Filters Sort results
Reset Apply
 | WALSH, Fr. Paul. The Four Masters and Their Work WALSH, Fr. Paul. The Four Masters and Their Work. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1944. pp. [vi], 41, 2 (index), + erratum. Stiff brown paper wrappers. Title printed on paper label on upper cover, light spotting to label. Owner’s signature on half title. A very good copy… €150.00 |
 | STOKES, Margaret. Notes on the Cross of Cong. Illustrated with two chromo-lithographs and two cuts 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). Quarter blue linen on original boards, printed in red and black. Inoffensive water stain… €675.00 |
 | LEWIS, R: The Post Chaise Companion: or Traveller’s Directory through Ireland (HAND-COLOURED COPY) 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 Dictionary… €1,250.00 |
 | NEARY, Rev. John. Notes on Cong and the Neale. Revised and enlarged edition. With map and illustrations. Dundalk: Dundalgan, 1938. Crown octavo. pp. 80. Printed wrappers with image of the Cross of Cong on upper cover. A very good copy. [Porch D] €75.00 |
 | G.A.A. All-Ireland Football Championship Finals Programme, 1981. Kerry and Offaly GAA – ALL-IRELAND FOOTBALL FINAL, 1981 Kerry v Offaly. Official Programme. Dublin: Gaelic Athletic Association, 20 September 1981. Illustrated throughout, including team line-ups and diagrams of player positions. Original pictorial wrappers featuring the Sam Maguire Cup and the crests of Kerry and Offaly. A very good copy. Official programme for… €65.00 |
 | COLUM, Padraic. The Frenzied Prince: being Heroic Stories of Ancient Ireland. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1943. Quarto. First edition. pp. 196. Green cloth, embossed in gilt. A fine copy in very good rare dust jacket. [L3 6C] €295.00 |
 | IRISH LAND IMPROVEMENT – Irish Land Improvement Acts (1). An Act for the improvement of landed property in Ireland. 10 Vict.cap.32. [1847]. Demy octavo. pp. 29, [1]. Title from caption. Imprint from colophon. Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. COPAC with 1 location only. (2). Act to Facilitate the Improvement of Landed Property in… €1,250.00 |
 | BONAR LAW, Andrew & BONAR LAW, Charlotte. The Irish Prints of James Malton (Limited edition) Dublin: The Neptune Gallery, 1999. Quarto. pp. [i–iii], 117, [1]. Profusely illustrated throughout with colour reproductions of Malton’s celebrated Irish views. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the original illustrated dust jacket. A fine, fresh copy. Limited edition of 500 copies. A handsome and scholarly modern study devoted… €150.00 |
 | Bacon’s Jigsaw Map of Ireland. Counties in colour. A SCARCE EDUCATIONAL JIGSAW MAP OF IRELAND London: Bacon, [c. 1900]. Printed on paper, mounted on wood and dissected into 12 pieces, with inset map of Dublin and Belfast. Browning to edges, otherwise very good. 205 x 160mm. Rare. For over two centuries jigsaw puzzles were one of the best… €375.00 |
 | Large Panoramic View of the City of Dublin. Being number 1 of a series of views of the principal capitals in Europe. Coloured. Originally published in London, from the Illustrated London News, 1846. Large oblong ma. Now reprinted by Philip Maddock in Barrington Rhode Island. 380 x 1080mm. Framed and glazed. In fine condition. Scarce. One of the most attractive nineteenth-century views of Dublin, this magnificent bird’s-eye panorama presents the city from an elevated perspective, allowing the principal public buildings, streets, bridges, and… €850.00 |
 | A Map of Ireland. By Herman Moll. Divided into Provinces, Counties and Baronies, wherein are distinguished the Bishoprics, Borroughs, Barracks, Bogs, Passes, Bridges, &c. with the Principal Roads and common Reputed Miles. According to the Newest and most Exact Observations by Herman Moll, Geographer. 64 x 120cms (map); 84 x 127cms (frame). London: Printed for H. Moll, over-against Devereux-Court in ye Strand, L. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill. P. Overton Map & Printseller near St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleetstreet, and T… €1,250.00 |
 | The Kingdom of Ireland by Robert Morden. Engraved map with contemporary or early outline hand-colouring. Counties are clearly delineated and named, with an extensive network of towns, cities, boundaries, rivers, roads, woods, settlements, islands. Title within decorative cartouche. Scale in Irish and English miles. Lines of latitude and longitude. 125mm x 140mm. Sold by Abel Swale Awnsham and John Churchill, [1695]. 36 x 43cms (map). Coloured in outline. Framed and glazed. In fine condition. JISC locates the Bodleian and RGS copies only. Bonar Law… €375.00 |
 | Eryn. Hiberniae, Britannicae Insula, Nova Descriptio. Irlandt. Cum Priuilegio. 1588. [A new description of Eryn (or) Ireland, a British island. Ireland. Original hand-coloured engraved map with Latin text on verso from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.With privilege]. 480 x 360mm. Framed and glazed. Antwerp: Circa 1588. In fine condition. Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), the celebrated Flemish cartographer and geographer, transformed the study… €1,850.00 |
 | LEWIS, Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. Three volumes, including Atlas. Comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate, market & post towns, parishes & villages, with historical and statistical descriptions; embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bishoprics, corporate towns, and boroughs; and the seals of the several municipal corporations. Together with: Lewis’ Atlas of the Counties of Ireland… €775.00 |
 | Irish Map: Neville (Arthur), cartographer. Map of Stillorgan Park, the Property of James Price Esq An important original manuscript estate map, surveyed in June 1833, executed in ink and original hand-colouring on linen, with title cartouche and extensive manuscript tables recording tenants in possession, lessees, acreage and observations. The survey depicts the demesne, cottages, gardens, fields and adjoining lands along Newtown Road and Carysfort Avenue… €1,450.00 |
 | CARRICKFERGUS – Capt. Greenville Collins. A hand-coloured map of Carreck Fergus Lough and surrounding coastline by Capt. Greenville Collins, n.d. [1693]. To the most Potent and Heroick Prince William the III of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith & c. This is most humbly Dedicated and Presented by Your Majes. most Dutifull and Loyall Subject & Servant Capt. G: Collins. Depicted are towns, mountains, woods, rivers, fortifications… €575.00 |
 | LIVINGSTONE, Peadar. The Fermanagh Story. A Documented History of the County Fermanagh from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. With illustrations and maps. Enniskillen: Hall Booksellers, 1990. Octavo. Fourth edition. pp. viii, 570. Green arlen, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. [L2 6C] €225.00 |
 | KEANE, Marcus. The Towers and Temples of Ancient Ireland. Their Origin and History discussed from a new point of view With numerous illustrations. Dublin: Hodges, Smith and Co., 1867. Quarto. pp. xx, 492, + errata. Re-backed green cloth with original spine and front board, title and gilt decoration on spine. A very good copy. John Edward Walsh PC QC (1816-1869) was an Irish lawyer and Conservative politician. He served as… €350.00 |
 | HENDRICK, Charles. Autograph Receipted Trade Bill for Woollen Drapery. Dublin: Woollen Drapers at the Sun, in High Street, 5 July 1759 (receipted 29 May 1763). Printed engraved trade bill, completed in manuscript and bearing an attractive engraved trade device depicting the radiant sun, the emblem of the business. Addressed to Edmund Hogan Esq., the account details the purchase of… €265.00 |
 | ROSS-LEWIN, R.S.S. Poems by a County Clare West Briton. Limerick: George McKern & Sons, 1907. Octavo. pp. 94. Green cloth boards, titled in black. Some toning, otherwise a very good copy. The Ven Richard Sargint Sadler Ross-Lewin (1848-1922) was an Irish Anglican priest and poet. He was Archdeacon of Limerick from 1919 to 1921. Originally from County Clare, Ross-Lewin… €125.00 |
 | O’SULLIVAN, Florence. The History of Kinsale. With illustrations and folding maps. Dublin: James Duffy & Co., 1916. Octavo. pp. [x], 240. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Previous owner’s signature in pencil. A very good copy. Scarce first edition. Contents: Early Tribulations – The Building of the Town Walls; The Trade of the Colonists-England’s Jealousy of the Colonists’ Trade – Repression and… €185.00 |
 | LESLIE, Rev. James B. History of Kilsaran Union of Parishes in the County of Louth. Being a history of the parishes of Kilsaran, Gernonstown, Stabannon, Manfieldstown and Dromiskin. With many particulars relating to the parishes of Richardstown, Dromin and Darver. Comprising a large section of mid-Louth. With five maps (two coloured) and forty two illustrations. Dundalk: William Tempest, 1908. First edition. Octavo. pp. xvi, 9-350. Red cloth, titled in gilt. A fine copy of this scarce local history… €285.00 |
 | SCULLY, Reginald W. Flora of County Kerry. Including the Flowering Plants, Ferns, Characeae, &c. With six plates and a coloured folding map Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, 1916. pp. lxxxi, 406. Original green blind-stamped cloth, title in gilt on spine. Ex libris National Library of Scotland with stamp on half title. New endpapers. Top edge gilt. A near fine copy. Dr. Reginald W. Scully (1858-1935) took the medical course at the Royal College of… €775.00 |
 | SHIRLEY, Evelyn Philip. The History of the County of Monaghan. With coloured frontispiece and other illustrations including genealogical tables. Bangor: Paddy O’D Fox, 1988. Second edition. Folio. pp. xvi, 619. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. A fine copy. Scarce. [L2 6E] €125.00 |
 | ORPEN, Goddard Henry. The Orpen Family. Being an account of the life and writings of Richard Orpen of Killowen, County Kerry, together with some researches into his forbears in England and brief notices of the various branches of the Orpen family descended from him. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION With illustrations and genealogical charts. London: Butler & Tanner, 1930. Octavo. pp. 205. Green buckram, titled in gilt. Ex libris Irish Central Library, with neat circular stamps and label. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. Jisc locates 6 copies only. Burke describes the Orpen family as… €325.00 |
 | DILLON, Myles & CHADWICK, Nora K. The Celtic Realms. With one hundred and five illustrations and eight maps. London: Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. Second edition. pp. x, 346. Fine in repaired dustjacket. A masterly survey of the history of the Celtic peoples from the earliest times to the Norman invasion of Britain. Treating the society, culture and genius of… €95.00 |
 | 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. The Northern Banking Company Limited was one of Ireland’s most important historic banks, playing a central… €125.00 |
 | O’FLANNIGAN, Tague. Tenant Right in Tipperary. Being a Series of Humorous Epistles from Tague O’Flannigan, Ballinamuck, to Mike Collins, Renfrewshire. New and enlarged edition. Glasgow, 1903. pp. 152. Red cloth, titled in gilt and black, illustration inset on upper cover. Wear to top of spine. A very good copy. Very scarce. Loeber O8/3. Comic epistolary fiction set… €275.00 |
 | KILKENNY FEIS. Feis Chille Chainnigh. Meitheamh an 24ad Lá 1928. Programme of events. Kilkenny: Printed at The Kilkenny People, [1928]. Octavo. pp. 16. Pictorial stapled wrappers. [CAT 164] €175.00 |
 | LAVELLE, Rev. Patrick. P.P., Cong. The Irish Landlord Since The Revolution. With notices of Ancient and Modern Land Tenures in various countries THE PATRIOT PRIEST OF PARTRY Dublin: W.B. Kelly, 1870. pp. 541, + erratum and advertisements. Green faded cloth, title in gilt on spine. Previous owner’s signature on titlepage. Occasional light foxing and browning. A very good copy. Fr. Pat Lavelle was perhaps the best-known individual Irish priest in the mid-nineteenth… €150.00 |
 | IRISH BOUNDARY COMMISSION. Report of the Irish Boundary Commission 1925. With an introduction by Geoffrey J. Hand. Folding maps in pocket at end. Shannon: I.U.P. 1969. pp. xxxiii, 109. Green buckram, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy in frayed dust jacket. The original report was suppressed in 1925 and not published. This is a major source and a mine of information on the history… €150.00 |
 | HOWARD, Gorges Edmond. A Treatise of the Exchequer and Revenue of Ireland. By G. E. Howard, Esq. Most humbly inscribed, To the Treasurer, Chancellor, Lord Chief Baron, and the rest of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer. In two volumes Dublin: Husband, for E. Lynch, No. 6, Skinner-Row, 1776. Quarto. pp. (1) [8], lxiii, 325, (2) [4], 436, [1 (Errata)]. Modern mustard cloth, title in gilt on green morocco labels on spines. A very good set. Rare. ESTC T86142. Goldsmiths‘-Kress no. 11472. Gorges Edmond Howard (1715-1786) poet… €1,385.00 |
 | DERRICKE, John. The Image of Irelande with a Discoverie of Woodkerne (Limited edition) With the notes of Sir Walter Scott. Edited, with introduction, by John Small. With twelve folding woodcut illustrations. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles, 1883. Quarto. pp. xxiv, 144. Limited to 286 copies. Original quarter roan on marbled boards, title and author in gilt direct on spine. From the library of Lord… €1,250.00 |
 | RYAN, John. Remembering How We Stood. Bohemian Dublin at the Mid-Century With a foreword by J.P. Donleavy. Illustrated. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1987. Demy octavo. pp. xiv, 168. Maroon papered boards, titled in gilt. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Scarce. John Ryan (1925-1992), broadcaster, critic, painter, publican, editor and publisher. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College and the National… €125.00 |
 | STOCK, Bishop. A Narrative of what Passed at Killalla, in the County of Mayo, and the Parts Adjacent, during the French Invasion in the Summer of 1798. By an Eye-Witness. BEST EDITION WITH PERSONS IDENTIFIED The fifth edition. London: Printed for Richard Cruttwell, St. James’s Street, Bath, and sold by Wilkie and Robinson, Pater-Noster Row, London, 1809. Octavo. pp. [ii], 169, [1]. Later half brown morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine, brown silk marker. Armorial bookplate of… €475.00 |
 | O’CONNELL, Rev. F.W. & HENRY, R.M. Ed. by. An Irish Corpus Astronomiae. Being Manus O’Donnell’s Seventeenth Century version of the Lunario of Geronymo Cortès, edited with introduction, translation, notes and glossary. London: David Nutt, 1915. First and only edition. Crown octavo. pp. xxxvii, 252. Green decorative cloth, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. An important contribution to the study of Irish scientific and literary culture, preserving the seventeenth-century Irish translation of the celebrated Lunario Perpetuo of the Spanish… €165.00 |
 | JOYCE, P.W. Irish Peasant Songs in the English Language. The Words set to the proper Old Irish Airs. London: Longmans & Dublin: Gill, 1906. Second edition. Octavo. pp. 16, [4 (Joyce’s works)]. Stitched printed wrappers. Very good copy. The rarest of all P.W. Joyce’s works. In his preface Joyce tells us: “I now publish this little Collection, different from both, the Title of which explains itself. Like the… €185.00 |
 | The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, adapted to the new Poor-Law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical arrangements, and compiled with a special reference to the lines of railroad and canal communication, as existing in 1844-45. Illustrated by a series of maps, and other plates, and presenting the results, in detail, of the Census of 1841, compared with that of 1831. Illustrated with eleven engraved plates (including three frontispieces), 11 maps (9 folding), hand-coloured arms of Ireland. Three volumes. Dublin: London, and Edinburgh: Fullarton, 1844/1846. Royal… €495.00 |
 | FLETCHER, Judge. Charge of the Hon. Justice Fletcher, to the Grand Jury of the County of Wexford, at the Summer Assizes, 1814. Third edition. Belfast: Printed by Hu. K. Gordon, Hamilton’s Court, 1814. pp. 35. Modern wrappers. A very good copy. Rare. No Bath edition located in JISC. Fletcher began his charge by congratulating the Grand Jury on their county’s appearing as peaceful, moral, and sociable as when he first knew it… €375.00 |
 | DUBLIN BRICKLAYER’S TRADE GUILD. Membership Card of the Dublin Bricklaying Trade. 1844. With an engraving of the trade guild and motto ‘Labore Virtute Gloria’ and the legend “We Lovers of the Bricklaying Trade – The Ancient City Card”. Addressed to Patrick Connor with wax seals, dated May 20th, 1844. Exceedingly rare. The guild of bricklayers and plasterers was founded in 1670 by… €375.00 |
 | Ó SÚILLEABHÁIN, Seán. A Handbook of Irish Folklore. Introductory note by Séamus Ó Duilearga. Dublin: Folklore Society, 1942. First edition. Octavo. pp. xxxi, 699. Green buckram, title in gilt. Mild fading to boards. A very good copy. Ireland is one of the oldest kultur-lander in Europe, and in her early literature, as Kuno Meyer puts it is to… €485.00 |
 | Ó COLMAIN, M. In Óige an tSaoghail. Sean-sgealta Gaodhlacha. A. Ó Maolaoid do Mhaisigh. Baile Atha Cliath: Clo na gCoinneal, n.d. (1920). Quarto. pp. 32. Pictorial stitched wrappers. A fine copy. Not in De Burca. Both the author and illustrator produced Clann Lir also published at The Sign of the Three Candles c. 1919. Contents: Bronntanas an Rí; Connla agus an Ainnir Sidhe; An… €385.00 |
 | KILLADOON LIBRARY SALE. Catalogue of A Selected Portion of the Well-known Library from Killadoon, County Kildare, 1966. formed by the late H.J.B. Clements, Esq. The Property of Col. H.T.W. Clements. In two parts. Sold by Sotheby over five days: First part Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 4th – 6th July. Second part – Monday, 31st October and Tuesday, 1st November, 1966. At eleven o’clock precisely each day. Illustrated… €385.00 |
 | CREGG HOUSE AUCTION CATALOGUE. Commencing on Tuesday, 7th day of December, 1920, and following days, under supervision and control of: Messrs. By directions of Miss Annie M. Sadlier, the Vendor. Cregg House and 540 Statute Acres of Demesne and Woodland known as the “Lalor Estate”, situate within two miles of Railway Station, Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, also valuable ripe timber and other lots of property, For Sale by Public Auction. Battersby &… €375.00 |
 | McDONNELL, Randal. Ardnaree. The Story of an English Girl in Connaught told by herself and edited from the original Mss. Dublin & Waterford: M.H. Gill, 1911. First edition. Crown octavo. pp. [ii], 227, 3 (author’s works). Title printed in red and black. Green cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. A very good copy. Scarce. Loeber M93. Story of an English girl who moves to Connaught with her… €175.00 |
![MAGHTOCHAIR [Michael Harkin] Inishowen: Its History, Traditions, and Antiquities (Rare first edition)](https://www.deburcararebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/MAGHTO.-Issishowen-610x813.webp "MAGHTOCHAIR [Michael Harkin] Inishowen: Its History, Traditions, and Antiquities (Rare first edition)") | MAGHTOCHAIR [Michael Harkin] Inishowen: Its History, Traditions, and Antiquities (Rare first edition) Containing a number of original documents hitherto unpublished, procured from the State Paper Office, continental libraries, and private collections, with numerous notes from the Annals of the Four Masters, and other sources. Carndonagh: Published by M. Harkin. Sold by P.H. Doherty, 1935. First edition. Green cloth, titled in black on… €245.00 |
 | MAYO TRIALS. An Account of the Arguments of Counsel, and the Directions of the Court (TRIALS OF ROWAN, FITZGERALD, FOY & MAGEE) On a Plea or Auterfois Acquit, Pleaded by James Foy, at the Summer Assizes 1786, holden for the County of Mayo, at Ballinrobe, on the fifth day of June, to an Indictment for Procuring, stirring and provoking Andrew Creagh, otherwise Craig, and Others. To slee and murder Patrick Randal, M’Donnell… €650.00 |
 | MORRIS, Henry. St. Patrick in County Sligo (WITH A SCATHING REVIEW OF THIS WORK IN MS) Illustrated. Sligo: The Champion, 1930. pp. 34 (double column). Green printed stapled wrappers. Addressed and stamped on upper cover to Rev. Paul O’Grady, The Presbytery, Ballaghaderreen, dated 18.8.1930; with his signature on titlepage and a scathing review of this work in manuscript on final leaf. A very good copy. Scarce… €165.00 |
 | MURPHY, Rev. Denis. Cromwell in Ireland. A History of Cromwell’s Irish Campaign. With folding map, plans and illustrations. Dublin: M.H. Gill, 1883. First edition. Large octavo. pp. xxviii, 478. Olive green cloth, title in gilt on spine. Bookplate of Robinson of Rokeby on front pastedown. A fine copy. One of the most substantial nineteenth-century Irish studies of Oliver Cromwell’s campaign in Ireland, written by the Jesuit historian Rev… €165.00 |
 | ROBINSON, George, Marquis of Ripon Proceedings in Connection with the Visit to Dublin of the Marquis of Ripon, K.G. and the Right Hon. John Morley, M.P. 1st to 3rd February, 1888. “THE FRIENDSHIP OF TWO PEOPLES IS THE SAFETY OF BOTH” Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1888. First edition. Octavo. pp. viii, 152. Contemporary full dark green morocco over bevelled boards, covers framed by a single gilt fillet with rosette cornerpieces, upper cover centred with the gilt badge of the Ripon &… €265.00 |