401. Katsumi, Mori (and others).

Acta Asiatica – Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture, No. 23: The Beginning of Overseas Advance of Japanese Merchant ships. Kubota Jun – Tales about Music, Tanaka Issei – Development of Chinese Local Plays in the 17th and 18th centuries, Harold W. Bailey – Story-telling in Buddhist Central Asia, Jacques Gernet – A propos des contacts entre la Chine et l’Europe aux XVII et XVIII siecles.

Tokyo, The Toho Gakkai, 1972. 4°. 96 pages. Softcover. Very good condition. [Acta Asiatica – Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture, No. 23]

402. Jitsuzu, Tamura (and others).

Acta Asiatica – Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture, No. 24: The Legend of the Origin of the Mongols and Problems concerning their Migration. (Altaistic Studies Issue of Acta Asiatica). Mori Masao – Reconsideration of the Hsiung-nu State-A Response to Professor O. Pritsak’s Criticism, Hattori Shiro – The Chinese Dialect on which the Trnscription of the Yüan-ch’ao Mi-shi was based, Ikegami Jiro – On One Verb Ending in Proto-Tungus – About -si, Yamada Nobuo – A brief history of mongolian studies in Japan 1905-1945, Books and Articles on Altaistic subjects published in Japan during 1954-1971.

Tokyo, The Toho Gakkai, 1973. 4°. V, 127 pages. Softcover. Very good condition. [Acta Asiatica – Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture, No. 24].

403. Yoshio, Abe (and others).

Acta Asiatica – Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture, No. 25.: The Characteristics of Japanese Confucianism / Yoshikawa Kojiro – Ito Jinsai, Tahara Tsuguo – The Kokugaku Thought, Okubo Tadashi – The Toughts of Mabuchi and Norinaga, Sagara Töru – The Spiritual Strength and Independence in Bushido.

Tokyo, The Toho Gakkai, 1973. 4°. VI, 110 pages. Softcover. Small damage to lower spine. Otherwise in very good condition. [Acta Asiatica – Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture, No. 25.]

404. Eiichi, Kimura (and others).

Acta Asiatica – Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture, No. 27: Taoism and Chinese Thought / Murakami Yoshimi – Affirmation of Desire in Taoism, Miyakawa Hisayuki – Legate Kao P’ien and a Taoist Magician Lü Yung-chih in the Time of Huang Ch’ao’s Rebellion, Kubo Noritada – Taoist Belief in Okinawa – with special emphasis on the Kitchen God Belief, etc.

Tokyo, The Toho Gakkai, 1974. 4°. V, 119 pages. Softcover. Small damage to the lower spine – Otherwise in very good condition. [Acta Asiatica – Bulletin of the Institute of Eastern Culture, No. 27.]

405. [Saint Godelieve / Godeleva / Godeliève / Godelina / Sint-Godelieve] Sollerius, Joannes Baptista.

Acta S. Godelevae V. et M. patronae Ghistellensium.

Antwerp, apud Jacobum du Moulin [Jacob du Moulin], 1720. (15 cm x 18,5 cm). Collated: [24], 354, [15] pages including a thorough Index Rerum. With engraved title-vignette showing the murder of Saint Godelieve; with the title-vignette repeated on page one of the text and three further fold-out-illustrations (collation complete). Modern Hardcover (dark calf over marbled-paper-covered-boards) and new endpapers. Halftitle letter-press-text laid down an endpaper that precedes the title page. After the restoration and new binding the original bookblock is beautifully preserved and the whole volume in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some browning to a few pages. Very rare Hagiography of poor Godelieve, who was martyred by the servants of her angry husband because she preferred to become a nun rather than marry.

406. Lucie-Smith, Edward.

Adam. Het Mannelijk Naakt in de Kunst. [Rare Dutch Version of “Adam: the Male Figure in Art”]

Dutch Version. Hedel, Librero, 1998. 28,5 cm x 24 cm. 192 pagina’s / pages. Met talrijke kleuren illustraties / With many colour illustrations throughout book. Originele Hardcover met stofomslag. Met een mylar beschermlaag / Original Hardcover with dustjacket. In protective mylar. In zeer goede staat met slechts weinig sporen van slijtage / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

407. Breckensiek, Marne.

Adam’s Apple and Other Stories. As told by tennagers.

Missouri, Liguorian Books, 1970. 10.5 cm x 17.5 cm. 86 pages. Black and white pencil drawings throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Internal pages clean and bright.

408. [Malamud, Bernard] Belitt, Ben.

Adam’s Dream. A Preface to Translation.

New York, Grove Press, Inc., 1978. 24cm x 16cm. 186 pages. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good + condition with only minor signs of wear. Presentation copy. With manuscript letter by Ben Belitt, reflecting on mistakes in the book and comparing it to Borges’ “Pierre Menard”. Page six inscribed by Ben Belitt to Ben and Ann Malamud.

409. Campbell, Roy.

Adamastor.

Reprinted Edition. London, Faber and Faber, 1932. Octavo. 108 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

410. [Reagan, Ronald] Houses of the Oireachtas.

Address by Ronald Reagan – President of the United States of America – Monday, 4 June 1984 [Joint Sitting of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Eireann on the Occasion of the Address by Ronald Reagan].

Dublin, 1984. Octavo. 22 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

411. Everett, Edward.

Address of the Hon. Edward Everett, delivered before The Boston Union Club, Thursday, April 9, 1863.

Liverpool, Printed at the “Daily Post” Steam Printing Works, 1863. 8°. 32 pages. Softcover. Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Some rubbing fo front cover. As one of the most notable rhetorics of his time, Everett later that year gave his famous Gettysburg Oration. In his speech to the Boston Union Club, he addresses the struggle of the country due to the Civil War.

412. Duquennoy, Jacques.

Adelbert in der Geisterbahn. Ein Spielbuch mit beweglichen Teilen.

Erste Auflage. Köln, Boje Verlag, 2010. 21,5 x 21,5 cm. Unpaginiert. Ca. 30 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebunden. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

413. Werner, Joachim.

Adelsgräber von Niederstotzingen bei Ulm und von Bokchondong in Südkorea – Jenseitsvorstellungen vor Rezeption von Christentum und Buddhismus im Lichte vergleichender Archäologie.

München, Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; München : Beck [in Komm.], 1988. 30 cm. 20, 36 Seiten. Illustriert. (Mit 2 Farbtafeln und 36 Abbildungen). Softcover / Originale Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand. [Abhandlungen / Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse ; N.F., H. 100].

414. Morgan, David Gwynn.

Administrative Law. By David Gwynn Morgan and Gerard Hogan.

London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1986. 22cm (pbk). LI,422 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Irish law texts].

415. James, W. M. (William Milbourne).

Admiral Sir William Fisher.

London, Macmillan & Co, 1943. 12 cm x 19 cm. XIV, 159 pages. Illustrations, including portraits, in black and white. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some rubbing and fading of the spine.

416. Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason.

Adrift on an Ice-Pan.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1937. Octavo. XXVI, 69 pages. Original Hardcover. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name – stamps of the preowner on pastedown. [The Riverside Literature Series].

417. Scobie, Alastair.

Adventurer’s Paradise.

London, The Travel Book Club, 1955. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 249 pages. 12 illustrations. One map near front. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inked mark and smudges on spine. Interior bright and clean with very minor spotting. Front pastedown carries preowner’s name and reference (empty) card holder.

418. Mattews, Aidan.

Adventures in an Bathyscope.

First Sceptre edition. Sevenoaks, Hodder and Stroughton, 1990. 13 cm x 19,5 cm. 225, (3) pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. Signed by the author on title page. Enclosed is a newspaper clipping about the author. [Sceptre Editions].

419. Trelawny, Edward John.

Adventures of a Younger Son. Edited with an introduction by William St. Clair.

London and others, Oxford University Press, 1974. 21cm x 13.2cm. xxiv, 477 (2) pages. Map of Indian Ocean and China. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Oxford English Novels – General Editor: James Kinsley].

420. MacManus, M. J.

Adventures of an Irish Bookman. A selection of writings of M.J. MacManus. Edited by Francis MacManus.

First Edition. Dublin, Talbot Press, 1952. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of M.J.MacManus, XVI, 192 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. One passage in the text with underlining and annotation “Carrick”. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear to the rare jacket.

421. MacManus, M. J.

Adventures of an Irish Bookman. A selection of writings of M.J. MacManus. Edited by Francis MacManus.

Second Edition. Dublin, Talbot Press, 1952. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of M.J.MacManus, XVI, 192 pages. Hardcover without dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

422. [John Minihan Collection] – Salomon, Allyn.

Advertising Photography [With a chapter: “The Technique of Advertising Photography”].

New York, Amphoto Books, 1987. Folio. Frontispiece Portrait of Model Barbara Langlois, 176 pages with numerous photographs. Original Softcover. Very good condition. From the library of irish photographer John Minihan.

423. Leon, Donald E.

Advisory Bodies in Irish Government.

Dublin, Institutie of Public Administration, 1963. Octavo. VII, 180 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

424. [Aeschines of Sphettus / Aeschines Socraticus] Fischer, Johann Friedrich.

Aeschinis Socratici – Dialogi Tres Graece. Tertium Edidit Ad Fidem Codd. Mss. Vindobb Medic. Aug. Et Libb. Editt. Platonis Stobaeique Veterum Denvo Recensvit Emendavit Explicavit. Indicemque Verborum Graecorum Copiosissimum Adiecit.

Leipzig, Mueller, 1786. Octavo. L, 290 pages plus 136 unnumbered pages of a thorough Index (Index Primus Verborum Graecorum / Index Secundus Scriptorum Veterum). Hardcover / Original full vellum with spine-label. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some foxing throughout. Rare !

425. [Aeschylus] Scholefield, Jacobus.

Aeschylus – recensuit Jacobus Scholefield, A.M. Coll. SS. Trin. Nuper Socius, et Graecarum Literarum Professor Regius.

Editio Secunda. Cantabrigiae [Cambridge], Typis Academicis Excudit Joannes Smith, 1830. Octavo. II,436 pages. Hardcover / original, 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of J. A. Ormerod B.N.C., with his Bookplate to the pastedown with the Motto: “Dedit Meliora Dabitque” [Ormerod died in 1864 and was a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford]

426. Andersen, H.C.

Af Mit Livs Eventyr. Illustrationer Ib Spang Olsen.

København, Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck, 1985. 21.5 cm x 27.5 cm. 39 pages. Many colour illustrations. Original Hardcover. As new condition with only minor foxing to front and rear endpapers and half-title page. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

427. Watkins, Vernon / [Provenance: Constantine Fitzgibbon (Major Robert Louis Constantine Lee-Dillon)].

Affinities – Poems by Vernon Watkins [Inscribed Association-copy by Vernon Watkins to fellow writer, Constantine Fitzgibbon: “for Constantine from Vernon”].

First Edition. Norfolk (Connecticut), A New Directions Book, 1962. Octavo. 99 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare Association !

428. [Conder, Josiah].

Africa / [in: The Modern Traveller- A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe].

Volume II (of II). London, Printed for James Duncan, 1829. Duodecimo / 9 cm x 14.5 cm. IV, 348 pages. With 6 black and white engravings showing: 1. City of Morocco / 2. Sand-storm on the Desert / 3. Castle of Mourzouk / 4. Tuaricks / 5. Tibboos / 6. Mora, The Capital of Mandara. Original Hardcover, decorative full leather. Full leather with gilted ornaments to outer margins of interior boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Gilt ornament and raised bands on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding rubbed but firm. Upper spine missing. Minor foxing. [The Modern Traveller- Volume 21].

429. Father James.

African Adventure.

Dublin, The Father Mathew Record Office, 1936. Octavo. Portrait Frontispiece of Father Matthews in Livingstone, 201 pages wihth several photographs and plus folded map of Father Matthews’ Travels from Capetwon, South Africa, to Kimberley, Mafeking, Bulawayo in S. Rhodesia, Livingstone, Mongu Barotseland in North Rhodesia to Angola. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

430. Arnott, Kathleen.

African Myths and Legends. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.

London, Oxford University Press, 1970. 14.5 x 22cm. 211 pages, with illustrations. Original clothbound hardcover with original dustjacket and illustrated endpapers. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear, including small (1cm) tear to dustjacket spine. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper. [Oxford Myths and Legends Series].

431. Hickin, Norman E.

African notebook: The Notes of a Biologist in East Africa.

London, Hutchinson, 1969. 24 cm. XV, 160 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

432. Huxley, Aldous / Foreman, Michael (illustrator).

After Many a Summer.

London, The Folio Society, 1980. 16 cm x 23 cm. 239 pages with many illustrations. Original hardcover with slipcase. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small mark on cover. Clean inside with solid binding.

433. McGough, Roger.

After the Merrymaking.

Third Reprint. London, Jonathan Cape, 1975. Octavo. 71 pages. Original Softcover. Near Fine condition with only slight foxing at the edges.

434. Rousmaniere, John.

After the Storm: True Stories of Disaster and Recovery at Sea.

Maine / New York, International Marine / McGraw-Hill, 2004. 15 x 23cm. 338 pages, with black and white photographs. Original softcover. Good condition with some signs of wear to spine and edges. Some underlining and text annotations.

435. Honderich, Ted.

After the Terror.

Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2002. 23 cm. 160 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes, with several textmarkings by him in pencil, his name and notes to endpapers.

436. Taylor, D. J..

After the War – The Novel and English Society since 1945.

London, Chatto & Windus, 1993. 16 cm x 24 cm. XXVI, 310 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket illustration by Jeff Fisher. Author-photograph to rear dustjacket-flap by Andy Rott. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

437. Hirshfield, Jane.

After. Poems.

First edition. New York, Harper Perennial, 2007. 15 cm x 23 cm. 97 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. Occasional markings and annotations in the text.

438. Ó Néill, Séamus.

Ag baint fraochán. Agus scéalta eile. Le Séamus Ó Néill.

Baile Átha Cliath, Cló Morainn, 1955. 20cm. 99 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. The rare dustjacket with some minor fraying to the spine. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

439. Mahon, Derek.

Against The Clock [Signed and Inscribed by Derek Mahon].

First Edition. Oldcastle, The Gallery Press (Gallery Books), 2018. 8°. 79 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. First Edition in MINT condition. Signed and Inscribed by Derek Mahon: “for Peter with best wishes – Derek, Dec. ‘18”.

440. Stove, David.

Against the Idols of the Age.

New Drunswick(U.S.A.) / London, Transaction Publishers, 1999. Octavo. XXXV, 347 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Inscribed on cover page. Clean inside with intact binding.

441. Ó Morónaigh, Seán.

Agallaimh na héigse. Cioradh agus cnuasach. [edited by] Seán Ó Morónaigh.

Camus, Conamara, Colo. na Gailllimhe, Comhlachas Náisiúnta Drámaíochta, [2001], ©2001. 22 cm. 648 pages with illustrations, music, portraits. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !

442. McCarthy, Patricia (Editor).

Agenda – Requiem: The Great War. Front cover Davis Jones: frontispiece for In Parenthesis.

East Sussex, Agenda and Editions Charitable Trust, 2014. 15 cm x 21 cm. 256 pages. Two black and white illustrations. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Agenda (Vol 48, Nos. 3-4, Autumn / Winter 2014)].

443. Cookson, William/ Dale, Peter (eds.).

Agenda. The State of Poetry. Volume 27, No. 3, Autumn 1989.

First Edition. London, Agenda and Editions Charitable Trust, 1989. 13,5 x 22 cm. 88 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

444. Bronx, N./ Geerlings, W./ Greshake, G./ Ilgner, R./ Schieffer, R. (Hrsg.)

Agnellus von Ravenna – Liber Pontificalis – Bischofsbuch. Erster und Zweiter Teilband (vollständig).

Lateinisch / Deutsch. Freiburg, Herder, 1996. 13 x 20 cm. 642 Seiten. Hardcover. 2 Bände (vollständig). Gebundene Ausgabe. Bibliotheksexemplare mit den typischen Stempeln und zusätzlich roten Markierungen am Schnitt. Ausgestempelt. Bis auf die Bibliotheksmerkmale in sehr gutem Zustand mit nur minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Anstreichungen. [Fontes Christiani. Agnellus von Ravenna. Zweisprachige Neuausgabe christlicher Quellentexte aus Altertum und Mittelalter. Band 21.]

445. Braun, Felix.

Agnes Altkircher. Roman. Mit einem Nachwort von Johannes von Guenther.

Festausgabe zum 80. Geburtstag des Dichters. Wien, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1965. 14,5 x 22 cm. 730 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Im originalen Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

446. Paine, Thomas.

Agrarian Justice, Opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly ; Being a Plan for Meliorating the Condition of Man, by creating in every Nation a National Fund, to pay to every person, when arrived at the age of Twenty-One years, the sum of Fifteen Pounds Sterling, to enable him; or her to begin the world; And Also, Ten Pounds Sterling per annum during life to every person now living of the age of Fifty Years, and to all others when they shall arrive at that age, to enable them to live in old age without Wretchedness, and go decently out of the world. By Thomas Paine, author of Common sense, Rights of man, Age of reason, &c. &c.

First Irish Edition / First Cork Edition. Cork, Printed at the late Gazette-Office, no year [1797]. Octavo. 16 pages. Original half-leather. Binding in very poor condition but interior firm and clean besides the endpaper and first few pages of the Volume which is bound before the work by Thomas Paine. Rear endpaper missing. Very important publication, perfectly protected in the rear of this Volume. The Cork-Print of this important pamphlet is of utmost rarity.

447. Ó Donnchadha, Éamon.

Áireamh Scoile. [School Arithmetic]. Ranga VII agus VIII. [7th and 8th class].

Dublin, Brún agus Ó Nualláin Teór., No year 8°. 164 pages. Original Softcover. Good- condition with stronger signs of external wear.

448. Crichton, Michael.

Airframe.

First edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 17 x 25 cm. 351 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Signed by Michael Crichton on the titlepage. Near fine condition. Wrapped in protective mylar.

449. [Aeschines / Attic orator] / [Demosthenes] / [Taylor, John] / [Markland, Jeremiah] / [Reiske, Johann Jakob (Reiskio)].

Aischinou Ho kata Ktesiphontos kai Demosthenous Ho peri stephanou logos. Cum Delectu Annotationum, Præcipue e Tayloro, Marklando, Reiskio. In Usum Juventutis Academicae.

Two Volumes in one (complete), Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1801. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: Portrait-Frontispiece of Cicero, XLVIII, [2], Portrait of Aeschines, 130 pages / Volume II: XXI, Portrait of Demosthenes, 165 pages plus 24 unnumbered pages of an “Index sive Vocum Difficiliorum”. Hardcover / Original, full leather with original spine-label and gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Front hinge starting. Binding a bit scuffed to upper hinge but beautifully firm and with the endpapers intact. Some very interesting, contemporary annotations in ink. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. A very rare book !!

450. Mac Liammóir, Micheál:

Aisteoirí faoi dhá sholas. Dialann mheánmhara.

Baile Átha Cliath, Sáirséal & Dill, 1956. (8º). 203 pages. [With plates, including portraits.]. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.