811. [Newenham, Sir Edward (Provenance)] Molyneux, William.

The Case of Ireland’s Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, stated. To Which is Added “The Case of Tenures Upon the Commission of Defective Titles, Argued by all the Judges of Ireland, With Their Resolutions, And the Reasons of Their Resolutions” [this work has its own titlepage].

Dublin, Pressick Rider and Thomas Harbin for Pat. Dugan, Bookseller on Cork-Hill,. 1725. Small-Octavo (9.8 cm x 15.8 cm). VI, [4], 186, [1] pages [including the final leaf “The Order of the Councel-Board, upon this Resolution of the Judges”]. Original Hardcover / 18th century full calf / Recently professionally rebacked and restored with original endpapers intact. Excellent condition. Provenance: From the library of Sir Edward Newenham, friend of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. With Newenham’s name in ink on titlepage.

812. Barman, Christian (Editor).

Architecture: The Journal Of The Society Of Architects. – Volume XVI, No. 7, May 1923 – Volume XVI, No.12, October 1923.

London, The Society of Architects, 1923. Quarto (20.4 cm wide x 25.7 cm high). Pagination: IV, 311 pages [being paginated as pages 319 – 630] with Illustrations throughout. Hardcover / Half-Parchment with original spine-label. In protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

813. Barman, Christian (Editor).

Architecture: The Journal Of The Society Of Architects. – Volume XVI, No. 1, November 1922 – Volume XVI, No.12, October 1923.

London, The Society of Architects, 1922 – 1923. Quarto (20.4 cm wide x 25.7 cm high). Pagination: IV, 630 pages with Illustrations throughout. Hardcover / Half-Parchment with original spine-label. In protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

814. Hoyle, Edmond.

Hoyle’s Games Improved : Being practical Treatises on the following fashionable Games, viz.: Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton’s Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

London, Printed for W. Wood in Fleet-Street, 1778. Small Octavo (9.5 cm x 15 cm). XI, 216 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Spine professionally repaired, original endpapers preserved. Name of preowner “Desproz” on titlepage. A little dusty but overall very desirable and very rare publication.

815. [Shakespeare, William] Marcham, Frank.

William Shakespeare and his Daughter Susannah.

London, Grafton & Co., 1931. 25 cm x 19,5 cm. 78 pages. With several black-and-white illustrations and a frontispiece-portrait of Henry Clay Folger. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. Only slight stain on frontcover and one of the corners slightly rubbed.

816. [Shakespeare, William / Malone, Edmond].

The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare [sic], in Sixteen Volumes [15 Volumes only since Volume 9 is missing]. Collated verbatim with the most authentic copies, and revised: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are added, An Essay on the Chronological Order of his Plays; An Essay Relative to Shakspeare and [Ben] Jonson; A Dissertation on the Three Parts of King Henry VI. An Historical Account of the English Stage, And Notes; by Edmond Malone.

15 Volumes (of 16). Dublin, Printed for John Exshaw, No.98, Grafton-Street, 1794. Octavo. Hardcover / Original 19th century full-leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

817. Caxton, Pisistratus Caxton / [Lytton, Sir Edward Bulwer].

My Novel, Or Varieties In English Life.

Copyright Edition. In Four Volumes (bound in two). Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1851. Small Octavo (11.5 cm x 16 cm high). 422, 380, 339, 501 pages. Hardcover / Original, decorativehalf-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Minor browning and brittle damage to three pagesof Volume 1. Otherwise excellent. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with a manuscript entry to the pastedown of all Volumes: “Ann Conner – from Aunt Henrietta & Aunt Patience – 1926”.

818. O’Callaghan, Sean.

The Easter Lily – The Story of the I.R.A. (IRA).

First Edition. London, Allan Wingate, 1956. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of Jimmy O’Callaghan and Sean O’Callaghan, 219 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man. Name on endpaper.

819. [Johnson, Thomas] Gaughan, J. Anthony.

Thomas Johnson, 1872-1963 – First leader of the Labour Party in Dáil Éireann.

Mount Merrion, County Dublin, Kingdom Books, 1980. 22 cm. 513 pages with many illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper. Very rare publication !

820. 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.