 | TOMMASINI, Fra Anselmo M. Irish Saints in Italy. Translated with additional notes by J. F. Scanlan. Introduction by the Rev. Father Gregory Cleary, O.F.M. London: Sands & Company (Publishers) Ltd., 1937. First English edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 532. Original publisher’s terracotta cloth, title lettered in black to spine. In the original printed dust jacket. A landmark study of the Irish monastic and missionary tradition in Italy, tracing the lives and influence […] €95.00 |
 | 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. [CAT 164] €165.00 |
 | MOLLOY, Maura. The Tale of Cuchulain. Illustrated by Austin Molloy. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, n.d. [1932]. First edition. Small folio. pp. 28. Pictorial coloured wrappers. Recased. Previous owner’s signature on upper cover. A very good copy. Very scarce. €235 No copy located on JISC. WorldCat 1. Date from NLI Catalogue. Contents: The Naming of Cuchulain; Cuchulain the Boy Warrior; Maev and Cuchulain; The Last Fight […] €235.00 |
 | O’HANLON, John Canon. Life and Scenery in Missouri. Reminiscences of a Missionary Priest. Dublin : J. Duffy & Co., 1890. First edition. 12mo. pp. xii, 292, [4 (O’Hanlon’s Works)]. Green cloth, titled in gilt. Harp and cluster of shamrocks in gilt on upper cover. Ex lib with stamps. A fine copy. €225 John O’Hanlon (1821-1905) was born in Stradbally in 1821. At the age of thirteen he went […] €225.00 |
 | MEYLER, Walter Thomas. Saint Catherine’s Bells: An autobiography. Two volumes. London: Simpkin, Marshall. Dublin: Cowan and Thomson, 1868/70. First edition. Crown octavo. pp. (1) vii, 287, (2) viii, 208. Publisher’s blind-stamped green cloth, titled in gilt. Printed on front pastedown is an advertisement for Galwey & Co. Bookbinders, Eustace Street. A fine set. Very scarce. JISC locates 2 copies only, BL & Manchester […] €375.00 |
 | A MONK OF LINDISFARNE ABBEY. The Life of Saint Cuthbert. Written anonymously about the year A.D. 700. [By a monk of Lindisfarne Abbey]. With forty-five full-page illuminations from the Lawson MS. End of Twelfth Century. Edited by W. Forbes-Leith. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION Edinburgh: Printed [by Scott and Ferguson] for Private Circulation, 1888. Small folio. pp. xii, 43, 45 unnumbered pages, 45 unnumbered leaves of plates. Each plate has a leaf of explanatory text facing. Quarter vellum parchment on red cloth boards, title in gilt along spine; floral patterened endpapers. One of 105 copies […] €1,350.00 |
 | EDWARD SULLIVAN The Book of Common Prayer (Bound and signed by one of the greatest binders who ever lived) Oxford: Printed at the University Press, [c. 1904]. pp. 294 leaves. 155 x 90 mm. (6 x 3 1/2”). [294]. A magnificent Edward Sullivan binding in hunter-green morocco, the covers richly gilt in a dense pointillé field with scrolling floral sprays, centred on a shaped onlaid panel of refined Persian inspiration. Gilt and Inlaid by […] €9,500.00 |
 | 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. Royal octavo. Four volumes. Full buckram gilt in slipcase. 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, with more […] €295.00 |
 | TERESA, Mother (Saint Teresa of Calcutta). Signed photographic portrait with peace quotation, San Francisco, 1985. San Francisco, 1985. Original black-and-white photographic portrait (image approx. 250 × 200 mm), mounted on card (overall approx. 300 × 260 mm), printed with Mother Teresa’s well-known peace quotation beneath the image. Signed in black ink below the text: “God bless you / Me Teresa MC”, and dated in print San Francisco, 1985. With a […] €750.00 |
 | HOLY BIBLE: The Catholic Family Bible. Volume I (of two). Translated from the Latin Vulgate : diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek and other editions in divers Languages. The Old Testament, first published by the English College at Douay, A.D. 1609. And The New Testament, first published by the English College at Rheims, A.D. 1582. With useful notes, critical, historical, controversial and explanatory. Selected from the most eminent commentators and the most able and judicious critics. By the Rev. Geo. Leo Haydock. Two volumes. Dublin, London, and Edinburgh: A. Fullerton, 1847. Quarto. Bound by Gerald Bellew of Dublin in full contemporary hard-grained dark red morocco with his signature lettered in […] €2,250.00 |
 | SAINT ULTAN. Leabhar Ultáin. The Book of Saint Ultan. For the Children of Dublin’s Poor Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats & Others A collection of pictures and poems by Irish artists and writers, compiled and arranged by Katherine MacCormack with numerous illustrations. Dublin: The Candle Press, and Sold for the Benefit of Saint Ultan’s Hospital by Martin Lester, Ltd., 78 Harcourt Street, 1920. Quarto. pp. 32, 8 (plates). Brown stiff wrappers. A very good copy of a […] €475.00 |
 | ILLUMINATED LEAF – BOOK OF CONDUCT FOR SERVANTS. Northern France or Flanders, c.1475-1525. A handsome illuminated vellum leaf from a late-medieval courtesy book, written in French in a fine bâtarde hand. The recto is enriched with a large miniature (c140 x 190mm.) framed glazed, showing a noble household at table with richly costumed attendants, a knight in armour, and a crowned sovereign. Flames painted at the feet of […] €2,950.00 |
 | IRISH TOPOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. A remarkable album of 108 original topographical drawings in a bespoke volume of 29 folios, with all but three of the leaves at the back carrying one or two drawings; these have been stuck to each page or to a fly-sheet attached to the page, executed during an extended tour of Ireland in 1840. Forming an unpublished and highly important visual record of the country immediately prior to the Great Famine. Oblong quarto. Half purple morocco on green linen boards, titled in gilt on matching morocco label to upper cover ‘SKETCHES / IN IRELAND / 1840’. The artist, likely connected to the Bourke family, Earls of Mayo, at Palmerstown […] €2,750.00 |
 | The Papal Visit to Ireland 1979. Complete commemorative cover collection marking the historic visit of Pope John Paul II to Ireland, 29 September–1 October 1979. Housed in the publisher’s original black gilt-stamped album, containing a near-complete series of specially produced commemorative envelopes, each bearing the official An Post Papal Visit stamp or Vatican issue with contemporary first day or special commemorative cancellations from every principal stage of the visit. The collection includes covers commemorating the Papal Flight Rome–Dublin and Shannon–Boston, together with official cancellations from Dublin Airport, Phoenix Park, Maynooth, Drogheda, Galway, Knock, Claremorris, Limerick, Cork, Shannon Airport, and the Knock Centenary celebrations, together with explanatory inserts and a mint block of four of the Irish 12p Papal Visit stamps. The introductory leaf notes […] €350.00 |
 | RENEHAN, V. Rev. L.F. Collections of Irish Church History, From the MSS of the Late V. Rev. Laurence F. Renehan, D.D., President of Maynooth College. Edited by the Rev. D. McCarthy. Volume I. Irish Archbishops. All published. Dublin: C.M. Warren & Thomas Richardson, 1861. First edition. pp. xiii, 522. Contemporary full calf, covers framed by triple gilt fillets, badge of Maynooth College in gilt in centre. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title in gilt on […] €285.00 |
 | BEDELL, William. Leabhuir na Seintiomna ar na ttarruing go Gaidhlg tre churam agus dhuthracht an Doctuir Uilliam Bedel (EDITIO PRINCEPS IN IRISH) … The Books of the Old Testament translated into Irish by the care and diligence of Doctor William Bedel, Late Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland, for the publick good of that Nation. London: 1685. Quarto. pp. [2], 1142, [2]. Printed in double columns. Title enclosed by plain double rule border; initials and printed marginal references. […] €12,500.00 |
 | McDONNELL, Most Rev. Thomas. The Diocese of Killala. From its institution to the end of the Penal Times. Illustrated. Ballina: Monaghan Printers, 1976. Octavo. pp. [vi], 143. Pictorial stiff wrappers. From the library of Columban College, Dalgan Park, with neat circular stamps. Signed presentation copy from Bishop McDonnell to Dalgan Park. Very good copy. Scarce. [CAT 163] €125.00 |
 | 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. Second edition. With numerous illustrations. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and London: Simpkin, 1891. Crown octavo. pp. xx, 322, [7] (Publisher’s List). Original green cloth over bevelled boards, Celtic Cross in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt on spine. Decorative bookplate of Randolph Berens […] €95.00 |
 | CODICI BOBBIESI. Codici Bobbiesi della Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino. Collezione Paleografica Bobbiese. Cipolla, Carlo (editor). LIMITED TO 170 COPIES ONLY wo volumes (Testo + Atlante). Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1907. Atlas folio. First Edition. Large folio. Vol. I: Testo (text); Vol. II: Atlante (Atlas of 90 plates). Bound in contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt. Some occasional mild foxing. Plates crisp and clean. A near fine copy. A monumental palaeographic survey of […] €2,950.00 |
 | LEEPER, Rev. Alexander. Historical Handbook of the Monuments, Inscriptions, &c., of the National Collegiate and Cathedral Church of S. Patrick, Dublin. Illustrated with a folding ground plan of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Folding Pedigree of Archbishop Smyth and decorative woodcut headpieces and initials. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, Grafton Street, 1878. First edition. Crown octavo. pp. [ix], 10-74. Titlepage printed in red and black. Contemporary full purple morocco, title in gilt on upper cover. Presentation copy, inscribed on front […] €275.00 |
 | CARRIGAN, Rev. William. The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory (Rare first edition) 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 […] €1,250.00 |
 | KING, Robert. A Primer of the History of the Holy Catholic Church in Ireland, from the Introduction of Christianity to the Formation of the Modern Irish Branch of the Church of Rome. Third edition. Two volumes in one. Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company, Grant and Bolton, and J. Robertson; Evans, Cork, 1845/46. Thick demy octavo. Third edition. pp. xxxi, [3], 372, 373-929. With engraved title vignettes, decorative title borders printed in red, and wood-engraved illustrations including a view of Armagh. Contemporary half green morocco over marbled […] €175.00 |
 | MacCATHMHAOIL, Seaghan [John Patrick Campbell]. Calendar of the Saints: Patric. Dublin & London: Maunsel & Co., Ltd., 1907. Oblong octavo. pp. 28. Printed in red and black throughout: ornamental title within a bold Celtic frame; twelve monthly calendar leaves each with a short prose legend from the life of St Patrick, and facing full-page line illustrations all signed in the block ‘Seaghan mac Cathmhaoil / […] €575.00 |
 | USSHER, James. A Body of Divinity: or, The Sum and Substance of Christian Religion. Catechistically propounded and explained, by way of Question and Answer. Methodically and familiarly handled, for the Use of Families. To which are adjoined a Tract, intituled, Immanuel: or, The Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God. To which are added, The Life of the Author, containing many remarkable Passages: His Model of Church Government, and Advices to Young Ministers. With an Alphabetical Table. And likewise the Principles of Christian Religion in short, for the use of Younger People. The Eighth Edition, carefully corrected from very many Errors in former Editions. London: […] €395.00 |
 | CATHOLIC CONTROVERSY. The Catholick Ballad: or an Invitation to Popery, upon considerable Grounds and Reasons. To the Tune of 88 (RESTORATION PROPAGANDA) London: Printed for Henry Brome, at the Gun at the West-end of St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1674. Broadside. Printed in double column with music notation at head. Woodcut musical score printed with the words “Since Popery of late is so much in debate.” 386 x 290mm. A central fold mark, with tear, repaired with archival tape. […] €2,250.00 |
 | CONNELLAN, Mr. T[haddeus]. The Two First Books of The Pentateuch, or Books of Moses: as A Preparation for the Learners to Read the Holy Scriptures. The types cut by Dr. Edmund Fray from original Irish manuscripts, under the care and direction of T. Connellan. Printed at the Apollo Press, London. By J. Johnson, Brook Street, Holborn, 1819. Third edition. 12mo. pp. [iv], 200. Modern half calf on marbled boards, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine. From the library of Seamus Ó Casaide with his signature on titlepage. Some foxing as usual. A very attractive copy. Darlow […] €375.00 |
 | MEAGHER, Thomas F. Letters of a Protestant, on Repeal. By Thomas Davis. Edited by Thomas F. Meagher. Dublin: Printed for the Irish Confederation, by W. Holden 1847. Slim octavo. pp. 36. Modern brown wrappers. A very good copy. OCLC 18758707. JISC locates 2 copies only. Not in TCD, Cambridge or Bodleian. No. 2. The Irish Confederation at head of title. Signed at end, ‘An Irish Protestant.’ “The English were sought out and […] €485.00 |
 | SWIFT, Edmund L. The Life and Acts of Saint Patrick the Archbishop, Primate and Apostle of Ireland. Now first translated from the original Latin of Jocelin, the Cistercian Monk of Furnes, who flourished in the early part of the twelfth century. With the elucidations of David Rothe, Bishop of Ossory. Engraved frontispiece and one other plate from Thomas Messingham’s ‘Floreligium’. Bound with: Vie des Saints … By Jean F. Godescard. With engraved […] €235.00 |
 | PAISLEY, Ian R.K. Martin Luther the Reformer. Sermons Nos. 11 and 12 Preached on Lord’s Day evenings, 8th and 15th September, 1963. Belfast, n.d. [1963]. Octavo. pp. [12]. Printed stapled wrappers. In very good condition. [CAT 162] €285.00 |
 | PARR, Richard / [MARSHALL, Thomas] The Life of the Most Reverend Father in God James Usher, Late Lord Archbishop of Armagh, Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland. LARGE PAPER COPY IN A SUPERB BINDING With a Collection of Three Hundred Letters, between the said Lord Primate and most of the Eminentest Persons for Privy and Learning in his time, both in England and beyond the Seas. With a finely engraved portrait frontispiece of James Ussher. London: Printed for Nathanael Ranew, at the Kings-Arms in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1686. Folio. […] €2,250.00 |
 | DE SALES, François de. Traicté de l’Amour de Dieu. ONE OF THE GREAT CLASSICS OF CATHOLIC MYSTICISM Rouen: Chez Daniel Louvet, ruë aux Juifs, près le Palais, 1646. Small octavo. Title with Jesuit device. Contemporary French red morocco, covers richly tooled in gilt with a splendid sunburst design radiating from a central rosette, surrounded by leafy sprays, volutes and corner ornaments, within gilt borders of scrolling foliage; rebacked spine gilt in compartments […] €1,450.00 |
 | IRISH BINDING. The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of Ireland; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches. SUPERB 18th CENTURY IRISH BINDING Dublin: Printed by the Executors of David Hay, Assignee of the Late Boulter Grierson, Printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, 1773. Large post octavo. The covers are executed in crimson morocco richly decorated, with a striking central panel of citron morocco inlaid to an oval shape. This is elaborately […] €3,650.00 |
 | RONAN, Myles V. The Reformation in Dublin 1536-1588. From original sources. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1926. pp. xxxii, 543. With embossed stamp of Mellifont Abbey on f.f.e. and half title. Some underlining and discreet annotation, otherwise very good. [EBR] €125.00 |
 | O’HURLEY, D. & O’DEVANY, C. Sacra Rituum Congregatione E.MO AC R.MO DOMINO Card Vincentio Vannuelli Relatore Dublinen. Beatificationos seu Declarationis Martyrii Servorum Dei Dermitii O’Hurley, Archiepiscopi Casseliensis Cornelii O’Devany, O. S. F. Episcopi Dunensis et Connorensis et Sociorum Pro Fide, Uti Fertur, in Hibernis Interfectorum Positio super Introductione Causae Summarium. FOR BEATIFICATION REFORMATION SUPPRESSION SURVIVAL Romae: Ex Typographia Pontificia in Instituto, 1914. Small folio. pp. [2], 1490, 23. Quarter blue morocco on blue cloth boards. A very good copy. The story of the Reformation period in both Cashel and Emly is a mixture of trial and triumph. Political considerations largely dictated the pace and extent […] €685.00 |
 | CUSACK, M.F. The Life of St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland. Kenmare Series Lives of Irish Saints. Illustrated with numerous engravings. London: Longmans Green. Dublin: Elwood. Boston: Donohoe. Australia: Robertson: 1871. Quarto. pp. xii, 656. Pages printed within decorated boards. With engraved half title depicting the Church and Convent at Kenmare. Gilt decorated mauve cloth over bevelled boards. Some mild foxing. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Scarce. [Cat 161] €275.00 |
 | Heaney, Seamus: Columcille the scribe. A translation of a late eleventh or early twelfth century Irish poem. LIMITED TO 150 COPIES ON VELLUM. Dublin: Trinity Closet Press for the Royal Irish Academy, 2004. Portfolio. Limited to 150 copies, signed by Seamus Heaney. Columcille the scribe is a version by Seamus Heaney of an early Irish poem beginning ‘Sgith mo crob on scribhinn’. Calligraphy on vellum by Tim O’Neill each written out in a script derived from the ‘Cathach.’ […] €2,850.00 |
 | STOKES, Margaret. Six Months in the Apennines or a pilgrimage in search of vestiges of the Irish Saints in Italy. With numerous illustrations. London: George Bell, 1892. Quarto. pp. xiv, 313. Quarter cream cloth over grey cloth, title and device in gilt on upper cover, titled in gilt on spine. Fading to spine with some light staining. A very good copy. [L1 5D] €135.00 |
 | MacHALE, Most Rev. John. John MacHale, Archbishop of Tuam. His Life, Times and Correspondence by Right Rev. Bernard O’Reilly, D.D. With portrait frontispiece to each volume and numerous other illustrations. Two volumes. 100 New York: Fr. Pustet & Co., 1890. pp. (1) xxvii, 658, (2) xix, 695. Ex lib. Recent qtr. morocco. A.e.g. Very rare. John MacHale (1791-1881) known as the ‘Lion of the Fold of Juda’ was for over half a century the dominant […] €475.00 |
 | CULLEN, Cardinal. The Pastoral Letters and other Writings of Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin. Edited by the Rt. Rev. Patrick Francis Moran, D.D. Bishop of Ossory. Three volumes. Dublin, Browne, 1882. pp. (1) viii, 873, (2) vi, 802, (3) x, 813. Fine set in original cloth gilt. Rare. Sir Shane Leslie gave us his assessment of Cullen: “”Cardinal Paul Cullen, Ultramontane and Constitutional, who ruled the Irish bishops and therefore Ireland for a quarter of century. No Irish man since O’Connell […] €475.00 |
 | MACALISTER, R.A.S. The Memorial Slabs of Clonmacnoise, King’s County With an appendix on the materials for a history of the monastery. With numerous plates, some folding. Dublin: Printed at the University Press, 1909. Royal octavo. pp. xxxii, 159, 50 (plates). Green ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on spine. A fine copy.Published in 1909 on behalf of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland the […] €165.00 |
 | McCALL, P.J. In the Shadow of St. Patrick’s: A Paper Read before the Irish National Literary Society, April 27, 1893. With folding map. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, 1894. Foolscap octavo. pp. iv, 48. Original printed wrapper with recent lower wrapper. From the Franciscan library Dún Mhuire, Killiney with neat stamp. In pencil on titlepage ‘Duplicate Rare Item’. Some corners dog-eared or cut away. A good copy of a very rare item. COPAC locates 5 copies only. Containing […] €165.00 |
 | DEFOE, Daniel: The History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern. In two parts. Part first, containing a state of the circumstances, from his expulsion out of heaven, to the creation, with remarks on the several mistakes concerning his fall. Part second, containing his more private conduct down to the present times, his government, his appearance, his manner of working, and the tools he works with; […] €375.00 |
 | RUST, George. Dean of Connor. A Funeral Sermon Preached at the Obsequies of The Right Reverend Father in God, Jeremy [Taylor], Lord Bishop of Down: Who deceased at Lysburne, August 13th 1667. London: Printed by E. Tyler for Richard Royston Book-seller to the King’s most Excellent Majesty, 1668. Quarto. pp. 41, [1 (advertisement leaf with works by Bishop Taylor)]. Quarter black morocco on black buckram boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Wing R 2362. ESTC R17604. Sweeney 4557. This work also appears as […] €375.00 |
 | GRUBB, Sarah. Some Account of the Life and Religious Labours of Sarah Grubb. With an Appendix containing an Account of Ackworth School, Observations on Christian Discipline, and Extracts from many of her Letters. Dublin: R. Jackson, No. 20, Meath-Street, 1792. 12mo. pp. 435. Modern full sprinkled calf gilt. Signature of John Gardner on front endpaper, dated 1793, with later signature of Geo. D. Parrish. A very good copy. Rare. Edited by and sometimes attributed to Lindley Murray. Sarah Grubb, 1756-1790, was born at York in England of a […] €265.00 |
 | Leabhar Fidhnacha. The Book of Fenagh in Irish and English, originally compiled by St. Caillin, Archbishop, Abbot, and Founder of Fenagh, alias Dunbally of Moy-Rein, tempore St. Patricii … Carefully revised, indexed, and copiously annotated by W.M. Hennessy and done into English by D.H. Kelly. With two coloured plates. RARE FIRST EDITION Dublin: Thom, 1875. First edition. Quarto. pp. (1) x, 439. Modern half calf on marbled boards in eighteenth century style. All edges sprinkled. A fine copy. Very rare. The Book of Fenagh (Leabar Fidhnacha) is a manuscript of prose and poetry written in Classical Irish by Muirgheas mac Pháidín Ó Maolconaire in […] €2,450.00 |
 | O‟SULLIVAN, Timothy. The Pious Miscellany, And other Poems by Tadhg Gaelach or Timothy O‟Sullivan. Now for the first time collected [SÉUMAS Ó CASAIDE‟S COPY] ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL BOOKS OF ITS TIME Dublin: John O‟Daly, 9, Anglesea-Street, 1868. 12mo. pp. 96. Recent quarter morocco on marbled boards. Signed and dated by Séamus Ó Casaide, 19.6. 1915, on preface. Very scarce. Sharpe & Hoyne 976. Petrie B Irish Type. With a Book of Kells initial T (p.III). Séamus Ó […] €475.00 |
 | BOOK OF LINDISFARNE Evangeliorum Quattuor. Codex Lindisfarnensis. SUPERB SET – LIMITED TO 680 COPIES FROM THE LIBRARY OF MURRAY GELL-MANN Two volumes. Olten & Lausanne: 1956-1959. Imperial folio. Bound in full and half vellum parchment with red and black lettering. Edition limited to 680 numbered copies [No. 460]. From the library of Murray Gell-Mann with his bookplate on front pastedown. A very […] €3,750.00 |
 | BOOK OF KELLS Evangeliorum Quattuor Codex Cenannensis. Three volumes. THE 9TH CENTURY BOOK OF KELLS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK IN THE WORLD “THE WORK OF AN ANGELIC RATHER THAN A HUMAN HAND” Berne: By Urs Graf-Verlag, 1950. Large folio. Full and quarter vellum. Limited to 500 numbered sets (90 / 111). Ex lib Milltown Park with label and stamps. In fine condition. The Book […] €4,500.00 |
 | O‟CONOR, Carola D.D. Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores Veteres … Epistolam nuncupatoriam quae Codicum Vetustissimorum Hibernensium notitiam … Annales Tigernachi … Annales Inisfalenses … Annales Buellianos … Annales 1V Magistrorum, ex Ipso O‟Clerii Autographo in Bibliotheca Stowense … Annales Ultonienses, ab Anno D. CCCCXXXI, ad Annum D. MCXXXI … Itemque Indicem Generalem. Illustrated with 13 plates. Four volumes. Buckingham: J. Seeley, 200 COPIES PRIVATELY PRINTED Sold by T. Payne, London, 1814-1826. Quarto. Green buckram, titled in gilt. A fine set. Very rare in commerce. Dix OC 127. Bradshaw 6096. Gilbert 594. Best, 67. Bradshaw 6096. The author was born at Belanagare in 1764, second son of Denis O‟Conor and grandson of Charles O‟Conor of Belanagare, the […] €2,250.00 |
 | COLGAN, John. Triadis Thaumaturgae [LIMITED EDITION IN UNIQUE FINE BINDING] 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: […] €1,650.00 |
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