191. Petrie, George / [Douglas Bland Hague Provenance].

The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland – Anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion: Comprising: An Essay On The Origin and Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland.

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by M.H.Gill, 1845. Quarto (26 cm wide x 30 cm high). XIX, 521 pages with hundreds of text-illustrations on Round Towers and Antiquities in Ireland. Original Hardcover with original spine-label of the Royal Irish Academy. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Historian Douglas Bland Hague ( (1917-1990), with his library-stamp to the font free endpaper. [The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy – Volume XX].

192. White, Mary Elizabeth Fay Laing.

The Emerald Source.

unknown, unknown, unknown, 22 x 28 cm. 125 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

193. [Gogarty, Oliver St. John] Ussher, Arland.

The Face and Mind of Ireland.

Third Impression. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1950. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 142 pages. Modern Hardcover binding (grey cloth with black lettering on spine andnew endpapers). Excellent condition. This book comes from the library of Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty and was signed and inscribed to him by Arland Ussher on the halftitle in May 1950. A very nice association copy.

194. O’Laughlin, Michael.

The Families of County Cork, Ireland. Original First Edition – With over one thousand entries from the Archives of the Irish Genealogical Foundation.

Kansas City, Irish Genealogical Foundation, 1996. Octavo. XVI, 224 pages with numerous illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent, nearly new condition with only minor signs of wear.

195. O’Donnell, Peadar.

The Gates Flew Open [An Irish Civil War Prison Diary].

Cork, The Mercier Press, 1966. Octavo (11.2 cm x 17.9 cm). 106 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !!

196. Thacker, Christopher.

The Genius of Gardening: The History Gardens in Britain and Ireland.

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994. 17 cm x 24 cm. 352 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

197. [Carbery, Mary] Kartoffel, Baron von.

The Germans in Cork – Being the Letters of His Excellency “The Baron von Kartoffel” (Military Governor of Cork in the Year 1918) and others.

First and only Edition. Dublin, The Talbot Press Limited, 1918. Small Octavo. 112 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear, the spine intact. Extremely rare publication written by Mary Carbery under the pseudonym “Baron von Kartoffel (Potatoe)”. An extraordinary spoof, long undetected as Mary Carbery’s invention and proven by a mention in an advertisement of her works in another of her books (The Farm by Lough Gur).

198. Kelleher, D.L.

The Glamour of the West. [Inscribed by Eimar O’Duffy’s father Kevin O’Duffy, to his daughter Ita Kevin O’Duffy in May/ 1936].

Dublin, The Talbot Press Limited, 1928. 18,5 cm x 13 cm. 123 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Beige cloth boards with black lettering.

199. Percival, John.

The Great Famine – Ireland’s Potato Famine, 1845-1851. Foreword by Ian Gibson.

London, BBC Books, 1995. 26 cm. 192 pages with several illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

200. McBride, Lawrence W.

The Greening of Dublin Castle – The Transformation of Bureaucratic and Judicial Personnel in Ireland, 1892-1922.

Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America Press, 1991. 23 cm. xii, 337 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.