and handsome set, very well preserved. The cloth, gilt and colours all in quite pleasing condition, the bindings showing only mild evidence of age or use, a tight and clean set with the plates and maps in good order and none of the foxing typical to the book. €875

Stanley was a Welsh-born American journalist and explorer, famous for his search for David Livingstone and his part in the European colonisation of Africa. Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands on 28 January 1841 in Denbigh, Wales. His parents were not married, and he was brought up in a workhouse. In 1859, he left for New Orleans. There he was befriended by a merchant, Henry Stanley, whose name he took. Stanley went on to serve on both sides in the American Civil War and then worked as a sailor and journalist. In 1867, Stanley became special correspondent for the New York Herald. Two years later he was commissioned by the paper to go to Africa and search for Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone, of whom little had been heard since 1866 when he had set off to search for the source of the Nile. Stanley reached Zanzibar in January 1871 and proceeded to Lake Tanganyika, Livingstone's last known location. There in November 1871 he found the sick explorer, greeting him with the famous words: "Dr Livingstone, I presume?" Stanley's reports on his expedition made his name. When Livingstone died in 1873, Stanley resolved to continue his exploration of the region, funded by the Herald and a British newspaper. He explored vast areas of central Africa, and travelled down the length of the Lualaba and Congo Rivers, reaching the Atlantic in August 1877, after an epic journey that he later described in Through the Dark Continent (1878). Failing to gain British support for his plans to develop the Congo region, Stanley found more success with King Leopold II of Belgium, who was eager to tap Africa's wealth. In 1879, with Leopold's support, Stanley returned to Africa where he worked to open the lower Congo to commerce by the construction of roads. He used brutal means that included the widespread use of forced labour. Competition with French interests in the region helped bring about the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) in which European powers sorted out their competing colonial claims in Africa. Stanley's efforts paved the way for the creation of the Congo Free State, privately owned by Leopold. In 1890, now back in Europe, Stanley married and then began a worldwide lecture tour. He became member of parliament for Lambeth in south London, serving from 1895 to 1900. He was knighted in 1899. He died in London on 10 May 1904.

330. STERNE, Laurence. The Works of Laur. Sterne, A.M. Prebendary of York. In seven volumes. Dublin: 1780. No publisher given. Contemporary full tree calf, covers framed by a gilt chain-link roll, flat spine divided into five compartments by a Greek-key roll, title and volume numbers on contrasting red and green morocco labels in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled with a gilt wave roll; green, white, red, black, yellow and pink splash-marbled endpapers; board edges hatched in gilt. Previous owner's neat signature in each volume. Occasional light surface wear to covers. A very good and attractive set of these classic works. Exceedingly rare edition. €575


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Early Dublin edition, presumed second such and one year after the first Dublin edition. Each volume with a handsome engraved titlepage, volumes one through to five has engraved frontispieces. Volume I has an engraved portrait of Sterne after Reynolds, coloured frontispiece, two marbled plates and two 'Alas poor Yorick' plates. It includes Sterne's masterpiece volumes of Tristram Shandy as well as The Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, The Letters and The Sermons. Also, prefixed to Tristram Shandy is an account of the life and writings of the author. Sterne, and Tristram Shandy in particular, are generally regarded as innovators of the highest originality. With this work we see the beginning of a long line of writers interested in the "stream-of-consciousness" style which Sterne largely credited to his interest in the non-fictional works of John Locke. Throughout his works he often parodies, with an unmatched virtuosity, the style, form and conventions of the then still very new "novel" and points out the problems with the art form for presenting reality, space and time. His sly, often salacious and always sharp wit is balanced by an obvious affection and tolerance for the delights and absurdities of life. Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), novelist, was born in Clonmel, the son of an impoverished army ensign. After a failed marriage and his wife's committal to a private asylum in 1758, Sterne took to literary work in earnest. His 'Tristram Shandy' made him famous almost overnight. Much of his early life was passed in the different garrison towns. When seven years of age Mrs. Sterne and her family lived for a time with a relation at Annamoe, in the County of Wicklow. "It was in this parish," says Sterne, "during our stay, that I had that wonderful escape, in falling through a mill-race while the mill was going, and being taken up unhurt; the story is incredible, but known for truth in all that part of Ireland, where hundreds of the common people flocked to see me." At eleven years of age he was sent to England, and put to school near Halifax, at the expense of his father's relatives. His father died in Jamaica in 1731, from the effects of a duel fought at Gibraltar a few years before. The widow, though harassed with the care of a large family, survived him twenty-seven years. Laurence made good progress at school, and in 1733 was sent, through the bounty of a relation and namesake, to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1736, and M.A. in 1740. The English Cyclopaedia contains the following discriminating criticism: "In the mere art of writing, also, his execution, amid much apparent extravagance, is singularly careful and perfect; it will be found that every touch has been well considered, has its proper purpose and meaning, and performs its part in producing the effect; but the art of arts, the ars celare artem, never was possessed in a higher degree by any writer than by Sterne. His greatest work, out of all comparison, is undoubtedly Tristram Shandy;


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although, among foreigners, the Sentimental Journey' seems to stand, in the highest estimation." Coleridge thus reprehends his moral laxity: "Sterne cannot be too severely censured for using the best dispositions of our nature as the panders and condiments for the basest." Sir Walter Scott dwells on his inequality of workmanship: "In the power of approaching and touching the finer feeling of the heart, he has never been excelled, if, indeed, he has ever been equalled, and may at once be recorded as one of the most affected and one of the most simple of writers - as one of the greatest plagiarists, and one of the most original geniuses whom England has produced."

331. STIRLING, John. & HOLMES, John. A System of Rhetoric : in a method entirely new, containing all the tropes and figures necessary to illustrate the classics, both poetical and historical. By John Sterling ... To which is added, The Art of Rhetoric made easy; or The Elements of Oratory ... fitted for the use of the schools of the United Kingdom's of Great Britain and Ireland. By John Holmes. Dublin: Printed by Alex. Stewart, 86 Bride-Street, 1806. 12mo. pp. viii, 99, [1]. Original unlettered sheep, minor wear to top of spine. An attractive copy. €145

COPAC locates the BL and TCD copies only. 332. STOKER, Bram. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 2 Whitehall Gardens, 1897. pp. x, 392, 16. Later issue of the first edition with advert for 'The Shoulder of Shasta' on page 392, followed by a 16 page catalogue dated 1898. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full mustard-yellow morocco in imitation of the original cloth binding: lettered in red on spine and upper cover, single-line border tooled in red on sides, wide doublures ruled in red; red endpapers. Original upper cloth bound in. All edges gilt. In matching leather-entry, felt-lined slipcase with silk pull. A near fine good. €6,500

Bram [Abraham] Stoker (1847-1912), novelist and theatre manager was born in Dublin. Stoker inherited his love of the theatre from his father and while working as a civil servant he was the unpaid drama critic of The Evening Mail. He was responsible for the great success of Henry Irving's visit to Dublin in 1876 and two years later left Dublin and took up the position of secretary, business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, a post which he held for thirty years. He supplemented his income by writing a large number of sensational novels, his most famous being the vampire tale Dracula which he published in 1897. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent eight years researching European folklore and stories of vampires. Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as collection of diary entries, telegrams, and letters from the characters, as well as fictional clippings from the Whitby and London newspapers. Dracula has been the basis for countless films and plays, the most notable of recent times being that starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Legal action followed the first film production. Florence, Stoker's widow, was neither asked for permission nor paid any royalty. Eventually the matter was resolved in her favour in 1925. Stoker wrote several other novels dealing with horror and supernatural themes, but none of them achieved the lasting fame or success of Dracula. His other novels include The Snake's Pass (1890), The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), and The Lair of the White Worm (1911). Dracula tells the story of a vampire Count, pursued relentlessly by those who would see him destroyed. Written in diary format, the story begins with Jonathan Harker, a solicitor, being summoned to Dracula's palace in Transylvania under the guise of helping the Count secure property in London. While there, he learns Dracula's terrible secret, and Harker decides, with help from few other characters, to kill the Count.

BOUND BY CARSWELL OF BELFAST 333. STOKES, Rev. G.T. D.D. Ireland and the Anglo-Norman Church. A history of Ireland and Irish Christianity from the Anglo-Norman Conquest to the Dawn of the Reformation. Second edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1892. pp. xvi, 391. Bound by Carswell of Belfast in contemporary full green calf, with their ticket ('Bound by / R. Carswell & Son / Royal Avenue / Binder, Belfast') on front pastedown. Bevelled covers ruled with double blind-tooled fillets enclosing the arms of Magee College, Derry in gilt. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece in second, remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner floral design. Splash-marbled endpapers, edges of the leaves splash-marbled; green and white endbands. With bookplate of J.F. Parsons. All edges marbled. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise a good copy. €145


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334. [STRYPE, John] The Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith Kt. Doctor of the Civil Law : Principal Secretary of State to King Edward the Sixth, and Queen Elizabeth. Wherein are discovered many Singular Matters relating to the State of Learning, the Reformation of Religion, and the Transactions of the Kingdom, during his Time. In all which he had a great and happy Influence. With an Appendix, wherein are contained some Works of his, never before published. London: Printed for A. Roper, at the Black Boy, over against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-street, and R. Basset, at the Mitre within Temple-Bar, 1698. pp. [24], 240, [4], 134, 137-145, 147. The pagination following p. 134 of the Appendix is irregular. Frontispiece portrait, map, plates and printed marginal notes. Dedication signed: J.S. Contemporary full panelled calf. Spine professionally rebacked. Corners worn. Some browning and foxing. Rare. €185

ESTC R33819. Wing S 6023. Sweeney 4873. Strype, a prolific historian and biographer, (the Clarendon Press collected works ran to nineteen volumes), gathered together a fine collection of original Tudor documents on which this biography was formed. This work is further enhanced with an engraved frontispiece of Sir Thomas Smith, a map of the Ards Peninsula, Sir T. Smith's coat of arms, his new English Alphabet and a table. Sir Thomas Smith (1512-1577) scholar and diplomat was born at Saffron Walden in Essex. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1530, and in 1533 was appointed a public reader or professor. He lectured in the schools on natural philosophy, and on Greek in his own rooms. In 1540 Smith went abroad, and, after studying in France and Italy and taking a degree of law at the University of Padua, returned to Cambridge in 1542. He was an early convert to Protestant views, which brought him into prominence when Edward VI came to the throne. During Somerset's protectorate he entered public life and was made a secretary of state, being sent on an important diplomatic mission to Brussels. In 1548 he was knighted. On the accession of Queen Mary I he lost all his offices, but in the reign of her sister, Elizabeth, was

prominently employed in public affairs. He became a member of parliament, and was sent in 1562 as ambassador to France, where he remained till 1566. In 1572 he procured a Colony to be sent into his lands in the Ardes Peninsula "a rich and pleasant Country, on the Eastern Coast of Ulster, and of considerable Extent, lying well for Trade by Sea: Bordering upon a Country where Sarleboy contained himself with his party. He was a Hebridean Scot." He remained one of Elizabeth's most trusted Protestant counsellors, being appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Garter and a Secretary of State.

IN FINE IRISH BINDING 335. SULLIVAN, Francis Stoughton. An Historical Treatise on the Feudal Law, and the Constitution and Laws of England; With a Commentary on Magna Charta, and necessary Illustrations of many of the English Statutes. In a Course of Lectures read in the University of Dublin, by the late Francis Stoughton Sullivan, L.L.D. Royal Professor of the Common Law in that University. London: Printed for J. Johnson No.72 St. Paul's Church-yard; and J. Payne, 1772. Quarto. Second edition. Half-title, 8 page list of subscribers, divisional title preceding the main text: 'Lectures on the Laws of England.' pp. v, [1], viii, [1], iv-xiv, 448, [2]. Contemporary full calf. Cover framed by double gilt fillets and a gilt dotted border, with a wide gilt floral border and outer fleurons. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, hatched in gilt, title in gilt on morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder gilt tooled with flame tools, circles and flowers; board edges and turn-ins gilt,; comb-marbled endpapers. Short cracks on head and foot. A very attractive copy. Sold


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Francis Stoughton Sullivan (1715-1766) antiquary and lawyer, was Professor of Oratory and Law Professor at the University of Dublin. A descendant of the Kerry Ó Súilleabháin Mór family, he was born in Galway and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) in 1745. He was called to the Bar the following year. In 1750 he was appointed Professor of Laws in Trinity, in 1759 Professor of Oratory, and three years later the first Professor of Feudal and English Law. He was especially noted for excellence in the latter fields, and lectures he gave at the University, including commentaries on the Magna Carta, were posthumously published in the present work. Sullivan also had a great interest in Irish history and Irish manuscripts all his life, and employed native scribes in preparing editions of Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Taking of Ireland) and the Annals of the Four Masters which never saw print. He died in Dublin on 1 March 1766. His son, William Francis Sullivan served in the United States Navy, and published plays and poems. Sullivan gradually augmented TCD's collection of Irish manuscripts through his lifetime, purchasing what became available and employing scribes to copy other works. He employed (1742–58) Hugh O'Daly (regarded as a poor choice) to transcribe various manuscripts. The quality of this work was questionable: '[Sullivan] was very easily satisfied and ink was not the only fluid present on the scribal table' (Harrison, 3). Significantly, Tadhg Ó Neachtain celebrated the patronage Sullivan extended to him in a verse in English (TCD MS H.26, p. 137). Despite this, Charles O'Conor praised Sullivan for assembling "the best private collection of ancient manuscripts now in the kingdom, and none knows the use of them better" (O'Conor, Dissertations on the History of Ireland (2nd ed, 1766), p. xi). John Hely-Hutchinson, Provost of TCD, remarked after Sullivan's death that he was "a man of very superior abilities, of singular simplicity of manners, but of invincible indolence. In the common law courts he made no progress. In the ecclesiastical courts he had better success, but in his lifetime he was more regarded as a civilian than a common lawyer ... " Sullivan died in 1766; his library was auctioned at his house on Aungier Street, Dublin, on 13 May. His son William Francis (1756-1830) was educated at TCD, entered the navy, and served throughout the American war of independence, later settling in England and publishing a few works of farce and fiction.


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336. SULLIVAN, W.F. The Young Truants: Interesting and Instructive Lesson for the Youth of Both Sexes. Bound with Emily and Henrietta; or, a Cure for Idleness. An improving tale for youth. Translated from the French. Illustrated. London: Newman, Dean & Munday, 1818. pp. 58, 58. Quarter calf on marbled boards, wear to corners. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. A good copy. Very rare. €375

COPAC locates the BL copy only of The Young Truants; and only 4 copies of Emily and Henrietta.

PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY 337. SWANZY, Rev. Henry Biddal & GREEN, Thomas George Hennis. The Family of Green of Youghal, Co. Cork. Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants of Simon Green, Merchant. By The Rev. Henry Biddall Swanzy, MA., and Thomas George Hennis Green, M.R.I.A. Dublin: Thom, 1902. pp. 105, [1]. Modern green cloth, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €475

COPAC locates 1 copy only. WorldCat 1.

RARE TRINITY CLOSET PRESS ITEM 338. [SWIFT, Jonathan] Morning MDCCXLV. A Description of a Country Morning. In imitation of Dr Swift's City Morning, publish'd in the Tatlers. From Faulkner's 'Dublin Journal', 5 January 1744/5. Description of a City Sunday Morning. From Faulkner's 'Dublin Journal', 29 January 1744/5. Single small folio sheet, folded. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1976. In fine condition. €145

RARE TRINITY CLOSET PRESS ITEM 339. [SWIFT, Jonathan] The Last Will and Testament of the Revd. Dr. Jonathan Swift. Preface by Vincent Kinane. Dublin: Printed at Trinity Closet Press for the Ussher Press (Friends of the Library), 1984. pp. 12. Printed stitched wrappers. Limited numbered edition of 500 copies. Hand-set in 12 point Caslon and printed on an Alexandra hand-press. Finished 5 May 1984. €85

RARE TRINITY CLOSET PRESS ITEM 340. [SWIFT, Jonathan] The Place of the Damn'd by Jonathan Swift & The Devil's Reply. Introduction by James Wooley. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press, 1980. Quarto. pp. 8. Stapled printed wrappers. Limited to 150 copies. A fine copy. €275 341. SWIFT, Jonathan. Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty, between Her Majesty and the States-General. By the Author of The Conduct of the Allies. To which are added, the said Barrier-Treaty, with the two separate articles; part of the counter-project; the sentiments of Prince Eugene and Count Sinzendorf, upon the said Treaty; and a representation of the English merchants at Bruges. The second edition. London: Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall 1712. Slim octavo. pp. 48. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on brown morocco label on upper cover. Some light browning. A very good copy. €325

Teerink-Scouten 539. 342. [TEMPLE, Sir William] The Works of Sir William Temple to which is prefixed, the Life and Character of Sir William Temple Written by a particular Friend. Two volumes. London: Woodward et al., 1750. Folio. pp. (1) xvi, 480 (2) [vii], 585. Portrait frontispiece to first volume. Contemporary full panelled calf, title in gilt on contrasting morocco labels on spines. Armorial bookplate of Lord James Butler on front pastedown. Ex libris Milltown Park Charitable Trust with label and stamp. A very good set. €375

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one or more of the booksellers (one names R. Gosling, not included on the main title pages); the register and pagination in each volume are continuous. Sir William Temple (1628-1699), diplomat, statesman and author, was born in London, the son of Sir John Temple, Master of the Rolls (author of History of the Rebellion, 1646), and grandson of Sir William Temple, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. Sir William was instrumental in forming the Triple Alliance (England, Holland and Sweden) and in arranging the marriage of William and Mary. It is known that the monarch paid several visits to his residence at Moor Park in order “to consult him upon matters of high importance”. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), man of letters, was born in Dublin, son of an Englishman who was steward of the King's Inn. He was educated at Kilkenny School and Trinity College, Dublin. In 1689, disgusted with the policy of preferment of Catholics being practised in Dublin by James II's Viceroy, Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnell, and anxious for his future, Swift left Ireland and became personal secretary to Sir William Temple, a retired diplomat, who had helped arrange the marriage of William and Mary. He lived with him at Moor Park, Surrey, where he met Esther Johnson (Stella), who became a lifelong friend and on his advice, she settled in Dublin. He had hoped for a bishopric but had to be content with the Deanery of St. Patrick's, Dublin. It was at Temple's residence Moor Park, Surrey, that Swift penned his great work A Tale of a Tub. The letters were edited by Jonathan Swift, who also wrote the life.

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343. TENNYSON, Lord. A Dream of Fair Women & The Lady of Shalott. By Alfred Lord Tennyson. Edinburgh & London: Foulis, 1904. pp. 30, [2], 20, [6], 34, [2]. Gold, grey and white floral patterned cloth. Very good. See illustration opposite. €175

344. [THEATRE] Programme. Cluithcheoirí na hÉireann (The Theatre of Ireland). At the Rotunda (Large Concert Hall), Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 29th and 30th April and 1st May, 1909. Cover illustration by Seaghan Mac Cathmhaoil. Dublin: The Tower Press, 1909. Oblong 16mo. pp. 4. Illustrated wrapper. Staple rusted. A good copy. €95 First production of Seamus O'Kelly's 'The Shuilers Child' and Rutherford Mayne's 'A Farcical Comedy'.

345. THOMPSON, H.S. Ireland in 1839 and 1869. London: Dorrell and Son, 1870. pp. [iv], 115. Blue cloth, title in gilt within a garland of flowers on upper cover and lettered in gilt on spine. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on titlepage. Spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. Very scarce. €235 The contents includes: Tests of National Progress ... Increase of Wealth; Agricultural Improvement; Rent and Farmers' Profits; Land Tenure ...

Fixity of Tenure; Compulsory Leases; Tenancy-at-Will; Long Leases; Ulster Tenant-Right, etc.

346. [THOM'S 1916] Thom's Official Directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: for the year 1916. Comprising British, Foreign, and Colonial Directories ... Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage Directory ... University, Scientific, and Medical Directory ... County and Borough Directory ... Post Office Dublin and County Directory. Wanting map of Dublin. Seventy-third Annual Publication. Dublin: Alex. Thom ... Simpkin, Marshall, London, 1916. pp. xlviii, 2273, 60. Red buckram, 'Rates Department' in gilt on upper cover. Usual wear. A very good copy. €275

347. TITMARSH, Mr. M.A. [William M. Thackeray] The Irish Sketch-Book 1842. With numerous engravings on wood, drawn by the author. New edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1857. pp. xii, 368. Mauve blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's stamp of on front endpaper. A very good copy. Very scarce. €75


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348. TODD, Rev. James Henthorn. Descriptive Remarks on Illuminations in Certain Ancient Irish Manuscripts. Illustrated with four chromolithic coloured plates depicting an illuminated folio from the Book of Kells, Garland of Howth, and the Psalter of Rice March. London: Nichols, 1869. Elephant folio. pp. ii, 16, 4 (plates). Printed stiff wrappers. A fine copy. Very scarce. €345

Todd devoted his adult life to the study of Irish history and archaeology, and was one of the foremost scholars in that great movement for the restoration and reform of Celtic studies. According to O'Curry he set about: "To recover for his native country" as large a portion as possible "of her long lost and widely dispersed ancient literary remains". In the present work he describes the illustrations of some ancient Irish illuminations more in their historical and artistic value: "We see in them the most astonishing skill in drawing the minute interlaced ornament, and in the invention of an inexhaustible variety of patterns of the most exquisite design."

349. [TOLAND, John. Translator] The Fables of Æsop. With the moral reflections of Monsieur Baudoin. To which is prefix'd by another Hand; the true life of Æsop, by the most learned and Noble Critick Monsieur de Meziriac, proving by unquestionable authorities. London: For the Leigh and Dan. Midwinter, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1704. pp. xxvi, [6], 400. Modern full panelled calf in seventeenth century style, title in gilt on original red morocco label on spine with raised bands and gilt floral tool in compartments. Early signature of Ann Croker on titlepage. A fine copy. Rare. €685


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COPAC locates 5 copies only. ESTC T84713 with 12 locations. The Moral Reflections are by Pierre de Boissat the Younger. Translated by John Toland. Includes a final advertisement leaf.

350. [TRIMMER, (Sarah), Mrs.] History of the Robins: designed for the Instruction of Children, respecting their Treatment of Animals. Illustrated with woodcuts. Dublin: Printed by J. M'Mullen, 21 Duke Street, 1821. 12mo. pp. 180. Second edition. pp. 180. Small hole in one woodcut with partial loss of text on verso. Worn sheep. Lower board detached. Rare. €95

NSTC 2H23569. First edition which was published in London, 1786, has title "Fabulous histories".

351. [TRINITY COLLEGE] The Book of Trinity College, Dublin 1591-1891. Profusely illustrated and with folding map. List of subscribers. Belfast: Ward, & Dublin: Hodges, 1892. Quarto. pp. xii, 317. Title in red and black. Very good in original quarter vellum on green cloth boards. Title and crest of Trinity College in gilt on upper cover. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €275

The chapters include: From the Foundation to the Caroline Charter; From the Caroline Reform to the Settlement of William III; The Eighteenth Century up to 1758; From 1758 to the Close of the Century; During the Nineteenth Century; The Observatory, Dunsink; The Library; The Early Buildings; Distinguished Graduates; The College Plate; The Botanical Gardens and Herbarium; The University and College Officers, and Tercentenary Ode.

352. [TUCKEY, Mary B.] Old James The Irish Pedlar being a Story of Ireland in the Days of Yore. Illustrated frontispiece. London: Geo. Morrish, n.d. (c.1910). pp. 36, 4 (Books for the Young). Patterned blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €125

COPAC locates the TCD copy only. 353. TWISS, Richard. A Tour in Ireland in 1775. With a map, and a View of the Salmon-Leap at Ballyshannon. London: Printed for the author, 1776. pp. [iv], 204. Contemporary full calf, spine professionally rebacked and corners repaired. Title in gilt on original black morocco label. With previous owner's signature. Old stain to one leaf. A very good copy. Very scarce. €750

Richard Twiss (1747-1821), professional traveller and philanderer, was a native of Rotterdam, the son of an English merchant. He undertook sixteen sea voyages and travelled altogether about twenty-seven thousand miles. He visited Ireland in 1775 and then wrote an account of his tour which caused an uproar in Dublin due to his critical views of the hygiene of Irish women. It was most unpopular and provoked an anonymous satirical attack 'An Heroic Epistle from Donna Teresa Pinna y Ruiz of Murcia' which mocked Twiss' gallantry in his travels. Shortly after his visit, a Dublin manufacturer of earthenware had Twiss's portrait printed upon the bottom of his chamber-pots.


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The Irish had the last laugh. The Lord Chancellor's wife, Lady Clare, is said to have composed the following ditty: "Here you may behold a liar Well deserving of hell-fire Everyone who likes may p--- Upon the learned Doctor T---".

354. TYNAN, Katharine. A Little Book of Manners. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1918. pp. 64. Green stapled wrappers. Cover sun-tanned. A very good copy. €95 355. TYNAN, Katharine. Shamrocks. London: Kegan Paul, 1887. First edition. pp. viii, 198, 2. Green cloth title in gilt on spine. Minute tear to lower cover, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €150

MAP OF ULSTER FROM THE GREAT DUTCH SCHOOL 356. [ULSTER - Jansson] Provincia Ultonia. Hand-coloured. The Province of Ulster by J. Jansson, 1638-1644. Depicted are counties, towns, cities, baronies, rivers, mountains, lakes, islands, woods and clans with their location. Title and scale within a decorated coloured cartouche. There are three ships on the sea and one ship on Lough Neagh. Contemporary colouring. Scale in English and Irish miles. Dutch text. 500mm x 390mm. In fine condition. €485

John Jansson Jr. (1588-1664), was the son of the bookseller and publisher, Johannes Jansson of Arnheim. He was the great rival of his fellow countrymen William and John Blaeu. Early in his career he was associated with Henry Hondius (later his brother-in-law) which resulted in their joint publishing venture the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. He married the daughter of Jodocus Hondius and on the death of his brother-in-law in 1657, he acquired entire control of the publishing business founded by Gerard Mercator at the close of the sixteenth century. Peter Schenk acquired Jansson's business around 1683. Jansson, Blaeu, Mercator, Ortelius, Hondius, Van der Keere, and Schenk belonged to the great Dutch school of geographers.

357. VALLANCEY, Charles. A Treatise on Inland Navigation, or, the Art of making Rivers navigable, of making Canals in all sorts of soils, and of Constructing Locks and Sluices. Extracted from the Works of Guglielmini, Michelini, Castellus, Belidor, and others, with


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Observations and Remarks. Dublin: Printed for G. and A. Ewing 1763. First edition. Quarto. pp. ix, [1], 179, [24 (folded leaves of plates)]. Recent half calf on marbled boards. One or two fore margins a little frayed and toned, title with repaired tear to verso, some light spotting. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €1,750

ESTC T112244. Charles Vallancey (1721-1812), General and antiquarian, was born in England of French Huguenot parentage. He came to Ireland in 1761 to assist in a military survey of the island and made this country his adopted home. He was one of the founder members of the Royal Irish Academy and had a great interest in Irish history, philology and antiquities, at a time when their study was totally neglected by the establishment. During the Rebellion of 1798 he furnished plans for the defence of Dublin. Vallancey was most interested in the study of Irish, although he held some 'stupid' (according to Sir William Jones) views on philology, and was at one time tipped to hold a chair of the same at Trinity College, Dublin. In his works he made extravagant claims as to the origins and antiquity of the language, and while these are historically important, he is considered an enthusiastic rather than a serious scholar.

358. WAKEMAN, William F. Archaeologia Hibernica. A Hand-Book of Irish Antiquities, Pagan and Christian. Especially of such as are easy of access from the Irish Metropolis. Second edition. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and London: Simpkin, 1891. pp. xx, 322, [7] (Publisher's List). Original green cloth over bevelled boards, Celtic Cross in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €95

PRIZE BINDING 359. WALDO, Peter. Esq. Lectures on the Liturgy of the Church of England, as used on Sundays, arranged, and slightly abridged, from the commentary. Dublin: Printed for Ann Watson, Capel-street, 1822. 12mo. pp. vi, 250. Contemporary full calf. Premium prize awarded to William George Baxter "for Progress in the Study of the Holy Scripture", dated at Harolds Cross, 22nd. December 1846 and signed by James Beed. Recipient's printed label on front pastedown. Covers with a blind chain-link roll, enclosing in the centre in blind 'Association / For / Discountenancing / Vice & Promoting The / Knowledge & Practice / Of The Christian / Religion'. Minor wear to spine, otherwise a very good copy. €265

THE MOST DISTRESSFUL COUNTRY! 360. WALLER, Bolton C. Hibernia, or The Future of Ireland. London: Kegan Paul, n.d. (c.1928). pp. 96, 20 (publisher's list). Maroon papered boards, title on printed label on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €125

"It is time that a cheerful book on Ireland were written, and now it can be done honestly. Both our woes, and our failings, have been over-much advertised. The casual obiter dictum attributed to Napper Tandy that this was, 'The most distressful country that ever yet was seen' has far too long been exalted into a permanent and sufficient description of Ireland. But no nation should be called unhappy until it is dead, and Ireland is far from being dead. She is being born, or rather reborn. Rebirth is a painful process but a joyful event" - the author.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 185 COPIES ONLY 361. [WALSH, Wendy] Wendy Walsh. A Lifetime of Painting. A memoir from notes made by Wendy Walsh and in conversation with Nick Wilkinson also a suite of forty-four botanical plates with commentary by E. Charles Nelson. With several coloured illustrations by Wendy Walsh. Dublin: Strawberry Tree, 2007. Large quarto. pp. [xii], 232. Quarter purple morocco over green cloth boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands; title and author in gilt on black morocco labels in the second and fifth. Edition strictly limited to 185 hand-bound, numbered and signed copies of which: Numbers 1-6 are reserved for the Publisher. Numbers 7-24 are reserved for Patrons. Numbers 25-75 are reserved for Subscribers. This is number 73 signed by Wendy Walsh, Nick Wilkinson, E. Charles Nelson and Tony Moreau. A fine copy in green cloth slipcase. See illustration on nest page. €875


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362. [WALSH, Wendy] Wendy Walsh. A Lifetime of Painting. A Memoir from notes made by Wendy Walsh and in conversation with Nick Wilkinson also a suite of forty-four botanical plates with commentary by E. Charles Nelson. With several coloured illustrations by Wendy Walsh. Dublin: Strawberry Tree, 2007. Large quarto. pp. [xii], 232. Black cloth, title in gilt along spine; floral patterned endpapers; blue silk marker. A fine copy in dust jacket. €195


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PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY 363. WATERS, Eaton W. The Waters or Walter Family of Cork. With large folding genealogical charts. Cork: Guy, 1939. pp. [vi], 95. Cream buckram, titled in brown. Signed presentation copy from the author to Major J. Bagwell. A very good copy. Extremely rare €475

COPAC locates 1 copy only. WorldCat 1. 364. [WELLINGTON] The Mighty Fallen. A Funeral Sermon. Wellington. He Died at Walmar Castle, September 14, 1852. A manuscript in quarto, twenty four pages. Written in a neat and legible hand. Bound in stitched vellum, titled in manuscript. Covers foxed, otherwise a very good copy. Rare. €125


CORK BOOKSELLER 365. [WEST, William] Fifty Years' Recollections of an old bookseller; consisting of anecdotes, characteristic sketches, and original traits and eccentricities, of Authors, Artists, Actors, Books, Booksellers, and of the periodical press for the last half century, with appropriate selections; and an unlimited Retrospect, including some extraordinary circumstances relative to The Letters of Junius, and a chain of corroborative evidence respecting their author. Bound with: Three Hundred and Fifty years Retrospection of an Old Bookseller; containing an account of the origin and progress of Printing, Type Founding, and Engraving, in their various branches; also the origin of the earliest Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, Reviews, Periodical Essays and Newspapers; with Biographical Anecdotes and Portraits. Illustrated. London & Cork: Printed by and for the Author, 1837/35. pp. [viii], [9]-76, [21],102-200. Original cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Separate title to the second part, lithograph portrait frontispieces, with a further nine lithographed portraits, four plates, woodcuts in the text. Spine rebacked. A very good copy. Rare. €375

An appealingly eccentric work, full of curious information. In the first part of the work, the text proceeds to page 76 before suddenly breaking pagination to incorporate Sketches of the Life of Captain Grose, Grose's Rules for Drawing Caricatures and An Essay on Comic Painting. A second title is then inserted, but then continues with the sequential pagination that preceded the second title. "It is curious to see a bookseller adopt the absurd plan of noting the contents of the second half of his book by a fresh title ... It is an extremely curious and amusing work and deserves more attention than it has received."

366. WHITTOW, J.B. Geology and Scenery in Ireland. With illustrations and maps. London: Penguin, 1974. pp. 304. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €35


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367. WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. London: Gay and Bird, 1902. pp. xiv, 335. Green cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €45 368. [WILDE, Oscar] Programme for the first run of Oscar Wilde's play "An Ideal Husband" which opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London on 3 Jan 1895. €450

The 19 x 16cm programme is dated 25 Jan 1895 and gives full cast details including Alfred Bishop, Fanny Brough and Maude Millett who were all replaced during the 124 performance run. Vane Featherston here plays Lady Basildon – later in the run she took the role of Lady Markby. The programme has been hole punched and has a strong crease with associated tear to the margin. A nice souvenir of Wilde's play before his name was removed due to the scandal which broke in early April.

IN FINE DESIGNER BINDING 369. WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. With wood-engravings by Garrick Palmer. Monmouth: Designed and printed by Nicolas McDowall at The Old Stile Press, 1994. First edition. Crown octavo. pp. 45, [1]. Set in Baskerville type by Bill Hughes in Upton upon Severn, on Zerkall mould-made paper. Edition limited to 225 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Bound by Heather Pullin of Malvern in full brown levant morocco. Covers decorated to a design of prison windows, with painted underlays, steel bars, vellum inlays to a gothic design; endpapers printed in the style of stained glass windows. Housed in a box, with a drawer and perspex front. A fine copy in a very attractive binding. €1,275

Heather Pullin, now in her nineties, lives in Malvern. She retired at fifty five and took up book binding as a second career. She joined the Society of Designer Book Binders and exhibited with them in various exhibitions.

370. WILDE, William R. The Beauties of The Boyne, and Its Tributary, The Blackwater. With illustrations and large folding map. Second edition, enlarged. Cork: Tower Books, 1978. [Third edition]. pp. xxix, 324. Title printed in red and black. Blue papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. Scarce. €50 371. WILLIAMS, Alexander. Beautiful Ireland. Leinster, Ulster, Munster, Connaught. Painted by Alexander Williams. Described by Stephen Gwynn. Dublin: Gresham, n.d. pp. 64, 64, 62, 64. Cream decorated cloth, title in black on upper cover and on spine. A very good copy. Rare in this condition. €125

Alexander Williams RHA (1846-1930) is best remembered as a landscape and marine painter, but he was also an ornithologist and taxidermist of note and a professional singer. He was born at the house of his aunt in the Diamond, Monaghan town. His mother, Alice Williams had gone to visit her sister-in-law, Anne Whitla. Both women were heavily pregnant and went into labour almost simultaneously,


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with the result that Alexander arrived just before midnight on April 21, 1846 and his first cousin early the following day. Family legend had it that, after the two babes had been placed on red plush cushions to be admired by one and all, their mothers reclaimed the wrong babes! If that was the case, then Alexander was the man who, as Robert Whitla, emigrated to North America to distinguish himself in the Canadian Rifles. Another first cousin was Sir William Whitla, physician and politician, after whom the Whitla Hall at Queen's University Belfast is named.

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372. WILSON, Thomas. The Sacra Privata; or, Private Meditations and Prayers, of Bishop Wilson; Accommodated to General Use. Dublin: Printed By John Barlow, Bolton-Street, 1796. First Irish edition. 12mo. pp. xvi, [2], 248. With an additional inserted list of subscribers on one


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leaf. Contemporary tree-calf, gilt, contrasting red morocco title label. Rubbed, with loss to surfaces, spine, corners and edges. Ink inscription of Mary Nisbett, dated June 1799, on title. A good copy. €325

The Bath editions and this Dublin appearance are all rare, with ESTC locating only five copies in three locations (BL, NLI and Univ. College, Dublin) - none of which mention the additional subscriber leaf. ESTC T85027. Thomas Wilson (1663-1755), Irish-born Anglican clergyman educated at Trinity College, Dublin where he was a contemporary of Swift. Appointed Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1698, he became well known for his tolerance of Catholicism, Dissenters and Quakers. Published in Bath in two editions (1786, 1792) before this Dublin edition of John Barlow. It is unsurprising that Barlow, a pioneering printer who later worked for the Gaelic Society in printing non-English language works, published the first Irish edition of the private devotions of the clergyman responsible for the production of the first book printed in Manx, Coyrle Sodjeh (London, 1707).

373. WOODGATE, M.V. The Abbé Edgeworth (1745-1807). Illustrated frontispiece. New York & Toronto: Longmans, 1946. pp. xiii, 202. Brown cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. €35 374. WRIGHT, Dr. William. The Brontes in Ireland or Facts Stranger than Fiction. Illustrated. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1894. Second edition. pp. xix, 308. Recent quarter red buckram on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €75 375. [WRIGHT, G.N.] Dublin Delineated in Twenty-six Views of the Principal Public Buildings, accompanied by concise descriptions of each; with An Itinerary, pointing out the leading streets, and principal objects of attraction. Dublin: Printed for G. Tyrrell, 11, Lower Sackville-St. and Sold by all Booksellers. n.d. (c.1837). pp. 56, 28 (plates). Original green pebbled cloth, title on printed label on upper cover. Spine neatly rebacked, new endpapers. Mild foxing to margin of some plates. A very good copy. €245

Copac locates the BL copy only. Most of the fine engraved plates are by George Petrie, and there are nine by W. H. Bartlett. There is also a folding plan of the city at end. This item actually contains 28 plates even though the list of plates printed in the book only mentions 26 plates, these extra plates are entitled: St. Peter's R.C. Chapel & Free Schools, Circular Road, Phibsborough and Terenure; County Dublin.

376. WRIGHT, Rev. T.H. Francis Thompson and his Poetry. With portrait of Francis Thompson on frontispiece. London: Harrap, 1927. First. pp. 141. Brown cloth, title in black on upper cover and on spine. A very good copy. €30

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377. WYLIE, Rev. J.B. The Land Question, in the light of Natural Law and National Wellbeing. Belfast: Olley, 1898. pp. 48. Printed wrappers. Some foxing, otherwise a good copy. €30

378. YEATS, Jack B. A fine autograph illustrated letter, with sketches by Jack B. Yeats, in ink. Four pages (single folded sheet), written to his mother when he was perhaps six to eight years old, with multiple drawings. €2,750

This letter is undated, but from the spelling and the handwriting it is clearly earlier than anything reproduced in Sotheby's recent Yeats Family catalogue. Written from Sligo, where Jack was staying with relations, it looks like the work of a precocious six to eight year old, with a lively imagination but with very limited schooling: "My dear Mama", it begins, "I baught a drinking fountain like this for the farm" (with a sketch) "and I made an office out of two bisket [sic] tins like this", with sketches of 'the office' and the 'clark'. The rear pages are entirely taken up with a four-part picture story (numbered 1 to 4) showing two men scuffling or playing on the beach. Incidental details include an umbrella, a fisherman, a boat at sea. It is undeniably childish, but shows the beginnings of a remarkably sophisticated style, differentiating characters through elements of their clothing (pipe, striped socks). It is clear that from his earliest schooldays, Jack was equally if not more at home with drawing as with writing. It is a very remarkable letter, and it must have given great pleasure to his long-suffering Mama, then living in London with her husband John Butler Yeats and the rest of the family, in whose adult life there was little of pleasure or fulfilment.

ILLUSTRATIONS HAND-COLOURED BY JACK B. YEATS 379. YEATS, Jack B. The Treasure of the Garden. A Play by Jack B. Yeats. Scenes and Characters together with Book of the Words and full Directions for Playing on a Miniature Stage. With hand-coloured illustrations by the author. London: Elkin Mathews, [1902]. Quarto. pp. 26. Hand-coloured blue pictorial wrappers after a design by Yeats. Some mild browning and spotting. A very good copy in slipcase. €1,275

COPAC locates only 6 copies. Although the title states 'hand-coloured illustrations', this work was in fact issued in both states, i.e. coloured by Jack B. Yeats and uncoloured copies at a far cheaper rate. The copy on offer here is coloured by Yeats. The third and most elaborate of his plays for young people. The intention was that the illustrations should be cut out and mounted on card for performance, so very few copies have survived intact. Publisher's advertisement on at end.

UNIQUE COPY - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST AND HIS SISTERS 380. YEATS, Jack B. The Bosun and the Bob-Tailed Comet. With twenty illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. First edition. pp. 24. Blue card covers with a small hand coloured illustration on the front cover. Presentation copy signed by the Yeats sisters ("S.H. Parses / with love / from Lily + Lolly Yeats / Xmas 1903") on front free endpaper. Signed by the author ("Jack B. Yeats / Dublin March 3d 1956"). Some spotting and mild soiling. A very good copy in slipcase. €1,675

The fourth of Yeats' plays for young people, written in the year of Halley's Comet, an attractive item, very scarce. "This title is sufficient to indicate the nature of the little book in which Mr. Yeats displays all the humour which has so characterised the series of picture books, and his facile pen has lost none of its old-time cunning" - Dublin Express.

WITH ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR OF A PIRATE CARRYING A CHEST 381. YEATS, Jack B. A Little Fleet. Hand-coloured illustrations. London: Elkin Matthews, n.d. (1909). Blue card covers. With an original watercolour illustration of a pirate carrying a chest. Ten woodblock illustrations hand-coloured by the artist with black lettering. Upper cover with a hand-coloured illustration of a boy holding a toy boat. Housed in a blue morocco-backed slipcase. A fine copy in slipcase. Unique. €5,750


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The fifth and last of the superb series of children's stories written and illustrated by Jack Yeats in the first decade of the last century. According to the bibliography of Elkin Mathews by Professor James G. Nelson, this 1/- edition was limited to an edition of fewer than 50 copies.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM JACK B. YEATS TO JOHN MASEFIELD WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR OF A PIRATE FLOATING ON A BARREL

382. [YEATS, Jack B.] Jack B. Yeats: Being a True Impartial View of his Pictorial & Dramatic Art. Wherein is Discovered the Author's sense of the Unusual Excellence of the Astonishing Handiwork of this Singular Artist; How he became possessed of a Quick and Eager understanding of the same; And his Sudden Purpose to publish his Knowledge Thereof Abroad, as likewise to exhibit his Diligent Study of it and his surpassing Wonder thereat. Wherein also is Animadverted Excogitated & Perpended the Truth and Quality of this Unparalleled Artist's Pictorial Observations; The Rare Valour and Solemn Intent of his Plays for the Toy Stage and his Divers Inventions for the Delight of all those who keep Youth ever in their hearts. By Ernest Marriott. The discourse adorned with a Painting of the Artist when a Child, by his Father and a surprising Chart of Pirate Island drawn by the cunning and subtle Master hand of Jack B. Yeats Ex-Pirate and Re-Discoverer of the Land of Romance. By Ernest Marriott. London: Printed for Elkin Mathews, 1911. First edition. pp. 23, [3]. Blue pictorial wrappers, printed in black. With an Original Watercolour by Jack B. Yeats of a Pirate Floating on a Barrel to John Masefield. Signed presentation copy from Jack B. Yeats to John Masefield: "To John / from Jack / November 28th 1911" on preliminary blank. Housed in a collector's folding box. Slight spotting, some discolouration to wrappers. A unique and very good copy. €5,875


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This monograph on Jack B. Yeats was read at a meeting to the Manchester Literary Club, and printed in The Manchester Quarterly for July, 1911. The present work was published shortly afterwards with some alterations and additions to the text and illustrated as set forth on the titlepage. Frontispiece illustration by John Butler Yeats of Jack when a child, dated November 1875. Jack B. Yeats was the son of portrait painter John Butler Yeats and younger brother of the poet William Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in Sligo, which remained a permanent source of inspiration for his painting. He studied art in London and soon earned a high reputation for pen and ink drawings in magazines. In 1910, after a period in Devon, he settled in Dublin where he devoted himself to painting in oils. Yeats was closely connected to the literary personalities of his day including John Masefield who became his close friend. Jack Yeats collaborated with Pamela Colman Smith and London publisher Elkin Mathews to produced this monthly broadside, Masefield contributed to the letterpress text.

PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TOGETHER WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY JACK B. YEATS

383. YEATS, Jack B. The Amaranthers. London: William Heinemann, 1936. First edition. pp. [iv], 273. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Inscribed presentation copy with an original drawing by Jack B. Yeats: "Jack B Yeats / Dublin / May 21 1943 / for Eileen MacCarvill" on half-title. Some mild spotting. A fine copy in very good rare dust jacket. Unique. €2,350

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY JACK B. YEATS

384. YEATS, Jack B. La La Noo. With woodcut by Elizabeth C. Yeats, of a lone tree in landscape. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1943. First edition. pp. viii, 52, 6. Quarter linen on yellow


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papered boards, title in black on upper cover and on printed label on spine. Edition limited to 250 copies (No. 21). Signed presentation copy with an original sketch by Jack B. Yeats: "Jack B Yeats / Dublin / June 16 1948 / for Eileen MacCarvill" on front free endpaper. Top edges uncut. A fine copy in slightly worn glassine dust jacket. Unique. €2,450

The play La La Noo was published by the Cuala Press in 1943. In May 1942 Ria Mooney produced Jack B. Yeats's two-act play La La Noo at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the cast included Maureen O'Sullivan and Brian O'Higgins. Its fusion of a realist setting, in a pub in a remote area of the western seaboard, and a fatalistic, almost symbolic, treatment of death, owes something to Synge and something to W.B. Yeats, but it is more playful than either.

FRAMED DISPLAY 385. YEATS, W.B. Framed display of an original photograph and ALS of William Butler Yeats. The Autograph Letter Signed is to his Aunt Alice Pollexfen Jackson. One page quarto. From an Address in Calvados France. "I have just heard of Alfred's death. I hardly saw him of recent years, but my memory of him long ago - most than forty years ago I think at Merville is very vivid, he was a rich-natured, handsome unambitious man. I send you all my sympathy in what must be a heavy blow." With envelope addressed to Mrs. Jackson, Lisroyan House, Sligo. Postmark at Sligo 12.30am 23 July 1920. €2,250

The photograph is an original Press Photograph of the poet arriving in New York for play premiere of The Words Upon the Window Pane, on 26th October, 1932. In fine condition.

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B1. BÉASLAÍ, Piaras. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. Two volumes. A new introduction by Brian P. Murphy, O.S.B. With two portraits in full colour by Sir John Lavery, and other illustrations to each volume. This major work on Michael Collins is by one of his closest friends. An item which is now commanding in excess of four figures in the auction houses. Dublin: De Búrca, 2008. pp. (1) xxxii, 292, (2) vi, 328. The limited edition in full green goatskin gilt with a medallion portrait and signature of Collins also in gilt. Housed in a fine slipcase. It includes the list of subscribers. Last few copies. €475 The general edition is limited to 1,000 sets superbly bound in green buckram, with a medallion portrait embossed in gilt on the upper covers, and in slipcase. €95

Michael Collins (1890-1922), was born at Woodfield, Clonakilty, County Cork, the son of a small farmer. Educated locally, and at the age of sixteen went to London as a clerk in the Post Office. He joined the I.R.B. in London. During Easter Week he was Staff Captain and ADC to James Connolly in the GPO. With The O’Rahilly he led the first party out of the GPO immediately before its surrender. Arrested, imprisoned and released in December 1916. After the victory of Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election and the establishment of Dáil Éireann as the Irish parliament he was made Minister of Home Affairs and later Minister for Finance, and organised the highly successful National Loan. A most capable organiser with great ability and physical energy, courage and force of character, he was simultaneously Adjutant General of the Volunteers, Director of Organisation, Director of Intelligence and Minister for Finance. He organised the supply of arms for the Volunteers and set up a crack intelligence network and an execution squad nicknamed Twelve Apostles. He was for a long time the most wanted man in Ireland but he practically eliminated the British Secret Service with the Bloody Sunday morning operation. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland is the official biography of a great soldier-statesman and the first authentic history of the rebirth of a nation. Written with inner knowledge by an intimate friend and comrade-in-arms who served with Collins on Headquarters Staff and who shared in many of his amazing adventures and hairsbreadth escapes.

SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION OF 15 SETS IN FULL LEATHER B2. BORLASE, William G. The Dolmens of Ireland. Their distribution, structural characteristics, and affinities in other countries; together with the folk-lore attaching to them; supplemented by considerations on the anthropology, ethnology, and traditions of the Irish people. With over 800 illustrations (including 3 coloured plates), and 4 coloured folding maps. Three volumes. Bound in full green morocco title and gilt Celtic design on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine; red and green endbands; yellow silk marker. Special edition limited to 15 sets in full morocco, signed and numbered by the publisher. With 'List of Subscribers'. Housed in a fine slipcase. €1,250

B2A. BORLASE, William G. The Dolmens of Ireland. Their distribution, structural characteristics, and affinities in other countries; together with the folk-lore attaching to them; supplemented by considerations on the anthropology, ethnology, and traditions of the Irish people. With over 800 illustrations (including 3 coloured plates), and 4 coloured folding maps.

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Three volumes. Full buckram decorated in gilt to a Celtic design. With slipcase. Edition limited to 300 sets and 15 Special sets. With 'List of Subscribers'. €295.

The first comprehensive survey of each of the counties of Ireland. With sketches by the author from drawings by Petrie, Westropp, Miss Stokes, Windele, Wood-Martin, Wakeman, etc. The third volume contains an index and the material from folklore, legend, and tradition. A most attractive set of books and a must for the discerning collector.

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B3. BOURKE [de Búrca], Éamonn. Burke People and Places. With clan location maps, illustrations and 50 pages of genealogies. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher and Whitegate, Ballinakella Press, 2001. Fourth. pp. 173. Fine in stiff pictorial wrappers. Enlarged with an extra 35 pages of genealogies. €20

B4. CHANDLER, Edward. Photography in Ireland. The Nineteenth Century. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2001. Folio. pp. xii, 44 (plates), 134. Fine in fine dust jacket. €20

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B5. COLGAN, John. Triadis Thaumaturgae, seu Divorum Patricii, Columbae et Brigidae, trium veteris et maioris Scotiae, seu Hiberniae Sanctorum Insulae, Communium Patronorum Acta, a Variis, iisque pervetustis, ac Sanctis authoribus Scripta, ac studio R.P.F. Joannis Colgani, in


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Conventu FF Minor, Hibernor. strictior. observ. Louanii, S. Theologiae Lectorius Jubilati. Ex variis Bibliothecis collecta, Scholiis et commentariis illustrata, et pluribus Appendicibus aucta: complectitur Tomus Secundus Sacrarum ejusdem insulae Antiquitatum - Louvain 1647. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, 1997. We have republished ‘one of the rarest of all Irish books’, with a new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain. The edition is limited to 300 copies, and handsomely bound in blue quarter morocco, title on spine, top edge gilt, red silk marker. Fine in slipcase. €190

Lecky described this volume: “as one of the most interesting collections of Lives of the saints in the world. It is very shameful that it has not been reprinted”. The new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain, contains the first published account of Colgan’s recently discovered manuscript notes to the Triadis. This reprint should stimulate further the growing interest in the history of the Irish saints.

B6. COSTELLO, Willie. A Connacht Man’s Ramble. Recollections of growing up in rural Ireland of the thirties and forties. With an introduction by Dr. Tom Mitchell. Illustrated by Gerry O’Donovan and front cover watercolour by James MacIntyre. Map on end-papers. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Fourth edition. pp. xii, 211. Fine in French flaps. €15

A deeply personal collection of memories and a valuable account of Irish history including cattle fairs, threshing, rural electrification, interspersed with stories of the matchmaker, the town crier, the chimney sweep and the blacksmith. Over two thousand copies sold in the first week of publication.

B7. COSTELLO, Willie. The Rambling House. Tales from the West of Ireland. Illustrated by Gerry O Donovan and front cover water-colour by James McIntyre. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. pp. x, 111. Fine in French flaps. €15


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B8. CUSACK, M.F. A History of the Kingdom of Kerry. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. pp. xvi, 453, 6 (extra maps), lxxxiii. Fine in full buckram, with illustrated coloured dust jacket depicting Jobson’s manuscript map of Kerry 1598. €45

Margaret Cusack’s History of the Kingdom of Kerry is an excellent work treating of the history, topography, antiquities and genealogy of the county. There is an excellent account of the families of: The O’Sullivans and MacCarthys; Geraldine Genealogies; The Knights of Kerry and Glyn; Population and Religion; Agricultural Information; St. Brendan; Dingle in the Sixteenth Century; Ardfert; The Geology and Botany of Kerry; Deep Sea Fisheries; Kerry Rivers and Fishing etc.

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B9. DALTON, Charles Ed. by. King Charles The Second’s Irish Army Lists, 1661 - 1685. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Second. pp. xxxiv, 176. Fine facsimile limited edition in quarter morocco gilt, head and tail bands, in slipcase. Signed and numbered by the publisher. €90

The original edition was published for private circulation and was limited to twenty copies only. The editor states that he made extensive use of the manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, preserved at Kilkenny Castle, the calendared and uncalendared Irish State papers, the King’s Letter Books and Entry Books at the Public Record Office for the names of Officers serving on the Irish Establishment, 1661-1685. In December 1660, Sir Maurice Eustace, Lord Chancellor, Roger, Earl of Orrery, and Charles, Earl of Mountrath were appointed Lord Justices. Under the able rule of Orrery and Mountrath the Army in Ireland was reduced and remodelled. King Charles’s new army dates from 11th February, 1661 and when the Irish parliament met in May the Lord Chancellor informed the House that “there were twenty months” arrears due to the army. The patrons of military history while glancing at the list of officers appointed to command this army, will recognise the names of many Cromwellian field officers who had served in Ireland during the Commonwealth. One may wonder how these ‘renegades’ found their way into the new Royalist levies. The answer is that these same officers not only supported the Restoration but were eager in the King’s service afterwards. It transpired that many Cromwellians were retained in the Army of Ireland and had equal rights with those Royalists who had fought for Charles I and had shared the long exile of Charles II. From a purely military point of view they had learned the art of war under the most successful soldier of his time.

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B10. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. History of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. With numerous illustrations and maps. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2001. First edition. pp. xiv, 184. Limited edition of 50 copies, signed by the author and publisher. Bound in full maroon levant morocco, covers with a gilt anchor and sailing ship. Spine divided into five compartments by four gilt raised bands. Top edge gilt. A fine binding from the Harcourt Bindery, Boston. €500

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shipwreck in Dublin Bay. The most competent and experienced navigators at that time described the port of Dublin as the most perilous in the whole world for a ship to leave or approach in certain circumstances.

Thanks largely to the efficiency and foresight of Captain Hutchison, the first Harbour Master, the port built as an ‘Asylum’ harbour or port of refuge, became with the introduction of steam-driven passenger and mail carrying ships the busiest port on the eastern shore of the Irish Sea, also a leading fishing port and popular yachting centre.

B11. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. History of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. With numerous illustrations and maps. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2002. Second edition. pp. xiv, 184. Fine in fine dust jacket. €45

B12. DONOHOE, Tony. The History of Crossmolina. Foreword by Thomas Gildea Cannon. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. Roy octavo. pp. xviii, 627. Buckram gilt in dust jacket. Almost out of print. Very scarce. €90

The author Tony Donohoe, farmer and keen local historian has chronicled in great detail the history his ancestral parish from the early Christian period to the present. This authoritative work is the result of thirty years of meticulous research and is a most welcome contribution to the history of County Mayo. In the foreword Thomas Gildea Cannon states “Tony Donohoe has brought it all vividly to light in his impressive history. Using his treasure trove of published and unpublished materials, patiently accumulated over the decades, he has told the story of an ancient parish with a scholar’s eye for the telling detail ... has made effective use of the unpublished Palmer and Pratt estate papers to help bridge the dark gap between seventeenth-century documents detailing the changeover in land ownership from native to settler, and nineteenth-century sources”.

B13. [FAMINE IN IRELAND] Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends during the famine in Ireland, 1846 and 1847. With an index by Rob Goodbody. Dublin: De Búrca, 1996. pp. xliii, 529. Fine in buckram gilt. €35

It is difficult to read unmoved some of the detailed testimony contained in this volume of the reports of the envoys sent out by the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, who found out for themselves what was really going on during the Famine in remote country areas.

B14. GLEESON, Rev. John. Cashel of the Kings. A History of the Ancient Capital of Munster from the date of its foundation until the present day. Including historical notices of the Kings of Cashel from the 4th century to the 12th century. The succession of bishops and archbishops from St. Ailbe to the present day. Notices of the principal abbeys belonging to the territory around Cashel, together with items of local history down to the 19th century. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2001. pp. [ii], xix, 312. Fine in fine dust jacket. €40

Cover design by courtesy of Mr. Patrick Meaney, Cashel, County Tipperary. An important and scholarly work on one of the most celebrated places of historic interest in Ireland. In medieval times it was the ecclesiastical capital of Munster. Conquered by the Eoghanacht tribe


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(MacCarthys) led by Conall Corc in the fifth century who set up a fortress on St. Patrick’s Rock. They ruled over the fertile plains of Munster unchallenged and their title King of Cashel remained synonymous with that of King of Munster. In law and tradition the kings of Cashel knew no superior and did not acknowledge the overlordship of Tara for five hundred years. Fr. John Gleeson (1855-1927), historian, was born near Nenagh, County Tipperary into a wealthy farming family. Educated locally and at Maynooth. Appointed curate of Lorrha and Templederry, later parish priest of Lorrha and Knock in 1893 and Lorrha in 1908. A prolific writer and meticulous researcher, he also wrote History of the Ely O’Carroll Territory or Ancient Ormond.

B15. HARRISON, Alan. The Dean’s Friend. Anthony Raymond (1675-1726), Jonathan Swift and the Irish Language. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1999. pp. xv, 175. Fine in fine illustrated dust jacket. €35

The book introduces us to 17th and 18th century Ireland and to the interface between the two languages and the two cultures. It is a fascinating study of the troubled period after the Battle of the Boyne, encompassing historiography and antiquarianism; contemporary linguistic study and the sociolinguistics of the two languages in contact; Swift and his friends in that context; and the printing and publishing of books in Stuart and early-Georgian Ireland.

A CLASSIC OF THE GALLOGLAS FAMILIES

B16. HAYES-McCOY, Gerard A. Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland (1565-1603). An account of their service during that period, of the reaction of their activities on Scottish affairs, and of the effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas. With maps, illustrations and genealogies of the MacSweeneys, Clan Donald and the O’Neills of Tír Eoghain. With an introduction by Professor Eoin MacNeill. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. pp. xxi, 391. Superb facsimile reprint, bound in full buckram, with head and tail bands. In coloured dustjacket depicting three galloglasses and an Irish Foot Soldier of the 16th century. €45

They were a force to be reckoned with. An English writer of the period described them as follows: “The galloglasses are picked and selected men of great and mighty bodies, cruel, without compassion. The greatest force of the battle consisteth in their choosing rather to die than to yield, so that when it cometh to handy blows, they are quickly slain or win the field. They are armed with a shirt of mail, a skull, and a skeine. The weapon they most use is a battle-axe, or halberd, six foot long, the blade wherof is somewhat like a shoemaker’s knife, and without pike; the stroke wherof is deadly”.


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ANNALS OF ULSTER

B17. HENNESSY, William M. & MacCARTHY, B. Ed. by. The Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annala Senait. A chronicle of Irish Affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540. With translation, notes, and index. New introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. Four volumes. Full buckram gilt in slipcase. €285

The important Annals of Ulster compiled by Cathal Og Mac Maghnusa at Seanaidh Mac Maghnusa, now Belle Isle in Lough Erne, were so named by the noted ecclesiastic, Ussher, on account of their containing many chronicles relating to that province. They contain more detail on ecclesiastical history than the Annals of the Four Masters, and were consulted by Br. Michael O’Clery, Chief of the Four Masters, for his masterpiece.

B18. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. The Annals of Lough Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited and with a translation by W.M. Hennessy. With folding coloured plate of the TCD Ms. Two volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Third. pp. (1) lix, 653, (2) 689. Limited edition in full green morocco. Fine in slipcase. €500

These Annals were compiled under the patronage of Brian MacDermott, Chief of Moylurg, who resided in his castle on an island in Lough Key, near Boyle, County Roscommon. They begin with the Battle of Clontarf and continue up to 1636 treating on the whole with Irish affairs, but have many entries of English, Scottish and continental events. They are a primary source for the history of North Connaught. The compilers were of that noted learned family of O’Duignans. The only original copy of these Annals known to exist is a small vellum manuscript which was presented to Trinity by Dr. Leland in 1766.

B19. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. The Annals of Lough Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited and with a translation by W.M. Hennessy. With folding coloured plate of the TCD Ms. Two volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Third. pp. (1) lix, 653, (2) 689. Superb set bound in full buckram gilt and in presentation slipcase. €110

HIS NEVER-FORGOTTEN COUNTRYSIDE ABOUT GLENOSHEEN B20. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Names of Places. With a new introductory essay on the life of P.W. Joyce by Mainchín Seoighe. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Three volumes. pp. (1) xl, 589, (2) viii, 538, (3) x, 598. Fine. €165


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This scholarly edition is enhanced with a new introductory essay on the life of that noted scholar from County Limerick, P.W. Joyce by the late Mainchín Seoighe, who states: “P.W. Joyce followed in the footsteps of Bunting and Petrie, of O’Donovan and O’Curry, reaching, however, a larger public than any of these four had reached, for the fields he laboured in were more numerous and, as well as that, he principally wrote not for scholars but for the ordinary people of Ireland, people such as he had known in that lovely and never-forgotten countryside round about Glenosheen”.

B21. KILROY, Patricia. Fall of the Gaelic Lords. 1534-1616. Dublin: By Éamonn De Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2008. pp. x, 192. Illustrated. Fine in illustrated dust jacket. €29.50

No period in Irish history is quite so full of drama, heroism and tragedy as the eighty-odd years from the mid 16th to the early 17th centuries: the age of the fall of the Gaelic lords. This intriguing and moving narrative recounts the passing of Gaelic Ireland when the Tudor Crown sought to subdue the island and the Irish chiefs defended their ancient territories and way of life. Beginning in 1534 with young Silken Thomas’ defiant stand at the gates of Dublin Castle, it tells the story of Red Hugh O’Donnell’s capture and escape, the rise of the Great Hugh O’Neill and the bloody Nine Years War culminating in the Battle of Kinsale, and finally, the Flight of the Earls. Animated with details from The Annals Of The Four Masters and other contemporary accounts, Fall Of The Gaelic Lords is a lively intelligent book aimed at both the historian and general reader. Patricia Kilroy was born in Ireland in 1925. As one of the daughters of Seán Lester, who would become the last Secretary-General of the League Of Nations, she spent most of her childhood in The Free City Of Danzig and in Geneva. She studied Modern History and Political Science in Trinity College Dublin. She then worked with the Irish Red Cross, settling refugees from Eastern Europe who had been displaced during World War II. After marrying and while raising her four children, her interest in history continued to grow. Family holidays in Connemara sparked her interest in local history, and talking with the people of the area, as well as academic research, led to the publication in 1989 of The Story Of Connemara. That book focused on a small part of Ireland, and covered from the Ice-Age to the present day; after which she felt she would like to cover the whole of Ireland, whilst focusing on one period in time. And so Fall Of The Gaelic Lords was researched and written. Patricia lives in Dublin.

B22. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. With illustrations and three maps. Castlebourke: De Búrca, 2000. Roy. 8vo. pp. xvi, 451. Fine in fine dust jacket. €45

Prime historical reference work on the history of the County Mayo from the earliest times to 1600. It deals at length with the De Burgo Lordship of Connaught. Illustrated with a large folding detailed map of the county, coloured in outline. There are 49 pages of genealogies of the leading families of Mayo: O’Connor, MacDonnell Galloglass, Bourke Mac William Iochtar, Gibbons, Jennings, Philbin, Barret, Joyce, Jordan, Costello, etc.


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B23. LOEBER, Rolf & Magda. Ed. by. Irish Poets and their Pseudonyms in Early Periodicals. Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 2007. pp. xxii, 168. Fine in illustrated dust jacket. €65

Many Irish poems remain hidden in the periodicals and were published under pseudonyms. Therefore, the identity of hundred of Irish poets often is elusive. The discovery of a manuscript of pseudonyms of Irish poets made this volume possible. It lists over 1,200 pseudonyms for 504 Irish poets whose work appeared in over 500 early periodicals published in Ireland, England, North America, and Australia. Rolf Loeber and Magda Loeber are researchers at the medical school of the University of Pittsburgh. They have both extensively published on Irish history and literature. Their most recent book is A Guide to Irish Fiction (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006).

B24. LOHAN, Máire. An ‘Antiquarian Craze’. The life, times and work in archaeology of Patrick Lyons R.I.C. (1861-1954). Dublin: By Éamonn De Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2008. pp. xiv, 192. Illustrated. Fine in coloured illustrated stiff wraps. €19.50

Born in 1861, Sgt. Patrick Lyons, ‘The Antiquarian Policeman’, served with the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1886 - 1920. While stationed in the West of Ireland, he developed a keen interest in documenting the field-monuments he noticed on his patrols. His discovery of four ogham stones led to a correspondence with Hubert Knox, a renowned Mayo Antiquarian; Lyons provided Knox with important descriptions of field monuments, contributing to 19 published papers. Out of modesty, and fear that the R.I.C. would frown on his ‘antiquarian craze’, he preferred not to be acknowledged by name, although he was much admired for his fine mind and dedicated antiquarian ‘policework’ by those few with whom he shared his interest. To bring to light his remarkable work, this book draws on Lyons’ own notes and photographs (preserved by N.U.I. Galway and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland), archived local newspapers and an overview of the social and political history of his times. A quiet, unassuming man, Lyons died in 1954 and lies buried in an unmarked grave in his native Clonmel. His major contribution to Irish archaeology deserves to be acknowledged in print at last. Máire Lohan (née Carroll) was born in Belmullet, County Mayo and now lives in Galway city. While researching for an M.A. in Archaeology at U.C.G. she became aware of the Lyons Photographic Collection there and also of the Knox/Lyons Collection at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, around which this book is based. She has worked with the O.P.W. in the Archaeological Survey of County Galway, lectured in archaeology at R.T.C. Galway and excavated in Galway city. She has published articles in the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society and Cathair na Mart. This is her first book.

B25. MacEVILLY, Michael. A Splendid Resistance. A Life of IRA Chief of Staff Dr. Andy Cooney. Foreword by Sean O Mahony. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2011. pp. xix, 427. Paperback in coloured illustrated French flaps. €20

Hardback in coloured illustrated dustjacket. €50

Limited edition of 50 copies in full green morocco gilt, in slipcase. €225 The appointment of Andy (Andrew) Cooney as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) while still a medical student was the highpoint of a military career which began in 1917 and was not to


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end until 1944. Prior to this he had served as a Volunteer, GHQ Officer, Brigade Commander and Divisional Commander before being appointed to the IRA General Staff with the rank of Quartermaster-General in 1924 and Chief of Staff in 1925, at which time he was elected as Chairman of the IRA Executive. Cooney was to retain this post until 1927. Afterwards, he remained close to the IRA General Staff until he emigrated to the USA.

Michael MacEvilly’s meticulously researched life of Dr. Andy Cooney sheds valuable light on a chapter of Irish republicanism which has hitherto been seriously neglected. No student of Irish republican history can afford to ignore this book, which is also to be commended for its selection of many hitherto unpublished photographs. - Tim Pat Coogan.

Michael MacEvilly narrates the life story of Andy Cooney in compelling fashion. Readers will be fascinated by the manner in which a young man combined his studies to be a doctor with his duties as an IRA Volunteer from 1917 onwards. In terms of the wider historical narrative of the period, the book, using much original source material, makes an important new contribution. It makes clear the command structure of the IRA, at both a national and local level, during the War of Independence, the Civil War and beyond. The strengths and weaknesses of individuals are also delineated with remarkable clarity. In particular new information is provided on ‘Bloody Sunday,’ November 1920; the role of the IRB and Michael Collins at the time of the Treaty; and the differences between the IRA and de Valera when Fianna Fail was founded. Above all the book is extremely well researched and eminently readable. - Brian Murphy OSB.

Michael MacEvilly was born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo. He was educated at St. Jarlath’s College, Tuam, Co. Galway and subsequently studied Arts and Commerce at University College, Galway. He worked as an accountant and auditor in his own firm located in Dublin, and had a long association with and an interest in the Irish Judo Association and the Olympic Council of Ireland. Irish history and the Irish language were Michael’s major interests. This primarily stemmed from his detailed research of the history of the MacEvilly family, especially their involvement in the War of Independence of which he was particularly proud. Irish republican history was an enduring passion and he became a keen scholar and book-collector on the area. He was an active member of the Committee of the 1916-21 Club and was President from 2000 to 2001. Michael passed away in 2009. He is sadly missed by his family and friends.

EDITION LIMITED TO 10 SIGNED SETS

B26. MacFHIRBHISIGH, Dubhaltach. The Great Book of Irish Genealogies - Leabhar Genealach. Edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. List of subscribers. Five volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003/4. Quarto. Bound in quarter green morocco on cloth boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands. Title and author/editor on maroon morocco letterpieces in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to an interlacing Celtic design. White endbands. Top edge gilt. Edition limited to ten sets only, signed by the Publisher and Editor. €1,650

The great Connacht scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c.1600-1671), from Lackan, County Sligo, compiled his monumental Great Book of Genealogies in Galway at the height of the Cromwellian Wars in the mid-seventeenth century. The work has long been recognised as the most important source for the study of Irish family history, and it is also of great importance to historians of pre-17th century Ireland since it details the ancestry of many significant figures in Irish history - including: Brian Boroimhe (d.1014); Ulick Burke, Marquis of Clanricarde (d.1657); James Butler, Duke of Ormonde (d.1688); Somhairle Buidhe (Sorley Boy) MacDonnell (d.1589); Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim (d.1683); Garrett Óg Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare (d.1536); Diarmuid Mac Murchadha (d.1171); Myler Magrath, Archbishop of Cashel (d.1622), Murrough O’Brien, Baron of Inchiquin (d.1674); Feagh MacHugh O’Byrne (d.1597); Rory O’Conor.(d.1198); Red Hugh O’Donnell (d.1602); Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone (d.1616); Owen Roe O’Neill (d.1649), and many, many more.


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Both in terms of size and significance the Great Book of Genealogies is on a par with that other great seventeenth century compilation, the Annals of the Four Masters; and O’Donovan did edit a thirty-page extract from the book, making it the centrepiece of his second greatest work, The Genealogies, Tribes and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach (1844). But while quite a few other (almost invariably brief) extracts from the work have appeared in print over the past century and a half, some 90% of the Book of Genealogies has never hitherto been translated or published.

B27. MacFHIRBHISIGH, Dubhaltach The Great Book of Irish Genealogies - Leabhar Genealach. Edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. List of subscribers. Five volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003/4. Quarto. Full buckram gilt. Over 3,600 pages. In presentation box. €635

The original text, both prose and poetry, of both works is accompanied by a painstaking English translation. But, perhaps most important of all, the edition includes, in addition to several valuable appendices, a comprehensive series of indices which provide a key to the tens of thousands of personal names, surnames, tribal names and place-names that the work contains. In fact, the portion relating to personal names is the largest Irish language names index that has ever been compiled.

B28. MARTIN, Edward A. A Dictionary of Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors. With short biographies. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. pp. xiv, 160. Illustrated boards in dust jacket. €36

B29. MELVIN, Patrick. Estates and Landed Society in Galway. With a foreword by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, December, 2012. pp. 512. Full buckram gilt. And a limited edition of 50 copies only in full goatskin. Standard edition €75 Limited edition €255

This work is based on a Trinity College Dublin Ph.D. thesis prepared under the direction of Professor L.M. Cullen. It investigates and describes the varied origins and foundation of estates

and proprietors in Galway and how that process was affected by the political turmoils and transplantations of the 17th century. The aftermath of these turmoils in England and Ireland saw the establishment of a core number of successful estates founded largely by ambitious families able to trim their sails to changing times and opportunities. Alongside these estates there remained at the same time a fluctuating mass of smaller proprietors whose lands frequently fell to more able or business-like landowners. Penal laws and poor land quality resulted in exile – sometimes temporary - for many of the older Catholic landowners.

The book describes how, by the 19th century, the variously rooted strands of proprietors became bound together by the common interest of property, security and class and survived with their social if not political influence largely intact through the 19th century. The role of this large and diverse gentry class in local administration, politics, social life and as landlords is described in some detail. The


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size of the county and complexity of changing estate history prevents the book from being exhaustive or a complete history of all estates and gentry families. These Anglo-Irish families (the term is unsatisfactory) became largely sidelined, irrelevant and forgotten by the modern nationalist Irish state. Their numbers and variety in Galway is made clear through a large range of house illustrations.

Many of the old landed class and nobility embodied values worthwhile in society. The wealthiest were patrons of much of the culture and art of old Europe. They stood for continuity, tradition, a sense of public duty, standards and refinement in manners. Many of them fostered the pursuit of outdoor sports and horseracing. They linked their frequently remote places to the wider world and they were at the same time cosmopolitan and local without being parochial. Although a declining social force they frequently held liberal attitudes against the power and dominance of state, church, and the ever expanding bureaucracy in modem society and government. Some, of course, did not always live up to ideals. - Knight of Glin.

B30. NELSON, E. Charles & WALSH, Wendy F. An Irish Flower Garden Replanted. The Histories of Some of Our Garden Plants. With coloured and Chinese ink illustrations by Wendy F. Walsh. Second edition revised and enlarged. Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 1997. pp. x, 276. €65

“This book has been out of print for almost a decade, and in the intervening years many things have happened both in my own life and in the interwoven lives of my friends and colleagues, and gardens and their plants. I have also learnt more about the garden plants that we cultivate in Ireland. A new edition was required, and I have taken the opportunity to augment the original text. I have added a chapter on roses, based on my address to the ninth World Rose Convention held in Belfast during 1991, and I have drawn into this book, in edited form, a scattering of essays that were published elsewhere and the unpublished scripts for talks which I gave on Sunday Miscellany broadcast by Radio Telefis Eireann. I have also made corrections, and altered a few names to bring them up-to-date. In a few instances, the previously published history has been revised in the light of my more recent research” - Dr. E.C. Nelson. The book is lavishly illustrated by Wendy Walsh, with 21 coloured plates (including ten new watercolours for this edition), eighteen figures in Chinese inks and nine vignettes in pencil.

A MONUMENT TO ONE OF OUR GREAT CELTIC SCHOLARS

B31. O’CURRY, Eugene. On The Manners and Customs of The Ancient Irish. A series of lectures delivered by the late Eugene O’Curry, M.R.I.A., Professor of Irish History and Archaeology in the Catholic University of Ireland. Edited, appendices etc, by W.K. Sullivan. With a new introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Three volumes. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. Bound in full green buckram, with harp in gilt on upper covers. Head and tail bands. pp. (1) xviii, 664, (2), xix, 392 (3) xxiv, 711. Fine. €235

His thirty-eight lectures On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, delivered at the University between May 1857 and July 1862 (the last one only a fortnight before his death) were published in Dublin in three volumes. These were edited with an introduction (which takes up the whole of the first volume), appendices and other material by Dr. W.K. Sullivan. O’Curry’s works stand to this day as a monument to one of our greatest Celtic scholars.

Dr. Nollaig Ó Muraíle states: “This, the single most substantial work produced by one of the great pioneering figures who laid the foundations of modern Irish scholarship in the fields of Gaelic language and literature, medieval history and archaeology, has been exceedingly difficult to come by (even in some reputable libraries) for the best part of a century. It is therefore greatly to be welcomed that it is now being made available again, by De Búrca Books - not just for the sake of present day scholars but also for the general reader who will derive from its pages much enjoyment and enlightenment about the lifestyle and general culture of our ancient forebears”.


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B32. O’DONOVAN, John. Ed. by. Annála Ríoghachta Éireann - Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters. From the earliest times to the year 1616. Edited from the manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin, with copious historical, topographical and genealogical notes and with special emphasis on place-names. Seven large vols. With a new introduction by Kenneth Nicholls. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. Over 4,000 pages. Large quarto. Superb set in gilt and blind stamped green buckram, in presentation box. €865

This is the third and best edition as it contains the missing years [1334-1416] of the now lost Annals of Lecan from Roderic O’Flaherty’s transcript. To enhance the value of this masterpiece a colour reproduction of Baptista Boazio’s map of Ireland 1609 is included in a matching folder.

The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, Annála Ríoghachta Éireann or the Annals of the Four Masters to give them their best known title are the great masterpieces of Irish history from the earliest times to 1616 A.D. The work was compiled between 1632 and 1636 by a small team of historians headed by Br. Michael O’Clery, a Franciscan lay brother. He himself records: “there was collected by me all the best and most copious books of Annals that I could find throughout all Ireland, though it was difficult for me to collect them in one place”.

The great work remained, for the most part, unpublished and untranslated until John O’Donovan prepared his edition between 1847 and 1856. The crowning achievement of John O’Donovan’s edition is the copious historical, topographical and genealogical material in the footnotes which have been universally acclaimed by scholars. Douglas Hyde wrote that the O’Donovan edition represented: “the greatest work that any modern Irish scholar ever accomplished”.

More recently Kenneth Nicholls says: “O’Donovan’s enormous scholarship breathtaking in its extent when one considers the state of historical scholarship and the almost total lack of published source material in his day, still amazes one, as does the extent to which it has been depended on by others down to the present. His translations are still superior in reliability to those of Hennessy, MacCarthy or Freeman to name three editor-translators of other Irish Annals ... his footnotes are a mine of information”.

A superb set of this monumental source for the history of Ireland.

B33. SWEENEY, Tony. Catalogue Raisonné of Irish Stuart Silver. A Short Descriptive Catalogue of Surviving Irish Church, Civic, Ceremonial & Domestic Plate dating from the Reigns of James I, Charles I, The Commonwealth, Charles II, James II, William & Mary, William III & Queen Anne 1603-1714. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Folio. pp. 272. In a fine buckram binding by Museum Bookbinding and printed in Dublin by Betaprint. Signed and numbered limited edition of 400 copies, 360 of which are for sale. Fine in illustrated dust jacket. €135

Compiled from records of holdings by Cathedrals, Churches, Religious Houses, Colleges, Municipal Corporations, Museums & Art Galleries. Further information has been obtained from those who deal in and those who collect Antique Silver, with special regard to Auction Sales.


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DE-LUXE LIMITED EDITION

B34. SWEENEY, Tony & Annie, & HYLAND, Francis. The Sweeney Guide to the Irish Turf from 1501-2001. Owners, Trainers, Jockeys, Sires, Records, Great Races, Flat & Jumping, Places of Sport, Past & Present, The Dish Spiced with Anecdotes, Facts, Fancies. Profusely illustrated with coloured plates. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Folio. pp. 648. Edition limited to 25 numbered copies only, signed by the partners, publisher and binder. Bound in full green niger oasis by Des Breen. Upper cover tooled in gilt with a horseshoe enclosing a trefoil with the heads of ‘Sadler’s Wells’, ‘Arkle’ and ‘Nijinsky’, above lake waters (SWAN-LAKE). Splash-marbled end-papers; green and cream head and tail bands. All edges gilt. With inset CD carrying the full text of the work making it possible for subscribers to enter results subsequent to 2001. In this fashion it becomes a living document. This is the only copy remaining of the Limited Edition. €1,650

Apart from racing enthusiasts, this is a most valuable work for students of local history as it includes extensive county by county records of race courses and stud farms, with hitherto unfindable details. The late Dr. Tony Sweeney, Anglo-Irish racing journalist and commentator, was Irish correspondent of the Daily Mirror for 42 years. He shared RTE television commentary with Michael and Tony O’Hehir over a period of thirty-five years. Dr. Sweeney was also a form analyst with the Irish Times, and author of two previous books Irish Stuart Silver, (1995) and Ireland and the Printed Word (1997), for which he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the National University of Ireland.

B35. SWEENEY, Tony & Annie, & HYLAND, Francis. The Sweeney Guide to the Irish Turf from 1501-2001. Owners, Trainers, Jockeys, Sires, Records, Great Races, Flat & Jumping, Places of Sport, Past & Present, The Dish Spiced with Anecdotes, Facts, Fancies. Profusely illustrated with coloured plates. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Folio. pp. 648. Bound in full buckram gilt. €95 B36. TALBOT, Hayden. Michael Collins’ Own Story. Told to Hayden Talbot. With an

introduction by Éamonn de Búrca. Dublin: De Búrca, November, 2012. pp. 256, plus index. Full buckram gilt. And a limited edition of 50 copies only in full goatskin. Standard edition €45

Limited edition €375 The American journalist Hayden Talbot first met Michael Collins at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin, shortly after the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty in December 1921. In the course of his working career Talbot had met many important people, but he soon realised that Collins was one of the most remarkable. He admits he had underestimated Collins before he got to know him, but Collins quickly earned his respect - not least by his habit of treating everyone, from Arthur Griffith to the “lowliest of his supporters”, with equal consideration and politeness. Talbot made it his business to meet Collins as often as possible and during months of close association Collins impressed him as “the finest character it had ever been my good fortune to know”. He valued their friendship more than any other.

This work contains an invaluable insight into Collins’ thinking and actions during this epic period of Irish history. It deals at length with Easter Week, The Black and Tans, The Murder of Francis Sheehy Skeffington, the Treaty negotiations and his vision for the resurgent nation


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which, unfortunately he was given too little time to develop in practice. Rare interviews with Arthur Griffith and Eoin MacNeill further enhance this book, which has long been out of print and hard to find in the antiquarian book market. Originally published in 1922, our edition has a new introduction and an index which was not in the first edition.

B37. WALDRON, Jarlath. Maamtrasna. The Murders and The Mystery. With location map and engineers map of the route taken by the murderers in 1882, depicting the roads, rivers, mountains, and houses with names of occupants. With numerous illustrations and genealogical chart of the chief protagonists. Dublin: De Búrca, 2004. Fifth edition. pp. 335. Mint in illustrated wrappers with folding flaps. €20

“This is a wonderful book, full of honour, contrast and explanation … driven with translucent compassion … The author has done something more than resurrect the ghosts of the misjudged. He has projected lantern slides of a past culture, the last of Europe’s Iron Age, the cottage poor of the west of Ireland”.

Frank Delaney, The Sunday Times.

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B38. McDONNELL, Joseph. Cork Gold-Tooled Bookbindings 1700 to 1900. A Forgotten Heritage. Folio. A limited edition of 250 copies. Illustrated with colour and mono plates. Ninety six pages, quarto. There will be a printed list of, we would very much appreciate your patronage. Price approximately €150 This new study reveals for the first time the importance of Cork as a centre of de luxe bookbinding during the eighteenth century, and dispels the widely held belief that only Dublin produced sumptuous gold-tooled bindings during the same period. Examples range from school book prizes, estate maps, to the grandest folios, many previously described in library and booksellers’ catalogues as Dublin workmanship. Cork is well known for its famous 18th. and 19th. century silver and glass, but now its forgotten heritage of fine bookbinding will be revealed as equally rich and distinctive, attesting to the flourishing book trade in the city. The limited edition volume will consist of an introductory

essay, followed by a fully illustrated and detailed catalogue of the bindings and tools.

NEW EDITION OF THE ANNALS OF CLONMACNOISE

B39. Ó MURAÍLE, Nollaig. Ed. by. The 'Annals of Cluain Mhic Nóis' translated in 1627 by Conall Mag Eochagáin (Annals of Ireland from the Earliest Period to AD 1408 – based on BL Add. MS 4817, with some variants from TCD MS 673). Edited by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Dublin: De Búrca, October 2016. Royal octavo. pp. circa 285. Green buckram, titled in gilt on spine. With slipcase. Price approximately €75

The so-called 'Annals of Clonmacnoise' - an inaccurate title bestowed in the 17th century by Sir James Ware - are a collection of Irish annals that purport to extend from the earliest times (Adam and Eve!) down to the year AD 1408. The text - an English translation completed in 1627 - is the work of Conall Mag Eochagáin, a Gaelic gentleman from Lismoyny, County Westmeath. The early portion of the text (about one-sixth of the whole) is based on the medieval work of pseudo-prehistory called Lebar Gabála Érenn (the Book of the Taking of Ireland, the so-called 'Book of Invasions'), while much of the remainder is closely related to other collections of Irish annals,


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especially those of Ulster, Loch Cé and Connacht. The Irish text from which Mag Eochagáin worked is now lost, as indeed is the original manuscript of his translation. The entire work survives in a number of manuscript-copies penned in the later 17th century, as well as in some later copies. The only edition produced to date, that by Fr Denis Murphy, SJ, was published 120 years ago and is a sadly inadequate production, being based on one of the less satisfactory manuscripts. Among its many shortcomings is the deletion/censorship by the editor of some passages he deemed 'offensive'. A new edition has long been called for, and this Nollaig Ó Muraíle has now undertaken. To be published later this year, 2016, the edition is based on a manuscript which is deemed to be superior to the other surviving manuscripts, BL Additional MS 4817. This was written in 1661 by a native of Tralee, Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin. (Occasional words, and sometimes longer phrases, omitted by Ó Súilleabháin have been inserted from TCD MS 673 - the manuscript on which Murphy based his edition.) In accordance with modern historical practice, the text of the annals (running to approximately 100,000 words) has been modernised, in terms of both orthography and punctuation - except in the case of proper names (both people and places). (Nothing is gained by preserving the very irregular early 17th-century spelling, erratic capitalisation, etc., which make Murphy’s edition so frustrating to use.) As is the norm with modern editions of Irish annals’ collections - such as those published over the past seven decades by the School of Celtic Studies, DIAS - the various entries are divided into numbered paragraphs under the appropriate year. (Admittedly, the rather erratic chronological arrangement of these annals rendered this difficult in a number of instances.) Where an entry has a parallel in one of the other annalistic collections, this is inserted after the appropriate paragraph. Also inserted after each paragraph are the correct Irish forms of the proper names aforementioned - so many of which are quite unrecognisable in their often quite bizarre anglicised forms. Those Irish forms - using the standard Classical Irish spelling - will also facilitate the provision of a 'user friendly' series of indices. The publication of this new edition will be welcomed by scholars, who have all too often tended to ignore this intriguing text because of the difficulties of handling Murphy's now obsolete work.

B40. WOODS, C.J. Ed by. Charles Abbot's Tour through Ireland and North Wales in September and October 1792. With a foreword by David Dickson. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2018. Circa 190 pages. Approximately €35