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Catalogue 117 Easter 2015

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CATALOGUE 117 Easter 2015

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COVER ILLUSTRATIONS: Our front cover illustration is taken from item 9, Armstrong's Musical Instruments. Part I. The Irish and Highland Harps. Part II. English and Irish Instruments. The lower cover is illustrated from item 209, Fynes Moryson's Itinerary (first edition, 1617). The inside covers are illustrated from the magnificent hand-coloured copy of Picturesque Sketches of some of the finest Landscape and Coast Scenery of Ireland from drawings by George Petrie, A. Nicholl and H. O'Neill. Scene depicted: Rendonegan Lake, from Gorteenruoe, Bantry Bay.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 1. [ANCRAM, Georgianna Mitford] New Estate; or, The Young Travellers in Wales and Ireland. By the author of "Portugal", &c. [Georgianna Mitford Ancram]. Illustrated.

London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, 1831. pp. vii, [1], 302, 2 (Books for Youths). Recent half red morocco on green cloth boards. Title in gilt direct on spine. A fine copy. €175 COPAC lists 6 copies only.

good copy. Scarce.

2. [AN EYE-WITNESS] Bishop Stock. A Narrative of what Passed at Killala, in the County of Mayo, and the parts adjacent, during the French Invasion in the Summer of 1798. By an Eye-Witness. Dublin: Printed. London: Reprinted for J. Hatchard and J. Wright, 1800. pp. [2], 182, 2 (advertisement). Modern half calf on cloth boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Early signature of Sarah Rice Clarke dated 9th August, 1800 on titlepage. From the library of Colonel Henry Stracey, Scots Guards with his stamp on titlepage, also with a later signature. Small ink stain to top corner of titlepage spilling onto a couple of leaves. Minor spotting to titlepage. A very €575

In August, 1798 one thousand French troops under the command of General Humbert landed near Killala on the west coast of Ireland, to be joined by over three thousand local men eager to strike a blow for their country's freedom. The author's home became the headquarters of the insurgent army.

Following a whirlwind campaign the combined force was defeated at Ballinamuck.

Joseph Stock (1740-1813), Bishop of Killala became a prisoner of the French under General Humbert.

He kept a diary of these momentous events which was first published in 1799.

3. AN IRISH GENTLEMAN [Thomas Walford] The Scientific Tourist through Ireland: by which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of Antiquity, Art, Science, and the Picturesque; Arranged by Counties. To which is added an introduction to the study of the Antiquities of Ireland. Engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title, six engraved plates and two folding maps. Dedication to Grand Duke Michael of Russia. London: Booth, 1818. 12mo. pp. [vii], 34, [2], [194]. Original blue paper boards. A near fine copy in solander box. Rare. €675 1

De BĂşrca Ra re Books COPAC locates 10 copies only.

Thomas Walford (1752-1833) antiquary, an officer in the Essex militia in 1777, was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the county the following year. Elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1788, the Linnean Society in 1797, and the Geological Society in 1825. Apart from the above work, Walford also published The Scientific Tourist through England, Wales, and Scotland in the same year.

4. [AN OLD BOY] Tom Brown's School Days. By An Old Boy. With illustrations by Arthur Hughes and Sydney Prior Hall. London & New York: Macmillan and Co, 1897. pp. xxii, 308.

Bound by Relfe Brothers of London with their stamp on verso of front endpaper, in contemporary full straight-grained full blue morocco; covers framed by a gilt floral roll. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on red morocco piece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner floral design. Fore-edges and turn-ins gilt; splash marbled endpapers; blue and gold endbands. All edges marbled. Presentation inscription on verso of front free endpaper. A fine copy. See illustration above. â‚Ź135 A HAPPY PARSON'S BOOK WITH HAND-COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS

5. AN OXONIAN [S. Reynolds Hole]. A Little Tour in Ireland. Being a Visit to Dublin, Galway, Connemara, Athlone, Limerick, Killarney, Glengarriff, Cork, etc. With coloured frontispiece and hand-coloured illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury, 1859. Small 2

De Búrca Ra re Books quarto. pp. viii, 220. Bound in the style of Birdsall of Northampton in full dark green calf. Covers decorated with double gilt fillets. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and illustrator in gilt in the second and third, the remainder blocked in gilt with a floral device in centre; corners of board edges hatched in gilt; turn-ins gilt; red and gold endbands; splash-marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. With an exquisite bookplate depicting a Tudor-style library with a view of a church and rectory from an open door, with the legend: 'This is the book of Charles Lewis Slattery a happy Parson'. A superb copy in pristine condition. €1,250 6. ARCHDALL, Mervyn. Monasticon Hibernicum; or An History of the Abbies, Priories, and other Religious Houses in Ireland.

Interspersed with memoirs of their several founders, and benefactors, and of their Abbots and other superiors to the time of the Final Suppression ... With engravings of the several religious orders and military habits and a map illustrating the history. London: Robinson, & Dublin: Luke White, 1786. Quarto. pp. xxiii, 18 (plates), 820, 7 (index) viii, + errata. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece. Paper repair to margin of half-title. Spine professionally rebacked, preserving original with elaborate gilt decoration. Sir Richard Levigne's copy with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. Rare. €985 Bradshaw 2150 Gilbert 30.

The Reverend Mervyn Archdall, (1723-1791), historian, antiquarian and genealogist was a native of Dublin. After graduating from Trinity, he took a keen interest in antiquities and literary research. Having made the acquaintance of Walter Harris (see items 332/3/4, 889), Charles Smith (see item 817), and Thomas Prior he resolved on collecting material for an ecclesiastical history of Ireland. His Monasticon Hibernicum appeared in 1786, the product of forty years zealous research. "It contains many particulars which will gratify the antiquary's curiosity ... It is more valuable on account of its being compiled from authentic official records" - London Monthly Review, 1786.

The list of subscribers includes: John Archer, Bookseller, Dublin (six copies); Valentine Browne; William Beauford; Thomas Burgh; Dominick Burke; Patrick Byrne, Bookseller; Earl of Charlemont; Francis-Pierpoint Lord Conyngham; Austin Cooper; Denis Daly; Luke Gardiner; James Gandon; Samuel Hayes; Lord Longford; David La Touche; Edward Ledwich; Earl and Countess of Moira; Count Mac Carthy; Patrick M'Laughlin; Sir Lucius O'Brien; Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare; Chevalier O'Gorman; Sylvester O'Halloran; Henry Pomeroy; Rev. Mathew Sleator; Charles Vallancey; Robert Watson Wade; Samuel Walker; Samuel Whyte, Principal of the English Grammar School; Baron Yelverton, etc.

7. 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. Original paper boards, rebacked in quarter leather with original printed title. A very good copy. Very scarce. €265 No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 1.

8. [ARMAGH] Armagh Miscellanea. A Collection of Fourteen Historical Tracts on the History, Antiquities and Literature of County Armagh. Published in and extracted from the Louth Archaeological Journal. With several maps (some folding), illustrations and a genealogical chart of the Conwells of Ballymilligan and Ballyriff, County Derry.

Illustrated. Louth: Archaeological Journal, n.d. (c. 1950). Quarto. pp. 180, [3] Blue buckram, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Some fading to cover. A very good copy. €325 3

De Búrca Ra re Books The contents includes: Calendar of letters of Rev. Eugene Conwell, C.C.; History of Parish of Creggan; Armagh Observatory. Its Founder and Directors; Local Astronomical Links; Excavation of Clontygora Small Cairn; Black Bank Barracks; Lisburn in 1798; A Survey of the Lands of Niselrath in 1667; Harvest Customs in County Armagh; The Game of Long Bullets in County Armagh; The Sack of Dunmahon Castle; The Chamberlains of Niselrath; Clinton Records; The Burning of Wildgoose Lodge.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE FIRST EDITION 9. ARMSTRONG, Robert Bruce. Musical Instruments. Part I. The Irish and Highland Harps.

Part II. English and Irish Instruments. Illustrated with facsimiles, music, plates and portraits.

Edinburgh: Printed by T. & A. Constable, 1904/08. Quarto. pp. (1) xvi, 199, + errata, (2) 4, viii, 167. Blue cloth, Irish Harp in gilt on upper cover of Part I; English Rose in gilt on upper cover of the second part; title in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 100 and 180 copies (No. 58). Signed presentation copy from Robert B. Armstrong to Mr. Howard Guinness, dated December, 1908.

Wear to spine-ends, light staining to spine. A very good set of an exceedingly rare item. €1,750

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books The Irish and the Highland Harps by R B Armstrong remains one of the essential works for the study of these instruments and has stood the test of time better than most other contemporary harp related publications.

SENCHAS MOR ANCIENT LAWS OF IRELAND 10. [ATKINSON, Robert. Ed. by] The Ancient Laws of Ireland comprising introduction to the Senchus Mor ... and Law of Distress and Hostage Sureties, Tenure and Social Conditions, Customary Law and the Book of Aicill, Brehon Law Tracts, and Glossary. Edited by Robert Atkinson. With coloured folding plates from the original manuscripts. Six volumes. Dublin: Thom, 1865-1901. Royal octavo. Quarter roan on black paper boards, two volumes (5&6) rebound in matching binding. The latter volumes ex library with neat stamps. Minor wear to some covers and corners. A very good set of this rare and important work. â‚Ź1,450

The Senchus Mor or Ancient Laws of Ireland have their origin in the pre-Christian era. They were compiled during the reign of Laeghaire, son of Niall, King of Erin, and they were completed nine years after the arrival of Patrick in Erin, i.e. 441 A.D. The earliest reference to the Senchus Mor is in the Annals of the Four Masters - "The age of Christ 438. The tenth year of Laeghaire. The Senchus and Feinechus of Ireland were purified and written". The judges were called Brehons, they had law schools and collections of laws in tracts, all in the Irish language, by which they regulated their judgements.

The two largest and most important of these manuscripts that miraculously have come down to us are the Senchus Mor and the Book of Aicill, treating Irish civil and criminal law respectively.

The most learned John O'Donovan and Eugene O'Curry, along with Rev. T. O'Mahony translated the various Law-tracts, in the libraries of Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy, the British Museum and the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 11. [BARROW, Sir John] The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences. Illustrated by six etchings from original drawings by Lieut.-Colonel Batty. London: John Murray Albemarle Street, 1831. 16mo. pp. xi, 356. Bound in contemporary full half calf on marbled boards by John Pritchard of Carnarvon with his ticket on front pastedown. Flat spine with title in gilt on brown morocco letterpiece. A single gilt fillet separates the compartments which are diced in blind. Armorial bookplate of Spencer Bulkeley, 3rd Baron Newborough. All edges sprinkled. A fine copy. €375 The mutiny on the Bounty occurred on 28 April 1789, and has been commemorated by several books, films, and popular songs, many of which take considerable liberties with the facts. The mutiny was led

by Fletcher Christian against the commanding officer, William Bligh. According to most accounts, the sailors were attracted to the idyllic life on the Pacific island of Tahiti and repelled by the harsh treatment from their captain.

Eighteen mutineers set Lieutenant Bligh and 18 of the 22 crew loyal to him afloat in a small boat.

Mutineers then settled on Pitcairn Island or in Tahiti. The Bounty was subsequently burned off Pitcairn Island to avoid detection and to prevent desertion. Descendants of some of the mutineers and Tahitians still live on Pitcairn island.

This is the first and only 'authorised' edition of Barrow's account of the mutiny.

Some books from the library at Newborough, Anglesey, were sold at Sotheby's in 1950. Most are found in fine condition and were bound by Pritchard.

ACHILL INTEREST 12. BARROW, John. Esq. A Tour Round Ireland, Through the Sea-Coast Counties, in the Autumn of 1835. Illustrated with engraved plates, textual wood-cuts, and map. With an appendix containing 'A Letter from a Lady who visited the Island of Achill in September, 1835' and with an illustration of the Colony. London: John Murray, 1836. pp. xii, 379, 38. Contemporary half worn calf on marbled boards. Wear to spine ends. Frontispiece and titlepage browned as usual.

From the library of Ifor Glyn Jones, with his bookplate on front endpaper, signature of Terence Eyre dated at Windsor, 1926 on front flyleaf. Scarce. €135 13. [BELFAST] Belfast, 1902. A Guide to Belfast and the Counties of Down & Antrim.

Prepared for the meeting of the British Association by Members of The Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. With Illustrations and folding coloured maps. Belfast: M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, 1902. pp. [vi], 284, 3 (adverts). A very good copy in original cloth gilt. €65 The Belfast Naturalists' Field Club was founded in 1863, for 'The Practical Study of Natural Science and Archaeology'. For this meeting of the British Association members diligently prepared this account of the flora, fauna, geology and antiquities of the Antrim and Down district. This guide was edited by Francis J. Bigger, R. Lloyd Praeger, and John Vinycomb.

14. BENCE-JONES, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses. Illustrated. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1996. Revised edition. Folio. pp. xxxi, 320. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €125 SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY

15. BENSON, Rev. Charles William. Our Irish Song Birds. With fine illustration of the Icterine Warbler and other Birds. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & Co., 1901. Second edition. pp. xv, 206.

Green cloth, with bird in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. From the Capuchin Annual Library with their neat stamp. Signed presentation copy from the author to his "old friend and pupil". Small crease to upper cover. A very good copy. Scarce. €225 6

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16. BERGIN, Osborn. Irish Bardic Poetry. Text and Translations, together with an Introductory Lecture. With a Foreword by D.A. Binchy. Compiled and Edited by David Greene & Fergus Kelly. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1970. First edition. pp. xi, 320. Cream buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed and faded dust jacket. €35 17. BETHAM, Sir William. Irish Antiquarian Researches. With numerous plates, some folding and hand coloured, mostly facsimiles from Ancient Irish Manuscripts. Two volumes in one.

Dublin: William Curry, and Hodges and M'Arthur & London: Longman ... and Green; Daniel Lizars, Edinburgh, 1826/7. pp. iii, 236, [x], 243-442, lv. Recent full calf. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Rare. €575 COPAC locates 7 copies only.

With historical notices on the Leabhar Dhimma; Book of Armagh; Geraldine Knights; O'Donell; The Caah (Cathach); Venerable Bede, and the Ancient Irish Church. The author was Keeper of Records in Dublin, and a noted genealogist.

Sir William Betham, antiquarian and genealogist, born at Stradbrook in Suffolk, 22nd May 1779. He began life as a printer, and came to Ireland in 1805, where he distinguished himself in genealogy, a taste derived from his father; he was knighted in 1812, and next year succeeded Sir Chichester Fortescue as Ulster King at Arms. He devoted himself with indefatigable industry to his favourite study, collecting an immense mass of materials, and partially reducing to order, and making available, the collections in the Birmingham Tower and the Remembrancer's Office. He published several works of a somewhat speculative character connected with the study of Irish antiquities, and contributed largely to the leading literary societies of which he was a member.

His greatest MS. work was his index to the names of all persons mentioned in the wills at the Prerogative Office in Dublin. It consists of forty large folio volumes, begun in 1807, and not completed before 1828, during a great part of which period he devoted to it from eight to ten hours a-day. His "philological Deductions were not generally deemed satisfactory; and it may be regretted that these speculative studies withdrew his attention from those more tangible questions affecting our political and constitutional history, of which he had made himself a master, and for the illustration of which he 7

De Búrca Ra re Books had formed such ample collections". The acceptance of Mr. Petrie's work on the Round Towers by the Royal Irish Academy did not meet with his approval, and was said to be the cause of his withdrawal for many years from that institution. He died at Stradbrook, Blackrock, County Dublin, 26th October 1853, aged seventy four.

RARE FISHING ITEM 18. [BILTON, William] The Angler in Ireland: or An Englishman's Ramble through Connaught and Munster During the Summer of 1833. With a folding map of Cunnemara, two engraved plates (Dubh Lough, County Mayo and Killing a Salmon). Two volumes. London: Bentley, 1834.

First and only edition. pp. (1) xii, 315, (2) v, 312. Modern half brown calf on marbled boards.

Spines divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title, author and volume number in gilt on green morocco letterpieces in the second, fourth and sixth. Sporadic foxing. A very good copy. Very scarce. €675

Aquatint frontispiece in each volume, and a folding map of Connemara in volume two. The frontispiece of the second volume is reputed to be a illustration of the author 'Killing a Salmon' at Ballyshannon, County Donegal.

Bilton (or Belton ) was also author of Two Summers in Norway (1840). Westwood & Satchell p.122 (giving author's surname as Belton).

19. [BLAKE FAMILY] Letters from the Irish Highlands. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1825. First edition. pp. xviii, [1], 359, [1]. Modern black buckram, title in gilt on spine.

Previous owners inscriptions on front free endpapers. Some annotations in pencil. A very good copy. Rare. €575 One of the best contemporary accounts of social life in the West of Ireland by a member of The Tribes of Galway. Henry Blake and his English wife, Martha Louise bought Renvyle House where they farmed and ran a business. This work describes in a series of forty-nine letters: Emigration to the Highlands; Report of the Slate Quarry at Letterguesh; Explanation of Con Acre; Balance of Good and Evil in National Character; Industry of the Female Peasantry; Influence of the Priests; Climate of Cunnemarra; Herring Fishery; General Opposition to the Laws; Unequal Distribution of Justice; Clanship; Modesty of the Female Peasants; Boffin; etc.

A feast of descriptive articles on social life in this most beautiful part of Ireland at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

CAHERMOYLE COPY SIGNED BY WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN 20. [BOLINGBROKE, Lord Viscount] The Works of the late Right Honorable Henry St. John: Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. In five volumes, complete. Published by David Mallet, Esquire.

Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, Grafton-Street, 1793. With a three-page list of subscribers.

Contemporary full Dublin tree calf, titles and volume numbers on contrasting red and green morocco labels. From the library of William Smith O'Brien with his armorial bookplate, 8

De Búrca Ra re Books personally signed by him on front pastedown; also inscribed by him "an Heir Loom / W.S. O'B"., and with the signature of his son Edw. S. O'Brien, on front free endpaper. Some minor wear to corners, small traces of old worming. A very good set. Exceedingly rare. €1,350

COPAC locates 4 sets only. WorldCat 2. ESTC 166090.

William Smith O'Brien (1803-1864) was an Irish nationalist Member of Parliament and leader of the Young Ireland movement. He also encouraged the use of the Irish language. He was convicted of sedition for his part in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848, but his sentence of death was commuted to deportation to Van Diemen's Land. In 1854, he was released on the condition of exile from Ireland, and he lived in Brussels for two years. In 1856 O'Brien was pardoned and returned to Ireland, but he was never active again in politics.

IN PAINTED VELLUM BINDING WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF THE LAST SUPPER

21. [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER] The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of The Church of England: Together with The Psalter of Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung and said in Churches. Cambridge: Printed by Clay. London: Cambridge University Press, n.d. [1899]. Octavo. Full vellum. Upper cover decorated with a painted vellum onlay in various colours. Fore-edges and turn-ins gilt. Marbled endpapers.

Fore-edge painting of Christ and the Apostles at The Last Supper. Upper and lower edges gilt. A fine copy. €375 22. BRADSHAW, Brendan. The Dissolution of the Religious Orders in Ireland under Henry VIII. Two maps.

London: Cambridge University Press, 1974. pp. xi, 276. A very good copy in dust jacket. Very scarce. €165 Fr. Bradshaw examines the dissolution of the Religious Orders in Ireland as an episode of Irish ecclesiastical and political history, and of the English Reformation. In great detail he examines the state of Religious Orders on the eve of the suppression, the extent of opposition to the implementation of the suppression policy and the secularisation of monastic lands.

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De Búrca Ra re Books The maps included depict: The religious houses of Ireland on the eve of the suppression; The course of the suppression campaign in Ireland, 1539-46.

23. BRENAN, Rev. M.J. An Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, from the Introduction of Christianity into that Country, to the year 1829. Two volumes. Dublin: John Coyne, 1840. pp. (1) viii, 451, [1], (2) vii, 448. Publisher's diced purple cloth, title on printed labels on spines. Owner's signature on titlepage. Light foxing to prelims. Some wear and fading to binding. A good set.

Scarce. €185 24. BRENNAN, Thomas A. A History of The Brennans of Idough, County Kilkenny. With maps. New Hampshire: Whitman Press, 1979. pp. xi, 307. Green buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Rare. €245 If it be true, as Thomas Carlyle wrote, that "In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time" and, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, that "Man is the sum of his ancestors", then in A History of the Brennans of Idough, County Kilkenny, the author, a fourth generation Irish-American, has succeeded in setting down the whole Past Time, which spans more than a thousand years, of one of Ireland's fabled families.

Maclysaght tells us in his standard reference work on Irish families that there are many Brennans in Ireland and the name comes twenty-eighth in the statistical list of Irish surnames. There were two main branches of this clan, the MacBrennans of Corcachlann in County Roscommon and the principle sept of O'Brennan in Ossory who were chiefs of Ui Duach (Idough) in the northern part of County Kilkenny. It is from that branch that the author was descended and he deals at length with them.

25. BRERETON, Capt. F.S. In the King's Service. A Tale of Cromwell's Invasion of Ireland.

With eight illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. London: Blackie and Son Limited, 1901. pp. 352, 32 (publisher's list). Green pictorial boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. All edges green.

Recased. A very good copy. €75

IN FINE BAYNTUN BINDING 26. BROWNING, Robert. Browning Poetical Works. Complete from 1833 to 1868 and the shorter poems thereafter. London: O.U.P., 1967. pp. xiv, 698. Bound by Bayntun of Bath in recent full polished blue calf. Covers framed by double gilt fillets. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title on red morocco letterpiece in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design, with a gilt flower in the centre; fore-edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers; blue and gold endbands. All edges gilt. Superb copy, ideal for presentation. See illustration above. €225 10

De Búrca Ra re Books 27. BURKE, Edmund. The Works of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke. Six volumes.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1864. Contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards.

Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Minor wear to extremities and surface of marbled boards, otherwise a very good and attractive set. €275 A Vindication of Natural Society; An Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful; Political Miscellanies, etc.

28. BURNET, Gilbert. The Life of William Bedell, D.D. Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland. The Second Edition, with Additions. Dublin: Printed by M. Rhames, for R. Gunne, Bookseller in Capel-street, 1736. pp. [xxxvi], 423, 15, [1 (bookseller's list)]. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on brown morocco label on spine. Light surface wear to binding and corners. All edges red. A very good copy. €375 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

William Bedell was a man revered not only by the English but by the native Irish as well. When he was consecrated Bishop of Kilmore in 1629 he witnessed the appalling hardship and poverty among the native Irish. With his kindness and generosity towards them in the spirit of a true Christian, he became their trusted friend. He even learned their language and was the first translator of the Old Testament into Irish. O'Reilly of Breifne styled him 'Ultimus Anglorum', the best of the English. This was the first biography of Bedell.

29. BUTLER, H.J. & H.E. Ed. by. The Black Book of Edgeworthstown and Other Edgeworth Memories 1585-1817. Edited by Harriet Jessie Butler and Harold Edgeworth Butler. With illustrations and a large folding genealogical chart. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1927. pp. xii, 260.

Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €65 Interesting memoirs of a distinguished family covering the period 1585 to 1817, whose luminaries include: the novelist Maria; her father Richard Lovell and the Abbé who attended Louis XVI of France upon the scaffold.

30. BUTLER, M. A History of the Barony of Gaultier. With a map of Gaultier. Waterford: Downey, 1913. pp. 217, 13 (index). Olive green cloth, titled in gilt. Presentation inscription on front endpaper from Geoffrey Cummins, Kill, County Waterford to Colour Sergeant Michael Morrissey, Belfast, dated 1913. Loosely inserted is a photograph of Morrissey. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €375 31. [CANDID OBSERVER] Biographical Anecdotes, of the Founders of the late Irish Rebellion, including Memoirs of the Most Conspicuous Persons Concerned in that Foul and Sanguinary Conspiracy, among whom are those of Lord Edward Fitz-Gerald, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Esq. Arthur O'Connor, Esq., Rev. William Jackson, Sir Edward Wm. Crosbie, Bart., Cornelius Grogan, Esq., B. Bagnall Harvey, Esq., Henry and John Sheares, Esqrs., James Napper Tandy, Esq., Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esq., Thomas Addis Emmet, Esq., Dr. Esmond, Mr. Matthew Dowling, Mr. Thomas Bacon, Mr. Miles Duigenan, Mr. Oliver Bond, John Sweetman, Esq. &c &c &c Impartially Written by a Candid Observer. London: Printed in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine; and Reprinted in Ireland, in the year 1801. pp. 71.

Recent stitched marbled wrappers. Titlepage cleaned, last page in superior facsimile. Some water staining and darkening of titlepage. A good copy. Extremely rare. €475 COPAC locates the BL copy only. WorldCat 2.

32. CARLETON, William. Traits and Stories of The Irish Peasantry. With an introduction, explanatory notes, and numerous illustrations, by Harvey, Gilbert, Phiz, Franklin, MacManus, &c. Two volumes. London: William Tegg, 1868. Eight edition. pp. (1) [vi], 427, (2) [vi], 430.

Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands. Title and volume number in gilt on morocco labels in the second and fourth, the remainder elaborately tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design. Splash marbled endpapers.

Red and gold endbands. All edges marbled. A fine set. €275 William Carleton (1794-1869), novelist, was born at Prillisk, County Tyrone, the youngest of fourteen children of a small tenant farmer who spoke both Irish and English and had a fund of folklore and a tenacious memory. He was educated at a local hedge school and later studied the classics under Rev. Dr. Keenan. Intended for the priesthood but after a visit to Lough Derg he gave up the idea and went as a tutor to the family of a County Louth farmer. Here he read Gil Blas. He went to Dublin and after 11

De Búrca Ra re Books some vicissitudes got employment as a tutor.

The Christian Examiner accepted his sketch The Lough Derg Pilgrimage, and Carleton was launched on his career as a writer. He also contributed to the Family Magazine; the Dublin University Magazine, and The Nation.

Traits and Stories contains a wealth of illustrations by famous illustrators of the time.

They gave a good impression of the tales themselves, being crowded with laughing, weeping, fighting, working, playing, dying, and praying peasants in sublime scenery, povertystricken cottages, cosy public houses, trim farms, broken-down barns, hillside chapels, hedge schools, and hovels. The inhabitants of Carleton's world are villains, scholars, horsethieves, pig-drivers, priests, farmers and shopkeepers. He aimed to show the Irish peasant honestly to the world, choosing simple, strong plots. Contemporary critics praised Carleton most for the 'light and shade' of his depictions of Irish character, and much of his power lies in the combination and contracts of light and shade, good and evil, fun and tragedy. He is a writer of great comic genius, as well as being able to convey the horrors of poverty and the peasant life. A fine ability to tell a story distinguishes Carleton from many contemporary purveyors of folklore and folk life, and this contributed to his immense popularity in Ireland, England and across the Atlantic. There appeared over fifty editions in the nineteenth century alone.

33. CARLISLE, Nicholas. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland; Exhibiting The Names of the several Cities, Towns, Parishes, and Villages, with the Barony, County and Province to which they respectively belong. The Valuation and Present State of the Ecclesiastical Benefices. The Distance and Bearing of every Place from the nearest Post-Office, and of the Post Offices from the Metropolis. Fairs. Members of Parliament, and Corporations. Charter Schools. And Assizes.

To which is added, Miscellaneous Information respecting Monastic Foundations, and other matters of Local History. Collected from the most Authentic Documents, and arranged in Alphabetical Order. Being a Continuation of the Topography of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Printed for William Miller, 1810. Quarto. Contemporary full calf, titled in gilt on professionally rebacked spine. A very good copy. Rare. €650 Nicholas Carlisle (1771-1847), FRS, MRIA, English antiquary and librarian was born in York. In 1806, he became a candidate for the office of Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries, which he obtained the following year. In 1812, he became an Assistant Librarian of the Royal Library; he went on to accompany that collection to the British Museum, which he attended two days each week. He wrote several topographical dictionaries of England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland. He also wrote an historical account of Charitable Commissioners, and of Foreign Orders of Knighthood.

RARE SECOND EDITION 34. CARRIGAN, Rev. W. The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory. With large coloured folding map of the Diocese and numerous other illustrations. Four volumes. Kilkenny: Roberts, 1981 reprint of 1905 edition. Quarto. Green buckram. A fine copy in slipcase. €675 Undoubtedly the finest Irish diocesan history ever written, giving a meticulous description of the ancient kingdom of Ossory, its kings and chieftains and a history of the diocese of Ossory from the time of St. Kieran and St. Canice up to 1903.

35. CARTY, Ciaran. Robert Ballagh. Illustrated. Dublin: Magill, 1986. pp. 223. Blue paper boards, title in silver on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €45 12

De Búrca Ra re Books 36. CASEMENT, Roger. Memoriam Card issued on the Centenary of the birth of Roger Casement 1864-1964, by the Casement Committee, Dun Laoghaire. In Irish with portrait of the Patriot, text within a black border. Verse in English on verso. Very good condition. Scarce €125 37. [CASEMENT, Roger] Passages Taken from the Manuscript written by Roger Casement in the Condemned Cell at Pentonville Prison. With preface by Herbert O. Mackey. Dublin: Printed for Private Circulation only, 1950. pp. 8. Brown printed wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375 Introduced by Father James McCarroll, the Roman Catholic priest who attended Casement in his cell at Pentonville. Includes Casement's final poem, written for Fr. James McCarroll shortly before his execution. A most moving document.

38. [CATHOLIC PETITION] Impartial Detail of the Proceedings and Debates in both Houses of the Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdom, in the Session of 1805, Upon the Catholic Petition. To which are added, by way of Appendix, the Queries submitted to, and the Answers Received from, the Faculties of Divinity in the Catholic Universities of Paris, Douay, Louvain, Alcala, Valladolid, and Salamanca, in 1789, Touching the Doctrines Imputed to Catholics, Respecting the Keeping of Faith with Heretics, and the Power of the Pope to Absolve them from Allegiance to Protestant Princes. London: Printed for Cuthell and Martin, Middle-Row, Holborn; and Gilbert and Hodges, Dublin: and may be had of Keating, Duke-Street, Grosvenor-Square; Booker, and Carpenter, Bond-Street; and all the booksellers. R. Taylor and Co. Printers, 38, Shoe-Lane, 1805. pp. [2], 190, 169, [1], 28. Modern half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt direct on spine. Professional paper repair to titlepage. Manuscript inscription on verso of titlepage, owner's inscription dated September 6th 1807 on drop-title. Edges untrimmed. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €475 COPAC locates 7 copies only.

Following the death of the Jacobite claimant to the British throne James Francis Edward Stuart on 1 January 1766, the Pope recognised the legitimacy of the Hanoverian dynasty, which began a process of rapprochement between the Catholic Church and the United Kingdom. Over the next sixty-three years, various bills were introduced in Parliament to repeal restrictions against practice of the Roman Catholic faith, but these bills encountered political opposition, especially during the Napoleonic Wars. With the exception of the Catholic Relief Acts of 1778 and 1791, these bills were defeated. Then, finally, most of the remaining restrictions against Catholics in the United Kingdom were repealed by the Catholic Relief Act 1829, better known as Catholic Emancipation.

Mr. Fitzgerald, the Knight of Kerry said "It would be a great melancholy consideration indeed for the Catholics of Ireland, if they were to suppose that the bias of the public mind against them was too strong for any reasons to subdue. He had uniformly supported the question in the Irish Parliament. He had supported the union on the idea that it would be the most probable means of obtaining this object.

He knew that many other gentlemen had supported it on the same principle. He hoped, however, even if the house should decide that night against going into a committee, they would obliterate from their minds those monstrous calumnies which had been stated against the people of Ireland".

The speakers on the debate in the House of Commons included: Hon. Aug. Dillon; Dr. Duigenan; Maurice Fitzgerald, Esq.; Right Hon. John Forster; Hon. C.J. Fox; Mr. Grattan; Hon. Ch. Hely Hutchinson; Mr. John Latouche; Right Hon. William Pitt, etc.

IN SUPERB IRISH BINDING 39. [CATHOLIC] The Devout Christian's Vade Mecum: Being a Summary of the most Necessary Devotions; Particularly of Contrition, With the Explication of its Nature and Importance. Dublin: Printed for and Sold by John Kelly, at the Old-Stationers-Arms, No. 46 Mary's-lane, 1774. 12mo. pp. 256, 4 (engraved plates). Bound at the Watson Bindery in full red morocco to a gilt panel design with centre lozenge. Covers framed by a thistle roll with flametools in corner enclosing in the centre a large gilt decorated lozenge. Tools R2, 20, 2, R5 (McDonnell & Healy Gold-Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century). Spine divided into five compartments by five gilt raised bands. Brown and blue morocco labels in three compartments, all elaborately decorated in gilt. In fine condition. €1,650 No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. Not in NLI or TCD. 13

De Búrca Ra re Books This handbook of religious instruction is often referred to as a 'vade mecum' (Latin, "go with me") or pocket reference that is intended to be carried at all times.

40. [CATTLE SALE AT KELLS] Catalogue of the FirstClass Herd of Pure-Bred Shorthorn Cattle, the Property of Richard Challoner, Esq., for Sale by Auction, King's Fort, near Kells, County Meath, on Easter Tuesday, March 30, 1869, by John Thornton. London: Catalogues available from John Thornton. pp. 24. Stitched printed wrappers as issued. Crease to centre fold, otherwise a very good copy. €95 The King's Fort herd of Shorthorn has been well known for more than a quarter of a century. The present herd has however been bred, since the last was dispersed in 1860 (at an average of upwards of 80 guineas), chiefly from the English herds at Aylesby, Farnley, and Babraham. Among the animals then selected, the pedigrees of whose descendants are herein given, were members of Mr. R. Booth's Anna and Isabella families originally from Studley, the Kirklevington Waterloo, and celebrated Flower tribes, from Mr. Torr at Aylesby, as well as the "Sylph" tribe, so well known as prize winners in Ireland and as Charmers and Sweethearts in England; the "Victoria" tribe, bred for many years by Mr. Holmes at Moycashel; and the "Wharfdale" tribe, whose descendants have so recently distinguished themselves in the prize ring.

41. CAVOUR, Count. Thoughts on Ireland: Its Present and its Future. Translated by W.B. Hodgson, LL.D. London and Manchester: Trubner & Ireland, 1868. pp. xi, 110. Recent green buckram with original gilt title on upper cover. A very good copy. Very scarce. €235 EXTREMELY RARE BELFAST EDITION 42. [CHALLONER, Dr. Richard] The Garden of the Soul : or, a Manual of Spiritual Exercises and Instructions for Christians, who, living in the world, Aspire to Devotion. Belfast: Published

by Simms and M'Intyre, Donegall Street, n.d. 16mo. pp. 345, [4]. Contemporary full sheep, spine professionally rebacked. Minor spotting to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. Extremely rare. €275 No copy of this edition located on COPAC. Not in NLI.

43. CHATTERTON, Lady. Rambles in the South of Ireland during the year 1838. With eight lithographic plates and numerous engravings. Two volumes. London: Saunders, 1839. Second edition. pp. (1) xi, 312, (2) iv, 305, 2. Contemporary blind-stamped cloth, spine neatly rebacked in quarter morocco, title in gilt on green morocco labels. A very good set. Scarce. €375

Lady Henrietta Chatterton (1806-76), author, was born in Piccadilly, the only child of Rev. Lascelles Iremonger, prebendary of Winchester. She married in 1824 Sir William Abraham Chatterton, of Castle Mahon, County Cork. The Great Famine deprived them of rents from their estate and they retired to 14

De Búrca Ra re Books England. After his death in 1855, she married secondly Edward Heneage Dering, retired Coldstream Guards officer. Shortly after their marriage Dering was received into the Catholic church and was followed ten years later by Lady Chatterton. A prolific writer of wide interests with over thirty publications to her credit, Cardinal Newman praised the refinement of thought in her later works. Her high moral standards and her desire to do good are reflected in her writings. Lady Chatterton's heartfelt enthusiasm is evident as she discovers the hidden delights of counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Clare.

In the advertisement she acknowledges the kindness of Mr. Crofton Croker for historical material, and states: "My principal object in publishing this book is to endeavour to remove some of the prejudices which render so many people afraid either to travel or reside in Ireland ... and to furnish the most decided proofs that a tour in some of its wildest districts may be keenly enjoyed by an Englishwoman".

The work is enhanced by a series of delightful plates: Sugar-Loaf Mountain, Bantry Bay; Near Adrigoil, on the road from Castletown to Glengarriff; Mines of Allihes; Darrynane Abbey; Mitchelstown Castle; Kingston Caves; Quin Abbey, and St. Dominick's Friary. Elmes and Hewson 2012, lists seven lithographs only.

44. [CITIZEN KANE] The Citizen Kane Book. Raising Kane. By Pauline Kael. The Shooting Script. By Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles. Profusely illustrated. London: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., 1971. Quarto. First edition. pp. [6], 440 (double-column). Grey cloth, titled in silver on upper cover and spine. Loosely inserted is a cashed cheque signed by Orson Welles in favour of La Sierra in the sum of $100 - Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, Melrose & Hyland Branch, stamp dated June 19, [19]57. All in very good condition. €425

45. CLANRICARDE, Marquis of. Memoirs of the Right Honourable The Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Deputy General of Ireland. Containing, several original Papers and Letters of King Charles II, Queen Mother, the Duke of Lorrain, the Marquis of Ormond, Archbishop of Tuam, Lord Viscount Taafe, etc. relating to the Treaty between the Duke of Lorrain and the Irish Commissioners. Published from his Lordship's original Mss. With a translation of the Latin and French letters. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, For C. Connor, at Pope's Head on the Blind-Key, near Essex-Gate, 1744. pp. cxxvi, 152. Recent full sprinkled calf. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on red morocco label on the second, the remainder tooled with a gilt flower; fore-edges gilt; green and red endbands. All edges sprinkled.

Armorial bookplate of the Mayo historian Hubert Thomas Knox on front pastedown. A fine copy. Scarce Dublin edition. €650 ESTC T110957.

RARE DUBLIN EDITION 46. [CLARENDON Lord] The Lord Clarendon's History of the Grand Rebellion Compleated.

Containing, The Tracts, Speeches, and Memorials mentioned in that History; together with the Life of the Lord Clarendon. The Third edition Corrected. Dublin: Printed for J. Leathley, in Dames-Street, and P. Dugan on Cork-Hill, 1720. pp. [viii], 248. Near contemporary full sprinkled calf, title in gilt on recent red morocco letterpiece on spine. Front pastedown states that this copy was sold at the Marquis of Hastings sale, December / 68, also with shelf mark label; engraved bookplate of David Whelan on front free endpaper. A near fine copy. €575 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

According to Lowndes, the text is taken from Edward Ward's History of the Rebellion in Verse (1713).

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De Búrca Ra re Books 47. CLARK, William Smith. The Irish Stage in the County Towns 1720 to 1800. Illustrated.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. pp. xii, 405. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. New endpapers. A very good copy. Scarce. €75 The expansion of the 'Irish Stage' outside Dublin is described through the following nine leading places: Galway, Ennis, Limerick, Cork, Waterford, Kilkenny, Newry, Derry, and Belfast. The repertoire and personnel of all recorded professional performances have been assembled. The illustrations include rare portraits of famous eighteenth-century Irish actors; early maps of the county towns showing the theatre sites; unique play-bills from Belfast, Cork, Galway, and Tralee; and a littleknown design for a proposed Limerick play-house, 1788.

48. CLARKE, Francis L. The Life of the most noble Arthur Marquis and Earl of Wellington, Viscount Wellington of Talavera and of Wellington, and Baron Douro of Wellesley, all in the County of Somerset, K.B. Lieutenant-General; Marshal-General of the Portuguese, and CaptainGeneral of the Spanish Armies; Commander-in-Chief of his Britannic Majesty's Forces serving in the Peninsula; also Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, K.C.S. &c., &c. With copious details and delineations, historical, political, and military, of the various important services in which he has been engaged in Flanders, Ireland, India, Denmark, Spain and Portugal. Also, numerous interesting Professional Anecdotes, not only of his brethren in arms, but also of the great generals opposed to him in various parts of the world. Forming a complete and general view of his services, and of their beneficial consequences as to the political situation, and honourable character, of the British Nation. With large folding maps and several fine engravings. London: Printed by and for J. and J. Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row, n.d. (c.1814). pp. xix, 568, vi.

Near contemporary half burgundy morocco on red cloth boards, title in gilt on dark blue morocco label. Owner's signature on front free endpaper dated 1888 with two corrections in manuscript.

Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. See illustration below. €185

49. CLARKE, Thomas J. Glimpses of an Irish Felon's Prison Life. With an introduction by P.S. O'Hegarty. Dublin: Maunsel & Roberts, 1922. pp. xix, 104. Red cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spine. A fine copy in rare lightly frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €165 Thomas J. Clarke (1857-1916), revolutionary, was born of Irish parents in the Isle of Wight. The family emigrated to South Africa, returned to Ireland and settled in Dungannon, when he was ten. He went to America in 1881, joined Clan na Gael, the American wing of the I.R.B. Two years later while on a mission to England, Clarke was arrested and sentenced to penal servitude for life. He served fifteen and a half years under severe conditions and on his release and return to Ireland was made a freeman of the City of Limerick. Unable to get employment he emigrated to America in 1899, eight years later he returned home and with his savings opened a tobacconist's and newsagent's shop at 75A Great Britain Street (Parnell Street), where he set about reorganising the I.R.B. He was the first Signatory to the Proclamation of Independence of the Irish Republic, and was shot in Kilmainham Jail on 3rd May, 1916.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 50. 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 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.

51. COMERFORD, Rev. M. Collections relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin.

Illustrated. Three volumes. Dublin: Duffy, (1883/86). pp. (1) viii, 340, (2) vi, 356, (3) iv, 419.

Bound in contemporary full blind-stamped cloth with titles in gilt on spines at 'The Freeman's Journal' with their engraved rectangular ticket on the front lower pastedown of each volume: Bound at the/ Freeman's Journal/ Limited/ Bookbinding Works. Spine of volume one slightly sun-tanned, otherwise a fine set. €495 52. CONLON, Lil. Cumann na mBan and the Women of Ireland: 1913-25. Illustrated. Kilkenny: Printed by the Kilkenny People, 1969. First edition. pp. viii, [5], 312. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €150

This book was written "as a tribute to those Women, organised and unorganised, who rendered such gallant and heroic assistance during the years 1913-1925, and of whom little or no mention has ever been made".

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De Búrca Ra re Books 53. COSGRAVE, E. MacDOWEL & PIKE, W.T. Ed. by. Dublin and County Dublin in the Twentieth Century. By E. MacDowel Cosgrave, M.D. Contemporary Biographies. Edited by W.T. Pike.

Profusely illustrated. Brighton & London: W.T. Pike, 1908. Quarto. pp. 286. Contemporary full maroon morocco with elaborate gilt and blind tooling to both covers. Spine expertly rebacked, title in gilt on contrasting morocco labels. Some fading to covers and minor surface wear. All edges gilt. Very good. €675 There are over five hundred biographies of distinguished Dubliners from all walks of life: Nobility & Gentry, Magistrates, Clergy, the Bench & the Bar, Legal, Medical, Scholastic, Literary & Musical, Land Agents & Auctioneers, Engineers, Architects and Accountants. With a medallion portrait of each and the places of interest illustrated from photographs after Lawrence, Chancellor and D'Arcy.

54. COSTELLO, Mrs. Amhrain Mhuighe Seola.

Traditional folk songs from Galway and Mayo.

Collected and edited by Mrs. Costello. London: The Irish Folk Song Society. & Dublin: The Candle Press, 1919. Quarto. pp. xvii, [1], 150. Publisher's blue cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover.

A very good copy. €165 There are eighty songs in all collected by Mrs. Costello, with the words, music and historical background. In the introduction she acknowledges the generosity and encouragement of Edward Martyn.

55. COSTIGAN, Lucy & CULLEN, Michael. Strangest Genius. The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout. Dublin: The History Press Ireland, 2010. First edition. Quarto. pp. 320. Black paper boards, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. Pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy. €60 WITH FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS OF WINDSOR, ST. PAULS AND THE TOWER. 56. COWPER, William. Table Talk, and Other Poems. The Task. Minor Poems. Three volumes.

With engravings. London: Printed for John Sharpe, 1817/18. 12mo. pp. (1) [3], 204 (2) [3], 220 (3) [2], 108. Engraved titles and section titles with vignette illustrations. Bound in contemporary full straight-grained dark blue morocco. Covers framed by double gilt fillets enclosing in the outer border a gilt geometric roll with an inner blind floral roll. Spines divided into six compartments by five raised bands, author and title in gilt direct in the second and fifth, the remainder elaborately tooled in gilt to a floral pattern; fore-edges and turn-ins ruled in gilt; tan coloured endpapers; gold endbands. All edges gilt concealing three fore-edge paintings of Windsor, St. Paul's and The Tower. Presentation inscription to Penelope Shelford from her brother William, dated 1821, on front flyleaf of each volume. A very good set in marbled slipcase. €1,250

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57. COXHEAD, Elizabeth. Lady Gregory. A Literary Portrait. Illustrated. London: Macmillan, 1961. First edition. pp. xii, 241, [1]. Red cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Newspaper clipping with illustration of Elizabeth Coxhead on front pastedown. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 58. CRAIG, Maurice & the Knight of Glen. Ireland Observed. A handbook to the buildings and antiquities. With a section on Dublin by D. Newman Johnson. Illustrated. Cork: The Mercier Press, 1970. Quarto. pp. 118 (treble column). Red paper boards, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €30 59. CRAIG, Maurice James. Maurice Craig : Photographs. Edited by Amanda Bell. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2011. pp. xii, 120. Blue paper boards, titled in silver. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €25 60. CRAWFORD, Rev. Robert. The Cooke Centenary. Commemorative Addresses Illustrative of the Life, Character, and Distinguished Public Services of the Rev. Henry Cooke, D.D., LL.D., on the Centenary of his Birth, 11th May, 1888, with a Brief Narrative of the Proceedings.

Illustrated. Belfast: W. Mullan & Son, Donegall Place, 1888. Octavo. pp. 67, [1]. Quarter linen on printed boards. Bookplate of D.M. Skelly, on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €125 COPAC locates the QUB copy only.

Published by the Centenary Committee. The profits to be given towards the erection of the "Cooke Centenary Church", Ormeau Road.

DE LA BOULLAYE LE GOUZ'S TOUR EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES ONLY! 61. CROKER, T. Crofton. Ed. by. The Tour of the French Traveller M. De La Boullaye Le Gouz in Ireland, A.D. 1644. With Notes, and Illustrative Extracts, Contributed by James Roche, Esq. of Cork, The Rev. Francis Mahony, Thomas Wright, Esq. and the Editor. London: T. and W. Boone, 1837. pp. viii, 139. With half-title. Green blind stamped cloth, title in gilt along spine.

Pencil inscription on front pastedown states; 'only 250 Copies Printed'. A very good copy. Very rare. €575 COPAC locates 6 copies only.

François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz (1623-1668/1669?), French aristocrat and extensive traveller. He published a French-language travelogue, enriched with firsthand accounts of India, Persia, Greece, the Middle East, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, England, Ireland, and Italy. It is considered one of the very first true travel books, in that it contains useful information for actual travellers.

In 1644, he visited Ireland during a time of great turmoil and rebellion. "Although, like most Frenchmen, he seems to have felt the conviction of the superiority of his own nation, he was a citizen of the world; to him a chief of Ormuz and the Marquis of Ormond were indifferent, so were Bagdad and Bulgruddery - the Iran of the East and the Erin of the West".

Le Gouz spent only sixty-three days in Ireland where he travelled from Dublin to Kilkenny, then onto Limerick and Cork and then on to Cashel. He gives detailed partisan accounts along the way of the people, manners and customs.

62. CROKER, T. Crofton. Ed. by. Killarney Legends. A New Edition. Revised by T. Wright, with an introduction by T.F. Dillon Croker. Illustrated. London: William Tegg and Co., 1879.

Second edition. pp. xvi, 287. Engraved half-title. Pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. A very good copy. Very scarce. €125 MONSELL OF TERVOE COPY 63. CRONNELLY, Richard F. A History of the Clan Eoghan or Eoghanachts, descendants of Eoghan More or Eugene The Great. Compiled from all the accessible sources of Irish family 19

De Búrca Ra re Books history. Dublin: Printed for the author by Goodwin, Son and Nethercroft, 1864. pp. xii, 137-267.

Publisher's green pebbled cloth, harp surrounded by a garland of shamrocks in gilt on upper cover, replicated in blind on lower, title in gilt on spine. Tervoe armorial bookplate. Price label on upper cover. A fine copy. Very rare. €295 Genealogical notices of the Clan Eoghan: The M'Carthys; The Mac Carthys Mor; The Mac Carthys of Muskerry; Mac Carthy of Carrignavar; Mac Carthy of Aglish; Mac Carthy of Cloghroe; Mac Carthy na Mona; The Mac Donnell Carties; The Mac Carthy Reagh; Mac Carthy Duna; Mac Carthy of Ballynoodie; Mac Carthy Glas, O'Keeffe; O'Keeffe of Ballymacquirk; Mac Auliffe; O'Donoghue of Cashel, The O'Donoghues of Ossory; O'Collins; O'Connell; O'Daly; O'Mahony, O'Callaghan; O'Callanan; O'Moriarty; O'Cullen; O'Sullivan; Mac Gillicuddy of the Reeks, O'Quill; O'Riordan; O'Shea; O'Lyon; O'Cronan, and O'Donovan. Complete for the Munster families.

RARE ITEM BY A LIMERICK AUTHOR 64. CRUMPE, Samuel. An Essay on the Best Means of Providing Employment for the People : To which was Adjudged the Prize Proposed by the Royal Irish Academy for the Dissertation on that Subject. London: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson; R. Faulder; and R. E. Mercier and Co., Dublin, 1795. Second edition. pp. xxviii ,339, [1]. Contemporary half calf. Boards detached.

From the library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England with their stamp. A very good copy. €375

COPAC locates 6 copies only. No copy on WorldCat. Samuel Crumpe (1766-1796), Limerick physician, possessed high literary and professional talents. The University of Edinburgh conferred on him the degree of M.D. as recorded in this entry: '1788, Samuel Crumpe, Hibernicus. De vitiis quibus humores corrumpi dicuntur, eorumque remediis'. He wrote a work on opium which was published in 1793, and for An Essay on the Best Means of Providing Employment for the People of Ireland, first published in Dublin in the same year, he gained a prize from the Royal Irish Academy and admission as a member. This work was very successful, a second edition (which dropped 'of Ireland' in the title, presumably for a wider readership) appeared within two years, followed by a German translation shortly afterwards. M'Cullough styles this work "A really valuable production ... The principles which prevade the work are sound; and those parts of it which have special reference to Ireland are distinguished by the absence of prejudice, and by their practical good sense". It is, in fact, a work which could not have failed to establish his reputation as a sensible and kind-hearted man, a true patriot, and a zealous philanthropist. Tending to the poor of Limerick, he died at the very early age of twenty-nine, as a result of a fever said to have been contracted during the course of his work.

There is a saying in Kerry which commemorates the doctor's proficiency: "Tá sé comh maith le Doctúir Crumpe".

65. CURTIN, Jeremiah. Myths and Folk-Lore of Ireland. Frontispiece. New York: Wings Books, 1975. pp. 345. Cream paper boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy in dust jacket. €25 PUBLISHER'S SPECIMEN COPY 66. D'ALTON, Rev. E.A. History of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Specimen Pages and Plates. London: The Gresham Publishing Company, n.d. (c. 1912). pp. 12, xxi. Black buckram. Design for Binding of the eight volume set on lower pastedown. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €55 67. D'ALTON, Ian. Protestant Society and Politics in Cork 1812 - 1844. With maps, genealogical tables & illustrations. Cork: University Press, 1980. First edition. pp. xiv, 264. Blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in frayed pictorial dust jacket. €125 Though its peak of unfettered power had passed, the Protestant nation still held sway over most facets 20

De Búrca Ra re Books of Irish life in the early nineteenth century. By the 1840s, however, its assumption of ascendancy was under severe attack by Roman Catholics - and by government. The result was a crisis of confidence within southern Irish Protestantism, during which the reality of a minority position became its principal social and political preoccupation.

68. D'ALTON, John. The Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin. With list of subscribers.

Dublin: Hodges and Smith, College-Green, 1838. First edition. pp. xii, 492. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Spine professionally rebacked, preserving original backstrip. Occasional light foxing to fore-edge. A very good copy. €135 A FINE SET 69. D'ALTON, Right Rev. Monsignor. History of the Archdiocese of Tuam. With folding map of the diocese, and illustrations. Two volumes. Dublin: Phoenix, 1928. pp. (1) xv, 388, (2) xi, 379. Green cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spines. Top edge gilt. A fine set.

Very scarce. €550 The contents includes chapters on: Pre-Christian Times; The Introduction of Christianity; Early Christian Times; During the Danish Wars; The First Archbishops; Tuam in the Thirteenth Century; Irish and Anglo-Irish; The Fifteenth Century; The Reformation Period; Troubled Times; The Suppressed Religious Houses; Under the Stuarts; O'Queely and De Burgo; The Penal Times; The Dawn of Toleration; The Union Period; The Nineteenth Century; John McHale; The Famine and After; Proselytism and Evictions; The Closing Years; The New Regime; The Twentieth Century; The Chapter of Tuam; The Deanery of Ballinrobe; The Deanery of Castlebar; The Deanery of Claremorris; The Deanery of Clifden; The Deanery of Tuam; The Deanery of Westport; Writers of the Archdiocese.

70. DALY, Mary & DICKSON, David. Ed. by. The Origins of Popular Literacy in Ireland : Language Change and Educational Development 1700 - 1920. Illustrated. Dublin: Department of Modern History, TCD, UCD, 1990. pp. 198. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €25 WITH ALS BY MICHAEL DAVITT 71. DAVITT, Michael. The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland, or the Story of the Land League Revolution. London: Harper, 1904. pp. xviii, 751. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. With an autograph letter signed by Michael Davitt loosely inserted. A very good copy. €765

An important and interesting letter from Michael Davitt to a Mr. Walker, dated at Ballybrack, March 9, 1894, in which he discusses his poor financial position in the wake of his bankruptcy over the Meath Election petition and discusses the question of the land: "It may also tend towards 'Home Rule All Round'. This would be a double blessing as if we were not free of this political fight all energies could be put into this remaining contest for the public use and ownership of the land". Four pages octavo.

Michael Davitt had many times declined a seat in parliament, but he now yielded to the urgencies and needs of the anti-Parnellite party, and in the end of 1891 contested Waterford City against Mr. John Redmond, the leader of the Parnellites after Parnell's death. Defeated here, he was elected for North Meath at the general election of 1892, and was promptly unseated on petition, owing to the use in his favour of clerical influences which he had done his best to stop. The priests whose conduct had led to the petition made no attempt to save him from the consequences, and Davitt became bankrupt.

In October 1894 Davitt applied for a certificate of discharge from bankruptcy, but the application was refused. Davitt had been adjudged bankrupt in May, in consequence of not having satisfied a claim for costs in connection with the North Meath election petition, which resulted in his being unseated for that constituency. The Court of Appeal annulled the bankruptcy on the application of Davitt.

72. DE BLACAM, Aodh. What Sinn Fein Stands For. The Irish Republican Movement; Its History, Aims and Ideals, Examined as to their Significance to the World. Dublin: Mellifont Press, 1921. pp. xx, 21-247. Grey cloth, title in black on upper cover and on spine and in red on titlepage. Slight browning, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. €35 21

De Búrca Ra re Books 73. DOOLEY, Terence. The Decline of the Big House in Ireland. A Study of Irish Landed Families 1860-1960. Dublin: Wolfhound, 2001. pp. 236, [8]. Mauve paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy. €45 74. DOYLE, Lynn. A Collection of books by Lynn Doyle: Ballygullion, 1908 (first edition); Mr. Wildridge of the Bank, 1916; An Ulster Childhood, 1921; Lobster Salad, 1922 (first edition); Dear Ducks, 1925; Me and Mr. Murphy, 1930 (first edition); Fiddling Farmer, 1937 (first edition); Yesterday Morning, 1943 (first edition); A Bowl of Broth, 1945 (first edition); Green Oranges, 1947 (first edition); Back to Ballygullion, 1953 (first edition); The Ballygullion Bus, 1957 (first edition). Twelve volumes. London: Duckworth, 1908/1957. Various bindings, some copies with dust jackets. All in very good condition. €350

75. DOYLE, Roddy. Brilliant. Illustrated by Chris Judge. London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2014. pp. [6], 250. Black paper boards, titled in silver along spine. A fine copy. €20 76. [DUBLIN CORPORATION] Copy of the Evidence taken before the Commissioners of Inquiry in Year 1833, Pertaining to The Corporation of Dublin, its Revenues, or its Affairs.

Corrected Copy. London: Ordered to be printed 6th June, 1840. Folio. pp. xi, 684. Modern green buckram, titled in gilt on spine. 'Town Clerks Office / ' in manuscript. Armorial bookplate of McInerney on front pastedown. Old ink stain to top margin. A fine copy. €785 This is an exceptional item almost unknown to Dublin historians, perhaps because it does not appear to be in any Irish library. It was printed as a House of Lords paper and was not subsequently published as a House of Commons sessional paper, therefore it has not been digitized, unlike all House of Commons papers.

The list of over 300 witnesses include: George Archer; Daniel O'Connell; Arthur Guinness (II); Charley Bewley; Thomas F. Kelly; Alexander Montgomery; Sir Edmund Nugent; Henry Pettigrew; George Studdart; Thomas Taaffe;

77. DUFFY, Sir Charles Gavan. Four Years of Irish History 1845-1849. A sequel to "Young Ireland". London, Paris & New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1883. pp. xvi, 780, [12] (publisher's list). Half calf with emblem of St. John's College, Waterford embossed in gilt on upper cover and with their neat stamp on front free endpaper. Splash marbled endpapers. Spine professionally rebacked preserving original. A very good copy. Scarce. €185 78. EDDY, Daniel C. The Percy Family. A Visit to Ireland. Illustrated. Boston: Andrew F Graves, 1859. pp. 255. Blue blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Some minor wear to endbands and corners. A good copy. Very scarce. €265 Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert.

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See items 77, 78 & 103 79. EDWARDS, Anthony. Edwards' Cork Remembrancer; or, Tablet of Memory. Enumerating every remarkable circumstance that has happened in the City and County of Cork, and in the Kingdom at large. Including all the memorable events in Great Britain; with an account of all the battles by sea and land in the present century. Also, the remarkable earthquakes, famines, inundations, storms, frosts, fires, and all other accidents of moment, in every quarter of the globe, from the earliest period, to the year 1792. Cork: By Anthony Edwards, Printer, Bookseller, and Stationer, Castle-Street, 1792. pp. iv, 301, 8 (Edwards Catalogue). Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, spine rebacked preserving original letterpiece. Title and first leaf in superior facsimile. Interleaved copy. Very good. Scarce. €175 LIMITED EDITION 80. ELTON, Charles Isaac, & ELTON, Mary Augusta. The Great Book-Collectors. Decorated titlepage. Illustrated. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1893. First edition. pp. vii, 228. Title printed in red and black. Bound by Bayntun of Bath in contemporary half blue morocco on blue cloth boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt dot decorated raised bands, title and author in gilt direct in the second and fourth, the remainder panelled with fleuron tool in centre. Armorial bookplate of Lt. Colonel Arthur Campbell Yate on front pastedown. Top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed. A very good copy. €375 Large paper edition limited to 150 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper.

81. [ENGINEERING] The Engineering Plagiarist; or, Dodd from Phillips Exposed. Newcastle: Printed by and for J. Whitfield, and may be had of him; And the other Booksellers in Newcastle, Durham, Sunderland, Shields, Carlisle, Whitehaven, &c. [1795]. Introductory material dated: Newcastle, June 1, 1795. Octavo. pp. [iii], 21 (double column). Recent quarter morocco, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €235 COPAC locates 2 copies only.

A short historical account of the greater part of the principal canals in the known world. Among those examined is the Grand Canal, "where several capital mistakes had been committed in the levels".

82. FALKLAND [John Robert Scott]. A Review of the Principal Characters of the Irish House of Commons. By Falkland. Dublin: Printed for the Author, and Sold by all the Booksellers, 1789. pp. [6], 214, [2]. Contemporary worn half calf on marbled boards. Title in gilt on spine. Joints starting, occasional light foxing. Very rare. €675 COPAC locates 7 copies only. No copy on WorldCat. With biographical notices of Sir John Blaquiere, Hon. Denis Browne, Thomas Burgh of Oldtown, Thomas Burgh of Bert, Hon. Thomas Conolly, Charles Henry Coote, John Philpot Curran, Hon. Denis Daly, Lord Charles Fitzgerald, Hon. John Fitzgibbon, Henry Flood, Hon. Henry Grattan, Robert Hobart, Sir Francis Hutchinson, Robert Jephson, Sir Hercules Langrishe, Sir Nicholas Lawless, Sir Lucius O'Brien, Hon. George Ogle, Lawrence Parsons, Sir John Parnell, Col. Richard St. George, Charles Francis Sheridan, John & Arthur Wolfe, plus forty-eight others.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 83. FERGUSON, Sir Samuel. Poems. Dublin: McGee, & London: Bell, 1880. pp. [viii], 168.

Green cloth with Celtic design in gilt on upper cover and title and author in gilt in spine. Owners signatures on front endpapers. A very good copy. €135 Sir Samuel Ferguson, poet and antiquary, was born in Belfast in 1810. Educated at T.C.D. and called to the Bar in 1838, he obtained some practice on the north-east circuit. In 1867 he was appointed as deputy-keeper of the Public Records of Ireland. He thoroughly reorganised the department and for this was knighted. A great lover of Ireland, he wrote numerous poems and historical papers of great merit.

84. FERNANDEZ, Don Juan. [Pseud.] An Abstract from the Monthly Critical Review or the History of Billy Noodle. Or the Famous West-Country Lad. In a Series of Letters. Letter the First. London: Printed in the Year, 1756. pp. 16. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. Some staining, otherwise a very good copy. Very rare. €375 COPAC locates 5 copies only.

85. FINNAN, J.J. The Patriotic Songs and Poems of J.J. Finnan. ("Myles"). Portrait frontispiece.

Limerick: Guy & Company, 1913. pp. [viii], 218, [12]. Worn cloth, recased. Ex. lib. with stamps.

A good copy. €150 86. FITZGERALD, Brian. The Geraldines. An Experiment in Irish Government 1169-1601.

With genealogical charts, and map on front flyleaf. London: Staples, 1951. First edition. pp. 322.

Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 The FitzGeralds of Ireland trace their descent from the famous Maurice, son of Gerald, who accompanied Strongbow to Ireland during the Anglo-Norman invasion in 1169. The family formed two main branches one in Kildare (headed by the Earls of Kildare) and the other in Munster. The latter who were headed by the Earls of Desmond were crushed and deprived of their lands during the Elizabethan conquest of Munster. The author in this work traces the fortunes of the family from their coming into Ireland to the Battle of Kinsale.

87. FITZHENRY, Edna C. Compiled by. Nineteen-Sixteen: An Anthology. Golden Jubilee Edition. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1966. pp. 112. Blue buckram, covers elaborately decorated in gilt. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. A fine good copy. €65 With contributions by Yeats; Plunkett; MacDonagh; Ledwidge; Pearse; A.E.; Lady Gregory; Eva GoreBooth; etc., etc.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 88. FLEETWOOD, John. The History of Medicine in Ireland. Illustrated. With a foreword by Dr. William Doolin. Dublin: Skellig, 1983. Second edition. pp. xiii, 373. Navy paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. A fine copy in dust jacket. €75

Dr. Fleetwood treats the historical aspect of medicine in early and medieval Ireland, tracing the growth of the profession from the first reference in the Annals of the Four Masters that occurred about 940 B.C. through to the twentieth century.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR 89. [FOGERTY, Joseph] Lauterdale: a Story of two Generations. Three volumes. London: Strahan & Co., 1873. First edition. With half-titles, but wanting the final advertisement leaf in volume III. Contemporary half dark green morocco on marbled boards. Spines divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and volume number in gilt direct in the second and third, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner floral design. Inscribed by the author on the titlepage of volume I: "To Herr Lenz, Vienna. / With the Author's kind regards. / Westminster / 7 July 1883. / J. Fogerty". All edges marbled. A very good set. Extremely rare. €1,250 No copy located on COPAC. WorldCat 3. Wolff 2276.

First edition of Fogerty's first published work, a novel of religious and class conflict in the fictional colliery town of Lauterdale. In Chapters 26-7, Fogerty turns aside from his tale of mills and mines, 24

De Búrca Ra re Books 'Methodys' and Quakers, gypsies and orphans, for a stirring exposure of 'social and political grievances' and 'a series of sketches in carbon of the Black Country', based on his own experiences as a new immigrant from Ireland in the 1850s: "yet so far as that discontented island, and so far as this Black Country of yours is concerned, both are pretty much in the same condition now as they were then".

In the final volume the mood is noticeably dark - madness, legal machination and Australian exile being the order of the day. Chapter 51, in which the aggrieved Jacob Grimshaw blasts the dam and floods Lauterdale, is based on Fogerty's own experience of the night in 1864, "when the great dam of the Bradfield Reservoir burst suddenly ... and launched the waters of an inland lake full on that busy, smoky town [Sheffield], so famed for the envenomed bitterness of its everlasting conflict between capital and labour".

Of Fogerty, little is known beyond that revealed in the autobiographical passages here; he went on to write a number of successful novels, including the post-Darwinian Mr. Jacko (1891), featuring an intelligent circus monkey.

90. FORBES, John. M.D. Memorandums Made in Ireland in the Autumn of 1852. With map and illustrations. Two volumes. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1853. pp. (1) xv, 308, 16 (publishers list), (2) xv, 414. Green blind-stamped cloth, arms of Ireland in gilt on upper covers, harp within a garland of shamrocks blind-stamped on lower covers. Spines professionally rebacked. From the library of St. Ignatius with their neat stamp. Occasional light foxing to verso of frontispiece. A very good set. Scarce. €275

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

91. [FREE STATE ARMY] Original photograph 100 x 150mm, showing group of fourteen Free State soldiers in uniform armed with rifles, beside a building apparently protected by upturned tables and bags. An armed man in civilian dress is with the group. Some of the soldiers appear very young. Dated rear 1922. Laid down on grey card. €375 92. [GALWAY, CONNEMARA & ACHILL] A Practical Hand-Book to Galway, Connemara, Achill, and the West of Ireland. With a description of the principal objects of interest on the journey from Dublin. Illustrated by photographs and with folding maps. New edition, revised.

Dublin: Printed and Published for the Midland Great Western Railway Company by Browne and Nolan, 1905. New revised edition. pp. x, 144, 24 (adverts.). Recent green buckram, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €125 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR RARE R.I.C. CONSTABLE'S BIOGRAPHY 93. 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 25

De Búrca Ra re Books 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?"

94. GEOGHEGAN, Patrick M. The Irish Act of Union. A Study in High Politics 1798-1801.

Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2001. pp. xii, 290. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €25 95. GIBSON, Rev. Charles B. Historical Portraits of Irish Chieftains and Anglo-Norman Knights. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871. pp. 416, 4 (list of subscribers), 24 (publisher's list). Green blind-stamped cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Very scarce. €275 With chapters on: Malachy and Brian Boroimhe; The Danes or Ostmen; Diarmaid and Dervorgilla; Henry II and his designs on Ireland; Diarmaid King of Leinster returns to Ireland; The arrival of the Normans; A Battle with the Prince of Ossory; Maurice Prendergast is jealous; Maurice Fitzgerald at Wexford; the coming of Strongbow; Dublin besieged by O'Conor; The Synod of Cashel; Tiernan O'Rourke; William FitzAldelm and John de Courcy - Sir Tristram Amoricus - Howth Harbour; Hugh de Lacy; Richard de Burgo - his great possessions and power in Connaught, etc.

96. GILBERT, J.T. History of the Viceroys of Ireland; With Notices of the Castle of Dublin and its Chief Occupants in Former Times. Dublin: Duffy, 1865. pp. xxxvi, 613. Modern quarter green morocco. A very good copy. €225 In his preface the author states "In this volume, an attempt is made to embody, in narrative form, the results of a collation of printed and unpublished documents and chronicles, bearing the chief administrators of the English Government in Ireland, from its establishment, to the termination of the reign of Henry VII, in 1509".

See item 98.

LIMITED TO 200 COPIES 97. GILBERT, John T. Ed. by. Documents relating to Ireland, 1795-1804: Official Account of Secret Service Money. Governmental Correspondence and Papers. Notice of French Soldiery at Killala. Statements by United Irishmen. Letters on Legislative Union with Great Britain etc.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Introduction by Maureen Wall. Illustrated with portraits and facsimiles. Dublin: Printed for the editor by Joseph Dollard, Wellington Quay, 1893. Quarto. pp. xxii, 7 (contents), 250, [1] (corrigenda), [5] (publisher's list). Edition limited to 200 copies. Recent full calf. A nice copy.

Very scarce. €575 An important work treating a period in our history of great interest and importance. There are detailed accounts and statements of the 'United Irishmen' who sought to establish a republic in Ireland and the 'Sector Service' money paid to informers.

Illustrated with a portrait of Lord Edward Fitzgerald and Arthur O'Connor; an engraving of Edward J. Newell and a facsimile of Passport from the Commandant of the French Soldiery at Killala in 1798.

THE ANCIENT RECORDS OF DUBLIN 98. GILBERT, John, T. Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, in the Possession of the Municipal Corporation of that City. Illustrated with facsimiles of documents, charters, deeds, rolls, maps, etc. Nineteen volumes. Dublin: Dollard, 1889-1944. Quarter morocco on pebbled cloth with the arms of Dublin in gilt on all covers. Spine of volume one rebacked. A very good set. Complete sets are exceedingly rare. €1,650 Sir John Gilbert, (1829-98), historian and antiquary, was Ireland's greatest historical archivist. From an early age he was interested in the history and antiquities of his country, and when he published the History of the City of Dublin in 1861, he won the Cunningham Gold Medal, of the Royal Irish Academy. His appreciation of the importance of editing and publishing manuscript documents, and his attacks on the treatment of Irish historical documents led to the founding of the Irish Public Record Office in 1867. He was, with the general approval of the public, appointed Secretary, and retained this post until 1875, when it was abolished.

99. GILLIES, John. The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies And Conquests; From The Earliest Accounts, Till The Division Of The Macedonian Empire In The East. Including The History Of Literature, Philosophy, And The Fine Arts. In Three Volumes. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Burnet, Colles, Moncrieffe, Exshaw, White, Byrne, Cash, Marchbank, M'Kenzie, Moore, Jones, 1786. Contemporary full tree calf. Covers framed by a single gilt fillet. Spines elaborately tooled in gilt. Label on front pastedown 'Presented to the Library of the Dudley Working-men's Conservative Club' dated 1894. All edges green. Minor wear to extremities and corners lightly bumped. €375 SIGNED BY THE KNIGHT OF GLIN 100. GLIN, The Knight of, and PEILL, James. Irish Furniture. Woodwork and Carving in Ireland from the Earliest Times to the Act of Union. Including 'A Dictionary of Irish Furniture Makers' by John Rogers. With photography by James Fennell and Dara McGrath. Newhaven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Large quarto. pp. viii, [4], 323. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €125 This lavishly illustrated and comprehensive volume is the first devoted entirely to the subject of Irish furniture and woodwork. It provides a detailed survey encompassing everything from medieval choir stalls to magnificent drawing-room suites for the great houses from earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century. The first part of the book presents a chronological history, illustrated with superb examples of Irish furniture and interior carving. In a lively text, the Knight of Glin and James Peill consider a broad range of topics, including a discussion of the influence of Irish craftsmen in the colonies of America. The second part of the book is a fascinating pictorial catalogue of different types of surviving furniture, including chairs, stools, baroque sideboards, elegant tea and games tables, bookcases, and mirrors. The book also features an index of Irish furniture-makers and craftsmen of the eighteenth century, compiled from Dublin newspaper advertisements and other contemporary sources.

101. GOGARTY, Oliver St. John. William Butler Yeats: A Memoir by Oliver St. John Gogarty. With a preface by Myles Dillon. Frontispiece. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1963. First edition. pp. 27. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Edward MacLysaght's copy with his initials on front endpaper. A very good copy in dust jacket. €25 WITH FINE HAND-COLOURED AQUATINTS 102. [GOLDSMITH,Oliver] The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith. With remarks attempting to ascertain, chiefly from local observation the Actual Scene of the Deserted Village and 27

De Búrca Ra re Books illustrative engravings by Mr. Alkin from drawings taken upon the spot. By Rev. R.H. Newell.

London: Printed by Ellerton and Henderson for Suttaby, Evance, 1820. Quarto. First edition. pp.

[2], iv, v, [1], 7-182. Contemporary full morocco decorated in gilt to a panel design. Armorial bookplate of Charles Ekins on front pastedown. A very attractive copy. €675 Oliver Goldsmith was born in 1728 in Pallas, County Longford, the son of a clergyman; he was educated at T.C.D. After a period of wandering, Goldsmith settled in London where he became a famous poet, dramatist, novelist and occasional writer. He was a constant companion of Dr. Johnson who greatly admired Goldsmith's most famous poems, The Deserted Village, and The Traveller. The first of these recounts the effect of the 'luxury' of the modern world on the traditional values of the countryside, then being rapidly de-populated, and the second the feelings of the 'pensive' traveller whose fortune leads him 'to traverse realms alone, - And find no spot of the all the world my own'.

Despite their sentimentalism, these two poems remain among the most popular written in English in the eighteenth century.

The plates included are: Lishoy Mill; Kilkenny-West Church; Hawthorn Tree; South View from Goldsmith's Mount; Parsonage; School-house; The Mount and Copse.

103. GRAHAM, Rev. John & MacAULAY, Lord. Ireland Preserved; or the Siege of Londonderry and Battle of Aughrim, with lyrical poetry and biographical notes. Illustrated with engraved portraits of David Cairnes and Colonel the Hon. Richard Grace, Governor of Athlone.

Dublin: Hardy & Walker, 1841. pp. xiv, 396. Contemporary half calf. Slight stain to lower cover, occasional foxing, otherwise a very good copy. €295 EXTREMELY RARE FISHING ITEM 104. GREENDRAKE, Gregory [H. B. Code] The Angling Excursions of Gregory Greendrake, Esq. in the Counties of Wicklow, Meath, Westmeath, Longford, and Cavan, with additions, by Geoffrey Greydrake, Esq. Dedicated to "all honest brothers of the angle". Engraved frontispiece of fishermen on Lough Dan and map of Lough Gowna. Fourth edition. Dublin: Grant & Bolton, and London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1832. pp. [iv], vi, 313, + erratum. Original grey paper boards lightly marked, with modern spine reback in green buckram.

An usually fine tall copy with little or no foxing. €565 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Westwood & Satchell 108.

The author delights in leaving the city to explore the scenery, customs, traditions, and legends of the countryside of the counties visited. Since his "boyhood to the present hour, I have been passionately fond of angling..." and he describes fishing trips which brought him to such places as: the Bay of Dublin; The Scalp; Enniskerry; Powerscourt; Round-Wood; Loch-Dan; Luggela; Glendaloch; Rathdrum; Avondale; Glenmalur; Glen of the Downs; Bray; The Dargle; Kells; Lough Sheelan; Castlepollard; Lough Gouna; Blackwater; Virginia, etc.

Henry Brereton Code, the author, was a spy in the pay of the Castle. He was editor and proprietor of the controversial Dublin Warder, in which paper the first edition appeared.

105. GREER, James. Ed. by. Guide to Londonderry and Highlands of Donegal. Illustrated.

Londonderry: William Gailey, 1885. pp. 104. Recent paper wrappers. A very good copy.

Exceedingly rare. €275

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De Búrca Ra re Books SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM BUNREE TO BARNACOLLEEN 106. GREER, Rev. James. The Windings of the Moy with Skreen and Tireragh. Illustrated.

Dublin: Alex Thom, n.d. (c. 1923). pp. xi, 232. Publisher's green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €245 A feast of articles chiefly on topography without as the author states: "any thought of publication, just to pass away time, at a period of life when the writer suffered much from insomnia". The underlying theme of the articles is the scenic beauty and grandeur of mountain, river, lake and sea. They include notices of: Moyne Abbey; Killala - The Mouth of the Moy; The Wreck of the Arethusa; Enniscrone now and then; Antiquities of Kilglass Enniscrone; From Bunree to Barnacolleen; Pullaheenyeaskey; Skreen; Dromore West; The Great Nangle of Skreen; Ballina; Ard na Ree; Foxford; The Grave of Michael Davitt, Straide; Meelick Round Tower; Swinford; Banada; Cnoc na Shea, etc.

107. GREGORY, Vere R.T. The House of Gregory. With a foreword by Thomas Ulick Sadleir.

With illustrations and folding map. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1943. pp. xv, 210, (+ errata slip).

Quarter linen on paper boards, title in black along spine. A very good copy. €75

This family came to Ireland during the Cromwellian period. They first came to prominence in the defence of Derry during the siege of that city in 1689. After the siege some members of the family settled in County Kerry where they remained until 1774. The small town of Castlegregory, however, is not named after them but after one Gregory de Hora. The Kerry branch next migrated to County Galway where their principal seat was at Coole, inseparably linked with the name of Lady Augusta Gregory the well-known playwright who was prominent in the Irish Literary Revival.

108. GRIFFITH, Richard Jun. Esq. Geological and Mining Report of the Leinster Coal District. Dublin: Graiseberry & Campbell, 1814. pp. vii, 135. Original blue boards, spine rebacked. Name cut from dedication leaf. A very good copy. Rare. €275 COPAC locates 2 copies only.

109. GROSE, Francis & [LEDWICH, E.] The Antiquities of Ireland. Illustrated. Two volumes in one. London: Printed for S. Hooper, 1791. First edition. Quarto. Large paper copy. pp. (1) [ii], viii, xlvii, 88, 137 (plates), (2) [x], xv, [1], 98, 121 (plates). Modern half morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. All edges marbled. In fine condition. €975 Francis Grose (1731-1791), the distinguished English antiquary, after completing his 'Antiquities' of England, Wales and Scotland, came over to Ireland in the spring of 1791. It was his intention to set out on a tour of the country, but he died before the end of May and was buried in a Drumcondra graveyard.

Grose had written and printed "but seven pages of Descriptions" and it was his friend Edward Ledwich, at the request of the publisher after investing a considerable sum in the project, who was called upon "at no small instance of patriotism" to complete the book. He recalled in the preface "I was well aware of the difficulty of the undertaking. Ireland, the seat of turbulence and discord for five centuries, and attached to barbarous municipal laws and usages, which occasioned a perpetual fluctuation of property, ... preserved ... but few memorials of her ecclesiastical and military structures: those that survived ... being sparingly scattered in worm-eaten records ...". Such was the sad state of Irish records. Ledwich wrote almost the entire text, this being made somewhat easier by the research he had already 29

De Búrca Ra re Books undertaken in writing his Antiquities of Ireland published the previous year. The engravings were taken from the drawings in the collection of the Right Hon. William Conyingham, and the book was dedicated to him by Ledwich.

There are introductory chapters on Ancient Irish Architecture, Pagan Antiquities and Military Antiquities of Ireland and historical commentaries on each of the castles, abbeys, and round towers etc. depicted. The plates are especially interesting, showing the condition of these buildings two hundred years ago, some of which have since decayed or disappeared.

110. GUINNESS, Desmond. Georgian Dublin. Profusely illustrated. London: B.T. Batsford, 1979. Quarto. pp. 236. Blue grey paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket. €35 111. 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 [Maud Gonne MacBride]; About Memory; A Galway Merchant; Digging for Pleasure; Looking Back in Donegal; About Oliver Goldsmith, etc.

112. [HALES, William] Irish Pursuits of Literature, in A.D. 1798, and 1799, consisting of I. Translations, II. Second thoughts, III. Rival translations, IV. The Monstrous Republic, V. Indexes. Dublin and London: Printed for J. Milliken and J. Wright, 1799. Octavo. pp. xix, [1], xxvii, [1], 153, [3], 64, [5], 70-99, [4], iv, 71. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Part V damp-stained throughout. Binding worn and lower board damp-stained. A working copy. €75 EMMET'S REBELLION: 'PLANS OF A RISING' 113. HARDWICKE, Philip, 3rd Earl, Lord Lieutenant 1801-06. An Autograph Letter Signed Hardwicke, from the Phoenix Park (i.e. the Vice-Regal Lodge), to 'Dear Sir', evidently an army officer, marked 'Private', dated July 23, 1803, the actual day of Robert Emmet's rising in Dublin.

A contemporary copy, 3 pages quarto (single folded sheet). In fine condition. €475

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De Búrca Ra re Books Emmet's short-lived rebellion began in the late evening of a summer's day on 23rd July, 1803.

Evidently the present letter was written only a little earlier. It reports a series of warnings passed on by Lieutenant Colonel Aylmer of the Kildare Militia, who "called here between 7 and 8 o'clock to communicate to me some information ... that a considerable party were to come into Dublin this night from Maynooth and that neighbourhood, and that they were to visit my house on their way. Mr. Clarke the great manufacturer near Chapel Izod, has also taken a fresh alarm in consequence of all his workmen having appeared this evening dressed in their best clothes, and preparing to go out and his intelligence also states that a party is coming from Lucan". According to the information he has received, "the mail coaches are to be stopped to-night - their guards are now doubled". Colonel Aylmer states "that according to his information, these plans of a rising in Dublin have not reached the lower orders of People in the Country, at the same time that he thought it right to communicate the information he received, he admits that he feels a difficulty in giving credit to it ...".

Colonel's Aylmer's information was not far off the mark, although the 'considerable party' from Maynooth and Lucan did not materialise. When Emmet marched out from his depot in Marshalsea Lane, he was followed only by a hundred men, some of them intoxicated. They attacked and killed the popular Lord Chief Justice, Lord Kilwarden, before they were dispersed by a party of soldiers. Emmet fled to the Dublin mountains, returning later to a hiding-place in Harold's Cross, where he hoped to meet his sweetheart Sarah Curran. He was arrested there by Major Sirr, and was hanged and beheaded in Thomas Street - but not before he had made his celebrated speech from the dock.

An interesting letter, showing how quickly information flowed to the Castle from its agents and supporters.

114. HARVEY, Karen J. The Bellews of Mount Bellew. A Catholic Gentry Family in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts, 1998. pp. 218. Black paper boards, titled in gilt along spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €65 115. HARVEY, R. The Shannon and Its Lakes; or A Short History of that Noble Stream, from its Source to Limerick. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1896. pp. xii, 194. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on titlepage. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €295 COPAC locates 3 copies only.

116. HATCHELL, George. Abstract of the Patent and Miscellaneous Rolls of Chancery, inrolled during the Reign of William the Fourth. 1830-1837. Compiled from the original Inrolements in the Rolls Office. Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom for H. M. Stationery Office, 1838. Quarto. pp. [1], 114. Later full green buckram, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €275 COPAC locates 2 copies only. WorldCat 3.

117. HAYDEN, Rev. William. An Introduction to the Study of the Irish Language based upon the preface to Donlevy's Catechism. With text, translation and glossary. Dublin: Gill, 1891. pp.

69. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. €65 118. HAYES, Richard. Ireland and Irishmen in the French Revolution. With a preface by Hilaire Belloc. Illustrated. London: Benn, 1932. First edition. pp. xx, 314. Black cloth. Spine rebacked. A very good copy. Scarce. €125 From the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, to the fall of Robespierre in 1794, Irishmen played a leading role in that tremendous event which remodelled Europe. They fought nobly in the armies of their adopted country and gave their lives for the new France that was to rise like a phoenix from the ashes of the old regime. Others suffered in the crowded prisons, some fell under the merciless blade of the guillotine and a few played a sinister role in the intrigues and conspiracies of the day.

The memory of the Abbé Edgeworth, the king's confessor, facing every danger alone on the scaffold beside the hapless French monarch; Arthur Dillon, courageous soldier routing the enemies of the young Republic from her sacred soil; the brave Kilmaine, swordsman of renown, saviour of France when disaster threatened the revolution; the descendants of the 'Wild Geese', will forever be remembered.

The author has left no stone unturned in researching this excellent work, a monument to the Irishmen of the Revolution.

119. HAYES, Richard. Old Irish Links with France. Some Echoes of Exiled Ireland. With illustration on frontispiece. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1940. pp. xiv, 230. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine A very good copy. €75 31

De Búrca Ra re Books 120. [HAYES, Samuel] A Practical Treatise on Planting; and The Management of Woods and Coppices. By S.H. Esq. M.R.I.A. and Member of the Committee of Agriculture of the Dublin Society. With engraved title, four engraved plates and twelve vignettes. Foreword by Thomas Pakenham. Dundalk: Printed by Dundalgan Press and Published by New Island, 2003. Facsimile edition. pp. xix, [1], xii, 189. Black paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €45 In 1794 Samuel Hayes, Irish MP, barrister, amateur architect and draughtsman and passionate planter of trees wrote the first book on trees in Ireland. Planting trees at Avondale was Samuel Hayes' passion.

In his Practical Treatise he wanted to do more than merely instruct people how to plant and manage trees. He wanted to inspire his countrymen to love trees. His death in 1795, only a year after the first edition was published, came early in his task, yet today the oldest trees at Avondale, beech, oak, larch and two gigantic silver firs by the river are a testament to his legacy.

121. HAYES-McCOY, G.A. A History of Irish Flags from earliest times. Profusely illustrated.

Dublin: Academy, 1979. Quarto. pp. 240. Stiff white paper wrappers. A very good copy in pictorial dust jacket. €150 Since the dawn of Irish history, numerous wars, invasions, rebellions, political movements and upheavals have plagued our land; it is therefore to be expected that the history of Irish flags and emblems is a rich and varied one. The first full-length history of the use of flags and emblems by Irishmen traces the story from archival sources through to the victory of Clontarf, the Norman Conquest, the Cromwellian and Williamite wars and follows the 'Wild Geese' to France and Spain, to Austria/Hungary, the Germanic States and as far away as South America.

122. HAYMAN, Samuel. Guide to Youghal, Ardmore and the Blackwater. With sixty illustrations. Youghal: John Lindsay, n.d. (c.1860). Quarto. pp. xvi, 90. Brown wrappers, repair to spine. Lacking map. A good copy. Very scarce. €135 The contents includes: Historical Notices of Youghal and its Neighbourhood; Topographical Notices of Youghal and its Neighbourhood; Ardmore and its Ecclesiastical Antiquities; The Blackwater and Its Scenery.

123. HEALY, Most Rev. John. Insula Sanctorum et Doctorum: or, Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars. With large coloured folding map of Ireland showing the Ancient Schools and Principal Territorial Divisions before the Anglo-Norman Invasion. Dublin: Sealy, 1893. pp. xviii, 652. Green cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spine. Minor wear to corners, otherwise a very good copy. €95 It contains a mine of historical wealth for the student of the ancient and ecclesiastical history of Ireland.

124. HEALY, T.M. The Planters' Progress. A Lecture delivered at the National Literary Society, Dublin, Dr. Sigerson, President, in the Chair, 2nd December, 1918. To which is appended: The Victims of 1615 by T.M. Healy. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son Ltd., 1921. pp. 71. Recent brown paper boards with original printed wrappers laid on. A very good copy. €135 SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 125. HEANEY, Seamus. Sweeney's Flight. Based on the revised text of 'Sweeney Astray'.

Photographs by Rachel Giese. With the complete revised text of 'Sweeney Astray'. London: Faber and Faber, 1992. First thus. Quarto. pp. 117. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Signed and dated by Seamus Heaney on front endpaper. A fine copy in dust jacket. €365

126. HEANEY, Seamus. The Spirit Level. London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1998. pp. [x], 70. Pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €25 32

De Búrca Ra re Books LIMITED EDITION 127. HEANEY, Seamus. Αλφαβήτα. Illustrated. Istos: 2000. Folio. pp. 83. Handmade paper.

Quarter black morocco on brown paper boards. Title in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies. A fine copy. €475 LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 128. HEANEY, Seamus. District and Circle. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. pp. [ix], 113. First edition. Quarter linen on paper boards. Limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by the author.

Fine in fine slipcase. €950 IN FINE BINDING 129. HEARN, Lafcadio. Kokoro. Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1896. First London edition. pp. [8], 388. Handsomely bound by H.G. Richardson (name stamped on turn-in of lower board at foot, dated 1967), in twentieth century crushed green morocco with onlaid red morocco decoration to upper board and spine, title and author in gilt; floral patterned end papers; burgundy and dark blue endbands. All edges green. A fine copy but for slight fading to spine. €395

A finely bound copy of the first British edition of Patrick Lafcadio Hearn's third work on Japanese culture.

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was born in 1850 on the Greek island of Santa Maura. His father was Irish, a surgeon in the British Army. His mother was a young Greek woman of great beauty and a restless spirit. The family moved to Dublin when Lafcadio was six, and he was sent to school at Ushaw College in Durham, where he was said to have no respect for authority. While in Dublin his parents separated, his mother eloped with a native of her own country, and was never heard of again.

Before he was twenty he emigrated to America and took up journalism in which he excelled, especially in New Orleans, where he remained for ten years. In the winter of 1890 he set off for Japan, on what he thought would be a journalistic tour that might last two or three years at the most. In fact, it lasted for the remainder of his life.

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De Búrca Ra re Books IN FINE DUBLIN BINDING 130. HENCHEY, Fitzgibbon. Esq. Raymond, a drama, in five act. Dublin: Richard Milliken, 104, Grafton-Street, 1825. First edition. pp. 134, [2].

With terminal errata leaf. Finely bound in Dublin in contemporary red crushed morocco. Covers framed by four gilt and dog-tooth roll enclosing a wide floral roll, with inner fleurons and title and author in gilt in centre. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, compartments framed by double gilt fillets with a flower tool in centre; fore-edges and turn-ins gilt; comb-marbled endpapers. Mild soiling to title and errata leaf.

Occasional light staining and light foxing. Some marginal pencil marks, manuscript addition at end.

Imprint date to title obscured and re-entered in manuscript. All edges gilt. A fine copy. €685 COPAC locates 1 copy only. WorldCat 1 (Texas).

A rare Irish drama, featuring a quote from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso to title. It is set partly in the Italian castle of one of the main characters, Galeazzo and partly in a cave in the neighbouring Apennines. Five further poems are added after the five acts of Raymond, the first of which references and then reprints the first verse of Byron's 'She Walks in Beauty'.

131. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. Chronicum Scotorum. A Chronicle of Irish Affairs, from the earliest times to A.D. 1135. With a supplement containing the events from 1141 to 1150. One coloured folding plate. London: Longmans, 1866. pp. lvii, 419, 16. Quarter roan on black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. From the Marquis of Sligo's library, Westport House. Minor wear to corners, otherwise a very good copy. €375 Written by Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (1585-1666) of that celebrated learned family who were historians and antiquarians of Hy Fiachrach in north Connaught. Dubhaltach was educated at Redwood by the MacEgans and was a contemporary of Roderic O'Flaherty and Dr. John Lynch. He was employed by Ware who was indebted to him for much of the information which enabled him [Ware] to acquire his place as the distinguished Irish scholar of the seventeenth century. For his services Ware never credited this celebrated Irish antiquary who, for his massive contribution to our history, genealogy and literature surely deserves a place in the ranks of our greatest Celtic scholars. [See our edition of The Great Book of Irish Genealogies in our publication section at end].

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 132. HENRY, Paul. An Irish Portrait. The Autobiography of Paul Henry. With a foreword by Sean O'Faolain. With coloured and mono illustrations of the artist's work. London: Batsford, 1951. First edition. pp. xi, 116. Red cloth, titled in gilt. Signed by Paul Henry on front free endpaper. Top edge red. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €165

Paul Henry (1877-1958) was born in Belfast, the son of a Baptist minister. He studied art in Belfast before going to Paris in 1898 to study at the Académie Julian and at Whistler's studio. He married the painter Grace Henry in 1903 and returned to Ireland in 1910. From then until 1919, he lived on Achill Island and learned to capture the peculiar interplay of light and landscape specific to the west of 34

De Búrca Ra re Books Ireland. In 1919 he moved to Dublin and in 1920 was one of the founders of the Society of Dublin Painters. In the 1920s and 1930s Paul Henry was Ireland's best known artist. He separated from his wife in 1929.

133. HERBERT, George. The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse. Two volumes London: William Pickering, 1853. pp. (1) xii, 414, (2) xxvi, [1], 384. Octavo. Contemporary full brown morocco over bevelled boards, tooled in black to a panelled design. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title, volume number, and publisher in gilt direct in the second, third and sixth, the remainder tooled in black with a fleur-de-lys device in centre; combmarbled endpapers, blue and gold endbands; brown silk marker. Armorial bookplate of Joh Rigby on front pastedowns. All edges gilt. Some minor wear to lower part of joint on upper cover, otherwise a very good set. €95 GILES EYRE COPY 134. HERVEY, James. Meditations and contemplations: containing Meditations among the tombs; Reflections on a flower garden; A Descant on Creation; Contemplations on the Might; Contemplations on the Starry Heavens; and A Winter-Piece / By the Rev. James Hervey, A. M. Late Rector of Weston Favell, Northamptonshire ; To which is prefixed, a Memoir of the Author.

By the Rev. David M'Nicoll. A New and Correct Edition. Illustrated with fine cuts. Liverpool: Printed by Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, n.d. (c.1814). pp. 446. Contemporary full straight grained red morocco in the style of George Mullen. Covers framed with a wide gilt floral roll, spine divided into four compartments by three thick gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct on the second.

All edges gilt. From the library of Giles Eyre with his label on front pastedown and his signature on titlepage. An attractive copy. €175 Dorothy Herbert in her Retrospections says of Giles Eyre cousin of 'Ned' Eyre that he "was head of the Eyre family there and a man of large property".

LIMITED TO 650 COPIES SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM MICHÉAL MAC LIAMMÓIR 135. HOBSON, Bulmer. Ed. by. The Gate Theatre Dublin. Profusely illustrated with coloured and black and white plates. Dublin: The Gate Theatre, 1934. Quarto. pp. 140, + errata. Edition limited to 650 copies (No. 104). Quarter linen on gold paper boards, title label on upper cover.

Signed presentation copy from Michéal Mac Liammóir to Rose Plaistow Rose, dated 1973.

Minor wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €365

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De Búrca Ra re Books 136. HOLINSHED, Raphaell. Holinshed's Irish Chronicle. The Historie of Irelande from the first inhabitation thereof, unto the yeare 1509. Collected by Raphaell Holinshed, & continued till the yeare 1547 by Richarde Stanyhurst. Edited by Liam Miller and Eileen Power with the cancels restored and the woodcut illustrations of the first edition. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1979. Folio. pp. xxiv, 363. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 850 copies. Top edge reddishbrown. A very good copy in dust jacket. With slipcase. €285 Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, first printed in the year 1577, is one of the great historical reference-books of the sixteenth century. Leading historians of the day assisted Holinshed in the massive undertaking of editing, assembling, and expanding existing historical and topographical works. The 'learned Gentleman, Maister Richard Stanyhurst' compiled the Description of Ireland. He was the son of James Stanyhurst, the Recorder of Dublin, and a friend and collaborator of the English Jesuit, Edmund Campion. When the first edition was in preparation, the Privy Council objected to certain passages, and this resulted in a number of cancelled leaves. The original texts have been restored in this edition and are printed as appendices. A unique feature of this publication is the remarkable series of woodcuts throughout the text, and the present volume is further enhanced by the inclusion of two woodcuts from the cancelled leaves.

137. HORE, Philip Herbert. History of the Town and County of Wexford. Dunbrody Abbey, The Great Island, Ballyhack; Tintern Abbey, Rosegarland and Clonmines; Duncannon Fort, Kilclogan or Templetown, Fethard, Houseland, Porters Gate, Loftus Hall, Galgystown, Hook (including Churchtown), Slade, Baginbun, and Bannow; The Town of Wexford, with a chapter on Taghmon, and a short Notice of Harperstown, the ancient seat of the Hore family; The Town, Castle, and Cathedral Church of Ferns, Enniscorthy, Gorey and Newtownbarry, and the Northern Part of the County; Old and New Ross. From Ancient Records and State Papers in the British Museum and the Public Record Offices of London and Dublin, with translations of the Rawlinson Ms. in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, as regards Dunbrody. With map and illustrations. Six volumes. Dublin: Published by W.A. Hennessy, 1979. Second edition. Quarto.

Dark green arlen, titles in gilt on spines. A fine set of the very scarce second edition. €875 138. HOWLEY, James. The Follies and Garden Buildings of Ireland. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993. First edition. Quarto. pp. [viii], 251. Green cloth, titled in gilt; folly in gilt on upper cover. Loosely inserted is a bookmark with a scale of feet and meters. A fine copy with dust jacket and housed in a card slipcase. €125 This work is the first to focus solely on follies and garden buildings in Ireland - recreates in word and image the wonder of these architectural oddities. James Howley examines buildings mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries and from all four provinces of Ireland, placing them in their architectural and historical contexts. Illustrated with recent photographs showing the detail and settings of the buildings in the 21st century, as well as older photographs, contemporary drawings and prints, and measured survey drawings of elevations and plans, the book makes a significant contribution to Irish 18th and 19th century architectural history.

139. HUTTON, Annie. The Embassy in Ireland of Monsignor G.B. Rinuccini, Archbishop of Fermo, in the years 1645-1649. Published from the original MSS. in the Rinuccini Library by G. Aiazza, Librarian. Translated for the first time into English by Annie Hutton. Dublin: Alexander Thom, 1873. pp. [vi], lxiv, 598, 4 (list of subscribers). With bookplate bearing the Rinuccini arms on front pastedown. A very good copy in recent full red morocco in solander case. All edges red.

Scarce. €375 The period of the Kilkenny confederation was dominated by three men, totally different from one another in character - James Butler, Earl and Marquis of Ormond; Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill, and John Baptiste Rinuccini, the Apostolic Legate. Ormond's suave and polished manner concealed his furious hatred of the historic Ireland. For all his Gaelic blood, few men have laboured more successfully than Ormond to anglicise our country.

WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED A LANDMARK IN IRISH FOLKLORE STUDIES 140. HYDE, Douglas. [An Craoibhin Aoibhinn] Beside the Fire. A collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories edited, translated, and annotated by Douglas Hyde. With additional notes by Alfred Nutt. London: David Nutt, 1890. First edition. pp. lviii, 203. Green cloth, gilt floral device on 36

De Búrca Ra re Books upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Ex lib. St. Augustine's Abbey Library, with their armorial bookplate and stamp. Loosely inserted is a ALS from Douglas Hyde to the Waterford publisher, Edmund Downey, dated June 9, 1919 on Earlsfort Terrace headed paper, with envelope. Mild foxing to prelims. A fine copy of the scarce first edition. €475

Douglas Hyde began to learn Irish at the age of fourteen. In 1893 he founded the 'Gaelic League' and served as its first president. As professor of Modern Irish at the National University, he devoted his life to the restoration of the Irish language and culture. In 1938 he was chosen as the Republic's first president. This work is a landmark both in Irish folklore studies and in Irish literary history. Hyde was the first to present the exact language, names and various localities of his informants. The 'Index of Incidents' which he included at the end anticipated the use of motifs by present day folklorists.

The Waterford publisher was looking for short stories from Douglas Hyde who replied in this letter: "I would indeed be only too glad to send you a story if I had one, but the fact is that I never write stories, at least not in English ... Also I was very ill last year and did no writing at all. I am now much better. B le Dia, but I am not doing very much, and have abandoned public life altogether ... ".

WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 141. HYDE, Douglas. A Literary History of Ireland. From the earliest times to the present day.

With frontispiece. London: Fisher Unwin, 1899. First edition. pp. xviii, 654. Title printed in red and black. Green ribbed cloth, title and publisher's device in gilt on spine. Loosely inserted is a ALS by Douglas Hyde, dated Lughnasa 3, 1922 at 1 Earlsfort Terrace, with envelope. Minor wear to extremities of binding, otherwise a very good copy. Top edge gilt. €475 37

De Búrca Ra re Books This is undoubtedly Hyde's greatest work, which surveys the entire tradition of Irish language writing, its diversity and importance from the earliest times to the nineteenth century. This massive achievement did much to refute the uninformed and foolish assertions of T.C.D. dons J.P. Mahaffy and Robert Atkinson in their submissions to the Palles Commission on Intermediate Education (1899), where they claimed the Irish language had no literature worthy of the name.

An interesting letter (four pages) to Fallamhain Ó Maol Domhnaigh, Editor of Green and Gold in which Hyde discusses Downey's request of the possibility of him writing a story: "Everyone has broken up and gone away. Alas! I do not know a single person in Dublin at this present moment who could aid you with a good Irish story. Nor have I any time to write. I have been very hard worked this year, and am going away tomorrow to the West for some rest".

142. HYNES, Michael J. The Mission of Rinuccini. Nuncio Extraordinary to Ireland 1645-1649.

With coloured map of Ireland. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1932. Royal octavo. pp. xxiii, 332, [2] (errata & Church permit). Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper.

A very good copy. Very scarce. €235 Moving across the brilliant and tragic Irish scene of 1641-53 were a crowd of figures, notable either in personality or position - bishops and friars; scholars and poets, like Geoffrey Keating, Father Hackett and Piaras Ferriter; able, intriguing lawyers, like D'Arcy and Bellings; cynical adventurers, like Castlehaven and Eoghan Ruadh's nephew, Domhnall; cruel butchers, like Charles Coote and Murrough O'Brien, true patriots, like Hugh Dubh O'Neill, Rory O'Moore, and Geoffrey Barron of Clonmel; feeble incompetents like MacCarthy of Muskerry and jealous fools, like Sir Phelim O'Neill. But the time of the Kilkenny confederation was dominated by three men, totally different from one another in character - James Butler, Earl & Marquis of Ormond; Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill, and John Baptiste Rinuccini, the Apostolic Legate. Ormond's suave and polished manner concealed his furious hatred of the historic Ireland. For all his Gaelic blood, few men laboured more successfully than Ormond to anglicise Ireland. The mission of Rinuccini was an episode of great importance in seventeenth-century Ireland.

From the beginning of his mission the Nuncio showed high courage and decision of character. He refused to await the protection of a French convoy, but sailed from La Rochelle, escorted by some small Irish boats, and got safely through the narrow seas. He had a narrow escape from an Anglo-Irish pirate named Plunket, in the pay of the English parliament. The failing spirits of the Confederate Irish were revived in October, 1645, by his arrival in the Kenmare river on 21st October, 1645. That night he sheltered in a shepherd's hut, and the country people flocked in great numbers to meet him from the mountainous district all around. The next day after saying Mass, he journeyed through Kerry and West Cork where he received the hospitality of O'Callaghan, O'Sullivan and MacCarthy Riabhach. So taken aback was he by the scenic beauty, that he described it in a letter to Italy "the cattle browsing in rich pastures, the valleys diversified with beautiful woods, the hills and dales of surpassing loveliness, the abounding herds and well-tilled fields".

When he reached Kilkenny he found the Confederation City a nest of intrigue. He saw that Ormond and King Charles would go on tempting the Confederates with insincere offers of national and religious freedom. Rinuccini soon made it clear that he would oppose any peace which did not restore any Catholic rights and the confiscated property, for this he had the support of the old Irish. He took part personally in the siege of Bunratty and after the overthrow of the Confederates in Munster he harangued the Assembly with passionate vehemence, imploring them to unite their forces while hope still remained. The anti-Rinuccini group desired the appointment of Catholic Bishops to be a matter for a Protestant King, and they actually charged the Papal Nuncio with "conspiring against the rights of the King", because he was not accommodating enough to fall in with their wishes.

Dissention and party bitterness had their inevitable effect and the cause of Church and country went down in Ireland in common ruin. In his last sermon in Ireland preached in Galway on February 20, Rinuccini admitted that the object of his mission - to have the Catholic Church officially re-established and to reorganise the clergy - had failed. He had shown immense courage - moral and physical - and his only shortcomings were those of a strong and impatient character.

This work is a valuable contribution to Irish historical scholarship.

WITH ALS FROM THE EDITOR 143. [IRISH FREE STATE] Saorstát Eireann. Irish Free State Official Handbook. With numerous illustrations and large folding map in pocket at end. Edited by Bulmer Hobson. Dublin: Talbot, 1932. pp. 324, 150 (Ads). Quarter black linen on colour illustrated paper boards. Loosely inserted is a letter from the editor Bulmer Hobson to Mary Corcoran dated 17.2.55. Fine. €195 38

De Búrca Ra re Books With chapters on: The Country and its People; The Fauna and Flora; Geology, Structural and Economic; History; Religion; Constitution; Judiciary; Ownership of Land; Fisheries; Agriculture; Archaeology; Libraries; Early Christian Art; Modern Irish Art; Irish Language; Folklore, etc. etc. The contributors include, Eoin MacNeill, R.L. Praeger, George O'Brien, A. Mahr, J.H. Delargy, C.P. Curran, etc. Superbly illustrated from paintings by Paul Henry, John Keating, Sean O'Sullivan, Maurice MacGonigal, Harry Kernoff, etc. Still a useful reference work.

144. [IRISH PEERAGE] The London Kalendar; or, Court and City Register, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies, for the year 1814. Including a list of the present Parliament, more extensive and useful than in any other book of the kind yet published. Containing I. England. Lists of both Houses of Parliament; the State, Law, Revenue, and Public, Offices, at the Court, in the City of London, and different Parts of the Kingdom; the Army and Navy; Baronets, Universities, Seminaries, Medical Societies, Hospitals, &c. &c. II. Scotland. All the peers, Baronets; State, Law, Revenue, and Public; Offices; Universities, Physician &c. III. Ireland. All the Peers, Baronets all the Law, State, Revenue and Public, Offices, Bankers, Deans, &c. &c. IV. Colonies. The Military and Civil Establishments; Governors, Law and Revenue Officers, &c. &c.

London: Printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, n.d (c.1814).

Contemporary full red morocco, covers framed by double gilt fillets and a floral gilt roll. All edges gilt. Some wear to cover. A very good copy. €175 145. JACOB, Philip. A Fortunate Fellow: Memoirs. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs. Dublin: Jacobooks, 2011. pp. 280. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €15 146. JACOB, Rosamund. The Rebel's Wife. Tralee: The Kerryman, 1957. pp. [v], 216. Cloth. A very good copy in dust jacket. €75 The story of Matilda Witherington of Grafton Street, Dublin, her marriage to the first Irish Republican, Theobald Wolfe Tone, and her adventurous life with him.

SCANDALOUS IRISH PEDIGREE 147. JENKINSON, Charles. The Life, History, and remarkable Pedigree of the Right Honourable Simon Lord Irnham, of the Kingdom of Ireland, Father of the Renowned Colonel Luttrell, the New Created, Supposed, or Imposed Member for the County of Middlesex ...

London: Printed for G. Richards, 1769. pp. viii, 32. With half-title. Later two-tone paper boards, paper lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed to extremities, occasional marginal loss to text block. A very good copy. Rare. €465 ESTC T71024 recording only three locations in the British Isles BL, Liverpool, NLI and two elsewhere Huntington and UCLA. A rare biography of the father of the contentious Colonel Henry Luttrell, second Earl of Carhampton, army officer and landowner, published in the wake of his scandalous election in Middlesex (1768) where he lost the popular vote to John Wilkes but was nevertheless appointed by Commons' motion.

Focusing on the pedigree of the Cork Luttrell family, it questions the paternity, descent and moral rectitude of several relatives and associates. Published under two separate imprints (the other 'Printed for J. Fell'); given the presence of a cancelled title here, this was likely the second appearance of otherwise apparently identical texts.

General Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton PC (1743-1821) was a politician and soldier.

Educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, Luttrell was commissioned into the 48th Regiment of Foot in 1757. In 1762, during the Seven Years' War, he became Deputy Adjutant-General of the British Forces in Portugal. In 1768 he became a Tory Member of Parliament in for the village of Bossiney, Cornwall. Then in 1769 he became Member of Parliament for Middlesex defeating John Wilkes in controversial circumstances; Wilkes outpolled him by a large margin, but the House of Commons declared that Luttrell "should have been returned" and seated him. As a reward for unseating Wilkes he was made Adjutant-General for Ireland in 1770. He then became active in Irish politics and between 1783 and 1787, he sat in the Irish House of Commons for Old Leighlin.

Luttrell succeeded to the Earldom and other titles on the death of his father in 1787. Meanwhile he became Colonel of the 6th Dragoon Guards and Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance in Ireland. He reentered the Westminster Parliament as Member for Plympton Erle in 1790. Then in 1796 he was made Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and in 1798 he led the British suppression of the United Irishmen Rebellion.

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De Búrca Ra re Books When the Dublin Post of 2 May 1811 erroneously reported his death, he demanded a retraction which they printed under the headline 'Public Disappointment'.

He was a member of the Irish branch of the ancient family of Luttrell and a descendant of Sir Geoffrey de Luterel, who established Luttrellstown Castle, County Dublin in the early 13th century.

148. [JONES, David] The life of William III. Late King of England, and Prince of Orange.

Containing an account of his family, birth, education, accession to the dignity of Stadtholder and Captain-General of Holland, his marriage, expedition to England, and the various steps by which he and his princess ascended the throne, with the history of his reign, enterprizes, and conduct in peace or war. And a relation of his will, death, and funeral. Intermixt with very many original papers, letters, memoirs, his publick speeches, declarations, treaties, and alliances, several of which never before printed. Illustrated with divers cuts, medals, &c. London: Printed for S. and J. Sprint, and J. Nicholson ... James Knapton ... and Benj. Tooke ..., 1703. The second edition corrected. pp. [6], xiii, [1], 648, [8], 32. Later full calf with wear to edges of boards. Paper fault to a couple of pages without loss of text. Bookplate removed, tear to frontispiece. A good working copy. €145 ESTC N19816.

With frontispiece portrait of William and Mary, nine numbered plates of medals, lacking folding plan.

By David Jones; sometimes mistakenly attributed to Abel Boyer ESTC.

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY JOYCE 149. 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.

150. JOYCE, James. Dubliners. Introduction by Thomas Flanagan. Photogravures by Robert Ballagh. [New York]: The Limited Editions Club. Printed at the Wild Carrot Letterpress and Heritage Printers, 1986. Quarto. pp. xviii, [4], 289, [5]. Hand-Sewn and bound at Jovonis Bookbindery in quarter dark green straight-grained morocco over cream cloth boards, title lettered in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies (445). Signed by Thomas Flanagan and Robert Ballagh. Loosely inserted is Newsletter of the LEC. A superb copy housed in publisher's grey cloth slipcase. €875 A lavish production, in superb condition with crisp tissue-guarded photogravures.

ONE OF 26 LETTERED COPIES 151. JOYCE, James. Finnegans Wake. Edited by Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon, with a note by Seamus Deane. Foreword by Hans Walter Gabler. Introduction by David Greetham, Preface and Afterword by the editors. Dublin: Houyhnhnm Press, 2010. Bound in full black calf, square in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Special edition consisting of 26 lettered, 150 numbered and 24 Hors Commerce copies, printed on Magnani Mould Made paper and this is lettered 'K'.

Signed by Danis Rose. In slipcase with a thirty-eight page hardcover booklet. Fine. €1,350 152. JOYCE, Weston St. John. The Neighbourhood of Dublin. With a new introduction by Maurice Craig. Illustrated. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1976. pp. xxvi, 512. Red paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €60 Originally published as a series of newspaper articles in the 1880s, this book, since its first publication in 1912, has been constantly sought as a unique guide to the history and antiquities of the Dublin area.

Although a great deal of the landscape described is now occupied by housing and industry, and many of the monuments and houses have disappeared, The Neighbourhood of Dublin provides much of interest to the residents and those who wish to explore the history of the city and its environs.

153. KANE, Richard. Campaigns of King William and Queen Anne; From 1689, to 1712. Also, a New System of Military Discipline for A Battalion of Foot on Action; With the Most Essential 40

De BĂşrca Ra re Books Exercise of the Cavalry. Adorn'd with a Map of the Seat of War, and a Plan to the Exercise. By the late Richard Kane, Governor of Minorca and a Brigadier-General. With folding map.

London: Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall, 1745. pp. [iv], 140. Recent full morocco, title in gilt on original morocco label on spine. Red and white endbands. All edged red. A very good copy. â‚Ź675 ESTC T019864.

Brigadier General Richard Kane (1662-1736) was a British Army General.

Born to Thomas O'Cahan and his wife, Margaret Dobbin, at his mother's home in Duneane, Ireland, in December 1662. At the age of twenty six, he anglicised his name to Kane and joined a volunteer Protestant regiment in his home town, Carrickfergus, raised to oppose James II's Catholic rule. Kane was trained in battle tactics, (including the 'English Square') in the Eighteenth regiment under William III and fought in William's campaigns in Ireland, rising to the rank of Major. In 1702, William died and the Duke of Marlborough took command of the army. Richard Kane fought under Marlborough in many bloody battles of the War of the Spanish Succession. His regiment was singled out in recognition of its bravery during the 1695 siege of Namur; he was severely wounded at Blenheim, and, in December, 1710, Queen Anne named him colonel of the Royal Regiment of Ireland.

In 1711, Kane sailed to Canada in an unsuccessful expedition under General Jack Hill to take Quebec from the French. On that voyage, he visited Boston. In the following year he commanded British troops in attempting to take Dunkirk which ended disastrously when an epidemic killed half of the men.

In the summer of 1712, Queen Anne signed orders for the Duke of Argyll to capture the Spanish island of Minorca and turn it into an English colony. Argyll remained titular governor for the next three years, but the work was really for Richard Kane, the lieutenant governor. He arrived 10 November 1712 and remained on the island, with two short intervals, for the remainder of his life.

In Minorca, against the interference of the Roman Catholic Church and always short of funds, Kane reformed the legal system, drew up a new constitution, built a road connecting the old Spanish capital, Ciudadela, with Mahon, the new capital, and improved trade by making Mahon a free port. He introduced new agricultural methods and imported breeds of cattle and the cereals to feed them.

In 1720-21, he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar when it was threatened by Spain and, in 1725, George I ordered Kane to Gibraltar again to strengthen the defences and ward off Spanish invaders. This he did, at the same time recommending a civil government for "the Rock". Kane was able to return to Minorca in February 1727 before the unsuccessful siege. George I rewarded him with the colonelcy of the Ninth (Norfolk) Regiment of Infantry.

He was formally appointed Governor of Minorca in 1733 and given the rank of Brigadier General in 1735. Richard Kane died in Mahon on 31 December 1736 after almost twenty five years of devoted service on the island. He was buried in the chapel of St. Philip's Castle which was later bombed by the Spanish. A bust by J. M. Ruysback with a Latin inscription listing his many achievements is in Westminster Abbey.

Included in the present work A New System of Military Discipline for Foot on Action became the British army's "Bible" at the time. Although an excellent soldier, Kane is best remembered as a colonial administrator devoted to the people in his care.

FINE LARGE PAPER COPY OF THE EXCEEDINGLY RARE DUBLIN EDITION 154. KEATING, Jeoffry. D.D. A General History of Ireland. Containing I. A full and impartial Account of the original of that Kingdom; With the Lives, and Reigns of an Hundred and Seventy Four Succeeding Monarchs of the Milesian Race. II. The Original of the Gadelians, Their Travels into Spain, and from thence into Ireland. III. A succinct Account of the Reigns of all the Kings of Ireland, with several Attempts and Invasions upon that Island. IV. Of the frequent Assistance the Irish afforded the Scots against their Enemies the Romans and Britons, particularly their obliging the Britons to make a Ditch from Sea to Sea, between England and Scotland, to guard themselves from the Surprize and frequent Incursions of the Scots and Irish. V. A genuine Description of the Courage and Liberality of the Ancient Irish, their severe Laws to preserve their Records and Antiquities, and the Punishments inflicted upon those Antiquaries who presumed to vary from the Truth; with an Account of the Laws and Customs of the Irish, and their Royal Assemblies at Tara, &c. VI. A Relation of the long and bloody Wars of the Irish against the Danes whose Yoke was at last threw off, and restored Liberty to their Country, which they preserved till the Arrival of Henry II King of England. Faithfully translated from the original Irish language, with many 41

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by Dermod O'Connor, Esq. Antiquary of the kingdom of Ireland. With many improvements taken from the Psalters of Tara and Cashel. Illustrated with frontispiece of Brian Boiroimhe and vignettes. With list of subscribers and their Coats of Arms. Two parts in one. Dublin: Printed by James Carson, 1723. First Dublin edition. Folio. pp. [4], iv, xix, [20], 159, [1], 122, 14. Final leaf with O'Brien pedigree and bookseller's advertisement bound in before preface. Near contemporary full panelled calf. Spine expertly rebacked, corners repaired. Paper repair to inner margin of a few leaves. A fine large paper copy. Exceedingly rare. â‚Ź3,250

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De Búrca Ra re Books Geoffrey Keating was born c.1570 in Burges, County Tipperary, the offspring (as he himself reminds us) of the 'Sean Ghaill', or Old Foreigners (Normans). He was educated at a local bardic school and he takes care to inform us, that he was at an early age sent to be educated for the priesthood at Bordeaux.

There in the cloisters of the Seminary his young heart was aching with accounts from his native land of robbery, plunder, and confiscation, as chieftain after chieftain was driven from his home and patrimony. Doubtless this inspired his lovely exile poem 'Beannacht leat a sgríbhinn'.

Returning to Ireland around 1610, Keating, now a Doctor of Divinity, was appointed to a church near to his birthplace. He became known as a great orator and his fame as a preacher soon drew great crowds together. Amongst those who arrived one day, unluckily for Keating, was a damsel of dubious morals, intimately known to the President of Munster, and it so happened the subject of the preacher's sermon that very day. All eyes were directed against her, and she, returning aggrieved and furious, instigated the President to at once put the anti-Popery laws in execution against Keating, who had to take refuge in the Glen of Aherlow. It was while in hiding that he began his famous 'Foras Feasa ar Éirinn' - 'Groundwork of the Knowledge of Ireland', gathering most of his research from manuscript sources which were held by the gentry. He is also 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.

In the Northern Half of our Kingdom, he was refused aid by the custodians of documents who feared that a Munsterman would not do justice to 'Leath-Cuinn'. Was this unhappy prejudice one of the fruits of the Contention of the Bards?. 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. Our account of Ireland down to the Anglo-Norman Invasion corresponds to the scope of Keating's work. If, the story of the Old and Middle Irish periods never was forgotten by the Gaelic generations, Keating's vivid narrative may be thanked. He gave the story of ancient Ireland the form in which it survived when the schools were overthrown and the tradition like Keating himself, was outlawed and fugitive. He wrote he tells us, lest "so honourable a land as Eire, and kindreds so noble as those who had inherited it, should pass away (dhul i mb thadh) without mention or report of them".

Of the prose writers of the seventeenth century Dr. Douglas Hyde states: "of these men, Keating, as a prose writer, was the greatest. 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".

The list of subscribers to this, the first Dublin edition includes: Henry Bourke Esq., Sir Richard Cox, Captain Robert Cusack, Henry Colley Esq., Cornelius OCallohan Esq., Bryan OConnor, Sir Luke Comerford, Jermiah Donovan Esq., Darby Dugan, Eliphal Dobson, James Doyle, Revd. Patrick Delany (6 Books), Pat Dempsey of Kilmurry, Edward Denny Esq., Nicholas Drumgoole, Merchant in Newry, Collonel John Eyre of Eyre's-Court, John Ewing, Terence Egan, Lady Dorothy Forbes, Captain Edward Forde, Robert Fox Esq., Sir Arthur Gore, Gilbert Gunning, Thomas Griffith Dep. Master of the Revels, Thomas Gavin Merchant, Toby Hall, Rev. Michael Hartlibb, John Hyde, Michael Hewetson, John, Rice, Conway, and Arthur Blenner Hasset, Theophilus Jones, Thomas Judge Esq., Richard Jacob, Revd. John Kearny (Obama's ancestor), Edward Loftus, Joseph Leathly, Lewis Moore of Ballyna, Alexander MacNaughten M.D., Sir James McDonnell, Justin Mac Carty Esq., Sir Richard Mead, Florence Mac Carthy, Collonel Henry Monro, Edward Murphy, Sir Constantine Phipps, Michael O Phelan, Sir John Rawdon, John Redgeway, Jer. Ryan of Dunganmore Esq., Owen Sweeny, Richard Tighe Esq., Peter Tomey, William Taaffe, Henry Ware, Edward Worth M.D., Revd. James Walsh, etc.

155. KELLY, Captain Patrick. Irish Family Names. With origins, meanings, clans, arms, crests, and mottoes. Illustrated. Detroit: Gale, 1976. pp. [vii], 136. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €65 156. KELLY, Michael. Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, of the Kings Theatre, and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, including A period of nearly half a century; with Original Anecdotes of Many Distinguished Persons, Political Literary, and Musical. Portrait frontispiece. Two volumes.

London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1826. Second edition. pp. (1) xxiii, 354, [2], (2) 404, 4 (publisher's list). Original cloth, title in gilt on red morocco labels on rebacked spine.

Subscriber's copy on fine paper with printed label on upper covers. Loosely inserted is a steel engraving of Mr. Kelly in the Character Lionel, published 1st July 1788 by W. Lowndes. Also loosely inserted is the actor's signature on an envelope. A very good copy. Scarce. €275 Michael Kelly (c.1764-1826), actor singer and composer, was born in Dublin, the eldest of fourteen 43

De Búrca Ra re Books children of Thomas Kelly, wine merchant and master of ceremonies at Dublin Castle. His first stage appearance was in Dublin in 1779. He began his music publishing career in London, later that year he sailed for Naples. He appeared in most of the major European venues. Mozart trained him in Basilio, for the first performance of 'The Marriage of Figaro'. Kelly had the audacity to differ with the master on the rendering of his part in the sextet of act two and was allowed his own way.

Kelly returned to London and first appeared at Drury Lane on April 20, 1787 and was constantly heard there over the next twenty years. Following a disastrous business venture Kelly was declared bankrupt in 1811 and made his last stage appearance, in Dublin, the same year. He died in London in 1826 and was buried in St. Paul's, Covent Garden.

The present work is according to Grove "a valuable source of information about the music and manners of the time [and offers a] vivid picture of his acquaintance with Mozart". Lowndes declares it "a very amusing work, by far the best addition to [British] theatrical history since Cibber's 'Apology'. It contains curious particulars, &c., relating not only to the British Stage, but to the Italian Opera".

157. KENDALL, E.A. Esq. Letters to a Friend, on the State of Ireland, the Roman Catholic Question, and the Merits of Constitutional Religious Distinctions. Three volumes. With folding table. London: James Carpenter and Son, Old Bond Street; and G.B Whittaker, Ave-Maria Lane, 1826. pp. (1) clxxxiv, 324, (2) [3], 325-738, (3) [3], 737-1238, xxii (Appendixes), 10 (author's list). Blue pebbled cloth, title in gilt on brown morocco labels on spine. A very good set.

Extremely scarce. €750 COPAC locates 6 copies only.

Edward Augustus Kendall (1776?-1842), miscellaneous writer. In this work he argued that Ireland enjoyed a vigorous and paternal government, whose duty it was to repress Roman Catholicism there, and in Great Britain also.

158. KING, Jeremiah. County Kerry Past and Present. A Handbook to the Local and Family History of the County. Cork and Dublin: The Mercier Press, 1986. pp. [ii], 338 (double column), [16]. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 Incorporates King's Irish-English Dictionary. An excellent work on Kerry families and local history.

159. KNOX, Alexander. A History of the County of Down, from the Most Remote Period to the Present Day; including an Account of its Early Colonization, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military Polity, Geography, Topography, Antiquities and Natural History. Illustrated by woodcuts, and a coloured geographical, and geological map, based on the researches of the Ordnance and Geological Surveys. Dublin: Hodges, Foster & Co., Grafton Street, 1875. First edition. pp. viii, 724. Reddish-brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. With the armorial bookplate of John Godfrey Echlin. Minor foxing to prelims, otherwise a fine copy. €275 160. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. With illustrations and three maps. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1908. First edition. Royal octavo. pp. xvi, 451. Original light brown buckram. Arms of the Bourke family in gilt on upper cover. Large map from the De Búrca edition. Very good. Very scarce. €385 Prime historical reference work on the history of the county. 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 MacWilliam Iochtar, Gibbons, Jennings, Philbin, Barret, Joyce, Jordan, Costello, etc.

DESIGNER BINDING BY WILLIAM MATTHEWS 161. KOCH, Rudolf, and KREDEL, Fritz. Das Kleine Blumenbuch. Lavishly illustrated.

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1933. Octavo. pp. 58. Bound by William Matthews (name stamped in gilt on lower pastedown) in full cream goatskin. Upper cover with a gilt floral design and gilt lines wrapped around fore-edge, turn-ins and spine, also with title in gilt. Top edge gilt. Fine. €475 162. [LAND OWNERS IN IRELAND] Return of Owners of Land of one acre and upwards, in the several Counties, Counties of Cities, and Counties of Towns in Ireland ... Showing the owners alphabetically in each county, their addresses, acres, valuation etc. To which is added a summary for each province and for all Ireland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1988. pp. viii, 325. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy. €85 Listed are the names of owners, addresses and acreage with valuation in each county in the year 1876.

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163. LANG, John Dunmore. Repeal or Revolution; or, A Glimpse of the Irish Future: in a Letter to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, &c., &c., &c. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1848. pp. 40. Stitched printed wrappers. Occasional light foxing, otherwise a very good copy. €125 John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878) was educated for the Presbyterian Ministry at Largs Parish School and University of Glasgow, where he won many scholarships and prizes. He travelled to Sydney in May 1823 as the first Presbyterian Minister in New South Wales. In 1834 he started a weekly paper and went on to become a strong opponent of transportation. A leader of the radical movement from the 1840s to early 1860s, he advocated home rule for Ireland and attacked Roman Catholicism.

164. LARMOUR, Paul. The Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1992. Folio. First edition. pp. viii, 232. Navy blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Scarce. €245 A celebration of the diversity and quality of art craftsmanship which came together in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement of the 1880's to 1930's. With 44 colour plates and lavishly illustrated with other illustrations throughout text. The contents include: Home Art Industries; Lace and Embroidery; The Donegal Industrial Fund; Woodcarving Schools; Fivemiletown Art Metal-Work; The Development of Irish Arts and Crafts; Lord Mayo, Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland; Patronage; The Leading Studios and Artists; Irish Decorative Art Association; Dun Emer Guild and the Cuala Industries; An Tur Gloine; Oswald Reeves; Harry Clarke; Wilhelmina Geddes; Later Developments; Arts Movement in the 1920's, 1930's & Art-Workers.

165. LATIMER, Joseph. R.I.C. The "Harp and Crown". Verses and Poems. Belfast: Printed at the 'Belfast News-Letter', 1896. pp. xvi, 195, x, (appendix), 5 (adverts). Green cloth boards, crown surmounted by a harp and title in gilt on upper cover. From the Franciscan library of Rossnowlagh with neat stamp. Some wear to extremities, otherwise a good copy. Exceedingly rare. €125 No copy located on COPAC.

166. LAWRENCE, Richard. The Interest of Ireland Stated. In two parts. First part observes and discovers the Causes of Irelands not more increasing in Trade and Wealth from the first Conquest till now. Second part proposeth Expedients to remedy all its Mercanture Maladies, and other Wealth-Wasting Enormities, by which it is kept poor and low ... And mixed with some 45

De Búrca Ra re Books observations on the politics of the government, relating to the encouragement of Trade and Increase of Wealth. With some Reflections on Principles of Religion, as it relates to the Premises.

Dublin: Printed by Jos. Ray, for Jos. Howes, and are to be sold by Awnsham Churchill at the Black Swan in Paternoster-Row, near Amen Corner, London, 1682. pp. [xcii], 89, [xiv], 96, [17], 96-272. Contemporary full calf, spine expertly restored, title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece. From the library of David Whelan with his engraved bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. Very scarce. €675 COPAC locates 8 copies only with this imprint. Gilbert 465. Bradshaw 275. Wing L 680a Sweeney 2755.

Colonel Richard Lawrence was Marshal-General of the Horse in Cromwell's new Model Army.

Appointed Governor of Waterford he was given the task by General Ireton of settling 1,200 soldiers on the forfeited lands in Waterford, New Ross and Carrick-on-Suir. He was one of the commissioners appointed to treat with the Confederate Irish and he also acted as intermediary in the disputes of Ludlow with Fleetwood and Henry Cromwell. An advocate of transplantation (Hell or Connaught), he staunchly defended army interests in print against the schemes of Vincent Gookin. Lawrence was on the committee for the survey of forfeited lands, and quarrelled with Sir William Petty, stating that he and his brother officers were badly treated.

After leaving the army, Lawrence, as a member of the council of trade occupied himself for about twenty years in schemes for the improvement of Ireland, where he had his old protagonist Petty as a colleague. This major work was published two years before his death, and it sheds much light on Ireland under Charles II. It is dedicated to James, Earl of Ossory, and the first part states the reasons why Ireland "so long under the Government of England, whose Policies in Trade are inferior to few Countreys, should be so little improv'd in Trade and Wealth". The second part proposes "Expedience for Ireland's Relief against its Trade-obstruction and Wealth-consuming Maladies hinted in the first Part".

FROM THE QUAKER LIBRARY AT GILDERSOME, LEEDS 167. LEADBEATER, Mary. Biographical Notices of Members of the Society of Friends, who were Resident in Ireland. London: Printed by Harvey and Darton, 1823. 12mo. pp. [3], 366.

Contemporary half calf on worn marbled boards, '35' in gilt on spine. Inscribed on front endpaper "This Book belongs / to the / Library of the / Society of Friends / Gildersome / Time allowed for / Reading 3 Weeks / No 35". A very good copy. €275 168. LESLIE, Seymour. Of Glaslough in the Kingdom of Oriel and of the noted Men have dwelth there. Illustrated with two tipped-in coloured plates and other illustrations. Glaslough: The Donagh Press, 1913. pp. 110, [2]. Bound at the Oxford Bindery in contemporary half calf on green cloth sides. Edition de luxe limited to 100 copies only. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed.

Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,250

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De Búrca Ra re Books Illustrated with a beautiful print 'Autumn Evening at Glaslough' after a painting by C. J. Ovebden, 1899.

The contents includes: A Short History of Glaslough from the year 450 to the present; Memoir of John Leslie the "Fighting Bishop"; Memoir of John Leslie "Nonjuror"; Memoir of Sir John Leslie, Bart.; Miscellaneous - Including information about Monaghan, Tynan, The Lake, Glaslough Library, the Garden, Forestry, Shooting, &c., Wild Birds, Farming, the Herd, Local Improvement, Heights of the Hills, Meanings of Local Names, Rectors of Donagh, Church Records, etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY LAWRENCE 169. [LISDOONVARNA] Guide to Lisdoonvarna, including twenty views of the district.

Lisdoonvarna: Improvements Committee, n.d. (c.1900). pp. 49, + adverts. Quarter blue morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. Very rare. €175

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

170. LLOYD, John. A Short Tour in the County Clare 1780. An exact reprint. Edited by Henry Henn. Cambridge: Trinity Hall, 1893. pp. [8], iv, 59. Title printed in red and black. Original paper boards, title on printed label on rebacked spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275 COPAC lists only 4 copies of this, the second edition, it was first published in Ennis in 1780.

John Lloyd was a native of County Limerick. At the age of thirty he migrated to Clare and settled at Furroor in the parish of Dunaha, about four miles south-west of Kilkee, where he opened a Hedge School which he conducted for eight or nine years. In addition to his Tour Lloyd produced an English translation of the Life of Saint Senan of Scattery Island a MS. of which, transcribed by Anthony O'Brien in Dunaha Chapel, Aug. 23, 1780, is in the library of the Royal Irish Academy. There are only two copies extant of the first edition of this work. One was in the possession of the editor T.R. Henn, of Paradise Hill, which was given to him by George Petrie, the other which also belonged to Dr. Petrie, has passed into the Joly Collection in the National Library of Ireland. There is a curious difference between those copies. In the former the verso of p.59 is blank; in the latter there is an advertisement listing the names and addresses of the persons from whom the book could be bought.

ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK 171. LOCKHART, John Gibson. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: Ward, Lock & Co., n.d. [1881]. pp. xxii, 653, 26 (publisher's list). Red pictorial cloth, with Napoleon on horseback in the Alps on upper cover. Stamp of Massey Booksellers, Pembroke Street, Cork on lower endpaper. A near fine copy. €225 172. LODGE, John Esq. The Peerage of Ireland, or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. With engravings of their paternal Coats of Arms. Collected from the public Records; authentic Manuscripts; approved Historians; well-attested Pedigrees; and personal Information. Four volumes. Dublin: Leathley, 1754. First edition. Modern half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco labels. A very attractive set. €650 ESTC N11875 locates 5 copies only in Ireland.

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De Búrca Ra re Books John Lodge, (died c.1774) Deputy Keeper of Bermingham Tower Records, later Deputy Keeper of the Rolls was a celebrated antiquary who first published his Peerage of Ireland in 1754. The eminent Irish scholar Dr. Reeves said of him: "In the department of Genealogy he was the most distinguished compiler that Ireland has produced".

Lodge in the preface states: "The work then, in itself, is the History of all the noble Families, which, at present, compose the Peerage of Ireland, together with those of their descendants, whether existing or extinct, and, as many of their ancestors, from time to time, have had a notable share in the government and transactions of the kingdom, the history thereof, so far as they were engaged, naturally fell within my intended compass, and is faithfully stated". What makes this work most invaluable is that nearly all the records John Lodge consulted were destroyed in the Four Courts in 1922.

173. LYDON, J.F. The Lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1972. pp. 295. Owner's signature and blind stamped address on front free endpaper. A very good copy in illustrated dust jacket. Scarce. €50 This work examines the feudal lordship of Ireland as a whole, and in tracing the origins of the conflicting Gaelic and Anglo-Irish traditions which were to determine the whole pattern of Irish history in succeeding centuries.

174. LYNCH, Patricia. Fiddler's Quest. Illustrated by Isobel Morton-Sale. London: Dent, 1943.

Second edition. pp. ix, 309. Recent half purple morocco on matching cloth sides, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. A fine copy. €150 Patricia Lynch (1898-1972), children's author, was born in Cork. The family moved to London following her father's death and she was educated there, in Scotland and in Belgium. Her first book won the Tailteann silver medal in 1932. Many of her stories were broadcast on Radio Eireann. She wrote over fifty books which were translated into many European languages.

See items 171, 174 & 175.

175. LYNCH, Patricia. King of the Tinkers. Illustrated by Katharine C. Lloyd. London: Dent, 1948. Second edition. pp. ix, 241. Grey decorated cloth. Fine in lightly frayed dust jacket. €75 With seven colour plates and line drawings by Katherine C. Lloyd.

ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS OF IRELAND 176. MACALISTER, R.A.S. Studies in Irish Epigraphy. A collection of revised readings of the ancient inscriptions of Ireland, with introduction and notes. Three volumes. Part I: Containing the ogham inscriptions of the barony of Corkaguiney, and the counties of Mayo, Wicklow, and Kildare. Part II: Containing the ogham inscriptions of the counties of Kerry (not included in Part I), Limerick, Cavan, and King's Co.; as well as the ogham inscriptions of the Irish type in Scotland and the Isle of Man. With an appendix on the ogham tablets of Biere, Saxony. Part III: Containing the ogham inscriptions of the counties of Cork, Tipperary and Waterford. With plates and diagrams. London: Nutt, 1887/1907. pp. (1) 90, (2) 177, (3) 247. Brown ribbed cloth, titled in gilt. A very good set in slipcase. Exceedingly rare. The only set we have ever handled. €1,500 48

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177. MacAMHLAIGH, Donall. Saol Saighdiúra. Baile Átha Cliath: An Clóchomhar Tta, 1962.

An chéad chló. pp. vi, 231. Green buckram, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy in pictorial wrappers. €30 178. MACAULAY, Lord. Lays of Ancient Rome. With Illustrations, Original and from the Antique, by George Scharf, Jun. New edition. London: Longman, Green, Reader & Dyer, n.d. (c.1890). Small quarto. pp. 210. Bound by Riviere in full red morocco gilt to a panel design.

Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt with a fleur-de-lys tool. Comb-marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €150 179. MacBRIDE, Seán., S.C., T.D. Civil Liberty. Towards A New Ireland. No. 25. Dublin: Published by the Irish People Co-operative Society, n.d. (c.1946). pp. 16. Stapled wrappers.

Occasional spotting. Rare. €45 In this pamphlet MacBride sets out his views on personal and individual liberty, and deals with: Bureaucratic Control, State Corporations, Stern Lesson, Elementary Rights, A Court of Politicians, Dangerous Doctrines, Requisites of Democracy, Law and Nature, Life and Liberty, Equality, Slave or Freeman, Our Constitution, Real Safeguards?, Our Courts.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 180. McCALL, P.J. Compiled by. The Fenian Nights' Entertainment. Being a Series of Ossianic Legends told at a Wexford Fireside. Dublin: T.G. O'Donoghue, 1897. First series. pp. xi, 132, [3 (publisher's list)]. Original illustrated wrappers. Spine expertly rebacked. A very good copy. €35 With chapters on: Cath Luan, Prince of Phoenicia; The Origin of the Harp; The Druid's Wife that couldn't be Pleased; Cuchullin and Emir; Fionn MacCumhail and the Giant; Fionn MacCumhail and the Princess; Yellow Face; Prince Baille and the Princess Aileen; How King Cormac MacArt won his Wife; King Crimthan and Nair, The Queen of Beauty; The Amadan Mor.

181. MacCARTHY, Daniel (Glas). A Historical Pedigree of the Sliochd Feidhlimidh The Mac Carthys of Gleannacroim. From Carthach, twenty-fourth in descent from Oilioll Olum, to this day. Exeter: Printed for the Author, [1880]. pp. iv, [2], xv, 216. Brown pebbled cloth, title in gilt on spine. Drummond of Blair armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Wear to spine ends and corners. Mild foxing to endpapers. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €385 No other Irish Mac name approaches MacCarthy in numerical strength. It is among the top twelve names in Ireland as a whole, due to the very large number of MacCarthy's in County Cork. Charles O'Conor describes the sept as "the most eminent by far of the noble families of the south".

182. McCIONNAITH, L. Foclóir Béarla agus Gaedhilge. English-Irish Dictionary. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1935. pp. xxxiv, 1546, xxv-xxxii (I.M.C. publications). Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Signature of Pádraig C de Paor MA on front pastedown. Ex. lib. with stamp. Some minor wear to covers, otherwise a very good copy. €65 183. MacDERMOT, Betty. O Ruairc of Breifne. Photographs by Conor Mac Dermot. Illustrated with maps and genealogical charts. Leitrim: Drumlin Publications, 1990. pp. viii, 224, xviii. Dark red arlen, title and armorial shield in gilt on upper cover. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy. Scarce. €125 INSCRIBED BY THE IRISH PATRIOT 184. MacDONAGH, Thomas. Thomas Campion and the Art of English Poetry. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis. London: Simpkin Marshall, 1913. pp. ix, 128. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from Thomas MacDonagh to T. P. Gill: "With the author's respects and compliments", dated 14.2.1913. A fine copy. €1,450

Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916), poet, dramatist and patriot, was born at Cloughjordan, County Tipperary and educated at Rockwell College. In 1902 he joined the Gaelic League, moving to Dublin in 1908 became the first staff member and assistant head to Patrick Pearse at St. Enda's College at Rathfarnham. Later he became disillusioned with the Gaelic League, as Yeats recorded in his diary. He studied part-time at U.C.D. and wrote the present work as an M.A. thesis, in which he claimed Campion as an author of Irish extraction. A signatory to the 'Proclamation of the Irish Republic', he took part in the Easter Rising as commander of the Volunteers in Jacob's factory. With the other leaders he was condemned to death by a British court-martial, and executed by firing squad on 3 May 1916.

A fine association from MacDonagh.

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De Búrca Ra re Books THE PARNELL COMMISSION 185. MacDONALD, John. Diary of the Parnell Commission. Revised from "The Daily News".

London: Unwin, 1890. pp. 365, 24 (publisher's list). Green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Spine rebacked preserving original. A very good copy. Scarce. €235 Sir Henry James traced the origin of this inquiry to a speech of Parnell's, made during the debate on the Address, February, 1887, warning the Government against the dangers of coercion. But the preface states that if a date must be chosen "why not make it thirty-five minutes to one of the morning of the 7th of June, 1886, when the House of Commons saw one of the most impressive scenes in its great history; when it had just reached the `parting of the ways' ... with an impulsive characteristic of their race, the solid mass of Irish Nationalists sprang up with 'three cheers for the Grand Old Man', in the hour of his defeat". This Commission was set up to investigate Parnell's connection with terrorism. In letters supposedly written by him, the most damaging was a letter of 15th May, 1882, in which he allegedly expressed regret at having to condemn the Phoenix Park Murders. Parnell denounced the letters in the House of Commons and demanded a select committee to investigate their authenticity.

They were shown to be fakes.

186. McDONNELL, Joseph & HEALY, Patrick. Gold-Tooled Bookbindings Commissioned

by Trinity College Dublin in the Eighteenth Century. With illustrated catalogue of 102 bindings and reproductions of 560 of the tools used by the binders. Leixlip: Irish Georgian Society, 1987.

Folio. pp. xviii, 340. Blue buckram, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €75 This is the first book in over thirty years on the subject of Irish bookbinding. Most of the previous works relied mainly on the material evidence of the books themselves. The research for this book however encompassed not only the previously closed archives of Trinity College but also the Records of the Guild of St. Luke, the Dublin newspapers of the time, and from pamphlets and literary sources.

Thus it forms the most complete reference for this period of Irish bookbinding when the work being produced vied with that of Paris as the most exquisite bookbinding in the world.

187. McHUGH, Roger J. Ed. by. Carlow in '98. The Autobiography of William Farrell of Carlow. Frontispiece. Facsimile page of original handwritten manuscript. Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1949. pp. ix, 235. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. Repair to bottom of spine, otherwise a very good copy. €35 The author of this remarkable autobiographical record was a tradesman of Carlow and in his twentysixth year when the Rebellion broke out in 1798. He was a member of the society of the 'United Irishmen', but was only a half-hearted participant in its activities, which he secretly regarded as folly.

When the Rising was about to break out in Carlow he left the organisation, but his membership was sufficient to effect his arrest and imprisonment, and it was by a hair's breadth that he escaped being hanged. He wrote these memoirs in his twilight years recalling in graphic detail all that he witnessed and encountered as a young man.

SIGNED BY DE VALERA 188. MacMANUS, M.J. Eamon de Valera. A Biography. Portrait frontispiece of Eamon de Valera. London: Victor Gollancz, 1944. First edition. pp. 192. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Signed

by Eamon de Valera on slip of paper and laid on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €235

In this present account of De Valera's life the author has traced, vividly and dramatically, the development of a career which has been romantic in almost every phase. His book does not only provide a new interpretation of the character and personality of a great Irishman, but also embraces the political scene of which De Valera has been the central figure.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 189. MacNEVIN, Thomas. The History of The Volunteers of 1782. Centenary Edition. Dublin: James Duffy and Sons, n.d. (c.1882). 12mo. pp. 250. Publisher's green cloth, with a harp surrounded by a cluster of shamrocks on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Some light wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. €65 190. MacNEVIN, William James. M.D. A Ramble through Swisserland in the Summer and Autumn of 1802. Dublin: Printed by J. Stockdale, 62 Abbey-Street, 1803. pp. [iv], 280.

Contemporary full tree calf with original red morocco letterpiece. Browning throughout, a few corners shaved with minute loss of text. Exceedingly rare. €575 No copy listed on COPAC. William James MacNevin, M.D., a distinguished United Irishman, was born 21st March 1763, at Ballynahowna, County of Galway, where his father possessed a small estate inherited from an ancestor who in the Cromwellian settlement was transplanted to Connaught. His uncle, Baron MacNevin, lived at Prague, where he was physician to the Empress Maria Theresa. Young MacNevin, precluded by the Penal Laws from obtaining an education at home, was sent to Prague when about eleven years old, and there he resided ten years, received a classical education, and passed through the medical college, finishing his professional studies at Vienna, where he graduated in 1783. Next year MacNevin commenced as a physician in Dublin, and soon worked into extensive practice. He became an active member of the Catholic Committee, was returned from Navan in 1792 as representative to the Catholic Convention held in Back-lane, and took a firm stand with Tone in opposition to the pusillanimous policy of Lord Kenmare.

He joined the society of the United Irishmen at the solicitation of FitzGerald and O'Connor - taking the oath from Miss Moore of Thomas Street, the friend of Lord Edward FitzGerald, and an enthusiast in the national cause. He never shrank from danger, and with Bond and McCormack arranged with Colonel McSheehy, Tone's aide-de-camp, relative to the proposed descent by the French on the Irish coast, and also conferred personally with Tone in Paris. In after life he often referred to the delightful evenings he spent with other leaders of the party at Frascati, Blackrock, in the company of Lord Edward, his wife, and his sister, Lady Emily FitzGerald. On 12th March 1798 he was seized, with the principal leaders of the party, and imprisoned at Kilmainham. He joined the other state prisoners in their agreement with Government, and was removed to Fort George, Scotland.

He lightened his subsequent imprisonment by study, translating many of the Ossianic legends into English, and noting traditions from the mouths of the Scotch soldiers of the fort. For the use of his friend Emmet's children he compiled a grammar. After his release (30 June 1802), forbidden to return to Ireland, MacNeven visited old friends in Bohemia, made a pedestrian tour of Switzerland, of which he wrote this account, and eventually joined Emmet in Paris, and entered an Irish Brigade as captain.

Deceived and disappointed at the failure of all hopes of an invasion of Ireland, and concerned at the fatal issue of a duel in which he acted as second, he sailed from Bordeaux for the United States in 1805, and landed in New York on the 4th of July.

With favourable introductions, and among old friends, he soon felt himself at home, and his rise in the honours and the emoluments of the medical profession was rapid. He occupied several important medical positions in New York, and married in 1810. MacNevin was an accomplished scholar, and spoke German, French, Italian, and Irish. During his long career in America he continued to take a warm interest in Catholic Emancipation and the different movements which agitated his native country.

He died at the residence of his son-in-law, Thomas Addis Emmet, Jun., near New York, 12th July 1841, aged seventy eight. The most striking features of his character were imperturbable coolness and self-possession, combined with remarkable simplicity of mind, and singleness of purpose.

JOHN REDMOND'S COPY 191. MADDEN, R.R. The Life and Times of Robert Emmet, Esq. Dublin: James Duffy, 1847.

First edition. pp. xv, vii, 343, + errata. John Redmond's copy with his signature on front fly leaf.

Recent green buckram, titled in gilt. A very good copy with a wonderful provenance. €375

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De Búrca Ra re Books 192. MADDEN, R.R. The Life and Times of Robert Emmet, Esq. Glasgow: Cameron, Ferguson, 1902. pp. [4], 272. Green cloth, title in silver on spine. Stamp of M J Furlong, Pianoforte, Harmonium and Music Warehouse, Wexford on first leaf of text. Light fading to title on spine, otherwise a very good copy. €75 193. MADDEN, Richard R. The United Irishmen. Their Lives and Times. With several additional memoirs, & authentic documents, heretofore unpublished; the whole matter newly arranged and revised. With a memoir of William James MacNevin at end of volume three. Edited

by James J. O'Neill. With numerous illustrations. In three volumes. Dublin: Martin Lester, n.d. pp. (1) 240, (2) [i], 247, (3) [i], 192, 62. Blue cloth, publisher's device in blind on upper covers, title in gilt on spines. Occasional light foxing. A fine set. Scarce. €475 One day in 1841 the neighbours of a poor old washerwoman, Mrs. Campbell, who was in a stable yard off Saint John's Lane, Dublin, were surprised to find a well-dressed gentleman desiring to be directed to her. He was writing a book, he explained about the "Troubles" of 1798 and 1803 and he had been told that Mrs. Campbell could tell him something about Robert Emmet. It was not alone the story at first hand of the tragic ending of the Emmet Rising Dr. Richard Robert Madden learned that day, but the heroic story of Anne Devlin. For the crippled washerwoman was no other than the heroine whose fidelity to Robert Emmet had withstood torture and imprisonment, the loss of home and kindred, of worldly goods and health, and whom an ungrateful country a few years later was to let die of hunger and be buried in a pauper's grave. It was during Dr. Madden's absence abroad that Anne Devlin Campbell died. He had done all he could both out of his own modest resources, and through an appeal in The Nation, to secure some provision for her. But, except for Father Charles Meehan and a brother of Miles Byrne, there was none to stretch a helping hand to her. When, in 1851 the doctor, on his return to Ireland, traced her to a garret in the Coombe, he found she had died a few days previously of starvation and cold.

The first edition of Madden's The United Irishmen, their Lives and Times ran into seven volumes, covering three series, of which the first appeared 1n 1842, the second in 1843, and the third in 1846.

The second edition appeared in between 1858 and 1861 in four volumes, in the preface to the last of which the author tells of the labours which went to the accomplishment of the gigantic task: "Four and twenty years have elapsed since the collection of materials for this work was commenced in America where several of the leaders of the United Irishmen were then living. Similar materials were afterwards secured on the Continent and from the surviving friends and relatives abroad and at home came a vast amount of original information and a collection of documents, the most important that have ever been obtained. The materials for the biographies have been placed in the author's hands, either by their immediate relatives or by friends who had been intimately connected with them in private life or in their political purposes". Only very modestly and delicately does the writer allude to the great sacrifices demanded of him by this task. The present edition has several additional memoirs and authentic documents not previously published.

BOUND BY FALCONER OF DUBLIN 194. [MADDEN, Thomas More. Ed. by] Genealogical, Historical, and Family Records of the O'Madden's of Hy-Many and their Descendants. Dublin: W. Powell, 1894. pp. 72. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Publishers list tipped in at end. Bound by Falconer of Dublin with their engraved rectangular label on lower pastedown. Previous owner's signature clipped from page seven. A very good copy. Scarce. €275 COPAC locates 6 copies only.

Also with notices of: The Fordes of Corry; Cogan of Tinode; The O'Donnells of Tyrconnell; Thomas M'Donnell Caffrey; The Abbey of Meelick; Addenda concerning the O'Madden's of Hy-Many, Killnaborris, Eyrecourt, Waterford, Kilkenny, Cuba, America, Donnybrook, and Baggotsrath.

195. MANGIN, Edward. A View of the Pleasures arising from a Love of Books: In Letters to a Lady. London: Longman, 1814. Small octavo. First edition. pp. vii, 268. Full calf, spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title in second. Worn and rubbed. A good copy. €245 A collection of essays, printed in Bath, by the Dublin author Edward Mangin (1772-1852), a celebrated wit, conversationalist, and literary doyen, whose many publications, it is said: "fail to render adequate justice to his talents " - DNB. In twenty-nine letters the author makes extensive observations on Milton, Pope, Swift, Thomson, Fielding and Smollett, disparages Burns and Sterne, and dismisses more recent literary efforts.

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De Búrca Ra re Books THE POET'S REBELLION 196. MARTIN, F.X. Ed. by. Leaders and Men of the Easter Rising: Dublin 1916. London: Methuen, 1967. First edition. pp. xii, 276. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. New endpaper. Ex. lib. with stamp. A good copy in frayed dust jacket. €75 The Easter Rising was planned and led by a secret council of seven men - Pearse, Clarke, Plunkett, Ceannt, MacDonagh, MacDermott and Connolly, most of them were poets and writers. With little or no prospect of military success the rebellion was brutally crushed within a week and the leaders executed.

This knee-jerk reaction shocked the Irish people and kindled the flame of freedom and nationality which eventually led to independence and the first break-up of the British Empire.

The Easter Rising will always be associated with University College, Dublin. Pearse served for a period as deputy lecturer, and Thomas MacDonagh was a lecturer in English in the College at the time of the Rising, both were signatories of the Proclamation, and both were executed. The O'Rahilly, one of the most heroic participants in the action of Easter Week was a student there as well as Eamon de Valera. Eoin MacNeill who founded the Irish Volunteers was a professor there, and he has gone down in history as the one who countermanded the order for the Rising. Never has such a young institution given so much of permanent value to a nation.

197. MASON, H.J. Monck. The Life of William Bedell, D.D. Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland.

Bound with: Undesigned Coincidences in the Writings both of the Old and New Testament. By the Rev. J.J. Blunt. London: Published by R.B. Seeley and John Murray, 1843/1853. pp. [8], 400, vi, [2], 368. Contemporary full calf on marbled boards. Title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece.

Armorial bookplate of Mr. James Jameson on front pastedown. A very good copy. €375 198. MASON, Thomas H. The Islands of Ireland. Their Scenery, People, Life and Antiquities.

Illustrated from Photographs by the Author. Third edition. London: Batsford, 1936. First edition. pp. viii, 135, 32 (publishers list and index). Green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Maps on endpapers. Top edge green. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €75 In The Islands of Ireland the author demonstrates his great love for those isolated parts of Ireland. His keen eye for the unusual in nature, the ancient in man's handywork and his intense feeling for island people emerges strongly from every chapter.

199. MAXWELL, Constantia. Dublin Under the Georges 1714 - 1830. Illustrated. Dublin: Lambay Books, 1997. pp. 350. Green buckram, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €25 FALCONER BINDING

200. MAXWELL, W.H. Sports and Adventures in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland: being a Sequel to "Wild Sports of the West". Engraved frontispiece and half-title. London: Routledge, 1853. pp. [1[, 352. ) ix, [1], 323, [1]. Bound by John Falconer of Sackville Street, Dublin, with his ticket on lower pastedown, in contemporary half calf on cloth boards, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. From the Marquis of Sligo Library, Westport House. Signature of Richard Maxwell on titlepage. A fine copy. Very rare. €485 COPAC locates 1 copy only. Ebook version only on WorldCat.

201. MEEHAN, Rev. C.P. The Fate and Fortunes of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donel, Earl of Tyrconnel; their flight from Ireland, and death in exile. Third edition, enlarged, with notes, etc. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: James Duffy and Sons, n.d. (c.1886). Third edition. pp. xx, 450, [3 (press reviews)]. Green pebbled cloth over bevelled boards, armorial shield in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's neat library stamp on front free endpaper, and owner's signature on titlepage. Occasional light foxing to prelims. A very good copy. €75 Fr. Meehan's work is a coherent and invaluable narrative which sheds so much light upon the life and times of the Ulster princes. "Father Meehan, who boldly lifts the veil off those foul and treacherous deeds which fill some of the blackest pages in Ireland's disastrous history" - Limerick Vindicator.

202. MELANCTHON [O'BEIRNE, Thomas Lewis] A Letter, to Dr. Troy, Titular ArchBishop of Dublin, on the Coronation of Bonaparte, by Pope Pius the Seventh. Dublin: Printed; 54

De Búrca Ra re Books London: Reprinted, for J. Hatchard, Bookseller to Her Majesty, 190, opposite Albany House, Piccadilly, 1805. pp. 97, [1], 2 (advertisement). Disbound. Early owner's signature on titlepage.

A fine copy. €245 Melancthon, a pseudonym for Thomas Lewis O'Beirne, (1749-1823), Church of Ireland bishop of Meath, was born a Roman Catholic in Farnagh, County Longford. Following his early education at Ardagh diocesan school, in 1763 Thomas was sent to the Collège des Lombards in Paris, where he performed well academically. Many Irish students at the college, his brother Denis included, became Catholic priests. After his return home to recuperate from illness in 1768, a chance meeting with John Hinchcliffe, the Church of England Bishop of Peterborough, set O'Beirne on the journey that was to result in his making his recantation, taking orders, and entering Trinity College, Cambridge where he received a BD degree in 1783.

When the Act of Union was being agitated, O'Beirne proposed that the Church of Ireland and the Church of England should also be unified. His contention that this would render the Church of Ireland 'unassailable to our adversaries' reflected his perception that his church was a 'persecuted church'.

He contrived to defend its position in a number of controversial tracts - Letter to Dr Troy (1805), A Letter from an Irish Dignitary … on the Subject of Tithes (1807), A Letter to Canning on his Proposed Motion on Catholic Emancipation (1812), and A Letter to the Earl of Fingal (1813).

Between his appointment as bishop of Meath and his death in February 1823, fifty-seven churches and seventy-two glebe houses were built, and he produced three volumes of collected sermons (1799, 1813, and 1821). O'Beirne left the church in the diocese considerably stronger than he found it. He died in Navan, on 17 February 1823, and was buried in the local churchyard, in the same vault as Bishop Pococke.

DIRTY OLD TOWN 203. MITCHELL, Flora H. Vanishing Dublin. With fifty coloured plates and one page of text to each.

Introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. Dublin: Figgis, 1966. First edition. Quarto. pp. x, 101. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in very good dust jacket with minor wear to spine ends. Scarce. €325 Flora Mitchell (1890-1973) was an American-born Irish artist, remembered in particular for her mid-20th century paintings of old Dublin architecture. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska. After a Sioux Indian uprising around the turn of the century, her father moved the family to Ireland, where he went to work for the Jameson whiskey distillery.

Flora studied art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. She married William Jameson, a great-grandson of John Jameson, the founder of the distillery, in 1930. A sailor and yachtsman, he died in 1939. A few years later she moved to Killiney, where she lived and worked for the remainder of her life.

Several hundred of her works, mainly Dublin scenes, are in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland. She is best remembered for the magnificent illustrations that she executed for Vanishing Dublin. Many of the buildings shown in this enchanting book have disappeared from the face of the city.

The print run was only 600 copies, and considering the number of copies used for breakers, it is increasingly becoming a rarity.

RARE DUBLIN EDITION 204. MOORE, Thomas, Esq. Irish Melodies, and a Melologue upon National Music. Illustrated with four engravings. Dublin: Printed for William Power, and Sold by Cumming, Milliken, Mahon ... Johnston & Deas, &c., 1820. First edition, second issue. [4], 4, [2] ,[vii]-x, 288. Bound in contemporary full straight-grained green morocco in the style of George Mullen. Covers blocked in gilt and blind to a panel design, title and author in gilt direct in the second and fourth compartment, the remainder tooled to a panel design with a floral motif in centre; fore-edges and 55

De Búrca Ra re Books turn-ins gilt; green endpapers. Early owner's signature 'A. V. Love, Birr' on front free endpaper.

All edges gilt. A very good and attractive copy. €375 COPAC locates 7 copies only.

This is the second issue, with a dedication (dated: Paris, June 10th, 1821), a preface and appendix not present in the first issue.

See items 204 & 205.

205. MOORE, Thomas, Esq. Lalla Rookh an Oriental Romance. Illustrated with six engravings.

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reeves ..., 1820. Tenth edition. pp. [4], 397, [1]. Bound in contemporary full straight-grained green morocco in the style of George Mullen. Covers blocked in gilt and blind to a panel design, title and author in gilt direct in the second and fourth compartment, the remainder tooled to a panel design with a floral motif in centre; fore-edges and turn-ins gilt; green endpapers. Early owner's signature 'A. V. Love, Birr' on front free endpaper.

All edges gilt. A very good and attractive copy. €235 206. MOORE, Thomas. Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion, with notes and illustrations. Bound with: Memoirs of Captain Rock, the Celebrated Irish Chieftain, with some Account of his Ancestors. Written by himself. Two volumes in one. Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1835. pp. x, 267, iv, 156. Contemporary full tree calf. Spine gilt with later morocco letterpiece. From the library Majoris Seminarii Constantiensis [Toulouse] with bookplate and stamp. All edges marbled. A very good copy. Very scarce. €275 COPAC lists only 1 copy of the Paris edition.

Half title states: 'Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors. Vol. LXXXIII'.

207. MORLEY, John. Burke. London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. pp. viii, 315. Maroon cloth, titled in gilt. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy. €45 The life and times of the British statesman Edmund Burke.

208. MORRISON, George. The Emergent Years. Independent Ireland 1922-62. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1984. Quarto. pp. 184. Grey paper boards, titled in white. A very good copy. €50 Here is a visual record of the first generation of Irish independence, from the foundation of the Irish Free State to the establishment of Telefis Eireann. In compiling this kaleidoscope of Irish lied in a unique and distinctive period of history, George Morrison has drawn on a wide range of picture sources including an important private archive. It is an evocative documentary record of the society from which modern Ireland has emerged.

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF TYRONE'S REBELLION 209. MORYSON, Fynes. An Itinerary Written by Fynes Moryson Gent. First in the Latine Tongue, and then translated by him into English. Containing his Ten Yeeres Travell through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Divided into III parts. London: Printed by John 56

De Búrca Ra re Books Beale, dwelling in Aldersgate street, 1617. First edition. Folio. pp. [1 (first blank but for sig.)], [13], 295, [85 numbered 59], [1], 301 [1] ; 292. Roman letter, double-page printed title, large historiated woodcut initials, text ornaments, head and tail pieces, woodcut entablature on versos of first leaf and title, latter containing the author's privilege with Royal Arms above. Eight woodcut maps and plans of Venice, Naples, Rome, Genoa, Paris, Jerusalem, Constantinople & of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, full-page printed comparative table of English and Scottish weights and monies. Bound by the Abrams Bindery in modern full brown morocco to a seventeenth century panel design. Spine divided into seven compartments by six thick raised bands; title and author in gilt direct in the second compartment. Red and gold endbands. Early paper repair to inner margin of half title. Occasional light spotting to prelims, otherwise a very good copy. €3,850 STC 18205 Sweeney 3118.

Fynes Moryson (1566-1630), a Cambridge graduate, humanist and European traveller, was born in Lincolnshire. While on a visit to his brother, Sir Richard, at Dundalk, where he was Governor, George Cranmer, chief secretary of Sir Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy and Lord Deputy of Ireland, was killed (November 13, 1600) at Carlingford, and Moryson was at once appointed to replace him.

Published posthumously, it is one of the great early seventeenth century works of its kind. Lowndes 1621 terms it "A valuable and much esteemed work". The work comprises three distinct parts. The first contains a description of Moryson's travels, the cities and countryside through which he passed, his opinion as to the relative merits of numerous castles, churches, monuments, etc., the route and method of his journey, the mileage covered, the money and time expended, and the standard of the inns and post houses at which he stayed.

In the second part Moryson devotes 302 pages to Ireland. Principally an account of Hugh O'Neill's, Nine Years War, 1594-1603, a campaign which proved to be a brutal struggle rather than an easy victory.

Employing state documents to which the author in his official capacity had access, he provides an outstandingly candid and detached firsthand account of the affairs and state of Ireland in the years around the close of the sixteenth century.

The last part could be retitled 'Handy Hints for Travellers'. There Moryson discourses on the advantages of travel, the preparation necessary for journeying, the languages one should know, where it is safe to travel and where not, the customs of different places, their trade, agriculture and legal systems, how to avoid giving offence to the locals, differences in money, costume, and the behaviour of and various attitudes towards women. He concentrates particularly on food and drink, giving detailed descriptions and comparisons of diets, wines, beers and spirits (including a full three pages on 'the English diet' of which he was very complimentary).

"Moryson is a sober and truthful writer ... he delights in statistics representing the mileage of his daily journeys and the varieties in the values of coins he encountered. His descriptions of the inns in which he lodged, of the costume and the food of the countries he visited, render his work invaluable to the social historian" DNB.

VERY RARE DUBLIN EDITION 210. MORYSON, Fynes. An History of Ireland, From the Year 1599, to 1603. With a short Narration of the State of the Kingdom from the Year 1169. To which is added, A Description of Ireland. Two volumes. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, For George Ewing, at the Angel and Bible at Dame-street, Bookseller, 1735. pp. (1) [6], 368, (2) [1], 378. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, title and volume number in gilt on contrasting green and black morocco letterpieces. Armorial bookplate of Dillon Clonbrock on front pastedowns. Some minor wear to extremities. A very good set. Very rare. €675 COPAC locates 9 copies only. WorldCat 4.

Moryson's account of his travels throughout Europe was published posthumously in London in 1617. Almost one third of that book was devoted to affairs in Ireland. This early 57

De Búrca Ra re Books eighteenth century Dublin reprint contains the Irish section only, and is an excellent eye-witness account of the final years of Gaelic Ireland, the rebellion of O'Neill and O'Donnell, culminating in their defeat at Kinsale.

The short list of subscribers includes: John Bowes, Esq.; His Majesty's Sollicitor General; Thomas Carter, Master of the Rolls; Sir Richard Cox; Robert Dillon; Chichester Fortescue; Mrs Frances Fox of Durrow in the King's County, Daughter of Sir Edw. Herbert, Bart.; Luke Gardiner; Revd. Samuel Hutchinson; Rob. Jocelyn, Esq.; Justice Lindsay; Peter Ludlow; James Diggs Latouche; Edward Riggs; Lieut. Col. Richard St. George; Sir John Vesey, etc.

211. M'PARLAN, James. Statistical Survey of the County of Donegal, with Observations on The Means of Improvement; drawn up in the year 1801, for the consideration, and under the direction of the The Dublin Society. Illustrated with a folding map of the County of Donegal.

Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell, 1802. pp. xv, 127. Green paper boards, title in green along spine. Amateur repair to margin of map, otherwise a very good copy. €475 212. [NAPOLEON] Memoirs of the History of France during the Reign of Napoleon, dictated by the Emperor at Saint Helena to the Generals who shared his captivity; and published from the original manuscripts corrected by himself. Seven volumes. Second edition. Seven folding plates and eight folding maps. London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co. and Martin Bossange and Co., 1823. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Spines divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and volume numbers in gilt on contrasting red and green morocco labels. Marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. A very good set. Extremely rare. €675

COPAC locates two copies of this seven volume edition, at British Library and Cambridge University.

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Volume 1 has a half-title: "Historical miscellanies. Notes. Volume. I."; Volume 3 has a half-title: "Memoirs of Napoleon."; v. 5-7 have title: "Memoirs ... Historical miscellanies, vol. I-III" Volumes 1-2 "dictated to General Gourgaud"; Volumes 3-7 "dictated to the Count de Montholon".

213. [NATIONAL MAGAZINE] The National Magazine. July to December 1830. Volume 1.

Dublin: William Wakeman & London: Hurst, 1830. pp. 756. Modern green buckram, title in gilt on spine. Lacking two leaves (475-478), being the obituary on Edward O'Reilly. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €575 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Ebook only on WorldCat. Contains a feast of interesting articles on literature and history, including notes on: The Royal Irish Academy; Births, Marriages and Deaths; Portrait of Burke; The Last of the Bourbons; Thomas Crofton Croker; Rev. S. Crooke, Dublin University Vindicated; Demonology Witchcraft; Epitaph on Colonel R. Lloyd; The Enthusiast; Fables from the German; On the Ancient History and the Antiquities of Ireland, by Rev. Edward Johnston; Irish Settlers in an English Village. A Sketch. By Mrs. S. C. Hall; Life and Works of R. Kirwan; Life and Works of Richard Kirwan. By John O'Reardon; An Adventure in Moscow; Lady Morgan's France; General Count O'Reilly's Attack on Algiers; Medical Practice in Ireland.

Includes the first printing of at least one Carleton story, 'The Donagh' that subsequently appeared in Traits and Stories.

CONNEMARA CALLING 214. NEAVE, Sir Digby, Bart. Four Days in Connemara. London: Bentley, 1852. pp. vi, 306.

Green blind stamped cloth, titled in gilt. Light fading to covers, otherwise a very good copy.

Very scarce. €365 Interesting tour of post-famine Connemara, with topographical, social and historical notices of this most scenic part of Ireland.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION ILLUSTRATED BY WENDY WALSH 215. NELSON, Charles. Trees of Ireland. Native and Naturalised. With numerous illustrations in colour by Wendy Walsh. Dublin: Lilliput, 1993. Folio. pp. vii, 247. Bound in half green morocco on linen boards. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by Wendy Walsh and Charles Nelson. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed from the publishers to Brenda Weir requesting a review in 'inside Ireland'. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in slipcase. €1,650 59

De Búrca Ra re Books Mrs Wendy Walsh, an outstanding international botanic artist who worked entirely in watercolour, has designed postage stamps for Ireland and Kiribati (Gilbert Islands) and painted plant portraits for 'Kew Magazine'. Her most noted publications include An Irish Florilegium I & II, A Prospect of Irish Flowers, The Burren and Flowers of Mayo.

Her flower paintings were exhibited at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, London, during the summer of 1992, and her tree paintings have been given the Alpine Garden Society of Ireland's gold award over two successive years.

This book celebrates one of the most enduring and spectacular features of Ireland's botanical heritage, with thirty-one exquisitely rendered watercolours accompanied by an informative, highly researched text by a distinguished taxonomist and natural historian.

The botanical paintings are the principal feature of The Trees of Ireland: each species, silhouetted in pencil, is given its own colour plate showing detailed depictions of mature foliage, flowers and fruits.

Delicate, subtle, and accurate in every detail, they are in themselves works of art.

Additional chapters deal with the literature of trees, rare and champion specimens in Ireland, propagation, conservation and recording, and the natural history of Irish woodlands since the Ice Age. There are appendices on tree cultivars, recorded apple varieties, as well as a comprehensive bibliography and index.

216. NEWMAN, John Henry. D.D. Apologia Pro Vita Sua: being A Reply to a Pamphlet entitled "What, Then, Does Dr. Newman Mean?". London: Longman ... & Green, 1864. pp. iv, [3], 6-430, 127 (appendix). Bound by M. Caldwell & Son, Frederick St., Dublin in contemporary half maroon calf on maroon cloth boards, with their diamond shaped engraved label on front pastedown. Burgundy, black and brown endpapers. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands. Title in gilt on contrasting morocco labels. Light rubbing to binding. A very good copy. €225 It is now generally accepted that Newman has a place of his own among modern thinkers on higher education and that his views are of universal application, not limited as to place and time. During his rectorship there was conflict with John MacHale, Archbishop of Tuam, who opposed Newman's insistence that English professors should be among those appointed.

217. Ní GHRÁDA, Máiréad. Manannán. An dara chló. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig an tSoláthair, 1947. Small quarto. pp. 186. Pictorial wrappers. In very good condition. €175 IRISH NATIONAL THEATRE 218. NicSHIUBHLAIGH, Máire. The Splendid Years. Recollections of Marie NicShiubhlaigh as told to Edward Kenny. With appendices and lists of Irish Theatre Plays 1899-1916. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: James Duffy, 1955. pp. xvii, 207. Quarter blue cloth on green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in frayed pictorial dust jacket. €65 A great theatrical tradition growing out of the ideals of a handful of actors and actresses in an obscure Dublin concert hall ... spreading across the world and culminating in the establishment of the famous Abbey Theatre.

Máire NicShiubhlaigh witnessed the Abbey's early trials - and its triumphs; the 'Playboy Riots' in Dublin and America; and she was a moving spirit in the interesting Theatre of Ireland and Edward Martyn's Irish theatre, before she played her most important role in a Republican garrison during Easter Week.

SIGNED BY NIXON

219. NIXON, Richard M. Six Crises. New York: Doubleday, 1962. pp. xvi, [2], 460. Grey cloth, titled in gilt against a blue background on upper cover and spine. Signed by Richard Nixon on front free endpaper. A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket. €485

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De Búrca Ra re Books RARE FIRST EDITION 220. O'BRIEN, Flann [Myles na gCopaleen - Brian O'Nolan] At Swim-Two-Birds. London: Longmans, 1939. First edition, first issue. pp. 316. Black cloth, titled in gilt. Slight staining to lower cover, otherwise a very good copy. Top edge green. Rare. €1,250 Flann O'Brien's masterpiece and first novel, is written in a comic manner involving elements of burlesque and parody, based on pulp fiction and Old and Middle Irish tales made familiar by the literary revival. This novel was profoundly conditioned by the stylistic experiments in Ulysses, and Joyce paid it the compliment of reciting passages by heart. Although not all that well-received at the time it is now recognised as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century, and for one glorious week in April 1939 it replaced Gone With the Wind as top of the best-seller list in Dublin.

In 1953, O'Nolan took voluntary retirement from the Civil Service due to a series of accidents and illness. In order to support himself and his wife he stepped up production of his Cruiskeen Lawn column in the Irish Times, syndicated a somewhat tamer column to provincial papers, and took hack work wherever he could find it.

This is the exceedingly rare first edition in black cloth. Most of this issue was destroyed when the Germans bombed London including Longman's premises in 1940.

221. O'BRIEN, Kate. The Land of Spices. A Novel. London: William Heinemann, 1941. First edition. pp. 285. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and along spine. Spine slightly faded.

A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €145 Kate O'Brien was born in Limerick to a middle-class, Catholic family with a Cromwellian ancestor in 1897. She was educated at Laurel Hill Convent and later University College, Dublin. In the years that followed she worked as a governess in Spain and as a journalist on The Manchester Guardian. While in Manchester she wrote her first literary work, a play, Distinguished Villa. Its success enabled her to begin work as a novelist and Without My Cloak was accepted by her publisher on the strength of the first few chapters. It became a best-seller and was awarded the Hawthornden Prize.

See items 221 & 224.

222. O'BRIEN, William. The Responsibility for Partition Considered with an Eye to Ireland's Future. Dublin and London: Maunsel & Roberts, 1921. pp. 62. Printed brown wrappers.

Rebacked. Stamp of Wood Printing Works on titlepage. Some damp staining. A good copy. €35 223. Ó BROIN, Leon. Revolutionary Underground. The Story of the Irish Republican Brotherhood 1858-1924. Dublin: Gill, 1976. pp. viii, 245. Brown paper boards, title in silver on spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. Scarce. €175 This is the full history of the IRB tracing the fortunes of the organisation which had a two-fold objective: to act as a clandestine gingering element in all Irish nationalist circles, and to preside over the establishment by force of an independent Irish Republic. With special emphasis on the period 191622, chiefly through the efforts of its greatest leader - Michael Collins.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 224. O'CAHAN, T.S. Owen Roe O'Neill. With maps and illustrations. London: Keane, 1968. pp.

407. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. With head and shoulder portrait of O'Neill in gilt on upper cover of dust jacket. A fine copy in dust jacket. Very scarce. €85 "THE STANDARD REFERENCE WORK" 225. O'CALLAGHAN, John Cornelius. History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France, from the Revolution in Great Britain and Ireland under James II to the Revolution in France under Louis XVI. Illustrated with portraits and maps. Glasgow & New York: London: Cameron and Ferguson. Haverty. Boston: Donahoe. Sydney: Moore. Melbourne: Robertson, 1870. pp. [2], xiii, [1], 649, [1], 6 (advertisement). Modern red buckram with original gilt decorated spine relaid. From the library of Dr. T.T. O'Farrell with his neat stamp on titlepage. Occasional light foxing to prelims. A very good copy. Scarce edition. €175 Thousands of Irishmen left Ireland following the collapse of the Jacobite armies, 1689-91. These Irishmen and their descendants fought with distinction on the battle fields of Europe and their prowess caused King George II to observe on the eve of the battle of Dettingen "God curse the laws that made these men my enemies". Prime historical and genealogical reference work on these 'Wild Geese' families who formed the Irish Brigades that served the French crown for most of the eighteenth century.

Colonel P.J. Halley in his introduction to the I.U.P. reprint states: "no modern historian has attempted such a complete history of the Irish Brigades in the service of France" and that O'Callaghan's is still "the standard work".

226. O'CONNOR, Roger. Chronicles of Eri; being the history of the Gael Scot Iber: or, The Irish People. Translated from the original manuscripts in the Phoenician dialect of Scythian language. Two volumes. London: Phillips, 1822. pp. (1) xiv, [ii], ccclxii, [ii], 91 (2) [ii], 509, 3.

Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise a very good set. Very scarce. €385

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De Búrca Ra re Books In 1822 O'Connor published The Chronicles of Eri. The book is mainly, if not entirely, the fruit of O'Connor's imagination. Roger's portrait is prefixed, described as 'O'Connor Cier-rige, head of his race, and O'Connor, chief of the prostrated people of this Nation. Soumis, pas vaincus'. O'Connor is described as a man of fascinating manners and conversation, but Dr. Madden considers that his wits were always more or less disordered. Through life he professed to be a sceptic in religion, and declared that Voltaire was his God. He died at Kilcrea, County Cork, on 27 Jan. 1834.

His will, a strange document, beginning: 'I, O'Connor and O'Connor Cier-rige, called by the English Roger O'Connor, late of Connorville and Dangan Castle', is dated 1 July 1831. Feargus O'Connor, the chartist, was his son.

With engraved titlepage, portrait frontispiece, five folding maps and two folding plates (one coloured).

IN FINE ARMORIAL BINDING 227. O'CONOR DON, Rt. Hon. Charles Owen. The O'Conors of Connaught: An Historical Memoir. Compiled from a MS. of the late John O'Donovan, LL.D. With additions from the State Papers and Public Records. With numerous illustrations and genealogical charts. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co., 1891. Quarto. pp. xxiv, 395. Bound for Hodges Figgis in full green morocco over bevelled boards. Upper cover framed by a wide gilt roll enclosing a gilt rectangular fillet with gilt shamrock outer fleurons, armorial coat-of-arms of The O'Conors in centre; similar tooling repeated on lower cover with publisher's monogram in blind. Turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second compartment, the remainder tooled in gilt with gilt shamrocks. Red and gold endbands. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Rare presentation copy. €765 This is perhaps one of the most illustrious surnames, which is borne by six distinct septs located in different parts of the country, of which four survive in considerable numbers. The most important of these are the O'Conors of Connaught. It is a story of the survival of this family over a period of more than 2,000 years and is one of the greatest Irish epics and a microcosm of the history of Ireland. Being descended from the last High Kings of Ireland, the O'Conors, a Catholic family managed to retain portions of their ancient patrimony. The Annalists claim that the O'Conors are descended from Heremon, one of the sons of Milesius, who invaded Ireland about 300 B.C. John O'Donovan from whose manuscripts the author compiled this book, states that no family in Europe can trace their descent through so many generations of legitimate ancestors. "His best work" Crone.

A MONUMENT TO ONE OF OUR GREATEST SCHOLARS 228. O'CURRY, Eugene. Lectures on The Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History.

Delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland, during the sessions of 1855 and 1856. Re-issue.

With 26 facsimiles of the ancient MSS. Dublin: William A. Hinch, 1878. pp. xxviii, 722. Green cloth, image of Celtic Warrior in gilt on upper cover and in blind on lower, title in gilt on spine.

Spine professionally rebacked. A very good copy. Scarce. €225 Eugene O'Curry, the distinguished Irish scholar and self-taught authority on Irish manuscripts, was born at Dunaha, County Clare, in 1796. Learning was in his genes, his father possessed a vast knowledge of the history, antiquities, and traditions of the country as well as a great love of the Irish 63

De BĂşrca Ra re Books language and owner of a vast collection of Irish manuscripts. Following the depression in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars, his father had to vacate their small farm in County Clare and most of the family were scattered. Eugene got employment in the Limerick Lunatic Asylum.

It was not until his father's death that he really took Celtic studies seriously. He recalled: "It was not until my father's death that I fully awoke to the passion of gathering those old fragments of our history. I knew that he was a link between our day and a time when everything was broken, scattered, and hidden; and when I called to mind the knowledge he possessed of every old ruin, every old manuscript, every old legend and tradition in Thomond, I was suddenly filled with consternation to think that all was gone forever, and no record made of it". He got to know and work with John O'Donovan (afterwards his brother-in-law), Dr. Petrie, Mr. Wakeman and James Clarence Mangan in the topographical and historical department of the Ordnance Survey. His duties led him into researches amongst Irish manuscripts in the libraries of Trinity College, the Royal Irish Academy, Oxford, and the British Museum. Along with O'Donovan he contributed to the Irish Archaeological Society, the Celtic and Ossianic Societies.

In 1849 O'Curry made important discoveries among the Irish manuscripts in the British Museum and he compiled in his own hand a catalogue of these. He was appointed Professor of Irish History and Archaeology on the establishment of the Catholic University of Ireland by John Henry Newman, who was known to have attended many of his lectures. Thomas D'Arcy McGee described him at his work: "There, as we often saw him in the flesh ... behind that desk, equipped with ink-stands, acids, and microscope, and covered with half-legible vellum folios, rose cheerfully and buoyantly to instruct the ignorant, to correct the prejudiced, or to bear with the petulant visitor, the first of living Celtic scholars and palaeographers". His 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. [See our edition in our publication section at end]. 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.

CAHIR O'DOGHERTY'S REBELLION 229. [O'DOHERTY, Sir Cahir] The Ouer-throw of an Irish rebell, in a late battaile: Or The death of Sir Carey Adoughertie, who murdred Sir George Paulet in Ireland; and for his rebellion hath his head now standing ouer Newgate in Dublin. Imprinted at London for I. Wright, and are to be sold at his shop neere Christ Church gate, 1608. Colophon reads: Dublin printed by Iohn Franckton, printer to the kings most excellent Maiestie, 1608. Quarto. pp. [22]. Titlepage offset.

Bound in nineteenth century half green crushed morocco by Riviere & Son. Engraved title. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. â‚Ź4,750 ESTC 18784 locates 4 copies only. Sweeney 3176 lists 3 copies all with variant titlepages published in the same year.

Sir Cahir O'Dogherty (1587-1608), Lord of Inishowen. On account of his age in 1600 when his father died, was bypassed for the chieftancy in preference to his uncle Felim who was installed as Prince of 64

De BĂşrca Ra re Books Inishowen by Hugh Roe O'Donnell. Cahir was fostered by the clan MacDavitt and his foster brothers Felim and Hugh resented his exclusion and proposed to Sir Henry Docwra that if he would maintain Cahir's right, they would place the lad under his guardianship, and would themselves yield service to the state. Docwra agreed; and Cahir was proclaimed the Queen's O'Dogherty, and had his patrimony confirmed to him under the Great Seal. He was knighted by Lord Mountjoy for bravery on the field of Augher, where Hugh O'Neill's brother was defeated by the Queen's troops. He was favourably received at the Court of Queen Elizabeth I and on return to Ireland he married a daughter of Lord Gormanston and was made Justice of the Peace and Alderman of the new city of Derry.

In Inishowen he resided at one or other of his castles of Elagh, Burt and Buncrana. After the Flight of the Earls in 1607 he was foreman of the jury that found them guilty of treason. But the Governor of Derry, Sir George Paulet charged him also with treason, and Cahir was obliged to find sureties. In April, 1608 he called on Sir George relative to the sale of a portion of his lands. An argument ensued between them, and Paulet, a man of violent temper, struck the young chieftain. O'Dogherty hastily departed and took counsel with the MacDavitts, his foster-brothers. They declared that the insult could be wiped out only with blood. Collecting friends and followers Sir Cahir immediately went into rebellion. Culmore was sacked while its governor Harte and his family were unwilling guests at Elagh.

With munitions procured there, O'Dogherty and his troops then proceeded to Derry where they sacked and burned the city, killed Paulet, and slaughtered the garrison there. Bishop Montgomery's valuable collection of books and manuscripts was destroyed. An unsuccessful attack was made upon Lifford and they then marched into MacSweeney's country. The newes-pamphlet concludes at this point. Sir Cahir's days were numbered however, for a force of 3,000 men was at once despatched from Dublin Castle and the proud chieftain and knight was killed in a skirmish by a single shot under the Rock of Doon (inauguration site of the O'Donnells), near Kilmacrenan on Tuesday, 5th July 1608, seventy-seven days after the burning of Derry, which, remarks Sir John Davies, "is an ominous number, being seven elevens, and eleven sevens". His foster-brother Felim Reagh MacDavitt was tried at Derry, convicted and executed. Their heads are depicted on the engraved titlepage impaled in Newgate prison, Dublin.

John Gilbert in his Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin (see item 98) states "Of any of the buildings in Dublin in the sixteenth century the only delineations now known are those included in two engravings published at London in 1581 [Derricke's Image of Ireland] ... a sketch of the Dublin prison of Newgate, with two impaled heads [The Ouer-throw of an Irish rebel]" London 1608. These

illustrations were reproduced in volume II of the Calendar.

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De Búrca Ra re Books bearing in Ulster; his Spanish hat with the heron's plume was too often the terror of his enemies and the rallying-point of his friends not to bespeak the O'Dogherty".

The Annals of The Four Masters thus conclude their notice of his life: "He was cut into quarters between Derry and Cuil-mor, and his head was sent to Dublin to be exhibited; and many of the gentlemen and chieftains of the province, too numerous to be particularized, were also put to death. It was indeed from it, and from the departure of the Earls we have mentioned, it came to pass that their principalities, their territories, their estates, their lands, their forts, their fortresses, their fruitful harbours, and their fishful bays, were taken from the Irish of the province of Ulster, and given in their presence to foreign tribes; and they were expelled and banished into other countries, where most of them died". [See our edition of The Annals of The Four Masters in our publication section at end].

230. O'DONOGHUE, D.J. The Life and Writings of James Clarence Mangan. With illustrations. Edinburgh: Geddes, & Dublin: Gill & O'Donoghue, 1897. Royal octavo. pp. xxiv, 250, 15 (Works by D. J. O'Donoghue). Blue cloth, rose in gilt on upper cover. Title in gilt on decorated spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Top edge gilt. Light wear to extremities. A very good copy. €145 This work contains a great quantity of new biographical matter and also very characteristic and admirable poems, not found previously in any collection of Mangan's works. It also contains interesting and unpublished reminiscences of him by many of his contemporaries, including: John Mitchel; John O'Donovan; W.F. Wakeman; Sir C.G. Duffy; John O'Daly; Thomas D'Arcy McGee, etc.

231. O'DONOVAN, John. Ed. by. The Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, commonly called O'Dowda's Country. Now first published from the Book of Lecan, in the library of the Royal Irish Academy, and from the Genealogical Manuscript of Duald MacFirbis, in the library of Lord Roden. With a translation and notes, and a map of Hy-Fiachrach, and surname index supplement. Kansas: Irish Genealogical Foundation, 1993. Quarto. pp. vi, 530. Full green leather, title in gilt on spine. Special edition limited to 300 copies. A fine copy €175 Illustrated with a large folding genealogical table showing the descent of the principal families of HyFiachrach, from their great ancestor Eochaidh Muighmheadhoin, monarch of Ireland in the fourth century, to the present day. These were the illustrious families of the O'Dowds, O'Shaughnessys, O'Clerys, and O'Hynes. Their territory comprised of County Mayo and much of County Sligo.

This account of the families of Hy-Fiachrach is taken from the manuscripts of the great Western scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 232. O'FLAHERTY, Liam. Shame the Devil. Portrait frontispiece. London: Grayson & Grayson, 1934. First edition. pp. 285. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 105 numbered copies. Signed by the author. Top edge gilt. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €395 Publisher's note states "At the moment of going to press, certain passages on pages 136 and 189 had to be deleted".

PRESENTATION COPY FROM CANON ULICK BOURKE 233. O'GALLAGHER, Most Rev. James. Sermons in Irish-Gaelic by the Most Rev. James O'Gallagher, Bishop of Raphoe, with literal idiomatic English translation on opposite pages, and Irish-Gaelic Vocabulary, also a Memoir of the Bishop and his times by Rev. Canon Ulick J. Bourke, M.R.I.A., President of St. Jarlath's College, Tuam. Dublin: Gill, 1877. pp. lxv, 429, [8 (corrigenda and letter from Canon Bourke)], xvii. Presentation inscription on titlepage "To John Callanan Esqr. with the respectful compliments & kind regards of the Editor, & Author of Memoir". Minor wear to cloth, otherwise a good copy. €275 66

De Búrca Ra re Books 234. O'HALLORAN, Mr. [Sylvester] A General History of Ireland, from the Earliest Accounts to the Close of the Twelfth Century, collected from the Most Authentic Records, in which new and interesting lights are thrown on the remote Histories of Other Nations as well as Britains.

Two volumes. London: Printed for the Author, by A. Hamilton, 1778. Quarto. pp. (1) xv, [1], lvi, 307, [11], (2) [iii], 416, [11]. Contemporary full catspaw calf. Covers framed by a gilt Greek key roll to boards. Spines expertly rebacked with elaborate gilt tooling. Contrasting labels. Signature of Hennessy on titlepage, with his bookplate and also that of Caroli Francisci Josephi Ghisleni Fallon, Namurcencis, on front pastedown. Light foxing to list of subscribers. A very attractive set. Very rare. €1,250 Bradshaw 6110 Not in Gilbert.

Silvester O'Halloran, surgeon and historian, was born in Limerick, in 1728. He studied medicine in the schools of London, Paris, and Leyden, and devoted himself to practice in his native city. Before he was twenty-one he published a Treatise on Cataract, the first of several medical essays from his pen.

Archaeology divided his attention with medicine; he was an Irish scholar, and one of the earliest members of the Royal Irish Academy. A Treatise on the Preservation of Ancient Annals appeared in 1770; An Introduction to the Study of the Antiquities of Ireland, in 1772; his General History of Ireland, in 1774; besides minor papers read before the Academy and elsewhere.

His History is now but little referred to, as the most valuable and accurate portions of it are to be found in Colgan and O'Flaherty. It is distinguished throughout by great national enthusiasm and considerable erudition, but its topographical descriptions, though on the whole tolerably correct, have been in many instances revised and altered by modern investigators... It was an astonishing performance at the date of its publication".

He is spoken of by a contemporary as "the tall, thin doctor, in his quaint French dress, with his goldheaded cane, beautiful Parisian wig, and cocked hat;. . his entire time nearly given up to literature and the discovery of antiquities". O'Halloran died in Limerick in 1807, aged about 78, and was buried in Kileedy churchyard. His portrait is prefixed to a notice in the Dublin Journal of Medical Science, Vol vi. [One of his sons, Joseph, entered the army, served fifteen years in India, and rose to be LieutenantGeneral Sir Joseph O'Halloran: he died in London about 1843, aged eighty].

Edmund Burke, Member for Bristol is listed among the subscribers, as also are several officers in the regiments of Ultonia and Hibernia in the service of Spain. Other worthies of note include: Earl Charlemont, O'Callaghan, Duke of Devonshire, Marshal Fitz James, Hon. Charles Fox, William Flin Bookseller, Standish O'Grady, Provost Hely Hutchinson, Earl Inchiquin, Count O'Kelly, Duke of Leinster, Count Lacy, Mary Ann Langan, Archbishop of Narbowne, Count O'Reilly, James Swift, Crofton Vandeleur, Charles Vallancey, Barry Yelverton, etc.

235. O'KELLY, Charles. The Jacobite War in Ireland (1688 - 1691). Edited by George Noble Count Plunkett and The Rev. Edm. Hogan. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1894. Second edition. pp. xii, 115, 1. Repair to spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €125 Covering: The Landing of James in Ireland; Irish Parliament of 1689; First Siege of Limerick; The Wild Geese, etc.

See items 235 & 237.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 236. O'MALLEY, Ernie. The Singing Flame. Tralee: Anvil Books, 1978. First edition. pp. [vi], 312. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. Rare. €125 This is a continuation of 'On Another Man's Wound' and the first detailed account of the civil war by a leading Republican.

237. O'MEARA, Barry Edward. Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St. Helena. The opinions and reflections of Napoleon on the most important events of his life and government, in his own words. Illustrated. Two volumes. London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1822. Fourth edition. pp. (1) xxviii, 512, (2) [2], 542. Contemporary half green morocco, title and volume number in gilt direct on spines. Armorial bookplate of John Maconchy on front pastedowns. Very light foxing to prelims, minor wear to corners. A fine set. €275 Barry Edward O'Meara (1786-1836) Irish surgeon and founding member of the Reform Club, was the son of Jeremiah O'Meara, a 'member of the legal profession', by Miss Murphy, sister of Edmund Murphy, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, and Rector of Tartaraghan, County Armagh. He was surgeon on board the Bellerophon when Napoleon surrendered himself in 1815. Bonaparte was attracted by the doctor's ability to speak Italian and, when his own surgeon declined to follow him into exile, he asked that O'Meara accompany him to St. Helena as his medical attendant. The admiralty readily permitted O'Meara to join the emperor, hoping that he would serve as a sort of spy.

On 28 October 1818 O'Meara wrote a letter to the Lords of the Admiralty in which he suggested that Lowe might try to assassinate Napoleon. As a result of this letter he was dismissed from the Royal Navy. After his dismissal he defended his behaviour in the Morning Chronicle and then began a pamphlet war against Lowe, publishing An Exposition of some of the Transactions that have taken place at St Helena since the appointment of Hudson Lowe as Governor (London, 1819). This work was enlarged and published as Napoleon in Exile: or A Voice from St Helena (2 vols, London, 1822). It was extremely popular and soon ran through five editions, being published in translation in France. It was also subjected to unfavourable reviews, however, and in the Quarterly Review John Wilson Croker detected several inconsistencies between O'Meara's two accounts. Yet, while his writings were undoubtedly partisan, they remain of interest as a sympathetic record of the conversations and living conditions of Napoleon during his time on St Helena. O'Meara's writings have proved popular among those trying to find evidence that Napoleon was assassinated, and been used to support various conspiracy theories. After the publication of Napoleon in exile in 1822, Sir Hudson Lowe began libel proceedings against O'Meara, but these were later dropped due to legal technicalities. Lord Byron later referred to O'Meara in his pro-Bonapartist poem 'The age of Bronze': "The staff surgeon who maintained his cause Hath lost his place but gained the world's applause".

Carlyle wrote: "O'Meara's work has increased my respect for Napoleon. I recollect no spectacle more moving and sublime than that of this great man in his dreary prison-house, captive, sick, despised, forsaken, yet arising above it all by the stern force of his own unconquerable spirit".

238. Ó MOGHRÁIN, Pádraig. D'aistrigh. Sídhe-Sgéalta Ghrimm. An Cúigeadh Leabhrán. An Dara Chló. Illustrated. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig an tSoláthair, 1944. pp. 97. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig an tSoláthair, 1944. pp. 97. Pictorial wrappers. In very good condition. €175 Stories include: An Solus Gorm; An Feilméara agus an Diabhal; An Mac Tíre agus an Sionnach; An Fear Saidhbhir agus an Fear Bocht; EilísChaol Chaithte, etc.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 239. Ó MOGHRÁIN, Pádraig. D'aistrigh. Sídhe-Sgéalta Ghrimm. An Seiseadh Leabhrán.

Illustrated. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig an tSoláthair, 1944. An Dara Chló. Small quarto. pp. 105.

Pictorial wrappers. In very good condition. €175 Stories include: Cailín na Luatha; An Fathach agus an Táilliúr, etc.

CORK FAMILY NAMES 240. Ó MURCHADHA, Diarmuid. Family Names of County Cork. With maps and illustrations. Dublin: Glendale, 1985. pp. xii, 332. Purple paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. €95 This work deals with the origins of fifty of the best-known surnames of County Cork and traces their early history down to 1700. Many of the families featured never had their story related in detail before now; particulars of others are accessible only in books long out of print or in learned journals not readily available to the public. Each name is treated in a separate article. Special attention is given to the location of early family seats, such as castles, parishes and townlands occupied by or associated with the various families throughout the county.

241. Ó NUALLÁIN, Brian [Flann O'BRIEN] Mairead Gillan. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig an tSolathair, 1953. Octavo. An chead chlo. pp. 97. Printed blue stapled wrappers. A fine copy.

Very rare. €135 The Irish translation of Brinsley MacNamara's Margaret Gillan written in 1933.

SUPERB LARGE PAPER COPY 242. O'PHELAN, John. Epitaphs on the Tombs, in the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny, collected by John O'Phelan, of the Old Deer-Park. Interspersed with Plates, and Specimens of Facsimile of the Manuscript. Together, with a Preface, and Notes, Historical and Explanatory, from the Monasticon, Holinshed, Ware, Stanihurst, Arsdekin, Burke, and other scarce authors; also, Observations on the Pillar, or Round Tower, near the Cathedral. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell, No. 10, Back-Lane, 1813. Folio. pp. [vi], 6-81, [3]. Recent quarter calf on original pink paper boards. Apart from old light staining to cover, a superb copy.

Scarce. €675

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De Búrca Ra re Books Edited by Peter Shee with a postscript. Added engraved titlepage. Title (engraved within aquatinted and etched illustration) reads: Epigraphai monumentorum Basilicæ Ossoriensis Sancto Canico sacræ.

Dedication to Walter, Earl of Ormonde and Ossory (p. [1]) signed: "Peter Shee. Kilkenny, June 1, 1813". Includes bibliographical references.

243. [O'REILLY, Andrew] Reminiscences of an Emigrant Milesian. The Irish Abroad and at Home: In the Camp; At the Court. With Souvenirs of "The Brigade". Three volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1853. First edition. pp. (1) [ii], vi, 313, (2) vi, 315, (3) vi, 306. Early presentation inscription on titlepage. Spines expertly rebacked. Occasional light foxing. A very good set. Very scarce. €575 COPAC locates 2 sets only. WorldCat 3.

A most informative work on the Wild Geese. The contents include chapters on: Lally Tollendal; The Reign of Terror - Dr. MacMahon; The United Irishmen; Arthur Dillon; General O'Hara; Tom Pakenham; Colonel Stack; Egan's Journey to France; 'Waterloo Kelly'; Irish Colleges and Seminaries Abroad; Abbé Kearney & Abbé Edgeworth; Sufferings of the Irish at Home - British Misrule; Disaffection - Secret Societies - Rapparees, White Boys, Defenders, Black Hens, Carabates, Shanavests, Rockites, Moll Doyle's Sons, Carders and Ribbonmen; The Geoghegans; The Luttrells; Administration of Justice in Ireland; Arthur O'Connor, etc.

In the 1700s, Colonel Edmond O'Reilly had no less than thirty-three O'Reilly officers under his command, while Colonel Mahon had sixteen in his. In the complicated religious and territorial wars of two centuries ago, there is no doubt that O'Reillys fought on every side: French, Austrian, Prussian, Spanish, Italian and Russian. They were professional soldiers who preferred to put their swords at the disposal of the monarchs of Europe than to fight for the colonisers who had overrun their country.

LARGE PAPER COPY 244. [ORMONDE] The Life of James, late Duke of Ormonde.

Containing, I. An Historical and Genealogical Account of His Grace's Family. II. An Impartial View of His Conduct in his Civil and Military Employments, with the History of His Time, and an Inquiry into the Principles and Measures of those Parties, which he either supported or opposed. III. A Succinct Account of the most remarkable Events that happen'd to Him during upwards of Thirty Years Exile; from Authentic Materials. Engraved frontispiece of James late Duke of Ormonde.

London: Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe, in Pater-Noster Row, 1747. pp. vi, 544, 4. Recent full calf, spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €375 Life of one of the most distinguished Irish statesmen and soldiers of his day, a supporter of English rule who was nevertheless a conciliator. Arranged a cease fire with the Irish rebels in 1643, and offered a treaty in 1646 which granted religious tolerance to Catholics.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 245. O'RORKE, T. D.D. The History of Sligo: Town and County. With illustrations, maps and list of subscribers. Two volumes. Dublin: Duffy, n.d. (c. 1890). pp. (1) xxxviii, 516, (2) xv, 627, 6. Publisher's green cloth, rebacked. A very good copy. Scarce. €375 With the popular success of his Ballysadare and Kilvarnet, instead of resting on his laurels, Terence O'Rorke set about on an even more ambitious project, namely the writing of a history of his native county. His History of Sligo was widely acclaimed as a scholarly and detailed work, a complete and impartial record of the history of Sligo, its secular, religious, social and natural history from the earliest times down to the 1880s.

One reviewer stated at the time: "Instead of copying others or regarding the authority of O'Donovan, Petrie, or the Venerable Charles O'Conor as decisive, Dr O'Rorke differs constantly from preceding inquirers, goes in every case for himself to the sources and rests his conclusions on neglected or misunderstood passages of our old annals and other writings, disregarding, for the most part, oral traditions and gossip ... The verdict of posterity will be that he has left behind him a work which will entitle him to a high place among the historians of the century".

246. O'ROURKE, Rev. John. The Centenary Life of O'Connell. With recollections of the Liberator in Parliament, by the Right. Hon. W.E. Gladstone, M.P. Dublin: James Duffy, n.d.

16mo. Fifth edition. pp. [4], 288, [12]. Green cloth, harp in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on decorated spine. Celtic decorative bookplate of A.P. O'Brien on front pastedown. All edges gilt.

Some minor wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €125 COPAC locates 1 copy only of this edition.

247. O'SULLIVAN, Thos. F. Romantic Hidden Kerry. Legendary, Antiquarian and Historical Associations, Political, Economic and Social Conditions, & Scenic Attractions of the Barony of Corkaguiny. With illustrations and folding map of the barony of Corkaguiny. Tralee: The Kerryman Ltd., 1931. Small octavo. pp. xiv, 656. Original quarter green cloth on recent green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €575

248. PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man: being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Eighth edition. Bound with: Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining principle and practice. Eighth edition. London: Printed for J.S. Jordan, No. 166, Fleet-Street, 1791/1792. pp. x, [1], 8-171, xv, [1], 178. Original worn quarter morocco with new marbled paper. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Minor traces of worming and small brown ink to titlepage. A very good copy. €225 ESTC N1631. Black 1780 lists the Dublin edition Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809), became a supernumerary excise officer at Thetford (his native place) in 1761. He was dismissed from that post after printing and distributing to Members of Parliament a statement of excise men's grievances for improved conditions and pay. He sailed for America, with an 71

De Búrca Ra re Books introduction from Franklin, and published in 1776 his pamphlet Common Sense, a history of the events leading up to the war with England, which made him famous. He became totally dedicated to an invention for an iron bridge, and in 1786 sailed for Europe to promote his idea. Four years later in London, the first part of his Rights of Man, was published, in reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution. With the appearance of the second part in 1792 Paine was compelled to flee to France to avoid prosecution, the book having become a manifesto in sympathy with the French Revolution. It was prior to his departure that he wrote this letter in which he discusses his magnum opus: "Is it, then, any wonder that Placemen and Pensioners, and the whole train of Court expectants, should become the promoters of Addresses, Proclamations, and Prosecutions? or, is it any wonder that Corporations and rotten Boroughs, which are attacked and exposed, should join in the cavalcade? ... Had not such persons come forward to oppose the 'Rights of Man', I should have doubted the efficacy of my own writings".

249. PARKINSON, H. & SIMMONDS, P. L. Ed. by. The Illustrated Record and Descriptive Catalogue of the Dublin International Exhibition of 1865. Compiled and edited by Henry Parkinson and Peter Lund Simmonds. Aided by Numerous Contributions from the Several Heads of Departments and other Experienced Writers on Special Subjects. Published under the sanction of the executive committee. With two hundred and fifty illustrations on wood, stone, and steel; photographs, &c. London: E. and F. N. Spon. Dublin: John Falconer, 53, Upper Sackville-Street, 1866. Imperial octavo (290 x 210mm). pp. xvi, 570 (double column). Bound by J. Falconer, Dublin, in blind-stamped red pebbled cloth. Exhibition Centre in gilt on upper cover (see illustration), two medals in gilt on lower, title in gilt along rebacked spine. New endpapers. Light foxing to frontispiece only. All edges gilt. A very good to fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,250 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

THE 'HOUSE OF NOBS' AND THE ACT OF UNION 250. [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.

Six issues. Tripilo [i.e. Dublin]. Published by the Executors of Judith Freel, late Printer to his 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.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 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.

251. PAYNE-GALLWAY, Sir Ralph. The Fowler in Ireland or Notes on the Haunts and Habits of Wildfowl and Seafowl including Instructions in the Art of Shooting and Capturing them. With numerous full page illustrations and text cuts. Southampton: Ashford Press, 1985. Reprint. pp. xiii, 503. Green buckram, lettering and illustration in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €45 PEARSE’S FAREWELL TO LITERATURE INSCRIBED AND SIGNED IN IRISH BY THE PATRIOT 252. Mac PIARAIS, Pádraic. [PEARSE, P.H.] Dundalk, Dún Dealgan: Wm. Tempest, 1916.

First edition. pp. [4], 96. Quarter linen on blue paper boards, titled on upper cover. Uncut. This copy neatly inscribed inscribed Pearse on front endpaper "Do Sheaghán Binérs / ó Phádraic Mac Piarais / 19. 2. 16", in Pearse’s characteristic backward-slanting hand. A fine copy. €3,750

This was Pearse’s last literary publication, containing the stories he had written since Iosagán in 1907.

It includes just six stories, including the well-known ‘Bríghid na nAmhrán’. The author’s preface is dated ‘Lá Samhna 1915’ --- November 1st 1915, a few months after his great address at the funeral of Diarmuid O’Donovan Rossa. From that time onward he devoted all his time and energy to preparing for the Rising. The date of the inscription, 19 February, is just eight weeks before the Rising; Pearse had less than ten weeks to live. He was executed by firing squad on 3 May. He knew his life was forfeit, and was neither surprised nor dismayed by the decision of the court martial.

We have not traced Seaghán Binéid (Bennett). It is likely that he was a member of the Gaelic League, but he is not listed in Mac Aonghusa’s history or in Diarmaid Breathnach’s biographical dictionary.

Somebody must know who he was; any information would be appreciated.

Padraic Pearse (1879-1916) trained as a lawyer, but did not practise; it is believed he spoke in Court only once. From an early age he was an enthusiastic member of the Gaelic League, became editor of its journal An Claidheamh Solais and founded a residential bilingual school, St. Enda’s, in 1908.

Educationally the school was a great success, but it did not prosper financially. From about 1912 Pearse became active in radical politics, and was a founding member of the Irish Volunteers. He is 73

De Búrca Ra re Books credited with drafting much of the 1916 Proclamation. During the Rising he was President of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic. He surrendered the Republican forces on Easter Saturday to avoid further civilian casualties, was sentenced to death by a military court and was shot on 3 May. Presentation copies of An Mháthair are rare, for obvious reasons.

253. PEARSE, Padraic H. Collected Works of Pádraic H. Pearse. Songs of the Irish Rebels and Specimens from an Irish Anthology. Dublin and London: Maunsel & Company, 1918. pp. vii, 127. Green buckram, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €70 254. PEASE, Z.W. The Catalpa Expedition. With illustrations. New Bedford: MA: George S. Anthony, 1897. pp. [vii], 215. Olive-green cloth. Lovely illustration of the Catalpa stamped in gilt on upper cover. Gilt lettering to spine. Armorial bookplate of J.E. Cassidy. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €175

The Catalpa was a whaling vessel that was bought by Clan na Gael in New York and used to rescue six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle, Australia. The rescue was planned by John Devoy and John Breslin and took place on 17 April 1876. On 19 August 1876 the Catalpa arrived safely back in New York harbour, having successfully completed its mission despite the attentions of a British naval cutter and many other dangers and difficulties. The story reads like fiction but it did much to encourage the growth of Clan na Gael and the reputation of John Devoy.

The publisher, George S. Anthony, captained the whale ship Catalpa during the voyage. The story of the rescue is prefaced by a history of the Fenian conspiracy of 1867, and the subsequent court-martial held in Dublin.

The six Fenians were Thomas Darragh, Martin Hogan, Michael Harrington, Thomas Hassett, Robert Cranston and James Wilson. A seventh Fenian, James Kiely, had been exposed as an informer by his fellow prisoners and left behind.

WITH MAP OF PENN'S CLONAKILTY LANDS 255. PENN, William. My Irish Journal 1669-1670. Edited by Isabel Grubb. Introduction by Henry J. Cadbury. With illustrations and maps on endpapers. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1952. First edition. pp. [vi], 103. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €85 William Penn (1644-1718), Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, was sent to Ireland in 1669 at the age of twenty-five by his father, the admiral, to run the latter's property, in Shanagarry, County Cork.

While there he met a college friend, Thomas Lee (Loe), and after hearing him preach, his conversion was complete and he became a Quaker. But the Quakers, like the Catholics, were then the victims of persecution. Lord Orrery had called the attention of Christopher Rye, Mayor of Cork to the 'Conventiclers' in the city and suburbs, and directed that all who attended such meetings to be seized and punished. Penn and his friends, while meeting in some such 'Conventicle' were apprehended and brought before the Mayor, who offered to release Penn on condition of his giving security not to offend again, but this he refused to do. Thus it transpired that the future founder of Pennsylvania spent a 74

De Búrca Ra re Books month in the common gaol of Cork. In an appeal to Lord Orrery, which led to his release: "Religion", said Penn is that "which is at once my crime and mine innocence, makes me a prisoner to a mayor's malice, but a free man to myself". While in Ireland William Penn kept a small note-book into which he entered a record of his daily activities.

RARE FINE FIRST EDITION 256. PETREL, Fulmar. [GREEN, W. S.] Grania Waile. A West Connaught Sketch of the Sixteenth Century. With frontispiece and map. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First edition. pp. viii, 285. Pictorial green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and on spine.

Floral patterned green endpapers. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. Very rare. €265 COPAC locates 5 copies only.

This scarce novel, published under the pseudonym of "Fulmar Petrel" has been ascribed to the County Cork born clergyman, naturalist and mountaineer William Spotswood Green (1847-1919). Born at Youghal and educated at Trinity College in Dublin, he was ordained a priest in 1873. Already before he left the services of the Church in 1890, he had worked on marine biology.

In the 1880s, he participated as a leading member in several research expeditions sponsored by the Royal Irish Academy. In 1892, he became the Inspector of Fisheries.

Combined with this work he was a Commissioner on the Congested Districts Board, where his intimate knowledge of human conditions in western Ireland was of great service. In 1914 he shook off the trammels of office, and retired to West Cove in Kerry. There he died five years later.

Green was also a member of the English Alpine Club and became a mountain climber well-known especially in Canada and New Zealand. In 1882, he attempted with two Swiss guides a first ascent of Mount Cook in New Zealand, but the party was forced back by bad weather shortly before they reached the top. In the late 1880s Green did survey work in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia.

MAGNIFICENT TREASURE 257. PETRIE, George, NICHOLL, A. & O'NEILL, H. Picturesque Sketches of some of the finest Landscape and Coast Scenery of Ireland from drawings by George Petrie, A. Nicholl and H. O'Neill. Volume 1 (all published). Consisting of twenty-four hand-coloured engravings with tissue guards. Dublin: Wakeman, 1835. Quarto. pp. [iv], 48, 24 (plates). Bound in contemporary quarter maroon morocco over a relivio style decorated cloth, title in gilt along spine. All edges gilt. A near fine copy of this exceedingly rare book. €7,500 COPAC locates only 2 copies only. WorldCat 3. This edition not listed in Abbey. Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. Elmes and Hewson 2081.

Perhaps the finest collection of hand-coloured Irish aquatint views. The quality of the colouring suggests that the artists themselves might have been involved: each plate has the quality of an original watercolour.

Of the Irish artists of the nineteenth century Petrie, Nicholl and O'Neill were the three most distinguished that continued to work at home and they collaborated on this magnificent treasure. The views depicted by these eminent artists are as follows: Henry O'Neill (1798-1880), a native of Clonmel, sometimes worked with Petrie but disagreed with his 75

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theories on round towers. His lithographic portraits of the Young Irelanders are well known. His contribution of thirteen views (all of County Wicklow) to the present work was by far the greatest: The Meeting of the Waters, County Wicklow; Scene in the Dargle, Waterfall, Powerscourt; Castle Howard; The Ess-Waterfall, Glen Malure, Glen of the Downs, The Second Meeting of the Waters, Ballyarthur Vale of Ovoca, The Sugar-loaf Hills, Waterfall at Glenmacanass, New Bridge, Vale of Ovoca, Shelton Abbey, the Seat of the Earl of Wicklow.

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books Andrew Nicholl (1804-1886), a native of Belfast, appears to have been totally self-taught as an artist.

His drawings appeared in the Dublin Penny Journal, and he was one of the artists chosen to illustrate Hall's Ireland. He exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy and on the death of Henry Brocas in 1837 he was selected by the Royal Dublin Society as the most suitable candidate for the vacant post of Master in the Drawing School, but the choice was over-ruled, and the Society elected Henry Brocas Jnr. His views are as follows: Benandanar, & the Stack, Port Moon County Antrim; Lower Lake, Killarney; The Four Courts, Kingston Cave, County Tipperary; Waterfall in the Devil's Glen, County Wicklow; Doone Point, Island of Rathlin; Kenbaan Castle, County Antrim; Pike of the Gap of Dunloe, Killarney; Rendonegan Lake, from Gorteenruoe, Bantry Bay; Port Coon Cave, County Antrim.

George Petrie (1789-1866), was the first water-colourist to be accepted by the Royal Hibernian Academy. His friend and biographer, William Stokes said of him in this evocative passage: "Hence many of his pictures show the effects of that combination so strangely frequent in Ireland, where the ruin and its surroundings unite in giving a national character to the scene, and so in a large proportion of his works, we have the feeling and skill of the painter in union with the knowledge of the antiquarian". His contributions were: Comeen-duff or Black-Valley, Killarney; The Twelve Pins, Connemara, County of Galway; Googan Barra, County Cork. The latter is Petrie's masterpiece, with amazing light effects and shafts of sunlight achieving beautiful tonal views, exhibited as early as 1831.

SEMINAL WORK ON THE HILL OF TARA 258. PETRIE, George. Remarks on the Book of Mac Firbis, an Irish Manuscript transcribed for the Academy. Together with: An account of an Ancient Irish Reliquary, called the DomnachAirgid. With five engraved plates of the cumdach, or ornamental case in which it was preserved.

Together with: On the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. With engraved plates. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry for the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1838. Quarto. pp. [4], 393. Recent half calf. A very good copy. Very scarce. â‚Ź545

In these three articles on Irish antiquities George Petrie has devoted two hundred and seven pages on Tara. A learned and exhaustive treatise on the Hill of Tara, the chief seat of the Irish Monarchs from the dawn of history to the middle of the sixth century. Contains also many transcriptions from the Dinnseanchus, Books of Ballymote, Lecan and Glendalough, the Leabhar Breac and the Leabhar Gabhala, with parallel translations chiefly by the great learned scholar, John O'Donovan.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 259. PETTY, Sir William. Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland. Containing. I. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions : II. Essays in Political Arithmetic : III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland. By the late Sir William Petty. To which is prefixed His Last Will. Dublin: Printed by Boulter Grierson, 1769. pp. xxiv, 488. Contemporary full worn calf. Lacking letterpiece, joints starting but very firm. A very good copy internally. €275 260. [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM] Untitled album of fine original photographs and albumen prints. Professionally taken in Dublin and Wicklow, circa 1890-1910. Comprising one hundred and twenty five photographs. Various sizes mainly 155 x 110mm. Laid on thick card. Bound in contemporary half morocco on cloth sides, stamp of T.H. Reilly, 24 Grafton Street, Dublin on front pastedown. Some pages loose, binding in need of restoration. €575

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books Includes some very interesting photographs of: houses, estates, gardens, farm buildings, avenues, babies, groups of people young and old. Only a couple of the photographs are captioned, one depicting a young ladies sewing meeting in Appian Way, Dublin, and Susie Jones seated with her dog. It would appear that the house in Appian Way was a school for these young women. There are several photograhs of country houses and several photographs taken in County Wicklow. Also of interest are depictions of farm workers, milk maids, shepherds and a flock of sheep, a sitting room, cyclists in the woods, a rare photograph of men cutting turf, several of the Dublin laundry company and its women employees, etc.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 261. PILKINGTON, Matthew. A General Dictionary of Painters; Containing Memoirs of The Lives and Works of the most eminent Professors of the Art of Painting, from its Revival, by Cimabue, in the year 1250, to the present time. A New Edition, revised and corrected throughout, with numerous additions, particularly of the most distinguished artists of the British School. Two volumes. London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean, 1824. pp. (1) xxxvi, 543, (2) 568. Black buckram, title in gilt on red morocco labels on spine. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good set. €150 262. PITT, William. Papers Relative to the Rupture with Spain, Laid before Both Houses of Parliament, On Friday, the Twenty-ninth Day of January, 1762. By His Majesty's Command.

Dublin: Printed by Boulter Grierson, 1762. pp. 99, [1]. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Engraved titlepage. Slight staining, otherwise a very good copy.

Extremely rare. €575 COPAC locates the British Library and Oxford copies only. No printed version on WorldCat.

RARE TOPOGRAPHICAL WORK 263. PLUMPTRE, Anne. Narrative of a Residence in Ireland during the summer of 1814, and that of 1815. Illustrated with an engraved portrait of the author and eleven aquatints of remarkable scenery. London: For Henry Colburn, 1817. Quarto. pp. xv, 398. Recent half calf on marbled boards. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Very scarce. €1,250

Abbey 457 Elmes & Hewson 2087 Bradshaw 7780.

Anne Plumptre (1760-1818), author, was the daughter of Dr. Robert Plumptre, president of Queens' College, Cambridge. She was well educated and versed in many languages. From 1802 to 1805 she resided in France and some years later published her observations in the Narrative of a Three Years' Residence in France. She made two visits to Ireland during the period 1814-15 and recorded her experiences in this splendid volume.

264. PLUNKETT, James. The Trusting and the Maimed and other Irish stories by James Plunkett. London: Hutchinson & Co. 1959. pp. 232. Green cloth, title in white along spine.

Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €35 PRESENTATION COPY - PRIVATELY PRINTED 265. POWERSCOURT, Seventh Viscount. Muniments of the Ancient Saxon Family of Wingfield. Compiled by Mervyn Edward, Seventh Viscount Powerscourt, from the Archives in the British Museum, College of Arms, and Records Office, Dublin, and from other sources.

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De Búrca Ra re Books charts. London: Privately Printed for the Author by Mitchell and Hughes, 1894. Large Quarto. pp. viii, 88, 58 (illustrations). Original reddish-brown cloth, title and armorial bearings of the Wingfield family in gilt on upper cover. Signed presentation copy from Viscount Powerscourt to Sir T.F. Buxton, with his armorial bookplate. Top edge gilt. Fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €3,750 COPAC lists 5 copies only.

Viscount Powerscourt informs us in the preface that these memorials of the Wingfields were commenced in 1880. Miss St. John Neville was commissioned to examine and collate all the records which could be found in the British Museum, Dublin Castle, and elsewhere. She also visited Wingfield Castle in Suffolk, accompanied by Mrs. Morris, daughter of Mr. George Bullen, Librarian to the British Museum, who made drawings of the castle, the tombs and monuments. On the advice of Mr. Bernard Quaritch, the records were put into the hands of Mr. Henry Farnham Burke, Somerset Herald. Added to this work are accounts of the interview of Marshal Wingfield with Queen Elizabeth I on his return from Ireland, which were related to the author by his grand-uncle, Rev. William Wingfield, Vicar of Abbeyleix, who also supplied the anecdotes of the visit of King George IV.

266. PRAEGER, Robert Lloyd. Belfast and County Down Railway Company. Official Guide to County Down and the Mourne Mountains. With seventy photographs of scenery by R. Welch, Belfast, maps, and other illustrations. Second edition, revised. Belfast: M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, Ltd., The Linenhall Press, 1900. pp. xv, 235, + adverts. Pictorial green cloth, worn at edges. A good copy. €75 267. PRAEGER, Robert Lloyd. The Way That I Went. An Irishman in Ireland. With illustrations and large folding map. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & London: Methuen, 1937. First edition. Crown octavo. pp. xiv1, 394. Dark blue cloth. Previous owner's neat stamp on front endpaper and titlepage. Top edge trimmed. A very good copy. Scarce. €125 After more than seventy years The Way That I Went remains the finest topographical guide to the Irish countryside. Perhaps the reason for this is that it was written not as a guide but rather as an outstanding man's memories of a land which he had known and loved for seventy years.

268. PRAEGER, S. Rosamond. Further Doings of the Three Bold Babes. Profusely illustrated by the author. London: Longman, Green & Co., 1898. First edition. Oblong quarto. pp. 48, vi.

Quarter linen on illustrated boards. Cover stained. Very scarce. €235

Sophia Rosamond Praeger (1867-1954), artist and writer, was born in Holywood, County Down, daughter of William Emilius, a Dutch linen maker who had settled in Ireland as a young man. She studied at the School of Art, Belfast, the Slade School, London and also in Paris. She wrote and illustrated children's books, but was best known as a sculptor. She was President of the Royal Ulster Academy (1941-43), received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University, Belfast in 1927 and twelve years later received an MBE. Sophia Rosamond Praeger was well-known for her ability to capture "the softly rounded grace and mobility of small children's bodies".

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De Búrca Ra re Books 269. [PRIOR, Thomas, & MAPLE, William] Essays and Observations on the following Subjects. Viz. On Trade, Husbandry of Flax, Raising Banks against Tides and Floods, Hops, Directions for making Roads. Instructions for making Syder, Observations on the Linen Manufactury, on Dressing flax, on Brewing. Published by a Society of Gentlemen in Dublin.

Dublin: Printed: London reprinted, and sold by Charles Corbett, 1740. pp. [4], 222, 4 unnumbered leaves of folded plates. Contemporary full calf, spine professionally rebacked, upper joint weak. 'Board of / Agriculture / 1801' in gilt on upper cover. From the library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England with their armorial bookplate on front pastedown. A very good copy. Rare. €575 270. QUINN, J.F. History of Mayo. With illustrations and coloured maps on endpapers. Volume IV. Ballina: Brendan Quinn, 2000. pp. xv, 466. Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. €65 This history was originally written by the noted historian J.F. Quinn for the Western People in the 1930's. Through the endeavours of his son Brendan, this authoritative work on his native county has been carefully edited, and is a welcome addition to the historian and patrons of antiquities.

271. [RAILWAY TIMES] Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway Bus and Rail Services Time Tables. From 6th December, 1945, until further notice. Note - Times shewn for Derry are Greenwich Mean Time. All other points Eire Summer Time. S.n. [1945]. pp. [16]. Small quarto.

Printed wrappers. Staple rusty. A very good copy. Scarce. €45

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272. [RAILWAY TIMES] Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway Time Tables. From 25th June, 1957 until further notice. General regulations and information for passengers by E.W. Monaghan. S.n. [1957]. pp. [28], including advertisements. Pictorial wrappers. Staple rusty.

Holed from hanging. A very good copy. Scarce. €45 DONEGAL RAILWAYS 273. [RAILWAY TIMES] County Donegal Railways including Strabane and Letterkenny Railway Time Tables. From 5th October, 1959 Until Further Notice. With adverts. Dublin and Dundalk: Printed by W. & S. Magown, Ltd., n.d. (c. 1958). pp. [40]. Pictorial wrappers. Staples rusty. A fine copy. €45 274. RENEHAN, V. Rev. L.F Collections of Irish Church History. Edited by the Rev. D. McCarthy. Volume I. Irish Archbishops [all published]. Dublin: Warren, 1861. pp. xiii, 522.

Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Badge of Maynooth College in gilt on upper cover, marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Occasional mild foxing. A very good copy. €145

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NSTC locates only 1 copy.

With a twenty-three page (double column) list of the reception committee. It includes a long list of prelates, politicians, business and professional people including: Tim Harrington; T.D. Sullivan; William O'Brien, etc. There is a list of the subscribers to the reception fund. The visit was made to foster Anglo-Irish relations, and discuss matters of mutual benefit.

With a large list of those who subscribed to the 'Reception Fund', which runs to almost nine hundred.

276. [ROSCOMMON ELECTION] Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Roscommon Election. Case I. [Dublin: 1777]. pp. 103, [1]. Caption title: 'The case of the County of Roscommon'. Modern quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €1,250 COPAC locates 3 copies only.

The committee for trying this case consisted of the following gentlemen: Sir Henry Cavendish, Chairman; Isaac Corry; William Chapman; Hon. Robert Southwell; Thomas Knox the Elder; George Hamilton; Hon. Hayes St. Leger; Thomas Knox the Younger; Hon. Henry Skeffington; John Stewart Hamilton; James Alexander; Sir Fitzgerald Aylmer; Alexander Montgomery of Monaghan. Nominee for the Petitioner, Charles O'Hara, Esq. - Arthur French, Esq. Nominee for the Sitting Member, Thomas Burgh, Esq. - Edward Crofton.

277. RUGGLES, Thomas. The Barrister: or, Strictures on the Education Proper for the Bar. Most of these papers appeared occasionally in The World, during the year 1791. Some others are now added with An Introduction by the Author. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. E. Lynch, R. M'Allister, P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Moore ... and Watts, 1792. 12mo. pp. [4], xix, [1], 252.

Contemporary full tree calf. Title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on spine. Wear to corners, occasional light browning. A good copy of a very of an exceedingly rare Dublin printing. €575 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

278. 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 83

De Búrca Ra re Books 279. SADLIER, Mrs. J. The Blakes and Flanagans: A Tale Illustrative of Irish Life in the United States. Dublin: James Duffy and Sons, 14 and 15 Wellington Quay, n.d. (1855). pp. vi, 387. Recent buckram with original cloth laid on title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on titlepage. A very good copy. €65 280. [SALLUST] Caii Crispi Sallustii Bellum Catilinarium et Jugurthinum, ex optima atque accuratissima Gottlieb Cortii editione expressum. Or, Sallust's History of the Catiline's Conspiracy and the War with Jugurtha, according to the excellent and accurate edition of Gottlieb Cortius. With An English Translation as literal as the Idiom of these Languages will admit, and a Collection of Critical, Historical, and Explanatory Notes. By John Mair. Dublin: Printed by E. Delany, No. 38, Lower Ormond-Quay, 1802. pp. viii, 283 (double column). Contemporary full calf, spine professionally rebacked, title in gilt on original red morocco letterpiece. Owner's signature on titlepage and on first page of preface. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €375 No copy located on COPAC. No copy located in TCD. NLI 1 copy only.

281. SAVAGE, John. Ed. by. Picturesque Ireland: A Literary and Artistic Delineation of the Natural Scenery, Remarkable Places, Historical Antiquities, Public Buildings, Ancient Abbeys, Towers, Castles, and other Romantic and Attractive Features of Ireland. Illustrated in steel and wood by eminent native and foreign artists. With large coloured map of Ireland and 32 county maps. New York: Thomas Kelly, 1878. Quarto. pp. xxxiii, 649. Contemporary half maroon morocco on light brown pebbled cloth. Original illustrated cloth. Recased. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €345 THE RARE FIRST EDITION 282. SCALE, Bernard. An Hibernian Atlas, or, General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland: divided into Provinces, with its sub-divisions of Counties, Baronies, &c. Shewing their Boundaries, Extent, Soil, Produce, Contents, Measure, Members of Parliament, and Number of Inhabitants; also the Cities, Boroughs, Villages, Mountains, Bogs, Lakes, Rivers and Natural Curiosities Together with the Great and Bye Post Roads : The whole taken from actual Surveys and Observations. By Bernard Scale, Land Surveyor, and beautifully engraved on 78 Copper Plates, by Messrs. Ellis and Palmer. London: Printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Printsellers, No. 53 Fleet Street, 1788. Quarto. Modern full green morocco, title in gilt along spine. Occasional light spotting. A very good copy of the rare first edition. €2,750 COPAC locates 2 copies only of this edition. Bonar Law A13.

Bernard Scalè (fl. 1756-1780.), surveyor and topographer, dominated a school of land surveyors in mid-eighteenth century Ireland. He was brother-in-law and pupil of John Rocque, whom he assisted in the surveys for the Maps of Dublin City and its environs published in 1756. He practised as a land surveyor in Abbey Street, and issued a number of maps and some views of Dublin buildings.

Chubb described his magnum opus as: "A beautifully prepared atlas, containing thirty-seven finely engraved maps of the provinces and counties of Ireland. Each map is preceded by an engraved plate of letter press giving a description of the county or province ... The compass indicators, on the maps, are of a highly decorative character ...". Early coloured map of Galway city laid on front endpaper.

283. SULLIVAN, Robert. A Dictionary of Derivations; or, An Introduction to Etymology, on a New Plan. Fifteenth Edition. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: Sullivan Brothers, 1875. 16mo. pp. [ii], 304. Owner's signature on titlepage. Ex. lib. with stamps. Recent black cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €85 THE HISTORIAN C.P. CRANE'S COPY 284. SCULLY, Reginald W. Flora of County Kerry. Including the Flowering Plants, Ferns, Characeae, &c. With six plates and a coloured folding map. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1916. pp. lxxxi, 406. Original blue cloth over bevelled boards. Spine rebacked, stain to lower cover.

Signature of the historian, C.P. Crane, on half title. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €950 Dr. Reginald W. Scully (1858-1935), well known as the author of the excellent Flora of County Kerry, took the medical course at the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin, but did not practise. His interest in botany was stimulated by A. G. More. He was a man of retiring disposition, and acquired his knowledge of Irish flowering plants more by study and field-work than by participation in the scientific 84

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He was co-editor with Colgan of the second edition of Cybele Hibernica, but on the latter fell the brunt of that laborious undertaking. His Flora of Kerry is, for fullness and critical accuracy, one of the best books on Irish botany that has appeared. In later years he went to live at Rushbrooke near Cork, and, though retaining to the last a keen interest in the flora of Ireland and especially of Kerry.

BY SWIFT'S BUILDER 285. SEMPLE, George. A Treatise on Building in Water. In two parts. Part I - Particularly relative to the Repair and Re-building of Essex Bridge, Dublin, and Bridge-Building in general, with Plans properly suited to the Re-building of Ormond Bridge. Part II - Concerning an Attempt to contrive and introduce quick and cheap Methods, for errecting substantial Stone-buildings and other works in fresh and salt Water, quaking Bogs or Morasses, for various purposes; fully laid down and clearly demonstrated ... Principally addressed and peculiarly adapted to young and inexperienced Readers. Illustrated with sixty-three Copper-Plates. Dublin: Printed for the Author

by J.A. Husband, (No. 28) Abbey-Street, 1776. First edition. Quarto. pp. [8], 157, [1], 63 (plates).

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De Búrca Ra re Books WorldCat 5. ESTC T101919 George Semple (1700-1781), architect, engineer and master-builder was the most distinguished member of a family who were for centuries builders in Dublin. They are to be found in the Guild of Plasterers, Carpenters and Masons from before 1744. Jonathan Swift in his will left money for the building of a hospital for the insane, St. Patrick's Hospital usually called Swift's Hospital was built on land donated by the directors of Dr. Steevens's and adjacent to it.

"He left the little wealth he had, To build a house for fools and mad, And showed by one satiric touch, No nation wanted it so much".

The architect for this project was George Semple. He had another connection with Swift, his earliest known work is the granite steeple of 100 feet in St. Patrick's Cathedral, which he designed and erected in 1749. Swift as far back as 1714, by obstruction and procrastination, prevented Archbishop King from adding such a spire in 'brick'. He must therefore have known Semple and approved of his work.

George built houses in Dublin and at least one country mansion. His magnum opus was the rebuilding of Essex Bridge. The present bridge is the third on the site, the first was built in 1676, by Humphrey Jervis, Lord Mayor of Dublin, from stones obtained from the ruins of St. Mary's Abbey. This structure had many faults and was frequently damaged by floods. A major failure of part of two spans occurred in 1751, and Semple repaired the old bridge within ten days for the sum of one hundred guineas. So successful was his repair that he was given the contract to rebuild the whole bridge. In 1753 he began demolition of the existing structure. He travelled to London where he bought £40 worth of books on engineering matters. He was however very disappointed on his return to Dublin, realising that these books were virtually useless: "I cannot describe the indignation and sorrow I felt at finding an art of such public utility as that of building bridges confessedly is so shamefully neglected. Eventually he managed to acquire a copy of Architecture Hydraulique by Belidore, although in French, which he could not read, the plans were sufficient for his purpose. Its design was based on the magnificent Westminster Bridge, and it had five semicircular arches. Semple preferred to build timber cofferdams, which were pumped dry, thus enabling in-situ construction to proceed below water level. On 10 April 1755 "the (new) Bridge was left open for the use of the Public in general", at a cost £20,661 and was completed in two years and eight days. Zozimus (Michael Moran), the blind balladeer, often took his stand on the bridge. Unfortunately the city planners replaced Semple's bridge in 1873, with what is now called Grattan Bridge. The lack of reference books on bridge building prompted Semple to undertake the present work. It is a pioneering study, and surely, is one of the most adventurous classics of engineering technical writing, in which the author gives a very full and vivid description of the rebuilding of Essex Bridge.

286. SETON, Ernest Thompson. Wild Animals I Have Known and 200 Drawings. Being the Personal Histories of Lobo, Silverspot, Rappylug, Bingo, The Springfield Fox, The Pacing Mustang, Wully and Redruff. London: David Nutt, 1906. pp. 359. Bound by Relfe Brothers of London in contemporary full red straight-grained morocco with their name stamped on verso of front endpaper. Converse framed by a single gilt floral roll enclosing on the upper cover the badge of Addiscombe College West Brighton.

Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on green morocco label in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner floral design. Fore-edges and turn-ins gilt. Gold and red splash-marbled endpapers; green and gold endbands. All edges marbled. A fine copy. €225 Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) was a Scots-Canadian (and naturalised U.S. citizen) who became a noted author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America. Seton also heavily influenced Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting. He is responsible for the strong influence of Native American culture in the Boy Scouts of America.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 287. SEVERN, Bill. Irish Statesman and Rebel: The Two Lives of Eamon De Valera.

Folkestone: Bailey Brothers, 1971. First edition. pp. viii, 184. Green paper boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 288. SEX, Susan & SAYERS, Brendan. Ireland's Wild Orchids. Orchid portraits by Susan Sex, accompanying text by Brendan Sayers. Foreword by Phillip Cribb. Together with: A suite of fifty plates signed by Susan Sex. Glasnevin: 2004. Elephant folio. pp. xvi, 184. Edition limited to 700 signed and numbered copies, signed by Susan Sex and Brendan Sayers. Bound by Antiquarian Bookcrafts in half green goatskin over marbled boards. Title in gilt along spine and on green morocco letterpiece on upper cover; green and white endbands; lilac floral endpapers. Green buckram slipcase. A fine copy. Rare. €1,250 In the introduction Brendan Sayers states: "The main purpose of this book is to provide detailed and up-to-date notes to accompany the plates that Susan has painted over the last six years … the text opposite each plate is written in a non-technical style, although some scientific terms have occasionally been used. This is the first publication to deal exclusively with Irish orchids, and as they are complex in their classification, life cycles and appearance it would be a pity to limit the text. The plate notes include the current scientific name of each plant, common name, Irish name, description and details of variability, life cycle, habitat and conservation status … This project began in 1996, and during that time many hours have been spent searching for orchids in an attempt to make a permanent record of the Irish orchid flora at the beginning of the present century … Orchids are alluring, mystifying and sometimes elusive. Each is fascinating in its own way".

And to quote Susan Sex: "Orchids are the temperamental divas of the plant world … Drawing and painting plants is a most delightful occupation and when the plant is an orchid, more can hardly be asked for … The fleeting show of many of our wild orchids can easily be overlooked. I hope the publication of this book goes some way to rectify this and draw more attention to their subtle and enigmatic beauty while they still exist to be enjoyed".

Ireland's Wild Orchids is the fruit of the authors' interest in this most fascinating plant family… noting the spread of pink and purple spikes across the stony pavements of the Burren in County Clare … making their familiar pilgrimage to the damp and mossy field in the dunes of North County Dublin in the hope that the JCB's had still not reached the delicate sprinklings of green-veined orchid elegantly partnered by buttery cowslips … and so on throughout the seasons.

289. SHANNON, Catherine B. Arthur J. Balfour and Ireland 1874-1922. Illustrated.

Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1988. pp. xvii, 362. Green cloth, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy in dust jacket. €25 290. [SHAW, George Bernard] Original photograph of Mr. George Bernard Shaw receiving deeds of National Theatre in London. A close-up of Mr. Shaw on the platform with two other gentleman when he received the deeds. Stamp of the Herald newspaper dated 28th March 1980, marked 'Used' on verso of photograph. 164 x 120mm. In very good condition. €225

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De Búrca Ra re Books 291. 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.

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.

GREGORY OF COOLE COPY 292. SMITH, Charles. The Ancient and Present State of The County of Kerry. 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; a panoramic view of the Lakes of Killarney taken from the North; Inny Bridge; Scelig; Plan of Traly and Galerus near Smeriwick. Dublin: Printed for the Author, n.d. [1756]. First edition. pp. xxi, [1], 23-419, 5 (index). Bound by George Mullen of Dublin in full polished calf. Covers framed by double gilt fillets, a blind palmette roll enclosing in the centre a blind acanthus lozenge. Spine divided into five compartments by four gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a floral design. Green and gold endbands; marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Richard Gregory Esqr. Coole, near Gort on front pastedown. All edges marbled. Spine rebacked preserving original. A very good copy. €1,250 In 1744 Smith, a Dungarvan apothecary, with the collaboration of Walter Harris published a history of County Down. That work, the first extended Irish county history ever published, 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).

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.

With detailed descriptions of the county, topography, history and antiquities.

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A FINE COPY IN McKENZIE IRISH BINDING 293. SMITH, Charles. The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford.

Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. The second edition with additions. Embellished with a portrait frontispiece of the author; a 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 of the city of Waterford; folding plan of the city of Waterford, and the Fitzgerald Monument. Dublin: Printed for W. Wilson, No. 6, Dame-Street, 1774. pp. xx, 376, 5 (index), [2], 24 (Catalogue of Wilson's Books), + errata and directions to the Binder. Bound in walnut calf by William McKenzie of Dublin. Covers framed by a gilt chain-link roll. Flat spine divided into six compartments by triple gilt fillets. Title in gilt on red morocco letterpieces in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt with McDonnell and Healy tools: 32, 40, R4, R13 and R16. Fore-edges hatched in gilt. The present bindings represent the typical style of McKenzie with green, yellow, pink, red, white and black splash-marbled endpapers. All edges green. Some minor wear to extremities and joints, otherwise a fine copy in a very good and rare McKenzie binding. â‚Ź1,350 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.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 294. SMITH, Charlotte. Desmond. A Novel by Charlotte Smith. Three volumes. London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1792. 12mo. First edition. pp. (1) [4], ix, [1], 2, (errata), 280, (2) [4], 296, (3) [4], 348, 4 (advertisements). Contemporary full mottled calf, flat spine divided into six compartments by double gilt fillets, title on dark blue morocco label in the second, volume numbers in gilt direct in the fourth. Armorial bookplate of T. Thornhill on front pastedowns. Minor wear to extremities and surface of boards, a very good fresh and tight set.

Very rare. €875 COPAC locates 8 copies only of the first edition.

Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility. Smith was born into a wealthy family and received a typical education for a woman during the late 18th century. However, her father's reckless spending forced her to marry early. In a marriage that she later described as prostitution, she was given by her father to the violent and profligate Benjamin Smith, a young merchant whose father had estates in England, Ireland, Scotland and Barbados. Their marriage was deeply unhappy, although they had twelve children together. Charlotte joined Benjamin in debtor's prison, where she wrote her first book of poetry, Elegiac Sonnets, which was supported by Irish subscriptions the including the Irish antiquarian Joseph Cooper Walker. Its success allowed her to help pay for Benjamin's release.

Smith's struggle to provide for her children and her frustrated attempts to gain legal protection as a woman provided themes for her poetry and novels; she included portraits of herself and her family in her novels as well as details about her life in her prefaces. Her early novels are exercises in aesthetic development, particularly of the Gothic and sentimentality. "The theme of her many sentimental and didactic novels was that of a badly married wife helped by a thoughtful sensible lover" (Smith's entry in British Authors Before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary Ed. Stanley Kunitz and Howard Haycraft. Her later novels, including Desmond, often considered one of her best; these novels support the ideals of the French Revolution. Allibone states that the Irish poet Henrietta O'Neill published a poem in this novel. it was also advertised in Bowden's A Tour through Ireland (Dublin, 1791).

Smith was a successful writer, publishing ten novels, three books of poetry, four children's books, and other assorted works, over the course of her career. She always saw herself as a poet first and foremost, however, as poetry was considered the most exalted form of literature at the time. Smith's poetry and prose was praised by contemporaries such as Romantic poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge as well as novelist Walter Scott. After 1798, Smith's popularity waned and by 1803 she was destitute and ill, she could barely hold a pen. She had to sell her books to pay off her debts. In 1806, Smith died. Largely forgotten by the middle of the 19th century, her works have now been republished and she is recognized as an important Romantic writer.

295. SMITH, Goldwin. Irish History and Irish Character. Oxford: Parker, 1880. Cheap edition. pp. [3], 197, [1]. Contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards. Light wear to extremities. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €125 ILLUSTRATED BY RACKHAM. 296. STEPHENS, James. Irish Fairy Tales. With sixteen coloured plates and other illustrations

by Arthur Rackham. London: Macmillan, 1924. Third edition. pp. x, 318. Red cloth, decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt. A good copy in faded and frayed colour illustrated dust jacket. €150 297. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Kidnapped. Being Memoirs of David Balfour in the year 1751. How he was Kidnapped and Cast away; his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his Acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he Suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called. With four illustrations in colour by W.R.S. Scott and a coloured folding map of the Highlands. London: Cassell & Co., n.d. (c.1910). pp. xi, 344. Bound in contemporary full calf by 90

De Búrca Ra re Books Bickers of London. Covers framed by double gilt fillets. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt direct in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design enclosing a thistle gilt. Fore-edges gilt. Splash-marbled endpapers; maroon and gold endbands. All edges marbled. A fine copy. €175

See items 296 & 297.

298. STOKES, William. William Stokes his Life and Work (1804-1878). By his son William Stokes, Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland. Illustrated. London: T. Fisher Unwin 'Masters of Medicine' Series, 1898. pp. 256, 12 (publisher's list). Green cloth gilt. Minor spotting to endpapers, paper repair to one leaf, otherwise a very good copy in acetate dust jacket. €185 William Stokes (1804-1878) physician, was born in Dublin, educated privately there and at Edinburgh where he qualified as a physician. He was attached to the Meath Hospital and built up a large practice in Dublin. Stokes published two critically acclaimed treatises Diseases of the Chest in 1837 and in 1854 Diseases of the Heart and Aorta. He was a friend of George Petrie whose Life he wrote. His wide interests included art, music and antiquities. He was elected FRS in 1861 and the same year was appointed physician-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria.

299. [SYNGE, Edward. Bishop of Elphin] The Pedlar's Letter to the Bishops and Clergy of Ireland.

Dublin: Printed in the Year 1760. pp. 30, [1]. With a final leaf of advertisements. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Slight water staining, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce.

COPAC locates 7 copies only. Black 428. €265

In the Lambeth Palace copy a manuscript note states: "Said to be written by Dr. Synge, bishop of Elphin".

300. TEELING, Charles Hamilton. Sequel to Personal Narrative of the "Irish Rebellion" of 1798. Belfast: John Hodgson, 1832. First edition. pp. xlviii, 326. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine.

A very good copy. Very scarce. €200 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.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 301. THOMPSON, Wm. Esq. The Natural History of Ireland. Birds, comprising the orders Raptores, Insessores, Rasores, Grallatores, Natatores and Mamalia, Reptiles, Fishes and also Invertebrata. Four volumes. Portrait frontispiece to volume four. London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1849-1856. pp. (1) xx, 434, 1, (2) xi, 346, (3) vii, 491, 1, (4) xxxii, 516. Olive green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spines. Neat library stamp of John C. MacGowan of Donaghadee on front endpaper and half-titles. Spine evenly sun-tanned. A fine set. Complete sets are exceedingly rare. €865 The eldest son of a Belfast linen merchant, William Thompson was born in 1805. While apprenticed to the linen industry he cultivated his interest in birds, business however did not appeal to him and after a few years he devoted his life to zoology. He contributed many articles to the Belfast Natural Society and other scientific journals. A year before his untimely death he had published three volumes of his Natural History of Ireland, dealing with birds. The manuscript of the fourth volume pertaining to the remaining vertebrates and all the invertebrates was published in 1856 by J.R. Garrett and Robert Patterson.

William Thompson was one of the foremost naturalists that Belfast has produced.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 302. TIERNAN, Charles B. The Tiernan Family in Maryland. As illustrated by Extracts from Works in the Public Libraries, and Original Letters and Memoranda in the possession of Charles B. Tiernan. Illustrated.

Baltimore: Gallery & McCann, 1898. First edition. pp. 222. Green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed complimentary copy, dated 1900.

A very good copy. Exceedingly rare.

€275

COPAC locates the BL copy only.

303. TITMARSH, Mr. M.A. [William M. Thackeray] The Irish Sketch-Book 1842. With numerous engravings on wood, drawn by the author. New edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1857. pp. xii, 368. Purple blind-stamped cloth. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. A very good copy. Very scarce. €75 William Makepeace Thackeray, the celebrated author, was born in India of English parents. His wife Isabella Shaw, whom he met in Paris was from Doneraile in County Cork, and a relative, Elias Thackeray was Vicar of Dundalk. A master of irony and wit, he began his tour of Ireland in 1842. The book is a masterpiece, cleverly written and gives a straightforward account of Ireland as it appeared to the observing intelligent traveller before the Great Famine. He contrasts the great divide between the wealthier landed gentry and the appalling poverty of the peasantry, criticising both the government and absentee landlords. His description of a part of the country so dear to me is awe inspiring. "And presently, from an eminence, I caught sight not only of a fine view, but of the most beautiful view I ever saw in the world, I think; and to enjoy the splendour of which I would travel a hundred miles in that car with that very horse and driver. The sun was just about to set, and the country round about and to the east was almost in twilight. The mountains were tumbled about in a thousand fantastic ways, and swarming with people. Trees, corn-fields, cottages, made the scene indescribably cheerful ... but the [Clew] bay, and the Reek, which sweeps down to the sea, and a hundred islands in it, were dressed up in gold and purple, and crimson, with the whole cloudy west in a flame. Wonderful, wonderful!".

304. TODD, James Henthorn. Ed. by. The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill [Cogadh gaedhil re Gaillaibh] or The Invasions of Ireland by the Danes and Other Norsemen. From the original text. With translation and introduction. With two coloured plates, specimens from the Book of 92

De Búrca Ra re Books Leinster and Dublin Manuscript. London: Longmans, Greene, Reader and Dyer, 1867. pp. ccvii, [1], 348, + errata. Full brown buckram, title in gilt on spine. From the Christian Brother's Library, Dundalgan with their stamp on front endpaper. A fine copy. €295

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CONNER OF MANCH COPY 305. TOWNSEND, Rev. Horatio. Statistical Survey of the County of Cork, with Observations on the Means of Improvment; drawn up for the consideration, and by direction of the Royal Dublin Society. With large coloured folding map of the county. Two volumes in one. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell, 1810. First edition. pp. xx, [1], 749, [1], 78, [16], 79-102 (addenda and appendix). Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Armorial bookplate of Henry Longfield Conner of Manch on front pastedown. Paper repair to map. A very good copy.

Very scarce. €750 COPAC locates 8 copies only. Goldsmiths'-Kress 19999.

The pages between p.78 and 79 of the Addenda are paginated with asterisks. Dedicatee: Dedicated to Henry Boyle, Earl of Shannon.

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De Búrca Ra re Books The Royal Dublin Society was founded in 1731 for "improving Husbandry, Manufactures, and other useful Arts and Sciences". One of its greatest achievements was the publication of the statistical surveys for each of the counties of Ireland. The work thoroughly surveys the topography of the county, its geology, mines, quarries; its rivers, navigations, fish and fisheries; bogs and their reclamation; its agriculture ... markets, farming methods ... tenure and rents, population, towns and their developments ... use of spirits; the schools, manufacturing industry, roads and bridges.

306. TRIMBLE, Wm. The Inner History of Enniskillen, during the Revolution. Enniskillen: Trimble, 1927. pp. viii, 126. Maroon printed wrappers, title in black on upper cover. A fine copy in very good dust jacket. €125 307. TUCKEY, Francis H. The County and City of Cork Remembrancer; or Annals of the County and City of Cork. With an introductory essay. Engraved frontispiece and two maps. List of subscribers. Cork: Osborne Savage, 1837. pp. [viii], cx, 352. Recent quarter burgundy morocco on marbled boards. Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Scarce. €375

COPAC locates 5 copies only.

308. [UNIONIST CONVENTION] The Unionist Convention for Provinces of Leinster, Munster & Connaught (June, 1892). Report of Proceedings, Lists of Committees, Delegates, etc.

Illustrated. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., n.d. (1892). pp. 215. Blue cloth over bevelled boards, title and arms of Leinster, Munster and Connaught in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €175 NSTC locates 2 copies only.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 309. WAKEMAN, W.F. The Tourists' Guide to Ireland. With coloured folding map, numerous text illustrations and sixty pages of adverts.

Dublin: Printed at the "Official Guide" Limited, Bachelor's Walk, n.d. (c.1884). pp. [iv], 424, 60 (adverts). Green cloth with gilt design on upper cover. Some light staining and wear to extremities.

A good copy. €150 No copy of this edition located on COPAC. William Frederick Wakeman (1822-1900) was born in Dublin the son of a publisher. He was an archaeologist, initially producing works as an artist and then as an author.

A student of George Petrie, Wakeman produced pen and pencil sketches of land features and antiquities while employed as a draughtsman by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. The works of this period are held by the Royal Irish Academy. After the closing of the topographical department of the Survey, he took teaching roles at St. Columba's College in County Meath and the Portora Royal and District National Model schools in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. He eventually abandoned art to pursue his interest in archaeology.

310. WAKEMAN, W.F. & JOYCE, W. St. J. Old Dublin, First and Second Series. By W.F. Wakeman. Rambles Around Dublin and Rambles near Dublin. By W. St. J. Joyce. Four works in one volume. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: Evening Telegraph Reprints, 1887/1890. pp.

50, 50, 48, 74. Bound in contemporary reverse calf, titled 'Old Dublin' in gilt on upper cover.

Label of 'J.L. Stewart, / Stationer, / 8, Cope Street, Dublin' on front pastedown. A fine copy. €175 With chapters on: Howth Harbour; The Phoenix Park, Strawberry Beds, and Palmerstown; Chapelizod; The Lucky Stone of St. Audoen's; St. Stephen's Green; Kilbarrack and its Associations; St. Kevin's Church; Kill-of-the-Grange; The Bridges of Dublin; Charlemont House; Dublin Theatres; Duke of Wellington's Birthplace; Beggar's Bush; The Ordnance Survey of Ireland - Petrie Collection of Celtic Antiquities; The Ancient Pillory, Cornmarket; Malahide, Swords, Portmarnock, and the Velvet Strand; Dundrum and the Two and Three-Rock Mountains; Carrickmines, the Scalp, Enniskerry, and the Dargle; Crumlin, Drimnagh, the Green Hills, Tallaght, and Clondalkin, Mount Pelier, Templeogue; Fingal, Rush, Lusk, Skerries, Baldungan, and Lambay; Lucan, Leixlip and the Salmon Leap; Maynooth, Scenery and Antiquities of the Dodder, Brittas, Three-Castles, Blessington, Poulphaca, and Ballymore-Eustace; The Bray Road; Shanganagh; The Rocky Valley and the Great Sugar Loaf; Portrane, Rathcoole, Kill, Naas, Sallins and Straffan; The Valley of the Liffey, Coronation Plantation and Sally Gap; A Trip to Lambay Island; Howth, etc.

Unusual with the Evening Telegraph titlepage.

311. WALL, C.W. Mountaineering in Ireland for the Hill-walker and the Rock-climber. With an introduction by Dr. Robert Lloyd Praeger. Illustrated. Dublin: The Irish Tourist Association, 1939. pp. 88. A very good copy in illustrated wrappers. €65 312. WALLER, John Francis. Poems. Dublin: James McGlashan, 1854. pp. vii, 278, 2. Recent buckram, with original gilt decorated cloth laid on. A very good copy. €145 313. WALSH, Rev. Michael. The Apparition at Knock. A Survey of Facts and Evidence. With preface by Joseph, Archbishop of Tuam. Illustrated. Naas: The Leinster Leader, 1955. pp. [vii], 136. Navy blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €65 With chapters on: Knock and its People in 1879; The Apparition; The 1879 Commission; After the Apparition; The Nun of Kenmare; Archdeacon Cavanagh; Attitude of the Clergy.

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De Búrca Ra re Books SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 314. WALSH, Micheline Kerney. "Destruction by Peace" Hugh O'Neill after Kinsale.

Glanconcadhain 1602-Rome 1616. Armagh: Cumann Seanchais Ard Mhacha, 1986. pp. xviii, 434. Maroon arlen, title and Coat-of-Arms in gilt on upper cover. Signed by the author on titlepage. A fine copy in dust jacket. Scarce. €165 Hugh O'Neill's journey across half of Europe in 1607-08, accompanied by O'Donnell, Maguire and their retinue, is one of the great epics of Irish history and is known as 'The Flight of the Earls'. This work throws new light on the last fourteen years of O'Neill's life, from the months of near despair in 1602 after the defeat of Kinsale to his lonely death in Rome in 1616.

315. WALSH, Fr. Paul. The Four Masters and Their Work. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1944. pp. [vi], 41, 2 (index), + erratum. Stiff brown paper wrappers. Title printed on paper label on upper cover, light spotting to label. Owner's signature on half title. A very good copy. Scarce. €125 Father Paul Walsh's name on the titlepage of an historical treatise is a guarantee of excellence. A brief but complete account of the principle facts relating to the Four Masters. The arrangement, final chapters and index are by Colm Ó Lochlainn.

ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER'S COPY ISAAC CORRY - IRISH CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER 316. WALSH, Thomas. Journal of the Late Campaign in Egypt: including Descriptions of that Country, and of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri; with an appendix; containing official papers and documents. London: Printed by Luke Hansard For T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1803. First edition. Quarto. pp. viii, [20, list of subscribers and directions to the Binders for placing the plates], 261, [1], 145, [5]. Complete with 50 engraved plates (numbered 1-49 plus one unnumbered) to include drawings; maps; and battle plans (six of the maps and plans are folding).

There are six hand-coloured plates and five maps which are partially coloured. Contemporary full diced russia. Covers framed by a single gilt fillet. Spine professionally rebacked preserving richly gilt tooled back-strip; corners of fore-edges hatched in gilt. Early signature of Isaac Corry on titlepage, armorial bookplate of Ulick Marquess of Sligo and Agatha his wife on front pastedown. Light foxing, generally not affecting plates. €1,250

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books Thomas Walsh, an Irish Captain of the 93rd Regiment of Foot, served as aide-de-camp to MajorGeneral Sir Eyre Coote, who played a leading role in the fall and capture of Alexandria. His services in Egypt were so conspicuous that he was made a Knight of the Bath, and also a Knight of the new order of the Crescent by the Sultan.

Eyre Coote (1762-1823) was an Irish-born British soldier and politician who served as Governor of Jamaica. He fought with distinction in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary Wars. He attained the rank of General in the British Army and the G.C.B. before being stripped of his rank and honours in 1816 after conduct unworthy of an officer and a gentleman.

Thomas Walsh's Journal "is distinguished by a wide interest in topography, antiquities, and social conditions, as well as purely military topics" (Prideaux, 223). The large list of subscribers (almost 500) is primarily made up of Irish officers and gentlemen including: Pierce Butler; Charles Baldwin, High Sheriff, King's County; George Bell Esq., Dawson Street, Dublin; Major Blunden; Thomas Burgh, Esq.; Major General The Earl of Cavan; Earl of Charlemont; Colonel The Earl of Cork; Lord and Lady Castle-Coote; Lord Cloncurry; Isaac Corry; Thomas Conolly; Robert Cadell, Harbourstown, County Meath; Reginald Pole Carew; John Carr, Esq., Mountrath; Captain Leonard Crookes, Louth Regiment; Lord Devlin, Coldstream Guards; Dennis Bowes Daly; Thomas Everard, Esq., Navan; Right Honourable Lady Isabella FitzGerald; Chichester Fortescue; Edward Flood, Esq., Middlemount, Queen's County; Barth Foley, Esq., Cork; Lord Viscount Gormanston; William Grace, Esq.; William Griffith, Esq., Ballytirnan, Sligo; Earl and Countess Hardwicke; Lord Hobart; Major Kavanagh, Wexford; Major Kearney; Colonel Keatinge; The Duke of Leinster; Viscount Limerick; Lysaght, Esq.; Patrick Lambert, Army Clothier, Brabazon Row, Dublin; The Earl of Meath; The Earl of Moira; LtCol. M'Mahon; Revd. Alexander M'Donnel; Parks M'Neale, County of Louth; Mrs. Magan, Dublin; Lord Norbury; General Nugent; Oliver Nugent, Esq., Bolsgrove, Old Castle; Major O'Brien; Captain O'Keefe; Captain Plunkett; Bernard Shaw, Esq., Collector, of Cork; Surgeon Stanley, Drogheda; William Swan; Henry Tighe, Esq., Trinity College Dublin; John Warburton, Esq., Queen's County; S. Waring, Esq., Armagh, etc.

First edition of this detailed account of the 1800-1801 British campaign to rout Napoleon's remaining troops from Egypt. With two large folding coloured maps - one depicting the Lower Nile in great detail - six vividly hand-coloured aquatints of native costume by Neele, 14 additional maps (seven handcoloured) and 21 engraved plates.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Isaac Corry (1753-1813) was an Irish and British Member of Parliament and lawyer. Born in Newry, he was the son of Edward Corry (d. 1792), sometime Member of Parliament, and Catharine Bristow.

He was educated at the Royal School, Armagh, where his contemporaries included Viscount Castlereagh, and later at Trinity College, Dublin, from which he graduated in 1773.

In 1776 Corry succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Newry, sitting in the Irish House of Commons until the Act of Union in 1801. From 1782-1789 he served as equerry to the Duke of Cumberland, being described in 1794 by Rt. Hon. Sylvester Douglas as "a well-bred man ... He has no brogue ... He once acted as a sort of groom of the bedchamber to the late Duke of Cumberland". In 1798, he was also elected for Randalstown, but chose not to sit and in 1802, he was returned to the British House of Commons for Newry. He served as a Whig at Westminster until 1806. It was written in 1783 that Corry would expect to enter high office, given that "he lives expensively and does not pursue his profession, which is the law". Thus in 1788 he became Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, a position which paid £1,000 per year for "doing virtually nothing". The following year Corry was appointed a commissioner of the revenue. Finally in 1799 he was appointed Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer and a Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.

In 1802 Corry was dismissed from the Exchequer and replaced by John Foster (later Lord Oriel), he was awarded, however, £2,000 p.a. in compensation. Corry was unmarried but had a long-term relationship with Jane Symms, they had six children (three sons and three daughters); his daughter Ann married Lt.-Col. Henry Westenra, the brother of the first Baron Rossmore. Corry's residence in Newry was the Abbey Yard, now a school, and Derrymore House, Bessbrook which he had inherited from his father and sold in 1810.During Corry's life, a road was constructed from near the main entrance of Derrymore House around Newry and linked up with the Dublin Road on the southern side of the town primarily for Corry's use. This road subsequently became known as "The Chancellor's Road," as a result of Corry's term as the Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer. A local legend has it that the road was constructed after an incident in which Corry's stagecoach was stoned while passing through Newry by people angry at an unpopular window tax he had introduced.

He died at his house in Merrion Square, Dublin and is buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

317. WATSON, Samuel. The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack, compiled by Samuel Watson, Bookseller, For the Year of our Lord, 1784. Being Leap-Year, and the Twenty-fourth Year of K. George III. Reign, till 25th Oct. Containing, The Days of the Year and Month; WeekDays; 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: Wilson's Dublin Directory, For the Year 1784 containing A Alphabetical List of the Names, Occupations, and Places of Abode (numbered) of the Merchants and Traders of the City of Dublin; distinguishing such as are Free of the Six and Ten per cent. Dublin: Printed for Samuel Watson, Bookseller, at Virgil's Head, No. 48, in DameStreet, and Thomas Stewart, Bookseller, No. 1 King's-Inns-Quay, 1784. pp. 135, [1], 140 98

De Búrca Ra re Books includes Wilson's advertisement. Contemporary worn full calf. Spine with early reback also worn. Signature of John Armstrong Brown, Richmond Hill on front pastedown and fly leaf. A good copy. Scarce. €165 318. WEST, Richard. An Enquiry into the Origin and Manner of Creating Peers. London: Printed for T. Evans, 1782. pp. vi, 74. Stitched, lacking original blue wrappers. Old ink stain to lower margin of some leaves at end, not affecting text. Very scarce. €175 COPAC locates 7 copies only. ESTC T32761. Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert.

319. WHITE, Rev. P. History of Clare and the Dalcassian Clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway. With an ancient and a modern map. Dublin: Gill, 1893. First edition. pp. xvi, 398. Green cloth, lettered in gilt. Lengthy inscription to John Glenn Esqr from Fr. McLaughlin, dated May 22, 1894 on front endpaper. Stamped on titlepage 'File Copy / Not to be taken away / From M.H. Gill & Co Ltd'. Also tipped in author's compliment slip. A very good copy. €225 The Dalcassians were a Gaelic tribe, generally accepted by contemporary scholarship as being a branch of the Déisi Muman, who became a powerful grouping in Munster during the tenth century. Their genealogies claimed descent from Cormac Cas, who is said to have lived in the third century.

Brian Bóruma is perhaps the best known king from the dynasty and was responsible to a significant degree for carving out their fortunes. The family had built a powerbase on the banks of the River Shannon and Brian's brother Mahon became their first King of Munster, taking the throne from the rival Eóganachta. This influence was greatly extended under Brian who became High King of Ireland, following a series of conflicts with Norse and other Irish tribes, before dying famously at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. Following this the Dál gCais provided three more High Kings of Ireland; Donagh O'Brien, Turlough O'Brien and Murtagh O'Brien; but lost out to the longer established dynasties.

From the 12th–16th centuries, the Dál gCais contented themselves with being reduced to the Kingdom of Thomond. They attempted to claim the Kingdom of Desmond for a time, but ultimately the MacCarthys held it. The Kennedys also held the Kingdom of Ormond for a time. Some of the better known septs included O'Brien, MacNamara, O'Grady, Kennedy, MacMahon and Clancy. During the 13th century Richard Strongbow's relatives the Norman de Clares attempted to take Thomond, but the Dál gCais held firm.

It wasn't until the 16th century, unable to be defeated militarily, they agreed to surrender and regrant their kingdom to Henry VIII Tudor, joining the nobility of the Kingdom of Ireland. Their realm was renamed County Clare, though they remained influential. In later times, remarkable figures include writer Standish James O'Grady, who is called "Father of the Celtic Revival" and William Smith O'Brien who played a leading part in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848. In diaspora, prominent figures have included Marshal Patrice de Mac-Mahon, President of France, as well as John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, who were both Presidents of the United States.

320. WILDE, Sir William R. Lough Corrib, Its Shores and Islands. Introduction by Kevin Duffy and with a foreword by Dr. Peter Harbison. Illustrated. Headford: Kevin Duffy, 2002. pp.

[20] 306. Blue paper boards, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €30 321. WILLS, James. Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen, from The Earliest Times to the Present Period. Arranged in chronological order, and Embodying a History of Ireland in the Lives of Irishmen. Embellished with portraits. Volume II - Part 1. Dublin: MacGregor, 18391847. pp. 240. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €35 With biographical sketches of: John O'Neale; Gerald, Sixteenth Earl of Desmond; Richard Bourke; Feagh MacHugh O'Byrne; Hugh Roe O'Donnell; James, The Sugán Earl of Desmond; Hugh, Earl of Tyrone; Daniel O'Sullivan Beare; Florence M'Carthy, etc.

322. WOOD, Thomas. An Inquiry Concerning The Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland. Illustrated

by Ptolemy's Map of Erin, corrected by the aid of Bardic History. Cork: Savage and Edwards, 1821. pp. xvii, 303 + errata. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Spine expertly rebacked in green morocco, title in gilt direct on spine. Bookplate of John E. Snow on front pastedown.

Minor foxing to titlepage with outline of map. A very good copy. €365 The author dedicated this work to the Members of the Royal Irish Academy and states therein: "If those researches have enabled me to prove that, with regard to the population, laws, morality, arts and sciences of the ancient Irish, the present race is comparatively a large nation, enjoying a considerably greater share of liberty, protection, knowledge and happiness, I shall deem my time well employed".

With chapters on: The Bardic History of Ireland; The Origin of the Milesians; The First Settlers in 99

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With a large list of subscribers.

323. WOODHAM-SMITH, Cecil. The Great Hunger Ireland 1845-9. With illustrations and large folding map. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1962. First edition. pp. 510. Green paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy in very good 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.

324. WOOD-MARTIN, W.G. History of Sligo, County and Town, Vol. I, From the Earliest Ages to the Close of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Vol. II, From the Accession of James I to the Revolution of 1688 ... Vol. III, From the Close of the Revolution of 1688 to the Present Time ... With Illustrations from Original Drawings and Plans, and large folding maps of the County. Three volumes. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1882-92. pp. (1) xiv, 411 (2) x, 323 (3) xi, 510. Blue cloth. Lettered in gilt. One map in superior facsimile. A very good set. Very rare. €675 Colonel William Gregory Wood-Martin was born at Woodville, Sligo in 1847 and after a distinguished military career he took a keen interest in the history and antiquities of his native country. Following his Lake Dwellings of Ireland, Pagan Ireland, Traces of the Elder Faiths and Sligo and the Enniskilleners, he embarked on a massive undertaking and compiled his scholarly History of Sligo, County and Town, a work "of National as well as local importance". In his introduction he wrote: "The author ... to the best of his ability, has earnestly endeavoured to present a thoroughly faithful and vivid picture of the whole life of the community of Sligo from its cradle upwards ... The labour has been considerable of arranging in consecutive order the various events bearing on the history of Sligo and of gathering together and putting into shape all the materials available for that purpose ...". His history arranged in chronological order spans the countless troubled centuries from pre-historic times to 1891. From time to time the odd volume of his history appears on the market place, but complete sets such as that on offer here are of the utmost rarity.

KILKENNY WITCHCRAFT 325. WRIGHT, Thomas. Ed. by. A Contemporary Narrative of the Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, Prosecuted for Sorcery in 1324, by Richard De Ledrede, Bishop of Ossory.

London: Camden Society, 1843. Small quarto. pp. xlii, 61, 36 (members of the Camden Society).

Ex libris Mass. Historical Society. A fine copy. €165 Bradshaw 8111 Gilbert 914 O'Higgins 3.227.

326. WRIGHT, Thomas. Esq. The History of Ireland from the earliest period of the Irish Annals to the Present Time. Illustrated with beautiful steel engravings, chiefly from original drawings, executed expressly for this work, by H. Warren, Esq. Tallis map of Ireland coloured in outline. In original parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11 only. London & New York: Printed and Published by J. and F. Tallis. Copyright edition. n.d. Bound in original green pictorial wrappers.

A very good set. Exceedingly rare. €200 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. See illustration on following page.

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ILLUSTRATIONS HAND-COLOURED BY THE AUTHOR 327. YEATS, Jack B. The Treasure of the Garden. A Play by Jack B. Yeats. Scenes and Characters together with Book of the Words and full Directions for Playing on a Miniature Stage.

With hand-coloured illustrations by the author. London: Elkin Mathews, [1902]. 4to. pp. 26. Blue printed wrappers with a 'Pirate' hand-coloured on upper cover. A very good copy in solander box

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Copac locates only 6 copies.

Although the title states 'hand-coloured illustrations', this work was in fact issued in both states, i.e. coloured by Jack B. Yeats and uncoloured copies at a far cheaper rate. The copy on offer here is coloured by Yeats.

The third and most elaborate of his plays for young people. The intention was that the illustrations should be cut out and mounted on card for performance, so very few copies have survived intact.

Publisher's advertisement on at end.

328. [YEATS, Jack B] Jack B. Yeats. A Centenary Gathering by Samuel Beckett, Martha Caldwell, Brian O'Doherty, Ernie O'Malley, Shotaro Oshima, Marilyn Gaddis Rose & Terence De Vere White. Edited with an Introduction by Roger McHugh. Portrait frontispiece. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1971. pp. 114. Decorated printed wrappers. A very good copy. €25 329. [YEATS, Jack B.] The Collected Plays of Jack B. Yeats. Edited with an Introduction by Robin Skelton. Illustrated. London: Secker & Warburg, 1971. First edition. pp. vi, 382. Blue cloth, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. €35 330. [YEATS PAPERS] 1. John Butler Yeats and John Sloan, the Records of a Friendship. By Robert Gordon.

2. From Blake to 'A Vision'.

3. The Olympian & the Leprechaun. W.B. Yeats and James Stephens. By Richard J. Finneran.

With medallion portraits by T. Spicer-Simpson. Illustrated. New Yeats Papers XIV, XVI, XVII. Three issues. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1978/79. pp. (1) 32, (2) 36. Very good in pictorial wrappers. €36 "THIS EXPRESSIONLESS ANGEL" 331. YEATS, W.B. Poems. London: Published by Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Buildings, 1895.

First edition. pp. xi, 285, [2]. Bound by John Bumpus of London in contemporary full straightgrained cream morocco, with his name stamped on verso of front endpaper. Covers framed by triple gilt fillets and a gilt floral roll. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt direct in the second; fore-edges and turn-ins gilt; splash-marbled endpapers; red, purple and gold endbands. All edges gilt. Presentation inscription on front endpaper. Faded spotting to upper cover. All edges gilt. A fine copy. Very rare. €1,650 102

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This edition was limited to 750 copies only. The preface is dated at Sligo March 24th, 1895. There was also an edition of 25 copies printed on Japan vellum and signed by the author.

On John Quinn's copy of the limited edition Yeats wrote: "The man who made this cover made a beautiful design, which I saw at an exhibition, but after I saw it Dent had spoiled him, with all kinds of odd jobs & when he did this the spirit had gone out of him. I hate this expressionless angel of his. W.B. Yeats, 1904".

DERMOD O BRIEN'S COPY 332. YEATS, W.B. The Pot of Broth. London: A.H. Bullen, 1905. pp. 15. Stitched printed grey wrappers. Signature of the artist Dermod O Brien on upper cover. Some minor spotting, otherwise a good copy. €35 333. YEATS, W.B. The Tables of The Law and The Adoration of The Magi. London: Elkin Mathews, 1905. Small quarto. pp. 60, iv (publisher's list). Original brown printed wrappers. A very good copy. €75 Wade 25.

This is a re-issue of the 1904 edition which was issued in blue paper wrappers.

334. [YEATS, W.B.] The Arrow. No. 1. October 20, 1906. Volume 1. Dublin: Printed by Hely's Limited, 1906. Quarto. pp. [8]. In original grey printed wrappers, with an illustration of Queen Maeve and the wolf hound by Elinor Monsell on upper cover. Occasional foxing, with rusty staples. A very good copy of the rare first issue. €150 Yeats in his introduction states: "I have been so busy finishing Deirdre, a play in verse, that I have put off Samhain for a month or so; but The Arrow is not meant as a substitute, for we hope that the queen with the wolf dog has one in her quiver for every month. It will interpret or comment on particular plays, make announcements, wrap up the programme and keep it from being lost, and leave general principles to Samhain. We are at the outset of our first season of tolerably constant playing, for, besides our seven nights of a new play every month, there will be a new play or an old one every Saturday throughout the season. There is a list on another page including Irish historical and peasant plays, one play of individual life, one of lower middle class life in a small country town, besides certain worldfamous masterpieces.

The first of only five issues. In the 'W. B. Yeats Commemoration Number' of Summer 1939, it was described as "an occasional, a very occasional, publication by the Abbey Theatre".

This issue contains three articles signed 'W. B. Y.', and one by A.G.

335. YEATS, W.B. The Wild Swans at Coole. London: Macmillan, 1919. First edition. pp. ix, 114. Dark blue cloth with design in gilt by Sturge Moore. A very good copy. €375 Wade 124.

Contains the first publication, in book form, of the poems in memory of Major Robert Gregory.

In addition to the twenty nine poems first published in the Yeats' sisters limited Cuala Press, Dundrum edition in 1917, this edition of The Wild Swans at Coole includes the first book appearances of "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory" and "An Irish Airman foresees his Death", two of Yeats's most important poems, both concerning the death of the son of Lady Augusta Gregory, Yeats's patroness and the chatelaine of Coole Park. The collection also includes the title poem, "The Collar Bone of a Hare", "Upon a Dying Lady", "Broken Dreams", "Ego Dominus Tuus", "Phases of the Moon", "The Scholars", and "To A Young Beauty".

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION

336. YEATS, W.B. The Trembling of the Veil. London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only

by T. Werner Laurie, 1922. First edition. pp. [ii], viii, 248. Limited edition consisting of one thousand numbered copies, signed by W.B. Yeats. Quarter vellum parchment on grey paper boards, title on printed label on spine. Untrimmed. A very good copy. €1,650 Wade 133.

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337. YEATS, W.B. Sophocles' King Oedipus. A Version for the Modern Stage. London: Macmillan and Co, 1928. First edition. pp. vii, 61, 2. Cream wrappers. A very good copy in dust jacket. €20 338. YEATS, W.B. The Winding Stair and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1933. First edition. pp. ix, 101. Half-title with Macmillan monogram and address on verso. Olive green blind-stamped cloth, to a design by T. Sturge Moore. A fine copy in rare fine dust jacket. €1,675 Wade 169.

First edition of this great collection of poetry from Yeats' later years, second only to The Tower. One of 2000 copies printed. Wade 169. Connolly 100, 56D. The Winding Stair contains "A Dialogue of Self and Soul", "Coole Park", "1929", "Coole Park and Ballylee", "1931", "For Anne Gregory", "Byzantium", "Vacillation" and the Crazy Jane poems. A different collection under the same title was published in a limited edition by the Fountain Press in New York in 1929, but that collection did not include most of the poems cited above.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 339. YEATS, W.B. On the Boiler. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1939. Quarto. pp. 46, 1 (publisher's list). Blue printed wrappers, with an illustration by Jack B. Yeats. A fine copy. €65

Wade 202. Not in Miller.

According to Mrs. W.B. Yeats only four copies of the first edition had been issued when it was decided to reprint the book. The remainder of the first edition was then destroyed and replaced with the new edition, the only Cuala title to be commercially printed (by Thoms).

340. YEATS, W.B. Tribute to Thomas Davis. With an account of the Thomas Davis centenary meeting held in Dublin on November 20th, 1914, including Dr. Mahaffy's prohibition of the "Man Called Pearse", and an unpublished protest by 'A.E.'. Cork: University Press, 1947. pp. 22.

Blue stitched printed wrappers. A very good copy. €25 Wade 208.

341. [YEATS, W.B.] Images of a Poet. Exhibition Catalogue. My permanent or impermanent images. With portrait frontispiece and other illustrations. Manchester: University Press, 1961. pp.

151. Navy paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signature of Ann Paton / July 1977 on front free endpaper. A fine copy in illustrated frayed dust jacket. €20 105

De Búrca Ra re Books 342. [YEATS, W.B.] The Senate Speeches of W.B. Yeats. Edited by Donald R. Pearce. London: Faber and Faber, 1961. pp. 183. Tan paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €75 YEATS CENTENARY PAPERS 343. [YEATS, W.B.] 1. Yeats and the Easter Rising. By Edward Malins being No. I of the Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers MCMLXV. 2. Beulah to Byzantium: A Study of Parallels in the Works of W.B. Yeats, William Blake, Samuel Palmer & Edward Calvert. By Raymond Lister being No. II of the Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers MCMLXV. 3. Yeats and Innisfree. By Russell K. Alspach being No. III of the Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers MCMLXV. 4. Yeats & the Irish Eighteenth Century. By Peter Faulkner being No. V of the Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers MCMLXV. 5. In ... Luminous Wind. By George Brandon Saul being No. VII of the Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers MCMLXV. 6. Yeats' 'Last Poems' Again. By Curtis Bradford being No. VIII of the Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers MCMLXV. 7. Yeats' Quest for Eden. By George Mills Harper being No. IX of the Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers MCMLXV. 8. Yeats and Music. By Edward Malins being No. XII of the Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers MCMLXV. 9. The Dolmen Press Yeats Centenary Papers MCMLXV. Preliminaries and Index. Edited by Liam Miller with a preface by Jon Stallworthy. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1965/1968. Brown printed wrappers. In very good condition. €275 344. [YEATS, W.B.] W.B. Yeats. A Centenary Exhibition by the National Gallery of Ireland.

1865 - 1965. Bust of Yeats on frontispiece. Illustrated. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1965. pp. 102.

Cream illustrated wrappers, titled in red and black on upper cover and spine. A fine copy. €15 345. YEATS, W.B. Mosada. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1970. pp. 17. Quarter linen on grey paper boards. Edition limited to 50 numbered copies only (not numbered, out of series). A fine copy. €45 Facsimile reprint of the Cuala edition, from the text of 1889 published in The Wanderings of Oisin with the manuscript corrections made by the author on his own copy.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM TADHG MAC GLINCHEY TO THE HISTORIAN NED [EDWARD] MacLYSAGHT

346. YEATS, W.B. & JOHNSON, L. Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W.B. Yeats and Lionel Johnson. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1970. pp. [ii], 54. Text printed in red and black.

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347. YEATS, W.B. 1. W.B. Yeats and the Designing of Ireland's Coinage. Texts by W.B. Yeats and others edited with an introduction by Brian Cleeve.

2. The Prose Fiction of W.B. Yeats: The Search for 'Those Simple Forms' by Richard J. Finneran.

3. Symbolism and Some Implications of the Symbolic Approach: W.B. Yeats During the Eighteen-Nineties. By Robert O'Driscoll.

4. Death-in-Life and Life-in-Death : 'Cuchulain Comforted' and 'News for the Delphic Oracle'.

By Kathleen Raine.

5. Yeats, The Tarot and the Golden Dawn. By Kathleen Raine.

6. Yeats, The Tarot and the Golden Dawn. Second edition. Revised. By K. Raine.

7. John Butler Yeats and the Irish Renaissance. By James White, with Pictures from the Collection of Michael Butler Yeats and from the National Gallery of Ireland. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1972 / 1975. Small folio. Illustrated wrappers. In very good condition. €150 348. [YEATS, W.B.] Thoor Ballylee Home of William Butler Yeats. With a foreword by T.R. Henn. Illustrated. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1977. Small quarto. pp. 32. Grey illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €30 This paper is a development of a lecture delivered by Mary Hanley to the Kiltartan Society at Coole Park on 19 June 1961, rearranged with additional matter by Liam Miller.

IN RARE McKENZIE BINDING 349. YOUNG, Reverend Edward. The Poetical Works of the Reverend Dr. Edward Young. In Four Volumes. With the Life of the Author. Edinburgh: At the Apollo Press, by the Martins, Anno, 12mo.

1784. Bound in contemporary full green morocco

by William McKenzie of Dublin. Covers framed by a single gilt fillet enclosing the badge of Trinity College Dublin. Spine divided into five compartments by a gilt Greek key roll, title and volume number in gilt on red morocco labels in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to a floral design. McDonnell and Healy tools R4 and R18. Premium prize label awarded to Edward Chichester at Hillary term, 1791 on front pastedown of volume two, three and four.

Signature of Chichester on front endpaper of volume one. Occasional light wear to extremities and joints. An attractive Dublin eighteenth century binding. €575 107

De Búrca Ra re Books 350. YOUNG, William R. Fighters of Derry. Their deeds and descendants being a chronicle of events in Ireland during the revolutionary period 1688-1691. With an introduction by Thomas U. Sadleir. Portrait frontis of the author. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1932. pp. xi, 353. Red buckram, lettered in gilt. A very good copy. Rare. €850 COPAC locates 9 copies only.

ADDENDA WITH A CHAPTER BY SEAMUS HEANEY 351. GRABY, John. Ed. by. 150 Years of Architecture in Ireland: RIAI, 1839-1989. Designed by John O'Regan. Dublin: RIAI, 1989. Small folio. pp. 130. Blue cloth, title in gilt on printed label inset on upper €85 cover and in gilt on spine. A fine copy.

The contributors included: Seamus Heaney, Myles na gCopaleen (Flan O'Brien), Edward McParland, Sean O'Reilly, Bernadette Goslin, John Graby, Patrick Shaffrey, Valerie Mulvin, etc.

The contents include: The Foundation and Early Years; The RIAI's International Role; Sir Richard Morrison - A Biographical Sketch; Some Irish Writers on Architecture in the Early 20th Century; Architectural Education; Irish Church Architecture; Conservation and the RIAI; Brief Lives, Long Practices - Irish Architectural Dynasties; From Maecenas to MacAlpine by Seamus Heaney, etc.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 352. HENLEY, Pauline. Spenser In Ireland. With maps. Cork: University Press, 1928. pp. 231, [1]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from the author to Nellie and Michael O'Shea, dated €175 April 11th. 1928. A fine copy in fine dust jacket.

A study of the Irish environment of Edmund Spenser mainly in its historical aspects.

The chapters include: With Grey in Ireland; Spenser as an Undertaker; The Poet at Kilcolman; Further Irish Influences and Allusions; The Ruin of the Plantation; Spenser and Political Thought; The Poets Descendents. Includes a map of Spenser's land grants in Cork.

353. McNAMARA, T.F. Portrait Of Cork. Illustrated. Cork: Watermans, 1981. Folio. xviii, 252. Grey €65 paper boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket.

354. MERNE, John G. A Handbook of Celtic Ornament. Being a key to the construction of all types of that form of decoration. For the use of schools, art teachers, designers, architects, sculptors, etc., with over 700 illustrations. Dublin & Cork: Educational Company of Ireland. n.d.

(1930). Quarto. pp. 108. Quarter blue linen on illustrated boards. Fine copy. €125 MISCELLANY OF TYPE COMPILED AT WHITTINGTON PRESS 355. [WHITTINGTON PRESS] A Miscellany of Type. Edited by J. Randle. Andoversford, Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1990. First edition. Quarto. pp. iv, [iv], 125, [2].

Quarter brown cloth, on decorated paper boards. Limited to 530 numbered copies, of which this is one of the 460 trade copies bound thus. A fine copy in slipcase. €325 A magnificant type specimen book which has been designed to be enjoyed as much for its content as its typographical displays. The basis for this book is the large collection of monotype faces held by the press, which includes Bible Centaur and all the other monotype faces originally held by the Oxford University Press. Each one has been elegantly displayed in a variety of different sizes and a deliberate attempt has been made to show the rarely-seen larger sizes. Printed in two colours throughout this is one of the finest printed private press books and an inspiration to any typographer.

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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.

Dublin 1660-1860.

Irish Bookbinding. 1954.

The Irish Book Lover. 1910 - 1952.

Three Candles Bibliographical Catalogue. 1998.

Early Printed Dublin Books, 1601-1700. New York, 1971.

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.

Online Encyclopaedia.

Short Title Catalogue of Books Published in England and English Books Published Abroad.

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EDMUND BURKE PUBLISHER 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 €95 portrait embossed in gilt on the 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. 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'. €295 The first comprehensive survey of each of the counties of Ireland. With sketches by the author from drawings by Petrie, Westropp, Miss Stokes, Windele, Wood-Martin, Wakeman, etc. The third volume contains an index and the material from folklore, legend, and tradition. A most attractive set of books and a must for the discerning collector.

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

B4. CHANDLER, Edward. Photography in Ireland. The Nineteenth Century. Illustrated.

Dublin: De Búrca, 2001. Folio. pp. xii, 44 (plates), 134. Fine in fine dust jacket. €20 LIMITED EDITION B5. CHANDLER, Edward. Photography in Ireland. The Nineteenth Century. Illustrated.

Dublin: De Búrca, 2001. Folio. Limited edition [30 copies only] in full black morocco. €475 LIMITED EDITION B6. COLGAN, John. Triadis Thaumaturgae, seu Divorum Patricii, Columbae et Brigidae, trium veteris et maioris Scotiae, seu Hiberniae Sanctorum Insulae, Communium Patronorum Acta ...

Joannis Colgani, in Conventu FF Minor, Hibernor ... 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. Limited to 300 copies, and handsomely bound in blue quarter morocco, title on spine, top edge gilt, red silk marker. Fine in slipcase. €190 111

Edmund Burke Publisher 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.

B7. 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.

B8. 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 B9. CUSACK, M.F. A History of the Kingdom of Kerry. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. pp. xvi, 453, 6 (extra maps), lxxxiii. Fine in full buckram, with illustrated coloured dust jacket depicting Jobson’s manuscript map of Kerry 1598. €45 Margaret Cusack’s History of the Kingdom of Kerry is an excellent work treating of the history, topography, antiquities and genealogy of the county. There is an excellent account of the families of: The O’Sullivans and MacCarthys; Geraldine Genealogies; The Knights of Kerry and Glyn; Population and Religion; Agricultural Information; St. Brendan; Dingle in the Sixteenth Century; Ardfert; The Geology and Botany of Kerry; Deep Sea Fisheries; Kerry Rivers and Fishing etc.

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LIMITED EDITION B10. DALTON, Charles Ed. by. King Charles The Second’s Irish Army Lists, 1661 - 1685.

Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Second. pp. xxxiv, 176. Fine facsimile limited edition in quarter morocco gilt, head and tail bands, in slipcase. Signed and numbered by the publisher. €90 The original edition was published for private circulation and was limited to twenty copies only. The editor states that he made extensive use of the manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, preserved at Kilkenny Castle, the calendared and uncalendared Irish State papers, the King’s Letter Books and Entry Books at the Public Record Office for the names of Officers serving on the Irish Establishment, 1661-1685.

In December 1660, Sir Maurice Eustace, Lord Chancellor, Roger, Earl of Orrery, and Charles, Earl of Mountrath were appointed Lord Justices. Under the able rule of Orrery and Mountrath the Army in Ireland was reduced and remodelled. King Charles’s new army dates from 11th February, 1661 and when the Irish parliament met in May the Lord Chancellor informed the House that “there were twenty months” arrears due to the army.

The patrons of military history while glancing at the list of officers appointed to command this army, will recognise the names of many Cromwellian field officers who had served in Ireland during the Commonwealth. One may wonder how these ‘renegades’ found their way into the new Royalist levies.

The answer is that these same officers not only supported the Restoration but were eager in the King’s service afterwards. It transpired that many Cromwellians were retained in the Army of Ireland and had equal rights with those Royalists who had fought for Charles I and had shared the long exile of Charles II. From a purely military point of view they had learned the art of war under the most successful soldier of his time.

LIMITED EDITION B11. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. History of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. With numerous illustrations and maps. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2001. First edition. pp. xiv, 184. Limited edition of 50 copies, signed by the author and publisher. Bound in full maroon levant morocco, covers with a gilt anchor and sailing ship. Spine divided into five compartments by four gilt raised bands. Top edge gilt. A fine binding from the Harcourt Bindery, Boston. €500 Dun Laoghaire harbour, recognised as one of the most picturesque in Europe, was built early in the 19th century as the consequence of an explosion of popular anger at the continuous deaths from shipwreck in Dublin Bay. The most competent and experienced navigators at that time described the port of Dublin as the most perilous in the whole world for a ship to leave or approach in certain circumstances.

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

B12. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. History of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. With numerous illustrations and maps. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2002.

Second edition. pp. xiv, 184. Fine in fine dust jacket. €20 B13. DONOHOE, Tony. The History of Crossmolina. Foreword by Thomas Gildea Cannon.

Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. Roy octavo. pp. xviii, 627. Buckram gilt in dust jacket.

Almost out of print. Very scarce. €90 The author Tony Donohoe, farmer and keen local historian has chronicled in great detail the history his ancestral parish from the early Christian period to the present. This authoritative work is the result of thirty years of meticulous research and is a most welcome contribution to the history of County Mayo.

In the foreword Thomas Gildea Cannon states “Tony Donohoe has brought it all vividly to light in his impressive history. Using his treasure trove of published and unpublished materials, patiently accumulated over the decades, he has told the story of an ancient parish with a scholar’s eye for the telling detail ... has made effective use of the unpublished Palmer and Pratt estate papers to help bridge the dark gap between seventeenth-century documents detailing the changeover in land ownership from native to settler, and nineteenth-century sources”.

B14. [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.

B15. GLEESON, Rev. John. Cashel of the Kings. A History of the Ancient Capital of Munster from the date of its foundation until the present day. Including historical notices of the Kings of Cashel from the 4th century to the 12th century. The succession of bishops and archbishops from St. Ailbe to the present day. Notices of the principal abbeys belonging to the territory around Cashel, together with items of local history down to the 19th century. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2001. pp. [ii], xix, 312. Fine in fine dust jacket. €40 Cover design by courtesy of Mr. Patrick Meaney, Cashel, County Tipperary.

An important and scholarly work on one of the most celebrated places of historic interest in Ireland. In medieval times it was the ecclesiastical capital of Munster. Conquered by the Eoghanacht tribe (MacCarthys) led by Conall Corc in the fifth century who set up a fortress on St. Patrick’s Rock. They ruled over the fertile plains of Munster unchallenged and their title King of Cashel remained synonymous with that of King of Munster. In law and tradition the kings of Cashel knew no superior 114

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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.

B16. 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 B17. HAYES-McCOY, Gerard A. Scots Mercenary Forces in Ireland (1565-1603). An account of their service during that period, of the reaction of their activities on Scottish affairs, and of the effect of their presence in Ireland, together with an examination of the Gallóglaigh or Galloglas.

With maps, illustrations and genealogies of the MacSweeneys, Clan Donald and the O’Neills of Tír Eoghain. With an introduction by Professor Eoin MacNeill. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. pp. xxi, 391. Superb facsimile reprint, bound in full buckram, with head and tail bands. In coloured dustjacket depicting three galloglasses and an Irish Foot Soldier of the 16th century. €45 They were a force to be reckoned with. An English writer of the period described them as follows: “The galloglasses are picked and selected men of great and mighty bodies, cruel, without compassion.

The greatest force of the battle consisteth in their choosing rather to die than to yield, so that when it cometh to handy blows, they are quickly slain or win the field. They are armed with a shirt of mail, a skull, and a skeine. The weapon they most use is a battle-axe, or halberd, six foot long, the blade wherof is somewhat like a shoemaker’s knife, and without pike; the stroke wherof is deadly”.

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Edmund Burke Publisher ANNALS OF ULSTER B18. HENNESSY, William M. & MacCARTHY, B. Ed. by. The Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annala Senait. A chronicle of Irish Affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540. With translation, notes, and index.

New introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. Four volumes. Full buckram gilt in slipcase. €285 Also available in a special limited edition of 50 sets, bound in full brown morocco gilt, signed by the publisher. €850 The important Annals of Ulster compiled by Cathal Og Mac Maghnusa at Seanaidh Mac Maghnusa, now Belle Isle in Lough Erne, were so named by the noted ecclesiastic, Ussher, on account of their containing many chronicles relating to that province. They contain more detail on ecclesiastical history than the Annals of the Four Masters, and were consulted by Br. Michael O’Clery, Chief of the Four Masters, for his masterpiece.

LIMITED EDITION 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. 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.

B20. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. The Annals of Lough Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited and with a translation by W.M. Hennessy. With folding coloured plate of the TCD Ms. Two volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Third. pp. (1) lix, 653, (2) 689. Superb set bound in full buckram gilt and in presentation slipcase. €110

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Edmund Burke Publisher HIS NEVER-FORGOTTEN COUNTRYSIDE ABOUT GLENOSHEEN B21. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Names of Places. With a new introductory essay on the life of P.W. Joyce by Mainchín Seoighe. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Three volumes. pp. (1) xl, 589, (2) viii, 538, (3) x, 598. Fine. €165

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

B22. KILROY, Patricia. Fall of the Gaelic Lords. 1534-1616. Dublin: By Éamonn De Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2008. pp. x, 192. Illustrated. Fine in illustrated dust jacket. €29.50 No period in Irish history is quite so full of drama, heroism and tragedy as the eighty-odd years from the mid 16th to the early 17th centuries: the age of the fall of the Gaelic lords. This intriguing and moving narrative recounts the passing of Gaelic Ireland when the Tudor Crown sought to subdue the island and the Irish chiefs defended their ancient territories and way of life.

Beginning in 1534 with young Silken Thomas’ defiant stand at the gates of Dublin Castle, it tells the story of Red Hugh O’Donnell’s capture and escape, the rise of the Great Hugh O’Neill and the bloody Nine Years War culminating in the Battle of Kinsale, and finally, the Flight of the Earls.

Animated with details from The Annals Of The Four Masters and other contemporary accounts, Fall Of The Gaelic Lords is a lively intelligent book aimed at both the historian and general reader.

Patricia Kilroy was born in Ireland in 1925. As one of the daughters of Seán Lester, who would become the last Secretary-General of the League Of Nations, she spent most of her childhood in The Free City Of Danzig and in Geneva. She studied Modern History and Political Science in Trinity College Dublin. She then worked with the Irish Red Cross, settling refugees from Eastern Europe who had been displaced during World War II. After marrying and while raising her four children, her interest in history continued to grow. Family holidays in Connemara sparked her interest in local history, and talking with the people of the area, as well as academic research, led to the publication in 1989 of The Story Of Connemara. That book focused on a small part of Ireland, and covered from the Ice-Age to the present day; after which she felt she would like to cover the whole of Ireland, whilst focusing on one period in time. And so Fall Of The Gaelic Lords was researched and written. Patricia lives in Dublin.

B23. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. With illustrations and three maps. Castlebourke: De Búrca, 2000. Roy. 8vo. pp. xvi, 451. Fine in fine dust jacket. €45 Prime historical reference work on the history of the County Mayo from the earliest times to 1600. It deals at length with the De Burgo Lordship of Connaught. Illustrated with a large folding detailed map of the county, coloured in outline. There are 49 pages of genealogies of the leading families of Mayo: O’Connor, MacDonnell Galloglass, Bourke Mac William Iochtar, Gibbons, Jennings, Philbin, Barret, Joyce, Jordan, Costello, etc.

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LIMITED TO 200 COPIES B24. LOEBER, Rolf & Magda. Ed. by. Irish Poets and their Pseudonyms in Early Periodicals.

Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 2007. pp. xxii, 168. Fine in illustrated dust jacket. €65 Many Irish poems remain hidden in the periodicals and were published under pseudonyms. Therefore, the identity of hundred of Irish poets often is elusive. The discovery of a manuscript of pseudonyms of Irish poets made this volume possible. It lists over 1,200 pseudonyms for 504 Irish poets whose work appeared in over 500 early periodicals published in Ireland, England, North America, and Australia.

Rolf Loeber and Magda Loeber are researchers at the medical school of the University of Pittsburgh.

They have both extensively published on Irish history and literature. Their most recent book is A Guide to Irish Fiction (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006).

B25. LOHAN, Máire. An ‘Antiquarian Craze’. The life, times and work in archaeology of Patrick Lyons R.I.C. (1861-1954). Dublin: By Éamonn De Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2008. pp. xiv, 192. Illustrated. Fine in coloured illustrated stiff wraps. €19.50 Born in 1861, Sgt. Patrick Lyons, ‘The Antiquarian Policeman’, served with the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1886 - 1920. While stationed in the West of Ireland, he developed a keen interest in documenting the field-monuments he noticed on his patrols. His discovery of four ogham stones led to a correspondence with Hubert Knox, a renowned Mayo Antiquarian; Lyons provided Knox with important descriptions of field monuments, contributing to 19 published papers. Out of modesty, and fear that the R.I.C. would frown on his ‘antiquarian craze’, he preferred not to be acknowledged by name, although he was much admired for his fine mind and dedicated antiquarian ‘policework’ by those few with whom he shared his interest.

To bring to light his remarkable work, this book draws on Lyons’ own notes and photographs (preserved by N.U.I. Galway and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland), archived local newspapers and an overview of the social and political history of his times.

A quiet, unassuming man, Lyons died in 1954 and lies buried in an unmarked grave in his native Clonmel. His major contribution to Irish archaeology deserves to be acknowledged in print at last.

Máire Lohan (née Carroll) was born in Belmullet, County Mayo and now lives in Galway city. While researching for an M.A. in Archaeology at U.C.G. she became aware of the Lyons Photographic Collection there and also of the Knox/Lyons Collection at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, around which this book is based. She has worked with the O.P.W. in the Archaeological Survey of County Galway, lectured in archaeology at R.T.C. Galway and excavated in Galway city. She has published articles in the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society and Cathair na Mart. This is her first book.

B26. 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 118

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Michael MacEvilly narrates the life story of Andy Cooney in compelling fashion. Readers will be fascinated by the manner in which a young man combined his studies to be a doctor with his duties as an IRA Volunteer from 1917 onwards. In terms of the wider historical narrative of the period, the book, using much original source material, makes an important new contribution. It makes clear the command structure of the IRA, at both a national and local level, during the War of Independence, the Civil War and beyond. The strengths and weaknesses of individuals are also delineated with remarkable clarity. In particular new information is provided on ‘Bloody Sunday,’ November 1920; the role of the IRB and Michael Collins at the time of the Treaty; and the differences between the IRA and de Valera when Fianna Fail was founded. Above all the book is extremely well researched and eminently readable. - Brian Murphy OSB. Michael MacEvilly was born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo. He was educated at St. Jarlath’s College, Tuam, Co. Galway and subsequently studied Arts and Commerce at University College, Galway. He worked as an accountant and auditor in his own firm located in Dublin, and had a long association with and interest in the Irish Judo Association and the Olympic Council of Ireland.

Irish history and the Irish language were Michael’s major interests. This primarily stemmed from his detailed research of the history of the MacEvilly family, especially their involvement in the War of Independence of which he was particularly proud. Irish republican history was an enduring passion and he became a keen scholar and book-collector on the area. He was an active member of the Committee of the 1916-21 Club and was President from 2000 to 2001. Michael passed away in 2009. He is sadly missed by his family and friends.

EDITION LIMITED TO 10 SIGNED SETS B27. MacFHIRBHISIGH, Dubhaltach. The Great Book of Irish Genealogies - Leabhar Genealach. Edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. List of subscribers. Five volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003/4. Quarto. Bound in quarter green morocco on cloth boards.

Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands. Title and author/editor on maroon morocco letterpieces in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to an interlacing Celtic design. White endbands. Top edge gilt. Edition limited to ten sets only, signed by the Publisher and Editor. €1,650 The great Connacht scholar Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh (c.1600-1671), from Lackan, County Sligo, compiled his monumental Great Book of Genealogies in Galway at the height of the Cromwellian Wars in the mid-seventeenth century. The work has long been recognised as the most important source for the study of Irish family history, and it is also of great importance to historians of pre-17th century Ireland since it details the ancestry of many significant figures in Irish history - including: Brian Boroimhe (d.1014); Ulick Burke, Marquis of Clanricarde (d.1657); James Butler, Duke of Ormonde (d.1688); Somhairle Buidhe (Sorley Boy) MacDonnell (d.1589); Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim (d.1683); Garrett Óg Fitzgerald, Earl of Kildare (d.1536); Diarmuid Mac Murchadha (d.1171); Myler Magrath, Archbishop of Cashel (d.1622), Murrough O’Brien, Baron of Inchiquin (d.1674); Feagh MacHugh O’Byrne (d.1597); Rory O’Conor.(d.1198); Red Hugh O’Donnell (d.1602); Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone (d.1616); Owen Roe O’Neill (d.1649), and many, many more.

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

B28. MacFHIRBHISIGH, Dubhaltach The Great Book of Irish Genealogies - Leabhar Genealach. Edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. List of subscribers. Five volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003/4. Quarto. Full buckram gilt. Over 3,600 pages. In presentation box. €635 The original text, both prose and poetry, of both works is accompanied by a painstaking English translation. But, perhaps most important of all, the edition includes, in addition to several valuable appendices, a comprehensive series of indices which provide a key to the tens of thousands of personal names, surnames, tribal names and place-names that the work contains. In fact, the portion relating to personal names is the largest Irish language names index that has ever been compiled.

B29. MARTIN, Edward A. A Dictionary of Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors. With short biographies. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. pp. xiv, 160. Illustrated boards in dust jacket. €36 B30. 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 120

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

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

B31. 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 B32. O’CURRY, Eugene. On The Manners and Customs of The Ancient Irish. A series of lectures delivered by the late Eugene O’Curry, M.R.I.A., Professor of Irish History and Archaeology in the Catholic University of Ireland. Edited, appendices etc, by W.K. Sullivan.

With a new introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Three volumes. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. Bound in full green buckram, with harp in gilt on upper covers. Head and tail bands. pp. (1) xviii, 664, (2), xix, 392 (3) xxiv, 711. Fine. €235 His thirty-eight lectures On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, delivered at the University between May 1857 and July 1862 (the last one only a fortnight before his death) were published in Dublin in three volumes. These were edited with an introduction (which takes up the whole of the first volume), appendices and other material by Dr. W.K. Sullivan. O’Curry’s works stand to this day as a monument to one of our greatest Celtic scholars.

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

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Edmund Burke Publisher B33. O’DONOVAN, John. Ed. by. Annála Ríoghachta Éireann - Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters. From the earliest times to the year 1616. Edited from the manuscript in the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin, with copious historical, topographical and genealogical notes and with special emphasis on place-names. Seven large vols. With a new introduction by Kenneth Nicholls. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. Over 4,000 pages. Large quarto.

Superb set in gilt and blind stamped green buckram, in presentation box. €865

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

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

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

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

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

B34. SWEENEY, Tony. Catalogue Raisonné of Irish Stuart Silver. A Short Descriptive Catalogue of Surviving Irish Church, Civic, Ceremonial & Domestic Plate dating from the Reigns of James I, Charles I, The Commonwealth, Charles II, James II, William & Mary, William III & Queen Anne 1603-1714. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Folio. pp. 272. In a fine buckram binding by Museum Bookbinding and printed in Dublin by Betaprint. Signed and numbered limited edition of 400 copies, 360 of which are for sale. Fine in illustrated dust jacket. €135 Compiled from records of holdings by Cathedrals, Churches, Religious Houses, Colleges, Municipal Corporations, Museums & Art Galleries. Further information has been obtained from those who deal in and those who collect Antique Silver, with special regard to Auction Sales.

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DE-LUXE LIMITED EDITION 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. Edition limited to 25 numbered copies only, signed by the partners, publisher and binder. Bound in full green niger oasis by Des Breen. Upper cover tooled in gilt with a horseshoe enclosing a trefoil with the heads of ‘Sadler’s Wells’, ‘Arkle’ and ‘Nijinsky’, above lake waters (SWAN-LAKE). Splash-marbled end-papers; green and cream head and tail bands. All edges gilt. With inset CD carrying the full text of the work making it possible for subscribers to enter results subsequent to 2001. In this fashion it becomes a living document. This is the only copy remaining of the Limited Edition. €1,650 Apart from racing enthusiasts, this is a most valuable work for students of local history as it includes extensive county by county records of race courses and stud farms, with hitherto unfindable details.

The late Dr. Tony Sweeney, Anglo-Irish racing journalist and commentator, was Irish correspondent of the Daily Mirror for 42 years. He shared RTE television commentary with Michael and Tony O’Hehir over a period of thirty-five years. Dr. Sweeney was also a form analyst with the Irish Times, and author of two previous books Irish Stuart Silver, (1995) and Ireland and the Printed Word (1997), for which he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the National University of Ireland.

B36. 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 B37. TALBOT, Hayden. Michael Collins’ Own Story. Told to Hayden Talbot. With an introduction by Éamonn de Búrca. Dublin: De Búrca, November, 2012. pp. 256, plus index. Full buckram gilt. And a limited edition of 50 copies only in full goatskin.

Standard edition €45 Limited edition €375 The American journalist Hayden Talbot first met Michael Collins at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin, shortly after the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty in December 1921. In the course of his working career Talbot had met many important people, but he soon realised that Collins was one of the most remarkable. He admits he had underestimated Collins before he got to know him, but Collins quickly earned his respect - not least by his habit of treating everyone, from Arthur Griffith to the “lowliest of his supporters”, with equal consideration and politeness. Talbot made it his business to meet Collins as often as possible and during months of close association Collins impressed him as “the finest character it had ever been my good fortune to know”. He valued their friendship more than any other.

This work contains an invaluable insight into Collins’ thinking and actions during this epic period of Irish history. It deals at length with Easter Week, The Black and Tans, The Murder of Francis Sheehy Skeffington, the Treaty negotiations and his vision for the resurgent nation 123

Edmund Burke Publisher 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.

B38. 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.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION B39. McDONNELL, Joseph. Cork Gold-Tooled Bookbindings of the 18th and 19th Centuries. A Forgotten Heritage. Folio. A limited edition of 250 copies. Illustrated with colour and mono plates. Ninety six pages, quarto. There will be a printed list of, we would very much appreciate your patronage. Price

approximately €150.

This new study reveals for the first time the importance of Cork as a centre of de luxe bookbinding during the eighteenth century, and dispels the widely held belief that only Dublin produced sumptuous gold-tooled bindings during the same period. Examples range from school book prizes, estate maps, to the grandest folios, many previously described in library and booksellers’ catalogues as Dublin workmanship.

Cork is well known for its famous 18th. and 19th. century silver and glass, but now its forgotten heritage of fine bookbinding will be revealed as equally rich and distinctive, attesting to the flourishing book trade in the city.

The limited edition volume will consist of an introductory essay, followed by a fully illustrated and detailed catalogue of the bindings and tools.

We apologise for the delay in publishing this important work. We hope to have it available shortly. Your patronage, as always, will be very much appreciated. For those of you who have already subscribed, can you please confirm that you still want to go ahead.

New subscribers are indeed most welcome.

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