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See item 407.

[The dedication to Gerald, the “Great� Earl of Kildare, is in the first paragraph]

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De Búrca Ra re Books BEARS THE SWEETEST FRUIT 1. [ACHILL] Achill Pilot. Topographical essays on Achill, with notes on its antiquities and a glossary of placenames. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, n.d. (c.1935), for the proprietors of the Amethyst Hotel, Achill. pp. 14. Green wrappers with woodcut of the Minaun Cliffs by Dorothy Blackham on upper cover and an outline drawing of the island on lower. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €275 No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. Not in NLI. The authorship is uncertain, but it is possible that Colm O Lochlainn himself wrote the main body of the text. We thought the following might be of interest: Picasso's advice to the potter Joe Colohan who was talking about Achill where he had just come from was: "My friend" he said, "the tree that has its roots in its native earth bears the sweetest fruit".

An exceptionally rare Three Candles item.

2. [A GRADUATE] Brief Sketch of The History of Queen's College, Belfast. Book of The Fair.

May 23rd - 26th, 1894. With illustrations and numerous adverts. Belfast: Olley, 1894. pp. 247.

Quarter maroon cloth on pictorial boards. Minor wear to corners. A very good copy. €175

See items 2 & 3.

3. [ALEMAND, Louis Augustin] Monasticon Hibernicum. Or, The Monastical History of Ireland. Translated by John Stevens. Containing: I. All the Abbies, Priories, Nunneries, and other Regular Communities which were in that Kingdom; II. The Time when, and the Titles under which, they were founded; III. The Name and Quality of their Founders; IV. The Provinces, Counties, Cities or Towns in which they were seated; V. The several Regular Orders to which they belong'd and the most remarkable Circumstances relating to their Foundation and Suppression; VI. Historical and Critical Observations and Drafts of their several Habits, with a Map of Ireland and eight engraved plates of the religious orders. London: Printed for William Mears, at the Lamb with-out Temple bar, 1722. pp. [xxx], 416, 8 (index), 8 (plates). Title in red and black. Contemporary full diced russia, spine expertly rebacked with new red morocco letterpiece by Paddy Kavanagh. Occasional foxing. A very good copy. Very scarce. €485 ESTC T84461.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Captain John Stevens or Stephens, Spanish scholar and translator, was a Roman Catholic, and most probably an Irishman. He is said to have accompanied James II in his Irish campaigns, and to have been employed in other services by him. He is probably to be identified with the Lieutenant John Stephens mentioned by D'Alton in King James's Irish Army List, (p. 485). He was not attainted, and before 1695 had settled in London. From that time till his death in 1726, he was busily engaged in translations and historical and antiquarian compilations. He says nothing of himself in any of his numerous works, which are almost always inscribed 'Captain Stevens'. The intimate knowledge of Portuguese and of the French and Spanish language and literature displayed in his prefaces points to a residence in Spain or Portugal. Miscellaneous as Stevens's work was, he deserves special recognition as a predecessor of Southey, Stirling-Maxwell, and Ticknor in the exploration of the rich mine of Spanish literature. Some years previously Stevens had essayed a 'revision' of Shelton's English version of Don Quixote. Stevens was also a learned and industrious antiquary. In 1718 he published anonymously a folio translation and abridgment of Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum. He issued anonymously in 1722, Monasticon Hibernicum. This is a translation, with additions and alterations, of Alemand's Histoire Monastique d'Irlande, 1690.

4. [ANGLER'S GUIDE] The Angler's Guide to the Irish Free State. Compiled by the Department of Lands and Fisheries. Illustrated with 4 folding maps and a large linen-backed map of Ireland. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1930. Second edition. pp. xi, 248. Original green cloth, title in black on upper cover and along spine. A fine copy. See map illustration below. €75

MORE DUBLIN PARLOUR GAMES 5. [ANON.] A Poetical Epistle From the Right Hon. Lady -, A Ringleader at Blind-Mans-Buff, &c &c. Vindicating Nocturnal Recreations. Addressed to the Delinquent Author of a Poem Entitled Cutcha Cutchoo. This epistle also comprises a Synopsis of a City Rout and a Grand Exhibition of Living Rarities. The work is adorned with cuts. By An Irish Artist. Dublin: Printed

by W. Folds, 38, Gt. Strand-Street, 1805. First edition. 12mo. pp. 38. Recent blue paper wrappers. Recent owner's bookplate on inside cover. Chipping to fore-edge and a few pen trials to title. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €695 COPAC locates the BL copy only (without cuts). WorldCat 2 copies.

A rare response to the anonymous account of a risqué Dublin parlour game Cutchacutchoo, or the Jostling of the Innocents (Dublin, 1805). OCLC and COPAC together locate only four copies (BL, Dublin, Harvard and NLI).

Reference to 'cuts' made by the title appears entirely fictitious.

6. [ANON.] Seasonable Queries Relating to the Popish Inhabitants of Ireland. Dublin: Printed [for P. Lord] in the year, 1764. pp. 8. Disbound. In very good condition. €575 2

De Búrca Ra re Books COPAC locates 2 copies only. No copy of the printed version on WorldCat. Not in Black, Bradshaw or Lough Fea. ESTC N021632.

Twenty eight queries on the penal laws and property, in the same form as Charles O'Conor's Some Seasonable Thoughts, 1761; both modelled on Berkeley's Querist.

Advertisements of P. Lord, bookseller at the Angel and Bible at end of text.

7. [ANON.] A most unusual Brochure with Gaelic text in calligraphed lettering illuminated in colours, including an Annual Calendar of Saints' days. With sketches of a Round Tower, Celtic Cross and Armorial Shields throughout. Paris: Printed by L. [1918]. pp. 8. Signed 'I.M.', also 'P.B. del.' on grey laid paper, two tissue guards, cream cover printed in colours with Irish harp, shamrocks and flourishes, '1918' in black above harp, fastened by a green ribbon. 164 by 221mm.

In very good condition. €275

The text begins with an account of 'Éire an tSeana Shaoghail' (The Ireland of Ancient history), describes Irish participation in America's struggle for independence, and concludes with an account of Irish soldiers in 'An Cogadh Mór' (The Great War: Gallipoli, Serbia etc.). Its authorship is a mystery.

The uncritical reference to Irish soldiers in the Great War would seem to rule out a Sinn Féin source. A very rare and unusual item.

8. ARCHER, Charles P. An Analytical Digest of all the Reported Cases in the Several Courts of Common Law in Ireland from the commencement of the year 1829, to the beginnings of the present year; including Registry Appeals, some important cases in Bankruptcy and a few in Equity. Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1839. pp. viii, 192. Recent cloth, with original letterpiece. A very good copy. Very scarce. €265 9. [ARMY COMMISSIONS] Army Commission appointing Francis Edwin Maunsell, Gentleman, Ensign in the Fourth Regiment of Foot from 12th June 1846. 345 x 240mm. Together with: Army Commission appointing Francis Edwin Maunsell, Gent, Lieutenant in the Fourth Regiment of Foot from 29th December 1849. By Her Majesty Queen Victoria's Command.

Signed by Lieutenant Maunsell and with regimental stamp. 345 x 240mm. Together with: Commission appointing Francis Edwin Maunsell, Gent, Paymaster of the Fourth Regiment of Foot from 13th September 1853. Signed by Lord Palmerston. 345 x 240mm. Parchment. In very good condition. €175 Francis Edwin Maunsell was born in 1825 in Kilmurry, Emlygrennan, Limerick. He married Ellen Catherine Stephenson in 1849.

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10. [ASHWORTH, John Harvey] The Saxon in Ireland: or, the Rambles of an Englishman in Search of a Settlement in the West of Ireland. With a frontispiece and map. London: John Murray, 1851. First edition. pp. xi, [1], 292, 32 (Murray's list). Olive-green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. From the library of Percy Paley, Castle Hacket. Some light staining to covers, corners lightly bumped. Spine expertly rebacked. A very good copy. €295 In the introduction the author states: "We seldom know the real value of anything till we lose it". With a lithograph of Slievemore and Croughan mountains from the Plains of Ballycroy, and a detailed map of Erris and Galway.

11. [ATWOOD, William] The History, and Reasons of the Dependency of Ireland upon the Imperial Crown of the Kingdom of England. Rectifying Mr. Molyneux's State of the Case of Ireland's being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England. London: Printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar; and Ri. Smith at the Angel without Lincolns-Inn Gate near the Fields, 1698. pp. [viii], [3], 216, [1], with an errata slip pasted on final blank.

Contemporary full sprinkled calf, gilt decorated spine with title in gilt on green morocco label.

Some wear to spine, later annotations on titlepage and verso of final blank. Trimmed tightly at gutter. Slight browning, otherwise very good in recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Very rare. €875 Wing A 4172 Sweeney 3055 Bradshaw 6018, 6019 Gilbert 41. ESTC R35293 giving 6 locations in Ireland. WorldCat 2.

William Atwood (c.1650-1712) was an English lawyer, known also as a political and historical writer.

He was son and heir of John Atwood of Broomfield, Essex. He studied at Queen's College, Cambridge, before being admitted to the Inner Temple in 1669 and Gray's Inn in 1670, and becoming a Barrister in 1674. He acted for the defence for Henry Booth, Lord Delamere at his treason trial in 1685-6. Booth was accused of participation in Monmouth's Rebellion, and the judge in the case was Judge Jeffreys, as Lord High Steward. The defence secured an acquittal.

He became Chief Justice of New York in 1701; in 1697 the Privy Council in London had moved to set up colonial vice-admiralty courts, able to act quickly in matters of piracy (a live matter in New York at the time), and wrecks. He was removed a year later, by Lord Cornbury, on a corruption charge.

Atwood's position was in fact made very difficult by the governors and the factional politics of New York, after the death of Jacob Leisler. Atwood had presided at the treason trial of mayor Nicholas Bayard (c.1644-1707) of the anti-Leislerian party, at the time of governor Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont. Bellomont was both a major sponsor of William Kidd, charged with piracy, and a Leislerian. When Bellomont died in 1701, the change of governor when Cornbury took over meant a complete about-turn for the local factions, and undermined Atwood's position. In the aftermath, 4

De Búrca Ra re Books Atwood tried to justify himself, but with little success.

This was one of the most substantial responses to Molyneux's The Case of Ireland (see item 249).

He wrote also on Scotland, causing the Scottish Parliament to order his works to be burned, by the common hangman.

12. BACON, Mary Ann. Fruits from the Garden and Field. London: Longman & Co., 1850.

First edition. Quarto. 16 double-sided chromolithograph leaves drawn on stone by E. I. Bateman from designs by Owen Jones, printed in gold, including 12 colour plates of various fruits. Reliveo binding by Remnant Edmonds & Remnants in original brown calf over bevelled boards, covers blind stamped to a floral pattern with title in blind on upper cover. New cream endpapers. Mild foxing. Spine neatly rebacked, some inner joints strengthened. Light marking in margin of two leaves. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €175 McLean, 94. King, 81.

13. [BANIM, Michael] Tales by The O'Hara Family. Second Series. Comprising The Nowlans, and Peter of the Castle. Three volumes. London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1826.

12mo. First edition. pp. (1) [iv], 318, 6, (2) [iv], 360, (3) [iv] 381, [3]. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title and volume numbers in gilt on contrasting labels on spines. Armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Johnson Eden Bart on front pastedown of volume I. All edges sprinkled.

A very good set. €875 COPAC locates the TCD and Glasgow copies only. WorldCat 3.

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.

14. BARRIE, J.M. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. With drawings by Arthur Rackham.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d., [1912]. Quarto. pp. [viii], 126. Fifty mounted colour plates, with descriptive tissue guards. Seven full-page black and white drawings and fifteen black and white drawings in the text. Map of Kensington Gardens. Green blind-stamped cloth, Peter Pan in gilt sitting on toadstools on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in worn dust jacket. €275 A reprint of the 1906 edition illustrated with a total of sixteen, tipped-in colour plates, each with a titleprinted tissue guard.

15. [BECKETT, Samuel] I Not I. Samuel Beckett, P. Guston, B. Nauman. Contributions by Aidan Dunne and Dennis O'Driscoll. Illustrated.

Dublin: R.H.A., 2006. Royal octavo. pp. 48. Black paper boards, titled in silver on upper cover. A fine copy. €45 The exhibition was made possible by The Lannan Foundation. See illustration opposite.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 16. BECKETT, Samuel. Lessness. London: Calder and Boyars, 1970. pp. 21, (1). Signed limited edition, No. 99 of 100 copies signed by the author, specially bound and issued in advance of the first UK trade edition. Original white quarter calf, green cloth boards, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. Spine a little darkened. A fine copy. €1,250 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 17. BECKETT, Samuel. No's Knife. Collected Shorter Prose 1945-1966. London: Calder and 5

De Búrca Ra re Books Boyars, 1967. First edition. pp. 168. Quarter natural calf on green linen boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 100 copies [B 55] signed by Samuel Beckett. All edges gilt. A fine copy in publisher's slipcase. €1,250 18. [BECKETT, Samuel] Samuel Beckett: A Tribute to Samuel Beckett on his 70th Birthday.

By Avigdor Arikha. Illustrated. London: For the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1976. pp. 11, [1].

Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €35 19. BENSON, Rev. Charles William. Our Irish Song Birds. With two fine hand-coloured plates.

Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & Co., 1886. First edition. pp. xi, 190, 6 (publisher's list). Red cloth over bevelled boards. Bird in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. Light fading to cover. A fine copy. Rare. €250

COPAC locates only 5 copies.

"The most fondly remembered visitor to St. George School, Balbriggan, was Rev. Dr. Charles William Benson, who was rector from 1903 until his death in 1919. Affectionately known as 'Daddy Benson', this white bearded friendly man was much more than a cleric. He had a deep interest in education, had written several textbooks and trained teachers. He also had a passionate interest in ornithology and would be considered nowadays as a 'twitcher' - given his interest in spotting rare birds. Dr. Benson was well liked by the children in Balbriggan generally, as he was known to offer a penny to anyone who knew where a rare bird could be spotted. This allegedly led to pranksters studying bird books to memorize names of rare birds which they could then pretend they had seen in the hope that Dr. Benson would given them a penny in return for their fictitious reports" - Trevor Sargent.

20. BERLETH, Richard. The Twilight Lords. The epic struggle of the last feudal lords of Ireland against the England of Elizabeth I. With maps and genealogies. London: Allen Lane, 1979. pp. xv, 316. Green paper boards, title in silver on spine. Small ink splash to fore-edge. A very good copy in dust jacket. €65 21. BHREATHNACH, Edel. The Kingship and Landscape of Tara. Dublin: Four Courts Press for The Discovery Programme, 2005. pp. xxi, 536. Black paper boards, titled in silver. A fine copy in dust jacket. €60 This volume offers many new insights into prehistoric and medieval Tara and is the culmination of an inner-disciplinary project undertaken as part of The Discovery Programme involving archaeologists, historians, linguists and place name experts. It includes prosopographies of the kings and queens of Tara from mythology to the eighth century; a re-assessment of the nature of the kingship of Tara; legal aspects of the kingship of Tara; the origin and extent of the place name Temair; Tara and the supernatural; the archaeology and topography of the kingdom of Brega; editions of two of the earliest texts relating to the kingship of Tara.

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See item 22 & 23.

22. [BINDING EXHIBITION] Tregaskis Centenary Exhibition. A Catalogue of the Tregaskis Centenary Exhibition 1994, Together with a facsimile of the Tregaskis Exhibition Catalogue of 1894 and colour plates of the bindings in both exhibitions. With introduction by Marianne Tidcombe and an essay by Bernard C. Middleton. London: Designer Bookbinders, 1994. pp. 98.

Tall crown octavo. Stiff purple wrappers with flaps, title on printed label on upper cover and in black on spine. A fine copy. €95 Includes some fine bindings by Edward Sullivan.

ILLUSTRATED BY J.B. YEATS 23. BIRMINGHAM, George A. Irishmen All. With twelve coloured illustrations from oil paintings by Jack B. Yeats. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1913. pp. viii, 225. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €95

See item 24.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 24. BLOOMFIELD, Robert. The Farmer's Boy; A Rural Poem. Seventh Edition. With an engraved frontispiece and several woodcuts throughout the text. Dublin: Printed by P. Wogan, 23, Old-Bridge, 1803. pp. xxxii, 129. Modern quarter buckram on grey paper boards, title on printed label on spine. Mild water stain to title and frontispiece. Signature of Thomas Fielding Morton on verso of frontispiece. A very good copy. See illustration on previous page. €575 COPAC locates the BL copy only. NLI holds the Joly copy.

25. BLYTON, Enid. The Mystery of Banshee Towers. A Story about the Five Find-Outers-and Dog. Illustrated by Lilian Buchanan. London: Methuen, 1961. pp. [7], 184. Blue paper boards, titled in silver on upper cover and spine. €85 WESTPORT HOUSE COPY 26. BOUTCHER, William. A Treatise on Forest-Trees: Containing, not only the best Methods of their Culture hitherto Practised, but a variety of New and Useful Discoveries, the result of many repeated Experiments: As also, Plain Directions for Removing most of the Valuable Kinds of Forest-Trees, to the Height of Thirty Feet and upwards, with certain Success; and, On the same Principles, (with equal Success) for Transplanting Hedges of sundry Kinds, which will at once resist Cattle: to which are added, Directions for the Disposition, Planting, and Culture of Hedges, by observing which, they will be handsomer and stronger Fences in five Years, than they now usually are in ten. By William Boutcher, Nurseryman, At Comely-Garden, Edinburgh.

Dublin: Printed for William Wilson, No. 6, and John Exshaw, No. 86, Dame-street, 1776. pp. [iv], xvi, 311, [1]. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on spine. Signature of Ed. Jordan dated 1778 on titlepage. From the library of the Marquis of Sligo.

Some minor wear. Lacking front and rear endpapers. A fine fresh copy. Rare. €385 ESTC T114791.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 27. BOWE, Nicola Gordon. Harry Clarke: His Graphic Art. Special edition contains an extra suite of eight plates reproduced from Harry Clarke's original drawings for illustrations to The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Dublin: Dolmen, 1983. pp. 160. Quarto. Original sheets bound in a gilt titled black buckram binders' folder with silk ties. Limited edition of 250 un-numbered copies, signed by Nicola Gordon Bowe. In fine condition. €350 28. BOYLE, Alicia. Christmas Post Card with original artwork by Alicia Boyle R.B.A. The oval illustration depicts a boat and boatman (possibly St. Brendan). In manuscript around the circumference in ink 'Happy Christmas and New Year - from Alicia Boyle'. €175 29. BOYLE, John F. The Irish Rebellion of 1916. A Brief History of the Revolt and its Suppression. London: Constable, 1916. pp. 299, 4. Faded blue cloth. Label on lower pastedown.

Owner's signature on front flyleaf. Wanting map and plan. Some minor spotting to prelims, otherwise a very good copy. Rare. €135 30. BRENNAN-HOLAHAN, Mary. A Portrait of Sarah Purser. Illustrated. Dublin: P.C.D. & J Publishing, 1996. pp. xvii, 106. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €35 31. BROADGRIN, Toby. [Pseudonym] The Book of Oddities; or, Agreeable Variety for Town and Country; Containing, an uncommon Collection of the most curious Stories, which may be valued for their being Queer, Odd, Strange, Amazing, Whimsical, Comic, Absurd, Out O'th'way, and Unaccountable. Designed to promote Mirth, and excite the Wonder and Astonishment of all the Sons and Daughters of Adam … Adapted both to the Sultry Days of Autumn and the Gloomy Nights of Winter. Dublin: Printed by Peter Hoey, at the Mercury, (No. 33), Upper Ormond-Quay, 1791. Third edition. 16mo. pp. xvi, 399, [1]. Contemporary full calf. Minor wear to extremities.

A very good copy. Very rare. €165 COPAC locates 3 copies of this edition. WorldCat 5 copies. Paragraphs cut out on A2, B7 and H1.

ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY 32. [BROPHY] Tales of the R.I.C. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1921.

Fourth impression. pp. [iv], 314. Original green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature and bookplate. New endpapers. A very good copy. Scarce. €65 8

De Búrca Ra re Books BRUEN'S PURCHASES AT DEVIZES SALE 33. [BRUEN, Colonel] A letter addressed to Colonel Bruen, Oak Park, Carlow, from L. Nathan, Erle Stoke Park, Devizes dated July 15, 1832. Two pages quarto. The letter lists a number of lots purchased by Colonel Bruen from the sale in Devizes of the estate of Watson Taylor. Each item is numbered, presumably from the catalogue, with prices and estimates. Wax seal, Waterford and Devizes stamp. Also included are other letters and receipts (3) listing the items purchased, cost of packaging and carriage. Items included numerous pieces of furniture, firearm, chess table, Cheval glass, candelabras, curtains etc. In very good condition. €275 George Watson-Taylor, 1771-1841, was an M.P. who owned estates in Devizes, Wiltshire and in Jamaica. He was appointed private secretary to the 1st Marquess Camden during his Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland from 1795 to 1798, and subsequently held an office here, as assistant to Lord Castlereagh, the chief secretary. He witnessed the atrocities of 1798 and warned of the threat of a French invasion in late 1801.

By 1820 he was facing financial disaster 'occasioned by the total failure of his West India remittances'.

In 1823 he raised over £30,000 from sales of his books and paintings, and two years later he had to part with the furniture and sculpture from his London house in Cavendish Square, many of the finest pieces being bought by the king. His financial problems worsened over the next decade, exacerbated by his reckless purchases. In July 1832 Watson-Taylor's possessions were put up for auction. As the local newspaper commented, "Mr. Watson-Taylor was surrounded by a degree of splendour, which it has been well said, might have excited the envy of royalty itself, his mind was scarcely for a moment at ease - he appeared to have an insatiable thirst for something he did not possess ... He could not for a moment have thought of the money he was expending".

The auction referenced in this letter was documented in a 'Catalogue of the magnificent assemblage of property at Erlestoke Mansion near Devizes, in Wilts: accumulated, within this far-famed abode of taste and virtue, during the last twenty years, at an enormous expense, the whole selected by George Watson Taylor, Esq. M.P. ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. George Robins, on the premises, on Monday, the 9th day of July, 1832 ...'

Colonel Henry Bruen (1789-1852) was Member of Parliament for County Carlow for almost four decades, between 1812 and 1852. Following the death of the Liberal MP Nicholas Aylward Vigors, a by-election was called in Carlow on 5 December, 1840. Colonel Bruen was returned by a majority of 167 over his opponent, Mr. Ponsonby. He was then re-elected at the next three general elections.

Bruen was the second son of Henry Bruen (1741-1795), and Dorothea Henrietta Knox. His father originally came from Boyle, County Roscommon, but had moved in 1775 to Oak Park estate, near Carlow town. The estate was inherited by Henry, and remained in the family until 1957. In 1822 he married Anne Wandesforde Kavanagh, daughter of Thomas Kavanagh, The MacMorrough Kavanagh and Lady Elizabeth Butler. (Anne's younger half-brother was Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh, the severely disabled writer, politician and sportsman. They had three daughters and one son, Henry who was also MP for the county.

34. BRUGHA, Máire MacSwiney. History's Daughter. A Memoir from the only child of Terence MacSwiney. Dublin: O'Brien Press, 2205. pp. 320. Green paper boards, titled in silver.

A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 35. BRYANT, Sophie. Liberty Order & Law Under Native Irish Rule. A Study in the Book of the Ancient Laws of Ireland. London: Harding, 1923. Second edition. pp. xxiii, 398. Decorated title printed in black and light green. Green cloth, titled in gilt. From Kevin Street Public Library with stamps. New endpapers. Slight wear to extremities. A very good copy. Very scarce. €45 36. BULLOCK, L.G. Historical Map of Ireland. Edinburgh: Printed and Published by John Bartholomew, 1962. Large folded linen-backed map (68 x 100cm). In very good condition. €45 This brightly-coloured pictorial map drawn by Leslie Bullock joins the already popular maps of Scotland, England and Wales. All three illustrate places and characters in history and are decorated with the coats of arms of the main cities and town. The maps of Ireland and Scotland show the areas and names of the clans.

37. BUNTING, Edward. The Ancient Music of Ireland. An edition comprising the three collections by Edward Bunting originally published in 1796, 1809 and 1840. Three volumes in one. Illustrated. Dublin: Waltons, 1969. Quarto. pp. x, 100, xi, 109, [3], vi, 28, [4], 72, 10, 31.

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38. BURKE, James, Esq. The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. Dublin: James Duffy, n.d. (c.1853). pp. xxiv, 25-456. Green blindstamped cloth, harp and garland of shamrock in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €45 LORD CHANCELLOR OF IRELAND'S COPY 39. BURKE, Oliver J. The History of The Catholic Archbishops of Tuam. From the Foundation of the See to the Death of The Most Rev. John MacHale, A.D. 1881. Portrait frontispiece of Archbishop McEvilly. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1882. pp. xv, 416. Maroon cloth, titled in gilt.

Signed presentation copy from the author to Lord O'Hagan. Spine slightly worn, otherwise very good. Scarce. €235 Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan KP, PC, QC (1812-1885), was born in Belfast, the son of a trader. He was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1836. Between 1838 and 1841 O'Hagan was the editor of the Newry Examiner. In 1840 he moved to Dublin, where he appeared for the repeal party in many political trials, becoming an Irish Queen's Counsel in 1849. His advocacy of a continuance of the Union with Great Britain, and his appointment as Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1860 and Attorney-General for Ireland in the following year, lost him the support of the Nationalist party, but he was returned to Parliament as Liberal Member of Parliament for Tralee in 1863. In 1865 he was appointed a judge of common pleas, and in 1868 became Lord Chancellor of Ireland in William Ewart Gladstone's first administration.

O'Hagan was the first Roman Catholic to hold the chancellorship since the reign of James II; an Act of Parliament admitting Roman Catholics to the position having been passed in 1867. In 1870 he was created Baron O'Hagan, of Tullahogue in the County of Tyrone, and held office until the resignation of the ministry in 1874. In 1880 he again became Lord Chancellor on Gladstone's return to office, but resigned in 1881.

His tenure as Lord Chancellor saw several major legislative reforms in Ireland, of which the most notable was the First Irish Land Act 1870, providing for compensation for tenants in the event of eviction. It was also notable for his continual clashes with the other judge of appeal, Jonathan Christian, a bitter-tongued man with a deep contempt for most of his judicial colleagues, including O'Hagan. O'Hagan seems to have regarded Christian as little more than a nuisance, but on taking up office for his second term did not hide his relief that Christian had retired.

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De Búrca Ra re Books On his retirement from office Lord O'Hagan was in 1882 appointed a Knight of St Patrick, having become Vice Chancellor of the Royal University of Ireland the previous year.

He died at Hereford House, London, 1885, aged 72, and was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery. He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, Thomas. O'Hagan's sister Mary was Abbess of the Poor Clare convent at Newry and later at Kenmare. Mary Frances Cusack "the Nun of Kenmare" wrote her biography.

40. BUTLER, Rev. Dr. Alban. The Moveable Feasts, Fasts, and other Annual Observances of the Catholic Church. [A Posthumous Work].

Dublin: By John Morris, Editor of the Mediations, No. 9 Fishamble-st., 1775. pp. [viii], 523 (including errata), titlepage vignette. Recent black buckram. Early signature of Rev. Bernard O'Neill, OSA, Cork on front endpaper.

Thumbing to a couple of pages. A very good copy. €475 COPAC locates 3 copies only. No copy of the printed version on WorldCat. With a four page list of subscribers (double column) including: Dr. Thomas Burke; Dr. James Barret, Ennis (6 books); Charles O'Conor Esq., of Balanegare; John Curry, M.D.; Dr. Andrew Donnellan; Mr. John Daly; The Earl Fingal; Joseph Halloran (6 books); Right Rev. Dr. Kirwan; Viscountess Kingsland; Thomas Kenny, Distiller; Mary Lawless of Shankill; Ulick Lynott, Merchant Galway; James Lynch, Clogheen; James Morris, St. Croix; Henry O'Neill; Michael Naule (6 books); Hugh O'Reily; James O'Reilly, Swords; Richard Sheridan; John Stockdale; Dr. L. Taaffe, Dundalk; Mr. Tench; Edward Walsh, etc.

41. BUTLER, Joseph. The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God Joseph Butler D.C.L. To which is prefixed, a preface, giving some account of the character and writings of the author. By Samuel Hallifax, D.D. In two volumes. Oxford: At the University Press, 1849. Octavo. pp. lx, 340, xxxii, 357. Dark brown morocco over bevelled boards, elaborately tooled in blind to a panel design, enclosing in the centre a gilt coat of arms, spines lettered in gilt with gilt Tudor emblems at top and bottom, comb-marbled endpapers, edges red and gilt. A fine copy. €245 It was in the nineteenth century that Butler' influence became more institutionalised, as his work appeared on university syllabuses in Oxford and Cambridge from the 1830s. This copy of his works (the Analogy of Religion in the first volume and the Sermons in the second) is an example of both parts of that influence, having been printed in Oxford and bearing on the binding the arms of St. John's College, Cambridge. The arms give it the feel of a prize binding but there is no inscription or label (or sign of removal of such) to confirm this.

42. BYRNE, Francis J. Irish Kings and High-Kings. With numerous maps, plates, and genealogical charts. Dublin: Four Courts, 2001. pp. xlvii, [1], 341. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. Scarce. €65 Important and original study exploring the nature of the traditional Five Fifths of Ireland, the mythology of Tara, and the growth of the high-kingship of all Ireland.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 43. CAREW, Rev. P.J. An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland from the Introduction of Christianity into that country to the commencement of the thirteenth century. Dublin: John Coyne, 1835. pp.

[2], xi, 425, + errata. Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards. Spine divided into six 11

De Búrca Ra re Books compartments by five double-raised bands gilt. Title and author in gilt on brown morocco letterpieces in the second and fourth. Signed presentation copy from the author to Mr. Cushing.

Top edge gilt, remainder marbled. A very good copy. Rare. €225 44. CARLETON, William. Traits and Stories of The Irish Peasantry. Volume two only.

Comprising: The Party Fight and Funeral. The Hedge School. The Station. With two illustrations

by Phiz. London: George Routledge & Co., 1853. pp. [viii], 371. Bound by J. Collins, Binder, 32 Temple Bar, Dublin in contemporary half morocco on marble boards. Spine decorated in gilt, lacking letterpiece. A rare binding from this firm. €65 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". As a race we are reputed to be very severe when appraising each other; a great man referring to this characteristic once said "an honest people, they never speak well of each other"!.

The Tyrone-born novelist although reared a Catholic and intended for the priesthood, became a Protestant on marriage. He wrote for hire, writing for anyone that would pay him, Catholic, Protestant, or Dissenter, and suited his material to the current clients needs and outlook.

45. CARNEY, James Ed. by. Early Irish Poetry. Cork: Mercier Press, 1969. pp. 99. Illustrated wrappers. A good copy. €20 Early Irish poetry, from 600 to 1200 A.D., is one of the most interesting literary phenomena in Western Europe. In pre-Christian Ireland poetry had a quasi-religious function and was practised by the druidic order. The poetry that has survived represents the impact of Christian thought upon druidry.

46. CARNEY, James. Studies in Irish Literature and History. Dublin: Institute for Advanced Studies, 1979. pp. xi, 429. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €45 With chapters on: Composition and Structure of Táin Bó Fraích; Táin Bó Fraích and Táin Bó Cuailnge; The Irish Elements in Beowulf; Suibne Gelt and 'The Children of Lir'; The Vita Kentegerni and the Finding of the Táin; The Irish Affinities of Tristan; The External Element in Irish Saga; Patrick and the Kings, etc.

47. CARPENTER, Nathanael. Achitophel; or, The Picture of a Wicked Politician. Divided into Three Parts. London: Printed for M[ichael] S[parke], 1629. Quarto. pp. [v], 64. Recent quarter brown morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €475 ESTC S107539 locating the Cashel Cathedral Library copy only. Sweeney 874. Of the 1st edition printed in Dublin in 1627 only a titlepage survives in the British Library.

Carpenter, sometime-fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, secured the patronage of Archbishop Ussher to whom this work is dedicated and became Schoolmaster of the King's wards in Dublin. The full citation entry Early English Books Online describes this as "a parable on Irish politics of uncertain reference".

48. CASEMENT, Roger Sir. Evening Herald, Dublin, Thursday, June 29 1916. 4 pages. Front page banner headline: "Sentenced to Death Casement's Passionate Speech". "To be Hanged" Sensational end to the Treason Trial - Outburst from the Dock. Bailey Acquitted. Also Headline "The Mystic Code. Why did the Prisoner Go to Germany?" Judge's summing up, with photo of Sergeant Sullivan and Sir Roger Casement on front page. Page 3. "Our Irish Heroes" Photos of Privates [British Army] James Blake, Peter Stanford, John Kenny, Thomas Prendergast, Patrick Prendergast, and Lance-Serg. Patrick Casey. Back page - 'Latest News'. The Final Scene. Sir Roger Casement's Statement from the Dock. - "It was not we (the Irish Volunteers) who broke the law" said Sir Roger, "but the 12

De Búrca Ra re Books Government which permitted the Ulster Volunteers to arm". Original newspaper, paper slightly tanned, otherwise very good. €145 'THE POET OF THE FENIANS' 49. [CASEY, John Keegan] A Poet's Grave, Glasnevin, Dublin. Original Postcard. In excellent condition. €25 John Keegan 'Leo' Casey 1846-1870, poet, orator, novelist and republican was born in Milltown, County Westmeath during the height of the Great Hunger of 1846. His father was a teacher at Ballymahon in County Longford. At the age of fifteen he wrote his best-known song, "The Rising of the Moon", which commemorates the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

Following the increasing popularity of his songs and ballads at nationalist gatherings, he moved to Dublin in the 1860s and became active in the Fenian movement. He was a major contributor to The Nation newspaper, for which he assumed his pen-name of 'Leo'.

50. CASEY, Rev. J. Intemperance; or, The Evils of Drink. A Poem. Third edition. Together with An Appendix containing Temperance Songs and Poems. Bound with Temperance Songs and Lyrics. Second edition, greatly enlarged. Dublin: James Duffy & Sons, 1885/1889. pp. x, [1], 118, [5], x, 105. Bound in contemporary full dark brown morocco, covers framed by a single blind and double gilt fillets with outer fleurons, title and author in gilt on upper cover. Inscription on front endpaper "To / Farrell McDonell Esq / as a small token / of / the Author's esteem / Feb 1891". All edges gilt. A very good copy. €275 51. CEANNT, Áine B.E. The Story of the Irish White Cross 1920-1947. Illustrated. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, n.d. (c.1948). pp. [8], 66, [2]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. Very rare. €275 COPAC locates 4 copies only. WorldCat 3. Not in De Búrca. Áine (O'Brennan) Ceannt (1880-1954) was married to Rising leader Eamonn Ceannt. She was vicepresident of Cumann na mBan from 1917 to 1925, and as an anti-Treaty activist was jailed in Mountjoy for a year during the Civil War. She was a founding member of the White Cross organisation, helping to provide sustenance, education and benefit to the dependents of those Volunteers killed or permanently disabled during the course of the Irish revolution.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 52. [CHAPBOOK] Views of the Creation. Engraved title and frontispiece. Dublin: Bentham and Gardiner, Westmorland-Street, 1824. 12mo. pp. 180. Modern full green morocco by Robert Wilson, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €275 COPAC locates the TCD copy only. WorldCat 2 copies. NLI 1 copy.

In the WorldCat catalogue one of the copies has a variant imprint: C. Bentham, Printer, Surface-street, 1824, and list the author as William Paley.

53. [CHEQUE BOOK] The National Bank Limited. Book of sixteen unused cheques dated 1888. Inscribed on upper cover 'H.P. Truell, No 2 Account / Wicklow Nat Bank / M. Money belonging to / T.W. Rolleston'. In very good condition. See illustration below. €45

54. [CHURCH OF IRELAND] Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiasticall, Treated upon by the Archbishops and Bishops and the rest of the Cleargie of Ireland. And agreed upon with the Kings Majesties Licence in their Synod begun at Dublin, Anno Domini 1634. And in the year of the reign of our soveraign Lord Charles, by the grace of God King of Great Brittain, France and Ireland the tenth. Dublin: Printed by Andrew Crook and Samuel Helsham, [1687]. Quarto. pp. [viii], 52. Recent quarter brown morocco. Titlepage offset. A very good copy. Rare. €875 COPAC locates 9 copies only. WorldCat 1. ESTC S107631. The 1st STC printing - 14265 supplemented by three Wing printings.

This has proved a most confusing piece of Dublin printing and for a long time the Wing entry carrying the date 1634 was believed to be an authentic first edition.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 55. COIMÍN, Micheál. Laoi Oisín ar Thír na n-Óg: The Lay of Oisín in The Land of Youth.

Edited with revised text, literal translation, new metrical version, notes and vocabulary by Tomás Ó Flannghaile (Thomas Flannery). Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1896. pp. xvi, 186, [4 (folding sheets advertising 'Cusack's Lead Pencil Copy Books')]. Some annotations in pencil. Recent green buckram, title in black on upper cover. A very good copy. Scarce. €75 56. COKAYNE, George E. Some Notice of Various Families of the Name Marsh. Exeter: Pollard, pp. [iv], 56. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine. Castle Hacket copy with bookplate.

Signature of F. Croydon on front pastedown. A very good copy. Very scarce. €165 COPAC locates 8 copies. NSTC Locates only 2 copies.

With notices of the Marsh families of Galway and Dublin. The most prominent being Archbishop Narcissus Marsh who bequeathed his library to the city.

57. [COLLEGE STATUTES] Statuta Collegii Sanctæ et Individuæ Trinitatis Juxta Dublin, Quæ Nunc Vigent; Una Cum Decretis Præpositi Et Sociorum Seniorum Atque Regulis Universitatis Dubliniensis. Dublinii: Typis Excudebat Petrus Murphy, Sumptibus Academicis, 1875. pp. vii, 214. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Stamp of Down and Connor and Dromore Diocesan Library. Bishop Reichel Memorial Collection on front pastedown. Top edge uncut. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. €125 COPAC locates the TCD copy only.

58. [COLLINS, GRIFFITH & O'HIGGINS] Memorial to the Founders of the Irish Free State.

President Arthur Griffith. General Michael Collins. Vice-President Kevin O'Higgins. Unveiling of portraits at Dáil Éireann on 21st January 1944. Illustrated with tipped-in plates. Dublin: Printed at the Sign of the Three Candles, Ltd., Fleet Street, 1944. Quarto. pp. [12]. Stiff cream paper wrappers printed in black and green, tied with a green ribbon. In fine condition. Rare Three Candles item. €375 Not in De Búrca.

The list of subscribers are predominately members and supporters of the Fine Gael party, and some members of the Defence Forces and Clergy. These include: Ernest Blythe, Maurice Collins, Sean Collins, W.T. Cosgrave, Liam Cosgrave, John A. Costello, Major General M.J. Costello, Arthur Cox, Mr. Justice Davitt, John W. Dulanty, Desmond FitzGerald, James Fitzgerald-Kenney, Major General Liam Hayes, John Count McCormack, General Sean MacEoin, Joseph McGrath, Professor Eoin McNeill, David Neligan, General Eoin O'Duffy, P.S. O'Hegarty, J.J. Walsh, etc.

This work was produced to commemorate the unveiling of three Memorial Portraits by Leo Whelan in Leinster House on 21st January, 1944, Senator H.M. Barniville presided and the address printed here was given by Most Rev. Michael Fogarty, D.D., Bishop of Killaloe.

A very unusual item, with an obvious Fine Gael pedigree but issued while De Valera and Fianna Fáil were in charge at Leinster House. The distribution of copies may have been limited only to the subscribers.

59. COLLINS, Michael. The Path to Freedom. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1922. pp. 153. Grey cloth.

Portrait of Collins and title in black on upper cover. Owner's signature and address on front endpaper. A very good copy.€245 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 IRB in London, during Easter Week he was Staff Captain and ADC to James Connolly in the GPO. With The O'Rahilly 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 15

De Búrca Ra re Books Finance. He organised the supply of arms for the Volunteers and set up a crack intelligence network and an execution squad nicknamed 'Twelve Apostles'. He was for a long time the most wanted man in Ireland but he practically eliminated the British Secret Service with the Bloody Sunday morning operation.

60. [COMIC ALMANACK] The Comic Almanack. An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities. By Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert A. Beckett, The Brothers Mayhew. With many hundred illustrations by George Cruikshank and other artists. Second Series, 1844-1853. London: John Camden Hotten, n.d. (c.1854). pp. [2], 428. Contemporary half calf over cloth boards. Spine rebacked preserving original. Occasional spotting. A very good copy. €235 61. CONNOLLY, James. Labour Nationality and Religion. Dublin: Published by New Books, 1954. pp. xviii, 62. Cream illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €65 AUTHOR'S OWN COPY GREATLY EXPANDED 62. COUGHLAN, Rupert. Napper Tandy. Illustrated. Dublin: Anvil Books Limited, 1976. pp. xii, 276. Green arlen, titled in gilt on spine. With numerous corrections in the author's hand.

Tipped in at the appropriate page are several typescript additions by the author. Signed by the author on titlepage and a note by him of a copy for sale in De Búrca Rare Books Catalogue, Number 3, Spring 1984, price £12.50p! Author's bookplate and 'Author's Copy' inscribed on front free endpaper. Also loosely inserted are some notes and letters from Dr. A. Tandy Cannon of Tralee (great grandson of Napper Tandy), also a typed copy of his Will. There is also a letter from Thomas Gildea Cannon, Assistant Professor of Law at Marquette University, Milwaukee, dated September 1983 congratulating the author on his fine book and enquiring on the ancestry of Thomas Cannon who married Sarah Tandy; with typed copy of Coughlan's reply. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €375 James Napper Tandy was born in Cornmarket, Dublin c.1737. Prominent in the Volunteer movement he pioneered the United Irishmen in Dublin, held many influential positions in the civil, commercial and ecclesiastical life of the city; fought oppression and championed the Catholic cause. He died at Bordeaux in 1803. Coughlan, a retired civil servant, a founder member and past president of the Donegal Historical Society and a former honorary secretary of the Military History Society of Ireland, was the speaker at the unveiling of the Napper Tandy plaque at Burtonport in 1970.

63. CROFTON, Helen A. Records of the Slacke Family in Ireland. Illustrated with the arms of Sir Owen Randal Slacke. [Dublin?] n.d. (c.1903). Quarto. pp. 60, + errata. Dark green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Privately printed. Presentation inscription on titlepage: "Florence Isabel Clarendon / With Mother's love / July 28 1903''. Light fading to cloth. A very good copy.

Exceedingly rare. €385 COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 1.

Florence Isabel Clarendon was the daughter of Frederick Clarendon (1820-1904) by his wife Margaret Jane Slacke (1836-1904), daughter of the Rev. William Randal Slacke, curate of Magheralin, County Down. Frederick was the third son of Thomas Clarendon, linen draper and estate owner of Westmoreland Street. He was admitted to Trinity College at the age of fourteen and graduated BA in 1839. He was taken on by the Board of Public Works in October 1839 as an assistant for the erection of the Kenmare suspension bridge, and in 1841 he was engaged by the Board as an architectural assistant.

However his earliest major works focused on Dublin's prison system. Arbour Hill Prison was redesigned in 1845 by Sir Joshua Jebb with Clarendon acting as executive architect, and Clarendon was also co-designer of the 'Criminal Lunatic Asylum' in Dundrum two years later. He oversaw the renovation and extension of the Royal Irish Academy's premises on Dawson Street between 1852 and 1854, as their existing Grafton Street location had become overcrowded. Clarendon is best remembered for his work in Ireland's Natural History Museum on Merrion Street adjacent to Leinster House, known as the "Dead Zoo". The Royal Dublin Society had been obliged to use a public architect in order to obtain treasury funding, and the building was taken over by the State in 1877. Today the Museum forms part of the National Museum of Ireland. Clarendon provided his services free of charge to design the Mariners Hall, Howth in 1867. This then served as a Presbyterian Meeting House for over thirty years, services being conducted through the medium of Scottish Gaelic, the language of the immigrant seasonal fishermen of the village.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 64. CROKER, John Wilson. Autograph Letter Signed from John Wilson Croker on 'Alyerbank, Gosport' illustrated notepaper dated 9 July 1854 requesting the recipient to go to his house and find two books, one a set of Boswell's Johnson. Four pages octavo in a neat forward slanting hand. In very good condition. €95 John Wilson Croker (1780-1857) statesman and author was born in Galway, the only son of John Croker, the surveyor-general of customs and excise in Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1800. Immediately afterwards he entered Lincoln's Inn, and in 1802 he was called to the Irish bar.

65. [CROSBY, Bing] Announcement Broadside for the Irish Premiere of 'The Bells of St. Mary's' at the Savoy Cinema, Dublin. Starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman. Dublin: Dublin: [1945].

Single sheet (220 x 290mm), printed and illustrated on both sides. A very good copy. €45 The Bells of St. Mary's is a 1945 American drama film produced and directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman. Written by Dudley Nichols based on a story by Leo McCarey, the film is about a priest and a nun who, despite their goodnatured rivalry, try to save their school from being shut down. The character of Father O'Malley had been previously portrayed by Crosby in the 1944 film 'Going My Way', for which Crosby had won the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film was produced by Leo McCarey's production company, Rainbow Productions.

66. CROZIER, F.P. A Brass Hat in No-Man's Land. Fifth Impression, photo plates. London: Cape, 1930. pp. 154. Red faded cloth. A very good copy. €95 67. [CUALA EPHEMERA] A Collection of 20 Bookplates and Ephemera items printed at The Cuala and Dun Emer Press. Some illustrated by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and her brother Jack B. Yeats. Including other items not printed at the Cuala Press. Various sizes. Including press notices and decorated cards. All in very good condition. €375

Included in the collection are Bookplates of: John Quinn and Eleanor Reid by Jack B. Yeats; Lord Clonbrock; Ulick Earl of Altamont & Agatha (2); James Abernethy McCoy; William Fitzsimons; Harry Alfred Fowler; B.F. Haythornthwaite; MacDowel Cosgrave; Badge in gilt of the Dublin Library Society on old calf (from the upper cover of an 18th century book). Fairytale scene by Micheál MacLiammoir; Post Card with drawing of the Four Courts by Neilí ní Bhriain; Invitation card from the 17

De Búrca Ra re Books Yeats sisters referring to their exhibition of the Cuala Industries at the United Arts Club, St. Stephen's Green; Two 'Christmas Sláinte' stamps; Souvenir card of the Golden Jubilee of the Arch Confraternity of the Sacred Heart, St. Peter's, Phibsboro 1874-1924, with border decoration by Harry Clarke; Entry card to the Sixth Exhibition of The Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland, 30th September 1921; Advertisement card for the A&B Gallery (Alfano-Bowen), Art Dealers, Baltinglass, County Wicklow.

Single octavo sheet folded. With a note inside inviting Norris Davidson to the gallery, signed Annabel Alfano; Admission ticket to a lecture at the Abbey Theatre (February 2nd, 1919) 'Physical Phenomena & Religion'. By Prof. John Howley and Mr W.B. Yeats.

68. [CUALA PRESS] A Fine Collection of 13 Hand-Coloured Greeting and 13 Christmas Cards (26 in total) from the Cuala Press. With designs by Jack B. Yeats, his wife Mary C. Yeats, his sister Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, Beatrice Elvery RHA, Hilda Roberts, Dorothy Blackham, Anne Price, Fr. Jack Hanlon and other artists. The colouring fresh and clean throughout. Unused and in superb condition. Most are 175 x 125mm. (single folded sheet). €750

This collection represents not only the finest but also some of the rarest of Cuala's productions from the 1910s to the 1950s. Printed in outline from woodblocks, each card was then individually hand-coloured

by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, herself an established artist, or by other Cuala staff under her supervision.

Many of the cards have the quality of original watercolours. Commissioned from leading contemporary Irish artists, many of them women, the designs show typical west of Ireland landscapes or scenes from the Christmas story. Some have verses by Stephen Gwynn, Susan Mitchell, Katharine Tynan and other Irish writers, others just simple Christmas greetings. All were printed on Irish paper specially made for the Cuala Press at the Saggart mill near Dublin. Although large numbers of these cards were issued, they are by their very nature ephemeral and very few examples remain, especially in this condition. A magnificent collection of the finest work of this distinguished hand-press, run by the Yeats sisters with the help of their brothers Jack and W.B.

69. [CUALA PRESS] St. Patrick's Breastplate. Irish Hymn, early fifth century, sometimes called 'The Deer's Cry' attributed to St. Patrick. Translated by Cecil Frances Alexander, picture by the Lady Glenavy. Dublin: Printed and published by The Cuala Press. No date. Single folded sheet making four pages (268 x 172mm). A fine copy of an exceedingly rare item. €265 Not in Miller (2 booklets with the same title recorded on p.122).

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De Búrca Ra re Books actually written later, in the 8th century. It is written in the style of a druidic incantation for protection on a journey. It is part of the 'Liber Hymnorum', a collection of hymns found in two manuscripts kept in Dublin.

The language of the poem, Dr. Hyde says, is very old; it is known to have been current in the seventh century and it was then ascribed to Saint Patrick. It is called the 'Lorica' and also 'The Deer's Cry'.

According to tradition, St. Patrick uttered it while on his way to Tara, where he was for the first time to confront the power of Laoghaire, Pagan High-King of Ireland. Assassins were in wait for him and his companions, but as he chanted the hymn it seemed to the hidden band that a herd of deer went by.

70. [CURRAGH CRISIS] Daily Sketch Newspaper March 24th, 1914. Eighteen pages, complete. Front page headline: The Army Crisis at the Curragh. Seely sees the King - War chiefs confer at Whitehall and the Cabinet meets, with relevant photographs - The 14th Lancers, whose Officers tendered their resignation; Transport wagon of the troops for Ulster; Colonel Seely reaches War Office. The Manchester Regiment; Infantry entraining for Ulster and Unloading luggage-en route for the North. Inside, headlines: With the Army divided over Ulster the Government calls for a Truce in Ireland; Home Rule Cannot be Forced on Ulster; How Soon will Fact Rival Fiction in Ireland; Devlin's Attack on Carson; Movement of Troops to Ulster. Also included in this issue: The Ulster Crises of 1886 and 1914 Contrasted in Pictures ... "The Carson Army", drawings of rioting in Belfast in 1886, etc. Front page tanned, otherwise good. Together with: Two page extract from The Irish Times, Saturday, December 24, 1921. Headline: "Army Withdrawal. How it will hit the Curragh. Every class of Trade and Property affected, etc.

Together with: Four page extract from Daily Sketch. Thursday, May 18, 1922. Headline: "Handing over Curragh Camp to the I.R.A." With eight photographs. Three items. €125

See item 70.

71. CURTIS, Edmund. A History of Ireland. With five maps. London: Methuen, 1936. pp. xi, [1], 399, [1]. Black cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 Shortly after publication Prof. Curtis' book was accepted as the best single volume history of Ireland.

WITH CATALOGUE OF KENMARE PUBLICATIONS 72. CUSACK, M.F. Trias Thaumaturga or Three Wonder-Working Saints of Ireland. St. Patrick, St. Bridget and St. Columba. Illustrated. London: Murdoch, n.d. (c.1877). Quarto. pp. xvi, 9-959, 15 (Catalogue of Kenmare Publications). Pages printed within Celtic decorated border. Engraved half-title depicting the Church and Convent of the Holy Cross, Kenmare. Bound in contemporary full morocco, elaborately blocked in blind and gilt with an angel and title in gilt on both covers.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Spine expertly rebacked preserving original. With brass edges and clasps. Repair to folding plate.

Edges of first two leaves a little frayed. Occasional spotting. All edges gilt. In very good condition. Scarce. €475

Margaret Anne Cusack (1832-1899) social activist, feminist, writer was born into an aristocratic background in Dublin. She became an Anglican nun in London, later (1858) converting to Catholicism.

She joined the Poor Clares, taking the name Mary Francis, in Newry and afterwards spent some time working in the famine-stricken region of Kenmare, County Kerry where the fund she founded for the destitute peasantry raised £20,000.

She wrote extensively, from pamphlets to books – biographies of saints, pontiffs, prelates and nationalist leaders. By 1870 more than 200,000 copies of her works had circulated throughout the world. The money made from her publications went to feed the poor in her community at Kenmare.

Margaret Anna was the founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace and established communities of her order in Nottingham, and Newark, New Jersey. A woman before her time she was misunderstood and reviled and became embroiled in quarrels with the hierarchy in various parts of Ireland. Because of her outspoken views and her support of many radical causes she was not popular with all Roman Catholics and in 1888 she returned to the Anglican Communion after an altercation with her bishop.

Margaret Anna Cusack, the 'Nun of Kenmare', died in 1899, aged sixty-seven, and was buried in a Church of England reserved burial site at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

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73. [DALI, Salvador] Original Photograph signed by Salvador Dali. The black and white photograph (205 x 254mm) depicts Dali pointing to his famous painting 'Christ of Saint John of the Cross'. Signed in blue felt tip. House in a binders folder. In fine condition. €850 74. DALY, John. Ed. by. The Kings of the Race of Eibhear. A Chronological poem, by John O'Dugan, with a translation by Michael Kearney, A.D. 1635. Dublin: John Daly, 25 Anglesea Street, 1847. pp. 31. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards. A very good copy. Very scarce. €385 COPAC locates 4 copies only. WorldCat 2.

John Daly (O'Daly),author and publisher, was born at Farnane, County Waterford in 1800 and was educated at a local hedge school. Like Carleton he was of peasant stock but while lacking Carleton's literary genius, O'Daly was a much more versatile individual, a purveyor of fine books, a writer and 21

De Búrca Ra re Books publisher, a good Irish scholar, a translator, an editor, and Secretary of the Irish Antiquarian Society.

We know the Munster poet Timothy O'Sullivan was a frequent visitor in his father's house.

O'Donoghue tells us in his Life of Mangan, that O'Daly was not approved of by certain of his countrymen on account of having in his youth enrolled in the ranks of "The Soupers" in Kilkenny. John Keegan, another peasant poet tells us: "I first met O'Daly in Kilkenny in 1833, when he kept the school there for teaching Irish to the Wesleyans of that city. He, I am sorry to say, has renounced the Catholic creed, and was then a pious Biblical. He subsequently came back and is now living in Dublin, Secretary to the Celtic Athenaeum, and keeps a bookseller's shop in Anglesea Street. He is one of the best Irish scholars in Ireland ... low-sized, merry countenance, fine black eyes, vulgar in appearance and manners, and has the most magnificent Munster brogue that I ever had the luck to hear". By 1850 we find him publishing many works in Gaelic and on Irish history, often in collaboration with that prince of scholars, John O'Donovan. Some of his Gaelic translations were versified by Mangan. His book catalogues are both erudite and interesting, when he died in Dublin in 1878, no effort was made to secure any of the manuscripts he left behind (some of them Carolan's), and their whereabouts remain a mystery.

In his introduction O'Daly tells us he was unable to trace Kearney's history: 'but Ballyloskye, I am told, lies about three miles below the town of Nenagh; the ruins of an ancient castle, known as "Kearney's Castle", stands close to the place, which possibly may have been the seat of the indefatigable translator of Dr. Keating's Foras Feasa, but now no trace of that name is found in that locality'.

Irish text of: Ríogha síl Eibhir, with translation.

75. DEASE, Alice. The Beckoning of the Wand. Sketches of a lesser known Ireland. London and Edinburgh: Sands and Company, 1908. First edition. pp. 164. Quarter gilt decorated vellum on green cloth boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Light wear to spine. Owner's signature on verso of titlepage. Top edge gilt. A nice clean copy. Very scarce. €135 Alice Dease (Mrs Chichester), daughter of J.A. Dease, Turbotstown, County Westmeath "... it shows another side of Irish character, the deep-rooted intense Irish Catholic faith ... all the anecdotes are true ... There is a vivid sketch of a Lough Derg pilgrimage".

76. DEMPSEY, Rev. P. Avoca. A History of the Vale. Illustrated. Second edition revised and enlarged. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1913. pp. 110. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. A fine copy. €75 A very good history of the Vale, where the sweet waters meet.

77. DENNEHY, W.F. The Story of the Union. Told by its Plotters. Dublin: J.J. Lalor, 1891. pp.

[1], 163, 6 (index). Quarter blue cloth on grey boards. Titlepage dusty. A good copy. €175 In the introduction the author states: "The following chapters originally appeared in 'The Irish Catholic', from which paper they are now republished with some additions. Based as they are upon the actual words and writings of the chief actors in the unparalleled conspiracy by which Ireland was deprived of her ancient legislature and her constitution violated, it is hoped that they may be the means of extending accurate knowledge as to the baseness of the means adopted to secure those ends".

78. DERRICKE, John. The Image of Irelande with a Discoverie of Woodkerne. With an introduction, translation and glossary by David B. Quin. Preface by Liam Miller and foreword by John A. Gamble. With twelve folding woodcut illustrations. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1985. Quarto. pp. xxx, 220, 1 (2 plates). Limited to 286 copies for sale. Quarter vellum on blue boards. A fine copy in slipcase. Scarce. €295 The author of this historical poem John Derricke was a follower of Sir Henry Sidney, Elizabeth's Lord Deputy of Ireland. The Image of Irelande was written in 1578 and first published in 1581. The work is acclaimed for the set of twelve rude but curious woodcut illustrations of Irish Woodkerne (Foot soldiers). Depicting the costumes of the Irish at the close of the sixteenth century both civil, ecclesiastical and military. The illustrations included are: An Irish Chieftain; A Body of Kerne Burning a House; The MacSweeney Chiefs at Dinner; A Friar Blessing an Irish Chief; Triumphant return of the English Soldiers; Sir Henry Sidney 22

De Búrca Ra re Books setting out from Dublin Castle; Sidney delivering a Letter to an Irish Kerne (Donolle Obreane); The English Troops marching through the Countryside; Flight of the Irish with a Pyper lying on the ground and his bagpipe beside him; Sidney's Entry into Dublin; Rory Oge O'More in the Wilderness; and the Submission of Turlogh Lynagh O'Neale. Of the original edition only one complete copy is known and is located in the Drummond collection at Edinburgh University.

79. DEVENISH, Robert J. & McLAUGHLIN, Charles H. Historical and Genealogical Records of the Devenish Families of England and Ireland. With an Inquiry into the Origin of the Family Name and some Account of the Family Lines founded by them in Other Countries. By Robert J. Devenish and Charles H. McLaughlin. Chicago: Privately Printed. The Lakeside Press, 1948. xvii, 409, [20 (leaves of plates-some folded)]. Green cloth, covers ruled in gilt, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Corners lightly bumped. A very good copy. Very rare. €475 COPAC locates 6 copies only. Not in NLI. WorldCat 2.

The illustrations include coats of arms, facsimile, genealogical tables and portraits.

80. DE VERE, Aubrey. The Waldenses, or The Fall of Rora: A lyrical sketch. With other poems. Oxford: John Henry Parker & London: Rivingtons, 1842. pp. vii, [1], 311, [1].

Contemporary half green morocco on marble boards, title in gilt on gilt decorated spine. Marbled endpapers. From the library of Mrs Montgomery and Sibyl Finch with their bookplates on front pastedown. A very good copy. €275 Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814-1902) poet and critic was born at Curraghchase House, Kilcornan, County Limerick, the third son of Sir Aubrey de Vere de Vere, 2nd Baronet and his wife Mary Spring Rice, daughter of Stephen Edward Rice of Mount Trenchard, County Limerick. He was a nephew of Lord Monteagle and a younger brother of Sir Stephen de Vere, 4th Baronet. In 1832, his father dropped the original surname 'Hunt' by royal licence, assuming the surname 'de Vere'.

Aubrey Thomas was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and in his twenty-eighth year published The Waldenses, which he followed up in the next year by The Search after Proserpine. Thenceforward he was continually engaged, till his death in 1902, in the production of poetry and criticism, being described as 'a man of literary fashion'.

81. DICKINSON, Page L. The Dublin of Yesterday. London: Methuen & Co., 1929. pp. ix, 205, 8 (publisher's list). Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 This book deals with the period of Irish life which is unique. Dublin, in the ten years prior to 1914, contained a quite extraordinarily large number of people of distinction connected with art in all its branches; painting, writing and perhaps more especially the theatre. The author was acquainted with Lane, Orpen, Jack Yeats, Dermod O'Brien, W.B. Yeats, The Markieviczs, George Russell, George Moore, James Stephens, Padraic Colum, Katherine Tynan, etc.

82. DILLON, Myles. Early Irish Literature. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997. pp. xix, 191, [1]. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers. €25 83. DILLON, Myles. The Cycle of the Kings. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1994. pp. vi, [2], 124.

A fine copy in illustrated wrappers. €25 84. DIOLÚN, Eilís. Oscar agus an Cóiste Sé nEasóg. Patricia Ní Laighin a rinne na pictiúirí. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig Díolta Foilseachán Rialtais, 1952. pp. 106. Stiff paper boards with attached pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy. Very rare. €175 COPAC locates 5 copies only.

Eilís Dillon (1920-1994), novelist and children's writer, was born in Galway, daughter of Thomas Dillon and Geraldine, and niece of Joseph Mary Plunkett. She published many children's books in Irish in the 1940s, followed by several in English. She married in 1940, Cormac O Cuilleanáin, professor of Irish at U. C. C. Four years after his death she married Vivian Mercer in 1974. She was a member of the Arts Council (1974-79) and of Aosdána, chaired the Irish Writers' Union, and set up a writers' exchange with Hungary.

85. STANIHURST, Richard. Aqua Vitae: Its commodities describ'd by Richard Stanihurst, & delineated by Bridget Swinton.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1956. Small quarto. pp. [8]. Quarto buckram on grey boards. A very good copy. €325 Miller 15.

Early description of Irish whiskey. The exuberance of Stanihurst's writing is echoed in the vigorous linocuts made by Bridget Swinton.

86. DOYLE, Martin. Irish Cottagers. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1830. pp. [12], 137, [1], [6]. Green linen, title on printed label on upper cover. Spine rebacked preserving original worn letterpiece. Some mild foxing. Edges untrimmed. A good copy. €95 87. [DUBLIN CIVIC WEEK] Seachtain na Cathrach. Dublin Civic Week Sept. 17-25, 1927.

Official Handbook. Edited by Bulmer Hobson. Designed and planned by Colm O'Loughlin.

Illustrated. Dublin: Published by Dublin Printers, 1927. pp. 57. Pictorial stiff wrappers. A very good copy. €75 Illustrations by Matthew Barry, Brendan Clinch, Harry Kernoff, William MacBride, Flora Mitchell, Sean O'Sullivan, Hilda Roberts, Estella F. Solomons, H. Walsh. Decorations by George Monks and Michael O'Brien.

With a feast of interesting articles by John J. Murphy, H. Crawford Hartnell, J.C. M. Eason, Miss E.N. Somers, R.M. Butler, Thomas Bodkin, John F. Larchet, C.P. Curran, Michael Tierney, J.L. Synge and Risteárd Ó Foghludha. Cover design by Stella Steyn, friend of James Joyce's daughter, Lucia.

88. [DUBLIN CIVIC WEEK] Official Handbook for Dublin Civic Week, Sept. 7-14 1929.

Edited by E.M. Stephens. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: Thom, 1929. 280 x 190mm. pp.

32 (adverts), 72, 33-71 (adverts). Illustrated stiff wrappers. A very good copy. €95 With decorative borders on each page specially made by the group of artists associated with the Dublin Book Studio. The artists included are: Maurice MacGonigal, Miss Kathleen Quigley, Harry Kernoff, Miss Hilda Roberts,William MacBride, Art O Murnaghan and Liam Megahey. The adverts are always fascinating and those included are for Peadar Kearney, Greene's Bookshop, Barnardo's Beautiful Furs, Electricity Supply Board, Kapp & Peterson, Findlaters, Alex. Thom, Marconi Ltd., etc.

The contents includes: A Dublin Citizen of the XVth Century. By Edmond Curtis; Town Planning in Dublin. By Manning Robertson; An Ambassador of Ireland. By J.L. Synge; Foundations of Dublin Commerce. By Frank Stevens; The Historical Pageant. By Hilton Edwards. Bibliography of Books about Dublin. By Roísín Walsh. 'Some Dublin Ballads'. By Colm O'Lochlainn. Also included are notes on the decorations, lists of committees, Civic Week exhibitions, and index and an index to advertisers.

89. [DUBLIN PORT] Port of Dublin: Official Handbook of the Port of Dublin, issued by Dublin Port and Docks Board. Profusely illustrated (some coloured). Folding map. Dublin: By Wilson Hartnell & Co., n.d. (c.1935). Oblong octavo. Coloured pictorial wrappers. A very good copy.

Scarce. €135

"Dublin standing so commodiously, is a Port not to be overthrown" - Queen Elizabeth's letter to Lord Deputy Mountjoy, 1600.

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90. [DUBLIN TRADE GUILD] Membership Card of the Dublin Bricklaying Trade. With an engraving of the trade guild and motto 'Labore Virtute Gloria' and the legend "We Lovers of the Bricklaying Trade - The Ancient City Card". Addressed to Patrick Connor with wax seals, dated 1820s. Exceedingly rare. €285 The guild of bricklayers and plasterers was founded in 1670 by royal charter (22 Charles II) and was twentieth in order of precedence in the Dublin City Assembly. Before 1670 bricklayers and plasterers were members of the guild of carpenters. The swearing-in day was the feast of St. Bartholomew (24 August). The guild colours (1767) were blue and orange.

Meeting-places: At the close of the 18th century, the guild met in St. Audeon's Wellington Quay.

The guild became defunct in 1841, but some years later the craft union representing bricklayers and plasterers adopted the title "The Ancient Guild of Incorporated Brick and Stonelayers" - a name which it retains today. In June 1845, the union won a test case in the Court of Queen's Bench affirming the continued validity of the 1670 charter of the former guild. This proposed revival of a once-powerful guild alarmed employers and led to an Act of Parliament which finally abolished the entire guild system in 1848. See Mary Clark and Raymond Refaussé - Directory of Historic Dublin Guilds [1993].

91. [DUBLIN] Dublin and its Environs. With a map of the city. Numerous illustrations engraved on wood. Dublin: McGlashan, 1846. 16mo. pp. vii, 200. Original green blind-stamped cloth.

Slight wear to spine. From the library of Gerald Tighe, with his stamp and signature. Light foxing to prelims. A very good copy, otherwise a good copy. Scarce. €245

No copy in COPAC or WorldCat. Not in NLI. The appendix includes: Dublin Carriage Regulations, Kingstown Car Fares, a list of Fares from Blackrock to various places, a list of Dublin Banks and principal hotels.

92. [DUBLIN] Dublin and District Trades Directory 1897-98. Glasgow and Manchester: MacDonald, 1898. pp. 178, + adverts. Green cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €325 No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat.

93. DUFFY, Seán. Ireland in the Middle Ages. British History in Perspective. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. pp. xiii, 216. Fine in pictorial wrappers. €30 94. DUFFY, Seán. Ed. by. Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopaedia. New York & London: 25

De Búrca Ra re Books Routledge, 2005. Quarto. pp. xxxi, 546. Pictorial boards. A fine copy.

€75

Associate Editors: Ailbhe MacShamhráin, James Moynes. Advisory Board: Peter Harbison, David Howlett, Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Raghnall Ó Floinn, Katherine Simms.

EXCEEDINGLY RARE KERRY ITEM 95. DU NOYER, George Victor. On the Remains of Ancient Stone-Built Fortresses and Habitations Occurring in the West of Dingle, County Kerry. With illustrations and map of the ancient City of Fahan near Ventry, and four tinted lithographic plates. S.n. [Journal of the Archaeological Society, March, 1850]. pp. 24, 4 (lithographs). Blue paper wrappers. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €375

George Victor Du Noyer (1817-1869) painter, geologist and antiquary, was born in Dublin the son of Louis Victor Du Noyer and Margaret Du Bédat, both of Huguenot descent. His father was a French teacher. George was a gifted and extremely prolific artist. Most of his work relates exclusively to Ireland. Throughout his life, he was often commissioned to draw or paint realistic depictions of locations all over Ireland (making many of his works interesting from an Irish historical perspective).

Much of this work took place during his time with the Irish Ordnance Survey.

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On 3 January 1869, George Victor Du Noyer died of scarlet fever while on Survey in County Antrim, one day after his daughter Fanny died of the same disease. He was buried in County Antrim.

96. DUNSANY, Lord. Time and the Gods. With ten full-page illustrations H. Sime. London: Heinemann, 1906. Quarto. pp. viii, [3], 179, [1]. Quarter green linen to brown paper boards, titled in gilt. Illustration inset on upper cover. A very good copy. €235

97. DUNSANY, Lord. My Ireland. With 31 illustrations. London: Jarrolds, 1937. pp. 285, 2 (publisher's list). Green cloth, titled in gilt. Presentation inscription on front endpaper. A very good copy in dust jacket. See illustration above. €65 IRELAND'S FIRST BOOK AUCTIONEER 98. DUNTON, John. The Dublin Scuffle: Being a Challenge sent by John Dunton, Citizen of London, to Patrick Campbel, Bookseller in Dublin. Together with the Small Skirmishes of Bills and Advertisements. To which is added, the Billet Doux, sent him by a Citizen's Wife in Dublin, Tempting him to Lewdness. With his answers to her. Also Some Account of his Conversation in Ireland, Intermixt with particular Characters of the most Eminent Persons he Convers'd within that Kingdom; but more especially in the city of Dublin. In several Letters to the spectators of this Scuffle; With a poem on the whole Encounter. London: (Printed for the Author) and are to be sold by A. Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, and by the Booksellers in Dublin, 1699. pp. 544. Later full sheep, spine expertly rebacked with brown morocco letterpiece; corners repaired. Early signature of James Brady and Booksellers Catalogue entry slip on front pastedown. Very good in later full sheep in seventeenth century style. Exceedingly rare. €3,750 Sweeney 1618 Wing D2622 John Dunton, (1659–1732), bookseller, was born at Grafham, Huntingdonshire, the only child of the Revd John Dunton and Lydia, née Carter. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, also called John, had all been Anglican ministers. His mother died shortly after he was born, and her grieving husband went to Ireland to take up the position of chaplain to Sir Henry Ingoldsby, leaving his young son under the tutelage of his brother-in-law, William Readings, at Dungrove, near Chesham. The boy's father returned in 1663 and became rector of Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire.

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De Búrca Ra re Books The Revd John Dunton hoped that his eldest son would follow the family tradition and enter the church, but young Dunton had different ideas. As a child he experienced 'a strange Kind of Aversion' to learning, finding it 'too difficult and unpleasant' (Dunton, Life, 9). His father realized that the boy would never make a scholar, and sent him to London at the age of fifteen to be apprenticed to the eminent Presbyterian bookseller Thomas Parkhurst.

Dunton's early success in business led him to consider marriage. After two months' courtship, he married in 1682 Elizabeth Annesley, the daughter of the eminent non-conformist minister Dr Samuel Annesley. She called him Philaret, he called her Iris, and for him their marriage was 'the greatest happiness I have as yet met with in this life'.

Dunton arrived in Dublin in 1698 and stayed for almost a year. To him goes the credit for introducing to this country the practice of selling books by public auction (as he had earlier done in New England).

He brought with him ten tons of books, on which he placed a value of £1,500. This project was very much opposed by a Scottish bookseller, Patrick Campbell, then resident in the city, and by many other of the established booksellers besides.

In 1699 he published The Dublin Scuffle. The importance of this work lies chiefly in the account it gives of the Dublin Book Trade at the close of the seventeenth century and his adventures there.

Dunton also comments widely on everyday Irish life as he observed it. His pen-pictures cover Dubliners of all walks of life, from venerable ecclesiastics to prostitutes. Dublin Castle, Trinity College, and Archbishop Ussher's library were all part of his itinerary. Besides relating his quarrels with the Irish Booksellers he gives considerable information on life in Dublin, and he includes a description of a visit to the theatre "in a dirty street called Smock-Alley; which I think is no unfit name for a place where such great opportunity are given for making of lewd bargains", and how he saw the 'Squire of Alsatia' acted there.

Dunton claimed to have published over 600 titles during his career, although fewer than 200 titles have been traced (Parks, 43). He is chiefly remembered as one of the most prominent London and Dublin booksellers of the 1690s, an innovative if somewhat eccentric figure, who made a significant contribution to Whig propaganda in the decade after the revolution of 1688. His search after novelties led him to experiment with new literary forms, and his influence may be traced in the rise of the eighteenth-century periodical.

Edward MacLysaght described Dunton, as "that old hypocrite" and Andrew Carpenter states "that Dunton was aware of various contradictions in his character and hoped in some measure, to exorcise them in his writing. The eccentricities of 'The Dublin Scuffle' can be best explained as manifestations of Dunton's attempt to come to terms with those parts of his own personality which he habitually repressed".

99. DURCAN, Paul. Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil. One Hundred Poems. London: The Harvill Press, 1999. pp. 257. Red paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by the author on titlepage. A fine good copy in dust jacket. €55 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 100. DURCAN, Paul. Praise in which I Live and Move and have my Being. Dublin: Tuskar Rock Press, 2012. pp. 157. Yellow crushed levant morocco, title in black along spine. Special limited edition of 20 copies only (no. 7) signed by the author. Also inscribed by him on the half title. A fine copy in felt lined matching slipcase. €275 101. E.V.B. [Boyle, Eleanor Vere] A New Child's Play. Sixteen drawings by E.V.B. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1879. Quarto. pp. [72]. Bound by Birdsall & Son, Northampton in contemporary full vellum. Covers framed by five gilt fillets with inner fleurons, enclosing in the centre a garland of flowers in gilt with blue onlays surrounding the monogram 'EB'. Flat spine gilt ruled and with title in gilt. Fore-edges and turn-ins gilt. Pale blue-green water-silk endpapers. Small nick to fore-edge of upper board. Occasional light foxing. All edges gilt. A fine copy. €875 COPAC locates 6 copies only.

Eleanor Vere Gordon Boyle (1825-1916) artist and author of the Victorian era was born in Scotland, the youngest daughter of Alexander Gordon of Ellon Castle, Aberdeenshire. She has been considered the most important female illustrator of the 1860s.

In 1845 she married Richard Cavendish Boyle, a younger son of the 8th Earl of Cork; R. C. Boyle served as the rector of Marston Bigot in Somerset and later as Queen Victoria's chaplain. Because of 28

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her social position, she rarely exhibited or sold her artwork - actions that would have been déclassé in the standards of her time and place. She did allow a rare exhibition of her art at Leighton House c.

1902. Consistently, in both her visual art and her books, she employed her initials, E. V. B., to mask her identity.

Boyle applied her skill as a watercolourist to illustrate children's books. In 1852, a small volume titled Child's Play matched Boyle's pictures with traditional nursery rhymes like Little Boy Blue. She illustrated a wide range of similar books, including Tennyson's The May Queen (1860) - she was a friend of the poet - and the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast (1875) she depicted the Beast as a sabretoothed panther. In 1868 she illustrated Sarah Austen's translation of Friedrich Wilhelm Carové's The Story Without an End; and in 1872 she became one of the first British artists to illustrate the stories of Hans Christian Andersen, and set a new standard of quality for Andersen illustration.

Boyle was familiar with many of the Pre-Raphaelites; Dante Gabriel Rossetti called her "great in design". She was a cousin of Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, another woman artist of her era.

Illustrated with colour line photoengraving. Wood-engraving on titlepage.

102. [EDUCATION] Fourth Book of Lessons for the Use of Schools. Dublin: Printed by Alex.

Thom for The Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, 1857. pp. x, 341, 1 (Schools Books and Maps). Coarse linen. Stamp of J. Freeman, Family Druggist on front and rear endpaper. A good copy. €75 103. ELLIS, Peter Berresford. The Druids. Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. pp. 304. Blue paper boards, titled in white. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 A compelling and highly reliable study of the Druids. The author sifts through the historical evidence and, with reference to the latest archaeological and etymological findings, giving the first authentic account of who the mysterious Druids were and what role they played in Celtic Society.

104. ELLIS, Peter Berresford. The Boyne Water. The Battle of the Boyne, 1690. With illustrations and maps. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976. First edition. pp. xii, 163. Black paper boards, title in silver on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €65 The author describes in great detail the movements of both armies at the Battle of the Boyne and the scene on the battlefield itself. With characteristic impartiality he assesses the personalities of the chief protagonists - The Earl of Tyrconnell, The Duke of Berwick, Patrick Sarsfield, The Duke of Schomberg and Gustavus Hamilton, etc.

105. [ENGLISH PROTESTANT] Ireland's Lamentation: being a Short, but Perfect, Full, and True Account of the Situation, Nature, Constitution and Product of Ireland. With an Impartial Historical Relation of the most Material Transactions, Revolutions, and Miserable Sufferings of 29

De Búrca Ra re Books the Protestants there, from the death of King Charles the Second, to the latter end of April, 1689.

The time and manner of the late King's landing there: what men, monies, shipping, arms and ammunition he brought with him. The manner of his going up and into Dublin: his kneeling to the host: displacing all Protestants: the strength and defeat of his Army, and what else is of note.

To which is added, a letter from a Lieutenant in the Irish Army, dated at Dublin, May 7, with an account of affairs to that time. Written by an English Protestant that lately narrowly escaped with his life from thence. London: Printed by J.D. and sold by Rich. Janeway, in Queen's-Head Court in Pater-Noster Row, 1689. Quarto. pp. [iv], 36. Later half calf on marbled boards. Splashmarbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Some rubbing to corners, otherwise a very good copy. €675 Sweeney 1291 Goldsmiths' Lib. cat: 2719. Wing: I1025. ESTC R10004 gives only 5 locations in Ireland. WorldCat 8.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 106. ENNISKILLEN, Countess of Florence Court. My Irish Home. Illustrated. Monaghan: R & S Publishers, 1972. First edition. pp. [6], 85. Original blue cloth, titled in gilt. Presentation inscription "To the Lady Kathleen Balfour Oldfield, aunt of the Sixth Earl of Enniskillen, with fondest love, Nancy Enniskillen". A fine copy. See illustration below. €75

FIRST TRANSLATION OF THE TAIN 107. FARADAY, L. Winifred. The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cuailnge). An Old Irish Prose-Epic. Translated for the first time from Leabhar na hUidhri and the Yellow Book of Lecan.

London: Published by David Nutt, At the Sign of the Phoenix Long Acre, 1904. pp. xxi, 141.

Title printed in red and black. Quarter green linen on paper boards. Ex lib Benedictine Library, Fort Augustus with bookplate. A very good copy. Very scarce. €125 108. [FARMER'S JOURNAL] The Irish Farmer's Journal. February 26, 1845 to February 25, 1846. Illustrated. Dublin: 1845/1846. pp. 432, 437-1256, 156, 17-68 (double column).

Contemporary half pebbled cloth on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Lacking only a few issues. Occasional mild foxing, a couple of leaves lightly soiled. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €575 In the introduction to the first issue it is stated: "In the department of Rural Affairs, it is intended to present the reader with Original Essays on every branch of management, whether relating to the Farm, the Garden, or the Forest. These shall be written expressly for this Journal, and shall include the cultivation of the more important plants of the Farm and the Garden; the peculiar course of management to be adopted in the performance of Rural operations; the consideration of the Sciences on 30

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which the Art of Culture depends, with their practical application; Statistical Surveys of particular districts, the rural economy of which may be deserving of attention; Statements of Expenses, and Produce under different courses of management, with every other particular which is likely to prove interesting. Under the head Correspondence, the intelligent reader will find details of the practice of the various districts of the kingdom, supplied on persons on the spot, and being, for the most part, the result of actual experiment". See illustration above.

109. FIGGIS, Darrell. Æ (George W. Russell). A Study of a Man and a Nation. Dublin: Maunsel & Co, 1916. pp. [viii], 159. Green wrappers. Repair to spine. A very good copy. €45 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 110. FITZGIBBON, Elliot. Earl of Clare. Mainspring of the Union. Illustrated. London: The Research Publishing Company, 1960. pp. 88. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed by the author on titlepage and with a long dedication to his sister Hester Carse, dated 1st March, 1961.

A fine copy. €125

Loosely inserted is a five page 'note on The Pedigree of The FitzGibbons of Dublin'.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 111. FITZPATRICK, Thomas. The Bloody Bridge and Other Papers Relating to the Insurrection of 1641 (Sir Phelim O'Neill's Rebellion). Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1903. pp. xl, 296, 8 (publisher's list). Blue ribbed cloth, title in gilt. From the library of School of Irish Studies with their embossed stamp, ink stain to lower corner of titlepage, book label removed from front endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. €65 The author in this work tries to give a balanced and honest account of the Rebellion of 1641. He states: "And never was the action of an entire people so elaborately, so disingenuously, misrepresented". On the other hand "the alleged 'Massacre' - the Massacre of Milton, Temple, Borlase, May, Rushworth, Cox, Harris, Carlyle, and Froude - is a stupendous falsehood".

112. FLETCHER, Philip (Dean of Kildare) A Sermon Preached Before the Society corresponding with the incorporated Society in Dublin for promoting English Protestant Working-Schools in Ireland, at their General Meeting in the Parish-Church of St. Mary le Bow, on Wednesday May 2nd 1759. London: J. Oliver and B. Dod, 1759. First edition. pp 95.

Engraved vignette title, the Arms of the Society, woodcut headpiece and initial letter. Original brown stitched wrappers. Some old worn holes in last few leaves. A very good copy. Rare. €295 COPAC locates 7 copies only.

The Incorporated Society, by its Charter of 1733, was empowered to erect schools "in the most remote and Popish parts of the country, to convert the poor deluded natives to be good Christians and faithful subjects, in the English tongue and the Fundamental Principles of True Religion". Castledermot in County Kildare was the first of these schools to be opened [1734], followed by Ballynahinch, County Down in the following year. Nurseries were set up in various parts of Ireland to take in poor "Popish" children "of sound Health and Limbs, and not under the age of six, not exceeding the Age of Ten", destined to be sent to distant schools far from the influence of their parents or priests. Book learning was not the only aim of these schools. Small children were put to different forms of hard physical labour such as turf cutting, tree planting, net making, clearing adjacent lands for future crops, and girls to spinning and weaving. These 'apprentices' having gained all these practical skills were to be sent as 32

De Búrca Ra re Books useful (Protestant) citizens, as servants to future employers. Because of a lack of inspection and general corruption the lofty ideals of the Incorporated Society were never accomplished. When John Howard and Jeremiah Fitzpatrick inspected these schools in the 1780's they were appalled at what they saw. On a snowy morning, when visiting the school at Kilkenny, "the fire was unlit ... the beds abominably filthy, education most culpably neglected, and many of the children affected with the itch and scald ... etc". Many pupils, weakened by starvation and hard labour were unable to work and were refused apprenticeship by potential employers. After the disclosures of Fitzpatrick and Howard an inquiry was held into the running of these schools resulting in the Government grant being gradually reduced and finally withdrawn in 1832, thus bringing to an end this corrupt system. [Jones The Charter School Movement in the XVIII Century].

This work includes: A Table of the Accounts of the Society; List of the Charter Schools in Ireland; An Abstract of the Royal Charter for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland; A List and Description of 46 existing Schools; Two New Schools and Four Provincial Nurseries; Lists of Annual Subscribers and a List of Members of the Incorporated Society in Dublin.

113. FLOOD, W.H. Grattan. The Story of the Harp. With numerous illustrations and musical notes. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co, 1905. pp. xx, 207. Titlepage printed within a red border. Red cloth, title and lyre in gilt on upper cover. Spine evenly faded. Owner's signature on verso of frontispiece. A very good copy. Rare. €75 "No apology is needed for the prominence given to the Irish harp in the following pages. Ireland has been for centuries associated with 'The harp that once thro' Tara's halls', and the instrument figures in the arms and coinage of the kingdom. Dante, as quoted by Vincenzo Galilei, attests that the Italians received the harp from Ireland, and German historians tell of the Irish monks who founded scores of religious houses all over the Continent, bringing with them their harps and bells" - Preface.

The chapters include: Antiquity of the Harp; The Harp in the Bible; The Irish Harp; The Welsh Harp; 'Brian Boru's' Harp; Medieval Harps and Harpers; English, Scotch and Irish Harpers; The Irish Harp under James I and Charles II; Cromwell and the Irish Harp; Revival of the Irish Harp, etc.

114. FORSTER, Henry Rumsey. The Pocket Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland: with genealogical and historic notices of the families of the nobility; the Archbishops and Bishops; A List of the Titles of Courtesy; A Baronetage of the United Kingdom; The Privy Council, etc.

London: David Bogue, 1851. pp. xvi, 524, [18 (publisher's list)]. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A fine copy. Rare. €150 115. FOWLER, Barbara Hughes. Ed. by. Medieval Irish Lyrics. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. pp. vi, 106. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers. €20 116. FOX, Charles James. The Speech of the Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons, on the Irish Resolutions, on Thursday, May 12, 1785. To which is added An Authentic Copy of the Resolutions, as originally proposed and now altered by Mr. Chancellor Pitt. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Wilson, White, Byrne, and Marchbank, 1785. pp. 61. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. €375 COPAC locates 4 copies only. NLI holds the Joly copy.

117. FOX, Moireen. Liadain and Curithir. Oxford: Blackwell, 1917. pp. 60. Green paper wrappers, title on printed label on upper cover and spine. Printed title on spine and upper cover.

A very good copy. €165 With armorial bookplate of the author's husband Claude Chavasse of Ross House, Moycullen, County Galway. The work is dedicated to Ella Young.

The wedding ceremony of Móirín and Claude in St. Ann's Dawson Street, Dublin "was a big Gaelic Protestant occasion. Douglas Hyde and Joseph Hone supported Claude, while Ella Young, Neilí Ní Bhriain, the Trench sisters, Sadhbh and Maighréad supported Móirín. The ceremony was conducted by Feardorcha Ó Conaill (Con all Cearnach), from Leenane, County Galway".

118. FRASER, James. A Handbook for Travellers in Ireland, Descriptive of its Scenery, Towns, Seats, Antiquities, etc.

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De Búrca Ra re Books With various statistical tables. Also, an outline of its mineral structure, a brief view of its botany, and information for anglers. Third thousand, corrected and enlarged. With folding map. Dublin: William Curry, London: Longman, 1844. Third edition. pp. x, [1], 755, (double column). Green ribbed cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Repair to spine. A good copy. Scarce. €135 119. FRENCH, Nicholas. The Doleful Fall of Andrew Sall, a Jesuit of the Fourth Vow, from the Roman Catholick and Apostolic Faith; lamented by his constant friend; with an open rebuking of his embracing the Confession contained in the XXXIX Articles of the Church of England.

London: Printed in the Year 1749. pp. [10], 254. Contemporary full calf, spine expertly rebacked.

Paper repair and part of title in a ink in a neat mid-nineteenth century hand. Light thumbing to titlepage. A very good copy of a exceedingly rare book in commerce. €1,250 COPAC locates 6 copies only. ESTC T96211 locates 8 copies only in Ireland and the UK. The BL copy is imperfect, lacking all after p. 252.

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".

He busied himself in writing a number of political tracts: A Narrative of the Earl of Clarendon's Settlement and Sale of Ireland (1668); The Bleeding Iphigenia (1674); and an attack on Ormond, The Unkinde Desertor or Loyall Men and True Friends (1676). All three were published in Louvain and were reprinted and published by Duffy in 1846 and 1848.

Andrew Sall (1612-1682), Irish Jesuit, was born at Cashel, County Tipperary. Educated at St. Omer, he was later rector of the Irish College at Salamanca, and 'reader in the chair of controversy against heresy there', in which capacity he was licensed by the Spanish Inquisitor-General to read prohibited books.

While professor of divinity at Pampeluna he was intimate with Nicholas French, who called him "unicum solatium". In October 1659 Sall was at Nantes, where he wrote a letter about the sufferings of his church in Ireland. The exact date of his return to Ireland does not appear, but he was provincial superior of the Irish Jesuits in 1664. According to Peter Walsh he subscribed to the Loyal Remonstrance of the Roman Catholic clergy. His long and varied theological studies had the effect of making him doubt whether the Church of England was not more in the right than the Church of Rome.

He argued the point for six years with Thomas Price, the Protestant Archbishop of Cashel. Rumours of his intended change were in circulation about the beginning of 1674, and Sall believed his life was in danger. Price, with the mayor and 'other English gentlemen of the city of Cashel', sent a mounted party to bring him safely to the archiepiscopal palace. He remained under Price's protection, and publicly challenged the Roman Catholics to resolve his doubts. On 17 May 1674, being the fourth Sunday after Easter, Sall made a public declaration of his adhesion to the Church of England in St. John's Church, Cashel, and he considered his new confession a "safer way for salvation than the Romish church". He did admit however that he would not have declared himself openly but for Essex's proclamation ordering regular priests to leave Ireland. Sall went to Dublin and preached at Christ Church Cathedral explaining his Cashel declaration. This pamphlet is a record of the events of his recantation in Cashel and his sermon in Dublin.

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De Búrca Ra re Books publication. Sall was appointed chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant, Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, and afterwards domestic chaplain to the King. He died in 1682 aged 70. For his recantation sermon he chose as his text Matthew chapter XXIV verses 15-18.

Includes a four page list of subscribers mostly Irish. These include several members of the Burk, Corbally, Connor, Dowdall, Ferral, Fitzsimons, Ham, Kelly, Kennedy, Monahan, Mulloy, M'Dermot, Nangle, Roche, Rourke, Savage, and Walsh families, along with several other subscribers including Richard Edgworth.

RARE GOTHIC NOVEL BY CORK AUTHOR 120. [FULLER, Anne] The Son of Ethelwolf; an historical Tale. Two volumes. By the Author of Alan Fitz-Osborne. Two volumes. London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789. 12mo. pp. (1) [28], 235, [5], (2) [2], 209, [1]. Half calf on marbled boards. Flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, title and volume number on contrasting labels, decorated with a gilt flower tool in remaining compartments. A very good set. Exceedingly rare. €1,650 COPAC locates 5 copies only. Loeber F149. This edition not in TCD or NLI. Anne Fuller fl. 1786, died at Cork 1790, probably at a young age according to Loeber. She was descended from a landed family who were resident at West Kerries, near Tralee, County Kerry. Her parents were William Fuller and Jane Hartnett. She is mentioned in the Gentleman's Magazine (1790) as the "authoress of several interesting and ingenious novels", and in the Dublin Chronicle (25 Sept.

1790) as "the late Miss Anne Fuller of Cork". It is reasonable to assume that she was connected to court circles as she dedicated this work to the Prince of Wales.

Her Gothic historical novels were very popular and were reprinted several times in England, Ireland and the Continent. Anne Fuller did not marry and died of consumption.

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

121. [GAIETY THEATRE] Programme for the first performance of 'Mother Goose' by Harry O'Donovan. With Maureen Potter and Milo O'Shea. Commencing December 26th, 1961. Musical Director: Dudley Hare. Dublin: Fleet, 1961. Royal octavo. pp. [8]. Pictorial coloured wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €45

122. [GAIETY THEATRE] Programme for 'Babes in the Wood' Grand Christmas Pantomime

by Harry O'Donovan. With Jimmy O'Dea, Maureen Potter and Vicki Laine. Commencing December 26th, 1960. Musical Director: Dudley Hare. Dublin: Fleet, 1960. Royal octavo. pp.

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123. GASKIN, James J. Varieties of Irish History: from Ancient and Modern Sources and Original Documents. With four coloured lithographs and folding map. Dublin: W.B. Kelly, 1869.

First edition. pp. xvii, 446. Green gilt decorated cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. €135 The illustrations includes: Dalkey Island and Sorrento, Kingstown, Killiney Bay and Hill and Bray Head and Esplanade.

124. GATTY, Mrs. Alfred. The Old Folks from Home; or, A Holiday in Ireland in 1861.

London: Bell and Daldy, 1862. Second edition. pp. viii, 256, 30 (publisher's list). Original green blind-stamped pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Previous owner's blind-stamp on half title. A very nice copy. Scarce. €225 Margaret Gatty (1809-1873) was an English writer of children's literature. She was the daughter of the Rev. Alexander John Scott, D.D., a Royal Navy chaplain, who served under, and was the trusted friend of, Lord Nelson onboard the HMS Victory before and during the Battle of Trafalgar. She married the Rev. Alfred Gatty, D.D., Ecclesfield, Yorkshire in 1839 and moved into the vicarage of Church of St. Mary shortly after. She became a highly useful and popular writer of tales for young people. She became fascinated with marine biology, possibly on the advice of William Henry Harvey, who she had met in Hastings in 1848.

Mrs. Gatty undertook this visit to Ireland in the summer of 1861 and sent detailed descriptions, in the form of letters to her husband and daughters. An interesting, informative and light hearted work of her travels. She travelled extensively throughout the country: Dublin, Kildare, Limerick, The Shannon, Kilkee, Miltown-Malbay, Tarbert, Killarney and Cork.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR RARE R.I.C. CONSTABLE'S BIOGRAPHY 125. GAUGHAN, J. Anthony. Memoirs of Constable Jeremiah Mee, R.I.C. With illustrations and folding map. Dublin: Anvil Books, 1975. First edition. pp. 397. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by the author on titlepage. A very good copy in dust jacket. Very scarce. €295 The Royal Irish Constabulary was an outstanding body of men, and Jeremiah Mee from Glenamaddy, County Galway, was perhaps one of the most remarkable of all. The mere fact that this young constable kept a journal singles him out for distinction. It covers in detail that epoch in Irish history from the Rebellion to Free State. His early years saw service in Sligo and North Roscommon. By 1919 he was in Listowel and on the 17th of June the following year, the local R.I.C. were ordered to use terror methods against suspected 'Republicans' and to hand over their barracks to the British military. Fourteen constables decided not to obey orders. Mee acted as their spokesman to the commanding officer, saying "From your accent I take it you are an Englishman. Do you forget you are addressing Irishmen?"

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De Búrca Ra re Books 126. GAVIN, Antonio. A Short History of Monastical Orders, In which the Primitive Institution of Monks, their Tempers, Habits, Rules, and The Condition they are in at Present, are Treated of.

London: Printed by R. Roycroft, for Rob. Clavell, at the Peacock at the West-end of St. Pauls 1693. Octavo. pp. [xxxix], 312. Contemporary full mottled calf, title on red morocco spine.

Stamp of Grimsby Public Library on front pastedown and titlepage. Signatures of Ann and L. Isham, dated 1692. Wear to joints and corners. A very good copy. €475 Wing G394 Sweeney 2089.

According to Cushing, Quèrard, and Halkett and Laing, Gabriel d'Emiliane is the pseudonym of Antonio Gavin.

127. GERRING, Charles. Notes on Printers and Booksellers. With a Chapter on Chap Books.

Illustrated. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1900. Quarto. pp. viii, [4], 118, [2]. Titlepage printed in red and black. Blue buckram, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine.

A very good copy. See illustration below. €175

With list of subscribers and 56 illustrations.

IN FINE BINDING IDEAL FOR PRESENTATION 128. GIBBINGS, Robert. Lovely is The Lee. With engravings by the author. London: Dent & Sons, 1947. pp. vi, 199. In publisher's full red morocco binding, flat spine with title in gilt direct; turn-ins ruled in gilt at corners. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Small nick to spine, a fine copy in a handsome binding. €175 The author in his acknowledgement states: "Of the hundreds, not mentioned in this book, who helped me on my journey two names must be recorded, that of my friend William Figgis of Dublin and that of my cousin Alec Day of Cork".

Travels in Galway, Connemara, Inishbofin, Lough Carra, Inishmaan, Cork, Carrigrohane, Inchigeela, Ballingeary, Iveleary, Gougane Barra. See illustration below.

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129. GIBBINGS, Robert. Lovely is The Lee. With engravings by the author. London: Dent & Sons, 1949. pp. vi, 199. Yellow cloth, titled in gilt, sailing boat in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €60 Travels in Galway, Connemara, Inishbofin, Lough Carra, Inishmaan, Cork, Carrigrohane, Inchigeela, Ballingeary, Iveleary, Gougane Barra.

130. [GLADSTONE'S BILL] Report of the Proceedings at a Special Meeting of The Senate of the University of Dublin, on Tuesday, the 25th February, 1873, and three following days, to consider Mr. Gladstone's University Education Bill (Ireland). Dublin: Hodges, Foster, and Co., 1873. pp. vii, 88. Purple blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Ticket of Cavenaugh Bookbinder, Dublin and bookplate of Down and Connor and Dromore Diocesan Library. Bishop Reichel Memorial Collection on front pastedown. Inscription on titlepage 'Presented by the Provost & / Senior Fellows to Dr. Reichel'. Spine evenly faded. A fine copy. €165 COPAC locates the BL and TCD copies only.

131. GOGARTY, Oliver St. John. Elbow Room. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1939. First edition. pp. [iv], 32. Quarter cream linen on blue paper boards, title in black on upper cover and on printed label along spine. Edition limited to 450 copies. A fine copy. Scarce. €225 IN FINE BINDING 132. GRAVES, Alfred Perceval. Ed. by. The Irish Song Book with Original Irish Airs. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Alfred Perceval Graves. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1914.

Twelfth edition. pp. xxiv, 188. Contemporary full black morocco, covers framed by double gilt fillets with outer fleurons, title and 'J.N.' in gilt on upper cover. Green morocco label on front pastedown with the legend 'To Dear Jim / With Father's Love / Xmas 1917'. Signature of James Nugent on front flyleaf. Also inscribed "To Dear Jim / With Father's Love, Christmas 1917 / Someone thinks the world of you / Let it be your guiding star / And always be the fellow / That your mother thinks you are". A very good copy. Scarce. See illustration on next page. €150 38

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133. GRAY, Thomas. Gray's Elegy. Illuminated by Owen Jones. London: Longman and Co., New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. First edition. Royal octavo. Chromo lithographically printed in gold and colours on thick paper. Bound by Bayntun Riviere in burgundy crushed levant morocco. Covers ruled in gilt, spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands. Title and illuminator in gilt direct in the second and fifth, the remaining compartment with gilt ruled border; gilt doublures; red comb-marbled endpapers. Original upper cloth cover bound in. All edges gilt. A nice copy. €395 "In 1846 Longman published Gray's Elegy, illuminated by Owen Jones: the first secular book wholly illuminated by him, the first with the name of a New York publisher on the title-page as well as that of the English publisher. The illuminations, in Owen Jones's characteristic spidery style, are chromolithographed in two blues, two reds, black and gold" (Ruari McLean).

134. GREGORY, Lady. Our Irish Theatre. A chapter of autobiography. Illustrated. London and New York: Putnams, 1913. First edition. pp. v, 319, 5. Black buckram, title on printed label on spine. A very good copy with portrait frontispiece and three other plates. €125 Through her energetic zeal in sustaining the Abbey Theatre players in their upward struggle, through 39

De Búrca Ra re Books her own distinctive dramatic contributions, through her rich literary associations with the leading men of letters of Ireland, and, at last but not least, through her reputation - won through strength of character and unflinching loyalty to an ideal - of being the bulwark against which the prejudice and narrowmindedness that the Irish movement encountered, beat in vain - through all these activities Lady Gregory is in a position, as is no one else, to write the history of the Irish Theatre, of the dramatists and actors who have been associated with it, of the threatening clouds, pregnant with disaster, that have swept about it as the storm centre, but that have, thanks in large part to Lady Gregory's protection, left it unharmed.

135. GUILLIM, John. A Display of Heraldry. The Sixth Edition. Improv'd with large Additions of many hundred Coats of Arms, under their respective Bearings, with good Authorities from the Ashmolean Library, Sir George Mackenzie, &c. With his Tract of Precedency, containing all his Rules, Observations, Arguments and chief Instances. To which is added, A Treatise of Honour Military and Civil, According to the Laws and Customs of England. By Capt. John Logan.

Illustrated with the Arms, Crests, Supporters, and Motto's of the Royal Family, and Nobility: The Arms of the Sees of the English Bishops, and several of the Gentry. Together with the proper Habits of the different Degrees of the Nobility of England and the Emblems of the chief Orders of Knighthood in Europe; all fairly engraven on Copper Plates. Also an Exact List of the Baronets, from their first Creation to this present Time; and most of their Arms Blazon'd. With an Account of the Customs, Government, and Privileges of the City of London, and the other Cities of England, and Shire-Towns of each County, and their Arms. Likewise a Supplement of Scarce Tracts relating to the Office of Arms, taken from authentick Copies. And a Dictionary, explaining the several terms used by heralds, in English, Latin and French. With proper Tables to the Whole. London: Printed by T. W. for R. and J. Bonwicke and R. Wilkin, in St. Paul's ChurchYard. And J. Walthoe and Tho. Ward, in the Temple, 1724. Folio. pp. [1], 20, [2], 460, [4], [1], 65-215, [1], 221-275, [1], 58, 24, [22]. Titlepage printed in red and black. Bound in original full calf with gilt borders. Spine expertly rebacked, title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece. Early armorial bookplate of William East, Esqr. of Hall-Place in Hurley, Berks and later bookplate of Heenan on front pastedowns. A very fine crisp copy. €675 ESTC. T140947.

This is the sixth and final edition of the work by John Guillim (1565-1621), first published 1610 and containing a greatly extended text and many more illustrations. A splendidly illustrated and comprehensive survey of the heraldry of all the armigerous families and a guide to the orders of nobility with a particular emphasis on members of the royal family, peers and lords at the time of writing. It also includes a complete list of all baronets created since the title was inaugurated in 1611 and describes the orders of chivalry and the arms of the London livery companies and of the chief English towns and cities. A section on the laws of precedency is by Sir George Mackenzie. The first owner of this copy was William East (c.1695-1737), a London merchant and MP for S. Mawes 172834. He purchased Hall Place in 1728 and rebuilt the house, now the Berkshire College of Agriculture.

He was succeeded by his son, also William (1738-1819), created baronet 1766, who may have continued to use his father's bookplate. The second part of honour civil and 'A dictionary', explaining the several terms used by herald's each have a divisional titlepage, separate register and pagination.

LETTERS FROM GLADSTONE TO SIR ARTHUR GUINNESS 136. GUINNESS, Sir Arthur. Two autograph letters (octavo folded) signed from W.E. Gladstone to Sir Arthur Guinness dated April 18 and May 8, 1875 on 'Carlton House Terrace, S.W.' headed paper. The April letter is an interesting one in which Gladstone states he is looking over some papers which relate to No 11 (Carlton House Terrace) "that I might see whether any of them should be handed over to you, I have found the Policy of Insurance dated 1856 on the House, which I am under covenant to deliver to you". The address panel for 11 Carlton House Terrace has '11' crossed out and the number 23 written in by Gladstone. Both letters in very good condition. €575 LETTERS FROM DISRAELI TO SIR ARTHUR GUINNESS 137. GUINNESS, Sir Arthur. Two autograph letters (octavo folded, with black borders) signed from Benjamin Disraeli to Sir Arthur Guinness, Bart. M.P. dated February 9 1869, and April 9 40

De Búrca Ra re Books 1880, the latter on Downing Street headed paper. The letters deal at length with Sir Arthur's loss of his Dublin City seat and Disraeli's (Lord Beaconsfield) support for his elevation to the peerage: "If you retain your wish to be elevated to the House of Lords, I should be prepared to submit your name to the Queen on Her Majesty's return to England". In original envelopes, one marked private and addressed to 18 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2; the other with a Penny red stamp addressed to 80 Stephen's Green, Dublin. In fine condition. €675

Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, 2nd Baronet (1840-1915), businessman, politician, and philanthropist, best remembered for giving St Stephen's Green to the people of Dublin.

Guinness was born at St Anne's, Raheny, the eldest son of Sir Benjamin Guinness, 1st Baronet, and elder brother of Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh. He was the great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the founder of the brewing dynasty. Educated at Eton and Trinity College Dublin, in 1868 he succeeded his father as second Baronet.

In the same year he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the City of Dublin, a seat he held for only a year. His election was voided because of his election agent's unlawful efforts, which the court found were unknown to him. He was re-elected at the next election in 1874.

A supporter of Disraeli's "one nation" conservatism, his politics were typical of "constructive unionism", the belief that the union between Ireland and Britain should be more beneficial to the people of Ireland after centuries of difficulties. In 1872 he was a sponsor of the "Irish Exhibition" at Earlsfort Terrace in Dublin, which was arranged to promote Irish trade. Correcting a mistake about the exhibition in the Freeman's Journal led to a death threat from a religious extremist, which he did not report to the police. In the 1890s he supported the Irish Unionist Alliance.

After withdrawing from the Guinness company in 1876, when he sold his half-share to his brother Edward for £600,000, he was in 1880 raised to the peerage as Baron Ardilaun, of Ashford in the County of Galway. His home there was at Ashford Castle on Lough Corrib, and his title derived from the Gaelic Ard Oileáin, a 'high island' on the lake.

138. [GUINNESS, Arthur] St. James's Gate Brewery. History and Guide. Illustrated. Dublin: Arthur Guinness, 1931. Quarto. pp. 106, [1]. Quarter cloth on brown paper boards, title and Guinness trade mark (Harp) in black on upper cover. Occasional light foxing and crayon marks, otherwise a good copy. Scarce. €65 139. GWYNN, A. & HADCOCK, R.N. Medieval Religious Houses of Ireland. With an Appendix to early sites. Foreword by David Knowles. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988. pp. xii, 479. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket. €75 140. GWYNN, Denis. Bishop Challoner. Portrait frontis. London: Douglas Organ, 1945. pp.

256. Reddish brown cloth, titled in black. A very good copy in frayed and soiled dust jacket. €45 141. GWYNN, Stephen. A Holiday in Connemara. With sixteen illustrations. London: Methuen, 1909. First edition. pp. vii, 320, 40 (Methuen catalogue). Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover within a garland of foliage; spine richly decorated in gilt with foliage. Blind stamp of Thacker & Co., Booksellers, Bombay on front free endpaper. Stamp of Colonial Library on titlepage. Some mild foxing to titlepage. A very good copy. Scarce. €245 41

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With chapters on: Iar Connacht; Roderic O'Flaherty; The Gate of Connemara; Cois Fhairrge; In Search of Inver; From Ros Muck to Clifden; From Clifden to Leenane; Killary and Lough na Fooey; At Leenane with the Commission; Sunset on Killary; From Leenane to Lough Mask; On the Shores of Lough Mask; Across Joyce Country to Galway; From Galway to Clifden; Iorras Mór; From Clifden to Ros Muck.

142. GWYNN, Stephen. Ireland in Ten Days. Illustrated. London: Harrap, 1935. First edition. pp. 255, [1]. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Owner's signature on front flyleaf. A very good copy in frayed and torn dust jacket. €30 143. GWYNN, Stephen. Irish Literature and Drama in the English Language : A Short History.

London: Nelson, 1936. First edition. pp. x, 246. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Top edge green. A very good copy. €45 With chapters on: The Background of the Irish Mind; The Irish National Literature; Thomas Moore; Maria Edgeworth; Ms. Edgeworth's Successors; The Young Ireland Movement; The Period of the Land Revolution; The Revival of Gaelic; Beginnings of the Irish Drama; Development of Prose Fiction; James Stephens, Joyce, and the Ulster Writers; After the Revolution.

144. GWYNN, Stephen. Memories of Enjoyment. Tralee: The Kerryman, 1946. First edition. pp. 148. Quarter green linen on brown paper boards. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 With chapters on: In Praise of Wine; What Did Shakespeare Drink?; The Best Temperance Drink; About Drinking; Salmon Fishing and Anno Domini; What Izaak Walton Liked better than Fishing; About Writing; Long John; Beauty in Action; About Memory; A Galway Merchant; Digging for Pleasure; Looking Back in Donegal; About Oliver Goldsmith, etc.

145. HADDON, A.C. & BROWNE, C.R. The Ethnography of the Aran Islands, County Galway. Illustrated. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1893. pp. 768-830. Original printed wrappers. A good copy. €95

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De Búrca Ra re Books 146. HAMILTON, William A.M. The Exemplary Life and Character of James Bonnell, Esq., late Accomptant General of Ireland. By William Hamilton, A.M. Archdeacon of Armagh. The sixth edition, corrected. London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, Booksellers to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1814. pp. xviii, 287, [1]. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Stamp of 'Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge' in blind on upper cover. Joint of upper board cracked, but very firm. Stamp of A. & T. Camp, Binders on front pastedown. A good clean copy. €125 147. HARRIS, Walter. The Antient and Present State of the County of Down. Containing A Chorographical Description, with the Natural and Civil History of the same. Illustrated by observations made on the Baronies, Parishes, Towns, Villages, Churches, Abbeys, Charter Schools, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Medicinal and other Springs. With a Survey of the New Canal; as Also, A New and Correct Map of the County. Dublin: Printed by A. Reilly, for Edward Exshaw, at the Bible on Cork-hill, 1744. pp. xx, 271, [20 (index)]. Map repaired and mounted.

Recent full crushed morocco. Covers framed by a single gilt fillet; spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title in gilt direct in second compartment, the remainder tooled in gilt; fore-edge ruled in gilt; doublures with quadruple gilt fillets; mauve velvet endpapers; maroon and gold endbands. Early signature neatly crossed out. Signature of Elizabeth Mary Neville Corry on verso of titlepage. All edges gilt. A fine copy. €675 In 1744 Smith, a Dungarvan apothecary, with the collaboration of Walter Harris published this history of County Down. The first extended Irish county history ever published, it proposed in its preface a series of similar histories, and so led to the establishment of the Physico-Historical Society for the gathering of materials for such a topographical series. Smith undertook his native Waterford as well as Cork and Kerry, and several other works either appeared under their auspices or as a result of their efforts (e.g. Barton's book on Lough Neagh). Greater knowledge of the natural resources of the country would promote their greater exploitation and so encourage the growth in population. "The strength of a state is not to be computed by the extent of a country, but by the number and labour of the inhabitants".

Ireland, he felt, could easily support eight times its contemporary population.

148. HARTNELL, H.C. Illustrated Gossiping Guide to the Irish National Exhibition, 1882, with a Historical Catalogue of Irish Manufactures and Industries. Illustrated by C. Russell and W.C. Wilson. Dublin: Published at the Office: 201 Great Brunswick Street, n.d. (c.1883). pp. 230.

Green printed wrappers, frayed around edges. Spine expertly rebacked. A good copy of an extremely rare Dublin item. €375 COPAC locates 2 copies only. NLI holds the Joly copy.

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Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on dark brown morocco label in the second, the remainder tooled with a gilt cross in centre; combmarbled endpapers. All edges marbled. A superb copy with the rare bookbinder's ticket. €275 This rare edition contains the Supplement with additional titlepage, but the pagination is continuous.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 150. HEANEY, Seamus. Wintering Out. London: Faber and Faber, 1972. The true first edition, preceding the hardcover edition by a year. pp. 80. White paper wrappers. Signed and dated by the author on titlepage. A near fine copy in original printed wrappers. €875 Brandes and Durkan A8.

His first collection of poems is rooted in childhood experiences of life in rural County Derry. Wintering Out (1972), deals with exposure and endurance in poems that are grimly circumspect about the reemergent civil and sectarian conflict of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles'.

SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 151. HEANEY, Seamus. The Cure at Troy. A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Derry: Field Day, 1990. First edition. pp. [x], 83. Grey paper boards, title in gilt along spine. Limited edition signed and numbered by Seamus Heaney. Original Errata bookmark loosely inserted in A fine copy in dust jacket with design by Basil Blackshaw. €575 Brandes and Durkan A49.

A modern interpretation with echoes of current events in Ireland, though textually close to the classical Greek.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 152. HEANEY, Seamus. The Spirit Level. London: Faber and Faber, 1996. pp. [x], 72. Signed and dated by the author on titlepage. Yellow printed wrappers. A fine copy. €265 Not in Brandes and Durkan.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 153. HEANEY, Seamus. Electric Light. London: Faber and Faber, 2001. First edition. pp. [x], 81. Black paper boards, titled in white. A fine copy of the first edition in fine dust jacket. €65 154. HEANEY, Seamus. District and Circle. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. First edition.

Green paper boards. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €35 155. HEANEY, Seamus. Human Chain. London: Faber and Faber, 2010. pp. [8], 85. First edition. Brown paper boards. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €65 BOOK OF KELLS 156. [HENRY, Françoise] The Book of Kells. With a study of the manuscript by Francoise Henry. With 126 colour plates and 75 monochrome illustrations. London: Thames & Hudson, 1976. Second edition. Large quarto. Gold cloth embossed and titled in gilt. A fine copy in slipcase. €135 Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin.

157. HERBERT, Robert. Ed. by. Worthies of Thomond; Being a compendium of short lives of the most famous men and women of Limerick and Clare to the present day. First, second and third series. Three parts (all published). Illustrated. Limerick: McKern, 1944/46. pp. (1) 56, (2) 56, (3) 56. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €125 158. HICKEY, Kieran. Faithful Departed. The Dublin of James Joyce's Ulysses. Recaptured from classic photographs and assembly by Kieran Hickey, with an introductory essay by Des Hickey. Dublin: Published by Ward River Press, 1982. First edition. pp. xxxi, 73, [1]. Brown paper boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €45 Seventy-three classic photographs from the Lawrence Collection, long-departed Dubliners from 1904 candidly return the reader's gaze in these haunting images.

159. HILL, Lord George. Facts from Gweedore. Introduction by E. Estyn Evans. With large folding map. Belfast: Queens University, 1971 (reprint of 1887 edtn.). pp. xxvii, 64, Green paper wrappers. Signature on titlepage of E. Estyn Evans. Repair to spine. A very good copy. €65 160. HINCKS, William. The Linen Industry: A set of twelve sepia printed and coloured aquatints. Mounted in a large oblong folio volume. London: Published as the Act directs by R. Pollard, Spafields, June 20, 1791. Early twentieth century half green morocco on cream linen boards. Title in gilt direct. Some minor tears and occasional browning. A very good set.

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No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. The twelve plates are: I. View taken near Scarva in the County of Downe representing Ploughing, Sowing the Flax Seed and Harrowing; II. View taken near Hillsborough in the County of Downe, Representing Pulling the Flax when grown, Hooking or Putting it up to Dry, Ripling or saving the Seed and Boging or burying it in Water. III. Representing taking the Flax out of the Bog when it has been lain a sufficient time to separate the Rind which is the Flax from the Stem, & strengthen it, spreading it to dry, stoving, beetling, and breaking it. IV. Representing the common Method of Beetling, Scratching and Hackling the Flax. V. Perspective View of a Scutch Mill, with the Method of Breaking the Flax.

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De Búrca Ra re Books VI. Taken on the spot in the County of Downe, Representing Spinning, Reeling with the Clock Reel, and Boiling the Yarn. VII. Representing Winding, Warping with a new improved warping mill and Weaving. VIII. The Brown Linen Market at Banbridge. IX. A Complete Perspective View of all the Machinery of a Bleach Mill. X. View of a Bleach Green taken in the County of Downe. XI. Perspective View of a Lapping Room. XII. Perspective View of the Linen Hall in Dublin. Each plate is dedicated to members of the Landed Gentry and Aristocracy.

William Hincks was born in Waterford, and in early life was apprenticed to a blacksmith. Self-taught as an artist, his name first appears in 1773, when he was living in York Street, Dublin, and was an exhibitor of portraits in crayons at the Society of Artists in William Street. He made similar contributions the following year; and in 1775 he sent five works in oils and five in chalks. In 1777 he exhibited six portraits, including one of "A Siberian Cat", in possession of Lady St. George. In 1780 he went to London, and one of his first works on his arrival was a series of illustrations designed for an edition of Tristram Shandy.

This remarkable work by Hincks representing the process of producing linen from preparing the ground and sowing, to the arrival of the finished material for exportation at the Linen Hall in Dublin.

The depiction of an agri/industrial process is unique in Irish eighteenth century literature.

The series consists of twelve plates, each plate measuring 13 ½ by 16 ½ inches. The whole series was issued in an oblong folio volume. The set was republished in 1791 by R. Pollard, Spafields, London.

THE BARD OF THOMOND 161. HOGAN, Michael. Lays and Legends of Thomond. With historical and traditional notes.

New, select, and complete edition. Dublin: Gill, 1880. pp. xii, 9-449, 2. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. €135 "Lady Wilde presents her compliments and offers her best thanks to the 'Bard of Thomond', for his volume of varied and beautiful poems, which she has had the pleasure of perusing, every page of which affords brilliant evidence that the poet's ardour was kindled by that noblest of inspirations, 'love of country'. And while the past heroism and pathetic Legends of Ireland are cherished with such fervour and feeling as flash through the rich melody of Mr. Hogan's verse, the national spirit of her ancient chivalry can never die out.

Lady Wilde is happy to add one more name to her rosary of Irish Poets, consecrated in her memory by the nobleness of their genius, and must once more express her pleasure and gratitude at being both remembered and honoured by so distinguished a bard of Erin". - Lady Wilde to the Bard of Thomond.

162. HOGAN, Rev. Edmund. Distinguished Irishmen of the Sixteenth Century. First Series.

London: Burns and Oates, 1894. pp. xi, 506, 10 (works by Edmund Hogan and publisher's list).

Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. Label of Foyles on front pastedown, minor foxing to foreedges. A very good copy. €125 With biographical chapters on Bishop Edmund Tanner; Brother Dominic Collins; Fathers: David Woulfe; Edmund O'Donnell; Robert Rochfort; Charles Lea; Richard Fleming; John Howling; Thomas White; Nicholas Comerford; Walter Talbot; Florence O'More; Thomas Filde; Richard De La Field; Henry Fitzsimon; James Archer; William Bath and Christopher Hollywood.

163. [HOME RULE] "Hear the Right", An Irishman's Appeal to the British Working Man, being Twelve Questions on Home Rule for Ireland, with answers, supported by Official Statistics and Quotations from Speeches by Mr. Gladstone. Sir W. Harcourt, Mr. Bright, Mr. O'Brien, etc.

Armagh: McWatters, 1882. pp. 10. Original green wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €125 "AFTER OUR ARRIVAL THE DENUNCIATION FROM THE ALTAR BEGAN" 164. HOUSTOUN, Mrs. [Matilda Charlotte] Twenty Years in The Wild West; or, Life in Connaught. London: Murray, 1879. pp. xii, 288, 32. Pictorial cloth depicting an assassin shooting a gentleman in a pony and trap . Owner's signature on half-title. Publisher's presentation copy with embossed stamp. One corner lightly bumped. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare in this condition. €875 COPAC locates 7 copies only. WorldCat 2.

An Englishwoman's recollections of her twenty-two years of residence at Delphi, near Westport, County Mayo. An interesting work, instructive and exciting. She denounces absenteeism, the priests, and the over-population as the causes of the wretchedness, disaffection and discontent of the peasantry.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Ireland, isolated and apart from any society, and surrounded solely by the peasantry, may not be without value and interest. The determination to settle on a large un-reclaimed estate, amidst bogs and moors scarcely reached by roads, was associated with a wish, too romantic and sanguine as it turned out, to benefit the inhabitants of a district where resident landlords are scarce. How these intentions were frustrated by the calamities of Spiritual tyranny and a Reign of terror is explained in the following pages, the perusal of which may possibly also be found to throw light on the relations between Landlord and Tenant, Priest and People".

Includes publisher's catalogue at end.

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165. HOWARD, Gorges E. The Rules and Practice of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, With the Several Statutes relative thereto. As also, Several Adjudged Cases thereon. The work is with all deference most humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable James Lord Baron Lifford, of Lifford, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Dublin: Printed for Elizabeth Lynch, 1772. pp. xxix, [4], 326, 1 (Errors), [3]. Contemporary full calf. Joints starting but firm; lacks letterpiece. From the library of Thomas Acton, with his signature on titlepage. Dark stain to lower board. A good clean copy. €485 COPAC locates 4 copies only. No copy in NLI. Gorges Edmond Howard (1715-1786) was a miscellaneous writer. He was the son of Captain Francis Howard (of Dragoons) and Elizabeth (née Jackson). He was born in Coleraine and educated at Thomas Sheridan's school in Dublin. He wrote on the law and created literary works.

Howard became an apprentice in the exchequer at Dublin and after a dalliance with becoming a soldier, he persevered and became a solicitor. He secured a lucrative business as a solicitor and land agent, and published professional works at his own expense. He failed to achieve notability as a writer and he was satirised by Robert Jephson for his unsolicited productivity. Jephson invented a mock correspondence between George Faulkner and Howard, allegedly encouraged by Lord Townshend.

Howard was active in suggesting improvements in Dublin, having some skill as an architect. The freedom of the city was conferred on him in 1766. He died in Dublin in June 1786.

James Hewitt, 1st Viscount Lifford (1712-1789) lawyer and judge served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1767 to 1789.

Elizabeth Watts, bookseller, stationer, circulating library keeper was bookseller to the Courts of Law. She succeeded her husband Richard Watts, after his death in 1762. She married Revd. Stewart Lynch in 1768 and continued in business as E. Lynch.

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166. [HOWTH OYSTER BEDS] To be set for One Year By Auction, On Saturday the 18th of May, 1799, At the House of Marks Cullen, Publican, in Baldoyle in the County of Dublin; The Oyster Beds of Howth, which belonged to the late Mr. Chr. Sweetman, deceased. Dublin: Printed

by G. Walsh, 19 Wood-Quay, near Fishamble-street. 150mm x 175mm. Framed and glazed.

Possibly unique. €475 167. HUGHES, Kathleen. Early Christian Ireland: Introduction to the Sources. The Sources of History: Studies in the Use of Historical Evidence. New York: Cornell University Press, 1972. pp. 320. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Very good in dust jacket. €40 168. [HUMPHREYS, H. Noel] The Book of Ruth. Enriched with Coloured Borders, selected from some of the finest Illuminated MSS. in the British Museum, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Soane Museum, and other libraries. The Illuminations arranged and executed under the direction of Henry Noel Humphreys. London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1850. pp. [2], 31, [2]. Title printed in gold, illuminated half title. Text in black letter with superb chromolithographic illustrations. Contemporary full natural calf over bevelled boards, covers framed by panels with onlays of red morocco, title in gilt on upper and lower panels on red morocco label enclosing in the centre a gilt and red morocco arabesque design. Spine divided into six wide gilt raised bands, compartments tooled a centre and corner design with circular onlays in red. Turn-ins gilt; cream endpapers, red and gold endbands. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €475

COPAC locates 5 copies only.

Printed by Vizetelly & Co. Ruari McLean in his Victorian Book Design states that this is Humphreys best illuminated book.

169. HUTTON, Clare. Ed. by. The Irish Book in the Twentieth Century. Illustrated. Dublin: Irish Academic Press Ltd, 2004. pp. ix, [1], 211. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €25 A collection of twelve essays by scholars on Irish studies. The text covers a range of topics including: the Irish Arts and Crafts book in the 1900s by Nicola Gordon Bowe; Innovation and Reception in Irish Language Publishing in the 1900s by Niall Ó Ciosáin; Revising Irish Censorship by W. J. McCormack; Beckett's Early Career by John Pilling; Derek Mahon's Literary Archive by Steve Enniss; and Seamus Heaney's Sweeney's Flight by Colleen McKenna.

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De Búrca Ra re Books HARRY CLARKE'S COPY 170. HUYSMANS, Karl Joris. Against The Grain (À Rebours). A novel without a plot. Paris: Groves and Michaux, 1926. First edition in English. pp. xxxi, 299. Black cloth. In brown paper dust jacket, made and titled in ink by Harry Clarke. A private limited edition (so stated, unnumbered). Signature of Harry Clarke, dated 1929 on front flyleaf. A very good copy with a significant provenance. €375 A very handsome copy of the decadent novel that is taken to be a direct inspiration to Wilde's Portrait of Dorian Gray.

In 1930 Miss Sharmid asked Harry Clarke to illustrate a book to which his art was ideally suited Huysmans' Against the Grain, he wrote to her on 6 September explaining what a thin time the bad weather had been given him: "I regret it seems after all I cannot definitely promise to have the drawings for the Argus Press finished by January 1931, and therefore think I'd be better that we should call the commission off". He suggested that Allan Odle - "without exaggeration, the finest black and white artist in the world" - might undertake the work instead. The publishers eventually decided in favour of 'Alastair'.

As it turned out, the Chicago-based Argus Press, which had previously published two of John Austen's books, did not publish the book with Alastair's illustrations because of the Great Depression. It is perhaps one of the great losses to history of book illustration that Harry was already too ill to depict the neurotic Duc Jean Floressas des Esseintes on his fevered quest through the pages of this Symbolist text, rich with lengthy purple descriptions of arcane intellectual, sensual and aesthetic adventures, in what Arthur Symons described as the 'Breviary of the Decadence'.

171. [ILLUMINATED LEAF] Illuminated Manuscript on vellum from a French Book of Hours 'The Hours of the Virgin', 1485. 105 x 152mm. Written in Latin in brown ink in a gothic style, large initials in blue and red with white on a ground of burnished gold, foliate border painted in blue, red, yellow, brown and green. Framed and glazed. In fine condition. €285

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De Búrca Ra re Books 172. [IRISH ART] Irish Art Handbook. Architecture, Literature, Sculpture, Painting, Drama, Poetry, Music. With a supplement on Art Galleries, Schools of Art, Scholarships, Prizes and summary of useful information. Illustrated. Dublin: Cahill, 1943. pp. 164. Printed wrappers.

Covers browned. A very good copy. €85 With contributions by: Arthur Power, Mainie Jellett, Sean Keating, Joseph O'Neill, Aloys Fleischmann, Lord Longford, Micheál Mac Liammóir, etc.

173. [IRISH CONSTITUTION] Éire. The New Irish Constitution. The Citizen's Manual being a Simple Guide Through The New Constitution by a Member of the Bar. Dublin: James Duffy & Co., 1938. pp. 47. Printed stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €35 174. [IRISH HIGHLANDS] Hand-Book to Galway, Connemara, and the Irish Highlands.

Profusely illustrated by Jas. Mahony, Esq. With map of the district. London & Dublin: Routledge & M'Glashan, 1854. pp. 125, + adverts. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on upper cover, blind harp in centre of lower cover. Some thumbing, small tear to map, covers and spine darkened as usual, otherwise a good copy. Scarce. €145

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175. [IRISH LINEN] Irish Linen. An account of its processes of manufacture, incorporating the history of William Ewart & Son, Ltd., Belfast. With map and illustrations. Belfast: Harley Publishing Co. Ltd., for William Ewart & Son, 1950. pp. 22. Coat of arms in red, grey and gilt on upper cover. Stitched wrappers. A very good copy. €45 176. [IRISH NATIONAL FORESTERS] Irish National Foresters decorative membership certificate. circa 1910. Coloured lithograph, printed and published in Dublin by Monson, Robinson. (230 x 510mm). In fine condition. €150 The Irish National Foresters' Benefit Society (Coillteoirí Náisiúnta na hÉireann in Irish) is an Irish friendly society.

The I.N.F. began in 1877 as a breakaway from the Ancient Order of Foresters after political disagreements. The I.N.F. grew rapidly and soon became the largest friendly society in Ireland. It supported Irish nationalism and its constitution called for "government for Ireland by the Irish people in accordance with Irish ideas and Irish aspirations".

By 1914 the order had spread worldwide and had a quarter of a million members in over 1,000 branches. The influx of Irish labour into Scotland in the 19th century saw the movement gain a foothold, first in the west and later as far as the east coast.

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THE PATRIOT PARLIAMENT 177. [IRISH PARLIAMENT] An Exact List Of the Lords Spiritual & Temporal Who sate in the Pretended Parliament At Dublin In the Kingdom of Ireland; On the 7th of May, 1689, and there continued until the 18th of July following, and then Prorogued until the 12th of November next following. Also A List of the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons, in order as they were returned. Together With a Catalogue of the Titles of all Acts passed in the said Pretended Session, and Remarks upon them, and the Preamble to the Act of Repeal of the Acts of Settlement, as it passed in the House of Commons. And the several Reasons Addressed to the late King against passing the Act Intituled An Act for Repealing the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, &c. Licensed November the 13th, 1689. And Entered according to Order. London: Printed by T.B. [Thomas Braddyll] and are to be Sold by Randal Taylor, near Stationers-Hall, 1689. Quarto. pp. [iv], 27. Recent half calf on marbled boards. Title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. â‚Ź2,250 Sweeney 2519 Wing E 3657. COPAC locates 8 copies only. WorldCat 6. ESTC R31468 gives 2 locations in Ireland.

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De Búrca Ra re Books The Patriot Parliament is the name given to the session of the Irish Parliament called by King James II of Ireland during the War of the Two Kings in 1689. The parliament met in one session, from 7 May 1689 to 20 July 1689, and was the only session of the Irish Parliament under King James II. The Irish House of Lords had Lord Fitton as Lord Chancellor of Ireland on the woolsack. The Irish House of Commons elected Sir Richard Nagle as its Speaker.

The name "Patriot Parliament" was first used in 1893 by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, an Irish nationalist historian, in his edition of essays by his old friend Thomas Davis. In 1843 Davis himself had described the parliament as a "Patriot Senate" in his essay The Irish Parliament of James II. Listed are 35 acts that were passed by both Houses of Parliament during that session. To our knowledge these acts are not listed in any other publication. These include: The Act of Recognition, which was the first act of Parliament. It recognised James's right to the Imperial Crown of Ireland. It compared the usurpation by the Prince of Orange to the murder of his father King Charles I, emphasized indefeasible hereditary rights, and that the monarchy was founded on the Divine right of kings, and was not the result of any supposed contract between a king and his subjects.

The Declaratory Act affirmed that the Kingdom of Ireland had always been "distinct" from that of England, and that no Act of the English Parliament was binding on Ireland unless passed by the Irish Parliament. Poynings' Law however, remained as statute law.

Parliament also passed legislation or resolutions to effect: Liberty of Conscience: full freedom of worship and civic and political equality for Roman Catholics and Protestant Dissenters and the repeal of the Oath of Supremacy, but with the retention of the Act of Uniformity. James sought the abolition of penalties against liberty of conscience but did not seek to remove himself as head of the Church.

Repeal of the 1652 Cromwellian land settlement, and the Act of Settlement 1662, and therefore a return of all lands forfeited in 1652 to the descendants of the former owners at the time of the 1641 rebellion.

A Bill of attainder, "An Act for the Attainder of Divers Rebels, and for the Preserving the Interest of Loyal Subjects", named 2,000 treasonous Williamites, being opponents of James II, who were to lose their property and their lives.

Firth says that King James was opposed to the last two measures, but was "overborne by Tyrconnell and the Irish nationalists". The last or thirty-fifth act was for "reversal of the Attainder of William Ryan of Bally Ryan in the County of Tipperary Esq; and for restoring him to his Blood, corrupted by the said Attainder".

178. [IRISH RUGBY] Leinster Branch Irish Rugby Football Union. Association of Referees, Rules and Regulations 1955. Dublin: Drought Printers, n.d. [1955]. Small octavo. pp. 12. Some scoring and corrections in ink. Printed blue stapled wrappers. A good copy. €25 179. [IRISH PENNY JOURNAL] The Irish Penny Journal containing Original Contributions by several of the most eminent Irish writers 1840-41. Dublin: Gunn, 1841. pp. 416. Crown octavo. Recent full antique calf. A very good copy. €385

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De Búrca Ra re Books The complete run of the Irish Penny Journal published in 52 volumes from July 4, 1840 to June 26, 1841. A weekly paper edited by George Petrie, containing original contributions by William Carleton, James Clarence Mangan, John O'Donovan, Edward Walsh, James Hardiman, Anna Maria Hall. With several illustrations by William F. Wakeman "After a lull, in Penny Journals, 1836-1840, appeared the last of the great [ones], the Irish Penny Journal, high-minded, non-denominational, apolitical, founded by Petrie, O'Donovan, Wills, and friends; wholly national and untinctured by the slightest admixture of prejudices either political or sectarian; the want of a cheap literary publication for the great body of the people of the country, suited to their tastes and habits, combining instruction with amusement, avoiding the exciting and profitless discussion of political and polemical questions, and placed within reach of their humble means" Barbara Hayley's Irish Periodicals.

180. IRWIN, Thomas Caulfield. Poems. Dublin: M'Glashan & Gill, Upper Sackville-Street, 1866. pp. vii, 288 + errata. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Bookbinder's label on front pastedown (Galwey, / Binder / 32 Eustace St / Dublin). A very good copy. Scarce. €125 Thomas Caulfield Irwin, 1823-1892, was a poet, writer, and classical scholar. He was born in Warrenpoint, County Down, to a prosperous family and was educated privately. He travelled to Europe and Africa but later became impoverished through the collapse of family fortunes. He took up journalism in Dublin around 1848.

Irwin was highly regarded as a poet by his contemporaries. He was a prolific writer and contributed to the Dublin University Magazine and The Nation, among other publications. He wrote at least one novel and several volumes of poetry. He also carried out translations from classical and European writers. He died after years of poverty in Rathmines, Dublin, and is buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery.

181. IRWIN, Thomas C. Irish Poems and Legends; Historical and Traditionary, with Illustrative Notes. Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson, n.d. (c.1869). pp. 159, [32 (publisher's list)]. Pages 113 to 116 and 125 to 128 missing, otherwise very good. Scarce. €65 182. IRWIN, Thomas Caulfield. Songs and Romances, Etc. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 50 Upper Sackville-St., 1878. pp. 300, [4 (notes, press reviews + errata)]. Green cloth, title and foliage in gilt on upper cover within a ruled border, title in gilt on spine. Stamp of the Dublin Mechanics' Institute. Occasional light foxing, otherwise a very good copy. €75 183. IRWIN, Thomas Caulfield. Sonnets on the Poetry and Problems of Life. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1881. pp. [iii] + errata, 104. Red cloth, titled in gilt. Head and tail of spine worn, occasional light foxing. A good copy. €175 184. JASKI, Bart. Early Irish Kingship and Succession. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. pp.

360. Blue paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €95 185. [JAY, Harriet] The Queen of Connaught. New edition. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, n.d. (c.1877). pp. [iv], 324. Brown faded cloth, title in gilt on spine. Stamp of J. Hannon C.C. Nenagh on front free endpaper. A good copy. €125 Loeber J 12 cites the first edition.

Harriet Jay (1857-1932) novelist and playwright was born in London. She was sister-in-law, and later adopted daughter of the writer Robert Williams Buchanan. She was educated in Scotland and lived in County Mayo for a number of years with the Buchanans.

This story is set in the West of Ireland: an Englishman, John Birmingham, becomes involved with a community in the West when he marries Kathleen O'Mara. He tries to introduce English ideas in order to reform the Connacht peasantry, but failed.

186. JEBB, R. Horsley. Sport on Irish Bogs. Illustrated. London: Everett & Co, 1910. pp. 192. Recent green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Scarce. See illustration opposite. €65 The humour of this work is much enhanced by the illustrations. Adventures and anecdotes picked up during fishing holidays in the West.

187. JOHNSON, D. Idle Idylls. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1897. pp.

32. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Rare. €145 Not in O'Donoghue.

A book of poetry celebrating the beauty of County Sligo, Bundoran, fairies and on the joy of cycling. Early reference to W.B. Yeats in 'Fairy Revels'.

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188. [JONES, Owen] The Song of Songs. Illuminated by Owen Jones. London: Longmans, 1849. pp. 32. Bound by Remnant and Edmonds of London (Binding designed by Owen Jones), executed in Leak's patient 'Reliveo' process; chestnut calf over shallow bevelled boards; front cover with embossed ornamental borders, dot and line strapwork surround, foliate spandrels, and floral-decorated titling 'The Song of Songs'; rear cover repeating front, except floral-decorated monogram for titling. Spine with embossed floral ornaments, turn-in with gilt-stamped geometric and floral ornaments; green patterned floral endpapers. All edges gilt. Very good condition. €395 189. JOYCE, Rev. J. Scientific Dialogues, intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young People: in which the First Principles of Natural and Experimental Philosophy are fully explained. A new edition with additions and improvements. Illustrated with twenty-two engraved plates. Six volumes. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825. 12mo. Contemporary quarter crimson morocco on marbled boards. Flat spine titled in gilt, with volume numbers.

Minor wear to corners and spine ends of some volumes. A very good set. Rare. €225 COPAC locates 4 sets only.

190. JOYCE, James. Dubliners. London: Grant Richards, 1914. First edition. pp. 278. Original red cloth with gilt lettering. Of a total of 1250 copies, this is one of only 746 copies bound by Richards, the remaining 504 were sent to America for the edition published by Huebsch. Spine lightly but evenly faded. Prelims lightly foxed, spotting to fore-edges. A very good copy of a very scarce book. €5,850 Slocum and Cahoon A8.

A collection of fifteen short stories written by Joyce over a three year period (1904-1907). Difficulties in finding a publisher and Joyce's initial refusal to alter any passage thought to be objectionable kept it from being published until 1914. When Joyce first submitted his proposal for this collection to Grant Richards he wrote: "I do not think that any writer has yet presented Dublin to the world. It has been a capital of Europe for thousands of years, it is supposed to be the second city of the British Empire.

From time to time I see in publisher's lists announcements of books on Irish subjects so that I think people might be willing to pay for the special odour of corruption which, I hope, floats over my stories".

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In May 1906, Joyce clearly stated his overall purpose and design in writing the stories: "My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The stories are arranged in this order. I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness and with the conviction that he is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen and heard".

SCARCE FIRST EDITION 191. JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach. Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1927. First edition. Small 12mo. pp. [24] + errata. Original pale green boards. Spine professionally rebacked. Slight suntanning near spine on both covers. A very good copy. â‚Ź675 Slocum & Cahoon A24 Pomes Penyeach contains thirteen poems, beneath each poem is printed in italics the place and year of composition.

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

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De Búrca Ra re Books LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY JOYCE 192. JOYCE, James. Anna Livia Plurabelle. With a preface by Padraic Colum. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First edition. pp. xviii, [1], 61. Bound in brown cloth, blind-stamped and with inverted gilt triangle in the centre of the upper cover. Spine with gilt title and decorations.

Top edge gilt. Edition limited to 800 numbered copies, signed by James Joyce. A very good copy. €2,450 Slocum & Cahoon A32.

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

193. [JOYCE, James] Anna Livia. By Maciej Slomczynski. Programme for the Polish writers theatre piece created from fragments of Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Performed at the Gaiety Theatre, September 27-October 9, 1982. Dublin: Elo Press for the Dublin Theatre Festival, 1982. pp. [12]. Pictorial stapled wrappers. €35 194. JOYCE, P.W. Old Irish Folk Music and Songs. A collection of 842 Irish airs and songs hitherto unpublished. Edited, with annotations, for the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.

Dublin: Hodges Figgis, and London: Longmans, 1909. First edition. pp. xxxvi, 408, 4 (author's works). Green cloth decorated in gilt to a Celtic design, titled in gilt. Minor wear to corners and spine ends. A very good copy. €235 195. JOYCE, P.W. A Child's History of Ireland. Coloured frontispiece from The Book of MacDurnan. With numerous illustrations and folding map of Ireland. London: Longmans and Dublin: Gill, 1901. pp. xvi, 508, 4 (publisher's list). Green cloth with gilt Celtic designs and title.

New front endpaper. A very good copy. €65 P.W. Joyce followed in the footsteps of Bunting and Petrie, of O'Donovan and O'Curry, reaching, however, a larger public than any of these four had reached, for the fields he laboured in were more numerous and, as well as that, he principally wrote not for scholars but for the ordinary people of Ireland, people such as he had known in that lovely and never-forgotten countryside round about Glenosheen.

196. [JVSTYCE OF PEACE] The Boke For a Jvstyce of Peace : Neuer Soo Welle and Diligently Set Forthe. Foreword by George Bryson. [Four Oaks]: Bracebridge Press, 1942. Quarto. Reprint of the London edition of 1536 in the possession of the publisher. pp. [4], 39, [1]. Borders ruled in red. Three quarter crushed levant burgundy morocco on linen boards. Title and gilt decoration along spine. Red and gold endbands. Edition limited to 180 copies. Top edge gilt. A superb copy. €175 COPAC locates 1 copy only of this edition.

Erroneously attributed to Sir Anthony Fitzherbert. Early treatises on the practice of the justices of the peace.

The publisher in his colophon states "This Book, the second production from the Bracebridge Press, has been printed from an original copy in my library, which was printed in 1536 by Thomas Berthelet (or Berthel) who had been appointed Kings Printers in 1530" W.T. Wiggins-Davies.

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De Búrca Ra re Books June, 1952. Dublin: Corrigan & Wilson, 1952. Quarto. pp. [8]. Pictorial wrappers. Some wear with a few small tears. A very good copy. €65

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198. KEATING, Geoffrey. Foras Feasa ar Éirinn. The History of Ireland from The Earliest Period to the English Invasion. By the Reverend Geoffrey Keating, D.D. Translated from the original Gaelic, and copiously annotated, by John O'Mahony. Three volumes. Kansas City: Irish Genealogical Foundation, 1983. Green cloth with Celtic design on upper cover, and title in gilt on spine. A fine set. €125 Geoffrey Keating was born c.1570 in Burges, County Tipperary. He is known to have gone about Ireland in disguise collecting his materials, and apparently he met Michael O'Clery, Chief of the Four Masters, on his travels. The history, begun in 1629, was completed in 1634 by which time he was parish priest in Cappoquin. It was not published however for almost a century and O'Connor's translation was not well received at the time. Of the prose writers of the seventeenth century Dr. Douglas Hyde states: "He was a man of literature, a poet, professor, theologian, and historian, in one.

He brought the art of writing limpid Irish to its highest perfection".

199. KELLY, Fergus. A Guide to Early Irish Law. Dublin: Institute for Advanced Studies, 2003. pp. xiii, 358. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. Small label removed from front pastedown. A fine copy in dust jacket. €30 The aim of the Early Irish Law Series, published by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, is to provide editions of Old Irish law-texts, as well as discussions of particular topics relating to Early Irish Law. This is Volume III of the Early Irish Law Series.

200. [KELLY] Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed, & Official Classes for 1901. TwentySeventh Annual Edition. London: Published by Kelly's Directories, Limited, n.d.. Octavo. pp. viii, 1336, 24 (adverts). Red cloth decorative in gilt with heraldic emblems. From the library of FitzGerald Kenney with their embossed stamp on titlepage. All edges marbled. A very good copy. €225 James FitzGerald-Kenney (1878-1956) was an Irish politician and Senior Counsel. He was first elected at the June 1927 general election as a Cumann na nGaedheal TD for the Mayo constituency. He was appointed to the Cabinet in his first year in Dáil Éireann as Minister for Justice.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Fitzgerald Kenney of Galway and Helena Crean-Lynch. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College and University College Dublin where he took his degree in 1898. He was called to the Bar in 1899 and rapidly built up a large practice on the Western Circuit. He was called to the Inner Bar in 1925.

In politics FitzGerald-Kenney was until 1918 a firm supporter of John Redmond; he joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914 and was one of the earliest members of the Gaelic League. He was re-elected at every election until he lost his seat at the 1944 general election. He subsequently retired from politics, and spent his remaining years farming at Clogher on the land he inherited from his mother. He died in 1956.

Historians have not paid much attention to James FitzGerald-Kenney's career as Minister: he is overshadowed by the more charismatic figures of his predecessor Kevin O'Higgins and the Garda Commissioner Eoin O'Duffy. His appointment after only a few months in the Dail naturally caused surprise, and his lack of experience made him the target of Opposition attacks. Admirers however praised his ability to shrug off such attacks and his barrister's talent for making impromptu replies.

Unlike O'Higgins, he allowed O'Duffy complete discretion as to how he ran the police force. He occasionally invited ridicule in his willingness to defend O'Duffy: his claim that a victim of Garda brutality had been knocked down by a cow led to a brief fashion for referring to Gardaí as "FitzgeraldKenney's cows".

201. KING, Robert. A Memoir Introductory to the Early History of the Primacy of Armagh, with some Account of the Ancient Discipline, Official Persons, &c, of the Irish Church Previously to its Subjugation to the See of Rome in the Twelfth Century. Second edition. Printed for subscribers only. Armagh: Thompson, 1854. Folio. pp. [iv], 112, v (index). Brown blindstamped cloth, title and arms of the Episcopal See of Armagh in gilt on upper cover. All edges red. A fine copy. Scarce. €385 COPAC locates 5 copies only. WorldCat 3.

202. KING, Robert. The Little Red Book of the History of the Holy Catholic Church in Ireland.

Dublin: James M'Glashan, 1848. 12mo. pp. xii, 104. Title printed in red and black within a ruled border. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €165 COPAC locates 5 copies only. WorldCat 1 copy.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 203. KINSELLA, Thomas. Another September. Poems. Dublin: Dolmen, 1962. New edition. pp. vii, 47. Beige cloth. Signed by Kinsella on titlepage. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in dust jacket with Book Society paper slip. €165 Miller 29a.

His first trade collection, preceded only by small limited editions. "With Another September, Thomas Kinsella firmly established his reputation as a poet. This was the first of our books to be chosen by the Poetry Book Society and also the first book published outside England to be chosen by the Society. It is also the first fully 'professional' publication from the Dolmen Press as, with the move to a Georgian basement in Upper Mount Street, Dublin, the publishing and printing work became a fulltime occupation for me" - Liam Miller.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 204. KINSELLA, Thomas. Downstream. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1962. First edition. Beige cloth. Signed by Kinsella on titlepage. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in dust jacket with Book Society paper slip. €185 Miller 52.

Perhaps the best of Kinsella's early collections. Downstream was Kinsella's second Poetry Book Society Choice, the first occasion on which the Society had chosen two consecutive books by the same poet.

205. KINSELLA, Thomas. Notes from the Land of the Dead. Poems. With owl woodcut on titlepage. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1972. First edition. pp. iv, 72. Quarter cream lemon on pale blue paper boards, title on black on upper cover and on printed label along spine. Edition limited to 500 copies. A fine copy. €150 This is the only original work by a living writer published by the revived Cuala Press, of which Kinsella was a director.

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De Búrca Ra re Books LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THOMAS KINSELLA & ANNE YEATS 206. KINSELLA, Thomas One. Illustrated by Anne Yeats. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1974.

Peppercanister 5. Tall octavo. pp. [32]. Sewn in plain white card covers with dust jacket attached at the spine. Edition limited to 750 copies. Signed and inscribed by Thomas Kinsella and Anne Yeats. A very good copy. €175 SIGNED BY KINSELLA 207. KINSELLA, Thomas. One Fond Embrace. Illustrated by Timothy Engelland.

Massachusetts: The Deerfield Press & Dublin, The Gallery Press, 1981. First edition. pp. [16].

Black cloth titled in gilt along spine. Edition limited to 300 copies signed by Thomas Kinsella. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €135

208. KIPLING, Rudyard. The Irish Guards in the Great War. Edited and compiled from their diaries and papers. Volume I The First Battalion. Vol II The Second Battalion and Appendices.

With numerous maps. Two volumes. London: Macmillan, 1923. First edition, second printing. pp. (1) xvi, 344, (2) vi, 310, 2 (author's works). Red cloth, regimental badge in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on spines. A fine set. €185 209. KOHL, J.G. Ireland. Dublin, the Shannon, Limerick, Cork and the Kilkenny Races, the Round Towers, the Lakes of Killarney, the County of Wicklow, O'Connell and the Repeal Association; Belfast, and the Giant's Causeway. London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, 1843. pp. [ii], 248. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, spine divided into five compartments by four wide gilt raised bands, title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece in the second. Mild foxing to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €295 Johann Georg Kohl, the German travel writer came to Ireland in September 1842 "without" as he said himself, "any object in view other than to become acquainted with the country, and to see everything that was interesting and remarkable in it". Kohl was an experienced and astute observer and his widespread travels allowed him to compare Irish conditions with the general European experience. His book on Ireland is therefore an unbiased account from a neutral traveller unlike many of his contemporaries and provides a most valuable insight into the conditions of pre-Famine Ireland.

Landing in Dublin, he found the houses and buildings there much the same as those in English cities.

From there he proceeded to Edgeworthstown, on to Athlone, Shannon, Limerick, Kilrush, Tarbert, Tralee, The Lakes, Bantry, Cork, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford, Belfast, Giant's Causeway, Coast of Antrim - the MacQuillans and Macdonnells, Fair Head, etc.

FREEDOM PAMPHLET 210. KROPOTKIN, Peter. The Commune of Paris. London: "Freedom" Office, 127 Ossulston Street, 1909. pp. 15. Printed stitched wrappers. A good copy. €65 A copy of this pamphlet was in James Joyce's Trieste Library (1920).

211. LEASK, Harold G. Irish Churches and Monastic Buildings. Three volumes. I, The First Phases and the Romanesque. II, Gothic Architecture to A.D. 1400. III, Medieval Gothic The Last Phases. Illustrated. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1977. Second edition. Royal octavo. pp. (1) xvii, 173, (2) xvi, 162, (3) xviii, 190. Black paper boards titled in gilt. A fine set in very good dust jacket. €145 61

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SIGNED COPY 212. LE BROCQUY, Sybil. Swift's Most Valuable Friend. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1968. First edition. pp. 128. Black paper boards, titled in gilt. Signed presentation copy from the author. A very good copy in price-clipped dust jacket. €65 213. LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Published by Harper Collins, 1999. pp. [x], 323. Grey paper boards, titled in silver on spine. Signed by the author on half title. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €575

First Printing of the 40th Anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author's observations of her family and neighbours, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

The novel is renowned for its warmth and humour, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. One critic explains the novel's impact by writing, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its protagonist, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism".

To Kill a Mockingbird appeared on the 'big screen' in 1962, directed by Robert Mulligan. The screenplay by Horton Foote was based on the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Harper Lee. It starred Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch and Mary Badham in the role of Scout.

The film, widely considered to be one of the greatest ever made, earned an overwhelmingly positive response from critics, and was a box office success as well, earning more than 10 times its budget. The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Peck, and was nominated for eight, including Best Picture.

In 1995, the film was listed in the National Film Registry. It also ranks twenty-fifth on the American Film Institute's 10th anniversary list of the greatest American movies of all time. In 2003, AFI named Atticus Finch the greatest movie hero of the 20th century.

Even from a small English village, Atticus Finch, the lawyer defending a wrongly accused African American in the deep south of America, seemed the epitome of quiet decency, fatherly tenderness and physical courage.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 214. LE FANU, J. S. The Poems of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Edited by Alfred Perceval Graves.

With a portrait of J.S. Le Fanu. London: Downey & Co., 1896. pp. xxviii, 165. Publisher's decorated cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Some wear. Very good. Very scarce. €475 215. LESLIE, Shane. A Collection of Books: 1. Songs of Oriel. 2. Lough Derg in Ulster. 3. Isle of Columbcille, A Pilgrimage and a Sketch. 4. End of a Chapter. 5. Henry Edward Manning, His Life and Labours. 6. The Oxford Movement 1833 to 1933. 7. Saint Patrick's Purgatory. 8. Long Shadows. 9. Carleton's Country. By Rose Shaw. Foreword by Shane Leslie. Nine volumes.

Dublin: C.T.S., Maunsel, Talbot Press, The Three Candles. London: Constable, Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1908-1966. Octavo and quarto. Various bindings: cloth paper boards. In good to very good condition. Scarce collection. €350 216. LYNCH, Patricia. Jinny the Changeling. Illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. London: J.M. Dent, 1959. First edition. pp. 188. Red paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in price-clipped (with partial loss to text) illustrated dust jacket. Scarce. €75 217. LYONS, J. B. Brief Lives of Irish Doctors. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: Blackwater, 1978. Quarto. pp. 182. Brown buckram, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from the author. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 218. MACARDLE, Dorothy. Tragedies of Kerry 1922-1923. Ninth edition. Dublin: Irish Book Bureau, n.d. (c.1960). pp. 60, + adverts. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Repair to spine, a very good copy. €25 219. MacBRIDE, Seán., S.C., T.D. Our People - Our Money. Three lectures. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1949. pp. 61. Recent paper wrappers. Previous owner's signature on titlepage. A very good copy. €45 These three lectures were delivered publicly by Mr. Seán MacBride, S.C., T.D., under the auspices of Clann na Poblachta at the Catholic Commercial Club, O'Connell Hall, Dublin on the 13th, 18th and 22nd October, 1949, shortly after the devaluation of the pound on the 18th September, 1949.

220. McCARTHY, Michael J.F. Rome in Ireland. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1904. First edition. pp. viii, 350, 2 (author's works). Green cloth, titled in white. Wear and fading to spine. A good working copy. Scarce. €35 221. McCOOLE, Sinéad. No Ordinary Women. Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923. Lavishly illustrated. Dublin: O'Brien Press, 2003. First edition. pp. 288. Brown paper boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 222. M'CULLOUGH, W.H. Ireland's Way Forward. Report of the Irish Communist Conference, October 1942. Belfast: Published for The Communist Party, n.d. [1942]. pp. 46, [1].

Printed red wrappers. A good copy. €25 The contents includes: Derry to Cork; Second Front in Europe; Ireland and Fight against Fascism; Communist Fight for Unity; Ireland's Way Forward, etc.

223. MacDERMOT, Frank. Theobald Wolfe Tone. A Biographical Study. Illustrated. London: Macmillan and Co., 1939. First edition. pp. xvi, 342, 2. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from the author to J.L. Mahaffey, dated Christmas 1939. Small ink stain to fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €75 224. MacDERMOTT, Martin. Ed. by. The New Spirit of the Nation; or, Ballads and Songs by The Writers of 'The Nation'. Containing songs and ballads published since 1845. Edited, with an introduction, by Martin MacDermott. London & Dublin: Unwin & Sealy, 1894. pp. xxi, 198, 8.

Quarter blue cloth on brown cloth. A good copy. €65 The ballads and songs were originally published in The Nation newspaper. The contributors include: Thomas Davis, James Clarence Mangan, William Drennan, Michael Doheny, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, M.J. Barry, Edward Walsh, Martin MacDermott, Lady Wilde, John C. O'Callaghan, Hugh Harkin, J. Keegan, D.F. McCarthy, etc.

225. [MacDEVITT, James. Bishop of Raphoe] The Donegal Highlands. Folding map with route for tours and excursions in outline colouring. Dublin: Murray, n.d. (c.1865). pp. xx, 248.

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De Búrca Ra re Books A descriptive narrative of the historic and scenic county of Donegal. The author gives us an historical summary prior to his excursions throughout the county starting at Belleek onto Ballyshannon, to Donegal, to Killybegs, to Kilcar, to Carrick, to Ardara, to Glenties, To Dungloe, to Gweedore, to Dunfanaghy and Letterkenny, to Rathmelton, to Buncrana, and from Moville to Derry.

226. MacDONAGH, Donagh. Veterans and Other Poems. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1941. pp.

35. Cream cloth on blue paper boards, title in black on upper cover and on printed label along spine. Edition limited to 270 copies, this is Number 136. Top edge uncut. A fine copy. €375 Printed by Esther Ryan and Maire Gill.

227. McDONAGH, Martin. The Leenane Trilogy. 1. The Beauty Queen of Leenane. 2. A Skull in Connemara. 3. The Lonesome West. Illustrated programme. Galway: Druid Theatre, n.d. pp.

20. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €20 SIGNED BY SEAN MacENTEE 228. MacENTEE, John Francis. The Poems of John Francis MacEntee. Edited with an introductory note by Padric Gregory. Dublin: The Talbot Press, n.d. (c.1917) pp. 79. Green blindstamped cloth. Signed by Sean MacEntee on front endpaper. Loosely inserted is a typed letter from Dr. MacEntee's personal assistant to Benedict Daly who requested to have the book signed.

A very good copy. €85 229. [MacKENZIE, Henry. Ed. by] The Mirror. A Periodical Paper, Published at Edinburgh in the Years 1779, and 1780. The fourth edition corrected. In two volumes. Dublin: Printed by T. Henshall, for T. Walker, J. Beatty, R. Burton, P. Byrne, T. Webb, and J. Cash, 1782. pp. (1) vi, 288, (2) viii, 288. Contemporary full worn calf, spines lacking labels. Inscription on verso of titlepage on volume I: 'Marmaduke Thompson / of / Ballingarry Castle / (in the County of Tipperary) / his Book / 1812'. Recased. A good copy. €275 COPAC locates 9 copies only. This edition not on WorldCat.

230. MacLYSAGHT, Edward. A Guide to Irish Surnames. Dublin: Helicon, 1964. pp. 248.

Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy in dust jacket. €45 The present work, as well as including an introduction on the subject of surnames in Ireland and an extensive bibliography of Irish family histories, contained a brief precis of 2,500 names arranged in alphabetical order followed by the Gaelic-Irish form.

231. MacLYSAGHT, Edward. Supplement to Irish Families. Dublin: Helicon, 1964. Quarto. pp. 163. Blue buckram, titled in gilt. A very good copy in 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).

232. MacSWINEY, Terence. Souvenir Programme of the Commemoration of the Second Anniversary of the Death of Terence MacSwiney held at St. John's Hall, Richmond, on Monday, October 16th, 1922. Medallion portrait of the Patriot on verso of titlepage. Eight pages. Stapled printed wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €85 The event was organised by the Irish Self-Determination League, Richmond Branch, and included songs, recitations and plays.

233. MacSWINEY, Terence. The Freeman's Journal.

Dublin. Tuesday, October 26, 1920. 8 pages, front page banner headline "The Supreme Sacrifice". With large portrait of Terence J. MacSwiney, taking up the whole front page. Captioned 'Alderman Terence J. MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, Died for Ireland, October 25, 1920'.

Most of the inside pages are taken up with the death of Terence MacSwiney, with the editorial "Life Everlasting 64

De Búrca Ra re Books there are no words within our vocabulary which fitly express our contempt and loathing of the time-servers who saw this great man go to his death, and stirred not a hand to save him". Also with family portraits of his wife, daughter and brother Sean. Newspaper complete and in very good condition. €225 234. [MADDEN, Daniel Owen] Ireland and its Rulers; since 1829. First and Second Parts.

London: Newby, 1843. pp. [2], 353, [1], 142. Contemporary half calf on cloth boards, spine expertly rebacked. A very good copy. €145 With chapters on: The Two Irish Nations, Upper and Lower; O'Connell's Early Career, The Northumberland Government, The Doneraile Conspiracy, The Agitator's Position in 1830, Chief Secretary Stanley, The Anglesea Administration, Fergus O'Connor, The Great Dan and his Tail, The Roman Catholic Priests. Father Matthew, Sir Robert Peel's Conduct and Position, The Present Agitation. Appendix: A Plan of Tenure Reform for Ireland by Stephen Barry, Esquire, of Fermoy.

Second Part: Men and Measures in 1833; The second Wellesley Vice Royalty; Charles Kendal Bushe and Baron Smith.

Only eight chapters of the second part are present. The author mentions a third part (chapter 9-16?) 'to be published in April'.

235. MAHON, Derek. Somewhere The Wave. Drawings and Watercolours by Bernadette Kiely.

Loughcrew: The Gallery Press, 2007. [32]. Blue cloth, title blind-stamped on upper cover.

Edition limited to 500 copies, signed and numbered by the author, of which only 450 are for sale.

A fine copy in dust jacket. €150 236. MAHR, Adolph & RAFTERY, Joseph. Christian Art in Ancient Ireland. Selected objects illustrated and described. Edited on behalf of the Government of the Irish Free State by Adolph Mahr and Joseph Raftery. Two volumes. Dublin: Published by the Stationery Office, 1932.

Imperial quarto. pp. (1) xxvii, 80 [plates], (2) 184, 50 [plates] + errata. Half buckram on linen. A very good copy. Rare. €395 This work traces pre-Christian Celtic art in all its forms. It also attempts to answer questions on the chronology and the connections of early Celtic art with the arts of Europe.

Christian Art in Ancient Ireland was cultivated by the stimulating force of early Irish Christianity. The Church was, effectively, the 'raison d'être' of the adaptation of an art already known and we can sense the ever-present urge to produce something really spectacular for the service of God. With the excellent large format collotype plates of objects of Irish art, not only from the Irish museum and private collections but also from collections in Britain, Norway, Denmark, France and Belgium.

237. MÁIRE. [Séamus Mac Grianna] An Aibidil a Rinne Cadmus. Baile Átha Cliath: Comhlucht na Fírinne, Catoilice in Éirinn, 1945. pp. 16. Pictorial stapled wrappers. Some light fraying to edges. A very good copy. Very rare. €65 238. MANGAN, James Clarence. Anthologia Germanica; or, A Garland from the German Poets, And Miscellaneous Poems. Two volumes. Dublin: James Duffy, 1884. 16mo. pp. (1) xxxi, 256 (2) viii, 248. Title printed in red and black within a ruled border. Green pebbled cloth, upper cover blind stamped in black to a panel design, title and a vase with flowers in gilt on upper covers, title in gilt on spine. A very good set. Very scarce. €245 COPAC locates the BL and TCD copies only. NLI 1 copy. WorldCat 1 copy.

James Clarence Mangan, (1803-1849) was the son of a former hedge school teacher who took over a grocery business and eventually became bankrupt. Born in Dublin, he was educated at a Jesuit school where he learned the rudiments of Latin, Spanish, French, and Italian. Obliged to find a job in order to support his 65

De Búrca Ra re Books family, he became a lawyer's clerk, and was later an employee of the Ordnance Survey and an assistant in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. From 1820 onwards he adopted the middle name Clarence and after the famine he began writing poems with a strong nationalist bent, including influential works such as My Dark Rosaleen ('Róisín Dubh') and A Vision of Connaught in the Thirteenth Century.

Mangan was a lonely and difficult man who suffered from mood swings, depression and irrational fears, and became a heavy drinker. His appearance was eccentric, and later in life he was often seen wearing a long cloak, green spectacles and a blond wig. In 1849, weakened by poverty, alcoholism and malnutrition, he succumbed to cholera, aged 46, and was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.

See items 238 & 239.

239. MANGAN, James Clarence. The Poets and Poetry of Munster: A selection of Irish songs by the poets of the last century. With poetical translations. Illustrated by the Original Music and Biographical Sketches of the Authors. Irish text revised by W.M. Hennessy. To which are Prefixed The Fragment of an Unfinished Autobiography of Mangan, And a Memoir of the Poet's Life by Rev. C.P. Meehan. With a New Introduction by John P. Dalton. Dublin: James Duffy, 1925. Fourth edition. Small quarto. pp. lx, 355. Pictorial green cloth, titled in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €135 W.B. Yeats described Mangan as "Our one poet raised to the first rank by intensity" and James Joyce praised him as "The most magnificent poet of the modern Celtic world, and one of the most inspired lyric singers that ever used the Lyric form in any country".

Poets and Poetry of Munster is his major collection of verse, and contains some of the best of his poems, and his finest and most famous renderings from the Gaelic.

240. [MANUSCRIPT] Minute Book of the Proceedings of the Select Vestry of Clontibret Parish in the County of Monaghan. Written in various hands covering a period of fifty-two years from 1871-1923. Note on first leaf 'this book was presented to the Vestry by F.S. Filgate, Esqr. 10th Nov. 1871'. Attending at the first meeting were the Revd. C.J. Ferguson, William Coote, Esqr., James Johnston, Stewart Boyd, Thomas Short, James Dunne, Harry Whitcraft, John Straghan and George Douglas.

The select vestry of a parish is the committee, elected annually at the general vestry meeting, that has responsibility for the administration of the parish finances and care of buildings. It is chaired by the incumbent (rector or vicar). Matters relating to the Parish were discussed, including fixed salary for the incumbent Rector, purchase of the Glebe House, financial matters such as 66

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subscriptions and contributions. Letters and correspondence were read out at the meetings. Large quarto volume consisting of approximately 261 pages in manuscript. Bound in old worn half calf on worn marbled boards, label of Charles Chambers Account Book Manufacturer, 36 Dame Street on front pastedown. Contents in very good condition. €475 241. [MARRIAGE LICENSE] Marriage License, printed and in manuscript, granted to John Smith and Mary Rider. The marriage ceremony was carried out by the Rev. Robert Truell, Clerk, Master of Arts, Vicar of the Parish of Newcastle in the Diocese of Dublin. Dated 20th November 1782 and signed by Alexander MacLaine, Deputy Registrar. €75 242. MARTIN, Hugh. Ireland in Insurrection. An Englishman's Record of Fact. With a preface

by Sir Philip Gibbs. Map frontispiece. London: Daniel O'Connor, 1921. pp. 223. Title printed in red and black. Green paper boards, title on printed label on spine. Small stain to upper cover, otherwise a very good copy. €65 An account of the author's experiences as a special correspondent of The Daily News in 1920. With a sketch map of Ireland showing the towns and villages mentioned.

With chapters on: The Strange Case of Newport Creamery; Miracle and Madness in Tipperary; Roscommon's Agony; Fire and Shears in County Kerry; Terror as a Fine Art; The Terror at Tralee; If only England Knew!; Belfast Pogrom; The Terror Day by Day; Darkest Ireland and the Way Out, etc.

243. MASEFIELD, John. Some Memories of W.B. Yeats. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1950. pp.

[3], 27, [2]. Quarter cream lemon on blue paper boards, title in black on upper cover and on printed label along spine. Edition limited to 370 copies, this is Number 136. A fine copy in glassine wrapper. €235 67

De Búrca Ra re Books 244. MAYNE, Eric. Original signed photographic postcard of Eric Mayne. 138 x 88m.

Postmarked in 1918. In very good condition. €75 Eric Mayne, 1865-1947, was born in Dublin and educated at Westminster and Durham. He spent almost thirty years on the stage in both London and Ireland. He had a penchant for Shakespearean roles and in later years lectured on Shakespeare at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mayne, with his imposing six-foot frame and beard, was tailormade for the silent screen and invariably cast as a heavy or comic foil. After arriving in Hollywood, he became an immensely prolific, sought-after character player. He co-starred in Oscar Apfel's adventure film 'The Oakdale Affair' (1919), opposite Evelyn Greeley. In Rudolph Valentino's 'The Conquering Power' (1921), he enjoyed high billing as Victor Grandet and was a memorable Dr. Saulsbourg in Harold Lloyd's comedy 'Dr. Jack' (1922). Eric's name was high up in the credits again in the John Ford-directed 'Cameo Kirby' (1923) as Colonel Randall, and there were many more roles to follow.

Eric Mayne's career declined with the advent of sound pictures, though he remained in demand as an extra and small-part supporting actor. He played several more 'doctors', notably in 'East Lynne' in 1931 and the Victor McLaglen comedy 'Rackety Rax' in 1932, but subsequently only bit parts came his way.

Mayne, nonetheless, continued in films until his death in Hollywood in February 1947.

245. MILLIGAN, Alice. Two Poems. With frontispiece of Samuel Ferguson and woodcut illustration. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1943. pp. 13. Pictorial stitched wrappers.

A very good copy. €165 Loosely inserted is the Publisher's note mentioning a subscriptional testimonial to the author, and the circumstances of this booklet with regard to war-time paper shortage.

The poems included are: 'In Memoriam Samuel Ferguson 1810-1866' and 'Mountain Shapes'.

WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF THE GPO AND RATHFARNHAM CASTLE 246. MILTON, John. The Poetical Works John Milton. Reprinted from the best editions. With Memoir, Explanatory and Glossarial Notes. Original illustrations and steel portrait. Two volumes in one. London: Warne, n.d. (c.1882). pp. xxvi, 581, [1]. Small quarto. Bound for Hodges, Foster & Co. of Dublin, in full green morocco. Covers blocked in blind to a panel design enclosing in the centre the badge of Trinity College Dublin in gilt. Spine divided into five compartments by four raised bands, title lettered in gilt in the second; gilt edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt; all edges gilt. With double fore-edge painting of the General Post Office and Rathfarnham Castle. Minor wear to spine and corners. A very good copy. €475 Provenance: Trinity College Premium awarded to E. Molloy, with label on front pastedown dated 1882. See illustrations above and below.

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"LIBERTY EQUALITY FRATERNITY" 247. MITCHEL, John. The United Irishman. Vol I No. I, February 12, 1848 - Vol I No. I, 6, May 27, 1848. Printed and published by John Mitchel, at his Office, 12 Trinity Street. Complete.

Bound with: The Irish Felon, Successor to the United Irishman. Vol I No. I, June 24, 1848 - Vol I No. 5, July 22, 1848. All published. Dublin: 1848. Large folio. pp. 248, 80 (triple column).

Recent quarter morocco on buckram boards. One penny stamp of United Irishmen on some pages, also with the stamp of the Nation Office. A very good copy. Extremely rare. â‚Ź2,750

John Mitchel (1815-75). Young Irelander and journalist, was born in Dungiven, County Derry, the son of a Presbyterian minister. The family moved in 1822 to Newry where he met John Martin, later his associate and brother-in-law. After graduating from Trinity he worked with a legal firm in Banbridge, County Down, where he came into conflict with the local Orange Order. A regular visitor to Dublin he came into contact with Charles Gavan Duffy and Thomas Davis and it was not long before he joined Young Ireland and contributed to The Nation.

In 1847 he broke with The Nation and founded The United Irishman, it became the principal organ for advanced republican views and despite its price of two shillings it sold 5,000 copies on its first day of issue. Between February and March 1848 he advocated that the starving peasantry should withhold the harvest, not pay rents or rates, resist distraint and eviction, ostracise all who would not co-operate, and arm themselves. His paper also provided advice on the organisation of barricades and noted that railway tracks could be used as pikes. He also advocated that vitriol could be used against soldiers. The tone of his paper led to his arrest in May. Details of his arrest and trial and also that of William Smith O'Brien and Thomas Francis Meagher appear in the May issues. The paper was suppressed and he became the first man tried under the new Treason-Felony Act, before a packed jury, which found him guilty. This act was rushed through parliament in order to give the Irish Executive power to apprehend 69

De Búrca Ra re Books prominent members of Young Ireland. Mitchel wrote in his Jail Journal for May 28th 1848: "Found the 'United Irishman' of yesterday in my cabin. The sixtieth and last number. Read all the articles. Good Martin! Brave Reilly! ". The penalty for those found guilty was transportation. So it was for John Mitchel, who was sentenced to fourteen years in Van Diemens' Land.

Mitchel's paper had been stopped since his imprisonment, but his brother-in-law John Martin took steps at once to continue its republican propaganda with a new weekly the Irish Felon. He had no journalistic abilities but his moral courage was as unbounded as his devotion to Mitchel; and he received immediate assistance from Devin Reilly and James Fintan Lalor. They wrote with absolute freedom in its pages and later assumed personal responsibility for unsigned articles published in it. Martin had not yet published the third number of the 'Felon' when a warrant for his arrest appeared and these articles were produced as evidence against him. He was also transported to Van Diemens' Land, where he remained from 1849 until 1854 and two years later he returned to Ireland. A supporter of tenant-right during the 1850s and 1860s, he opposed the extremism of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, although he did deliver the oration for the Manchester Martyrs.

An extremely rare and important historical work which propagated armed struggle for Irish independence.

248. MITCHELL, Susan L. Aids to the Immortality of Certain Persons in Ireland Charitably Administered. Dublin: The New Nation Press, 1908. Small quarto. pp. 37, [3]. Illustrated repaired wrappers. Inscribed on half title 'to O'Leary Curtis / with the Editors / kind regards / S.O'S. / 1908'. Scarce. €135 COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 1 copy.

Susan Mitchell (1866-1926), poet and mystic of the Irish cultural renaissance, was born in Carrick-onShannon, County Leitrim. On the death of her father she was adopted by aunts in Dublin. In 1900 she stayed with the Yeats family in London, while attending doctors for a hearing problem, and found herself surrounded by participants in the literary revival, none more fascinating to her than George Moore. On her return to Dublin she was assistant editor for George Russell (A.E.) on The Irish Homestead and later sub-editor of the Irish Statesman. Her witty and charming observations of the literary scene are encapsulated in this satirical work, a collection of pasquinades in seemingly off the cuff but very well made verses.

249. MOLYNEUX, William. The Case of Ireland's Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated. Dublin: Printed by Joseph Ray, and are to be Sold at his Shop in Skinner-Row, 1698. pp. [xv], 174. 12mo. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, new morocco letterpiece to spine.

Joints showing signs of starting, corners a little bumped. Early armorial bookplate of John Earle of Tullibardin, Eldest Son to the Marquess of Atholl, on verso of titlepage. A very good fresh copy. Rare. €1,350 Sweeney 3054. Wing M2404 William Molyneux (1656-1698), Patriot and Philosopher, was born at his father's house in New Row, Dublin, educated at Trinity College where he graduated B.A. He went to London to study law at the Middle Temple in 1675, not all that interested in the subject, he spent most of his time at philosophy and applied mathematics. William returned to Ireland three years later and soon afterwards married Lucy Domville, daughter of the Irish Attorney-General. Along with Sir William Petty he formed the Dublin Philosophical Society, the forerunner of the Royal Irish Academy. He posed the famous question: "What knowledge of the visual world can a blind man have?" which baffled and fascinated many 18th century philosophers, including Bishop Berkeley.

The severe laws and restrictions passed for the destruction of Irish trade and commerce moved Molyneux to write this work, which has since rendered his name immortal in our history: The Case of Ireland Stated, was first published in 1698.

In it he maintained that Ireland and England were separate and independent kingdoms under the same sovereign - that Ireland was annexed, not conquered - "If the religion, lives, liberties, fortunes, and estates of the clergy, nobility, and gentry of Ireland may be disposed of without their privacy or consent, what benefit have they of any laws, liberties, or privileges granted unto them by the crown of England ... I have no other notion of slavery but being bound by a law to which I do not consent?". The work was deemed seditious, and so infuriated the English Parliament that they ordered it to be burnt by the common hangman. See item 11 for Atwood's response.

250. MOORE, Hamilton. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, being A Collection of Select Pieces, from our best modern Writers, particularly calculated to form the mind and 70

De Búrca Ra re Books manners of the youth of both sexes, and adapted to the use of schools and academies. A new edition. Belfast: Printed by Thomas Mairs and Co., for David Simms, 1815. pp. xii, 323. Recent marbled boards. Some thumbing and a few small worm holes on titlepage, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €475 No copy located on COPAC. NLI holds 2 copies.

MOORE'S FIRST WORK 251. MOORE, Thomas. Odes of Anacreon, Translated into English Verse, with Notes. London. Printed for John Stockdale, 1800. First edition.

Quarto. pp. viii, [16], 5-255p, [5]. With engraved frontispiece, one further plate (of Anacreon), and two terminal advertisement leaves. Finely bound in contemporary and somewhat striking marbled calf, title in gilt on contrasting morocco lettering-piece. Covers framed with gilt foliate border, elaborate dentelle and a small rural cottage stamp to alternate compartments of spine.

Slightly rubbed, with small split to upper joint at base of spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. A very good copy. €575 Moore's first work, a translation of the 60 Anacreonata, dedicated to the Prince of Wales. The eroticism, now considered mild, must surely have contributed to the work's contemporary popularity.

MOORE PLEADS FOR IRELAND 252. [MOORE, Thomas] Corruption and Intolerance: Two Poems. With Notes. Addressed to an Englishman by an Irishman. London: Printed for J. Carpenter, 1809. Second edition. pp. x, [2], 64, [8]. With half-title and four terminal leaves of advertisements. Later paper wrappers. Two neat marginal annotations recording the number of lines in work (312 in total). A very good copy. €325 COPAC locates 5 copies only. TCD copy lacking half-title.

The second edition of two poetic appeals for better treatment of the people Ireland in the wake of the Union of 1800, the first was published in 1808.

Printer statement on the verso of the half-title leaf: "S. Gosnell, printer, Little Queen Street".

253. MOORE, Thomas. Lalla Rookh. An Oriental Romance. Frontispiece. New York: Crowell, n.d. (With a slip tipped in giving details of the London publisher). pp. 330. Bound in reversed calf, with two maple leaves hand-painted on upper cover. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €135 We did not know of any connection between Thomas Moore and the Tsars of Russia until we had an enquiry some years ago for a first edition of 'Lalla Rookh'. Our customer informed us that it was going to the Summer Palace of the once mighty Romanoffs. Seemingly Tsarina Alexandra, Consort of Tsar Nicholas I, loved Thomas Moore's work and her favourite book in all the world was this classic oriental romance. It took pride of place in the Summer Palace Library at Peterhoff.

The Tsarina Alexandra is still venerated and her birthday is celebrated each year on the 12th of July in St. Petersburg. The streets are strewn with white roses and parts of 'Lalla Rookh' are re-enacted.

This work was a bestseller in the early nineteenth century. In six months it ran into six editions, and into as many European translations. Its appearance in Persian inspired the playful verse: 71

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By moonlight in the Persian tongue Along the streets of Ispahan'.

254. MORRIS, M. O'Connor. Hibernia Venatica. With photographs. London: Chapman and Hall, 1878. First edition. pp. xvi, 449, [1], 32 (publisher's catalogue). Green cloth, stamped in black on upper cover and in blind on lower cover to a panel design. Title in gilt on spine with three medallions depicting a fox's head. Minor wear to corners. Recased. A very good copy. €185

Illustrated with seven original albumen photographs. The Marchioness of Waterford, The Marchioness of Ormonde, Miss Persse of Moyode Castle, Galway, Mrs Stewart Duckett, The Lady Ranolph Churchill, The Honourable Mrs Malone, Miss Myra Watson all appropriately attired for the hunt.

The author dedicated this work to the Duke of Connaught and in the preface states "For 'tis no small praise, though only justice to the farmers of Ireland, to record that even in the dark years of famine and pestilence, fox-hunting, which hung on their approval, was never discontinued in that fearful cycle, and that when class feuds and antipathies were at their highest level, hunting, though never the past-time of the majority, ever held the even tenor of its way, unmolested, and practically, if negatively, encouraged ... Ireland, not altogether poor ... is eminently rich ... which marks out this beautiful isle of emerald sheen, thrown up like a terrestrial anadayomene as a waif from the seething Atlantic, to be a special paradise for hunters, a very Arcady of pursuit, from the golden vale of Limerick to the almost boundless grasseries of Meath the royal".

A most important and comprehensive work on fox-hunting in Ireland treating all the Irish major Hunts: Meath; West Meath; Kildare; Kilkenny; Limerick; Duhallow; Galway and Louth. With special emphasis on the ladies giving them due recognition of the major role they played in this great outdoor pursuit.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 255. MULDOON, Paul. The End of the Poem. Oxford Lectures on Poetry. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. pp. 406. Quarter vellum parchment on matching paper boards, signed by the author on titlepage. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €65 256. MULLALLY, Evelyn. Ed. by. The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland. La Geste Des Engleis en Yrlande. A new edition of the chronicle formerly known as 'The Song of Dermot and the Earl'.

Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. pp. 179. Black paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland is a primary source for the history of Ireland in the twelfth century. Formerly edited as The Song of Dermot and the Earl, it is the only vernacular text to chronicle how Diarmait Mac Murchada brought Richard de Clare (Strongbow) to Ireland from Wales and how 72

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257. MURPHY, Brian P. The Origins and Organisation of British Propaganda in Ireland.

Illustrated. Millstreet: Aubane Historical Society, 2006. pp. 92. Pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by the author. A fine copy. €35 258. MURPHY, Rev. Denis. The Eustaces of County Kildare. Kilkea Castle. By Lord Walter Fitzgerald. Ancient Naas. By Thomas De Burgh. Castledermot: Its History and Antiquities.

Mullaghmast: Its History and Antiquities. By Lord Walter Fitzgerald. Photocopy of articles produced in the Journal and hard bound in green paper boards. €65 THE WAR FOR THE LAND 259. [MYSTERIES] The Mysteries of Ireland, Giving a Graphic and Faithful Account of Irish Secret Societies, and their Plots, from the Rebellion of 1798, to the year 1883, with sketches of the lives of the leaders, their last speeches before condemnation, and the history of Recent Murders in Ireland, including that of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Thomas Burke, with the trials, convictions, sentences and executions of their murderers, and other startling events of more recent date. Illustrated with a portrait of Lord Cavendish. London: Printed for the Booksellers, n.d. (c.1890). pp. 304, 16 (double column). Blue patterned cloth. Title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Cover faded, browning to inner lower gutter from old cellotape. A good copy. Scarce. €45 The United Irishmen, Rebellion of '98, Fenians, the Agrarian Outrages, including the Huddy Murders, Maamtrasna Massacre, Assassination of Cavendish and Burke, with on the spot details of the trials and executions. The author is unknown but undoubtedly he was a newspaper reporter of that time.

260. NELSON, Justin. Michael Collins. The Final Days. Profusely illustrated. Dublin: Nelson, 1997. Oblong octavo pp. 141. Pictorial wrappers. Signed by the author. A fine copy. €65 261. Ní CHÉILEACHAIR, Síle agus Ó CÉILEACHAIR, Donncha. Bullaí Mhártain. An chéad chló. Baile Átha Cliath: Sáirséal agus Dill, 1955. pp. 200, [1]. Blue cloth, titled in gilt.

Printed part of dust jacket laid on pastedowns. A very good copy. €30 262. NICHOLSON, Mrs. A. Lights and Shades of Ireland. Annals of the Famine of 1847, 1848, and 1849. New York: E. French, Street, 1851. Second edition. xii, 13-336. Black cloth, spine rebacked. Signature on titlepage. Foxed and with small ink stain. A good copy. Scarce. €235 Asenath Nicholson (1792-1855), teacher, writer and traveller was born in eastern Vermont. She first visited Ireland in 1844 for nearly a year. She then returned and spent the period from May 1846 until September 1848, visiting the destitute in the west of Ireland. A committed Christian, who wished for the conversion of the Catholic Irish, however, she was no crude proselytiser, but a very caring woman who was deeply affected by the misery that she witnessed all around her.

263. NICHOLSON, William. An Almanac of Twelve Sports. By William Nicholson. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated with twelve full page colour lithographs. London: Published by William Heinemann, 1898. Royal quarto. pp. [31], 2 (advertisements). Quarter linen on illustrated paper boards. Tiny piece wanting from the blank fore-edge of the front flyleaf and the titlepage. A very good copy in matching slipcase, with silk pull. €375 Twelve colour lithographs after woodblock prints by William Nicholson. For each of the twelve months of the year a sport is illustrated while an accompanying verse by Rudyard Kipling provides a commentary on the sport. Includes images of Skating, Fishing, Coaching, Boxing, Golf, Shooting, Archery, etc.

264. Ní ÓGAIN, Una & Ó DUIBHIR, Riobard. Dánta Dé idir Sean agus Nuadh. Baile Atha Cliath: Na dTrí gCoinneal, 1928. Quarto. pp. xii, 149. Dark green buckram, title and Celtic cross in black on upper cover. 'St. Patrick's Cathedral' in gilt on upper cover. A very good copy. €45 An English translation was also published in 1928 at The Sign of The Three Candles Press.

265. O'BRIEN, Henry. The Round Towers of Ireland; or The Mysteries of Freemasonry, of Sabaism, and of Budhism. For the first time unveiled. "Prize Essay" of the Royal Irish Academy, enlarged, and embellished with numerous illustrations. London: Whitaker and Cumming Dublin, 1834. pp. xxxvi, 524, [2]. Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards. Armorial bookplate of A.H. Smith Barry on front pastedown. Repair to titlepage. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €265 73

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266. O'BRIEN, William. A Queen of Men. Frontispiece. London: Fisher Unwin, 1898. pp. x, [2], 321, [1]. Green pictorial cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Signature of W.J. Ryan, 'Daily Nation', Dublin, April 23. 98 on front endpaper. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €75 This historical novel is set in Galway and Mayo during the turbulent period of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. It was written when William O'Brien spent time in Galway prison. It tells the story of Grace O'Malley 'Granuaile', the pirate sea-queen of the West. The Galway and Mayo coast, Clare Island feature in this work which also incorporates the Composition of Connacht, the disgrace of the Lord Deputy Perrott, the wrecking of the Armada and Grace's visit to the Court of Queen Elizabeth.

267. Ó BUACHALLA, Séamas. Ed. by. A Significant Irish Educationalist. The Educational Writings of P.H. Pearse. Dublin: Mercier Press, 1980. pp. xxv, 390. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 74

De Búrca Ra re Books The range of writing contained in this collection demonstrates the industry with which Patrick Pearse applied himself to the subject of education. By any criteria, his educational work was significant, original, extensive and progressive: his wider recognition as an innovative educationalist has been impeded by the manner in which his literary and political achievements have tended to obscure its significance in the popular image.

268. Ó CADHAIN, Máirtín. Cré na Cille. Líníocht le Charles Lamb. Baile Átha Cliath: Sáirséal & Dill, 1949. An chéad chló. pp. 364. Black pebbled cloth, title and design in silver on spine.

Loosely inserted is publisher's review slip and printed letter from them regarding the various reviews. A fine copy in lightly frayed dust jacket. €265 Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906-1970) was probably the most outstanding Irish writer of the twentieth century. Nobody, as yet, fully understands Cré na Cille (The Clay of the Graveyard) in which the author chooses death, in the form of a cemetery, as the vehicle for his account of the living. The substance of the novel revolves around Caitríona Pháidín, a recently deceased Irish matriarch whose history is revealed through conversations with various others lying in the graveyard. It emerges that her life was consumed with the besting of her sister Nell. Depicted is the unpleasant side of Irish rural life, the petty jealousies and feuds concerning land, religion, and politics; of people's inflated opinions of themselves, etc.

269. O'CASEY, Sean. Juno and the Paycock. Programme for the Gate Theatre production, first performed at the Gate on Tuesday, 15th July, 1986. Dublin: 1986. pp. [32]. Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €25 Included in the cast were: Donal McCann, Geraldine Plunkett, John Kavanagh, Maureen Potter, etc.

270. [O'CONNELL, Daniel] Historical Account of the Laws against the Roman-Catholics of England. London: Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, 1811. pp. 51. Drop title. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. €125 Attributed to Daniel O'Connell.

271. O'CONNOR, Frank. For a Two-Hundredth Birthday. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1986. pp. White stiff wrappers with floral dust jacket. Title on printed label on upper cover of jacket.

Edition limited to 100 copies for sale. This is number 41. Hand-set in Bembo type and printed on Vélin Arches paper. A fine copy. €35

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272. O'CONNOR, Ulick. Oliver St John Gogarty. A Poet and his Times. Portrait frontispiece.

London: Cape, 1964. Second impression. pp. 316, [1]. Grey buckram, titled in gilt. A very good copy in dust jacket. €75 76

De Búrca Ra re Books 273. Ó CRIOMHTHAIN, Tomás. An tOileánach. An dara clóbhualadh. Portrait frontispiece and map. Baile Átha Cliath: Clólucht an Talbóidigh, n.d. (1934). pp. 266.

Red cloth, spine evenly faded. New endpapers.

A very good copy in original dust jacket. €75 274. O'DEA, James J. The Beauties of Nature, and other Lectures, Letters, and Essays on Literary, Political, Social, Philosophical, and Scientific Subjects. Dublin: James Duffy and Co., 1892. pp. xiv, 252. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Signature of Arthur Noonan on front endpaper. A very good copy.

Scarce. €65 ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS THAT ANY MODERN IRISH SCHOLAR EVER ACOMPLISHED 275. 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 manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin, with a translation and copious historical, topographical and genealogical notes and with special emphasis on place-names. Seven large volumes. Dublin: Hodges Smith, 1856. Second edition. Large quarto. Over 4,000 pages. Recent brown buckram, title and author in gilt on brown morocco label on spines. From the Augustinians library (Ballyboden and Galway) with their neat stamp. Titlepages toned. A good set of the rare first edition. €2,750 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".

It is generally accepted that the Annals were written in the Franciscan convent of Donegal, which at that time was situated on the bank of the Bundrowes river where it forms the county boundary between Leitrim and Donegal.

Brother Michael who was chief of the Four Masters was born about 1590 and was a descendant of the illustrious and learned family of O'Clery which originally came from Tirawley in North Mayo. For three hundred years the O'Clerys were scholars and professors of history to the O'Donnells, chiefs of Tír Conaill, and their home and school was in Kilbarron castle scenically located by the shore of Donegal Bay, a few miles north west of Ballyshannon. Brother Michael was baptised Tadhg and in his youth was affectionately called 'Tadhg an tSléibhe' or Thady of the Mountain. In 1623 he joined the Franciscan Order in Louvain. His superiors soon recognised his talent as a historian and antiquarian and sent him back to Ireland in 1626 initially to collect what he could on the lives of the Irish Saints and later to begin work on the history of his native land. To assist him in this enormous task he chose three assistants; his cousin Cucogry or Peregrine O'Clery, Fergus O'Mulconry from County Roscommon and Peregrine O'Duigenan of Castlefore County Leitrim. Michael's brother Conor and Maurice O'Mulconry also assisted in the compilation of the Annals. The title Four Masters was first used by Father John Colgan in the introduction to his Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae which was published in Louvain in 1625.

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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 very nice set of this monumental source for the history of Ireland.

276. O'FAOLAIN, Sean. The Story of Ireland. With eight plates in colour and twenty-two illustrations in black and white. London: Collins, 1946. Second edition. pp. 48. Green printed boards. Spine repaired. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket. €45 277. O'FLANAGAN, J. Roderick. Annals, Anecdotes, Traits, and Traditions of the Irish Parliaments, 1172 to 1800. New edition. Dublin: Gill, 1895. pp. xx, 208. Recent green cloth with original upper wrapper bound in, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Very scarce. €165 No copy located on COPAC. Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert.

278. [ÓGLAIGH NA hÉIREANN] Preliminary miniature drawing of the Óglaigh na hÉireann badge for set of colour blocks. No date. Card, (127 x 164)mm. In very good condition. €125 The phrase Óglaigh na hÉireann was used as the title for the Irish Volunteers of 1913, and it was retained when the Volunteers became known in English as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the War of Independence.

This small painting came from an Irish Army Officer's collection. The artist was in the G2 Army Intelligence section in the late 1930's early 1940's and was a skilled painter and craftsman.

279. O'GROWNEY, Rev. Eugene. Simple Lessons in Irish. Giving the pronunciation of each word. Five parts in one volume. Dublin: Gaelic League, 1902-06. pp. 79, 85, 135, 99, 116. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €75

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A MAGNIFICENT MONUMENT TO HIS GENIUS AND ERUDITION 280. O'HANLON, Rev. John. Lives of The Irish Saints, with Special Festivals, and the Commemorations of Holy Persons, compiled from the Calendars Martyrologies and Various Sources, relating to The Ancient Church History of Ireland. With original list of subscribers, folding diocesan map and numerous illustrations. Nine volumes. Dublin: Duffy, n.d. (c.1875).

Royal octavo. Recent cloth, titles in gilt on red morocco letterpieces. Lacking the tenth volume which is usually wanting. A very good set. Exceedingly rare. â‚Ź965 John O'Hanlon (1821-1905) was born in Stradbally in 1821. At the age of thirteen he went to study at the Preston School in Ballyroan specialising in Latin and Greek, and six years later he entered Carlow College to study for the priesthood. His stay in Carlow lasted only a year as the family emigrated to America and settled in Millbrook, near St. Louis, in Northeast Missouri. He was admitted to the diocesan college in St. Louis and ordained in 1847.

John O'Hanlon ministered in the St. Louis area until 1853 when he returned to his native Stradbally due to ill health. A year later, his health having improved, he offered his services to the Archdiocese of Dublin. In 1880 he was appointed Parish Priest of Sandymount and Ringsend, and ministered at St. Mary's Star of the Sea, Sandymount until his death in 1905.

During his fifty years ministering in the Dublin Archdiocese he wrote many works of historical and religious content. He laboured for many years on his Magnum Opus; The Lives of the Irish Saints which is a month by month sequence of the feasts of the Irish Saints as they were recorded in the ancient martyrologies.

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281. O'HEGARTY, P.S. The Victory of Sinn Féin. How it won it, and how it used it. Dublin: Talbot, 1924. pp. viii, 218, [2 (corrections and publisher's list)]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine.

Light foxing to prelims, otherwise a very good copy. €45 282. O'HIGGINS, Brian. A Bunch of Wild Flowers. Poems on Religious Subjects. With introduction by the Very Rev. Bernard Gaffney, P.P., V.F., Diocese of Kilmore. Bound with: The Voice of Banba. Songs and Recitations for Young Ireland. Bound with: At the Hill o' the Road.

Songs and Poems. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1906. pp. 60. Decorated stapled green wrappers.

Spine tanned. A very good copy. Scarce. €65 Brian O'Higgins (1882-1966) was born in Kilskyre (Gleann na Mona), County Meath, moved to Dublin where he became an active member of the Gaelic League and then became secretary of O'Curry Gaelic college at Carrigaholt, County Clare. He took part in the Easter Rising, serving in the GPO garrison and was deported to Frongoch. On his release O'Higgins participated in the building up of both the new Sinn Féin organisation and the Irish Volunteers. These activities led to his deportation again in February 1917 as part of the arrests of the first 'German' plot.

O'Higgins was elected as T.D. for West Clare in the 1918 general election and, in June of the following year, he set up one of the first arbitration courts under the authority of Dáil Éireann. He opposed the Treaty; he opposed the founding of Fianna Fail by de Valera; and, remaining a committed member of Sinn Féin and the Second Dáil to the last, he signed the delegation conferring the Second Dáil's authority to the I.R.A. in 1938. Apart from publishing poems, ballads and prayers, often under the name of Brian na Banban, O'Higgins was also editor of the Wolfe Tone Weekly and the Wolfe Tone Annual in the 1930s and 1940s.

283. [O'HIGGINS, Brian] Spirit Flowers. Poems and Essays by Stephen O'Reilly who in Company with his gallant brother fell valiantly fighting for Irish Freedom on that great day of hero-deeds, when Ireland's Army smote by Liffey's side the Custom House of Britain. Dublin: The Gael Co-op Society, 1923. pp. 40. Pictorial stapled wrappers depicting the burning of the Custom House. Rare. €165 Lt. Stephen O'Reilly, assistant adjutant, 2nd Battalion Dublin Brigade, younger brother to Capt. Paddy O'Reilly, Quartermaster, 2nd Battalion was one of that band of writers Brian O'Higgins gathered around him for his many Irish-Ireland journals. He divided his time between the Gaelic League and the drill hall. With his brother he perished in the attack on the Custom House.

284. O'HIGGINS, Brian. The Little Book of the Blessed Eucharist. With illuminations. Scribe work and ornament by Micheál Ó Briain. Printed by Colm Ó Lochlainn. Dublin: Brian O'Higgins, 1931. Small octavo. pp. [26]. Pictorial stitched wrappers. Very good. Scarce. €45 Intended as a souvenir for the Eucharistic Congress.

285. O'HIGGINS, Brian. Unconquered Ireland. Dublin: Brian O'Higgins, n.d. Small octavo. pp.

[32]. Pictorial stitched wrappers. A very good copy. €45 "This country of ours" said Thomas Davis, "is no sandbank, thrown up by some caprice of earth. It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation, traceable into antiquity by its piety, its valour and its suffering".

286. O'HIGGINS, Brian. Leabhar Beag na Nodlag. Ailbhe Ó Monacháin do mhaisigh. Dublin: Brian O'Higgins, 1957. Small octavo. pp. [28]. Fine in illustrated stitched wrappers. €65 80

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287. O'HIGGINS, Brian. The Little Book of Ireland. Telling of Irish faith and love and hope and courage through centuries of sorrow. Scribework by Ailbhe Ó Monacháin. Dublin: Brian O'Higgins, 1957. Small octavo. pp. [28]. A very good copy in illustrated wrappers. €65 288. O'HIGGINS, Brian. The Little Book of Memories. Verses by Brian O'Higgins. Designs and scribe work by Una Watters. Dublin: Brian O'Higgins, 1960. Small octavo. pp. [32]. Fine in illustrated stitched wrappers. Scarce. €45 289. O'HIGGINS, Brian. The Little Book of Saint Francis. With illuminations. Prose and verse

by Brian O'Higgins. Designs and scribework by Una Watters. Dublin: Brian O'Higgins, 1958.

Small octavo. pp. [32]. Pictorial stitched wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €45 290. O'HIGGINS, Brian. The Little Book of Exile. Designs and Scribework by Una Watters.

Dublin: O'Higgins, 1959. Small octavo. pp. [26]. Pictorial stitched wrappers. A fine copy. €65 291. O'HIGGINS, Brian. The Little Book of The Sacred Heart. Dublin: Brian O'Higgins, 1961.

Small octavo. pp. [32]. A very good copy in illustrated stitched wrappers. €45

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Compiled by Maghnas Ó Domhnaill in 1532. Edited and translated from manuscript Rawlinson B 514 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, with introduction, glossary, notes, and indexes. Dublin: Institute for Advanced Studies, 1994. pp. lxxviii, 516. Red buckram, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €65 First published by the University of Illinois, 1918.

294. O'MULLANE, M.J. Finn MacCoole: His Life and Times. Dublin: Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, n.d. pp. 32. Printed stapled wrappers. A good copy. €20 295. O'RAHILLY, The. The Secret History of the Irish Volunteers. Tracts for the Times, No. 3.

Second edition. Dublin: Irish Publicity League, 1915. pp. 16. Some light foxing. Stapled wrappers. Staple rusted. A very good copy. €125 O'Hegarty (1) Carty 458 lists the third edition.

This pamphlet by The O'Rahilly (1875-1916) was of great interest when it was written and retains its value to-day. O'Rahilly was Treasurer and Director of Arms of the Irish Volunteers, after Redmond's followers had left the organisation in September 1914. He wrote, therefore, from an informed position.

The pamphlet was one of four Tracts for the Times produced in early 1915 and sales of 23,000 copies were reported in two months. O'Rahilly's pamphlet was the most popular. It had three editions in six months and was republished by John Devoy in New York. So critical was O'Rahilly of Redmond and the British connection that the Volunteer Executive had to alter the first edition to avoid censorship by the Press Censor. O'Rahilly was fatally wounded and left to die by British troops during the Easter Rising, the only member of the Provisional Committee of the Irish Volunteers to die in action. An historic pamphlet by a noble person.

296. O'ROURKE, Rev. John. The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847, with Notices of Earlier Irish Famines. Dublin: M'Glashan and Gill, n.d. (c.1874). Second edition. pp. xxiv, 559.

Green cloth, gilt decoration on upper cover (the angel of death), title in gilt on spine. Fading to cloth, otherwise a very good copy. €65 297. Ó SÁNDAIR, Cathal. Soir ón Rio Grande. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig Díolta Foillseacháin Rialtais, 1949. pp. 100. Pictorial stapled wrappers. A very good copy. €30 298. O'SULLIVAN, Donal. Carolan. The Life Times and Music of an Irish Harper. In two volumes. I. The Life and Times and The Music.

II. The Notes to the Tunes and The Memoirs of Arthur O'Neill. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, portraits and musical examples.

Two volumes. London: Routledge, 1958. First edition. Quarto. pp.(1) xv, 285, (2) xiii, 200.

Blue cloth, harp in gilt on upper cover and title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jackets.

Scarce. €345 Turlough O'Carolan (Toirdhealbhach Ó Cearbhalláin) was born in 1670 near Nobber, County Meath and died March 25, 1738 at the home of his patron Mrs. MacDermott Roe in Alderford, County Roscommon. He was the last Irish harper-composer whose pieces have survived in any significant number. Carolan's father, John, was either a farmer or a blacksmith. The family moved to Ballyfarnon where John Carolan was employed by the MacDermott Roe family. Mrs. MacDermott befriended the boy and gave him an 82

De Búrca Ra re Books education. In his early youth he was blinded by smallpox and he adopted music as a career. Carolan married Mary Maguire with whom he settled on a farm near Mohill, County Leitrim. They had seven children, six daughters and a son. His wife died in 1733. There is little record of Carolan's children. His daughter Siobhan married Captain Sudley and his son published a collection of Carolan's tunes in 1747.

299. PAKENHAM, Thomas. The Year of Liberty. The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798. With illustrations and maps. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997. pp. 424. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. €35 In May 1798, a hundred thousand peasants rose in revolt against the British Government in Ireland. By the time the revolt had been brutally crushed four months later, thirty thousand dead were literally rotting in heaps throughout the countryside, after a scorched earth policy. A tough and arrogant oligarchy, mainly Protestant and English in origin, lived off a Catholic peasantry. In Dublin and Belfast, a prosperous middle class, also mainly Protestant, resented its exclusion from Government and plotted for an Irish Republic on the French model. The English executive in Dublin Castle with their efficient spy service unmasked the plot for imminent revolution. Wholesale arrests of the leaders crippled the chances for success, but could not prevent it from breaking out. From their prison cells the advocates of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, who had hoped to unite Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter to fight for independence, watched with horror their revolution develop into a savage struggle between Catholic natives and Protestant settlers.

300. PARK, Mungo. Travels in the Interior of Africa. [Chapbook] Illustrated with woodcuts.

Dublin: Printed by W. Espy, 6 Little Strand-street, 1821. 12mo. pp. 180. Label of J. Wroe on front pastedown. Quarter morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. Very scarce. €325

COPAC locates the BL and TCD copies only. NLI 1 copy. WorldCat 1 copy.

THE 'HOUSE OF NOBS' AND THE ACT OF UNION (IRELAND) 301. [PARLIAMENT OF PIMLICO] Proceedings and Debates of the Parliament of Pimlico, in the last Session of the eighteenth Century. No. 1 [--XXVIII]. Twenty eight issues (each four pages). Bound with: The Olio, or Anything-arian Miscellany, No. 1 [-VI], March-April 1800.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Dalkeian Majesty, and sold at No. 5 College-Green [i.e. by Vincent Dowling], and by all the flying Stationers. [1799-1800]. [The Olio] Printed for the Editor and Published by Dowling, No. 5, College-green, Dublin, Wednesdays and Saturdays. Quarto: pp. [112], 48 (double-column).

Modern paper boards, title in black on spine. 'The Olio' partly unopened. A fine copy.

Exceedingly rare. €2,650 COPAC locates 11 copies only. ESTC P2289.

A complete run of this scarce satirical anti-Union periodical, begun as 'Proceedings and Debates' and continued as 'The Olio' in March 1800. The editor was Vincent Dowling, afterwards a journalist with The Times in London, who was known for his ability to recite Parliamentary speeches from memory.

Ireland had achieved a measure of legislative independence in 1782, but power was largely in the hands of the Protestant Ascendancy. Growing unrest from the Catholic majority lead to rebellion in 1798, and it was in its aftermath that William Pitt raised the possibility of Union. Initial opposition in 1799 was quashed with an effective combination of bullying and bribery (the systematic sacking of antiUnionists, 16 new elevations to the peerage, the purchase of Parliamentary seats), and by January 1800 Union was being endorsed by a majority. The Act of Union (Ireland) was passed in August 1800 and came into force the following January. Overwhelming support had come from the Catholic party, which had hope for rapid emancipation; in the event this was delayed until 1829.

Proceedings and Debates and its direct successor The Olio ('Continued from No, XXVIII') comprise parodic 'transcriptions' of the debates on Union in 1799-1800 in the 'House of Nobs' and the Lower Assembly, populated in the manner of a roman-a-clef - Sir Pertinax Platter, the Archbishop of Crumlin, the Quaker Mr. Ephraim Steady. The pro-Union Catholic party is led in the lower house by Ulrick O'Blarney - 'it is no wonder that this kenthry, Sir, is deluged with a conflaghrashin av jackibins, and Robers speers, and bonny parties ...' Pimlico is Dublin and Oxmanstown is London.

"The Olio" expands the range of material covered - the issues are twice as long and the pseudoParliamentary debates are followed by some lighter material: extracts from a Natural History of the Moon (p. 5-6), 'Joculariana', letters to the editor, and poems both serious and satirical.

We can trace complete runs at only the British Library, Cambridge, Kansas, and the National Library of Ireland, plus selected holdings of one or other periodical.

302. [PARNELL, Charles Stewart] Les Contemporains. Parnell (1846-1891). Published in Supplement au Pélerin N°47, September 1893. With portrait of the patriot. Together with: a Photograph of Charles Stewart Parnell published by Ogden Cigarettes, (38 x 58mm). In very good condition. €95 Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) "the un-crowned King of Ireland" was an Irish nationalist politician and the founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party - a Party which led the campaign for Home Rule, but was left behind by the people when the struggle for Irish independence changed gear following the Easter Rising of 1916.

Parnell was one of the most important figures in 19th century Ireland, and was described by British Prime Minister William Gladstone as the most remarkable person he had ever met. His importance as a major figure in Irish history is commemorated in Dublin with the towering Parnell Monument, at the top of O'Connell Street.

303. PARSONS, Sir William. & BORLASE, Sir John. A Proclamation Published by The Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland to Annull and make Void all Protections Unduly Granted to the Rebels by Certaine Commissioners in Divers Counties in Ulster, &c. contrary to their Instructions and the Intention of the State. London: Printed at Dublin by William Bladen, and now reprinted at London for Edward Husbands, 1642. Quarto. pp. [i], 6. Royal arms printed on verso of titlepage. Recent half morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,250 Wing I639. ESTC R5458 locates 1 copy only in Ireland. The 1st and only Wing printing although according to the titlepage it was originally printed in Dublin by William Bladen – 1639.

Sir William Parsons, 1st Baronet of Bellamont (1570-1650), was one of the Lord Justices of Ireland in 1640. He also served as 84

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Surveyor General of Ireland and Member of Parliament for Wicklow. He settled in Ireland about the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, being a commissioner of plantations, obtained very considerable territorial grants from the crown. In 1602, Parsons as Surveyor General of Ireland; in 1610 he obtained a pension of £30 (English) per annum for life. In 1611, he was joined with his younger brother Laurence in the supervisorship of the crown lands, with a fee of £60 per annum for life.

In 1620, Parsons personally presenting to King James I surveys of escheated estates, in his capacity of Surveyor-General, he received the honour of knighthood, and was created a baronet on 10 November in the same year. He continued in the government until 1643, when he was removed, charged with treason, and committed to prison, with Sir Adam Loftus and others. He died in Westminster in February 1650, at the age of 80. Parsons was succeeded by his grandson Sir William Parsons, 2nd Baronet.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 304. PARTRIDGE, John. Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin. The second part of Mene Tekel: Treating of the year MDCLXXXIX: And modestly shewing what may probably be conjectured to succeed in the affairs of Europe in general, and of England, Holland, Scotland, and France in particular; with something also about the affairs of Ireland, and the French King's forces there.

To which is added, a treasonable paper dispersed among the Papists, by J. Gadbury, with some Reflections thereon, and also on his Almanack for 1689 / By John Partridge. Licens'd May 23, 1689. J. Fraser. London: Printed, and Sold by Richard Baldwin in the Old-Baily, 1689. Quarto. pp. [viii], 32. Titlepage woodcut. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards. Spine faded, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €875 Wing P 619. Sweeney 144. ESTC R6720 gives 1 location in Ireland.

John Gadbury (1627-1704) was an English astrologer, and a prolific writer of almanacs and on other related topics. Initially a follower or disciple, and a defender in the 1650s, of William Lilly, he eventually turned against Lilly and denounced him in 1675 as fraudulent.

His 1652 Philastrogus Knavery Epitomized was a reply to Lillies Ape Whipt by the pseudonymous Philastrogus, defending Lilly, Nicholas Culpeper and others.

Gadbury's father William was an estate worker for Sir John Curson of Waterperry House near Wheatley, Oxfordshire, who eloped with Frances, a daughter of the house, a year before John's birth.

However, John Gadbury persuaded his grandfather Sir John to put him through Oxford, before his astrological training.

He became a High Tory and Catholic convert. He had a number of brushes with the authorities: imprisonment (wrongful) at the time of the Popish Plot and suspicion later of plotting against William III of England; he also got in trouble for omitting Guy Fawkes Day from his almanacs.

WITH BOOKPLATE OF COTTIE YEATS 305. P.A.S. [SILLARD, P.A.] The Life of John Mitchel. With an Historical Sketch of the '48 Movement in Ireland.

Dublin: James Duffy & Co., Limited, 14 & 15 Wellington Quay, 1889. pp. xviii, 285. Green cloth, harp and cluster of shamrocks in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. With bookplate of Cottie Yeats (wife of Jack B. Yeats). A fine copy. Very scarce. €325 Contains a bibliography of John Mitchel's writings.

306. [PAT THE QUEER LITTLE DOG] Park's Jenny Jingle's Little Prattler. Series of New and Original Toy Books.

With hand-coloured illustrations. London: Printed and published by A. Park, 47 Leonard Street, n.d. (c.1852). Large octavo. pp.

8. Original pictorial wrappers. Repair to margin of titlepage. Frayed around edges, otherwise a good copy. Exceedingly rare. €675 Each page has several nicely hand-coloured illustrations framing verse text.

Unmistakable satire on a kind-hearted Irishman who befriends a stray dog, and rather untypical of this kind of satire this action becomes his salvation.

307. [PEARSE, P.H.] An Economic Programme for the Irish Free State. Being a set of Principles suitable to Serve as a Basis for an Irish Social and Industrial Policy. Proposed by The P.H. Pearse Study Group. Dublin & London: The Talbot Press and T. Fisher Unwin, 1922. pp.

31. Printed stapled wrappers. Apart from rusty staples, a very good copy. €150 308. [PEARSE, P.H.] The Letters of P.H. Pearse. Edited by Séamus Ó Buachalla and with a foreword by F.S.L. Lyons. London: Colin Smythe, 1980. pp. xxiv, 504. White paper boards, title 86

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in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket.

In his foreword Dr. Lyons, Provost of Trinity College Dublin, writes: "It is a larger correspondence than we could have dared to hope for and it is peculiarly valuable because it deals not only with each phase of his career, but with each facet of a life which was dedicated with an almost monastic austerity to the cause of Irish freedom".

See item 306.

309. PEARSE, Padraic. The Singer and Other Plays. Dublin & London: Maunsel and Company, 1918. First edition. pp. 123, 6 (Appendix). Printed brown wrappers. Some fraying to edges. A very good copy. €65 310. [PENNY POST] Folded Penny Envelope for the new postal service set up in 1840. With a sketch by William Mulready. Britannia centre top spreading her arms with angels flying to the four corners of the Empire. Unused in fine condition. Rare. €65

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PERRAULT IN DUTCH 311. PERRAULT, Charles. De Sprookjes van Charles Perrault. Geillustreerd door Harry Clarke met een inleiding door Gerard Ludovic. Zutphen: W.J. Thieme, n.d. (c.1920). First edition.

Quarto. pp. xiv, 134, [2]. Cream decorative cloth, title in green on upper cover and on spine. Mild foxing to prelims, otherwise a very good copy. €275

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De Búrca Ra re Books SIGNED BY PICASSO 312. [PICASSO, Pablo] Arlecchini Di Picasso. By Raffaele Carrieri. Milan: All' Insegna Del Pesce D'Oro, 1963.

16mo. pp. 20, [1], 20 (plates), 63-75, [1]. White paper wrappers, title printed in black on upper cover on spine.

Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Signed by Picasso on titlepage.

A fine copy. €2,500 The book features fourteen pages of poems by Carrieri, and also includes twenty pages with illustrations of Picasso´s harlequin paintings and drawings.

313. [PLAYS] I. The School for Scandal : A Comedy; as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Crow-Street. By Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The fourth edition. Dublin: Printed in the year 1782.

II. Politicks in Miniature : Or, The Humours of Punch's Resignation, A Tragi-Comi-Farcial-Operatical PuppetShow with A New Scene of Punch's Levee, and the Surprising Metamorphosis of his Puppets. To which is added, The Political Rehearsal.

Harlequin Le Grand: Or, The Tricks of Pierrot Le Primier. London, 1751.

III. The Shepherds Lotti A Musical Entertainment as it is Perform'd by His Majesty's Company of Comedians at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. The Music comp'd by Dr. Boyce. Fore-margin close trimmed affecting a few letters. London, 1751.

IV. All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost. A Tragedy, By Mr. Dryden. As Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Published in Edinburgh.

V. Oroonoko, A Tragedy, as it was acted at the Theatre-Royal, By His Majesty's Servants, in the year 1699. By Thomas Southern. London, 1767.

VI. The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn-Field.

By Mr. Sewell. The sixth edition. London, 1745.

VI. The Grecian Daughter, A Tragedy, Written by Arthur Murphy, Esq. Marked with the Variations in the Manager's Book, at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. London, 1787.

VII. Mahomet The Impostor. A Tragedy. By The Rev. Mr. Miller. As Performed at the TheatreRoyal in Drury-Lane. The fourth edition. Edinburgh, 1782. Dublin: [By P. Wogan?], Printed in the year, 1782. 12mo. Original worn calf, boards detached. Previous owner's bookplate and signature, label of Foyles Booksellers. Internally a very good copy. €235 314. PLUMMER, Charles. Bethada Náem nÉrenn Lives of Irish Saints. Edited from the Original MSS, with Introduction Translations, Notes, Glossary and Indexes. Two volumes.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. pp. (1) xliv, 346, (2) 404. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine set in dust jackets. €75 Ten lives in Irish Gaelic with English translations including the Life of "Saint Brendan of Clonfert","Life of Ciaran", "Life of Maedoc" and lesser known holy men. English translations, notes.

The survival of Celtic spirituality is evident in the wording and the use of stars, moon and sun as active players in these stories.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 315. PLUNKETT, Geraldine. Magnificat. Illustrated by Jack Morrow. Dublin: Candle Press, 1917. 155 x 105mm., pp. 16. Blue printed wrappers with Three Candles device. A fine copy. €75 Geraldine Plunkett was the sister of Joseph Plunkett, A.D.C. to Michael Collins, a member of the Provisional Government formed by Patrick Pearse and a signatory of the Proclamation of Independence. He was court-martialled and sentenced to death.

316. [POWER, P.] Parochial History of Waterford and Lismore During the 18th and 19th centuries. With diocesan map. Waterford: Harvey, 1912. Quarto. pp. xx, 290. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front flyleaf. A fine copy. Very scarce. €365 COPAC locates only 2 copies (TCD copy in Ireland).

Although no name of author appears on the titlepage of the above work, it is an open secret that the handsome quarto is due to Rev. Patrick Power, M.R.I.A., the Editor of the Waterford Archaeological Journal. In a brief Preface, the author disclaims any intention of offering the present volume as an adequate history of the Diocese, and he modestly states that the material here presented "may stimulate the advent of the future historian", but, in truth, the author need fear no compeer in the proposed task of issuing a diocesan history of Waterford and Lismore - on the lines of O'Laverty, Carrigan, and Begley.

317. PRAEGER, Robert Lloyd. The Botanist in Ireland. With six folding coloured maps and numerous illustrations. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & Co., 1934. pp. xii, 587. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €135 An excellent book, a half-century of painstaking research. Dr. Praeger's knowledge of what had been done and left undone in the field of Ireland's flora, makes him peculiarly qualified for the production of such an exhaustive work.

IN FINE BINDING BY ANNIE MACDONALD? 318. [PSALMS] The Psalms of David. S.n. Bound in full leather, reliveo style possibly by Annie MacDonald, Guild of Women Binders. Upper cover decorated in reliveo with the capital letter B incorporating scenes from the Bible, the lower cover also with the capital B with text in Latin, both with foliate and ruled borders. Spine expertly rebacked. Gauffered edges. Presentation inscription on front flyleaf. Minor wear to corners, otherwise a very fine example. €475

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De Búrca Ra re Books 319. QUARITCH, Bernard. Ed. by. Contributions Towards a Dictionary of English BookCollectors as also of some Foreign Collectors whose Libraries were incorporated in English Collections or whose Books are chiefly met with in England. By Edward Burridge, Frederick Clarke, F.S. Ellis, Rush C. Hawkins, W. Carew Hazlitt, Alfred H. Huth, Herbert Jones, Michael Kerney, Robert G.C. Proctor, Robert F. Roden, Albert Forbes Sieverking, The Editor and Others.

Fourteen parts bound in one volume. Illustrated with colour plates, facsimiles and portraits.

London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1892-1921. Royal octavo. pp. c.350. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. Original wrappers bound in at rear. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €375

An alphabetical listing consisting of 79 extensive articles devoted to illustrious book collectors. The last article gives a valuable Roll of book collectors, 1316-1898. Each article is preceded by a biographical sketch, followed by a description of the remarkable treasures in the various collections, and concluded by a short account of the fate of the library.

320. QUARLES, Fra: Argalus and Parthenia. The Argument of Ye History. Newly perused perfected and written. London: Printed for John Marriott in St. Dunston's Churchyard, Fleet Street, n.d. (c.1628). pp. [vii], 153. A fine copy in recent full morocco by Period Binders of Bath.

All edges red. Very rare in commerce. €1,250 COPAC locates 11 copies. Sweeney 4416 refers to the 1629 edition.

Already established as a poet through his paraphrase of Jonah entitled "A feast for wormes" the author came to Ireland during the lord lieutenancy of Viscount Falkland to assume the position of private secretary to Archbishop Ussher and tutor to his children. Hitherto he had confined himself to religious themes, but this versification of Sir Philip Sidney's romance Arcadia, which has for its theme the triumph of love and faithfulness over death, marked a new departure. The dedication to Ussher is signed at Dublin (4. of March, 1628).

Prior to 1700, no poem written in Ireland this century had gone through the number of editions credited to this and it was still being reprinted as late as 1692, almost fifty years after the author's death. One intervening edition that is worthy of notice is that of 1656. It is the first illustrated edition with thirty engraved plates and is said to be one of the few illustrated books produced during the course of the Commonwealth. The introduction is dated at Dublin, 4th March, 1628.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Argalus and Parthenia. It was dedicated to Henry Rich, Earl of Holland. An address to the reader is dated from Dublin, 4 March 1628. Owing to a misprint of 1621 for the latter year in a new edition of 1647, bibliographers have assigned the first publication to 1621, but the book was not licensed for the press at Stationers' Hall till 27 March 1629. The story is drawn from Sidney's Arcadia. In 1632 more of his sacred verse was collected in Divine Fancies digested into Epigrams, Meditations, and Observations (in four books). A eulogy on Archbishop Ussher figures in book iv. (No. 100). This volume was dedicated to Prince Charles and the prince's governess, the Countess of Dorset, who deeply sympathised with Quarles's religious bent. Next year (1633) Quarles's growing fame justified the reissue in a single volume of all his biblical paraphrases, 'newly augmented,' together with his 'Alphabet of Elegies.' The volume was entitled 'Divine Poems,' and was dedicated to the king.

321. [QUEEN ALEXANDRA] A framed photograph of Alexandra, Princess of Wales in cap and gown taken in 1885 during a visit to Dublin. By Lafayette Photographers (100 x 154mm).

The photograph is in fine condition apart from being evenly faded. €195 In April 1885 the Prince and Princess of Wales, the future King Edward VII and his consort Princess Alexandra visited Ireland. When in Dublin they visited Trinity College. They were received in the Examination Hall, where, the Weekly Irish Times said, "thoroughly pleasant humour was the order of the day". After the visit, The Graphic newspaper published some attractive depictions of the scene in the Examination Hall. In one, the undergraduates are seen waving their caps as the princess is escorted to her seat, accompanied by the gowned dons and led by the macebearer. There is a particularly interesting engraving on the same page.

The princess is depicted holding a tasselled mortarboard, wearing the gown of a doctor of music.

In the picture, the princess is being awarded a degree. The caption reads: "The Princess of Wales receiving the certificate of her degree as MusDoc from the Chancellor, Trinity College, Dublin".

This photo taken by Lafayette at the time shows the princess in her doctors' gown. Georgina Battiscombe's 1969 Queen Alexandra also mentions that the princess received the MusD from Trinity.

However the princess is not listed in volume three of the DU Catalogue of Graduates, which covers the period, or the 1913 Red Calendar, which lists all those who had received degrees honoris causa from the university up to that year.

On the same visit, the princess was made a doctor of music of the Royal University of Ireland, with her husband being awarded an honorary LLD. The RUI's garb for a doctor of music was the same as Trinity's. Could this photograph be of Her Royal Highness in her RUI outfit, rather than Dublin University, as indicated?

Did The Graphic make quite a large mistake, and fabricate its depictions of the scene in the Exam Hall based on confused information from its Dublin reporters, with the biographer Battiscombe being misled many years later? Or did the princess receive a Dublin University degree without the fact being widely publicised?

Alexandra of Denmark (Alexandra Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1844-1925) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor Edward VII. Her family had been relatively obscure until her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-HolsteinSonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the great powers to succeed his distant cousin, Frederick VII, to the Danish throne. At the age of sixteen, Alexandra was chosen as the future wife of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, the heir apparent of Queen Victoria. They married eighteen months later in 1863, the same year her father became king of Denmark as Christian IX and her brother was 92

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She was heavily involved in helping various charitable causes - most notably the poor, and the veterans of England's many foreign wars during the period. Alexandra is widely regarded to have been one of the most beautiful Queens of England.

SUBSCRIBER'S COPY 322. QUIGLEY, Catharine. Poems. Dublin: Printed by T. Courtney, 6, Wood-Street, and Sold by the author, 1813. Small octavo. pp. [xiv], [5], 192, [1]. Contemporary full tree calf, spine worn but sound. Previous owner's name 'Benj. Litton / 173 Church St / 1816', an original subscriber, on front pastedown also recent owner's neat bookplate. Early signature of J.C. Wilson on titlepage. Extremely rare. €1,350 No copy located on COPAC. Not in WorldCat. First and only edition, and very rare. Quigley seems to have published at least two other books, another volume of poems The Microscope, 1819 and a short tale in verse Simple Jane, 1827 but this is her first work, published by subscription - the great majority of the subscribers being Irish but well scattered around the country - not just Dublin and Belfast but also Cavan, Monaghan, Wicklow, Enniskillen, Coleraine and Shannon, Belturbet, Cootehill, Newry, Clones, Ballybay. Considering the large number of subscribers from County Monaghan and the fact that she had her second compilation The Microscope published in Monaghan would suggest that she was a native of that county.

323. [RECEIPTS] An interesting collection of seven receipts, dated from 1825 to 1883. (1) The London and Coventry Ribbon Ware-house, 55 Fishamble-Str. Bought of Michl Walsh. Mr Robert Truell. 23 December 1825. (2) Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital. Admit Mr. Henry Pomeroy Truell ... for Twelve Months. 18 November 1858. With wax seal. (3) Wicklow Coach Factory.

Dr. Truell. To J. Oakes & Sons. 2 April 1869. Stamped. (4) Coal Yard. South-Quay, Wicklow.

Mr Truell. Bought of Henry Fox. 20 October 1872. Stamped. (5) Steam Mills, Wicklow and Milltown Mills, Ashford. Corn Stores and Retail, Fitzwilliam Square. Dr. Truell Esq. 7 November 1877. (6) Bought of John Phillips, Victualler, Cattle Dealer, Contractor and Wool Merchant. Dr. Truell. 23 April 1879. Stamped. (7) Dr. Truell. To John Oakes. To Repair & Varnishing car for Dr. Truell as per agreement. £3-17-0 27 July 1883. [On obverse] Rec'd from W.C. Richards Esquire three pounds on a.c. of repairing Wagonette. John Oakes. 28 July 1883.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 324. REDMOND-HOWARD, L.G. Ireland The Peace Conference and the League of Nations.

Dublin: Printed at the Eigeas Press by Thomas Kiersey, Palmerston Gardens, n.d. (c.1918). pp.

132. Blue paper boards, title in black on upper cover. Spine neatly rebacked. A very good copy.

Very rare. €265 COPAC locates 4 copies only. NLI holds 1 copy. Not in Carty.

Mounted on the front pastedown is a label printed in red with the following note by the author: "I wish to apologise to the public for the poor quality of the paper on which the edition had to be rushed through the press, and to the exceptional conditions at present prevailing in the paper-market, it was found impossible to procure paper of a quality more in keeping with the character of the book" Thomas Kiersey.

325. [REMONSTRANCE] The False and Scandalous Remonstrance of the Inhumane and Bloody Rebells of Ireland, delivered to the Earl of St Albans and Clanrickard, the Earl of Roscommon, Sir Maurice Eustace Knight: and others His Majesties Commissioners at Trim, 17 March, 1642 to be presented to His Majestie, by the name of The Remonstrance of Grievances Presented to His Majestie in the behalf of the Catholics of Ireland. Printed at Waterford nine moneths after, by Tho: Bourk Printer to the Confederate-Catholicks, and untill then concealed from his Majesties good Protestant subjects. Together with an Answer thereunto, on the behalf of the Protestants of Ireland. Also a True Narration of all the Passages concerning the Petition of the Protestants of Ireland, Presented to his Majesty at Oxford the 18 of April, 1644. With the reasons inducing the said Protestants to Petition, the Proceedings and Successes thereof in Ireland, and afterwards in England, untill the Protestant agents were dismissed by his Majesty, 30 Maii, 1644.

(Collected in obedience to the order and command of the honourable House of Commons of England) for the manifestation of the Truth, and Vindication of the Protestants. London: Printed for Edw. Husbands, in the Middle-Temple, 1644. Quarto. pp. 80, 77-132, + errata. Recent half blue morocco on marbled boards. Some margins close trimmed with minor loss of letters. Small burn hole in final leaf, affecting a couple of letters. A very good copy. €1,250 Sweeney 1872. Wing F 343. ESTC R210053 gives 5 locations in Ireland.

The London version of the earliest Bradshaw piece of verifiable Waterford printing (Sweeney 4478) whose title starts A remonstrance of grievances presented to his most excellent Majestie in the behalf of the Catholicks of Ireland. A note with this reprint relates that although printed at Waterford nine months before, it had been "until then concealed from His Majesties good Protestant subjects" and it now contains "an answer thereunto on the behalf of the Protestants of Ireland".

326. ROBINSON, Lennox. Ed. by. Lady Gregory's Journals 1916-1930. London: Putnam & Company Limited, 1946. pp. 344. Blue cloth, title in silver on spine. Stamp of Webb's booksellers on front pastedown. Early owner's signature on front endpaper. Some minor spotting to fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy in illustrated dust jacket. €65 Much interesting material on the troubles in County Galway; Persons and Books (Shaw, Lawless, Countess Markievicz, Stephens, Lady Ardilaun, etc.); The Lane Pictures; Coole and the Abbey.

327. ROCHE, John Roche. The Closing of the Irish Parliament. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1907. pp. 146. Printed red wrappers, small nick to front cover, otherwise a very good copy. €150 The contents includes articles on: Poynings' Law; Molyneux and Swift; Irish Declaration of Independence; Plans for a Union; Lords Cornwallis and Castlereagh; Roman Catholics in Council; The First Unionist Defeat; A Zealous Unionist (Dr. Bodkin of Galway); Declaration of the Roman Catholics of Waterford; Bishop French of Elphin; Declaration from Ulster and Munster; A Protest from Leitrim; Kilkenny Roman Catholics Stand Firm; Historic Duel (between Grattan and Corry); The Pros and Cons; The Means by which the Union was Effected; How Dublin Felt after the Union, etc.

328. ROLT, L.T.C. Green and Silver. With photographs by Angela Rolt. London: Allen and Unwin, 1968. Second edition. pp. viii, 275. Green cloth, title in silver in spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €50 "Most penetrating and penetrating glimpses of modern Ireland are to be found … Information about these little-known waterways would have provided a feast in itself, but I believe no one could have garnished it so well as Mr. Rolt, who can treat the subtleties of Irish landscape and temperament with such a touch as the mechanics of canals and narrow-gauge railways" - The Observer.

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329. RONEY, Sir P. Cusack. Rambles on Railways. With maps, diagrams, and appendices.

London: Effingham Wilson, 1868. pp. xii, 499, [20 (index)]. Modern maroon buckram. A very good copy. Scarce. €65 Includes chapters on Railways of the United Kingdom; Union Pacific Railroad; Indian Railways; Canadian and Australian Railways; The Mont Cenis Railway; Tunnels, Ancient and Modern; The Great Tunnell of The Alps; Italy - The Eastern Mails - Sicily.

330. RUTTY, John. An Essay Towards a Natural History of the County of Dublin, Accommodated to the Noble Designs of the Dublin Society; Affording a summary View I. Of its Vegetables ... II Of its Animals. III. Of its Soil ... IV. Of the nature of the climate … Two volumes. Folding map of Dublin, four folding plates of birds, seven folding tables. Dublin: Printed for the Author, and Sold by W. Sleater in Castle-street, 1772. First edition. pp. (1) xiv, 1 (Advertisement), 392, (2) v, [i], 488. Later cream buckram. Occasional mild foxing. A very good set. Very rare. €1,500 ESTC T77170.

John Rutty (1698-1775) Physician, pupil of Boerhave, was born in Wiltshire, of Quaker stock. After medical education at Leyden, where he graduated M.D. in 1723, he settled in Dublin as a physician in 1724, where, while extremely active in Dublin intellectual life, he practised medicine for most of his life. He initiated two long-term projects: a detailed study of materia medica and a systematic record of the weather of Dublin. He lived sparely, sometimes dined on nettles, practised various forms of abstinence, drank very little alcohol, and often gave his services to the poor. His pioneering Natural History, the first real county natural history in Ireland, has a particular emphasis on the practical uses, medicinal or culinary, of the flora and fauna. Notably it includes the earliest notice of the brown rat (Rattus Norvegicus) coming to Ireland. The first engraved plates of birds were the first serious attempt to provide natural history illustrations in an Irish book. His repetitive cataloguing of his faults, he was a fervent Quaker, mostly 'swinishness in eating and doggedness of temper', is principally remembered as a subject for the wit of Samuel Johnson.

John Wesley (Journal, iv. 40) records that he "visited that venerable man Dr. Rutty". Rutty then lived in rooms, for which he paid an annual rent of 10l., at the eastern corner of Boot Lane and Mary's Lane in Dublin. He died in 1775, and was buried in a Quaker burial-ground which occupied the site of the present College of Surgeons in Stephen's Green, Dublin.

331. RYAN, Desmond. The Man Called Pearse. Dublin: Maunsel and Roberts, 1923. pp. [vi], 130. Green cloth, title printed on upper cover and on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €175 95

De Búrca Ra re Books 332. SADDLEMYER, Ann. Some Letters of John M. Synge to Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats.

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1971. pp. vii, 85. Quarter cream linen on pale blue paper boards, title in black on upper cover and in gilt along spine. Limited to 500 copies. A fine copy. Scarce. €225 Miller 79 Useful selection of letters, mainly on theatre matters.

333. SALMON, Mr. A Short View of the Families of the Present Irish Nobility; Their Marriages, Issue, Descents and immediate Ancestors; the Posts of Honour and Profit they hold in the Government; their Arms, Mottos, and Chief Seats. With an index, Specifying the Time of their respective Creations, and Summons to Parliament; the Titles of their Eldest Sons; their Rank, Precedence, &c. London: Printed for William Owen, 1759. pp. [v], 279. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, spine rebacked. A very good copy. Very rare. €175 334. SEABHAC [Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha]. Jimín Mháire Thaidhg. Illustrated by Ailbhe Ó Monacháin. Baile Átha Cliath: Cómhlucht Oideachais na hÉireann, n.d. pp. 102. Printed wrappers. Owner's signature on half title and upper cover. Some writing in ink on margins.

Scarce. €25 335. SEIGNE, J.W. Irish Bogs. Sport and Country life in the Irish Free State. Illustrated.

London: Longmans Green & Co., 1928. First edition. pp. xii, 249. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper spine. Publisher's review slip loosely inserted. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €75

A book for all sportsmen describing the author's experiences in the hunting field, shooting on the Irish bogs and fishing in the lakes and rivers of the Irish Free State. There is also a section on bird life and natural history.

336. SEYMOUR, Edward. Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. With folding plans and original photographs mounted. Dublin: Hodges Foster, London & Oxford: Parker, 1869. pp. viii, 93, [1].

Modern brown cloth, title on paper label along spine. A fine copy. €325 337. SHAW, Henry. New City Pictorial Directory 1850. To which is added a retrospective review of the past year. Illustrated. Dublin: Henry Shaw, 1850. Octavo. Recent half green morocco. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €675 COPAC locates the BL copy only. WorldCat 1 copy.

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The Dublin Pictorial Guide and Directory for 1850 provides a fascinating insight into Dublin life in the mid-nineteenth century. The line engravings of the city centre streets give us a unique picture of the buildings and shop fronts, exactly as they were before the major changes of the Victorian era and the savage destruction of modern times. In his introduction Henry Shaw proudly proclaimed that it was to be part of a series of yearly publications "As well as being both novel in design and execution".

Certainly it was "novel" for his directory contains more than seventy line engravings of the streets, with the individual buildings depicted in considerable detail.

SHERIDAN THE PAPIST 338. [SHERIDAN, Mr.] A Short Account of Mr Sheridan's Case before the late House of Commons in a Letter to J. T. Bound with: The Speech of Mr. T. Sheridan, after his Examination Before the late House of Commons, on Wednesday the 15th of December 1680. London: Printed for J. Hindmarsh at the Bull in Cornhill, 1681. Small quarto. pp. [i], 8, 15, 25-38. Recent half calf on marbled boards. A very good copy. Very rare in commerce. â‚Ź1,250 Sweeney 4900. Wing T 25.

Sheridan's speech was delivered on December 15th, 1680. He was "censur'd for a Papist, a Coleman, and a Jesuit" in a highly convoluted piece of plot and counter-plot that ended in his successful application for a writ of Habeas Corpus: "neither felony, nor treason, nor any other crime nor breach of privilege, being laid to his charge".

Sheridan, Thomas (1661-1688), Jacobite and author, was born in 1646, at the village of St. John's, near Trim in County Meath, the fourth son of Dennis Sheridan, and a younger brother of William Sheridan the Church of Ireland Bishop of Kilmore. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, graduated B.A. in 1664, and elected a fellow in 1667. Being destined for the law, he entered the Middle Temple in 1670, but soon after obtained the position of collector of the customs in Cork, which proved extremely lucrative. In 1677 he received from the University of Oxford the honorary degree of D.C.L. and two years later was also elected a fellow of the Royal Society. He became acquainted with James, Duke of York, and received several favours from him, and showed his gratitude by visiting him at Brussels in 1679 during his retirement. Being known as an adherent of James Stuart, he was accused of participation in the 'Popish Plot' and committed to prison in 1680. On 15 December, he was examined before the House of Commons, but, having explained that he was a member of the church of England 97

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and had taken the oaths eleven times, he was merely remanded to the custody of the sergeant-at-arms, and was set at liberty on the dissolution of Parliament.

James II appointed Sheridan Chief Secretary and Commissioner of the Revenue in Ireland, and he proceeded thither, bearing the king's letter for Clarendon's recall. But Tyrconnel, who succeeded as Lieutenant-General, wishing to have another person as secretary, procured Sheridan's removal from his posts. The latter appealed to the king, with what result is not clear; but he accompanied James into exile in 1688, and was appointed his private secretary. The date of his death is unknown. He is said to have married a natural daughter of James II. He left two children: a daughter, who married Colonel Guillaume, aide-de-camp of William III; and a son, Thomas Sheridan the younger (d.1746), who was appointed about 1739 tutor to Prince Charles Edward (the young Pretender); he accompanied the young chevalier to Scotland in 1745, and was knighted by him. He was one of the 'seven men of Moidart' who landed with the prince at Loch Nan-uamh on 25th July, 1745, of these seven, only two were of Scottish birth. There was one Englishman and the rest were Irish. He was present at the battle of Falkirk, which he described in a letter. After the battle of Culloden he escaped from Arisaig in Inverness-shire on board a French man-of-war. He proceeded to Rome, where he died before the end of the year.

Besides Mr. Sheridan's Speech after his Examination before the late House of Commons (London, 1681) the elder Sheridan published A Discourse on the Rise and Power of Parliaments (1677). This work is of special interest, both on account of the light it throws on Irish political life, and because of the singularly bold and enlightened manner in which the author proposes to meet the difficulties of administration by a system of conciliation and toleration. Sheridan was also the author of a manuscript History of his Own Times, now in the Royal Library at Windsor.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 339. [SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley] The School for Scandal. A Comedy. Prologue by David Garrick. Epilogue by George Colman. Dublin: Printed for J. Ewling [Ewing], n.d. (1795?). pp. vi, 93, [3]. Some light browning to titlepage. Disbound. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €475 COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 2 copies only. ESTC T76.

Bodleian pre-1920 catalogue suggests date of 1799.

The School for Scandal was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on 8 May 1777. In comparing editions of the play, one will find several relatively minor textual differences. One reason is that Sheridan revised his text repeatedly, not only prior to its first production, but afterwards in its earliest stages, as detailed by Thomas Moore.

The play did not appear in an authorised edition during Sheridan's lifetime, though it was printed in Dublin in 1788 from a copy that the author had sent to his sister.

340. SHERLOCK, Thomas. D.D. Six Discourses, on Prophecy. To which are added, Four Dissertations. I. The Authority of the Second Epistle of St. Peter. II. The Sense of the Antients ... upon ... the Fall. III. The Blessings of Judah ... IV. Christ's entry into Jerusalem. Also, an Appendix. Containing a farther Enquiry into the Mosaic Account of the Fall. The sixth edition, corrected and enlarged. Dublin: Printed for Peter Wilson, 1750. pp. [6], 333, 52. Original full calf, spine ruled in gilt. Signature of John Stone on titlepage. A good copy. €375 COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 3 copies.

341. SISSON, Elaine. Pearse's Patriots. St. Enda's and the Cult of Boyhood. Cork: University Press, 2004. pp. ix, 233. Brown paper boards, titled in silver. A fine copy in dust jacket. €35 When St. Enda's opened in 1908, Patrick Pearse headmaster and founder declared that the school would be an "educational adventure for nationalist boys".

342. SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

With a Life of the Author. Also, a view of the Doctrine of Smith, compared with that of the French Economists; with a method of facilitating the study of his works; from the French of M. Garnier. Three volumes. London: Printed for J. Maynard, Panton Street, Haymarket; and F. Zinke, 448, Strand, 1811. pp. (1) lxxi, [1], 360, (2) vi, 514, (3) v, [1], 448, [50 (extensive index)]. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, spines and corners expertly rebacked, some light foxing to prelims, otherwise a very clean, crisp and fresh set. Rare. €2,750 COPAC locates 8 copies. WorldCat 1.

Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher. It was first published in 1776, the book offers one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth and is today a fundamental work in classical economics. Through reflection over the economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution the book touches upon such broad topics as the division of labour, productivity and free markets. Many other authors were influenced by the book and used it as a starting point in their own work, including Alexandra Hamilton, JeanBaptiste Say, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus 99

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This printing now with an Account of the Life of the Author which has been specially drawn up for the first time, as well as studies on the author and the French economists of the period, and a method of facilitating the study of the work.

A SUPERB COPY OF THE SECOND AND BEST EDITION 343. SMITH, Charles. The Ancient and Present State of The County of Waterford. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. Embellished with a portrait frontispiece of the author; a large folding map of the County; folding panoramic view of Lismore; folding panoramic view of Dungarvan; Ardmore Round Tower and the Steeple of Carrick-beg; folding panoramic view and plan of the city of Waterford. Dublin: Printed for W. Wilson, 1774. pp. xx, [1], 376, 5 (index), [2], 24 (Wilson's Catalogue). Contemporary full calf, spine professionally rebacked, repair to corners. Armorial bookplate of Frederick Trench on front pastedown. Repair to folds of map. Near fine. The finest copy we have ever seen. €1,250

Smith explains in his preface how it was hoped that a greater knowledge of the natural resources of the country would promote a greater exploitation of them and so encourage the growth in population. "The strength of a state is not to be computed by the extent of a country, but by the number and labour of the inhabitants". Ireland he felt could easily support eight times its contemporary population.

Apart from detailed descriptions of the county and city, their topography, history and antiquities, he includes chapters on such as 'Some Hints relating to Agriculture', 'Of the Medicinal Waters ... with an Analysis', 'Hydrographical Description of the Harbours, Creeks, Bays, &, 'Of the Trades Arts and Manufactures', 'Stones, Earths, Clays and Ores', 'Of the Plants, Trees, etc'. The appeal of this book is much enhanced by the detailed keyed street plan of Waterford, the fine county map and the handsome extending panoramic views. The maps in these histories are the first printed maps of their respective counties since Petty's in the seventeenth century, and for them Smith claims to have made his own triangulations.

344. SOMERVILLE, E.O.E. & ROSS, M. Notions in Garrison. Illustrated by E.O.E. Somerville. London: Methuen, 1941. First edition. Quarto. pp. ix, 133. Orange cloth title in black on spine. Owner's signature on front flyleaf. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €75 345. [SOUTHERN BATTALION] History of the 13th Battalion. Stair 13ú Cath an Deiscirt.

Portrait of Charles Joseph Kickham. Clonmel: Reprinted from 'The Nationalist', n.d. pp. 11.

Printed stapled wrappers. A fine copy. €20 A SUPERB COPY 346. [STANESBY, Samuel] The Bridal Souvenir. Illuminated by Samuel Stanesby. London: Griffith & Farran, [1857]. First edition. Quarto. pp. [40]. Mounted sepia photographic frontispiece portrait with tissue guard (with minor spotting not affecting frontispiece). Bound by W. Bone & Son (with their ticket on lower pastedown) in cream buckram over bevelled boards, elaborately decorated in gilt and turquoise. Covers with gilt-stamp ruled and ornamental borders, rose-decorated spandrels, gilt over-stamped floral ornamental lobed surround, and green and giltstamped entwined strapwork, floral medallions and decorations, and quatrefoil with folded titling 100

De Búrca Ra re Books banner 'The Bridal / Souvenir'. Spine with gilt ruled borders, floral ornaments and titling panel; gilt floral turn-ins; moiré silk endpapers. All edges gilt. A fine copy in fine fresh condition. €425 Samuel Stanesby produced at least eleven illuminated books between 1857 and 1865. The cover of this work is reproduced in black & white in McLean's Victorian Publishers Book-Bindings, p. 70.

347. SULLIVAN, Edward, Sir Decorative book-binding in Ireland : a paper read before ye Sette of Odd Volumes, February 28, 1911, at the Hotel Capitol (Oddenino's). Illustrated.

Letchworth: Printed by the Arden Press, and to be had of no Booksellers, 1914. Square octavo. pp. 34, 6 (plates). Privately printed opuscula issued to members of the Sette of Odd Volumes.

Edition limited to 133 numbered copies (no. 10). Presented unto Bro. Charles Holman (Pilgrim)

by Ralph Straus. Signed by Edward Sullivan. Stiff paper wrappers with brown paper dust jacket, printed in red. A fine copy. €585 Sir Edward Sullivan 2nd. Bart. (1852-1928) is best known for his monograph on the Book of Kells which long remained the standard authority. An expert on finishing bindings, he signed them 'Aurifex' which means worker in gold. His most important legacy, however, is his volume of rubbings and photographs of the magnificent 18th century bookbindings of the Manuscript Journals of both Houses of the Irish Parliament which were tragically destroyed in 1922.

348. SULLIVAN, Edward, Sir. The Book of Kells. Described by Sir Edward Sullivan, Bart., and illustrated with twenty-four plates in colours. London: The Studio, 1927. Third edition.

Quarto. pp. viii, 48, 24 (mounted colour plates). Beige cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Spine evenly faded. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €65 349. SWIFT, Dr. Jonathan. Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift. Written by Himself: Nov. 1731. London: Printed for C. Bathurst, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, 1739. The third edition. Large folio (240 x 375mm). pp. 22. Old brown paper wrappers with repairs. Paper repair to titlepage and some margins. Signature of Martin Miles of Stoke on final leaf. A good copy in full buckram binder's folder. Exceedingly rare. €375 COPAC locates the BL copy only of this edition.

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), man of letters, was born in Dublin, son of an Englishman who was steward of the King's Inn. He was educated at Kilkenny School and Trinity College, Dublin. In 1689, disgusted with the policy of preferment of Catholics being practised in Dublin by James II's Viceroy, Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnell, and anxious for his future, he left Ireland and became personal secretary to Sir William Temple, a retired diplomat, who had helped arrange the marriage of William 101

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In 1722 a patent was given to William Wood, an English tradesman to provide a copper coinage for Ireland. This aggrieved the Dean and he became involved in a series of pamphlets declaring that Wood's project would ruin the country. They were published in 1724 and became known as the Drapier's Letters as he had signed them M.B. Drapier.

In 1726 Swift published Gullivers Travels, for which he received £200 copyright, the only occasion according to himself when he made a farthing from his writing.

350. SYNGE, J.M.] John Millington Synge 1871-1909: A Catalogue of an Exhibition held at Trinity College Library Dublin on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of his Death.

Illustrated. Dublin: Printed at the Dolmen Press, 1959. pp. 40. Pictorial wrappers. Corrigenda loosely inserted. Some fading around the edges. A very good copy. €45 Not in Miller.

The cover image of Synge is by Phoebe Donovan. Includes the only available bibliography of Synge's works.

351. [SYNGE, John M.] John M. Synge: A Few Personal Recollections with Biographical Notes

by John Masefield. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1915. First edition. pp. [iv], 35. Quarter cream linen on grey paper boards, titled in black on upper cover. Edition limited to 350 copies. A very good copy. €275 John Millington Synge (1871-1909), playwright, was born in Rathfarnham, County Dublin and educated at Trinity College where he won prizes in Irish and Hebrew. He studied at the R.I.A.M. and became proficient on the piano, violin and flute. Turning to literature he settled in Paris where he met W.B. Yeats, who advised him to return to the Aran Islands and write about the way of life there. By 1905, his plays In the Shadow of the Glen, Riders to the Sea and The Well of Saints had been performed in the Abbey, and Synge was accepted by Yeats and Lady Gregory as the leading playwright of the literary revival. When the Abbey Theatre opened in December 1904, Synge became literary advisor and later a director with W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. His great comedy, The Playboy of the Western World, now a classic of the Irish theatre, caused a riot on its first Abbey production in 1907.

Undeterred, Yeats put on The Tinker's Wedding shortly afterwards. In the same year The Aran Islands (illustrated by Jack B. Yeats) was published. Suffering from Hodgkin's disease, he died unmarried, on 24 March, 1909. Ironically Synge never saw his collected works in print. They were first published by Maunsel in 1910.

352. TAAFE, Rev. Mr. Life of St. Columbkille, with some account of his Sayings, moral and prophetic, extracted from Irish parchments; to which are added The Visions of St. Patrick and Bridget, together with an extract from Fuaras a Saltoir Cashel. Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1859.

12mo. pp. 128. Brown faded cloth. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Some toning to pages, otherwise very good. Very rare. €145 Not copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1 copy.

353. TAAFFE, Eduard. Presentation Address from His Excellency the Lord KK Prime Minister and Head of Department of The Interior to Count Eduard Taaffe. In honour of his lifetime achievements and dedication to his country. I. A large folio binders folder bound in purple velvet, upper cover with a brass margin enclosing in the centre Count Taaffe's coronet and monogram in silver and brass inlaid in red, white and blue enamel. With three pages of signatures of the Austrian nobility and gentry. II. Address in manuscript on vellum, dated 1892, with signatures [460 x 370mm]. Both items are housed in a custom made wooden box [500 x 410 x 60mm].

Magnificently covered in leather and elaborately tooled in gilt to a floral design with urns, painted onlays of flowers and shells. Inset on upper lid beneath glass on parchment are printed fourteen armorial shields in colour; with the coronet and initials 'ET' (Eduard Taaffe) laid on.

Edges of the lid and surrounds of the central panel with a floral copper border. Corners of box and lock also with copper decoration. A superb example of a unique presentation and box made for a scion of the Taaffe family, originally from Corran in County Sligo. €1,650 Eduard Franz Joseph Graf (Count) von Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe (1833-1895) was born in Prague, the second son of Count Louis Taaffe, 9th Viscount Taaffe (1791-1855), Austrian Minister of Justice 102

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during the Revolutions of 1848 and president of the court of appeal. His ancestor Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford (1639-1704) had entered the service of the Habsburg Monarchy in the seventeenth century. The family held large estates in Bohemia. As a child, Eduard Taaffe was one of the chosen companions of the young Archduke Francis Joseph, who in 1848 was crowned Emperor of Austria, which opened him a distinguished political career in the service of the Habsburgs.

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He entered the Imperial Service in 1857 as Secretary of the Hungarian Government, and was appointed Governor of Salzburg in 1863. Four years later he became Austrian Minister of the Interior, and Vice President of the Cisleithan Ministry. At the end of 1869 he served as Minister President, and in 1871 accepted the office of Governor of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg. He was a very strong opponent of antiSemite agitation. In 1893, he put forward a carefully elaborated political programme, which met with general opposition and led to his retirement. After this he resided at his estate at Elischau, in Bohemia.

He was a scion of the Irish Taaffe noble dynasty, who held hereditary titles from two different countries: Imperial Count (Reichsgrafen) of the Holy Roman Empire and Viscount Taaffe of Corran, and Baron of Ballymote (Sligo), in the Peerage of Ireland.

354. [TAILTEANN MEDAL] Aonach Tailteann Medal Willwood Athletic Foundation (c.1920s). Large Bronze Medal 52mm in diameter with ring attached for ribbon. The medals depict a profile of Queen Tailte, facing left with the title 'An Banrioghan Tailte'. The reverse 'Aonach Tailteann', Baile Atha Cliath. With a circular border of interlaced zoomorphic ornament, incorporating four diminutive figures in postures representing sport and art. The border is broken by the coats of arms of the four provinces of Ireland. Engraved on verso 'Swimming / 1984', apparently executed sixty years later. In very good condition. â‚Ź185

The Tailteann Games were an ancient sporting event held in Ireland in honour of the goddess Tailte.

They ran from 1829 BC to 1169-1171 AD when they died out after the Norman invasion. The site of the games was the plains of Royal Meath, perhaps in the townland of Telltown. The games were held over a thirty day period each year.

The revival of the games was initiated by Ireland's first representative Parliament, Dail Eireann. Its first President, Eamon de Valera, voted the necessary funds to meet the preliminary expenses.

Unfortunately the games did not proceed due to the Civil War. It went ahead in association in Croke Park in 1924, 1928, and 1932 and it was open to all people of Irish birth or ancestry, with participants coming from England, Scotland, Wales, Canada, the USA, South Africa, Australia, as well as Ireland.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 355. TALBOT, Peter. A Treatise of the Nature of Catholick Faith, and Heresie, with Reflection upon the Nullitie of the English Protestant Church, and Clergy. By N.N. Printed at Rouen, in the yeare 1657. Reprinted, 1925?. Small folio. pp. [viii], 47. Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 100 copies. In fine condition. €375 Peter Talbot, Archbishop of Dublin, was born at Malahide, County of Dublin, in 1620. He was educated principally in Portugal. In 1635 he was received into the Society of the Jesuits, and he was subsequently ordained a priest at Rome, and sent to Antwerp as a teacher of moral theology. His intimacy with Dominick a Rosario, Portuguese ambassador in Paris, enabled him to render many services to Prince Charles (afterwards Charles II), and it is said to have been mainly through his influence that the Prince secretly joined the Catholic Church. Sent to England to promote the interests of Catholicism, it is stated that he gained the confidence of Cromwell, and that he was among those who attended his funeral as a mourner. On 9th May 1669, at Antwerp, he was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin, and immediately proceeded to administer the affairs of his diocese, which for twenty years had been almost entirely neglected.

His supposed influence at the English court, and his uncompromising assertion of the claims of his Church exposed him to the bitter hostility of a large party; and early in 1673 he was banished from the kingdom. He returned from the Continent to England in 1675, and resided for a while in Cheshire, in poor health, until, through the influence of the Duke of York, he obtained permission to return home. In October 1678, the aged and infirm prelate was arrested at his father's house, near Carton, Maynooth, on the charge of participation in a "Popish plot," and "committed close prisoner to the Castle, with a person to attend him in his miserable and helpless condition, the violence of his distemper [calculus] being scarce supportable, and threatening his death". On examination, nothing appeared against him; yet he was retained in confinement, and died in Dublin Castle in 1680, aged about 60. He was a man of singular ability and learning, and wrote numerous theological works, thirteen of which are named in Harris's Ware.

356. TALBOT, Peter. The Polititians Cathechisme, for his Instruction in Divine Faith, and Morall Honesty. Written by N.N. Printed at Antworp, in the yeare 1658. Reprinted, 1925. Small folio. pp. [8], 68. Purple ribbed cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 100 copies. In fine condition. €375 357. [TALBOT, Richard, Earl of Tirconnel] A Vindication of the Present Government of Ireland Under his Excellency, Richard, Earl of Tirconnel. In a Letter to a Friend. London: Printed in the Year 1688. Quarto. pp. [i], 21, [1]. Recent quarter blue morocco on blue buckram boards.

A fine copy. €475 COPAC locates 9 copies only. WorldCat 1. Wing V524.

ESTC R22337. Sweeney 5394.

A rarely heard defence of the conduct of Richard Talbot which was submerged under the weight of hostile contemporary opinion. By the late Tony Sweeney's calculation contemporary printing presenting the Williamite case exceeded that of the Jacobites by a margin of 20-1. He commences: "Sir, Having allowed myself time to think since our meeting the other night, I have considered upon our several arguments; and am full of opinion that Ireland (in all humane probability) is in a better way of thriving under the influence of a native Governour, than under any stranger to us and our country. A man altogether of English interest, never did and never likely will clubb with us or project anything for us, which may tend to our advantage, that may be the least bar or prejudice to the trade of England". The author cites as examples of this "the imbargo upon our West Indies trade .... the likewise upon our Irish cattel".

The youngest of sixteen children of Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet, of Carton, and his wife, Alison Netterville, he was descended from an old Norman family that had settled in Leinster in the twelfth century. Like most Old 105

De Búrca Ra re Books English families in Ireland, the Talbots had adopted the customs of the Irish and had, like the Irish, adhered to the Catholic faith. He married Katherine Baynton in 1669. They had two daughters, Katherine and Charlotte. Baynton died in 1679. Talbot later married Frances Jennings, sister of Sarah Jennings (the future Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough). He was also known by the nickname "Lying Dick" Talbot.

During the Irish Confederate Wars that followed the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Talbot served in Confederate Ireland's Leinster army as cavalry cornet or junior officer. He was taken prisoner by the Parliamentarians after the battle of Dungans Hill in 1647, but was ransomed back to his own side. In 1649, he also survived the Cromwellian Sack of Drogheda, escaping from the garrison before it was massacred. Shortly after this, he fled Ireland, to join his fellow defeated Royalists in France.

Talbot had been introduced to Charles II and James, Duke of York (later James II), when they were exiles in Flanders, as a result of the English Civil War. Talbot then lived like many other royalist refugees, partly by casual military service, but also by acting as a subordinate agent in plots to upset the Commonwealth and murder Cromwell. He was arrested in London in November 1655 and was examined by Cromwell. Once more he escaped, but it was said by his enemies that he was bribed by Cromwell, with whom one of his brothers was certainly in correspondence. He was actively engaged in an infamous intrigue to ruin the character of Anne Hyde, the Duke's wife-to-be, but continued in James's employment and saw some service at sea in the naval wars with the Dutch. After the Restoration he continued to have a place in the household of the Duke of York. Talbot accumulated money by acting as agent for Irish Roman Catholics who sought to recover their confiscated property.

He was arrested for supposed complicity in the Popish Plot agitation in 1678, but was allowed to go into exile.

After the accession of James II in 1685, he was created Baron of Talbotstown, Viscount Baltinglass and Earl of Tyrconnell (2nd creation), and sent as commander in chief of the forces in Ireland. In this capacity and as Lord Deputy of Ireland (1687–88) he placed Catholics in positions of control in the state and the militia, which the Duke of Ormonde had previously organised. Consequently the entire Roman Catholic population sided with James II in the Glorious Revolution. Thus, in 1689, when James landed at Dublin with his French officers, Tyrconnell had an Irish army ready to assist him. His role in the Revolution was satirised in the contemporary folk song, Lillibullero. After James came to Ireland, he created him Duke of Tyrconnell and Marquess of Tyrconnell, titles recognised only by the Jacobites.

After defeat in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, Tyrconnell went to France for aid. He returned to Ireland in 1691, but died of apoplexy just before the fall of Limerick. Some contemporary accounts say that he was poisoned, but this is unsubstantiated. His widow, Frances, and daughter Charlotte remained in France, where Charlotte married her kinsman, William Talbot of Haggardstown, called 3rd Earl of Tyrconnell in the Jacobite peerage.

Tyrconnell's brother Peter was the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin from 1669 to 1680.

358. TAYLER, Alastair and Henrietta. The Stuart Papers at Windsor. Being selections from hitherto unprinted Royal Archives, with introduction and notes. Published by the gracious permission of His Majesty the King. Portrait frontispiece and other illustrations. London: Murray, 1939. pp. ix, 290. Blue cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy in dust jacket. €65 There is a large collection of letters and papers relating to the Dillon family in this work.

A FINE COPY OF TEELING'S WORKS 359. TEELING, Charles Hamilton. Personal Narrative of the "Irish Rebellion" of 1798. Bound with: Sequel to Personal Narrative of the "Irish Rebellion" of 1798. Two volumes in one.

London: Printed for the Author, 1828; & Belfast: Hodgson, 1832.

First editions. pp. xv, [1], 285, [1]; xlviii, 326. Contemporary full green calf, covers framed by a single blind and treble gilt fillets; spine divided into five compartments by four gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on maroon morocco labels in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; a gilt shamrock in centre of first and fifth compartment and a fleurde-lys in centre of third, fore-edges gilt; red and cream endbands; splash-marbled endpapers. All edges dark red. Inoffensive mild 106

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Charles Hamilton Teeling like his brother Bartholomew, a leading United Irishman and journalist, was born at Lisburn in 1778 of an old Catholic family. On 16 Sept. 1796, while still a young man, he was arrested with his father by Lord Castlereagh on suspicion of treason. He had previously been offered a commission in the British army, but had declined as it was incompatible with his nationalistic sentiments. In 1802 he settled in Dundalk as a linen-bleacher. Subsequently he became proprietor of the Belfast Northern Herald, later moving to Newry, where he established the Newry Examiner.

His Narrative is of considerable historical value, throwing much light on the state of feeling among the Roman Catholics of Ulster prior to the Rebellion, and upon the later stages of the United Irish movement, as well as the progress of the Rebellion in that province. See illustration above.

360. TÓIBÍN, Colm. Dubliners. Photographs by Tony O'Shea. London: Macdonald Illustrated, 1990. Oblong quarto. pp. 160. Black paper boards, titled in white. A very good copy in dust jacket. €35

Throughout the 1980's, the Irish photographer Tony O'Shea took pictures of the city of Dublin. The images he produced were stark and powerful. His city was not a place of famous monuments and important buildings, sanitised for the tourists. Instead, his city was made up of faces set in expression of wonder and repose, strong, watchful and alert.

361. [TRADE CATALOGUE] Trade Catalogue of Crittalls (Irish Free State) Limited. Makers of metal windows. Factory: New Wapping St., Dublin, C.8. Sole Distributing Agents: Brooks Thomas & Co. Limited, 4 Sackville Place, Dublin C.8. Dublin ?. No date (c.1940s). Quarto. pp.

12. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €75 362. [TRADE CATALOGUE] Trade Catalogue of I.S. Varian & Co. Wholesale Brush Manufacturers, 91 & 92 Talbot Street, Dublin. Alterations in Prices. Dublin: Cranston, 1937. pp.

12. Worn stapled wrappers. A well used and read catalogue. Rare. €65 363. [TRADE CATALOGUE] Trade Catalogue of J. W. Elvery and Co., Elephant House, Dublin, Cork, London. Football, Hurley, Hockey, Badminton, Boxing, Billiards. Dublin: Rapid Printing, n.d. (c.1920s). pp. 44. Illustrated green wrappers. Recased. Mild staining to covers, rusty staples removed. A good copy. Very rare. €95 364. [TRADE CATALOGUE] Trade Catalogue of McFerran & Guilford, Ltd. Dublin, C.5.

Illustrated. Dublin: The Earlsfort Press, no date (c.1950s). Quarto. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €75 107

De Búrca Ra re Books 365. [TRAVELLERS MAP] Ireland and its Railways. Philips Series of Maps for Travellers.

Circa 1875. Folded linen backed map hand-coloured in outline. 560 x 640mm. Scale in Irish and English miles. In original cloth map folder, titled in gilt. In very good condition. €275 Depicted are: capitals of counties, principal commercial towns, market towns, small towns, railway lines, stations, rivers, lakes, bays, islands etc.

366. TRAYNOR, Michael. The English Dialect of Donegal. A glossary. Incorporating the Collections of H.C. Hart, M.R.I.A. (1847-1908). Dublin: R.I.A., 1953. First edition. pp. xxiv, 336. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy of a scarce book. €145 On the advice of Professor J.J. Hogan the author began this work in 1938. He read all the available books by Donegal authors (from about 1800). He also made frequent journeys through the county and this, along with correspondence, vastly increased the number of words. Two years later T.B. Hart of Beaconsfield made the Hart MSS available to him which greatly assisted Traynor in his endeavour.

Henry Chichester Hart was born in Dublin of a Donegal family, his father being Sir Andrew S. Hart, Vice-Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. At the age of seventeen he began a botanical survey of his beloved county, which he continued intermittently until 1898, when he published his well-known 'Flora of the County Donegal'. He was a man of magnificent physique, a daring climber and a tireless walker, and though his pace was usually too fast for exhaustive work, he missed little, and penetrated to places where very few have followed him.

Hart began his collection of dialect words about 1880 and read a paper 'Notes on Ulster Dialect, chiefly Donegal", which was published the same year. Hart was naturalist and botanist to Admiral Markham's expedition to the North Pole in 1876-76 and published a paper on that expedition. He became a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1893.

AS TRUE TO THE SADDEST AND HEAVIEST TRUTHS OF IRISH LIFE 367. TROLLOPE, Anthony. The Landleaguers. Three volumes. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First edition. pp. (1) ix, 280, (2) vii, 296, (3) vii, 291, 32 (Publishers list), + half-titles.

Original gilt decorated green cloth, title in gilt on spines. Wear to extremities. A good sound set.

Exceedingly rare. €1,250 Sadleir 68.

The purpose of Trollope's first visit to Ireland in 1843 was to investigate irregularities in the Post Office at Drumsna, County Leitrim, then managed by William Allen. After a weary journey he arrived late in the village and stayed in a small public-house. His bedroom was approached by a flight of steps, half stairs, half ladder, not far from perpendicular. The room had little in the way of furnishings, except two beds close together, a table, chair and basin-stand. He retired to bed early, could not secure his room door, after some time he fell into an uneasy restless sort of sleep, and was suddenly awoken by the tread of footsteps approaching his bed. Frightened and half awake he leapt from his bed, caught the intruder by the throat, in the ensuing struggle, the door opened and his antagonist stumbled and fell down the stairs. Aroused by this noise, the late night drinkers rushed into the room and struck a light.

That very moment, Trollope heard the landlady cry out: "Oh, boys, that murderin' villain upstairs has killed his raverance! ... We'll soon settle the damned Sassenach". But for the intervention of the halfstrangled priest, it would have been curtains for Trollope. When peace was established apologies were made all around. Trollope found out in actual fact that he had assaulted the local parish priest, who was out on a late call and had decided to stay at the inn that night. Fortunately he was none the worse for his encounter and afterwards he and Trollope became very good friends. Trollope featured this kindly gentleman in this novel.

The Landleaguers was set in County Galway where an English Protestant family bought a property at the height of the agrarian troubles. The most interesting aspect of this novel is the trials of those boycotted and the incidents of the period, as well as the background on Irish social and rural life, as seen by a sympathetic Englishman, although anti-nationalist. An admirable contemporary article on his novels is found in the Dublin Review and deserves quoting: "This Englishman keenly observant, painstaking, absolutely sincere and unprejudiced, with a lynx-like clearness of vision, and a power of literal reproduction of which his clerical and domestic novels, remarkably as they exhibit it, do not furnish such striking examples, writes a story as true to the saddest and heaviest truths of Irish life, as racy as the soil, as rich as the peculiar humour, the moral features, the social oddities, the subtle individuality of the far west of Ireland as George Eliot's novels are true to that of English life".

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De Búrca Ra re Books 368. TURPIN, John. Oliver Sheppard 1865-1941. Symbolist Sculptor of the Irish Cultural Revival. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. pp. xi, 256. Black paper boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy in dust jacket. €30 PLANTS OF CUNNEMARA 369. WADE, Walter. Catalogus Plantarum Rariorum in Comitatu Gallovidiae, praecipue Cunnamara Inventarum: or, A Systematic Account of the more rare Plants, principally found in the County of Galway; but more particularly in that part of it called Cunnemara. Dublin: For the Dublin Society, n.d. (1801). pp. [3], 106- 127. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Rare. €165 370. WALSH, Walter. Kilkenny. The Struggle for the Land 1850-1882. With maps, illustrations and statistical tables. Thomastown: Walsh Books, 2008. pp. xxviii, 531. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €45 371. WARD, Margaret. Maud Gonne. A Life. London: Pandora An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 1990. pp. ix, 211. Red paper boards, title in silver. A fine copy in dust jacket. €35 372. WARE, Sir James. De Hibernia & Antiquitatibus ejus Disquisitiones. In quibus, Praeter ea quae de Hiberniâ antiquâ explicantur, Mores & Consuetudines Hibernorum, tàm veterum, quàm mediorum temporum, describuntur. Unà cum formâ Imperii eorum, Nummis, Academiis … tempore Henrici II, sub quo, Insula Anglici Juris facta est. London: Printed by J. Grismond, 1654. First edition. pp. [xiv], 253, + errata. Titlepage in red and black. Contemporary full mottled calf, covers and spine compartments ruled in gilt, title in gilt direct. Early owner's signature on titlepage, presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'Sir Wm Dunbar gives this / Book to the Rt Honble / James Earl of Fife'. Light wear to spine ends, corners a little bumped. Neat library stamp on titlepage. A very good. Rare. €950 COPAC locates 1 copy only with variant imprint. WorldCat 3. Sweeney 5533 Ware 843.

A second edition appeared in 1658 and included six engraved plates by Wenceslaus Hollar. The first English translation was in 1705.

373. WARREN, K.E. The Tailteann Cookery Book. Second edition. Dublin: Wm. Warren and Son, 15 Lower Ormond Quay, 1935. pp. 300, [2], x. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. Spine expertly rebacked. A good copy. Extremely rare. €375 No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. Not in NLI.

IN FINE BINDING 374. WATSON, Samuel. The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, compiled by Samuel Watson, Bookseller, For the Year of our Lord, 1779. Being the Third after LeapYear, and the Nineteenth Year of George III. Reign, till 25th Oct. Containing, The Days of the Year and Month; Week-Days; Sun's Rising and Setting; Moon's Age and Changes; a Table of Equation; the times of High Water at Dublin-Bar. Several Tables, Altered, Renewed, or Continued. The Marriages and Deaths of the Princes of Europe. The Names of the Lord Lieutenant; of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and of The Lords and Commons of Parliament. Also the Judges, and several other Persons in places of High Trust and Office in Ireland both Civil and Military; The Dublin Society: The Hospitals; The Roads and Fairs; The Post-Towns, Noted Places, referring to them, and Foreign Postages. Bound with: The English Registry For Year Lord, 1796 (By John Exshaw, Bookseller,) or, A Collection of English Lists.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Watson, Bookseller, at Virgil's Head, No. 48, Dame-Street, and Thomas Stewart, Bookseller, No. 1 King's-Inns-Quay, 1779. pp. 135, [1], [4], 107. Contemporary full straight-grained red morocco. Covers framed by a wide floral roll with inner fleurons. Spine divided into compartments with raised bands, contrasting labels with title and year; remainder richly tooled in gilt. Stamp of John Power & Son on front pastedown and titlepage. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Very scarce. €865 375. WHITE, Terence de Vere. Kevin O'Higgins. Frontispiece. London: Methuen, 1948. pp. viii, [3], 253, [1]. Blue cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. €45 376. WILDE, Sir William. Loch Coirib. Its Shores and Islands. With notices of Loch Measga.

Abridged and edited by Colm Ó Lochlainn. With illustrations and folding map. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1955. Fourth edition. pp. [x], 199. Beige pictorial cloth. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 Treating the history and archaeology of the West of Ireland with a topographical index giving the Irish names of most of the places mentioned. Colm Ó Lochlainn by chance discovered some years previously, twenty of the original woodblocks which had been cut to illustrate the first edition in 1867, this inspired him to reprint this scarce work and the proof-reading of same was carried out by Terry Trench, his first job with the firm.

377. WILDE, William R. The Beauties of the Boyne, and its Tributary the Blackwater. With 84 illustrations, large folding map of the Boyne & Blackwater and folding plan of the Battle of the Boyne. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1949. Third edition. pp. [vii], 251. Beige cloth titled and decorated in green. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 378. WILSON, Florence M. The Coming of the Earls. Dublin: Printed by Colm O Lochlainn at The Candle Press, 1918. 210x155mm. pp. 24. Grey stitched paper wrappers, title and Three Candles logo printed on upper cover. Edition limited to 450 copies. A very good copy. €125 De Burca 19.

This work contains the ballad 'The Man from God Knows Where' (William Russell), one of the greatest ballads of Irish history, set in county Down during the 1798 Rebellion and telling the story of the United Irishman, William Russell.

Florence Mary Wilson was born in Lisburn, but spent most of her time in Bangor. She wrote on Ulster history and was committed to the revival of the Irish language. Her work was influenced by Irish archaeology and legend. She died in 1946.

379. WILSON, Thomas. The Sacra Privata; or, Private Meditations and Prayers, of Bishop Wilson; Accommodated to General Use. Dublin: Printed By J. Barlow, 1796. First Irish edition. 12mo. pp. xvi, [2], 248. With an additional inserted list of subscribers on one leaf. Contemporary treecalf, gilt, contrasting red morocco title label. Rubbed, with loss to surfaces, spine, corners and edges. Ink inscription of Mary Nisbett on title. A good copy. €325 The Bath editions and this Dublin appearance are all rare, with ESTC locating only five copies in three locations (BL, NLI and Univ. College, Dublin) - none of which mention the additional subscriber leaf. ESTC T85027.

Thomas Wilson (1663-1755), Irish-born Anglican clergyman educated at Trinity College, Dublin where he was a contemporary of Swift. Appointed Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1698, he became well known for his tolerance of Catholicism, Dissenters and Quakers. Published in Bath in two editions (1786, 1792) before this Dublin edition of John Barlow.

It is unsurprising that Barlow, a pioneering printer who later worked for the Gaelic Society in printing non-English language works, published the first Irish edition of the private devotions of the clergyman responsible for the production of the first book printed in Manx, Coyrle Sodjeh (London, 1707).

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De Búrca Ra re Books 380. WITHEROW, Thomas. The Boyne and Aughrim or The Story of some famous Battlefields in Ireland. London and Belfast: William Mullan, 1879. pp. viii, 335, 16 (publisher's list). Green cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Signature of J.R. Holmes 1879 on titlepage. A very good copy. €95 381. WOODHAM-SMITH, Cecil. The Great Hunger Ireland 1845-9. With illustrations and large folding map. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. Third impression. pp. 385. Green paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 '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.

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.

382. WOOD-MARTIN, W.G. Pagan Ireland. An Archaeological Sketch. A Handbook of Irish Pre-Christian Antiquities. With 411 illustrations. London: Longmans, 1895. pp. xxviii, 689, 23 (Longmans' List). Brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, a portal dolmen in gilt on upper cover.

Owner's signature on half title. Ex. lib. with neat stamp. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375 THE LORD LIEUTENANT'S COPY 383. WRIGHT, Rev. G.N. An Historical Guide to Ancient and Modern Dublin illustrated by engravings, after drawings by George Petrie, Esq. To which is annexed a large folding plan of the city. London: Baldwin, 1821. pp. vii, [1], 442, [1]. Original paper boards, spine expertly rebacked with new printed letterpiece. Original label of Milliken, Bookseller on upper cover. Top edge uncut, remainder untrimmed. Armorial bookplate of Charles Chetwynd, Earl Talbot of Ingestre Hall on front pastedown. A fine copy of the large paper edition. €385 George Newenham Wright, (c.1794-1877), Irish writer and Anglican clergyman, was born in Dublin, the son of John Thomas Wright, a medical doctor. He graduated B.A. from Trinity College in 1814 and M.A. in 1817. He held several curacies in Ireland before moving to St. Mary Woolnoth in London. By 1851, he was a teacher of classics, resident in Windsor. In 1863 he was master of Tewkesbury Grammar School. From the 1820s to the 1840s Wright published some topographical works and schoolbooks on subjects ranging from the Greek language to biography and philosophy. There were several books on Ireland, some of which were illustrated by George Petrie.

Charles Chetwynd, Earl Talbot was the great-grandson of Charles Talbot, a former Lord-Chancellor.

Educated at Oxford, he succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father in 1793.

His connection with Ireland began in October 1817 when he was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, with Sir Robert Peel acting as Irish Secretary until 1818. During his term of office he rendered considerable services to the agriculture of the country, and in 1821 Talbot was made a knight of the order of St Patrick by George IV when he visited Dublin. He steadily opposed Catholic Emancipation; however Daniel O'Connell gave him much credit for his impartiality on the subject. The discontent in Ireland, however, continued to grow during his administration, and in December 1822, the Marquess of Wellesley somewhat ungraciously superseded him. He died in 1849, at Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire.

384. WRIGHT, Thomas. Esq. The History of Ireland from the earliest period of the Irish Annals to the Present Time. Illustrated with beautiful steel engravings, from original drawings, executed expressly for the work by H. Warren. Tallis map of Ireland coloured in outline. Three volumes. London & New York: Published by John Tallis and Company, n.d. pp. (1) vi, 728, (2) iv, [1], 663, (3) iv, [1], 591, [1] (double column). Contemporary half green morocco on marbled boards; spine divided into six compartments by five thick raised gilt bands. Title and author in gilt direct in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt with shamrocks; comb-marbled endpapers. Occasional light foxing to plates. All edges marbled. A very good set. €285 Plates engraved by W H Mote, J. Rogers, G. Greatbach, P. Lightfoot, T. Hollis, H T. Ryall, H Robinson, W T. Fry, W Moll, J. Rapkin, J. B. Alien, D. Pound, and J. W Cooke.

"There is probably no country in existence, the history of which presents so many exciting scenes - so much of real romance - whose modern history is so equally poetic with its earlier mystic legends - as Ireland" - Author's Preface.

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385. YEATS, Jack B. A Little Fleet. Hand-coloured illustrations. London: Elkin Matthews, n.d.

(1909). Blue card covers with black lettering and a hand-coloured illustration of a boy holding a toy boat. Blue cloth binder's folder. A fine copy in slipcase. Very scarce. â‚Ź675 The fifth and last of the superb series of children's stories written and illustrated by Jack Yeats in the first decade of the last century.

According to the bibliography of Elkin Mathews by Professor James G. Nelson, this 1/- edition was limited to an edition of fewer than 50 copies.

See items 385 & 390.

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De Búrca Ra re Books YEATS'S OIL PAINTINGS 386. [YEATS, Jack B.] Jack B. Yeats. A Catalogue Raisonné, of The Oil Paintings by Hilary Pyle. Profusely illustrated with colour and black & white illustrations. Three volumes. London: Deutsch, 1992. First. pp. lxxxi, 524. Large quarto. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Edition limited to 1,550 numbered copies, of which 1,500 are for sale. Fine in slipcase. €875 Hilary Pyle, the world's leading authority on Jack B. Yeats and his art, has worked for almost thirty years on this, the definitive catalogue of his oil paintings. Volumes one & two contain the author's scholarly introduction and the catalogue. Volume three contains the plates with 111 in colour and 713 in black and white. Essential for serious collectors or students of Yeats' work.

387. YEATS, W.B. The Land of Hearts Desire. Portland Maine: Mosher, 1903. pp. 35. Grey paper boards, title on printed label on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 950 copies.

Repair to spine. A good copy. €85 Wade 13.

First American edition in book form of the revised text. One of 950 ordinary copies on Van Gelder, from a total edition of 1060 (100 copies on Japan vellum, ten on real vellum). Wade, evidently, cites the binding for the Japan Vellum issue rather than the regular binding.

388. YEATS, W.B. Poems. London: Fisher Unwin, 1922. pp. xv, [1], 314, [1]. Light blue cloth, with gilt-stamped design by Althea Gyles on spine and blind-stamp floral design on covers.

Minor spotting to fore-edge. A very good copy. €275 SIGNED BY YEATS ?

389. YEATS, W.B. New Poems. With woodcut of Monoceros de Astris on titlepage. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1938. First edition. pp. iv, 46. Quarter cream linen on blue paper boards, title printed on upper cover and on label on spine. Edition limited to 450 copies. Signature of W.B. Yeats on titlepage. A fine copy. €1,350 Wade 197, Miller 59.

A significant title, including the first publication of many of the late poems on which Yeats' modern reputation chiefly rests. We have had the signature examined by a Yeats expert who concluded that in his opinion it was W.B. Yeats.

390. [YEATS, W.B.] The Oxford Book of English Verse 1892-1935. Chosen by W.B. Yeats, and with long introduction and acknowledgements by him. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1952. pp. xlvii, [1], 450, [1]. Later three quarter brown morocco on light-brown linen boards.

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; red and gold endbands. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. €275 391. ZIMMERMANN, Georges-Denis. Songs of Irish Rebellion. Political Street Ballads and Rebel Songs 1780-1900. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1967. pp. 342. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy in dust jacket. Scarce. €125 ADDENDA 392. BARON, Bonaventure. Prolusiones Philosphicae, Logicis & Physicis Materiis Bipartitae Accessit Harpocrates, Sive Diatriba Silentii. Authore Bonaventura Baronio. Bound with Harpocrates, Quinqueludius, Sive Diatriba. Rome: Typis Marcardi, 1651. 12mo. pp. [xxiv], 286 [38], 48. Engraved half title. Recent full brown morocco, repair to some margins, some dusting and foxing. In very good condition. Extremely rare. €2,250 No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1. Walsh 35. Sweeney 316.

Bonaventure Baron (1610-1696), a distinguished Irish Franciscan writer, nephew to Luke Wadding, was born in Clonmel. He was appointed historiographer in 1676 by Cosmo I de' Medici, Grand-duke of Tuscany and was elected a member of the Academy of Florence. He was a noted theologian, philosopher, teacher and writer of Latin prose and verse. He lived for sixty years in Rome, where he died, old and blind. He was buried at St. Isidore's College (founded by his uncle, Father Wadding), in

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A remarkable piece of printing history in that this copy consists of a full set of page proofs. In the text the most evocative section is that which comes with a separate titlepage at the end and deals with the virtue of silence. This was composed for the benefit of the Dominican nuns at Bethlehem on the banks of the River Shannon. However by the time that these proofs were being checked through, the nuns were in flight to Portugal, Cromwellian troops having sacked their convent.

A 'POPISH PLOT' BALLAD 393. [BOGG-TROTTER'S GLORY] A Looking-glass for a Tory; Or the Bogg-Trotter's Glory. To the Tune of Hey boys up go we.

London: Printed for L.C. [Langley Curtis], 1682. Broadside, printed on both sides. Framed and glazed. Exceedingly rare. €1,250 COPAC locates 5 copies. WorldCat 5. Wing L 3015. Sweeney 2891.

A 17th-century London street ballad against the background of the “Popish Plot” but with verses such as the following that will strike an echo for those who relish their Percy French: “Oh Cram a Chree the times are hard, We know not how to live, If that our Oaths should be debarr’d And Pope no Money give, Why fait and trote dear Joy we must With our Potatoes play, And the English would preserve our dust The clean contrary way”.

394. [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. Pointed as it shall be sung or said in Churches. Collected into English meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and others. Conferred with the Hebrew with apt notes to sing them withall. Dublin: Printed by the Society of Stationers, Printers to the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie, 1637. Small quarto.

Contemporary full calf. Spine and corners expertly rebacked. From the library of Catherine F. Boyle, with her bookplate on front pastedown and signature of John Ribton Garstin. Also with a bookplate of Michael J. & Phyllis A. Staines, with their bookplate on front flyleaf. Paper repair to one leaf. Name cut from front endpaper [Richard Stephens (in pencil)] A very good copy. €3,250

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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 copy of the 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.

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.

395. BOYLE, Roger Earl of Orrery. A Treatise of the Art of War: Dedicated to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty. With engraved plates. London: in the Savoy, by T.N. for Henry Herringham, 1677. Folio. pp. [xiv], 206. Contemporary full panelled calf, spine expertly rebacked, title in gilt on red morocco letter-piece. An unusually large paper copy with generous margins. In fine condition. Rare. â‚Ź2,650

COPAC locates 10 copies only. WorldCat 2. Wing O 499. Sweeney 623.

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, Co. 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 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 115

De Búrca Ra re Books 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.

This is an important work which was described by Boyle's contemporary Anthony Wood "Commended by many expert Captains for the best piece extant in English". The DNB hails it as "of undoubted interest as indicating the condition of the art at the close of the Cromwellian wars .. written in a terse and effective style". As a frontispiece, we have what is generally accepted is the finest equestrian portrait of Charles II, by de Blois, and there are six other fine double-page plates.

396. BURGHLEY, William Cecil, 1st Baron. Certaine Advertisements out of Ireland, Concerning the Losses and Distresses happened to the Spanish Navie, upon the West coastes of Ireland, in their voyage intended from the Northerne Isles beyond Scotland, towards Spaine. London: By I. Vautrollier for Richard Field, 1588. Quarto. pp. [20].

Nineteenth century half morocco on marbled boards. From the Macclesfield Library with their armorial bookplate and blind stamp.

A fine copy. Extremely rare. €1,450 COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 2. STC 15412. ESTC s108407.

Primary contemporary source of the defeat of the Spanish Armada - one of the defining moments in English history.

By William Cecil, sometimes attributed to Richard Leigh. Usually found as part of The copie of a letter sent out to England to Don Bernardin Mendoza ...'. William Cecil Lord Burghley (1520-1598) Minister of State, the only son of Richard and Jane Cecil. He was knighted in 1551, the year before his father died, leaving him large estates in Rutland, Lincoln and Northampton. On her accession, Elizabeth I at once appointed him chief secretary of state. In 1571 he was created Baron of Burghley. He said, addressing one of his correspondents, "the poorest lord in England ". Theobalds was one of his many mansions, where Queen Elizabeth was often entertained. He was first Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin, on its foundation in 1592.

397. BUTLER, James. 1st Duke of Ormond. The Marquesse of Ormond's Declaration, Proclaiming Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. With his Summons to Colonel Jones for the Surrender of Dublin, and the Answer of Colonell Iones thereunto. Also a perfect relation of their forces, and the present affairs of that kingdom.

Together with a true copie of the Articles of Agreement between the said Marquesse, and the Irish. Also a representation of the Province of Vlster concerning the evills and dangers to religion, lawes and liberties, arising from the present practices of the sectarian army in England, &c. Imprimatur. G. Mabbot. London: Printed for Francis Tyton and John Playford, 1649. Quarto. pp. [i], 24. Modern half morocco. A good copy. Very rare in commerce. €965 116

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In the wake of the execution of Charles I, Ormond addressed a letter from Carrick to Colonel Jones, the Governor of Dublin, asking him to surrender the city and signing himself “your affectionate friend to serve you,” to which the Colonel make a hostile reply noting that Ormond had previously engaged in a treaty with the Irish rebells. “As to that”, he wrote “by your lordship menaced us here, of blood and force, if dissenting from those your Lordships ways and designes. For my particular, I shall (my Lord) much rather chuse to suffer in so doing for therein shall I do what is becoming and answerable to my trust.”

398. BUTLER, James, 1st Duke of Ormond. Articles of Agreement made concluded and agreed on ... at Dublin, the 18th day of June, 1647. By, and between the most Honourable James [Butler] Marquess of Ormond, and Arthur Annesley Esquire. Dublin: Printed by W. Bladen, 1652. pp. [i], 7. 4to. A very good copy in modern half morocco. €1,250 COPAC locates the Cambridge copy only. WorldCat 1. Wing O 437C. Sweeney 773 quoting the first Dublin edition of 1647. Not in NLI. This was negotiated between Ormond and Arthur Annesley, Sir Robert King, Sir Robert Meredith, Colonel John Moore and Colonel Michael Jones, commissioners from the Parliament of England. It provided for the surrender of Dublin and all other places under royal control to the English Parliament.

This was a typical instance of the part in the history of 17th-century Ireland played by the great duke who in total served no less than six terms as lord lieutenant. Sweeney 773 quoting the first Dublin edition of 1647.

399. BUTLER, James. 1st Duke of Ormond. & BLAKE, Sir Richard. The Marquesse of Ormonds Proclamation concerning the Peace concluded with the Irish Rebells, by the King’s command, at the Generall Assembley at Kilkenney, with a Speech delivered by Sir Richard Blake, Speaker of the Assembly at Kilkenney. Also a Speech by the Marquesse of Ormond in answer to the same. Together with a perfect list of their severall numbers of horse and foot by them raised, amounting to 20000 Foot, and 3500 Horse. Imprimatur. Gilbert Mabbott. London: Printed for Francis Tyton and John Playford, 1649. Quarto. pp. [i], 16. Modern half morocco. A very good copy. €1,350 Wing O 458. Sweeney 791.

Also includes speeches exchanged between Sir Richard Blake, the speaker of the assembly and the duke of Ormond together with details of horse and foot jointly raised between them and aggregating 20,000 foot and 3,500 horse. Dated February 27th.

400. CAMPION, Edward. HANMER, Meredith. & SPENSER, Edmund. A View of the State of Ireland, Written dialogue-wise betweene Eudoxus and Irenæus. By Edmund Spenser Esq. in the yeare 1596. Whereunto is added the History of Ireland. By Edmund Campion, sometime fellow of St. John's College in Oxford. Published by Sir James Ware Knight. The Chronicle of Ireland: Collected by Meredith Hanmer, Doctor of Diuinity. Dublin: Printed by the 117

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Societie of Stationers, 1633. First edition. Small folio. pp. [viii], 120, [8], [11], 138, [1], 223.

Nineteenth century quarter morocco, some inoffensive water-staining and browning to titlepage.

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A very good copy. Very rare. €1,250 STC 25067 Sweeney 840.

First edition of all three works. One of the major accomplishments of the antiquary and historian Sir James Ware was his editing of this volume which starts with the first printing of Edmund Spenser’s work that in his lifetime had circulated widely in manuscript. Of the nineteen scribal copies to survive, all save one are to be found in institutional libraries. Spenser lived in Ireland for nearly twenty years from his appointment as secretary to Lord Grey de Wilton in 1580. He wrote this when on a visit to London in the summer of 1596. Cast in the form of a dialogue to give it literary structure, it offers a valuable contemporary picture with not only the native Irish in revolt under Hugh O’Neill and Hugh O’Donnell but also the corruption and incompetence of English officials coming under attack. The later part is given over to Spenser’s ideas for completing the conquest of Ireland and for reformation of laws, institutions and religion.

Edmund Campion was the outstanding scholar of his generation at Oxford and his decision to convert to Catholicism and join the Jesuits was one of the major coups of the Counter Reformation. He came to Ireland in 1569 and spent two years here during which time he wrote this History which he dedicated to the Earl of Leicester. He drew much of his information both from discussions with and research carried on in the library of James Stanihurst, recorder of Dublin. The final paragraph deals with the departure of the Lord Deputy, Sir Henry Sidney on March 25th, 1571. Campion afterwards went to the Continent to pursue his studies at Douai, Rome and Prague, being ordained in 1578. He returned to England on a Jesuit mission in 1580, but the following year was arrested, put to the torture and finally executed in the Tower of London on December 1st, 1581.

Meredith Hanmer (died 1604) came to Ireland in 1591 and lived out the remainder of his days here holding a variety of benefices including that of chancellor of Kilkenny. His history commences thus: “Three hundred yeeres after the Flood, one Bartholanus the sonne of Sera, with his three sonnes, Languinus, Salanus, and Ruthurgus, and their wives of the posterity of Japhet, are said to have arrived in this Island. This opinion followeth Giraldus Cambrensis, and with him followeth Polychronicon; and myself, not meaning to swarve from the common opinion, thought good to acquaint the posterity therewith". He concludes with the death in 1286 of Jeffery, Bishop of Ossorie and the continuation thereof up to 1421 is drawn from the chronicles of Henry of Marlborough, Vicar of Balscaddan and Donabate in County Dublin in the early years of the 15th century.

From a literary point of view the most important work is Spenser's 'A View of the present state of Ireland'. It was certainly written in 1596, though never printed till 1633. In it Spenser is speaking chiefly, but not exclusively, as a civil servant and supporter of Lord Grey "... The prose, despite a few vivid phrases, is drab ... yet his essay will always have a certain interest not only for historians but for students of Spenser's poetry ... He loves Ireland strongly, in his own way, pronouncing Ulster 'a most bewtiful and sweete countrie as any is under heaven'. And he gives free rein to those antiquarian interests so characteristic of his age" - C.S. Lewis.

Provenance: The Astle Library copy which exemplifies the problem encountered by an early reader, the corners of the final leaves being scorched by the flame of a candle.

401. COOTE, Charles, 1st Earl of Mountrath. The Declaration of Sir Charles Coot Lord President of Conaught and the Officers and Souldiers under his Command. Viz. Charles Coot, Chidley Coot, Rich. Coot, Thomas Sadler, Solomon Cambre Geo. Ingolsby William Moor Oliver St. George Tho. Coot John Ewre, John Jorden, Benjamine Barry, John Webster, Henry Leg, John Pearse, John Bedle, William Jesse, Edmond Wood, John Hughes, Henry Carrique, James Burrows, Richard Garvan. London: Printed for Tho. Vere, and W. Gilbertson, and are to be sold at their shops without New-gate, 1659 [i.e. 1660]. Quarto. pp. [i], 5. Modern half morocco. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €1,450 COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 4. Wing M 2981. Sweeney 1196 quoting the 1st Dublin edition.

Sir Charles Coote, Earl of Mountrath, (c.1610-1661) the son of Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet, and Dorothea Cuffe, the former being a veteran of the Battle of Kinsale (1601) who subsequently settled in Ireland. His father was a great Connaught landowner, and was one of the first of the big names to die in battle in the Rebellion of 1641. The younger Coote became an MP for Leitrim in the Irish Parliament between 1634 and 1635 and again in 1640, a year before the outbreak of the Irish rebellion. On 18th April 1644, we find Sir Charles one of the Protestant deputation to Charles I. at Oxford, "asking," says 119

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Carte, "future graces of his Majesty ... that he would abate his quit rents for a time, to encourage and enable Protestants to replant the kingdom, and cause a good walled town to be built in every county of the kingdom for their security, no Papist being permitted to dwell therein; ... that the penal laws should continue in force, and be put in execution ... that a competent Protestant army should be established in the kingdom", and other measures of a like tendency. The next year he was made President of Connaught, and zealously defended it for the Parliament, and held Derry bravely against the Ulster Scots, until the defeat of Ormond at Rathmines enabled it to be effectually relieved. On 23rd June 1650 he encountered and defeated, near Derry, the army of Bishop Heber MacMahon, a prelate whom we are told he afterwards caused "to be hanged with all the circumstances of contumely, reproach, and cruelty, which he could devise".

In November 1651 he joined Ireton, and occupied Clare. He next blockaded Galway, which surrendered in 1652; and in the same year repossessed himself of Ballyshannon, Donegal, Sligo, and Ballymote. In December 1652 he was appointed the first of the Commonwealth's Commissioners for the affairs of Ireland in Connaught. In 1659 he was made one of the Commissioners of Government, and about the same period entered into measures with Lord Broghill for the restoration of the King. In February, according to Clarendon, he sent a messenger over to the Marquis of Ormond, at Brussels, to "assure his Majesty of his affection and duty, and that if his Majesty would vouchsafe himself to come into Ireland, he was confident the whole kingdom would declare for him". He opposed Lord Broghill's suggestion that terms should be made with Charles before his restoration. After the Restoration, he was 120

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He died 18th December 1661, and was buried in Christ Church, Dublin. Some cotemporary English rhymer, quoted by Prendergast, sounded his praise thus: "Brave Sir Charles Coote I honour; who in 's father's steps so trod As to the rebels was the scourge or rod Of the Almighty. He by good advice Did kill the nitts that they might not grow lice".

The earldom became extinct in 1802, on the death of the 7th Earl.

402. CROMWELL, Oliver. A Letter from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to the Honourable William Lenthall ... Relating the several Successes .... Together with the several Transactions about the Surrender of Kilkenny, And the Articles agreed there upon. London: Printed by Edward Husband and John Field, 1650. Quarto. pp. 22. Modern half morocco on marbled boards.

Some minor damp staining. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare in commerce. â‚Ź1,650

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The capture of a castle near Gowran under the command of Colonel Hamond and its aftermath is dealt with in this letter: “I sent him a civil invitation to deliver up the Castle unto me, to which he returned me a very resolute answer, and full of height: We planted our artillery, and before we have made a breach considerably, the enemy beat a parley for a treaty, which I (having offered so fairly before to him) refused, but sent him in positive conditions, that the Soldiers should have their lives, and the Commission Officers to be disposed of as should be thought fit; which in the end was submitted to. The next day the Colonel, the Major, and the rest of the Commission Officers were shot to death, all but one, who being a very earnest instrument to have the Castle delivered, was pardoned. In the same Castle also we took a Popish Priest, who was Chaplain to the Catholiques in this Regiment, who was caused to be hanged. I trouble you with this the rather, because this Regiment was the Lord of Ormonds own Regiment.” An extensive exchange of correspondence between Cromwell and the Kilkenny garrison follows.

EXTREMELY RARE IRISH INCUNABLE AND POST INCUNABLE

403. DUNS SCOTUS, Blessed Joannes. & O’FIHELY, Maurice, Archbishop. Commentaria doctoris subtilis Joan. Scoti in xii. li. Metaphyice Aristo. Emendata & quottationibus concor dantiis atqe annotationibus decorata per fratrem Mauritium Hibernicú. Bound with: Questiones subtilissme Scoti in metaphysicam Aristotelis. Two works in one volume. Venice: 7 June, 1501.

Folio. 322 leaves. And Venice: 20th November 1497. Folio. 131, [1] leaves. Both volumes woodcut initials throughout, and Scotus/Locatellus devices. Imprints from colophon.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Questiones subtilissme Scoti is the 1st of two Goff printings, D 372. The 1st of two Shaaber printings, D 225. COPAC locates 1 copy only. WorldCat 1. Sweeney 1603. Only 1 copy of the Commentaria doctoris subtilis located on WorldCat. No copy on COPAC. This edition of Duns Scotus’ work on Aristotle is a landmark in Irish Bibliography as the first edition of the first book by the first Irish author to write for the printing press rather than the scriptorium.

Maurice O’Fihely, a Franciscan, who saw the work through the press and provided a major commentary in the form of “Castigationes” was born in Baltimore, County Cork. Hence the name “Mauritius de Portu” by which he was widely known to his contemporaries who also bestowed on him the flattering nickname “Flos Mundi”.

After teaching in Milan and Padua, he became censor of the press in Venice to Octavianus Scoti and thus may also lay claim to being the first Irishman to play a major role in the new world of printing. He was appointed archbishop of Tuam by Pope Julius II in 1506. Reluctant though to exchange the comfort of Italy for the rigours of the West of Ireland, he did not take up the appointment until 1512.

His apprehensions were apparently well founded for he died within the year and was buried in Galway where his grave can still be seen. As for the Irishness or otherwise of Duns Scotus, it is a matter that may never be finally resolved to every one’s satisfaction. Modern scholarship argues against, but this was certainly not the opinion entertained by early Irish editors who devoted so much effort to producing a definitive edition of the corpus of this late 13th-century Franciscan (died in 1308). As for the value of the original text, Efrem Bettani in his book “Duns Scotus: The basic principles of his philosophy” calls this the first edition of “a work of Duns Scotus’ youth, very helpful for the study of the formation, and to a certain extent, of the evolution of Scotistic thought.”

Commentaria doctoris subtilis Joan. Scoti is the 1st of two Shaaber printings, D 269, listing it amongst the 'Doubtful and spurious works of Duns Scotus' but this would seem to be a misreading of the situation for this is Maurice O’Fihely’s commentary on the preceding entry. The passages quoted from Duns Scotus are printed in large type, and the commentary, which affords the major portion of the text, is printed in small type. Not found in COPAC. WorldCat 1. Sweeney 1604. See item 407.

404. [KILKENNY SPEECH] The Speech of the Irish Recorder of Killkenny to the Late King James, At His Enterance into the City of Killkenny in Ireland. London: Printed for Richard Baldwin in the Old-Baily, 1689. Broadside, printed on both sides. Framed and glazed. €1,750 COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 2. Wing S 4863B. Sweeney 2667.

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De Búrca Ra re Books The explanation for such a whole hearted Jacobite peroration receiving a printer’s licence in London at this date is to be found in the threatening sentiments expressed near its conclusion: “The Sun has not seen us these three thousand years so united, as your Majesties concerns have at present knitted us: We are now one soul, one will, one hand, and one heart, and that one heart dances in your hand, command it to the East or West Indies, to the Northern or Southern Pole, we will march with the first beat of a drum; order us to attack your faithless Exeter, your revolting Plymouth, your fanatick Bristol, your deserting Chester, and your rebellious London: The first sound of the trumpet will find us ready to sail”.

405. MARSH, Narcissus, Abp. The Charge given by Narcissus Lord Arch-bishop of Dublin to the Clergy of the Province of Leinster at his Primary Triennial Visitation, Anno Dom. 1694.

Together with his Articles of Visitation. Whereunto are annext Three Acts of Parliament, which are to be read in every Parish-Church yearly. Dublin: Printed by Joseph Ray near the Customhouse, 1694. Quarto. pp. [vi], 47. Some mild water staining. Titlepage offset. Modern quarter calf. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €2,650

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Narcissus Marsh, Archbishop of Armagh, was born at Hannington in Wiltshire, in 1638. Educated at Oxford, he became Doctor of Divinity in 1671; and seven years afterwards, through the influence of his friend the Duke of Ormond, was appointed Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. In 1682 he was consecrated Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns; in 1690 was translated to Cashel; in 1694 he was promoted to the archbishopric of Dublin; and in 1702 became Archbishop of Armagh.

He is remembered for his bequests to the See of Armagh, for the foundation of widows' alms-houses at Drogheda, and above all by the foundation, in 1707, of a free public library contiguous to St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin - probably the first of its kind in Ireland. He laid out £4,000 on the building, which at his death contained 10,000 volumes. Forty years afterwards it received an important addition in a bequest of books and MSS. from Dr. Stearne. The salary of a librarian was provided for by a charge of £250 per annum on church lands in Meath. An Act of the Irish Parliament exempted Marsh's Library from taxes. This venerable foundation, which, although somewhat restricted in its scope, contains many valuable works, is still open to the public. Designed by Sir William Robinson (d.1712) the Surveyor General of Ireland, it is one of the very few eighteenth century buildings left in Dublin that is still being used for its original purpose. Archbishop Marsh died in 1713, aged 75, and was buried in a vault in the churchyard of St. Patrick's, adjoining the library. A stately monument was erected to his memory in St. Patrick's Cathedral. He at one period occupied a house at Leixlip, still known as the Archbishop's palace. No relationship appears to have existed between him and Francis Marsh, his predecessor in the See of Dublin.

In this work he deals at some length with the question of preaching, when, where and what, but perhaps the most entertaining and delicately worded subtext is to be found when he deals with funeral sermons.

He frames his advice as follows namely: “That you take care not to be over lavish in your praises of the dead: least others think themselves secure in following their examples”.

406. [MOORE, Dr.] Strange and Wonderful News from the County of Wicklow, or, A Full and True Relations of What Happened to One Dr. Moore, (Late Schoolmaster in London). How he was taken Invisibly from his Friends, what happened to him in his Absence. And How, And by what means he was found, and brought back to the same place. London: Printed for T.R., 1678.

Small quarto. pp. [i], 6. Nineteenth century half calf on marbled boards. Wear to spine and corners. Repair to margins, otherwise a very good copy. €1,475

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This is believed to be the earliest writing-down of an original Irish folk story, preceding all others, whether they be manuscript or printed versions. The story of how Moore was spirited away to the top of a hill by the fairies, what befell him there and how he subsequently persuaded his friends of the truth of his tale by showing them trampled on grass was still being re-told in Ireland’s Own some years ago.

In the National Union Catalogue, authorship is credited to John Cother.

Provenance: The Mainsforth Library copy, leaves mounted as was their custom.

407. O’FIHELY, Maurice. Enchyridion fidei lucubrationibus preclarissimi doctoris magistri Mauritij de portu hybernici ordinis minor[um] archiepiscopi Tuamensis dignissimi. Venice: Expensis Haeredum O. Scoti per B. Locatellum,1509. Quarto. pp. 26 unnumbered leaves. A-D4, E6, F4 (last blank). Attractive Gothic letter, striking white on black printer's device with monogram at end. Woodcut initials, printed diagrams. Light foxing, titlepage strengthened at gutter, marginalia shaved on one leaf. Recased. The exceedingly rare second edition. A very €3,750 good copy.

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Mauritius Hibernicus (1464-1513) also known as Mauritius de Portu, but to his fellow Irishmen he was better known as Maurice O'Fihely. A native of the port of Baltimore (hence - de Portu), in County Cork, he was educated at Oxford, continued his studies at Padua, and later became a Franciscan friar.

To him goes the distinction of being the first Irish writer who lived to see his books circulating in print rather than in manuscript. He has in fact a further claim to fame, he was employed in the World of Printing serving as censor of the Press to the Venetian Publisher Octavianus Scotus, and was the editor of many of the works of Duns Scotus. O'Fihely's Enchyridion was first published in 1505 the year before he was advanced to the See of Tuam. The work is preceded by a poem by Peter Parthenius ad Lectorum and opens with a lengthy dedication to Gerald Fitzgerald the "Great" Earl of Kildare and Lord Deputy of Ireland. Divided into four parts, the book deals with free will, providence and cause and effect, divine predestination and prescience; moral theology, canon law and the sacraments in the form of short metrical aphorisms (sententiae); a short useful guide to understanding the number and order of the Bible's books and a concluding part devoted to the Virgin Mary and her qualities including her beauty.

After a most distinguished career in Italy, and when the Archdiocese of Tuam fell vacant on the death of Philip Pinson, Pope Julius II took time off from his wars and construction programme to nominate Maurice to that See. One may well spare a thought on his reaction to this news, the prospect of giving up his books, the sophisticated world of Renaissance Venice, foregoing the warmer climate of Italy for the rugged, wet and windy West of Ireland, it must have been a disappointment, for six years later he was still in Italy. He attended the first two Sessions of the Lateran Council in 1512, at which he was Papal adviser. The following year he set out for Tuam, and after forty years' absence, set foot on his native soil in Galway, the City of the Tribes, to ascend the throne of St. Jarlath. His Grace had fixed a day, invited the chieftains and the nobles, and proclaimed a plenary indulgence to all duly disposed who would be present at his solemn induction and Pontifical High Mass in Tuam. The scene was set when sadly "the unique cleric of most fame and consideration in the East or West in his time, the Flower of the World, to the grief of the men of Ireland" died on his arrival at the port of Galway in 1513, and was buried there in the Church of the Franciscans. One may well wonder had he come to his diocese immediately after his consecration in 1506, or had his life been prolonged, the Irish bibliographer would in all probability have early sixteenth-century achievements of a Tuam or Galway Press to chronicle. He is best remembered by his fellow Franciscan John Camers who wrote of Maurice: "In the years following, Maurice a Portu, a native of Ireland, of the Order of St. Francis, was eminent. He was a man profoundly learned in Logicks, Philosophy, both natural and moral, Metaphysics, and Divinity. It is difficult to relate with what Humanity, what Sanctity of Manners he was adorned? After he had for many years taught the liberal Arts with Universal Applause in Padua, Pope Julius II, for his singular Learning, and excellent qualities, advanced him to the Archbishoprick of Tuam ... where he died scarce 50 years old, to the irreparable loss of the Commonwealth of Learning ... ". It was his Franciscan colleague Camers who first called him Flos Mundi.

Like the first edition of 1505 it carries a dedication to Gerald, the “Great” Earl of Kildare making these the first inscriptions to a living Irishman. The work relates to the medieval philosopher Joannes Scotus Eriugena.

408. O’MOLLOY, Francis. Grammatica Latino-Hibernica nunc compendiata. Rome: 1677.

12mo. pp. [xii], 286. Contemporary full vellum. A fine copy. €2,750 Fr. Francis O'Molloy (1614-1684), was a native of 'O'Molloy's Country' in County Offaly. His kinsman, Calvach, Prince of the O'Molloys, was renowned for his hospitality, as related by the author in this Grammar: "It is most true, and of the fact I have myself seen and heard witnesses most worthy of belief, namely, that whilst the kingdom of Ireland was devastated with famine, fire and sword, and in the utmost dearth of provisions, in Queen Elizabeth's time, Calvach son of Conall, chief of the O'Molloys, grandfather of the present most illustrious chief, having invited to his house nine hundred and sixty persons for the feast of Christmas, entertained them there for the space of twelve days" (p.180). He entered the Franciscan Order about 1635, and on completing his studies at St. Isodore's, was sent, in the year 1642, as Lector of Philosophy to Klosterneuberg near Vienna, and, three years later held the Chair in Theology at Graz, in the Duchy of Styria, in Austria. He was obviously a man of consequence and position, for on the death of the great Father Luke Wadding in 1657 he was chosen to succeed him as rector of the Irish College of St. Isodore in Rome. He was Professor of Divinity there,

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and before long he was made Primarius Professor of Theology. He is said, in Harris's Ware to have been "Divine to some Cardinals and General Agent for the Irish in that city.

He is best remembered as the author of the first printed grammar of the Irish language, which was published at the Press of Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, in Rome, in 1677. He wrote it, as he tells us, in holiday time: "when free for a month from graver cares", at a time when the Irish people "were being stripped of their every possession, even of their native language", and at that time he had been living "for forty years and more among foreigners, far separated from fatherland, from its monuments and its teachers The zeal which inspired him to write his grammar - to counteract the heretical enemy's set programme: "which proscribed the public and even the private use of the Irish language in order that, when the latter had been consigned to eternal oblivion, no knowledge might survive of native antiquities, of the Lives of our saints, of our Faith, of our ecclesiastical traditions" that same zeal had inspired him the previous year to publish Lochrann na gCreidmheach, the Irish Catechism, generally known as Lucerna Fidelium.

The Irish Grammar, written in Latin, was approved on the 12th of April, 1676, by Father Tyrell, and Father Michael Toner, and on December 30th, by Rev. John Daly, D.D. Abbot of Kilbeggan. In his approbation Patrick Tyrell, subsequently Bishop of Clogher describes the grammar as: "succo nervoque refertum; opus mole exiguum, acumine magnum " - succulent and mighty, though small in size, but great in discernment; and also described the author as "Caelo et cedro dignus" - Worthy of the heavens and the cedar tree. Grammatica consists of twenty-five chapters, thirteen of which are on the Accidence of the language, and the last twelve on Irish Prosody. At the end is an Irish poem by O'Molloy entitled 'Soruid go haos og agus eata oilein na naomh', on the neglect of the ancient language of Ireland and the prospects of its resuscitation. This work has attracted the attention of several Celtic scholars, Edward Lhuyd in his Archaeologia Britannica refers to it, Joseph Loth in his Le Metrique Galloise reprints 128

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This is a very rare book and probably unique in this condition.

PEARSE’S CALL TO ARMS 409. PEARSE, Padraic. An Barr Buadh. Vol. I Numbers 1 and 2. Dublin, 16 & 23 March 1912.

Each four page foolscap (single folded sheet). Mostly written by Pearse himself; other named contributors include his 1916 co-signatory Eamonn Ceannt and Eamonn Ó Tuathail. The text is entirely in Irish. €575 An Barr Buadh, in Irish mythology, was the trumpet sounded by Fionn Mac Cumhaill when he wished to summon the host of the Fianna. Pearse clearly intended his Barr Buadh as a call to arms for his own generation. The first number includes his poem ‘Mionn’ [An Oath], in which he swears by Tone’s blood-filled wounds, by Emmet’s noble blood, by the Famine dead, by the tears of Ireland’s exiles, ‘Go bhfuasclóchaimid do ghéibheann ár gcinidh / Nó go dtuitfidh muid bonn le bonn’ [that we will free our people from bondage, or we shall fall side by side] Amen’.

It also includes his prescient open letter to John Redmond, signed with a pen-name, warning him to beware of the Englishman’s smile, and to arm himself with the strength of a lion and the guile of a snake. ‘Bí borb le borb. Bí teann le teann. Bí cruaidh le cruaidh. Bí glic le glic ... Bí id fhear. Bí id’ Thaoiseach. Bí id’ Pharnell’. [‘Meet bluntness with bluntness. Meet firmness with firmness. Meet toughness with toughness. Meet guile with guile ... Be a man. Be a leader. Be a Parnell.’] - advice which, alas, John Redmond was not well equipped to follow.

An Barr Buadh ran to only eleven weekly issues, before Pearse closed it to concentrate on the latest crisis at his school, St. Enda’s. The printer was never paid. The circulation was tiny, and even single copies are extremely rare.

The present copies are well used, with creasing at folds and some fraying at edges, and have been pierced for filing at inner margins, without loss of text.

410. PHILIPS, Katherine. & CORNEILLE, Pierre. Poems by the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips. The matchless Orinda. To which is added Monsieur Corneille’s Pompey & Horace Tragedies. With several other translations out of French. With a handsome engraved frontispiece portrait by Faithorne. London: Printed by F.M. for H. Herringman, 1667. Folio. pp. [xxxvi], 112. Large paper copy. Bound in contemporary full red morocco, tooled in gilt to a panel design with inner and outer fleurons, spine expertly rebacked, preserving original. Repair to corners. All edges gilt. A fine copy in quarter morocco solander box. €1,350 COPAC locates 8 copies only. WorldCat 3. Wing P 2033. Sweeney 3460.

This first authorised edition had been preceded by an unauthorised version in 1664 which did not include the plays, translated for production on the Dublin stage at Smock Alley by the authoress.

Nicknamed by her contemporaries “The Matchless Orinda,” Mrs Philips was brought over by the Duke of Ormond to fill the role of playwright in residence that had originally been occupied in the pre-1641 Dublin theatre by James Shirley. Much angered by the publication of the pirated version she attempted to have it suppressed, but in the same year she died of small-pox.

The translation of Horace was completed by Sir John Denham.

Provenance: The F. Buxton Forman & Harold Greenhill copy.

411. REILY, Hugh. Ireland's Case Briefly Stated; or, A Summary Account of the Most Remarkable Transactions in that Kingdom since the Reformation. In two parts. By A True Lover of his King and Country. [Paris? or Louvain? S.n.] Printed in the year 1695. 12mo. pp. [xii], 132.

In two parts with separate title-pages for each but continuous pagination and signatures. Possible places of publication from Wing. Original sprinkled calf, spine gilt, title lettered in gilt. From the library of James Hustler of Acklam with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. The Clements copy with the armorial bookplate of Henry J.B. Clements on lower pastedown. Lacks front blank. Signature erased at a very early date on lower margin of titlepage. Avery good copy.

Exceedingly rare. €1,650 COPAC locates 3 copies only. WorldCat 6. Sweeney 4453.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Hugh Reily, also known as Hugh Reilly or Hugh O’Reilly (c.1630-1695) was M.P. for Cavan Borough in the Patriot Parliament of 1689 and a famous political author. Reily studied at the Irish Bar where he qualified as a barrister about 1650. He was legal advisor to Saint Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh during his trial in 1681, after Plunkett's previous advisor Sir Nicholas Plunkett died. Plunkett said about Reilly “he took many risks for me".

An important book which, according to the DNB, was for a long time "almost the only printed argument in favour of Irish Roman Catholics". This was a pioneering work asserting the rights of Irish Catholics under the Treaty of Limerick. Hugh Reily was Master in Chancery and Clerk of the Council in Ireland during the reign of James II. Subsequent to going to France with James II he was said to have been appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland at the exiled King's Court at St. Germains. He was dismissed, however, after offending the exiled monarch with the contents of this book which complains bitterly of the treatment of the Catholics in Ireland during the reign of Charles II.

See item 410.

412. SIDNEY, Sir Philip. The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight. Now the first time published, with some new additions. Also a supplement of a defect in the third part of this History. By Sir W. Alexander. Dublin: Printed by the Societie of Stationers, 1621. Folio. pp. [vi], 588. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, spine skilfully rebacked, title in gilt on brown morocco label. Early owner's initials 'H.H.' on verso of engraved titlepage. Wear to corners. A very good copy. Very rare. €1,250 COPAC locates 8 copies only. WorldCat 2. Sweeney 4726.

This is the earliest surviving work of English literature to be published in Ireland and owes this distinction to Philip’s secretary, Sir William Temple, being appointed in 1609 to the provostship of Trinity College, Dublin. Sir Philip was himself in Ireland during the third spell as lord deputy by his father Sir Henry and accompanied him on his tour of inspection in the province of Munster in 1576.

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From this he gathered the materials to mount a masterful defence to the Queen of his father’s controversial Irish policy. He was only 32 years of age when he was mortally wounded at Zutphen in the Low Countries and his early death, allied to handsome good looks and his romantic poetry all served to confer on him a high public image that has survived to this day. Nothing he wrote was published in his lifetime. The Arcadia, an heroic pastoral romance, was left in scattered and incomplete manuscript form at the time of his death, but gathered together by his sister the Countess of Pembroke.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 413. WHARTON, Sir George. Bellum Hybernicale or Ireland’s Warre Astrologically demonstrated, from the late Celestiall-congresse of the two Malevolent Planets, Saturne and Mars, in Taurus, the ascendent of that Kingdome. Wherein likewise, their future opposition in the Signs Sagittary and Gemini, (most ominous to London, and many other of the south and West parts of England) is mathematically handled. The ignorance, malice, mistakes, errors, insolencies, and impertinencies, of Iohn Booker, (in his astrologicall observations upon the said conjunction, in a late pamphlet of his, styled, A bloody Irish almanack, &c.) discovered, corrected, refuted, and retorted: and the author further vindicated, from his, and Master Lilly's former frivolous, false, and malicious aspersions, throughout the whole discourse. By Capt. Geo. Wharton, Student in Astronomy. [London]: Printed in the Yeere, 1647. Small quarto. pp. [iv], 36.

Modern full crushed levant burgundy morocco by Bayntun. All edges gilt. A fine copy.

Exceedingly rare. €1,250

COPAC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 4. Wing W 1543. Sweeney 130.

Astrologers played their part in the Civil War with royalist predictions stemming from the pen of Wharton who was paymaster to the artillery of Charles I. This was his contribution to the debate occasioned by the work of A Manapian. He described Booker as “that grand and traiterous imposter” while Booker in turn labelled Wharton “that arch turn-coat”.

Provenance: The Brent Gration Maxfield copy. Place of publication from Wing.

414. WHETCOMBE, Tristram. The Copy of a Letter from Master Tristram Whitcombe, Major of Kingsale. Dated the 21. of April 1642. To his brother Benjamin Whitecombe, Merchant in London. Alderman Plurie of Glocester mooved the House that this letter might be printed, whereupon it was ordered the 26 of April, to be published. It is this day ordered by the House of Commons, that the ministers of each severall parish give publike thanks to God for the good successe it hath pleased him to grant the English against the rebels. London: 1642. 4to. pp. [8].

Modern half morocco. Edges close-trimmed barely shaving letters on fore margin. A good copy of an exceedingly rare item. €1,250 COPAC locates 8 copies only. WorldCat 1. Wing W 1636. Sweeney 5622.

He starts off reporting: “I have received divers letters with severall dates, wherein you taxe me for not writing to you; you have no cause to do so .... For I assure you I have written by every passage that went from hence, which were by barques that carried passengers and poor distressed people, which 132

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have been landed in Wales, Padstoe, Ilforcombe, and Barnestable; but none of them at their return have brought any letter from you, my wife, or any friend thereabouts. In shipping away the poor people, I have taken a great deal of pains, and disbursed much moneys to pay for their passage, and there is still as much need of doing the same as before; for though the number of receivers be not altogether so many, yet the givers are much decreased”.

The author was a merchant in Kinsale and mayor of that town in 1641. In 1652 it was agreed by the Burgesses, Freemen and Commoners of Kinsale that Tristram Whetcombe should be Soveraigne.

415. [WILLIAM III] Beschryving der eerpoorten, in ‘s Graavenhaage opgerecht tegen d’overkomst van William den III. Koning van Engeland, Schotland, Vrankriyk en Ierland.

Benevens een kort verhaal van de voornaamste zaaken, voorgevallen onder de regeering van den geweezen Koning Jacobus, tot aan des zelfs vlucht, na den slag in Ierland by de rivier de Boyne, na Vrankryk, enz. Mitsgaders een byvoegsel van de vuurwerken en illumination, vertoond op den dag van zyn Majesteits plechtige in ‘s Graavenhaage. Amsterdam: Carel Allard, 1691. Folio. pp.

24, 20 (double-page plates). Contemporary half vellum over original marbled boards, early ink titling on spine. With the armorial bookplate of Vast En Rein. A fine copy. Utmost rarity. €6,750 COPAC locates 1 copy only.

First and only edition of this complete and exceedingly rare printed series of 20 large plates illustrating the history of King William III and Queen Mary from the birth of the Princes of Wales on 20 June 1688 till the entrance of William and Mary in The Hague on 5 February 1691.

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1. Birth of the Prince of Wales, James Francis Eduard, who was shown by Father Peters to his parents James II and Queen Beatrix.

2. The seven Bishops brought to the Tour on 18 June 1688 and released on the 25.

3. The adventures of James II in four scenes: The King at Feversham, from Feversham to Rochester, from Rochester to Ambletense, and from Bologne to Paris.

4. Reception of James II by Louis XIV at Versailles.

5. Departure of Prince William/King William III from Holland on 11. 11. 1688.

6. Arrival of Prince/King William in England on 15 November 1688.

7. Entrance of William in London on 28 January 1689.

8. William in the House of Commons.

9. Departure of the Princess of Orange from Holland on 20 February 1689.

10. Arrival of the Princess in England on 22 February 1689.

11. The Princess sailing from Whitehall to Westminster.

12. Coronation of William III and Mary Stuart on 21 April 1689.

13. The Royal Champion traditionally challenges everybody who questions the legitimacy of the election.

14. William & Mary taking the Oath.

15. William's defeat of James II at the Battle of the Boyne 11 July 1690.

16. Flight of James II after the Battle - boarding a boat in Waterford.

17. Triumphal arch for William & Mary on the Market in the Hague.

18. Triumphal arch for William & Mary on 'De Plaets' in the Hague.

19. Triumphal arch for William & Mary on the 'Buitenhof' in the Hague, 1691.

20. Entrance of William & Mary in the Hague, 5 February 1691.

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Catalogue of Pamphlets on Economic Subjects 1750-1900 in Irish Libraries.

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Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books. 3 vols. 1916.

Online Public Access Catalogue.

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Irish Bookbinding. 1954.

The Irish Book Lover. 1910 - 1952.

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Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge, 2009.

The Concise Dictionary of National Biography. 1973.

James Joyce. Oxford, 1983.

Catalogue of Irish Topographical Prints and Original Drawings, Dublin 1975.

Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue.

Map Library, TCD. Catalogue of Books and Mss. in the library of Sir John Gilbert.

A Bibliography of George Moore.

A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain.

Limerick Printers & Printing. 1942.

A Dictionary of Irish History Since 1800. Dublin, 1980.

Dictionary of Irish Literature. Dublin, 1979.

Irish Protestants and the Experience of Rebellion. 2003.

Printer to the City: John Exshaw, Lord Mayor of Dublin 1789-90. [2006] A Bibliography of Sir William Petty F.R.S. 1971.

A History of the Dublin University Press 1734-1976, Dublin, 1994.

The Kress Library of Business and Economics in Harvard. 4 vols. 1940-67.

A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650 - 1900. Dublin, Four Courts, 2006.

The Irish Character in Print. Dublin 1969.

A William Butler Yeats Encyclopædia.

Gold Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College in the 18th Century.

Five Hundred years of the Art of the Bookbinder in Ireland. 1500 to the Present.

Irish Writers of the 17th Century. 1974.

Here’s to their Memory, & Sligo Sources. 1977 & 1988.

Estates and Landed Society in Galway. 2012.

Dolmen XXV Bibliography 1951-1976.

A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland 1550-1775. New York, 1988.

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue.

Companion to Irish History, 1991.

The Poets of Ireland. Dublin, 1912.

Who’s Who in the Irish War of Independence. Dublin, 1980.

A Bibliography of Irish Trials & other Legal Proceedings. Oxon, 1986.

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.

Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Book Trade 1550-1800.

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.

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Short Title Catalogue of Books Published in England and English Books Published Abroad.

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A SELECTION OF FINE BOOKS FROM OUR PUBLISHING HOUSE B1. BÉASLAÍ, Piaras. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. Two volumes. A new introduction by Brian P. Murphy, O.S.B. With two portraits in full colour by Sir John Lavery, and other illustrations to each volume. This major work on Michael Collins is by one of his closest friends. An item which is now commanding in excess of four figures in the auction houses. Dublin: De Búrca, 2008. pp. (1) xxxii, 292, (2) vi, 328.

The limited edition in full green goatskin gilt with a medallion portrait and signature of Collins also in gilt. Housed in a fine slipcase. It includes the list of subscribers. Last few copies. €475 The general edition is limited to 1,000 sets superbly bound in green buckram, with a medallion portrait embossed in gilt on the €95 upper covers, and in slipcase.

Michael Collins (1890-1922), was born at Woodfield, Clonakilty, County Cork, the son of a small farmer. Educated locally, and at the age of sixteen went to London as a clerk in the Post Office. He joined the I.R.B. in London. During Easter Week he was Staff Captain and ADC to James Connolly in the GPO. With The O’Rahilly he led the first party out of the GPO immediately before its surrender. Arrested, imprisoned and released in December 1916.

After the victory of Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election and the establishment of Dáil Éireann as the Irish parliament he was made Minister of Home Affairs and later Minister for Finance, and organised the highly successful National Loan. A most capable organiser with great ability and physical energy, courage and force of character, he was simultaneously Adjutant General of the Volunteers, Director of Organisation, Director of Intelligence and Minister for Finance. He organised the supply of arms for the Volunteers and set up a crack intelligence network and an execution squad nicknamed Twelve Apostles. He was for a long time the most wanted man in Ireland but he practically eliminated the British Secret Service with the Bloody Sunday morning operation.

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Edmund Burke Publisher Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland is the official biography of a great soldier-statesman and the first authentic history of the rebirth of a nation. Written with inner knowledge by an intimate friend and comrade-in-arms who served with Collins on Headquarters Staff and who shared in many of his amazing adventures and hairsbreadth escapes.

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'. â‚Ź295.

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

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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 illustrated wraps.

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 d.j. €20 LIMITED EDITION ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL IRISH BOOKS 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 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.

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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.

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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 dustjacket 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.

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.

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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. T.e.g. 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. 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 steamdriven 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 d.j. €20 B12. DONOHOE, Tony. The History of Crossmolina. Foreword by Thomas Gildea Cannon.

Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. Royal octavo. pp. xviii, 627. Green buckram gilt in dust jacket. 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 141

Edmund Burke Publisher 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 d.j. €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 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.

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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”.

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.

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

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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 d.j. €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 d.j. €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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Edmund Burke Publisher 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 d.j. €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 fieldmonuments 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 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. 146

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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.

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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. 4to. Bound in qtr 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.

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. 4to. Full buckram gilt. Over 3,600 pages. Full buckram gilt, in presentation box. €635

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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 BĂşrca, 2003. pp. xiv, 160. Illustrated boards in d.j. â‚Ź36

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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 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

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The contents include: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Origins and Establishments of Estates; Estates and Estate Management; The Social Life of the Gentry; Marriage, Family and Careers; The Gentry as Landlords; The County and Local Roll of the Gentry; The Gentry and Politics; Ideas of Class and Historical Identity; Review and Retrospect.

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 O’Curry’s twenty-one Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, delivered at the College during the terms 1855 and 1856 were published with an appendix in one volume. They are a mine of information on the subject of our Irish manuscripts and are illustrated with numerous facsimile specimens.

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.

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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”.

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 4to. 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”.

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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 d.j. €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.

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.

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Edmund Burke Publisher 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, a Catalogue Raisonné (1995) and Ireland and the Printed Word (1997), for which he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the National University of Ireland.

His late wife Annie, a former French stage and screen ballet dancer whose film credits included L’Homme au Parapluie Vert starring Fernanded and Chanteur de Mexico with Luis Mariano. For over a quarter of a century, in her role as turf statistician, she supplied the Irish Times with course facts and figures.

Francis Hyland a former stockbroker turned bookmaker is currently chairman of the Irish National Bookmakers Association. A passionate racing researcher, he co-authored with Guy St. John Williams, histories of the ‘Irish Derby’ and the ‘Jameson Irish Grand National’.

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 154

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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 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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FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION 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 Subscribers and we would very much appreciate your patronage. Price approximately â‚Ź150.

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.

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