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[FITZGERALD, George Robert] The Trials of George Robert Fitzgerald : Esq; and Timothy Brecknock, for the procurement of James Fulton and others, for the murder of Pat. Ran. M’Donnell and Charles Hipson. Also the Trial of John Gallagher and others, for an assault on Geo. Rob. Fitzgerald, in the Gaol of Castlebar.

The speech of G.R. Fitzgerald, Esq; previous to his receiving sentence – the arguments of counsel – the Lord Chief Baron Yelverton’s speech on passing their sentences – the whole proceedings of the court; together with a description of their conduct at the place of execution. Taken from the notes of a gentleman [George Joseph […]

365.00
A MONK OF LINDISFARNE ABBEY. The Life of Saint Cuthbert
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
Annals of Clonmacnoise
Annals of Clonmacnoise. Ó MURAÍLE, Nollaig. Ed. by. [Annála Chluain Mhic Nóis] translated in 1627 by Conall Mag Annals of Ireland from the Earliest Period to AD 1408 LIMITED EDITION OF 25 COPIES ONLY

Based on BL Add. MS 4817, with some variants from TCD MS 673). Together with a remnant of ‘Annals of Leacán’, AD 1443-68 translated by Dubhaltach Mac Fhir Bhisigh, AD 1666. Edited by Nollaig Ó Muraíle. Dublin: De Búrca, 2022. First edition. Quarto. pp. 679. Green leather titled and blocked in gilt. Limited to 430 […]

485.00
ARCHDEKIN, Richard [Richardi ARSDEKIN]. Theologia Tripartita Universa, Complectens nune Bibliothecam perfecta Viri Ecclesiastici, ordine Sequenti. Tomus Primus. Controversiæ Heterodoxæ ac Scholasticæ. Tomi Secundi, Pars I. Theologia Speculativa. Tomi II. Pars II. Theologia Practica Universa. Tomus Tertius. Apparatus Practicus pro Omni Prorsus Functione Viri Ecclesiastici. Editionis Nonæ, ab Authore in singulis Partibus plurimum locupletatæ, & in novam Normam digestæ.

Venice: Apud Io. Jacobum Hertz, 1696. Quarto. pp. [xvi], 249, [7], 402, [x], 232. Title printed in red and black. Three parts in one volume with separate titlepages and pagination. Complete with half-title. Modern quarter calf on marbled boards by Paddy Kavanagh, Museum Bookbinders. Neat old library stamp ‘Clongowes Wood’ on titlepage. Some occasional foxing. […]

1,350.00
ARIOSTO, Lodovico. L’Orlando Furioso di Lodovico Ariosto.

With forty-seven engraved plates. Four volumes. Londra [i.e. Leghorn?]: 1781. 12mo. Si vende in Livorno presso Gio. Tomo. Masi e Comp. Engraved titlepages.The imprint is false; probably printed in Leghorn. The titlepages are engraved. Bound in walnut calf by William M’Kenzie of Dublin. Covers framed by a gilt chain-link roll. Flat spine divided into five […]

1,650.00
Fine binding from De Burca Rare Books
ARNOLD, Matthew. New Poems. [Bound by Roger de Coverly in full crushed levant morocco]

ARNOLD, Matthew. New Poems. London: Macmillan, 1897. Foolscap octavo. First edition. pp. viii, 244. Bound by Roger de Coverly in full crushed levant morocco (name stamp-signed in gilt on front pastedown). Covers framed by double gilt fillets and decorative roll, border with rose garlands, gilt dots and leafs enclosing panel with oval wreath of roses […]

1,350.00
ATKINSON, A. Esq. Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, and Seventh of England’s Dominion: enriched with copious descriptions of the resources of the soil, and seats and scenery of the north west district.

London: Hamilton, Adams, & Liverpool: Marples, 1833. pp. vii, 492. Recent quarter green morocco on marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. COPAC locates 3 copies only. [l1 BC 1B]

475.00
Jane Austen Pride
AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by C. E. and H. M. Brock.(In full-leather binding)

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. pp. 397. Collector’s Edition. Full red leather, ornately gilt-tooled to boards and spine with floral border designs, raised bands, and black morocco title labels. All edges gilt. Silk moiré endpapers. Ribbon marker. A fine copy. Binding bright and clean; gilt vivid; edges fresh. Internally clean and sound. A very attractive […]

295.00
Baker, C.A. Souvenir of Ninety-Four (Australian and Malayan) Signed and inscribed by the author.

Gift Battle-Planes which helped us to Victory, August 4th 1914 to November 11th 1918 London: The Field Press, 1920. 4to. pp. [x], 148. Limited edition printed for private circulation only. The titlepage drawn and illuminated by Fred Leist. Signed and inscribed by the author. Original full vellum, title in gilt on upper cover and spine, […]

675.00
BALZAC: Balzac Maximes

London: Published by Arthur L Humphreys, 1912. Small quarto. pp. [iv], 197. Title printed in red and black. Bound by Hatchards of Piccadilly with their name stamped in gilt on turn-in of upper board, in full purple crushed levant morocco. Covers framed by a single gilt fillet with gilt decoration in corners; replicated on spine, […]

325.00
BARBEY D’AUREVILLY, Jules-Amédée. What Never Dies. A Romance. Translated into English by Sebastian Melmoth (O.W.).

Paris: Privately Printed, 1902. Crown octavo, pp. 360. First English edition. Bound in richly gilt crimson crushed levant morocco, covers framed by double gilt fillets and leafy corner ornaments, large panel in centre with interlacing laurel-wreath tools forming a geometric lattice with tiny green onlays; spine elaborately tooled, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. […]

1,250.00
BARCLAY, John: Barclay his Argenis. Or, The Loves of Polyarchus & Argenis. Faithfully Translated out of Latin into English by Kingsmill Long, Esquire. The Second Edition, beautified with pictures together with a key praefixed to unlock the whole story. [EARLY SIGNATURE OF JOHN EYRE]

London: Printed for Henry Seile at the Signe of the Tygres Head in Fleetstreet – neere the Conduit, 1636. Quarto. pp. [36], 719, [1]. Engraved titlepage. Modern full calf in seventeenth century style. Early signature of John Eyre on titlepage. All edges red. A very good copy.  “ESTC S100846 with no copy in Ireland. The […]

1,750.00
BARRINGTON, Sir Jonah. Historic Memoirs of Ireland; Comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, The Rebellion, and The Union; with Delineations of the Principal Characters connected with these transactions. Illustrated with curious letters and papers in fac-simile; and numerous original portraits (DUKE OF SUNDERLAND’S COPY)

London: Published for Henry Colburn for Richard Bentley, 1833. Quarto. First edition. pp. (1) xlii, 358 (2) ix, 464. Near contemporary full calf, covers framed by triple blind fillets enclosing in the centre the gilt armorial arms of George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland. Spines divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, […]

685.00
BARRINGTON, Sir Jonah. Personal Sketches of His Own Times. By Sir Jonah Barrington, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Ireland.

Three volumes. London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1827/1832. First edition. Large post octavo. pp. (1) xxvii, [1], 476, (2) xiii, 4, 474, (3) xxxvi, 436. First and second volumes have “In two volumes”. Later half brown morocco on marbled boards. Flat spine divided into six panels by double gilt fillets, title and author in […]

685.00
BARRINGTON, Sir Jonah. Personal Sketches of His Own Times. By Sir Jonah Barrington, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Ireland. Three volumes.

London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1827/1832. First edition. Large post octavo. pp. (1) xxvii, [1], 476, (2) xiii, 4, 474, (3) xxxvi, 436. First and second volumes have “In two volumes”. Near contemporary half brown morocco on marbled boards. Spine divided into six panels by five raised bands, title and volume number in gilt […]

685.00
Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland
BÉASLAÍ, Piaras. Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland [LIMITED EDITION]

Two volumes. A new introduction by Brian P. Murphy, O.S.B. With two portraits in full colour by Sir John Lavery, and other illustrations to each volume. Dublin: De Búrca, 2008. Royal octavo. pp. (1) xxxii, 292, (2) vi, 328. Bound by Pascal Flynn in full green morocco, title in gilt along spine; red and green endbands; gold silk marker; […]

475.00
BEATTIE, James. The Minstrel [EDWARDS OF HALIFAX FINE ETRUSCAN BINDING]

In two books. With some other poems. By James Beattie, LL.D. To which are now added, Miscellanies. By James Hay Beattie, with an account of his life and character. London: Printed by T. Gillet, Salisbury Square, for C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and sold by A. Brown, Aberdeen, 1799. Post octavo. pp. (1) [viii], 120 […]

1,450.00
BECKETT, Samuel. Come and Go. A Dramaticule. [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION]

Illustrated. London: Calder and Boyars, 1967. Demy octavo. First edition. pp. 10. Grey buckram, upper cover ruled in gilt with title and author. Edition limited to 100 copies (64) signed by the author. A fine copy in slipcase. Illustrated with photographs from the performance; written for, and dedicated to, John Calder, the publisher.

1,250.00
Bedell Bible first edition
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
BEDOYERE, Michael De La. George Washington

Illustrated 130 IN FINE BINDING Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, Company, n.d. (c.1930). pp. 310. Half red morocco on patterened papered boards. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. L3 6D

175.00
BELL, Robert. A Description of the Condition and Manners as well as of the Moral and Political Character, Education, &c. of the Peasantry of Ireland, such as they were between the years 1780 & 1790, when Ireland was supposed to have arrived at its highest degree of prosperity and happiness.

London: Printed for the Author by C. Barber, 1804. First edition. Octavo. pp. 4, 43. Contemporary full polished calf, title in gilt on red morocco label on gilt decorative spine. Some spotting throughout. A very attractive copy. Extremely rare in commerce. COPAC with 8 locations. Goldsmiths’-Kress no. 18787. Bradshaw, 7648; Black, 2419. With contemporary manuscript […]

1,350.00
BERNEY, The Reverend Thomas. (Presented by the Author). An Address Presented to the Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament Assembled, shewing the Fearful Danger of Disestablishing and Disendowing the Church in Ireland, as by Law Established. Together with Prophetic Visions and Prophecies, and other Proof of his Office and High Calling. Illustrated with one hand-coloured plate.

London, Printed by Vacher & Sons, n.d. (1869). 4to. pp. 29. Superbly bound in full purple goatskin, covers framed by triple gilt and one blind fillets enclosing in the centre a monogram in gilt. Flat spine divided into five compartments with a gilt floral device in each, fore-edges and turn-ins gilt; comb-marbled endpapers; red and […]

575.00
BOATE, Gerard & MOLYNEUX, Thomas. A Natural History of Ireland in Three Parts.

1. Being a True and Ample Description of its Situation, Greatness, Shape, Woods, Heaths, Bogs … 2. A Collection of such Papers as were Communicated to the Royal Society, Referring to some Curiosities in Ireland … 3. A Discourse concerning the Danish Mounts, Forts and Towers in Ireland. Three works in one volume. Illustrated with […]

1,450.00
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER IN IRISH. Leabhar na Nornaightheadh Ccomhchoitchionn, agus Mhiniostralachda na Saceaimeinteadh, agus Resadh agus Dhearghnath na Heaglaise, do reir usaide Eaglaise na Sacsan; Maille ris an Tsaltair no Psalmuibh Dhaibhidh.

FIRST EDITION WITH PARALLEL ENGLISH TEXT [BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER IN IRISH] Leabhar na Nornaightheadh Ccomhchoitchionn, agus Mhiniostralachda na Saceaimeinteadh, agus Resadh agus Dhearghnath na Heaglaise, do reir usaide Eaglaise na Sacsan; Maille ris an Tsaltair no Psalmuibh Dhaibhidh. In Irish and English. London: Eleanor Everingham, at the Seven-Stars in Ave-Mary-Lane, near Ludgate, 1712. First […]

2,950.00
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
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 PSALMS With twenty-four coloured plates by Frank C. Papé.

London: Hutchinson, [1913?]. Quarto. pp. vi, 282. Title and text printed in red and black. Plates with tissue guards. Full vellum decorated in gilt to a floral design with a lyre in centre, titled in gilt. Edition limited to 150 copies only, signed and numbered [No. 39] by the illustrator. Decorative endpapers. From the library […]

465.00
BORLASE, Edmund. The History of the Irish Rebellion, Traced from many Preceding Acts, to the Grand Eruption The 23d of October, 1641 (John Cliffe’s Copy of the Scarce Dublin Edition)

And thence pursued to the Act of Settlement, 1662. To which are added Letters to and from Oliver Cromwell, Ireton, Preston … relating to the Sieges, Battles and remarkable Passages mentioned in the following History, never before printed; taken from Original MSS of Mr. Cliffe, an Intimate of Cromwell’s and Secretary to General Ireton. Dublin: […]

1,650.00
BORLASE, William G. The Dolmens of Ireland - Special edition limited to 15 sets
BORLASE, William G. The Dolmens of Ireland – Special edition limited to 15 sets

Their distribution, structural characteristics, and affinities in other countries; together with the folk-lore attaching to them; supplemented by considerations on the anthropology, ethnology, and traditions of the Irish people. With over 800 illustrations (including 3 colouredplates), and 4 colouredfolding maps. Three volumes. Bound in full green morocco title and gilt Celtic design on upper cover, […]

1,250.00
BOURKE [de Búrca], Éamonn. Three Castlebar Bindings. A Story with Digressions. 

Dublin: The DOVS [Dublin Odde Volume Sette], 2016. Royal octavo. pp. 20. Quarter linen on grey paper boards, title lettered in black on upper cover and on printed label along spine. Edition limited to 75 copies, signed by the publisher. Fine.

275.00
BOYLE, Roger Earl of Orrery. Parthenissa, That Most Fam’d Romance. The Six Volumes Compleat. Composed By The Right Honourable The Earl of Orrery.

London: Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringham, at the Blue Anchor in the Lower-Walk of the New Exchange, 1676. Folio. pp. [4], 403, [3], 485-808 (i.e. 730, with printer’s error in pagination). Titlepage, with publisher’s device, printed in red and black. Contemporary full sprinkled calf, spine expertly rebacked preserving early maroon morocco letterpiece. From the […]

2,450.00
BRASH, Richard Rolt. The Ogam Inscribed Monuments of the Gaedhil in the British Islands. With a dissertation on the Ogam character.

Edited by George M. Atkinson. Illustrated with fifty photo-lithographic plates and a folding map. London: George Bell, 1879. Quarto. pp. xvi, 425, [50] leaves of plates. Modern quarter purple morocco on marbled boards, title and author in gilt on double black morocco labels on spine. Ex-lib. A very handsome copy. Very scarce. Mr. Brash in […]

395.00
BRETON DE LA MARTINIIÉRE, M. China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures &c. Edited principally from Originals in the Cabinet of the late M. Bertin: with Observations, explanatory, historical, and literary. Translated from the French.

In Four Volumes. Embellished with Plates. Four volumes. London: J.J. Stockdale, 1812. Small octavo. With 4 half-titles, 4 engraved hand-coloured frontispieces and 76 fine hand-coloured plates (stipple-and line engravings), in all 80 plates (complete). Half straight-grained red morocco on marbled boards by Bayntum of Bath. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, […]

2,650.00
The Flowers of Mayo
BROWNE, Patrick. Flowers of Mayo. Dr. Patrick Browne’s Fasciculus Plantarum Hiberniae 1788. With sixteen specially commissioned watercolours and other illustrations by Wendy Walsh.

Dublin: De Búrca, 1995. Folio. pp. xiv, 275, 4. Limited edition of 150 numbered copies only for sale. Quarter goatskin on handmade paper, title inset on printed label on upper cover and in gilt on spine; red and maroon endbands. This copy is not numbered. Signed by the publisher Éamonn de Búrca. This treasure contains […]

1,850.00
BULWER-LYTTON, Edward. The Last Days of Pompeii

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1985. First Easton Press edition. Royal octavo. pp. xxi, [3], 410. Printed on archival paper. Bound in full dark red leather, titled and decorated in gilt; moiré silk endpapers; brown silk marker. All edges gilt. A pristine copy. [WR]

75.00
BURKE, Country Houses

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION IN GREEN MOROCCO GILT BENCE-JONES, Mark. Burke’s Guide to Country Houses. Volume I – Ireland. Edited and with preface by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd. Illustrated. London: Burke’s Peerage, 1978. First edition. Folio. pp. xxxii, 288. Special edition bound in full green morocco, gilt titling to spine and with the armorial badge of Burke’s Peerage […]

575.00
BURNET, Gilbert. Some Passages of the Life & Death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester, who died the 26th. of July, 1680. Written by his own direction on his Death-bed. By Gilbert Burnet, D.D.

EXTREMELY RARE DUBLIN PRINTING Dublin: Reprinted by Joseph Ray at College-Green, for William Winter at the Wandring Jew in Castle-street, and Eliphal Dobson on Cork-Hill, 1681. Small quarto. pp. 63, [1]. Modern half red morocco on matching marbled boards. Repair to margins of some leaves. Early notes on final blank. A good copy of an […]

395.00
BURNS, John. An Historical and Chronological Remembrancer of all Remarkable Occurances from the Creation to this Present Year of Our Lord 1775 … by John Burns, of Monaghan who was born Deaf and Dumb.

Dublin: Printed for the Author [by William Watson], 1775. pp. 504. Contemporary full calf, title in gilt on original morocco label. Spine professionally rebacked. Previous owner’s signature on front endpaper. A very good copy. Very scarce. ESTC N33345. On the title page, just below the publishing statement “Printed for the author,” a previous owner has […]

375.00
BURTON, Richard. The History of The Kingdom of Ireland;

being an account of all the battles, sieges, and other considerable transactions, both civil and military, during the late wars there, till the entire reduction of that country, by the Victorious Arms of our most gracious Sovereign, King William. To which is prefixed, a brief relation of the ancient inhabitants and the First Conquest of […]

465.00
BUSH, John. Hibernia Curiosa. A Letter from a Gentleman in Dublin, to his friend at Dover in Kent. Giving a General View of the Manners, Customs, Dispositions, &c., of the Inhabitants of Ireland (BUSHE OF GLENCAIRN COPY STATE OF TRADE AND AGRICULTURE)

With occasional Observations on the State of Trade and Agriculture in that Kingdom. And including an Account of some of its most remarkable Natural Curiosities, such as Salmon Leaps, Water-falls, Cascades, Glynns, Lakes, &c. With a more particular Description of the Giant’s Causeway in the North; and the celebrated Lake of Killarney in the South […]

685.00
BYRNE, Fanny. Ed. by. Memoirs of Miles Byrne Chef de Bataillon in the Service of France (First edition)
BYRNE, Fanny. Ed. by. Memoirs of Miles Byrne Chef de Bataillon in the Service of France (First edition)

Three volumes. Paris & New York: Gustave Bossange, 1863. Large post octavo. First edition. pp. (1) 391, 1 (2) 242, 1 (3) 356. Contemporary half calf over pebbled cloth boards, title and volume number in gilt on contrasting red and brown morocco labels in second and third panels of elaborately gilt decorated spines; blue, green […]

1,450.00
BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron. Mazeppa (First edition)
BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron. Mazeppa (First edition)

London: John Murray, 1819. First edition, later issue. pp. [4], [4], 6-69, [1], with terminal leaf of adverts. Later full calf, spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on burgundy morocco labels in the second and third, the remainder lavishly tooled in gilt; fore-edges rules in gilt; […]

385.00
BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron. Mazeppa.

London: John Murray, 1819. First edition, later issue. pp. [4], [4], 6-69, [1], with terminal leaf of adverts. Later full calf, spine divided into six compartments by five gilt raised bands, title and author in gilt on burgundy morocco labels in the second and third, the remainder lavishly tooled in gilt; fore-edges rules in gilt; […]

385.00
CARPENTER, H. Bernard. American Character and Influence. Oration delivered before the City Council and Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1883. By H. Bernard Carpenter. Boston: Printed by Order of the City Council, 1883.

Oration delivered before the City Council and Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1883. By H. Bernard Carpenter. Boston: Printed by Order of the City Council, 1883. First edition. pp. 36. Original decorative full brown morocco over bevelled boards, covers framed by triple gilt fillets with an inner gilt frame with floral devices, enclosing in the […]

575.00
CARR, John Esq. The Stranger in Ireland; or, A Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country, in the year 1805. With 16 folding hand-coloured aquatints and engraved map of the Lakes of Killarney.

A FINE COPY WITH EXQUISITE AQUATINTS  London: Printed for Richard Phillips, No. 6, Bridge-Street, 1806. Quarto. pp. xv, [2], 530, 16 (plates). Near contemporary full diced russia, title in gilt direct on original rebacked spine, ‘M.S.’ in gilt on upper cover. Previous owner’s armorial bookplate ‘Charles M. Stewart’ on front pastedown, and signature of M.F. […]

1,350.00
Stranger in Ireland
CARR, John Esq. The Stranger in Ireland.

CARR, John Esq. The Stranger in Ireland A Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of that Country, in the year 1805. With 16 folding hand-coloured aquatints and engraved map of the Lakes of Killarney. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, No. 6, Bridge-Street, 1806. Quarto. pp. xv, [2], 530, 16 (plates). Contemporary full tree calf. Flat spine […]

2,350.00
CARROLL, Lewis Carroll. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (In full leather binding)

Illustrated by John Tenniel. Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1977. 8vo. Full burgundy leather, elaborately gilt in an ornamental panel design with central vignette of the White Rabbit, raised bands, gilt-lettered spine panels, all edges gilt, moiré silk endpapers, silk marker ribbon. Printed on archival-quality, acid-neutral paper. A handsome Collector’s Edition from Easton Press’s 100 Greatest […]

175.00
CARTE, Thomas. An History of the Life of James Duke of Ormonde. From his birth in 1610, to his death in 1688.

Wherein is contained an account ofthe most remarkable Affairs of his time, and particularly of Ireland, under his Government. To which is added … a very valuable Collection of Letters, written by his Grace, or by the King, the Secretaries of State …and serving to verify the most material facts in the said history. Three […]

1,285.00
CARVE, Thomas. Lyra Sive Anacephalaeosis Hibernica, In qua De Exordio, seu Origine, nomine, moribus, ritibusque Gentis Hibernicae Succincte tractatur; cui quoque accessere Annales Ejusdem Hiberniae, Nec non Rerum gestarum per Europam ab Anno 1148. Usque ad Annum1650. Editio secundo … Authore R.D. Thoma Carve, de Mobernan Tipperariensi, Sacerdote & Notario Apostolico. With seven plates, including one additional portrait of Charles I.

LARGE PAPER COPY Sulzbaci: Typis Abrahami Lichtenthaleri, 1666. Quarto. pp. [46], 455, [1], 6 (plates). Errata on verso of final leaf. Includes index. Bound by Bedford in full green morocco, covers decorated in gilt, spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title, place of publication and year in gilt direct in the […]

6,750.00