Here is our First catalogued batch (19 items) from a large Irish and Ireland-related purchase (apart from our Dun Emir and Cuala Press lot, which includes nearly a full run of the first 81 limited edition issues from this press, started by several sisters of W.B. Yeats).
Topics for our Irish List # 1 range from Irish History, Poetry, Folk Music and the Irish Harp, Irish Natural History, Industrial History, Bibliography Troubled Politics, Leisurely Travel and Recording of Impressions, throughout various Irish counties.
London, England: Longman and Co., 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. NOTE: Lacks title page. Half title present. Reprinted from the Edinburgh Review, No. CLXXV, January, 1848. Small Quarto. 9 1/2 in. x 6 in. Original silk boards, green "water"- patterned. Irish harp draped in a brocade of flowers, in gilt, to..... More
London, England: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1833. Leather-bound. Octavo. Half calf over (stone) marbled boards. Rubbing to extremities. Probable original boards, rebacked with a fairly recent calf spine laid down. Stain to fore-edge. Pages supple and bright. Author would no doubt be labeled a "socialist" these days, given his championing..... More
Dublin, Ireland: Printed for the author by Thomas Courtney, 1815. Leather-bound. Imperial octavo hardcover, measuring 9 in. x 5 3/4 in. Rebound in marbled paper over boards, brown ruled half-calf, gilt ruling and title over black cloth Four raised bands. New headbands and endpapers. Title page (originally unbound?), chipped and..... More
London, England: John Murray, 1825. First Edition. Leather-bound. Crown octavo. Full original calf, measuring approximately 19 cm. x 12 cm. (7 3/8 in. x 4 1/2 in.) Five raised bands to spine, each double-ruled in gilt with a narrow band of gilt filleting across the center of each hub. Gilt..... More
Dublin, Ireland: William Curry, Jun., and Co., 1843 and 1844. Phiz Harvey Mac Manus Franklin. New Edition. Leather-bound. Octavo 9 3/8 in. x 6 1/4 in. NOTE: Spotting to most of the plates, but for the most part, to margins. Darkened edges, and offsetting to the opposite pages of many..... More
Belfast, Ireland: Simms and McIntyre (Printed by T. Mairs & Co.), 1822. Later Printing. Leather-bound. Half-calf over navy blue cloth, ruled in blind. (7 1/8 in. x 4 1/4 in.) Stamped spine, lettered in gilt with decorative gilt devices to top and bottom of spine. Frontis velvet (?) sillhouette ("an..... More
Belfast, Northern Ireland: M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, Limited: The Linenhall Press, 1920. Limited, numbered edition. Hardcover. 8vo (8 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in.) Beige woven flax linen-covered boards, with dark brown embossed lettering to front board and spine. Limited numbered edition, No. 32 out of 50 produced. A three-digit..... More
London, England: J. Nourse, T. Longman, G. Robinson, J. Johnson. 1773. First Edition. Leather-bound. Quartos. First Edition of Leland's well-regarded and influlential history. Quarterbound dark brown calf over marbled boards. Spine stamped in blind in repeating pattern, where leather meets marbling. Five raised bands, ruled in gilt. Portions of original..... More
New York: D. and J. Sadlier & Co., 1868. Revised Edition. Leather-bound. Massively heavy tome (11 pounds) measuring 10 1/2" x 11" in width and height, respectively; Handsomely rebound in black pebbled leather, ruled in bright gilt with compartments containing short title, and authors' names. Easily readable text, in double-column..... More
Belfast, Ireland: Maunsel and Co. Ltd., 1906. Ceann Maor- aka Seaghan MacCahmhaoil - (John Campbell). First Edition. Hardcover. Clothbound chapbook 7 1/4 in. x 6 in. Ex-Library copy, with usual markings (Crook Memorial Library, Wesley College, Dublin.) Campbell was a nationalist poet. Many lovely little drawings by the author's brother..... More
Dublin, Ireland: W. Folds and Son, 1820. First and only Edition, Limited to 50 Copies. Hardcover. (8 1/8" x 5") half-title, [viii],51pp., one of 50 copies printed for private circulation, engraved frontispiece by Martyn, presentation inscription by the author on half-title, original cream printed boards, and grey linen spine in..... More
London, England: Routledge and Kegan Paul Limited, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Quartos. Navy blue cloth with gilt harp design to front boards and gilt lettering to spines. Blue topstain, as issued. One corner to each volume slightly nudged, and top of spine as well, but negligible. Bottom front flaps of..... More
London, England: Printed for Benj. White, 1777. Thomas Pennant. Leather-bound. Octavo. Dark brown full diced calf (russia), bordered by blind stamped interlocking device. Rebacked in matching calf, ruled in gilt. Contrasting spine label (gilt on black). Marbled edges. Crabs, Lobsters, Worms, Shells. 93 plates. Very tight, pages unmarred, very clean..... More
Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1949. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. 8vo. Midnight blue cloth-covered boards. One corner bumped, one nudged. Roughly price-clipped. With 60 portraits of naturalists. Illustrated by photographs. Accounts of some of the author's personal contacts with renowned "devotees of geology, zoology, botany. Later pages provide biographical notes on 320..... More
London, England: For Ric. Ciswell, at the Rose and Crown, 1693. Leather-bound. Quarto., 8" x 6 ¾". Contemporary panel calf, with rectangular floral box, fleurs-de-lis to tips. Rebacked, now with five raised bands (six compartments) and gilt short title. Thirteen foldout copper engravings of maps and plans, detailed battle scenes..... More
London, England: G. and W. B.Whittaker, 1821. First Edition. Leather-bound. Octavo. Half-burgundy morocco over stone-marbled boards, decoratively stamped along edges of leather. Four raised bands to spine, ruled in gilt, with contrasting gilt-on-black spine label, and author's name and date stamped in gilt into two of the five compartments. 303..... More
