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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. Scarce. Father Paul Walsh’s name […]

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, or Alphabetical Tables. Shewing the […]

One page, quarto, on official bilingual Dáil Éireann / Department of Finance letterhead, dated 21 July 1920, signed in ink “Mícheál Ó Coileáin” as Aire Airgid (Minister for Finance). Addressed to Mr J. P. Cooney, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Collins formally acknowledges receipt of £255 5s. sterling, requests the relevant application forms covering the subscription, and […]

ESCAPE FROM MOUNTJOY WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF MICHAEL COLLINS With a Foreword by Piaras Beaslai, T.D. New York: Reprinted by the Friends of Irish Freedom, Inc., 1920. First edition. Octavo. pp. 36. Recent wrappers with the original upper wrapper preserved. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. No copy located on JISC. A rare contemporary account […]

Dublin, August 1922. Two original black-and-white photographs (each 7 × 10 cm), housed in the original brown leather presentation wallet with gilt decorative borders and Mylar windows. The funeral photograph signed by Richard Mulcahy in black ink at the lower margin. Fine condition. A rare photographic grouping centred on General Richard Mulcahy (1886–1971), one of […]

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 the 1981 All-Ireland Senior Football […]

London: William Heinemann, 1919. First edition, second impression. Royal octavo. pp. xv, [1], 376. Illustrated throughout with photographic plates, illustrations, and the large folding map at rear. Original dark blue cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in silver, upper cover with silver vignette of the Endurance. The original cloth is clean and bright with the […]

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. First U.S. edition. Tall octavo. pp. 192. Illustrated throughout with maps, colour plates and black-and-white photographs. Original blue publisher’s decorative leatherette binding, elaborately blocked in gilt with a maritime design to upper cover and spine, map endpapers. A near fine copy. A handsome American first edition […]

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 loved games with children and […]

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. Bowles, Print & Mapseller, next […]

[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 of geography with the publication […]

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, together with a contemporary manuscript […]

Dublin: Irish Press Limited, 1949. First edition. Octavo. pp. 228. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with sixteen photographic plates and two folding maps. A particularly desirable association copy, inscribed by Tom Barry on the front free endpaper: “Cork. 11.9.1954. On the occasion of the visit of […]

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 Attorney-General for Ireland in 1866 […]

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 4¾ yards of drab cloth, […]

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 Destruction – The Town Constitution […]

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. [L1 1E]

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 Physicians in Dublin, but did […]

Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, [c.1950s]. 8vo. pp. 264. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt, in the publisher’s illustrated dust jacket. A very good copy; internally fresh and clean with only light toning to the edges. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with minor wear to the extremities and a few small closed tears, […]

Edited by Desmond Ryan. With an introduction by William McMullen. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1951. First edition. 8vo. pp. 264. Original brown cloth, lettered in black, in the publisher’s illustrated dust jacket featuring a portrait of Connolly on the upper cover. A very good copy; light toning to the page edges […]

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 claiming great antiquity. They settled […]

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 role in Irish banking, commerce, […]

Kilkenny: Printed at The Kilkenny People, [1928]. Octavo. pp. 16. Pictorial stapled wrappers.   [CAT 164]

Edited by Thomas Brown, The Younger, author of the Twopenny Post-Bag. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1818. First edition. 12mo. pp. viii, 168. Contemporary full calf, covers framed by triple gilt fillets and gilt roll, an inner octagonal blind-stamped panel with gilt circles at each corner; board edges and turn-ins […]