1. Newlands, James.

The Carpenter And Joiner’s Assistant – Being A Comprehensive Treatise on the selection, preparation, and strength of materials, and the mechanical principles of framing, with their application in carpentry, joinery, and hand-railing – Also, a course of instruction in practical geometry, geometrical lines, drawing, projection, and perspective – And an illustrated glossary of terms used in architecture and building. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Plates and many hundred engravings on Wood.

London / Glasgow / Edinburgh, Blackie & Son, no.year [c.1869]. Folio (26 cm wide x 34 cm high). XIII, 291 pages text and 111 plates. Original 19th century publication with a stunning new binding, re-imagining the original 19th-century half-leather binding. In protective Mylar. Paper professionally repaired on the first XIII pages. Very good and firm condition with minor signs of external wear.

2. Mulligan, Kevin V.

BALLYFIN – The Restoration of an Irish House & Demesne.

Tralee, Churchill House Press, 2011. Folio (25 cm wide x 31 cm high). 240 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of wear.

3. Pakenham, Valerie. (Photography by Thomas Pakenham).

The Big House in Ireland.

First edition. London, Cassell & Co., 2000. 30 x 25 cm. 192 pages, 207 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4. Brown, Terence / Gibney, Arthur / O’Doherty, Michael / Pequm, Caroline.

Building for Government: The Architecture of Irish State Buildings, 1900-2000. With Essays by Terence Brown, Arthur Gibney & Michael O’Doherty – Researched by Caroline Pequm.

Dublin, Town House and Country House Trinity House, 1999. Quarto (24.5 cm wide x 27.4 cm high). 269 pages. With illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

5. Keohane, Frank.

The Buildings of Ireland: Cork City and County.

New Haven / London, Yale University Press, 2020. Slim Octavo. XIX, 681 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition with only very minor signs of wear.