1441. [Cork – West Cork – North Cork – East Cork – South Cork] Power, Denis / Byrne, Elizabeth / Egan, Ursula / Lane, Sheila / Sleeman, Mary with Eamon Cotter and Judith Monk.

Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Four Volumes in a Five-Volume set (complete). Volume I: West Cork. Comprising the Baronies of Bear, Bantry, West Carbery (east and west), East Carbery (east and west), Ibane, & Barryroe and Kinalmeaky. Illustrated with 72 plates, 8 colour plates, and 31 maps. Bibliography. Indexes. / Volume II: East and South Cork. Comprising the Baronies of Barrymore, Cork, Courceys, Imokilly, Kerrycurrihy, Kinalea, Kinnatalloon & Kinsale. Illustrated with 104 plates, and 23 maps. / Volume III: Mid Cork – Comprising the Baronies of East Muskerry, West Muskerry & Barretts. Illustrated with 116 plates, 8 colour plates, and 15 maps. / Volume IV (in two Parts): North Cork – Part I and Part II: Comprising the Baronies of Fermoy, Duhallow, Condons and Clangibbon, Orrery and Kilmore and Kinnatalloon.

4 Volumes in 5 (complete set). Dublin, The Stationery Office, 1992-2000. 16cm x 24cm 478, 432, 489, 795 pages (Volume 4 is paginated continuosly). Original Hardcover with original dustjackets / Volume IV in slipcase. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

1442. [Cork – West Cork / County Kerry History Pre-Famine] Nicholson, Asenath.

Ireland’s Welcome To The Stranger or An Excursion through Ireland in 1844 & 1845, for the Purpose of Personally Investigating the Condition of the Poor.

First Edition. New York, Baker and Scribner, 1847. Small Octavo. XV, 456 pages plus 22 pages of a catalogue for the publisher Baker and Scribner in the rear. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and ornament to covers. Recently, professionally restored. Very good condition with the usual signs of some browning and foxing to this publication. From the library of Lathrop Josiah Tracy, Honesdale, Pennsylvania (1825-1897). With his name to the halftitle. A very rare and important book !

1443. [Cork – West Cork / Diocese of Ross & Cloyne] Cole, John Harding.

Church and Parish Records of the United Diocese of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross. Comprising the Eventful Period in the Church’s History of the Forty Years from A.D. 1863, to the Present Time.

Cork, Guy and Company Limited, 1903. 8°. XVI, 347 pages. Original Hardcover (Green cloth with lettering on spine). Original 1903-Edition. Binding and endpaper with minor dampstain. Internally in very good condition. Very Rare !!

1444. [Cork – West Cork] O’Regan, Philip / O’Brien, Gerald / Byrne, Jim and many others.

Skibberen and District Historical Society. – Journal – Volumes 1-19 (complete set of the years 2005-2023). / Cumann Staire An Sciobairin is a Cheantar.

19 volumes. Skibbereen, 2005-2023. 8°. Volume I (2005): 162 pages / Volume II (2006): 159 pages / Volume III (2007): 109 pages / Volume IV (2008): 170 pages / Volume V (2009): 168 pages / Volume VI (2010): 182 pages / Volume VII (2011): 120 pages / Volume VIII (2012): 121 pages. / Volume IX (2013): 158 pages / Volume X (2014): 204 pages / Volume XI (2015): 242 pages / Volume XII (2016): 277 pages / Volume XIII (2017): 208 pages / Volume XIV (2018) 198 pages / Volume XV (2019) 180 pages / Volume XVI (2020) 197 pages / Volume XVII (2021) 170 pages / Volume XVIII (2022) 189 pages / Volume XIX (2023) 225pages // Original, illustrated Softcover. Excellent, as new condition.

1445. [Cork Print – 18th century] Robertson, William.

The History of America.

Volume I (of II) of the First Cork Edition [which had two Volumes in total]. Cork, Printed by Thomas White, opposite the Exchange, 1778. Octavo. XIX, [1], [6], 492 pages including 6 unnumbered pages of a List of Subscribers including the previous owner of the book: “Rev. John Meade”. Original Hardcover / Original full 18th-century-calf with gilt ornament and original spine-label. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Name of John Meade on titlepage. Only Volume One of this very rare Cork print !

1446. [Corker, Ruth / Falkiner, Ruth (1693 – 1760) of St Stephen’s Green, Dublin] – Watts, Isaac.

Armorial Binding from the library of Ruth Corker with manuscript entries regarding the History of family-relations and marriage of Ruth Corker (born Falkiner) of St.Stephen’s Green in Dublin during the years 1693 – 1760. The armorial binding is containing the rare fifth edition of the important Prayer – Guide by english Theologian, Hymn-writer and Logician, Isaac Watts: “A Guide to Prayer : Or A Free and Rational Account of the Gift, Grace and Spirit of Prayer; With plain Directions how every Christian may attain them”.

The Fifth Edition. London, Printed for Emanuel Matthews, 1730. Small Octavo. [5], 156, [1] pages. Hardcover / Original, early 18th century full-leather with armorial embossing to both boards. New spine-label. Ruth Corker’s Library-stamp verso the titlepage. This used to be Ruth Corker’s mother’s book prior to her own and the name Mary Falkiner is written in ink on top of the Preface-page. Manuscript entry “Ruth Corker Her Book 1731” on halftitle with several entries informing on marriages and relationships within the Falkiner and Corker and Robinson – family added obviousy by a later relative (Ruth Robinson, who was married to Robert Robinson). Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

1447. Corkery, Daniel.

The Philosophy of the Gaelic League.

First Edition. [Ireland], Conradh na Gaeilge Ath Cliath, [c.1943]. Small Octavo. 14 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small stain to cover. Rare pamphlet !

1448. Corkery, Simon.

Step by Step – The Golden Years of an Irish Emigrant.

Ifracombe, Stockwell, 1991. 22 cm. 170 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by Corkery. Including a related newspaper-clipping with Corkery’s obituary.

1449. Cormack, Dr. David.

Team Spirit: People Working With People.

Eastbourne, MARC, 1987. 13 cm x 21.5 cm. 222 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

1450. Cornelius, P.

Das Oldenburger Wesermarschrind. Herausgegeben vom Oldenburger Wesermarsch-Herdbuchverein. Mit 2 Karten, 1 farbigen und 6 schwarzen Tafeln und 68 Abbildungen im Text.

Hannover, M. & H. Schaper, 1908. 8°. VIII, 140 Seiten und Tafeln / Karten im Anhang. Hardcover / Dekorativer, illustrierter Jugendstilband / Art Noueau Binding. Traumhaft erhaltene Monographie in wunderschöner Jugendstilbindung. Nahezu keine Gebrauchsspuren. Äußerst selten in dieser Erhaltung. [Monographien landwirtschaftlicher Nutztiere – Band VI].

1451. Cornford, F.M.

From Religion to Philosophy – A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation.

New York / Evanston, Harper & Row, 1957. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. X, 275 pages. Original Softcover. Poor condition with obvious signs of external wear. Several annotations in pencil throughout book. from the library of philosopher Graham Parkes with his name on endpaper, dated Berkeley, 1977.

1452. Corngold, Stanley.

Complex Pleasure. Forms of Feeling in German Literature.

Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1998. 8°. XVIII, 243 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

1453. Cornish, Sam.

Sometimes. Ten Poems.

First Edition. Cambridge, Pym-Randall Press, 1973. 13 x 21,5 cm. Unpaginated. Approximately 20 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Numbered and signed by the author. Number 24 in a limited edition of 200, only 50 of which are signed and numbered.

1454. Corradi, Consuelo.

Metodo biografico come metodo ermeneutico Una rilettura de ‘Il contadino polacco’. [Signed / Inscribed]

Milan, Franco Angeli Libri, 1988. 14 x 22 cm. 272 pages. Original softcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Consuelo Corradi on the endpaper.

1455. Corti, Maria.

Metodi e fantasmi.

First Edition. Milan, Feltrinelli Editore, 1969. 14.5 x 22.5 cm. 382 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Critica e filologia – Studi e Manuali – 4].

1456. [Costain, Harold Haliday] Holme, Geoffrey (Editor).

The Studio – November 1939 – Vol.118 – No.560. [With a two-page-section on Hal Costain’s photographs for advertising].

London, The Studio, 1939. 21 cm x 29 cm. 224 Pages with additional advertising pages. Original Softcover. The wrapper detached ! Back cover slightly ripped. Otherwise in good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

1457. [Costello, John A.] McCullagh, David:

The reluctant Taoiseach – A biography of John A. Costello. [With two lossely inserted newspaper-clippings with very interesting articles about Costello]

Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 2010. 24 cm. viii, 530 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1458. Costello, Mary.

Academy Street.

Edinburg / London, Canongate, 2014. 14 cm x 22cm. 181 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

1459. Cotter, Denis (ed.).

It Might Have Been Yesterday: A Bantry Anthology.

First Edition. Bantry, Bantry General Hospital Patient Comfort Fund, 2000. 13 x 20 cm. VI, 135 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

1460. Cotton, Henry / [Charles Patrick Ranke Graves].

My Swing [Inscribed and signed by Cotton to British journalist and Travel Writer, Charles Graves].

London, Country Life Limited. 1952. 22 cm x 14,5 cm. 144 pages. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout the book. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to spine. Inscribed and signed by author to Charles Graves. Rare !