111. Lowth, Robert.

[On the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews] De Sacra Poesi Hebræorum : Prælectiones Academicæ Oxonii habitæ a Roberto Lowth, et poeticæ publico prælectores; nunc episcopo oxoniensii. Subjicitur Metricæ Harianæ brevis confutatio: et Oratio Crewiana.

Editio Tertia, emendatior. Oxonii, E Typographeo Clarendoniano [Imprimatur, J. Browne, Vice-Can. Oxon], 1775. 13 cm x 22 cm. (8), 515 pages plus 11 pages Index and Errata. Original Hardcover / Beautiful 18th century calf with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and the wonderful original marbled endpapers. With the original spinelabel. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. This edition printed on excellent paper with no foxing !

112. Joyce, James.

Ulysses. Vom Verfasser geprüfte, definitive Deutsche Ausgabe von Georg Goyert.

Zweite deutsche Ausgabe. Zürich, Rhein-Verlag, 1930. 8°. 632, 611 Seiten. Originale, schwarze Halblederbände auf 3 falschen Bünden mit vergoldetem Rückentitel und Stehkantenvergoldung. Außergewöhnlich guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Perfektes Geschenkexemplar.

113. Hodges, Rev. Richard J. / Pike, W.T.

Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century / Contemporary Biographies. / [History of Big Houses, Town Houses and Country Estates in Cork, County Cork, North Cork, East Cork & West Cork with original Photographs of Houses and Portraits as well as Biographies of the Men and their Families who lived in these Houses] / [Full-Leather-Version – Limited Edition Reprint]. Edited by W. T. Pike.

Limited Edition Reprint of the First and only Edition by Pike in 1911. [Skibbereen (County Cork)], Inanna Rare Books / Inanna Reprint Series, 2022. 4° (24,5 cm wide x 33,5 cm high). 319 pages with hundreds of photographs and including an Index to Biographies and Illustrations. Hardcover / Full-Leather with marbled-paper-covered boards in protective Collector’s Mylar. [Important Information: This special limited edition has a special feature which makes each volume of this reprint unique: Each version of the book is bound by hand by a craft-bookbindery and the colour of the leather and endpapers, are always different / This means the interior is always the same while the look of the binding can differ from the image attached to this description]. One of 150 copies of the Full-Leather-version of a limited edition, republished by Inanna Rare Books Ltd. / This high-quality reprint, hand-bound and hand-numbered, includes hundreds of photographs of grand houses in the irish countryside from South Cork to North Cork, from East Cork to West Cork. The stories of the houses are not only accompanied by photographs of now mostly vanished or derelict homes, the images also show the original state of homes which are now restructured etc. The second part of the publication offers an abundance of historical biographies of local irish Nobility (Meade family, O’Callaghan, Browne, Kelly etc.), Gentry and Clergy and general owners of Country Houses etc. [Pike’s New Century Series].

114. Milosz, Czeslaw.

The Seizure of Power [Signed – Uncorrected Proof]. Translated by Celina Wieniewska.

Unrevised, Uncorrected Proof. New York, Farrar – Straus – Giroux, 1982. Octavo. 245 pages. Original Softcover in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A very rare, signed version of this uncorrected Proof with Milosz’s signature on the titlepage.

115. Viereck, Peter.

Collection of very interesting offprints, pamphlets and reviews by Peter Viereck and on Peter Viereck (all from Peter Viereck’s personal library). The Collection includes: 1. “Peter Viereck – Profile” – Article by E.V. Griffith in “Poetry Now”, Vol, VI, No. 2 [Issue 32] – With three excellent photographs of Viereck, shown throughout the article. Griffith discusses Viereck’s genesis as a writer, his time in Harvard and his important contribution to conservatism etc. / 2. Peter Viereck – “The Last Decade in Poetry- New Dilemmas and New Solutions” (In this 1954 – Offprint from “Literature in the Modern World”, Nashville, George Peabody College for Teachers, Viereck discusses Wallace Stevens (″Wallace Stevens’ is the sorcery of surfaces. For this he pays a price: the sacrifice of deep feeleing″and Robert Lowell) / 3. Peter Viereck – “Decorum and Terror: Homage to Goethe and Hart Crane” – Original Offprint from “Essays in Criticism”, with a manuscript correction by Viereck / 4. Peter Viereck – “New Views on Metternich” (Offprint from “The Review of Politics”) / 5. Peter Viereck – “The Rootless ‘Roots’: Defects in the New Conservatism (Original Offprint from “″The Antioch Review”, Summer 1955, issue) / 6. Galleyproof Review for NY Times Sunday Book section of Russell Kirk, by Peter Viereck – With two manuscript notes on the Galley by Peter Viereck to american philosoper and Leo Strauss admirer, Harvey Mansfield: “Harvey, many thanks for your piece on Spitzer + Auerbach which meant a lot to me (I’d known Spitzer). Warm regards to both of you – Peter” and a second manuscript entry by Viereck: “Saw Brodsky …..Finishing a new book…poems – Peter” [Mansfield and Viereck must have sent the Galley back and forth between each other]. / 7. Peter Viereck – “First Advance Reviews on “McCarthy and the Communists” by James Rorty and Moshe Decter – With a highlighting of the review-citation of Peter Viereck’s opinion “All conservative and liberals reading this irrefutable indictment of McCarthy’s methods should unite to conserve our traditional Constitutional framework against subversion by McCarthyism as well as by Communism” / 8. “Peter Viereck – A List of his principal works” / 9. Peter Viereck – “Unlaughing and Untragic” – (Original Offprint from “American Quarterly” with some markings by Viereck, ticking off each paragraph) / 9. Peter Viereck – “Reply to a critique of one of Viereck’s publications” / 10. Peter Viereck – “Ogling through Ice: The Sullen Lyricism of Georg Heym” [Original Offprint from “Books abroad”, April 1971, 11 pages – Including Peter Viereck’s Translation of Georg Heym’s poem “Letze Wache” (″Final Vigil”)] / 11. Original Book Review by Jacques Barzun of Peter Viereck’s Masterpiece: “Metapolitics – From the Romantics to Hitler” – Original Offprint from “Journal of the History of Ideas, January 1942, Vol. VIII., No.1” – Including Peter Viereck’s Reply to Barzun’s “passionate” Review, calling Viereck’s book “an ardent attempt to psycho-analyze the religion of the Nazis”. 6 pages/

Notre Dame / New York and others, 1951 – c. 1955 Octavo. Original Offprints and loose pages etc. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Peter Viereck.

116. Corbyn, T.N. [Theophilus N. Corbyn from Philadelphia].

The Compounder’s Pocket Remembrancer – A Treatise on the Manufacture of Liquors, Syrups, Cordials, Bitters, Acids, Colognes, Bay Rums, Extracts, Concentrated Essences, Liquor Flavors, Hair Dyes, Hair Oils, Hair Tonics, Tinctures, Segar Flavors, Pomades, Etc. Including Instructions for making Cider, Champagnes, Punch Essences, &c. Comprising many useful Receipts for Barbers, Bakers, Confectioners, Druggists, Segar Makers, Liquor Dealers, Grocers, Mineral Water Bottlers, Fruit Preservers, etc. etc. [with 738 Recipes].

Original First Edition. [Philadelphia], Published by the Author Theophilus Corbyn, [1888]. Duodecimo. 206 pages with 738 Recipes and a thorough Index [Cutout on titlepage has removed year pf printing but was verified through Bibliography]. Private Hardcover of the mid-20th century with the original bookblock. Bookblock loosened. Lower part of the titlepage missing. Needs repair but pages are in very good condition. Extremely Rare, early Philadelphia Recipe-Book for Drinks, Essences and Perfmues, Hair-Products etc. !

117. [Knight, Chareles].

The Penny Magazine of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge – Volume I: Number 1 – Number 48. [The Inaugural Volume].

London, Charles Knight, Pall-Mall East, March 1832 – December 1832. Quarto. Folded Frontispiece, 389 pages with 215 illustrations throughout plus two pages of Index and a List of Illustrations. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering on spine. Front endpaper detached, otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This being the very rare, inaugural Volume in unusually excellent condition.

118. Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M.

Robert Kennedy and his Times. Illustrated with Photographs.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1978. Large-8°. XVII, 1066 pages. Hardcover / Decorative red quarter morocco with gilt lettering on spine. In original slipcase. One of 500 signed copies of the Collector’s Edition. With two pages dogeared and only absolutely minor signs of wear. The book itself unread ! Signed by Schlesinger on front free endpaper.

119. [St.Columba].

St. Columba’s / Record of the League of St.Columba – St.Patrick’s College in Maynooth – 1901 – 1906 [6 Volumes in 3 Volumes]. Printed for private circulation only. Issued by The League of St.Columba, Maynooth College. With many photographs and illustrations, poems and essays in english and gaelic (Gaeilge).

Six Volumes in Three. Dublin, O’Brien & Ards, 1902 – 1906. Octavo. Volume I:(includes Fourth Year 1901 – 1902) – 123 pages and 111 pages / Volume II: (includes Fifth Year – 1902 – 1903) 136 pages and 138 pages / Volume III: (includes Sixth Year – 1905 – 1906) 128 pages and 137 pages. Original Hardcover (green cloth in protective Mylar). Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. One of the rarest publications of Irish Local History. With several important essays.

120. [Kingerlee, John] Benington, Jonathan.

Collection of four signed catalogues and monographs. From the artists personal library. The collection includes: 1. Jonathan Benington – Kingerlee / 2. John Kingerlee – A Painter’s Passage / 3. Kingerlee – Pneuma in Time – Namoc, Beijing ‘08/ 4. Kingerlee – New Works on Paper – The Kenny Gallery – Galway 2007 //. All signed by John Kingerlee.

Belfast, Larry Powell, 2006. 4°. 280 pages. One Volume in Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar / Three Volumes in Softcover. Collection of 4 signed volumes from John Kingerlee’s library ! 3 of the 4 volumes are in original softcover/ Excellent condition with only minor external wear.