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A selection of fine, rare and
important books and manuscripts
Catalogue 118
Summer
2015
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CATALOGUE 118
Summer 2015
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1. ADAIR, Patrick. A True Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Presbyterian Church in
Ireland (1623-1670) By Patrick Adair. The History of the Church in Ireland since the Scots were
Naturalized / Andrew Stewart. With an introduction and notes by W. D. Killen. Belfast: C.
Aitchison. London: Hamilton, Adams, 1866. pp. xxxvi, 334. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine.
Previous owner's signature on titlepage. A very good copy.
€75
2. AINSWORTH, John. The Inchiquin Manuscripts. Dublin: Irish Manuscript Commission,
1961. pp. ix, 749. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy.
€45
County Clare and other Western Counties in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; The
Landowners; Local, Economic and Social History; County and Borough Elections; Limerick Export
Trade; Rebuilding of Sixmilebridge; Shannon Navigation, etc.
3. AINSWORTH, William. Esq. An Account of the Caves of Ballybunian, County of Kerry:
with some Mineralogical Details. Illustrated with nine woodcuts (two full-page). Dublin: William
Curry, Jun., 1834. pp. [iv], 96. Original quarter brown linen on recent paper boards, title in gilt
on spine. Occasional spotting to prelims. A very good copy. Rare.
€395
COPAC locates 7 copies. WorldCat 2.
4. [ANDERSON, Rev. J. G. L.] Anderson (of Kilkenny) 1680-1910. London: Printed by
Spottiswoode, 1910. pp. 48. Green linen, title in gilt on upper cover. Signed presentation copy
from L. G. Anderson dated November 30th 1910. A very good copy. Extremely rare.
€375
No copy located in National Library, COPAC or WorldCat.
5. AN ENGLISHMAN [William Whittaker Barry] A Walking Tour Round Ireland in 1865.
By an Englishman. With folding map. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1867.
pp. xix, [1], 406, [5]. Green cloth, sprig of shamrock in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine.
A very good copy. Rare.
€375
COPAC locates 6 copies only.
William Whittaker Barry went on a walking tour of Ireland in the autumn of 1865. He spent over ten
weeks traversing twenty out of the thirty two counties, walking upwards of 1,000 miles. He described
himself as a self-professed "intelligent and well-informed Englishman".
6. ANNESLEY, Arthur. [1st Earl of Anglesey] The King's Right of Indulgence in Spiritual
Matters, with The Equity thereof, Asserted. By A Person of Honour, and Eminent Minister of
State lately Deceased. London: Printed, and Sold by Randall Taylor, near Stationers-Hall, 1688.
First edition. Quarto. pp. 75. Modern wrappers. A well margined copy but signature G, four
leaves, close shaved at foot affecting catch-words and on two pages the final line of text. A very
good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€475
Wing A 3169. Sweeney 165. ESTC R6480 listing 2 locations only in Ireland.
Arthur Annesley (1614-1686), Earl of Anglesea, was born in Dublin. He was educated at Oxford,
studied law, and entered Parliament for Radnorshire. When the civil war broke out, he initially
followed the fortunes of Charles I, but afterwards went over to the side of the Parliamentarians, and
was sent to Ireland in 1645 as a Commissioner, in which employment he did good service for the
preservation of the Protestant interest. Annesley was one of those who brought about the restoration of
Charles II, and was subsequently created Earl of Anglesea, and appointed Vice-Treasurer of Ireland. In
November 1660 by his father's death he had become Viscount Valentia and Baron Mountnorris in the
Irish peerage, and on 20 April 1661 he was created Baron Annesley of Newport Pagnell and Earl of
Anglesey in the peerage of England.
He held the post of Lord Privy Seal from 1673 to 1682, when he was dismissed in, consequence of a
misunderstanding with the Duke of Ormond. He died in 1686, aged 71. The Earl was a man of
considerable independence of character, Ware in his Works states he was "of deep politicks, very subtle
and reserved in the management of affairs, of more than ordinary parts, and one who had the command
of both a smooth and a keen pen". Ware lists nine political tracts written by him. Annesley was a
learned and cultivated man, who amassed a large fortune in Ireland. At his death, his library of books
was believed to be the largest English library not in ecclesiastical hands. He was buried at
Farnborough, Hampshire.
In this posthumously published tract with a preface by Henry Care, Annesley seeks indulgence for
Protestant dissenters, but not for Catholics who could not be trusted with religious toleration. He
contends that the king could grant indulgence to spare bloodshed, introduce Christianity to others,
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allow God to do his own work, and allow men to err and discover the truth on their own. He concludes
that if the king were denied the right he could not prevent "Mischiefs and great Inconveniences to the
Publick, in preserving the Trade, Wealth, Strength, and Peace of his Kingdoms, in providing for his
Own, and his Subjects security; and in doing that, which will much tend to the Honour of God, to the
Happiness and Welfare of Himself and all his People, and to the general good of Christendom".
7. 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 & Evans, 1859.
Small quarto. pp. viii, 220. Green gilt decorated cloth. A very good copy.
€265
WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF THE TAJ MAHAL
8. ARNOLD, Sir Edwin. The Light of Asia, or, The Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana).
Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (As Told in
Verse by an Indian Buddhist). Illustrated. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1890.
12mo. New edition. pp. xviii, [2], 21-240. Bound in contemporary full green morocco by
Ramage of London. Covers tooled in gilt with geometric lines, spine divided into six
compartments by five gilt raised bands; title in gilt direct in the second; the remainder framed by
gilt lines; corners of boards ruled in gilt; turn-ins gilt. Gold patterned endpapers; gold and blue
endbands. All edges gilt, concealing a four-edge painting of the Taj Mahal. From the library of
Richard Strachey with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Presentation inscription on
front flyleaf. A very good copy.
€295
9. [ATWOOD, Thomas] Report of the Proceedings of the Public Meeting of the Inhabitants of
Birmingham, held at Newhall Hill, on Monday, June 25, 1832, convened by the Council of the
Political Union, for the Purpose of Expressing their Opinion on the Irish Reform Bill, and of
Petitioning the Legislature on the Subject. Birmingham: Printed by William Hodgetts, 16,
Spiceal-Street, 1832. Quarto. pp. 7 (Printed in two columns). Recent paper boards, title in gilt on
spine. Ex lib. with neat stamp. Engraved titlepage. Slight ink stain to top margin, not affecting
text. A very good copy. Very rare.
€225
Goldsmiths'-Kress 27689. COPAC locates 2 copies only.
The Representation of the People (Ireland) Act, 1832, commonly called the Irish Reform Act 1832,
was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the election laws of Ireland. The act
was passed at approximately the same time as the Reform Act 1832, which applied to England and
Wales. The chief architects of the act were Francis Jeffrey and Henry Cockburn.
CLASSIC ROMANCE NOVEL
10. AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Drawings by Robert Ball. New York: Doubleday,
Doran, 1945. pp. 380. Elegantly hand-bound in half blue calf on matching blue marbled boards,
spines extra gilt with double scarlet morocco title labels, marbled endpapers. Publisher's original
cloth bound in at rear. Edition limited to 325 of 1000 copies, signed by the artist. Top edge gilt.
A beautifully bound copy of a very desirable edition.
€750
'Pride and Prejudice' is still one of the world's most popular novels.
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ELPHIN DIOCESAN SCHOOL PRIZE
11. BACON, Francis. Bacon's Essays and Colours of
Good and Evil with Notes and Glossarial Index by W.
Aldis Wright M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. New
edition. Frontispiece. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874.
Small octavo. pp. xxxi, 388. Bound in full black
morocco. Covers framed by double gilt fillets enclosing
in the centre in gilt the diocesan armorial badge of Schol.
Dioec. De. Elphin Apud Sligacham, [Elphin Diocesan
School, Sligo]. Spine ruled with gilt fillets. All edges gilt.
A very good copy.
€235
12. BAKER, John Wynn. An Abridgment of the Six
Weeks, and Six Months Tour's of Arthur Young, Esq;
through the Southern, and Northern Counties of England
and part of Wales. Containing, all the most important
Articles of Information relating to Agriculture, now in
Practice in the best cultivated Countries, with some
Accounts of the successful Culture of Lucerne, Cabbages,
&c. &c. Intended for use of the Common Farmers of
Ireland. Abridged at the request of the Dublin Society by John Wynn Baker, F.R.S. Dublin:
Printed by S. Powell, in Dame-street, Printer to the Society, 1771. 12mo. pp. 15, [1], 328, 1
(folding leaf of plates). Later half calf on marbled boards. Spine richly gilt with title in gilt on
black morocco letterpiece. All edges sprinkled. Repair to plate. A very good copy. Rare.
€275
COPAC locates 5 copies only. WorldCat 2.
13. BALL, F. Elrington. A History of the County Dublin. The people, parishes and antiquities
from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century. With maps and illustrations. Six
volumes. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1979. Sackville Library edition. Purple paper boards, title in
gilt on spines. A fine set in slipcase.
€165
14. [BANIM, Michael] Tales by The O'Hara Family. Comprising The Nowlans, and Peter of the
Castle. Three volumes. London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1826. 12mo. Second
edition. pp. (1) [ii], 367, (2) [2], 392 (3) [2] 404. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards,
contrasting labels on spines. From the library of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart with his armorial
bookplate on front pastedowns. Light wear to extremities, otherwise a very good set.
€675
Michael Banim (1796-1874), novelist and poet and elder brother of John, was born in Kilkenny where
he was educated by the eccentric Mr. Buchanan and afterwards by Dr. Magrath, a first-class tutor. In
this novel the rebellion is shown: "in its vulgarest and least romantic aspect, and there are harrowing
descriptions of rebel outrages on Vinegar Hill and elsewhere". Some of the scenes Banim would have
acquired from conversations with eye-witnesses.
15. BARNARD, Toby. Making the Grand Figure. Lives
and Possessions in Ireland, 1641-1770. Illustrated. New
Haven & London: Yale U. P., 2004. pp. xxii, 497. Black
cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust
jacket with small tear to lower front corner.
€45
BOUND BY HARVEY OF WATERFORD
16. BARRINGTON, Sir Jonah. Rise and Fall of the Irish
Nation. Illustrated with thirty lithographs and two facsimile
letters. Paris: Bennis, 1833. pp. 494. Bound by Harvey of
Waterford in half green morocco over cloth boards. Spine
divided into five compartments by four wide gilt raised
bands, title in gilt on red morocco label, the remainder
blind-stamped to a centre-and-corner design. New front
front endpaper. All edges marbled. A very good copy. €75
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17. BARROW, G. L. The Emergence of the Irish Banking System 1820-1845. Illustrated.
Dublin: Gill, 1975. pp. xvi, 251. Black paper boards, title in silver on spine. A fine copy in very
good dust jacket.
€45
18. BARRY, P. The Green Flag! Stories; Articles; Poems. Original stimulating entertaining.
Illustrated. Cork?: n.d. (c.1945). pp. 198. Quarter red linen on stiff papered boards. Previous
owner's signature on half title. A very good copy. Scarce.
€95
In addition to the several national poems there are articles on: Fredericksburg - Meagher's Brigade;
Blarney Castle; Meagher of the Sword; Thomas Davis; Feargus OConnor - and O'Connell; In
Drumcondra, etc.
THE RED PATH TO GLORY
19. BARRY, Tom. BEASLAI, P., BREEN, Dan & Others. With the I.R.A. in the Fight for
Freedom, 1919 to the Truce. With location maps. Tralee: The Kerryman, n.d. pp. 238. Illustrated
wrappers. A fine copy.
€95
The chapters include: Monaghan Men's Baptism of Fire at the Ballytrain R.I.C. Post; The Ambush at
Rineen; The R.I.C. at Ruan; A Tipperary Column Laying for R.I.C. at Thomastown; Lord French was
not Destined to Die by an Irish Bullet; Auxiliaries Wiped out at Kilmichael; The Sacking of Cork City;
Dromkeen Ambush; Scramogue Ambush; Action by the West Connemara Column; Tourmakeady
Ambush, etc.
20. BARRY, Commandant General Tom. Guerilla Days in Ireland. With maps and
illustrations. Cork: Mercier Press, 1955. First edition. pp. [x], 223. Green paper boards, title in
gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in frayed dust
jacket.
€50
Tom Barry was born in the west of the 'Rebel County' in 1897. During the First World War he served
with the British Army in Mesopotamia. On returning to Ireland in 1919 he became a prominent
member of the Irish Republican Army, commanding the West Cork unit which he later developed into
one of the leading Flying Columns of the war. The Column enjoyed remarkable success notably in the
Kilmichael and Crossbarry ambushes. He opposed the Treaty and supported the Republican side during
the Civil War. He also served as I.R.A. Chief of Staff in the late thirties.
21. BECKETT, Ian F. W. Ed. by. The Army and the Curragh Incident, 1914. Illustrated.
London: Published by The Bodley Head for the Army Records Society, 1986. pp. xii, 456, [1].
Red paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in faded dust jacket.
€65
The events at the Curragh Camp near Dublin on 20/21 March 1914, and the drama continued in
London over the following nine days, have a special significance in British military history. The outline
of the story is well enough known: Brig. General Hubert Gough and fellow-officers in the 3rd Cavalry
Brigade threatened to resign rather than implement what seemed to be a policy of coercing Ulster into
accepting Irish Home Rule.
22. BEGLIN, D. The Battle of Fontenoy - 1745. Article in 'An Cosantóir'. Longford: Printed for
the Publishers by Turner's Printing, 1960. Pictorial frayed wrappers. A very good copy.
€25
Irish regiments served in the War of the Austrian Succession, Seven Years' War, both in Europe and
India, and during the American War of Independence, though by the 1740s the number of Irishmen
serving in the regiments had begun to markedly decline. The five regiments were increased to six
during the War of the Austrian Succession, the sixth being Lally's, initially created by the Comte de
Lally -Tollendal through drafts from the original five. Each regiment had a strength of one battalion of
685 men and Fitz James' cavalry regiment counted 240 men. The Brigade played a crucial role at
Fontenoy attacking the right flank of the British column suffering some 500 casualties while capturing
the two colours from the Coldstream Guards and fifteen cannon.
Some officers of the Irish Brigade are believed to have cried out Cuimhnígí ar Luimneach agus ar
fheall na Sasanach! ("Remember Limerick and Saxon Faith" or "Remember Limerick and Saxon
perfidy") at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745. Over the course of one hundred years new recruits were
brought into the brigade mostly from the Irish speaking regions of West Munster, the homeland of,
among other the O'Connell family. Daniel O'Connell's uncle was the last Colonel of the French Irish
Brigade. According to official French Army regulations, officers of the Irish Brigade regiments had to
be Irish, half of which had to be born in Ireland and the other half born of Irish parents in France.
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23. BELLARMINO, Roberto Francesco R. st., card.
De Gemitu Columbae, siue De bono Lacrymarum, Libri
Tres. Coloniae: Apud Cornelium ab Egmond [i.e.
Amsterdam : s.n.], 1626. 24mo. pp. [16], 328, [31].
Contemporary full vellum. Engraved title, portrait and
nobleman praying. Early inscription on front free
endpaper. Bookplate of Séan Ó Corcora on front
pastedown. Half of upper joint cracked, unobtrusive
water staining to fore-edge. All edges red. A very good
copy.
€475
Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino Bellarmine (15421621) was born at Montepulciano, Sienna, to a noble though
impoverished family, son of Vincenzo Bellarmino and his
wife Cinzia Cervini who was sister of Pope Marcellus II. He
joined the Society of Jesus and was later created a Cardinal.
He was one of the most important cardinals of the Catholic
Reformation. He was canonized in 1930 and is a saint and a
Doctor of the Church. Pope Clement VIII, set great store by
him. Bellarmine wrote the preface to the new edition of the
Vulgate, and was made rector of the Roman College in 1592,
examiner of Bishops in 1598, and Cardinal in 1599.
Immediately after his appointment as Cardinal, Pope Clement
made him a Cardinal Inquisitor. In this capacity he served as
one of the judges at the trial of Giordano Bruno, and
concurred in the decision which condemned him to be burnt
to death as an obstinate heretic.
Under Pope Paul V (reigned 1605-1621), arose the great conflict between Venice and the Papacy. Fra
Paolo Sarpi, as spokesman for the Republic of Venice, protested against the papal interdict, and
reasserted the principles of the Council of Constance and of the Council of Basel, denying the pope's
authority in secular matters. Bellarmine wrote three rejoinders to the Venetian theologians, and at the
same time possibly saved Sarpi's life by giving him fair warning of an impending murderous attack.
Robert Bellarmine had occasion to cross swords with a more prominent antagonist, King James I of
England, who prided himself on his theological attainments. Bellarmine had written a letter to the
English archpriest George Blackwell, reproaching him for having taken the oath of allegiance in
apparent disregard of his duty to the Pope. James attacked him in 1608 in a Latin treatise, which the
scholarly cardinal answered, making fun of the defects of the royal Latinity.
King James replied with a second attack in more careful style, dedicated to the Emperor Rudolph II and
all the monarchs of Christendom, in which he posed as the defender of primitive and true Christianity.
Bellarmine's answer to this covers more or less the whole controversy.
Both were the fruits of the great revival in religion and learning which the Catholic Church had
witnessed since 1540. Both bear the stamp of their period; the effort for literary elegance (so-called
"maraviglia"), which was considered the principal thing at the beginning of the sixteenth century, had
given place to a desire to pile up as much material as possible, to embrace the whole field of human
knowledge, and incorporate it into theology.
Until 1589, Bellarmine was occupied altogether as professor of theology, but that date marked the
advent of a new pope in his life and of new dignities. After the murder of Henry III of France, Pope
Sixtus V sent Gaetano as legate to Paris to negotiate with the League, and chose Bellarmine to
accompany him as theologian; he was in the city during its siege by Henry of Navarre.
In 1616, on the orders of the then pope, Paul V, Cardinal Bellarmine summoned Galileo Galilei,
notified him of a forthcoming decree of the Congregation of the Index condemning the Copernican
doctrine of the mobility of the Earth and the immobility of the Sun, and ordered him to abandon it.
Galileo agreed. When Galileo later complained of rumours to the effect that he had been forced to
abjure and do penance, Bellarmine wrote out a certificate denying the rumours, stating that Galileo had
merely been notified of the decree and informed that, as a consequence of it, the Copernican doctrine
could not be "defended or held". In 1633 Galileo would again be called before the Inquisition in this
matter. Saint Bellarmine died in Rome on 17 September 1621, and that date is now his feast day.
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24. [BELLEEK POTTERY] New Illustrated catalogue of Belleek Parian China Manufactured
by Belleek Pottery, Ltd, Belleek, County Fermanagh, Ireland. Illustrated. Belleek: County
Fermanagh, n.d. [192-?] pp. 38. Quarter cloth on pictorial stiff wrappers. Light water stain to
fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy.
€150
Includes all the latest designs: Dinner Services; Breakfast Services; Tea and Coffee Services; Dessert
Services; Centres; Figures; Vases; Flower Pots; Marmalade, Biscuit and Tobacco Jars; Berry Sets;
Sweets; Preserve Dishes (entirely hand woven).
25. BENNETT, Richard. The Black and Tans. Illustrated. London: Edward Hulton, 1959. First
edition. pp. 228. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€65
The 'Black and Tans' were sent to Ireland in March 1920 by Lloyd-George's Coalition Cabinet to
"Make Ireland a Hell for Rebels to live in".
26. BERMINGHAM, Thomas. Esq. The Social State of Great Britain and Ireland. Considered,
with regard to the Labouring Population, &c. &c. Dedicated by permission to Her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent. Bound with: Additional Statements on the subject of the River
Shannon to the Reports published in 1831. London: Printed and Published by S.W. Fores,
1835/34. pp. xxv, [1], 214, 40. Original paper boards with new linen spine. Coloured map
supplied in facsimile. From the library of the Loyal National Repeal Association with their
stamp. Top edge uncut. Occasional foxing to prelims, otherwise a good copy.
€275
COPAC 8 copies only. WorldCat Ebook only. COPAC locates 2 copies only of the 'Additional
Statements on the subject of the River Shannon' (our copy appears to be lacking tables).
The author Thomas Bermingham, Esq. was a native of Caramana, Kilconnel, County Galway. He was
a public-minded propagandist for the social and economic progress of Galway town and county and the
west of Ireland in general. Bermingham was connected with the Grattan family, and had wide
experience as a land agent in several counties, including the Clonbrock estate in Galway. He was the
main driving force behind most committees on Galway affairs whether held in Galway, Dublin or
London and was a member of the Reform Club almost from its foundation in 1836.
Bermingham described a meeting at the Thatched House Tavern in London in 1832 to raise money for
the cultivation of wasteland in Ireland. Clanricarde was chairman and also present were Lords Ashtown
and Clonbrock, James Staunton Lambert M.P. for Galway county and John Bodkin who became M.P.
for the county in 1835. At the meeting Bermingham produced "all the plans and maps which I have so
often shown in Galway, and which I think are at last bringing conviction home to all who examine the
details and the utility of executing works of public nature in the West of Ireland". He had submitted his
plans to societies in London and Birmingham and acknowledged the assistance he received from
Andrew Lynch, John Blake and Rev. John D'Arcy.
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The Berminghams acquired great estates and strongholds in Dunmore and Athenry baronies as a result
of their alliance with the De Burgos in the conquest of Connaught. The Berminghams had a
complicated and uncertain medieval history. All were descended from Piers Bermingham who died in
1254 and who was probably the first Lord Athenry. They were always closely connected to the
Clanricarde and other senior Burke and O'Kelly families. [See Melvin's Estates and Landed Society in
Galway].
ARAVON PREPARATORY SCHOOL
27. BLACKMORE, R. D. Lorna Doone. A Romance of
Exmoor. London: Sampson Low, n.d. Octavo. pp. 528. Bound
in polished blue calf for Aravon Preparatory School. Covers
framed by double gilt fillets enclosing in gilt on the upper
cover the badge of the school. Spine divided into six
compartments by five gilt raised bands, title on brown
morocco label in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a
centre-and-corner design; board edges and turn-ins in blind;
splash-marbled endpapers. All edges sprinkled. A very good
copy.
€175
Provenance: Aravon Preparatory School Prize Label on the front
pastedown awarded to W. J. Pilsworth in 1911. Signed by the
Head Master R. H. Bookey.
28. BOLD, Samuel. An Exhortation to Charity (and a word of
comfort) to the Irish Protestants. Being a Sermon Preached at
Steeple in Dorsetshire, Upon occasion of the Collection of
Relief of the Poor Protestants in this Kingdom, lately fled
from Ireland. London: Printed for Awnsham Churchill at the Black Swan at Amen-Corner, 1689.
pp. 36. Modern half calf on marbled boards. A fine copy. Scarce.
€375
WorldCat 4. Wing B 3480.
This sermon was preached by the rector at Steeple in the Isle of Purbeck, the author being best known for his Plea
for moderation towards Dissenters for which he had been imprisoned in 1682. It was occasioned by "the collection
for relief of the poor Protestants in this Kingdom latyely fled from Ireland".
29. BOLTON, G. C. The Passing of the Irish Act of Union. A Study in Parliamentary Politics.
London: Oxford University Press, 1966. First edition. pp. viii, 240. Maroon buckram, title in gilt
on spine. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. Scarce.
€65
An impartial account of the Irish Parliament's acceptance of the Act of Union with Great Britain in
1800. The general perception of the result is that of corruption on a grand scale, with large brown bags
and sinecures. This work however suggests that most members of the Irish House of Commons were
influenced by social, political, and commercial pressures a good deal more than simple corruption.
EXHIBITED AT THE ART LOAN EXHIBITION LONDON 1899
THE SECOND ENGLISH PRAYER BOOK PRINTED IN DUBLIN
30. [BOOKE OF COMMON PRAYER] The Booke of Common Prayer, and administration of
the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England. Bound with: The
Psalter or Psalmes of David: After The Translation of the Great Bible. Bound with: The Forme
and Manner of Making and Consecrating Bishops, Priests and Deacons. Bound with: The Whole
Booke of Psalms; Collected into English meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others.
Conferred with the Hebrew with apt notes to sing them withal. Dublin: Printed by the Society of
Stationers, Printers to the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie, 1637. Small quarto. Title within
ornamental border. The 'Psalter or Psalmes of David' and 'The Forme and Manner of Making and
Consecrating Bishops ...' each have special titlepage with imprint: Dublin, Society of Stationers.
Register is continuous. 'The Whole Booke of Psalmes' with imprint: London, Printed by T.P. for
the Company of Stationers, 1635. (400 leaves), lacking leaf P6. Contemporary full calf. Spine
and corners expertly rebacked. From the library of Catherine F. Boyle, with her bookplate on
front pastedown; John Ribton Garstin, with his bookplate and signature; Michael J. & Phyllis A.
Staines, with their bookplate on front flyleaf. A very good copy.
€3,250
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COPAC locates 2 copies only, both imperfect. No copy on WorldCat. NLI 1 copy. TCD online copy
only. Sweeney 2430. Griffiths p.101. The 1st and only STC Dublin printing bearing this date - 16407.
Enclosed is a letter from John Ribton Garstin, dated at Braganstown, Castle Bellingham, 29 September,
1899 in which he states that this is a "unique Book of Common Prayer with St. Patrick in the Calendar,
Dublin, 1637". It would appear from the letter that this book was sent to the Secretary, Art Loan
Exhibition, Church Congress, London: "Remember that it is to be insured for £20, as arranged".
The only earlier Irish printings of the Book of Common Prayer were those published in 1551 and 1621
and one later than this edition printed in Dublin by John Crook, Printer to the King in 1666, and sold by
Samuel Dancer, bookseller in his shop at Castle Street. Lowndes 1941.
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31. [BOOK OF FENAGH] The Book of Fenagh in Irish and English, originally compiled by St.
Caillin, Archbishop, Abbot and Founder of Fenagh, alias Dunbally of Moy-Rein, tempore St.
Patricii; with the contractions resolved, and ... the original text restored. Carefully revised,
indexed and copiously annotated by W.M. Hennessy and done into English by D. H. Kelly. With
two coloured plates. Also a supplementary volume edited by R.A.S. Macalister. Two volumes.
Dublin: Stationery Office, 1939. Quarto. Second edition. pp. (1) [iv], x, 439 (2) 115. Red
buckram, titled in gilt. Some fading to covers, otherwise a good set.
€475
32. BOTTIGHEIMER, Karl S. English Money and Irish Land. The 'Adventurers' in the
Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. pp. xiv, 226. Blue buckram,
title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in frayed
dust jacket. Scarce.
€125
This work explores the origins of the Cromwellian Settlement of the 1650s, in the wake of the bloody
rebellion of 1641 and suppression by Cromwell. Large tracts of land were cleared of the native Irish
and given as payment to the soldiers and adventurers who funded the scheme. It is hard to believe that
over four-fifths of the land of Ireland was confiscated by English and Scottish Protestants in the 17th
century. This book on the whole deals with these adventurers, who numbered over two thousand, and
explores the social and economic forces which caused this great upheaval in Irish history.
See item 33.
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33. BOYLE, Robert. A Free Discourse against Customary Swearing. And a Dissuasive From
Cursing. Frontispiece of the Honourable Robert Boyle, engraved by R. W[hite]. London: Printed
by R.R. for Thomas Cockerill, Senr. and Junr., at the Three Legs in the Poultrey, over against
Stocks-Market, 1695. First edition. Octavo. pp. [16], 131, [3], 30, [4] (advertisement).
Contemporary full calf, covers framed by double gilt fillets with gilt tulip fleurons. Spine divided
into five compartments by four raised bands; title and author in gilt on maroon morocco
letterpiece in the second; the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design. Armorial
bookplate of Earl Fitzwilliam on front pastedown. Early library shelf marks (Selbourne in
pencil). Some minor wear to corners and spine ends. All edges red. A very good copy.
€1,350
Fulton 197. WorldCat 1.
The Discourse against Swearing is the last of Boyle's posthumous publications. As with the later
decades of the Medicinal Experiments, its authenticity is not entirely established. The 'Epistle
Dedicatory' is signed by John Williams, D.D. (1636?-1709), Bishop of Chichester, well known for
voluminous anti-papal controversial writings. He states that the manuscript was given to him by the
Earl of Cork and Sir Henry Ashurst, Boyle's executors, and (though apparently not Boyle's own
handwriting) that it bore internal evidence of having been written in the year 1647. In apologizing for
issuing a work which the author had never seen fit to publish, the editor states that many passages
indicate that it was once intended for the press.
34. BOYLE, Roger Earl of Orrery. Parthenissa, That Most Fam'd Romance. The Six Volumes
Compleat. Composed By The Right Honourable The Earl of Orrery. London: Printed by T. N. for
Henry Herringham, at the Blue Anchor in the Lower-Walk of the New Exchange, 1676. Folio.
pp. [4], 403, [3], 485-808 (i.e. 730, with printer's error in pagination). Titlepage, with publisher's
device, printed in red and black. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, spine expertly rebacked
preserving early maroon morocco letterpiece. From the library of John Robert Mowbray, with his
armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Slight spotting to first gathering. A very good copy of an
exceedingly rare item in commerce.
€1,350
Wing O 490. Sweeney 621.
The earliest instance of a romance credited to an Irish writer and this completed work has rendered it
most accessible to the researcher. It is also said to be the first English language romance in the style of
the 17th century French writers of heroic romance, Gauthier de Costas de la Calprenède and Madeleine
de Scudery. The influence of de Scudery is especially noteworthy in Boyle's use of contemporary
allusions in this work which deals with two Princes, Artabanes and Surena, competing for the love of
Parthenissa.
Published originally in parts, the first four of which were, according to Henry Bradshaw, printed in
Waterford.
Sir John Robert Mowbray, 1st Baronet PC (1815-1899), known as John Cornish until 1847, was a
British Conservative politician and long-serving Member of Parliament, eventually serving as Father of
the House.
35. [BOYLE, Roger, Earl of Orrery] An Answer to a Scandalous Letter Lately Printed and
subscribed by Peter Welsh, Procurator for the Sec. and Reg. Popish Priests of Ireland. Intituled
[A Letter desiring a just and merciful regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland, given about the
end of Octob. 1660. to the then Marquess, now Duke of Ormond, and the second time Lord
Lieutenant of that Kingdom.] By the Right Honourable the Earl of Orrery, one of the Lords
Justices of the Kingdom of Ireland, and L. President of the Province of Munster, &c. Printed at
Dublin by J.C. and Reprinted at London, 1662. pp. [i], 66. Modern quarter blue morocco. A very
€950
COPAC with 5 locations. WorldCat 3.Wing O 473. Sweeney 5517 quoting the Dublin 1st edition.
Orrery republishes the letter of Peter Walsh in broadside form and it is possible that this is the only
manner in which the letter has survived into our time. The original letter was "given about the end of
October 1660, to the then Marquess, now Duke of Ormond" and Orrery makes a trenchant reply.
Roger Boyle, Lord Broghill, Earl of Orrery (1621-1679), son of Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, elder
brother of Robert the scientist, was born at Lismore, County Waterford. He was deputy in Inchiquin's
Munster Command during the Confederate War and was bitterly opposed to the cessation of arms.
After the execution of Charles I, Boyle retired to his Somerset estate, and was about to leave for the
Continent to plot for the restoration of the Stuarts, when he was summoned by Cromwell who offered
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him the choice of imprisonment in the Tower or service under the Commonwealth. He accepted the
latter and set off for Ireland, and late in 1649, he met Cromwell near Waterford, with 1,500 men whom
he had raised. He assisted at the Sieges of Clonmel and Limerick, destroyed Lord Muskerry's royalistconfederate force at Macroom and executed the Catholic bishop, Boethius MacEgan. Afterwards in
England he continued to be one of Cromwell's most trusted friends and advisers.
Not satisfied however with Cromwell's successor, Boyle returned to Ireland and with Coote seized
Youghal, Clonmel, Carlow, Limerick, Drogheda, Galway and Athlone for the King, and helped to end
the rule of the Cromwellians there. After the Restoration he was made Earl of Orrery, Lord Justice, and
President of Munster, and, in the latter capacity, he successfully defeated the attempt by the Duke of
Beaufort, Admiral of France, to land at Kinsale. In 1661 he built a mansion at Charleville, which he
named in honour of Charles II and: "spent the remainder of his life principally in contemplation,
reading the Scriptures, and other serious studies, partly at Castlemartyr and partly at Charleville". He
died in October, 1679 and was buried in the church of Youghal where there is a monument to him.
Peter Walsh, D.D. was born near Naas, County Kildare c.1618. He was educated at the Irish College at
Louvain. Joined the Franciscan Order and was later Professor of Divinity at Louvain. He returned to
Ireland in 1646, the following year he attacked in nine consecutive sermons the Disputatio Apologetica
of Cornelius Mahony, in which the rights of the kings of England to Ireland was denied. As a
consequence of his conduct Walsh was deprived of the lectureship in divinity to which he had been
appointed at Kilkenny. He was driven from the house, and even forbidden to enter any town which
possessed a library. Rinuccini accused him of having affected the nobility of Ireland and destroyed the
cause. He also afterwards described him as "turned out of his convent for disobedience to superiors, a
sacrilegious profaner of the pulpit in Kilkenny cathedral, who vomited forth in one hour more filth
(sordes) and blasphemy than Luther and Calvin together in three years". Walsh sided with Ormond and
wrote against the Papal Nuncio, which led to his excommunication. For his loyal services to Ormond
he received a pension from the Government. He died in 1687 and is buried in St. Dunstan's-in-theWest, London. The Bishop of Salisbury said of him that "He was the honestest and learnedest man
among them (Catholics), and was indeed in all points of controversy almost wholly a Protestant".
36. BRADDON, Lawrence. Essex's Innocency and Honour Vindicated; or, Murther,
Subornation, Perjury, Justly Charg'd on the Murtherers of that Noble Lord and True Patriot,
Arthur (late) Earl of Essex. As Proved before the Right Honourable (late) Committee of Lords, or
ready to be Deposed. Engraved frontispiece. London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by most
Booksellers, 1690. pp. [ix], 62 (double column). Modern quarter morocco on marbled boards. A
very good copy.
€375
WorldCat 3. Wing B 4101. Sweeney 637.
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The author, a lawyer, was together with Hugh Speke sent to prison for spreading rumours that the Earl
of Essex, who had earlier served a five year stint as Irish Lord Lieutenant, had not committed suicide in
the Tower of London, but rather that he had been murdered. On his release from prison in 1689, with
William and Mary now on the throne, Braddon felt it safe to put his theory into print. In a quite
remarkable fore-runner to the modern detective story, he provides as frontispiece a drawing of the
prison cell which, amongst other details, places the alleged suicide weapon far beyond the reach of the
dead man. Thirty five years later Braddon was still arguing his case with an attack on the manner in
which the event had been portrayed in Bishop Gilbert Burnet's History of his own Times.
Essex left a bridge across the river Liffey connecting Parliament Street and Capel Street which serves
as a lasting memorial of his period of office here.
37. [BRAMSDEN, James] The Art of Politicks, In Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry.
Frontispiece. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, and Sold at the Corner of Sycamore-Alley, in
Dame's-street, and by Stearne Brock, at Essex-gate, Bookseller, 1729. pp. [iv], 45. Recent quarter
morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Repair to a few leaves. A very good copy. Very
scarce.
€275
ESTC T22467 listing 4 locations only in Ireland.
38. BREEN, Dan. My Fight for Irish Freedom. With an introduction by Joseph McGarrity
(Philadelphia). Illustrated. Dublin: Talbot, 1924. pp. xii, 258. Green cloth, title in black on upper
cover within a sunburst. Rare first edition.
€95
Dan Breen (1894-1969) born near Soloheadbeg County Tipperary, worked as a plasterer and later as a
linesman on the Great Southern Railway. Joined the Irish volunteers in 1914, and later Quartermaster
Third Tipperary Brigade. He was co-planner of the Soloheadbeg ambush, staged on the first day of
Dáil Éireann, 21 January 1919, this was the most significant incident since the Rising of Easter Week
for it marked the beginning of the War of Independence. With the price of £10,000 on his head, he
quickly established himself as a daring Republican.
39. BRENAN, Rev. M.J. An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, from the Introduction of
Christianity into that Country, to the year 1829. Two volumes. Dublin: John Coyne, 1840. pp. (1)
vi, 451, [1], (2) vii, 448. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine divided into five
compartments by four very wide raised bands, title and volume number in gilt on brown morocco
letterpiece in the second and fourth. All edges marbled. A very good set. Scarce.
€245
Michael J. Brenan, was born around 1790, the son of a stonemason. He received his early education
under Fr. McGrath in the old Kilkenny Academy. He became a member of the Franciscan Order and
was ordained to the Priesthood by Dr. Moran. He gained a reputation as a preacher and came into
collision with his Bishop, suspended, he left the church and became a Protestant. Taken up by Priests'
Protection Society under whose auspices he was announced to preach in St. George's Church, Dublin.
He went to the Capuchins in Church Street and asked to be admitted to the Order but was refused, but
the Franciscan Friars Minor received him at Wexford. There he lived and wrote his history. He died in
Dublin in November 1847 and is buried at Merchant's Quay.
CLARE AUTHOR
40. BREW, Margaret W. The Chronicles of Castle Cloyne: or, Pictures of the Munster People.
In three volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1884. pp. (1) xii, 324 (2) vii, [1], 328 (3) vii, [1],
297. With half-titles. Publisher's green cloth, titled in gilt with shamrock decorations. New
endpapers, covers faded. Loosely inserted is a six verse manuscript poem 'Requiem for the Brave'
by Margaret W. Brew, being an extract from Duffy's Hibernian Magazine, copied in 1919 by
James Coleman, FRSAI. Extremely rare.
€1,350
COPAC and WorldCat 1 copy only. Loeber B329. Brown 247.
Margaret W. Brew (1850-1905), novelist, poet and short story writer was born in County Clare. The
Brew family belonged to the landed gentry in that county (who resided at Applevale, Clonkerry,
Mullineen, Leadmore House, and at Springmount), but it is unclear to which of these families Margaret
belonged. She may be identified with a person of her name who owned a small estate at Lisduff, near
Corofin in 1876. She contributed poetry and stories to the Irish Monthly (Dublin, 1886-91). The novels
are described as works that seek social accommodation between religions and classes.
She also contributed to Duffy's Hibernian Magazine. Given the Catholic themes in the fiction, she
probably was a Catholic.
An English reviewer in the Athenaeum wrote that "one could hardly wish for a better Irish story, more
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touching, more amusing, more redolent of the soil - the hand of the native is manifest throughout in
these pictures of Munster folk". Deals with the Great Irish Famine years and gives a detailed
description of the local scene in Munster. Dedicated to Lady Florence Dixie.
41. BRISCOE, Robert & HATCH, Alden. For the Life of Me. With portrait frontispiece.
London: Longmans, 1958. pp. vi, 340. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in
pictorial dust jacket.
€45
The adventurous autobiography of an Irish Rebel who became first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.
42. BROMAGE, Mary C. De Valera and the March of a Nation. Illustrated. London:
Hutchinson, 1956. pp. 328. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed pictorial
dust jacket.
€50
43. BROOKS, Eric St. John. Ed. by. The Irish Cartularies of Llanthony Prima & Secunda.
Edited from the MSS in the Public Record Office, London. By Eric St. John Brooks. Dublin:
Stationery Office, 1953. Royal octavo. pp. xxx, 345. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the
library of T. W. Moody with his bookplate. A very good copy.
€175
This work consists of charters and other documents, civil and ecclesiastical from the twelfth to the
fifteenth century, relating to the Irish possessions of the priories situated in Monmouthshire and
Gloucestershire. The Irish possessions of these priories were mainly in counties Meath and Westmeath
and the north of County Dublin. Important source for ecclesiastical history, genealogists and local
historians.
IN FINE BINDING
44. BROWNING, Robert. Poems by Robert Browning. With introduction by Richard Garnett,
and Illustrations by Byam Shaw. London: George Bell, 1900. pp. xix, [2], 377. Contemporary
full green morocco. Spine divided by six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author
in gilt direct on the second, the remainder with gilt decoration in centre. Bookplate of the
Marquess of Sligo and Agatha his wife. Occasional light spotting. Top edge gilt. Fine.
€95
45. [BUCKLEY, Sir Richard] Animadversions on the Proposal for Sending Back the Nobility
and Gentry of Ireland. London: Printed for Tim. Goodwin, at the Maiden-head against St.
Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, 1690. pp. 39. Modern quarter calf. Repair to margin of final
leaf, with minute loss of text, titlepage dusted, otherwise a good copy.
€385
COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 1. Wing A 3199A. Sweeney 728.
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The contrary proposal ventilated by Sir Richard Buckley above was hotly condemned by this
anonymous critic describing how "Walking the other day in the Court of Requests (near to the
Areopagus of London, where most men spend their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear
some new thing), I encountered a pamphlet, dress'd up in the new mode of A letter to a gentleman, and
stiling itself The proposal for sending back the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland etc. I began to think with
myself, what pity it is that now (when a War with France, and the inhibition of all trade and commerce
from thence, the commodities of that countrey are grown scarce and dear) so much paper should be
wasted in such idle and unprofitable trifles". Of the author he writes "without question the man is in a
dream. He talks like a hen-wife of hens and geese giving them eggs (as if he had lately come from
surveying Leaden-Hall, or the Stocks-Market) but will not know, nor under-stand, that in such parts of
Ulster, where the enemy have ravaged, and even in many of those where our Forces are quarter'd, there
is not left a hen to cackle, or a cow to give them milk". Searching for a suitable simile to define the
total impracticality of the scheme he recalls the instance of "Sir Silvester Brown who propos'd to the
Council in Ireland to settle Stages and a Post-Road between Dublin and Holyhead under the Sea". This
was one idea ahead of its time being ventilated three centuries before the opening of the Channel
Tunnel.
46. BURKE, Edmund. Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. Member of Parliament for the City of
Bristol, On presenting to the House of Commons (On the 11th of February, 1780) A Plan for the
Better Security of the Independence of Parliament, and the Oeconomical Reformation of the
Civil and other Establishments. A New Edition. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall,
1780. pp. [iv], 95. Modern cream paper boards, title in black on spine. Occasional light foxing. A
very good copy.
€165
Todd 33c.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), statesman, political essayist and brilliant orator was born in Dublin, the
son of a Protestant father, and Catholic mother, Mary Nagle, direct descendant of Sir Richard Nagle,
Attorney General for Ireland, tempore James II. Edmund's paternal ancestors originated in County
Galway, thence to Limerick, where being dispossessed after the Rebellion of 1641, they eventually
settled near Castletownroche, County Cork.
He was educated at Abraham Shackleton's Quaker School at Ballitore in County Kildare who said of
Burke: "Edmund was a lad of the most promising genius, of an inquisitive and speculative turn of
mind, who read much. His memory was extensive, his judgement early ripe. He was affable, free and
accumulative, as ready to teach as to learn" (a true De Búrca!).
47. [BURKE, Edmund] An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in consequence of some
late Discussions in Parliament, relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution. Fourth
edition. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall, 1791. pp. [ii], 144. Recent quarter morocco on
marbled boards, title in black on spine. A fine copy.
€135
Todd 56b.
48. 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. London: Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-House,
Piccadilly, 1792. First English edition. pp. 88. Modern grey paper boards, title on printed label on
upper cover. A very good copy.
€265
Goldsmiths'-Kress 15432. ESTC T37953. Todd 59c.
49. BURKE, Edmund. A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to A Noble Lord, on
the attacks made upon him and his pension, in the House of Lords, by The Duke of Bedford and
the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the present Sessions of Parliament. London: Printed for J. Owen,
1796. pp. [ii], 80. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Old stain to
top right hand corner, otherwise a very good copy.
€165
50. BURKE, Edmund. Two Letters addressed to A Member of The Present Parliament, on the
proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. London: Printed for F. and C.
Rivington, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1796. pp. [ii], 188. Recent quarter green morocco on marbled
boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy.
€175
ESTC, T52080. Todd 66b.
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51. [BURNS, Robert] The Complete Works of
Robert Burns. Including his Correspondence,
etc. With a Memoir by William Gunnyon. The
Text Carefully Printed, and Illustrated with
Notes. With portrait and illustrations on wood,
by eminent artists. The Excelsior Edition.
London and Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo,
1877. pp. 12, [3], lxxviii, 402, 16. Green
pictorial cloth. A very good copy.
€65
52. BYRNE, Patrick. The Wildes of Merrion
Square. The Family of Oscar Wilde. London:
Staples Press, 1953. First edition. pp. 224.
Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. From
the library of Valerie S Crampton with her
bookplate and signature on front endpaper. A
very good copy in frayed dust jacket.
€45
53. CAHILL, Rev. Dr. The Case of the
Madiais. Letter of The Rev. Dr. Cahill to the
Earl of Carlisle. Manchester: T. Smith, 1853.
pp. 8. Recent quarter morocco on marbled
boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy.€145
COPAC locates 1 copy only.
Cahill's response to a letter written by Carlisle
about religious persecution in Italy.
54. CAMPBELL, Rev. W. G The New
World; or, Recent Visit to America. Together with Introductory Observations for Tourists, and
four appendices, containing all suitable information for emigrants, &c. Portrait frontispiece.
London: Elliott Stock, & Dublin: John Robertson, 1871. pp. xvi, 208, with errata slip pasted at
end of contents. Owner's signature on title and dedication leaf. Stain to frontispiece. Recent
buckram. All edges gilt. A very good copy.
€175
Rev. Campbell is better known as the author of The Apostle of Kerry. It is printed on the titlepage that
this work is available from the Author, 96 Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Dublin.
55. CARLETON, William. Traits and Stories of The Irish Peasantry. With etchings by W.H.
Brooke, Esq. Two volumes. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, 9, Upper Sackville
Street, 1830. pp. (1) xii, 275, (2) [vi], 304. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, spine
divided into seven compartments by six gilt bands; title and volume number in gilt direct in
second and fourth. Very light foxing to titlepage of volume one. All edges sprinkled. A very
good set.
€475
William Carleton (1794-1869), was born in Prillisk, County Tyrone, one of fourteen children of a
tenant farmer. He went to Dublin and besides his novels, he also contributed articles to many journals:
the Christian Examiner; the Family Magazine; the Dublin University Magazine' etc. He also wrote for
The Nation but as D.J. O'Donoghue said: "Carleton was never a Nationalist, and was quite incapable of
adopting the principles of the Young Irelanders".
56. CARNEY, James. Ed. by. Poems on the Butlers of Ormond, Cahir, and Dunboyne (A.D.
1400-1650). Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1945. pp. xviii, 179, [1]. Quarter red
linen on red paper boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. Scarce.
€125
ONE OF THE GREAT CLASSIC RARITIES OF IRISH HISTORY
57. CARVE, Thomas. Lyra Sive Anacephalaeosis Hibernica, In qua De Exordio, seu Origine,
nomine, moribus, ritibusque Gentis Hibernicae Succincte tractatur; cui quoque accessere Annales
Ejusdem Hiberniae, Nec non Rerum gestarum per Europam ab Anno 1148. Usque ad
Annum1650. Editio secundo ... Authore R.D. Thoma Carve, de Mobernan Tipperariensi,
Sacerdote & Notario Apostolico. With six plates. Sulzbaci: Typis Abrahami Lichtenthaleri, 1666.
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Quarto. pp. [xx], 455, [27]. With an index and a page of errata. Bound by Bedford in nineteenth
century full green levant crushed morocco. Covers framed by gilt and blind fillets with fleurons
enclosing in the centre a gilt grolieresque device. Spine divided into six compartments by five
gilt raised bands; title, place and year of publication in gilt direct in the second and third, the
remainder tooled in gilt to floral design. All edges gilt. The Shane Leslie copy with his bookplate
and signature. A fine copy of this exceedingly rare book.
€7,500
Walsh 102. Bradshaw 5567. Sweeney 856 lists the 1651 Vienna edition.
Thomas Carve [Carew] (c.1590-1672), was born at Mobarnan, Fethard, County Tipperary. He was
proud to claim lineage with his famous Anglo-Norman namesake who in the fifteenth century held high
office and great influence in Munster. He stated that his brother Sir Ross Carew was married to
Clarendon's sister, Lady Hyde. Carve's claim to this distinguished family was questioned by his
opponent the Irish-born Franciscan, Anthony Bruodin, who
believed his surname was Carran - Carve acknowledged that the
Irish for his name was O Carrain. His sympathies were in many
respects anti-Irish, and, though skilled in his native tongue,
professed his preference for English. His mother was probably a
Butler of Ormond, and his early years were spent among the
Butlers, to whom, he says, he owed everything. Walter Harris in
his edition of Ware's Writers of Ireland asserts that Thomas was
educated at Oxford. Following his ordination for the diocese of
Leighlin, he left Ireland around 1624 and went to Germany as
Chaplain to Walter Butler, Colonel of a Scotch and Irish regiment
in the army of Frederick II of Austria and saw service in the many
campaigns of the Thirty Years War.
Carve returned to Ireland to visit his friends. In 1630 he rejoined
Butler this time for two years, leaving around the time of the death
of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Lutzen. On Colonel Butler's
death in the autumn of 1634 he became chaplain to his successor
Col. Walter Devereux who was the 'honoured' murderer of
Wallenstein. Carew accompanied Devereux and his regiment throughout Germany and following
Devereux's death in 1640, he was appointed Chaplain General of all the English, Scots and Irish forces.
This work was first published in 1661 when Carew was in his sixties.
As a piece of book production, this later edition is much more desirable than the first edition. Not only
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does the text extend the narrative which commenced in the year 1148 on beyond 1650 but it is surely
one of the very finest printings of any Irish-authored 17th century book. It conjured up a lyrical
response from Dibdin. It is also illustrated, and amongst the six engravings is an evocative depiction of
the author in old age, all the more valuable because we so seldom get a good likeness of the author in
Irish books of this era. The others show the harp, the national symbol; an allegory of Ireland; Charles I;
Donatus O'Brien on horseback against a Limerick background; and an adaptation of Hollar's plan of St
Patricks' Purgatory, i.e. Lough Derg.
COOLE PARK COPY
58. CASTI, Giovanni Battista. Gli Animali Parlanti poema. Portrait frontispiece. Four volumes.
Parigi: Brissot-Thivars, 1828. 16mo. Contemporary full tree calf. From the library of Sir William
Gregory with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Some pencil translations. New morocco
labels.
€125
59. CASTLEHAVEN, James Touchet, Earl of. The Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs; or, His
Review of the Late Wars in Ireland, With his own Engagement and Conduct therein. To which is
added, An Appendix and Postscript. The whole Enlarged and Corrected by himself. Dublin:
Printed by Espy and Cross, 9, Bedford-Row, 1815. pp. xxxii, 184. Contemporary full tree calf.
Spine rebacked preserving original backstrip. A good copy.
€125
James Touchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, was born in the early part of the 17th century. His father, the
2nd Earl, was beheaded on Tower Hill, 14th May 1631. James was restored to the title and estates in
1634. Returning from Rome in 1638 he attended Charles I in his campaign against the Scots, and
afterwards served in the Low Countries. Early in the war of 1641-1652 he was held prisoner and
confined in Dublin. Managing to escape, he travelled through Wicklow and Kilkenny, where he was
warmly received by the Supreme Council. In October, 1642, he was entrusted with a military
command.
The history of James Touchet's life for the next few years is a recital of petty skirmishes, battles, and
retreats, the reduction of castles, and misunderstandings with his fellow generals. He was bitterly
opposed to the Nuncio, and favoured the peace of 1646. Later he was appointed Master of the Horse by
Ormond. Upon the subjugation of the country by Cromwell he again withdrew to France and after the
Restoration, he was, by special Act of Parliament, restored to his dignities. He spent the remainder of
his life at his mansion in the county of Tipperary, where he died in 1684.
60. [CHAPBOOK] Sarah Dartnell. Illustrated with one engraving. Dublin: Tract Repository, 10
D'Olier Street, and 9 Paternoster Row, London. Printed by The Dublin Steam Printing Co., 94
Middle Abbey Street, n.d. (c.1890). 16mo. pp. 48. Engraved title. Stitched wrappers. A very good
copy. Exceedingly rare.
€275
61. CHILDERS, Erskine. The Riddle of the Sands. A Record of Secret Service. With maps.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1945. pp. xi, 289. Orange cloth, title in black along spine. A very
good copy.
€50
62. [CHRONOLOGY] A Chronology of some Memorable Accidents, From the Creation of the
World, to The Year, 1742. With list of subscribers. Dublin: Printed by James Carson, in
Coghill's-Court, Dame Street, opposite to the Cattle-Market, 1743. pp. xii, + errata, 112. Ex lib.
with stamps. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Some foxing
throughout, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€475
COPAC locates 7 copies only. Only eBook on WorldCat. ESTC T97269 listing 3 copies only in
Ireland. Not in Gilbert. Bradshaw 775.
The first thirty-four pages of this work is a conventional chronology based on Biblical and classical
Greek Sources. With the birth of St. Patrick in 377, an element of Irish history is introduced and this
increases with the passage of time. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the events include:
crimes; executions; fires; duels and accidents. There is also a record of amounts raised by a charity
sermon in all Dublin churches for poor weavers, by order of the Government. The total sum exceeded
twelve hundred pounds.
The list of subscribers runs to ten pages, double column, and many of them bought multiple copies.
It included: John Kearney, Patrick Lynch, John Maddox, Edward Mangan, Patrick Quinn of Tuam,
Patrick Lynch, Miss Pilkington, Adam Tate, etc.
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COL. AUGUSTINE FITZGERALD'S COPY
63. CHURCHILL, Charles. Poems. By Charles Churchill. In three volumes. Printed from the
Quarto Edition: with Large Corrections and Additions. The Fourth Edition. Volume one only.
Engraved frontispiece of the author. Dublin: Printed for Peter Wilson, in Dame-street, 1766. pp.
[v], 184. Contemporary full calf, 'Col. Augustine / FitzGerald: 1769' in gilt on upper cover. Spine
divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title in gilt on maroon letterpiece in the
second, the remainder tooled with a gilt shell device. Small old worm hole to lower inner margin,
otherwise a very good copy.
€275
A branch of the Geraldines of Pallas, County Limerick, was established at Carrigoran, parish of
Kilnasoolagh, Barony of Bunratty Lower, County Clare, from the 1660s. Edward FitzGerald of
Carrigoran, Member of Parliament for County Clare 1782, was left a large estate by his relative
Colonel Augustine FitzGerald of Sixmilebridge and Silvergrove, parish of Killuran, barony of Tulla
Lower. Colonel Augustine FitzGerald was married to Mercy Ryan, a daughter of Morgan Ryan of
Silvergrove. Edward FitzGerald's eldest son Augustine was created a baronet in 1822. In the 1870s the
FitzGerald estate was comprised of 14,915 acres. Griffith's Valuation shows that Sir Edward
FitzGerald's estate was mainly located in the parishes of Kilfarboy, barony of Ibrickan and Kilmacrehy
and Kilmanaheen, barony of Corcomroe.
Lady FitzGerald also was the immediate lessor of the townland of Urard, parish of Fennor, Barony of
Slievardagh, County Tipperary. This 1,043 acre townland, the estate of Lieutenant Colonel Augustine
Fitzgerald was advertised for sale in November 1856. By the 1880s the FitzGeralds had an estate in
Cornwall. When Clara Lady FitzGerald, the widow of the last baronet, died in 1922 Carrigoran was
sold to the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word.
A MEMENTO OF POST-FAMINE IRELAND
64. [CLARE SERVANT LETTER] Two page autograph letter, dated January 21, 1851 from
Ballymalone, near Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland. The letter of recommendation from Thomas
Kent and Margaret Kent mentions a young Irish woman, Bridget McDonald, who wishes to
emigrate with her brother Francis to the United States: "We the undersigned certify that Bridget
McDonald has lived with us during the last seven years, and has conducted herself with the
greatest propriety and strictly honest we now discharge her at her own request as she wishes to
emigrate to America ... we have no hesitation in saying that she will be an acquisition to a family
that may have children or as general servant". She was probably like a lot of other young women
at the time eager to get out of post-famine Ireland.
Written in a neat and legible forward-slanting hand. The top half of the third page is removed,
and there is spotting and mailing folds, and the condition is good.
€375
65. [CLARK., J. W.] Mr. John Mackenzye's Narrative of the Siege of London-Derry, A False
Libel: In defence of Dr George Walker. Written by his Friend in his Absence. London: Printed by
R. Simpson at the Harp; in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1690. pp. [1], 18. Modern half calf on marbled
boards. A fine copy.
€475
WorldCat 1. Wing C 4460. Sweeney 5479.
66. CLARKE, Aidan. The Old English in Ireland 1625-42. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966.
pp. 288. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
€65
'The Old English' was the title given to the descendants of the Anglo-Normans who first came over to
Ireland in 1169. They combined loyalty to England with a Catholicism that, since the Reformation, no
longer attracted English support. They also controlled one-third of the land of Ireland at a time when
political acceptability was becoming dependant on religious conformity. By 1625 religion had become
a matter of conflict with their retention of political power and control over the land. Yet in 1641, the
outbreak of the Civil War, they joined the Irish Catholic Confederacy.
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67. CLARKE, M. V. Registrum cartarum Monasterii B.V. Mariae de Tristernagh in commitatu
occidentalis midiae fundati et dotati a Galfredo de Constintine. Register of the Priory of the
Blessed Virgin Mary at Tristernagh. Transcribed and edited from the Manuscript in the Cathedral
Library, Armagh. With a preface by J.S.A Macaulay and K.M.E. Murray. With folding map of
the property of Tristernagh Abbey. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1941. pp. xxv, 141. Maroon
buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€75
68. CLARKE, Mrs. M.A. [Mary Anne] A Letter addressed to The Right Honourable William
Fitzgerald, Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer, one of the Lords of the Treasury, &c. &c. &c.
London: Published by J. Williams, 267, Strand, 1813. pp. [ii], 63. Recent quarter calf on marbled
boards, title in gilt on spine. Paper repair to titlepage, inoffensive water stain to lower inner
margin. A very good copy. Very scarce.
€365
COPAC locates 7 copies only. Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert.
William Vesey FitzGerald, statesman, was the elder son of the Right Hon. James FitzGerald, by his
wife Catherine Vesey, who was in 1826 created Baroness FitzGerald and Vesey in the peerage of
Ireland. He was born in 1783, and spent three years at Christ Church, Oxford, where he made some
reputation as a young man of ability.
FitzGerald first entered parliament in 1808 as member for Ennis (succeeding his father), a seat he held
until October 1812, when he was replaced by his father, and again between January 1813 and 1818. He
was implicated in the scandal involving the Duke of York and his mistress Mary Anne Clarke, but after
bringing valuable evidence of the case to the courts he was rewarded when he was appointed a Lord of
the Irish Treasury and to the Irish Privy Council in 1810. His motives at this time were impugned by
Mrs. Clarke in this Letter which she published in 1813, but though there probably was a grain of truth
in her assertions, there was not enough to damage Fitzgerald's reputation, and the lady was condemned
to nine months' imprisonment for libel.
In 1812 he was admitted to the British Privy Council and made a Lord of the Treasury in England,
Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer and First Lord of the Irish Treasury. He held the Irish offices until
they were merged with the English treasury in 1816. In 1820 FitzGerald was returned to Parliament for
Clare, which constituency he represented until 1828. In 1820 he was appointed Ambassador to Sweden.
He tried to make the Swedish King, Charles XIV John, repay the large sums of money given to him
during the Napoleonic Wars, but this was to no avail and he returned to Britain in 1823.
In 1828 the Duke of Wellington appointed him President of the Board of Trade and Treasurer of the
Navy. This required him to contest the Clare constituency once again but he was defeated. The election
was noteworthy in terms of Irish history because it led directly to Catholic Emancipation spearheaded
by his successor, Daniel O'Connell.
In 1835 he was created Baron FitzGerald, of Desmond and of Clan Gibbon in the County of Cork, in
the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which enabled him to take a seat in the House of Lords. He again
held office as President of the Board of Control under Sir Robert Peel between 1841 and 1843. Apart
from his political career FitzGerald was Lord Lieutenant of County Clare from 1831 to 1843, a trustee
of the British Museum, President of the Institute of Irish Architects and a Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries. Lord FitzGerald and Vesey died in May 1843, aged 59. He was unmarried and on his
death the barony of 1835 became extinct. He was succeeded in the Irish title by his younger brother,
Henry. Lord FitzGerald and Vesey's illegitimate son Sir William Vesey-FitzGerald became a
successful Conservative politician.
Mary Anne Clarke (born Mary Anne Thompson, 1776-1852) was the mistress of Prince Frederick,
Duke of York and Albany. Their relationship began in 1803, while he was Commander-in-Chief of the
army. Later in 1809, she wrote her memoirs which were published. She was the subject of a portrait by
Adam Buck, and a caricature by Isaac Cruikshank; ten days after the latter's publication, the Duke
resigned from his post as Commander of the British Army. In 1811, she commissioned Irish-born
sculptor Lawrence Gahagan to sculpt a marble bust of her; this is now housed in the National Portrait
Gallery, London.
Through her daughter who married Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier, Clarke was the ancestress of
author Daphne Du Maurier, who wrote the novel Mary Anne about her life.
RARE CORK PRINTING
69. 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
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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.
70. COE, W.E. The Engineering Industry of the North of Ireland. Illustrated. Newton Abbot:
David & Charles, 1969. pp. 224. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. From the library of
T.W. Moody with his bookplate and signature. A fine copy in dust jacket.
€65
71. COLLINS, Michael. Arguments for the
Treaty, by Michael Collins, President of the
Provisional Government. Dublin: Martin Lester
[1922]. pp. 32. Wrappers with photo of Collins.
A little soiling to cover, otherwise an excellent
copy, very scarce in this condition.
€275
In this little book, put together from speeches
delivered in the heat of the struggle, Collins'
political testament may be found. His language is
direct, his sincerity plain, the logic of his argument
inescapable.
"The Treaty was signed by me, not because they
held up an alternative of an immediate war - it was
not because of that I signed it. I signed because I
would not be one of those to commit the Irish
people to war without the Irish people committing
themselves to war ... is it the doctrine of Mr de
Valera and his followers that suffering and fighting
are to go on just because they are good in
themselves? We hear about the hard road which the
opposition is pointing out to the Irish nation, and
the inducements that are put before the people
towards ease, 'towards living practically the lives of
beasts'. This is the language of madness, or worse.
There is no slavery under the Treaty".
72. COMERFORD, Rev. M. Collections
relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin.
Illustrated. Three volumes. Dublin and London: James Duffy, (1883/86). pp. (1) viii, 340, (2) vi,
356, (3) iv, 419. Green blind-stamped ribbed cloth, titles and gilt decoration in gilt on spines.
Arms of the See of Kildare and Leighlin in gilt on upper covers and the arms of Carlow College
in gilt on lower. Spines professionally rebacked. A fine set in slipcase.
€495
73. [COOK, William] The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. With occasional remarks on his
writings, an authentic copy of his will, and a catalogue of his works. To which are added, some
papers written by Dr. Johnson, in behalf of a late unfortunate character, never before published.
Dublin: Printed for R. Moncrieffe, C. Jenkin, R. Burton, L. White, P. Byrne, J. Cash, S. Colbert,
and W. M'Kenzie, 1785. 12mo. pp. 240. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, title in gilt on red
morocco letterpiece on spine. A very good copy.
€275
ESTC N10402.
Includes: 'A catalogue of Dr. Johnson's works'. With a half-title.
74. COOKE, John. Ed. by. The Dublin Book of Irish Verse 1728-1909. Edited by John Cooke.
Dublin: Hodges Figgis, and London: Henry Frowde, 1909. pp. viii, 803, [1]. Contemporary full
tree calf, covers framed by a gilt floral roll. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt
raised bands; title in gilt on green morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt
to a centre-and-corner design with a shamrock at centre; gold and blue endbands. All edges
marbled. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy.
€125
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SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 50 COPIES ONLY
75. CRAIG, Maurice. Notes on my Books. Dublin: The DOVS, 2006. pp. 23. Quarter linen on
blue paper boards, title in black on upper cover and on paper label on spine. Edition limited to 50
copies only, numbered and signed by the author, binder and publisher. A fine copy. Rare. €375
A fine edition set in Monotype hot-metal in 12 and 14 point Plantin by Con Devlin at the National Print
Museum, printed letterpress by Sean Sills at NCAD on Zerkall mould-made 210gsm paper.
Maurice Craig (1919-2011) was born in Belfast and was educated at Castle Park, Dalkey and
Shrewsbury School before going on to Magdalene College, Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin.
He has written on subjects as diverse as Irish bookbindings, biography, poetry, and topography, but it is
for his books on architectural subjects that he was best known. His seminal Dublin 1660 - 1860
appeared in 1952 and was followed by further ground-breaking works including Classic Irish Houses
of the Middle Size and The Architecture of Ireland from the Earliest Times to 1880.
EARLY IRISH BOOKPLATE
76. [CRESSY, Hugh Paulinus de] Roman-Catholick Doctrines No Novelties: or an Answer to
Dr. Pierce's Court-Sermon, Mis-call'd The Primitive Rule of Reformation. S.n., 1663. First
edition. Small Octavo. pp. [14], 287, [290], 281-322, [6]. Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked
in antique-style gilt ruled calf, rubbed and darkened to extremities of boards. Chipping to
endpapers, slight surface loss to A2 made good in manuscript, paper flaw to E1. From the
Mendham collection, with pencilled shelf-marks to front endpaper and neat bibliographical note
in Joseph Mendham's hand to title. Contemporary ink inscription of Johis. Lathum to head of
title, with note in his hand on lower margin. Early armorial bookplate of Sir John Percivale
Baronet of Burton in the County of Cork in Ireland, dated 1702, worn.
€575
Wing C 6902. Sweeney 1258
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Dom Serenus Cressy, O.S.B., (c.1605-1674) Roman Catholic convert, Benedictine monk, and
historian, who became a noted scholar in Church history. He was born Hugh Paulinus de Cressy at
Thorpe Salvin, Yorkshire, the son of Hugh de Cressy and Margery d'Oylie of London. Educated first at
Wakefield Grammar school, when fourteen years old he went to Oxford, where he took the degree of
B.A. in 1623 and that of M.A. in 1627. He was elected a Fellow of Merton College and took orders in
the Established Church. Leaving Oxford he became chaplain, first to Thomas, Lord Wentworth, and
afterwards to Lucius Cary, Lord Falkland, with whom he went to Ireland in 1638. During his sojourn in
Ireland he was appointed Dean of Leighlin, but returned to England the following year (1639).
Exiled during the Civil War, Cressy when he became a Roman Catholic, considered entering the
Carthusians, but eventually opted to join the Benedictine Order at Douai, which he did in 1648, and
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was given the name of Serenus. Returning to
England in 1660 he served as one of the chaplains
to Queen Catherine of Braganza, wife of King
Charles II of England and a Roman Catholic. For
four years he resided at Somerset House, which
served as her official residence. He was involved in
theological controversies with Bishop George
Worley of Worcester and Edward Stillingfleet. He
then went to provide spiritual care to the Catholic
Caryll family and died at East Grinstead, Sussex on
10 August 1674.
John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont (1683-1748),
known as Sir John Perceval, Bt, from 1691 to 1715,
as The Lord Perceval from 1715 to 1722 and as The
Viscount Perceval from 1722 to 1733, was an
Anglo-Irish politician. He was born at Burton,
County Cork, the second son of Sir John Perceval,
3rd Baronet, and Catherine, daughter of Sir Edward
Dering, 2nd Baronet. His father died when he was
two, and in 1691, he succeeded his elder brother as
fifth Baronet.
77. [CRESSY, Hugh Paulinus de] I. Question.
Why are you a Catholic? The answer follows. II. Question. But why are you a Protestant? An
answer attempted (in vain). Written by the Rev. Father S. C. Monk of the Holy Order of St.
Benedict, and of the English Congregation. London: Printed in the Year 1686. pp. [iv], 72.
Modern half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€375
Wing C6900.
78. 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. Quarto. Original half black morocco on cloth boards, titled in gilt direct
on gilt decorated spine. Light foxing to frontispiece, otherwise a fine copy.
€575
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.
79. CURRAN, C.P. The Rotunda Hospital: its Architects and Craftsmen. With photographs by
E. Phyllis Thompson. List of subscribers. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1945. Crown
octavo. pp. [x], 50, xvi (plates). Full blue morocco, title in black on upper cover and on spine.
Some light wear to spine ends, otherwise a very good copy.
€250
Dr. Bartholomew Mosse, in 1745, opened the first Dublin Lying-in Hospital, for poor women of the
Capital, in George's Lane, now South Great George's Street. This developed into the Rotunda. His
charity was the first of its kind in these islands. The design and execution of the new hospital was
carried out by the resolution and determination of Dr. Mosse, without the benefit of fortune or
patronage. The list of the architects and craftsmen engaged includes the most distinguished names of
eighteenth century Dublin. The book contains much unpublished material and includes details of the
music and entertainment provided in the New Gardens.
80. DALRYMPLE, Gilbert. A Letter from Edinburgh to Dr. Sherlock, Rectifying the
Committee's Notions of Sincerity. Defending the Whole of the B. of Bangor's Doctrine. And
Maintaining that Religion, not a Profession of it, is Religion; That The Gospel, not a Corruption
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of it, is the Gospel, That Christ, not the Church, is Christ. In which is An Apology for the English
Dissenters with a word or two relating to Mr. Toland. The fourth edition with a preface and
notes. London: Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, A. Dodd without Temple Bar, and J. Fox
in Westminster-Hall, 1719. pp. 48. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A
very good copy.
€185
This is a pamphlet usually ascribed to George Legh in answer to another by Henry Stebbings in the
series of attacks and defences of Benjamin Hoadley (1676-1761). Hoadley, was the spokesman for the
Latitudinarians (those tolerant of Non-Conformists) in the Anglican Church especially in his
'Persuasive to Lay Conformity' (1704) and in his sermon delivered after his consecration as Bishop of
Bangor 'The Nature of the Kingdom or Church of Christ' (1717).
This set off the so-called Bangorian controversy, with more than a thousand pamphlets published in the
following years. He was consistently attacked by more orthodox High-Church men like Jonathan Swift
and, interestingly, defended by deists like John Toland. The printer John Roberts was one of those
often associated with publications by Toland especially in the period 1710-22.
81. D'ALTON, Rev. E.A. History of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. HalfVolume I to the year 1210; Half-volume II 1210 to 1547; Half-volume III 1547 to 1649; Halfvolume IV 1649 to 1782; Half-volume V 1782 to 1879; Half-volume VI 1879 to 1908.
Illustrated. London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1913. Green cloth, title in gilt on spines.
Top edges gilt. A very good set. See illustration below.
€265
82. DAUNT, William J. O'Neill. Ireland and Her Agitators. Dublin: John Browne, 1845. pp.
viii, 376, [2]. Green blind stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the library of Castleknock
College with their stamp. A very good copy. Scarce.
€175
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William J. O'Neill Daunt (pseudonyms, Denis Ignatius Moriarty & John O'Brien Grant) was born in
Tullamore, 1807. He became a Catholic about 1827, was M.P. for Mallow, and joined the Repeal
Association on its foundation and was always a staunch supporter of O'Connell. As a writer Daunt is
better known for his novels. He died at Kilcascan Castle in 1896.
This work is dedicated to the people of Ireland: "The instinct of every Irishman - unless he is
influenced by sectarian animosities and fears - will impel him not only to abhor the destruction of his
country's legislature, but to hate the destroyer also. There never was a greater blunder than to call the
Union a bond of international affection". The author goes on to state: "When I was a boy of ten years
old, I was told by my seniors that we once had a Parliament in Ireland, and that English influence
extinguished it. Thenceforth I regarded England with abhorrence ... but which Repeal alone can fully
eradicate".
With chapters on: Castlerea and Carew; Social Division of Protestants and Catholics; Persecution of
the People; Words of Edmund Burke; Exploit of the Frazer Fencibles; Lord Norbury; Grattan at St.
Stephens; Orange Repealers; Panic of the 'Loyalists'; State-Church Arguments; Mr. Nangle's Achill
Conspiracy; The Macroom Dinner; Defiance to Wellington; Spring Rice's Statistical Jugglery; Cork
Election of 1832; Evangelical Landlordism; O'Connell's Motion; Parliamentary Claptrap; Peel's Libel
on the Catholics; The Government Spy in 1797-98; Anomalous Condition of Ireland; Poetry of the
Nation; The Munster Meetings; Night-Storm on the Shannon; Impressions at Limerick, etc.
With four pages of advertisements, including press-notices, for works published by J. Browne, and
James Duffy. With errata.
83. [DAVIS, Thomas] Thomas Davis: The Thinker & Teacher. The Essence of his Writings in
Prose and poetry. Selected, Arranged and Edited by Arthur Griffith. Illustrated. Dublin: Gill,
1922. pp. xvi, 288. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. From the
library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate and signature. Foxing to endpapers, otherwise a very
good copy.
€50
84. DEANE, Arthur. Ed. by. The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society. Centenary
Volume, 1821-1921. A review of the activities of the society for 100 years with historical notes
and memoirs of many distinguished members. With list of subscribers and numerous tipped-in
plates. Illustrated. Belfast: Mayne, 1924. pp. x, 212, + adverts. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper
cover and along spine. A very good copy. Scarce.
€75
85. DE BLACAM, Hugh. Gentle Ireland. An Account of a Christian Culture in History and
Modern Life. Illustrated. Milwaukee: Bruce, 1935. pp. xi, 183. Green cloth. Frayed pictorial dust
jacket with mild foxing. A very good copy.
€25
86. DE LACY-BELLINGARI. The Roll of the House of Lacy. Pedigrees, Military Memoirs
and Synoptical History of the Ancient and Illustrious Family of De Lacy from the earliest times,
in all its Branches, to the Present Day. Full notices on allied families and a memoir of the
Brownes (Camas). Illustrated. Baltimore: 1928. pp. viii, 409. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine.
Some mild staining to rear endpaper. Loosely inserted are some notes on Field-Marshal Count
Peter De Lacy. A very good copy. Very scarce.
€275
Also included with this item is: 'Notes on the Family of De Lacy in Ireland' by Nicholas J. Synnott,
being an extract from the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland. Consisting of 19 pages
with folding genealogical chart. Bound in modern wrappers.
87. DEVINE, T.M. and DICKSON, David. Ed. by. Ireland and Scotland 1600-1850. Parallels
and Contrasts in Economic and Social Development. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1983. pp 283.
Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
€75
This work explores the divergence of the two societies after 1780 during which time Scotland moved
towards industrialisation while Ireland experienced the horrors of the great famine and mass
emigration. With contributions by: Aidan Clarke, Sean Connolly, Louis Cullen, David Dickson, G.
Kirkham, Bruce Lenman, Cormac Ó Gráda, David Stevenson etc.
With chapters on: Ireland and Scotland - The Seventeenth Century Legacies Compared; The English
Connection and Irish and Scottish Development in the Eighteenth Century; Some Aspects of the
Structure of Rural Society in Seventeenth-Century Lowland Scotland; Agricultural Change and its
Social Consequences in the Southern Uplands of Scotland; Ulster as a Mirror of the Two Societies;
Migration; Across the Briny Ocean - Some Thoughts on Irish Emigration to America, 1800-1850;
Planned Village Development in Scotland and Ireland; Settlement Development and Trading in
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Ireland; Scottish-Irish Trade in the Eighteenth Century; Social Comparison of the Business Class in the
Larger Scottish Towns, 1680-1740; The Place of Dublin in the Eighteenth-Century Irish Economy; The
Influence of Religion on Economic Growth in Scotland, etc.
88. DI GARGANO, Michael. Irish and English Freemasons and Their Foreign Brothers: their
System, Oaths, Ceremonies, Secrets, Grips, Signs, and Passwords. With official list of names and
coloured illustrations. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1876. Quarto. pp. 108 (double column). Maroon
pebbled cloth boards, title typed on label on upper cover. Occasional light foxing to plates, some
pencil scribbling on verso of some pages, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €495
Includes an alphabetical listing of officers and members of the Irish and English Freemasons.
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89. DICKSON, Charles. The Wexford Rising in 1798. Its Causes and its Course. Tralee: The
Kerryman, n.d. (1955). pp. 273, [2] (map). Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy
in frayed dust jacket.
€45
In this authoritative work the author of the Life of Michael Dwyer completes his account of events in
Wexford during the Rebellion of 1798. His research over a long period has disclosed valuable
unpublished material and this has provided the key to an understanding of much which has hitherto
been obscure. The author has been concerned, not only to detail the actual events of that evocative time
but to describe without bias, sectarian or otherwise, the historical background and the motives which
impelled the combatants on both sides to act as they did.
90. DICKSON, R.J. Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775. London: Routledge,
1966. pp. xiv, 320. Green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. From the library of T.W. Moody with his
bookplate. A fine copy in faded dust jacket.
€65
Much has been written of the contribution of the Scotch-Irish to the making of the United States of
America - the ten Presidents of direct Scotch-Irish stock, the frontiers men such as Davy Crockett,
household name such as Sam Houston of Texas and Stonewall Jackson. This study answers many
questions and tells why and by what means more than one hundred thousand Scotch-Irish men, women
and children uprooted themselves and crossed the wide Atlantic to a dangerous new frontier.
91. DIGBY, Margaret. Horace Plunkett. An Anglo-American Irishman. Illustrated. Oxford:
Basil Blackwell, 1949. pp. xvi, 314. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in
frayed and foxed dust jacket.
€65
Horace Plunkett came of an old Anglo-Irish family. After Oxford in the eighteen-seventies he set out
for the 'Wild West', where he ranched. On returning to Ireland years later he founded the agricultural
co-operative movement, later he became an M.P. struggling persistently, if in vain, for a united selfgoverning Ireland within the Commonwealth.
92. DODWELL, Henry. Two Short Discourses Against The Romanists: I. An Account of the
Fundamental Principle of Popery, and of the Insufficiency of the Proofs which they have for it.
II. An Answer to Six Queries proposed to a Gentlewoman of the Church of England, by an
Emissary of the Church of Rome. With a new Preface particularly relating to the Bishop of
Meaux, and other Modern Complainers of Misrepresentation. By Henry Dodwell late of Trinity
College near Dublin. London: Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1688. pp. xii, 9 [2], 24, [8], 32. With a
general as well as two individual titlepages. Modern quarter calf. A very good copy.
€225
Wing D 1825. Sweeney 1457.
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This work comes "With a new preface particularly relating to the Bishop of Meaux, and other modern
complainers of misrepresentation".
IN ORIGINAL FINE FRENCH BINDING
"IN THE SERVICE OF FAITH AND FATHERLAND"
93. [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 mottled calf. Spine expertly rebacked preserving original
backstrip, richly decorated in gilt. New morocco letterpiece. Premium prize awarded to D.S.
O'Kelly, dated 1771, with inscription in Latin and armorial stamp of Tetschner Bibliothek on
front free endpaper facing half-title. A very good copy. All edges red. Rare.
€1,750
Dr. Andrew Donlevy was born in the barony of
Tirerrill, County Sligo in 1680. Educated at a hedgeschool 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.
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BEAN FAMILY BIBLE
94. [DOUAY BIBLE] The Holy Bible: Translated from the Latin Vulgate; ... With annotations,
references, historical and chronological index … Published with the approbation of the Catholic
Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland. Dublin: James Duffy, Wellington Quay, and Paternoster
Row, London, 1866. pp. 216 (double column). Bound by James Duffy of Dublin in full black
morocco. Covers identically tooled decorated by a double gilt fillet and blind border with outer
and inner fleurons made up of blind stamped crosses and spearheads, enclosing in the centre a
gilt crucifix. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in
the second, the remainder identically tooled with a gilt cross; wide doublures elaborately tooled
in gilt; blue and white endbands. All edges gilt. A near fine copy.
€675
The Bible has numerous religious inserts and genealogical details relating to the Bean family.
Presentation inscription to William Edward Bean from his mother dated September 3rd 1879 on front
pastedown. With birth, baptism and confirmation details of William Bean who was born at Longford
Street, Dublin, in 1852. He was confirmed by Archbishop (later Cardinal) Cullen. He married Elizabeth
Florence Forster in Sligo in 1888 and their off-spring are also listed. The family moved to Birmingham
where William Edward Bean was Surveyor of Customs and Excise.
95. [DOYLE, Dr. Arthur Conan] An Extra Christmas Number of London Society for 1882.
('The Twenty-first Year of Publication'.) Richly illustrated. London: London Society, 22 Exeter
Street, Strand, London W.C., 1882. pp. 96, [4] (advertisements). A very good copy in illustrated
wrappers.
€75
This issue includes the first appearance of Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle's 'My Friend the Murderer' and the
very fine illustrations by Charles Altamont Doyle, his father, to 'Our Entertainment' by T.W.
Robertson, a tale set in the fictional Irish town of Shandranaghan. Of further Irish interest is the first
appearance of 'Seth Baker', a narrative poem by Frederick Langbridge.
"Two men looked out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars" - Frederick
Langbridge (1849-1923).
96. DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: George Newnes,
1902. First edition. First issue in book form. Small octavo. Publisher's red cloth with black and
gilt pictorial upper cover. Internally a clean copy with minimal foxing and minimal thumbing.
Decorative gilding clean and crisp. Cloth bright with just a little fading to spine and minor
bumping to corners. Inch tear to lower margin of final leaf. Light spotting to fore-edge. A very
good copy in solander box.
€1,375
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First edition in book form after the serial publication in the "Strand Magazine" Aug. 1901-April 1902.
Illustrated with sixteen full-page illustrations by Sidney Paget.
97. DOYLE, Colonel Arthur. A Hundred Years of Conflict. Being some Records of the
Services of Six Generals of the Doyle Family, 1756-1856. With illustrations. London: New York,
Bombay, and Calcutta, 1911. pp. ix, [1], 198, + errata. Red cloth, title in blind on upper cover
and in gilt on faded spine. Mild foxing to prelims. A very good copy. Rare.
€295
With frontispiece of General Sir John Doyle, who was the son of Charles Doyle, of Bramblestown,
County Kilkenny, and of Clomony, County Carlow.
General Sir John Doyle, 1st Baronet GCB, KCH (1756-1834) joined the British Army in 1771 and
served with distinction in the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars. He
was elected Member of Parliament for Mullingar in the Irish House of Commons in 1783, and went on
to serve as Secretary of War in the Irish administration of Dublin Castle.
Doyle raised his own regiment, the 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot, for the French
Revolutionary Wars in 1793 and served in Holland, Gibraltar and Egypt. His efforts were greatly
appreciated by King George III, who took the trouble to write to the Earl Marshall, "... so that his
[Doyle's] zeal and exertions in our service may be known to posterity".
The latter part of his career included his appointment as Private Secretary to George IV the Prince of
Wales. He was also appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1803 where he served until 1813.
98. [DUBLIN METROPOLIS] Police District Dublin Metropolis. Abstract of the Statute Laws in
Force relating to Carriages, Carts, and Horses, Plying
within the Police District of Dublin Metropolis; to
which are added the bye-laws, rules and orders, for the
regulation of the proprietors, drivers, and conductors
thereof, made by the Commissioners of Police of the
said district. Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom,
1858. 16mo. pp. viii, 128. Bound in full red morocco.
Covers ruled in gilt enclosing in the centre the Royal
Cipher and the legend 'His Excellency The Lord
Lieutenant'. Fore-edges ruled in gilt; gold and blue
patterned endpapers. Minor surface wear. All edges
gilt. A fine copy.
€395
99. [DUBLIN REVIEW] The Dublin Review. 18361936. Complete list of articles published between May
1836 and April 1936. London: Burns Oates &
Washbourne, Ltd, 1936. pp. 96. Green faded cloth,
title in gilt along spine. Bookseller's ticket on front
pastedown. A very good copy.
€85
100. DUFFY, Sir Charles Gavan. My Life in Two
Hemispheres. Two volumes. With portraits. London:
Unwin, 1898. pp. (1) xi, 335, (2) xi, 395, + publishers list. Red ribbed cloth, title in gilt on spines.
Conradh na Gaedhilge Linden Library notice slip attached to front free endpaper also with their
library stamp. Staining to covers, otherwise a very good set.
€125
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (1816-1903), Irish nationalist who later became an Australian political leader
was born in Monaghan town. While studying law in Dublin, Duffy, along with John Blake Dillon and
Thomas Davis, founded the Nation in 1842, a weekly journal of Irish nationalist opinion. Later he and
his two colleagues formed the "Young Ireland" party, which advocated Irish independence. Duffy was
seized just before an abortive attempt at insurrection (August 1848) and imprisoned until 1849. In 1852
he was elected to Parliament for New Ross, County Wexford, and in that body he organized an
independent opposition of some 50 Irish members to obstruct any government that did not support the
demands of the Irish Tenant League. His tactics foreshadowed those of Charles Stewart Parnell, but
Duffy's efforts were frustrated by factionalism and by lack of support from the Irish clergy, who
thought him too radical.
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Duffy retired from Irish politics in 1855, and, leaving Ireland, he said, "as a corpse on a dissecting
table", he went to Australia. He practised law in Melbourne and was elected to the Victoria House of
Assembly in 1856. After becoming minister of that state's land and works (1857), he promoted an
important land act. He served as prime minister of Victoria in 1871-72, was knighted in 1873, and was
speaker of the Victoria House of Assembly from 1877 to 1880. Afterwards he retired to the south of
France to write his memoirs, which form a principal source for the history of Ireland in the period.
101. DUFFY, Sir Charles Gavan. Young Ireland. A Fragment of Irish History 1840-1850.
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1880. pp. viii, 778, 8 (advertisements). Green blind and gilt
stamped cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. From the library of T.W. Moody's copy with
his signature and bookplate. Light foxing to prelims, otherwise a fine copy.
€75
102. DUNLOP, Robert. Ireland: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. London: Oxford
University Press, 1922. pp. 224, [1]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the library of T.W.
Moody with his bookplate and signature. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket.
€25
With chapters on: Celtic Ireland; The Anglo-Irish Colony; Conquest and Plantation; Rebellion and
Settlement; Protestant Ascendancy; Struggle for National Independence.
103. DUPLAIN, Claude. La Religion Vengée des Blasphêmes de Voltaire, en six cantos: Ou les
Horreurs de son Epitre à Uranie, Pour La Meditation Des Deistes, Et des jeunes Chretiens qui
n'ont pas encore secoüé le joug de la foi, pour les mettre en garde contre un Auteur dont les
ouvrages tendent à les surprendre et à les perdre. Par Claude Duplain. Par Claude Duplain.
Dublin: Par J.A. Husband, No. 28, Abbey-Street, 1783. Pagination collated and correct.
Contemporary full calf. Boards detached. Internally a fine copy.
€275
ESTC T12618. With 4 locations in Ireland and 3 in England.
In the final advertisement leaf we are told the author of this anti-Enlightenment poem was a teacher of
French, translator, and a teacher of English to foreigners, working from 6 Marlborough Street, Dublin.
Our copy has that address changed in a contemporary hand to 4 Jarvais Street.
With a half-title, and a list of 'Subscribers names', the author dedicated this work to Walter Hussey
Burgh. Each canto is preceded by two leaves outside the pagination and register containing a divisional
title and a summary of the canto with notes.
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
104. DURCAN, Paul. The Laughter of Mothers. London: Harvill Secker, 2007. pp. [12], 131.
First edition. Bound in full green morocco, title in gilt along spine. Gilt decoration to covers.
Edition limited to 100 numbered copies signed by Paul Durcan. Publisher's slip on the care of the
leather binding is loosely inserted. All edges gilt. A fine copy in fine slipcase.
€275
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105. ELIZABETH, Charlotte [Mrs. Tonna] Derry: A Tale of the Revolution. London: James
Nisbet, 1839. Third edition. pp. vii, [1], 381, 2 (list). Bound in half calf over marbled boards by
Hynes of Galway with their ticket on front pastedown. Previous owner's signature on titlepage
'Anne O'Hara'. Some wear to spine. A very good copy.
€125
106. ENSOR, George. Defects of the English Laws and Tribunals. London: J. Johnson and Co.,
1812. First edition. pp. vii, [3], 507, [l], including the errata leaf but possibly wanting a half-title,
two leaves torn across (but no loss of surface or text). Contemporary half calf over marbled
boards, spine with gilt lines and red morocco letterpiece, extremities a bit worn, uncut. A very
good copy with the early 19th century armorial bookplate of William Middleton Esq. of
Crowfield Hall, Suffolk. Rare.
€325
COPAC lists 4 copies.
An interesting contribution to the subject by the Irish Benthamite George Ensor (1769-1843). "He
devoted himself to political writing, and produced a large number of works in which very 'advanced'
views in politics and religion are advocated. He was widely read, and wrote in a powerful and sarcastic
though sometimes inflated style. His attacks were specially directed against the English government in
Ireland .... Bentham describes him as clever but impracticable" [DNB]. Ensor lived for much of his life
at Ardress in County Armagh.
Holdsworth was far from enthusiastic, however, about Ensor's Defects of English Law. "The author
knows some law, and has read fairly widely", he writes. "He seizes upon the obvious defects, but he is
very verbose, he has no historical sense, and he makes no constructive proposals for reform. He is
especially severe on ecclesiastical law which he regards as more obnoxious than common law, equity,
or the law of the constitution".
107. EUSTACE, Reverend John Chetwode. A Letter from Paris to George Petre, Esq. London:
Printed for J. Mawman, 39, Ludgate Street, 1814. Fourth edition. pp. [ii], 2, 98. Recent quarter
calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib. Dublin Institute, with stamp from 1811. A
fine copy. Exceedingly rare.
€375
COPAC locates only 2 copies only. Not in Bradshaw, Gilbert, Lough Fea or NLI.
John Chetwode Eustace (1762-1815), classical antiquary, was born in Ireland around 1762, descended
from the ancient Cheshire family of Chetwode on his mother's side. At the English Benedictine convent
of St. Gregory at Douay he received the habit but left without making his profession. Afterwards he
went to Maynooth College, accepted the professorship of belles-lettres, and was ordained priest.
Bishop Milner states that Eustace, after provoking the indignation of the prelates of Ireland, settled in
the English midlands and promoted the Protestant faith. In June, 1814, during the short peace, he
accompanied Lord Carrington and Essex on an excursion to France, and on his return published this
remarkable description of the changes made by war and revolution in that country.
An intimate friend of Edmund Burke, Lady Morgan is said to have made his 'Classical Tour through
Italy' the basis of her well-known work on Italy.
108. [EVANGELICAL TRACT] The Blind Irishman Restored to Sight, When nearly an
Hundred Years of Age. A true, and very remarkable story. Related by the Clergyman who visited
him. London: Printed and sold by J. Evans & Son, n.d. (c.1800). pp. 8. Woodcut on titlepage and
final leaf. Recent quarter morocco. Paper repair to fore-edge of three leaves. A very good copy.
Exceedingly rare.
€235
COPAC locates 1 copy only of this edition.
109. [EVELYN, John Junior] The History of the Grand Visiers, Mahomet and Achmet
Coprogli, of the three last Grand Signiors, their Sultana's and Chief Favourites; with the most
secret Intrigues of the Seraglio, besides several other particulars of the Wars of Dalmatia,
Transylvania, Hungary, Candia, and Poland. Englished by John Evelyn, junior. London: Printed
for H. Brome, at the Gun at the West-end of St. Pauls, 1677. PP. [6], 277. Large 16mo. Bound in
full burgundy morocco. Covers framed by double gilt fillets, square gilt floral design at corners
and in centre with painted onlays. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands
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dotted in gilt, title and author in gilt direct in the second and third, the remainder with gilt device.
Fore-edges ruled in gilt, gilt doubloures with green morocco centre panel, 'Adams, N.Y.' on front
pastedown stamped in gilt; purple moiré silk endpapers; red and green endbands. All edges gilt.
A fine copy.
€1,250
Wing C3728.
Köprülü Mehmed Pasha (c.1575-1661) was the founder of the Albanian Köprülü political dynasty of
the Ottoman Empire, a family of viziers, warriors, and statesmen who dominated the administration of
the Ottoman Empire during the last half of the 17th century, an era known as the Köprülü era. He
helped rebuild the power of the empire by rooting out corruption and reorganizing the Ottoman army.
As he introduced these changes, Köprülü also expanded the borders of the empire, defeating the
Cossacks, the Hungarians, and most impressively, the Venetians. Köprülü's effectiveness was matched
by his reputation. He founded the city of Köprülü (now Veles, Macedonia) in Rumelia, where his eldest
son, Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed, was born.
110. FAHY, Sr. Mary de Lourdes. Education in the Diocese of Kilmacduagh in the Nineteenth
Century. With maps and tables. Gort: 1972. pp. 149. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the
library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate. A fine copy in dust jacket.
€65
111. FALLON, Niall. The Armada in Ireland. With maps and numerous illustrations. London:
Stanford Maritime, 1978. First edition. pp. x, 236. Tan paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine
copy in mild stained dust jacket.
€65
In May 1588 the greatest battle fleet the world had ever seen set out from the mouth of the Tagus to
conquer England. The fleet consisted of sixty-five heavily armed galleons, twenty-five store ships, and
thirty smaller vessels. After the disastrous encounter with the English fleet, some of the ships sought
shelter on the western coast of Ireland whose inhospitable ragged and rocky coastline became the
graveyard of almost one quarter of the Spanish fleet.
112. FAYLE, H. (The Late), & NEWHAM, A.T. The Waterford & Tramore Railway. With
illustrations, map, diagrams, timetables, loads, locomotives, tickets etc. Newton Abbot: David &
Charles, 1972. pp. 63. Green papered boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine pictorial
dust jacket.
€45
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See items 113 & 114.
DUBLIN BINDING
113. FENELON, M. De La Mothe. A Demonstration of the Existence of God: Deduced from
The Knowledge of Nature, and More particularly from that of Man. Translated from the French
by Samuel Boyse. London: Printed for John Bumpus, 1821. 12mo. New edition. pp. xii, 204.
Bound in full contemporary straight-grained olive green morocco and tooled in gilt. Covers
decorated with a gilt border of a vine roll and blind fillets. Spine gilt in five compartments, with
the second lettered; gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt; yellow endbands; grey endpapers. A very good
copy.
€135
Provenance: The signature of Maria Sidney, 19 Hardwick Street, Dublin and dated 13 January 1841 on
the endpapers. An elegant binding in the style of, and possibly by, George Mullen.
114. FERGUSSON, Sir James. The Curragh Incident. Illustrated. London: Faber and Faber,
1964. First edition. pp. 236. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in faded dust
jacket.
€45
Sir James Fergusson, the Keeper of the Records of Scotland, examines in this book some of the
unsolved mysteries of the incident at the height of the Irish Home Rule crisis of early 1914 when 58
cavalry officers, stationed at the Curragh and in Dublin, choose dismissal from the Army rather than
the possibility of 'active operations in Ulster'.
115. FIGGIS, Darrell. A Chronicle of Jails. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1917. pp. [vi], 130.
Printed grey wrappers, title in upper cover and along spine. From the library of T. W. Moody. A
very good copy.
€95
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
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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.
116. FITZGERALD, Major D.J.L. History of
the Irish Guards in the Second World War. With
a foreword by Field-Marshal the Viscount
Alexander of Tunis. Illustrated. Aldershot: Gale
& Polden, 1952. Second edition. pp. xv, 615.
Original blue pebbled cloth, with regimental
badge in gilt on upper cover and title in gilt on
spine. Owner's signature on endpaper. Very
good in rare repaired dust jacket. Scarce. €125
WHAT IS TO BE DONE WITH IRELAND?
117. FITZGIBBON, Gerald. Ireland in 1868.
The Battle-Field for English Party Strife; its
Grievances, Real and Factitious; Remedies,
Abortive or Mischievous. Second edition,
revised.
With notes,
explanatory and
corroborative, and an additional chapter.
London: Longmans & Dublin: McGlashan and
Gill, 1868. pp. viii, 302, + corrigenda.
Contemporary half green morocco on worn
marbled boards. Spine divided into six
compartments by five gilt raised bands; title and
author in gilt on brown morocco letterpiece in
the second; the remainder tooled in gilt with a
floral device. From the library of T.W. Moody
with his bookplate and signature. Pencil
annotations by him on verso of titlepage. Small ink stain to fore-edge slightly encroaching on
margin, otherwise a very good copy.
€175
With chapters on: General Reflection of the Condition of Ireland; On the Claim for a Roman Catholic
University; National Education; Landlords and Tenants; What is to be done with Ireland?; The Former
and the Present Condition of the Irish People, etc.
See item 118.
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118. FITZPATRICK, Wm. J. Curious Family History; Or, Ireland Before The Union; Including
Lord Chief Justice Clonmell's Unpublished Diary. A Sequel to The Sham Squire and the
Informers of 1798. Sixth edition, with a mass of new matter. Folding frontispiece. Bound with:
BARRINGTON, Sir. Jonah. The Rise and Fall of The Irish Nation. A full account of the bribery
and corruption by which the Union was carried; the family histories of the members who voted
away with the Irish Parliament. With an extraordinary black list of the titles, places, and pensions
which they received for their corrupt votes. By Sir Jonah Barrington. Dublin: Kelly & Duffy,
1868/70. pp. [ii], xxiv, viii, 268, xvi, 299. Contemporary half red calf on matching marbled
boards. Spine richly gilt with blue morocco letterpiece. All edges marbled. Butler of Mountgarret
copy with armorial bookplate and signature of Henry E. Butler, dated at Eagle Hill, 1878. A very
attractive copy. Scarce.
€275
119. [FITZWILLIAM, William Wentworth, Earl] A Letter from a Venerated Nobleman, who
recently retired from this Country, to the Earl of Carlisle: explaining the Causes of that Event.
Dublin: 1795. pp. [ii], 30. Recent half morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine.
Inscription on titlepage in neat contemporary hand. A very good copy. Rare.
€250
Bradshaw 2803 Gilbert 480. Not in Lough Fea.
William Wentworth, Second Earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833) was educated at Eton, where he began a
lifelong friendship with his fellow students Charles James Fox and Lord Carlisle. In December 1794
Pitt sent Fitzwilliam to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant. From the outset he was at the centre of a political
controversy with his leaning towards Roman Catholic claims. Grattan understood from Pitt that the
Catholic claims would be granted, though Pitt disavowed this interpretation of his words, and told
Fitzwilliam so. Grattan's and the Irish Parliament's hopes were greatly raised but they were
astonishingly disappointed when the Duke of Portland declared that no steps would be taken in the
interests of the Catholics.
In this pamphlet to his old friend Fitzwilliam gives us his own version of these events which ultimately
led to his dismissal. The above letter concerns the recall of Lord Fitzwilliam by the Pitt government.
120. FLEETWOOD, John. The History of Medicine in Ireland. Illustrated. Dublin: Browne and
Nolan, 1951. First edition. pp. xvi, 420. Green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in very
good dust jacket.
€65
Dr. Fleetwood treats the historical aspect of medicine in early and medieval Ireland, tracing the growth
of the profession from the first reference in the 'Annals of the Four Masters' that occurred about 940
B.C. through to the twentieth century.
WEXFORD ASSIZES
121. [FLETCHER, Judge] Judge Fletcher's Charge to the Grand Jury of the County of
Wexford, Delivered at the Summer Assizes, July, 1814, and containing a Comprehensive and
Important View of the State of Ireland. S.n. London? (1814). pp. 379-406. Recent quarter
morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€125
Fletcher began his charge by congratulating the Grand Jury on their county's appearing as peaceful,
moral, and sociable as when he first knew it thirty years ago - and improved in wealth, population, and
agriculture. He makes this point because descriptions of Wexford have been inaccurate and disturbing
in the recent past. He has seen the lower orders annoyed by many causes, in county after county:
"Seeing the same facts coming before him, judicially, time after time" in sixteen circuits, he can now
publicly state that he has never found "any serious purpose, or settled scheme" of assailing the
government or conspiring "with internal rebels, or foreign foes". He outlines the deep-rooted causes
that create the evils which really and truly exist. (1) The interaction of rising prices of land and rising
profits from large farms. (2) The deluge of paper currency generating the new crime of forging banknotes, and producing bank failures in every province. (3) A Magistracy over-active in some instances,
and quite supine in others (i.e. winking at the armed bands of Orange Men and prosecuting the Ribbon
Men). (4) 'Illicit Distillation', a source of the dreadful torrent of evils and crimes that has flowed upon
our land.
122. FLINN, D. Edgar. F.R.C.S. Ireland: Its Health-Resorts and Watering Places. With
numerous illustrations and two coloured maps of Ireland showing mean annual temperatures and
mean annual rainfall, and several statistical surveys. Dublin: Fannin, 1895. Second edition. pp.
xi, 180, 11 (adverts). Red cloth, title printed in black on upper cover and in gilt on faded spine.
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Cloth faded as usual. A very good copy. Scarce.
€195
The chapters include: Descriptions of Malahide; Skerries; Howth; Warrenpoint; Bangor; Glandore;
Glengarriff; Queenstown; Dalkey; Killiney; Bray; Enniskerry; Lisdoonvarna; etc.
123. FLOOD, Warden. Esq. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon Henry
Flood, M.P. Colonel of the Volunteers: Containing Reminiscences of the Irish Commons, and an
account of the Grand National Convention of 1783. Dublin: John Cumming, 16 Lower OrmondQuay; London: Longman, Orme, Brown, 1838. pp. xxii, [2], 408. Lacking portrait.
Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, wear to spine and extremities. From the library of
Lord Ashbourne with his signature on titlepage. A very good copy.
€95
124. 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.
€950
No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. No copy in NLI or TCD.
RARE DUBLIN PRINTING
125. FORMAN, Charles. A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Sutton, for Disbanding
the Irish Regiments in the Service of France and Spain. By Ch. Forman, Gent. [Dublin]: London:
Printed, and Dublin Re-printed and Sold by George Faulkner and James Hoey in Christ-ChurchYard, 1728. pp. 44. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Inoffensive
water stain to titlepage, otherwise a very good copy.
€475
COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 1 eBook copy only.
SCOTTISH WHEEL BINDING
126. FOSDICK, Harry Emerson. The Meaning of Faith. London: Student Christian Movement,
1923. pp. ix, 315, [1]. Bound in full purple morocco elaborately tooled in gilt to a Scottish-wheel
style. Spine with gilt raised bands, titled in gilt direct in the second compartment; turn-ins gilt;
thistle and shamrock decorated endpapers. All edges gilt. A fine copy.
€145
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127. [FRENCH, Nicholas] Recit Exact et Fidèle de la Vente et Partage du Royaume d'Irlande,
Faits sous Charles II. par le Comte de Clarendon Chancellier d'Angleterre. Où l'on voit contre
toutes les maximes du Christianisme & de la vraye Religion, mesme Protestante, la Foy publique
violée, l'Equité & la justice foulées aux pieds, les anciens, & fidels Proprietaires dépoüillez en
faveur des Fanatiques, & Parricides Cromwellistes. Envoyé du la Campagne en forme de Lettre
par un Gentilhomme à un Grand Seigneur du la Cour: Ecrit premierement en Anglois, & ensuite
traduit en François. S.n. [Louvain?], 1696. pp. [i], 133. Modern full calf. Sixteen line verse in
early manuscript on final leaf. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€1,650
COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 1. Walsh 248.
The exceedingly rare first edition of the French translation of A Narrative of the Earl of Clarendon's
Settlement and Sale of Ireland. The original English edition was reprinted as Iniquity Display'd, or the
Settlement of the Kingdom of Ireland in 1704.
Nicholas French (1604-1678), bishop of Ferns, was born in Wexford and trained for the priesthood at
the Irish College in Louvain. Following his ordination he returned to Wexford as parish priest. During
the rebellion he was "a violent enemy of the king's authority, and a fatal instrument in contriving and
fomenting all the divisions which had distracted and rent the kingdom asunder". He took an active
share in the deliberations of the first Supreme Council of the Confederates, and was a bitter opponent
of the Marquis of Ormonde.
After the Restoration, a long correspondence ensued between him and Fr. Walsh on behalf of
Ormonde, relative to his return to Ireland, which ended in 1665, with the following words: "Seeing that
I cannot satisfy my conscience and the Duke together, nor become profitable to my flock at home, nor
live quietly and secure, his anger not being appeased, you may know hereby that I am resolved after
dog-days to go to Louvain, and there end my days where I began my studies". From Louvain he issued
numerous tracts relating to Irish affairs which were circulated on the Continent, and there he endowed a
burse of 180 florins a year for the diocese of Ferns, preference to be given to the families of French,
Rossiter, Browne and Devereux. He died at Ghent and was interred in the cathedral there.
128. [FRENCH UNIFORMS] French Military Uniforms of the Second Empire (eighteenth
century). Twenty five superb illustrations in vibrant colour, each 90 x 145mm, canvas-backed,
folded, in recent red buckram folder with gilt title on upper cover. Inscribed on front pastedown
with the names of various members of the Barlow family of 'The Cottage', Raheny, Dublin. Paris:
Edited by F. Sinnett, n.d. (c.1860). A very good copy. Rare.
€375
The Second French Empire or Second Empire was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III
from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.
129. [FULLER, George] The Review: Being A short Account of the Doctrine, Arguments, and
Tendency, of the Writings offered to the Publick, by the C[our]t Advocates, since last September.
Together with An humble Address to the worthy Patriots of Ireland, on the happy and
providential Events, which have crowned their Labours in Defence of their Country. By the
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Author of a Letter to a Member of the Irish H[ouse] of C[ommon]s, on the present Crisis of
Affairs. Dublin: Printed in the Year 1754. pp. 52. Recent half linen on marbled boards, title in
gilt on spine. Titlepage a little dusted, otherwise a very good copy.
€235
ESTC N13259. Bradshaw 4447. Gilbert 309. Black 187. Not in Lough Fea.
This satirical work refers to the controversy between the Duke of Dorset and the Court Party and the
popular party led by Henry Boyle and the Earl of Kildare. An attack on the pamphlets supporting the
Duke of Dorset and British policy in Ireland.
130. FURLONG, Nicholas & HAYES, John. County Wexford in the Oul' Times. Wexford
from the earliest photographs (1850-1914). Volume two. Illustrated. Wexford: The Print Shop,
1987. pp. [8], 184. Folio. Brown arlen, titled in gilt. A very good copy in dust jacket.
€75
131. GAILEY, Alan. & Ó hÓGÁIN, Dáithí. Ed. by. Under the Furze. Studies in Folk
Tradition. Presented to Caoimhín Ó Danachair. Illustrated. Dublin: Glendale Press, n.d. (c.1982).
Quarto. pp. 253. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
€125
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Presentation essays to celebrate the 70th birthday of Dr. Ó Danachair covering important aspects of
folk tradition, habitation, skills and pastimes, humour and folk imagery for one of Ireland's foremost
scholars and a culture figure of the highest stature internationally.
The contents includes: The Photographic Record - a Selection of Caoimhín Ó Danachair's Pictures;
Contributions to the study of the Irish House; Smokehole and Chimney; Welch Cottages; The Large
Farm in nineteenth century Ireland; Tools and Things; Traditional Dyestuffs; Waulking the Cloth;
Scottish Methods of Preserving White Fish; The Oldest on the Farm; Airgead Geal go Pras; Baskets
and their Uses; Gingerbread Hearts; An Crios Bríde, etc.
132. GALLAGHER, Frank. The Anglo-Irish Treaty. Edited with an introduction by T.P.
O'Neill. London: Hutchinson. 1965. First edition. pp. 205. Orange cloth, title in gilt on black
label on spine. A very good copy in fine dust jacket.
€45
ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD
133. [GALWAY MURDER] Irish Reward Poster. Dublin Castle, October 22, 1845. Whereas it
has been represented to the Lord Lieutenant, that on Tuesday Night, the 30th September last,
between the Hours of Eight and Nine o'clock, as Thomas Linney, Steward to the Reverend Mr.
Buston, of Clonfert, Townland and Parish of Clonfert, in the County of Galway, was returning
from the Glebe to the Farm Yard, he was fired at and shot dead by some Person or Persons
unknown: His Excellency, for the better apprehending and bringing to Justice the Perpetrators of
this Murder, is pleased hereby to offer a Reward of One Hundred Pounds to any Person or
Persons (except the Person or Persons who actually fired the Shot) ... By His Excellency's
Command, Richard Pennefather. The above Reward will be paid by G.A. Douglas, Esq., the
Resident Magistrate at Ballinasloe. Dublin: Printed by George and John Grierson, 1845. Large
broad sheet printed on one side only. 560x440mm, folded, in very good condition.
€485
134. GAUGHAN, Anthony J. Alfred O'Rahilly. Academic. Public Figure. Controversialist Part
1. Controversialist Part 2. Catholic Apologist. Illustrated. Four volumes. Dublin: Kingdom
Books, 1986/1993. Maroon paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by the author on titlepage.
A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
€245
Alfred O'Rahilly (1884-1969), University Professor and Administrator. Born in Listowel, County
Kerry, in 1914 he joined the staff of UCC as Assistant in Mathematics, and two years later was
appointed to the chair of Mathematical Physics. After the 1916 Easter Rising, O'Rahilly publicly
supported Sinn Féin and was elected to Cork City Council as a Sinn Féin and Transport Workers
candidate. Arrested early in 1921 for political writings, O'Rahilly was interned in Spike Island prison.
He was released in October 1921 where he was constitutional adviser to the Irish Treaty Delegation.
O'Rahilly supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and in 1922 he composed a draft constitution for the Irish
Free State with Darrell Figgis.
He also wrote a pamphlet that dealt with the issue of the Treaty, the Republican Oath, a lesson from
South Africa, the Allegiance issue, Ulster, Powers of the Free State, the Associated Irish State,
Freedom by Gradual Growth, What's a Name and Unity.
135. GETTY, Edmund. The Last King of Ulster!. An Historical Romance of Ireland. Three
volumes. London: James Madden, 1842. pp. (1) [ii], 329 (2) [ii], 328 (3) [ii], 253. Contemporary
full diced russia. Covers framed by double gilt fillets; spine gilt with contrasting labels. All edges
marbled. Label of Rees Stationers on front pastedowns. Mild foxing to prelims and minor wear to
spine head of volume one. Exceedingly rare. A very good set.
€1,650
No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. NSTC 3 copies only. Loeber G30. Brown p.115.
Edmund Getty (1799-1857) was born and educated in Belfast. He became Ballast Master of the Belfast
Ballast Board and, later, Secretary of the Belfast Harbour Board. He was responsible for the
reclamation of slob-lands on the coast of County Down. A noted linguist and antiquarian, in addition to
the present work he also wrote The History of the Harbour Board, Chinese Seals in Ireland, and a work
on Tory Island. He was a founder member of the Belfast Natural History Society and one of the
founders of Belfast Botanic Gardens.
The present work is according to Brown: "Ostensibly a tale, in reality a kind of historical miscellany of
Elizabethan times, containing memoirs, anecdotes, family history, &c., of the O'Neills, O'Donnells, and
other Irish chiefs".
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136. GIBBON, Peter. The Origins of Ulster Unionism. The formation of popular Protestant
politics and ideology in nineteenth-century Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press,
1975. pp. 163. Orange paper boards. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate and
signature. A very good copy in dust jacket.
€45
137. GLADSTONE, Right Hon. W.E. The Irish Church. A Speech delivered in the House of
Commons on March 1, 1869. By the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. London: John Murray,
Albemarle Street, 1869. Third edition. pp. 59, [2] (publisher's list). Recent quarter morocco on
marbled boards, original printed wrappers bound in. Titled in gilt. A very good copy.
€125
138. GLADSTONE, W.E. Speech of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, on the second reading of
the University Education (Ireland) Bill. In the House of Commons, March 11, 1873. Extracted
from "Hansard's Parliamentary Debates", Vol. CCXIV. London: Cornelius Buck, 23, Paternoster
Row, 1873. pp. 40. Recent quarter morocco, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€145
139. GLEESON, Dermot F. The Last Lords of Ormond. A History of the "Countrie of the Three
O'Kennedys" during the Seventeenth Century. With illustrations and large folding maps of the
Baronies of Upper and Lower Ormond. London: Sheed & Ward, 1938. pp. xviii, 267. Green
cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex. lib with stamps. A good copy. Scarce.
€95
140. GOGAN, L.S., MEEHAN, Rev. P., PLUNKETT, Count. Et al. The Moytura Record.
Illustrated. Dublin: Brown and Nolan, n.d. (c.1930). pp. 192, + adverts. Black Library buckram,
with original wrappers bound in. Title in gilt on spine. Ex. lib. with stamps. Fine. Rare.
€185
With chapters on: The First Battle for the Independence of Erin - the Second Battle of Moytura; A
Dissertation on Moytura; Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare; Christian Art in Ireland To-Day; The
O'Carolan Memorial Association of Ireland and America; Christian Moytura; The Giants' Graveyard at
Carrowmore, County Sligo; The Field Book of Kilmacatrany Parish, etc.
WITH FINE HAND-COLOURED AQUATINTS
141. 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], v, [2], 8-182, [2].
Contemporary full calf. Covers framed by double gilt and blind floral rolls, spine divided into
five compartments by four thick raised bands. Title in gilt direct in second, the remainder tooled
in gilt and blind. Illustrated with six fine hand-coloured aquatints and one vignette. Minor wear
to extremities. A very good copy.
€675
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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.
142. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith. Embellished with engravings
from the designs by Richard Westall. London: John Sharpe, 1816. 12mo. pp. 24, 13-154, 6
(plates), including second titlepage reading: The poems of Oliver Goldsmith embellished with
engravings from designs by Richard Westall. Covers framed by double gilt fillets enclosing a
central blind-stamped panel to a checker-board design. Flat spine divided into five compartments
by single gilt fillets; title in gilt on black label in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a
floral design; board edges and turn-ins gilt; splash-marbled endpapers; blue and gold endbands.
All edges marbled. A very good and elegant copy.
€185
Includes his greatest poems: The Traveller, The Deserted Village and The Hermit.
143. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B. with an account of
the Life and Writings of the Author. Bound with: The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray.
Frontispiece and engraved title to both works. Two volumes in one. London: Hodgson, 1824.
16mo. pp. 88, 64. Contemporary full calf with elaborate gilt and blind tooling to covers and
spine. A central gilt medallion with the legend British Poets Cabinet Edition. Some browning
otherwise a fine copy. Scarce.
€245
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.
144. GOOLE, John. The Contract Violated: or, the Hasty Marriage. By John Goole, M. A.
Master of the Free-School of Witney, and Vicar of Eynsham, in the County of Oxford. London:
Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Wilford, n.d. [1733]. First edition. pp. xvi, 90; [2], 67, [1].
Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Early owner's signature on
titlepage. Scarce.
€325
ESTC T68599.
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145. GOTHER, Rev. John. The Papist Misrepresented and Truly Represented or, a Two-fold
Character of Popery; The one contains a sum of the superstitions, idolatries, cruelties, treacheries,
and wicked principles laid to their charge: the other laying open that religion which those termed
papists own and profess, the chief articles of their faith, and the principal grounds and reasons
which attach them to it. Republished by the late Ven. and Rt. Rev. Richard Challoner.
Frontispiece. Belfast: Read, 1855. 12mo. pp. 118. Bookplate and neat stamp of the Hope Trust.
Green cloth. A very good copy. Scarce. Extremely rare.
€175
No copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat.
146. [GOUGH, James] Memoirs of The Life, Religious Experiences and Labours in the Gospel,
of James Gough, Late of the City of Dublin, deceased. Compiled from his original Manuscripts,
by his Brother John Gough. Dublin: Printed by Robert Jackson, 1782. pp. xxiv, 186. Recent
quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€165
147. GRAY, Tony. The Irish Answer. An Anatomy of Modern Ireland. London: Heinemann,
1966, pp. [x], 411. Green arlen, title in silver on spine. Map of Ireland on endpapers. From the
library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate. Top edge green. A very good copy in frayed dust
jacket with repaired tear.
€45
Easter 1966 was the 50th anniversary of the Irish Rebellion which marked the beginning of The
Troubles that led to the formation of the Irish Republic. In this work the author gives a progress report
on the state of the Irish Republic fifty years after the Rebellion.
"This has never been a rich or powerful country", said the late President Kennedy when he visited
Ireland in June 1963, "and yet, since the earliest times, its influence on the world has been rich and
powerful".
148. GREEN, E.R.R. Ed. by. Essays in Scotch-Irish History. With illustrations and maps.
London: Routledge, 1969. pp. xi, 110. Green cloth, titled in gilt. From the library of T.W. Moody
with his bookplate. A very good copy in dust jacket.
€65
These essays were first given as lectures at a Symposium sponsored by the Ulster-Scot Historical
Society which was held at Queen's University, Belfast, in 1965. All the papers deal at length with the
contribution of the Scotch-Irish to the development of the United States.
EXTREMELY RARE FISHING ITEM
149. GREENDRAKE, Gregory [H. B. Code] The Angling Excursions of Gregory Greendrake,
Esq. in the Counties of Wicklow, Meath, Westmeath, Longford, and Cavan, with additions, by
Geoffrey Greydrake, Esq. Dedicated to "all honest brothers of the angle". Engraved frontispiece
of fishermen on Lough Dan and map of Lough Gowna. Fourth edition. Dublin: Grant & Bolton,
and London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1832. pp. [iv], vi, 313, +
erratum. Original grey paper boards lightly marked, with modern spine reback in green buckram.
Top edge uncut. An usually fine tall copy with little or no foxing.
€485
COPAC locates 3 copies only. Westwood & Satchell 108.
The author delights in leaving the city to explore the scenery, customs, traditions, and legends of the
countryside of the counties visited. Since his "boyhood to the present hour, I have been passionately
fond of angling..." and he describes fishing trips which brought him to such places as: the Bay of
Dublin; The Scalp; Enniskerry; Powerscourt; Round-Wood; Loch-Dan; Luggela; Glendaloch;
Rathdrum; Avondale; Glenmalur; Glen of the Downs; Bray; The Dargle; Kells; Lough Sheelan;
Castlepollard; Lough Gouna; Blackwater; Virginia, etc.
Henry Brereton Code, the author, was a spy in the pay of the Castle. He was editor and proprietor of
the controversial Dublin Warder, in which paper the first edition appeared.
FROM BUNREE TO BARNACOLLEEN
150. GREER, Rev. James. The Windings of the Moy with Skreen and Tireragh. Illustrated.
Ballina: Western People, 1986. Second edition. pp. xi, 232. Full green buckram, title in gilt on
spine. A fine copy. Very scarce.
€75
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
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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.
151. GRENVILLE, William Wyndham, Baron. Speech of Lord Grenville in the House of
Peers, on the motion of the Duke of Bedford for the Dismissal of Ministers, Thursday, March 22,
1798. Dublin: Printed for J. Milliken, 32, Grafton-Street, 1798. pp. 31, [1]. Recent quarter
morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€175
ESTC T88473.
William Wyndham Grenville 1st Baron Grenville was the son of George Grenville, an earlier Prime
Minister. Entering the Commons in 1782, Lord Grenville became a close ally of Prime Minister
William Pitt 'the Younger'. He served in Pitt's government as Home Secretary, Leader of the House of
Lords as Baron Grenville, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
As Foreign Secretary, he oversaw the tumultuous Wars of the French Revolution, focusing on fighting
on the continent as the key to victory, rather than war at sea and in the colonies.
In 1801 he left office at the same time as Pitt, over the issue of Catholic Emancipation. He became
close to Opposition leader Charles James Fox in his years out of office, and when Pitt returned to office
in 1804, he did not take part.
152. GRIFFITH, Amyas. Observations on the Bishop of Cloyne's Pamphlet: in which the
Doctrine of Tithes is Candidly Considered, and proved to be Oppressive and Impolitic: His
Lordship's Arguments for the Insecurity of the Protestant Religion, are also demonstrated to be
Groundless and Visionary. Dublin: Printed by T. Byrne, Parliament Street, 1787. pp. 72. Recent
quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Some contemporary manuscript entries
on verso of titlepage and last leaf. A very good copy. Scarce.
€375
Bradshaw 2516 Gilbert 337.
The author was born in Roscrea, County Tipperary, in 1746 and was dismissed from his position as
Surveyor of Excise, Belfast, for opposing the Government at the Carrickfergus Election of 1785. He
was also Inspector General for the Province of Munster.
153. GRIFFITH, Arthur. Arguments for
the Treaty. Dublin: Martin Lester, n.d. (c.
1922). pp. 32. Stitched wrappers with
picture of Griffith. Fraying to edges as
usual, a very good copy. Very scarce. €235
In this little book, put together from speeches
delivered in the heat of the struggle, Griffith's
political testament may be found. His language
is direct, his sincerity plain, the logic of his
argument inescapable.
IN A FINE RIVIERE BINDING
154. GRIMM, Brothers. German Popular
Stories. Translated from the 'Kinder Und
Haus Marchen', collected by M.M. Grimm
from Oral tradition. Two volumes. With 22
etchings which are transfers on stones from
the original plates by George Cruikshank.
London: J. Robbins & Sherwood, 1834.
12mo. pp. (1) vii, [1], 240, (2) iv, [1], 258, +
advert leaf. Bound by Riviere in full green
morocco, covers framed by a double gilt
ruled border, spines divided into six
compartments by five gilt raised bands, title
and volume number lettered in gilt direct in
the second and third, original cloth covers
bound in. Spines lightly faded to brown.
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Top edge gilt. A very attractive set in very good condition. Very scarce.
€675
155. GRUBB, Geoffrey W. The Grubbs of Tipperary. Studies in Heredity and Character. With
maps, genealogies, and numerous plates (some coloured). Cork: Mercier Press, 1972. First
edition. pp. xx, 260. Green arlen, titled in gilt. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket.
€150
The Grubb family arrived in Ireland in 1656, John Grubb was a soldier in the wake of Cromwell's New
Model Army who turned Quaker, and for his services was rewarded with a Castle in Kilkenny. His
descendants became farmers, millers, merchants, shopkeepers, justices of the peace, high sheriffs,
barristers, teachers, clergymen, soldiers and sailors, etc. The author expertly traces the history of the
Grubbs in Ireland over the past 300 years.
156. GWYNN, Stephen. The Irish Situation. London: Jonathan Cape, 1921. pp. 96. Blue cloth,
title in gilt on spine. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate and signature. Light
foxing to prelims, otherwise a very good copy.
€95
Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1864-1950) journalist, novelist, critic, poet and Nationalist politician was born
in Rathfarnham, Dublin, a grandson of William Smith O'Brien. He was educated at Saint Columba's
College and Brasenose College Oxford. He became a school master and then a journalist and, joining
Redmond's Irish Party, was elected MP for Galway 1906-1918. Although over 50 years old on the
outbreak of the First World War he served in France as a Captain with the Connaught Rangers and was
made a 'chevalier' of the Legion of Honour. Leaving politics after the war he published verse, novels,
and volumes of biography, including studies of Swift and Goldsmith, and made himself an authority on
eighteenth-century Ireland.
157. HAMILTON, Andrew. A True Relation of the Actions of the Inniskilling-Men, From
Their First Taking up of Arms in December 1688. for the Defence of the Protestant Religion, and
their Lives and Liberties. London: Printed for Ric. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's
Church-Yard; and are to be Sold by Richard Baldwin in the Old-Baily, 1690. pp. ix, 65, 1 (books
lately printed for Richard Chiswell). Modern half calf on marbled boards.
€675
WorldCat 2. Wing H 476. Sweeney 2212.
The purpose of this apologia is to excuse the stand adopted by many Irish Protestants in initially
accepting the rule of James II and to detail their subsequent actions in the interest of William and Mary.
The author, rector of Kilskerry and one of the prebendaries of the diocese of Clogher, raised troops but
died the following year.
THE IRISH BORDER
158. HAND, Geoffrey J. Report of the Irish Boundary Commission 1925. With folding maps.
Shannon: Irish University Press, 1969. pp. xxxiii, 109. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine.
Occasional light foxing to fore-edges, otherwise a very good copy in frayed dust jacket.
€125
The original report was suppressed in 1925 and not published. It is a major source and a mine of
information on the history of the Partitioning of Ireland.
159. HANDLEY, James Edmund. The Irish In Scotland 1798-1845. Cork: Cork University
Press, 1945. pp ix, 337, xv. Faded half linen on blue paper boards, title in silver on spine. A very
good copy.
€65
With chapters on: Immigration in Early Times; Seasonal Migration - The Agrarian Revolution in
Scotland - The Cross-Channel Steam Boats - The Harvesters; Irish Migratory Labourers - Canals Railways; Permanent Immigration - Volume and Incidence of Immigration - Immigrants in Industry;
Reaction of Immigration; The Destitute Immigrant; The Social, Economic and Moral Condition of the
Immigrant; Native Attitude towards the Immigrant.
160. HARDIMAN, James. The History of the Town and County of the Town of Galway, from
the earliest period to the present time, Embellished with several engravings to which is added, a
copious index, containing the principal charters and other original documents. With folding
maps. Illustrated. Galway: Kenny's, 1975. Third edition. Quarto. pp. xvi, 320, lvi, [4] (index).
Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Rare.
€165
James Hardiman (1782-1855) from Drummin, near Westport, County Mayo, was a distinguished Irish
historian and lawyer. He was appointed Sub-Commissioner of the Public Record Commission in
Ireland and was also a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Towards the end of his life he was
librarian to the Queen's College, now University College, Galway. His History of the Town of Galway
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was originally published in Dublin 1820 and is perhaps the most complete book of its kind ever written
on an Irish provincial town and county. He also edited and translated A Description of West or IarConnacht for the Irish Archaeological Society which was published in 1846.
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161. HARKNESS, D.W. The Restless Dominion. The Irish Free State and the British
Commonwealth of Nations, 1921-31. Illustrated. London: Macmillan & Dublin: Gill, 1969. First
edition. pp. xviii, 312. Brown paper boards, titled in gilt. From the library of T.W. Moody with
his bookplate. A very good copy in dust jacket.
€45
162. [HARLEY, Edward Earl of Oxford] A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the
British Museum: With Indexes of Persons, Places, and Matters. Four Volumes. London: Printed
by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan; By Command of His Majesty King George III. in
pursuance of an address of the House of Commons of Great Britain, 1808/1812. Folio. Modern
buckram. Ex lib. A very good set.
€275
The catalogue includes numerous early Irish manuscripts.
163. HAYES, Richard. Ireland and Irishmen in the French Revolution. With a preface by
Hilaire Belloc. Illustrated. Dublin: The Phoenix Publishing Company, 1932. First edition. pp. xx,
314. Blue cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spine. A good copy. Scarce.
€125
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 alone 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.
164. HAYES, Richard. Irish Swordsmen of France. With a foreword by Rev. Patrick Browne.
Illustrated. Dublin: Gill, 1934. First edition. pp. xix, [1], 307. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A
fine copy. Scarce.
€125
In this work Dr. Hayes gives us a detailed account of the careers of six distinguished Irish officers in
the French army: General Theobald Dillon; General James O'Moran; Colonel Arthur Dillon; General
Charles (Jennings) Kilmaine; General Thomas Arthur Lally and Colonel Richard Warren. Four of these
were living when the Revolution came, and continued to hold their commissions in the revolutionary
army. In fact they were promoted to the highest ranks, although later they were suspected by the 'pure'
Republicans, who found it difficult to believe that the Stuart-loving Irish could be anything else but
royalist. They, like most Irishmen in France, aspired towards the liberation of Ireland by various
schemes.
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165. HAYES, William & KAVANAGH, Art. The Tipperary Gentry. Volume I. Illustrated.
Dublin: Eneclann, 2003. pp. viii, 248. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature
on titlepage. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
€65
With notices of the families of: Armstrong of Farneybridge; Bagwell of Marlfield; Barton of Grove,
Straffan and Glendalough; Bianconi of Longfield; Butler of Cahir; Carden of Barnane; Damer of
Damer House; The Grubbs of Castle Grace; Hely-Hutchinson of Knocklofty; The Langleys of
Coalbrook, Brittas Castle and Archerstown; Mansergh of Grenane; Matthew of Thomastown, Annfield
and Thurles; Maude of Dundrum House; O'Callaghan of Shanbally; Otway of Templederry; PonsonbyBarker of Kilcooley; Prittie of Kilboy; Ryan of Inch; Sadlier of Sopwell Hall; Scully of Ballynaclough.
SIGNED FIRST EDITION
166. HEANEY, Seamus. Finders Keepers. Selected Prose 1971-2001. London: Faber and Faber,
2002. First edition. pp. x, 416. Cream paper boards, title in blue on spine. Signed by Seamus
Heaney on titlepage. Loosely inserted are two Irish 68c stamps and some newspaper clippings. A
fine copy in fine dust jacket.
€375
167. HEMPTON, John. Ed. by. The Siege and History of Londonderry. Engraved frontispiece
of the city. Londonderry: Hempton, 1861. pp. xii, iv, 492. Mauve blind-stamped publisher's
cloth, title in gilt on spine. Lacking frontispiece. Light wear to spine ends, otherwise a good
copy. Scarce.
€35
168. HENLEY, Pauline. Spenser In Ireland. With maps. Cork: University Press. Educational
Company Dublin, & London: Longman's, 1928. pp. 231, [1]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A
very good copy.
€145
A study of the Irish environment of Edmund Spenser mainly in its historical aspects.
The chapters include: With Grey in Ireland; Spenser as an Undertaker; The Poet at Kilcolman; Further
Irish Influences and Allusions; The Ruin of the Plantation; Spenser and Political Thought; The Poets
Descendents.
169. HENTY, G.A. In the Irish Brigade. A Tale of
War in Flanders and Spain. With twelve illustrations
by Charles M. Sheldon. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1900. pp. 384, [32 (publisher's list)].
Publisher's pictorial cloth, title in gilt on upper cover
and on spine. All edges green. A very good copy.€85
170. HERNON, Joseph M. Jr. Celts, Catholics &
Copperheads. Ireland Views the American Civil
War. Ohio: University Press, 1968. pp. viii, 150.
Quarter linen on paper boards. Signed presentation
copy from the author to T.W. Moody, with the
latter's bookplate on front pastedown. A very copy in
dust jacket.
€85
The author in his revisionist study examines the close
connection between the political situation in post-Union
Ireland and the bitter struggle of the American Civil
War.
171. [HERVEY, John Hervey, Baron] Remarks on
the Craftsman's Vindication of his two Honble
Patrons, in his paper of May 22, 1731. [Dublin]:
London: Printed. And, Dublin, Re-printed and Sold
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by George Faulkner, at the Pamphlet-Shop in Essex-Street, opposite to the Bridge, 1731. pp. 30,
2 (Faulkner List). Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Old ink stain to title and other
pages on top left hand corner. Name clipped from bottom margin of titlepage. Very rare. €395
ESTC T118714 locates 5 copies only.
Attributed to John, Baron Hervey; also attributed to William Arnall.
172. HIPPISLEY, Sir John Cox, Bart. The Substance of a Speech of Sir John Cox Hippisley,
Bart. In the House of Commons, on Tuesday, May 11, 1813, for the appointment of a Select
Committee on the subject of The Catholic Claims; with notes, and an Appendix containing the
Pontifical Rescripts of P. Clement XIV. and P. Pius VII. Respecting the Abolition and
Restoration of the Order of Jesuits. London: Published by Murray, Albemarle Street; Rodwell,
Bond Street; Hatchard, Stockdale, and Ridgway, Piccadilly; and Richardson, Cornhill, 1815. pp.
vii, 56. Recent quarter morocco, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€150
173. HOGAN, Edmund. S.J. The Description of Ireland, and The State thereof as it is at this
present in anno 1598. Now for the first time published, from a manuscript preserved in
Clongowes-Wood College. With copious notes and illustrations. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1878. pp. xii,
382. Quarto. Green library buckram, title in gilt on spine. From the library of St. John's
University, Brooklyn, N.Y. with their bookplate and stamp. A very good copy.
€275
174. HONE, Joseph. The Moores of Moore Hall. With genealogical table and illustrations.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. First edition. pp. 287. Green cloth, title in black on spine. With
neat library stamp of previous owner on front free endpaper. Pencil inscription states "Scarce most copies destroyed in W War II". A very good copy in frayed but rare dust jacket.
€275
Four generations produced four George Moores. The first built Moore Hall; the last was the famous
novelist. George Moore's ancestors possessed much of the charm, the eccentricity, and the genius of
their descendants, and it is no ordinary family whose history Mr. Hone has recorded. George I made a
fortune in Spain and came back to Ireland to build, in County Mayo, the typically eighteenth-century
mansion of Moore Hall, which was a centre of the family's life for several generations and which, in
1923, was burned by a gang of Republicans. One of George I's sons was idiot: the eldest became a
rebel in 1798 and was the first man to be proclaimed president of an Irish republic. George II, an
historian whose 'magnum opus' never found a publisher, frequented the Holland House set, and was a
friend and correspondent of Maria Edgeworth. Her relations with the family are illustrated here by
many letters. George III, his son, after a brilliant youth devoted himself to racing and hunting, had a
love affair, ran away to the East, and returned to become a Fenian, an M.P., and the father of a great
novelist. The childhood and education of George IV and his brothers, Maurice, Julian and Augustus,
are described; and the whole family history, the quarrels of the Moores, their behaviour in times of
crisis like the famine of the forties, does much to illustrate and explain the many-sided work and
character of the writer who was, of all the Moores of Moore Hall, at once the most bizarre and the most
brilliant.
RARE FIRST EDITION
175. HORE, Philip Herbert. History of the Town and County of Wexford. Dunbrody Abbey,
The Great Island, Ballyhack; Tintern Abbey, Rosegarland and Clonmines; Duncannon Fort,
Kilclogan or Templetown, Fethard, Houseland, Porters Gate, Loftus Hall, Galgystown, Hook
(including Churchtown), Slade, Baginbun, and Bannow; The Town of Wexford, with a chapter
on Taghmon, and a short Notice of Harperstown, the ancient seat of the Hore family; The Town,
Castle, and Cathedral Church of Ferns, Enniscorthy, Gorey and Newtownbarry, and the Northern
Part of the County; Old and New Ross. From Ancient Records and State Papers in the British
Museum and the Public Record Offices of London and Dublin, with translations of the
Rawlinson Ms. in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, as regards Dunbrody. With map and
illustrations. Six volumes. London: Eliot Stock, 1901/1911. Quarto. Green cloth over bevelled
boards, covers framed by triple blind and double gilt fillets, enclosing in the centre armorial
badges of Wexford, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on half title. From the library of
President Sean T Ó Ceallaigh with his bookplate. Spine ends a little worn. Top edge gilt. A very
good set of the rare first edition.
€3,450
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176. HUGHES, Kathleen. The Church in Early Irish Society. With folding map and 16 plates.
London: Methuen, 1966. First edition. pp. xii, 303. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good
copy in frayed dust jacket. Very scarce.
€65
In this work Dr. Hughes gives an account of the problems that arose when the organisation of the
Christian Church, imported from the urban bureaucracy of the Roman Empire, had to be adapted to the
heroic society of early Ireland.
177. HUGHES, Thomas. The Scouring of the White Horse; or, the Long Vacation Ramble of a
London Clerk by the Author of "Tom Brown's School Days". Illustrated by Richard Doyle.
London: Macmillan, 1859. First edition pp. xi, 228, 16 (Advertisements). Bound in later full calf
elaborately tooled in gilt. All edges gilt. Original royal blue cloth with border of title and figures
by Doyle elaborately blocked in gilt on upper cover and in blind on lower preserved at end. The
first issue, with the word "up" not corrected (p. 60, second paragraph). A fine copy.
€225
Richard Doyle was the son of the Irish born political caricaturist John Doyle ('H.B.'). His brother was
Henry Doyle, first Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, and he was the uncle of Arthur Conan
Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Richard Doyle has been described by Maurice Sendak as
"probably the best of them all. He has all the accoutrements of the Victorian illustrator … one of the
better draughtsmen … cleverest mind … most gorgeous sense of colour … a fantastic imagination".
178. [HUTCHINS, Arthur] A Report of the Decision of the Court of Exchequer, in Hilary
Term, 1818, in the Case of Lessee of Earl of Bantry & Others, against Arthur Hutchins, with the
Argument of Counsel. Dedicated (without permission) to Edward B. Sugden, Esq. of Lincoln's
Inn, Barrister at Law. Coloured folding map. Dublin: Printed by J.J. Nolan, 3, Suffolk-Street,
1818. pp. vi, 59. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good
copy.
€675
COPAC locates 2 copies only. Not in Lough Fea, Bradshaw or Gilbert.
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179. HYMAN, Louis. The Jews of Ireland from Earliest Times to the Year 1910. Foreword by
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh. Illustrated. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972. pp. xix, 403. Green
paper boards, title in gilt on spine. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate and
signature. A fine in very good dust jacket.
€95
The standard work documenting the history of the Jews in Ireland from the eleventh century to the
beginning of the twentieth.
180. [INDEPENDENT ELECTORS] An Address from the Independent Electors of the Antient,
Loyal, and ever Memorable Town of Inniskillen. To the Right Hon. the E. of Kildare, the Right
Hon. Henry Boyle, Sir Richard Cox, Bart. Abraham Creichton, and John Cole, Esqrs. Whose
invincible Patriotism, and noble Opposition to the Enemies of Ireland, this S...ss...n of P...t
should endear them to King and Country. To which are added, Sir Tady F...'s Recantation, or a
Tragi-burlescal Poem, written by himself, and Addressed to the Right Hon. the Earl of Kildare.
My Lord Chief Joker's Proclamation against Libels. Haekball's ditto. And 40 Original Patriot
Inniskillen Toasts. Belfast: Printed in the Year, 1754. pp. 16. Recent quarter morocco on marbled
boards, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib. with stamps. Slight staining, otherwise very a good copy.
Very scarce.
€575
ESTC T20361. Not in Bradshaw. Gilbert 9.
The first piece is related to an outrageous attempt by the government in London to appropriate a
surplus in the Irish exchequer for purposes of no benefit to Ireland. The Recantation is a satire in verse
supposedly written by George Faulkner, the Dublin printer, who is castigated for his willingness to
print pro-government pamphlets. The two mock proclamations are on the same subject and purport to
come from the 'Kingdom of Utopia'. The forty toasts are uniformly venomous.
181. [IRELAND & SCOTLAND] Respublica, sive status Regni Scotiae et Hiberniae.
Diversorum Autorum. Lugd. Bat. (Lugduni Batavorum - Leiden), Ex Officina Elzeviriana
A[nn]o, 1627 (1630 date of colophon on final page). 24mo. Second edition. pp. 282, 2. Armorial
bookplate of Colonel Clarke on front pastedown. Armorial shield painted on upper cover.
Contemporary full vellum with yap edges, inked title on spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €485
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Sweeney 4483 refers to the 1625 edition.
An Elsevier compilation and part of a series of works dealing with different countries, the material
drawn from various sources, as the notice "Diversorum Autorum" on the titlepage indicates. The
sources for Ireland include Camden, Speed, Stanyhurst and Moryson. The engraved title-piece depicts
a Scot and an Irishman between a harp and their respective countries' arms.
Attributed to Joannes de Laet (1593-1649).
A PHOTOGRAPHIC GEM
182. [IRELAND IN PICTURES] Sights and Scenes in Ireland. With nearly one hundred
copyright illustrations. London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company, n.d. (c. 1900).
Oblong quarto. pp. viii, [100]. Titlepage printed in red and black. Green decorated pebbled cloth,
title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. All edges gilt. Fine.
€325
The publisher in the present volume endeavoured to give some pictorial representation of the most
characteristic features to be found in Ireland. Many photographs have been taken specially for this
work, with a large number taken by the well known photographers of their day throughout the country:
Harrison of Bray, Robinson of Dublin, Payne Jennings of Ashtead, White of Clonskeagh, Clarendon of
Kingstown, Poole of Waterford, Mahony of Cappoquin, Guy & Co., of Limerick and Cork, York of
Notting Hill, Hunter of Armagh, Lee of Portrush, Ayton of Londonderry, and Lawrence of Dublin.
183. [IRISH AIRS] A Collection of Irish Airs for the Flute, Violin or Flageolet : with New
Symphonies arranged as Duetts or Solos. Two volumes. Dublin: Published by E. McCullagh, 1
Royal Arcade, n.d. (c 1820). pp. [3], 48, [3], 49-96. Engraved titlepage to each volume, depicting
two musicians. Modern full morocco (not uniform). Owner's signature on titlepage of volume
one. Bookseller's stamp on titlepage of volume one. Occasional browning and spotting, otherwise
a very good set. Exceedingly rare.
€1,450
COPAC locates 1 copy only. WorldCat 3.
184. [IRISH ANTIQUITIES ART] A large quarto album of original sketches wash drawings
and watercolours of Irish Antiquities. With the signature of Mary Carter, Belfast, Ireland dated
January 1869. Bound in contemporary full green morocco, covers framed by gilt and black fillet
borders with blind interlacing Celtic knot work. Wear to spine and corners.
€5,750
The album contains original portraits, maps, specimens of ancient Irish Manuscripts including: Owen
Roe O'Neill (from an original portrait, painted in Flanders before 1641); Richard Talbot, Duke of
Tyrconnel (from a contemporary portrait in the possession of Lord Talbot de Malahide); Arthur
Chichester, Baron Belfast; Ornamentation from an ancient Irish Manuscript in the Monastery of St.
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Gall, Switzerland; Ancient Irish Crozier, preserved at Glenarm, Antrim; Ancient Helmet; Mac
Murrough and his Chieftains from Harleian MS. Marked 1319; Ancient Coinnleoir or Altar
Candlestick, found in the old Cathedral of Armagh; Map of Belfast copied from an original dated 1685;
A south Perspective view of Belfast taken from Mr Joys Paper Mill; Plan of Carrickfergus in the reign
of Elizabeth I; The Franciscan Friary of Carrickfergus about the year 1540, and the 'Pallace' Anno
Domini 1610, from two MSS. in the Cottonian Collection; Joymount; Celtic Cross in the Diamond,
(the market-place of Clones); Sketch of Clones Round Tower on a Map in the State Paper Office; Map
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of Dubline 1610; St. Beretcheart's Tomb-Stone at Tullylease, County of Cork; Pectoral Cross found at
Youghal, County Cork in 1814; Gold Antiquities found in Ireland; The Dalriada Brooch, found in
1855, near Coleraine, County Antrim; The Pin, dark bronze, dug up at Derryullagh bog, near
Randalstown, County Antrim; Ancient Coins found in Ireland; Ancient Stones with alphabet at
Kilmalkedar, in west of the County Kerry - older inscription on the monument of Lunathan, the
nephew of St. Patrick, at Inchaguile in Lough Corrib, County Galway; Ogham inscriptions at
Derreenderagh, Ballygrovane and Kinnard; Relics preserved by the descendants of the Lisburn
Huguenots (a little portable spinning wheel); Sculptured Cross over the door of Antrim tower; Bronze
spearhead from the lower Bann river; Bell of Bangor Abbey; St. Meuras Bell; Bronze Cauldron found
in the townland of Raffery, County Down; Enamelled and gilt copper vessel found in the County of
Down; The Shrine of St. Patrick's Hand; The Shrine of St. Patrick's Jaw-bone; Seinet Johan of
Bridlyingtone in ye Purgatorie of S. Patrik; View of the old Abbey of Downpatrick before it was
rebuilt, Anno 1790; A Pilgrim entering the Purgatory from an illuminated M.S. of the 15th century;
Map of St. Patrick's Purgatory; Stone inscription in St Patrick's Cathedral, Downpatrick; Round tower
and ruin of St. Molassi's house, Abbey in the distance, Devenish, Lough Erne; Devenish Tower;
Monasterboice Church, Tower, and Cross, County Louth; The Great Church of Drumlane; Fort of
Tullaghog, Dungannon; Carn Greine; Portraits of Claddagh fishermen, County Galway, Mullaly,
Murphy, Grainey and Bradley; Rocking Stone, Island Magee; Brian Boro's harp.
185. [IRISH ARCHITECTURE] A Small Quarto Album of Irish Architectural Views, mostly
of Irish Castles, Houses, Churches, Abbeys, Round Towers, High Crosses. Included also are
topographical views of Dublin, with some original photographs of the Metropolis (c.1900).
Containing engravings, woodcuts, postcards and lithographic prints. Bound in contemporary full
dark green morocco. Fore-edges and turn-ins gilt; water silk endpapers. One hundred and eighty
illustrations, mounted on thick card. From the library of Montmorency of Castle Morres, with an
original photograph of two members of the family on a motor car presumably in India with a
man-servant. All edges gilt. In fine condition.
€475
The views (some by W.F. Wakeman) included are: The Old Bridge and Castle of Carlow; Mount
Bellew, Ross Castle; Mount Cashell; Tinnehinch; Balynastragh; Ruins of Clonnacnois; Parson's Town
Castle; Carrigfergus; Abbey of Mullifernan; Edgeworth Town; The Hell Fire Club; St. Keirns Round
Tower; Village and Graveyard at Rathnew; Ruins at Glendalough; The Valley of Glendalough; Cross
at Glendalough; Killiney Church; Templeogue Church; Site of Saggard Old Church; Old Ruins of
Killester; Clondalkin Old Church; Tullagh Old Church; Lusk Church and Tower; Kilbarrack Church
Ruins; Clontarf as seen from the South; Kinsaly Old Church; Kill-of-the-Grange; Kilbride; Protestant
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Church of Coolock; Skerries Harbour; Inis Meic Nessan Church, Ireland's Eye; Homepark Ruins,
Skerries; Kilmochudrick Old Church; Old Church Ruins at Finglas; Island Oratory of Cruach Mac
Dara; Tempull Ceannanach, on Inis Meadhoin, or the Middle Island of Aran; Church of the Four
Beautiful Saints, Aranmore; Temple Mac Duach, Aran Mor; Ardpatrick Church and Round Tower,
County of Limerick; Round Tower and Church, at Aghagower, County of Mayo; Murrisk Abbey and
Croagh Patrick; View of Killala; Innisfallen; Ferriter's Castle; Rocks in the Lakes of Killarney; Scattery
Island; Muckross Abbey; Old Cathedral of Cork; Gougane Barra; Kilmallock Church and Round
Tower; St. Gobnet''s Church and Cloghaun; View of Cork, Shandon and Blackpool; Druidical Remains
at Castlemary; Church of the Assumption, Wexford; Lismore Bridge and Castle; Round Tower at
Ardmore; Mount of the Boyne; Round Tower Dungarvan; Church at Tara Hill; Donoughmore Round
Tower and Priory; Abbey Church Duleek; View of Trim; Ruins at Trim; Boveagh Old Church;
Cathedral of Old Leighlin; Door of Agha Old Church; Tubbrid Old Chapel; Hore Abbey; Ruins of
Cashel; Londonderry; Old Church at Ardagh; Nurney Old Cross; St. Patrick's Chair, Altadaven Glen;
Clonfeale Cemetery; Kiltegan Grave Yard; Kilmantan Hill, South of Wicklow; Kilbride Church;
Kilcoole Old Church; Killashee Church and Round Tower; Round Tower and Church of Oughterard;
Cloncurry Old Church; Leigh Old Oratory; Slane Franciscan Old Abbey; Killybeggs Old Church;
Downings Old Church; The Grey Abbey, Kildare; Molough Church Ruins; Athassel Abbey; Roscrea
Franciscan Church; Cross at Kilfenora; St. Brigid's Well; Ruins of Achonry Cathedral Church; Teach
Molaise an Ennismurry; Kilroosk Old Church; Town and Bay of Bangor; Drumbo Round Tower; Saul
Church; Struell Wells; Old Church, Loughree; Inniskeen Round Tower, Monaghan; Kildallan
Graveyard; Village and Ruins on Tory Island; Abbey of Assaroe; Aileach Fort; Tynan Cemetery and
Cross; Dunseverick Old Church; Moville Abbey; Youghal in 1624; Creevlea Ruins, etc.
The Buildings included are: Christian Brothers, Limerick; Proposed Convent, Mt. Sion, Waterford; St.
Vincent's Church, Presbytery and House of Retreat, Cork; St. Mary's Convent, Cabra; The Ursuline
Convent, Cork; Building for the Male Deaf-Mutes, Cabra; St. Patrick's College, Thurles; Schools,
Convent & Church of the Immaculate Conception, Kanturk; The Mallow Schools; Christian Brothers,
Cork; New Convent for Christian Brothers, Drogheda; St. Joseph's Home; House and Schools of the
Christian Brothers, Richmond Street, Mountjoy Square; New Catholic Cathedral, Limerick; Christian
Brothers School, Dingle; Christian School, Newry; St. Vincent de Paul Male Orphanage, Glasnevin;
Enniskerry Roman Catholic Church; Church of St. Eugene, Londonderry; St. David's Church, Naas; St.
Patrick's New Cathedral, Armagh; New Catholic Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Donnybrook; Original Watercolour Drawing of Convent and Schools of the Christian Brothers, Tralee;
St. Joseph's College, Mill Hill; St. Mary's College, Oscott; St. Vincent's de Paul's Boys' Orphanage,
Victoria, Australia; House of the Christian Brothers, Middleton, County Cork, loosely inserted with
pictures of pupils and workmen on verso; Intended Site of a Church in the Dunlewey District, County
Donegal; School House and Cottages at Dingle, Donquin, Ventry and Keelmelchedar, County Kerry;
Wexford New Catholic Churches; Colony at Dingle proposed new Parochial National Schools,
Holywood, County Down [William Batt, Architect]; Mountmelleray's New Church; Dominican Church
& Convent, Waterford; Subscription Card for the Proposed O'Connell Memorial Church, Cahirciveen,
with a Portrait of Daniel O'Connell on verso [creased]; Church at Carraroe, Galway; Clontarf Castle;
Artane Castle; Dunloh Castle; View in Londonderry; Spenser's House, Kilcolman, County Cork;
Building used by Daly's Club; New Military Infirmary, Phoenix Park. Top half of a printed broadside
on the rebuilding of the Abbey of St. Francis, Clonmel, County Tipperary, September, 1886.
IN SUPERB 18TH CENTURY IRISH BINDING
186. [IRISH BINDING] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments,
and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of The Church of England:
together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, Printer to
the University, 1762. Bound in a fine eighteenth-century Irish Binding. Covers framed by triple
gilt fillets and lavishly tooled in gilt with central white morocco lozenge, inlaid and tooled with
gilt flowers, plumes, floral sprigs and birds with radiating rose of small tools including stars,
flowers, foliage, and a delightful bird with a rose in its beak. Spine divided into six compartments
by five gilt raised bands, compartments quartered by a saltire and lavishly tooled with roses and
other flowers. Fore-edges and turn-ins gilt; comb-marbled endpapers. Signature of A. Wolseley,
dated 1772 on titlepage. All edges gilt.
€15,000
Bound in a style closely resembling those produced in the large Bindery of George Faulkner, in Dublin
in the mid eighteenth-century.
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The Baskerville Printing of the Book of Common Prayer was a favourite for many Irish Bindings of
that period. The magnificence of Irish bookbinding in the eighteenth-century was first brought to public
attention by the publication in 1914 of Decorative Bookbinding in Ireland by Sir Edward Sullivan, a
well-known book collector and bookbinder who styled himself 'Aurifax', which means worker in gold.
Maurice Craig in his pioneering work on Irish bindings states: "Notwithstanding that white inlays are
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found in French, Swiss and English bindings before the Irish period, and that there exist contemporary
imitations of Irish binding, the popular belief that any binding with a lozenge-shaped white inlay is
Irish, is broadly true. Though I know of no non-Parliamentary example before 1737, the binding of
Lords 1697 seems to have had such an inlay. Yet, since Lords 1697 may not have been bound much
before 1737, it is possible that the genesis of the style occurred at about that time. The lozenge is one of
the few obvious motifs for the decoration of a cover, and was of course exploited in the Grolier period.
But it is at least possible that the Irish lozenge is in part a development from the Harleian centrepiece.
The commonest Irish bindings are Prayer-books of the 1750' s, 1760's and 1770's, or almanacs of the
1770's, 1780's and 1790's, of lozenge-inlay type. It is convenient to use the term ' inlay', though in fact
it seems that no Irish example of a true inlay is known. Strictly, they are all 'overlays'. At least threequarters of the white or cream examples are of paper. There is no correlation whatever between the
richness of the binding and the use of leather in preference to paper. The Royal set of the Statutes, for
example, has them in paper, while the Rothschild-National Library set, done for some (inevitably) less
exalted personage, has them in leather. In the very finest of the Parliamentary bindings they are usually
of paper, as appears from the fact that the wire and chain-lines emerge clearly in the rubbings, and can
even be seen in the photographs".
187. [IRISH BUILDER] Irish Builder and Engineer. Centenary Issue 1859 - 1959. Looking
back on a Hundred Years and Surveying the Present Scene. Dublin: Sackville Press, 1959. Folio.
pp. pp. xxxi, [1], 41, xxxii-liv (adverts). Pictorial wrappers.
€75
The contents includes: Commemorating a Hundred Years; Some Extracts from the First Issue; One
Hundred Years of Dublin Architecture; A Century of Change in the Building Industry; Engineering
Works and Prospects in Munster; Old Ulster Architects; Dublin Topographical Prints; Building in
Ireland Today; Irish Churches - A Critical Survey; The Development of Cement and Concrete, etc.
188. [IRISH DIRECTORY] MacDonald's Irish Directory and Gazetteer, with which is
Incorporated "The Business Directory of Ireland", Accompanied with a Map and Town Plans
1909 Edition. Edinburgh: William MacDonald & Company, 1909. pp xxvii, [1], 648, 172, 205,
42 (adverts). Green cloth, spine expertly rebacked. Fading to upper cover. Wanting map of
Ireland. A very good copy. Scarce.
€125
THE SIZE AND VALUE OF MANY IRISH ESTATES
ETHNIC CLEANSING ELIZABETHAN, CROMWELLIAN & WILLIAMITE STYLE!
189. [IRISH FORFEITURES] The Report of the Commissioners appointed by Parliament to
Enquire into the Irish Forfeitures, Deliver'd to the Honble House of Commons the 15th of
December, 1699. With Their Resolutions and Addresses to His Majesty Relating to those
Forfeitures. As also, His Majesty's Gracious Answers thereunto; and His most Gracious Speech
to Both Houses of Parliament the 5th of January, 1690. London: Printed by Edw. Jones in the
Savoy; And Re-Printed in Dublin, by John Brocas in School-House-Lane, 1700. [Price SixPence]. Small quarto. pp. 24. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A fine copy.
€675
Sweeney 1789.
By 1699, and in less than a century there had been three great 'Confiscations' in Ireland, the old
proprietors being in all cases dispossessed: the first after the Geraldine and O'Neill rebellions; the
second in the time of Cromwell; and the third conquest by King William of Orange. These three
comprised the whole island and sometimes overlapped, so large portions were confiscated twice, and
some, three times over within that period. As a result of all, only about a seventh of the land of all
Ireland was left in the hands of Catholics. The 'Old English' as well as the native Celtic race were
involved in this general ruin.
The principal military article of the 'Treaty of Limerick' permitted the garrison to march out of the city
with arms and baggage, drums beating and colours flying. Over 20,000 men, including Sarsfield,
Bourke, Dillon, and O'Brien went to Brest and entered the French service. These formed the nucleus of
the famous 'Irish Brigade', who afterwards distinguished themselves in many a battlefield: Fontenoy,
Ramillies, Blenheim, and Landen in 1693 where Sarsfield fell mortally wounded, in the moment of
victory. It is stated that while lying on the ground, seeing his hand stained with his own blood, he
exclaimed "Oh, that this was for Ireland". It has been estimated that between 1691 and 1745 over
450,000 Irishmen died in the service of France; and many others attained positions of influence and
power in every country on the Continent.
This work gives particulars of estates forfeited, including some restored under articles and by royal
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favour; Clanricarde's and Lord Bophin's being but two examples.
Resolution 38 states: To the Right Honourable the Earl of 'Athlone' Two Grants, containing 26480
Acres, Consideration, Services done in the Reduction of Ireland, which Grants are since Confirmed by
an Act of the Parliament of Ireland. To the Right Honourable the Earl of Galway' One Grant,
containing 36148 Acres, Consideration, many good and faithful Services by him performed. To the
Right Honourable the Earl of Rochford Two Grants, containing 39871 Acres, Consideration, Services
done.
190. [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 item.
€125
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191. IRWIN, Clarke H. A History of Presbyterianism in Dublin and the South and West of
Ireland. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1890. First (sole) edition. pp. xxiv, 357. Red faded
cloth. A good copy.
€65
A study of the overall history with chapters on: The Test Act; The Subscription Controversy; Dublin
Presbyterians and Irish Grievances; The Seceders; Presbyterians and the Volunteers; and in the
Rebellion of 1798; The Union; Mission Work; The General Assembly of 1850 and the Land Question,
etc. This is followed by a short history of every congregation outside of Ulster, including the important
Unitarian Dublin Congregations, and Extinct Congregations.
192. ISLES, K.S. & CUTHBERT, Norman. An Economic Survey of Northern Ireland. Belfast:
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957. pp. xxv, 646. Red paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Exlibris T.W. Moody with his signature. A fine copy in faded dust jacket.
€65
193. [JACKSON, Rev. William] A Full Report of all the Proceedings on the Trial of the Rev.
William Jackson, at the bar of His Majesty's Court of King's Bench, Ireland, on an indictment for
High Treason. Collected from the notes of William Ridgeway, William Lapp, and John Schoales,
Esqrs. barristers-at-law. Dublin: Printed by J. Exshaw, No. 98, Grafton-Street, 1795. pp. [2], 142.
Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€385
ESTC T78283.
194. JACOB, Rosamond. The Rise of the United Irishmen 1791-94. Illustrated. London: George
Harrap, 1937. pp. 266. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the Christian Brothers' Libraries
with their stamps. A good copy.
€65
195. JAMES, Sir Henry. The Work of the Irish Leagues. The Speech of the Right Hon. Sir
Henry James, Q.C., M.P., replying in the Parnell Commission Inquiry. London: Published for the
Liberal Unionist Association by Cassell & Company, n.d. (c.1889). pp. xii, 862. Worn maroon
cloth. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate and signature.
€150
With chapters on Sir Charles Russell's Historical Argument; Michael Davitt; Michael Davitt in
America - The New Departure; Fenian Agitation in Ireland; The Avowed of the Land Movement; The
Action Taken at the Beginning of 1879; The Sham Rules of the League; Advantage taken of the
Distress; Mr. Parnell's Visit to America- Appeals to the Extreme Party; Results of Mr. Parnell's Visit to
America - Michael Davitt's Second Visit; Ireland in the Early Part of 1880 - Mr. Parnell's Return;
Distress not the Cause of Crime; Murders in 1880; Crime in the Autumn of 1880; Boycotting the
League Spreads like Wildfire; Parnell refuses to Denounce Crime; No Secret Societies in Ireland
except the Fenians; Ireland in the Early Part of 1881 - Murders in 1881; America in 1881 - Mr.
Parnell's Message to the Clan-na-Gael; Le Caron Delivers Mr. Parnell's Message - The Clan-na-Gael
and the Dynamite Campaign; The Newspaper Campaign in Ireland; The Chicago November
Convention; The Phoenix Park Murders, etc.
196. JENNINGS, Rev. Brendan. Michael O Cleirigh, Chief of the Four Masters and his
Associates. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1936. pp. 220. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine.
Aodh de Blácam's copy with his signature dated 19th September, 1936 and corrections in his
hand. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy in dust jacket. €95
It is now almost four centuries since Brother Michael O Cleirigh and his team began at the Convent of
Donegal to arrange the materials of what is called the Annals of the Four Masters - one of the most
remarkable monuments in Ireland's literary history. He was born about 1590 and was a descendant of
the illustrious and learned family of O Cleirigh, who migrated from County Mayo to Donegal, and
were scholars and professors of history to the O'Donnell's, Chiefs of Tír Conaill.
A VERSE SATIRE ON
GEORGE FAULKNER THE PRINCE OF DUBLIN PRINTERS
197. [JEPHSON, Robert] An Epistle from Gorges Edmond Howard, Esq. to Alderman G.
Faulkner. With Notes, &c. by the Alderman and other Authors. The fifth edition, with
considerable additions. Dublin: Printed for Pat Wogan, in Church-street, 1771. pp. 39. Recent
half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€365
COPAC locates 1 copy only.
George Faulkner (1699-1775), Bookseller, was born in Dublin the son of a respectable victualler. At an
early age he was apprenticed to a printer in Essex Street, named Thomas Hume, later he was
journeyman to William Bowyer, the 'learned' printer. In partnership with James Hoey he opened a
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bookselling and printing business at Christ Church Lane, in Skinner's Row, Dublin and there began to
print the Dublin Journal. Two years later their partnership was dissolved and he removed to another
shop (corner of Parliament and Essex Streets), taking the entire interest in the paper. He had the great
fortune to befriend Swift and became his printer. He courted controversy with some of his satirical
publications, one of which landed him in Newgate Prison, "thrown into gaol among ordinary felons,
though he prayed to be admitted to bail". After a detention of a few days he was set free, and each of
the officers accepted in lieu of their fees a copy of the new edition of Swift's works which he had just
published.
While in London he had to have his leg amputated, and Faulkner, who loved a reputation for gallantry,
amusingly asserted that the injury was caused while escaping from a jealous husband. The present
satire was the result of a quarrel between Faulkner and his one-time friend Howard, who practised as
an attorney in Dublin, and craved to be acknowledged as a poet. This resulted in the appearance of the
Epistle, Robert Jephson was the principal author of this satire which was composed in ridicule of the
Alderman's mode of literary composition. It was so popular that it ran into nine editions, and was
followed by an epistle from Howard.
Towards the end of his life Faulkner had Irish patriotic leanings. He became a Catholic in 1758, and
spoke against the Penal Laws. His tastes were for good company, he told good stories about Swift who
deemed him "the Prince of Dublin Printers". He provided his guests with abundant claret, of which he
could drink deep without getting drunk.
198. JOHNSON, Nevill. Dublin: The People's City. The Photographs of Nevill Johnson 195253. Foreword by James Plunkett. Dublin: The Academy Press, 1981. pp. 188, [4]. Black cloth,
titled in silver. A fine copy in very good dust jacket.
€145
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199. JOYCE, P.W. A Smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland. Treating of the government,
military system, and law; religion, learning, and art; trades, industries, and commerce; manners,
customs, and domestic life, of the ancient Irish people. With 213 illustrations. London:
Longmans, Green, 1908. Second edition. pp. xxiv, 574. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very
good copy.
€65
200. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Names of Places. With an new introductory essay on P.W. Joyce by
Mainchín Seoighe. Three volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. pp. xxxvi, 589, (2) viii, 538, (3) x,
598. Green buckram, title in gilt on spines. A fine set in slipcase. Very scarce.
€165
This is the first work ever written on the subject, and is a marvel of industry, patience and accuracy. In
the preface to the third volume, Dr. P.W. Joyce says: "Indeed my notes on this subject from all sources
would be enough to astonish any person looking through them - enough indeed to alarm one at the idea
of classifying and using them.
The great name system, begun thousands of years ago by the first wave of population that reached our
island, was continued unceasingly from age to age until it embraced the minutest features of the
country in its intricate network; and, such as it sprang from the minds of our ancestors, it exists almost
unchanged to this day".
Dr. Joyce further states: "These volumes comprise what I have to say concerning Irish Local Names;
for I have noticed all the principal circumstances that were taken advantage of by the people of this
country to designate places; and I have explained and illustrated, as far as lay in my power, the various
laws of name-formation, and all the important root-words used in building up the structure".
Still the standard work, the third volume which is usually wanting, contains an alphabetical list of
placenames with their Irish forms and translation, running to almost 600 pages.
201. KEARNEY, Hugh F. Strafford in Ireland 1633-41. A Study in Absolutism. With
illustrations and map. Manchester: University Press, 1959. pp. xviii, 294. Red cloth, title in gilt
on spine. Ex lib. with cancellation stamp on verso of titlepage. Lacks front free endpaper. A very
good copy in dust jacket. Very scarce.
€45
This work is an important contribution to both Irish and English history of the seventeenth-century.
202. KEMMY, Jim. Ed. by. The Limerick Anthology. Dublin: Gill, 1996. pp. xviii, 379. A very
good copy in illustrated stiff wrappers.
€30
With articles on: Religion; The Garrison; Land and Labour; People; The County; Sport; History; The
Stage; The City, and Travellers.
WITH THE SIGNATURE OF JOHN F. KENNEDY
203. KENNEDY, John F. Why England Slept. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1962. pp. 192.
Blue paper boards. Signature of John Fitzgerald Kennedy loosely inserted on a single sheet. Also
enclosed is a note from Sean T. Ó Ceallaigh (President of Ireland 1945-59) to his sister-in-law
Agnes: "I promised to get you the U.S. President's autograph. Here it is. I cannot read it. Maybe
you can. We are off to Rome, Love Sean T. / Forgive the scrawl". Housed in a quarto morocco
solander box with printed label on upper cover. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €1,250
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (1917-1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the thirty-fifth
President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
After Kennedy's military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 during World War
II in the South Pacific, his aspirations turned political, with the encouragement and grooming of his
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father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Kennedy represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of
Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat, and in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960.
Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S.
presidential election, one of the closest in American history. He was the only practising Roman
Catholic to be president and was the second youngest President (after T. Roosevelt), and the youngest
elected to the office, at the age of 43. Kennedy is also the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize.
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged
with the crime and was murdered two days later by Jack Ruby before he could be put on trial. The
event proved to be an important moment in U.S. history because of its impact on the nation and the
ensuing political repercussions. Today, Kennedy continues to rank highly in public opinion ratings of
former U.S. presidents.
204. KENNEDY, P.G. RUTTLEDGE, R.F. & SCROOPE, C.F. The Birds of Ireland. An
account of the distribution, migrations and habits as observed in Ireland. Illustrated. Edinburgh:
Oliver and Boyd, 1954. First edition. pp. xv, 437. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Slight foxing
to prelims, wear to lower board edges. A very good copy.
€85
205. KENNELLY, Brendan. The Singing Tree. Coloured frontispiece. Newry: Abbey Press,
1998. First edition. pp. 46, [1]. Black paper boards. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies (No.
15) signed by the author. Maroon dust jacket with title in black on upper cover. A fine copy. €65
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206. KERR, Donal A. Peel, Priests and Politics. Sir Robert Peel's Administration and the Roman
Catholic Church in Ireland 1841-1846. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. pp. xii, 399. Black paper
boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Scarce.
€135
This work gives an objective account of how Sir Robert Peel, one of England's greatest prime
ministers, at the height of his powers, made a serious attempt to solve the 'Irish Problem', in which
political and religious elements were inextricably linked.
IN A FINE BINDING
THE ASTRONOMER POET OF PERSIA
207. 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
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
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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.
A remarkable work in a fine binding.
IN A FINE BINDING
THE ASTRONOMER POET OF PERSIA
208. KHAYYÁM, Omar. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. The First and Fourth Renderings in
English Verse by Edward FitzGerald. With illustrations by Willy Pogany. London: George
Harrap, 1930. Crown quarto. pp. 175. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full green calf.
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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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.
209. KILFEATHER, T.P. The Connaught Rangers. Campaigns of the famous fighting Irish
regiment in service of the British crown. Its mutiny in India in protest against Black-and-Tan
atrocities in Ireland. Tralee: Anvil, 1969. pp. [iii], 212. Illustrated wrappers. Inscription on
titlepage, Bodies. Returned to Ireland / October 30th 1970 / J. Daly. A fine copy.
€45
Treating the mutiny of the 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers at Jullundur and Solan Barracks, India, in
protest against the murderous brutality of the Black-and-Tans and Auxiliaries who had been unleashed
by Lloyd George against the Irish people. Fourteen Connaught Rangers were condemned to death but
only Private Daly from Tyrrellspass, County Westmeath was executed. Before he died in a letter to his
mother he wrote: "It is all for Ireland and I am not afraid to die".
AUTHOR'S OWN COPY
210. KING, Jeremiah. King's History of Kerry or History of the Parishes in the County. With
some Antiquarian Notes and Queries. Six parts in one volume. Liverpool: Published by J. King,
302 Anfield Road, [1907-1914]. pp. 443 (double column). Title vignette portrait of author. Green
cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover. Signature of the author on titlepage, with letter of provenance
loosely inserted. Some light fading to covers, new endpapers. In very good condition. Extremely
rare.
€1,450
COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 1. The Trinity College Dublin Catalogue states that this work
appeared serially in the Kerry People and was published in 6 parts.
Jeremiah King (1868-1927), historian, genealogist, printer, and publisher, was born in Groin, in the
parish of Aghadoe, County Kerry. King received an elementary education in Currow and subsequently
benefited from tuition in Latin and book-keeping. He entered HM Customs, and in August 1887 was
posted to Liverpool. While at Liverpool he purchased a small printing press, on which he printed his
earliest works relating to Ireland. In 1892 he was transferred to Greenock in Scotland, later he was
promoted and transferred to London.
J. S. Crone founder of the Irish Book Lover, wrote a number of articles on King and stated that he
"devoted a lifetime to the collection and arrangement of data concerning his native county of which he
was so proud", and in a later article described him as the 'Historian of Kerry'. During his relatively
short life, King immersed himself in copious correspondence, historical and genealogical research and
contributed numerous articles to various newspapers.
211. KING, William. An Answer to the Considerations Which Obliged Peter Manby, Late Dean
of London-Derry in Ireland (As he pretends) to Embrace, what he calls, the Catholique Religion.
By William King, Chancellor of St. Patricks, Dublin. London: Printed for R. Taylor, near
Stationers-Hall, 1687. pp. [vii], 104. Recent half calf on marbled boards. A very good copy. €385
WorldCat 3. Wing K 524. Sweeney 2964.
WIDGERY'S BETRAYAL OF THE BOGSIDE
212. KINSELLA, Thomas. Butcher's Dozen: A Lesson for the Octave of Widgery. Dublin:
Dolmen, 1972. pp. 8. Pictorial stapled wrappers. Signed presentation copy from David Greene to
Theo [Moody]. A fine copy.
€75
POWERFUL RHETORICAL POLITICAL SATIRE
213. [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
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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.
214. LATIMER, W.T. A History of the Irish Presbyterians. Belfast: Cleeland, & Edinburgh:
Hunter, 1893. pp. 246. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Mild spotting to fore-edge, otherwise a
very good copy.
€75
IN FINE IRISH BINDING
215. LAWRENCE, W.J. Barry Sullivan: A Biographical Sketch. Illustrated. London: W & G.
Baird, 1893. Octavo. pp. 98. Bound in crushed brown morocco. Covers blocked in gilt to a panel
design decorated with flowers inlaid with mother-of-pearl on the upper cover. Spine divided into
six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt direct in the second and fourth,
the remainder with a shamrock motif outlined in gilt; edges of the boards ruled in gilt; wide
doublures with gilt shamrock roll and a single gilt fillet, green moiré watered-silk endpapers;
green and gold endbands; inner morocco joints. All edges gilt. A fine copy.
€495
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Thomas Barry Sullivan (1824-1895) was born in Birmingham, of Irish parents. The family returned to
Cork when he was but a child. For a time he was a draper's assistant. He made his first appearance at
the Cork Theatre in Ireland in 1840. Noted for romantic drama and Shakespearian parts, he made his
London debut in 1852. From 1857 to 1866, he travelled the world performing in France, China,
Australia, and the United States. He managed the Holborn Theatre London, 1868 to 1870, continued
performing and also coordinated road shows until his death. He is buried in Glasnevin Dublin.
216. [LEADBEATER, Mary] Recollections of the Character
of Mary Leadbeater with a brief Memoir of her Life and
Writings. Silhouette portrait of Mary Leadbeater facing title.
Dublin: Richard Davis Webb, William-Street. 1829. pp. 92.
Green worn cloth professionally rebacked. Frontispiece with
waterstain, foxing to prelims. Toning to some pages. A good
copy.
€295
Provenance: From the Leadbeater library by descent.
217. LEDWIDGE, Francis. Francis Ledwidge Centenary
1887-1987. Illustrated. Slane: Tully, 1987. pp. 40. Pictorial
wrappers. A very good copy.
€15
218. LEDWIDGE, Francis. Songs of the Fields. With
introductions by Lord Dunsany. London: Herbert Jenkins
Limited, 1916. Second edition. pp. 122, 6 (publisher's list).
Olive green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine.
Neat library stamp of Frank McEvoy on front free endpaper.
A fine copy.
€35
PREMIUM SET
219. LELAND, Thomas. The History of Ireland from the
Invasion of Henry II. With a preliminary discourse on the antient state of that kingdom. In three
volumes. Dublin: Printed by R. Marchbank, for R. Moncrieffe, in Capel-Street, 1774. Third
edition. pp. (1) [lii (contents)], lvi, 387, (2) [ii], 516, (3) [ii], 634, [33 (index)]. Contemporary full
tan calf, slightly rubbed, with red and green morocco labels. Premium Prize awarded to A Vesey,
June 26, 1781, manuscript note on front pastedown. A very attractive set of the rare Dublin third
edition.
€475
220. LE ROUX, Louis N. Tom Clarke and the Irish Freedom Movement. Illustrated. Dublin:
Talbot Press, 1936. First edition. pp. 244. Green cloth, titled in black. Previous owner's signature
on front endpaper. A very good copy in price-cut dust jacket. Very scarce.
€175
Thomas James Clarke emigrated to America in his early twenties, where he joined Clan-na-Gael. A
few years later he was sent to Britain on an ill-fated and dangerous Fenian mission, and served 15 years
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in solitary confinement under ferocious conditions. Afterwards he returned to America, and it was only
in 1907 that he came to Dublin. He opened a newsagent's shop, which quickly became a centre of IRB
activity. The other 1916 leaders insisted that he should be the first to sign the Proclamation, in tribute
to his personal history and as a mark of continuity with the Fenian tradition.
221. LESLIE, Rev. James B. Ossory Clergy and Parishes. Being an account of the clergy of the
Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Ossory, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the
several parishes, Churches, &c. With folding map and portraits of some post-disestablishment
bishops. Enniskillen: Ritchie, 1933. Royal octavo. pp. xii, 400. Red cloth, title in gilt on lightly
faded spine. Ticket of Carswell, Manufacturing Stationers, Belfast on front pastedown. Edition
limited to 400 copies only. A very good. Very scarce.
€95
ST VINCENT'S SEMINARY PRIZE
222. LESLIE, Prof. Jameson & MURRAY, Hugh. Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in
the Polar Seas and Regions ... and an account of the Whale-Fishery. With steel engraved chart of
the Polar seas. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1830. pp. viii, 424.
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Bound in contemporary red straight-grained morocco. Covers decorated with a gilt outer narrow
roll framing the badge of St. Vincent's Seminary in the centres of both covers; flat spine gilt in
five compartments. All edges gilt. A very good copy.
€135
223. LEWIS-CROSBY, Very Rev. E.H., Dean. The Ancient Books of Christ Church Cathedral.
Christ Church Series. No. 4. Illustrated. Dublin: Printed by J.T. Drought Ltd., n.d. (c.1948). pp.
12. A very good copy in rusty stapled wrappers.
€20
Ernest Henry Cornwall Lewis-Crosby was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. His first post was as a
curate at Christ Church, Leeson Park, Dublin. After this he was head of the Church of Ireland Mission
to the Jews then Rector of Drumcondra, Rathmines (1914–1924) and Stillorgan. In 1938 he became
Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, a post he held until his death in 1961.
224. LINEHAN, M.P. Canon Sheehan of Doneraile. Priest, Novelist, Man of Letters. Dublin:
Talbot Press, 1952. First edition. pp. [v], 169. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. Some minor
spotting to endpapers and fore-edge. A very good copy in frayed pictorial dust jacket.
€85
Patrick Augustine Sheehan, priest, poet and novelist was born in Mallow on March 17th 1852. He was
ordained to the priesthood in 1875 and his first appointment was as acting chaplain to Dartmoor Prison
in Exeter, where the Irish patriot and my fellow Mayoman, Michael Davitt was then interned. In 1895
he was appointed parish priest of Doneraile and there wrote the novels which made his own name and
that of his parish famous throughout Europe and the English-speaking world. He was one of the first, if
not the greatest, of priest novelists. In an age which produced Hardy, Kipling, Wells and Barrie, his
books were bestsellers and were translated into several languages. Canon Sheehan of Doneraile was
styled the 'greatest living novelist' by Tolstoy.
225. LONGFIELD, Ada K. [Mrs. H. Leask] Ed. by. Fitzwilliam Accounts 1560-65 (Annesley
Collection). Dublin: Stationery Office, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1960. pp. xii, 139. Red
buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€95
Sir William Fitzwilliam was Receiver General in Ireland.
The contents include: details of revenues; estimates of expenses; loans to certain Irish Lords; charges
for the army; extraordinary charges of the war against Shane O'Neill, etc.
226. LONGFIELD, Ada Kathleen. Anglo Irish Trade in the Sixteenth Century. With
frontispiece and Boazio's 1578 map of Ireland at end. London: George Routledge & Sons, 1929.
pp. viii, 241. Red buckram, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Scarce.
€75
This work deals with the economic history of Ireland in Tudor times. Much new material has been
introduced from the English Customs Accounts and Post-Books. These Accounts had not previously
been used by historians for the Tudor period and they provide us with not only minute, but vivid
evidence of actual transactions giving us an excellent account of Anglo-Irish trade at that time.
SIGNED BY EAMON DE VALERA
227. LONGFORD, Earl of. & O'NEILL, T.P. Ed. by. Eamon De Valera. With coloured
portrait frontispiece and numerous other illustrations. London: Gill, 1970. First edition. pp. xxiii,
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499. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Signed by Eamon De Valera on the half-title, also with postage
stamp of Dev. A fine copy in frayed illustrated dust jacket.
€225
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228. LONGLEY, Michael. The Lake Without a Name. Poems of Mayo. Wood engravings by
Jeffrey Morgan. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2005. First edition. pp. [xvi], 52, [2]. Quarter black
morocco on handmade paper boards. Limited to 275 numbered copies. This edition limited to 75
copies only with an additional poem and wood engraving commissioned for this special edition.
Signed by the author and illustrator. A fine copy in fine slipcase. Rare.
€575
The fine press limited edition of 'The Lake Without a Name' consists of 275 signed and numbered
copies. It is printed on 170 gsm mould-made Zerkall paper with a deckle edge. The twenty-nine wood
engravings were fashioned on endgrain boxwood supplied by blockmaker Chris Daunt of Gateshead.
The edition is printed letterpress at Libanus Press, Marlborough, in Wiltshire, and is quarter-bound
with Frogmore Mill grass paper boards and Ratchford Colorado Amazon cloth, presented in a lined
slipcase with a bow edge. The Lake Without a Name is the fruit of an enduring friendship between poet
and artist, a unique collaboration between two extraordinary craftsmen.
229. LYNCH, Diarmuid. The I.R.B. and the 1916 Insurrection. A record of the preparations for
the Rising, with comments on published works relating thereto, and a Report on Operations in
the G.P.O. garrison area during Easter Week, 1916. Edited, with a foreword and two chapters on
the American phase of Diarmuid Lynch's activities in the Clan-na-Gael and Friends of Irish
Freedom by Florence O'Donoghue. Illustrated. Cork: The Mercier Press, 1957. pp. xiii, 228. Red
cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy
in frayed dust jacket.
€95
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230. [LYNCH, John D.D.] Cambrensis Eversus, seu potius Historica Fides in Rebus Hibernicis
Giraldo Cambrensi Abrogata; in quo Plerasque Justi Historici Dotes Desiderari, Plerosque
Naevos Inesse, ostendit Gratianus Lucius, Hibernus, qui etiam aliquot res memorabiles
Hibernicas veteris et novae memoriae passim e re nata huic operi inseruit. Edited by Matthew
Kelly. Three volumes. Dublin: For The Celtic Society, 1848-1852. pp. (1) xvi, 515, (2) 793, (3)
575. Bound by Galwey Bookbinders of Dublin in full tan calf with their engraved label on lower
pastedown. Covers framed by triple gilt fillets enclosing the gilt badge of Maynooth College.
Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and volume number on
contrasting green and burgundy labels in the second and third, the remainder tooled in gilt to a
centre-and-corner design. Some covers with some surface scratches. All edges marbled. A very
good set.
€485
John Lynch (1599-1673), a scion of one of the Tribes of Galway, was educated at the Irish College at
Rouen and at the Sorbonne. The son of Alexander Lynch, a famous Galway Schoolmaster who was
forbidden by the Establishment to teach without conforming, and without special licence of the Lord
Deputy. After his ordination in 1622, John returned to Ireland, and like his father taught school in
Galway where he acquired a wide reputation for classical learning. A Royalist, he took no part in the
Civil War, was bitterly opposed to the policies adopted by the Nuncio, Rinuccini, referring to it as:
"that ill-omened, insensible, fatal war". During the war he lived most of the time secluded in an old
castle that had once belonged to Roderic O'Conor. On the surrender of Galway to the Cromwellians in
1662 he fled to France. Residing at St. Malo he wrote some of the most sought after of all the 17th
century Irish books. Top of the list was this great historical work on Ireland, and his eloquent defence
against the calumnies of Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald Barry, the Welsh monk).
Love of country, a desire to clear the way "for treading with more secure step the almost trackless field
of Irish history", and to check the pernicious influence of Cambrensis on other writers, were the
motives which impelled him to write. His plan involved examination of his adversary's character and
credentials, a refutation of slanders against Ireland's soil and climate, its kings and people, prelates and
clergy, and a presentment of the main features of Ireland's history as a set-off to the garbled version of
the slanderer. Lynch is at his best when he takes up this, the positive and constructive side of his work,
and with the ease and ability of a master, summarises the story of centuries. He was indebted to his
contemporaries, those other great western scholars, Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh and Roderick
O'Flaherty who supplied him with several manuscripts including Leabhar Breac and Triallau timcheall
na Fodhla.
Its enormous value however lies in the extensive number of sources consulted embracing a great
variety of well-digested and accurate information on every period of Irish history. Lynch dedicated his
'magnum opus' to Charles II.
231. LYONS, F.S.L. Ireland Since the Famine. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. pp.
xiii, 852. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in very good dust jacket. Scarce.
€85
This work is a full-scale study of Irish history since the middle of the nineteenth century; it treats not
merely the political events which have for so long dominated the writing of Irish history, but the
economic and social record as well.
Professor Lyons begins with the aftermath of the Great Famine of the 1840s, a turning-point when the
age-old hatred of England was reinforced with a new bitterness by the failure of the English
government to serve as an effective government for Ireland and meet the crisis that drastically reduced
the Irish population by death and emigration.
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232. LYTTON, Sir Edward Bulwer. Ernest Maltravers, or, The Eleusinia. With frontispiece.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1851. pp. (1) xi, [1], 276 (2) viii, 312 (double column). Bound by
Marcus Ward in contemporary full red calf. Covers framed by double gilt fillets with gilt floral
roll, repeated in blind. Fore-edges gilt; comb-marbled endpapers; red and gold double endbands.
Loosely inserted is a card from Richard Hayward stating this was bound by Marcus Ward of
Belfast. Signature of Margaret Dunlop, Edenderry, dated 1851 on titlepage. All edges gilt. A
superb set.
€375
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233. MacAIRT, Seán. M.A. Ed. by. The Annals of Inisfallen (MS. Rawlinson B. 503). Edited
with translation and indexes. Dublin: Institute for Advanced Studies, 1951. pp. lii, 596. Blue
cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the library of T.W. Moody. Fine in frayed dust jacket.
€125
The Annals of Inisfallen were compiled on a small island in the lower Lake of Killarney, opposite Ross
Castle, where the remains of an abbey are still to be found. There is not much known of their history
until they came into the possession of Sir James Ware (1594-1666). These Annals, like those ascribed
to Tighernach are preceded by the brief chronicle of universal history in which the early Irish kings
make their appearance, and the birth, captivity and escape of St. Patrick are recorded. This is followed
by the history of Ireland from A.D. 428 and continues down to the year 1326. An English translation of
a portion of the Annals was made for the use of Ware, by that well-known Connaught antiquary Duald
MacFirbis, a copy of which is preserved in Trinity College.
234. McCARTHY, Charles. Trade Unions in Ireland 1894-1960. With numerous tables and
appendices. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1977. pp. xv, 671, + corrigenda. Pictorial
stiff lightly frayed wrappers. A very good copy.
€45
235. MacCARTHY, Daniel. The Life and Letters of Florence MacCarthy Reagh, Tanist of
Carbery, MacCarthy Mor, with some portion of "The History of the Ancient Families of the
South of Ireland", Compiled solely from unpublished documents in Her Majesty's State Paper
Office. By Daniel MacCarthy (Glas), of Gleann-a-Chroim. London: Longmans, Green. &
Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1867. First edition. pp. xii, 515. Titlepage printed in red and black.
Blue cloth, armorial seal of the MacCarthy's in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on rebacked spine.
With the signature and armorial crest of Timothy MacCarthy. Photograph of MacCarthy More's
castle, Killarney on front pastedown. Stamp of William Power, Castletownbere on p.237.
Occasional light foxing. A good copy of a very scarce item.
€165
236. McCARTHY, Justin. A Short History of Our Own Times from the Accession of Queen
Victoria to the Accession of King Edward VII. London: Chatto & Windus, 1908. Octavo. Bound
in polished green calf for Aravon Preparatory School. Covers framed by double gilt fillets
enclosing in gilt on the upper cover the badge of the school. Spine divided into five
compartments by four gilt raised bands, title on brown morocco label in the second, the
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remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; board edges and turn-ins blind tooled;
splash-marbled endpapers. All edges sprinkled. A very good copy.
€175
Provenance: Aravon Preparatory School Prize Label on the front pastedown awarded to W.J. Pilsworth
in 1910. Signed by the Head Master R. H. Bookey.
237. MacCARTY, Dennis. A Vindication of Monsieur Descartes: in Five Philosophical
Conferences. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, 1731. pp. 27, [1]. Recent quarter morocco on marbled
boards, title in gilt on spine. Scarce.
€465
ESTC T195093 locates 2 copies only, Trinity College, and Royal Irish Academy. Only the first
Conference was ever published, and this copy collates with ESTC.
238. McCLINTOCK, H.F. Old Irish and Highland Dress with notes on that of the Isle of Man.
With a coloured frontispiece from a watercolour of Irishmen and women in a manuscript book by
Lucas de Heere of about 1570 and many other illustrations. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1943.
First edition. Quarto. pp. [xv], 188, + illustrations. Quarter linen on illustrated boards. Signature
of the historian, H.A. Wheeler on front pastedown. Bookplate of Joan Blake Jennings on front
free endpaper. A very good copy in the rare but frayed dust jacket. Scarce.
€95
The standard authoritative work.
239. MacDONAGH, Michael. The Viceroy's Postbag. Correspondence hitherto unpublished of
the Earl of Hardwicke, First Lord Lieutenant of Ireland after the Union. London: John Murray,
1904. pp. ix, 466, 2. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. T.W. Moody's copy with his signature and
bookplate, also with the earlier armorial bookplate of Stott. A very good copy.
€75
With detailed chapters on the Union; Irish Peers wanting jobs; Bribes of bishoprics; More bribes to
parliamentarians; Lord Jocelyn's Foxhunters; Lord Roden on his family claims; Sir Jonah Barrington
and Sir John Parnell; The Primate threatens to resign; Emmet's Insurrection; Emmet and Sarah Curran;
Trial and execution of Emmet; Fate of Thomas Russell; The Lord Lieutenant gets the Garter, etc.
240. MacDONAGH, Michael. The Life of William O'Brien the Irish Nationalist. A Biographical
study of Irish Nationalism Constitutional and Revolutional. Illustrated. London: Ernest Benn,
1928. First edition. pp. 282. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Light foxing to fore-edge,
otherwise a very good copy. Scarce.
€65
LEITRIM POET
241. M'D., J. [John McDonald of Dromod] Irish
National Poems. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker,
1886. Green cloth, title and author in gilt on upper
cover with a gilt harp and garland of shamrock in
centre, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature
on front free endpaper. A very good copy.
€375
No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat records the UCD
copy only in the British and Irish Isles.
D.J. O'Donoghue in his Poets of Ireland states that John
McDonald was a frequent contributor of verse to United
Ireland about twenty years previously, and for many years
to Weekly News and Young Ireland. He also wrote a few
poems in Weekly National Press (1891-2), and while in
America for a time, in Irish World of New York. His
poems usually appeared over signature of "J. McD.
(Dromod)". He was the son of a farmer and was born in
the Parish of Cloome, County Leitrim, on September 19,
1846, and at that time was still living in Dromod, his
native county.
242. McGUIGAN, J.H. The Giant's Causeway
Tramway. Illustrated. Lingfield, Surrey: Oakwood
Press, 1964. pp. vi, 107. Maroon faded cloth, title in
gilt on spine. A fine copy.
€30
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243. McHUGH, Roger. Ed. by. Dublin 1916. London: Arlington Books, 1966. pp. xix, 399.
Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine A very good copy in repaired dust jacket.
€65
This vivid and exciting anthology captures Easter Week in Dublin, and the events that led up to the
Rising, as fully and completely as possible, looking back after half a century.
With chapters on: Attempt by the Sea - Casement's Last Expedition, Robert Monteith's Story - Arms
off the Kerry Coast; The Events of Easter Week; Easter Week Diary of Miss Lilly Stokes; Dublin
Rebellion from 'Preston Herald'; A Nurse in Dublin Castle; Countess De Markievicz; A Student of the
Rising - Ernie O'Malley; Innocent Bysinger Inside Trinity College; One Man's Easter Week Commandant Andy McDonnell; Inside the GPO.; The Surrender - Elizabeth O'Farrell; Dubliners
Statements concerning Civilian Deaths; Sean O'Casey's Easter; The Executions - Max Caulfield; A
Pacifist Dies - Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington; Aftermath - Patricia Lynch - Sylvia Pankhurst; Seven
Poems - W.B. Yeats; Three Poems - Francis Ledwidge and James Stephens; News in Exile - Mary
Colum, etc.
244. MACKAY, John. The Ten Islands and Ireland. With numerous illustrations and coloured
map. Dublin: Maunsel and Company, 1919. pp. xii, 352. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. From
the library of Rev. M. Geraghty with his stamp and also from the library of P.S. O'Hegarty signed
and dated by him. Some fading to covers, otherwise a very good copy.
€75
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DISCUSSION AT CARRICK-ON-SHANNON
245. M'KEON, Rev. John & OTHERS. An Authentic Report of the Discussion which took
place by Agreement at Carrick-on-Shannon, on the 9th November, 1824, between three Roman
Catholic Priests, and three Clergymen of the Established Church.
Accompanied by the certificates of the reporters, appointed by each party, and by that of the
committee of gentlemen authorized to publish a report of the proceedings. Dublin: Printed by
George & J. Grierson and M. Keene, 1824. pp. 45. Recent brown buckram, title in gilt on spine.
A fine copy. Rare.
€285
COPAC locates only 6 copies.
The Leitrim Auxiliary Bible Society's First Annual Meeting was held in the Court House, Carrick-onShannon on the 1st of November, 1824. It was interrupted by the protestations of Rev. John McKeon,
Roman Catholic Vicar-General of Ardagh and the Pope's Legate for Ireland. It was subsequently
agreed that a discussion would take place between three Roman Catholic priests and three clergyman of
the Established Church on the evocative issue of "the propriety of circulating the scriptures".
The three priests were Rev. J. M'Keon, George Joseph Brown and Michael O'Beirne and the three
clergyman were William Digby, Archdeacon of Elphin, George Hamilton, Rector of Killermogh, and
William Bushe. One hundred tickets were to be issued, fifty to each party and "perfect silence decorum
is to be observed". A reporter was to be provided on each side and this report was subsequently
published.
246. M'LEOD, John. Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea. To The
Island of Lewchew: With an Account of Her Subsequent Shipwreck. By John M'Leod, surgeon,
of the Alceste. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of Capt. Murray Maxwell, R.N., and two
(of five) hand-coloured plates. Second edition. London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1818.
pp. [6], 323, [1]. Worn half calf on marbled boards. From the library of Harvey de Morency of
Castle Morres with his signature on titlepage and front free endpaper (partially erased). A good
working copy
€95
247. MacLYSAGHT, Edward. Ed. by. Calendar of the Orrery Papers. Dublin: Stationery
Office, 1941. pp. xi, 396. Maroon buckram, titled in gilt on spine. T.W. Moody's copy with his
signature on front endpaper and marginal notes by him. A very good copy.
€95
These papers preserved in the National Library of Ireland cover a period of almost 30 years: from the
Restoration to the beginning of the Williamite Wars. The majority of them are letters, but also included
are many miscellaneous documents, rent rolls, wills, marriage settlements, leases and the like. There
are also some items of particular interest to the student of social history, e.g. inventories of furniture in
Orrery's mansion and the daily menus of his household.
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248. MacLYSAGHT, Edward. Supplement to Irish Families. Dublin: Helicon, 1964. Quarto.
pp. 163. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket.
€135
This Supplement to Irish Families completes the series which began with the publication of Irish
Families, their Names and Origins in 1957 and was followed by More Irish Families in 1960. Over
five hundred names not dealt with in the two preceding works are treated here, including a number
which were passed over by Father Woulfe in his Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall (1923).
249. MacLYSAGHT, Edward. Ed. by. The Kenmare Manuscripts. Dublin: Stationery Office,
1942. First edition. pp. xv, 517. Maroon faded cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Rare. €175
Record of the fortunes of a great Catholic family that lost everything for having sided with the
Jacobites, and who later regained their estates but never lost the faith. Invaluable source for Kerry
families recorded in the remarkable series of rental books going back to the early 17th century.
Included are letters, correspondence and diaries.
250. McNEILL, Charles. Ed. by. Liber Primus Kilkenniensis. Kilkenny City Records. The
earliest of the books of the Corporation of Kilkenny now extant. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1931.
Royal octavo. pp. viii, 173. Red faded cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€65
251. [MacNEILL, J. G. Swift] Proceedings of the Home Rule Conference held at The Rotunda,
Dublin, on The 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st November, 1873. With list of conference ticket holders,
index to speakers, index to subjects treated of in the debates, constitution and laws of the Irish
Home Rule League, and final report of the Home Government Association. Dublin: The Irish
Home Rule League, 1874. pp. xx, 213. Modern quarter green morocco on green buckram boards,
title in gilt direct along spine. Occasional browning. A very good copy with original upper
wrapper bound in.
€125
The impressive list of ticket holders included: Joseph Bigger, Isaac Butt, George Browne, R.P.
Blennerhassett, Henry Coulter, Thomas Croker, Luke Dillon, Major D'Arcy, Edmond Dease, W.J.
O'Neill Daunt, Captain De Burgh, Samuel Ferguson, Hon. Charles French, Captain Blake Forster,
Charles Ffrench Blake Forster, Rev. J.A. Galbraith, Dr. Grattan, Mitchell Henry, Rev. Haughton.
252. McNEILL, Mary. Vere Foster 1819-1900. An Irish Benefactor. With illustrations and
maps. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971. First edition. pp. 259, + erratum. Red paper
boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Scarce.
€45
More than any man Vere Foster, the great Irish benefactor, strove to remedy the plight of the Irish
peasants in the wake of the Great Irish Famine. He sacrificed position, wealth and even personal
friendships as he devoted his life to promoting and financing a scheme of emigration from Ireland to
America.
253. McNEILL, Rev. W. Told To His Reverence. County Down Sketches. With a foreword by
Robert Lynd. Dublin: Talbot Press, n.d. pp. 96. Quarter cloth on blue buckram boards, title in
faded gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€75
254. MacSUIBHNE, Peadar. Kildare in 1798. Naas: Leinster Leader, 1978. pp. [2], 259. A very
good copy in pictorial wrappers.
€45
255. MADDEN, Daniel Owen. The Speeches of the Right Hon.
Henry Grattan; To which is added his Letter on the Union, with a
Commentary on his Career and Character. Dublin: James Duffy,
1871. Second edition. Octavo. pp. xxxvi, 37-468. Bound in
contemporary full brown morocco. Covers framed by double gilt
fillets and blind arabesque roll with gilt fleur-de-lys fleurons.
Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands,
title and author in gilt on contrasting morocco labels in the second
and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to an arabesque design;
comb-marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Very good. €225
256. MAGUIRE, John Francis. The Irish in America. London:
Longmans, Green & Co., 1868. pp. xvii, 653, 2. Green blindstamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Covers a little faded,
otherwise a very good copy.
€65
John Francis Maguire (1815-1872) politician and author was born in
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Cork. He sat as a member for Dungarvan from 1852 until 1865 and then for Cork from 1865 until his
death in 1872. He wrote for his newspaper, the Cork Examiner and wrote several books. He actively
supported the Liberal Party's legislation on the disestablishment of the Church as well as the land
question. Then in 1870, John Maguire joined the Home Rule party for Ireland, who wanted nothing
more than to be able to govern their own instead of being governed by England. He cared about his
fellow countrymen and the issues that they faced, and enjoyed writing his Newspaper and books. He
was not interested in being a man of wealth or affluence and just wanted to do what he felt was right
for his people and be a voice for them.
257. MAGUIRE, W.A. The Downshire Estates in Ireland 1801-1845. The management of Irish
landed estates in the early nineteenth century. Illustrated with maps. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1972. pp. vi, 284. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. Very
scarce.
€125
This book is the outcome of research into estate papers in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
It is a detailed study with emphasis on the economic history of the management of a single property
and is unique, in that it is the only study of such a property in Ireland or England. The landed estates of
the Hill family, whose senior member from the year 1789 onward bore the title of Marquis of
Downshire in the peerage of Ireland. They were among the largest property owners in Ireland, when
Bateman in the 1870s analysed the official returns of owners of land, the Downshire property consisted
of over 120,189 acres, the greater part of which was in County Down; the remainder at Blessington,
County Wicklow and Edenderry, County Offaly. The foundation of the Hill family's fortunes was laid
by the first member of it who came to Ireland from the West Country in the reign of Elizabeth I. Moses
Hill was one of the many landless young gentlemen from that part of England who followed Walter
Devereux, First Earl of Essex in that nobleman's unsuccessful attempt to make a reality of Elizabeth's
grant of land by dislodging the native proprietors of County Antrim at the close of the sixteenth
century. Sir James MacDonnell of Dunluce had other ideas, for in 1597 with a multitude of his hardy
Scots he was summoned to Carrickfergus for a meeting with Chichester. Suspecting a treacherous
attempt might be made on his liberty or life, he left the greater part of his troops at a place called
Altfracken, and on approaching Carrickfergus he saw at a glance that Sir John Chichester was
approaching with a large army. MacDonnell made a hasty retreat until he reached the hiding place of
his men. The English were completely routed and fled in all directions. Sir Moses Hill, founder of the
Downshire family in Ireland, then an unknown lieutenant, found a hiding-place in a cave in Island
Magee, which place to this day is known by his name.
258. MAHER, James. Ed. by. Romantic Slievenamon in History, Folklore and Song. A
Tipperary Anthology. With a preface by Sir Shane Leslie and numerous illustrations.
Mullinahone: Maher, 1954. First edition. pp. xvi, 309. Green cloth, title in blue along spine.
Small bump to upper board. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket.
€135
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259. [MALCOME, David] An Essay on the Antiquities of Great Britain and Ireland: Wherein
they are Placed in a clearer Light than hitherto. Designed as an Introduction to a larger Work,
especially an Attempt to shew an Affinity betwixt the Languages &c. of the ancient Britains, and
the Americans of the Isthmus of Darien. In answer to an Objection against revealed Religion.
Edinburgh: Printed by T.& W. Ruddimans, & sold by A. Kincaid, 1738. 124 leaves, variously
paginated. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, upper joint starting, wear to corners. A
very good copy.
€275
There is much in the book of interest for philology: part of Connor Begley's preface to Hugh
McCurtin's Irish Dictionary (Paris 1732), with a 16-page specimen; translations of both the Irish and
the Welsh prefaces to Edward Lhuyd's 'Archaeologia Britannica', 1707; various remarks on Celtic
languages spread through tracts with uninformative titles like 'To A.M. of D.E.'; similarly material on
American Indian languages, with samples of vocabulary, largely for fanciful comparisons with British
languages.
260. MANERO, F. Petrus. Expositio Regulæ Fratrum Minorum ab ipso Seraphico Patre Nostro
Francisco ejusdem legis-latore verbis, factis, exemplis tradita, Opera, Studio, Solicitudine.
Gandavi: Typis Maximiliani Graet, 1664. 12mo. pp. [xxvi], 215. Contemporary full vellum, titled
in ink on spine. A very good copy.
€650
No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 2.
Franciscans are members of orders founded by Saint Francis of Assisi. The most prominent group is
the Order of Friars Minor, commonly called simply the 'Franciscans'. They seek to follow most directly
the manner of life that Saint Francis led. This Order is a mendicant religious order of men tracing their
origin to Francis of Assisi. It comprises three separate groups, each considered a religious order in its
own right. These are the Observants, most commonly simply called 'Franciscan Friars', the Capuchins,
and the Conventual Franciscans. They all live according to a body of regulations known as "The Rule
of St. Francis".
A sermon which Francis heard in 1209 on Matthew 10:9 made such an impression on him that he
decided to devote himself wholly to a life of apostolic poverty.
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261. MANT, Richard. Rome. Her tenets and her Practices. In a Sermon, by Richard Mant, D.D.,
Bishop of Down and Connor, and Dromore: Preached November the 5th, 1843, in the Magdalene
Asylum Episcopal Chapel, Belfast, and published at the request of the congregation. Belfast:
George Phillips, Bridge Street; Dublin: Grant and Bolton; London: Rivington, 1843. pp. vi, 43.
Recent quarter goatskin, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€75
262. MARLOW, Joyce. Captain Boycott and the Irish. Illustrated. London: Deutsch, 1973. First.
pp. 319. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy.
€45
This work is an excellent account of the Mayo landlord who made the headlines in the 1880's when he
became the first victim of a particularly powerful social weapon. The British government found it
necessary to send more than a thousand armed troops to protect a handful of labourers engaged in
lifting Boycott's turnips.
It was here that the word 'Boycott' was first used and introduced into the English language by a Mr.
Redpath, an American journalist, at the instigation of Fr. O'Malley.
263. [MARSH, Miss C.M.] The Life of Arthur Vandeleur, Major, Royal Artillery, by the author
of "Memorials of Capt. Hedley Vicars ... ". Portrait frontispiece. London: James Nisbet, 1885. pp.
xv, [1], 303, [1]. Red cloth, title and armorial device in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine.
From the library of Joe MacMahon with his bookplate. Recased. Mild foxing. A very good copy.
Rare.
€135
This edition not in COPAC, WorldCat or NLI.
Arthur Vandeleur was born at Ralahine, the ancestral seat of his ancestors in 1829. His father
introduced the well-known Ralahine Commune, a co-operative society founded in 1831 to keep his
tenants away from secret societies like the 'Ribbonmen'. After two years however, it collapsed,
Vandeleur's reckless lifestyle and his gambling habit finally brought an end to the experiment.
THE POET'S REBELLION
264. MARTIN, F.X. Ed. by. Leaders and Men of the Easter Rising: Dublin 1916. London:
Methuen, 1967. First edition. pp. xii, 276. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. Stamp of Webb
Booksellers, Crampton Quay on front endpaper. A good copy in dust jacket.
€75
The Easter Rising was planned and led by a secret council of seven men - Pearse, Clarke, Plunkett,
Ceannt, MacDonagh, MacDermott and Connolly, most of them were poets and writers. With little or no
prospect of military success the rebellion was brutally crushed within a week and the leaders executed.
This knee-jerk reaction shocked the Irish people and kindled the flame of freedom and nationality
which eventually led to independence and the first break-up of the British Empire.
The Easter Rising will always be associated with University College, Dublin. Pearse served for a
period as deputy lecturer, and Thomas MacDonagh was a lecturer in English in the College at the time
of the Rising, both were signatories of the Proclamation, and both were executed. The O'Rahilly, one of
the most heroic participants in the action of Easter Week was a student there as well as Eamon de
Valera. Eoin MacNeill who founded the Irish Volunteers was a professor there, and he has gone down
in history as the one who countermanded the order for the Rising. Never has such a young institution
given so much of permanent value to a nation.
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WITH ALS FROM EDWARD MARTYN
265. MARTYN, Edward. The Tale of a Town : and An Enchanted Sea. Published at Kilkenny
by Standish O'Grady. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902. First edition. pp. [2], 211, [1]. Blue cloth,
title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Tipped in at front is a three page autographed letter signed
from Edward Martyn to Mr. Mangan on Kildare Street Club headed paper, dated 28th September,
1905. A very good copy. Rare.
€675
Edward Martyn (1859-1924) playwright, was born
in County Galway into a family of wealthy
Catholic landlords who were exempted from the
penal laws in 1709 by a special Act of Queen
Anne. After studies at Beaumont College and
Christ Church, Oxford, he returned to Tulira
Castle the family seat.
Martyn was reportedly pivotal in introducing
William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory to each
other in 1896. The three founded the Irish Literary
Theatre, for whom Martyn wrote his best and most
popular plays The Heather Field and A Tale of a
Town. He covered the costs of the company's first
three seasons, which proved crucial to establishing
the company and the future of the Abbey Theatre.
He later parted ways with Yeats and Gregory,
something he later regretted, but remained on
warm terms with Lady Gregory till the end.
Martyn became interested in the Irish language,
traditional and church music. He was a founder of
the Palestrina Choir, the Feis Cheoil and was
President of Sinn Fein from 1904 to 1908. In his
later years he became a virtual recluse in Tulira
Castle.
A very interesting letter in which Martyn discusses
a production of his play The Tale of a Town: "I do
not wish to put any difficulty in your way. Indeed
I will help you in every way I can. I cannot
remember the dialogue of Mr. Cassidy & Mr.
Leech which you wish to leave out ... I think you
are pulling the play to pieces a lot ... ".
266. [MASON, Wm. Shaw] A Reprint of the Statistical Account of the Town and Parish of
Thurso, in Scotland and of the Parish of Aghaboe, in Ireland. With a short introduction
containing a plan for the arrangement of the Statistical Account of Ireland. Bound with:
Statistical Account of the Town and Parish of Thurso, County and Presbytery of Caithness, and
Synod of Sutherland and Caithness. By the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart. With
engraving and folding map. Dublin: Re-printed by Graisberry and Campbell, for William Shaw
Mason, Esq., 1813. pp. (1) 12, (2) 89, [1]. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards. A very good
copy. Rare.
€185
Not in Black or Gilbert. Bradshaw 2196.
267. MAXWELL, Constantia. Irish History from Contemporary Sources (1509-1610). London:
Allen & Unwin, 1923. First edition. pp. 400. Faded cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the Library
of T.W. Moody with their neat stamp and signature on front free endpaper. Small ink stain to
lower margin, otherwise a very good copy.
€45
268. MAXWELL, W.H. Wild Sports of The West. With Legendary Tales, and Local Sketches.
New edition, revised and corrected. Illustrated. Two volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1833.
pp. (1) xvi, 306, (2) ix, 323. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. All edges marbled. Some
wear to head of spines otherwise a very good set. Very scarce.
€375
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COPAC locates 3 copies only of this edition.
Acknowledged as the finest book ever written on the
West of Ireland. A truly remarkable work by a
remarkable author, treating the wild sport, folklore and
traditions of that romantic and untouched Erris
peninsula. Maxwell was a lively and gifted story-teller
with a genuine interest in 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 transferred 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.
269. MEEHAN, C.P. The Rise and Fall of the Irish
Franciscan Monasteries, and Memoirs of the Irish
Hierarchy, in the seventeenth century. With
appendices containing original documents. Dublin: James Duffy, 1872. 16mo. Fourth edition. pp.
viii, 398. Green blind-stamped cloth, harp surrounded by a garland of shamrock in gilt on upper
cover, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. From the Christian
Brothers library with their stamps. Minor wear to corners. A very good copy.
€65
270. [MEMORIALS OF THE DEAD] An Index of the Churchyards and Buildings, from which
Inscriptions on Tombs and Mural Slabs have appeared in The Journal of the Association for the
Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, from 1888 to 1908 (inclusive). Dublin:
Printed at the University Press, by Ponsonby and Gibbs, 1909. pp. 37. A very good copy in
printed wrappers.
€45
An alphabetical index arranged county by county.
271. MERRIMAN, Bryan. The Midnight Court. A Rhythmical Bacchanalia from the Irish of
Bryan Merriman translated by Frank O'Connor. With decorations by Hugh Stevenson. London
and Dublin: Fridberg, 1945. First edition. pp. 61. Quarter buckram on green paper boards. A very
good copy in dust jacket.
€45
Full of humour and sarcasm, the Midnight Court is written in Rhyming Couplets and directed at the
desire of women to get married young. The poet in a dream is forced by a fairy woman to visit the
Court of Queen Aeval. Here he must listen to serious charges being made against the male sex
including the clergy.
"Another thing I'd like to mention,
That's beyond my comprehension,
Whatever made the Church create,
A clergy that is celibate?"
Allegations are also made against men who wed old hags because of money while ignoring girls who
are finely bred. The poet awakes as he is about to be beaten by the women in judgement.
272. MIKHAIL, E.H. A Bibliography of Modern Irish Drama 1899-1970. With a foreword by
William A. Armstrong. London: Macmillan, 1972. pp. xi, 51. Brown papered boards, title in gilt
on spine. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate. A fine copy in dust jacket.
€25
273. MILL, Hugh Robert. The Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton. Illustrated. London: William
Heinemann, 1923. pp. xv, 312. Black cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Light foxing
to prelims. A very good copy. Scarce.
€125
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274. MILLIGAN, Cecil Davis. History of the Siege of Londonderry 1689. With foreword by the
Rt. Hon. Sir Norman Stronge (Speaker of the Northern Ireland Commons) and Introduction by
Captain J. A. Read, late Black Watch (51st Highland Division). Illustrated. With folding map.
Londonderry: H.R. Carter Publications, 1951. pp xvii, 404. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. A
very good copy.
€95
BOUND BY GREENE OF DUBLIN?
275. [MILTON, John] The Poetical Works of John Milton; to which is prefixed the Life of the
Author. Illustrated with fine engravings. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, 73 Cheapside, 1845.
pp. xi, 576. Possibly bound by John Greene, 16, Clare St., Dublin, with his ticket on front
pastedown in contemporary full red goatskin, covers framed by a single gilt fillet enclosing a
blind stamped arabesque design and gilt decorated centre. Spine divided into six compartments
by five raised bands, title in gilt direct in second, the remainder decorated in gilt; fore-edges gilt;
pink and gold decorated endpapers. All edges gilt. A fine copy.
€375
RARE BELFAST PRINTING
276. MILTON, John. Paradise Lost; A Poem in twelve books. To which is prefixed, the life of
the author and an essay on English versification not in any former editions. Belfast: Printed by T.
Mairs & Co., for Sims and M'Intyre, Donegall Street, 1817. 12mo. pp. [1], xiv, [1], 14-336.
Modern full red morocco by Bob Wilson. A very good copy. Extremely rare.
€350
No copy of this edition located on COPAC. WorldCat 1.
277. MILTON, Thomas. Select Views in Ireland; from Seats and Demesnes of the Nobility and
Gentry of that Kingdom. Engraved by Thomas Milton, from original paintings and drawings.
London: Published by Hurst, Robinson, and Co. (Late Boydell) 90, Cheapside; and T. Milton, 3,
Martlett-Court, Bow-Street, Covent Garden, 1821. Oblong octavo. pp. [1], 47, 24 (plates). Near
contemporary half green morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on green morocco label on
upper cover and in gilt direct on professionally rebacked spine. Occasional light foxing mainly to
margins of plates as is usual. A very good copy of an extremely rare topographical item. €1,465
No copy of this edition located on COPAC. Not in TCD of NLI.
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The engravings for Seats and Demesnes of the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland were made between the
years 1783-1794 and issued in six parts each containing four views with descriptive texts. 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 type settings of the descriptive
texts and many variations in the printing of the plates have been noticed.
These twenty four 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, Milton came to Dublin in 1783 and established a practice. 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". The artists who painted the original pictures from which Milton engraved
his plates included: Francis Wheatley, William Ashford, Thomas Roberts, and William Pars.
Milton was a grand-nephew of John Milton, the poet and author of Paradise Lost.
278. [MIST, Nathaniel] Mist's Closet Broke Open, or, Several Letters intercepted, in which are
contain'd some old Truths new told : The letters are as follow. Caleb D'Anvers to Mist. B-ll-ke to
Mist. From Oxford to Mist. Captain Johnson to Mist. From France to Mist. From Spain to Mist.
From Rome to Mist. From Germany to Mist. From Rhoan to Mist. Mist to the Bishop of R-ch-er.
Mist to Bingley. Mist to the Duke of Wh-t-n. Mist to Mys-Mist to Captain Johnson. Mist to a
Brother Printer. London: Printed, and Sold by A. Moore, near St. Paul's, 1728. pp. 16. Recent
quarter morocco on marbled boards. Some browning and old staining to pages. A very good
copy. Very rare.
€675
The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious. A collection of epigrams, ostensibly from the papers
of Nathaniel Mist, the publisher.
Nathaniel Mist (died 1737) was an 18th-century British printer and journalist whose Mist's Weekly
Journal was the central, most visible, and most explicit opposition newspaper to the Whig
administrations of Robert Walpole. Where other opposition papers would defer, Mist's would explicitly
attack the government of Walpole and the entire House of Hanover. He was a Jacobite of strong
convictions and pugnacious determination who employed various authors writing under pseudonyms,
from Lewis Theobald to Daniel Defoe, and was frequently tried by the government for sedition.
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His early years are obscure, and he first enters the public record and public eye as the owner of a
successful printing press in 1716. As owner and master of the press, he began immediately to publish
his own journals. His first effort, The Citizen, ran to only nine issues in 1716. His second effort was to
take over Weekly Journal, or, Saturday's Post in December 1716. This would later, in May 1725,
become Mist's Weekly Journal (the Weekly Journal published by Mist). In 1717, he attempted
Wednesday's Journal, but that ran to only five issues, and The Entertainer in 1718 ran successfully to
38 issues before being taken over by another press. Mist's Weekly Journal, however, was an enormous
success and reflected the editor's personal political vision.
279. MITCHEL, John. Jail Journal. Commenced on
board the "Shearwater" steamer in Dublin Bay,
continued at Spike Island - on board the "Scourge"
war steamer - on board the "Dromedary" hulk,
Bermuda - on board the "Neptune" convict ship - at
Pernambuco - at the Cape of Good Hope (during the
anti-convict rebellion) - at Van Diemen's Land - at
Sydney - at Tahiti - at San Francisco - at Greytown
and concluding at No. 3 Pier, North River, New
York. With an introductory narrative of transactions
in Ireland. Original edition with a continuation of the
journal in New York and Paris, a preface [by Arthur
Griffith], appendices, and illustrations. Dublin: Gill,
n.d. (c.1914). pp. xlvii, [1], 463 [1]. Green cloth, title
in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€75
John Mitchel's Jail Journal, which for the style and
emotional force of its writing is regarded as a classic of
Anglo-Irish Literature. It is one of the most traditionally
popular of Irish books. It captures something of the
quintessence of the Irish political experience and critics
of as widely divergent views as Pádraic Pearse and
Owen Dudley Edwards have given it the highest praise.
Arthur Griffith said of it: "In the political literature of
Ireland it has no peer outside Swift".
First published in The Citizen, Mitchel's first New York newspaper, the journal commences in May,
1848 with his departure from Dublin and concludes with his arrival in New York in August, 1854.
280. MOGG, Edward. Paterson's Roads: Being an Entirely Original and Accurate Description
of all the Direct and Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, with Part of the Roads of
Scotland. The Eighteenth Edition. To which are added Topographical Sketches of the several
Cities, Market Towns, and remarkable Villages; and Descriptive Accounts of the Principal Seats
of the Nobility and Gentry; the Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, and other Remarkable Objects
throughout the Kingdom: The whole, remodelled, augmented, and improved, by the addition of
numerous new roads and new admeasurements, and arranged upon a plan at once novel, clear,
and intelligible, is deducted from the latest and best authorities ... and an entirely new set of
maps. London: Printed for Rivington ... and G. and J. Robinson, Liverpool, [1829]. pp. [2], 8-82,
715, [1], (triple column). Half calf on marbled boards. Wear to spine ends. From the library of
Hervey De Montmorency of Castle Morres with his signature on dedication leaf.
€95
"Advertisement" on p. 6* dated June 1st, 1829. Imprint on verso of title page:
281. MOLLYNEUX, William. The Case of Ireland's Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in
England Stated. To which is added, the Case of Tenure Upon the Commission of Defective
Titles, Argued by all the Judges of Ireland. With their Resolutions, and the Reasons of their
Resolutions. London: Printed for W. Boreham at the Angel, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1720. pp. xv,
[1], 236. Quarter calf on marbled boards. Lacking title piece on spine. Titlepage dusted and holed
at top margin. A good copy. Scarce.
€150
William Molyneux was born at his father's house in New Row, Dublin, in 1656, and after graduating
from Trinity College, studied Law at the Middle Temple in London. He was one of the founding
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members of the Royal Irish Academy. His conundrum - "what knowledge of the visual world can a
blind man have" teased and baffled Bishop Berkeley and other 18th-century philosophers. Less than a
decade after the Boyne, Molyneux fired off this impressive salvo against the shackling of the Irish
Parliament through the action of Poynings' Law, the spark being the passage of an Act of Parliament
aimed at ruining the Irish wool trade. Although it did not achieve its immediate objective, the sentiment
expressed in the phrase "I have no other notion of slavery but being bound by a law to which I do not
consent" ensured that the torch would be handed on. Eighty-four years later Henry Grattan, one of the
heirs to Molyneux's legacy, succeeded in gaining legislative independence for the Dublin Parliament.
"The first declaration and proof of Ireland's Independence" – Crone.
282. MOLYNEUX, William. The Case of Ireland Stated. Reprinted from the first edition of
1698. With an introduction by J.G. Simms Trinity College Dublin and an afterword by Denis
Donoghue, University College Dublin. Being the fifth volume of Irish Writings from the Age of
Swift. Dublin: Cadenus Press, 1977. pp. 148, [2]. Blue paper boards, title in black on spine.
Edition limited to 350 numbered copies. Signed presentation copy from J.G. Simms to Theo
Moody, with the latter's bookplate. A fine copy.
€75
This is the fifth volume in the Cadenus Press series Irish Writings from the Age of Swift. The book has
been designed by Liam Miller, set in Baskerville type by Jim Hughes and printed by Garrett Doyle
under the direction of Liam Browne, at the Dolmen Press.
283. MOORE, Thomas. Epistles, Odes and Other Poems. Two volumes. London: Printed for
Carpenter, Old Bond Street, 1810. Third edition. 12mo. pp. (1) xv, 178. (2) [3], 180. Full tree
calf, spine divided into six compartments by five gilt bands, title and volume number in gilt on
contrasting morocco labels. Joints starting. A very good set. Scarce.
€125
284. [MOORE, Thomas] The Fudge Family in Paris. Edited by Thomas Brown, The Younger,
author of the Twopenny Post-Bag. Bound with: The Dublin Mail; or Intercepted Correspondence.
To which is added A Packet of Poems. Two volumes in one. London: Printed for Longman, &
Johnston, 1818/21. First edition. 12mo. pp. viii, 168, 136. Contemporary full calf, covers ruled in
gilt. Spine divided into four compartments by three thick gilt raised bands; title on green morocco
letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt. All edges marbled. A very good copy. €125
285. [MOORE, Thomas] Fables for the Holy Alliance, Rhymes on the Road, &c., &c. By
Thomas Brown, The Younger. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,
Paternoster-Row, 1823. 16mo. First edition. pp. xv, 198. Modern half morocco on marble boards,
title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€125
Thomas Brown, The Younger, was a pseudonym used by Thomas Moore.
286. MOORE, Thomas, Esq. Lalla Rookh an Oriental Romance. Illustrated with engravings
from drawings by imminent artists. London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans,
1842. Twentieth edition. pp. viii, 396. Bound by J. Wright in full maroon morocco. Covers
framed by triple gilt and dotted fillets enclosing a wide garland of flowers with onlays painted in
red, green, brown, white and grey. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands.
Title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a floral
pattern with painted onlays; board-edges ruled in gilt; wide gilt doublures; gold patterned
endpapers. Red, green and brown endbands. Gauffered edges. Armorial bookplate of Sir William
Topham, Knight of the Legion of Honour. Occasional light spotting to prelims and margins of
some plates. A very good copy.
€675
287. MOORE, Thomas. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. With Life. Illustrated with eight
engravings on steel. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, n.d. (c.1850). 16mo. pp. xxii, 490, [1].
Publisher's pictorial cloth. All edges gilt. A fine copy.
€150
Thomas Moore (1789-1852), poet, composer and prose writer was born in Dublin. Educated at Samuel
White's Academy and T.C.D., from which he graduated B.A. in 1798. While at T.C.D. he formed a
close friendship with Robert Emmet on whose execution in 1803 he wrote: "Oh! Breathe Not His
Name". He was a friend of Lord Byron, a strong advocate of Catholic Emancipation and supporter of
Daniel O'Connell. Sloperton Cottage near Devizes, Wiltshsire, was Moore's home from 1817 till his
death in 1852: "That dear home, that saving ark, where love's true light at last I've found, cheering
within when all grows dark, and comfortless, and stormy around".
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288. MOORE, Thomas. The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Glasgow & London:
Cameron and Ferguson, 1875. pp. [iv], 287. Later half brown morocco on marbled boards, spine
divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title and author in gilt on green morocco
letterpieces in the second and fourth. A very good copy.
€145
Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1763-1798), United Irishman, was born at Carton House, County Kildare. He
joined the Sussex Militia and saw active service in America. Returning to Ireland in 1781 he sat in the
Irish Parliament as member for Athy, voting with Grattan and Curran. In 1796 he accompanied Arthur
O'Connor to Basle to negotiate with General Hoche for French help but the Directory would not deal
with him because of his French wife's royalist connections. In May 1798 Fitzgerald was seized by
Major Sirr in his room in Thomas Street. In the struggle that ensued he killed one of his attackers and
was himself shot in the arm. He died of his wounds in Newgate Prison on 4 June.
289. MORGAN, Sir T. Charles. Observations of the Organic Theory of Drs. Gall and
Spurzheim. Dublin: Printed for R. Millikin, 34, Grafton-Street, 1816. pp. 62, + errata. Recent
quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €475
COPAC locates the Cambridge copy only. WorldCat 1. Not in Bradshaw, Gilbert, NLI or TCD.
Thomas Charles Morgan (1783-1843), philosopher, miscellaneous writer and surgeon, born in London
and educated at Eton and Cambridge. He was made Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1810,
shortly after this he attended the First Marquis of Abercorn to Ireland, where he was knighted by the
Lord Lieutenant, Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, in September the following year. At
Abercorn's seat, Baron's Court, County Tyrone, Morgan met, and on the 12th January 1812 married, a
protégée of the Marchioness, Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), whose career as a popular authoress
was blooming. After the marriage Morgan was appointed physician to the Marshalsea (debtor's prison),
Dublin, and resided at 35, Kildare Street. For the next ten years he assisted his wife with her writings.
Morgan was a staunch supporter of Catholic Emancipation and other liberal measures, on the return of
the Whigs to power he was appointed to the commission of inquiry into the state of Irish fisheries.
290. MORLEY, George. A Sermon Preached at the Magnificent Coronation of the Most High
and Mighty King Charles the II. King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the
Faith, &c. At the Collegiate Church of S. Peter Westminster, The 23d of April, (being S.
George's Day) 1661. Published by His Majesty's Special Command. London: Printed by R.
Norton for T. Garthwait, at the Little North Door of S. Paul's, 1661. Quarto. pp. [8], 62, [2]
plates. Modern half maroon morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good
copy. Vary rare in Commerce.
€375
Wing M 2794. Sweeney 3114. WorldCat 1.
With a most handsome engraved frontispiece portrait of an enthroned Charles II.
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291. MORRIS, William O'Connor. Napoleon Warrior and Ruler and the Military Supremacy
of Revolutionary France. With maps and illustrations. New York and London: Putnam's Sons,
1908. pp. xvii, 433. Bound in full green calf, upper cover framed by a wave roll enclosing in the
centre the badge of Cork Grammar School in gilt. Spine divided into six compartments by five
gilt raised bands, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt
to a centre-and-corner design; board edges gilt; marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Traces of
mild water staining to front endpapers. A very good copy.
€125
292. MORRISON, George. The Emergent Years. Independent Ireland 1922-62. Illustrated.
Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1984. Quarto. pp. 184. Grey paper boards, titled in white on spine.
A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket.
€50
Here is a visual record of the first generation of Irish independence, from the foundation of the Irish
Free State to the establishment of Telefis Eireann. In compiling this kaleidoscope of Irish life in a
unique and distinctive period of history, George Morrison has drawn on a wide range of picture sources
including an important private archive. It is an evocative documentary record of the society from which
modern Ireland has emerged.
293. [MUIR, Thomas] An Account of the Trial of Thomas Muir, Esq. Younger, of Huntershill,
before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on the 30th and 31st days of August, 1793, for
Sedition. Engraved frontispiece of the accused. New York: Printed and sold by Samuel
Campbell, No. 37, Hanover-Square, 1794. pp. 148. Recent quarter goatskin, title in gilt on red
label on spine. A very good copy. Scarce.
€235
Muir was a parliamentary reformer from Glasgow. An advocate of Irish Nationalism and a member of
the Society of United Irishmen, he was tried for sedition after reading Thomas Paine's Rights of Man in
public and transported to Australia.
294. MURPHY, Rev. Denis. Ed. by. The Annals of Clonmacnoise being Annals of Ireland from
the earliest period to A.D. 1408. Translated into English A.D. 1627 by Conell Mageoghagan.
Dublin: U.P. 1896. First edition. Royal octavo. pp. ix, [3], 393, 4. Green cloth, title in gilt on
spine. From the library of the Christian Brothers with their stamp. A very good copy. Very
scarce.
€365
The original manuscript is lost and contrary to what the name suggests they were not compiled at
Clonmacnoise. There were however three copies of an English translation made in 1627 by Conall or
Conla Mageoghagan, of Lismoyne, Co. Westmeath, whom O'Clery calls "The industrious collecting
Bee of everything that belongs to the honour and history of the descendants of Milesius, both lay and
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ecclesiastical, so far as he could find them". The only explanation for the name is that they deal at
length with the history of that country and include a detailed account of St. Ciaran. These Annals begin
with the Creation and end with the year 1408. The author tells us that he made use of Eusebius, the
Venerable Bede, and the works of the Irish Saints and Chroniclers. These Annals are more
comprehensive in the earlier periods than the 'Annals of Ulster' or the 'Annals of the Four Masters'.
295. MURRAY, David. Japan. Fifth edition, revised to date, with new illustrations, a special war
map, and a supplementary chapter by Joseph H. Longford. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1904.
Octavo. pp. x, [1], 464. Bound in polished calf for Aravon Preparatory School. Covers framed by
double gilt fillets enclosing in gilt on the upper cover the badge of the school, underneath in gilt
'Divinity Prize/ Presented by/ The Archdeacon of Dublin'. Spine divided into six compartments
by five gilt raised bands, title on black goatskin label in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to
a centre-and-corner design; board edges gilt; turn-ins blind tooled; splash-marbled endpapers. All
edges sprinkled. A very good copy.
€225
Provenance: Aravon Preparatory School Prize Label on the front pastedown awarded to R.K.A.
Kennedy in 1904. Signed by the Head Master R. H. Bookey.
296. MURRAY, K.A. & McNEILL, D.B. The Great Southern and Western Railway. Illustrated.
With folding map. Dublin: Irish Railway Record Society, 1976. pp. 206. Green papered boards,
title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial frayed dust jacket.
€30
297. MURRAY, Robert H. Dublin University and the New World. A Memorial Discourse
Preached in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, May 23, 1921. London: Society for Promoting
Christian Knowledge, 1921. pp. 96. Blue papered boards, title in gilt on spine. Stamped on
titlepage 'Office Copy / Not to be reprinted'. A very good copy.
€75
This book tells the story of the great sons of Trinity College, Dublin, who played a prominent role in
the early days of the New England Colonies.
298. NEVIN, Donal. Ed. by. Between Comrades. James Connolly. Letters and Correspondence
1889-1916. Illustrated. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2007. pp. xiii, [1], 688. Black papered
boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket.
€65
299. [NORWICH, Bishop of] Speech of the Right Reverend The Lord Bishop of Norwich in the
House of Lords, on Friday the Nineteenth of May, 1817, in favour of The Catholic Petitions.
London: Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's Inn Fields, n.d. (1817). pp. 23. Recent
quarter goatskin on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€145
300. NOWLAN, Kevin B. & WILLIAMS, T. Desmond. Ed. by. Ireland in the War Years and
After 1939-51. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1969. pp. ix, 216. Green paper boards, title in gilt on
spine. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket.
€20
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301. O'BEIRNE, James. New Views of The Process of Defecation, and their application to The
Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, and other Organs; together with
an Analytical Correction of Sir Charles Bell's Views respecting The Nerves of the Face.
Washington: Stereotyped by Duff Green, 1834. pp. vii, 111. Recent grey paper boards, title in
gilt on spine. Slight foxing, otherwise a very good copy.
€275
James O'Beirne (1787-1862) is noted for his treatment of intestinal conditions at a time when stomach
surgery was non-existent. He was the first person in Ireland to be appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to
the King in Ireland and was also first Surgeon-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria. He was President of the
College of Surgeons in 1843. He died destitute at Bayswater, London and the funeral expenses were
met by the Catholic bishop of the District.
302. O'BOYLE, James. The Irish Colleges on the Continent. Their Origin and History.
Illustrated. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, n.d. (c. 1935). pp. xv, 272. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine.
Occasional light foxing, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce.
€145
With chapters on: The Priests in Ireland in Penal Times; The Irish College, Paris; St. Isadore's, Rome,
and Luke Wadding; Louvain: Its University - Its Irish Colleges; The Four Masters; The Irish Colleges
of Spain - Salamanca - Seville - Alcala - Madrid - Santiago - Lisbon; The Irish College, Nantes;
Biographies of Rothe, McCaughwell, Ward, and Colgan; Prague: Its Irish Franciscan College; The
Irish College of Bordeaux; The Irish College of Toulouse and Douai.
303. O'BRIEN, Conor Cruise. Ed. by. The Shaping of Modern Ireland. London: Routledge,
1960. First edition. pp. vi, 201. Orange paper boards, title in gilt on spine. From the library of
T.W. Moody with his bookplate and signature. A fine copy in dust jacket.
€65
Essays on the leading Irishmen between the fall of Parnell and the Rising. Stephens, Devoy, Tom
Clarke by Desmond Ryan; Douglas Hyde by Myles Dillon; Edward Carson by R.B. McDowell; The
Young Yeats by Donald Davie; AE and Sir Horace Plunkett by J.J. Byrne; James Connolly and Patrick
Pearse by Dorothy Macardle, etc.
304. O'BRIEN, George. The Four Green Fields. Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press, 1936. pp.
152. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate and
signature. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Repair to two gutters, some minor
spotting. A very good copy.
€35
A remarkably able analysis of the problem of Anglo-Irish relations and of the various factors that have
partitioned Ireland.
305. O'BRIEN, Jacqueline & GUINNESS, Desmond. Dublin A Grand Tour. Illustrated.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994. Quarto. pp. 257. Green paper boards, title in gilt on
spine. A fine copy in lightly faded dust jacket.
€45
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306. O'BRIEN, R. Barry. The Life of Lord Russell of Killowen. With a Portrait and Facsimiles.
London: Smith, Elder, 1901. Second edition. pp. 405, [2]. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on upper
cover and on spine. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate and signature. A very
good copy.
€65
307. Ó BROIN, Leon. Revolutionary Underground. The Story of the Irish Republican
Brotherhood 1858-1924. Dublin: Gill, 1976. pp. viii, 245. Brown paper boards, title in silver on
spine. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. Scarce.
€175
This is the full history of the IRB tracing the fortunes of the organisation which had a two-fold
objective: to act as a clandestine gingering element in all Irish nationalist circles, and to preside over
the establishment by force of an independent Irish Republic. With special emphasis on the period 191622, chiefly through the efforts of its greatest leader - Michael Collins.
308. [O'CONNOR, Arthur] Trial of Arthur O'Connor: Esq. James O'Coigly, John Binns, John
Allen, and Jeremiah Leary, at Maidstone, On Monday, May 21, 1798, for high-treason. Taken in
short-hand by an eminent English barrister. Cork: Printed by J. Connor, Circulating-Library,
Grand-Parade, near Parliament-Bridge, n.d. [1798]. pp. [2], 66. Recent quarter morocco on
marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. Rare.
€375
ESTC T892 locates 9 copies only.
309. O'CONNOR, Frank. A Picture Book by Frank O'Connor. With hand-coloured illustrations
by Elizabeth Rivers. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1943. pp. 72, [4], 8 (List of books Published by
Dun Emer Press and the Cuala Press). Quarter linen on illustrated boards. Edition limited to 480
copies, of which 450 are for sale. Part of printed label on spine missing. A very good copy. €95
310. O'CONNOR, T.P. M.P. Memoirs of an Old Parliamentarian. Illustrated. Two volumes.
London: Benn, 1929. pp. (1) ix, 388 (2) ix, 342. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the
library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate and signature. Minor foxing to fore-edge. A very set in
repaired and frayed dust jacket.
€175
These memoirs cover a period of roughly twenty years from the time of his arrival in London to the
death of Parnell in 1891. As one of Parnell's "thick and thin" followers he was at the very centre of the
Irish struggle for Home Rule.
The chapters include: Parnell, The rise of the Irish Party; Murder of Lord Mountmorres; Captain
Boycott; Parnell and Mrs. O'Shea; Gladstone's Difficulties; The Great Famine; Clanricardes; Captain
O'Shea; Sexton's Appeal to Parnell, etc.
311. O'DRISCOLL, James. Cnucha. A History of Castleknock and District. With foreword by
Desmond Guinness. Illustrated. Second edition. S.n. 1981. pp. 140. Illustrated wrappers. A fine
copy.
€35
The contents includes: Abbotstown, Ashtown, Blanchardstown, Castleknock, Chapelizod, Clonsilla,
Coolmine, Dunsink, Knockmaroon, Luttrellstown, Morgan & Mercer Schools, Mount Sackville,
Mulhuddart, Phoenix Park, Porterstown, Royal Canal, Somerton, Strawberry Beds.
312. O'DUFFY, Eoin. Crusade in Spain. Clonskeagh: Browne and Nolan, n.d. (1938?). pp. viii,
256. Blue faded cloth, title in gilt on spine. Presentation inscription dated 23rd August, 1938 and
previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. Rare.
€150
The full authoritative story of the Irish Brigade who fought on the Nationalist side of Francisco Franco
during the Spanish Civil War. The unit was formed wholly of Roman Catholics by Eoin O'Duffy, who
had previously organised the banned quasi-fascist Blueshirts in Ireland. Despite the declaration by the
Irish government that participation in the war was unwelcome and ill-advised, over 600 of O'Duffy's
followers (including my uncle Michael Cusack) went to Spain. They saw their primary role in Spain as
fighting for the Roman Catholic Church, some of whose priests and nuns had been attacked. They also
saw many religious and historical parallels in the two nations, and hoped to prevent communism
gaining ground in Spain.
This copy was presented to Phil Cronin of Lorrha, County Tipperary by Canon J.H. Molony, who was
Parish Priest of Lorrha when Phil went to Spain with the Irish Brigade.
313. O'FARRELL, Patrick. England and Ireland since 1800. Oxford: University Press, 1975.
pp. [viii], 193. Black buckram, title in gilt on spine. From the library of T.W. Moody with his
bookplate. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust jacket.
€45
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314. O'FLAHERTY, Roderic. A Chorographical Description of West or h-Iar Connaught,
written A.D. 1684. With notes and illustrations by James Hardiman. With map and folding
genealogical table. Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society, 1846. Quarto. pp. xiv, 469, [1], 25.
'Marquis of Kildare' printed in red on verso of title. Contemporary full diced russia, covers
framed by double gilt fillets. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title
and publisher in gilt on brown morocco letterpieces, crest of Kildare FitzGeralds in gilt in first
compartment, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design. Maroon and gilt
endbands, marbled endpapers. Wear to spine ends and a few scratches to covers. Repair to table.
All edges marbled. A very good copy.
€365
315. O'FLANAGAN, J. Roderick. The Munster Circuit. Tales, Trials, and Traditions. London:
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1880. pp. xvi, 420. Green cloth, title in gilt on
spine. Previous owner's signature on titlepage and front endpaper, also with neat embossed
stamp. Light stain to upper cover, minor stain to spine ends. A very good copy. Scarce.
€250
James Roderick O'Flanagan (1814-1900), lawyer and writer, was born at Fermoy, County Cork, son of
Captain John Fitch O'Flanagan of the Dunshaughlin Yeomanry, a Catholic gentleman farmer, protégé
of Lord Fingall, and barracks master of Fermoy (1808-48). O'Flanagan believed that his father's
ancestors had been rulers in south Fermanagh with a burial place at Devenish; they fought in the Irish
brigade at Fontenoy. His mother's family claimed descent from Edmund Spenser and kinship with
Edmund Burke.
At the age of eighteen O'Flanagan decided to study medicine, but after briefly attending Trinity
Medical School he turned to law. He studied at the King's Inns, Dublin, and at Gray's Inn and the Inner
Temple, London. He was called to the Irish bar in the Easter term of 1838, and joined the Munster
circuit. His first book, 'Impressions at Home and Abroad', appeared in 1837. O'Flanagan's legal practice
had limited success, and journalism was his principal source of income; he reported Irish chancery
cases for the London Law Times and wrote for the Cork Southern Reporter.
316. O'FLANAGAN, J. Roderick. Annals, Anecdotes, Traits, and Traditions of the Irish
Parliaments, 1172 to 1800. New edition. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1895. pp. xx, 208. Green cloth, title
in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce.
€165
No copy located on COPAC. Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert.
With chapters on: The Anglo-Normans Settle in Ireland - Council at Cashel - Henry II; Wogan;'s
Parliament - The Statute of Kilkenny; State of the Anglo-Norman Colony - Lambert Simnel Crowned
King - Viceroy Sir Edward Poynings; Henry VIII - Head of Church - Irish Refuse to Renounce the
Pope; Reigns of Edward VI, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth; House of Lords and Commons Planting the Forfeited Estates - Perrot's Parliament in 1586; Bolton's Statutes - Accession of James I Confiscation of Ulster; Bolton's Treatise - The Catholic Confederation of Kilkenny - Cromwell in
Ireland; James II - King Visits Ireland in 1688 - Summons a Parliament; Lord Sydney, Viceroy Parliament in 1692 - Oath Excluding Catholics - Treaty of - Limerick; Parliament of 1707; Anecdote of
Addison - Parliament in 1730 - Depressed Irish Trade - Dean Swift's Advice; Anti-Union Riot in
Dublin; Protestant Parliamentary Patriots - Lucas, Flood, Grattan, and Burgh; Henry Grattan; Walter
Hussey Burgh; Vice Royalty of Earl FitzWilliam; The Change of Viceroy in 1778 - The Proposed
Regency; Vice Royalty of Marquis Camden and Marquis Cornwallis; Ignorance of the British Ministry
respecting the Irish People - Rebellion of 1798, etc.
317. 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 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 dependant 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
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it down".
In his introduction O'Grady states "These Two Volumes comprise a series of essays on the ViceRoyalty 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".
318. O'HEGARTY, P.S. The Indestructible Nation. A Survey of Irish History from the English
Invasion. The First Phase: The Overthrow of the Clans. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1918. pp.
xv, 221, [2] (publisher's list). Green cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spine. From
the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate. Signed presentation copy from the author, dated
6th March 1919. A very good copy.
€125
319. O'LEARY, John. Recollections of Fenians and Fenianism. With portraits. Two volumes.
London: Downey, 1896. First edition. pp. (1) xii, 266, (2) vii, 248. Brown cloth, titled in gilt.
From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate and signature. A fine set.
€225
A veteran of two insurrections - that of the Young Irelanders in 1848 and the ill-starred attack by
Fintan Lalor's men in the Waterford mountains.
320. Ó LOCHLAINN, Colm. Ed. by. Irish Street Ballads.
Adorned with woodcuts from the original broadsheets. Dublin:
Published at the Sign of the Three Candles, 1956. pp. xvi, 235.
Pictorial cloth, title in green on upper cover and on spine. A
very good copy. Scarce. See illustration opposite.
€35
A choice collection made by Colm O Lochlainn of over one
hundred songs, many of them are of respectable antiquity, and
many more were made in fairly recent times. Every song has its
tune, some for the first time published, and nearly all of them are
adorned with woodcuts taken from old Dublin Broadsheet ballads.
321. O'MEARA, Barry Edward. Napoleon in Exile; or, A
Voice from St. Helena. The opinions and reflections of
Napoleon on the most important events of his life and
government, in his own words. Illustrated. Two volumes.
London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822.
Fourth edition. pp. (1) xxviii, 512, (2) [2], 542. Modern blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. Small
stain to margin of frontispiece and first three leaves. A very good set.
€175
Barry Edward O'Meara (1786-1836) Irish surgeon and founding member of the Reform Club, was the
son of Jeremiah O'Meara, a 'member of the legal profession', by Miss Murphy, sister of Edmund
Murphy, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, and Rector of Tartaraghan, County Armagh. He was
surgeon on board the "Bellerophon" when Napoleon surrendered himself in 1815. Bonaparte was
attracted by the doctor's ability to speak Italian and, when his own surgeon declined to follow him into
exile, he asked that O'Meara accompany him to St. Helena as his medical attendant. The admiralty
readily permitted O'Meara to join the emperor, hoping that he would serve as a sort of spy.
Lord Byron later referred to O'Meara in his pro-Bonapartist poem 'The age of Bronze':
"The staff surgeon who maintained his cause
Hath lost his place but gained the world's applause".
Carlyle wrote: "O'Meara's work has increased my respect for Napoleon. I recollect no spectacle more
moving and sublime than that of this great man in his dreary prison-house, captive, sick, despised,
forsaken, yet arising above it all by the stern force of his own unconquerable spirit".
322. [O'NEALE, Sir Phelim] New Intelligence from Ireland, Received the 17. of June, 1642.
with The Arrivall of the Bishop of St. Davids, at Minehead in Sommerset Shire, who fled upon
his conviction, and is now brought in a Bark from Dublin, and under Guard till Order from the
House what to do with him. Sent to Master Otgar, Merchant in Swithing, Lane. With a Relation
by another, of three Defeats given to Sir Phelim O'Neale, with the taking of Trunke, with the
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Crown in it. Also divers other Passages from other Places. London: Printed for Edward
Blackmore, June 22 1642. Small quarto. pp. [1], 5. Modern half blue morocco on marbled
boards. A very good copy. Rare.
€575
Wing N 649. Sweeney 3161. COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 7.
The Bishop in question was Roger Manwaring, an arch royalist, who was deprived of his vote in the
House of Lords by the Short Parliament of 1640. Also reported here are some defeats inflicted upon Sir
Phelim O'Neill between London-Derry and Coleraine. The Crown forces captured his trunk "wherein
was his Crowne wherewith hee was crowned Prince of Ulster, which is sent to the Parliament in
England by Lieuetenant Colonell Mervin". There is also mention of Captain Gibson's skirmish with the
rebels at Kilcock where he slew six hundred of them.
323. Ó SUILLEABHÁIN, Michael. Where Mountainy Men Have Sown. Foreword by Daniel
Corkery. Tralee: Anvil Books, 1965. pp. 186, [6] (publisher's list). Pictorial wrappers.
€75
War and peace in rebel Cork in the turbulent years 1916-21.
Through mountain passes and along the beds of creeks Micheal Ó Suilleabháin takes us to attack an
armed police patrol here or to plan a large-scale engagement there against the elite of Britain's specially
recruited fighting forces in Ireland - the famous or infamous Auxiliaries.
324. O'SULLIVAN, M.D. Italian Merchant Bankers in Ireland in the Thirteenth Century. A
study in the social and economic history of medieval Ireland. Dublin: Figgis, 1962. pp. 162. Blue
paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in dust jacket.
€75
BOUND BY TATE OF BELFAST
EXTOLLING THE SCENERY AND TRADITIONS
OF IRELAND IN RHAPSODIC PROSE
325. OWENSON, Miss. (Lady Sydney Morgan). The Wild Irish Girl, A National Tale. By
Miss Owenson. Three volumes. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 6 Bridge-street,
Blackfriars, 1808. Fourth edition. pp. (1), [ii], xxxiv, 35-261, (2) [ii], 265, 11 (publisher's list), (3)
[ii], 264. Bound by J. Tate, Bookbinder, Belfast (with their rectangular engraved pink label on
pastedowns) in contemporary full tree calf. Spines professionally rebacked, fore-edges gilt; all
edges marbled. A very handsome set. Scarce.
€375
COPAC locates 1 copy only of this edition. Loeber
M552 lists the first and other editions.
Lady Morgan (1779?-1859), novelist, was born in
Dublin, the daughter of Robert Owenson (born
McOwen), an itinerant actor and manager of the
Theatre and former steward to Sir John Browne of
County Mayo. Her charming personality, selfconfidence and gaiety won her a place in the literary
and social life of Dublin. A visit to the Marquis of
Abercorn, at Barons Court, County Tyrone in 1812,
resulted in her marrying his physician, Sir Thomas
Charles Morgan. Proudly nationalistic, to overcome
the indifference to everything Irish by the English, and
determined to combat the gross misrepresentation of
her country, she decided to write and accomplished
this in her first major novel. In 1806 'The Wild Irish
Girl' was published in London (no Dublin publisher
could even consider this book, due to the political
climate at that time), it was an overnight success, the
one that made her famous, and established her
reputation as a novelist.
326. PAINE, Thomas. Letter addressed to the
Addressers, on the late Proclamation. London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, and Thomas Clio
Rickman, 1792. pp. 78, [1]. Recent quarter goatskin on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine.
Repair to dusty titlepage. A very good copy.
€175
ESTC N1631. Black 1780 lists the Dublin edition. Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), author of the 'Rights of Man', became a supernumerary excise officer at
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Thetford (his native place) in 1761. He was dismissed from that post after printing and distributing to
Members of Parliament a statement of excise men's grievances for improved conditions and pay. He
sailed for America, with an introduction from Franklin, and published in 1776 his pamphlet 'Common
Sense', a history of the events leading up to the war with England, which made him famous. He became
totally dedicated to an invention for an iron bridge, and in 1786 sailed for Europe to promote his idea.
Four years later in London, the first part of his 'Rights of Man', was published, in reply to Edmund
Burke's 'Reflections on the Revolution'. With the appearance of the second part in 1792 Paine was
compelled to flee to France to avoid prosecution, the book having become a manifesto in sympathy
with the French Revolution.
It was prior to his departure that he wrote this letter in which he discusses his magnum opus: "Is it,
then, any wonder that Placemen and Pensioners, and the whole train of Court expectants, should
become the promoters of Addresses, Proclamations, and Prosecutions? or, is it any wonder that
Corporations and rotten Boroughs, which are attacked and exposed, should join in the cavalcade? ...
Had not such persons come forward to oppose the 'Rights of Man', I should have doubted the efficacy
of my own writings".
327. PARKER, Robert. Memoirs of the Most Remarkable Military Transactions from the Year
1683, to 1718. Containing a more Particular Account, than any yet published, of the several
Battles, Sieges, &c. in Ireland and Flanders, during the Reigns of K. William and Q. Anne. By
Captain Robert Parker, late of the Royal Regiment of Foot in Ireland, who was an Eye-witness to
most of them. Published by his son. London: Printed for S. Austen, in Newgate-Street; and W.
Frederick, Bookseller in Bath, 1747. pp. [4], 224, 245-275, [1]. Contemporary full sprinkled calf.
Spine gilt tooled and with title on red morocco label. Some wear to extremities, otherwise a very
good copy.
€385
Captain Robert Parker (b. c1665-1746), is chiefly remembered for his absorbing 'Memoirs', first
published in Dublin in 1746, which recount his long military career through the wars of King William
III and the Duke of Marlborough.
After the Gaelic Irish, Old English Catholics and Royalists forces were finally defeated in 1653 by the
Parliamentarian forces of Oliver Cromwell, Ireland was settled by thousands of Protestant settlers
many of whom had served in his army. Parker was the son one of these men and in his teens ran away
from home to join an independent company of foot commanded by Captain Frederick Hamilton based
in Kilkenny where he grew up.
However, in 1685 the new monarch, King James II, set about the remodelling of his Irish Army in
order to strengthen Roman Catholic influence. In the next three years, about 4,000 men of all ranks
whose loyalty was suspect were purged. Both Parker and his patron Frederick Hamilton were
dismissed.
Following the accession of King William III and Queen Mary II in 1689, the change of climate
encouraged Parker to re-enlist, joining the Earl of Meath's Regiment. Parker spent the rest of his
military career with this regiment which became the Royal Regiment of Ireland in 1695. He soon
regretted his decision, finding that 'carrying a brown musket was but a melancholy prospect', but
resolved to make the best of it.
In reward for his gallant conduct at the Siege of Namur in July 1695, Parker was commissioned as an
ensign, the most junior rank of officer. In 1706, he became Captain of the Regiment's Grenadier
Company, a remarkable rise from humble beginnings.
Robert Parker of lowly birth benefitted from his loyalty to the Machiavellian social climbing
Marlborough, a gifted and victorious commander during this period. After his retirement and rewarded
for years of loyal military service Robert Parker enjoyed a comfortable old age and died in 1746.
328. PARSONS, Lawrence, Earl of Rosse. Observations on the Bequest of Henry Flood, Esq.
to Trinity College, Dublin: with a Defence of the Ancient History of Ireland. Dublin: Printed by
P. Byrne, Grafton-Street, 1794. pp. 127, [1]. Quarter brown cloth on original blue paper boards.
Signature of Samuel Cooke on final blank. Neat stamp of J. Power, Thurles, on front endpaper
and titlepage. A very good copy. Scarce.
€275
COPAC locates 2 copies only. No printed copy on WorldCat (1 eBook only). ESTC T185654.
Henry Flood (1732-1791), a distinguished orator and statesman, was born on the family estate at
Farmley, near Kilkenny. His father was Chief Justice of the King's Bench; his grandfather came over to
Ireland as an officer in Cromwell's army, during the rebellion of 1641. Educated at Trinity College,
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Dublin, and later at Oxford, he entered Parliament in 1759 as member for Kilkenny and quickly
established himself as an accomplished orator. He accepted a government sinecure in 1775, a grave
political error, but failed to display the correct attitude and so was dismissed in 1781. He withdrew to a
Westminster seat after 1783 but his eloquent oratory, which had brought him fame at College Green,
failed to impress the British Parliament and his career languished. Grattan's surmise proved correct,
that "he was an oak of the forest too great and too old to be transplanted at fifty".
A great lover of Ireland he made a bequest to T.C.D. for the founding of a chair dedicated to the study
of Irish Language and Literature, with Charles Vallancey as the first incumbent. This was successfully
challenged by relatives and what makes the present volume exceedingly valuable is the fact that all his
personal correspondence was burned by his relatives after his death. In his will, Flood bequeathed, after
the death of his wife, the vast majority of his estate to Trinity College. The codicil being for the
maintenance of a professorship and the acquisitions of manuscripts and other materials supporting the
study of the Irish language.
The present edition includes a copy of his will.
329. PATTON, Henry E. Fifty Years of Disestablishment. A Sketch. Illustrated. Dublin:
Association for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 37, Dawson Street, 1922. pp. xi, 367. Green
cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate and signature. A
very good copy.
€65
330. PEARSE, Padraic H. Collected Works of Pádraic H. Pearse. Songs of the Irish Rebels and
Specimens from an Irish Anthology. Dublin and London: Maunsel & Company, 1918. pp. vii,
127. Green buckram, titled in gilt on spine. Minor wear to extremities, light spotting to prelims.
A very good copy.
€65
See items 330, 331 & 332.
FINE BINDING SIGNED BY THE BINDER PADDY KAVANAGH
331. [PEEL'S IRISH LIBRARY] Bibliotheca Hibernicana or a Descriptive Catalogue of a
Select Irish Library collected for the Right Hon. Robert Peel. With an Essay by Norman D.
Palmer. Shannon: Irish University Press, Second edition. pp. [iv], 12, vii, 51. Bound at Museum
Bookbinders in quarter straight-grained red levant morocco over blue papered boards with title
and decorations in gilt on upper cover. Edition limited to 50 copies [O/S]. Signed by the binder,
Paddy Kavanagh. Top edge gilt. A very good copy in leather-entry slipcase.
€275
Robert Peel, (1788-1850), second baronet and third of the name, came of a prosperous family of
Lancashire calico-printers. He graduated from Oxford in 1807 with a double first, and in 1809 his
father bought him a parliamentary seat for Cashel. He was undersecretary for war 1810-12, and became
Chief Secretary for Ireland in August 1812 when aged only 24. During his six year tenure he
established a national force of Peace Preservation Police, popularly called 'Peelers', and resisted
pressure for Catholic Emancipation, clashing with Daniel O'Connell, with whom he declined to fight a
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duel. Moving on from this post in 1818, he was an increasingly significant figure in later British
governments. In 1829, as Home Secretary, he introduced the Bill for Catholic Emancipation in spite of
his personal reservations; in 1834 and again in 1841 he became Prime Minister. He carried the repeal
of the Corn Laws, initiated electoral reform, and is regarded as the principal architect of the modern
Conservative Party and the English Police.
Peel's Irish appointment was his first senior ministry. During his sojourn here Sir Robert became
acquainted with the Irish topographer William Shaw Mason and encouraged him to prepare a major
statistical survey of Ireland and the result was the three volume work entitled 'A Statistical Account or
Parochial Survey of Ireland' (1814/19). The chief secretary immersed himself in Irish affairs and
contracted Mason to assemble for him "a select Irish library". Mason went about this task diligently
and collected "the principal writers on the leading subjects and events of the several periods, from the
earliest extant to the year 1820". The result was an outstanding collection of some 170 volumes,
"uniformly bound in green morocco", to grace Sir Robert's library. In 1823 a catalogue limited to fifty
copies was published in Dublin.
332. PENDER, Seamus. Ed. by. Féilschríbhinn Torna. Tráchtaisí léanta in onóir don Ollamh
Tadhg Ua Donnchadha, D.Litt., in am a dheichiú bliana agus trí fichid, an ceathrú lá de mhí
Mheán Fhómhair, 1944. Essays and Studies Presented to Professor Tadhg Ua Donnchadha
(Torna) on the occasion of his seventieth birthday September 4th, 1944. Illustrated. Cork:
University Press, 1947. Quarto. pp. 258. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. From the library of
T.W. Moody. A fine copy in slightly frayed dust jacket.
€150
Essays and studies presented to Professor Tadgh Ua Donnchadha (Torna), on the occasion of his
seventieth birthday, September 4th, 1944. With scholarly contributions by Donnchadh Ó Floinn, James
Handley, Aloys Fleischmann, Seán Ó Súilleabháin, Osborn Bergin, L. McKenna S.J., Joseph Raftery,
Seán P. Ó Rioirdáin, Dudley Edwards, G.A. Hayes-McCoy, James Hogan, Seamus Pender, etc.
The articles included are: Micheál Óg Longáin (1766-1837); Gaelic Culture in the West of Scotland;
References to Chant in Early Irish MSS; Stair an Síle-na-Gig; A Poem addressed to the Blessed Virgin;
A Manx Sermon; The Genesis of the Celtic Cross; The Contribution of Young Ireland to the
Development of the National Idea; The Manor of Móra; O'Mellan's Account of the Battle of Benburb,
1646; Shane O'Neill comes to the Court of Elizabeth; The Riddle of Rose O'Toole; The Dublin Annals
of Innisfallen; Three little-known Monastic Establishments of Mediaeval Cork; Two unpublished
versions of the Expulsion of the Déssi; The Bounds and Extent of Irish Parishes; Clár Scríbhinní
Thorna, etc.
333. [PERCIVAL, William] The College Examination. A Poem. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell,
1731. pp. [2], 5-16. Bound without the half-title. Printing flaw affecting one letter on the title.
Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Scarce.
€575
ESTC T184241. No copy outside of Ireland, 4 copies in Irish libraries.
334. PETRIE, Sir Charles. The Great Tyrconnel: A Chapter in Anglo-Irish Relations. Cork:
The Mercier Press, 1972. pp. [viii], 263. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in
fine dust jacket.
€45
The career of Richard Talbot, Duke of Tyrconnel, extends from his service in the Confederate Wars of
the 1640's to the aftermath of the Battle of Aughrim and spans the most turbulent and transitionary
phase of modern Irish history.
335. PHILLIPS, Charles. The Speech of Charles Phillips, Esq. in the case of O'Mullan, v.
M'Korkill; Delivered in the Court-House of Galway, on the 1st day of April, 1816. Dublin:
Printed for Wm Figgis, 37 Nassau Street, 1816. First edition. pp. 30. Title lightly dust marked,
preserved in modern wrappers with printed title label on upper cover. Exceedingly rare.
€385
Charles Phillips (1786-1859), the celebrated writer and lawyer, friend of O'Connell and an ardent
campaigner for Catholic Emancipation, was born in Stephen Street, Sligo. He graduated B.A. from
Trinity College in 1807 and four years later was called to the Irish Bar.
This case was a civil action for damages for a defamatory libel by M'Korkill of the Rev. C. O'Mullan, a
Roman Catholic priest. The speech has been preserved, not for its legal merit, but as an unbeatable
example of courtroom hyperbole by an Irish barrister whose facility with words was near-legendary. To
quote his biographer, he had "a grand style, explosive in pace and overflowing in superlatives,
metaphor, and vivid expression [and] unusually passionate and rhetorical". [D. Cairns in ODNB].
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His introduction of the plaintiff to the court is one small example: "He is a clergyman of the Church of
Rome, and became invested with that venerable appellation, so far back as September 1804. It is a title
which you know, in this country, no rank ennobles, no treasure enriches, no establishment supports; its
possessor stands undisguised by any rag of this world's decoration, resting all temporal, all eternal hope
upon his toil, his talents, his attainments and his piety - doubtless after all, the highest honours, as well
as the most imperishable treasures of the man of God".
336. PHILLIPS, Mr. The Speech of Mr. Phillips, as Delivered by Him in the Court of Common
Pleas, Dublin, in the Case of Guthrie versus Sterne, for Adultery: With some introductory
remarks by W.G.H. London: Printed for, and published by, J. Asperne, at the Bible, Crown, and
Constitution, 32, Cornhill, 1816. pp. 20. Recent quarter goatskin, title in gilt on spine. A very
€245
No copy located on COPAC. 2 eBook copies listed on WorldCat. OCLC 16844684. Goldsmiths'-Kress
21686. Bradshaw 6183.
337. PHILLIPS, Charles. The speeches of
Charles Phillips, Esq. Delivered at the Bar, and
on various Public Occasions in Ireland and
England. Second edition - Edited by himself.
Portrait frontispiece. London: Printed for W.
Simpkin and R. Marshall, and Dublin: Millikin,
Grafton Street, 1822. pp. (vi) + ii + 304. From the
library of the Earl of Portsmouth with his
armorial bookplate and signature, dated 1880.
Later nineteenth century full polished calf gilt
with raised bands and crimson spine label. Top
edge gilt, others uncut. Occasional light foxing,
otherwise a near fine copy.
€295
This second edition has twenty two speeches, of
which several are new to this edition. These include
a speech delivered at Morrison's Hotel, Dublin, on
South-American freedom, and a speech delivered at
the Annual Meeting of the London Hibernian
Society, held in the Town Hall, Sligo.
338. PILKINGTON, Matthew. A General
Dictionary of Painters; Containing Memoirs of
The Lives and Works of the most eminent Professors of the Art of Painting, from its Revival, by
Cimabue, in the year 1250, to the present time. A New Edition, revised and corrected throughout,
with numerous additions, particularly of the most distinguished artists of the British School. Two
volumes. London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean, 1829. pp. (1) xxxi, 527, (2) 601. Bound in full
green morocco, covers framed by geometric floral panels. Spine divided into six compartments
by five raised bands, title, author and volume number in gilt direct in second and fourth, the
remainder tooled in gilt. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Light foxing to
prelims. All edges gilt. A very good set.
€150
IRISH WOOL TRADE 18th CENTURY
339. PIM, Joshua. An interesting autograph letter, with the address Usher's Island, dated 23
November 1778, from Joshua Pim to Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy (1745-1798), Irish
landowner and MP, responding to his query about the low price of wool. Pim tries to explain the
seeming contradictions associated with the glutted wool market. The "undeniable rapid progress"
of agriculture should have reduced the stock of sheep; and the production of wool, leading to
higher prices. Pim reasons that this did happen, but the very fact "dr(e)w back the farmer to that
stock, and therefore the breed of sheep ... may have been again increasing since the year 1773,
which fact is still reconcilable to the ... progress of agriculture if it should appear that the stocks
of horned cattle have suffered a considerable decrease, a circumstance not at all improbable.
There is also some allowance to be made for the increase of produce by the gradual improvement
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of lands... All this is, however, too much conjecture ... there are few branches of trade wherein
caused the effects can be accurately distinguished ...". Pim's modesty belies his position as
Ireland's leading wool merchant, taking over from his father, John Pim, who is "said to have
exported one third of all worsted yarn from Ireland to England ... before the 1780's".
One page quarto, written on both sides in a very neat and legible/forwarding slanting hand. €485
Joshua Pim (1748-1822) carried on the enterprise of this leading Irish Quaker family, engaging in
finance, insurance, and cotton manufacture as well. An anti-slavery activist, he also promoted the
liberal trade agreement with England during Pitt's administration; supported Catholic rights; and served
the medical needs of the poor. CF. Cambridge 'Dictionary of Irish Biography', under Sarah Pim (later
Grubb) who combined philanthropy with her own legendary business acumen. Usher's Island, the name
of a quay in Dublin where Joshua Pim resided, was immortalized by James Joyce in 'The Dead'.
Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy (1745-1798) landowner and politician. He was educated at St
John's College, Cambridge. He was the son of Charles Gardiner by his wife Florinda, daughter of
Robert Norman. His sister Anne later became Countess of Clancarty. In 1773 he married Elizabeth,
daughter of William Montgomery, an MP for Ballynakill and later a Baronet. Their children included a
son, Charles John, and a daughter Margaret, who later became Countess of Donoughmore.
Gardiner represented Dublin County in the Irish House of Commons from 1773 to 1789. He was
appointed to the Irish Privy Council in 1780 and created Baron Mountjoy in 1789 and Viscount
Mountjoy both in the Peerage of Ireland. Lord Mountjoy was killed in action at the age of fifty three,
leading his regiment at the Battle of New Ross. He was succeeded by his son Charles, who was later
created Earl of Blessington.
340. POLLARD, Captain H.B.C. The Secret Societies of Ireland. Their Rise and Progress.
London: Philip Allan & Co, 1922. pp. xii, 324. Titlepage printed in red and black with publisher's
monogram. Red cloth, title in gilt on faded spine. From the library of T.W. Moody with his
bookplate and signature. Also with signature of Gustavus R. Hyde and neat stamp of Lynnbury,
Mullingar. Some light foxing to prelims and fore-edge. A very good copy.
€65
Major Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard (1888-1966) was an author, firearms expert, and a British SOE
(Special Operations Executive) officer. He is chiefly known for his intelligence work during the Irish
War of Independence and for the events of July 1936, when he and his SOE colleague Cecil Bebb flew
General Francisco Franco from the Canary Islands to Morocco, thereby helping to trigger the outbreak
of the Spanish Civil War.
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE DUNGANNON CONVENTION
341. POLLOCK, Joseph. Letters to the Inhabitants of the Town and Lordship of Newry.
Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, Grafton-Street, 1793. pp. [ii], 211, + errata. Contemporary signature
of Col. Southwell on titlepage. Recent quarter morocco on green linen. A very good copy.
Exceedingly rare.
€475
COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 1. Not in Black, Bradshaw or Gilbert.
The author of this work Joseph Pollock, an able and contentious barrister, was one of the County Down
delegates to the Dungannon Convention. Before leaving for Dungannon he had a hurried consultation
with Grattan and Forbes and arrived with a complete set of resolutions. He was very anxious that the
convention should stress the importance of the connection with Great Britain and the practical benefits
conferred on Irishmen by the constitution even as it stood. Pollock wanted the convention to obtain its
ends, Catholic emancipation and parliamentary reform, by the constitutional course of petitioning. He
gives us an invaluable eyewitness account of the transactions in a series of letters: "It may seem that
many of the facts relative to the late Dungannon Convention, if not the whole history of it, contained in
the following sheets ... be worth recording ... the whole chain of facts here given, and the observations
interspersed, will not be found, by either a philosophical or a safe practical politician, to be unworthy
of attention, as serving to display or illustrate the opinions, spirit, history, and political necessities of
this country, if not of the times". In December 1781, the officers and delegates of the first Ulster
regiment, commanded by Lord Charlemont, assembled at Armagh and passed a series of resolutions
deploring the lack of constitutional rights and asserting that the Constitution could only be restored to
its original purity by rooting out corruption and Court influence from the legislative body. In order to
attain this they summoned a meeting at Dungannon of delegates from all the volunteers of Ulster
numbering 143 corps. They met in full uniform on February 15, 1782, in the great church of
Dungannon. Its resolutions asserted the exclusive legislative authority of the Irish parliament and called
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for the amendment of Poynings' Law. They also called for the independence of judges and that a
'Mutiny Bill' not limited in point of duration was unconstitutional. They pledged themselves to
consume no Portuguese wine until restrictions had been taken off Irish exports to Portugal, they passed
two memorable resolutions which had been drawn up by Grattan. They resolved: "that we hold the
right of private judgement in matters of religion to be equally sacred in others as in ourselves; that as
men and as Irishmen, as Christian and Protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the penal laws against
our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, and that we conceive the measure to be fraught with the happiest
consequences to the Union and the prosperity of the inhabitants of Ireland". These resolutions, which
marked the close of the long political schism between the Protestants and Catholics, were carried
through the great representative body of the most Protestant province of Ireland with only two
dissenting voices. Before breaking up the assembly issued an address to the minority in Parliament:
"We thank you" they said, "for your noble and spirited though hitherto ineffectual efforts in defence of
the great constitutional rights of your country ... the almost unanimous voice of the people is with you,
and in a free country the voice of the people must prevail. We know our duty to ourselves, and are
resolved to be free. We seek for our rights, and no more than our rights, and in so just a pursuit we
should doubt the being of a Providence if we doubted of success".
342. PONSONBY, Major-General Sir John. The Ponsonby Family. With numerous
illustrations and genealogical charts. London: The Medici Society, 1929. pp. xvi, [2], 263.
Original blue cloth, arms of the Ponsonby family in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine.
Spine evenly faded. Top edge gilt. A very good copy.
€375
With chapters on: Early family History; With Cromwell in Ireland; The Ponsonbys of Cumberland;
The Creation of the Earldom of Bessborough; The Ponsonbys of Kilcooley; The Ponsonbys of
Bishopcourt and Imokilly; Lord Ponsonby the Ambassador; A Waterloo General; The Younger
Children of the First Lord Ponsonby; Frederick Ponsonboy, 3rd Earl of Bessborough; A Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland; A Gallant Soldier; Lady Caroline Ponsonby; Maria Lady Duncannon and her
Children; Four Earls of Bessborough; Courtier, Cricketer, and Actor; Queen Victoria's Private
Secretary; The Barony of De Mauley; Family Places, Past and Present.
343. [PRESENT STATE] The Present State of Ireland: together With some Remarques Upon
the Antient State thereof. Likewise a Description of the Chief Towns: With a Map of the
Kingdome. London: Printed by M[ary] D[aniel] for Chr. Wilkinson, at the Black-Boy in Fleet
Street, 1673. pp. [xxiv], 280, 3 (list of books). With 2 final advertisement leaves; the last 2 leaves
are blank. Modern full calf in seventeenth century style. Neat library stamp of Henry Thomas
Coghlan on titlepage. A fine copy. Very rare.
€1,650
Wing P 3267 Sweeney 3515. ESTC R26213.
344. PRILL, Felician. Ireland, Britain & Germany, 1870-1914. Problems of Nationalism and
Religion in Nineteenth Century Europe. Dublin: Gill, 1975. pp 196. Green paper boards, titled in
gilt along spine. From the library of T.W. Moody. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
€85
German interest in Irish affairs of the late nineteenth century was sparked off by the Kulturkampf of the
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1870s. This conflict between the Catholic Church and the Reich coloured German thinking on Britain's
policy towards its Irish Catholic subjects. The Catholic party in the Reich Stag had many points of
similarity with the Irish Parliamentary Party at Westminster, and the accession of Alsace-Lorraine
raised issued which echoed the Irish situation. German awareness of Irish problems was heightened
throughout the period, when Home Rule for Ireland was canvassed actively. In the months preceding
the outbreak of war in 1914 this led to a close German observation of the Ulster crisis and of Britain's
difficulties in Ireland.
345. [PROTESTANT CATECHISM] A Protestant Catechism: shewing the principal errors of
the Church of Rome. In four parts. I. Of the Rule of Faith, and the Infallibility of the Church. II
Of the Pope's Supremacy, and the Treatment of Heretics. III. Of Errors in the Worship of God.
IV. Of the Sacraments, and other Points of Doctrine and Practice. London: Printed for John,
Francis and Charles Rivington, booksellers to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, at
the Bible and Crown (No 62) in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1780. pp. 24. Recent quarter calf, title in
gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€185
346. [PROTESTANT MEETING] A Full Report of the Speeches Delivered at the Great
Protestant Meeting at the Royal Amphitheatre, Liverpool, on Wednesday, the 13th of July, 1836.
Liverpool: Printed by C. Ingram, Union Buildings, North John Street; and published by L.T.
Gaskill, at his News Agency Office, 48, Lord Street; J. Arnold, Post Office Place; Perris, North
John Street; Malley, Warrington; and to be had of all Booksellers, 1836. pp. 30. Recent quarter
goatskin on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€165
347. [PROTESTANT SCHOOLS] A
Brief Review of the Rise and Progress
of the Incorporated Society in Dublin:
for Promoting English Protestant
Schools in Ireland. From the Opening
of His Majesty's Royal Charter,
February 6th. 1733 to November 6th.
1743. Dublin: Printed by George
Grierson, Printer to the King's Most
Excellent Majesty, at the King's Arms
and Two Bibles in Essex-Street, 1744.
pp. 16, [1]. Recent quarter morocco.
Top margin close shaved. A very good
copy. Very rare.
€375
This work contains a list of The CharterWorking Schools in Ireland which at that
time had a total of 443 pupils in 19
schools throughout Ireland including:
Castledermot, Minola, Shannon Grove,
Castle Caulfield, Templestown, Dundalk,
Stradbally, Kilfinane, Ballinrobe, New
Town Eyre, etc. It also contains the
names of persons to receive Benefactions
in Ireland and a listing of the total
number of transplanted children of
Popish Parents now in the WorkingSchools in Ireland.
348. [PUBLICK AFFAIRS] A Guide
into the Knowledge of Publick Affairs;
both Foreign and Domestick : Being a
curious miscellany, wherein will be
occasionally explained whatever relates
to the several potentates in the world, ...
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Also, an account of the several orders of knighthood. London: Printed, and Dublin Re-printed,
and Sold by George Faulkner, and James Hoey, in Christ-Church-Yard, 1728. pp. [i], 22-44
(only). Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
Extremely rare.
€235
COPAC locates 1 copy only (Free Library of Philadelphia). WorldCat 1.
IN FINE RIVIERE BINDING
349. QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur. Ed. by. The
Oxford Book of English Verse. Chosen and edited
by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Oxford: At the
Clarendon Press, 1926. Octavo. pp. xix, 1084.
Contemporary panelled speckled calf by Riviere
& Son, the central panel of russet polished calf.
Large gilt arabesque design at centre, fleurons at
the corners, spine gilt in compartments, twin
citron lettering pieces, gilt edges, spine a little
faded. Spine dividied into six compartments by
five deep raised bands, title in gilt direct in the
second, the remainder tooled in gilt with a floral
design; gold endbands. All edges gilt. A fine
copy.
€275
As intended, no doubt, this finely bound copy of the
famous anthology was bought as a Christmas present,
with inscription on fly-leaf: 'To Wanda darling - /
John / Christmas / 1930'.
A COLLECTIVE DUTCH EDITION
350. QUINAULT, Philippe Bellerophon. La
Genereuse Ingratitude. Tragi-Comedie Pastorale;
L 'Amant Indiscret ou Le Maistre Estourdi.
Comedie; Les Rivales. Comedie; Agrippa Roy
d'Albe ou Le Faux Tiberinuss; Bellerophon
Tragedie (Paris); La Mere Coquette, ou Les
Amans Brouillez. Comedie; Astrate Roy de Tyr.
Tragedie (Paris); Pausanias Tragedie. Engraved frontispiece to each title. Eight plays in total (six
published in Holland and two in France). Amsterdam & Paris: 1688/1714. 12mo. Full midnineteenth century blue straight-grained morocco. Covers framed by triple gilt fillets with outer
fleurons, spine elaborately tooled in gilt. All edges gilt. Fine. Rare.
€685
'Agrippa Roy d'Albe' is dedicated to Louis XIV which may explain why there was an English
translation played in Dublin at the Theatre Royal in the presence of the Duke of Ormond.
This English edition appeared in 1675 (Sweeney 4426). The translation and dedication were the work
of John Dancer, who served under the Duke of Ormond.
ILLUSTRATED BY CRUIKSHANK
351. REACH, Angus B. Clement Lorimer; or, The Book with the Iron Clasps. A Romance.
Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: David Bogue, Fleet Street, 1849. pp. vii, 280, [24
(adverts and publisher's list)]. Bound by Morrell in contemporary full crushed straight-grained
green morocco, covers framed by triple gilt fillets. Spine divided into six compartments by five
gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on brown morocco letterpiece in the second and third, the
remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner floral design. Wide gilt decorated doublures with
binder's name in gilt on lower margin. Marbled endpapers. Pictorial wrappers of the original six
parts bound in at end. With the armorial bookplate of Reuben Jay Flick. Spine professionally
rebacked preserving the original backstrip. A fine copy.
€485
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352. [REDFORD, Archibald] Union, Necessary to Security. Address to the Loyal Inhabitants of
Ireland. By an Independent Observer. Dublin: Printed for J. Archer, 80, Dame-Street, 1800. pp.
[ii], 106. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€275
ESTC T194733. Lough Fea p.338. Bradshaw 2437. Black 2259. Not in Gilbert.
353. REYNOLDS, Joseph W. The Old and True Church of Ireland. Published for the National
Protestant Union. Fourth Thousand. London: William Mackintosh, 1868. pp. 16. Recent marbled
boards. A very good copy.
€125
Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert.
354. RICHARD [WOODWARD], Lord Bishop of Cloyne. The Present State of the Church of
Ireland: containing A Description of its Precarious Situation; and the consequent Danger to the
Public. Recommended to the serious Consideration of the Friends of The Protestant Interest. To
which are subjoined, Some Reflections on the Impracticability of a proper Commutation for
Tithes; And A General Account of the Origin and Progress of the Insurrections in Munster. The
Third Edition. Revised and corrected. Dublin: Printed by W. Sleater, jun. 51, Castle-street, 1787.
pp. 96. Modern full green morocco, title in gilt on spine. Inscribed on titlepage "From the
Author". Corner of final leaf torn with minute loss of text and corner of titlepage torn with no
loss. A very good copy.
€185
ESTC T126107.
355. RICHARDSON, H.G. & SAYLES, G.O. Ed. by. The Administration of Ireland 11721377. Dublin: Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1963. Quarto. pp. xiii,
300 + errata. A fine copy in faded dust jacket.
€350
This work is based largely on the seldom-used Issue Rolls of the Irish Exchequer preserved in the
Public Record Office, London. Detailed lists are given of the Chief Governors (or Lieutenants); the
Chancellors; the Keepers of the Rolls of Chancery; the Treasurers; the Chancellors of the Exchequer;
the Barons of the Exchequer; the Escheators; the Justices; the King's Attorneys, etc.
356. RICHMOND, Duke of. A Letter from His Grace the Duke of Richmond to Lieutenant
Colonel Sharman, Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence appointed by the Delegates of
forty-five Corps of Volunteers, assembled at Lisburn in Ireland; With Notes, by A Member of the
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Society for Constitutional Information. London: Sold by J. Johnson, No. 27 St. Paul's ChurchYard, 1792. pp. 16. Recent marbled boards, printed title on paper label along spine. Slight foxing,
otherwise a very good copy. Very rare.
€275
Not in Gilbert. Bradshaw 7528. Black lists the 1795 edition. ESTC T37888 listing 5 locations in
Ireland.
357. RIDGEWAY, William Esq. A Report of the Proceedings in Cases of High Treason, at a
Court of Oyer and Terminer, held at the new Sessions House under a Special Commission, in the
Month of August and September, 1803. A Report of the Trial of John Begg, upon an Indictment
for High Treason. No. V. Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw, Grafton-Street, 1803. pp. [3], 51.
Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Paper flaw to lower margin of
G2. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare.
€275
No copy located on COPAC.
358. [1916 RISING] Cuimhneachán 1916-1966 Commemoration. A Record of Ireland's
commemoration of the 1916 Rising. With colour and mono plates. Dublin: Printed by Dollard for
the Department of External Affairs, 1966. Quarto. pp. 94. Green linen, title in gilt on upper
cover. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate. A very good copy in frayed dust
jacket.
€45
"They shall be spoken of among the people,
And generations shall remember them,
And call them blessed".
With a message from the President Eamon de Valera and a foreword by the Taoiseach Sean Lemass.
WITH HAND-COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS
359. RIVERS, Elizabeth. Stranger in Aran. With illustrations by Elizabeth Rivers, some handcoloured. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1946. pp. iv, 79. Quarter linen on light brown decorated paper
boards, title on printed label along spine. Limited edition of 280 copies for sale. A very good
copy.
€375
The last book published at the Cuala Press under the supervision of Mrs. Yeats. She kept the Press
going for a further twenty years, but published only prints and greeting cards. In 1969 it was revived as
a book publisher by Michael and Anne Yeats, assisted by Liam Miller and Thomas Kinsella.
In 1934 Elizabeth Rivers visited the west of Ireland and decided to live on Aran, where she returned in
1935 and lived in Inishmore until 1941. The war years were spent in London working as a fire warden,
and afterwards she returned to Aran. Her book 'Stranger in Aran' was published in Dublin in 1946.
From then until her death in 1964 she lived and worked in Dublin, apart from a short period in
Cornwall after her friend Evie Hone's death.
EXTREMELY RARE KILKENNY TOPOGRAPHICAL WORK
360. ROBERTSON, James George. Antiquities and Scenery of the County of Kilkenny. Edited
and published by James George Robertson. Illustrated with 26 plates after drawings by George
Miller, with letterpress. Kilkenny: Thomas Shearman, Printer, 1851. Oblong quarto. pp. [40], 33
(plates). Contemporary half morocco on cloth boards, title within a gilt rectangular border on
upper cover. Wear to spine. A fine copy. Extremely rare.
€3,650
James George Robertson, architect and antiquary, was born in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire in 1816. He
appears to have come to Ireland in about 1828, when he was still a young boy, to join his relative
William Robertson who was practising as an architect in Kilkenny. He remained in Kilkenny for sixty
years. Like William Robertson he practised as an architect. He held the post of diocesan architect for
the United Diocese of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin until the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland in
1869.
James George Robertson was much better known as an antiquarian than as an architect. He probably
derived his interest in antiquities from William Robertson, who had formed a collection of material in
preparation for a work on Kilkenny antiquities. This material was edited and published by James
George Robertson in 1851, as The Antiquities and Scenery of the County of Kilkenny. He was actively
engaged in the Kilkenny Archaeological Society (later the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland),
which he joined shortly after its foundation in 1849, and made a number of contributions to the
society's journal.
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This is a fine copy of the original edition of the much sought after Kilkenny topographical work.
Provenance: de'Montmorency, Burnchurch House; Castle Morres, Co. Kilkenny.
361. RODEN, Earl of. Observations on Lord Alvanley's Pamphlet on the State of Ireland, and
Proposed Measures for Restoring Tranquillity to that Country. London: Hatchard, 1841. pp. 34.
Modern paper wrappers. A fine copy.
€225
COPAC locates 4 copies only. Not in Black.
Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden KP, PC (1788-1870), styled Viscount Jocelyn between 1797 and
1820, was a Tory politician and supporter of Protestant causes.
362. [ROMAN CATHOLIC PRELATES] Origin and Progress of the Veto: Resolutions of the
Roman Catholic Prelates assembled at Dublin, in 1799.
London: Stereotyped and Printed by A. Wilson, n.d. (1810). pp. 28. Caption title. Recent quarter
goatskin on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€285
COPAC locates 5 copies only. None listed for Ireland.
Resolutions, letters etc. mostly concerning the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops. Most of the
letters are by Dr. Milner, Bishop of Castabala.
Date of publication taken from signatures in text.
363. ROSE, George, Esq. A Brief Examination into the Increase of the Revenue, Commerce,
and Manufacturers, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and
Campbell, and Sold by J. Milliken, 1799. Second edition. pp. xx, 77 (6 appendices). Modern
quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€485
ESTC N62539 gives 4 locations only. This edition in NLI.
Edition statement from half-title.
364. ROWAN, Archibald Hamilton, Esq. Report of the Trial of Archibald Hamilton Rowan,
Esq. on An Information, filed, ex officio, by The Attorney General, for the Distribution of a
Libel; with the Subsequent Proceedings Thereon. Containing the arguments of Counsel, the
opinion of the Court, and Mr. Rowan's address to the Court, at full. Dublin: Printed, London:
Reprinted for C. and G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, 1794. pp. [ii] 165. With a half-title. Recent quarter
goatskin on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce.
€375
Goldsmiths'-Kress 16150. ESTC T170487. ESTC T170487 listing 9 locations, none in Ireland.
Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751-1834), United Irishman, was born in London. A founding member
of the Northern Whig Club, he joined the United Irishmen in 1792, and in the same year was arrested
on charges of sedition, but the trial did not take place until 1794, and he was defended by Curran.
Found guilty, he was fined and sentenced to two years imprisonment, but he escaped to France. He
spent five years in America, from 1795, where he met Wolfe Tone. In 1802 he petitioned the British
government for permission to return home, which was granted the following year. Rowan was a strong
advocate of Catholic Emancipation and other liberal measures.
365. [ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY] Winter Cattle Show. Classification of the Fat Cattle,
Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Farming Implements and machines, Seeds, Manures, &c., entered for
Exhibition at the Show, to be held on Tuesday, December 13, 1859, and Following Day. Bound
with: List of Prizes at the Great Spring Show of Neat Cattle, Sheep, Horses, Swine, Poultry,
Machines, Implements, Portable Manures, Seeds, &c., &c., on Tuesday, April 10, 1860, and
Three Following Days. Bound with: List of Prizes at the Great Winter Show of Neat Cattle,
Sheep, Pigs, Agricultural & Dairy Produce, &c., 1860. Dublin: Printed by M.H. Gill, 1859/60.
pp. (1) 50, xxxi, (2) 160, (3) 15. Recent quarter goatskin on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine.
A very good copy.
€135
One of the catalogue entries for Stand 11 includes a description of Blood Manure: "My works being
situate in a locality where immense quantities of cattle and pig blood can be conveniently obtained, …
I am in a position to supply this truly powerful fertilizer on highly advantageous terms".
366. RUPP, Rev. Gordon. William Bedell 1571 - 1642. A commemorative lecture given in the
Old Library, Emmanuel College on 1 December 1971 by the Reverend Gordon Rupp, F.B.A.,
D.D., Fellow of the College and Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History. Cambridge: Printed by
W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., n.d. (c.1971). pp. 14. Cream illustrated stapled wrappers. A very good
copy.
€30
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367. RYAN, Desmond Saint Eustace and the Albatross. London: Published by Arthur Barker
Ltd., 1935. First edition. pp. 243, [1]. Brown cloth, titled in black. Fading to covers. A good
copy. Scarce.
€45
Ryan supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 but left Ireland in disgust at the ensuing Civil War, and
in London wrote novels like the brilliant and mad Saint Eustace and the Albatross, a laughing 'tour de
force' and a compelling exercise of ingenuity, humour and high spirits.
368. RYAN, Desmond. The Rising. The complete story of Easter Week. Dublin: Golden Eagle,
1949. First edition. pp. [vi], 276. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. With map of Dublin,
Easter 1916 on endpapers. A fine good copy in fine dust jacket.
€65
The full story of The Rising from the beginnings in the Secret Councils of the Irish Republican
Brotherhood and the foundation of the Irish Volunteers through the tense controversies of Easter Eve
and the tangles of Casement's mission to Germany, the first shots at the gates of Dublin Castle and the
fighting in the G.P.O. and the other locations in Dublin.
369. RYAN, Rev. John., S.J. Early Irish Missionaries on the Continent and St. Vergil of
Salzburg. Dublin: Published for St. Joseph's Young Priests' Society by the Irish Messenger
Office, 1924. pp. 24. Pictorial wrappers. Some underlining and marginalia. Owner's signature on
titlepage and upper cover. A good copy.
€20
370. RYAN, Richard. Poems on Sacred Subjects. To which are added, Several Miscellaneous.
Illustrated with vignettes throughout the text. London: J. Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly, 1824. pp.
viii, 94. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. All edges sprinkled. A very good copy.
Exceedingly rare.
€375
COPAC locates 1 copy only. Not in Lough Fea, Gilbert, Bradshaw or O'Donoghue.
Richard Ryan (1796-1849), writer, was the son of Richard Ryan a bookseller in Camden Town. Apart
from the present work he also wrote stories, poems and songs which were set to music by eminent
composers of the period. His most noted work is Biographia Hibernica, a biographical dictionary of the
worthies of Ireland.
Dedication signed and dated by Richard Ryan, Park Street, Camden Town, April 8, 1824.
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371. RYNNE, Etienne. Ed. by. North Munster Studies. Essays in commemoration of Monsignor
Michael Moloney. Illustrated. Limerick: The Thomond Archaeological Society, 1967. Quarto.
pp. xvi, 535. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. T.W. Moody's copy with his signature and
bookplate. A fine copy in dust jacket.
€125
With a feast of scholarly articles by: John S. Jackson, John Hunt, Eileen Binchy, Joseph Raftery,
Michael O'Kelly, Helen M. Roe, Liam de Paor, Etienne Rynne, A.T. Lucas, J.G. Symms, G.A. HayesMcCoy, Rev. John Ryan, Right Rev. Robert Wyse Jackson, Mainchín Seoighe, Kevin Danaher, etc.
With chapters on: The Clonfinlough Stone: A Geological Assessment; Irish Razors and Razor-Knoves;
Knockea, County Limerick; The Roscrea Pillar; The Tau-Cross at Killinaboy: Pagan or Christian; The
Plundering and Burning of Churches in Ireland, 7th to 16th Century; The Rise of Dál Cais; Benedictine
Bishops in Medieval Ireland; The White Knights and their Kinsmen; The Statute of Our Lady of
Limerick: A Gift in Reparation; The Seige of Limerick, 1690; Irish Soldiers of the '45; Stephen De
Vere's Voyage to Canada, 1847; Brian Boru, King of Ireland; Caleb Powell, High Sheriff of County
Limerick 1858; The Chronology of the First Anglo-Irish Coinage; The Bunratty Folk Park; Three East
Limerick Fairs; The Botháin Scóir; The Memorial to Prior Johannes Ffox in St. Mary's Cathedral,
Limerick; Moloneys and the Tipperary Hearth Money Rolls.
372. SADLIER, Mrs. J. The Hermit of the Rock. A Tale of Cashel. Glasgow and London:
Cameron & Ferguson, n.d. pp. 207 (double column). Contemporary half green morocco on green
cloth boards. Minor wear to spine ends. Foxing to prelims, titlepage a little dusty, otherwise a
very good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€275
No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. Loeber S6.
The story gives a picture of Irish society in the 1860s. The 'Hermit' tends the graves and the
monuments on the Rock of Cashel. He is a store house of legends and traditions [Brown].
373. SAURIN, William. An Accurate Report of the Speech of William Saurin, Esq. in the Irish
House of Commons, on Friday, the 21st, of February, 1800, on the Question of a Legislative
Union with Great Britain. Dublin: Printed by J. Moore, 45, College-Green, 1800. pp. 23. Recent
quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy.
€165
ESTC N31086. Goldsmiths', 17861. Lough Fea p.339. Bradshaw 2513. Not in Gilbert.
William Saurin (1757?-1839), M.P., the second son of James Saurin, Vicar of Belfast, was educated at
Trinity College, Dublin. His grandfather was a noted Huguenot exile pastor. William entered Lincoln's
Inn and was called to the Irish Bar in 1780. M.P. for Blessington, vehemently opposed the Act of
Union. Attorney General for Ireland 1807-1822; promoted anti-Catholic agitation, and was accordingly
removed by Wellesley. He refused peerage and returned to law practice and became a promoter of the
Brunswick Club.
374. SAVAGE, Roland Burke. Catherine McAuley the First Sister of Mercy. With illustrations
and maps on endpapers. Dublin: Gill, 1950. Second edition. pp. xiv, 435. Maroon cloth, title in
gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket.
€45
This book tells the story of a great-hearted woman, whose character with its mixture of strength and
gentleness, of high seriousness and easy gaiety, of reserve and tenderness, all shot through with a deep
love and unshakable confidence in God, gave her a power and an attraction that still wins affection and
loyalty. Catherine McAuley opened her first House of Mercy twenty-one years before Karl Marx
proclaimed his brotherhood of man in the 'Communist Manifesto' of 1848.
WITH SPEECH BY AENEAS MacDONNELL AT MAYO ABBEY
375. SCHEFFMACHER, John James. The Polemic Catechism of John James Scheffmacher,
Quandum Lecturer of Controversial Theology in the Cathedral Church of Strasbourg. Lately reprinted by the Charitable Book Society in France, and now Respectfully Offered to the Good
Sense of his Fellow-Countrymen, in a Translation, by their Devoted Servant, William Coppinger,
Roman Catholic Bishop in the Diocese of Cloyne and Ross. An Appendix: on the Ancient
Religious and Literary Establishments in Ireland. Cork: John Hennessy at the French-ChurchStreet Press, 1830. pp. xii, 180. Contemporary worn quarter linen on worn blue paper boards.
Edges untrimmed. Internally a very good copy.
€475
COPAC locates 7 copies only. WorldCat 1 eBook only.
Johann Jakob Scheffmacher (1668-1733) was a Jesuit theologian from Alsace. His
"Controverskatechismus, published in Cologne in 1723, is the origin of the work here translated by
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Bishop Coppinger. The Appendix, which consists of 20 printed pages, records a long speech made by
the Barrister, pamphleteer and Catholic activist, Eneas (Aeneas) MacDonnell, at a meeting in Mayo
Abbey in July 1826. He outlines the history of Irish missions and men of learning disseminating
Christian knowledge, science, and civilization through England, Scotland and large parts of continental
Europe. He exhorts the English people and administration to recognise the literary endeavours of these
Irish scholars and contribute to making amends for previous neglect by improving schools for the
Catholic sections of the population. He called to his MacDonnell cousins in Carnacon at that time.
Eneas MacDonnell (c.1783-1858) barrister, pamphleteer, and agent of the Catholic Association was
born at Westport, County Mayo. Educated at Tuam and Maynooth. He was called to the Irish bar in
1810, whereupon he began practising on the Connacht circuit. He entered politics at Castlebar, where
on 17 September 1810 he gave a lengthy address which was published in the Dublin Evening Post, to a
Mayo county meeting called to promote a petition for catholic relief. Until 1815 he was editor of the
Cork Mercantile Chronicle; he then set up, in the interest of the Catholic Association, the Dublin
Chronicle. It was 'a spirited but never a very influential newspaper' (Inglis) and, as the only Dublin
paper not receiving a government subsidy, lasted two years (June 1815 to August 1817). MacDonnell's
ownership of the Dublin Chronicle brought him a conviction for libel in the court of king's bench (May
1816), which may have hastened the paper's demise and the decline of the Catholic Association. He
was also imprisoned in 1828 on an action taken by Archbishop Trench of Tuam. A prolific pamphleteer
and advocate of the Catholic Association which he represented in London as parliamentary agent. Lord
Norbury seeing him leave Archbishop Troy's house said: "There's the pious Eneas coming from the
'sack' of Troy".
376. [SCIENCE AND ART IN IRELAND] Report from the Commission on the Science and
Art Department in Ireland. Together with the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index. Vol. I.
- The Report. Vol II. - Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, &c. With three folding plans of the Royal
Dublin Society's premises coloured in outline. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William
Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1869. pp. xxxix, [4], 770. Contemporary half
morocco on faded cloth boards. Coole Park armorial bookplate. Stamp of De La Salle School
Loughrea on front endpaper and titlepage. Some surface wear to leather. All edges red. A very
€675
No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 2.
In May 1868 Her Majesty's Government decided to constitute a separate department of Science and Art
for Ireland. It appointed the Marquis of Kildare, Rev. C.W. Russell, Rev. Samuel Haughton, G.A.
Hamilton, Esq., Professor Huxley, Colonel Laffan, Professor Wyville Thomson and Captain Donnelly
to act on the Commission. The list of witnesses included such luminaries as Professor Alman, Robert
W. Armstrong, Mr. James Brenan, Sir Dominic Corrigan, John Rutherford D'Olier, Lord Dunraven, Sir
Richard Griffith, Michael Angelo Hayes, Sir. Robert Kane, Rev. J.P. Mahaffy, George Woods
Maunsell, Jonathan Pim, Professor Shaw, John Wright Switzer, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Rev. Dr.
Todd, Sir William Wilde, etc.
377. SCOTT, Brian. Malachy. Dublin: Veritas, 1976. pp. 119. Pictorial wrappers. A very good
copy.
€35
Fortunately, unlike many other Irish saints, we have a biography of Malachy written by his closest
friend, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, shortly after his death. Bernard depicts Malachy as archbishop,
reformer and miracle-worker.
378. SENIOR, Nassau William. Journals, Conversations and Essays Relating to Ireland. Two
volumes. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1868. pp. (1) xix, 313, (2) 318. Publisher's green
blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spines. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate
and signature. Also with the armorial bookplate of Hans Hamilton Woods on front pastedowns.
A very good set.
€250
Nassau William Senior, the first professor of Political Economy at Oxford visited Ireland on numerous
occasions over the period 1819 to his last visit in 1862. His daughter published some of his Irish
material in 'Journals, Conversations and Essays relating to Ireland'. Included in this work are accounts
of visits to Ireland in 1852, 1858 and 1862 including on each occasion, visits to Lord Rosse at Birr
Castle (the astronomer third Earl). Senior writes in an introduction to the essays he had prepared in
1861: "Though the aspect of Ireland is somewhat changed since 1852, and much since 1844, I doubt
whether any great real alteration in the habits to feelings of the people has taken place. They still
depend mainly on the potato. They still depend rather on the occupation of land, than on the wages of
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labour. They still erect for themselves the hovels in which they dwell. They are still eager to subdivide
and to sublet. They are still the tools of their priests, and the priests are still ignorant of the economical
laws on which the welfare of the labouring classes depends. They are still the promoters of early and
improvident marriages; they still neglect to preach to their flocks the prudence, parsimony, industry,
cleanliness, and other self-regarding virtues, on which health and comfort depend; they are still the
enemies of emigration; they are still the enemies of every improving landlord; they are still hostile to a
Government which has seized the property of their Church - which refuses, or at least neglects, to
provide for the spiritual instruction of the great mass of the people, and everywhere, except in its
workhouses and in its gaols, ignores the existence of a Roman Catholic clergy".
379. SEWARD, Wm. Wenman Esq. Topographia Hibernica; or the Topography of Ireland,
Antient and Modern. Giving a complete view of the Civil and Ecclesiastical State of that
Kingdom; With its Antiquities, Natural Curiosities; Trade, Manufacturers, Extent and Population.
Its Counties, Baronies, Cities, Boroughs, Parliamentary Representation and Patronage; Ancient
Districts and their original Proprietors. Post, Market and Fair Towns; Bishopricks, Abbeys,
Monasteries, Castles, Ruins, Private-Seats, and remarkable Buildings. Mountains, Rivers, Lakes,
Mineral-Springs, Bays and Harbours, with the Latitude and Longitude of the principal Places,
and their Distances from the Metropolis, and from each other. Historical Anecdotes, and
Remarkable Events. The whole alphabetically arranged and carefully edited. With an Appendix,
containing some additional Places and Remarks, and several useful Tables. With large folding
map. Dublin: Printed by Alex Stewart, No. 86, Bride-street, 1795. Quarto. pp. [4], [4P], 30.
Contemporary full tree calf. Spine sympathically rebacked with original maroon morocco
letterpiece. Bound in at end large folding table; 'A Table shewing the intermediate and respective
Distances in Miles, between the principle Towns in Ireland', with publisher's imprint. A fine
copy.
€575
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380. SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917.
Boston: IndyPublish.com, 2010. pp. [xvi], 265, 38 (appendices and index). Blue cloth, title in gilt
on spine. A fine copy.
€65
Shackleton's epic journey across treacherous seas to summon help, after the 'Endurance' had been
crushed and sunk by huge ice-floes, was truly one of the greatest feats of human endurance of the
twentieth century. Tom Crean, later of The South Pole Inn, Annascaul, accompanied his fellow
countryman on this expedition. Their ship was 200 miles from the nearest land, and 1,000 miles from
human assistance.
'South' is Shackleton's monumental record of an adventure story crammed with human drama and
endurance.
381. SHARKEY, P.A. The Heart of Ireland. With map, coloured and mono illustrations. Boyle:
Ward, n.d. (c.1927). pp. vi, 490, [22] (adverts). Blue cloth, Celtic cross in gilt on upper cover,
title and Celtic cross in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from the author dated New Year,
1928; with recipient's name cut off. A very good copy.
€175
With historical notices on Cruachan, Boyle, Kilronan, Dromahaire, Sligo, Coolavin, Athleague,
Lanesborough, Moylurg, Kilglass, Athlone, Castlerea, Loughglynn, Roscommon, Road to Castlebar,
Foxford, Mayo, Ballymote, etc.
382. SHAW, George Bernard. A Collection of Twelve Photographs of the Irish Dramatist
George Bernard Shaw and other images.
€475
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The collection includes: three rare portraits of Shaw dated 1934-1950; photograph of Shaw in his
garden in Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, walking towards his home, taken on his 91st birthday, July
1947; photograph of Shaws' summer house at bottom of his garden; photograph of Shaw being hidden
by canvas as he was carried to his home from hospital following a fall in his garden; photograph of
people trying to get glimpse of Shaw following his discharge from hospital; photograph of Shaw's
doctor and local children outside his house; photograph of Shaw's doctor outside his home at 5.am
announcing the death of Shaw; photograph of Shaw's garden retreat with a wood-wind instrument on
the bed which he called his shepherd's pipe; photograph of the mantelpiece of the dining room which is
adorned with portraits of world famous men, including Ghandi, Lenin, Stalin, and a mask of Shaw,
taken March 1951; photograph of the entrance to No. 4 Whitehall Court, where Shaw lived.
383. SHEE, William. The Irish Church: Being a Digest of the Returns of the Prelates,
Dignitaries, and Beneficed Clergy, to the Queries Addressed to them by the Commissioners of
Inquiry into the Ecclesiastical Revenues and Patronage of Ireland, appointed A.D. 1833; of the
Annual Reports of the Commissioners since that date, and of the Commissioners of Religious
and other Instruction in Ireland, 1834 … Showing the Revenue, the Monies expended on the
Purchase, Building and Improvement of the See-House … Acreage of Glebe Land, Church
Accommodation, and Population, Protestant, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic, in every
Benefice. By William Shee, Serjeant at Law, M.P. London and Dublin: Jones and Duffy, 1852.
pp. iv, 228. Mauve ribbed cloth, title on printed on upper cover. Light fading to spine, otherwise
a very good copy.
€275
William Shee was one of Her Majesty's Sergeants at Law, and some time M.P. for the County of
Kilkenny.
384. SHEE, William. Papers and Letters on Subjects of Literary, Historical and Political
Interest, and Speeches at Public Meetings, in Parliament, and at the Bar. Volume I (all
published). London: Printed by Rayner and Hodges, Fetter Lane, 1862. pp. [v], 305. Green blindstamped cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy.
€375
COPAC locates 1 copy only. No copy on WorldCat.
The contents includes chapters on: Italian Improvisatori; Crescembeni and the Arcadi; Home
Government of India; Habeas Corpus in India; American Tariffs, 1824-8; East India Monopoly British Export Trade to India - British Import Trade from India - British and American Export Trade to
Canton - American Exports from Canton - The Country Trade of the East; The Merchant Kings of
India; The High Church and High Tory Party; The Duke of Wellington; Sir Robert Peele; Revolution
of 1688 in Ireland; Reflections on the Trial of the Ministers of Charles the Tenth before of the Chamber
of Peers of France, 1830.
385. SHEE, William. Papers, Letters, and Speeches in the House of Commons, on the Irish Land
Question, with a Summary of its Parliamentary History, from the General Election of 1852, to the
close of the Session of 1863. London: Thomas Richardson, 1863. pp. xii, 246, + corrigenda.
Green blind stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Rare.
€275
386. SHERIDAN, Philip Henry. Carte de Visite portrait of Philip Henry Sheridan, Union
General Commanding General of the Army [c.1869].
€135
Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888) was a career United States Army officer
and a Union General in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his
rapid rise to Major General and his close association with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S.
Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the
Western Theatre to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the
East. In 1864, he defeated Confederate forces in the Shenandoah Valley and
his destruction of the economic infrastructure of the Valley, called "The
Burning" by residents, was one of the first uses of scorched earth tactics in the
war. In 1865, his cavalry pursued Gen. Robert E. Lee and was instrumental in
forcing his surrender at Appomattox.
Sheridan prosecuted the later years of the Indian Wars of the Great Plains.
Both as a soldier and private citizen, he was instrumental in the development
and protection of Yellowstone National Park. In 1883 Sheridan was appointed
General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army, and in 1888 he was promoted to the rank
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of General of the Army during the term of President Grover Cleveland.
Sheridan may have been born in Ireland. "Little" Phil Sheridan was the son of John Sheridan and Mary
Meenagh of the Killinkere, County Cavan. Although he claimed to have been born in Albany, New
York, many believe that he was born in Killinkere before his parents left Ireland for America.
387. SHUCKBURGH, E.S. Ed. by. Two Biographies of William Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore.
With a selection of his letters and an unpublished treatise. Edited with notes and index.
Cambridge: University Press, 1902. pp. xx, 410. Green pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. Mild
staining to covers, light foxing to prelims, otherwise a very good copy.
€85
The first of the two works presented here is from the pen of the Bishop's son, William Bedell. The
second is by the Rev. Alexander Clogie, married to Leah Mawe, step-daughter of the bishop, whose
chaplain he became in 1629, and with whom he remained until Bedell's death at Lough Oughter on 7th
February, 1642. He was afterwards rector of Wigmore, in Herefordshire, and supplied Bishop Burnet
with the material for his life of Bedell.
388. [SKERRIES HOLMPATRICK ARCHIVE] Archive of the Holmpatrick Estate in
Skerries County Dublin: Including rental book with over 1300 records for Skerries, Balrothery
and the Town Holding of Holmpatrick. With tenants names, rents, observations and summaries
for all the lands in the middle of the nineteenth century; Schedule of Leases: A manuscript record
with details of all the expiring Leases in Lord Holmpatrick's Skerries Estate in 1900. Each entry
contains the names of tenants, expiry date, proposed lessee, rent, terms of lease and notes
pertaining to various aspects of changes in the leases of the property over many generations from
the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Together with: 1400 records relating to the various legal
arrangements, assignments, certificates, rentals, etc for the lands of the Hamilton estate spanning
a period of over two hundred years. An important historical primary source archive for Fingal.
Unique.
€2,350
389. SMITH, Charlotte. Desmond. A Novel by Charlotte Smith. Three volumes. London:
Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1792. 12mo. Second edition. pp. (1) [1], ix, [1], 280, (2) [4],
296, (3) [4], 348. With a half-title in Vol. II, none present in Vols. I and III (as issued?).
Contemporary full diced russia, covers framed by a gilt floral roll. Spines neatly rebacked with
titles and volume numbers in gilt on new red morocco labels. Armorial bookplate of John Waldie
with shelf-mark label on front pastedowns. Ticket of Lubbock, Bookbinder, New Castle on front
free endpaper of Vol. I. A fine fresh copy. The second edition, published the same year as the
first and somewhat rarer.
€675
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the
English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of
sensibility. Smith was born into a wealthy family and received a typical education for a woman during
the late 18th century. However, her father's reckless spending forced her to marry early. In a marriage
that she later described as prostitution, she was given by her father to the violent and profligate
Benjamin Smith, a young merchant whose father had estates in England, Ireland, Scotland and
Barbados. Their marriage was deeply unhappy, although they had twelve children together. Charlotte
joined Benjamin in debtor's prison, where she wrote her first book of poetry, Elegiac Sonnets, which
was supported by Irish subscriptions, including the Irish antiquarian Joseph Cooper Walker. Its success
allowed her to help pay for Benjamin's release.
Smith's struggle to provide for her children and her frustrated attempts to gain legal protection as a
woman provided themes for her poetry and novels; she included portraits of herself and her family in
her novels as well as details about her life in her prefaces. Her early novels are exercises in aesthetic
development, particularly of the Gothic and sentimentality. "The theme of her many sentimental and
didactic novels was that of a badly married wife helped by a thoughtful sensible lover" (Smith's entry
in British Authors Before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary Ed. Stanley Kunitz and Howard Haycraft.
Her later novels, including Desmond, often considered one of her best, support the ideals of the French
Revolution. Allibone states that the Irish poet Henrietta O'Neill published a poem in this novel. It was
also advertised in Bowden's A Tour through Ireland (Dublin, 1791). This is generally considered to be
Charlotte's Smith most political radical novel, striking a strongly feminist note and taking the side of
the French Revolutionaries. The novel was published in June1792, here reprinted the same year, but
after France and Britain went to war and the Reign of Terror began it saw no more contemporary
reprints. See Raven and Garside, 'The English Novel', 1792:52; Summers, 'Gothic Bibliography', p.294.
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390. SMITH, G.N. & DOWNES, G. Killarney, and The Surrounding Scenery: Being a
Complete Itinerary of the Lakes. Embellished with Maps and Views from Original Drawings
taken by him on the spot. To which are added copious Notes, a Catalogue of Plants, and an
Etymological Index of Irish Names. London: Printed for Johnson and Deas, 1822. 12mo. pp. viii,
222, 1 (Directions to the binder). Contemporary full straight-grained burgundy morocco. Covers
framed by a gilt Greek key and floral roll and blind-stamped arabesque roll. Flat spine richly gilt,
corners of fore-edges hatched in gilt. Wide doublures tooled in gilt, brown endpapers. Light wear
to extremities. All edges gilt. A very clean large paper copy.
€475
391. SMITHSON, Annie M.P. Nora Connor. A Romance of Yesterday. Dublin: The Talbot
Press, 1945. pp. 222. Maroon paper boards, title in black on spine. Printed bookplate of D.M.
Skelly, on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Scarce.
€30
Annie M.P. Smithson (1873-1948), was born in Sandymount and educated in Dublin and Liverpool.
She trained as a nurse and midwife and from 1929 to 1942, she was organiser and Secretary of the Irish
Nurses Organisation. Born to a Protestant family, following a broken romance she became a Catholic.
On discovering that her father had been a Fenian involved in the 1867 Rising she became strongly
Nationalist and Republican. During the Civil War she was involved in the dramatic siege of Moran's
Hotel.
392. SMITHSON, Annie M.P. Wicklow Heather. Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press, 1943.
Third edition. pp. 250. Green paper boards. Bookplate of D.M. Skelly, on front free endpaper. A
very good copy. Scarce.
€45
EXCEEDINGLY RARE CORK PRINTING
393. [SOUTHERN REPORTER] Echoes from Parnassus. Selected from the Original Poetry of
the Southern Reporter. Cork: Printed for Proprietors of the Southern Reporter, 1849. pp. viii, 92.
Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Editor's complimentary copy to J. White, Lahardane,
Cork, dated 1849. Frontispiece mounted. All edges red. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €475
Note on p. iii: Presented to the subscribers [of the Southern Reporter] as a New Year's gift.
394. SPAIN, G.L. Jottings from a Corner of the Moors : Originally Written for "Our quarterly
Record", by G.L. Spain. Illustrations from paintings by Walter J. James. Newcastle-on-Tyne:
Mawson Swan & Morgan, 1910. pp. 249, [3], 4 (leaves of plates), 11 (original photographs).
Bound by Marshall in contemporary full brown morocco. Covers framed by a wide acanthus gilt
floral roll. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt
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direct in the second and third; fore-edges ruled in gilt; wide doublures ruled in gilt; marbled
endpapers. From the library of Walter Henry James with his armorial bookplate on front
pastedown. All edges gilt. A fine copy.
€325
With eleven additional photographs bound in and captioned in ink.
395. SPINDLER, Karl. The Mystery of the Casement Ship. With a foreword by Florence
O'Donoghue. Illustrated. Tralee: Anvil Books, 1965. pp. 218, [6]. Illustrated wrappers. Previous
owner's signature on titlepage. A very good copy.
€150
The first full account of Sir Roger Casement's part in the prelude to the 1916 Rising. Captain Karl
Spindler was Commander of the German Auxiliary Cruiser 'Libau' which, camouflaged as a Norwegian
steamer (the 'Aud'), successfully broke the English blockade. He tells why, in his opinion, the arms
landing attempt at Fenit failed. The book also contains authentic documents from the German Naval
Archives and other sources, which disclose the real motives of the German government in giving
assistance to the Irish Republic, but they make one wonder what Ireland's fate would have been if
Germany had emerged victorious.
396. STALLEY, Roger. The Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland. An Account of the History, Art
and Architecture of the White Monks in Ireland from 1142 to 1540. Illustrated. London & New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Quarto. pp. vii, [1], 295. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A
very good copy in pictorial frayed dust jacket.
€95
397. STANYHURST, William. Dei Immortalis in Corpore Mortali Patientis Historia Moralis
Doctrinæ Placitis & commentationibus Illustrata. With engraved title. Antwerp: Apud Viduam &
Haeredes Joannis Cnobbart, 1660. First edition. pp. [31], 408, [7]. Contemporary full vellum with
yapp edges. Title in manuscript on spine. Early owner's manuscript entry "Ad usum fratris
Andreae Angeletti Carmelitae" on half title. Some toning to some leaves. A fine copy. Exceeding
rare.
€475
No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 3. Walsh 517. Sweeney 4811.
The son of Richard Stanyhurst, William was born at Brussels where he joined the Jesuits and lived out
his life on the continent acquiring a fine reputation as a preacher in both English and Dutch. He served
for thirty years as director of the 'Grande Congrégation de la Ste Vièrge' at Louvain. Benignus Millet in
the Oxford New History of Ireland characterised him as "an eclectic and a populariser, with little
originality of thought". However his books, usually in small format, often went through many editions
and those which have come to our attention are pretty pieces of printing.
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398. STAPLETON, Augustus G. The Irish Education Question: A Letter to The Earl of
Eglinton. London: T. Hatchard, 1853. pp. 15. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt
on spine. A fine copy.
€245
The problems with the National Schools controlled by the Roman Catholic priests.
399. STEARNE, John. M.D. Thanatologia.
Seu de Morte Dissertatio In qua Mortis
Natura, Causae, Mobilitatis, Remoræ et
Remedia proponuntur, ac variae de Cadavere
et Anima separata controversiæ enodantur.
Dublin: William Bladen, 1659. pp. [xvi], 288.
16mo. Contemporary full sprinkled calf. All
edges sprinkled red. Minor wear to spine ends.
A very good copy. Extremely rare. €1,365
COPAC locates 1 copy only. No copy on
WorldCat. Wing S 5373. Sweeney 4841.
John Stearne or Sterne (1624-1669) founder of
the Irish College of Physicians was born at
Ardbraccan, County Meath, the episcopal palace
of his grand-uncle, James Ussher. His father John
Stearne of Cambridge, who settled in County
Down and married Mabel Bermingham, a niece
of Ussher, was remote relation of Archbishop
Richard Sterne.
Stearne entered Trinity College, Dublin at the
age of 15 in 1639, and obtained a scholarship in
1641. On the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of
1641, Stearne left for England, and in 1643 went
to Cambridge, where he studied medicine at
Sidney Sussex College, and collected material for
his first work, Animi Medela. He remained at
Cambridge about seven years, and then spent
some time at Oxford, where he was welcomed by
Seth Ward, then fellow of Wadham College. He
had been elected a fellow of Trinity College,
Dublin in 1643, a position from which he was ejected by order of the Rump Parliament. On his return
to Ireland in 1651 his private practice as a physician in Dublin occupied most of his attention. He was
restored to his fellowship by Henry Cromwell, with whom he was on good terms, and to whom he
dedicated one of his books.
In 1656 Stearne was appointed the first Hebrew lecturer in Trinity College, Dublin, receiving the
degree of M.D. in 1658, and that of LL.D. in 1660. In 1659 he resigned his fellowship; but was
appointed to a senior fellowship in 1660, after the Restoration, receiving a dispensation from the
statutes of the university respecting celibacy. He became in the same year professor of law. During his
tenure of these various offices, Stearne also practised as a physician, obtaining special permission to
reside outside the walls of the college.
He is best known as the founder of the Irish College of Physicians. In 1660 he proposed to the
university that Trinity Hall, situated in Back Lane, Dublin, then affiliated to the university, of which he
had been constituted president in 1654, should be a college of physicians. The arrangement was
sanctioned, and Stearne, on the nomination of the provost and senior fellows of Trinity College, in
whom the appointment was vested, became its first president. No students were to be admitted who did
not belong to Trinity College. In 1662 Stearne was appointed for life professor of medicine in the
university. In 1667 a charter was granted to the College of Physicians, under which a governing body
of fourteen fellows was constituted, of whom Sir William Petty was one, with Stearne at their head as
president for life.
Stearne died in 1669 in his forty-fourth year. He was buried, by his own request, in the chapel of
Trinity College, where his epitaph, by his friend Henry Dodwell the elder, described him as
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"Philosophus, Medicus, summusque Theologus".
William Bladen was a printer and publisher in Castle Street, Dublin, from 1631 to 1663. His early
career was spent in London as a bookseller until he was appointed a factor in Dublin for the Irish
"stock" of the London Company of Stationers. He was admitted free of the city of Dublin in 1631,
served as Sheriff in 1636, as an Alderman from 1642 to 1663, and as Mayor in 1647. He purchased
from the London Company of Stationers their Irish privileges for £2,600 in 1638, became the King's
Printer in 1641, and during the Commonwealth the State Printer.
This book offered a theme for provost J.P. Mahaffy's address in the theatre of Trinity College, Dublin
at the bicentenary celebration of the medical school in 1912: "It is not a little remarkable that in his
remote day he fully appreciated the difficulties which modern science finds in framing a strict
definition of death ... As regards the duration of life, he holds that there is no reason why human life
should not be indefinitely prolonged in favourable circumstances and with proper hygiene ... He speaks
much of the value of cold baths, of simple diet, of the posture of the body in mid-day sleep which
should be taken sitting up and not lying down. He recommends very few drugs and these rather as
tonics or sedatives than as curatives. He found opium very valuable in dysentery and favours tobacco
for chewing on account of its nicotine content, which is a powerful sedative".
BOUND BY BAYNTUN RIVIERE
400. STEPHENS, James. The Crock of Gold. London: Macmillan and Co., 1912. pp. 312.
Bound in full red calf by Bayntun Riviere of Bath. Covers framed by double gilt fillets. Spine
divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on contrasting
morocco letterpieces in the second and third, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner
design; fore-edges and turn-ins gilt; comb-marbled endpapers; red and gold endbands. All edges
gilt. A very good copy.
€185
James Stephens (1880-1950), was a poet, novelist, and storyteller. His father died when he was two,
and on his mother's remarriage he was sent to an orphanage. He ran away and found employment as a
solicitor's clerk in Dublin. From 1907 he contributed poems, stories and essays to Arthur Griffith's
nationalist newspaper 'Sinn Féin'. He also contributed to James Larkin's 'The Irish Worker'.
This novel mixes realism, fairy tale, and fantasy. 'The Crock of Gold' concerns the separate quests
undertaken by the Philosopher, the Thin Woman of lnis Magrath (his wife), and Caitilin Ní Murrachu
(a peasant girl), during which they meet with the gods Pan and Angus Óg.
SARAH PURSER'S COPY
401. STEPHENS, James. The Insurrection in Dublin. Dublin & London: Maunsel & Company,
Ltd., 1916. First edition. pp. 111, 16 (Publisher's list). Blue-grey cloth, title in gilt on upper cover
and on spine. Signed presentation copy from James Stephens to Sarah Purser, dated Oct. 9th,
1916, on front free endpaper. Occasional light spotting. A very good copy. Scarce.
€275
Sarah Purser was born in Dún Laoghaire and raised in Dungarvan, County Waterford. She was
educated in Switzerland and afterwards studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and in
Paris at the Académie Julian.
She worked mostly as a portrait artist and founded a stained glass workshop, An Túr Gloine, in 1903.
Some of her stained glass work was commissioned from as far as New York. Through her talent and
energy, and owing to her friendship with the Gore-Booths, she was very successful in obtaining
commissions, once famously commenting "I went through the British aristocracy like the measles".
In 1923 she became the first female member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
SIGNED BY SEÁN T. Ó CEALLAIGH
402. STEPHENS, James. Arthur Griffith. Journalist and Statesman. Portrait frontis. of Griffith
seated at a table. Dublin: Wilson Hartnell & Co., n.d. (c.1922). Illustrated stapled wrappers,
printed in black and red. A very good copy. Rare.
€175
Carty 214.
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DUST JACKET BY HARRY KERNOFF
403. STEPHENS, James. Etched in Moonlight. London: Macmillan, 1928. First edition. pp. vi,
199. Green cloth, title and design by Harry Clarke in black on upper cover, title in black on spine.
Signature in pencil of Sarah Purser, Mespil House, on titlepage. A very good copy in repaired
dust jacket designed by Harry Kernoff.
€175
Stories include: Desire; Hunger; Schoolfellows; Etched in Moonlight; Darling; The Wolf, and The
Boss.
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.
404. STOKES, Whitley. Ed. by. Cormac's Glossary. Translated and Annotated by the late John
O'Donovan. Edited, with notes and indices by Whitley Stokes. Calcutta: Printed by O.T. Cutter
for the Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, 1868. Quarto. pp. [2], xii, 204. Brown blindstamped cloth. From the library of P.W. Joyce with his signature on front free endpaper and
manuscript note by him tipped in at p.123. Wear to spine and extremities. A very good copy.
Very rare.
€375
Sanas Cormaic (Cormac's narrative), also known as Cormac's Glossary, is an early Irish glossary
containing etymologies and explanations of over 1,400 Irish words, many of which are difficult or
outdated. The shortest and earliest version of the work is ascribed to Cormac mac Cuilennáin (d. 908),
king-bishop of Munster. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary containing simple synonymous explanations
in Irish or Latin of Irish words. In some cases he attempts to give the etymology of the words and in
others he concentrates on an encyclopaedic entry. It is held to be the first linguistic dictionary in any of
the non-classical languages of Europe. Numerous of its entries are still frequently cited in Irish and
Celtic scholarship.
"The bulk of the text from which the following translation was made is printed in the volume entitled
Three Irish Glossaries, pp. 1-45, from a MS. in the library of the Royal Irish Academy which I call
Codex A. The Additional Articles, now for the first time published, are printed from a transcript made
by me some seven years ago from the Yellow Book of Lecan, a manuscript in the library of Trinity
College, Dublin, containing the copy of Cormac's Glossary which I call Codex B."The translation now
printed was made by O'Donovan many years before his death, and appears never to have been revised
by him after he had acquired the wide and accurate knowledge of the ancient Irish language which he
possessed when I enjoyed the privilege of knowing and learning from him ... the transcript of
O'Donovan's version, sent out for the purpose of the present publication, contains a large body of notes,
philological topographical, and historical" - Preface by Whitley Stokes.
405. STRAUSS, E. Irish Nationalism and British Democracy. London: Methuen, 1951. pp. x,
307. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket.
€125
The kernel of Strauss' book is that there were really no sustained movements at all, but that the Church
conspired with the middle class for the last century to seize every organisation and to frustrate all
efforts of the Irish people for freedom. What O'Connell did, what Davis did, what Fintan Lalor did,
what Butt did, what Parnell did, all followed this master pattern - they each and all betrayed the Irish
people for the selfish advantage of their own class.
406. STREET, C.J.C. ("I.O.") Ireland in 1921. London: Allan, 1922. pp.
v, 320. Green cloth. Badge of The Royal Irish Constabulary in gilt on upper
cover and spine, with title in gilt. Fading to covers, otherwise a very good
copy.
€65
Chapters include: The First Three Months; The Government's Case; Events in
Ulster; Affairs in June; Progress of Negotiations; The Truce; Unofficial
Discussions; Ulster and Sinn Fein; The Conference; Peace and War; The Split in
the Dail.
407. [SWIFT, Jonathan?] An Essay on Trade in General: and, on that of
Ireland in Particular. By the Author of Seasonable Remarks. Dublin:
Printed by S. Powell for G. Ewing, 1728. pp. [xvi], 119, + errata. Recent
paper wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce.
€765
An answer to two pamphlets by Sir John Browne. Dedicated to William Conolly,
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Esq., Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. This tract has been attributed to Arthur Dobbs (ESTC);
Teerink-Scouten suggests possibly by Jonathan Swift.
RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED
408. SWIFT, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Illustrated
by Arthur Rackham. London: J.M. Dent, 1909. pp. xv, [1], 291. Decorated title printed in green
and brown. Bound in off-white buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Large paper
edition limited to 750 copies (No. 557), signed and numbered by Arthur Rackham on limitation
page. Some minor light soiling to white boards. One maroon silk tie missing. Top edge gilt. A
very good clean copy. Scarce.
€1,650
Illustrated with thirteen mounted colour plates, two full page black and white, thirty-one head and tail
pieces and gold decorated end papers.
409. [SWIFT, Jonathan] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel
Gulliver. With a preface by Henry Craik, and one hundred illustrations by Charles E Brock.
London: Macmillan, 1922. Contemporary full blue morocco gilt. Prize binding presented by
Aysgarth School to J.A. Peck in 1934. With label and badge of college in gilt on upper cover. All
edges gilt. A fine copy.
€165
410. SWIFT, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver's Travels. The text of the first edition
edited, with an introduction, bibliography and notes, by Harold Williams. Engraved frontispiece
portrait of Captain Lemuel Gulliver. Illustrated. London: First Edition Club, 1926. pp. cii, 490.
Black buckram, gilt title and borders. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. A very good copy. €65
411. SWIFT, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse. Edited by
John Hayward. Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press & New York: Random House, 1934. First
Nonesuch edition. pp. xviii, 868. Modern half maroon calf on maroon cloth boards, title, author
and year in gilt direct on spine. Original cloth backstrip bound in at end. A fine copy.
€175
The contents include: A Tale of a Tub; The Conduct of the Allies; An Argument &c; A Letter to a
Young Gentleman Lately Enter'd into Holy Orders; A Letter to a Young Poet; A Letter to a Very
Young Lady on her Marriage; A Meditation upon a Broom-Stick, Thoughts on Various Subjects,
Resolutions; Irish Tracts: The Drapier's Letters; Extract from a Short Character of his Ex[cellency]
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T[he] E[arl] of W[harton]; A Short View of the State of Ireland; A Modest Proposal; An Examination
of certain Abuses; A Serious and useful Scheme to make an Hospital for Incurables; A Complete
Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation; Selections from Directions to Servants; Selection
from the Journal to Stella Selection; A Character of Mrs Johnson [Stella]; Three Prayers for Stella;
Poems, etc.
RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED
412. SWIFT, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. With
twelve coloured plates and numerous mono illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: The
Temple Press, 1937. pp. xv, 291, 8 (Catalogue of children's books). Red cloth, title in black on
upper cover and in gilt on spine. A very good copy in original dust jacket. Scarce.
€150
A publisher's note on page v: "The Publishers make no apology for a new edition of this 'evergreen
book'. They feel that the fine drawings of Mr. Arthur Rackham are a sufficient 'raison d'être' for their
reappearance".
413. [SWIFTIANA] The Bottle-Scrue: A Tale. By Nicholas Amhurst. London: Printed, and
Dublin: Reprinted, 1732. First Irish edition. pp. 8. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards,
title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Scarce.
€675
ESTC T76100. Foxon A185.
414. SYNGE, Edward. La Religion D'un Honneste Homme Qui n'est pas Théologien de
profession. Avec les fondemens & les raisons qui l'établissent. Discours, Où l'on prouve la vérité
de la Religion Chrêtienne en général; où l'on démontre sa iomplicité; & où l'on propose quelques
régles préliminaires pour découvrir les points particuliers de sa doctrine, & ses divers préceptes.
Traduit de l'Anglois. Seconde Edition augmentée d'une 2. & 3. partie. Two volumes in one.
Engraved frontispiece. Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Brunel, à la Bible, d'or, 1699. 12mo. pp. 112,
228. Later full brown morocco, title in gilt direct on spine. Board edges ruled in gilt. Armorial
stamp of Bibliotheque P. E. Williams on front free endpaper and titlepage. A fine copy.
€575
Sweeney 4893.
Edward Synge, Archbishop of Tuam, (1659-1741)
born at Inishannon, County Cork, the second son of
Edward Synge, Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.
Educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Trinity
College, Dublin. He was a Doctor in Divinity of the
University of Dublin, rector of St. Werburgh's. In 1714
he was consecrated Bishop of Raphoe, and in 1716
was translated to the archbishopric of Tuam. This
prelate voluntarily resigned to his clergy the "Quarta
pars Episcopalis" of the tithes of the diocese, which his
predecessors had always enjoyed. He was a renowned
preacher. Cotton says: "He presided over his sees with
exemplary diligence for twenty-five years; and during
that time exerted himself in the publication of tracts
upon religious and moral subjects, to the number of
fifty or more. A list of these may be seen in Ware's
Writers. Many of them have been adopted by the
Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge".
He died at Tuam in 1741, and was buried in the
churchyard of his cathedral. There was an
extraordinary succession of prelates of the Irish
Church in his family. His father (Edward), his uncle
(George), and his two sons (Edward and Nicholas)
were bishops.
415. SYNGE, John M. In Wicklow West Kerry
and Connemara. Dublin: Maunsel, 1919. pp. [viii],
245, [1]. Recent half green morocco on linen
boards, spine divided into five compartments by
four raised bands; title in gilt on red morocco label on second. A very good copy.
121
€175
416. TEEGAN, Thomas Henry. General Bonaparte. A Drama: In Four Acts. London and
Dublin: Simpkin & Gill, n.d. (c.1920). pp. [4], 118. Contemporary full blue morocco, title and
author in gilt on upper cover within a framed floral border. Spine divided into six compartments
by five gilt raised bands; turn-ins gilt; splash marbled endpapers; red and gold endbands. All
edges gilt. A fine copy.
€150
No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI.
Teegan was Principal at the Central Training College, Dublin.
BOUND BY ANDREWS OF WATERFORD
417. [THOMAS Á KEMPIS, Saint] Searc-Leanmhain Chríosd. A gceithre leabhraibh le Tomas
a cempis. Aisdrighthe ua'n Laidion mbunúdhasach ... leis an Ath. Dómhnald Ó Súilliobháin. A
mBaile Ath-Cliath, Clódh-bhuailte le Riostard Ó Coin, 1822. 16mo. pp. xii, [1], 4-386. Bound by
Andrews of Waterford (stamp on front pastedown) in contemporary full blue morocco, covers
framed by double gilt fillets with blind crucifix in centre, flat spine with blind interlacing Celtic
knot work. All edges red. A very good copy.
€375
In Gaelic script throughout except for imprint of Courtney Printers on verso of dedication & final leaf.
418. TILLOTSON, John. A Persuasive to Frequent Communion in the Holy Sacrament of the
Lord's Supper. By His Grace John late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. The twelfth edition.
London: Printed for B. Aylmer at the Three Pigeons against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill: and
W. Rogers at the Sun against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1696. pp. [2], 30. Recent
quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€375
Not in Wing. ESTC R468962.
At foot of titlepage: Price three pence. With marginal notes and advertisement on final leaf.
419. [TOLAND, John] An Act for the better Securing the Dependency of Ireland upon the
Crown of Great-Britain : To which is added, J----n T-----d, Esq; His Reasons why the Bill for the
better Securing the Dependency of Ireland, should not pass. London: Printed: [s.n.], 1720. pp. 14.
Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Paper loss to margins affecting text, also with holes
in text. A good working copy. Rare.
€175
Pages 3-4 contain the text of the bill enacted as Public General Act, 6 Geo.I.c.5. Pages 5-14 contain an
abridgment of John Toland's Reasons most humbly offer'd to the Honble House.
420. TUOMY, Martin. A Treatise on the Principal Diseases of Dublin. Dublin: Printed by
William Folds, 38, Great Strand-Street, 1810. pp. xvi, 399. Original blue paper boards, titled in
ink on spine. Top edge uncut. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€575
THREE WATERFORD LADIES
421. USSHER, Elizabeth, Lucy, & Judith. Extracts from the Letters of Elizabeth, Lucy, and
Judith Ussher, Late of the City of Waterford, Ireland. Philadelphia: For sale at Friend's Book
Store, No. 304 Arch Street, 1859. pp. iv, 5-148. Contemporary full worn sheep, title in gilt on
maroon label on spine. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper in pencil dated 1859.
Spine expertly rebacked. Minor foxing, otherwise a very nice copy. Exceedingly rare.
€285
No copy located on COPAC.
422. WALKER, George. A True Account of the Siege of London-Derry. By the Reverend Mr.
George Walker, Rector of Donoghmore in the County of Tirone, and late Governour of Derry in
Ireland London: Printed for Robert Clavel, and Ralph Simpson, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1689.
Quarto. pp. 59, [1]. Titlepage with advertisement at foot and license leaf facing titlepage. Modern
half calf on marbled boards. A very good copy.
€875
Wing W 350. Sweeney 5468.
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Sir George Walker (c.1618-1690) was an English soldier and Anglican priest, known as the Defender
of Londonderry. He was joint Governor of Londonderry along with Robert Lundy during the Siege in
1689. He was killed at the Battle of the Boyne on 1 July 1690, going to the aid of Frederick
Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg, Commander-in-Chief of all Williamite forces in Ireland, who was
wounded during the crossing of the river in the early part of the battle.
A legendary description of this dramatic siege by the prime mover in the action. It evoked much
controversy, with the Presbyterian participants in the defence feeling that their contribution to the final
victory had not been given due credit and the absence of the names of the ministers is noteworthy.
After the dedication to William and Mary, there follows a two page description of the city and its
defences. The ensuing diary contains some splendid set-pieces even if one's credulity is stretched at
times. An example of the good and the bad: "July 2. The enemy drive the poor protestants, according to
their threatening, under our walls, protected and unprotected, and under great distress. Our men at first
did not understand the meaning of such a crowd, but fearing they might be enemies fired upon them;
we were troubled when we found the mistake, but it supported us to a great degree, when we found that
none of them were touch'd by our shot, which by direction of Providence (as if every bullet had its
commission on what to do) spared them and found out and kill'd three of the enemy, that were some of
those that drove the poor people into so great a danger. There were some thousands of them, and they
did move great passion in us, but warm'd us with new rage and fury against the enemy, so that in sight
of their camp, we immediately erected a gallows and signified to them we were resolved to hang their
friends, that were our prisoners, if they did not suffer these poor people to return to their own houses".
423. WALKER, George. A Vindication of the True Account of the Siege of Derry in Ireland.
London: Printed for Rob. Clavell at the Peacock at the West-End of St. Pauls, 1689. Quarto. pp.
[6], 9-33, [1]. Modern half calf on marbled boards. A fine copy.
€765
Wing W 354. Sweeney 5475.
A defence of the author's True account of the siege of London-derry. Walker claimed that he was
writing this not so much to establish his own reputation, as to assert the truth of his account and "to do
every man right .... that is concerned in it."
424. [WALKER, George] An Apology for the Failures Charg'd on the Reverend Mr George
Walker's Printed Account of the late Siege of Derry, In A Letter to the Undertaker of a more
Accurate Narrative of that Siege. [London:] 1689. pp. [i], 27. Modern quarter calf on marbled
boards. A fine copy.
€650
WorldCat 2. Wing A 3549. Sweeney 5473.
RARE DUBLIN PRINTING
425. WALKINTON, Edward. A Sermon Preached Octob. 23, 1692 in St Andrews Church,
Dublin; before the House of Commons. Dublin: Printed for Joseph Ray on Colledg Green, for
William Norman and William Winter, Booksellers, 1692. pp. [3], 19. Modern quarter morocco.
A very good copy.
€975
Wing W 456. COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 1.
The occasion for this sermon by the chaplain to the House and subsequent bishop of Down and Connor
was the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1641 rebellion.
426. WALPOLE, Horace. The Mysterious Mother; A Tragedy. Dublin: Printed for John Archer,
William Jones, and Richard White, 1791. First Dublin edition. pp. x, [3]-102. Contemporary full
calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Armorial bookplate of James Clayhills of
Invergowrie and sixteen Penny Red stamps on front pastedown. Minor wear to hinges. A very
good and attractive copy.
€385
ESTC T184614 gives 2 locations in Ireland. Not in Lough Fea, Gilbert or Bradshaw.
With the engraved bookplate of James Clayhills of Invergowrie surrounded by sixteen pre-perforation
British Penny Red stamps, all variously franked. This work was first published at the Strawberry Hill
Press in 1768 in an edition of 50 copies only, followed by a London edition of 1781. A reissue of the
1790 Dublin edition, with a cancel titlepage. In this issue of the reissue there is no engraved vignette of
Strawberry Hill on the titlepage.
A Gothic play about incest for which Walpole offers a most humble sham apology in presenting it to
the public: "he is sensible that the subject is disgusting, and by no means compensated by the
execution" - and maintains he offers the printing only as a means to thwart the circulation of several
pirated editions.
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427. WALSH, A. Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period. Dublin: The
Talbot Press, 1922. pp. [vi], 82. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in printed label on
spine. From the library of the Christian Brothers with their stamps. A very good copy.
€75
With chapters on: The Vikings in Ireland (795-1014); Intercourse between the Gaill and the Gaedhil
during the Viking Period; The Growth of the Sea Port Towns; Shipbuilding and Seafaring; Linguistic
Influences - Lone Words from Old Norse in Irish - Gaelic Words in Old Norse Literature - Irish
Influence on Icelandic Place Nomenclature; The Vikings and the Celtic Church; Literary Influence The Sagas of Iceland and Ireland; Bibliography.
428. [WALSH, John E. Q.C.] Ireland Ninety Years Ago. Being a New and Revised Edition of
Ireland Sixty Years Ago. Bound with: Life of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan. With a short
narrative of the principal events of the Jacobite War in Ireland. By John Todd Hunter. Two
volumes in one. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1876. 16mo. pp. vi, 204, 2. Original brown pebbled cloth,
titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€65
429. WALSH, Rev. Paul. Irish Men of Learning. Dublin: Three Candles, 1947. pp. vi, 311.
Black buckram, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy in
lightly frayed dust jacket.
€95
Treating the learned families of O'Duigenan, O'Maolconaire (Conroy), O'Cuirin (Curneen), Mac an
Bhaird (Ward), MacFirbhisigh, and their massive contribution to Irish historiography. Edited by Colm
O Lochlainn, this book is the fruit of thirty years intensive study of Irish scribes and their manuscripts.
"The book is not a collection of scraps; it is a unit; it is a monument to Eigse Eireann" - Aodh de
Blacam.
430. WALSH, William. J. Archbishop of Dublin. The Irish University Question. The Catholic
Case. Selections from the speeches and writings of the Archbishop of Dublin. With a historical
sketch of the Irish University Question. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1897. pp. xxxii, 519. Maroon
ribbed cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the library of T.W. Moody. Presentation slip 'From the
Archbishop of Dublin' presumably to the Right Honourable William Edward Hartpole Lecky,
with the latter's armorial bookplate on front free endpaper. A very good copy.
€150
431. WALSHE, Holwell Esq. & NORBURY, Lord. A Speech Delivered in the Court of
Common Pleas, Dublin, May 22 1820, by Holwell Walsh Esq. (of the Irish Bar) for the Plaintiff
in an Action of Criminal Conversation, brought by Sir John Milley Doyle, K.C.B. versus George
Peter Browne Esq. With some interesting letters of Lady Doyle's. Damages £5000! ! ! Together
with the Excellent Charge to the Jury, by Lord Norbury. And a detailed account of the ludicrous
examination of some of the witnesses. London & Dublin: Printed for W. Williams, 1820. pp. [ii],
40 + errata. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature
and address on titlepage. A very good copy.
€135
Captain Holwell H.H. Walshe, of Kilkee, County Clare, Civil Commander of British Sherbro, West
Africa, was the oldest son of F.W. Walshe, Esq., LL. D. of Limerick.
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SIGNED BY ANDY WARHOL
432. WARHOL, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. (From A to B and Back Again). New
York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1975. pp. 241. Quarter orange buckram on yellow paper
boards. Signed by Andy Warhol with his initials on half-title. A fine copy in dustjacket.
€675
433. [WARING, Thomas] A Brief Narration of the Plotting, Beginning & Carrying on of that
Execrable Rebellion and Butcherie in Ireland. With the unheard of Devilish-Cruelties and
Massacres by the Irish-Rebels, exercised upon the Protestants and English there. Hereunto are
added Observations, Discovering the Actions of the late King; and manifesting the Concernment
of the Protestant-Army now imployed in Ireland. Published by special authority. London: Printed
by E. Alsop and T. Dunster. And are to be delivered at Bernard Alsop's house in Grub-street,
1650. pp. [6], 32, 25-30, 41-64. Modern half morocco, titlepage printed in red and black. A very
good copy. Extremely rare.
€1,250
Wing W 873. COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 2.
434. WATT, J.A. The Church and the Two Nations in Medieval Ireland. Maps. Cambridge:
University Press, 1970. pp. xvi, 251. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust
jacket. Scarce.
€125
This examines in great detail the way in which the central English government dealt with Irish
ecclesiastical matters from the time of the invasion and partial conquest of Ireland by Henry II in 1171
up to the Statutes of Kilkenny.
435. WEBSTER, George. Amusements; A Lecture delivered before the Cork Young Men's
Association: With Notes and Appendix. Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 104, Grafton-Street, 1859. pp.
60. Recent quarter goatskin, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€150
436. [WHATELY, Richard] The Past and Future of Ireland, indicated by its Educational
History: Comprising a vindication of the National System and the Queen's colleges. Dedicated,
by Permission, to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P. London: Ward, 1850. pp. viii, 261,
[2]. Blind stamped olive green cloth with gilt decoration on upper cover. Minor wear to spine
ends and corners, otherwise a very good copy.
€385
437. [WHITE CHAPEL SERMON] The White Chapel Sermon. The true Method of
Propagating Religion and Loyalty: A Sermon Preach'd in the Parish Church of St. Mary in White
Chapel, on Sunday the 24th of October, 1714 in the afternoon. By Joseph Acres, Vicar of
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Blewberry in Berkshire. [Dublin]: London Printed: and Reprinted in Dublin, by S. Powell, for G.
Risk, Bookseller at the London in Dames-street, over-against, the Horse-Guard, 1714. pp. 16.
Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Some dusting to title and
margins. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare.
€485
438. WHYTE, J.H. The Independent Irish Party 1850-9. Oxford: University Press, 1958. pp. ix,
201. Maroon cloth, titled in gilt on spine. From the library of T.W. Moody with his bookplate. A
fine copy in dust jacket.
€125
This book is a study of the Independent Irish Party set up in the middle of the nineteenth century by
Charles Stewart Parnell. Mr. Whyte, in a study based on the primary sources, explains the origins of
this party and the reasons for its collapse. He does not confine himself to the parliamentary party but
also analyses the general political condition of Ireland at the time, and includes a discussion on the
political influence of the landlords and the catholic clergy.
IN FINE BINDING
IDEAL FOR GIFT OR PRESENTATION
439. WILDE, Oscar. The Poetical Works of Oscar Wilde. Including Poems in Prose with Notes
Bibliographic Introduction Index and Facsimiles of Titlepages. Portland Maine: Printed for
Thomas B. Mosher and Published by him at XLV Exchange Street, 1908. Square octavo. pp.
xxiii, [1], 394, 14 (facsimiles of titlepages). Bound in full crushed levant burgundy morocco.
Covers framed by double single gilt fillets. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt
raised bands, title and author in gilt direct in the second, the remainder framed by a single gilt
fillet; and arabesque style; fore-edges ruled in gilt; turn-ins gilt; green, blue, purple and gold
endpapers; red and gold endbands; red silk marker. Limited edition of 750 copies only on handmade Van Gelder paper. All edges gilt. A fine copy, ideal for presentation.
€1,250
Illustrated with photographic frontispiece portrait of Wilde by Ellis & Walery, in 1892 and facsimiles
of title pages of Wilde's works.
An elegant Mosher production, with limited edition, after which the type was distributed.
440. WILLIAMS, Desmond. Ed. by. The Irish Struggle 1916-1926. London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1966. pp. viii, 193. Orange buckram, title in gilt on spine. From the library of T.W.
Moody with his bookplate and signature. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket.
€85
This book of fifteen essays in co-operative scholarship deals with a most contentious period of modern
Irish history, that is, with the period between the Easter Rising of 1916 and the first few years of the
new Irish Free State government.
The chapters include: The Origins of the Irish Rising of 1916 by F.X. Martin; Sinn Féin Policy by
Desmond Ryan; The Conduct of the Anglo-Irish War by G.A. Hayes-McCoy; Partition, The Ulster
Question by Maureen Wall; The Treaty Negotiations by Frank Pakenham; Dublin Castle and the Royal
Irish Constabulary by Richard Hawkins, etc.
With contributions from: F.X. Martin, Francis MacManus, Desmond Ryan, Patrick Lynch, G.A.
Hayes-McCoy, Kevin B. Nolan, Maureen Wall, F.S.L. Lyons, Frank Pakenham, Desmond Williams,
Nicholas Mansergh, Brian Ó Cuív, etc.
441. WILSON, Thomas. Ed. by. Ulster Under Home Rule. A Study of the Political and
Economic Problems of Northern Ireland. London: New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press,
1955. pp xxiv, 229. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the library of T. W. Moody, with his
bookplate and signature. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
€65
This survey examines the political and economic problems of the six counties that as yet remain part of
the United Kingdom. With scholarly contributions by Cyril Falls, N. Cuthbert, J.M. Mogey, etc.
442. WOODHAM-SMITH, Cecil. The Great Hunger Ireland 1845-9. With illustrations and
large folding map. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. First edition. pp. 510. Green paper boards,
titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy.
€40
'The Great Hunger' was one of the greatest disasters that was visited upon the Irish nation. In the space
of five years more than a million Irish died of starvation and another million sailed for the United
States, Canada and Britain. The author details the chief causes: the failure of the potato crop through
blight (for one third of the population it was their sole diet); the Irish Landlords; and Trevelyan's harsh
and unsympathetic administration.
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At the height of the Famine, it was ironic that millions of pounds worth of food produce left Irish ports,
often passing ships bringing in the hated Indian corn which was distributed for relief.
443. [WORDSWORTH, William] The Poems of William Wordsworth. Edited by Thomas
Hutchinson. London: Oxford University Press, 1923. pp. xxxii, 986. Reverse calf. Upper cover
framed by a gilt roll enclosing a decorated centre panel with floral onlays; repeated in blind on
lower cover. Flat spine titled in gilt. All edges gilt. A fine copy.
€150
444. [YEATS, Jack B.] The Shanachie. An Illustrated Irish Miscellany. Six parts. Illustrated.
Dublin: Maunsel, 1906 /07. Quarto. Original illustrated wrappers (blue, green, beige, grey, cream
and red). Minor wear to spine ends as usual and some edges a little frayed. A very good set of the
exceedingly rare six-part edition.
€1,250
The Shanachie was effectively Maunsel's house-journal. It may have been modelled on the London
magazine The Dome, and follows its example in using good paper and printing high-quality
illustrations. The standard throughout is exceptionally high. Contributors include virtually all the major
Irish writers and illustrators of the day; W.B. Yeats, Jack Yeats, their father John B. Yeats, Shaw,
Dunsany, George Birmingham, Lady Gregory, Padraic Colum, Synge, Barlow, Cousins, George
Fitzmaurice, Pat (P.D. Kenny), Stephen Gwynn, Hugh Thompson, Elinor Monsell, Seaghan Mac
Cathmhaoil, William and Richard Orpen, Grace Gifford and the cover by Beatrice Elvery.
445. YEATS, W.B. Three Things. Illustrated with colophon and a coloured drawing by Gilbert
Spencer. London: Faber & Faber, 1929. pp. 11. Large paper edition, signed by W.B. Yeats,
limited to 500 copies (No. 456). Light blue boards. From the library of Thomas P. Johnson with
his decorative bookplate. Spine expertly rebacked. Slight wear at top and bottom of spine. A very
good copy.
€950
Wade 166. An attractive item, very scarce.
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IN FINE BAYNTUN BINDING
IDEAL AS GIFT OR FOR PRESENTATION
446. YEATS, W.B. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats. Definitive edition, with the author's
final revisions. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1959. pp. xv, [1], 480. Bound by Bayntun
of Bath for Kroch's & Brentano's - Chicago in full crushed levant navy blue morocco. Covers
framed by a single gilt fillet. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title
and author in gilt direct in the second and third, the remainder tooled in gilt with a cluster of
shamrocks, framed by a single gilt fillet; fore-edges and doublures tooled in gilt, white, green,
brown and cream comb-marbled endpapers; gold and green endbands. All edges gilt. A fine copy
ideal for presentation.
€875
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OF THE UTMOST RARITY
447. GIOVIO, Paolo. Descriptio Britanniae, Scotiae, Hyberniae et Orchadum. Bound with:
Virorum aliquot in Britannia, qui nostro seculo eruditione, & doctrina clari, memorabilesque
fuerunt, Elogia. Bound with: A Bruto Britannicae Gentis Authore omnium in quos variante
fortuna Britanniæ Imperium translatum Brevis Enumeratio. Per Georgium Lilius. Venice:
Tramezino, 1548. 4to. pp. [viii], 125 (leaves), [3]. Leaves 70, 71, 72, incorrectly numbered 65,
68, 67. Imprint data from colophon. Woodcut printer's mark: Sybilla [see illustration at end], on
final leaf. Woodcut genealogical tree. Later full mottled calf. Covers framed by triple gilt fillets,
fore-edges and turn-ins gilt. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in
gilt on brown morocco label in second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design;
comb-marbled endpapers; gold and blue endbands. Early marginalia throughout in a neat hand.
All edges red. Light rubbing to joints. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare.
€1,475
Sweeney 2637 BMC of Italian Books, p. 303 DNB XI 1142 Graesse III, 491. Adams G638.
"Proof of Giovio's classical erudition and his searching spirit is the extremely rare work 'Descriptio
Britanniae,' Venice 1548" (Renda-Operti, Diz. della Lett. Ital.)
It is a truly interesting work, but Giovio never wrote the book as it is published here. Apparently, it is a
condensation of all the passages of Giovio's World History pertaining to Great Britain and Ireland, and
it is most likely that George Lily, the author and editor of the other two parts of the book, was
responsible for the first part, also. It is distinguished for its keen and intelligent observations of Tudor
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England, historical, geographical, and intellectual.
The second part contains the biographies of Colet, William Lily, Grocyn, Linacre, Lupset, Pace, Fisher,
More and Latimer. They are selected from Giovio's biographical works.
The third part is an original contribution by George Lily, "the most withering dismissal of the Trojan
origin of the British that had yet appeared. He made it quite clear that the story of Brutus was nonsense
and must be omitted, and in so doing, he reveals the probable views on this subject of the humanists of
the earlier generation, such as Colet, and his own father, and Sir Thomas More" (Kendrick, British
Antiquity, p. 41). With a woodcut genealogical tree of the families of York and Lancaster.
Another interesting feature of the book: the printer Tramezino in Venice wanted to have his exclusive
rights to this book as firmly established as possible. Pope Paul III, King Francis I, Cosimo de Medici,
and the Duke of Mantua gave the Venetian printer privileges to protect his property for ten years, the
Pope extending this privilege to "Omnibus Christi fidelibus, tam in Italia, quam extra Italiam
existentibus", under the threat of excommunication.
A full chapter is given over to a description of Ireland at a time when the majority of continental books
produced barely a single page of text on the subject. Includes a genealogical table tracing the descent of
the English kings as far as Edward VI, and including the names of his two half-sisters Mary and
Elizabeth, both uncrowned as accords with the publication date. The author was the bishop of Nocera
at the time of his death in 1552.
FIRST KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE PRINTED IN IRELAND
448. [KING JAMES BIBLE] The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. With
Prayer Book, Metrical Psalms and Apocrypha. Dublin: Printed by A. Rhames for Eliphal
Dobson, at the Stationers-Arms in Castle-Street, and William Binauld, at the Bible in Eustacestreet, 1714. Folio. Three volumes bound in one. Bound by M'Kenzie of Dublin in full green
morocco. Covers elaborately tooled in gilt with a wide roll. Spine divided into six compartments
by five raised bands. Title in gilt on red morocco label with decorative border in the second, the
remainder lavishly tooled in gilt. Signatures of William Balfour and Mary Frances Townley
Balfour on titlepage, armorial bookplate of Blayney Townley Balfour on front pastedown.
Manuscript notes on the genealogy of the family on front flyleaf (hinged with tape). Some minor
wear to extremities, titlepage professionally backed and with window border, with the loss of a
few letters in the imprint. Two old neat repairs to small portion of inner margin of dedication
leaf. Small piece neatly cut from lower outer corner of H3 in apocrypha with the loss of a few
letters in a side note on verso. All edges gilt. A fine example from M'Kenzie's shop, with the
unusual wide gilt decorated border and his typical marbled paper.
€3,250
ESTC T205021 locating 9 copies only. Darlow & Moule, 928. Not in Lowndes.
The three parts and the index are separately signed. The New Testament has a separate titlepage.
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EDITED BY TWO SIGNATORIES OF
THE IRISH PROCLAMATION
449. [THE IRISH REVIEW] The Irish Review. A monthly magazine of Irish literature, art and science.
March, 1911 to September/November 1914. Complete apart for one issue (August 1911). Dublin: Irish
Review Publishers, 1911/1914. Quarto. Original printed wrappers as issued. Some frayed edges. A very
€895
good set. Very rare.
This literary magazine was founded by Thomas MacDonagh, Padraic Colum, his future wife, Mary
Maguire, James Stephens and David Houston. It was edited at various times by Houston, Colum,
Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Mary Plunkett (two signatories of the Irish Proclamation).
It published poems, stories, plays, criticism and reviews by the foremost writers of the day: Yeats,
Pearse, AE, Gogarty, Dunsany, Hyde, Corkery, Forrest Reid, Eimar O'Duffy, Birmingham, O'Sullivan,
Casement, etc. It eventually expired, not because of lack of interest, but lack of funds.
A very important source for the period leading up to the 1916 Rising.
See item 447.
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BLACK
BONAR LAW
BRADSHAW
COPAC
CRAIG
CRAIG
CRONE
DE BURCA
DIX
D.I.B.
D.N.B.
ELLMAN
ELMES & HEWSON
E.S.T.C.
FERGUSON, Paul
GILBERT
GILCHER
HALKETT & LANG
HERBERT
HICKEY & DOHERTY
HOGAN
KELLY, James
KENNEDY, Máire
KEYNES
KINANE
KRESS
LOEBER
LYNAM
McCREADY
McDONNELL & HEALY
McDONNELL
McGEE
McTERNAN
MELVIN
MILLER
MUNTER
N.S.T.C.
NEWMAN
O’DONOGHUE
O’FARRELL
O’HIGGINS
O’REILLY
PATERSON
PHILLIPS
POLLARD
POLLARD
PYLE
SLATER
SLOCUM & CAHOON
STC
SWEENEY
WADE
WALL
WARE
WEBB
WIKIPEDIA
WING
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Online Public Access Catalogue.
Dublin 1660-1860.
Irish Bookbinding. 1954.
The Irish Book Lover. 1910 - 1952.
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The Concise Dictionary of National Biography. 1973.
James Joyce. Oxford, 1983.
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Map Library, TCD.
Catalogue of Books and Mss. in the library of Sir John Gilbert.
A Bibliography of George Moore.
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Irish Protestants and the Experience of Rebellion. 2003.
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Irish Writers of the 17th Century. 1974.
Here’s to their Memory, & Sligo Sources. 1977 & 1988.
Estates and Landed Society in Galway. 2012.
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Four Hundred Irish Writers.
The County Armagh Volunteers of 1778-1993.
Printing and Book Production in Dublin 1670-1800.
Dublin’s Trade in Books 1550-1800.
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The Different Worlds of Jack B. Yeats. His Cartoons and Illustrations. Dublin, 1994.
Directory of Ireland. 1846.
A Bibliography of James Joyce. London, 1953.
A Short-Title Catalogue. 1475-1640.
Ireland and the Printed Word 1475-1700. Dublin, 1997.
A Bibliography of the Writings of W.B. Yeats. 1968.
The Sign of Doctor Hay’s Head. Dublin 1958.
The Works - Harris edition. Dublin 1764.
A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin, 1878.
Online Encyclopaedia.
Short Title Catalogue of Books Published in England and English Books Published
Abroad.
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EDMUND BURKE PUBLISHER
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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
€95
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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
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PETER HARBISON
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. Full buckram decorated in gilt to a Celtic design. With slipcase. Edition limited
to 300 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
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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
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
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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
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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LIMITED EDITION
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.
LIMITED EDITION
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
Dun Laoghaire harbour, recognised as one of the most picturesque in Europe, was built early in the
19th century as the consequence of an explosion of popular anger at the continuous deaths from
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.
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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.
€20
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
(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
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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
Also available in a special limited edition of 50 sets,
bound in full brown morocco gilt, signed by the
publisher.
€850
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.
LIMITED EDITION
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. Bound in half green morocco on splash marbled boards. Spine divided into six
compartments by five raised bands, title and volume in second and fourth, third and fifth tooled
in gilt to a centre Celtic design. Green and gold head and tail bands. T.e.g. Superb in presentation
slipcase.
€450
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
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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
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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LIMITED TO 200 COPIES
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
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 of the 18th and 19th Centuries. 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.
We apologise for the delay in publishing this important work. We hope to have it available
shortly. Your patronage, as always, will be very much appreciated. For those of you who
have already subscribed, can you please confirm that you still want to go ahead.
New subscribers are indeed most welcome.
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