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COLBY (Colonel T. F.)
Ordnance Survey of the County of Londonderry. Volume the First [all published].
First Edition, 4to, hand-coloured geological map of the Parish of Templemore, folding plan of the City of Londonderry (foxed), 8 other plans, 1 view, 7 natural history plates (2 hand-coloured), illustrations in the text, 9, [3], 336, [2], 16 pp., original embossed cloth, hinges shaken.
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BREWSTER (Sir Francis)
New Essays on Trade, wherein the present State of our Trade, it's Great Decay in the Chief Branches of it, and the Fatal Consequence thereof to the Nation (unless timely Remedy'd) is considered, under the most Important Heads of Trade and Navigation.
First Edition, folding table, stab-holes on inner blank margins, [16], 128 pp., disbound. Brewster was the author of "Essays in Trade and Navigation, in Five Parts" (1695). Only the first part, which included evidence of his opposition to the new Bank of England, was published. In 1702 he issued "New Essays on Trade", and the anonymous book "A Discourse Concerning Ireland and the Different Interests Thereof" (1698), relating to the woollen issue, has also been ascribed to him. He died at some point between March 1704 and February 1705. Kress, 2335; Goldsmith, 3857; Hanson, 130.
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RIGHT OF PASTURE.
Prescription Sacred: or, Reasons for opposing the New Demand of Herbage in Ireland.
First edition, 16pp., signatures on title of "G. C - Philip Wolfe.", catchword on p.14 "Tything," modern marbled boards, morocco label, a nice copy. Kress, 4263; The ESTC locates copies at Cambridge, National Library of Ireland; Columbia University, University of California, Los Angeles, and another at Santa Barbara.
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ANDERSON (Christopher)
Historical Sketches of the ancient Native Irish and their descendants; illustrative of their Past and Present State with regard to Literature, Education, and Oral Instruction.
First Edition, 12mo, signature and blind stamp address on half-title, a water stain on first 3 leaves, with the final advertiszement leaf, xviii, [2], 266, [2] pp., orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut, inner hinges cracked, printed paper label. Bradshaw, 7909.
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BOUGEANT (Guillaume-Hyacinthe)
A Philosophical Amusement upon the Language of Beasts. Written originally in French, by Father Bougeant, a famous Jesuit; now confined at La Fleche, on Account of this Work.
First Dublin Edition, no half-title, with the final advertisement leaf, 62 [2]pp., disbound. Father Bougeant was born at Quimper in Brittany, in 1690. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1706, taught classics in the College of Caen and Nevers and lived for a number of years in Paris until his death in 1743. His "Amusement Philosophique sur le Language des Bestes," published in 1737, became a cause of considerable embarrassment to him, and resulted in a brief exile from Paris. The work was controversial in that it considered whether animals had a soul and a language, and if this could be viewed as a sign of reason. He approaches this subject and reduces it to an absurd one, concluding that it does not represent a threat to religion and grants souls to animals which would inhabit their bodies like a punishment.
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[SHERLOCK (Hester)?]
A Second Letter to a Gentleman of the Long Robe in Great Britain; wherein some of the late Illegal Proceedings of the Barons of the Exchequer, in the Kingdom of Ireland, are Plainly and impartially set forth.
Small 8vo (165 x 100 mm), 32pp., Cambridge University Library stamp on title and 3 in the text (all cancelled), recent cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Sometimes attributed to Hester Sherlock, concerning her dispute with Maurice Annesley. A sequel to A letter from a member of the House of Commons of Ireland... 1720.
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BALTIMORE (Frederick Calvert) Baron
The Trial of Frederick Calvert, Esq; Baron of Baltimore [Maryland, America] in the Kingdom of Ireland, for a Rape on the Body of Sarah Woodcock; and of Eliz. Griffinburg, and Anne Harvey, otherwise Darby, as Accessories before the Fact, for procuring, aiding, and abetting him in committing the said Rape. At the Assizes held at Kingston, for the County of Surry, on Saturday the 26th of March 1768. Before..... Sir Sydney Stafford Smythe,.... Published by Permission of the Judge. Taken in Short-Hand by Joseph Gurney.
Small 4to (194 x 120 mm), 232pp., With the contemporary printed book label of William Nicholl, original boards, worn, uncut While Calvert was in Constantinople, scandals broke causing him to leave, because of his illegitimate children, and charges of him having his own private harem. These charges followed him to London as well. Calvert did support his illegitimate children, sending money to the stepfather of his heir Henry, by Hester Whalen. In 1768, another scandal befell him while at home in London. This time he was accused of abduction and rape by Sarah Woodcock. During the trial, he was tried as much by the press as he was in the courtroom. The jury, believing that Sarah did not make adequate attempts to escape or to report the crime properly, and he was acquitted. To avoid any further disgrace, he retreated to Italy, and died in Naples in 1771. Unfortunately the many problems he created still existed for his colony. Before his death, he had made his illegitimate son Henry Harford, his heir, leaving him the province of Maryland, in America. This Edition not in O'Higgins, Irish Trials.
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CANNING (George)
Substance of the Speech of the Right Hon. George Canning, on Lord Morpeth's Motion for a Committee on the State of Ireland.
First edition, [iv], 54pp., half-title, a little soiled, a couple of minor repairs to corners, later wrappers. Bradshaw, 7735.
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WOOD (Herbert) Editor.
Court Book of the Liberty of Saint Sepulchre within the Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Dublin, 1586-1590.
First edition, large 8vo, 97pp., closed tear to one leaf, orig. cloth, gilt, a nice copy.
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NEILSON (G. R.)
The Book of Bulls. Being a very complete and entertaining essay on the evolution of the Irish and other "Bulls".
First edition, 204pp., newspaper cuttings tipped-in, orig. pictorial cloth, a nice copy.
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GRAVES (Alfred Perceval)
Irish Songs and Ballads.
First edition, 275pp., orig. decorated cloth, a nice copy.
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MUNTER (R.L.)
A Hand-List of Irish Newspapers 1685-1750.
4to, xiii,36pp., orig. printed wrappers.
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MARTIN (G.H.) & McINTYRE (Syvia)
A Bibliography of British and Irish Municipal History. Volume I General Works.
First edition, 806pp., orig. cloth, d.w.
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STATE OF IRELAND.
Remarks by a Junior to his Senior, on an article in the Edinburgh Review of January, 1844, on the State of Ireland, and the Measures for its Improvement.
First Edition, 83, [1] pp., disbound. An attack on an article in the Edinburgh Review which purported to deal with the debates in the House of Commons on the state of Ireland, and the Irish Arms Bill. The stated object of this reply was "to point to the public the difficulty and impolicy of an attempt to force the Irish Catholics a provision for their clergy; at the same time to draw public attention to some measures of a plain, and practical, kind, which may enlist the attention, perhaps the support, of men of all parties." Among other subjects, the writer deals with the state of landed property, the administration of justice to the poor, the established church, education, the Irish Poor Law, and the repeal of the Union
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SHEFFIELD (John Holroyd, Earl of)
Observations on the manufactures, trade, and present state of Ireland. Part the First [all published].
[4], viii, 56pp., with half-title and tabel at end, upper blank corner of G3 torn away and repaired, later paper wrappers. Kress, B670.
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EDMONDSON (Joseph)
A Companion to the Peerage of Great-Britain and Ireland, being an alphabetical list of such of the daughters of dukes, marquises and earls, (now living) who are married to commoners; collected by Joseph Edmondson,...
First edition, [4], 22pp., some light staining, disbound.
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[KAVANAGH (James W.)]
Mixed Education. The catholic case stated: or principles, working, and results of the system of national education; with suggestions for the settlement of the education question. Most respectfully dedicated to the Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland. By a catholic layman.
First edition, xvi, [9]-447, [1, errata]pp., small stamp in two places, repaired tear to front endpaper, orig. cloth, gilt, headband frayed. The preface is dated March 17th, 1859. In early August of the same year the Catholic hierarchy were summoned by Archbishop Cullen to discuss educational matters : amongst other items, they sought separate schools for the religious denominations.
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[CROCKER (John Wilson)]
A Sketch of the State of Ireland, Past and Present.
Second edition, [8], 64, [6, adverts for books published by Carpenter]pp., with the initial blank leaf and the half-title, and, tipped in before title, a 3, [1,] page prospectus for Bryan's Dictionary of Painting, and, tipped in opposite front endpaper, a [3] page advert for the Shaftesbury Subscription Library, cont. half calf, worn, rubbed and wanting backstrip, uncut. Supporting Catholic Emancipation. Croker's Sketch (1808) went through twenty editions (it was reprinted as late as 1884) and gained him further notice. It advocated catholic emancipation, a system of national education for all sects, and the payment of the catholic clergy by the state to undermine the influence of Rome. He was harshly caricatured in several fictional works : as the contemptible Rigby in Disraeli's Coningsby; as Wenlan in Thackeray's Pendennis, and as Counsellor Con Crawley in Lady Morgan's Florence MacCarthy.
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SHARP (Elizabeth) Editor.
Lyra Celtica: An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry. Ancient Irish Alban; Gaelic; Breton; Cymric; and Modern Scottish and Irish Celtic Poetry.
First edition, li, 422pp., decorative endpapers, orig. embossed green cloth, gilt, uncut, a nice copy.
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SHAW (James J.)
Mr. Gladstone's Two Irish Policies: 1868 and 1886. A Letter to an Ulster Liberal Elector.
First edition, 40pp., stitched as issued, orig. printed wrappers, a nice copy.
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[STANNARD (Eaton)]
The Honest Man's Speech.
First Edition, 15, [1]pp., printer's device on title, disbound, uncut, a nice copy. Charles Lucas spearheaded an attempt to combat practices in the way Dublin Corporation conducted its business which, he maintained, were incompatible with the liberties provided for under the 'ancient constitution' that were the birthright of every protestant subject. Stannard's pamphlet is in support of the prosection of Charles Lucas in the Irish House of Commons.
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[BRETT (John)]
A Free and Candid Inquiry humbly addressed to the Representatives of the Several Counties and Boroughs in this Kingdom: And proper at this Time to be read by their Several Electors. In a Letter to a Person of Distinction in the North from a Gentleman in Town.
First edition, 43, [1] pp., signature of Philip Wolfe on title, disbound, uncut. John Brett was Rector of Moynalty, (Irish: Maigh nEalta), is a village in the north-west of County Meath in Ireland.
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[BRETT (John)]
An Answer to a late Pamphlet, Intituled, A Free and Candid Inquiry, Addressed to the Representatives, &c. of this Kingdom.
First edition, 46, [2] pp., signature of Philip Wolfe on title, disbound, uncut. John Brett was Rector of Moynalty, (Irish: Maigh nEalta), is a village in the north-west of County Meath in Ireland.
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INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING ENGLISH PROTESTANT SCHOOLS IN IRELAND.
Two Letters on the Subject of the Corporated Society, Adressed to The Lord Lieutenant, The Archbishop of Dublin, and The Bishop of Cork.
First and only edition, 20pp., some light soiling, disbound. Copac records a single copy at the Bodleian Library.
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SCOTT (Abraham)
The Ordinance of the Lord's Supper, with Directions how to make a proper use of it. And also, the Propriety of Administering it amomgst the Methodists.
First edition, 12mo, iv, [5]-56 pp., modern marbled wrappers. Bodleian copy only on Copac.
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[CROKER (John Wilson)?]
A Short Letter from Quang-Tcheu. Translated by another Hand.
First edition, 12mo, 21, [1]pp., binder having been rather heavy-handed in shaving margins (2 letters cropped from final line of imprint), a little foxing on the last 2 leaves, disbound. This is a satire on "Cutchacutchoo" which was a game in much vogue in Dublin society at the time, a kind of "Blind Man's Buff," or "Hunt the Slipper" which was criticised as tending to immorality. It was denounced in an anonymous satire, supposed to be written J. W. Croker, who was attacked in various retaliatory squibs. The text is signed at the end "J.T.", possibly written by J. W. Croker.
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COLLINS (Mortimer)
Idyls and Rhymes.
First Edition, 96 pp., original pink embossed cloth, spine slightly faded, lettered in gilt on upper cover, uncut and partly unopened, a very nice copy. Collins, novelist and poet, was the son of a solicitor at Plymouth, and was for a time a teacher of mathematics at Queen Elizabeth's College in Guernsey. "Idyls and Rhymes", his first book was written while he was living in Guernsey, and includes poems on Wordsworth, the Daffodil, the Duke of Wellington and Hartley Coleridge. He settled in Berkshire and adopted a literary life, and was a prolific author, writing largely for periodicals. He also wrote a good deal of occasional and humorous verse, and several novels, including Sweet Anne Page (1868), Two Plunges for a Pearl (1872), Mr. Carrington (1873), under the name of "R.T. Cotton," and A Fight with Fortune (1876).
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POWELL (Roger)
Further Notes on Lebor na Huidre. Reprinted from ?RIU, Vol. XXI.
Tall 8vo, 99-102pp., large folding diagram, orig. printed wrappers.
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[Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland]
Journal of an English Traveller or Memoirs and Anecdotes of an Illustrious Personage: and of Her Court, Correspondence with the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Whitbread, &c.
Third edition, [2], 55, [1]pp., disbound.
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NICHOLS (Samuel)
National Gratitude Enforced. A sermon in commemoration of the relinquishment of the Bill of Pains and Penalties against Her Majesty : preached at the Independent Chapel Hill, Gloucestershire, oN Sunday evening November 26, 1820.
First edition, 24pp., disbound. Copac locates just two copies (School of Oriental & African Studies and Cambridge).
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[Guernsey, Countess of, pseud.]
Genuine Edition of the Death-Bed Confessions of the late Countess of Guernsey, to Lady Ann H****** : developing a series of mysterious transactions connected with the most illustrious personages in the kingdom. To which are added, the Q----'s last letter to the K----, written a few days before her M----'s death.
iv, 50pp., disbound. The Countess of Guernsey is intended to represent Frances, Countess of Jersey, but this is apparently a spurious publication.
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MILLER (Liam) Copiler.
Dolmen XXV: An Illustrated Bibliography of the Dolmen Press 1951-1976.
First edition, 4to, 96pp., one of 700 copies, illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.
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MACALISTER (R. A. S.)
The Book of Mac Carthaigh Riabhach otherwise The Book of Lismore. With descriptive introduction and indexes by R. A. S. Macalister.
Folio, xxxviipp., followed by 198 collotype facsimile leaves, from the library of Percy J. Paley, Castle Hacket (bookplate), orig. cloth, some light staining and scratches but overall a very good copy. The manuscript was prepared for Finghin MacCarthy Reagh in the fifteenth-century and discovered in 1814 at Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
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HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION. BEAUFORT (Duke of)
The Manuscripts of The Duke of Beaufort, K.G., The Earl of Donoughmore, and others. Twelfth Report, Appendix, Part IX.
First edition, xvii, [4], 640pp., very good ex-library copy, buckram.
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NEESON (Eoin)
The Life and Death of Michael Collins.
First edition, 163pp., illustrs., orig. cloth, dust wrapper clipped, with general wear and a couple of nicks, but overall a good sound copy of a book rare in the first edition.
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LYNCH (William)
The Law of Election in the Ancient Cities and Towns of Ireland traced from original records. With Fac-simile engravings and an Appendix of Documents.
First Edition, frontispiece, stamp of the Birmingham Law Society on title and in 2 blank margins, 3 engraved facsimile plates, folding table, [4], 90pp., contemporary cloth, spine chipped.
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[FOSTER (Sir Michael)]
A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for the Trial of the Rebels in the Year 1746, in the County of Surry, and of Other Crown Cases, to Which Are Added, Discourses Upon a Few Branches of the Crown Law.
First Irish edition, xi, [1], 412, [16]pp., cont. calf, worn, raised bands, without title label, the bottom inch of spine is worn through to stitching.
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WALKER (John)
An Essay on the Following Prize-Question, Proposed by the Royal Irish Academy, "Whether and how far the Cultivation of Science and that of Polite Literature assist or obstruct each other?"
First edition, vi, [7]-38, [2]pp., title, prelims and end leaves foxed, disbound. Goldsmiths'-Kress, 20612; Not in Black.
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[CROCKER (John Wilson)]
The Battles of Talavera. A Poem.
Eight edition, with some additions, 8vo (205 x 125mm), [4], 43, [1]pp., title page with presentation inscription from the author to Sir Francis Freeling, cont. short note on the authorship of the book on front-free endpaper, some foxing and browning throughout, cont. blue full morocco, lightly rubbed but a very nice copy. A heroic poem about the bloody but inconclusive battle at Talavera, southwest of Madrid (July 27-28, 1809), in which a combined British-Spanish force under Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) forced the French army of King Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, to withdraw from field. The author, John Wilson Croker, was a high-Tory politician and man of letters, one of the founders of the legendary Quarterly Review and for nearly thirty years its primary contributor. Wellington himself singled out this poem for praise. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Sir Francis Freeling; small book label of Alan G. Thomas.
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HEATH (Christopher)
On the Causes and Treatment of Closure and Immobility of the Jaws.
First and only edition, 23, [1]pp., 5 illustrs., in the text, disbound. The author was Assistant Surgeon to, and Lecturer on Anatomy at, Westminster Hospital. Copac records the Wellcome and Royal College of Surgeons copies only.
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JUVENAL AND PERSIUS.
D. Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis Satirae XVI. ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensitae varietate lectionum perpetuoque commentario illustratae et indice uberrimo instructae a Ge. Alex. Ruperti; quibus adjectae sunt, A. Persii Flacci Satirae, ex recensione et cum notis G. L. Koenig.
2 Vols., royal 8vo, large paper copy, viii, [xiii]-clx, 419, [1, blank]; [2], 5-733, [1, blank]pp., without half-titles, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page to vol. I, Gosford book label on both front endpapers, inscribed on front endpaper in a small, neat hand "Acheson / Ch. Ch. 1826 - Large Paper / Bound by C. Lewis", old small circular stamp on title-pages, shelf label removed, faint foxing of titles but otherwise a bright and fresh, contemporary full dark blue morocco, gilt lettered spines, inside gilt borders, edges gilt, a handsome set. Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford (1806?64), MP for Co. Armagh from 1830 to 1847, formed, at Gosford Castle, "a large and extremely beautiful library which was sold by private contract in 1878 to the London bookseller James Toovey... the history, topography, natural history and the important series of books on large paper were dispersed by Puttick and Simpson (21 April 1884), the total for 3363 lots being over ?11,000." ? De Ricci, pp.156-157. "A very correct and elegant edition."?Lowndes.
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STEELE (William E.)
A Handbook of Field Botany, comprising the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to the British Isles, arranged according to the natural system ; the orders, genera, and species carefully analyzed, so as to facilitate their discrimination; with a synoptical table of the genera according to the the Linn?an classification; and a glossary of those terms most commonly in use.
First edition, 8vo (195 x 122mm), xxix, 249pp., engraved frontis., text lightly browned, orig. green embossed cloth, spine faded and lettered in gilt, joints worn with a couple of tears.
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REGEMORTER (Berthe van)
Some Oriental Bindings in the Chester Beatty Library.
First edition, 4to (310 x 240mm), 29, [3]pp., folio, coloured frontis., 70 plates (of which 20 are coloured), orig. cloth. Surveys the bookbinders art in all its forms throughout the oriental world. There is probably no library in the world where so many and such varied examples of bookbinding are to be found as in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin.
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HAMILTON (William)
Letters Concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim. Containing a natural history of its Basaltes: with an account of such circumstances as are worthy of notice respecting the antiquities, manners and customs of that country. The whole illustrated by an accurate map of the coast, roads, mountains, &c. In these letters is stated a plain and impartial View of the Volcanic Theory of the Basaltes.
First edition, 8vo (225 x 135 mm), viii, 195, [1]pp., with half-title, large folding engraved map of Antrim County, slight archival repair to fore-edge, handsomely bound in recent quarter calf over marbled boards, red morocco label lettered in gilt.
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SWEENEY (Tony)
Ireland and the Printed Word. A Short Descriptive Catalogue of Early Books, Pamphlets, Newsletters and Broadsides Relating to Ireland. Printed: 1475-1700.
First edition, 4to (310 x 210mm), 1,000pp., one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and publisher, former owners name in ink to front-free endpaper, numerous plates, orig. cloth, light wear, label on upper cover. Ireland and the Printed Word A Short Descrptive Catalogue
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ADAMS (J.)
A Students' Illustrated Irish Flora. Being a Guide to the Indigenous Seed-Plants of Ireland.
First edition, 8vo, (190 x 130 mm), viii, 343pp., illustrated throughout, orig. cloth, d.w.
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STEWART (Samuel Alexander) & CORRY (Thomas Hughes)
A Flora of the North-East of Ireland. Including the Phanerogamia, the Cryptogamia Vascularia, and the Musineae.
First edition, 8vo (190 x 130 mm), a very good ex-library copy, orig. cloth, gilt.
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STEWART (Samuel Alexander) & CORRY (Thomas Hughes)
A Flora of the North-East of Ireland. Flowering Plants, Vascular Cryptogams and Charophytes.
Second edition, 8vo (220x 145 mm), lix, 472pp., maps, a very good ex-library copy, orig. cloth.
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DICKIE (G.)
A Flora of Ulster and Botanist's Guide to the North of Ireland.
First edition, small 8vo (165 x 105 mm), xix, [1], 176 + 4pp., of publishers' ads, ex-library, orig. pebble patterned cloth, upper joint torn and worn.
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BRUNKER (J. P.)
Flora of the County Wicklow: Flowering Plants, Higher Cryptogams and Charace?.
First edition, 8vo (220 x 145 mm), [12], 310pp., folding map at rear, a very good ex-library copy, orig. cloth.
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