Deburca catalogue 113

De Búrca Rare Books De Búrca Rare Books Catalogue 113

Catalogue 113

De BĂşrca Ra re Books A selection of fine, rare and important books and manuscripts

Catalogue 113 Autumn 2014

DE BÚRCA RARE BOOKS Cloonagashel, 27 Priory Drive, Blackrock, County Dublin.

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CATALOGUE 113 Autumn 2014

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De Búrca Ra re Books 1. ALLEY, Jerome. The Judge, or, An Estimate of the Importance of the Judicial Character : Occasioned by the Death of the late Lord Clare, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. A Poem, in three cantos. London: Printed by J. Swan, Angel Street; for Vernor and Hood, 1803. 16mo. pp. [10], x, 129, [3]. Disbound. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €675 COPAC locates 4 copies only. Not in NLI. Rev. Jerome Alley (1760-1826) poet and author, was born in Ireland. After being educated at, and taking his degree from, Trinity College, Dublin, he became Rector of Drumcar in diocese of Armagh.

A Compendium of Irish Biography states that "He ... was the author of several poems and pamphlets.

In 1826, shortly before his death, he published a work upon the various religions of the world".

With engraved frontispiece and two-page advertisements at end.

2. ANDREWS, John. Ireland in Maps. An Introduction. With a Catalogue of an Exhibition mounted in the Library of Trinity College Dublin, 1961 by the Geographical Society of Ireland in conjunction with the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. With 5 maps. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1961. pp.

36. Illustrated stiff wrappers. A very good copy. €25 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]. Contemporary full calf, spine neatly rebacked, title and author in gilt on red morocco letterpieces. A near fine copy. Rare. €675

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 Linnaean 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. [ARAN ISLANDER] Original Photograph of an elderly Aran Islander kneeling on the ground saying a Decade of the Rosary after making his Confession. In the background is a Priest hearing the Confession of a lady wearing a shawl (presumably the man's wife). Stamp of Charles C. Fennell, Balfeighan, Dundrum, County Dublin, News Pictures on verso. 193 x 245mm. Fine. €75 5. [ARAN ISLANDS] Cuairt ar Oileáin Árann. Guide to the Aran Islands. By Pacella and Dara Ó Conaola. Illustrated. Published by the Compilers, 1987. Tall slim octavo. pp. 32. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. Scarce. €20 1

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6. [ARENA] This was Arena. Introduced by James Liddy. A Literary Magazine edited by Michael Hartnett, James Liddy and Liam O'Connor. [Spring 1963 - Spring 1965. First edition].

Four parts in one volume. Naas: Malton Press, 1982. Second edition. Large folio. pp. 115.

Pictorial wrappers. Signed by the publisher P. MacGlinchey. A fine copy. €75 In his introduction James Liddy states: "I have always wanted to exchange new magazines for old, for I know that magazines can alter the shape of a literary landscape ... I made my contribution with a far flung community of writers, an audience with appetite for literature, and an Ireland which knew the poet walked down Grafton Street".

Contributors included Patrick Kavanagh, Austin Clarke, Mary Lavin, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Louis MacNeice, Paul Durcan, Michael Hartnett, Derek Mahon, Christy Brown, James Liddy, Macdara Woods, Pearse Hutchinson, Anthony Cronin, Robert Graves, James Plunkett, Brian Higgins, Anthony Kerrigan, Lorna Reynolds, Desmond O'Grady, etc. An important source for Kavanagh's later work.

Typography by Liam Miller. With illustrations, some coloured.

7. [ARKLOW RIOTS] Historical Photographs and Government Reports on the Religious Riots in Arklow 1890 - 1896. An album consisting of twenty-six photographs (recent copies) of the riots, copy of prohibition notice and the government memorandum. €250 On Sunday 6th April, 1890, the Rev. R.C. Hallowes, Rector of Arklow, with three other Protestant clergymen, the Revs. W. Harpur, J. Hoffe, and J.W. Harrison, commenced a series of public meetings for devotional purposes in the streets of Arklow. They printed a circular setting forth their reasons for holding such meetings which in essence was that of inducing Roman Catholics to take part in them.

The police were of the opinion that these services would inevitably lead to riot and disturbances in the town. The clergymen were privately appealed to, to discontinue the services, but, to no avail.

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De Búrca Ra re Books The photographs included are: D.I. John Robert Sharp; R.I.C. Station Party; Police Re-enforcements Arrive by Train; Arriving Militia welcomed by the Local Boys; Out-houses under Guard; Preaching in Main Street; Rev. Hallowes; A Police unit information in Main Street; Evangelist passing unfriendly crowd at the Brook; Tail end of the procession; Nearing old Chapel ground; Police in position at flashpoint near Lady Proby's School House; Curious Locals held in Check by Police and Militia; The Crowd at the School House continues to grow; The Preacher preachifies but does not pacify; Rev. Hallowes is arrested; The Minister does not surrender without a fight, etc.

8. ASHE, Thomas. Oration delivered by Commandant Thomas Ashe at Casement's Fort, Ardfert, County Kerry, on Sunday, 5th August, 1917. Dublin?: 1917. Octavo. pp. 11. Light foxing. A good copy. Exceedingly rare. €575 COPAC locates the BL and TCD copies only. NLI hold the Martin copy. Carty 755.

A eulogy of Sir Roger Casement.

Thomas Ashe (1885-1917), Republican, was born at Kinard, Lispole, near Dingle, County Kerry, the fourth son in a family of seven boys and three girls born to Gregory Ashe, farmer, and his wife Ellen (née Hanafin). He was educated at Ardmore School and De La Salle Training College, Waterford.

After a brief spell teaching at Minard Castle, County Kerry, he became a master at Corduff national school near Lusk, County Dublin. Active in the Gaelic League and the Irish Volunteers, he supported James Larkin during the Lock-Out in 1913 and was also a close friend of Seán O'Casey.

During the Easter Rising Ashe commanded the Fingal battalion of the Irish Volunteers. His force of 6070 men engaged British forces around north County Dublin and the battalion won a major victory in Ashbourne, County Meath where they engaged a much larger force capturing a significant quantity of arms and up to 20 Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) vehicles. Eleven RIC members, including County Inspector Alexander Gray, and two volunteers were killed during the five-and-a-half-hour battle.

Twenty-four hours after the Rising collapsed, Ashe's battalion surrendered on the orders of Patrick Pearse. On 8 May 1916, Ashe and Éamon de Valera were court-martialled and both were sentenced to death. The sentences were commuted to penal servitude for life. Ashe was imprisoned in Lewes Prison in England.

With the entry of the US into World War I in April 1917, the British government was put under more pressure to solve the 'Irish problem'. De Valera, Ashe and Thomas Hunter led a prisoner hunger strike on 28 May 1917 to add to this pressure. With accounts of prison mistreatment appearing in the Irish press and mounting protests in Ireland, Ashe and the remaining prisoners were freed on 18 June 1917

by Lloyd George as part of a general amnesty.

Ashe delivered this oration in honour of Roger Casement on Sunday the 5th August, 1917: "Men and Women of Kerry, it is a great honour to me to be asked to speak here today - to speak to the great gathering of the men and women of Kerry, of my native County, who have come to this Fort in order to show by their presence, and to show to the world that is watching us, that we stand by the same principles that Sir Roger Casement stood by when he mounted that stand. (Loud applause). ... Ireland's enemies were Casement's enemies, and we know how he was brought up before a bench of London Judges. England believed, and I believe she had a good right for that belief, that a judge and jury could not be found in Ireland to convict Casement of High Treason to his own country. Therefore, they took him to England ... and they found him guilty".

9. [AUBIN, Penelope] The Life and Adventures of Lady Lucy, the Daughter of an Irish Lord, Who married a German Officer, and was by him carried into Flanders, where he became jealous of her, and a young Nobleman, his Kinsman, whom he killed, and afterwards left her wounded, and big with child, in a Forest. Of the strange Adventures that befel both him and her afterwards, and the wonderful manner in which they met again, after eighteen years asunder. To which is added, the adventures of Yarico. Also Lindor and Eugenia. A Tale. Dublin: P. Wogan, 23, OldBridge. n.d. (c.1808). 12mo. pp. 179. Contemporary full sheep. Ink signature of M.F. Montgomery on title, with his armorial stamp on lower pastedown. Partial loss to spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €375 No copy of this edition located on COPAC. NLI with 2 copies. Loeber A108. Not in Brown, Bradshaw or Gilbert.

Penelope Aubin (1679?-1731), novelist, translator, playwright, and lay preacher, was born in London, the daughter of French émigré parents. Loeber states "judging from positive portraits of Catholics in her work, it is possible she was brought up a Catholic". References in her novels to locations in England, Ireland, and Wales indicate she may have spent part of her life in those countries.

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De Búrca Ra re Books An historical novel set in Ulster at the time of the Williamite wars. The father of the heroine supported King James and was killed. His castle was plundered and his wife and daughter sought the protection of a German captain to prevent attacks on their virtue. The captain falls in love with the daughter, marries her and takes both his new wife and mother to Heidelberg where they live happily until, in a fit of unjust jealousy, he attacks his wife and leaves her in a wood, thinking she is dead!

This work was first published in 1726 and is dedicated to Lord Colrain.

10. [BALLINA] Twelve Real Glossy Photographic Postcards of Ballina. The Milton Series [c.1920s]: King Street; Pearse Street; Knox Street; Knox Street; River Moy; River Moy; Cathedral; Bishop's House, College, and River Moy; College; Bishop's House; Bachelors' Walk, and Bridge Street. 140 x 92mm. In original blue envelope with window. Inoffensive mild water stain to verso of four cards. In very good condition. €195

EARL OF LEITRIM'S COPY 11. BARRUEL, Augustin. Memoirs, illustrating the Antichristian Conspiracy. A translation [by Robert Clifford] from the French of the Abbe Barruel. Dublin: Printed by William Watson and Son, 1798. pp. xxiii, [1], 387, [1]. Contemporary blind stamped brown morocco; covers framed by multiple blind and gilt-stamped fillets enclosing in the centre the Clements arms. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt in two, the remainder framed by blind and gilt fillets. Fore-edges and turn-ins gilt, red and gold endbands, red silk marker, light brown endpapers. All edges marbled. New red morocco letterpiece on spine. A fine copy. €295 ESTC T80527.

Lord Clements (1805-1839) was the eldest son of Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim (17681854), and predeceased his father. He was a compassionate man with the tenants' best interests at heart.

This greatly contrasted with his younger brother William Sydney who succeeded to the earldom in 1854.

William Sydney Clements, Third Earl of Leitrim (1806-78), politician and landowner was known by his tenants both Catholic and Protestant, as a tyrant. He prosecuted some 180 of them and refused the 'Ulster Custom' (one of the Three Fs) on his 57,000 acre estate near Milford in County Donegal. His tenants also alleged that he used his position as landlord to seduce girls on his estate. He was murdered at Woodquarter near Mulroy Bay on his way to Manorhamilton. His three murderers were never apprehended and his assassination marked the beginning of the Land War. 4

De Búrca Ra re Books This work deals with the relationship between the state of agriculture in Ireland "which forms the principal employment of the people" and the proposed poor law. Clements was in favour of a poor law for Ireland and advocated the use of the poor rate to invest in labour and raise agriculture from its present subsistence level.

"EVERY VIRTUE UNDER HEAV'N" 12. [BERKELEY, George] Bishop Of Cloyne. A Miscellany, containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects: Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water; An Essay Towards preserving the Ruin of Great-Britain; A Discourse Addressed to Magistrates and Men in Authority; A Word to the Wise, or an Exhortation to the Roman Catholic Clergy; Maxims Concerning Patriotism; The Querist, Containing Several Queries, Proposed to the Consideration of the Public; Verses by the Author; A Proposal for the Better Supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, and for Converting the Savage Americans to Christianity; A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society; De Motu, sive de Motus Principio & Natura. London: Printed for J. & R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand, 1752. pp. vi, [2], 9-267, [1]. Page 203 misnumbered 204. Recent marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on spine. Some minor worming to lower margin at end, not affecting text. A fine copy. €375 ESTC T39487. Jessop & Luce 206b. Keynes 141.

George Berkeley, (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne, was born at Dysert Castle, on the river Nore, about two miles from Thomastown, County Kilkenny. He was educated at Kilkenny School, and entered Trinity College in 1699. Soon after his entrance into the College, he was regarded as either the greatest genius or the greatest dunce in the place. His close friends however regarded him as a prodigy of learning and goodness of heart. He became a Fellow in 1707.

He moved to London in 1713 and joined the circle headed by Swift, Pope and Addison, in the coffeehouses and drawing-rooms of that city. It was here he began his writings which were to establish him as a major European Philosopher. In 1723, Esther Van Homrigh (Swift's 'Vanessa') died and left Berkeley, to his astonishment, £4,000, nearly half her property. She had altered her will after her quarrel with Swift three years previously. It was his intention to found a college in the Bermudas and in 1725 Walpole backed the project, and he sailed for the West Indies. He stopped off at Rhode Island, never reached the Bermudas, and had his grant withdrawn.

The following year he married Anne Foster, daughter of the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.

In 1734 he was made Bishop of Cloyne and became absorbed in the state of Ireland's economy and society. In the succeeding years he wrote numerous pamphlets on many subjects from religion to politics. Because of ill health he moved to Oxford in 1752 and died there in the following year. The most famous tribute had already been paid in a poem by Alexander Pope: 'To Berkeley, every Virtue under Heav'n.

13. BERKELEY, George. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D. Late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland. To which is added an Account of his Life [by Joseph Stock], and Several of his Letters to Thomas Prior, Esq. Dean Gervais, and Mr Pope. Engraved frontispiece portrait by T. Cooke, folding engraved plan, woodcut diagrams in text. In two volumes. Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw, No. 98, Grafton-Street, 1784. Large quarto. pp. (1) ci, 646, (2) [iv], 663. Recent half maroon morocco on marbled boards, title and volume number in gilt direct.

Annotated in pencil and red ink. Some light foxing, otherwise very good. Very scarce. €875 Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. Jessop 142.

First collected edition of Berkeley's Works, combining his philosophical, scientific, mathematical, moral, political, and theological works. The contents includes: [Volume I] The life of Bishop Berkeley [by Joseph Stock]; Letters; A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge.

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De Búrca Ra re Books towards a New Theory of Vision; Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher. [Volume 2] Passive Obedience; Arithmetica; Miscellanea Mathematica; De motu; The Analyst; A Defence of Free-thinking in Mathematics; Reasons for not Replying to Mr. Walton's Full Answer; An Essay towards Preventing the Ruin of Great-Britain; A Word to the Wise; A letter to the Roman Catholics of the Diocese of Cloyne; Maxims concerning Patriotism; The Querist; A Proposal for the better Supplying of Churches in our foreign Plantations; Verses on the Prospect of Planning Arts and Learning in America; A Sermon Preached ... February 18, 1731; Siris; A letter to T--- P---. Farther Thoughts on Tar Water, etc.

14. BERNARD, Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. J.H. The Bernards of Kerry. Illustrated. Dublin: Printed for the Author at the University Press, 1922. pp. vii, 125. Green cloth, title in gilt.

Bookplate of Percy Paley of Castle Hacket on front pastedown. Light browning to free endpapers. A fine copy. Very rare. €375 COPAC locates 5 copies only.

The contents includes: The Kerry Bernards in the Eighteenth Century; William Bernard and his Descendants; Dr. John Bernard and his Descendants; Alicia and Jane Bernard; The Jeffcotts of Kerry; The Millikins and Turtons; The Cliffords of Sligo; The Hamilton and Duke Connections; The Humphrys Family; The Families of Jones, Black, Moore, and Hall.

15. BIANCONI, M. O'C. & WATSON, S.J. Bianconi. King of the Irish Roads. With illustrations and folding genealogical table of the Bianconi & O'Connell families. Dublin: Allen Figgis, 1962. pp. x, 190. Blue paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 Charles Bianconi (1786-1875) an Italian who came to this country in 1802 revolutionised the transport system in nineteenth-century Ireland. In the wake of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo (18 June 1815), the demand for horses dropped and Bianconi (`Brian Cooney', as he was known to the locals) seized the opportunity to purchase a horse and jaunting-car for a little under £10.00. The first Bianconi coach ran from Clonmel to Cahir, carrying six passengers at a return fare of 2d. In just over 22 years his fleet consisting of 900 horses and 67 cars was covering 4,244 miles throughout the country.

16. BICKLEY, Francis. J.M. Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement. Portrait frontispiece.

London: Constable, 1912. pp. [ii], 98, 2 (publisher's list). Blind-stamped green cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt along spine. Inscribed on verso of portrait frontispiece to Harry Clarke "To Harry from Shaun / Nodlaig 1913". Some wear to spine, otherwise a very good copy. €375 RARE FISHING ITEM 17. [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 browning. 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).

18. BLIGH, William [James Burney, editor] A Voyage to the South Sea : undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of Conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an Account of the Mutiny on Board said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of part of the Crew, in the ship's boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies. Published by permission of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Mezzotint portrait frontispiece by H.H. Houston, and an engraved plate illustrating the bread-fruit. Dublin: Printed

by H. Fitzpatrick for P. Wogan, P. Byrne ... and J. Rice, 1792. pp. First Dublin octavo edition. pp. [16], 376. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, title in gilt on green morocco letterpiece, pale blue endpapers. Slight cracking to upper joint, minor wear to spine ends. Portrait laid down, very 6

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light marginal damp-marking on a few quires. A very good crisp copy. Exceedingly rare. €2,650 COPAC locates 3 copies only. I copy in NLI. Not in TCD. Kroepelien 94. Sabin 5910. O'Reilly and Reitman 552. Not in Hill.

Violence was brewing beneath the calm as The Bounty drifted gently in the South Seas dawn. After six months among the languorous delights of romantic Tahiti, the men were sullen and undisciplined. The focus of their growing resentment was the man who had torn them from their earthly paradise Captain William Bligh.

But where lies the truth of The Bounty drama? Why should Fletcher Christian, the captain's friend and second-in-command, have exchanged a promising career for certain ignominy? And was Bligh really the cruel tyrant portrayed by the Hollywood film-makers?

Here is the official account of the complete voyage of The Bounty, first published in a quarto format in London in 1792. The text was based on Bligh's journal, and was "written edited and seen through the press by James Burney, under the supervision of Sir Joseph Banks" (Kroepelien 93), while Bligh was on his second breadfruit voyage to Tahiti (1791-3), during which he succeeded in taking breadfruit to the West Indies.

Although not marked as such, this copy is from the library of the bibliophile, traveller and film-maker Quentin Keynes [Quaritch Travel Catalogue 1427].

19. BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John. A Letter to Sir William Windham. II. Some Reflections on the Present State of the Nation. III. A Letter to Mr. Pope. Dublin: Printed for J. Smith, at the Philosophers-heads, on the Blind-quay, 1753. First Dublin edition. 12mo. pp. (iv), 305, with a final advertisement leaf (misprinted). Armorial bookplate of Thomas Rochfort on front pastedown. Contemporary full calf. Slightly worn and with minute loss on upper cover. A very good copy. Rare. €485 COPAC locates the TCD copy only in Ireland. Not in NLI.

20. BOLINGBROKE, Lord Viscount. Memoirs of the Life and Ministerial Conduct, with Some free Remarks on the Political Writings, Of the Late Lord Visc. Bolingbroke. Dublin: 7

De Búrca Ra re Books Printed for J. Exshaw, on Cork-hill, R. James and R. Main in Dame-street, Booksellers, 1753.

12mo. pp. [16], 330. Contemporary full calf. Joints starting but very firm, title in gilt on red morocco label in second compartment; armorial crest in gilt in the first. Corners lightly bumped.

Initials of G.W.N. on titlepage. A very good copy. Very rare. €575 COPAC with 4 locations only. ESTC T110908. Attributed to David Mallet.

21. BOROHME, Brian the Younger. [Pseud.] Ireland as a Kingdom and a Colony or a Historical, Political and Military Sketch of its State, previous to and since the Invasion under Henry the Second. London: Dolman, Dublin: S.J. Machen, 1843. pp. viii, 246, + advertisement.

Original brown blind stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Repair to titlepage, and minor wear to boards. A very good copy. Very rare. €245 A survey of Irish history from an anti-Unionist point of view, possibly by one of The Nation writers.

22. BOURGEOIS, Maurice. John Millington Synge and the Irish Theatre. With illustrations and a genealogical chart of the Synge Family. London: Constable & Company Limited, 1913. pp. xiv, 337. Brown buckram, title in gilt on spine. Mild foxing to prelims and fore-edge. A fine copy. €65 A remarkable and valuable work, which in the French edition received "mention tres honourable" from the University of Paris. The slightest reference to John M. Synge from anyone who knew him is not overlooked. The author states that Synge: "was one of the few Irish writers who Europeanised Ireland without degaelicizing it".

23. BOWEN, Elizabeth. The Heat of the Day. London: Cape, 1949. First edition. pp. 319. Beige linen. Title in red on upper cover and spine. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Some minor spotting to endpapers and fore-edge. Top edge red. A very good copy. €30 24. BOWEN, Elizabeth. A Time in Rome. London: Longmans, 1960. First edition. pp. vii, 169.

Brown paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €65 25. BRASIER, Andrew & KELLY, John. Harry Boland A Man Divided. Dublin: New Century Publishing Limited, 2000. pp. 166. Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €35 26. BROOKE, Miss [Charlotte] Reliques of Irish Poetry: Consisting of Heroic Poems, Odes, Elegies, and Songs, translated into English Verse. With notes explanatory and historical; and the Originals in the Irish Character. To which is subjoined An Irish Tale by Miss Brooke. To which is prefixed, a memoir of her life and writings, by Aaron Crossly Seymour, Esq. Introductory Discourse by Sylvester O'Halloran. Dublin: Printed by J. Christie, 1816. Second edition. pp. cxxxvi, [2], 464. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, wear to spine, joints and corners.

Occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Very scarce. €175 The year 1789 will be best remembered in Europe for the political turmoil in France, but in Ireland it heralded a turning point in literature, with the publication of Reliques of Irish Poetry. It was on the whole very well received. The Critical Review of 1790 stated "To the poetical talent of her Gaelic ancestors and her own, we pay respect. We have been entertained with her translations from every different species of composition mentioned in the title-page, and recommend her performance to the antiquary and men of genius". An intimate friend of Maria Edgeworth, she did an invaluable service to her country, rescuing from oblivion the interesting remains of its ancient genius. Charlotte Brooke, the last survivor of Henry Brooke's twenty-two children, was born at Rantavan, County Cavan, c.1745. She was 'The first to appreciate and collect the scattered poems in the Irish language. These she translated and published with the originals ... She certainly did an acceptable service to her country' - Webb.

With a five page list of subscribers (double column), including: Owen Connollan, Sligo; Mrs D'Olier; Edmond D'Arcy; Crofton Fitzgerald; J. Finucane, Ennis; J. Gibbons, New Field, County Mayo; Mr. Hardiman; Rev. T.P. Le Fanu; Lady Judith Maxwell; Neal J. O'Neill, Esq. President Gen. Penny-Post Office; Mr. O'Malley, T.C.D.; Rev. Dr. Stokes; Miss Taylor, Back Lane; Miss Vallancey; Miss Watson; G.N. Wright, Esq., etc.

27. BROOKS, Eric St. John. Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford, Carlow and Kilkenny (13th 15th Century). Irish Manuscripts Commission. Dublin: Stationary Office, 1950. pp. xiv, 306.

Maroon cloth, title in gilt on spine. Some light staining to upper cover, otherwise a very good copy. €35 8

De Búrca Ra re Books 28. BROWNE, T.D. O'Donel. The Rotunda Hospital 1745-1945. With forty four illustrations, a synopsis and graph. Edinburgh: Livingstone, 1947. Quarto. pp. xx, 296. Beige cloth, badge of hospital in green on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature and blindstamped address on front endpapers. A very good copy. €165 29. BURKE, Edmund. A Letter from the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, M.P. to Sir Hercules Langrishe, Bart. M.P. on the subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and the propriety of admitting them to the elective franchise, consistently with the principles of the constitution as established at the Revolution. London: Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, 1792. First English edition. pp. 88. Modern grey paper boards, title on printed label on upper cover. A very good copy. €265 Goldsmiths'-Kress 15432. ESTC T37953. Todd 59c.

30. 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. €375 31. [BURY, John] A True Narrative of the Late Design of the Papists to Charge their Horrid Plot upon the Protestants. By Endeavouring to Corrupt Captain Bury and Alderman Brooks of Dublin, and to take off the Evidence of Mr. Oats and Mr. Bedlow, &c. As appears by the Depositions taken before the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Williamson, Knight, One of His Majesties late Principal Secretaries of State; And the several Examinations before Sir William Waller, Knight, One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace. London: Dorman Newman, 1679. Folio. pp. ii, 16, [2]. Black buckram. Spine rebacked. From Wigan Free Public Library with their armorial bookplate and neat blind stamp. Also with presentation label 'Presented to The Wigan Free Public Library by the Earl of Crawford'. A very good copy. Very scarce. €375 Sweeney 771 lists the Dublin edition. ESTC R4408.

32. BYRNE, The Rev. Stephen O.S.D. Irish Emigration to the United States. What it has been and what it is. Facts and Reflections especially addressed to Irish People intending to emigrate from their native land; and to those living in the large cities of Great Britain and of the United States. With large colour folding map of the United States. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1873. pp. 165, 2 (list). Brown cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover. From the library of Jos. T. O'Connor with his neat stamp on titlepage. A very good copy. Very scarce. €275 COPAC locates 6 copies only. This edition not in NLI. The author prefaces his work by stating: "In preparing this work for the perusal of Irish emigrants and their children, there is not the least intention of encouraging more emigration, especially from Ireland, than has already taken place".

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De Búrca Ra re Books States - Present Opportunities for Immigrants superior to the Past; The Kind of Person who ought to Emigrate; The Voyage and the Landing - Castle Garden and Ward's Island, New York; Employment and Economy; On Temperance; The Six New England and other States; Tables showing Foreign-born and Native Population of the several States and Territories; Farm Labor showing the average Daily Wages, with and without Board; Mechanical Labor showing the average Daily Wages paid in the several Sections of the Country; The Population of Fifty Principal Cities, etc.

33. BYRON, Lord Mazeppa. A Poem. London: John Murray, 1819. Octavo. First edition, second issue, with the imprint of the printer on the verso of p. 71, not p. 70. pp. [8], [5]-71, [1] plus inserted [8] catalogue dated June 1819. Modern full black morocco, covers ruled in gilt, title in gilt on red morocco label along spine. All edges red. Some occasional light foxing. A very good copy in slipcase. €350 Mazeppa is a romantic narrative poem written by Lord Byron in 1891, based on a popular legend about the early life of Ivan Mazeppa (1639-1709), a Ukrainian who later became Hetman of the Ukrainian Cossacks. According to the poem, the young Mazeppa, while serving as a page at the Court of King John II Casimir Vasa, has a love affair with a Countess named Theresa, who was married to a much older man. The Court, on discovering the affair, punishes Mazeppa by tying him naked to a wild horse and setting the horse loose. The bulk of the poem describes the traumatic journey of the hero strapped to the horse.

34. CAMPBELL, Joseph. Judgement. A play in two acts. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1912. pp. x, 79, 4 (Books by Joseph Campbell). Recent brown wrappers, with original laid on. A very good copy. Blue paper boards, title on white printed label on upper cover and spine. A very good copy.

Extremely rare. €265 No copy located on COPAC. Joseph Campbell [Seosamh MacCathmhaoil] (1879-1944) was born in Belfast and educated locally. He attended Belfast School of Art until about 1905, and won two bronze medals in national competitions for art schools in Britain and Ireland. He contributed to the Ulster Literary Theatre in its early days and to the journal Uladh. He went to London and became Secretary of the Irish National Literary Society, returning to Wicklow before the First World War. Arrested and interned for two years during the Civil War, on his release he emigrated to America. In 1935 he returned to Ireland again, settling in Wicklow.

35. CAMPBELL, Joseph. Irishry. A Collection of Poems. Dublin & London: Maunsel, 1913. pp. x, 79, 4 (Books by Joseph Campbell). Blue paper boards, title on white printed label on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €95 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 36. CAMPBELL, Mary. Sea Wrack or Long-ago Tales of Rathlin. Illustrated. Ballycastle: J S Scarlett, 1952. Second edition. pp. 128. Brown cloth, title in black on spine. Signed by the author. A very good copy in dust jacket. €65

Folk tales from Rathlin Island.

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De Búrca Ra re Books PROSELYTISING IN DINGLE 37. CAMPBELL, W. Graham. 'The Apostle of Kerry' or, The Life of Rev. Charles Graham who had for many years, as his associate on The Irish General Mission the Celebrated Gideon Ousley. Also Four Appendices containing Mr. Graham's sermons, an Irish hymn, etc. Dublin: Moffat, 1868. pp. xxvii, 324. Modern half purple morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on black morocco letterpiece on spine. All edges gilt. Extremely rare. €475 COPAC locates the B.L. copy only.

Charles Graham, a native of Sligo, was the oldest of the Methodist evangelists who worked for a long time among the Irish peasantry from the beginning of the nineteenth century. Graham's mission, along with the most colourful of Irish evangelists, Gideon Ousley, was to bring to the masses the gospel of personal revival and conversion, at an age when the Irish countryside was distinguished by "blasphemy, Sabbath-breaking and drunkenness ... Party spirit, pitched battles, sanguinary conflicts, nocturnal devastations and private murders".

38. [CANE, Dr. Robert. Edited by.] The Celt. A Weekly Periodical of Irish National Literature.

No. I, Vol. I. August 1857 - No. 22, Vol. I. December, 1857. Edited by a Committee of the Celtic Union. Dublin: John O'Daly, 1857. Contemporary half maroon morocco over marbled boards.

Early bibliographical notes on front endpaper, also with wrapper for the 1868 edition and newspaper cuttings. Ex. lib. with stamps. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €675 COPAC locates the TCD and BL copies only.

Dr. Robert Cane (1807-1858), nationalist, physician, and historian, was born in Kilkenny City. He was a member of the Repeal Association and the Irish Confederation. He qualified as an M.D. in 1836, became a member of Kilkenny Corporation and was Mayor twice.

In October 1853 Cane founded the Celtic Union, a nationalist literary and political society. He edited the society's magazine, The Celt, which first appeared in August 1857, announcing it would be 'Irish, Celtic, catholic and progressive' with a mission: 'To stir up past memories. To develop existing energies and resources, and to direct the national heart to pulsate with pride for the past and hope for the future'.

At his home in William Street, Kilkenny, he regularly held evenings for nationalist writers, including Charles J. Kickham. He was the model for Dr. Kiely in Kickham's Knocknagow. He influenced James Stephens, and corresponded with Thomas Davis. He was visited by Charles Gavan Duffy and by Thomas Carlyle.

He wrote an uncompleted History of the Williamite and Jacobite Wars (1859), published by the Celtic Union, and contributed articles to The Celt, The Nation, and various antiquarian journals. There were a further six issues of The Celt in 1858, and the magazine ceased publication when the author, after a short illness, died of consumption on 16 August 1858. He was buried at St John's cemetery, Kilkenny.

John O'Daly, author and publisher, was born at Farnane, County Waterford in 1800 and was educated at a local hedge school. Like Carleton he was of peasant stock but while lacking Carleton's literary genius, O'Daly was a much more versatile individual, a purveyor of fine books, a writer and publisher, a good Irish scholar, a translator, an editor, and Secretary of the Irish Antiquarian Society. We know the Munster poet Timothy O'Sullivan was a frequent visitor in his father's house. O'Donoghue tells us in his Life of Mangan, that O'Daly was not approved of by certain of his countrymen on account of having in his youth enrolled in the ranks of 'The Soupers' in Kilkenny.

John Keegan, another peasant poet tells us: "I first met O'Daly in Kilkenny in 1833, when he kept the school there for teaching Irish to the Wesleyans of that city. He, I am sorry to say, has renounced the Catholic creed, and was then a pious Biblical. He subsequently came back and is now living in Dublin, Secretary to the Celtic Athenaeum, and keeps a bookseller's shop in Anglesea Street. He is one of the best Irish scholars in Ireland ... low-sized, merry countenance, fine black eyes, vulgar in appearance and manners, and has the most magnificent Munster brogue that I ever had the luck to hear".

By 1850 we find O'Daly publishing many works in Gaelic and on Irish history, often in collaboration with that prince of scholars, John O'Donovan. Some of his Gaelic translations were versified by Mangan. O'Daly was a founder member of the Ossianic Society of which he was president from 1855 to 1857. His book catalogues are both erudite and interesting. After he died in Dublin in 1878, no effort was made to secure any of the manuscripts he left behind, some of them Carolan's, and their whereabouts remain a mystery. Douglas Hyde purchased his books at the auction after his death.

He was described by Eleanor Hull as "The last of the grand old scholars of Ireland".

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De Búrca Ra re Books 39. CARRIGAN, Rev. William. The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory. With a Preface by The Most Rev. Dr. Brownrigg, Lord Bishop of Ossory. With large coloured folding map of the Diocese and numerous other illustrations. Four volumes. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1905. First edition. Quarto. Title printed in red and black. Olive green cloth. Covers framed by a blind and gilt roll enclosing in the centre the insignia of the Diocese, title in gilt on spine. One volume with a neat ex-library stamp. A fine set. Rare in this condition. €1,250 Undoubtedly the finest Irish diocesan history ever written, giving a meticulous description of the ancient kingdom of Ossory and its kings and chieftains and a history of the diocese of Ossory from the time of St. Kieran and St. Canice up to 1903.

40. CARTY, Francis. Legion of the Rearguard. London: J.M. Dent, 1936. Second edition. pp. [vii], 272. Blue cloth, title in black on spine. Owner's signature to front endpaper. Some spotting and fading to spine. A very good copy. Rare. €175 Brown & Clarke 208.

An historical novel set in Ireland during the Civil War that followed the signing of the Treaty. When the split came the group of Volunteers took opposite sides, much of the book deals with the adventures of Paul Davin: ambushes, jail-breaks, capture and internment. Other characters include De Valera, Cathal Brugha, Michael Collins, Liam Lynch, Arthur Griffith, etc.

41. CATHCART, Rex. Ireland's Oldest Schools. St. Patrick's Cathedral Grammar and Choir Schools, Dublin. Illustrated. Dublin: 1980. pp. 32. Fine in illustrated wrappers. €10 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. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275 No copy of this edition located on COPAC. Not in NLI.

43. [CHAPBOOK] Mungo; or, The Little Traveller. To which is annexed, The Seven Wonders of the World. Illustrated with eight woodcuts. Dublin: Printed by J. Jones, 40, S. Gt. George's-St., 1822. pp. 178. Contemporary full calf. All edges sprinkled. Upper joint split but firm and holding. A very good copy. Rare. €235 COPAC locates 5 copies.

One of the most innovative and popular publishing ventures in Ireland almost two hundred years ago was that inaugurated by the Kildare Place Society. Aided by a grant of £6,000 per annum from Parliament, the Society prospered and between 1814 and 1825 over one hundred thousand books were sold. The neat wood-cut illustrations were the work of Dublin engravers.

The 'Chapbooks' as they became known, were sold in shops, hawked about by pedlars and chapmen at markets and fairs and exported in large quantities. One of their books met with the disapproval of the Catholic Archbishop. Daniel O'Connell denounced the Society in Parliament, the grant was withdrawn, and the books ceased to be published thereafter.

Mungo is a well-preserved example of this popular genre.

44. [CINCIGHISE, Dhomhnach] Oimili, No Seanmóin, mar ġeall air Theacht Anshuas an Spioraid Naoimh, agus air a Mhorán Sort do Thiodhlacadhaibh. Do Dhomhnach Cincíghise.

Lunnduin: Air na Cur a Gcló air ċosda Chomluadair an Leaḃair Urnúiġe, 1851. pp. 19. Stitched printed paper wrappers. A scarce and curious item. €65 45. CLARK, Wallace. Guns in Ulster. Foreword by Viscount Brookeborough. Illustrated.

Belfast: Constabulary Gazette, 1967. Second edition. pp. 127. Pictorial wrappers. Previous owner's signature and bookplate on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €35 46. CLARKE, Harry. Original Photograph by Harry Clarke of the Cartoon for his 'Judas' Window, 1913. The verso carries these notes in Clarke's handwriting: 'National Competition 1913 / Subject Judas Iscariot / Top panel. Judas received in Heaven through the prayer of Angels / At base of window, Judas martyrs himself. / Central figure Judas - behind him the Angel of death holds the rope which forms his nimbus. The figure is diapered with the thirty pieces of silver'. The treatment of the thirty pieces of silver leaded into Judas' robe was inspired by that of the shells in the thirteenth-century 'St Jacques' window in Chartes Cathedral. €250 Provenance: Clarke family by descent.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 47. CLARKE, M.V. Registrum cartarum Monasterii B.V. Mariae de Tristernagh in commitatu occidentalis midiae fundati et dotati a Galfredo de Constintine. Register of the Priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Tristernagh. Transcribed and edited from the Manuscript in the Cathedral Library, Armagh. With a preface by J.S.A Macaulay and K.M.E. Murray. With folding map of the property of Tristernagh Abbey. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1941. pp. xxv, 141. Quarter purple buckram on red paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €125 48. COLE, Rev. J.H. Church and Parish Records of the United Diocese of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross. Comprising the Eventful Period in the Church's History of the Forty Years from A.D. 1863, to the present time. List of subscribers. Cork: Guy, 1903. pp. xxiv, 347. Recent buckram, titled in gilt on spine. Repair to titlepage. A very good copy. Scarce. €95 49. COLUM, Padraic. The King of Ireland's Son. Illustrations and decorations by Willy Pogany.

London: Harrap, 1920. First edition. pp. [viii], 316. Green cloth, titled in dark green on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €65

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION

50. COLUM, Padraic. Three Men. London: Elkin, Mathews & Marriot, 1930. First edition. pp.

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De Búrca Ra re Books the author. Title and author on rectangular label on upper cover. A fine copy in frayed very good and rare dust jacket. €165 Denson A39.

51. [COLUMBUS, Christopher] Discovery of America, by Christopher Columbus. Chapbook.

Illustrated. Dublin: Printed by William Folds and Son, 38 Great Strand-Street, 1824. 12mo. pp.

179. Contemporary full calf, spine expertly rebacked. A very good. Very rare. €265 COPAC locates 4 copies only. From the voyage of Commodore Anson.

52. CONNOLLY, James. Erin's Hope. The Ends and Means. Rutherglen: Walsh, n.d. (c.1900). pp. 16. Printed white wrappers. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €285 No copy of this edition found on COPAC.

HARRY CLARKE'S COPY

53. [COOK, Captain James] The Life of Captain James Cook. Chapbook, illustrated with four plates. Dublin: Printed by Richard Grace, 3, Mary-street, 1820. First printing of this Dublin edition. 12mo. pp. 179. Contemporary full black morocco, covers framed by a gilt floral roll, enclosing on the upper cover in gilt 'Education Society'. Flat spine tooled in gilt with wear and partial loss to head and tail. Splash-marbled endpapers. From the library of Harry Clarke. A near fine copy. Extremely rare. €575

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COPAC locates the BL copy only. This edition of The Life of Cook not in National Library.

54. COOKE, Thomas L. The Picture of Parsonstown, in the King's County, containing the History of that Town from the earliest period to the year 1798, together with its description at the present day. Illustrated with plates. Dublin: W. De Veaux, Jervis-Street, 1826. pp. 259, [3], (plates). Later full sprinkled calf, covers with a central rectangular panel of natural calf with gilt borders. Spine sympathetically rebacked. From the library of Valentine Hussey-Walsh with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. €575

55. [CORK MOTOR RACE] A Collection of 20 Original Period Photographs taken at the Cork Irish Motor Racing event, 1938. Each photo measures approximately 140 x 90mm. Each photograph is captioned on the back, some with the names of the drivers and model of the racing cars. All in very good condition. €575 The first and only Cork Grand Prix took place on Saturday, 23rd April, 1938 at the Carrigrohane Circuit. It was run to International Formula regulations. The race attracted entries from Bugatti, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Delahaye with drivers such as Tazio Nuvolari, Rene Dreyfus, Jeane Pierre Wimille, Guiseppe Farina and Cork's favourite driver Prince Birabongse Bhanudej Bhanubandh or B. Bira. There is also one photograph of Dorothy Stanley Turner with Pit Signal.

In 2013, The Munster Vintage Motor Cycle & Car Club with the assistance of Cork Motor Club, commemorated the Cork Grand Prix, the only Grand Prix to be held in Ireland.

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56. CROFTON, Mrs. William. Eight Views for the Benefit of the County Leitrim Protestant Orphan Society. From the Original drawings by Mrs. William Crofton. With list of subscribers.

London: Ackermann & Co., [1854]. Oblong quarto. Blind-stamped olive green cloth with gilt motif on upper cover. Spine expertly rebacked. Some mild foxing to plates (mainly to margins).

A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. â‚Ź1,350

COPAC locates the BL copy only. Not in Abbey. No copy in TCD. Illustrated with eight tinted lithographs after drawings by Mrs. William Crofton. Printed by Day & Son, Lithographers to Queen Victoria. The plates are in striking detail showing scenery chiefly of the Irish country side, castles, abbeys and ruins.

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De Búrca Ra re Books The lithographs included are: View from Clooncaher of Lough Rynn and Lakefield, County Leitrim; Ruins of Muckross Abbey, Killarney; Monastery on Innisfallen Island, and Ross Castle, Killarney; Castle Ottway, County Tipperary, Residence of Captain Otway, R.N.; Dunbrody Abbey, County Wexford; Pembroke Castle, South Wales; Isle of Portland, Dorsetshire; Village of Hambledon, Hants.

57. CROKER, John Wilson. A Sketch of the State of Ireland, Past and Present. London: Printed from the Second Edition, for James Carpenter, Old Bond Street; and M.N. Mahon, Dublin, 1808. pp. 64. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards, titled in gilt along spine. From the library of Long Island Historical Society with their stamp on titlepage. A very good copy. €275 58. CROKER, T. Crofton. Ed. by. Popular Songs, Illustrative of the French Invasions of Ireland. Four parts in one. London: Percy Society, 1845. pp. viii, 44, xxxii, 27, viii, 118, 16 (Percy Society). Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards. Ex libris of Coleridge J. Kennard. Minor wear to binding. A very good copy. €285

The contents includes songs on: Genuine and Curious Memoirs of the Famous Captain Thurot. By John Francis Durand; Popular Songs, Illustrative of the French Invasions of Ireland; Capture of Carrickfergus by Thurot in 1760; The Bantry Bay and Killala Invasions.

59. CROKER, Thomas Crofton. The Popular Songs of Ireland. Collected by T. Crofton Croker.

With an introduction by Henry Morley, LL.D., Professor of English Literature at University College, London. Illustrated. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1886. pp. 320, [3 (publisher's list)]. Worn and darkened olive green cloth. Manuscript listing of songs tipped in. Contemporary owner's signature on titlepage. Wear to spine ends and corners. Internally clean. €85 Thomas Crofton Croker (1798-1854) a native of Cork, was one of the most celebrated of Irish antiquaries, folklorists and collector of ancient Irish airs. He had but little education and at sixteen was apprenticed to a firm of Cork Quaker merchants. From an early age he showed a great interest in literature and antiquities and between 1812 and 1815 rambled about the south of Ireland collecting the songs, legends, and traditions of the peasantry. He gave some ancient airs to Thomas Moore, who afterwards invited him to England where he further developed in his literary career.

Index supplied in manuscript.

MAJOR REFERENCE WORK 60. CROOKSHANK, Anne & The Knight of GLIN. The Painters of Ireland c.1660 - 1920.

With foreword by James White. Illustrated with sixty-five coloured plates and two hundred and eighty-five monochrome plates. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1979. First edition. Quarto. pp. 304.

A very good copy in coloured illustrated dust jacket. €75 61. CROSSLEY, Aaron. The Peerage of Ireland: Or, an exact Catalogue of the present Nobility both Lords Spiritual and Temporal, with an Historical and Genealogical account of them, containing the Descents, Creations and most remarkable Actions of them; their Ancestors, and some of their Monuments; also the Titles of Honour they now enjoy, both here and in England, their Preferments, and the time of their Promotions, with their Marriages and Issues, continued to this Time; with their Paternal Coats of Arms, and of the Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Sees, and the time of their Consecrations and Translations of each Family in Balzon; With their respective Arms, Crests, Supporters and Mottos; the whole collected from the most authentic Histories, Pedigrees, choice Manuscripts, Certificates, and other Records of this Kingdom. Bound with: The Signification of most things that are born in Heraldry, with the Explanation of their Natural 17

De Búrca Ra re Books Qualities, and of those Persons that they ought properly to be born. Two volumes in one. Dublin: Printed by Thomas Hume at the Custom-House Printing House in Essex-Street (and SmockAlley), for the Author, 1724/1725. pp. [14], 260, [4], 86, [13 (index & alphabetical list)]. Second part with separate title and pagination. Later half calf on marbled boards, spine expertly rebacked, corners worn. Paper repair to titlepage with loss of 'E' in 'PEERAGE'. Repair to margin of some leaves at front. Wanting pages 69-72 and 81-84 in part two. Traces of staining.

Exceedingly rare. €450 No copy located on COPAC. Aaron Crossly, herald-painter and undertaker, compiled the first Irish Peerage in a folio volume which was published in 1725. Notwithstanding its defects however, he must be commended especially as William Hawkins, the Ulster King-at-Arms, threw many obstacles in his way. Their difference went back to 1703 when Hawkins insisted on an alteration in the coat of arms painted by Crossly on the coach of William Palliser, Archbishop of Cashel, and perpetual disputes continued between them. In 1720, Crossly, assured his friend Robert Dale, of the London College of Arms, that he did not value Hawkins "any more than the ground he trod on".

62. [CUALA EPHEMERA] A Collection of Bookplates and Ephemera items Printed at The Cuala and Dun Emer Press. Some illustrated by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and her brother Jack B. Yeats. Various sizes. Including press notices and decorated cards. In very good condition. €200

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY JACK B. YEATS ET AL. 63. [CUALA PRESS BROADSIDES] A Collection of Old and New Songs 1935. Edited by W.B. Yeats, Dorothy Wellesley and F.R. Higgins. Songs by W.B. Yeats, James Stephens, F.R. Higgins, Frank O'Connor, Lynn Doyle, Bryan Guinness, Padraic Colum. Colour illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, Victor Brown, Sean O'Sullivan, E.C. Peet, Harry Kernoff, Maurice MacGonigal.

Music by Arthur Duff. Dublin: The Cuala Press. Reprinted 1971 by photo-lithography for Irish University Press, Shannon. T.M. MacGlinchey, Publisher. Robert Hogg, Printer. Folio. Reprint of the Cuala original editions. Quarter linen on printed grey paper boards. A fine copy. €145 64. [CUALA PRESS BROADSIDES] Cuala Press Broadsides. A Collection of New Irish and English Songs 1937. Songs by W.B. Yeats, W.J. Turner, Oliver Gogarty, Hilaire Belloc, Dorothy Wellesley, James Stephens, Edith Sithwell, Frank O'Connor, Gordon Bottomley, F.R.Higgins, Padraic Colum, and Walter De La Mare. Colour illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, Victor Brown, Harry Kernoff, and Maurice McGonigal. Music by W.J. Turner, Arthur Duff, Edmund Dulac, Frank Liebich, Hilda Matheson, Art O'Murnaghan and Hilaire Belloc. Dublin: The Cuala Press.

Reprinted 1971 by photo-lithography for Irish University Press, Shannon. T.M. MacGlinchey, Publisher. Robert Hogg, Printer. Folio. Reprint of the Cuala original editions. Pictorial marbled paper boards. A fine copy. €145 18

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65. CURRY, John. An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland, from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, to the Settlement under King William. Extracted from Parliamentary Records, State Acts, and other authentic Materials. By J.C. M.D. Author of the Historical Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion in 1641. Audi alteram Partem. Dublin: Printed, and sold by J. Hoey, and T.T. Faulkner, Parliament-street; G. Burnat, Abbey-street; and J. Morris, Fishamblestreet, 1775. First edition. Quarto. pp. [4], xxi, [3], 447, 6 (index). Modern half brown morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. Occasional light browning, titlepage a little dusted. A good copy in an attractive binding. Rare. â‚Ź675 ESTC T72428. Not in Bradshaw. Gilbert 184.

John Curry a descendant of the ancient family of O'Corra of Cavan, was a medical doctor and historian of note. His grandfather commanded a troop of horse at the battle of Aughrim for the Jacobites, after which the family's fortunes changed for the worse. Losing their lands in Cavan, the author's father took to commerce, thus enabling young John to have a decent education. Due to his religion he was disqualified from attending the university at Dublin. He therefore studied medicine at Paris and obtained a diploma for the practice of physic at Rheims. Returning to Dublin he rose to prominence as a physician and in his spare time concentrated on the history of his native land. To counteract the prejudices against his fellow Catholics caused by the sermons preached annually at Christ Church on the memorial day of the bloody Irish rebellion of 1641, he published a Dialogue in 1747 which was attacked in a large pamphlet by Walter Harris ["a gentleman unversed in the philosophy of history, and flagrantly abusive ..." C. O'Conor]. He responded in a book entitled 'Historical Memoirs' which was well received, and subsequently in 1775 published his 'magnum opus', the above title furthering the cause of his fellow countrymen.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 66. CURTIS, Edmund. A History of Mediaeval Ireland from 1086 to 1513. With three folding maps of Ireland covering the period 1160 to 1500, and pedigrees of the chief families. Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press, n.d. (c.1924). First edition. pp. vi [2], 436. Green cloth, publisher's medallion device in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine. Some spotting to fore-edge. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €65 Edmund Curtis (1881-1943), historian, was born in Lancashire of Irish parents. At the age of fifteen while working in a rubber factory, he published poems which attracted support for his education. After degrees at Oxford he was appointed Erasmus Smith Professor of History at Trinity College, Dublin in 1914, he held the Lecky chair of History (also at Trinity) for the four years prior to his death in 1943.

He appears to have first visited Ireland around 1899, staying with his relations at Kilmacrennan, County Donegal. During his regular visits he began to learn Irish, from as early as 1896 and had a working knowledge of it by 1914. He was a great friend of George Russell and endorsed the poet– mystic's 1917 manifesto favouring dominion home rule, Thoughts for a Convention.

As part of his work with the Irish Manuscripts Commission he published with R. B. McDowell the Irish Historical Documents, 1172-1922, in the year of his death.

EARL OF ALTAMONT COPY 67. CUSACK, Mary Francis. An Illustrated History of Ireland: from the Earliest Period. With historical illustrations by Henry Doyle. With coloured half-title and three folding maps. London: Longmans, Green, 1869. Third edition. pp. [vi], 671. Bound in contemporary full green morocco.

Covers elaborately tooled in gilt with a blind floral roll enclosing in the centre a gold shield with a harp, surmounted by a crown and surrounded by shamrocks. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on brown morocco label in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design. Splash-marbled endpapers; green and red endbands. All edges marbled. Armorial bookplate of Ulick Earl of Altamont and his wife Agatha on front pastedown. Repair to maps. A very attractive and desirable copy. €475

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

She joined the Poor Clares, taking the name Mary Francis, in Newry and afterwards spent some time working in the famine-stricken region of Kenmare, County Kerry where the fund she founded for the destitute peasantry raised £20,000. A woman before her time she was misunderstood and reviled and became embroiled in quarrels with the hierarchy in various parts of Ireland.

This edition is embellished with three folding maps: Showing the Localities of the Principal Old Irish Families; Educational map; Statistical map.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 68. CZIRA, Sydney Gifford. The Years Flew By. The Recollections of Madame Sydney Czira.

With a Conclusion by Jack White. Illustrated. Dublin: Gifford & Craven, 1974. pp. 108. Pictorial wrappers. Sun-tanned. A very good copy. €45 Sydney Gifford, was a member of the large Gifford family. Her sisters included Grace Gifford Plunkett and Muriel Gifford Mc Donagh, the wives of two of the leaders who were executed after the 1916 Rising. Sydney, like her sisters, became passionately attached to the ideals of the Celtic Revival and romantic Nationalism. She wrote from an early age, publishing much of her work under the pseudonym John Brennan to give her words the authority of 'a strong farmer' rather than a young inexperienced girl. At an early age she escaped from the waxworks museum of middle-class Rathmines. She went to AE's Sunday night 'At Homes'; she took part in Count Markievicz's plays; wrote for Sinn Fein and Bean na Eireann, and worked for Maud Gonne's Inghinidhe na hEireann. In 1914 she moved to New York, where she helped to found the first Cumann na mBan. She continued her journalistic career and married a Hungarian, Arpad Czira. In 1922 she returned to Ireland and worked as a journalist and later as a broadcaster with the newly formed Irish broadcasting authority.

69. DALSIMER, Adele M. Kate O'Brien: A Critical Study. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1990. pp. xx, 139. Black paper boards, title in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €30 70. D'ALTON, John. The History of Ireland. From the earliest period to the year 1245, when The Annals of Boyle, which are adopted and embodied as the running text authority, terminate: with a brief essay on the native annalist, and other sources for illustrating Ireland, and full statistical and historical notices of the Barony of Boyle. With engraved half-title, plates and list of subscribers. Two volumes. Dublin: Published by the Author, 1845. pp. (1) xliv, 283, (2) iv, 418, 1 (list of works by the author). Purple blind-stamped cloth, titled in gilt on spines. Covers and spine a little faded. The finest copy we have ever seen. Rare in this condition. €675

A FINE SET 71. 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.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 72. DANAHER, K. & SIMMS, J.G. Ed. by. The Danish Force in Ireland 1690-1691. With frontispiece showing types of Danish soldiers and a folding map showing the major and minor engagements and the summer and winter quarters. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1962. pp. 169.

Maroon buckram, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in sun-tanned dust jacket. €125 The Danish corps came to Ireland with William of Orange's international army, took part in every major engagement of the campaigns of 1690 and 1691, from the Boyne to Aughrim and Limerick. This is a most valuable work as it contains correspondence of its officers preserved in the State Archives at Copenhagen and throws new light from a fresh angle, not only on military events, but on the social and economic conditions in seventeenth century Ireland.

73. DARWIN, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden : A Poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With philosophical notes. Illustrated with two plates containing twenty-four engravings of plants. Two volumes. Dublin: Printed by J. Moore, No. 45 College Green, 1793/1796. First and fourth edition. pp. x, 162, 153, [1], xiv, 168 pages, 2 (unnumbered leaves of plates). Contemporary full calf, title and volume numbers in gilt on contrasting red and olive-green morocco labels. Wear to top of spine of volume two with minor loss, corners lightly bumped. Lacking half-title. All edges green. A very good set. Very rare. €675

ESTC T82161 (Part 1); ESTC T147239 (Part 2, 4th Ed.). COPAC 5 copies of this set.

Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was one of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor and poet. His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life. He was a member of the Darwin–Wedgwood family, which includes his grandsons Charles Darwin and Francis Galton. Darwin was also a founding member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers. He turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Erasmus Darwin House, his home in Lichfield, is now a museum dedicated to Erasmus Darwin and his life's work. A school in nearby Chasetown was recently converted to Academy status and is now known as Erasmus Darwin Academy.

The contents includes: [Volume I] Advertisement; Apology; Poem to the Author by Rev. W.B. Stephens; Argument of the First Canto; The Economy of Vegetation; Argument of the Second Canto; Argument of the Third Canto; Contents of the Notes. [Volume II] Advertisement; Preface; Catalogue of the Poetic Exhibition; Contents of the Notes; and Index of the Names of Plants, etc.

74. D'AVAUX, M. LE COMTE. Négociations de M. Le Comte D'Avaux en Irlande 1689-90 with introduction by James Hogan. Facsimiles by Reflex Process of Printed Works. Together with: the Supplementary Volume edited by James Hogan, with indexes by Lilian Tate. Two volumes. Dublin: Stationary Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1934/1958. pp. (1) [ii], 16, 756, (2) xxxvi, 113. Maroon buckram, title in gilt on spines. A very good set. €165 Jean-Antoine de Mesmes, Comte D'Avaux, Marquis de Givry (1640-1709) served on diplomatic missions in Venice, Holland, Sweden and Ireland. He was Ambassador and paymaster to James II in 1689-90.

75. DAVIS, Thomas. Thomas Davis: Essays and Poems with a Centenary Memoir 1845-1945.

With a foreword by an Taoiseach, Eamon de Valera. Illustrated. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1945. pp. xvi, 240. Worn quarter linen on green paper boards. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. A good copy. €25 76. DAY, Angélique. Ed. by. Letters from Georgian Ireland. The correspondence of Mary Delany, 1731-68. Foreword by Sybil Connolly. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1991. pp. viii, 303.

Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €65 Mary Delany (née Granville, earlier Mrs. Pendarves) was born in Wiltshire in 1700, and brought up at Longleat House. At eighteen, she was unwillingly married to an elderly Cornish squire and on his death in 1724 went to live with the Stanleys, Earls of Derby. In 1731-3 she made a journey to Ireland and began the correspondence with her sister Anne Dewes. She returned to Ireland following her marriage to Rev. Patrick Delany (biographer of Swift) in 1743 and settled at Delville, his home in Glasnevin.

The letters provide a lively and detailed insight into the lifestyle of the Ascendancy classes and the architectural grandeur of many country houses.

77. DEANE, Seamus. History Lessons. Dublin: Gallery Press, 1983. pp. 39. White stiff wrappers. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. €20 78. DE CERVANTES, Miguel. The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel De Cervantes by Thomas Shelton. With a new Preface by Harvey Darton.

Illustrated with Two Portraits, Eighteen Plates and Facsimiles of the Original Engraved Titles.

Two volumes. London: Privately Printed for the Navarre Society Limited, 1923. pp. (1) xx, 548, (2) and viii, 530. Titles printed in red and black.

Bound by Bayntun of Bath in full polished calf, covers framed by double gilt fillets. Spines divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands; title, author and volume number in gilt on black morocco letterpieces in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centreand-corner design; fore-edges and turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers; gold, maroon and burgundy endbands. All edges gilt. Mild foxing to halftitles. A superb set. €375 This edition of Don Quixote is printed upon laid paper of fine quality specially made for the Navarre Society, and is strictly limited. The plates 23

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79. DEFOE, Daniel. A New Voyage Round the World by a Course never sailed before. Edited

by George A Aitken. Illustrated by John Butler Yeats. London: Dent, 1900. 16mo. pp. x, 343.

Title printed in red and black. Recent buckram. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275 COPAC locates the Oxford copy only. Not in NLI.

80. DEMPSEY, G. Drysdale. Rudimentary Treatise on the Drainage of Districts and Lands.

Illustrated. London: John Weale, 1849. 12mo. pp. 4, [ii], 142. Blind stamped red cloth, title on printed label on upper cover and spine. Owners signature on front free endpaper. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Ticket of Henry Greer, Bookseller, Belfast on front pastedown. A fine copy. Very rare. €235 COPAC locates 6 copies only. This edition not in NLI.

SURVEY OF IRELAND'S MEGALITHIC TOMBS 81. DE VALERA, R. & Ó NUALLAIN, S. Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Vol. I. County Clare. With numerous maps, plans and photographs. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961.

Folio. pp. xviii, 116, 59 (maps & plans), 22 (plates). Black buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. €125

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82. DE VALERA, R. & O NUALLAIN, S. Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Vol. II. County Mayo. With numerous maps, plans and photographs. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964.

Folio. pp. xv, 121, 74 (maps & plans), 41 (plates). Black buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy in printed dust jacket. €15 83. DE VALERA, R. & O NUALLAIN, S. Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Vol. III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. With numerous maps, plans and photographs. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972. pp. xxiv, 168, 88 (maps & plans), 44 (plates). Folio. Black buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine.

A fine copy in printed dust jacket. Scarce. €95 84. DE VALERA, R. & Ó NUALLAIN, S. Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Vol. IV. Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary. With numerous maps, plans and photographs.

Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982. Folio. pp. xx, 145, 45 (maps & plans), 30 (plates). Black buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy in printed dust jacket. €95

85. Ó NUALLAIN, S. Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Vol. V. County Sligo. With numerous maps, plans and photographs. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1989. Folio. pp. xvi, 152, 89 (maps & plans), 36 (plates). Black buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Small stain to lower margin of upper board, encroaching on first gathering. A very good copy. Very scarce. €125 25

De Búrca Ra re Books 86. CODY, Eamon. Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Vol. VI. County Donegal. With numerous maps, plans and photographs. Dublin: Dúchas, 2002. Folio. pp. xvii, 298, 95 (maps & plans). Black buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. Scarce. €125 **********************************************

SLIGO INTEREST [DEVINE-DOWDEN COLLECTION] 87. [DEVINE-DOWDEN COLLECTION] A Charming Collection of Letters, Postcards, and Photographs belonging to Miss Emily Devine of Sligo and Professor Dowden of Trinity College. €875 The centre-piece of this collection is a notepad containing a series of twelve letters written by Miss Devine to her 'Dear Miss O'Kelly' in London. These letters, of approximately 6 pages each, document Emily's observations and experiences during a twelve-day visit to Keash in her native County Sligo, in July, 1926. They were obviously written with a view to publication, as a letter dated the 29th of September, 1929 from the London publisher Grant Richards, and signed by him, is enclosed, rejecting her submission. Local History is well documented, she writes of 'Giants Graves' marked by stones that symbolise strength "The giants had to be pacified in death so as to prevent their coming down on us by night and crunching us to pieces. I never hear of the adventures of Ulysses without thinking of Keash and its giants".

These letters reveal a glimpse of William B. Yeats' Sligo: "on fine days we can see the sea from the spot where I now sit - the broad Atlantic at Strandhill and Rosses Point (do you remember Rosses-Point from Yeats' poetry). Keash is lovely on a fine day". Her religious devotion is evident throughout: "If all yesterday's hay is glued to the ground and the turf in the bog floats towards the river, God will always be thanked".

She explains that the locals express much surprise at God's patience "Arrah how can He give us good weather an' the divilment o' the world" and "Shockin' all He can stand and payin' no heed no more than if He didn't see it".

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De Búrca Ra re Books Miss Devine paints a quaint and vivid portrait of life in Keash: "What do you do in Keash when it rains? There is no Prince of Wales cinema, no public libraries, no dance houses ... in Winter we play cards but in the Summer we just stay indoors and watch the rain". She writes of the healing properties of the Holy Well: "if you drink seven glasses a day, alcohol will not affect you". Nevertheless, drinking is not considered 'good form' because "a half-glass of John Jameson is sufficient to make a Keash man sing and walk sideways". There is a series of six postcards and letters from Edward Dowden, Professor of English literature in Trinity College, Dublin. They are dated from March, 1911 through to December, 1912. He discusses literary themes with her mentioning Shelley, Coleridge, Lamb and Tennyson: "As to Tennyson - I again am more Catholic than you. There is a great difference however between his best work & what is of inferior merit, and possibly you have not been fortunate in your choice". He also writes of his travels throughout Ireland and his great love for Donegal and Connemara.

A unique collection delightfully written by an aspiring young female writer in the Sligo of the nineteen twenties.

SIGNED BY BRIAN COFFEY 88. DEVLIN, Denis. The Heavenly Foreigner. Edited and introduced by Brian Coffey.

Frontispiece portrait of the author; one drawing by Anne Yeats. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1967.

Folio. pp. 71, [1]. Quarter green parchment on black paper boards, title in gilt along spine.

Edition limited to 1,000 copies, signed by the editor, Brian Coffey. A fine copy in price-clipped dust jacket. €175 Miller 115.

SIGNED BY DONLEAVY 89. DONLEAVY, J.P. J.P. Donleavy's Ireland. In all her sins and in some of her graces. London: Michael Joseph, 1986. First edition. Quarto. pp. 223. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. Signed and dated at Dawson Street by J.P. Donleavy. A fine copy in price-clipped dust jacket. €165 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 90. DORGAN, Theo. Sappho's Daughter. Dublin: Wave Train Press, 1998. 12mo. pp. [6], 27, [4]. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Number 208 of edition limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the author. A fine copy. €25 91. DOWNEY, Edmund. The Story of Waterford. From the foundation of the city to the middle of the eighteenth century. Illustrated with sketches, plans, maps and portraits. Waterford: Printing Works, 1914. pp. [x], 398. Blue cloth. Title in gilt on spine. Minor wear to corners, otherwise a very good copy. Top edge gilt. Very scarce. €350 The contents includes: The Founding of Waterford; The Anglo-Norman Invasion; John, Prince and King; The 13th Century; The 14th Century; The 15th Century; From the Accession of Henry VIII to the Accession of Elizabeth; Queen Elizabeth; From the Death of Elizabeth to the Civil War; The Civil War; The Cromwellian Settlement; The Restoration; Municipal Life in the Time of Charles II; James II; William III; Queen Anne; George I; George II; The City in the Middle of the 18th Century.

92. DOWNEY, Edmund. Waterford's Bridges. Illustrated. Waterford: Printed and published by the Waterford News, n.d. (c.1923). pp. xii, 91. Blue cloth, title and author in gilt on upper cover and spine. Recased. A very good copy in modern matching slipcase. Exceedingly rare. €675 COPAC locates only the BL copy.

This work is a comprehensive study of bridges in Waterford. It is surprising that in a place so important, politically and commercially, as the ancient and opulent city of Waterford that no attempt to construct a permanent bridge across the Suir at Waterford was made until the close of the eighteenth century. It was not until 1794 that 'Timbertoes' as the first structure was affectionately known, was constructed some thirteen years after a failed proposal by Thomas Covey outlined in a scheme for building a bridge over the river Suir at the city of Waterford (Waterford, 1770). He expressed the opinion that the Danes had constructed a wooden bridge spanning the Suir when they were in possession of the city. The author tells us in his introduction that it was "Very likely that there were remnants of the temporary bridge which the Cromwellian's threw across the Suir in the year 1649.

There were Ferries across the Suir at Passage, at Waterford City, and at Granagh as is documented in the municipal records". In 1672 Mr. Fuller was allowed by the Corporation twelve shillings for ferrying the Judges' horses across the river at Assizes. Likewise Andrew Keating, in 1679, was paid by the 27

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93. DRUMMOND, William Hamilton. The Giants' Causeway, a Poem. Complete with illustrations and maps (one large folding). Belfast: Printed by J. Smith, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Browne, London; Doig & Stevenson, Edinburgh; Archer & Wirling, T. Ward, and the other Belfast booksellers, 1811. pp. xxviii, 204. Recent half morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt direct on gilt decorated spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €345 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

William Hamilton Drummond (1778-1865) was born in Larne, County Antrim, and educated at Belfast and Glasgow. Ordained in Belfast in 1800 he became minister of Holywood, County Down. He opened a boarding school at Mount Collier, but left for a parish in Dublin in 1815. Apart from poetry he also wrote a number of histories.

94. [DUN EMER PRESSMARKS] Pressmarks and Devices used at The Dun Emer Press and The Cuala Press. With a preface by Liam Miller. Illustrated. Dalkey: Cuala Press, 1977. First edition. pp. [20].

Limited edition of 750 copies. Fine in illustrated wrappers. €125 WILDEST & MOST FASCINATING SAGA OF THE ENTIRE CELTIC WORLD 95. DUNN, Joseph. The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge "The Cualnge Cattleraid". Now for the first time done entire into English out of the Irish of the Book of Leinster and Allied Manuscripts. With two pages in facsimile of the manuscripts.

London: Nutt, 1914. Crown octavo. pp. xxxvi, 382. Original green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine.

Light fading to covers, otherwise a very good copy. €95 The Cúalnge Cattle-raid is the wildest and most fascinating saga tale of the entire Celtic world and also one of the most precious monuments of the world's literature. Its importance lies in its poetic worth and for the light it throws on the life of the people from whom it originated and that of their ancestors centuries earlier. The Cattle Drive of Cooley – is the central story in the great old-Irish saga-cycle featuring the Sons of Usnech, Cuchulain, Ferdia, Maeve and the rival bulls of Connaught and Ulster, culminating in the 'battle of the bulls'.

96. DUNNE, Capt. J.J. [Hi-Regan] How and Where to Fish in Ireland. A hand-guide for anglers. With illustrations and coloured map. London: Sampson, 1892. Fifth edition. pp. viii, 175. Publisher's green, white and orange cloth with title in gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. €85 The author was governor of Castlebar Gaol. There are interesting trade adverts at front and rear.

97. H-R-N [DUNNE, John Joseph] Here and There Memories. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. pp. xi, 411. First edition. Cloth boards in Irish colours; orange, white and green. Small gilt decoration on upper board. A very good copy. €165 28

De Búrca Ra re Books The author is identified by Halkett and Laing (second edition).

John Joseph Dunne was born in Ballybrittas, County Offaly in 1837 to a minor Catholic Gentry family.

Educated at Clongowes, Dunne had a varied and interesting career as a soldier, traveller, politician and civil servant. He was also governor of Castlebar Gaol: There are several anecdotes in his Here and There Memories to Mayo: "John Sheridan, the postmaster at Castlebar, inherits a caustic wit from his father, mentioned on other pages. There is a Barrister thereaway whose grandsire was a shoemaker when the postmaster's forebears were county people. The Barrister was flourishing a conspicuous signet ring, and saw that it had caught Sheridan's eye. He pulled it off for inspection. The man of letters examined the crest, read the motto, and restored it with, Semper fidelis ? Just so - true to the last".

In his introduction the author tells us: "I lack courage to publish a truthful autobiography: nor has had anyone else yet had it, though such a record, even of the most humdrum existence, would be priceworthy beyond all books". He was secretary to Isaac Butt and he dedicated this work to him: "I Dedicate this unworthy trifle in affectionate memory of Isaac Butt; so much forgotten by the people in whom he revived the hope to be loyal, yet free".

John Joseph Dunne is reputed to have been the foremost expert on fishing in Ireland. He wrote under the pseudonym Hi-Regan and published 'How and Where to Fish in Ireland'.

98. DUPLAIN, Claude. La Religion Vengée des Blasphêmes de Voltaire, en six cantos: Ou les Horreurs de son Epitre à Uranie, Pour La Meditation Des Deistes, Et des jeunes Chretiens qui n'ont pas encore secoüé le joug de la foi, pour les mettre en garde contre un Auteur don't les ouvrages tendent à les surprendre et à les perdre. Par Claude Duplain. Par Claude Duplain.

Dublin: Par J.A. Husband, No. 28, Abbey-Street, 1783. Pagination collated and correct.

Contemporary full calf. Boards detached. Internally a fine copy. €275 ESTC T12618. With 4 locations in Ireland and 3 in England.

In the final advertisement leaf we are told the author of this anti-Enlightenment poem was a teacher of French, translator, and a teacher of English to foreigners, working from 6 Marlborough Street, Dublin.

Our copy has that address changed in a contemporary hand to 4 Jarvais Street With a half-title, and a list of 'Subscribers names', the author dedicated this work to Walter Hussey Burgh. Each canto is preceded by two leaves outside the pagination and register containing a divisional title and a summary of the canto with notes.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 99. EAGER, Alan R. A Guide to Irish Bibliographical Material. A Bibliography of Irish Bibliographies and Sources of Information. London: Library Association, 1980. Quarto. pp. xv, 502. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 100. [ELECTION SKETCHES] A Few Pen and Ink Sketches of the 1868'9 Irish Elections in aid of the Civil Power. By H.B.L. 4th Reg't. Illustrated with ten plates. Dublin: Published by R. Morrow, Nassau Street, 1868. Oblong quarto. Modern half green morocco over original illustrated pink paper boards. From the library of Mr. R.R. Scott with his bookplate. Mild foxing to tissue guards, plated in very good state. A very good copy. Rare. €575

No copy located on COPAC. Not in TCD. NLI holds 1 copy.

The plates are: 1. Scene in the Royal Barracks before the Election. 2. The Military being Trotted out at Daybreak. 3. The Military in a quiet corner waiting. 4. The Military as usual made the most of. 5. The mob have grand fun with the Cavalry. 6. Shewing how a rifle was accidently discharged. 7. The Field Officer of the day and his Orderly crossing Essex Bridge. 8. Escorting Voters to the Poll. 9. The Poll, and a good many broken "dittoes." 10. The Magistrate finally requests the Military to Charge Softly.

101. ELWES, John Henry. & HENRY, Augustine. The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Eight volumes. Wicklow: Published by the Society of Irish Foresters, 2012. Quarto. Full green buckram, title and gilt decorations on spine. A fine set. €575 In the final years of the 19th century Henry John Elwes and Augustine Henry initiated their monumental work, which is regarded today as one of the greatest books on trees ever published. In 1906 the first volume of The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland was published and by 1913 all eight volumes, including an index, had been completed.

The work contains a fascinating account of the worldwide travels of Elwes and Henry in search of trees; not only those that grow naturally in these islands but also species they believed would adapt to our climate and soils. In this regard their work is an international book of trees, described by Hugh Johnson as "a piece of scholarship … unlikely ever to be repeated". He said: "This epic work celebrates the last golden age of tree scholarship and arboretum making".

To celebrate its 70th anniversary, the Society of Irish Foresters published this limited facsimile edition of Elwes and Henry's masterpiece using modern printing and reproduction technology. Each of the 3,000 pages are meticulously scanned giving a superb edition with 412 full page black and white platinum photographs, drawings, seven colour titles and five colour frontispieces faithfully reproduced.

Printed on Munken Pure paper to preserve the integrity of the original.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 102. EMMET, Thomas Addis. O'CONNOR, Arthur. & MacNEVEN, William. Memoire, or Detailed Statement of the Origin and Progress of the Irish Union : delivered to the Irish Government, by Messrs. Emmett, O'Connor, and M'Nevin; together with the Examinations of these Gentlemen before the Secret Committees of the House of Lords and Commons, in the summer of 1798. London: Printed for P. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row, 1802. pp. [4], 98 (p. 68 mispaginated '64'). Modern quarter morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. Paper repair to titlepage and margins of a few leaves. Ex library with two neat stamps on titlepage.

Some ageing to pages, otherwise a very good copy. €485 COPAC locates the TCD and Cambridge copies only. NLI holds the Joly copy.

The Editor in his notice to the public states: "The following Sheets, which contain a full and Satisfactory Account of the Origin and Progress of the Irish Union, were received long since by the Editor from one of the State Prisoners. The publication has been delayed, in order that certain persons, implicated in the Rebellion, might not provoke the anger of the Irish Minister, during their confinement. They are now presented to the Public, not with a view to irritate, but to explain circumstances, and detail facts, which, it is probable, a great part of the Irish nation are perfect strangers to".

103. EVANS, E. Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland. A guide. With numerous maps, figures and illustrations. London: Batsford, 1966. pp. xii, [2], 241. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex. library with stamp. Some fading to cloth, otherwise a good copy. €35 104. FAIRLEY, James. Irish Whales and Whaling. Illustrated. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1981. pp.

218. Cream paper boards, titled in black. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €85 This work contains a detailed account of all whales found in Irish waters, and chronicles the history of whaling off Ireland from Viking times, with special emphasis on operations in Donegal Bay and around Achill Island.

105. [FARMERS] The Farmer's Guide, compiled for the use of the Small Farmers and Cotter Tenantry of Ireland. Dublin: Printed by A. Thom, 1841. 12mo. pp. 183. Green ribbed cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Signature of Henry P. Lowe on titlepage. Poor Law Commissioners notice on front pastedown. A very good copy. Rare. €145 COPAC locates the BL and TCD copies only. NLI holds the Joly copy.

106. FAULKNER, Peter. William Morris and W.B. Yeats. Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1962. pp. 30, [1]. Title and colophon printed in red and black. Quarter coarse linen on blue paper boards, title in black along spine. Edition limited to 1050 copies. A fine copy. €95 ATHLONE PRINTING 107. FERGUSON, Kathleen. Hints on Good Manners for the Use of Children. Athlone: Printing Works, Westmeath Independent Office, 1904. pp. 12, 4 (adverts). Green stapled wrappers. Some wear to covers. €85 108. FERRAR, John. A View of Ancient and Modern Dublin, with its improvements to the year 1796. To which is added A Tour of Bellevue in the County of Wicklow, the seat of Peter La Touche, Esq; Knight of the Shire for the County of Leitrim. Embellished with numerous engravings. Bound with: A Tour from Dublin to London, in 1795, through the Isle of Anglesea, Bangor, Conway, Llangollen, Shrewsbury, Stratford on Avon, Blenheim, Oxford, Windsor, Hampton Court, Twickenham and Kensington. List of subscribers. Two volumes in one. Dublin: 1796. pp. [iv], viii, 140, [2], iv, 136, 8 (plates). Modern quarter calf on cloth boards, titled in gilt on spine. Signature of Mary Meade, dated 1801 on titlepage. Crease to lower corner of first gathering. Edges untrimmed. A very good copy. Very scarce. €650 COPAC locates 7 copies only of the first work and 11 of the second.

Captain William Ferrar, a descendant of Nicholas, came to Ireland in the army of King William, and settling in Limerick after the siege, he married Marie, the daughter of Richard Lloyd, of Drumsallagh, in that county. William Ferrar, a son of this marriage, took to the family trade of bookselling and bookbinding, and his son John was Limerick's most famous printer and first historian. Ferrar started the Limerick Chronicle, which he owned, edited and printed from 1768 till 1781, when it was taken over

by Andrew Watson, who married his daughter. He was author of the History of Limerick, which appeared in two editions in1767, and in a much enlarged edition in 1787. Strange to relate, Ferrar 31

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himself printed none of these editions. He was also the compiler of the first provincial Directory to appear in Ireland. This was published in 1769 by himself, The Limerick Directory.

When Ferrar retired from the printing business he lived as an insurance agent on Sir Harry's Mall for a short while, but soon after removed to Dublin. He was a historian by birth and, although living in retirement in Dublin, he published while here A View of Ancient and Modern Dublin, as well as the description of A Tour of London. When only twenty-two, he wrote the usual volume of poems, and although these are by no means works of great genius, it can be truthfully said that they avoided most of the coarseness of their times. His history is an excellent one, well arranged, moderately well indexed, and with plenty of original material.

Nothing is known of the date or place of Ferrar 's death, or of the whereabouts of his burial; and the only record we have of his appearance is in the Reminiscences of John O'Keeffe, the Irish actor and dramatist: —" I knew Mr. Ferrar of Limerick, a printer, bookseller and author; he wrote an excellent history of Limerick, which, a few years ago, I heard read with pleasure. His little shop was at the corner of Quay Lane. Ferrar was very deaf, yet had a cheerful animated countenance; thin; and of the middle size". A catalogue of Ferrar's book-selling wares in 1774 lists 214 plays for sale at 6|d. each. One would search many provincial cities to-day before finding such a selection to choose from. Included in the list of subscribers are: Lord Cloncurry; John Exshaw; Rev. Edward Ledwich; The Earl and Countess of Moira; Dr. Troy; J.T. Westropp. etc.

BOUND IN PRISON CLOTH 109. FIGGIS, Darrell. A Chronicle of Jails. Dublin: Talbot Press, 1917. pp. [vi], 130. Coarse linen with horizontal red strip and arrowhead. A very good copy. €175 Edward Darrell Figgis (1882–1925) was an Irish writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent politician. He was born at Rathmines in Dublin but spent some of his childhood in India. As a young man he worked in London as a tea importer. He joined the Irish Volunteers in Dublin in 1913 and was deeply implicated in the Kilcoole gun-running of 1914 by Irish Republicans.

Although he did not participate in the 1916 Easter Rising, he was arrested and interned by the British authorities between 1916 and 1917 in Reading Gaol.

After his release, he returned to Ireland and was elected an honorary secretary of Sinn Féin. In May 1918, he was deported.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Collins/De Valera pact for the June 1922 elections. On May 25 1922 he attended a meeting of the executive council of the Farmers' Union and representatives of business interests and encouraged them to put forward candidates in constituencies where anti-Treaty candidates may otherwise head the poll.

As Figgis was a member of the Sinn Féin Ard Chomhairle at the time, he was expelled from the party.

In the June 1922 and August 1923 general elections he was elected an independent T.D. for the Dublin County constituency and was deputy chairman of the committee which drafted the Constitution of the Irish Free State.

In 1924, after learning that her husband had a mistress, Figgis' wife Millie committed suicide. A year later and after the death of his mistress, Rita North, (allegedly after an unsuccessful abortion) Figgis himself committed suicide in London. Dedicated to 'The Lady at the Gate'. Prefatory note signed D.F. 'On the Run', 5th June, 1917.

110. FISHER, Jonathan. Scenery of Ireland : Illustrated in a Series of Prints of Select Views, Castles and Abbies, Drawn and Engraved in Aquatinta by Jonathan Fisher, Volume the First Containing Sixty Prints with a Letter Press description to each. Bound with: A Description of the Lake of Killarney, illustrated with Twelve Prints of its Most Interesting Views, drawn and engraved in aquatinta, by Jonathan Fisher: being An Appendix to his "Scenery of Ireland".

London: Published by J. Debrett for the Author; No. 39 Great Ship Street, Dublin, 1795/1796.

Oblong quarto. pp. [6], iv, [60], [60 (plates)], 6, 14, 12 (plates). Recent half calf over original marbled boards, title in gilt on burgundy letterpiece on spine. From the library of: Sir W. Hesketh Lever, Bart., Baron Leverhulme and Samuel Fisher, with their bookplates. Mild browning and inoffensive water stain to lower inner margin of titlepage and less so on the first four plates; also some mild foxing to margin of a few plates, otherwise a near fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €6,750 ESTC T95658. COPAC locates 3 copies only. No copy of A Description of the Lake of Killarney listed on COPAC. Jonathan Fisher (c.1740-1809) born in Dublin, was originally a woollen-draper in the Liberties, but took to the practice of art, in which he is said to have been self-taught. But as he appears to have visited England in early life he may have received instruction in London. He is first heard of in 1763, living in Dame Street, when he was awarded a premium for landscape by the Dublin Society. Around this time he moved to Great Ship Street, where he continued to reside until near the end of his life. He was certainly one of the more interesting landscape painters in late eighteenth century Ireland. He sent 33

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several pictures to the first exhibition of the Society of Artists, held in George's Lane in 1765, and was a regular contributor to the various exhibitions down to 1801. In 1768 he gained another premium given by the Dublin Society for the best landscape. He was befriended and patronized by John, first Earl of Portarlington, himself an excellent landscape draughtsman and an amateur of the arts, who generally stayed in Fisher's house in Ship Street when in Dublin. From about 1778 until his death he 34

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held the post of Supervisor of Stamps in the Stamp Office in Eustace Street.

Fisher's works were views of actual scenery, and not the classical compositions which at that time were very popular. He achieved great success through his several series of engraved views, by which only he is now remembered. In 1770 he published six large views of Killarney, engraved from pictures by himself by various artists in London. In 1789 appeared an oblong folio volume, A Picturesque Tour of Killarney, describing in twenty views the most pleasing scenes of that celebrated Lake. The book was dedicated by the artist to his friend and patron John, Earl of Portarlington.

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In 1792 Fisher commenced the issue of a series of views of scenery in Ireland aquatinted by himself, in numbers each containing six views at the price of a half a guinea. The whole series, comprising sixty plates was issued in this volume in 1796 (although the titlepage bears the date 1795) as Scenery of Ireland Illustrated in Series of Prints of Select Views, Castles and Abbies, drawn and engraved in Aquatint by Jonathan Fisher.

In or soon after 1805 Fisher moved from Ship Street to No. 12 Bishop Street, where he remained until his death which took place in early 1809. In his Will he left to his friend Jeremiah D'Olier his 'Picture 36

De BĂşrca Ra re Books of the Artist Club' in caricature, painted by Ennis; to Henry Grattan "who has lived with me for many years", all his painting materials, etc. The remainder of his collection was sold by auction under the direction of Graham at his home in Bishop Street..

Fisher married a Miss Price, "a handsome, clever and fine-looking woman".

The views included in this work are: The Harbour of Dublin from the Lighthouse to the City; Appearance of the City of Dublin from the Magazine Hill in the Phoenix Park; The Mills of Chapelizod, with distant view of Palmerstown; The Secretary of State's House at Palmerstown; The Wooden Bridge at Hermitage, on the River Liffey; View on approaching Luttrellstown Park; Leixlip Castle on the River Liffey; The Abbey at Castledermot, County Kildare; The Castle and Lake at Castleblaney; Desmond Castle, etc., at Adare; Killaloe, on the River Shannon; Derry Castle, on the River Shannon; View of the River Liffey near Luttrellstown Park; Remains of the Abbey, etc., between Trim and Newtown; View of the River Shannon from Peterfield; Blarney Castle; Hayes Bridge on the River Avonmore at Avondale; Fenner Rock on the River Boyne; St. Catherine's, on the River Liffey; South-east View of Roscrea Castle; View from Kilmacassie Glen, County Wicklow; Lislaghtin Abbey, County Kerry; Ballymurtagh Mine Rock, County Wicklow; View in the Dargle; The Demesne of Lucan, on the River Liffey; Wicklow Abbey; Glen Malour; View down the Avonmore from Avondale; Kiltimon Castle; Tinnehinch, County Wicklow; Salmon-Leap, near Leixlip; St. John's Abbey, Kilkenny; Castle Ward, on Strangford Lough; Lough Erne, from Belleisle; Rockbarton Castle, from Askeaton; View of Strabane; North-west View of the City and Bay of Dublin; Jerpoint Abbey; View of the River Slaney at Clamahon; Brittas Castle; Lough Derg; Glen of the Downs; Gulna Water on the River Liffey; Remains of the Abbey, etc., at Ferns; The Lake of Belvedere; NewtownBarry on the Slaney; Mountgarret Castle, County Wexford; Devil's Glen, County Wicklow; Poula Phouca; Dunbrody Abbey; South View of the City and Bay of Dublin; Castle Archdall and lower Lough Erne; Remains of the Castle, etc., at Ballygeeroge, County Wexford; The Water-fall in Powerscourt Park; Entrance into the Valley of Glendalough; North-east View of the Valley and remains of Glendalough; View of the Arched Gateway, etc., at Glendalough; Remains of the Cathedral, etc., of Glendalough; North-west View of the Valley, etc., of Glendalough; View of the principal Lake at Glendalough.

111. 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. â‚Ź65 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.

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112. FITZGERALD, Dick. How to Play Gaelic Football. Cork: Guy, 1914. pp. 78. Illustrated wrappers. With previous owner's signatures. Some fraying to binding. A very good copy of a very rare G.A.A item. €475 Dick Fitzgerald (1884-1930) was an Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Dr. Crokes and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1903 until 1923. Fitzgerald captained Kerry to back-to-back All-Ireland titles in 1913 and 1914 Dick was born in College Street, Killarney in 1884. His introduction to competitive football occurred during his studies in St. Brendan's College Killarney, where his wonderful football technique and ability became apparent. He later became a household name for his screw-kicking and ball control as well as the utmost respect from his fellow players through his captaincy.

However it was not until 1903 that 'Dickeen', as he was familiarly called, came before the public eye, when Kerry played Kildare in the All-Ireland final.

Fitzgerald captained the two winning teams of 1913 and 1914 against Wexford but retired from the game he loved so much after their defeat in 1915 against the same opposition. This did not stop Fitzgerald's fascination with the beautiful game. He later proceeded to write a book on Gaelic football entitled "How to play Gaelic football" which was the first of its kind in the organisation.

After hanging up his boots he continued in the administrative side of the organisation. He became representative to the Central Council 1917, Kerry Selector 1918, Delegate to Congress 1919. He served on the Munster Council from 1920 until his death. He was the first chairman of the East Kerry Board and also Chairman of Dr Crokes. In 1929 he was appointed a special vice-chairman of the Kerry Selection Committee without a vote, in appreciation of his service to the county. Dick was also a member of Killarney UDC from 1917 until his death.

Immediately after his death the Dr Croke Club began a campaign to develop a field in his honour. In 1936 Fitzgerald's Stadium in Killarney opened and stands today as one of Irelands finest sporting arena's.

113. FITZGERALD, Gerald. Pot Luck. Rough Shooting in the West of Ireland. Illustrated.

London: Herbert Jenkins, 1938. First edition. pp. 155, 4 (publisher's list). Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 114. FITZ-GERALD, Mr. John. The Narrative of Mr. John Fitz-Gerald, Late of the Order of St. Francis, in the Kingdom of Ireland. Wherein is Contained 1. Several things relating to the Irish Plot, Managed by Plunket the Titular Arch-Bishop of that Kingdom (and now committed to the Gaol of Newgate). 2. The Intrigue of Sympson Tonge, to Invalidate the Testimony of his Father Doctor Israel Tonge, Doctor Oates, and other of the King's Evidence. 3. An Account of 38

De Búrca Ra re Books Captain Elie and their cursed Contrivance to undermine the Protestant Religion. 4. The strange and wonderful manner of his Conversion from Popery, with many other Remarkable Passages.

All published for general Satisfaction. London: Printed for Richard Janeway, 1681. pp. [vi], 30.

Recent quarter calf on marbled boards. Very good. Extremely rare. €675 Wing F 1074. Sweeney 1907. COPAC locates 1 copy only. Not in NLI.

115. FITZPATRICK, David. Harry Boland's Irish Revolution. Illustrated. Cork: University Press, 2003. pp. xi, 450. Yellow paper boards, titled in gilt. Newspaper clipping glued to verso of creased half-title, otherwise a fine copy in fine dust jacket. €40 Harry Boland (1887-1922) was a close colleague of De Valera, having toured America with him in 1919/1920, and a friend of Michael Collins. Both he and Collins were members of the I.R.B. and had co-operated on many matters, especially on fund raising and gun-running. They differed politically over the passing of the Treaty by Dail Eireann in January 1922 and personally over the choice of their girl friend, Kitty Kiernan, to opt for Collins.

116. FONTENELLE, Bernard Le Bovier de. Fontenelle's Dialogues of the Dead, In Three Parts. I. Dialogues of the Antients. II. The Antients with the Moderns. III. The Moderns.

Translated from the French. With a Reply to some Remarks in a Critique, call'd The Judgement of Pluto, etc. And Two Original Dialogues. London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, within Grays-Inn Gate, 1708. pp. xlix, 209, 1 (advertisement). Contemporary full panelled sprinkled calf. A fine copy. €325 ESTC T139460. Only the TCD and NLI copies in Ireland.

Translator's dedication signed: John Hughes.

ILLUSTRATED BY SEAGHAN MacCATHMHAOIL 117. FOX, C. Milligan. Four Irish Songs. Words by Edith Wheeler and Alice Milligan. The Connacht 'Caoine' (in Irish) by Tadhg O Donnchadha. Illustrated by Seaghan MacCathmhaoil (John Campbell). Dublin: Maunsel, n.d. (c.1907). Folio. pp. 30. Original publisher's black wrappers, lettered in silver. A very good copy. Scarce. €165

Dedicated to the members of the Irish Folk Song Society, the songs included are: The Connacht Caoine; My Singing Bird; Mayo Love Song and Antrim Glen Song.

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De Búrca Ra re Books SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 118. FOX, R.M. Smoky Crusade. London: The Hogarth Press, 1938. Second edition. pp. 368.

Olive green cloth, title in purple on spine. Signed presentation copy from the author on titlepage.

Bookplate of Stephen Cranley on front pastedown. A very good copy in faded and repaired dust jacket. €45 119. FULLER, Samuel. Some Principles and Precepts of the Christian Religion. By way of question and answer. Recommended to parents and tutors for the use of children. By Samuel Fuller, one of the people called Quakers. The same read and approved of by their national meeting held at Dublin in the ninth month, 1733. Dublin: Printed by John Gough, No. 20 MeathStreet, 1804. 12mo. pp. 53, [6]. Contemporary sheep, spine professionally rebacked. Inscribed from Sarah Walpole to Margaret Barrington, dated 1855. Some pages close trimmed with minute loss. Repair to gutter of titlepage. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €575 No copy of this edition located on COPAC. NLI holds the Dix copy.

There is a nine page catalogue of John Gough's books: "very suitable for children"; books lately imported by Gough and a list of pamphlets.

Provenance: From the library of Mary Leadbeater by descent.

120. GALLWEY, Hubert. The Wall Family in Ireland 1170 - 1970. With maps, coloured armorial frontispiece, numerous illustrations and genealogical charts. Kildare: Leinster Leader, 1970. Royal octavo. pp. xxiv, 317. Blue paper boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Very scarce. €145 Unique insight into Irish genealogy and a most thorough piece of historical investigation.

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THE GUNNINGS OF CASTLECOOTE 121. GANTZ, Ida. The Pastel Portrait. The Gunnings of Castlecoote and Howards of Hampstead. Illustrated with genealogical chart and portraits. London: Cresset Press, 1963. First edition. pp. xiii, 193. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A very good copy in illustrated dust jacket. €75 40

De Búrca Ra re Books In the early 18th century Castlecoote passed into the hands of the Gunning family, who reputedly won the estate at cards. John Gunning, a Roscommon landowner married Bridget Bourke, daughter of Theobald, Sixth Viscount Bourke of Mayo. They had two beautiful daughters 'the celebrated Gunning Sisters' and the toast of 1750s fashionable London. They began their careers as actresses (then far from a respectable profession) and stunned Society when the elder sister married the Duke of Hamilton and, after his death, the even wealthier Duke of Argyll. She was the mother of four dukes while her younger sister married the Earl of Coventry.

Their brother 'Jacky' was destined to become a general. In 1768 General John Gunning married Susanna Minifie and had a daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth Gunning was a novelist and a niece of the famous Gunning sisters. In the words of Horace Walpole, John "carried off his Tailor's wife". The affair between John Gunning and Mrs. Rebecca Duberly ended in the celebrated trial for adultery. She was formerly a Howard of Hampstead and related to the Duke of Norfolk.

122. GAUGHAN, J. Anthony. Austin Stack: Portrait of a Separatist. Illustrated. Dublin: Kingdom, 1977. pp. 408. Blue paper boards. Very good in frayed dust jacket. Rare. €265 Austin Stack (1879-1929), revolutionary, was born at Ballymullen, Tralee, County Kerry and educated at the local C.B.S. At fourteen he became a solicitor's clerk. He later captained the Kerry team that won the All-Ireland football final in 1904. Joining the I.R.B. in 1908, as Commandant of the Kerry Brigade of the Irish Volunteers he co-ordinated the landing of arms by Roger Casement at Banna Strand. He was arrested and sentenced to death, which was commuted to penal servitude for life. Stack was released with the general amnesty of 1917 and was elected Sinn Féin M.P. in the following year.

Between 1919 and 1922 he was at different times Minister for Home Affairs, Finance and Defence. He opposed the Treaty of 1921, fought with the Republicans in the Civil War, was captured in 1923 and went on hunger strike for forty-one days before being released in July, 1924.

123. [GIBBINGS, Robert] The Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings with some recollections by the artist. Edited by Patience Empson and with an introduction by Thomas Balston. Part colour wood engraved frontispiece. London: Dent, 1959. Quarto. pp. xliv, 355. Black cloth, device in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Top edge green. Fine in glassine wrapper, title printed in red. A very good copy. Very scarce. €265 With reproductions of his entire output of engravings.

Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) was an Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a wood engraver and sculptor, and for his books on travel and natural history. Along with Noel Rooke he was one of the founder members of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920, and was a major influence in the revival of wood engraving in the twentieth century.

Gibbings was born in Cork into a middle-class family. His father, the Reverend Edward Gibbings, was a Church of Ireland minister. His mother, Caroline, was the daughter of the Antiquarian, Robert Day, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and president of The Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. He grew up in the town of Kinsale where his father was the rector of St. Multose Church.

He studied medicine for three years at University College Cork before deciding to persuade his parents to allow him to take up art. He studied under the painter Harry Scully in Cork and later at the Slade School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. During the First World War he served in the Royal Munster Fusiliers and was wounded at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles. He was invalided out and resumed his studies in London.

The catalogue raisonné of the work of Robert Gibbings including wood engravings, engravings on copper and sculpture. Colour woodcut frontispiece and over 1000 examples of his work. There are nine pages of half-tones; List of Art Galleries, Museums and Libraries with engravings by Gibbings. There are also list of books illustrated with engravings by the artist.

LIMITED TO 50 COPIES ONLY SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO HARRY CLARKE 124. GOGARTY, Oliver. Wild Apples. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1928. First edition. pp. 33.

Presentation copy, inscribed "To my friend, the Artist, Harry Clarke" and dated (22.v.'28) by the author on front free endpaper. With letter loosely inserted to Harry Clarke from Thomas Bodkin.

Fine copy in holland-backed boards in an edition limited to 50 only. €1,650 A collection of poetry in an edition limited to fifty copies only, printed at the Cuala Press specially for the author. W.B. Yeats requested a revised and extended version for the second edition of the book,

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with a preface by him. Gogarty was Clarke's physician and they developed a close friendship. He was scathing of the Irish government for its failure to acquire the 'Geneva Window'. "I thought of the £4,000,000 spent on Gaelic culture which consisted in bemusing children with Esperantisised Irish and making them fall more readily victims to the Communist and Demagogue. And I thought of the fate of Harry Clarke, that supreme colourist in glass, who lived in Frederick Street, to see the window he did for the Irish Hall at Geneva (of course it had to be Geneva, for the eyes of a fool of a Nation are on the ends of the earth) turned down by the Government who commissioned it, because a figure of two celebrating Irish exiled authors were in the nude. The money spent is attempting to turn this nation into a race of bilingualists ignorant and gullible in two languages".

This privately printed edition includes several scandalous squibs which were omitted from the later Cuala edition.

Dr. Thomas Bodkin was Professor of Fine Arts and Director of the Barber Institute in the University of Birmingham.

FIRST EDITION 125. GOGARTY, Oliver St. John. I Follow Saint Patrick. Superbly illustrated by Bip Pares.

With four maps (one folding). London: Rich & Cowan, 1938. First edition. pp. xii, 336. Faded reddish brown cloth, titled in black on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. A very good copy in dust jacket. €75 ROBERT BARTON'S COPY 126. GOLDSMITH, Oliver. Essays by Dr. Goldsmith. Collecta Revirescunt. Cooke's Edition.

Embellished with engravings. London: Printed for C. Cooke, n.d. (c.1799). 12mo. pp. xii, 139.

Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece. Armorial bookplate of Robert Barton on front pastedown. Minor worming. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €175

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De Búrca Ra re Books 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.

This edition contains an introductory essay on the life of Goldsmith and is embellished with superb engravings.

WITH A CHAPTER BY SEAMUS HEANEY 127. GRABY, John. Ed. by. 150 Years of Architecture in Ireland: RIAI, 1839-1989. Dublin: RIAI, 1989. Small folio. pp. 130. Blue cloth, title in gilt on printed label inset on upper cover and in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €75 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.

128. GRAVES, Alfred Perceval. Songs of Killarney. London: Bradbury 1873. First edition. pp. viii, 175. 16mo. Original illustrated green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Covers lightly faded. Very scarce. €95 Alfred Perceval Graves, poet and educationist, was born on 22 July 1846 at 12 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, second of the eight children of Charles Graves, Bishop of Limerick. In 1864 he went to Trinity College, where he later won a university scholarship in classics; but in 1867 he joined the English civil service before completing his degree course.

In London he combined the duties of a clerkship in the Home Office with literary work, and contributed lively poems to Punch, the Gentleman's Magazine, and other periodicals. Graves's first book of poems, Songs of Killarney (1873) was well received, especially by The Spectator, to which he became a regular contributor. On 29 December 1874 he married the beautiful Jane Cooper eldest daughter of James Cooper of Cooper's Hill, near Limerick.

Graves (a devout protestant, who was reputed never to have made an enemy) presided in 1891 over the inaugural meeting of the 'Irish Literary Society' of London, of which he was twice president. In 1912 he was installed as a Welsh bard under the name Canwr Cilarne (Singer of Killarney); and in 1919 he retired to 'Erinfa', his holiday home at Harlech in north Wales.

129. GRAY, Alexander Stuart & SAMBROOK, John. Fanlights. A Visual Architectural History. Drawings by Charlotte Halliday. London: A & C Black Ltd., 1990. pp. 148. Blue paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €35 Includes a chapter on Dublin fanlights.

EMBELLISHED WITH SUPERB ENGRAVINGS A PRESENT FROM HIS FRIEND AND PATRON LAWRENCE WALDRON 130. GRAY, Thomas. The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray. With the Life of the Author.

Cooke's Edition. London: Printed for C. Cooke, No. 17 Paternoster-Row, n.d. (c.1795). 145 x 87mm. pp. [11], vi-xxvi, [1], 28-71, [1]. Contemporary full calf, upper board detached, spine worn, internally very clean. Engraved titlepage and engraved portrait of Gray. Engraving, drawn

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De Búrca Ra re Books 131. GREAVES, C. Desmond. The Life and Times of James Connolly. Portrait frontispiece.

London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1961. pp. 363. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. From the library of Percy Paley, Castle Hacket, with his bookplate and signature on front pastedown. A very good copy in dust jacket. €75 132. GREEN, Green, G. Garrow. In the Royal Irish Constabulary. Portrait frontispiece. London: James Blackwood & Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, n.d. (1905). pp.

259, [13 (publisher's list)]. Pictorial cloth, faded, otherwise very good. Very scarce. €175 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

With chapters on: Cadet Life at the Depot; My First Faction Fight; How I went for an Heiress; My Adventure with 'Honest' Ned; The Chestnut Mare - A Court of Inquiry; The Rival Hotels; The Bad Station; Poteen; Tubbercurry - A Murder Case; Tinahely; Life in Shinrone; The Mutiny of the Transport Corps and other matters; The Adventure of the Mail Train; The Retreat from Galway; Bruff; Ned O'Grady's Eviction; An Irish Jury; An Action and An Action-at-Law; The Adventure of the Banner; Reunions at Herbertstown; Ballyjamesduff, Athy, Conclusion of Service, A Night Inspection; The Bogus Outrage; The Case of Constable Cooney; An Irish Petty Sessions.

133. GREGORY, Anne. Me and Nu: Childhood at Coole. Illustrated by Joyce Dennys. With a prefatory note by Maurice Collis. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1970. pp. 128. Blue paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. €30 This book is written by one of her grandchildren, Anne, who with her brother and sister, was born and brought up at Coole, and in it she gives a new dimension to what we know of Lady Gregory and her guests.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 134. GREGORY, Lady. My First Play. London: Mathews: 1930. First edition. pp. [iv], 28.

Quarter linen on decorated boards. Signed by Lady Gregory on title. A very good copy. €275

Lady Gregory was the cornerstone of the Irish Literary Revival in the first quarter of the century. At Coole Park in County Galway she was host to many literary figures and painters of the time: W.B. Yeats of course, J.M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, Douglas Hyde, A.E., Sean O'Casey, John Masefield, George Moore, and among the painters, J.B. Yeats the elder, Jack B. Yeats and Augustus John.

As well as spending a large part of her time as hostess of Coole, being a prolific author and playwright, a Director of the Abbey Theatre, the chief campaigner for the return of the Lane Pictures to Dublin, an excellent landlord, she is remembered as a great personality.

135. GRIFFITH, Margaret C. Calendar of Inquisitions Formerly in the Office of the Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer prepared from the Mss of the Irish Record Commission.

Dublin: Published with the Permission of the Director of the National Archives for the Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1991. pp. xviii, 769. Maroon cloth, title in gilt. A fine copy. €65 This work contains summaries of the Latin calendars of inquisitions for County Dublin from the period of Henry VIII to William III. Details are given of the property held by Landowners under the feudal tenures at the time of their death or forfeiture, with the names and ages of the heirs who succeeded them.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 136. GRIFFITH, Richard. DONNELLY, J.F.D. Et al. Report Upon The Royal Dublin Society, The Museum of Irish Industry, and The System of Scientific Instruction in Ireland.

Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom, 1862. pp. 125. Library buckram, title in gilt on spine.

'Ministry of Education Reference Library' label on lower cover. Ex. lib. Science and Art / Board of Education Library, with neat stamps. A very good copy. €185 The Minutes of Evidence taken on 2nd October 1862 whereby L.E. Foot was examined by Richard Griffith upon the Constitution of the Royal Dublin Society; E.W. Davy was examined on Agriculture, Lectures, Utility of Museum and Suggestions for Improvements; William Edward Steele was examined on Meetings of Society and Election of Members, etc.; Rev. Samuel Haughton was examined on the National History Museum; Alexander Carte was examined on the Conditions of Specimens at the Museum; Henry Connor White on Accounts and Audit; Simon Foot on Botanic Gardens; John D'Olier on the Fine Arts; David Moore on the Botanic Gardens; Robert Collins on Agricultural Shows; Frederick J. Sidney on the Library, Sir Robert Kane on the Museum of Irish Industry; Lord Talbot de Malahide and Andrew Corrigan on the Agricultural Museum, etc.

137. GUNNING, John P. The Volunteers and the Irish Parliament. With notices of Current Events. Limerick: Guy, 1903. pp. 140, 2 (opinions of the Press). Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €125 No copy located on COPAC.

138. HANSARD, Joseph. The History, Topography and Antiquities (Natural and Ecclesiastical), with Biographical Sketches of the Nobility, Gentry and Ancient Families, and Notices of Eminent Men, &c. of the County and City of Waterford; including the towns, parishes, villages, manors and seats. Edited by Donald Brady. Illustrated. Waterford: Lismore Library, 1998. pp. xiv, 300. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. Fine in fine illustrated dust jacket. €65 139. HANSBROW, Rev. G. An Improved Topographical and Historical Hibernian Gazetteer; including the various Boroughs, Baronies, Buildings, Cities, Counties, Collieries, Castles, Churches, Curiosities, Fisheries, Glens, Harbours, Lakes, Mines, Mountains, Provinces, Parishes, Rivers, Spas, Seats, Towers, Towns, Villages, Waterfalls, &c. &c. Scientifically arranged, with an appendix of ancient names, to which is added, an introduction to the ancient and modern History of Ireland. Dublin: Richard Moore Tims, William Curry, and John Robertson; King and County, Cork; Marks, Waterford; Simms and Mairs, Belfast; Campbell, Derry; M'Kerin, Limerick; Wheelock, Wexford; Collins, Drogheda; Dunlap, Coleraine; Purcel, Tralee; Kyte, Cashel; Blackham, Newry; Bole, Castlebar; Devir, Westport; And other Booksellers, 1835. pp.

431. Recent full calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on gilt decorated spine. A very handsome copy. €575 BINDER CRITICISED !

140. HARRIS, Walter. Hibernica: Part II or, Two Treatises relating to Ireland Containing, I. A Declaration setting forth how, and by what Means, the Laws and Statutes of England, from Time to Time, came to be of force in Ireland; said to be written by Sir Richard Bolton, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. II. The Answer of Sir Samuel Mayart, Serjeant at Law, and second Judge of the Common-Pleas in Ireland, to a Book intitled, A Declaration setting forth how, and by what Means, The Laws, and Statutes of England, from Time to Time, came to be of force in Ireland.

Now first published from two Manuscripts formerly in the Possession of the late Walter Harris, Esq; To which is prefixed, a Preface, shewing the Occasion of writing, the said Treatises, and the Proceedings of the two Houses of Parliament thereupon. Part I. Hibernica: or, Some antient pieces relating to Ireland : Part I. Containing, I. The History of Ireland by Maurice Regan, servant and interpreter to Dermod Mac-Murrough, King of Leinster, translated from the Irish into French, and from thence into English by Sir George Carew, Lord President of Munster. To which are added, Notes to illustrate some dark passages therein. II. The story of King Richard II. his last being in Ireland, written by a French gentleman, who accompanied the King in that voyage, to his leaving Ireland in 1399; and translated into English by the said Sir George Carew. III. The voyage of Sir Richard Edgecombe, sent by King Henry VII. into Ireland in 1488 to take new 45

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by Patrick Finglass, first Chief Baron, and afterwards Chief Justice of Ireland in the Reign of King Henry VIII. V. A Project of King James I. for the division and plantation of the six escheated counties of Ulster with British and Scottish undertakers, servitors and natives. VI. Orders and conditions to be observed by the undertakers, &c. of the said plantation. VII. A commission of inquiry in order to the establishment of the said plantation. VIII. Instructions to the said commissioners. IX. A survey of the said six escheated counties after the settlement of the said plantation, by Nicholas Pynnar, Esq. X. A Letter from Sir Thomas Philips to King Charles I. concerning the defects of the Londoners in their plantation. To which is added XI. An essay on the defects in the histories of Ireland, and remedies proposed for the improvement thereof. In a letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Newport, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and President of the Physico-Historical Society established in Dublin. Dublin: John Milliken, 1770. pp. [8], 9-287, [1], 231. Separate titlepage for both Parts. Contemporary full sprinkled calf. Spine, expertly rebacked, divided into six compartments by five raised bands between double gilt rules. Title and author lettered in gilt direct in second and fourth. Occasional mild foxing. Contemporary comment criticising the binder for binding Part II first. All edges red. A very good copy. €485 ESTC T154459. Gilbert 353. Bradshaw 1959.

Walter Harris, LL.D., one of Ireland's most distinguished antiquarians, editor of Sir James Ware's works, was born at Mountmellick in the late seventeenth century. Although expelled from Trinity College in early life for participation in a riot, the degree of LL.D. was afterwards conferred on him for his services to Irish historical research and archaeology. He married Elizabeth, a great-granddaughter of Sir James Ware, thereby inheriting his valuable collection of manuscripts.

Harris edits in part I eleven interesting and important historical tracts on a wide range of topics Maurice Regan's History of Ireland; Richard II's Voyage to Ireland in 1399, written by a Frenchman who accompanied him; King James I's Project for the Plantation of Ulster; Pynnar's Survey of the Escheated Counties, etc. Part II contains two tracts on the Laws of England to be introduced into Ireland. This work is complete although Part II is bound before Part I.

141. [HATTON, Edward] The Merchant and Trader's Daily-Companion : Containing, I. Exact and Useful Tables, shewing the Value of any Quantity of Goods or Wares ready cast up ...

Calculated by an Ingenious Accomptant. II. Tables of exchange. In two parts. 1. English money exchanged into Irish. III. Tables of Commission at the several Rates mostly used in Ireland. IV. An Index of Interest ... . To all which is prefixed, The new Table of Coin as the same was made current by the Lords Justices Proclamation from the 8th day of July, 1751. Together with a Table of the Number of Yards in the several Scores of Linen ... .The first edition. Dublin: Printed for Bart. Gorman, Bookseller and Trader at the Bible in Bridge-Street, 1763. Oblong 12mo. First edition. pp. [264]. Contemporary full worn calf. Lacks front free endpaper, frayed edges to titlepage. Signature of Mrs. Lea, dated 1779 on torn rear endpaper. A good copy of an item well used in a Dublin merchant's office. Exceedingly rare. €675 ESTC T122179 with 3 locations. NLI holds the Dix copy.

142. HAVERTY, Martin. The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern. Derived from our Native Annals, from the most recent researches of eminent Irish scholars and antiquaries, from the State Papers, and from all the Resources of Irish History now available. With copious topographical and general notes. With frontispiece, engraved half title and a folding map showing principle territorial divisions as they existed at the period of the Anglo-Norman Invasion. Dublin: Duffy, 1867. pp. vii, 774. Green cloth, title in gilt on rebacked spine.

Signature of Eleanor Kerr on titlepage, call card of James Alexander O'Neill Kerr loosely inserted. Occasional light foxing. A good copy. €65 143. HAYMAN, Rev. Samuel. Memorials of The Ancient Religious Foundations at Youghal, County Cork, and its Vicinity. With sixteen illustrations. Youghal: John Lindsay, 1863. Quarto. pp. 62 (double column). Recent half black buckram on marbled boards with original printed wrappers bound in. Owner's signature on titlepage. Some minor foxing. A very good copy.

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144. HAYWARD, Richard. This is Ireland Leinster and the City of Dublin. With numerous illustrations by Raymond Piper, and two maps. London: Barker, 1949. pp. 256. Grey faded cloth, arms of Leinster blind-stamped on upper cover, title in green on spine. Map on endpapers.

Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Very scarce. €45 145. HAYWARD, Richard. Where the River Shannon Flows. With illustrations from Photographs by Louis Morrison. London: Arthur Barker, 1950. pp. 331. Grey linen, title in green on spine. Signed presentation from the author to Desmond Williams. Mild foxing to spine, otherwise a very good copy. €65

The author along with two friends journeyed the whole length of the Shannon River, from its source Slieve Cuilcach in County Cavan to its majestic estuary. Along the way he lingers to investigate legends, to authenticate history, and to indulge his genius for making friends with the people of farm and village and town. This work is further enhanced with a large coloured folding map.

146. HAYWARD, Richard. Munster and the City of Cork. With pencil drawings by Raymond Piper. London: Phoenix, 1964. Crown octavo. pp. xiv, 354. Green cloth, title in gilt against a black background on spine. Blasket Islands illustrated on endpapers. A very good copy in lightly soiled dust jacket. €50 147. HEALY, John. Nineteen Acres. Illustrated. Achill: House of Healy, 1987. Second edition. pp. viii, 141. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. €75 47

De Búrca Ra re Books John Healy, the author, spent all his working life in journalism. He joined the Western People, Ballina, as a cub reporter in 1948. Two years later he moved to Dublin to join the Irish News Agency, later working with the Irish Press Group before joining the Irish Times organisation in 1959, to become the youngest editor of a national newspaper.

Nineteen Acres portrays life in the basic unit, the family smallholding.

148. 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. A fine copy in dust jacket. €165 149. [HEANEY, Seamus] The Whoseday Book (A Millennium Journal). Illustrated. Dublin: The Irish Hospice Foundation, 1999. First edition. Oblong octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and upper board in copper, brown endpapers. In matching slipcase. A fine copy.

Exceedingly rare with so many signatures. €950 Designed as a fundraiser for the Irish Hospice Foundation, with an introduction written by the foundation's patron, poet Seamus Heaney, and contributions from 365 other writers, artists, and celebrities. This copy is signed by Seamus Heaney and 94 of the other contributors, a number of them now deceased, including: John Banville, Jennifer Johnston, Dorothy Cross, Conor Hogan, Peter Harbison, Felim Egan, Mary O'Donnell, Michael D. Higgins, Mick Cullen, Olivia O'Leary, Colim Toibin, Philip Casey, Nell McCafferty, Anita Groener, Michael O'Siadhail, Ciaran O'Gaora, Vivienne Roche, Declan Hughes, Anne Haverty, Bernard MacLaverty, Maeve Ingoldsby, Paul Brady, Louis Le Brocquy, Marie Heaney, Michael Kane, Rita Anne Higgins, Enda Wyley, John Meagher, Enda McDonagh, Gavin Friday, Gerard Mannix Flynn, Perry Ogden, Barbara Cullen, Polly Devlin, Thomas McCarthy, Anne Enright, Brian Kennedy, Patricia Scanlan, Barry Devlin, Gerry Cahill, Gordon Snell, Gerard Barry, Michael Harding, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Amelia Stein, Louise Kennedy, Ronnie Hughes, Patrick Scott, Noirin Ni Riain, Seoirse Bodley, John Stephenson, Stephen Averill, Dermot Seymour, Guiggi, Anthony Cronin, Val Mulkerns, Patrick O'Brien, Desmond O'Grady, Anne Madden, Marian Keyes, Gwen O'Dowd, Michael Longley, Samuel Walsh, John Connolly, Stephen McKenna, Maria Simonds-Gooding, Katie Donovan, Derek Speirs, Rosita Boland, Brendan Kennelly, Paul Durcan, Mary Avril Gillan, Eamon Delaney, Ivor Brown, Nick Kelly, John Kindness, Alice Maher, Hugh Carr, Mary Morrissy, Charles Cullen, Frank Harte, Ted McCarthy, Pauline Bewick, Gerald Dawe, Carolyn Mulholland, Paolo Tullio, Felim Dunne, Frank McGuinness, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Thomas Kilroy, Chris Agee, Theo Dorgan, Paul Muldoon and Dermot Healy.

SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 150. HEANEY, Seamus. Electric Light. London: Faber and Faber, 2001. First edition. pp. [x], 81. Black paper boards, titled in white. Signed by Seamus Heaney on titlepage. A fine copy in dust jacket. €475 SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 151. HEANEY, Seamus. The Door Stands Open: Czeslaw Milosz 1911-2004. Dublin: First published by The Irish Writers' Centre, 2005. Printed and made in Poland by The Book Art Museum, Lódź. Edition limited to 250 copies, numbered and signed by Seamus Heaney on handwoven paper. Bound in stainless steel covers, in a prepared mixed-media wrap featuring a silkscreen collage of articles from Polish newspapers in the days following the death of Czeslaw Milosz. Housed in an elaborate, folding, black-cardstock case with dripping black-ink design on one edge and featuring the signature of Heaney in silver on front. A fine copy. €1,450 Czeslaw Milosz, (1911-2004) was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980, fifteen years before Seamus Heaney received the same accolade.

SIGNED BY SEAMUS HEANEY 152. HEANEY, Seamus. District and Circle. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. First edition.

Green paper boards. Signed by Seamus Heaney on titlepage. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €475 153. HEATHER, J.F. A Treatise on Mathematical Instruments, including most of the instruments employed in drawing, for assisting the vision, in surveying and levelling, in practical astronomy, and for measuring the angles of crystals: in which their construction, and the methods of testing, adjusting, and using them, are concisely explained. Second edition, with corrections.

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De Búrca Ra re Books With plates. London: John Weale, Architectural Library, 1851. 12mo. pp. vi, 170, 4. Blind stamped red cloth, title on printed label on upper cover and spine. Owners signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €185 COPAC locates the Leeds copy only.

154. HENCKEN, H. O'Neill. Cahercommaun: A Stone Fort in County Clare. With illustrations and two large folding plans. Dublin: R.S.A.I. 1938. Royal octavo. pp. [vii], 82. Modern brown buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Original paper wrappers bound in. A very good copy. €125 155. [HERALDIC EXHIBITION] Illustrated Catalogue of the Heraldic Exhibition Burlington House 1894. Illustrated with mono and coloured plates. London: Printed for the Committee by Charles Whittingham and Co. at the Chiswick Press, 1896. pp. xx, 116, 50 (plates). Title printed in red and black. With half-title. Quarter morocco on cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Edition limited to 250 copies only. Some minor wear to binding, otherwise a very good copy. €135

Catalogue of the Heraldic Exhibition of the Society of Antiquaries, held in 1894.

156. HILL, Edwin Darley. The Northern Banking Company Limited. A Historical Sketch.

Commemorating a century of banking in Ireland by the first joint-stock bank established in that country 1824 - 1924. Illustrated with numerous coloured and mono plates. Belfast: M'Caw, 1925.

Quarto. pp. xv, 301, + errata. Green cloth. Illustration inset on upper cover. Title in gilt on spine and cover. A very good copy. €95 157. HOBSON, Bulmer. A Short History of the Irish Volunteers. With a Preface by Eoin MacNeill. Volume I. (As passed by Censor). Dublin: Candle Press, 1918. pp. [iii], ix, [iii], 205.

Navy blue cloth, titled in gilt. Spine expertly rebacked. Light browning to endpapers and titlepage. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €245 Carty 346. COPAC locates the B.L. copy only.

This history has the advantage of being written by one who took a leading part in the events described.

The introduction by Eoin MacNeill, Chief of Staff of the Volunteers, gives an additional interest to this remarkable book. The Irish Volunteers were founded on 25 November, 1913 as the result of an article

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De Búrca Ra re Books nationalists should form a volunteer movement on the lines of the Ulster Volunteer Force. The author organised a public meeting at the Rotunda where the new force was established. It attracted followers of Sinn Féin, the G.A.A. and the Gaelic League as well as members of the I.R.B. By May 1914, membership stood at around 80,000 and funds were collected in the U.S.A. by John Devoy and Clan na Gael, and in England by Alice Stopford Green and Sir Roger Casement.

Dedicated to the memory of Roger Casement. Volume two was never published.

158. HOGAN, Edmund. S.J. The Description of Ireland, and The State thereof as it is at this present in anno 1598. Now for the first time published, from a manuscript preserved in Clongowes-Wood College. With copious notes and illustrations. Dublin: Gill, 1878. pp. xii, [1], 382. Quarto. Original reddish brown cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Occasional light foxing, corners a little bumped, cloth faded. Spine rebacked. A sound copy. €275 GAELIC PLACENAMES 159. HOGAN, Edmund S.J. Onomasticon Goedelicum. Locorum et Tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae. An index with identifications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes. With diocesan map as frontispiece. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1910. Quarto. pp. xvi, 696. Green cloth, titled in gilt.

A very good copy. €175 160. HOLZAPFEL, Rudi. The Light of Loss. Lyrical poems. Dublin: Printed by Blackrock Printers for the Sunburst Press, 1987. pp. [vi], 63. Blue arlen, titled in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 100 copies specially bound. Signed and numbered by Rudi Holzapfel. A fine copy. €75 161. HOLZAPFEL, Rudi. An Cheapach. Dublin: Printed by Carraig Books for the Sunburst Press, 1993. pp. 68. Brown paper boards, titled in gilt on spine. Edition limited to 100 copies specially bound. Signed and numbered by Rudi Holzapfel. A fine copy. €75 162. HORE, Herbert J. & GRAVES, The Rev. James. Ed. by. The Social State of the Southern and Eastern Counties of Ireland in the Sixteenth Century: being the Presentments of the Gentlemen, Commonality, and Citizens of Carlow, Cork, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford, and Wexford. Made in the Reigns of Henry VIII, and Elizabeth. Printed from the originals in the Public Record Office, London. Dublin: Printed at the University Press, 1870. pp. [iv], 286. Blue cloth, titled in gilt. Spine expertly rebacked, new endpapers. Mild foxing to prelims. A very good €675 copy. Very rare. COPAC locates 4 copies only.

163. 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, Esquire, 1979. Quarto. Dark green arlen, titles in gilt on spines. A fine set of the very scarce second edition. €875 164. 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.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 165. [IRELAND TREASURES] A Series of Twenty-five Cigarette Cards on the Treasures of Ireland. The cards display items of Irish Medieval Art, Prehistoric Gold Objects, Round Towers, Harps, and Shrines. Published by John Player & Sons, Branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co. (of Great Britain & Ireland) Ltd. All in very good condition. €150

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

166. [IRISH FISHING] A Series of Forty-eight Cigarette Cards on Irish Fishing. The cards illustrate both fresh and salt water fishes, flies, baits, casts, dapping, shore fishing and views of fishing on Lough Sheelin, the River Blackwater, the River Erne, and Ballycotton Harbour.

Presented with Sweet Cigarettes. Made by Liam Devlin & Sons Ltd., Dublin. All in fine condition. €135 167. [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, 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

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De Búrca Ra re Books 168. IRISH RAILWAYS] A Collection of 36 Original Photographs of Irish Railways' Rolling Stock throughout the thirty two counties taken during the month of August, 1955. Including engines and trains at: Mallow; Tralee; Inchicore, Dublin; Loughrea; Mullingar; Carlow; Ennis; Woodlawn; Broadstone: Dundalk; Terminus Belfast; Portadown; Banbridge; Warrenpoint; Newry; Bessbrook, etc. Each photograph measuring approximately 140 x 90mm. Stamp of W.A. Brown, Chorlton, Manchester on some cards. The majority are captioned and dated on verso. In fine condition. Very rare. See illustration on previous page. €375 LONGEVITY ASCRIBED TO THE USE OF WHISKEY 169. [IRISH TOUR] Journal of a Tour in Ireland, &c. &c. Performed in August 1804. With Remarks on the Character, Manners, and Customs, of the Inhabitants. Illustrated with an engraving of the Giants Causeway and a map of the Lakes of Killarney. London: Richard Phillips, 1806. pp. 36, [2]. Recent wrappers. A very good copy. Very scarce. €275 COPAC locates 1 copy only.

With notices of the Nature of the Irish Universities; Price of Provisions in Dublin; Exhibitions and Public Institutions; Foundling Hospital; Service at Bangor Cathedral; Anecdote of a Calvinist; Irish Mail Coaches; Killarney; Irish Inns; Hotels in Dublin, etc. The author's description of Dublin is worthy of note: "It would be difficult to convey an idea of the vice, filth, and wretchedness, in which the lower orders dwell, and seem to delight, everywhere in this district … many tons of manure cover the alleys, and seem to threaten a plague … the streets are crowded, in the day-time, with the lowest prostitutes, whose appearance betray squalid misery; and who either starve, or by their numbers prove the city to be depraved to an almost incredible extent".

170. [JAMESON WHISKEY] Origin of John Jameson Whiskey. Containing some interesting observations thereon. With drawings by the late Harry Clarke. Dublin: Printed for John Jameson & Son Ltd., Bow Street Distillery, Dublin and 7 Mark Lane, London E.C. by Maunsel & Roberts Limited, 1924. First edition. pp. 20. Stiff green wrappers, title 'The History of a Great House with drawings by the late Harry Clarke' printed in black on white rectangular label on upper cover.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Clarke devoted a lot of thought to the design and illustration of this booklet, which "seemed at the outset an impossible task". He worked on it in February and March 1924 and it was printed at the end of April, to a hectic deadline. He was not happy with the printing and felt he had been stupidly modest in only charging £100 for all rights as well as the originals. It was a most inspired commission by the Whiskey Distillers, John Jameson & Son Ltd, to be used as part of an advertising scheme they were mounting for the vast International Advertising Convention at the British Empire Exhibition at Olympia, from July to October 1924.

The booklet and its later sequel, The Elixir of Life, used to be given away to clients and visitors to both the Studios and Jameson's Distillery in Dublin. It abounds in the highly decorated galleons which are a recurring feature in the Art Deco decorative vocabulary and a favourite motif of Clarke.

Illustrated with six plates and fourteen vignettes, all printed in green and black.

171. JOHNSTON, John Moore. Heterogenea, or, Medley. For the Benefit of the Poor.

Downpatrick: Printed by James Parks, 1803. First edition. pp. xxxiii, [1], 285, [1]. Original blue paper wrappers. Signature of B M Richardson of Lambeg House on front endpapers. Gathering I & L in superior facsimile on antique matching paper. Edges untrimmed. Housed in a recent half calf solander box. A fine copy. Extremely rare. €1,450 COPAC locates 2 copies only. The NLI holds the Dix and Joly copies.

With a list of subscribers.

"I intended to have left in my last will ten Pounds to the poor, for each of the Parishes of Lisburn, Ballenderry and Magharadroll; but on second thought judged it more judicious, to apply that sum to their benefit in my life time; and by publishing a Book by subscription in order to raise a larger sum, to purchase houses or lands for ever, would be more eligible and beneficial; the profits to be paid annually to them" - Introduction.

The resultant book lives up to the promise of its title as a medley of writing in prose and verse. Most of the pieces are by Moore Johnston, but some are by other writers, though not always acknowledged.

Particularly important are his descriptions of the parish of Magheradroll, containing the town of Ballynahinch, in County Down; and "Lisburn, and ten other parishes County Antrim". His account of Magheradroll had been previously published in 1797, and therefore possesses a special interest as a description of the Ballynahinch area in the year prior to the battle of Ballynahinch. It provides no premonition of things to come, though in another piece he notes that "the rebels came from the eastern parts of the County, [Ards?]as the plague of locusts came in Egypt". They "came to Ballynahinch, but few of the inhabitants joined them".

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De Búrca Ra re Books John Moore Johnston was born in 1747 at Portmore Park, County Antrim. In 1780 he became the agent (receiving rents and keeping accounts) for the Earl of Moira who lived in Montalto House at Ballynahinch. A special privilege that he enjoyed – "I was always of a studious turn of mind" - was access to the library of the Earl of Moira containing thirty thousand volumes. In 1783 he married Miss Charlotte Close "by whom I got upwards of one hundred pounds of Freehold estate". This dowry, allied to his own income, allowed him to live in comfort at Rockvale, near Ballynahinch.

There are fourteen pages of names of subscribers (largely from County Down), a testimony to his position and powers of persuasion. Evidence of the latter can be gleaned from his note, following the subscribers list: "A few Persons of rank and fortune, declined to Subscribe. I shall leave them to their own serious contemplation, when they have time to reflect. I fear too many live in dissipation, vicious pleasure, and make a God of this World".

There are ownership inscriptions in pen and pencil on the front endpapers of B M Richardson Lambeg House. These could well be those of Bertha M Richardson of the Richardson linen family, and therefore much later than the date of the book.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION 172. JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach. Paris: Shakespeare & Co., 1927. First edition. Small 12mo. pp. [24] + errata. Original pale green boards. Spine professionally rebacked. Slight suntanning near spine on both covers. A very good copy. €475 Slocum & Cahoon A24 Pomes Penyeach contains thirteen poems, beneath each poem is printed in italics the place and year of composition.

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

SIGNED BY LOUIS LE BROCQUY A FINE COPY OF THE DOLMEN EDITION 173. JOYCE, James. Dubliners. Lithographs by Louis Le Brocquy. Mountrath: The Dolmen Press, 1986. Imperial octavo. pp. x, 263. Bound in full natural Irish linen lettered in gold and stamped on each side in a design by the artist. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies, signed by the artist Louis Le Brocquy, on colophon. A fine copy in hazel-brown cloth slipcase. €2,650 This was the last substantial book designed by Liam Miller, Ireland's leading modern typographer. It was published shortly before his death. With ninety black and white lithographic brush drawings on white wove mould made rag specially made at Saint Cuthbert's Mill, Somerset, printed at the September Press, Wellingborough England by Christopher Skelton and Alan Bultitude. Designed by Liam Miller. The text is composed in Monotype cutting of the Joanna typeface designed by Eric Gill, printed in letterpress.

About this book Joyce wrote: "My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. I have tried to present it to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life. The stories are arranged in this order. I have written it for the most part in a style of scrupulous meanness".

174. [JOYCE, P.W.] Philips' Handy Atlas of the Counties of Ireland. Constructed by John Bartholomew and revised by P.W. Joyce. With 33 coloured maps and consulting index. London: George Philip & Son, 1885. pp. [iv], 33, 41, 4 (publisher's list). Green linen over bevelled boards, title in gilt on upper cover surmounted by a harp gilt, adorned with a cluster of shamrocks.

Armorial bookplate of Sir A.M. Porter, Bt. on front pastedown and with his signature on titlepage. Some light spotting to titlepage, minor wear to spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €175 I am indebted to my friend, the late Maurice Craig who pointed out a typographical error in the index: Mount Bottom (County Waterford) should read Mount Bolton.

175. JOYCE, P.W. Atlas and History of Ireland. A Comprehensive Description of each county.

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De Búrca Ra re Books villages and places of interest. By P.W. Joyce. Embracing over one hundred illustrations of the natural scenery, public buildings, abbeys, round towers, and other romantic and historic places, reproduced by eminent artists from photographs especially taken for this work by William Lawrence, Dublin. The Story of Ireland. By A.M. Sullivan. Being a complete and authentic history of Ireland from the earliest ages to 1867 ... And Continued to 1895 by P. D. Nunan.

Embellished with portraits of the leading statesmen, orators, poets and martyrs of the Emerald Isle. With 32 coloured maps. New York: Murphy & McCarthy, 1899. Thick quarto. Coloured half-title. Rebound preserving original gilt decorated cloth. A very good copy of the rare '98 Centenary Edition'. €235 176. JOYCE, P.W. The Wonders of Ireland and other Papers on Irish Subjects. With portrait frontispiece of the author. London: Longmans, 1911. pp. [vi], 242, 4 (publisher's list). Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Scarce. €85 The contents include: The Voices from the Forest of Fochluth; The Island of Loch Cre or Inishnameo; Saint Coleman's Ducks; A Ship and Crew in the Air; An Island split in Three by a Storm; Loch Leane turned into Blood; The Virtues of Lough Neagh; The Man-Wolves of Ossory; The Swan-Woman; The Lonely Crane of Inishkea; An Island that Preserved Human Bodies; Three Marvellous Wells; The Prophetic Well of Raphoe; The Buried Joint of Clonmacnoise; The Lia Fail or Coronation Stone of Tara; Spenser's Irish Rivers; The Destruction of Tiernmas and his People; Our Three Patron Saints; Cathal O'Conor the Red Hand, King of Connaught; Sir John de Courcy; Saint Donatus, Bishop of Fiesole, Garret Mac Eniry, etc.

177. KAY, D.L. The Glamour of Dublin. With eight etchings by Estella F. Solomons. Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press Limited, 1929. pp. 108. Quarter linen on printed boards. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy in torn illustrated dust jacket. €35 D.L. Kay was the pseudonym of Daniel Lawrence Kelleher.

'SON OF A CONNAUGHT SPALPEEN' 178. KEOGH, John. Sketch of A Speech delivered at a Meeting of the Catholics of Dublin, held at the Star and Garter, Essex Street, January 24, 1807; and Published at the Desire of a Subsequent Meeting, held at the same place, the 7th of February inst. Reported by Edward Hay, Esq. Secretary to the Meeting. Dublin: Printed by H. Fitzpatrick, No. 4, Capel Street, 1807. pp.

15. Stitched paper wrappers. A very good copy in binder's folder. €575 COPAC locates 3 copies only. NSTC K378. NUC pre-1956 NK103440.

John Keogh (1740-1817) was a leading Irish campaigner who struggled to get Irish Roman Catholics the right to vote and the repeal of the Penal Laws. Little is known about Keogh's family or about his early life. When he became rich and important his enemies liked to taunt him with his humble beginnings. They said he was the 'son of a Connaught Spalpeen'; and that he had served his apprenticeship to a smuggler in the Isle of Man, afterwards becoming a porter and counter-boy to the Widow Lincoln who carried on business as a silk-mercer at the Sign of the Spinning-Wheel in Francis Street.

He made his considerable fortune in land speculation, brewing, and silk trading. He owned land in Dublin, County Sligo, County Roscommon, and County Leitrim, and by the 1790's he had an income of around £6,000 per year.

He was born in Dublin, Ireland. He became involved in the political struggle for Roman Catholic rights in the 1780s, when he was a member of the Catholic Committee from 1781. In 1784, Keogh joined in a plan for Ulster and Dublin radical elements to combine to push for Catholic franchise, and by 1790 Keogh was leading the Catholic Committee. He was part of a delegation that was denied a hearing by the Lord Lieutenant, and so they went to England to make their case for the repeal of the penal laws and extension of the vote to Catholics. They met with government ministers personally, and they received promises; however, Lord Kenmare quashed all progress.

On the selection of the Protestant radical lawyer Theobald Wolfe Tone as Secretary to the Committee, he and Keogh became great friends, frequently travelling together around Ireland. Tone's nickname for Keogh was 'Gog'.

By 1792, Keogh led the Catholic Convention in Dublin. He and others took their grievances to the King, and the result was the Catholic Relief Act of 1793, which gave Catholics the vote and repealed many of the penal laws. In return, Keogh made concessions on behalf of the Catholic Committee: they would not press for independence, and they would dissolve the committee. Keogh was criticized 55

De Búrca Ra re Books sharply for making these concessions, and conservatives in England were unhappy with the Relief Act. In 1795, Earl Fitzwilliam, who had favoured Irish Catholic causes, and tried to extend their involvement in politics, was recalled as Lord Lieutenant and replaced with a conservative. When another delegation headed by Keogh went to London, it got no aid and little audience.

Keogh's authority and influence in the Catholic movement in Ireland decreased as newer leaders emerged, though he remained on the Dublin committee of the United Irishmen into 1798. Although he was frequently arrested and searched, Keogh was a moderate radical, and he used his wealth to aid his co-religionists' cause without crossing the line to overt illegality. He was on the non-violent wing of the United Irishmen, along with Thomas Addis Emmet. Days before the outbreak of the 1798 Rebellion, in despair at the likely result, Keogh printed a pamphlet warning his followers in Dublin that it could not succeed. He married Mary Drew and they had five children the eldest of whom was Cornelius. He died in Dublin in 1817 and was buried in St. Kevin's Church and Cemetery, where his grave can be seen.

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE ARTIST 179. KERNOFF, Harry. 12 Woodcuts by Harry Kernoff, R.H.A. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, n.d. (c.1945). 4to. pp. [iv], [26]. Edition limited to 300 copies, signed by the artist. Half coarse linen on grey paper boards, title printed on upper cover. Ex lib Gloucester City Library with stamps. Some minor spotting to endpapers. A very good copy. €365 Harry Kernoff (1900-1974), artist, was born in London, son of a Russian father and Spanish mother. In 1914 the family moved to Dublin, where he studied at the Metropolitan School of Art and won the Taylor Scholarship in 1923. He began his working life as a woodworker in his father's furniture business, and this led him to the production of woodcuts. During his career of more than fifty years he painted most of the literary figures of Dublin, including Joyce and Yeats, and many of the people of Dun Chaoin and the Blasket Islands. Three collections of his woodcuts were published in limited editions.

Although this item has no publisher's imprint, it is evidently a Three Candles item, having their logo on the final page. A very rare item not attributed to Colm's firm in any of the catalogues, checklists or prospecti.

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE ARTIST 180. KERNOFF, Harry. Thirty-Six Woodcuts. With foreword by Aaron A. Branavel. Dublin: Privately published, and printed by Hely's, 1951. Quarto. Grey-blue linen, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Edition limited to 400 copies, signed and numbered by Kernoff. Spine tanned. A very good copy. €575 The third of Kernoff's three books of woodcuts, printed under the artist's personal supervision. Scarce.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 181. KIERNAN, T. J. History of the Financial Administration of Ireland to 1817. London: P. S. King & Son. 1930. First edition. pp. xi, 372. Blue cloth, titled in gilt. Staining to endpapers. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. Very scarce. €165 T.J. Kiernan (1897-1967), diplomatist and author, was Ireland's first ambassador to Australia.

Subsequently he served as ambassador in West Germany, Canada and Washington. He was married to the well known ballad singer Delia Murphy. His best known work is The Irish Exiles in Australia, and at the time of writing this letter he was researching same.

With chapters on: The Undoing of the Colonial Parliament; Cromwell's Administration and the Parliament of 1661-1666; The Public Revenues before and after 1666; English Legislation binding Ireland; The Beginning of Financial Control; The Committee of Public Accounts, 1695; The Appropriation of Supply, 1753; The End of the Struggle, 1782; The Union of Debts; A Lost Century, etc.

182. KING, Marion. Clann Choinín. Illustrated. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig an tSoláthair, 1943. An Dara Cló. pp. 48. Coloured pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. €275

Marion King was a cartoonist, illustrator and painter on glass. Born in Trim, County Meath, she spent much of her early life with her family in Leeds, England where she studied at Leeds College of Art. She returned to Ireland in 1922 and exhibited in the Angus Gallery, St Stephen's Green and the Academy of Christian Art, Upper Mount Street, Dublin. She lived for a time in Paris where in 1936 she exhibited at the Salon des Femmes Peintres and the Salon des Artistes Français.

Marion King wrote and illustrated a number of children's books with Irish texts and had a programme on Radio Éireann - 'Drawing and Painting with Marion King' which began in 1943. Sean Bunny, her cartoon-and-story strip in the Irish Times began in 1953 and continued until her death in 1963.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 183. KING, Marion. Bróigín. Illustrated. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig an tSoláthair, n.d. (c.1949).

First edition. pp. [12]. Coloured pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €275 184. KING, Marion. Peigín. Illustrated. Baile Átha Cliath: Oifig an tSoláthair, 1948. Third edition. pp. 48. Coloured pictorial wrappers. A fine copy. €275 185. [KING'S VISIT] The King's Visit, as Discoursed Over by Andrew Walsh, Darby Morris, and John Simpson. Dublin: Printed by G. Bull, 3, Redmond's-Hill, n.d (c.1823). pp. 12. Engraved titlepage. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards. Extremely rare. €365 COPAC locates the Cambridge copy only. NLI holds The O'Kelly copy.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION

186. KINSELLA, Thomas. One Fond Embrace. Illustrated by Timothy Engelland.

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

Black cloth titled in gilt along spine. Edition limited to 300 copies signed by Thomas Kinsella. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €135 SIR LISTER HOLTE OF ASTON COPY 187. KNOWLER, William, LL.D. The Earl of Strafforde's Letters and Dispatches, with an Essay towards his Life, by Sir George Radcliffe. From the originals in the possession of his great grandson The Right Honourable Thomas, Earl of Malton, Knight of the Bath. With a list of subscribers. Two volumes in one. London: Printed for the Editor, by William Bowyer, 1739.

Folio. pp. (1) [x], 527, [4] (index), (2) [ii], 439, [4] (index). From the library of Sir Lister Holte of Aston in Warwickshire, Baronet, with his armorial bookplate. Contemporary full worn calf.

Joints split, but firm. Wear to spine ends and corners. Internally a very good copy. €175 Thomas Wentworth (1593-1641), Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1632, until his recall in 1641 adopted the policy of making Ireland remunerative for the crown. In a letter written to the Lord Treasurer he made his position clear: "I am of opinion that all wisdom advises to keep this kingdom as much subordinate and dependent upon England as is possible, and holding them from the manufacture of wool (which, unless otherwise directed, I shall by all means discourage), and then to fetch their clothing from thence [England] and to take their salt from the King (being that which preserves and gives value to all their native staple commodities). How can they depart from us without nakedness and beggary? Which in itself is so weighty a consideration as a small profit should not bear it down".

INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM COBBETT SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO COBBETT 188. KNOX, Alexander. Essays on the Political Circumstances of Ireland, written during the Administration of Earl Camden; with an appendix containing Thoughts on the Will of the People and a Postscript now first published. London: Printed for the Author, by J. Plymsell, at the AntiJacobin Press, 1799. pp. xviii, 240. Presentation copy from the author to Mr. William Cobbett.

Long inscription in Cobbett's hand to the Churchwardens of Clifton. Contemporary half vellum on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. All edges yellow. A very good copy. €1,450 COPAC locates 9 copies. Not in Gilbert. Bradshaw 7598.

William Cobbett (1763-1835), essayist, politician, and agriculturist, was born at Farnham in Surrey, the son of a farm labourer. His early years were spent working on the farm with his father. He was largely self-taught and enlisted as a soldier in 1783. At Chatham depot he developed an extraordinary capacity for literary cultivation. He soon obtained promotion and joined the regiment in Nova Scotia, as a promising non-commissioned officer. In 1792 he submitted evidence of embezzlement against some of his officers and he withdrew to France to avoid reprisals. From there he went to Philadelphia where he opened a bookshop and became a publisher, on the Loyalist side. Cobbett was prosecuted for libel, then moved to New York and finally back to London in 1800, where he again opened a bookshop. He began Cobbett's Weekly Register in January 1802, which was continued until his death.

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De Búrca Ra re Books me who has a great respect for Churchwardens generally, in the hope that a knowledge of the 'Political circumstances of Ireland' during the administration of Earl Camden may assist them in conducting the business of their own parish under any administration!!".

The author of this work Alexander Knox (1757-1831), theological writer, was born at Derry and descended from the family of John Knox, the Scottish reformer. His alarm at the proceedings of the United Irishmen convinced him that: "any degree of popular reform would infallibly lead to complete democracy", and he finally became 'an unqualified supporter of the existing constitution'. A close friend of John Wesley and John Jebb, he was private secretary to Lord Castlereagh during the rebellion of 1798 and afterwards. After the Union Castlereagh urged him to represent his native city, Knox, however retired from public life and devoted himself to theology and writing.

The present work is merely a collection of papers intended in almost every instance for publication in newspapers or for circulation in the form of handbills. They were written at intervals between 1795 and 1797, in a bright, lively and popular style. This edition incorporates extra material. A primary source for the rise of the United Irishmen and the political transactions of that time.

189. KNOX, S.J. Ireland's Debt to the Huguenots. With illustrations and map. Dublin: A.P.C.K., 1959. First edition. pp. xv, 86. White paper boards with illustrated wrappers. Bookplate of the Belfast Literary Society on front pastedown. Traces of tape removed from pastedowns. A very good copy. €35

190. LANGRISHE, Richard. Handbook to the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, Kilkenny 1879.

With engraved frontispiece and folding plan. Kilkenny: Printed at the "Moderator" Office, 1879. pp. 38, + errata. Purple cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Some additional marginalia probably by the author. A very good copy. Very rare. €185 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

191. LAWLOR, H.C. Dunluce Castle and The Route. A short history, with notes on the ruins of Dunluce by W.H. Lynn. Illustrated. Belfast: M'Caw, 1919. Quarto. pp. 29, + adverts. Printed wrappers, with rusty staples. A very good copy. €45 192. LEET, Ambrose. A Directory to the Market Towns, Villages, Gentlemen's Seats and other Noted Places in Ireland, with reference to the Counties, in which they are Situated, The PostTown to which each is attached, their Description, or if a Seat, the Name of the Resident; to which is added A General Index of Persons Names, referring to the Page where their address is to be found, together with lists of the Post Towns and present Rates of Postage throughout the Empire. Second edition, collected and arranged in alphabetical order. Dublin: Printed by Brett Smith, 46, Mary-Street, 1814. pp. 394, + index, + list of Post Towns, + list of Subscribers.

Contemporary full tree calf. Title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on gilt decorated spine.

Minor wear to corners and with minute loss of leather to upper cover. From the library of Pat Murray with his bookplate. A fine copy. Very scarce. €475 COPAC locates 3 copies only of this edition.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 193. LELAND, Thomas. A Sermon Preached before the University of Dublin on Friday the 13th of December, 1776; Being the Day Appointed by Authority for a General Fast and Humiliation. By Thomas Leland, D.D. Senior Fellow of Trinity College and Vicar of St. Anne's, Dublin. Published at the Request of the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College, and of the Parishioners of St. Anne's; in which Church it was also (for the most part) delivered. Dublin: Printed by William Hallhead, (No. 63) Dame-Street, 1777. Quarto. pp. [4], 20. With a half-title. Original stitched marbled wrappers. Lower margin close trimmed with minute loss at bottom of 'Finis' on final leaf. Early owner's signature 'Pons: Caldwell' on titlepage. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €765 ESTC T176237 locates 6 copies only.

The Sermon was Preached in the Church of St. Annes, Dawson Street. There is a grateful acknowledgement from the parish signed by order of Thomas Graham. Also on verso of the half-title is printed a similar acknowledgement from the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College: Dr. Clement, Dr. Leland, Dr. Murray, Dr. Wilson, Dr. Kearney, Dr. Dabzac and Dr. Foresayeth. Signed by the Registrar Richard Murray, D.D.

IRISH WIT AND HUMOUR 194. LENNON, Sean. Works and Quirks of the Cultured Irish. With an Introduction by Brendan Kennelly. Dublin: Septic Tank Press, 1991. pp. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €20 Caricatures and cartoons of well known Irish writers: Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, Frank O'Connor, Lee Dunne, Alice Taylor, John Banville, etc.

SHANE LESLIE'S MANUSCRIPT COPY WITH A CHAPTER ON THE RAREST IRISH BOOKS 195. LESLIE, Shane. Ex Cathedra Librorum. Three Lectures Delivered from the Chair of the Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania. By Shane Leslie, M.A., of Kings College, Cambridge, 1934. I. The Script of Jonathan Swift; II. Rare Irish Books; III. St. Patrick's Purgatory. A manuscript in Shane Leslie's hand. Quarto volume bound in half purple morocco; ninety-five pages of manuscript. The folios of the third part 'St. Patrick's Purgatory' are loosely inserted. €2,350 Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Baronet, generally known as Shane Leslie (1885 -1971), diplomat and writer was born in Glaslough, County Monaghan, into a wealthy Anglo-Irish landowning family. His father, Sir John Leslie, 2nd Baronet, and his mother, Leonie Jerome, was the sister of Winston Churchill's mother, Jennie. In 1908, Leslie became a Roman Catholic and supported Irish Home Rule.

In January 1934, Shane Leslie, that denizen of County Monaghan, was in Philadelphia to give the third series of lectures of the Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography. His main subject was 'The Script of Swift', with side excursions into Irish history and rare books. The lecture hall on the three Thursdays he spoke was filled by a faithful contingent of nuns, who came to play tribute to the faithful son of the Church with usual energy Dr Rosenbach saw to it that the papers were fed with advance publicity and, tongue-in-cheek, apologised to Shane for the inconvenience he was causing by having reporters meet him at the boat. Through Frank Hogan and others Rosenbach arranged engagements under the auspices of Cardinals O'Connell of Boston, Hayes of New York, and Mundelein of Chicago. Leslie went up and down the seaboard and into the Middle West, feted by the Catholic laity, charming all by his blarney and with an Oxford (via Cambridge) accent, receiving rewards spiritual and definitely financial.

Leslie was a handsome Irishman with strong Cambridge ties, a literary reputation, little money, and a wealth of connections - his mother was one of the three beautiful daughters of the fabulous American Leonard Jerome (the other two mothered Winston Churchill and Clare Sheridan) - which he was willing to employ on the Doctor's behalf. Rosenbach had never been to Ireland, and Leslie thought it was time he came. Perhaps the green hills and the peaty smells and a visit with the Leslies at 60

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Glasslough Castle could have been bait enough to lure him across the Irish Channel but there were Shane's tales of virgin libraries panting for a seducer. No gentleman ever refuses such an invitation. Dr Rosenbach arrived in Belfast early in April 1934. Leslie had his itinerary well-scheduled and there was not a moment to waste. It was off to Clandeboye for lunch with Lord Dufferin. His father the first Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, had been a distinguished diplomat during the reign of Queen Victoria, serving as ambassador at St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Cairo, Rome, and Paris, and, most impressively, he also served as Governor-General of India. His wife had literary tastes and the friendships of literary men. When she built a towered library at Clandeboye, the English men of letters vied to do her and "Helen's Tower" honour. The result was a rich harvest of manuscript poems and presentation copies from such men as Carlyle, Dickens, Thackeray, Disraeli, and Tennyson.

Lord Dufferin had confessed to Leslie that an urgent need for cash made him desirous of selling his books, but that his whole estate was entailed. He could not therefore turn them over to Dr Rosenbach.

However, Dufferin did suggest, that if the Dr were to give him a cheque, and then if Leslie were to burgle the books at night, he would not be in the position of handing them over. With an electric torch that night, Shane Leslie crept into the library, gathered the books together, put them in a sack his host had obligingly provided, and hid them in a hollow oak in the park. Leslie assured the Dr all would be 61

De Búrca Ra re Books well and so it turned out to be. Years later, the family discovered the "theft" and sued for the recovery of the volumes. With injured dignity Dr Rosenbach replied that he had a cancelled cheque as evidence of a bona fide business transaction; besides, many of the books had been sold and were scattered; and, finally, the law of entail had no teeth in the United States.

The Dufferin books were merely an apéritif; the main course was reserved for the next day. After breakfast at Glasslough, Leslie took the Dr over to see one of his neighbours, the Earl of Caledon, at Tyrone. He must have some books, Shane told the Dr, for he had inherited a good part of the library of that literate Bishop of Dromore, Thomas Percy, the editor of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

More than that Leslie had not said, for neither he nor any other book-knowledgeable person had been through the shelves of Caledon within the memory of man. The Earl received the American bookman with great courtesy, and after polite preliminaries, during which Dr Rosenbach sat glancing around the library walled with mellowed books, he offered the Dr a drink and the freedom of his shelves. No unleashed greyhound ever bounded faster after rabbit than the portly Dr rushed to the books. Shane Leslie, who had seen him in action before, watched the succeeding performance in dumbfounded amazement. Dr Rosenbach ran his fingers along a shelf, gently pulled a volume down, blew the dust from the top, opened it, and placed it on a table in the centre of the room. Again and again he repeated the process, quickly, unhesitatingly, with calm assurance. In a matter of minutes, it seemed, he had skimmed along the last shelf, and on the table was a not impressively large pile of old books. The little stack of selected volumes included, Bishop Percy's Annotated copy of First Folio of Shakespeare, not quite perfect, but with a sentimental and critical value more than compensating for its condition. There, too, was what had once been the twin of the famous collection of 1619 Shakespeare Quartos which the Dr had sold to Folger from the Perry Collection, and of which he remarked in Books and Bidders - "I do not hesitate to say that this book would bring at least $200,000 if it were sold on the block today".

There was also in this collection the first edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1609, a volume of such rarity that Folger had been satisfied to pay $10,500 for the Jones copy in 1919 even though it lacked two leaves; the Caledon copy was quite perfect. The acquisition of the Caledon first was an example of serendipity so fortunate that Dr Rosenbach did not want to spoil his luck by selling it. He took it home, and it stayed at DeLancey Street until after his death.

With Dufferin and Caledon under his belt, Dr Rosenbach could afford to relax. He motored to Carrickmacross, looked at the collection of Evelyn Philip Shirley, and filed his recollections for future reference. The following year Leslie persuaded Shirley to accept £2,000 for a group of manuscripts, for which he received "In the spirit in which it was sent" £300 as an honorarium for his excellent work in procuring them. - Wolf & Fleming Rosenbach, Cleveland and New York, 1960.

196. [LETTER] A Letter to A Person of Distinction in Town, from A Gentleman in the Country.

Containing, some remarks on a late pamphlet, intitled, A Free and Candid Inquiry, &c. Dublin: Printed in the Year 1753. First edition. 8vo. pp. 47 [1 (adverts)]. Modern grey and blue paper boards. Slightly browned, but a very good copy. Rare. €375 COPAC with 7 locations only.

A very scarce anonymous reply to a pamphlet by John Brett, rector of Moynalty, on the subject of political friction between England and Ireland.

197. LEVER, Charles. The Widow Malone. Illustrated by Yeend King. London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, n.d. (c.1889). Designed in England. Printed in Germany. pp. [12]. Illustrated stitched wrappers. Some light foxing, otherwise a very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €235 No copy located on COPAC.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 198. [LEWIS, R.] The Post Chaise Companion: or Traveller's Directory through Ireland. Containing a new and accurate Description of the Direct and principal Cross Roads, with particulars of the Noblemen & Gentlemen's Seats, Cities, Towns, Parks, Natural Curiosities, Antiquities, Castles, Ruins, Manufactures, Locks, Glens, Harbours, &c. &c. Forming an Historical & Descriptive Account of the Kingdom. To which is added, A Travelling Dictionary, or Alphabetical Tables, Shewing the distances of all the Principal Cities, Boroughs, Market and Sea Port Towns, in Ireland from each other. The 3rd Edition, corrected and enlarged.

With an entire new set of plates. Dublin: Printed and published by J. & J.H. Fleming, n.d. (c.1803). Third edition. pp. [i], xxvii, 660 (double column), 19 (index).

Contemporary full calf, spine and corners professionally repaired. Tear to titlepage expertly repaired. A very good copy. Scarce. €365 In addition to the large folding map of Ireland there are views of: The Giants Causeway; The Waterfall near Powerscourt; The Waterfall of Poll a Phuca near Russborough; Plan of the Lakes of Killarney; Scene of a Round Tower and ruined church.

199. [LIVE STOCK] A series of twenty five cards on Live Stock. The cards illustrate various farm animals: Gloucester Old Spot Boar, Aberdeen Angus Bull, British Friesian Bull, Dairy Shorthorn Bull, Hereford Bull, Kerry Bull, Red Poll Bull, Welsh Bull, Ayrshire Cows, Dexter Cow, Kerry Cow, Berkshire Boar, Middle White Sow, Hackney Mare, Hackney Pony Stallion, Hunter Filly, Hunter Mare and Foal, Percheron Mare, Percheron Stallion, Polo Pony, Shire Mare, Shire Stallion, Roscommon Three Shear Ram, Shropshire Two Shear Ram, Southdown Two Shear Ram. Published by John Player & Sons, Branch of the Imperial Tobacco Co. (of G.B. & Ireland) Ltd. All in very good condition. €125

200. LIVINGSTONE, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. With portraits, numerous illustrations and single folding map. London: John Murray, 1857. pp. ix, [1], 688. Original blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. New endpapers. Wanting map in pocket at end. A very good copy. €225 THE RARE BEST EDITION 201. 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. Revised, enlarged and continued to the present time by Mervyn Archdall, Rector of Slane. With list of subscribers. Seven volumes. Dublin: Moore, 1789. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards. Armorial bookplates of Robert Borrowes and Arthur Beresford Cane. Some corners worn and bumped otherwise a very good set. Rare. €1,250 John Lodge, (died c.1774) Deputy Keeper of Bermingham Tower Records, later Deputy Keeper of the 63

De Búrca Ra re Books Rolls was a celebrated antiquary who first published his Peerage of Ireland in 1754 (4 volumes). 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.

Mervyn Archdall is to Lodge, what Harris was to Ware, in as much as he revised and greatly expanded the work from four to seven volumes taking four years to complete his edition. Many of Lodge's valuable notes were left in cipher, and the credit for decoding them lies with Mrs. Archdall, a remarkable woman, who enabled her husband to carry out his extension of this work.

Mr. Rowley Lascelles in his compilation of the Liber Munerum drew largely from John Lodge's collection of manuscripts of the Patent and Close Rolls. Includes many plates illustrating the Coats of Arms of the Irish peerage.

202. LOEBER, Rolf & Magda. Ed. by. Irish Poets and their Pseudonyms in Early Periodicals.

Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 2007. pp. xxii, 168. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine.

Edition limited to 225 copies. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. €75 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).

203. LONGFIELD, Ada K. National Museum of Ireland. Guide to the Collection of Lace.

Illustrated. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1982. pp. viii, 46, [22 (plates)]. Illustrated stiff wrappers. A fine copy. €30 204. LONGLEY, Michael. Patchwork. With drawings by Jim Allen. Dublin: The Gallery Press, 1981. First edition. pp. 24. Quarter linen on grey boards, title on printed label on upper cover and in black on spine. Fine in acetate dust jacket. €135 205. LYNCH, John. The Portrait of a Pious Bishop; or, The Life and Death of the Most Reverend Francis Kirwan, Bishop of Killala. Translated from the Latin of John Lynch, Archdeacon of Tuam. With introduction and notes by Rev. C.P. Meehan. Dublin: Duffy, 1848.

Square Octavo. pp. xv, 198, [1]. Mauve cloth, titled in gilt. Cover faded and with minor wear. A very good copy. €65 Francis Kirwan, Bishop of Killala, was born in Galway in 1589, and received the rudiments of education from his uncle, Rev. Arthur Lynch, a Catholic clergyman, who from time to time had endured the most trying persecutions on account of his faith. He subsequently studied at Lisbon, and was ordained in 1614. Proceeding to France the year following, to pursue his studies, he taught philosophy for a time at Dieppe. In 1620, returning to Ireland, he was commissioned by Florence Conroy as Vicar-General of his province of Tuam, and in this capacity laboured untiringly in Galway and Mayo until Conroy's death in 1629, after which he returned to France.

At Paris, on 7th May 1645, Kirwan was consecrated Bishop of Killala. He returned to his native city for a time until the fall of Galway in 1651 under the Cromwellians. He had to hide from the fury of the Parliamentary troops in the neighbourhood for many months. He underwent the greatest sufferings and privations. He was imprisoned in Galway for a time, where, forgetful of his own sufferings, he strove to alleviate those of his fellow-prisoners. In August 1655 Bishop Kirwan was banished to France, and was cared for at Nantes by the widow of nobleman. His died at Rennes, in August 1661.

ILLUSTRATED BY JACK B YEATS 206. LYNCH, Patricia. The Turf-Cutter's Donkey. An Irish story of mystery and adventure.

Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats. London: Dent, 1936. Fourth edition. pp. viii, 245. Pictorial cream cloth with a drawing by Jack B. Yeats in blue. Sketch endpapers. Occasional light foxing. Small nick to top of spine. In a fine pictorial cloth binding. €95 64

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

Illustrated with 5 colour plates, 8 line drawings, pictorial endpapers and upper cover by Jack B. Yeats.

DUKE OF LEINSTER'S COPY 207. LYNCH, William. Esq. A View of the Legal Institutions, Honorary Hereditary Offices and Feudal Baronies, established in Ireland during the Reign of Henry the Second. Deduced from Court Rolls, Inquisitions, and other original records. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1830. pp. xxiv, 360. Contemporary full diced russia, spine divided into six compartments by five gilt ruled bands, title and author in gilt on burgundy letterpieces in the second and third; badge of the Duke of Leinster in gilt in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a floral design; turn-ins gilt, splash-marbled endpapers; green and gold endbands. Some minor wear to spine. A fine copy. Rare. €675 Not in Bradshaw. Gilbert 506.

The chapters include: Introduction of Laws and Customs of England into Ireland; Customs and Usages in Ireland; Legislative Institutions Introduced into Ireland; Honorary Hereditary Officers; Origin of Feudal Baronies in Ireland; Spiritual Peers; Creation of Dignities by Charters or Patents; Peculiarity in the Descent of the Feudal Baronies of Ireland; Notes of the Family of Plunket and of the House of Desmond; Decisions, Reports, and Legal Opinions; Writs of Military and Parliamentary Summon.

ILLUSTRATED BY JACK B. YEATS 208. LYND, Robert. Rambles in Ireland. With five illustrations in colour by Jack B. Yeats and twenty-five from photographs. London: Mills & Boon, 1912. First edition. pp. 312, [8], 16 (publisher's list). Green cloth with a colour illustration of a Hurley Player by Jack B. Yeats inset on upper cover. A very good copy. Very scarce. €165 COPAC locates 8 copies only.

Chapters include: Galway of the Races; The Path to Cong; Through Lisdoonvarna; The Cliffs of Moher to Killarney; Puck Fair; Tourists in Kerry; Kinsale; Cork and Mallow; Cashel of the Kings; The Man from Thurles, and Dublin.

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books Robert [Wilson] Lynd, (1879-1949), essayist, was born in Belfast and educated at the Royal Academical Institute and Queens. Following graduation he went to London and worked as a freelance journalist, sharing a studio with fellow graduate Paul Henry, till joining the Daily News in 1908 (the News Chronicle from 1930). He was appointed literary editor in 1913 and remained with the paper until his death. Lynd also contributed to John O'London's Weekly, and under the pseudonym 'Y.Y.' to the New Statesman.

209. [LYONS, John Charles] The Grand Juries of the County of Westmeath: from the year 1727 to the year 1853, with an Historical Appendix. Two volumes in one. Ledestown: Printed by John Charles Lyons, 1853.

First and only edition. pp. [279], [5], 350. Titlepages printed in red and black within a red ruled border. Blue cloth over bevelled boards, title in gilt on rebacked spine. Interleaved copy with note in pencil on front flyleaf "Annotations by Rev. W.A Reynell on 'Grand Juries of Westmeath' by J.C. Lyons. The annotations cover the period, c.1660-1890. From: 'Ms sources for Hist of Ir. Civil.' Ed. by Hayes". Nine pages at the end of the second volume in superior facsimile. Small stain to titlepage, faint traces of old worming. A very good copy. Extremely rare. â‚Ź1,750 COPAC locates the BL and TCD copies only.

John Charles Lyons (1792-1874), antiquary, mechanical genius and writer on gardening, was the only child of Charles John Lyons (17661796), captain of the 12th Light Dragoons, by his wife Mary Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Levinge, fourth baronet. His grandfather, who survived his father, was John Lyons (d. 1803), a landed proprietor, of Ledestown or Ladistown on the western shore of Lough Ennel, near Mullingar, County Westmeath, who was sheriff of his county in 1778. The family descended from an English settler in King's County in the reign of James I, but traces its origins to the Huguenots. From a branch of the same family, settled in Antigua, West Indies, Richard B. P. Lyons, Earl Lyons, was descended.

John Charles entered Pembroke College, Oxford, on 21 May 1810, leaving the university after a rather uneventful course. He succeeded to the family estates which he inherited on the death of his grandfather some years earlier. He always had a passion for collecting records, especially those relating to county families, and John O'Donovan in his Ordnance Survey Letters of Westmeath refers to him as the an authority on local topography.

In Cotton's Topographical Gazetteer (privately printed, 1820, p.114), it is stated that Mr. Lyons began printing privately in 1820, that in that year he purchased a small press at Edinburgh and transferred it to his own house. In 1827 he constructed his own printing-press, establishing the Ledeston Press, and continued using that 66

De Búrca Ra re Books press for over thirty years ... On the socket is engraved the name 'J.C. Lyons'.

The Historical Appendix to the present work contains a vast amount of quaint and interesting historical, topographical and genealogical material relating to persons and places in Westmeath. No serious historian writing on the county could do without delving into its pages. It is further enhanced with annotations in ink on tipped-in interleaved pages by Rev. W.A. Reynell.

John Charles also made boilers for his glasshouses, orchid baskets, and clocks. He served as High Sheriff for Westmeath in 1816, and during his long life performed with credit and honesty the various duties of a country gentleman. He was twice married, and left issue by both wives. He died on 3rd September 1874 and was buried in the Lyons family grave in All Saints’ church, Mullingar.

It is stated in The Irish Book Lover that probably no more than 60 copies were printed.

210. LYSTER, Margaret. Poems of Incompleteness. London: Erskine Macdonald, n.d. (c.

1935?), printed by Brindleys, Dublin. Octavo. pp. 41. Cream cloth on blue paper boards, title printed on upper cover. Inscription pasted on front free endpaper, medallion portrait of the author pasted on blank page facing title. Small ink stain to spine. A very good copy. €150 An intriguing and significant item. What is most interesting is that the style of this book is evidently closely modelled on the Cuala style; and Margaret Lyster's introduction suggests that the poems were turned down by other 'competent persons' to whom they were first shown. All this would seem to suggest that this collection was offered to Cuala but turned down by them, and then brought out in a transparent imitation of the Cuala style, perhaps with the help of some of those at Dun Emer. (By this time the Yeats sisters at the Cuala Press were running an entirely separate operation from Miss Gleeson at Dun Emer, with no love lost between them).

211. MACALISTER, R.A.S. Ireland in Pre-Celtic Times. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: Maunsel, 1921. Royal octavo. pp. xvi, 374. Green cloth, food vessel in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Owner's signature on titlepage. A very good copy. €65

This work traces the history of Irish civilisation from the earliest human occupation up until the fourth century B.C., when the first Celtic immigrants arrived. The book includes information on religion, implements and fortifications.

212. MACARDLE, Dorothy. The Irish Republic. A documented chronicle of the Anglo-Irish conflict and the partitioning of Ireland, with a detailed account of the period 1916-1923. Preface

by Eamon de Valera. With maps and illustrations. Dublin: Irish Press, 1951. Fourth edition. pp.

1045. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €65 In the preface Eamon de Valera says: "No matter what the future may hold for the Irish Nation, the seven years - 1916 to 1923 - must ever remain a period of absorbing interest. Not for over two hundred years has there been such a period of intense and sustained effort to regain the national sovereignty and independence. Over the greater part of the period it was the effort of, one might say, the entire nation".

The author bequeathed the royalties from this work to Eamon de Valera.

213. MacBRÁDAIGH, Seán. The Bradys of Cavan. Second edition revised and enlarged.

Dublin: Published by Seán MacBrádaigh, 2013. pp. viii, [1]. 330. Illustrated wrappers. Signed by the author. A fine copy. €30 214. MacBRIDE, Maud Gonne. A Servant of the Queen. Reminiscences. Dublin: Golden Eagle Books, 1950. New edition. pp. 319. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €45 Maud Gonne was born on December 21, 1866 near Farnham, Surrey, England. She founded the Irish Nationalist group, The Daughters of Ireland. She had a relationship with poet, William Butler Yeats and was the inspiration for some of his poems. In 1903, she married Major John MacBride and the couple's son, Sean MacBride, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.

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215. McCOURT, Frank. 'Tis. A Memoir. Frontispiece. New York: Scribner, 1999. First edition. pp. 364. Quarter white linen on blue paper boards, title in gilt on spine. Signed by the author on titlepage. Fine in illustrated dust jacket. €65 Frank McCourt (1930-2009) was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, best known for his best-selling work Angela's Ashes.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 216. McGAHERN, John. Amongst Women. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. pp. 184. Pictorial wrappers. Signed presentation copy from the author to Mary [Corcoran]. A fine copy. €85

217. McGARRY, James. Place Names in the Writings of William Butler Yeats. Edited and with Additional Material by Edward Malins and a Preface by Kathleen Raine. With illustrations and map endpapers. Bucks: Colin Smythe Ltd., 1976. pp. 99. [16] plates. Green paper boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in sun-tanned dust jacket. €45 SPECIAL EDITION OF 250 COPIES 218. MacGREEVY, Thomas. Jack B. Yeats. An Appreciation and an Interpretation. Illustrated.

Dublin: Planned, Printed and bound in Ireland by Colm O Lochlainn at the Sign of the Three Candles, Fleet Street, for Victor Waddington, 1945. pp. 39, 20 (plates). Quarter red cloth on grey paper boards, title and monogram in red on upper cover. With dust jacket. A fine copy of the rare special edition. €165

219. M'GREGOR, John James. New Picture of Dublin: Comprehending a History of the City, an accurate account of its Various Establishments and Institutions, and a correct Description of all the Public Edifices connected with them; with an Appendix, containing several useful tables; forming a Complete Guide to everything Curious and Interesting in the Irish Metropolis.

Illustrated by a large Map of the City and fifty-six views of Public Buildings, &c and collected from authentic Documents, and Personal Inspection. Dublin: C.P. Archer, Bookseller to His Majesty, His Royal Highness the Duke of York, No. 34 Dame-street, 1821. pp. x, [4], 336.

Contemporary full dark blue straight grained morocco, covers framed by a gilt chain-link roll; title in gilt direct on flat gilt decorated spine. Professional rebacking to spine, preserving original backstrip. Label of Joseph C. Scully, Bookseller, 3 Mass Lane, Near the Four Courts, Dublin on front pastedown. A very good copy. Complete with 16 plates and map. €465 68

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No copy of this edition, with the Archer imprint located on COPAC. Not in NLI.

220. McGUINNESS, Charles John. Nomad. Memoirs of an Irish Sailor, Soldier, Pearl-Fisher, Pirate, Gun-runner, Rum-runner, Rebel and Antarctic Explorer. With 11 illustrations. London: Methuen, 1934. pp. xi, 288, [1]. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Some light spotting. A very good copy. Very rare. €265 COPAC locates 6 copies only.

Charles "Nomad" McGuinness, sailor and adventurer, was born in Derry in 1893. His mother, Margaret Hernand was of Spanish descent, and his father, Charles McGuinness, was an Irish ship captain.

Margaret died when Charles was young. Not much fact is known about the life of Charles McGuinness.

His life is a mixture of truth and legend. Whatever we know about him can be found in this work, his many articles, as well as popular legends of the time.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR 221. MacLIAMMÓIR, Micheál. Enter a Goldfish. Memoirs of an Irish Actor, Young and Old. London: Thames and Hudson, 1977. First edition. pp. 192. Maroon paper boards, publisher's device in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Signed presentation copy from Michéal MacLiammóir. A fine copy in price-clipped dust jacket. €65 222. MacLOCHLAINN, Piaras F. Ed. by. Last Words. Letters and statements of the leaders executed after the Rising at Easter 1916. Illustrated. Dublin: Kilmainham Jail Restoration Society, 1971. pp. xii, 217. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €75 A compilation of the last written words of the martyrs of Easter Week. It includes also statements, dispatches, and accounts of their last moments from their relatives or friends.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 223. MacLYSAGHT, Edward. Ed. by. Calendar of the Orrery Papers. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1941. pp. xi, 396. Purple buckram, titled in gilt. A fine copy. €125 These papers preserved in the National Library of Ireland cover a period of almost 30 years: from the Restoration to the beginning of the Williamite Wars. The majority of them are letters, but also included are many miscellaneous documents, rent rolls, wills, marriage settlements, leases and the like. There are also some items of particular interest to the student of social history, e.g. inventories of furniture in Orrery's mansion and the daily menus of his household.

224. MacNAMARA, Brinsley. The Clanking of Chains. Dublin and London: Maunsel and Company, Ltd., 1920. First edition. pp. 241. Brown cloth, title in blind on upper cover and in gilt on spine. Light browning to endpapers, otherwise a very good copy. €75 A MOVING MEMENTO OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN! SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM PEARSE TO JOHN QUINN 225. Mac PIARAIS, Pádraic. Suantraidhe agus Goltraidhe. Baile Átha Cliath: The Irish Review, 1914. pp. 19. Printed blue stitched wrappers, title printed in black on upper cover.

Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Pearse "Do Sheaghán Ó Cuinn / Ó Phádraic Mac Piarais. / 6 Bealtaine 1914". Slight fraying to edges. A very good copy. Rare. €2,850

Padraic Pearse was an educationalist before he became a revolutionary, and of all his projects the one closest to his heart was St. Enda's, the school he founded in Dublin. The school was always short of money, and in February 1914 Pearse embarked on an American lecture tour, hoping to raise sufficient funds to stave off the latest crisis. He wrote to the Irish-American lawyer John Quinn, friend and patron of the Yeats family, and asked him to organise his tour; but Quinn already had too many Irish clients, and he declined to assist.

Pearse came anyway, and held some successful meetings with the help of John Devoy and Clan na Gael. He collected about £1,000 for St. Enda's, less than he hoped, but enough to ensure that the school could reopen in September.

On his last day in New York, 6 May 1914, he called on John Quinn at his apartment, and spent the evening discussing his hopes and plans for Ireland and St. Enda's. Quinn was interested, but he did not offer to help.

This presentation copy of Pearse's poems in Irish is a memento of that meeting. One wonders what Quinn thought a little under two years later, when he heard the news of the Rising and the Executions.

226. MacSÍTIGH, Tomás. Cortha Cainnte na Gaedhilge. Baile Átha Cliath: An Press Náisiunta, 1940. pp. 203, 3. Printed yellow stiff wrappers. A very good copy. €45 BOUND BY FALCONER OF DUBLIN 227. [MADDEN, Thomas More. Ed. by] Genealogical, Historical, and Family Records of the O'Maddens 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'Maddens of Hy-Many, Killnaborris, Eyrecourt, Waterford, Kilkenny, Cuba, America, Donnybrook, and Baggotsrath.

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228. MALTON, James. A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin Described. In a series of the most Interesting Scenes taken in the year 1791. By James Malton. With a brief authentic history from the earliest accounts to the present time. Engraved titlepage and dedication, Arms of Dublin, a Correct Survey of Dublin as it stood in the year 1610, and twentyfive plates of views. London: 1803. Oblong folio. With errata and prospectus. Recent half morocco on marbled boards. All plates very clean and in their original uncoloured state.

Occasional light browning, otherwise a fine set of this exceedingly rare topographical work. â‚Ź9,750

James Malton (d.1803), architectural draughtsman, came to Ireland with his father. During the building of the Custom House he was employed as a draughtsman for nearly three years by the renowned Dublin architect, James Gandon. For breaches of confidence and many irregularities he was dismissed.

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In 1791 he completed a series of drawings of Dublin buildings, from which the well-known set of views were engraved. Twenty-five were produced in etching and aquatint, executed by Malton himself, and their publication began in 1792. The preface states: "The entire of the views were taken in 1791 by the author, who, being experienced in the drawing of architecture and perspective, has delineated every object with the utmost accuracy; the dimensions, too, of the structures described were taken by him from the originals, and may be depended upon for their correctness".

Malton's Views are the most important series of engravings ever done on Dublin. Most of the principal buildings are represented, and groups of figures and little scenes of the daily life of the people add a charm and variety, the whole forming a valuable and vivid pictorial record of late-eighteenth century Dublin.

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De Búrca Ra re Books A DISCONTENTED TRAVELLER 229. [MANUSCRIPT TOUR] A manuscript 'Essay on my Tour in Ireland 1873', by a member of the Bowly family, circa fifty pages in a clear hand in an octavo notebook, stitched, plain wrappers (worn). Inscribed at head 'To my father Thomas Bowly and to my mother Sarah Bowly, this small book is dedicated in recognition of their generosity to me which has enabled me to enjoy the most pleasant holiday I have ever had in my life'. €675 The author, whose full name is not given, sailed to Kingstown from Southampton. He was not much impressed with Dublin, finding the principal buildings and streets 'all very interesting to see, but very tame after the magnificent style of the public buildings in London'. Taking a cab to St. Patrick's Cathedral, he found St. Patrick Street 'one of the filthiest streets I have ever seen, very narrow, heaps of cabbage stalks and offal of all kinds lined and covered the road some three inches thick, in a state of putrefaction which was most offensive to delicate English nasal organs but which the ragged and barefooted inhabitants seemed to regard with the utmost indifference'. At the Kingstown regatta, 'great merriment and laughing prevailed, truly the Irish seem a very happy & contented people'.

He later took a train northward to Dundalk and Belfast, remarking on 'the tediousness and inconvenience of railway travelling in Ireland. The third class carriages are very little better than cattle trucks, the trains stop at every small station, and the operation of examining the tickets was gone through some nine or ten times during our journey of 140 miles'.

BANNED BY THE FREE STATE GOVERNMENT 230. [MARKIEVICZ, Countess de] Fianna Handbook. Issued by the Central Council of Fianna Eireann for the Boys Scouts of Ireland. Illustrated by Countess de Markievicz. Dublin: Reprinted and Republished by The Central Council of Fianna Eireann, 1924. pp. 158. Some browning to covers and wear to spine. Stamp of 'The Half Door / Conduit Lane, New Ross, County Wexford / Prop. Mary Hennelly' on titlepage. Illustrated wrappers. Exceedingly rare. €375 JACK B. YEATS PICTORIAL AND DRAMATIC ART SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM ERNEST MARRIOTT 231. MARRIOTT, Ernest. Jack B. Yeats: Being a True Impartial View of his Pictorial & Dramatic Art. Wherein is Discovered the Author's sense of the Unusual Excellence of the Astonishing Handiwork of this Singular Artist; How he became possessed of a Quick and Eager understanding of the same; And his Sudden Purpose to publish his Knowledge Thereof Abroad, as likewise to exhibit his Diligent Study of it and his surpassing Wonder thereat. Wherein also is Animadverted Excogitated & Perpended the Truth and Quality of this Unparalleled Artist's Pictorial Observations; The Rare Valour and Solemn Intent of his Plays for the Toy Stage and his Divers Inventions for the Delight of all those who keep Youth ever in their hearts. By Ernest Marriott. The discourse adorned with a Painting of the Artist when a Child, by his Father and a surprising Chart of Pirate Island drawn by the cunning and subtle Master hand of Jack B. Yeats Ex-Pirate and Re-Discoverer of the Land of Romance. London: Printed for Elkin Mathews, 1911.

First edition. pp. 23, [3]. Blue pictorial wrappers, printed in black. Signed presentation copy from Ernest Marriott "To my fellow members / of the Manchester / Literary Club / from Ernest Marriott / Nov. 1911". Also with the armorial bookplate of the Club. Small stain on lower cover and to the lower margin of three leaves. A very good copy. Rare presentation copy. €675

This monograph on Jack B. Yeats was read at a meeting to the Manchester Literary Club, and printed in The Manchester Quarterly for July, 1911. The present work was published shortly afterwards with some alterations and additions to the text and illustrated as set forth on the titlepage. Frontispiece illustration by John Butler Yeats of Jack when a child, dated November 1875.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 232. MARSHALL, W.F. Ulster Sails West. The story of the Great Emigration from Ulster to North America in the 18th century, together with an outline of the part played by Ulstermen in building the United States. Belfast: Quota, n.d. pp. 78. Illustrated stapled wrappers with flaps. A very good copy. Scarce. €35 233. MARTIN, F.X. Ed. by. The Irish Volunteers 1913-1915. Recollections and documents.

Foreword by Eamon de Valera. Dublin: Duffy, 1963. pp. xviii, 202. A very good copy in original printed wrappers. €85 The efforts of the Orange Order in Ulster and the Conservative Party in England to prevent Ireland getting a measure of self-government in the establishment of the armed Ulster Volunteer Force in 1912.

But the consequence was the founding of the nationalist Irish Volunteers.

234. MASON, Stuart. Bibliography of Oscar Wilde. With a note by Robert Ross. Illustrated.

London: T. Werner Laurie, n.d. (c.1914). pp. xxxix, 605, 1. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Top edge gilt. A very good copy. €285 235. MASON, Thomas H. The Islands of Ireland. Their Scenery, People, Life and Antiquities.

Illustrated from Photographs by the Author. Second edition, revised. London: Batsford, 1938. pp. viii, 135. Green cloth, titled in black on upper cover and spine. Maps on endpapers. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €65

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.

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De Búrca Ra re Books THE O'DEMPSEYS OF CLAN MALIERE 236. MATHEWS, Thomas. An Account of The O'Dempseys, Chiefs of Clan Maliere. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1903. First edition. pp. vii, 203. Green cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover and spine. Previous owner's presentation in pencil on half title. Covers slightly faded. A very good copy. Very rare. €375 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

The O'Dempseys were a powerful clan, situated in the territory lying on the borders of Laois and Offaly known as Clanmalier. The title Viscount Clanmalier was bestowed by James I of England on Terence O'Dempsey, the family being then and in the reign of Elizabeth I consistently pro-English.

This was quite contrary to the stance taken by their ancestors, whose chief boasted of being one of the very few Irish leaders who defeated Strongbow in a military engagement. Their loyalty however to the Catholic James II resulted in the loss of their ancient patrimony. This is an excellent study of the clan by a leading family historian.

SUPERB COPY WITH HAND-COLOURED PLATES IN A MAGNIFICENT BINDING BY BICKERS OF LONDON 237. MAXWELL, W.H. Esq. History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; with Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803. With numerous hand-coloured illustrations drawn and engraved by George Cruikshank. London: Baily Brothers, 1845. First edition. pp. vii, [1], 477.

Bound by Birdsall of Northampton & London in olive-green crushed levant morocco with their name in gilt on lower turn-in of upper cover. Covers framed by triple gilt fillets with shamrock fleurons, spine divided into six compartments by five raised gilt ruled bands, title and author in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled to a gilt design matching cover. Gilt doubloures, splash-marbled endpapers; green white and gold endbands. Top edge gilt. Original cloth spine bound in at end. Spine evenly tanned. A superb copy with beautiful hand-coloured plates. €1,365 Maxwell's History of the Rebellion is considered pro-establishment, but nevertheless it is an important work with twenty-seven fine illustrations, mostly by Cruikshank, depicting the scenes of battles, massacres, executions etc. He wrote a total of twenty books in all. He died near Edinburgh in destitute circumstances in 1850.

William Hamilton Maxwell was a lively and gifted story-teller with genuine interest of the ordinary people and how they lived. Born at Newry in 1792, he was educated locally and later went to Trinity.

He took holy orders and was translated to the prebendary of Balla, County Mayo, an area which afforded good shooting and fishing. Having befriended the Marquis of Sligo, he was given the use of his shooting box, Croy Lodge, at Ballycroy. It was here he spent most of his time fishing, shooting and pursuing his literary career. It was in the Officers Mess at Castlebar Barracks, that he heard all the army gossip, being a good listener and with an excellent memory he put pen to paper and wrote Stories of Waterloo. He wrote a total of twenty books in all. He died near Edinburgh in destitute circumstances in 1850.

238. MAYO COAST. Ireland Through The Stereoscope. Series of seven early photographs of scenes of North-Mayo coast: Whaling Station, Iniskea; Downpatrick Head; Lemon Rock; Staggs of Broadhaven, etc. Possibly by Underwood & Underwood, c. 1905. €165

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De Búrca Ra re Books 239. MITCHEL, John. The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps).

Glasgow: Cameron & Ferguson, n.d. pp. 220, 4 (publisher's list).

Pictorial yellow back. Repair to spine. A very good copy. Rare in this condition. €45 240. MOLL, Herman A Set of Twenty New and Correct Maps of Ireland. With the Great Roads and Principal Cross-Roads. shewing the computed Miles from Town to Town ... All composed and done by Herman Moll, Geographer. London: Sold

by H. Moll, over-against Devereux-Court, between Temple Bar and St. Clements's Church in the Strand. [1728]. Oblong quarto.

Modern half calf over marbled boards. A very good copy.

Exceedingly rare. €3,750 COPAC locates 2 copies only.

241. MOODY, T.W. MARTIN, F.X. & BYRNE, F.J. A New History of Ireland. Volume VIII. A Chronology of Irish History to 1976. A companion to Irish History Part I. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. pp. xii, 591. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. Very scarce. €150 An excellent reference work being a chronology of Irish history which is unprecedented in scope, extending from the dawn of history to the end of 1976. Touching on every aspect of Irish life for which dates can be established.

RARE PISA EDITION 242. MOORE, Thomas, Esq. Melodies, Irish and National, by The Celebrated British Poet, Thomas Moore Esq. Verbatim from the London edition of 1822. Introduction by Erasmo Perchino in Italian. Pisa: Presso Erasmo Perchino, 1822. Tall slim 12mo. pp. viii, 138. Original grey paper boards. Cover a little worn. A very good copy. Very rare. €245 COPAC locates 5 copies only.

FINE DUFFY BINDING 243. MOORE, Thomas. Irish Melodies with Symphonies and Accompaniments by Sir John Stevenson and characteristic words by Thomas Moore. New edition, edited by J.W. Glover. Dublin: James Duffy, 7 Wellington Quay, 1859. Quarto. pp. vii, 333. Bound by Duffy of Dublin in contemporary full green morocco over bevelled boards. Covers blocked in gilt and blind with a wide floral roll to a panel design, enclosing in the centre a harp and a garland of shamrock. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design with a harp tool in the centre; turn-ins gilt, water-silk endpapers, red and gold endbands, red silk marker. All edges gilt.

Light spotting to prelims. A superb example from this renowned house. €475 J.W. Glover in the preface states: "in the original edition the music was printed only in connection with the first or second verses of each melody, the remainder being merely given in letter-press, but in this Edition the words of all the verses are 76

De Búrca Ra re Books accompanied by the music, together with the piano-forte part in full, an arrangement which, from its great expense has not been hitherto attempted … in the charming song 'The Last Rose of Summer', I have ventured, without altering the melody, to suggest a few graces of expression not found in the original, in the hope that they will assist the performer in the true delivery of this beautiful and most tender melody".

244. MORAN, Rev. Dr. Essays on the Origin, Doctrines, and Discipline of The Early Irish Church. Dublin: James Duffy, 1864. pp. viii, 337. Original green blind-stamped cloth. Spine rebacked. Ex lib. with neat stamps. Stains to lower cover. A very good copy. Rare. €245 245. MORONY, Jeremiah. A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes, designed for the Use of Schools; Containing Many Problems not to be found in any other Author Extant. The Problems Definitions, and Theorems, are simplified by Notes and Observations. To which is prefixed, a Great Variety of Questions for the Examination of the Student, &c. Cork: Printed by Charles Dillon & Son, No. 12, Castle-Street, 1831. 12mo. pp. ii, 142, 2 (tables). Titlepage offset, new front endpaper. Quarter linen on worn marbled boards. Exceedingly rare. €485 COPAC locates the BL copy only. NLI holds the Dix copy.

Jeremiah Moroney was a humble teacher of Mathematics and Geography who lived in Cork in the first half of the nineteenth century. His textbook On the Use of the Globes was one of the first published in Ireland using mathematics to analyze time zones, latitude and longitude, and the seasons, containing such gems as 'When it is eleven a.m. in Moscow, what time is it in Cork?'.

Morony's book was the subject of a recent letter to the London Times, quoting his appeal to the reader's indulgence for any mistakes, as the book was written mostly at night!

246. MORRIS, William. A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press. Together with a Short Description of the Press by S.C. Cockerell, & An Annotated List of the Books Printed Thereat. With illustrations by William Morris and Edward Burne. Irish University Press, Captain T.M. MacGlinchey Publisher, Robert Hogg Printer, 1969. pp. [ii], 70, [1]. Printed in red and black in Golden type, with decorative woodcut borders and initials. Woodengraved frontispiece, and rejected ornaments for Love Is Enough. Quarter cream cloth on light green paper boards, title and publisher's device printed in black on upper cover. A fine copy in an acetate wrapper. €165

The original edition was the last book printed at the Kelmscott Press.

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF TYRONE'S REBELLION 247. 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 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 Bedford in 19th century full red crushed morocco with their name lettered in gilt on front turn-in. Covers tooled in gilt to a panel design with outer fleurons. Spine divided into seven compartments by six thick raised bands; title and date in gilt direct in the second and third, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; fore-edges and turnins gilt; comb marbled endpapers; green, gold and maroon endbands. Armorial bookplate of Charles E.H. Chadwick Healey on front pastedown. All edges gilt. A superb copy. â‚Ź6,750

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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 79

De Búrca Ra re Books 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 re-titled '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.

248. MOULD, Daphne D.C. Pochin. The Mountains of Ireland. Illustrated. London: Batsford, 1955. First edition. pp. 160. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine. Top edge green. A fine good copy in very good dust jacket. €45 249. MUENIER, H. A Treatise upon the Regulations of the French Infantry. By H. Muenier, General de Brigade. Translated from the French by Captain Gregor Mac Gregor, Of the 57th Regiment of Foot. Illustrated with ten engraved plates (eight folding). London: Printed for T. Goddard, Military Library, No. 1, Pall-Mall, 1809. pp. xxiii, [1], 92, [4 (advertisement)]. Contemporary full burgundy straight grained morocco. Covers framed by a wide gilt roll within double ruled gilt borders.

Flat spine divided into six compartments by gilt bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; fore-edges ruled in gilt, turn-ins gilt.

Faint pencil note on front endpaper 'Presentation Copy His / Royal Highness The Duke of / York'. All edges gilt. A very good copy of an exceedingly rare book. €1,250 COPAC locates the NLS copy only.

250. MULDOON, Paul. New Weather.

London: Faber and Faber, 1971. First edition. pp. 56. White paper wrappers with printed folding flaps. Inscribed from the author for Mary Campbell, dated Feb. 1980. A fine copy. €150 251. MULDOON, Paul. The End of the Poem: 'All Souls' Night' by W.B. Yeats : An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 2 November 1999. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. pp. 28. Blue stapled wrappers. A fine copy. €65 In his inaugural lecture, Professor Muldoon examines in detail the first stanza of All Souls' Night by W. B. Yeats, written in Oxford in 1920, and considers the extent to which it might be a free-standing construct. He concludes that the poem is not so much an 'Epilogue to A Vision', as Yeats describes it in his epigraph, but an epilogue to a series of poems by Yeats's near namesake, Keats, including his To Autumn, published one hundred years earlier in 1820.

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Ticket of Bowes & Bowes on front pastedown. A few nicks to dust jacket, otherwise a very good copy. €275

Jean Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was born at 59 Blessington Street, Dublin. Her father, Wills John Hughes Murdoch, came from a mainly Presbyterian sheep farming family from Hillhall, County Down, and her mother, Irene Alice Richardson, who had trained as a singer until Iris was born, was from a middle class, Church of Ireland (Anglican) family from Dublin. When Iris was very young, her parents moved to London, where her father worked in the Civil Service. She went on to produce 37 more novels and other works of philosophy and drama until 1995, when she began to suffer the early effects of Alzheimer's disease, which she at first attributed to writer's block.

253. MURRAY, Patrick Joseph. An Act to Promote and Regulate Reformatory Schools for Juvenile Offenders in Ireland ... and Hints on the Formation and Management of Reformatory Institutions. Dublin: W.B. Kelly, 1858. Second edition. pp. lix, 216. Recent buckram with original printed (soiled) wrapper laid on upper cover. New paper spine. Some mild staining. Very scarce. €225 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

254. MURTAGH, Harman. Ed. by. Irish Midland Studies. Essays in Commemoration of N.W. English. Illustrated. Athlone: 1980. Quarto. pp. xvi, 255. Mauve buckram, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 Norman William (Billy) English, founder member and honorary secretary of the Old Athlone Society since its, inception in 1965 died suddenly in February 1978, He was a well-known local historian and antiquarian whose reputation as an authority on many aspects of our past had extended far beyond his native midlands. It was in the midlands, however, that most of his work was done and in his honour 'Old Athlone Society' published this book of scholarly studies on that area in his memory.

The essays contained in this volume are a blend of archaeological, historical, architectural and folk life themes in the main, and are all the product of original research and observation by the contributors.

Apart from an appreciation of Billy English and a bibliography of his writings, the book includes articles on grave slabs from the midlands; Norman Mottes; Sheela-na-Gigs; The Medieval Cluniac Priory in Athlone; Rindoon Windmill; Rath Reagh Church in County Longford; The Town Walls and Navigation Works at Athlone; Goldsmith's Ancestry; The Shannon Fortifications; the Offaly 81

De Búrca Ra re Books Plantation; Clonmacnoise; The Elizabethans in Roscommon; The Forebears of Dr Mac Nevin; Distilling in County Offaly; Some Early Records of Amateur Drama in Athlone; An Illustrated Article on the Athlone born Portraitist, Richard Rothwell; An Account of the Harvest in North Offaly and A Reminiscence of the Athlone of his Childhood by the well-known novelist and critic, John Broderick.

255. NALLY, T.H. The Aonach Tailteann and the Tailteann Games. Their origin, history and ancient associations. Dublin: The Talbot Press, & London: Fisher Unwin, n.d. (c.1922). pp. 75.

Pictorial green wrappers. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

256. NEWENHAM, Robert O'Callaghan. Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Ireland.

With 114 illustrations drawn on stone by James D. Harding. Two volumes in one. London: Boone, 1830. Quarto. pp. [viii], 28, 114 (plates). List of subscribers. Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards. Slight wear to corners and spine. Armorial bookplate of Julius Caesar Besnard on front pastedown. All edges gilt. Light browning to outer margins of some plates. A very nice copy of this very rare topographical work. Exceedingly rare. €950

Elmes 2073. Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. COPAC with 3 locations only.

Robert O'Callaghan Newenham was born in 1770, the thirteenth child of Sir Edward Newenham of Belcamp, County Dublin, whose family seat was in County Cork. For twenty-five years he held the post of Superintendent-General of Barracks in Ireland, and during his tours of inspection throughout the country he made drawings of the scenery and antiquities which were eventually published by T.W. Boone.

257. [NEWMAN, John Henry] Callista, a Sketch of the Third Century. Frontispiece. London: Burns and Lambert, 1855. pp. [vii], 296. Mauve blind stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine.

Owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. €120 This book was written by John Henry Cardinal Newman when he was Rector of the Catholic University of Ireland.

RARE GALWAY PRINTING 258. NEYMO, P.A.O. Similitudes; or, the Israelites and the Irish. Galway: Printed at the "Express" Office, Eyre Square, n.d. (c.1860). Square octavo. pp. [iv], 156. Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover. Spine a little worn, otherwise very good. €275 COPAC locates 4 copies only.

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De Búrca Ra re Books A lively and interesting commentary on the Irish and the Jews: "However, I linger too long on my way, which was sufficiently agreeable while it lay along the shore of the lake, but became less interesting as I turned into the upward path leading to O'Malley's homestead, and met at every step wretched cabins, but half visible, in damp hollows; huts, or rather caves, burrowed under beetling rocks; fresh coloured healthy young women, clothed in filthy rags, gathering sticks, or 'kippeens', for the evening fire; while children with bright eyes, curly hair, dirty faces, half-naked, and plentiful as wild flowers, gambolled about, seeming equally to enjoy a summersault on a manure heap, and a roll down a green slope".

"Per Mac atque O tu veros cognoscis Hibernos, His duobus demptis, nullus Hibernus ad est".

"By Mac and O you always know, An Irishman, they say, And if they lack both O and Mac, No Irishmen are they".

259. NORSTEDT, Johann A. Thomas MacDonagh. A Critical Biography. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980. First edition. pp. x, [1], 175. Black cloth, title in gilt. All edges orange. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €45 260. O'BRIEN, Con. The Poems of Con O'Brien, the Bard of Ballyhea. Edited by Jim Meagher.

Illustrations by Cyril Ó Céirin. Charleville: Oriel Press, 1982. pp. 144. Pictorial wrappers. A very good copy. €35 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 261. O'BRIEN, Edna. Mother Ireland. With photographs by Fergus Bourke. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976. First edition. pp. 144. Brown paper boards, titled in gilt.

Presentation copy from the author with her signature on front free endpaper. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €125 262. O'BRIEN, Edna. The High Road. London: Weidenfeld, 1988. First edition. pp. [xii], 180.

Brown paper boards, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €65 263. O'BYRNE, Eileen. The Convert Rolls 1703-1838. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1981. pp. xvii, 308. Purple cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. €75 The 'Act to Prevent the Growth of Popery' was passed in 1703. This book contains in alphabetical order, the names of Catholics who conformed to Protestantism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in order to hold on to their lands. It is a most revealing and valuable reference book for the family historian.

HIS CULTURE-NEUTRAL NO-MAN'S LAND 264. Ó CADHAIN, Máirtín. Irish above Politics. Dublin: Cuchulainn, n.d. (c.1964). pp. 16.

Fine in printed wrappers. Rare. €95 In this pamphlet Ó Cadhain suggests a plan of action for those interested in saving the Irish language.

He goes on to attack the politicians: "Let Garret Fitzgerald have his scorched earth, his culture-neutral no-man's land, peopled solely with his figure goddesses. It is evident he rates the I.Q. of the Irish people rather low, so low in fact that he thinks he can easily recruit them to the sole adoration of his figure goddesses". Mairtín Ó Cadhain (1907-1970), writer and republican, was born at Cois Fharraige, Connemara. He was a school teacher by profession and taught at various places in Galway, but lost his post for being a member of the I.R.A. Imprisoned at the Curragh during the Emergency he taught Irish and other subjects to his fellow prisoners. Fluent in eight languages, he became a Lecturer and later Professor of Modern Irish in Trinity College, Dublin.

265. Ó CADHAIN, Máirtín. An tSraith dhá Tógáil. Portrait frontispiece. Baile Átha Cliath: Sáirséal agus Dill, 1970. First edition. pp. 260. Pictorial cloth. Cover design by Anne Yeats. A fine copy. €45 Second of Ó Cadhain's late collections of stories in Irish.

266. Ó CADHAIN, Máirtín. Idir Shúgradh agus Dáiríre. Baile Átha Cliath: S. O. 1975. pp. [vi], 164. Pictorial boards. A fine copy. €30 267. Ó CEALLAIGH, Seamus P. History of the Limerick G.A.A. From the earliest times to the present day. Part I, 1884-1908. And souvenir of the Jubilee All-Ireland Hurling Final, with individual autographed photographs of the team. Compiled and edited by Séamus P. Ó Ceallaigh 83

De Búrca Ra re Books (James P. Kelly). Tralee: The Kerryman, 1937. pp. 224, + plates and + adverts. Green printed wrappers within a Celtic border. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare. €475 COPAC locates 2 copies only.

See items 267 & 268

268. Ó CONAIRE, Pádraic. Field and Fair. Travels with a Donkey in Ireland. Translated from the Irish by Cormac Breathnach. Illustrated by Micheal Mac Liammoir. Dublin and Cork: The Talbot Press Limited, 1929. First edition. pp. 95. Green and white cloth, title printed in green on label on upper cover and spine. Untrimmed. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €65 Dedicatory poem on Ó Conaire by F.R. Higgins.

269. O'CONNOR, Arthur. State of Ireland. Dublin?: 1798. pp. vi, [2], 174. Recent quarter buckram on marbled boards. Lacking drop-head title. A very good copy. €165 ESTC T96139 His address to the electors of County Antrim which was first published in the Northern Star in January 1797, declared his republicanism: "If to promote the Union of Irishmen be treason, and if to place the liberties of my country on its True Republican Basis be treason, then I do glory in being a traitor - it is a treason I will seal with my blood, and that I hope to have engraved on my tomb". On his release from Fort George in 1803, he went to France, where he spent the rest of his life.

Preface dated: February 1, 1798. Drop-head title, p.[iii]: 'To those who were Electors of the County of Antrim'.

270. O'CONNOR, Arthur. The Rise & Progress of the Irish Union as Stated to Government, in August 1798, by Arthur O'Connor, &c. &c. Together with such parts of the Examination of Arthur O'Connor, T.A. Emmet, & Doctor McNevin, before the House of Lords as they themselves took Notes of. [Dublin?], 1799. pp. 28. Recent marbled boards. A very good copy.

Exceedingly rare. €675 COPAC locates the Glasgow and TCD copies only. Not in NLI. 'First' edition? Contains only The rise and progress, and examination of T. A. Emmet before The Secret Committee of The House of Lords, 10 Aug. 1798. Paper with watermark 1799 and amateur appearance.

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De Búrca Ra re Books I DO GLORY IN BEING A TRAITOR 271. [O'CONNOR, Arthur] The Trial At Large of Messrs O'Connor, O'Coigly, Binns, Allen, and Leary; for High Treason, by a Special Commission, on Monday the 21st and Tuesday the 22d of May, 1798, at Maidstone; Before Mr Justice Buller, Heath, and Lawrence, with the Pleadings of the Counsel on both sides. By James Fergusson, Esq. London: Printed for Parsons, Paternoster-Row, n.d. (c.1798). pp. [3], 51, [1]. Recent quarter buckram on marbled boards, some mild foxing, margin of F1 close trimmed, not affecting text. A very good copy of an exceedingly rare item. €575

ESTC T179161 locates 5 copies. The frontispiece of the accused is listed only in the National Library of Scotland and Reading copies.

Arthur O'Connor, (1763-1852), prominent United Irishman, General in the French service, was born at Mitchels, near Bandon. Educated at T.C.D. he was called to the Bar in 1788, but, inheriting a fortune of about £1,500 a year, never practised. Edited The Press, organ of the Society of the United Irishmen. He was arrested and tried for high treason at Maidstone, acquitted, arrested again on another warrant before he could leave the dock. O'Connor and other state prisoners entered into a compact with the government that by revealing, without implicating individuals, the plans and workings of the Society, their lives would be spared and they would be permitted to leave the country.

272. O'CONOR, Carola D.D. Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores Veteres ... Epistolam nuncupatoriam quae Codicum Vetustissimorum Hibernensium notitiam ... Annales Tigernachi ...

Annales Inisfalenses ... Annales Buellianos ... Annales IV Magistrorum, ex Ipso O'Clerii Autographo in Bibliotheca Stowense ... Annales Ultonienses ... Itemque Indicem Generalem.

With map and plates. Four volumes. Buckinghamiae: Excudebat J. Seeley, veneunt apud T. Payne, Londini. 1814/1826. Quarto. Modern green buckram, titled in gilt. A superb set. €1,250 Charles O'Conor (1764-1828), was grandson of Charles O'Conor of Belanagare. Educated at Rome, where he was ordained a priest. In 1792 he was appointed Parish Priest of Kilkeevan, four years later he published a memoir of his grandfather, Memoirs of the life and writings of the late Charles O'Conor.

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De Búrca Ra re Books manuscript collection, he was introduced to the Marquis as the most suitable person to edit and translate the collection. In 1798, O'Conor was appointed Chaplain to the Marchioness of Buckingham at Stowe, and continued after her death as Librarian to the Duke. This important work on the study of Irish history and antiquities, was privately printed at the expense of the Duke. The contents includes: Annals of Innisfallen Annals of Boyle; Annals of the Four Masters; Annals of Ulster. The edition was limited to 200 sets, and needless to say they are very rare.

273. O'CONNOR, Frank. Ed. by. Modern Irish Short Stories. Selected with an Introduction by Frank O'Connor. London: O.U.P., 1962. 12mo. pp. xv, 335. Blue buckram, title in gilt on spine.

A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €35 With contributions from: George Moore, Somerville and Ross, Daniel Corkery, James Joyce, James Stephens, Liam O Flaherty, L.A.G. Strong, Seán O'Faoláin, Frank O Connor, Eric Cross, Michael McLaverty, Bryan Mac Mahon, Mary Lavin, James Plunkett and Elizabeth Bowen.

274. Ó DOMHNAILL, Martan. Oileain Arann. Illustrated. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1930. pp.

289. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Spine worn. A good copy. Scarce. €45

275. Ó DONNCHADHA, Tadhg. Ed. by. An Leabhar Muimhneach maraon le Suim Aguisíní.

Coimisiún Láimhscríbhinní na hÉireann. Baile Átha Cliath: Stationery Office, n.d. (c.1940). pp. xxxix, 535. Maroon buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. €95 The Book of Munster is an independent compilation of uncertain date. There is no ancient copy of it but fortunately there are two eighteenth century copies on paper in the Royal Irish Academy. The most important parts of the text are to be found in the Book of Ballymote, Book of Leinster, and Book of Lecan. The book begins with a record of the creation (taken from the Book of Genesis) and this solely for the purpose of carrying down the pedigrees of the sons of Noah, from whom the Milesians of Erinn descend. The genealogy of the Ebereans, or southern branch of the Milesian line is carried from Eber to Brian Boroimhe at the time of the battle of Clontarf.

An important work on the Gaelic and Norman families of Munster and in many instances the pedigrees are brought down to later than 1700. There are also genealogies of some Irish families abroad.

276. O'DONNELL, Peadar. Adrigoole. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. First edition. pp 315.

Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Bookplate of Maureen Weinstock on front pastedown. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €125 SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR 277. O'DONOGHUE, D.J. Irish Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Read January 24th, 1894.

Extracted from Transactions R.S.L. Vol. XVII, Second Series. pp. 36. Recent paper boards.

Signed presentation copy from the author. Tear to corner of final leaf, one line of text blanked out. A very good copy. Very scarce. €95 Includes the poem 'A Lamentation for the Death of the Knight of Kerry'.

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De Búrca Ra re Books ONE OF THE GREATEST WORKS THAT ANY MODERN IRISH SCHOLAR EVER ACOMPLISHED 278. O'DONOVAN, John. Ed. by. Annála Ríoghachta Éireann - Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters. From the earliest times to the year 1616. Edited from manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College Dublin, with a translation and copious historical, topographical and genealogical notes and with special emphasis on place-names. Seven large volumes. Dublin: Hodges Smith, 1851. Large quarto. Over 4,000 pages. Recent half brown morocco on original brown cloth, blind-stamped to a Celtic design. From the Franciscan Convent library with their neat stamp. A fine set of the rare first edition. €6,500

The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, Annála Ríoghachta Éireann or The Annals of the Four Masters to give them their best known title are the great masterpieces of Irish history from the earliest times to 1616 A.D. The work was compiled between 1632 and 1636 by a small team of historians headed by Br. Michael O' Clery, a Franciscan lay brother. He himself records: "There was collected by me all the best and most copious books of Annals that I could find throughout all Ireland, though it was difficult for me to collect them in one place". It is generally accepted that the Annals were written in the Franciscan convent of Donegal, which at that time was situated on the bank of the Bundrowes river where it forms the county boundary between Leitrim and Donegal.

Brother Michael who was Chief of the Four Masters was born about 1590 and was a descendant of the illustrious and learned family of O'Clery which originally came from Tirawley in North Mayo. For three hundred years the O'Clerys were scholars and professors of history to the O'Donnells, Chiefs of Tír Conaill, and their home and school was in Kilbarron castle scenically located by the shore of Donegal Bay, a few miles north west of Ballyshannon. Brother Michael was baptised Tadhg and in his youth was affectionately called `Tadhg an tSléibhe' or Thady of the Mountain. In 1623 he joined the Franciscan Order in Louvain. His superiors soon recognised his talent as a historian and antiquarian and sent him back to Ireland in 1626 initially to collect what he could on the Lives of the Irish Saints and later to begin work on the history of his native land. To assist him in this enormous task he chose three assistants; his cousin Cucogry or Peregrine O'Clery, Fergus O'Mulconry from County Roscommon and Peregrine O'Duigenan of Castlefore County Leitrim. Michael's brother Conor and 87

De Búrca Ra re Books Maurice O'Mulconry also assisted in the compilation of the Annals. The title Four Masters was first used by Father John Colgan in the introduction to his 'Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae' which was published in Louvain in 1625.

The great work remained, for the most part, unpublished and untranslated until John O'Donovan prepared his edition between 1847 and 1856. Its crowning achievement 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 very nice set of this monumental source for the history of Ireland.

279. O'FAOLAIN, Sean. The Great O'Neill. A Biography of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, 1550-1616. With portrait frontispiece of O'Neill and facsimile of Speede's map of Ulster on endpapers. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1947. Second edition. pp. xii, 284. Beige cloth, title in green on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 For nine roaring years of total war O'Neill resisted English expansion, became one of the most famous soldiers in Europe, wore out Elizabeth, broke generals like Essex and Brough, involved Spain and Rome. Through these bloody pages there pass clansmen, papal legates, government spies, great monarchs, statesmen, cut-throats, poisoners, passionate women, traitors and brave men. For all this picturesque material the record is none the less scholarly, and is likely to remain the authoritative book on the period.

Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone (1550-1616), is the first Renaissance figure in Irish history. He is not only a pivotal point in his country's story, but illustrates the whole world trend of the 16th century - the end of feudalism, the rise of monarchies, the competition of Spain and England, the struggles of Church and State, the extension of international commerce, the last flicker of the mediaeval world.

280. O'FLAHERTY, Liam. The Fairy Goose and Two Other Stories. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927. First edition. Small Quarto. pp. 58. Quarter cream linen on paper boards decorated in a shamrock design. Title on printed label on spine. Limited edition, signed by Liam O'Flaherty on half-title. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. A fine copy. €165

Liam O'Flaherty (1897-1984), novelist, was born in Gort na gCapall on Inishmore in the Aran Islands.

His father was active in the Land League and his mother was descended from a family of Plymouth Brethren from County Antrim who had come to Aran to build lighthouses. Educated at Rockwell, Blackrock, and U.C.D. He abandoned his priestly studies and joined the Irish Guards as Bill Ganly, using his mother's maiden name and served for a while in France during the First World War. He was invalided out and eventually returned to Dublin to take part in the Revolution. Afterwards he returned to London and began his writing career. In spite of the large number of novels and the immense and deserved success of some of them, particularly The Informer, O'Flaherty is best known as a short-story writer. O'Flaherty separated from his wife and daughter and suffered a number of nervous breakdowns due to his experiences in the trenches.

281. [O'FLANAGAN, Theophilus] Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Dublin, established for the investigation and renewal of Ancient Irish Literature. Containing an advertisement, exhibiting the views of the association, the laws for the regulation of the society; interesting observations on the Gaelic language; with severall important tracts in the original Gaelic or Irish, literally translated into English; accompanied with notes and observations; some of the poetry ascribed to Oisin. &c. &c. &c. Four parts in one volume with separate titles: Advice to a Prince, Thaddy Mac Brody, or Mac Brodin, son of Dary; being The Inauguration Oath of Donach O'Brien, Fourth Earl of Thomond ... with notes and observations; Institutio Principis Carmen Hibernicum, auctore Thaddeo, filio Darri, filio Brodaei, seu Brodini; alias, Tadhg, Mac Daire, Mic Bruadeedha, no Mic Bruadin. With an Address to the Gaelic Society by Rev. Paul O'Brien.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Volume I [all published]. Dublin: Printed for the Gaelic Society of Dublin by John Barlow, 1808. pp. xxvi, [2], 40, iv, [1], 6-54, [2], vii, [2], 10-35, [3], 238. Modern full brown morocco, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine. Mild water stain to titlepage. A very good copy. Rare. €375 COPAC locates 5 copies only.

Theophilus O'Flanagan (1762-1814), a native speaker from Tulla, County Clare, obtained a scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1789. He assisted Charlotte Brooke in compiling Reliques of Irish Poetry. He was the Society's first secretary and editor of the present work, the Society's only publication. Among its members were Edward O'Reilly and Rev. Paul O'Brien, the noted Irish lexicographers. O'Flanagan's essay on Ogham was the first article ever published by the Royal Irish Academy in their Transactions although some members doubted the existence of the stone on the South east side of Sliabh Collaun in his native county.

The first part 'Observations on the Gaelic Language', was communicated to the Society by P.M'Elligott, of Limerick. The Gaelic Society was founded in 1807 for the discovery, translation and publication of early Irish manuscripts. Includes bibliographical references.

282. O'GRADY, Desmond. The Battle of Kinsale 1601. Kinsale: Anam Press, 2002. pp. [1], 6, [3]. Stitched pictorial wrappers. Transparent endpapers with a map of the Battle from Stafford's Pacata Hibernia 1633. Limited first edition of 300 copies. A fine copy. €35 This poem was written for and read to the guests at the Commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the arrival at Kinsale of the Spanish fleet on 22 September 1601. The poem was set to music by Pat Crowley who played it on the piano with Laoise Kelly on Irish harp and Steve Cooney on Spanish guitar.

283. O'HANLON, Rev. John & FITZGERALD, Lord W. The Pass of the Plumes. By Rev. John O'Hanlon. Barnaglitty. By Lord Walter Fitzgerald. Preface by P.J. Tynan. Illustrated with two maps. Vicarstown: Courtwood Books, 1997. pp. 43. Dark grey linen, title on printed label on upper cover. A fine copy. €30 284. O'HANLON, Terence. The Minstrel of Eirinn. A Selection of National Poetry Arranged with Notes. Foreword by (the late) Father Pat Walshe, C.M. Dublin: The Fodhla Printing Co., Ltd., 1930. pp. 110. Recent quarter buckram on modern boards with original pictorial wrapper mounted on upper cover. A very good copy. €95 285. O'HEGARTY, P.S. A History of Ireland Under the Union 1801 to 1922. With an Epilogue carrying the story down to the acceptance in 1927 by de Valera of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. London: Methuen, 1952. First edition. Royal octavo. pp. xii, 811. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. A very good copy in frayed and torn dust jacket. €65 INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 286. O'HICKEY, Ben. From Prison Cells. A Collection of Songs and Poems. Portrait frontispiece. Signed and inscribed by the author. Dublin: The Elo Press, n.d. (c.1935). pp. 64.

Green cloth with illustrated wrappers laid on. Signed by the author on the frontispiece. A very good copy. Very scarce. €275 The collection of verses includes: Easter Week; The Irish Volunteer; A Rebel's Letter; The Saxon Must Go; Galtee More; A Call to Arms; etc.

287. OHLMEYER, Jane H. Ed. by. Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland, Kingdom or Colony. Cambridge: University Press, 2000. pp. 308. Black paper boards, title in gilt along spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €65 The first in depth study of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture. Distinguished international scholars shed new light on the leading political theorists of the day along with previously neglected writers and treatises, adding a new dimension to our understanding of the formation of early modern Irish identity.

288. O'KEARNEY, Nicholas. The Prophecies of Saints Columbkille, Maeltamlacht, Ultan, Senan, Bearcan, and Malachy. New York: Kenedy, 1901. pp. xxxviii, 21-144. Black cloth, crucifix in blind on covers, title in gilt on spine. Owner's stamp on front endpaper 'Sean O'Sullivan / Butte, Montana'. All edges red. A very good copy. Scarce. €65

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books 289. O'KELLY, Patrick. The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern, taken from the most authentic records. Dedicated to The Irish Brigade by the Abbe Mac Geoghegan & translated from the French by the author. With illustrations. Dublin: James Duffy, 1844. pp. 622. Contemporary half morocco on marbled boards. Title in gilt on morocco label on spine. Previous owners' signatures with sketch on front free endpaper. Light water stain to engraved frontispiece as usual.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 290. OLDHAM, Thomas. Ancient Irish Pavement Tiles, exhibiting Thirty-two Patterns, Illustrated by Forty Engravings, after the Originals, Existing in St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Howth, Mellifont, and Newtown Abbeys. Dublin: Robertson, n.d. (c.1865). pp. 8, 25 (plates).

Original quarter linen on marbled boards. Wear to spine on corners. Some occasional light foxing. A very good copy. Rare. See illustration on previous page. €450 COPAC locates 5 copies only. Not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. See illustration on previous page.

291. O'MALLEY, Cormac. & DOLAN, Anne. 'No Surrender Here!' The Civil War Papers of Ernie O'Malley 1922-1924. Introduction by J.J. Lee. Illustrated. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2007. pp. lxxviii, 642. Green paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 These papers, letters, memoranda and orders are the first comprehensive collection detailing the period of chaos during the Civil War which gripped the country from June 1922 to May 1923. They document O'Malley's attitude to war and his difficult acceptance of peace, his experience of capture, imprisonment, hunger strike and finally release.

292. 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.

RARE FIRST EDITION 293. O'MALLEY, Ernie. On Another Man's Wound. Dublin: Printed by Colm O Lochlainn at the Sign of the Three Candles for Rich & Cowan, London: 1936. First edition. pp. 336. Green cloth, titled in green. Signature of Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh dated Mí na Márta, 1939. Some mild darkening to covers. A good copy. €95 "Many things have been written round the war between the English forces and the Irish Republican Army, the best of them being, I think, On Another Man's Wound" - Sean O'Casey.

294. O'MALLEY, Ernie. Raids and Rallies. Illustrated with maps. Dublin: Anvil Books, 1982.

First edition. pp. 208. Red paper boards, title in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Scarce. €95 Ernie O'Malley was one of the leading figures in the 'people's war' - as he called it - against the British campaign in Ireland 1920-1921. This work, written while still fresh in mind and memory, is O'Malley's account of the poorly-armed Irish Volunteers in their guerrilla offensives, in Tipperary, Roscommon, Clare and Mayo.

295. Ó MÁILLE, Miceál & Tomás. Amhráin Chlainne Gaedheal. (An Chéad Chuid). Baile Átha Cliath: Chonnradh, 1925. pp. viii, 223. Recent blue wrappers. A very good copy. €35 296. O'MEARA, John J. The First Version of the Topography of Ireland by Giraldus Cambrensis. Illustrated. Dundalk: Dun Dealgan Press, 1951. pp. v, 121. Pictorial boards. A fine copy in frayed dust jacket. €35 297. O'MOLLOY, Francis. Lucerna Fidelium [Lochrann na gCreidmheach], seu Fasciculus Deceptus ab Authoribus Magis Versatus, qui Tractarunt de Doctrina Christiana. Rome: Typis Sacræ Congreg. de Propaganda Fide, 1676. 8vo pp. [iv], 391, viii. Nineteenth century half maroon morocco on cloth boards. Unobtrusive water stain. Minor wear to spine and corners. A very good copy. Scarce. €1,250 Wing O 291C Sweeney 3279.

Francis O Molloy acknowledging the sorry state of learning and religion in Ireland: "which proscribed the public and even the private use of the Irish language in order that, when the latter had been consigned to eternal oblivion, no knowledge might survive of native antiquities, of the Lives of our Saints, of our Faith, of our ecclesiastical traditions", counteracted this by publishing Lochrann na gCreidmheach, better known by its Latin title Lucerna Fidelium. It is a catechism of the doctrines of the Irish Church printed in the Irish character at the press of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome, with a new Irish type specially cut there for this work. The book has two title pages, one in Latin and the other in Irish. It was distributed in the Irish and Scottish missions, and to Irish soldiers in Continental armies for their spiritual welfare. Happily for the bibliophile, uncut sheets in fine condition, of this work were discovered in the loft of the Irish College at Rome. These in turn were offered in a single lot (278 copies) at the sale of the library of J.P. Lyons, Dean of Killala, in 1845.

They were purchased by George Smith of Hodges and Smith, who had them bound up and afterwards sold them for ten shillings each.

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About 1675 the Irish priests at Rome had a new Irish type cut for the press of the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide. Fr. O'Molloy's Lucerna Fidelium (1676) was the first book printed there. When Napoleon "visited" Rome he carried off this type and lodged it in the Imprimerie in Paris. Marcel, the Director of the Imprimerie, used the Rome Irish type of 1676 for his work Alphabet Irlandais.

298. Ó MUIMHNEACHÁIN, Aindrias. Radio Éireann. Listen and Learn. An elementary series of Irish lessons, vocabulary, idiom phrases, narrative and dialogues to be taught through the medium of Broadcasting. Baile Átha Cliath: Comhlucht Oideachais na hÉireann, Tta., pp. 52 (+blank lined pages for exercises). Owner's signature on front free endpaper and pencil annotations on some exercise pages. Stapled wrappers. €25 299. O'RAHILLY, Professor Alfred. Thoughts on the Constitution. Dublin: Browne and Nolan Limited, n.d. (c.1937). pp. 75, [1]. A very good copy in stapled wrappers. €125 300. O'REILLY, Bernard. The Cause of Ireland Pleaded before the Civilized World.

Illustrated. New York: Collier, 1886. First edition. pp. xxx, 514. Modern green buckram with original gilt decorated cloth laid on upper cover. All edges gilt. A very good copy. €95 301. ORPEN, Goddard Henry. The Song of Dermot and The Earl. An Old French Poem. From the Carew Manuscript No 596 in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth Palace. Edited with literal translation and notes, a facsimile and a map. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892. pp. xliv, 355, 20 (publisher's list). Green cloth over bevelled boards, titled in gilt. George Noble Count Plunkett's copy with his signature dated at Dublin, March 7th, 1892 on front pastedown. Lower cover a little stained. Top edge gilt. A very good copy of this rare book. €375 An excellent work, with a chronological table commencing in the year 1152 with the 'Rape of Dervorgil'; and pedigrees of Dermot MacMurrough and of the descendants of Nesta who took part in the Invasion of Ireland - the FitzGeralds, de Barrys, FitzStephens, de Lacy, etc. There are copious historical and topographical footnotes and an 92

De Búrca Ra re Books index of people and places. This is the only reliable transcript of the late fourteenth-century manuscript, the only one known to exist, which is now preserved among the Carew Mss at Lambeth Palace.

It was Orpen's belief that the original author of this historical/topographical poem was Morice Regan, Dermot MacMurrough's 'latimer' or secretary, who was an eyewitness to the Anglo-Norman invasion.

It covers events from 1152 to the death of Philip de Prendergast in 1231, and deals with Dermot's journey to Aquitaine to solicit the support of Henry II in regaining the kingship of Leinster after his banishment by Rory O'Connor, the High King.

SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 302. O'SIADHAIL, Micheal. The Chosen Garden. Poems. Dublin: The Dedalus Press, 1990. pp.

93. Illustrated wrappers. Signed presentation copy from the author. A fine copy. €85 303. O'SIADHAIL, Micheal. Our Double Time. Newcastle upon Tyne: 1998. pp. 128.

Illustrated wrappers. A fine copy. €65 304. O'SULLIVAN, Maurice. Twenty Years A-Growing. Rendered from the original Irish with a preface by Moya Llewellyn Davies and George Thomson. With an Introductory Note by E.M. Forster. With maps of West Dingle Peninsula and Blasket Islands on endpapers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1933. First edition. pp. xii, 324. Green cloth, repair to spine. A good copy. €35 Maurice O'Sullivan was born and reared on the Blasket Islands, off the Kerry coast, and in this book he tells the story of his childhood. Many of the folktales he learned at the fireside from his grandfather. In the preface to the original Irish edition he wrote: "It was a tender thought that struck me to write this book for the entertainment and laughter of the old women of the Blasket Island, who showed me great love and affection when I used to call on them during the long winter nights. And so, remembering their sorrow when I left them, I took up my pen and wrote this book in order to send my voice into their ears again, the voice that always roused them". Copies in dust wrapper are exceedingly rare.

305. 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: 1931. Small octavo. pp. xiv, 656. Original quarter green cloth on recent green paper boards. A very good copy. Very scarce. €575 THE O'TOOLES & O'BYRNES OF WICKLOW 306. O'TOOLE, Rev. P.L. History of the Clan O'Toole (Ui Thuathail) and Other Leinster Septs.

With numerous illustrations, folding genealogical charts, coloured map of the county of Wicklow, and coloured armorial bearing of Clan O'Toole. Together with: A History of Clan O'Byrne. List of subscribers at end. Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, 1890. Quarto. pp. xvi, 604, 52, 7.

Original green cloth, armorial device and title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Rebacked. A very good copy. Rare in this condition. €675 This is one of the most comprehensive family histories ever written. Dr. MacLysaght tells us "The O'Tooles are remarkable for their unremitting resistance to English attempts to conquer Ireland from the late twelfth century ... to the end of the seventeenth century, when the country was finally subdued". Their patrimony, near to the capital, was ideally suited to resistance on account of its mountainous and wooded nature. They controlled an area coextensive with the diocese of Glendalough, and their chiefs exercised the right of nominating the Abbots of that See. The author has painstakingly researched, the various branches, persons of note, and illustrated this with numerous genealogical tables.

This edition includes as a supplement, The History of the Clan O'Byrne (Ui Faelan), which is not present in most copies.

307. OWENSON, Miss. (Lady Sydney Morgan). The Wild Irish Girl, A National Tale. By Miss Owenson.

Three volumes. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 6 Bridge-street, Blackfriars, 1808. Fourth edition. pp. (1), 93

De Búrca Ra re Books [ii], xxxiv, 35-261, (2) [ii], 265, 11 (publisher's list), (3) [ii], 264. Bound by J. Tate, Bookbinder, Belfast (with their rectangular engraved pink label on pastedowns) in contemporary full tree calf.

Spines professionally rebacked, fore-edges gilt; all edges marbled. A very handsome set. Rare in this condition. €375 COPAC locates 1 copy only of this edition. Loeber M552 lists the first and other editions but not the fourth.

Lady Morgan (1779?-1859), novelist, was born in Dublin, the daughter of Robert Owenson (born McOwen), an itinerant actor and manager of the Theatre and former steward to Sir John Browne of County Mayo. Her charming personality, selfconfidence and gaiety won her a place in the literary and social life of Dublin. A visit to the Marquis of Abercorn, at Barons Court, County Tyrone in 1812, resulted in her marrying his physician, Sir Thomas Charles Morgan. Proudly nationalistic, to overcome the indifference to everything Irish by the English, and determined to combat the gross misrepresentation of her country, she decided to write and accomplished this in her first major novel. In 1806 The Wild Irish Girl was published in London (no Dublin publisher could even consider this book, due to the political climate at that time), it was an overnight success, the one that made her famous, and established her reputation as a novelist.

The intended planned title for this novel was Princess of Inismore. The work is a love story set in the barony of Tireragh, County Sligo, where she actually wrote it (she stayed with the Croftons at Longford House). A young Englishman, Horatio Mortimer, sent to Ireland by his father, is full of all the prejudices against the country. Soon he learns the real lesson of this novel, that Ireland is an ancient land, with its unique culture and civilisation much older than the usurper on her soil, and that the old Gaelic world was not completely extinct. Here the 'Prince of Inismore' (Myles McDermott, the Prince of Coolavin) although fallen on hard times, still maintains the old customs befitting his Gaelic ancestry.

His daughter, Glorvina is the almost celestial heroine, and Mortimer is soon attracted to her. He ponders the question, what can he, an educated man, expect from this 'wild' Irish girl. The characters of the book frequently discuss the manners, customs, legends, music, weapons, dress, and ornaments of ancient Ireland. It was so popular, that in two years it ran through seven editions. It was during this time that she visited Thady Connellan's school-house at Corkhill, Templeboy.

308. PAKENHAM, Thomas. The Year of Liberty. The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798. With illustrations and maps. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1969. First edition. pp. 416. Green cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in illustrated dust jacket. €35 In May 1798, a hundred thousand peasants rose in revolt against the British Government in Ireland. By the time the revolt had been brutally crushed four months later, thirty thousand dead were literally rotting in heaps throughout the countryside, after a scorched earth policy. A tough and arrogant oligarchy, mainly Protestant and English in origin, lived off a Catholic peasantry. In Dublin and Belfast, a prosperous middle class, also mainly Protestant, resented its exclusion from Government and plotted for an Irish Republic on the French model. The English executive in Dublin Castle with their efficient spy service unmasked the plot for imminent revolution. Wholesale arrests of the leaders crippled the chances for success, but could not prevent it from breaking out. From their prison cells the advocates of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, who had hoped to unite Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter to fight for independence, watched with horror their revolution develop into a savage struggle between Catholic natives and Protestant settlers.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 309. PARKER, Richard Dunscombe. Birds of Ireland. Paintings by Richard Dunscombe Parker (c.1801-81). Edited by Martyn Anglesea and designed by Wendy Dunbar. With forty coloured plates of the 'Birds of Ireland' and explanatory text, with bibliography. Belfast: Blackstaff, 1983.

Large oblong folio. Bound in half calf on marbled boards by Sydney Aiken. Edition limited to 250 copies. Signed by the editor and designer. Fine in slipcase. €765 310. PARNELL, Charles Stewart. A Carte-de-Visite Photograph of Charles Stewart Parnell circa 1880. By John P. Morton, Publishers, Booksellers, and Stationers, Printers and Binders, Louisville, Kentucky. 64 x 105mm. In very good condition. €150 311. PARNELL, Dr. Thomas. Poems on several occasions : Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, late Archdeacon of Clogher: and published by Mr. Pope. With the life of Zoilus: And his Remarks on Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice. A new edition. To which is prefixed, the life 94

De Búrca Ra re Books of Dr. Parnell, written by Dr. Goldsmith. London: Printed for T. Davies, 1770. pp. xxxv, 242, [2].

Contemporary full calf. Inscribed on front free endpaper 'Richd. Dickson / T.D.C.'. All edges green. Lacks label. A very good copy. Very scarce. €125 Thomas Parnell (1679-1717), cleric and poet, was born in Dublin and educated Trinity College.

Ordained deacon 1700 and in 1705/06 was appointed Archdeacon of Clogher. In 1712 Parnell's wife died and is said to have given way to intemperance. Swift procured him the living of Finglas in 1716.

The following year, returning from a visit to London, he died at Chester and is buried there.

312. PEARSON, Peter. Dun Laoghaire Kingstown. Assisted by Ann Brady and Daniel Gillman.

With illustrations and maps. Dublin: O'Brien, 1981. Quarto. pp. 176. Gold paper boards, titled in black along spine. A very good copy in frayed illustrated dust jacket. €45

See item 309 Birds of Ireland

313. PETRIE, George. Christian Inscriptions in the Irish Language. Chiefly collected and drawn

by G. Petrie, and edited by Margaret Stokes. With numerous plates. Two volumes in one. Dublin: Printed at the University Press, for the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, 1872/78. Quarto. pp. (1) v, 86, lxxiv, (2) [ii], 187, liv. Quarter morocco on cloth boards.

Title in gilt on spine. Slight wear to spine, some minor spotting to plates as usual. A very good copy. €575 George Petrie (1789-1866), antiquary, was born in Dublin, the son of a portrait painter. Educated at Samuel Whyte's School in Grafton Street, and at the Art School of the Dublin Society, where he excelled and obtained a silver medal for figure drawing in 1805. When about nineteen he began to make excursions through the country in search of the picturesque, and to examine and take careful notes and sketches of antiquities. His remarks upon these were characterised by great acuteness of observation. For the present work he was awarded the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal. In the preface he states: "The work contains not only the essay on the round towers, very much enlarged, but also distinct essays on our ancient stone churches and other ecclesiastical buildings of contemporaneous age with the round towers". Petrie's conclusions regarding the Christian origin of these towers are now accepted by all leading Irish scholars and antiquarians. His sole interest lay in the preservation of Ireland's past culture, and he was devoid of any personal ambitions. His illustrations constitute a pictorial record of our ancient monuments, drawn with a meticulous accuracy, that has never been surpassed.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 314. [PIGOT'S DIRECTORY] Pigot and Co.'s City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory, containing a classification of the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, Professional Gentlemen, Merchants, and Manufacturers of Dublin and upwards of Two Hundred & Twenty of the Principal Cities, Seaports, and Towns of Ireland, Alphabetically Arranged in Provinces; Concise Historical and Descriptive Notices of each Town; A Street List for Dublin; An Alphabetical Reference to all of the Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy in the Provincial Cities and Towns treated of in the Work; an accurate and complete account of the Coaches, Carriers, and other Conveyances

by Land and Water ... to which is added a Comprehensive Directory of London ... the whole concluding with a complete Isle of Man Directory and Guide. Embellished with a sheet map of Ireland and another of England, engraved expressly for the work. With folding table and two folding maps. [London]: Published by J. Pigot & Co. 24, Basing-Lane, and 16, Fountain-Street, Manchester, August 12th, 1824. pp. xxiv, 428, [4], 372, 206, [22]. Divisional titlepages for the respective parts. Contemporary full diced russia, title in gilt on black morocco label on spine.

Owner's signature on titlepage. Wear to heel of spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €885 COPAC locates 6 copies only.

315. POE, Edgar Allan. The Bells. Lavishly illustrated. London: Ernest Nister, n.d. (c.1888).

Quarto. pp. 20. Floral blind-stamped leatherette, title in gilt on upper cover. Stitched. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Some mild foxing. light wear to corners. A very nice copy.

Extremely rare. €235 COPAC locates 2 copies only.

From colophon: Lithographed and printed by Ernest Nister of Nuremberg.

EARL OF ALDBOROUGH ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER'S COPY 316. POOL, Robert. & CASH, John. Views of the most remarkable Public Buildings, Monuments and other Edifices in the City of Dublin, delineated by Robert Pool and John Cash, with Historical Descriptions of each Building. Patronized by the Dublin Society. With engraved title, two folding maps, twenty-nine copper plates, some folding. List of subscribers. Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, No. 21, Skinner-row, 1780. Published according to the Act of Parliament January 1st 1780. Quarto. pp. xii, [vii], 118, 29 (plates), + errata. Contemporary full tree calf, spine professionally and sympathetically rebacked by Trevor Lloyd. Title in gilt on red morocco label in second compartment of flat spine, the remainder tooled with gilt urns. Earl of Aldborough's copy with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown and signature on titlepage and dedication leaf. Also with signature of Anthony H. Corley, M.D. 16 Merrion Square, Dublin, on front flyleaf. An attractive and very good copy. €1,500

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De Búrca Ra re Books Maurice Craig, in his introduction to the Irish University Press reprint of this work in 1970 states: "Robert Pool and John Cash's 'Views of the most remarkable Public Buildings, Monuments and other Edifices in the City of Dublin' is the first picture-book of Dublin ever to appear". Their aim was clearly to illustrate and bring up to date, with an informative text, the very remarkable and considerable achievements in the development of the city's architecture.

The plates include the following buildings: Dublin Castle, The Parliament House, Trinity College, The Provost's House, Royal Exchange, Queen's Bridge & Essex Bridge, Newgate, Marine School, Lyingin-Hospital, Blue-Coat Hospital, Steevens's Hospital, Cathedral of Christ Church, St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Werburgh's Church, St. Thomas's Church, St. Catherine's Church, Archbishop Smith's Monument, Earl of Kildare's Monument, Prior's Monument, Monument of John Lord Bowes, Leinster House, Lord Powerscourt's House, The Earl of Charlemont's House and The Earl of Tyrone's House.

Edward Augustus Stratford, 2nd Earl of Aldborough FRS (1736-1801) Irish peer and Whig politician, styled The Honourable from 1763 to 1777 and Viscount Amiens in the latter year. He was the oldest son of John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough and his wife Martha O'Neale, daughter of Venerable Benjamin O'Neale, Archdeacon of Leighlin. In 1777, Stratford succeeded his father as earl, and in the same year he was awarded a Doctor of Civil Laws by the University of Oxford. He built Stratford Place in London and Aldborough House in Dublin.

In 1759, he entered the Irish House of Commons for Baltinglass, the same constituency his father also represented, and sat for it until 1768. He was returned for Baltinglass again from 1775 to 1777.

Stratford was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1777, and became Governor of County Wicklow the following year.

He died at Belan House in County Kildare, childless, and was buried at St Thomas's Church, Dublin.

He was succeeded in his titles by his younger brother. Belan House, one of the largest of eighteenth century gable-ended houses, was built in 1743 for his father John Stratford, M.P., afterwards 1st Earl of Aldborough, to the design of Richard Castle, in collaboration with the amateur architect, Francis Bindon.

317. [PORTARLINGTON Lord] Hunting Record for 1909-1910 of Lord Portarlington's Emo Estate. A large oblong octavo volume. Bound by Asprey, New Bond Street in full brown reverse calf, with the gilt coronet and 'P' in gilt on upper cover. With an engraving of Emo House, drawn

by J.P. Neale on front pastedown with a history of the house laid on front free endpaper.

Manuscript entries of various hunts from November 22nd 1909 to December 31 1910. Illustrated with eight fine equestrian photographs presumably of Lord Portarlington (133 x 100mm). A fine wash drawing of neck and head of horse with bridle and reins, signed Gladys Simpson / 24.5.1913. Large photographs of Portarlington; Mountmellick; Birr Castle (with Lord Rosse, family members and carriage); and one other photograph of a coastal scene with horses and carts, and houses in the background. Also a watercolour of a parrot and an advertisement leaf for the West Meath hunt and their meetings for January 1913. Some minor wear to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. Unique. See illustrations on inside front cover and on p.136. €1,450 318. PORTER, Frank Thorpe. Twenty Years' Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate.

Dublin: Hodges, Foster, and Figgis, 1880. Sixth edition. pp. xii, 410, [2] (publisher's list).

Illustrated paper boards. Spine rebacked preserving original backstrip. Covers and spine worn.

Exceedingly rare. €225 This edition not located on COPAC. Topics include: Whipping Young Thieves; Murder of Mr. Little; Royal Visits; The Dublin Garrison; Donnybrook Fair; A Barrister; The College Row; A Colonel of Dragoons; The Count de Coucy; Michel Perrin; The Close of 1848; Murder of Mr. Little; Excise and Customs Cases; The Liquor Traffic; A Dublin Dentist; etc., etc.

319. PRENDERGAST, John P. Ireland from the Restoration to the Revolution, 1660 to 1690.

London: Longmans, 1887. pp. xix, 206. Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Titlepage lightly browned as usual. From the Christian Brothers library with stamps. Owner's signature on front endpaper. Fading and minor wear to spine ends, otherwise a good copy. Rare. €275 COPAC locates only 8 copies.

The Restoration Settlement of Ireland might well be described as a Tragedy in three acts. The King's Declaration of 30th November 1660, might be described as the first act. Here all is fair and hopeful.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Then comes the Act of Settlement of 27th September, 1662, treating the Irish as conquered enemies, with their lands at the disposal of the conquerors. But the rights of Innocence were still acknowledged, and the binding force of the Peace and other engagements. Last, at the end of more than three years, comes the Act of Explanation, shutting the door of hope on all Innocence unheard - on the Article-men or those claiming the conditions of the Peace of 1648 - on the Ensign-men and the Nominees.

With chapters on: The Duke of Ormonde on the Unsettled State of Ireland; The Cromwellians Fear King Charles the Second's favour of the Irish; Estates of Irish Royalists, Protestant as well as Catholic; Lord Broghill, Sir Charles Coote, Tyrellan, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Theophilus Jones, Henry Jones, Henry Cromwell; The Convention of February, 1660; Sir Maurice Eustace; Origin of the Torries; The Five Septs of Leix transplanted to Munster; The Wexford Plantation; Ormonde describes the population of Ulster as the worst Papist and the worst Protestants in Ireland; Mayo and Leitrim Tories; The Connaught Transplanters - the Talbots, Cheeverses, FitzGeralds and Bellews; Redmond O'Hanlon, the Tory of the Fews; The three Brennans, Tories of the County of Kilkenny; Sir Christopher Wandesford, etc.

RARE PERIODICAL 320. [PUBLICK REGISTER] The Publick Register: or, the Weekly Magazine. Saturday, January the 31st, 1741. No. V. Containing, I. Original Letters and Essays on various Subjects; particularly on all Branches of Polite Learning and useful Science. II. Poetical Essays. III. Records of Literature: Being a Compendious Account of whatever Books are publish'd either at Home or Abroad, worthy of the Attention of the Publick. IV. The Substance of the Debates. V. The most authentick, and by much the largest Collection of News both Foreign and Domestick.

VI. The Arrival of Ships at Home and Foreign Ports; An Account of the Exports and Imports; The Rise and Fall of Stocks; The Price of Goods at Bear-Key; of Hay, Sheep and Oxen in Smithfield. VII. Births, Deaths, Marriages, Preferments, and whatever renders a Paper of this Sort useful to the Publick. London: Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall, 1741.

Quarto. pp. [ii], 65-78. Recent quarter goatskin on marbled boards. A very good copy. €325 In addition to the contents listed, there is an interesting entry dated Jan. 20, under the heading 'Ireland', describing a meeting of several members of the Dublin Society at their chamber in Parliament-House, "where they viewed several curious Pieces of Painting", the product of this Kingdom, and gave £25 Praemium to Mrs. Drury for two excellent Landscapes, being Views of the Giants Causeway. The money to be paid out of Doctor Madden's Subscription. The article goes on to describe the paintings as well as two sculptures, "one a Chimney-piece, and the other a Studd of Horses, both in Wood"; as also Hercules killing a Lion.

BOUGHT AT KINGSTOWN BARROW

321. PURDON, K.F. Candle and Crib. Illustrated (in colour) by Beatrice Elvery. Dublin and London: Maunsel, 1914. pp. v, 42. Pictorial boards. From the library of Harry Clarke with his signature on front endpaper. Spine expertly rebacked. A very good copy. €275

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322. [PURDON'S ALMANAC] Purdon's Almanac. The Farmers' Gazette Year Book Incorporating the Irish Farming World Annual. 1947, 106th year. With adverts. Dublin: Brunswick Press, 1947. pp. 248. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. Very rare. €150 The contents includes: Live Stock Items; Seeds and Sowing; Renewing Fencing Posts; Floors for Piggeries; Storing Farm Implements; Cause of Milk Fever; Red Worms in Horses; Round Worms in Lambs; Sterility in Cattle; Pedigree Bulls Sales in 1946; Winter Egg Production; Farmers Income Tax; Crop and Stock Returns; Numbers of Live Stock in Ireland; Game Preservation Act; Department of Agriculture; Ministry of Agriculture, Belfast, etc.

"A LITERARY RECLUSE OF IRISH ORIGIN" 323. QUARITCH WRENTMORE, C. Ed. by. Letters from Edward FitzGerald to Bernard Quaritch 1853 to 1883. Illustrated. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1926. pp. viii, [1] 135. Black buckram, title in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A fine copy. €75 In the preface the editor tells us: "These letters from Edward FitzGerald to his Publisher and Bookseller Bernard Quaritch, are reprinted from a collection now in the possession of the Editor - the elder daughter of the late Bernard Quaritch. Some of these letters may have been already quoted, in extract, as certain letters were lent by Bernard Quaritch to fellow members of the Omar Khayyám Club or others interested in the writings of FitzGerald. The majority of them however have never before been printed ... there is also in the possession of the Editor a small bound Volume containing a few Letters which relate to the printing and publishing the 1879 Edition of "Omar Khayyám ... a feature in many of the letters is FitzGerald's extreme reticence regarding the publication of his name, and the humility of this learned Poet".

Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), poet and translator; educated at Bury St. Edmunds and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1830. He has been described by Benson as "a literary recluse of Irish origin, son of a member of Parliament of great wealth and position as a landowner". A great friend of Thackeray, Tennyson, Spedding and Carlyle, he first published his translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in 1859.

324. RAFTERY, Joseph. Prehistoric Ireland. Illustrated by Photographs, Drawings and Diagrams. London: Batsford, 1951. First edition. pp. xvi, 228. Green cloth, title in red on spine.

A fine copy in frayed price clipped dust jacket. €35 325. REFAUSSÉ, Raymond and CLARK, Mary. A Catalogue of the Maps of the Estates of the Archbishops of Dublin 1654-1850. With an historical introduction by Raymond Gillespie.

Dublin: Four Courts, 2000. Quarto. pp. 112. Full green buckram. With illustrated title inset on upper cover. A fine copy. €65 326. REID, J.C. Bucks and Bruisers. Pierce Egan and Regency England. With illustrations.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. pp. xiii, 253. Purple cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €35 Pierce Egan (1772-1849) journalist, sportswriter, and writer on popular culture was born in the London suburbs, where he spent his life. By 1812, he had established himself as the country's leading 'reporter of sporting events', which at the time meant mainly prize-fights and horse-races. The result of these reports, which won him a countrywide reputation for wit and sporting knowledge, appeared in Boxiana, or, Sketches of Modern Pugilism, which was the incomparable record of the golden age of pugilism. It was Egan who first defined boxing as the sweet science.

In this, the first study of Pierce Egan the author outlines his life and describes his career, his intimate knowledge of London low life, and his eccentric, cocky and resilient personality.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 327. [REPUBLICAN POSTCARDS] A Collection of Sixteen Republican Postcards of Irish Patriots: John Daly, Thomas Clark, Sean McDermot (photographic); P.H. Pearse; Michael Collins (worn); The O'Rahilly (photographic); Major McBride (photographic); Commandant McKeon (worn); Irish Peace Conference, July, 1921, Delegates leaving Dun Laoghaire (includes Griffith, De Valera and three others); The Signing of the Republican Declaration (includes the 7 Plenipotentiaries); The Sinn Fein Revolt in Dublin - General View of Ruins from O'Connell Bridge; Henry Street, Dublin, looking towards Nelson's Pillar, after bombardment; Irish Party's French Mission, 1915 - H. Law, M.P., J.D. Nugent, M.P., T.J. Hanna, Wade, F. Bouillon, Fr. M'Mulllan, Passionist, T.P. O'Connor, M.P., M. Viviani, J. Devlin, M.P., J.M. Gallagher; Sinn Fein Rebel Leaders under Arrest - "Major" McBride (central figure nearest camera) being marched off under escort; The National Volunteers - 1st & 2nd Battalions, Signalling Company; Irish National Volunteers - "Shoulder to shoulder they stand for the task"; plus two other cards of men in uniform (unidentified). Almost all of the cards apart from the two already mentioned are in very good condition. €345 LIMITED TO 100 COPIES

SIGNED BY ELIZABETH CORBET YEATS 328. [RESQUIESCAT] Michael O'Callaghan 1879-1921. First Republican Lord Mayor of Limerick 1920, Requiescat. Laurel wreath and initial and cross by Elizabeth Corbett Yeats.

Hand-coloured at the Cuala Press. Text hand-lettered. Limited to 100 copies only. Signed by Elizabeth Corbett Yeats and with 'Déanta i nÉirinn' stamp. Square octavo folded card. No date (c.1923). In fine condition. Exceedingly rare. €875

Miller The Dun Emer Press Later The Cuala Press p.128.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Michael O'Callaghan was elected Mayor of Limerick on 30 January 1920 and served until shortly before his murder by the Black and Tans in January 1921. His grand-father held this office in 1864, and Michael was proud of the fact that he called for Repeal of the Union. His mother was a member of the Smithwick family of Kilkenny. In 1914 he married Kate Murphy, who had come from Cork to take up a position as a lecturer at the Mary Immaculate Training College.

O'Callaghan joined the first Sinn Fein club in Limerick in 1905 and was a member of the O'Rahilly Club in the city at the time of his killing in 1921.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 329. RICE, Adrian & REID, Angela. Ed. by. A Conversation Piece: Poetry and Art. Illustrated with coloured plates. National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland in association with Abbey Press, Belfast, 2002. pp. 158. Black paper boards, titled in gilt. Edition limited to 100 copies, signed by both editors. Colour illustrated dust wrapper. Blue silk marker. A fine copy in slipcase. €95 "A Conversation Piece" records a fascinating dialogue between two historically affable art forms. It is sure to provide all lovers of poetry and art with much cause for thought and talk. It includes contributions from many of Ireland's leading poets and artists.

WITH HARRY CLARKE'S CALL CARD 330. RICHARDSON, Dorothy. John Austen and the Inseparables by Dorothy Richardson with a Foreword and Decorations by John Austen. London: William Jackson (Books) Ltd. 1930. pp.

26. Blue paper boards, printed title and illustration laid on upper cover. Loosely inserted is Harry Clarke's call card. A very good copy. €65 331. RICHARDSON, William. D.D. An Essay on the Improvement of the Great Flow Bogs of Ireland ... the Bog of Allen, and the Montaghs in the North; suggesting a cheap and expeditious mode of converting these unprofitable wastes into valuable meadow; in a letter addressed to the Grand Juries of Antrim, Armagh & Tyrone. Dublin: Printed by W. Porter, Grafton-street, 1807. pp. 19. Title in superior facsimile. Fine in recent buckram. Utmost rare. €475 No copy located in COPAC. Not in TCD or NLI. William Richardson (1740–1820), cleric, geologist, agriculturist, and pamphleteer, was probably born at Castleroe, near Coleraine, County Derry. He was educated at TCD and was admitted to fellowship in 1766 but resigned in September 1783 on taking up the living of the parish of Clonfeacle and Moy, County Tyrone, in the diocese of Armagh.

Richardson was a prolific author, principally on geological and agricultural subjects. He later turned his hand to agriculture and promoted the growing of grass as a source of winter hay, which he said could alleviate the poverty of the tenant classes. This important agricultural pamphlet outlined his scheme for draining and reclaiming the bog of Allen and other bogs to the north for use as meadows for grazing.

Richardson claimed that he was largely responsible, together with Thomas Knox of Dungannon, for the establishment in 1796 of the loyalist Irish yeomanry, set up at a time of increased political instability, and documented his role in the pamphlet 'Origin of the Irish Yeomanry' (1801).

332. ROBINSON, Lennox. Ireland's Abbey Theatre. A History 1899-1951. With numerous illustrations. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1951. First edition. pp. xv, 224. Brown cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 Lennox Robinson was for many years manager at the Abbey.

333. [RORKE, John] In the Landed Estates Court, Ireland. Counties of Dublin, Kildare, & Meath. In the Matter of the Estate of John Rorke, Esquire, Owner; Maria Isabella Lloyd, widow, continued in the name of Richard Augustine Fitzgerald Studdert, Esquire and Maria Isabella Studdert, otherwise Lloyd, his wife Petitioners, and of said John Rorke, owner and Petitioner.

Rental and Particulars of Sale of Well Circumstanced Estates, Part of the Property of John Rorke, Esquire., Sold by Public Auction, Before the Honourable Judge Longfield, at the Court, Inns Quay, Dublin, on Tuesday, the 5th day of July, 1864. With six coloured maps. Dublin: 1864.

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De Búrca Ra re Books Oblong quarto. Modern half green buckram on marbled boards, title in gilt on maroon morocco letterpiece on upper cover. Some staining to margin, otherwise good. €475 334. ROSE, George, Esq. A Brief Examination into the Increase of the Revenue, Commerce, and Manufacturers, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell, and Sold by J. Milliken, 1799. Second edition. pp. xx, 77 (6 appendices). Modern quarter calf on marbled boards. A very good copy. €685 ESTC N62539 gives 4 locations only. This edition in NLI. Edition statement from half-title.

EMBROIDERED BINDING 335. ROSETTI, Christina. Goblin Market the Prince's Progress and Other Poems. Oxford, London, New York: Milford, 1913. 16mo. pp. xi, [1], 297. Cream cloth binding elaborately embroidered in gold, green, red, pink, blue, brown and orange to a floral design. Green and gold endpapers. All edges gilt. A fine example. €475

Embroidered book covers have been popular over many centuries. Their high point came in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Most of these bindings cover prayer books, Bibles, and other devotional texts, and they have an endearing charm and a private, personal quality about them.

336. [ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILIERS] 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers, Rangoon, 1913. Album of photographs. Oblong quarto volume. (375 x 270mm). Bound in original half morocco on cloth boards, title in gilt on upper cover, gilt faded. Wear to covers. Photographs in superb condition on mounted thick card. €875 The photographs included are: The Colours; Officers; Colour Sergeants and Colours; Sergeants; Corporals; Band; Drums; Regimental Police; Garrison Police; Battalion on Parade; "A" Company; "B" Company; "C" Company; "D" Company; "E" Company; "F" Company; "G" Company; "H" Company; Signallers; Boxers; R.A.T.A.; Machine Gunners; Cooks; Sons of the Regiment; Old Soldiers; Regimental Staff; Regimental Football Team; Pioneers; Officers Mess Plate; Sergeant's Mess Plate; Hospital Orderlies; Gymnastic Staff; Regimental Instructors; "H" Football Team; Regimental Hockey Team; Orderly Room Staff; Quarter Master's Staff; Telegraphists; Drums on Parade; Shwe Dagon Pagoda.

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The Royal Munster Fusiliers was a regular infantry regiment of the British Army. One of eight Irish regiments raised largely in Ireland, its home depot in Tralee. With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 the immediate need for a considerable expansion of the British Army resulted in the formation of the New Army under Lord Kitchener. The war target was seventy divisions in all, the New Army to have thirty volunteer divisions separate and under Army Order 324, as additional from the Regular Army, with a planned period of service of at least three years. On 7 August a general United Kingdom-wide call for 100,000 volunteers aged 19–30 was issued. The battalions were to be distinguished by the word 'Service' after their number.

337. RUSSELL, Jane. James Starkey / Seumas O'Sullivan: A Critical Biography. Illustrated.

London and Toronto: Associated University Press, 1987. pp. 148. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €30

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De Búrca Ra re Books THE BOLD FENIAN MEN 338. RUTHERFORD, John. The Secret History of The Fenian Conspiracy. Its origin, objects & ramifications. Two volumes. London: Kegan Paul, 1877. pp. (1) iv, 315, (2) iv, 315. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Armorial bookplate of T.T.L. Scarisbrick. A very good set. Rare. €265 After the collapse of the '48 rebellion James Stephens and John O'Mahony went to the Continent to avoid arrest. In Paris they supported themselves by teaching and translation work and planned the next stage of "the fight to overthrow British rule in Ireland". In 1856 O'Mahony went to America and founded the Fenian Brotherhood in 1858. Stephens returned to Ireland and in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day 1858, following an organising tour through the length and breadth of the country, founded the Irish counterpart of the American Fenians, the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish republican organisation. It was a precursor to Clan na Gael, a sister organisation to the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Members were commonly known as "Fenians".

O'Mahony, who was a Celtic scholar, named his organisation after the Fianna, the legendary band of Irish warriors led by Fionn mac Cumhaill.

SIGNED BY J.P. DONLEAVY 339. RYAN, John. Remembering How We Stood. Bohemian Dublin at the Mid-Century. With a foreword by J.P. Donleavy. Illustrated. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1987. pp. xiv, 168. Signed by J.P. Donleavy on the dedication leaf. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Scarce. €125 John Ryan (1925-1992), broadcaster, critic, painter, publican, editor and publisher. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College and the National College of Art. He was the founder-editor of 'Envoy' a monthly review of art and literature which was published between 1949 and 1951, and also edited 'The Dublin Magazine'. This, together with his ownership of the 'Bailey', brought him into contact with the leading writers of that period, and this work relates his reminiscences of them, including Behan, Kavanagh, Donleavy, Myles na gCopaleen, etc.

"The best book about literary Dublin ever written" - Frank Delaney.

340. RYAN, Patrick J. Archbishop Miler Magrath 1522-1622. The Enigma of Cashel. Essays in Reformation History. Illustrated. Roscrea: Walsh Printers for the Author. Imperial Octavo. pp. xv, [1], 304. Pictorial boards. Signed by the author. A fine copy. €45 341. SALKELD, Blanaid. The Fox's Covert. London: Dent, 1935. pp. [iv], 84. Grey paper boards, title in black on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €75 342. SALKELD, Blanaid. The Engine is Left Running. Cover and four pictures by Cecil ffrench Salkeld. Dublin: The Gayfield Press, 1937. pp. [vi], 71, [1]. Brown illustrated boards. Edition limited to 50 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. In very good condition. €125 343. SARR, Kenneth. Somewhere to the Sea. London: Thomas Houghton & Sons Ltd., 1936. pp. vi, 346. Blue cloth, titled in white. Top edge blue. A very good copy in rare dust jacket illustrated by Harry Kernoff. €30 A portrait of Dublin, affectionate, vivid, detailed, and immensely exciting, both to those who know its original and those who do not. Here is the Dublin of Yeats and A.E. and James Stephens and the Abbey Theatre; not only that more tragic Dublin, the raids, and Terence MacSwiney's funeral; but the great everyday Dublin where people go to their work and play golf and spend Saturday morning in Grafton Street.

344. [SAVAGE-ARMSTRONG, Geo. Francis] George Francis Savage-Armstrong. London: The Biographical Press Agency, 1904. pp. 13. Pages stitched at top left hand corner to green printed stiff wrappers. Occasional light foxing, otherwise very good. Exceedingly rare. €125 No copy located on COPAC. George Francis Savage-Armstrong (1845-1906) was 104

De Búrca Ra re Books born in Dublin (his father was from Wicklow and his mother was from County Down) and his wife, Marie Elizabeth, was from Belfast. Her father was Rev John Wrixon, rector of St John the Evangelist Church on the Malone Road.

He was a prolific writer and poet. He was Professor of English and History at Queens College Cork and at one stage was a contender for the position of Poet Laureate. His later writings included much County Down history, as well as Ballads of Down, a collection of 92 songs and poems published in 1901.

His Stories of Wicklow won the author the name of 'The Poet of Wicklow'.

Savage-Armstrong attracted some opposition during his career - here's an excerpt from his DNB entry: "... He was antagonistic to the Irish literary revival and was severely criticized by W. B. Yeats. In Noetry and poetry, his second review of Savage-Armstrong's Poetical Works (9 vols., 1891–2), Yeats judged Savage-Armstrong's work to be either rhetorical or crude, but conceded that the 'Irish' verses were memorable. In 1898 Savage-Armstrong addressed the Irish Literary Society, London, on 'The Two Irelands in Literature', arguing against Matthew Arnold that Gaelic literature had 'not much style, very little melancholy, and very little natural magic'. He praised the foundation of Trinity College, Dublin as having initiated 'Irish literary production in the English tongue' (The Times, 28 May 1898).

Yeats responded ferociously, attacking the barrenness and negativity of Savage-Armstrong's Ireland, arguing that he knew little of Gaelic literature, that he represented an obsolete tradition and that he resented being sidelined by the writers of the revival; Yeats's attack was an expansion of his first review of Savage-Armstrong's Poetical Works, in which he had asserted that 'Mr. Armstrong has cut himself off from the life of the nation in which his days are passed, and has suffered the inevitable penalty'...".

THE RARE FIRST EDITION 345. 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. A very good copy of the rare first edition. €2,750

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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 ...". With coloured map of Galway city laid on front endpaper.

SIGNED BY SHACKLETON 346. SHACKLETON, Edward. Arctic Journeys. The Story of the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition 1934-5. With a preface by Lord Tweedsmuir. With illustrations (some folding) and large map. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1936]. pp. 372. Blue-grey linen, title in green on spine. Signed by Edward Shackleton and dated January 12, 1939. A very good copy in repaired dust jacket. €475

The Expedition was led by Dr. G.N. Humphreys and organised by Edward Shackleton. All royalties from the book went towards paying off the expenses of the undertaking.

WITH AN ORIGINAL SKETCH BY HARRY CLARKE 347. SHAKESPEARE, William. An original sketch in ink by Harry Clarke on the verso of the front free endpaper of the Globe edition of William Shakespeare's 'Works' edited by William George Clark and William Aldis Wright. London and Cambridge: Macmillan, 1867. Worn full brown morocco, with partial loss to top of spine. Housed in a modern half morocco solander box.

Unique. €675 Harry Clarke's copy, with an inscription to him on front fly-leaf dated 1916 from previous owner Lau.ce A. Waldron. Part of the inscription in Harry Clarke's hand. Shakespeare monogram laid down on front pastedown, with a pencilled border most likely by Clarke.

With an ink drawing certainly by Clarke on verso of front free endpaper, a stylised design showing a speaker on a podium under a flag, with what appears to be a sacred flame below the podium surrounded by standing figures, one wearing a horned helmet. A curious and interesting design, whose inspiration we have not traced; it may relate to some other project of Clarke's rather than to anything in Shakespeare.

This work was presented by Laurence Waldron to Harry Clarke and is signed and dated by the artist.

There is also a quote from Hamlet in pencil by Harry Clarke on rear free endpaper: "He was a man taken for all in all.

I shall not look upon his like again".

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De Búrca Ra re Books 348. SHANE, Elizabeth. Tales of the Donegal Coast and Islands. Illustrated. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1923. Third edition. pp. 77. Brown cloth, title on printed label on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €45 349. SHANE, Elizabeth. By Bog and Sea in Donegal. Illustrated. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1925. pp. 64. Blue buckram, title on printed label on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €25 350. [SHANNON ELECTRIC POWER SCHEME] A Series of 40 Will's Cigarettes Cards of The Shannon Electric Power Scheme. Issued by the Imperial Tobacco Co. (of Great Britain & Ireland) Ltd. [c.1928]. All in very good to fine condition. Very rare. €275

The cards illustrate: The General Plan of Works, The Head Race Intake, Construction of the Weir, The Weir, The Fish Pass, Exploding A Charge; Construction of the Head Race, The Head Race (A), The Head Race (B), Blackwater Bridge Over Head Race, The Power Station (Cross Section), The Power Station, Intake Building (A), The Power Station, Intake Building (B), Construction of the Power Station (A), Construction of the Power Station (B), Construction of the Power Station (C), The Rail Lift, Construction of the Penstocks (A), Construction of the Penstocks (B), Intake Building and Penstocks, Interior of Penstock, , Interior of Spiral Casing, Turbine Speed Ring and Guide Vanes, Turbine in Position, Construction of the Generators (A), Construction of the Generators (B), 30,000 H.P. Generator, Interior of Power Station, The Control Room, The Power Station To-day, Excavations for Navigation Locks, Waste Channel and Locks (A), Waste Channel and Locks (B), Bridge Over the Tail Race, The Tail Race, The 30,000 K.V.A. Transformers, Erection of Steel Masts, Spanning the River Suir, 110,000-Volt Outdoor Sub-Station, The High Tension Transmission System. The Full Development of the Scheme.

Ardnacrusha power plant is a hydroelectric power station which was originally referred to as 'The Shannon Scheme'. It is Ireland's largest river hydroelectric scheme and is operated on a purpose built canal connected to the River Shannon.

WITH A POEM IN MANUSCRIPT BY P.A. SHARKEY

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De Búrca Ra re Books 351. SHARKEY, P.A. The Heart of Ireland. With map, coloured and mono illustrations. Boyle: Ward, n.d. (c.1927). pp. vi, 490, [22] (adverts). Blue cloth, Celtic cross in gilt on upper cover, title and Celtic cross in gilt on spine. Loosely inserted is a leaflet with the picture and signature of the author. Also loosely inserted is a manuscript poem in the author's own hand. A very good copy. €375 With historical notices on Cruachan, Boyle, Kilronan, Dromahaire, Sligo, Coolavin, Athleague, Lanesborough, Moylurg, Kilglass, Athlone, Castlerea, Loughglynn, Roscommon, Road to Castlebar, Foxford, Mayo, Ballymote, etc.

CANON ULICK BOURKE'S COPY 352. SHEARMAN, Rev. John F. Loca Patriciana: An Identification of Localities, Chiefly in Leinster, Visited by St. Patrick and his Assistant Missionaries; and of some Contemporary Kings and Chieftains. With an Essay on the Three Patricks, Palladius, Sen Patrick, and Patrick Mac Calphurn, Apostles of Ireland in the fifth century. Illustrated. Dublin: Gill & Ponsonby. London: Burns & Oates; Simpkin, Marshall, 1879. First edition. pp. xvi, 495. Recent quarter green morocco on green buckram boards. Signature of Canon Ulick Bourke, P.P. Claremorris on titlepage. Top edge gilt. Some mild foxing to prelims. A very good copy. €475

COPAC locates 3 copies only of this edition.

With numerous folding genealogical charts: The Dal Messincorb (Old Leinster Pedigrees); The Dal Cormac, The Ui Gabhla and The Hy Lugair; The Genealogy of Hy-Cinnselagh; The Genealogy of The Eoghanachta and Cianachta; The Hy Ercan, The Fothartha, and The Desies of Munster; The Corca Laoighde and The Laighis Finn; The Ui Dunlaing, The Ui Briuin Cualann and The Ui Mail; The Dalaradian and Cambro-British; The Genealogy of Some Cambrian and Armorican Saints; The Ui Bairrche, Ui Crimthann and Ui Cetach; The Ui Faelan; Ui Muiredaigh; The Ossorian; Fitzpatricks of Ballyboodan; Fitzpatricks of Balloch; The Eoghanacht, etc.

353. SHEEHY, Jeanne. The Rediscovery of Ireland's Past: the Celtic Revival 1830-1930.

Photographs by George Mott. With 177 illustrations, 25 in colour. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980. Quarto. pp. 208. Green paper boards, device in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in dust jacket. €65 With chapters on: The Antiquarians; Young Ireland; Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; Popular and Applied Art; The Celtic Revival; Hugh Lane and the Gallery of Modern Art; Later Developments in Architecture; The Arts and Crafts Movement, etc.

354. SHEFFIELD, John Lord. Observations on the Manufactures, Trade, and Present State of Ireland. With folding tables. London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1785. First edition. pp. viii, 391, 8 (advertisement). Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on red morocco label. Armorial bookplate of Pitfarrane (Crest of the Halkett family - Seat: Pitfirran, Fife) on front pastedown. Joints starting but very firm, some wear to spine ends. A very good copy. €1,250 108

De Búrca Ra re Books ESTC T130746.

John Baker Holroyd, First Earl of Sheffield (1735-1821), statesman, was one of the leading authorities of his time on matters relating to commerce and agriculture, and his estate at Sheffield Place was regarded as a model of farming. In 1781 Holroyd was raised to the Irish peerage as Baron Sheffield of Dunamore in the County of Meath, and two years later as Baron Sheffield of Roscommon. He was president of the Board of Agriculture in 1803, a Privy Councillor and a Lord of the Board of Trade in 1809.

He is remembered chiefly as the close friend and literary executor of Edward Gibbon (author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), whose Memoirs and other miscellaneous works he subsequently edited and published. Gibbon said of him: "The sense and spirit of his political writings have decided the public opinion on the great questions of our commercial intercourse with Ireland. He has never cultivated the arts of composition; but his materials are copious and correct, and he leaves on his paper the clear impression of an active and vigorous mind".

He married Abigail Way, daughter of Lewis Way of Richmond, Surrey and they had two children.

Abigail died in 1793 and he remarried to Lady Anne North, the daughter of the former Prime Minister Lord North on 20 January 1798. His son and grandson succeeded as second and third Earls of Sheffield, the latter being a well-known patron of cricket, at whose death the earldom became extinct.

355. SHEIL, Sir Justin. French Thoughts on Irish Evils. Translated from the 'Revue des Deux Mondes' with notes by Sir J. Sheil. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. pp. [v], 67. Some pencil annotations. A very good copy in printed wrappers. Rare. €185 COPAC lists only 1 copy of this edition.

356. SHILLMAN, Bernard. A Short History of the Jews in Ireland. Portrait frontispiece.

Dublin: Eason & Son, 1945. pp. 152. Red paper boards. Small nick to head of spine. A fine copy.

Very scarce. €65 357. SHRUBSOLE, Edgar S. Picturesque Donegal: Its Mountains, Rivers, and Lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway Company's Illustrated Guide to the Sporting and Touring Grounds of the North of Ireland. With two coloured plates, numerous maps and other illustrations. London: William Cate, 1908. pp. vii, 159, + adverts. Red cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €275 COPAC locates 2 copies only.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 358. [SIBLY, Manoah] High Treason. The Trials of Thomas Hardy, John Horne Tooke, John Thelwall, and others for High Treason. Containing The Whole of the Proceedings of each day at the Old Bailey. Accurately taken in short-hand, by Manoah Sibly, short-hand writer to the City of London. Also, the Reports of the Committees of both Houses of Parliament; Containing the Documents, Letters, and Papers which have been produced in Evidence on these Trials. Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, 108, Grafton-Street, 1794. pp. [5], 10-286, [3], 288-405, [4], 408-504, [2], 24, 206. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €575 ESTC N51489 locates 5 copies only. Not in NLI. The trial of John Horne Tooke and The trial of John Thelwall have separate titlepages after p.286 and p.[406] respectively. Pagination does not include these titlepages but is otherwise continuous.

SIGNED BY DE VALERA, GALLAGHER, BRENNAN & AIKEN 359. SKINNIDER, Margaret. Doing My Bit for Ireland. Illustrated. New York: The Century Co., 1917. pp. x, [1], 251. Green cloth, title in black on upper cover with a gilt Celtic cross.

Signed and dated by Eamon de Valera, Frank Gallagher, Robert Brennan and Frank Aiken. A very good copy. Very scarce. €675 Margaret Skinnider (1892-1971) revolutionary and feminist was born in 1893 to Irish parents in the Lanarkshire town of Coatbridge. She trained as a mathematics teacher and joined Cumann na mBan in Glasgow, she was also involved in the women's suffrage movement in Glasgow. Ironically she had learned to shoot in a rifle club which had originally been set up so that women could help in defence of the British Empire. During her trips to Ireland Skinnider came under the influence of Constance Markievicz and became active in smuggling detonators and bomb-making equipment into Dublin (in her hat) in preparation for the 1916 Easter Rising. She along with Madeleine french-Mullen spent time in the hills around Dublin testing dynamite Skinnider's account of the Rising is by far the most comprehensive description by any participant. It is primary historical evidence, and is of particular importance as the only eyewitness report of Countess Markievicz' firing on British officers (not RIC, as sometimes claimed) at Harcourt Street.

The Celtic Cross on the upper cover is a replica of the Cross presented to the author with the inscription: "The Cumann-na-mBan and Irish Volunteers, Glasgow, present this to Margaret Skinnider for the work she did for Ireland, Easter Week, 1916".

360. SMILES, Samuel. The Huguenots. Their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland. Illustrated. London: Murray, 1895. pp. xx, 458, [2]. Purple cloth, medallion in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Slight fading to boards, otherwise a very good copy. €95 361. SMITH, George. Essay on the Construction of Cottages, suited for the Dwellings of the Labouring Classes, for which the Premium was voted by the Highland Society of Scotland.

Illustrated by Working Plans of Single and Combined Cottages, on different scales of accommodation and cost. Also with Specifications, Details, and Estimates. Glasgow: Blackie & Son, 1834. First edition. pp. 38, 11 (folding plates), 4 (list). With a half-title and engraved title.

Worn cloth, title on printed label on upper cover. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Foxing €385 to end papers, otherwise a very good copy. COPAC locates 11 copies.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 362. SMITH, Joseph. The "Scotch-Irish" Shibboleth Analyzed and Rejected. With some reference to the present "Anglo-Saxon" comedy. Washington: American-Irish Historical Society, 1898. pp. viii, 29. Recent linen on stiff boards. Original printed title laid on upper cover. A very good copy. €75 363. SMITH, William Esq. Letter to Henry Grattan, Esq. M.P. &c. by William Smith. Dublin: Printed and Sold by Marchbank, 1800. Third edition. pp. [i], 95. Disbound. Very good. €125 COPAC locates 4 copies only of this edition.

364. SOMERVILLE, E.OE. & ROSS, Martin. The Real Charlotte. London: The Zodiac Press, 1972. pp. [v], 518. Floral decorated cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in faded illustrated dust jacket. €45 The best modern example of an Irish realistic novel.

BOUND BY HARRY CLARKE 365. STACPOOLE, Henry De Vere. The Bourgeois. Popular Edition. London: Fisher Unwin, 1910. pp. viii, 264, 14 (adverts). Bound in plain brown paper wrapper and titled in ink on the upper cover and spine by Harry Clarke, with the latter's signature in pencil on titlepage dated 1.9.12. €385 Henry De Vere Stacpoole, (1863-1951), was a Victorian period author, born in Dun Laoghaire. A ship's doctor for more than forty years, Stacpoole was also an expert on the South Pacific islands. His many books contained detailed descriptions of the natural life and civilisations which he was so close to at sea.

366. [THE STAGE] The Stage. Volume I. Periodical. September 1874 to December 1874. Photographed by Allen, Dublin. With numerous illustrations and advertisements. London: J.M. O'Toole & Son, 83 Fleet-St. Dublin: 7 Great Brunswick-St. 1875.

Printed by the Permanent Photographic Printing Company, London. Quarto. pp. 204 (double column), [4] (advertisements). Green cloth, title in gilt, and photograph of the Interior of the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin inset on upper cover. Spine worn, otherwise a good copy. €475 "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" - Shakespeare. An interesting volume with historical notice of music and drama in Dublin, advertisements for performances in the various theatres of the capital. Also notices of the Belfast, Cork, Limerick, Tralee, Birmingham, Liverpool and London theatres. Albumen prints of actors tipped in. Literary contributions by Mrs. Harriet Lewis. Articles on the Italian opera scene and drama in Paris.

367. STAIRS, Susan. The Irish Figurists. Dublin: Shortall-Stairs Publications, 1990. Small folio. pp. 232. Black paper boards, titled in gilt. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies, signed by Susan Stairs. A fine copy in dust jacket. €145 The definitive and most authoritative account of the life and works of George Campbell, Gerard Dillon, Daniel O'Neill, Gladys MacCabe, and Markey Robinson.

368. STANIHURST, William. Immortalis Dei in Corpore Mortali Patientis Historia Moralis Doctrinæ Placitis et Commentationibus Illustrata. With woodcut device to title. Campoduni [Kempten, Germany]: Apud Rudolphum Dreher, 1677. Octavo pp. [xvi], 570, [6] (index).

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De Búrca Ra re Books Contemporary full vellum, with clasps. Title in gilt on burgundy morocco letterpiece on spine. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €950 Walsh 517 Sweeney 4811 lists the 1660 edition. No copy of this edition on COPAC. Not in NLI. The son of Richard Stanyhurst, William was born at Brussels where he joined the Jesuits and lived out his life on the continent acquiring a fine reputation as a preacher in both English and Dutch. He served for thirty years as director of the 'Grande Congrégation de la Ste Vièrge' at Louvain. Benignus Millet in the Oxford New History of Ireland characterised him as "an eclectic and a populariser, with little originality of thought". However his books, usually in small format, often went through many editions and those which have come to our attention are pretty pieces of printing.

LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 369. [STEIN, Amelia] In Loving Memory. Photography

by Amelia Stein, Poetry by Frank McGuinness, Introduction by Patrick. T. Murphy. Limerick: Limerick City Gallery of Art, 1989. pp. 57. Black stiff wrappers, titled in silver on upper cover. Limited edition of 500 copies, signed and numbered by Amelia Stein. Red silk marker. A fine copy. €125 370. [STEPHENS, James] Green Branches. Dublin: Maunsel, 1917. New edition. pp. 16.

Quarter brown buckram on green cloth. Inscribed presentation copy from the bibliographer John S. Crone. Also with two autograph letters signed from Crone to the recipient of the book Cyril P. Corrigan. A fine copy. €225 A sequence of poems in memory of the dead of 1916.

371. STERNE, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman. Frontispiece.

Two volumes. London: Methuen & Co., 1894. pp. (1) xxx, [1], 262, 32 (2) [4], 257, 32. Titles in red and black. Original green buckram, gilt backs, uncut, covers unevenly faded, wear to top of spine. A very good, bright, crisp set. €65 DRACULA AT THE DRUID 372. STOKER, Bram. Dracula. In a version prepared by Frank McGuinness. Programme of the Druid Theatre Company Production at the Druid Lane Theatre Galway on April 10th 1986.

Oblong octavo. pp. 20. Illustrated. Pictorial stapled wrappers. In very good condition. €125 The Production was directed and designed by Monica Frawley. The cast included: Seán McGinley who played Dracula along with Jane Brennan, Maeliosa Stafford, Michael Ford, Maurice O'Donoghue, Brendan Conroy, Kate Hogan, etc.

373. STOKES, Margaret. Notes on the Cross of Cong. Illustrated with two chromo-lithographs and two cuts. Dublin: Printed at the Dublin University Press by Ponsonby and Weldrick for Private Circulation, 1895. Quarto. pp. [4], 12, 2 (lithographs). Bound in modern full dark green morocco, upper cover framed by a wide gilt chain-link roll enclosing in the centre a large intricate Celtic knot, title in gilt along spine. Original wrappers bound in at end. Edition: 224 copies only of this work have been printed. Of these, 200 numbered consecutively, are for subscribers; 24 lettered A to Z are for presentation. This is No. 196. Fine copy in slipcase. €1,250 The Cross of Cong (An Bacall Buí, 'the yellow baculum') is stated to be the finest piece of metal, enamel and jewellery work of its epoch in Europe. The Annals of Innisfallen records in the year 1123 the bringing of the piece of the true cross into Ireland, and the making of this shrine for its preservation.

The history of this reliquary is based upon the information afforded by the five inscriptions which fill the silver edges of the cross. It gives us the name of Toirrdelbach Ua Conchobair (Turlough O'Connor), King of Connacht for whom it was made; Muireadach O'Duffy, Archbishop of Connaught, for whose use it was intended; Donnel O'Duffy, the Bishop who watched over its progress, and Maelisu O'Echan, the artist who executed it. Sadly there is no further information of O'Echan, no monument is left to tell 112

De Búrca Ra re Books of his former greatness save the exquisite work of this magnificent treasure that has stood for almost nine hundred years, bearing witness to the marvellous power and delicate skill of this great artist.

It was made around 1123 probably in either Roscommon or Tuam, and donated to the Cathedral church of the period at Tuam. The cross was subsequently moved to Cong Abbey, County Mayo, from which it takes its name.

When George Petrie toured Connaught he visited Lord Abbot Prendergast (1741-1829), the last mitred Abbot of Cong, then living in a little cottage at Abbotstown, given to him by the ancestors of Oscar Wilde. He had found the reliquary in an oak chest in a cottage in the town, where it had been concealed since the time of the Reformation or at least since the rebellion of 1641. After his visit Petrie told Professor MacCullagh of his amazing discovery and the latter purchased it at his own expense for the Royal Irish Academy.

An object of extreme grace and beauty the cross measures 76cm high and almost 46cm wide. It is made of oak covered with plates of copper, silver and brass, adorned with precious stones and ornamented with crystals, amber, gold and silver filigree; and niello (a deep black mixture of metals). The treasure is heavily influenced by Hiberno-Norse design of S-shaped animals interwoven with threadlike snakes.

Professor MacCullagh when he spoke of this precious reliquary stated: "a most interesting memorial of the period preceding the English invasion, and one which shows a very high state of art in the country at the time when it was made".

374. STOKES, Whitley. Ed. by. The Tripartite Life of Patrick, with Other Documents relating to that Saint. With plate. Two volumes. London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1887. pp. (1) cxcix, 268, 38 (publisher's list), (2) 4, [ii], 269-676, 38 (publisher's list). Quarter pebbled cloth on repaired black paper boards. From the library of S. Baring-Gould with his armorial bookplate, also with the bookplate of Bishop Phillpott's Library, Truro with presentation inscription from 'Executors of Rev. S. Baring-Gould, 1925'. A very good set. Very scarce. €375 The Vita Tripartita Sancti Patricii (The Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick) is a bilingual Life of Patrick, written partly in Irish and in parts in Latin from the late 9th century. It is the earliest example of a saint's Life written in the Irish language and it was meant to be read in three parts over the three days of the saint's festival.

The author of this life and its date cannot be ascertained. Colgan maintained that St. Evin, of Monasterevin, who flourished about the middle of the sixth century, was the author, and O'Curry was of the same opinion. Petrie thought it a compilation of the ninth or tenth century. Dr. Whitley Stokes held that it could not have been written before the middle of the tenth century, and was probably compiled in the eleventh. His main reason is that it contains entries which must have been made in the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth centuries. He cites ten instances of this kind, which, as he alleges, were neither additions nor interpolations. It was written in the purest Gaelic.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 375. STRONG, L.A.G. Dewer Rides. London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. First edition. pp. 351.

Black buckram, title in green on spine. Signed by the author on verso of titlepage. Light spotting to fore-edge. A fine copy in fine dust jacket with original price label on spine. €135 Leonard Alfred George Strong (1896-1958) was born in Plymouth of Irish parents. This was his first novel.

376. [STRYPE, John] The life of the learned Sir Thomas Smith Kt. doctor of the civil law : principal secretary of state to King Edward the Sixth, and Queen Elizabeth. Wherein are discovered many singular matters relating to the state of learning, the reformation of religion, and the transactions of the kingdom, during his time. In all which he had a great and happy influence. With an appendix, wherein are contained some works of his, never before published. London: Printed for A. Roper, at the Black Boy, over against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-street, and R. Basset, at the Mitre within Temple-Bar, 1698. pp.

25, 147. Contemporary full panelled calf. Spine professionally rebacked. Corners worn. Some browning and foxing. Rare. €385 Wing S 6023. Sweeney 4873.

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books original Tudor documents on which this biography was formed. This work is further enhanced with an engraved frontispiece of Sir Thomas Smith, a map of the Ards Peninsula, Sir T. Smith's coat of arms, his new English Alphabet and a table.

Sir Thomas Smith (1512-1577) scholar and diplomat was born at Saffron Walden in Essex. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1530, and in 1533 was appointed a public reader or professor. He lectured in the schools on natural philosophy, and on Greek in his own rooms. In 1540 Smith went abroad, and, after studying in France and Italy and taking a degree of law at the University of Padua, returned to Cambridge in 1542.

He was an early convert to Protestant views, which brought him into prominence when Edward VI came to the throne. During Somerset's protectorate he entered public life and was made a secretary of state, being sent on an important diplomatic mission to Brussels. In 1548 he was knighted. On the accession of Queen Mary I he lost all his offices, but in the reign of her sister, Elizabeth, was prominently employed in public affairs. He became a member of parliament, and was sent in 1562 as ambassador to France, where he remained till 1566. In 1572 he procured a Colony to be sent into his lands in the Ardes Peninsula "a rich and pleasant Country, on the Eastern Coast of Ulster, and of considerable Extent, lying well for Trade by Sea: Bordering upon a Country where Sarleboy contained himself with his party. He was a Hebridean Scot".

He remained one of Elizabeth's most trusted Protestant counsellors, being appointed Chancellor of the Order of the Garter and a Secretary of State.

WITH MAGNIFICENT COLOURED AQUATINTS 377. SULLIVAN, Dennis. A Picturesque Tour through Ireland, by Dennis Sullivan, Esq. Illustrated with numerous coloured views of the most interesting scenery. London: Published by Thomas M'Lean, 26 Haymarket, 1824. Oblong quarto. pp. 25 (plates), 28. Contemporary half black calf on cloth boards with an attractive label with title in gilt direct on spine. A very good copy of this exceedingly rare topographical work. â‚Ź5,750

Elmes and Hewson 2109 Abbey 460 Tooley 469.

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De Búrca Ra re Books The author/artist notes in his introduction that "few parts of the British dominions are so little known to the English as the highly interesting sister-kingdom, of whose beauties we have given a small sketch in the following pages. Whatever may tempt the tourist, or man of fortune, to visit and explore the romantic, and beautiful, and often highly-cultivated scenery of Ireland". Diverting somewhat he castigates the absentee landowners for neglecting the country like faithless shepherds, deserting their posts, and consigning their tenantry to the gripping hand of a middle man ... Provided he can wring out of them the fortune he generally makes in a few short years. Sullivan then returns to the core reason for this work with a description of Ireland as: "a country possessing an infinity of wealth in its agricultural and commercial resources". He goes on "In Ireland the antiquarian may find full employment for the most active mind ... The artist will find, among the lakes and mountains of Erin, an inexhaustible store of subjects that are not surpassed in any other part of the world, either in romantic grandeur, or beautiful and pastoral simplicity". Perhaps one of the finest collections of coloured Irish aquatint views.

The magnificent views depicted are as follows: The Mountains of Mome (Mourne); Irish Cottages, Wicklow; Stone Cross at Kilcullen; Wicklow Gold Mines; Mountains of Luganaquilla; Lough Erne, and Isle of Devenish; Abbey of Monaincha; Principal Lake at Killarney; Abbey of Aghaboe; Trim Castle; Giant's Causeway; Ballrichan Castle; Roche Castle; Belfast; Lough of Belfast; View of the River Shannon; Downpatrick; Loch Neagh; Carlingford Castle; Waterfall near Bantry; Salmon Leap at Leixlip; Dunamase; Bray Head; View of the River Blackwater; and Limerick.

378. SWIFT, Jonathan. Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty, between Her Majesty and the States-General. By the Author of The Conduct of the Allies. To which are added, the said BarrierTreaty, with the two separate articles; part of the counter-project; the sentiments of Prince Eugene and Count Sinzendorf, upon the said Treaty; and a representation of the English merchants at Bruges.

The second edition. London: Printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall 1712. Slim octavo. pp. 48. Recent quarter calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on brown morocco label on upper cover. Some light browning. A very good copy. €325 379. SYNGE, John M. The Works of John M. Synge. First collected edition. Four volumes. With portrait frontispiece to each volume.

Dublin: Maunsel and Company, Limited, 95 Middle Abbey Street, 1910. First edition. Brown buckram over bevelled boards, titled in gilt on spines. Owner's signature on titlepage. Top edge gilt. A fine set in rare printed grey dust jackets, with minor loss to top of spines and some corners. Scarce. €375 'The Shadow of the Glen'; 'Riders to the Sea'; 'The Well of the Saints'; 'The Tinkers Wedding'; 'The Playboy 115

De Búrca Ra re Books of the Western World'; 'Deirdre of the Sorrows'; 'Poems'; 'The Aran Islands'; 'In Wicklow'; 'In West Kerry'; 'In the Congested Districts' and 'Under Ether'. The essay 'Under Ether' is not printed elsewhere in book form.

ICONOGRAPHICALLY INTRIGUING 380. SYNGE, J.M. Queens. With nine colour reproductions of stained glass by Harry Clarke.

Notes on the panels by Nicola Gordon Bowe. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1986. pp. 16, 9 (colour plates). Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. Scarce. €65 Queens was written by Synge about 1903 and first printed in his Poems and Translations at the Cuala Press in 1909. These poems inspired Harry Clarke to design his 'iconographically intriguing' frieze of miniature stained glass panels in brilliant colours, which is here reproduced for the first time.

381. TATE, N. & BRADY, N. A New Version of the Psalms of David, By N. Tate & N. Brady.

Together with some Hymns adapted to Christian Worship, collected from J. Stennet; Js. Watts, S. Browne: and J. Mason, as used in the English established Church in Amsterdam. And set to musick by J. Z. Triemer. With Privilege for the Benefit of the Poor. Bound with the Heidelberg Catechism of the Reformed Christian Religion. Amsterdam: Printed by Henry Gartman, Bookseller 1772. pp. [10], 659, [11], [8], 156, [4]. Contemporary full green morocco, covers framed by a single gilt fillet, dog-tooth roll and wide floral roll with inner fleurons, enclosing in the centre a lyre gilt. Spine divided into seven compartments by six raised bands. 'I.C.L.' in gilt in the second, the remainder with a gilt floral tool. All edges gilt and with gauffering. Armorial bookplate of Ernst Fridk. Wolff on front pastedown. A fine copy. Rare. €1,250

ESTC T124750.

Nahum Tate was the son of Faithful Tate [Teate], clergyman and native of County Cavan. He was born in Dublin (1652) and educated at Trinity College. He wrote under Dryden's superintendence, the second part of Absalom and Achitophel with the exception of about two hundred lines. He succeeded Shadwell as Poet Laureate.

Nicholas Brady was born at Bandon (1659). He was educated at Westminster and went afterwards to Christ Church, Oxford, and to Trinity College, Dublin. From the latter he received the degree of D.D. for services to the Protestant cause. He was Prebendary of Cork. In the Irish war he was an active 116

De Búrca Ra re Books adherent of William; and three times saved his native town from burning. Coming from Bandon with a petition to William, he remained in London and was appointed Chaplain to the King; and afterwards (1702-5) incumbent of Stratford-on-Avon. He died in 1726.

The pair are best known for the highly successful partnership on a metrical version of The Psalms which became the standard for more than two and a half centuries of public and private worship. Still regularly sung today is their version of Psalm 34 'Through all the changing scenes of life'. As well as the 150 Psalms they also wrote metrical versions of the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed. Because of the association between the authors and the collection, the work itself is sometimes referred to as "Tate and Brady".

382. TAYLOR, G. & SKINNER, A. Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed in 1777. With large folding map of Ireland and 289 road maps. List of subscribers.

London: Published for the Authors as the Act directs 14 Novr. 1778. Sold by T. Longman, Paternoster Row, London. W. Wilson, No. 6, & W. Allen, No. 88, Dame street, Dublin, 1783.

Second edition. Royal octavo. pp. xvi, 289, 16 (List of Subscribers). Modern half brown morocco over marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece on spine. Large map of Ireland with partial loss to Counties Cork and Kerry. Extra map of Dublin at end. Some manuscript tables in Ireland and British miles. Loosely inserted Post Towns in Ireland, distance by Road from Dublin and Country. A very good copy. €1,350 Taylor & Skinner produced the only strip road maps of Scotland and Ireland generally available. Their maps were well engraved and included a wealth of detail. Their Maps of the Roads of Ireland was published in 1778 at a price of £1 4s. Both men afterwards served with the army in America, in their capacity as surveyors.

383. TEEGAN, Thomas Henry. General Bonaparte. A Drama: In Four Acts. London and Dublin: Simpkin & Gill, n.d. (c.1920). pp. [4], 118. Contemporary full blue morocco, title and author in gilt on upper cover within a framed floral border. Spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands; turn-ins gilt; splash marbled endpapers; red and gold endbands. All edges gilt. A fine copy. €150 No copy located on COPAC. Not in NLI. Teegan was Principal at the Central Training College, Dublin.

BINDON BLOOD'S COPY

384. TEMPLE, Sir John, Kt. The Irish Rebellion: or, an History of the beginnings and first progress of the General Rebellion, raised within the Kingdom of Ireland, upon the three and twentieth day of October, 1641. Together with the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres which ensued thereupon. Publish'd in the year 1646. By Sir John Temple ... within the Kingdom of Ireland. To which is added, Sir Henry Tichborne's History of the siege of Drogheda, in the year 1641. As also, the whole tryal of Connor Lord Mac-Guire, with the perfect Copies of the Indictment, and all the Evidences against him. Together with the Pope's Bull to the Confederate Catholicks in Ireland. Dublin: Printed by and for Aaron Rhames, 1724. Quarto. pp. xvi, 245.

Titlepage in red and black. In three parts, the second, 'A letter of Sir Henry Tichborne to his lady', and the third, 'The whole tryal of Connor Lord Mac-Guire', with separate titlepages; pagination and register are continuous. Engraved frontispiece depicting the barbarous cruelties.

Recent full calf. Paper repair to titlepage, occasional browning. Edges of front flyleaf and frontispiece lightly chipped. Signature of Bindon Blood on titlepage verso. A very good copy.

Rare. €875 ESTC T136591

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De Búrca Ra re Books 385. [THEATRE] Programme. Cluithcheoiní na hÉireann (The Theatre of Ireland). At the Rotunda (Large Concert Hall), Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 29th and 30th April and 1st May, 1909. Cover illustration by Seaghan Mac Cathmhaoil. Dublin: The Tower Press, 1909. Oblong 16mo. pp. 4. Illustrated wrapper. Staple rusted. A good copy. €95

First production of Seamus O'Kelly's The Shuilers Child and Rutherford Mayne's A Farcical Comedy.

386. THOMPSON, Mrs. D.P. A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the Change in Religious Opinion now taking place in Dingle, and the West of the County of Kerry, Ireland.

With a folding map of Dingle, The Bay, and the Neighbouring Country; engraved title and engraved plates. Dublin: Seeley, 1846. pp. iv, 208. Armorial bookplate of King, Baron de Corrard, County Fermanagh. Light foxing, otherwise very good in original ribbed cloth. Very scarce. €675 An excellent account on the work of the Bible societies in the Dingle Peninsula. Mrs. Thompson states that at one time there had been 55 Protestant churches in the county of Kerry, but the lack of interest in religion had almost depleted the Protestant colony. The pastoral work in the peninsula was carried on by the Rev. Thomas Chute Goodman, a son of the previous incumbent and he knew intimately the life of the people in the four parishes. In 1831, a year of famine and pestilence in the area, Rev. George Geogh Gubbins came to assist Goodman, and immediately began proselytizing there. According to Mrs. Thompson, Mr. Gubbins came to the area at a time when: "the people maddened with dismay knew not whether to charge God or man as the author of this visitation. The Popish priests terrified by the idea of contagion actually fled from the scene and left to the minister of a purer faith the privilege of administering medical aid and kindness to the sufferers, and this afforded an opportunity of opening truth to many perishing sinners, who, under other circumstances, would have closed the door against him. He spared himself neither day or night ministering comfort to all while life remained and in more than one case personally assisted in the interment of the dead".

There are four engraved plates: the Town and Harbour of Dingle; Cyble Head; the Blasquett Islands, and Kilmalkedar.

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR PRIVATELY PRINTED OPUSCULA 387. THOMPSON, Silvanus P. The Pied Piper of Hamelin : Being an excursus or painsfull dissertation ... / delivered at the two hundred and fiftieth meeting of the Sette of Odd Volumes, holden on the twenty-third day of February, in the year MDCCCCIV, by the unworthie Magnetizer, Silvanus P. Thompson, wherein is manifest how, Anno Christi MCCLXXXIV on the day of S. John the Baptist, in the Town of Hamelin in Allemania ... without doubt an Evil Spirit, went up and down the streets ... all compared with the original documents and testimonie of the witnesses thereof, which let him that doubteth be condemned. London: Imprinted at the Bedford 118

De Búrca Ra re Books Press, for private circulation to the Members of the Sette of Odd Volumes, and to be had of No Booksellers, 1905. pp. 37, [3]. Privately Printed Opuscula issued to the Members of the Sette of Odd Volumes. Edition limited to 199 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Printed grey wrappers, edges untrimmed. A very good copy. Very rare. €375 COPAC locates 6 copies only.

388. THORP, Joseph. Printing for Business. A Manual of Printing Practice in Non-Technical Idiom. Illustrated. London: John Hogg, 1919. pp. xii, 180. Title and contents printed in red and black within double ruled border. Quarter linen on blue paper boards. Title on worn paper label on spine. From the library of Harry Clarke with his signature on front free endpaper, dated 1926 and some emendations by him in red ink. Some minor wear to binding. A very good copy. €275

"An important, and sometimes unregarded, book offering a general, though well-considered guide to all aspects of printing for business. Thorp, who worked at one time for W. H. Smith, was influenced by the great Bernard Newdigate and imbibed much of the latter's views on the importance of 'fitness for purpose' of printing. Thorp's ideas about commercial printing came to fruition when he joined the Curwen Press for whom he worked for a number of years and to whom he introduced Oliver Simon.

The illustrations in this book show a number of different photo-mechanical processes and the use of Day's mechanical tints. The types he advocates include Caslon (doubtless through Newdigate's influence) while Victorian ornamental types are dismissed as 'a chamber of horrors'. No printer's imprint appears on the book which is strange, given Thorp's connections". - Barry McKay.

389. TONE, William Theobald Wolfe. Ed. by. Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, Founder of the United Irish Society, and Adjutant General and Chef de Brigade in the service of the French and Batavian Republics. Written by himself, and continued by his Son; With his Political Writings, and Fragments of his Diary, whilst Agent to the General and Sub-committee of the Catholics of Ireland, And Secretary to the Delegation who presented their Petition to his Majesty George III. His mission to France. With a complete Diary of his Negotiations to procure the aid of the French and Batavian Republics, for the Liberation of Ireland; of the Expeditions of Bantry Bay, the Texel, and of that wherein he fell. Narrative of his Trial, Defence before the Court Martial, and Death. Edited by his son, William Theobald Wolfe Tone: with a brief account of his own Education and Campaigns under the Emperor Napoleon. Portrait frontispiece. Two volumes.

Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826. pp. (1) vii, 565, (2) [ii], 674. Modern brown buckram, titled in gilt. Occasional light foxing. Top edge gilt.

A very good set. Very scarce. €375 390. [TRADE CARD] Trade Card for the Firm of John Walsh, late Walsh and Sons, Dyer, No. 37 South King Street, Stephen's Green, Dublin. Established upwards of Fifty Years. 113 x 76mm.

In very good condition. €125

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De Búrca Ra re Books The firm specialised in silks, union textures, woollens and cottons. They also advertise in this card for: Printed Challey Addresses, Grape & Canton Crepe, Shawls, Handkerchief ... Printed Foullard Addresses, clean'd & finished. The Colors perfectly preserved. Also in the card is the notice 'J. Walsh, has no connection with any other Establishment in the City'. He presumably set up business in opposition to his father.

391. [TRIMMER, (Sarah), Mrs.] History of the Robins: designed for the Instruction of Children, respecting their Treatment of Animals. Illustrated with woodcuts. Dublin: Printed by J. M'Mullen, 21 Duke Street, 1821. 12mo. Second edition. pp. 180. Small hole in one woodcut with partial loss of text on verso. Worn sheep. Lower board detached. Rare. €95 NSTC 2H23569.

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

392. [TYMOCZKO, Maria] Two Death Tales from the Ulster Cycle: The Death of Cu Roi and The Death of Cu Chulainn. Translated by Maria Tymoczko from the Irish. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1981. pp. 110. Green arlen. A very good copy in very good dust jacket. €45 393. TYNAN, Katharine. A Little Book of Manners. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1918. pp. 64.

Green stapled wrappers. Cover sun-tanned. A very good copy. €95 394. TYNAN, Katherine. Collected Poems. With a foreword by A.E. London: Macmillan, 1930.

First edition. pp. xxv, 381. Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Previous owner's book label on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €65 SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY 395. UA CEALLAIGH, Seán. i. Sceilg. Cathal Brugha. Do Chumann Buan-Chosanta na Gaedhilge. Portrait frontispiece. Baile Átha Cliath: M. H. Mac an Ghoill agus a Mhac Teór, 1942. pp. [v], 348. Quarter blue cloth on original grey boards, title in gilt on spine. "Mainistir Loreto / Rath Fearnáin" in pen on front free endpaper. A very good copy. €45 Cathal Brugha (1874-1922), revolutionary. Born Charles William St John Burgess, educated at Belvedere College; had to leave there at sixteen when his father's business failed. He joined the Gaelic League in 1899 and became lieutenant in the Irish Volunteers in 1913. During the Rising he was second in command at South Dublin Union, where he was severely wounded, and lamed for the rest of his life. He took a leading role in the War of Independence, became Chief of Staff of the I.R.A., vehemently opposed the Treaty and voted against it. Fought in O'Connell Street, on the Republican side and died from wounds received there.

396. UI CHANAINN, Eibhlin. Foclóir An Mhic Léinn. Báile Átha Cliath: An Press Náisiúnta, 1962. pp. 184. Printed red wrappers. A very good copy. €25 397. [UNION PAMPHLETS] Pamphlets on the Union. I. Speech of the Right Honourable John Foster, Speaker of the House of Commons of Ireland, Delivered in Committee, on Thursday the 11th Day of April, 1799. Dublin, 1799. [Black 2087]. II. Arguments for and against an Union, between Great Britain and Ireland, Considered. Dublin, 1799. The sixth edition corrected. By Edward Cooke. ESTC N15941 (11 copies only). [Black 2070]. III. The Union. Cease your Funning, or, The Rebel Detected. Fifth edition. With half title and advertisement. By Charles Kendall Bushe, Dublin, 1798. ESTC T76470. [Black 1998]. IV. Unconnected Hints, and Loose Ideas upon the Union with Two Propositions. By a Mimber. Dublin, 1799. Last leaf torn, with loss of text on half of one side only. With half title. ESTC N35402. [Black 2178].

V. Considerations on the Situation to which Ireland is Reduced by the Government of Lord Camden. The fifth edition. Dublin, 1798. ESTC T165221. VI. The Speech of the Right Hon. William Pitt in the British House of Commons on Thursday, January, 31, 1799. Dublin, 1799.

ESTC T58113 [Black 2139]. Dublin: Printed by James Moore, Marchbank, Gilbert, Milliken, Grierson and Rice, 1798/99. pp. (I) [ii], 113, (II) [ii], 58, (III) 46, (IV) vi, 33, (V) 28, (VI) 53.

Contemporary full tree calf, title in gilt on red morocco letterpiece. Some minor wear to corners and minute hole in lower board. All edges yellow. A very good copy. €675 COPAC locates 2 copies only of Speech of the Right Honourable John Foster.

398. [UNIONIST SPEAKERS] The Campaign Guide. An Election handbook for Unionist Speakers. Prepared by a Committee of the Council of the National Union of Conservative 120

De Búrca Ra re Books Associations for Scotland. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1895. Sixth edition. pp. xii, 636. Blue cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Some light fading to covers. A very good copy. €165 This guide is in four parts. The section on Ireland runs to 164 pages. The chapters include: Ireland Under the Unionist Government 1886-92; Ireland Under a Separatist Government 1886-92; Home Rule for Ireland (Parnell, Davitt); Summary of Arguments against Home Rule.

399. USSHER SHARKEY, Joan. St Anne's: The Story of a Guinness Estate. Dublin: The Woodfield Press, 2002. pp. xvi, 117. Illustrated wrappers. A very good copy. €25 400. VAN HOEK, Kees. Diplomats in Dublin. A series of prose portraits. Illustrated. Dublin & Cork: The Talbot Press, 1943. First edition. pp. [x], 118. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine.

Owner's signature on half title. A very good copy. €75 401. WAKEMAN, William F. Archaeologia Hibernica. A Hand-Book of Irish Antiquities, Pagan and Christian: Especially of such as are easy of access from the Irish Metropolis. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: James McGlashan, London: William S. Orr, 1848. First edition. pp. xvii, [1], 176, [8] (advertisement). Original green cloth, covers framed by blind stamped interlacing Celtic design enclosing in the centre 'Cross of Muiredach at Monasterboice' in gilt.

Title in gilt on spine. Some scribbling in biro in centre of one page of advertisement. A very good copy. €95 402. WALFORD, Edward. The County Families of the United Kingdom or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Containing a brief notice of the parentage, birth, marriage, education, and appointments of each person, his heir apparent or presumptive, as also a record of the offices held by him, together with his town address and country residence. Thirty fifth annual publication. London: Chatto & Windus, 1895.

Royal octavo. pp. xvi, 1192 (double column), 39 (index & adverts). Modern red buckram, titled in gilt. Ex lib. with discrete perforated stamp. A very good copy. €185 403. WALSH, Wendy & NELSON, Charles. An Irish Florilegium & An Irish Florilegium II. Wild and Garden Plants of Ireland. With 96 watercolour paintings by Wendy Walsh, an introduction by Ruth Isabel Ross and notes on the Plates by Charles Nelson. Two volumes.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1983/2008. First editions. Large quarto. pp. (1) 224, (2) 216. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine set in fine dust jackets. Very scarce. €850 The rare first edition, limited to 3,000 copies, of Wendy Walsh's and Charles Nelson's Florilegium, is a classic on Irish flowers, and is now very rare and sought after. The second and last volume in the series was limited to 1500 copies (as related to us by Wendy Walsh). This volume also has become very scarce and in the future sets will be difficult to complete.

404. WARE, James. De Præsulibus Hiberniæ, Commentarius : A Prima Gentis Hibernicæ ad Fidem Christianam Conversione, ad Nostra Usque Tempora. Per Jacobum Waræum, Equitem Auratum. Dublinii: Typis Johannis Crook; Typographi Regii, Impensis Samuelis Dancer, 1665.

Folio. pp. [12], 283, [1]. Titlepage printed in red and black within a double ruled border. Modern half calf on marbled boards. Early owner's signature blanked out on p.1. Contemporary manuscript index on two leaves inserted at end. Some paper repair to old worming. A very good copy. €1,250 Wing 845. Sweeney 5534. Dix p.127. COPAC locates 6 copies only. ESTC R8744.

Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian, was born at his father's house, Castle Street, Dublin, on 26 November, 1594. Educated at TCD. He collected and studied manuscripts and charters from an early age. Knighted in 1629, he succeeded his father as Auditor-General for Ireland in 1632 and became MP for Dublin University and member of the Privy Council. During the Civil War he was imprisoned by the Parliamentarians as a Royalist and then expelled from Dublin in 1649. After a year and a half in France, Ware settled in London and pursued his studies there until the Restoration of 1660, when he returned to Dublin and was re-appointed Auditor-General. From his emoluments of office he made generous contributions to widows and to fellow-Royalists who had been ruined by the war, while continuing to collect and preserve valuable historical material on Gaelic Ireland. It was around this time that he employed Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh to prepare transcripts and translations from Irish manuscripts. He published a number of treatises in Latin on Irish and ecclesiastical antiquities, as well as editions of Campion's History of Ireland and Spenser's View of the State of 121

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The Whole Works of Sir James Ware was published in Dublin (1739-1746) by Walter Harris who married Ware's grand-daughter.

The establishment of Irish literature and history as subjects of study in the general world of learning in modern times is due largely to the lifelong exertions of Sir James Ware. Sir Frederick Burton in his fine drawing of the three founders of the study of Irish history and literature, has rightly placed him alongside his contemporaries, Michael Ó Cléirigh, the hereditary chronicler, and John Colgan the Irish hagiologist.

Ware died at his family house in Castle Street, Dublin on 1 December, 1666 and is buried in St. Werburgh's Church. His manuscripts are in the Bodleian and British Libraries.

405. WARWICK-HALLER, Adrian & Sally. Ed. by. Letters from Dublin, Easter 1916. Alfred Fannin's Diary of the Rising. Illustrated. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1995. pp. [viii], 56. Fine in illustrated wrappers. €35 LIMITED EDITION

406. WAUGH, Evelyn. The Holy Places. With wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. London: The Queen Anne Press, 1952. pp. 37, [1]. Title printed in red and black. Red buckram titled in gilt. Untrimmed Edition limited to 950 numbered copies. Small tear to margin of one leaf. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €175

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De Búrca Ra re Books 407. WILDE, Oscar. A Collection of Five Rare Pamphlets: I. Rose-leaf and Apple-Leaf: L'Envoi. London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1904. pp. 30. Original printed green wrapper.

Edition limited to 200 numbered copies. Mason 614.

II. Children in Prison and other Cruelties of Prison Life. London: Murdoch, [1897]. pp. 16. White printed upper wrapper. Mason 26.

III. Impressions of America. Edited, with an introduction by Stuart Mason. Sunderland: Keystone Press, 1906. pp. 40. Printed blue upper wrapper.

IV. Wilde v Whistler. Being an Acrimonious Correspondence on Art between Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler. London: Privately Printed 1906. pp. 20. Printed brown upper wrapper. Mason 625.

V. Oscar Wilde Poems in Prose. Paris: Privately Printed, 1905. pp. 38. Title printed in black and brown. Edition limited to fifty copies on Imperial Japanese paper. Mason 609. The five pamphlets are bound together in contemporary full blue morocco, covers framed by triple gilt fillets. Spine divided into six compartments by five thick gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; turn-ins ruled in gilt; burgundy and blue endbands. Top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed. Original wrappers bound in.

From the library of Sebag Montefiore with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy. See illustration on previous page. €2,750 408. [WILDE, Oscar] The Trial of Oscar Wilde. From the Shorthand Reports. Paris: Privately Printed, 1906. pp. l, 134, [6]. Contemporary full blue morocco, covers framed by triple gilt fillets. Spine divided into six compartments by five thick gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre-and-corner design; turn-ins ruled in gilt; burgundy and blue endbands. Top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed. Original dark green paper wrappers with printed paper label, bound in. Issued for private circulation only and limited to 50 copies on Japanese Vellum and five hundred copies on handmade paper numbered from one to five hundred and fifty. This copy No. 56. From the library of Sebag Montefiore with his armorial bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy. See illustration on previous page. €1,250 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), poet, dramatist, and novelist was born in Merrion Square, Dublin. During his undergraduate years at Oxford and as a disciple of Walter Pater, Wilde became the leader of an aesthetic movement that advocated art for art's sake. He attracted a great deal of attention with his aestheticism, and by wearing long hair, dressing eccentrically, and carrying flowers in his hands while lecturing. Wilde was accused of homosexual practices, was tried and found guilty, and was sentenced to imprisonment (1895-97). On his release, physically, spiritually, and financially ruined, he went to Paris where he lived in bitterness and despair until his death.

409. WILSON, David. M. Ed. by. The Bayeux Tapestry. The Complete Tapestry in Colour with Introduction, Description and Commentary by David M. Wilson, Director of the British Museum.

Illustrated with seventy six fine full-page coloured plates and numerous monochrome photographs. London: Thames and Hudson, 1985. Small folio. First edition. pp. 234. Title in red and black. Grey cloth, titled in white on upper cover and spine. A fine copy in slipcase with a colour plate mounted and titled in white. A fine copy. €150 The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth - not an actual tapestry, which is instead woven nearly 70 metres (230 ft) long, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William, Duke of Normandy, and Harold, Earl of Wessex, later King of England, and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. According to Sylvette Lemagnen, conservator of the tapestry, "The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the supreme achievements of the Norman Romanesque. Its survival almost intact over nine centuries is little short of miraculous ... Its exceptional length, the harmony and freshness of its colours, its exquisite workmanship, and the genius of its guiding spirit combine to make it endlessly fascinating".

The tapestry consists of some fifty scenes with Latin tituli (captions), embroidered on linen with coloured woollen yarns. It is likely that it was commissioned by Bishop Odo, William's half-brother, and made in England - not Bayeux in the 1070s. In 1729 the hanging was rediscovered by scholars at a time when it was being displayed annually in Bayeux Cathedral. The tapestry is now exhibited at Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Bayeux, Normandy, France.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 410. [WILSON, Sir R.T.] A Full Report of the Trial of Major-General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson, Michael Bruce, Esq. and Capt. John Hely Hutchinson, before The Court of Assize at Paris, on the 22d of April, 1816, and two following days, for aiding the Escape of Count Lavalette; including a short memoir of Sir R.T. Wilson. With an appendix, containing the celebrated letter to Earl Grey. Translated from the French. London: Edwards, 1816. pp. 70.

Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Titlepage lightly spotted and soiled, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €375 COPAC locates the Cambridge copy. O'Higgins 4.305.

General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson Kt (1777-1849) was a politician and general who served in Egypt, Prussia, and in Ireland during the 1798 rebellion. He was seconded to the Imperial Russian Army in 1812. He sat as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Southwark from 1818 to 1831. He served as the Governor of Gibraltar from 1842 until his death in 1849. He had a distinguished career in the Army and the diplomatic service. He continued to serve with the Russian army during 1813 and was placed in command of the Prussian reserve, distinguishing himself at Bautzen and being awarded the order of St George on the battlefield. Wilson was removed owing to political machinations by Castlereagh, then Foreign Minister. He served with the Austrian Army of Italy during the campaign of 1814. PostWaterloo, in 1816 he was involved along with John Hely-Hutchinson and Michael Bruce in the escape attempt made by the Comte de La Valette following a death sentence being passed on the latter by the French Restoration government. Placed on trial at the French Cour d'assises, he was sentenced to three months in prison and was subsequently criticised by the Prince Regent for his role in the affair.

411. [WOLLASTON, William] The Religion of Nature Delineated. Dublin: Printed by and for George Grierson, in Essex-Street, and for George Ewing, in Dame-Street, 1726. Quarto. pp. viii, 5-219, [1]. Contemporary full sprinkled calf blind-stamped to a panel design with outer fleurons.

New morocco letterpiece on spine. Inoffensive water stain to margin of two leaves. All edges red.

A fine copy. Very rare in commerce. €475 ESTC T69550.

Signed at the end: William Wollaston. Woodcut printer's device on titlepage; woodcut head and tailpieces; woodcut initials and woodcut colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

William Wollaston (1659-1724) was a school teacher, a Church of England priest, a scholar of Latin, Greek and Hebrew, a theologian, and a major Enlightenment era English philosopher. He is remembered today for one book, which he completed only two years before his death: The Religion of Nature Delineated (1st ed. 1722; 2nd ed. 1724). Yet despite his cloistered life and his single book, due to his influence on eighteenth-century philosophy and his promotion of a Natural Religion, he may be considered one of the great British Enlightenment philosophers, along with Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. His work contributed to the development of two important intellectual schools: British Deism, and "the pursuit of happiness" moral philosophy of American Practical Idealism. It appears notably in the Declaration of Independence.

412. WOOD-MARTIN, W.G. The Rude Stone Monuments of Ireland. (County Sligo and the Island of Achill). Profusely illustrated by W. F. Wakeman. Dublin: Hodges Figgis.

London: Williams, 1888. Royal octavo. pp. xvii, [1], 274.

Recent half calf on marbled boards with original wrappers bound in. A very good copy. Rare. €475 Time, which antiquates antiquities, observed a quaint old writer, "and had an art to make dust of all things", hath yet spared many Rude Stone Monuments of Ireland, which now "stand solemn, silent witnesses of ancient days".

413. WOOLMER, J. Howard. The Leonard L. Milberg Irish Theater Collection. Compiled by J. Howard Woolmer. With an introduction by Wes Davis and Biographical Essays by Rebecca Berne and Megan Quigley. Edited by John L. Logan.

Illustrated. New Jersey: Princeton University Library, 2006. pp. 493. Title printed within a ruled border in black and green.

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WITH 13 ILLUSTRATIONS BY J.B. YEATS 414. [YEATS, Jack B.] The Fancy by John Hamilton Reynolds. With a Prefatory Memoir and Notes by John Masefield. Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats. London: Elkin, [1905]. pp. 88. Title printed in black within a red ruled border. Fine in wrappers. €135 The Fancy: A Selection from the Poetical Remains of the Late Peter Corcoran, with a brief Memoire of his Life. Peter Corcoran was born in Shrewsbury in 1794. Both his parents were Irish and left Carlow for Shropshire after their marriage.

415. [YEATS, Jack B.] On the Spanish Main or, Some English Forays on the Isthmus of Darien.

With a Description of the Buccaneers and a Short Account of Old-Time Ships and Sailors by John Masefield. With twenty-two illustrations and a fold-out map of the Caribbean. London: Methuen, 1906. First edition. pp. xii, 339. Contemporary full calf, covers framed by a narrow gilt floral roll enclosing on the upper cover the badge of the Queen's Royal College, Port of Spain, Trinidad in gilt surrounded by shamrocks and fleur-de-lys. With Jack Yeats designed bookplate for Madeline Jones of pirate wielding cutlass on bow of a ship on front pastedown. Presentation inscription in red ink dated 15/8/1909 from the Government of Trinidad. Some wear to corners, otherwise a good copy. See illustration of bookplate at end. €375 Yeats and John Masefield were close friends, sharing a love of the sea and a fascination with stories of pirates and sailors. Dedicated by John Masefield to his friend Jack Yeats. Portrait frontispiece of William Dampier.

The college was opened on March 25, 1904 at Queen's Park West by Governor Sir Alfred Maloney, who described it as "magnificent" and "handsome".

416. YEATS, Jack B. Life in the West of Ireland. Drawn and painted by Jack B. Yeats. Dublin and London: Maunsel and Company, 1912. Quarto. pp. [vii], 120. Blue cloth, publisher's device and title in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine. Out of series copy of an edition of 150 copies. A fine copy. Scarce. €1,250 Jack B. Yeats (1871-1957), undoubtedly Ireland's most famous painter, a committed nationalist and brother of one of Ireland's greatest poets, W.B. Yeats, was born in London and at the age of eight returned to Sligo where he was brought up by his grandparents, the Pollexfens. In his paintings the love of the common people shines through. It was the everyday life of Ireland which sparked his genius - the fairs, circuses, race meetings, sailors and farmers, tramps and beggars, trams and city streets, shop keepers, coachmen, boxers and ballad singers, etc., all feature in his work, in which he expresses an intense sympathy for the underdog, the outcast and the outsider. The present volume illustrates all those scenes in his beloved West of Ireland.

With 8 colour prints tipped in, 77 line drawings, and 16 reproductions from paintings of the artist.

417. YEATS, Jack B. Cumann Léigheacht an Phobail. Modern Aspects of Irish Art. Dublin: Cumann Léigheacht an Phobail, 1922. pp. 11. Library buckram with original illustrated wrappers bound in. Ex. library copy with cancellation stamp. A good copy. Exceedingly rare. €175 No copy located on COPAC. 126

De Búrca Ra re Books Imprimatur by Éamon de Valera on inside front wrapper in Irish and English. This is Jack Yeats' only formal essay on his art. It is of the greatest interest to students of his work, but has never been reprinted or republished, and to this day is still only available in the first edition.

The President of the Association was Mrs Alice Stopford Green and its Vice President was Erskine Childers.

IRISH PLACE NAMES 418. [YEATS, Jack B.] Player's Cigarette Cards. A complete set of the first and second series of Irish Place Names cigarette cards. Fifty cards, beautifully illustrated in vibrant colours by Jack B. Yeats with the names in English, Irish, literal meaning and historical commentary on verso.

Published by John Player & Sons, Dublin, circa 1934. All in very good to fine condition. [See NLI Newsletter, Winter 2009]. €475 419. YEATS, Jack B. In Sand. A Play with The Green Wave. A one act Conversation Piece.

Edited and with a preface by Jack MacGowran and with a drawing by the author. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1964. First edition. pp. 79. Quarter vellum parchment on light brown paper boards, with Yeats's monogram in black on upper cover and title in gilt on spine. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. €85 420. YEATS, Jack B. Broadside Characters: Drawings by Jack B. Yeats. Introduction by Anne Yeats. With eight hand-coloured drawings. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1971. Quarto. Dark blue cloth, with hand-coloured illustration and title inset on front cover. Limited edition, one of 300 copies (No. 149). Uncut. A superb copy. €575

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De Búrca Ra re Books Contains eight hand-coloured plates, a coloured titlepage vignette, repeated on upper cover. These illustrations were printed from the original blocks on heavy cartridge and hand-coloured under the supervision of Anne Yeats. Each illustration is presented on a single sheet, verso blank: a superb production, entirely worthy of the original Cuala tradition.

421. YEATS, Jack B. A Little Book of Bookplates. Illustrated. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1979. First edition. pp. viii, 13 (plates). Limited edition of 350 copies (Number 38). Fine in illustrated paper wrappers. Very scarce. €375 Reproduced mainly from the original blocks, this includes Yeats' designs for John Quinn, Lennox Robinson and his sister Lily, as well as several fine bookplates for lesser-known collectors.

422. [YEATS, W.B.] A Book of Images. Drawn

by W.T. Horton & introduced by W.B. Yeats.

London: At the Unicorn Press, 1898. pp. 61, [2 (publisher's list)], + errata. Pictorial cloth, title in black on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. €65 Wade 255.

423. YEATS, W.B. Essays 1931 to 1936.

Dublin: Cuala Press, 1937. First edition. Tall octavo. pp. [iv], 133. Cream cloth spine over blue paper boards, title in black on upper cover and on printed label on spine. A fine copy. €375 Three hundred copies printed. Ten essays by the great poet, including 'Modern Poetry' and 'Bishop Berkeley'.

424. [YEATS, W.B.] Scattering Branches. Tributes to the Memory of W.B. Yeats. Edited by Stephen Gwynn. London: Macmillan, 1940. pp. viii, 228. Quarter vellum parchment on green marbled boards, with dust jacket. Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh's copy with his signature on front free endpaper. A fine copy. Very rare. €125 With contributions by Stephen Gwynn, Maud Gonne, Sir William Rothenstein, Lennox Robinson, F.R. Higgins, L.A.G. Strong, W.G. Fay, C. Day Lewis, and Edmund Dulac.

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425. YEATS, W.B. Pages From a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty. Woodcut of Giraldus on titlepage. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1944. First edition. pp. iv, 58. Quarter cream linen on yellow paper boards, title in black on upper cover and on printed label on spine. Edition limited to 280 copies. From the library of Elizabeth Rivers with her signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. €275 Wade 207. Miller 75.

426. YOUNG, Edward. The Universal Passion, Satire V. On Women. Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, For George Ewing, at the Angel and Bible in Dame's-Street, 1728. pp. [2], 26. A very good copy in modern wrappers. Very rare. €235 COPAC locates 6 copies only.

427. YOUNG, Filson. The Joy of the Road: An Appreciation of the Motor Car. Frontispiece after Paul Gervais. London: Methuen, 1907. pp. 66. Quarter vellum parchment over pale bluegreen boards. Limited edition of 600 copies worldwide, 500 in Great Britain. Signed presentation copy from the author to 'Henry and Eve Chisholm on their wedding'. Some wear to covers, corners bumped, otherwise a very good copy. Very scarce. €125 COPAC locates 6 copies only.

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De Búrca Ra re Books RARE DERRY IMPRINT 428. YOUNG, Robert. The Ulster Harmonist: Consisting of Constitutional Songs, Original and Selected, with Historical and Biographical Notes. Derry: Printed for the author at the Sentinel Office, Pump-Street, 1840. pp. xi, [1], 200. Mauve patterned cloth, title on printed label on spine.

From the library of Robert Montgomery, Conboy, with his armorial stamp on front pastedown and his signature on titlepage. Exceedingly rare. €475 COPAC locates 3 copies only. Not in NLI. Robert Young known as "The Fermanagh True Blue", was born in 1800 at or near Fintona, County Tyrone. He was a nailor by trade, but made a good deal of money out of his poems, in which he fairly assailed the Catholics. He was awarded £50 a year by the government in the sixties, ostensibly for literary ability, but as he had none, it must have been for political services. His latest volume was dedicated to the Earl of Enniskillen.

BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER 429. YOUNGER, Calton. Ireland's Civil War. With numerous illustrations. London: Muller, 1968. First edition. pp. viii, 534. Black paper boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. €60 A definitive account of the struggle between brothers from the first disarming shots to the final bitterness engendered by assassination and execution. Younger's painstaking research depicts all the implications, political and human, throwing new light on this most tragic episode in Ireland's history.

ADDENDA 430. [ANON] Observations on a Pamphlet Lately Published by an Officer; entitled "Impartial Relation of the Military Operations which took place in Ireland, in August, 1798. Dublin, Printed for T. Stewart, Military Stationer, 1799. pp. 14. Recent half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt along spine. A very good copy in recent quarter morocco solander box. Exceedingly rare. €1,450 COPAC locates 4 copies only. Not in NLI. ESTC T177590 with 4 locations only.

The anonymous author of this pamphlet refutes parts of Taylor's account of General Humbert's invasion and in particular the latter's victory at Castlebar: "Unfortunately in the case before us, from what this officer has said and from what he has omitted to say; from what he has shewn in the map which he has attached to his pamphlet, and from what he has omitted to shew; it is evident that he was not himself a witness to the attack made by the French at Castlebar". See item 436.

431. [BLACK, William] Shandon Bells: A Novel. By William Black, author of "Macleod of Dare," "Sunrise," etc. London: MacMillan and Co. 1883. pp. (1) viii, 271, 32 (2) vi, 296 (3) vi, 293, 2. With half-titles. Blue cloth, titled in gilt. Spines rebacked. Some thumbing, fading to cloth, corners bumped. A good set. Exceedingly rare. €675 Loeber 153. COPAC locates 5 copies only. NUC (1 copy - TCD). NLI holds a set.

William Black (1841-1898) journalist and novelist was born in Glasgow. During his own lifetime Black's novels were immensely popular, and were compared favourably with those of Anthony Trollope. Queen Victoria was a fan. Most of his novels are set in Celtic Scotland and include graphic descriptions of the beautiful scenery there.

This work is set partly in County Cork and then moves to London. It tells the story of a young man Willie Fitzgerald, who goes to London in search of fame and fortune. He is disappointed in love and turns to love of nature.

The character of Willie Fitzgerald is based on the journalist William Barry. E.D.J. Wilson of 'The Times', an eminent Corkonian, spoke of Barry as "a good-looking, modest, young fellow under middle height". Wilson and Fitzgerald regularly met at Justin McCarthy's house in the 1860s, and the latter recalled "Mr. William Barry, who was making a rapid way into literature and journalism until his bright lamp was all too early quenched by death". Barry was born in Cork in 1841, the son of an innkeeper (if the novel is to be trusted) and served his apprenticeship to journalism on one of the Cork papers. He migrated to Dublin and then to London in 1865 to succeed Wm. Black as editor of The Examiner.

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De Búrca Ra re Books 432. [CORK PHOTOGRAPHS] A Collection of six very rare and large Photographs of Cork City and County including one of County Kerry. Included are: Shandon Church; Mardyke; Pilgrims at the Shrine, Gougane Barra; Patrick Street; Pilgrims at the Holy Well, Gougane Barra; The Old Man of the Gap, Killarney by Guy and Company Cork. Circa 1890. 295 x 242mm.

Photographs evenly faded but all in very good condition. €900

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De Búrca Ra re Books 433. [FEMALE MODEL SCHOOL] Simple Directions in Needle-Work and Cutting out: intended for the Use of the Female National Schools of Ireland. To which are added specimens of work, executed by the pupils of the Female National Model School. Illustrated with three plates, and thirty-nine design samples on a variety of textiles tipped onto printed green card mounts.

Dublin, Edinburgh & London, 1861. Large octavo. Some light spotting to text leaves, one sample loose. In very good condition. €5,750 The idea of creating a Model School in Dublin was first entertained in Lord Stanley's letter of 1831, which outlined the terms of the proposed national education system. It charged the Board of National Education with the task of "Establishing and maintaining a model school in Dublin and training teachers for country schools". Years later the commissioners defined the fundamental objectives of an archetypal Model School as follows: To promote the united education of Protestants and Roman Catholics in Common schools; To exhibit the best examples of National schools. To give a preparatory training to young teachers.

In 1834, three years after the establishment of the national system of primary education in Ireland, the first Model School was opened in Upper Merrion Street, Dublin. This institution was central to a larger system of provincial, or District Model Schools which were established throughout Ireland over the next fifteen years. Model Schools were teacher-training institutions under the auspices of the Commissioners of the Board of National Education. Once in place, the Model School system was not only essential in its capacity to train and thus supply the national schools with competent teachers, but, as the name states, Model Schools also served as models for the ordinary schools in the national system. The Model Schools were the cornerstone of the national system, providing for the vitality of the system both in their capacity to train suitable teachers and to exhibit an exemplary education.

The original plan intended that only male students would be trained for the office of teacher. Female student teachers were not accepted until 1842. The school system was to be funded and administered exclusively by the commissioners of the board. This last point was significant because it prompted the hostile reaction of the Roman Catholic hierarchy to the Model School system. Unlike the ordinary national schools, which in many cases became de facto denominational schools, the Model School system was not, in theory or practice, denominational.

434. MILTON, Thomas. Select Views in Ireland; from Seats and Demesnes of the Nobility and Gentry of that Kingdom. Engraved by Thomas Milton, from original paintings and drawings.

London: Published by Hurst, Robinson, and Co. (Late Boydell) 90, Cheapside; and T. Milton, 3, Martlett-Court, Bow-Street, Covent Garden, 1821. Oblong octavo. pp. [1], 47, 24 (plates). Near contemporary half green morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on green morocco label on upper cover and in gilt direct on professionally rebacked spine. Occasional light foxing mainly to margins of plates as is usual. A very good copy of an extremely rare topographical item. €1,450

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The engravings for Seats and Demesnes of the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland were made between the years 1783-1794 and issued in six parts each containing four views with descriptive texts. This extended publishing period led to differences in printings, which make the Milton a fascinating book.

Different manufactures of paper were used in the originals, each with their own distinctive watermarks, some of them beautiful in themselves. There were at least two different type settings of the descriptive texts and many variations in the printings of the plates have been noticed.

These twenty four engravings of Thomas Milton are arguably the finest there are of their kind. Milton (1743-1827) was not prolific. His output was small, his work superb. Sometime a governor of the Society of Engravers, London; Milton came to Dublin in 1783 and established a practice. Quite clearly, 132

De Búrca Ra re Books Milton was an engraver of the front rank with a powerful and distinctive technique. W. C. Bell Scott, in his Autobiographical Notes had this to say. Milton "... had the unique power of distinguishing the foliage of trees and the texture of all bodies, especially water, as it had never been done before and never will be done again". The artists who painted the original pictures from which Milton engraved his plates included: Francis Wheatley, William Ashford, Thomas Roberts, and William Pars.

Milton was a grand-nephew of John Milton, the poet and author of Paradise Lost.

435. MORGAN, John. The Attorney's Vade Mecum, and Client's Instructor : Treating of Actions: (such as are now most in use;) of Prosecuting and Defending them: of the Pleadings and Law. Also Hue and Cry. ... In two volumes. ... To the second volume is added an Appendix, Containing a few Precedents, being Copies of Complete Records. Two volumes in one. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Chamberlaine, Burnet, Lynch, H. Whitestone, Moore, and Jones, 1787. pp.

(1) xiv, [24], 312 (2) [2], 295. Contemporary full calf, title and volume numbers on contrasting labels. Wear to covers and spine with minute loss; corners bumped. Traces of ink-stain on lower foredge and spilling to some of lower margin. New endpapers. Signature of Charles McCarthy, dated at Dublin, May 1835 on titlepage. €575 ESTC N5146. COPAC locates 2 copies only and states a third volume was published in 1788.

436. O’CONNOR, Frank. The Saint and Mary Kate. London: Macmillan and Co., 1932. First edition. pp. [8], 301, [2]. Green cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Inscribed by Frank O'Connor and with a four line verse in German, dated May 3rd. 1932. Fading to spine. In exceedingly rare but frayed dust jacket. €375

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De BĂşrca Ra re Books Frank O'Connor, pseudonym of Michael O'Donovan (1903-1966), was born in Cork and educated by the Christian Brothers. He was a prolific author and is best known for his short stories and memoirs.

The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, is named in his honour.

O'Connor's early life was marked by his father's alcoholism, debt, and ill-treatment of his mother. His childhood was shaped in part by his mother, who supplied much of the family's income because his father was unable to keep steady employment. O'Connor adored his mother and was bitterly resentful of his father. In his memoirs, he recalled his childhood as "those terrible years", and admitted that he had never been able to forgive his father.

In 1918 O'Connor joined the First Brigade of the Irish Republican Army and served in combat during the Irish War of Independence. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and joined the Anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War, working in a small propaganda unit in Cork City. He was one of twelve thousand Anti-Treaty combatants who were interned by the government of the new Irish Free State.

Between 1922 and 1923 O'Connor was imprisoned in Cork City Gaol and in Gormanston, County Meath.

Following his release, O'Connor took various positions including that of teacher of Irish, theatre director, and librarian. He began to move in literary circles and was befriended by AE (George William Russell), through whom he came to know most of the well-known Irish writers of the day, including Yeats, Lennox Robinson and Augusta Gregory. In his memoirs, he pays tribute to both Yeats and Russell for the help and encouragement they gave him. In 1935, O'Connor became a member of the board of directors of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, founded by W. B. Yeats and other members of the Irish National Theatre Society. In 1937, he became managing director of the Abbey. Following Yeats' death in 1939, O'Connor's long-standing conflict with other board members came to a head and he left the Abbey later that year. In 1950, he accepted invitations to teach in the United States, where many of his short stories had been published in The New Yorker and won great acclaim.

Frank O'Connor had a stroke while teaching at Stanford University in 1961, and later died from a heart attack in Dublin. He was buried in Deansgrange Cemetery.

437. [TAYLOR, Sir Herbert] Impartial Relation of the Military Operations which took place in Ireland, in consequence of the landing of a body of French Troops, under General Humbert, in August, 1798. By an Officer, who served in the Corps, under the Command of His Excellency Marquis Cornwallis. With folding map, plan, and table. Dublin: Printed for J. Milliken, 32 Grafton-Street, 1799. pp. [ii], 69. Recent full calf, title in gilt along spine. Slight browning to a few leaves. A very good copy in quarter morocco solander box. Exceedingly rare. â‚Ź1,650 ESTC T198207 locates the BCL and TCD copies only.

Sir Herbert Taylor (1775-1839), lieutenant-general. A noted linguist, was employed by Lord Grenville as his secretary and in the Foreign Office. In July, 1798 Taylor accompanied the newly appointed Lord Lieutenant, Lord Cornwallis to Ireland, in the threefold capacity of aide-de-camp, military secretary, and private secretary. In this pamphlet he exonerates the actions of Cornwallis and the operations of the army in suppressing the rebellion. There is a detailed listing of the militias with their commanding 134

De BĂşrca Ra re Books officers, a map with the itinerary of the French and the pursuing British forces, return of those killed or wounded, names of prisoners. An excellent account of the 'Races of Castlebar' is also given.

Taylor became private secretary to the new king, William IV, in 1830. On the death of the king in 1837 he retired, although he was first and principal aide de camp to Queen Victoria 1837-39.

He became a Major-General in 1813, and a Lieutenant-General in 1825. He was Master of St Katherine's Hospital, Regent's Park, and Master Surveyor and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance from 1828. He died in 1839. The monument to him at St. Katherine's is by the sculptor Peter Rouw.

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De Búrca Ra re Books PRINCIPAL SOURCES CONSULTED BEST BLACK BONAR LAW BRADSHAW COPAC CRAIG CRAIG CRONE DE BURCA DIX D.I.B. D.N.B. ELLMAN ELMES & HEWSON E.S.T.C. FERGUSON, Paul GILBERT GILCHER HALKETT & LANG HERBERT HICKEY & DOHERTY HOGAN KELLY, James KENNEDY, Máire KEYNES KINANE KRESS LOEBER LYNAM McCREADY McDONNELL & HEALY McDONNELL McGEE McTERNAN MELVIN MILLER MUNTER N.S.T.C. NEWMAN O’DONOGHUE O’FARRELL O’HIGGINS O’REILLY PATERSON PHILLIPS POLLARD POLLARD PYLE SLATER SLOCUM & CAHOON STC SWEENEY WADE WALL WARE WEBB WIKIPEDIA WING WOLF & FLEMIMG

Bibliography of Irish Philology & of Printed Irish Literature, 1913.

Catalogue of Pamphlets on Economic Subjects 1750-1900 in Irish Libraries.

The Printed Maps of Ireland 1612-1850, Dublin, 1997.

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.

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Rosenbach. Cleveland and New York, 1960.

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A SELECTION OF FINE BOOKS FROM OUR PUBLISHING HOUSE B1. BÉASLAÍ, Piaras. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland. Two volumes. A new introduction by Brian P. Murphy, O.S.B. With two portraits in full colour by Sir John Lavery, and other illustrations to each volume. This major work on Michael Collins is by one of his closest friends. An item which is now commanding in excess of four figures in the auction houses. Dublin: De Búrca, 2008. pp. (1) xxxii, 292, (2) vi, 328.

The limited edition in full green goatskin gilt with a medallion portrait and signature of Collins also in gilt. Housed in a fine slipcase. It includes the list of subscribers. Last few copies. €475 The general edition is limited to 1,000 sets superbly bound in green buckram, with a medallion portrait embossed in gilt on the €95 upper covers, and in slipcase.

Michael Collins (1890-1922), was born at Woodfield, Clonakilty, County Cork, the son of a small farmer. Educated locally, and at the age of sixteen went to London as a clerk in the Post Office. He joined the I.R.B. in London. During Easter Week he was Staff Captain and ADC to James Connolly in the GPO. With The O’Rahilly he led the first party out of the GPO immediately before its surrender. Arrested, imprisoned and released in December 1916.

After the victory of Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election and the establishment of Dáil Éireann as the Irish parliament he was made Minister of Home Affairs and later Minister for Finance, and organised the highly successful National Loan. A most capable organiser with great ability and physical energy, courage and force of character, he was simultaneously Adjutant General of the Volunteers, Director of Organisation, Director of Intelligence and Minister for Finance. He organised the supply of arms for the Volunteers and set up a crack intelligence network and an execution squad nicknamed Twelve Apostles. He was for a long time the most wanted man in Ireland but he practically eliminated the British Secret Service with the Bloody Sunday morning operation.

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Edmund Burke Publisher Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland is the official biography of a great soldier-statesman and the first authentic history of the rebirth of a nation. Written with inner knowledge by an intimate friend and comrade-in-arms who served with Collins on Headquarters Staff and who shared in many of his amazing adventures and hairsbreadth escapes.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PETER HARBISON B2. BORLASE, William G. The Dolmens of Ireland. Their distribution, structural characteristics, and affinities in other countries; together with the folk-lore attaching to them; supplemented by considerations on the anthropology, ethnology, and traditions of the Irish people. With over 800 illustrations (including 3 coloured plates), and 4 coloured folding maps.

Three volumes. Full buckram decorated in gilt to a Celtic design. With slipcase. Edition limited to 300 sets, with 'List of Subscribers'. â‚Ź295.

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

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Edmund Burke Publisher B3. BOURKE [de Búrca], Éamonn. Burke People and Places. With clan location maps, illustrations and 50 pages of genealogies. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher and Whitegate, Ballinakella Press, 2001. Fourth. pp. 173. Fine in stiff illustrated wraps.

Enlarged with an extra 35 pages of genealogies. €20

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

Dublin: De Búrca, 2001. Folio. pp. xii, 44 (plates), 134. Fine in fine d.j. €20 LIMITED EDITION ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL IRISH BOOKS B5. COLGAN, John. Triadis Thaumaturgae, seu Divorum Patricii, Columbae et Brigidae, trium veteris et maioris Scotiae, seu Hiberniae Sanctorum Insulae, Communium Patronorum Acta, a Variis, iisque pervetustis, ac Sanctis authoribus Scripta, ac studio R.P.F. Joannis Colgani, in Conventu FF Minor, Hibernor. strictior. observ. Louanii, S. Theologiae Lectorius Jubilati. Ex variis Bibliothecis collecta, Scholiis et commentariis illustrata, et pluribus Appendicibus aucta: complectitur Tomus Secundus Sacrarum ejusdem insulae Antiquitatum - Louvain 1647. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, 1997. We have republished ‘one of the rarest of all Irish books’, with a new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain. The edition is limited to 300 copies, and handsomely bound in blue quarter morocco, title on spine, top edge gilt, red silk marker. Fine in slipcase. €190 Lecky described this volume: “as one of the most interesting collections of Lives of the saints in the world. It is very shameful that it has not been reprinted”. The new introduction by Pádraig Ó Riain, contains the first published account of Colgan’s recently discovered manuscript notes to the Triadis.

This reprint should stimulate further the growing interest in the history of the Irish saints.

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B6. COSTELLO, Willie. A Connacht Man’s Ramble. Recollections of growing up in rural Ireland of the thirties and forties. With an introduction by Dr. Tom Mitchell. Illustrated by Gerry O’Donovan and front cover watercolour by James MacIntyre. Map on end-papers. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Fourth edition. pp. xii, 211. Fine in French flaps. €15 A deeply personal collection of memories and a valuable account of Irish history including cattle fairs, threshing, rural electrification, interspersed with stories of the matchmaker, the town crier, the chimney sweep and the blacksmith. Over two thousand copies sold in the first week of publication.

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Edmund Burke Publisher B7. COSTELLO, Willie. The Rambling House. Tales from the West of Ireland. Illustrated by Gerry O Donovan and front cover water-colour by James McIntyre. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. pp. x, 111. Fine in French flaps. €15 B8. CUSACK, M.F. A History of the Kingdom of Kerry. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. pp. xvi, 453, 6 (extra maps), lxxxiii. Fine in full buckram, with illustrated coloured dustjacket depicting Jobson’s manuscript map of Kerry 1598. €45 Margaret Cusack’s History of the Kingdom of Kerry is an excellent work treating of the history, topography, antiquities and genealogy of the county. There is an excellent account of the families of: The O’Sullivans and MacCarthys; Geraldine Genealogies; The Knights of Kerry and Glyn; Population and Religion; Agricultural Information; St. Brendan; Dingle in the Sixteenth Century; Ardfert; The Geology and Botany of Kerry; Deep Sea Fisheries; Kerry Rivers and Fishing etc.

LIMITED EDITION B9. DALTON, Charles Ed. by. King Charles The Second’s Irish Army Lists, 1661 - 1685.

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

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

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

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

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

Dun Laoghaire harbour, recognised as one of the most picturesque in Europe, was built early in the 19th century as the consequence of an explosion of popular anger at the continuous deaths from shipwreck in Dublin Bay. The most competent and experienced navigators at that time described the port of Dublin as the most perilous in the whole world for a ship to leave or approach in certain circumstances. Thanks largely to the efficiency and foresight of Captain Hutchison, the first Harbour Master, the port built as an ‘Asylum’ harbour or port of refuge, became with the introduction of steamdriven passenger and mail carrying ships the busiest port on the eastern shore of the Irish Sea, also a leading fishing port and popular yachting centre.

B11. DE COURCY IRELAND, John. History of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. With numerous illustrations and maps. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2002.

Second edition. pp. xiv, 184. Fine in fine d.j. €20 B12. DONOHOE, Tony. The History of Crossmolina. Foreword by Thomas Gildea Cannon.

Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003. Roy 8vo. pp. xviii, 627. Buckram gilt in d.j. 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 143

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B13. [FAMINE IN IRELAND] Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends during the famine in Ireland, 1846 and 1847. With an index by Rob Goodbody. Dublin: De Búrca, 1996. pp. xliii, 529. Fine in buckram gilt. €35 It is difficult to read unmoved some of the detailed testimony contained in this volume of the reports of the envoys sent out by the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, who found out for themselves what was really going on during the Famine in remote country areas.

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

An important and scholarly work on one of the most celebrated places of historic interest in Ireland. In medieval times it was the ecclesiastical capital of Munster. Conquered by the Eoghanacht tribe (MacCarthys) led by Conall Corc in the fifth century who set up a fortress on St. Patrick’s Rock. They ruled over the fertile plains of Munster unchallenged and their title King of Cashel remained synonymous with that of King of Munster. In law and tradition the kings of Cashel knew no superior and did not acknowledge the overlordship of Tara for five hundred years.

Fr. John Gleeson (1855-1927), historian, was born near Nenagh, County Tipperary into a wealthy farming family. Educated locally and at Maynooth. Appointed curate of Lorrha and Templederry, later parish priest of Lorrha and Knock in 1893 and Lorrha in 1908. A prolific writer and meticulous researcher, he also wrote History of the Ely O’Carroll Territory or Ancient Ormond.

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Edmund Burke Publisher B15. HARRISON, Alan. The Dean’s Friend. Anthony Raymond (1675-1726), Jonathan Swift and the Irish Language. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1999. pp. xv, 175. Fine in fine illustrated d.j. €35 The book introduces us to 17th and 18th century Ireland and to the interface between the two languages and the two cultures. It is a fascinating study of the troubled period after the Battle of the Boyne, encompassing historiography and antiquarianism; contemporary linguistic study and the sociolinguistics of the two languages in contact; Swift and his friends in that context; and the printing and publishing of books in Stuart and early-Georgian Ireland.

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

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

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

ANNALS OF ULSTER B17. HENNESSY, William M. & MacCARTHY, B. Ed. by. The Annals of Ulster, otherwise Annala Senait. A chronicle of Irish Affairs from A.D. 431 to A.D. 1540. With translation, notes, and index. New introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Dublin: De Búrca, 1998. Four volumes. Full buckram gilt in slipcase. €285 Also available in a special limited edition of 50 sets, bound in full brown morocco gilt, signed by the publisher. €850 The important Annals of Ulster compiled by Cathal Og Mac Maghnusa at Seanaidh Mac Maghnusa, now Belle Isle in Lough Erne, were so named by the noted ecclesiastic, Ussher, on account of their containing many chronicles relating to that province. They contain more detail on ecclesiastical history than the Annals of the Four Masters, and were consulted by Br. Michael O’Clery, Chief of the Four Masters, for his masterpiece.

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Edmund Burke Publisher LIMITED EDITION B18. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. The Annals of Lough Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited and with a translation by W.M. Hennessy. With folding coloured plate of the TCD Ms. Two volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Third. pp. (1) lix, 653, (2) 689. Bound in half green morocco on splash marbled boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands, title and volume in second and fourth, third and fifth tooled in gilt to a centre Celtic design. Green and gold head and tail bands. T.e.g. Superb in presentation slipcase. €450 These Annals were compiled under the patronage of Brian MacDermott, Chief of Moylurg, who resided in his castle on an island in Lough Key, near Boyle, County Roscommon. They begin with the Battle of Clontarf and continue up to 1636 treating on the whole with Irish affairs, but have many entries of English, Scottish and continental events. They are a primary source for the history of North Connaught. The compilers were of that noted learned family of O’Duignans. The only original copy of these Annals known to exist is a small vellum manuscript which was presented to Trinity by Dr. Leland in 1766.

B19. HENNESSY, William M. Ed. by. The Annals of Lough Cé. A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590. Edited and with a translation by W.M. Hennessy. With folding coloured plate of the TCD Ms. Two volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2000. Third. pp. (1) lix, 653, (2) 689. Superb set bound in full buckram gilt and in presentation slipcase. €110 HIS NEVER-FORGOTTEN COUNTRYSIDE ABOUT GLENOSHEEN B20. JOYCE, P.W. Irish Names of Places. With a new introductory essay on the life of P.W. Joyce by Mainchín Seoighe. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Three volumes. pp. (1) xl, 589, (2) viii, 538, (3) x, 598. Fine. €165

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B21. KILROY, Patricia. Fall of the Gaelic Lords. 1534-1616. Dublin: By Éamonn De Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2008. pp. x, 192. Illustrated. Fine in illustrated d.j. €29.50 No period in Irish history is quite so full of drama, heroism and tragedy as the eighty-odd years from the mid 16th to the early 17th centuries: the age of the fall of the Gaelic lords. This intriguing and moving narrative recounts the passing of Gaelic Ireland when the Tudor Crown sought to subdue the island and the Irish chiefs defended their ancient territories and way of life.

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

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

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

B22. KNOX, Hubert Thomas. The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. With illustrations and three maps. Castlebourke: De Búrca, 2000. Roy. 8vo. pp. xvi, 451. Fine in fine d.j. €45 Prime historical reference work on the history of the County Mayo from the earliest times to 1600. It deals at length with the De Burgo Lordship of Connaught. Illustrated with a large folding detailed map of the county, coloured in outline. There are 49 pages of genealogies of the leading families of Mayo: O’Connor, MacDonnell Galloglass, Bourke Mac William Iochtar, Gibbons, Jennings, Philbin, Barret, Joyce, Jordan, Costello, etc.

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Edmund Burke Publisher LIMITED TO 200 COPIES B23. LOEBER, Rolf & Magda. Ed. by. Irish Poets and their Pseudonyms in Early Periodicals.

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

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

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

B24. LOHAN, Máire. An ‘Antiquarian Craze’. The life, times and work in archaeology of Patrick Lyons R.I.C. (1861-1954). Dublin: By Éamonn De Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2008. pp. xiv, 192. Illustrated. Fine in coloured illustrated stiff wraps. €19.50 Born in 1861, Sgt. Patrick Lyons, ‘The Antiquarian Policeman’, served with the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1886 - 1920. While stationed in the West of Ireland, he developed a keen interest in documenting the fieldmonuments he noticed on his patrols. His discovery of four ogham stones led to a correspondence with Hubert Knox, a renowned Mayo Antiquarian; Lyons provided Knox with important descriptions of field monuments, contributing to 19 published papers. Out of modesty, and fear that the R.I.C. would frown on his ‘antiquarian craze’, he preferred not to be acknowledged by name, although he was much admired for his fine mind and dedicated antiquarian ‘policework’ by those few with whom he shared his interest.

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

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

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

B25. MacEVILLY, Michael. A Splendid Resistance. A Life of IRA Chief of Staff Dr. Andy Cooney. Foreword by Sean O Mahony. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 2011. pp. xix, 427.

Paperback in coloured illustrated French flaps. €20 Hardback in coloured illustrated dustjacket. €50 Limited edition of 50 copies in full green morocco gilt, in slipcase. €225 The appointment of Andy (Andrew) Cooney as Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) while still a medical student was the highpoint of a military career which began in 1917 and was not to end until 1944. Prior to this he had served as a Volunteer, GHQ Officer, Brigade Commander and Divisional Commander before being appointed to the IRA General Staff with the rank of Quartermaster-General in 1924 and Chief of Staff in 1925, at which time he was elected as Chairman of the IRA Executive. Cooney was to retain this post until 1927. Afterwards, he remained close to the IRA General Staff until he emigrated to the USA. 148

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

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

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

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Edmund Burke Publisher EDITION LIMITED TO 10 SIGNED SETS B26. MacFHIRBHISIGH, Dubhaltach. The Great Book of Irish Genealogies - Leabhar Genealach. Edited, with translation and indices by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. List of subscribers. Five volumes. Dublin: De Búrca, 2003/4. 4to. Bound in qtr green morocco on cloth boards. Spine divided into six compartments by five raised bands. Title and author/editor on maroon morocco letterpieces in the second and fourth, the remainder tooled in gilt to an interlacing Celtic design.

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

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

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

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

B28. MARTIN, Edward A. A Dictionary of Bookplates of Irish Medical Doctors. With short biographies. Illustrated. Dublin: De BĂşrca, 2003. pp. xiv, 160. Illustrated boards in d.j. â‚Ź36

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

Standard edition €75 Limited edition €255 This work is based on a Trinity College Dublin Ph.D. thesis prepared under the direction of Professor L.M. Cullen. It investigates and describes the varied origins and foundation of estates and proprietors in Galway and how that process was affected by the political turmoils and transplantations of the 17th century. The aftermath of these turmoils in England and Ireland saw the establishment of a core number of successful estates founded largely by ambitious families able to trim their sails to changing times and opportunities. Alongside these estates there remained at the same time a fluctuating mass of smaller proprietors whose lands frequently fell to more able or business-like landowners. Penal laws and poor land quality resulted in exile – sometimes temporary - for many of the older Catholic landowners.

The book describes how, by the 19th century, the variously rooted strands of proprietors became bound together by the common interest of property, security and class and survived with their social if not political influence largely intact through the 19th century. The role of this large and diverse gentry class in local administration, politics, social life and as landlords is described in some detail. The size of the county and complexity of changing estate history prevents the book from being exhaustive or a complete history of all estates and gentry families. These Anglo-Irish families (the term is unsatisfactory) became largely sidelined, irrelevant and forgotten by the modern nationalist Irish state. Their numbers and variety in Galway is made clear through a large range of house illustrations.

Many of the old landed class and nobility embodied values worthwhile in society. The wealthiest were patrons of much of the culture and art of old Europe. They stood for continuity, tradition, a sense of public duty, standards and refinement in manners. Many of them fostered the pursuit of outdoor sports and horseracing. They linked their frequently remote places to the wider world and they were at the same time cosmopolitan and local without being parochial. Although a declining social force they frequently held liberal attitudes against the power and dominance of

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The contents include: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Origins and Establishments of Estates; Estates and Estate Management; The Social Life of the Gentry; Marriage, Family and Careers; The Gentry as Landlords; The County and Local Roll of the Gentry; The Gentry and Politics; Ideas of Class and Historical Identity; Review and Retrospect.

B30. NELSON, E. Charles & WALSH, Wendy F. An Irish Flower Garden Replanted. The Histories of Some of Our Garden Plants. With coloured and Chinese ink illustrations by Wendy F. Walsh. Second edition revised and enlarged. Dublin: Edmund Burke Publisher, 1997. pp. x, 276. €65 “This book has been out of print for almost a decade, and in the intervening years many things have happened both in my own life and in the interwoven lives of my friends and colleagues, and gardens and their plants. I have also learnt more about the garden plants that we cultivate in Ireland. A new edition was required, and I have taken the opportunity to augment the original text. I have added a chapter on roses, based on my address to the ninth World Rose Convention held in Belfast during 1991, and I have drawn into this book, in edited form, a scattering of essays that were published elsewhere and the unpublished scripts for talks which I gave on Sunday Miscellany broadcast by Radio Telefis Eireann. I have also made corrections, and altered a few names to bring them up-to-date. In a few instances, the previously published history has been revised in the light of my more recent research” - Dr. E.C. Nelson.

The book is lavishly illustrated by Wendy Walsh, with 21 coloured plates (including ten new watercolours for this edition), eighteen figures in Chinese inks and nine vignettes in pencil.

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

With a new introduction by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Three volumes. Dublin: By Éamonn de Búrca, for Edmund Burke Publisher, 1996. Bound in full green buckram, with harp in gilt on upper covers. Head and tail bands. pp. (1) xviii, 664, (2), xix, 392 (3) xxiv, 711. Fine. €235 O’Curry’s twenty-one Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, delivered at the College during the terms 1855 and 1856 were published with an appendix in one volume. They are a mine of information on the subject of our Irish manuscripts and are illustrated with numerous facsimile specimens.

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

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, 153

Edmund Burke Publisher medieval history and archaeology, has been exceedingly difficult to come by (even in some reputable libraries) for the best part of a century. It is therefore greatly to be welcomed that it is now being made available again, by De Búrca Books - not just for the sake of present day scholars but also for the general reader who will derive from its pages much enjoyment and enlightenment about the lifestyle and general culture of our ancient forebears”.

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

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

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

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

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 154

Edmund Burke Publisher down to the present. His translations are still superior in reliability to those of Hennessy, MacCarthy or Freeman to name three editor-translators of other Irish Annals ... his footnotes are a mine of information”.

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

B33. SWEENEY, Tony. Catalogue Raisonné of Irish Stuart Silver. A Short Descriptive Catalogue of Surviving Irish Church, Civic, Ceremonial & Domestic Plate dating from the Reigns of James I, Charles I, The Commonwealth, Charles II, James II, William & Mary, William III & Queen Anne 1603-1714. Illustrated. Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Folio. pp. 272. In a fine buckram binding by Museum Bookbinding and printed in Dublin by Betaprint. Signed and numbered limited edition of 400 copies, 360 of which are for sale. Fine in illustrated d.j. €135 Compiled from records of holdings by Cathedrals, Churches, Religious Houses, Colleges, Municipal Corporations, Museums & Art Galleries. Further information has been obtained from those who deal in and those who collect Antique Silver, with special regard to Auction Sales.

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

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 155

Edmund Burke Publisher over a period of thirty-five years. Dr. Sweeney was also a form analyst with the Irish Times, and author of two previous books Irish Stuart Silver, a Catalogue Raisonné (1995) and Ireland and the Printed Word (1997), for which he was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by the National University of Ireland.

His late wife Annie, a former French stage and screen ballet dancer whose film credits included L’Homme au Parapluie Vert starring Fernanded and Chanteur de Mexico with Luis Mariano. For over a quarter of a century, in her role as turf statistician, she supplied the Irish Times with course facts and figures.

Francis Hyland a former stockbroker turned bookmaker is currently chairman of the Irish National Bookmakers Association. A passionate racing researcher, he co-authored with Guy St. John Williams, histories of the ‘Irish Derby’ and the ‘Jameson Irish Grand National’.

B35. SWEENEY, Tony & Annie, & HYLAND, Francis. The Sweeney Guide to the Irish Turf from 1501-2001. Owners, Trainers, Jockeys, Sires, Records, Great Races, Flat & Jumping, Places of Sport, Past & Present, The Dish Spiced with Anecdotes, Facts, Fancies. Profusely illustrated with coloured plates. Dublin: De Búrca, 2002. Folio. pp. 648. Bound in full buckram gilt. €95 B36. TALBOT, Hayden. Michael Collins’ Own Story. Told to Hayden Talbot. With an introduction by Éamonn de Búrca. Dublin: De Búrca, November, 2012. pp. 256, plus index. Full buckram gilt. And a limited edition of 50 copies only in full goatskin.

Standard edition €45 Limited edition €375

The American journalist Hayden Talbot first met Michael Collins at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin, shortly after the signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty in December 1921. In the course of his working career Talbot had met many important people, but he soon realised that Collins was one of the most remarkable. He admits he had underestimated Collins before he got to know him, but Collins quickly earned his respect not least by his habit of treating everyone, from Arthur Griffith to the “lowliest of his supporters”, with equal consideration and politeness. Talbot made it his business to meet Collins as often as possible and during months of close association Collins impressed him as “the finest character it had ever been my 156

Edmund Burke Publisher 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 which, unfortunately he was given too little time to develop in practice. Rare interviews with Arthur Griffith and Eoin MacNeill further enhance this book, which has long been out of print and hard to find in the antiquarian book market.

Originally published in 1922, our edition has a new introduction and an index which was not in the first edition.

B37. WALDRON, Jarlath. Maamtrasna. The Murders and The Mystery. With location map and engineers map of the route taken by the murderers in 1882, depicting the roads, rivers, mountains, and houses with names of occupants. With numerous illustrations and genealogical chart of the chief protagonists. Dublin: De Búrca, 2004. Fifth edition. pp. 335. Mint in illustrated wrappers with folding flaps. €20 “This is a wonderful book, full of honour, contrast and explanation … driven with translucent compassion … The author has done something more than resurrect the ghosts of the misjudged. He has projected lantern slides of a past culture, the last of Europe’s Iron Age, the cottage poor of the west of Ireland”.

Frank Delaney, The Sunday Times.

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FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION B38. McDONNELL, Joseph. Cork Gold-Tooled Bookbindings of the 18th and 19th Centuries. A Forgotten Heritage. Folio. A limited edition of 250 copies. Illustrated with colour and mono plates.

Ninety six pages, quarto. There will be a printed list of, we would very much appreciate your patronage.

Price approximately â‚Ź150.

This new study reveals for the first time the importance of Cork as a centre of de luxe bookbinding during the eighteenth century, and dispels the widely held belief that only Dublin produced sumptuous gold-tooled bindings during the same period. Examples range from school book prizes, estate maps, to the grandest folios, many previously described in library and booksellers’ catalogues as Dublin workmanship.

Cork is well known for its famous 18th. and 19th. century silver and glass, but now its forgotten heritage of fine bookbinding will be revealed as equally rich and distinctive, attesting to the flourishing book trade in the city.

The limited edition volume will consist of an introductory essay, followed by a fully illustrated and detailed catalogue of the bindings and tools.

We apologise for the delay in publishing this important work. We hope to have it available shortly. Your patronage, as always, will be very much appreciated. For those of you who have already subscribed, can you please confirm that you still want to go ahead.

New subscribers are indeed most welcome.

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