1571. Cunard Liner Interior Illustrations – [Cunard].

History of the Cunard Steamship Company – (Extracted from “The Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine”) – [This rare publication originates from the “Publicity-Department of the Cunard Line” and come together with a vintage Passenger-Card of the Cunard Royal Mail Steamer “Batavia” showing a Cabin Plan verso and an image of Samuel Walters’ painting of the “Batavia” on the front].

[London], [Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine] / [Allen & Co.], [1886]. Octavo. Frontispiece, 31 pages text, interspersed with 13 engravings (including Frontispiece) and an Appendix with Cabin Plans. Original Hardcover with Cunard-Company-Crest. Professionally restored and rebacked by an english masterbinder. Excellent condition. Cunard’s own copy with several stamps from Cunard “Please return to Publicity Dept. – The Cunard S.S.Co. Ltd. – Cunard Building – Liverpool”. Further stamp of preowner “Arthur C. Wardle”, Liverpool Historian.

1572. Cupitt, Don.

Taking Leave Of God.

London, SCM Press Ltd., 1980. 14 x 21.5cm. (13), 174 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition, other than fading to spine and jacket. Some text markings. Pre-owner’s name on half-title page.

1573. Curchin, Leonard A.

Roman Spain – Conquest and Assimilation.

London / New York, Routledge, 1991. 14 cm x 22 cm. IX, 250 pages. Several black and white drawings, charts, maps and photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. A very minor smudge to half title page. All other pages clean and bright.

1574. Curie, Pierre.

Oeuvres de Pierre Curie. Publiees par les Soins de la Societe Francaise de Physique.

First Edition. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1908. 24.2cm x 16cm. xxii, 621 (5) pages.With frontispiece photography of Pierre Curie. With black and white photographs. Original Hardcover. With marbling, in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Minor traces of foxing to endpapers and some pages of text.

1575. [Curran, John Philpot] Davis Esq., Thomas.

The Speeches of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran. Edited with Memoir and Historical Notices

Second Edition. Dublin, James Duffy, 1859. 18.5cm x 13cm. XXXIV, 471 pages. Original Hardcover / Decorative publisher’s cloth. Tiny, 19th century library stamp. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of James P. Mc Carthy. [Duffy’s Library of Ireland]

1576. Curran, Joseph M.

The birth of the Irish Free State, 1921 – 1923.

Alabama, Univ. of Alabama Pr., 1980. Octavo. V, 356 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man, with two interesting newspaper-clippings related to the topic. Name of preowner on endpaper.

1577. Currie, Harry Mac Leod.

The Individual and the State. [With chapters on Classical Authors e.g.: Aristotle on Communism / Plato’s Communism / Seneca on Riches / Euripides and the Ideal City / Socrates in Prison etc. and with a special chapter: Women and the State: The Dark Side / Women and the Abolition of War – Political and Diplomatic Moves / The Training of a Wife / Men and Women Equal / The Stoic View of Sexual Equality / The Roman Matron]. Edited with an introduction by H. MacL. Currie.

London, Dent, 1973. 20 cm. XV, 135 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [The Ancient World: source books].

1578. Curry, John.

The Irish social services.

Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 1980. 22 cm. 289 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man. Name of preowner on endpaper. Rare publication !

1579. Curry, Manfred.

Beauty of Flight [SIGNED / INSCRIBED].

New York, The John Day Co., 1931 / 1932. 4°. 100 Pages / 100 photographs (sepia tinted). Original Cloth (gilt Lettering on Spine and Front-Cover, gilt Impression on the Front-Cover). Near fine. Special edition with years 1931/32 stated on titlepage. Inscribed and fully signed by Manfred Curry on the title-page: “W.Helwig zur Erinnerung and die Platensee Regatten 1936 auf “Aero” [″The Aero” was Curry’s private boat]. Includes a beautiful piece of Ephemera: Original advertising-prospectus of Curry’s “Wind und Wasser”.

1580. Curtayne, Alice.

Alice Curtayne and “Studies – An Irish Quarterly Review” – Irish Quarterly Scholarly Journal, historically published since the year 1912 by The Educational Company of Ireland / The Talbot Press / Messenger Publications for the Jesuits of Ireland. A Collection of momentarily 53 issues plus Index (1912-1961) of the Journal, including currently one identified issue with an Alice Curtayne – publication: 1. “Dante” – (In: “Studies” Summer/Autumn – Issue 1965).

Dublin, The Educational Company of Ireland / The Talbot Press, 1912 – 1969. Octavo. 53 Issues plus Index, with different amounts of pages and content. Overall c. 2800 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some issues with some stronger signs of wear but the majority of issues in firm and excellent condition. Some of the issues with annotations and some with a former library-stamp. Very rare run of this periodicals which invited contributions from other women writers like Mary M. Macken, Pamela Reilly, Helen Landreth, Eleanor Knott, Ethna Kavanagh, Lorna Reynolds, etc.