6481. Mc Cionniath, L.

Focloir Bearla agus Gaeilge / English-Irish Dictionary.

Baile Atha Cliath, Oifig Diolta Foillseachain Rialitais, 1935. 14 cm x 19 cm. XXII, 1546 pages. Original hardcover. Good + condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some browning of pages, and wear at cover-edges. Browning and spotting of page edges. Binding a bit shaky, intact but strained in places. Clean inside.

6482. Ashton, Robert / Michelburne, John.

Two Historical Plays: The Battle of Aughrim, or the Fall of Monsieur St. Ruth / Ireland Preserved, or the Siege of Londonderry.

Dublin, C.M. Warren, No date [c.1880] 9 cm x 14 cm. 144 pages. Softcover / Original, titled brochure. Good condition with signs of external wear. Damage to corners of front page. Spotting on page edges, front and rear page and several pages within. Otherwise clean inside and intact.

6483. Bourne, H. R. Fox.

Civilisation in Congoland – A Story of International Wrong-Doing. With a prefatory Note by the Right Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke.

London, P.S.King & Son, 1903. Octavo. XVI, 311 pages with large, coloured, folded map of the Congo: “Congo Land or The Conventional Basin of the Congo”. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Endpaper detached. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Faint old library stamp of the “Reichsgericht in Berlin” to titlepage.

6484. Ellis, William [Provenance: William Splaine and N. Splaine – Bandon Grammar School 1840].

A Collection of English Exercises – Translated From the Writings of Cicero, For School-Boys to Re-Translate Into Latin; And Adapted to the Principal Rules in The Eton Syntax; With Occasional References to Other Grammars. Sixteenth Edition, in which the Translation has been carefully compared with the Original and Corrected and to which are prefixed, Rules for the Use of the Subjunctive Mood. [Including a Preface of Thomas Dix Hincks of Fermoy School, made to the eighth edition in 1818].

London, Longman & Co., 1839. Small Octavo (10,5 cm x 18 cm). XXVIII, 269, [3] pages. Hardcover / Original full eather with gilt ornament to spine. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Several manuscript entries by preowners of the William Splaine – Family in Bandon.

6485. Vaughan Williams, Ralph.

8 Symphonies – London Philharmonic Orchestra – Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. 5 CD – Box – Set: CD 1: Symphony No.1 – “A Sea Symphony” (Isobel Baillie – Soprano / John Cameron – Baritone) / CD 2: “A London Symphony” Classic Recording of Symphony No.2 including the “Partita for Double String Orchestra” / CD 3: Symphony No.3 “Pastoral” & Symphony No.5 in D Major / CD 4: Symphony No.4 in F Minor & Symphony No. 6 in E Minor / CD 5: Symphony No. 8 in D Minor and “Sinfonia Antarctica”.

Belart (Polygram), 1996. CD Size. 5 CD’s. Original Hardcover Box. Besides some very minor signs of foxing to the inside of the box, this rare set of 5 CD’s with 8 Symphonies by Vaughan Williams is in excellent condition.

6486. [Raevsky-Hughes, Olga].

Sud’by pokoleniia 1920-1930-kh godov v emigratsii / [The Lives of the 1920-1930 generation of emigration]. Ocherki i vospominaniia.

Moskva, Russkii put’, 2006. 22 cm. 470 pages. Illustrated with many photographs. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.SOme annotations and text-markings.

6487. Crookes, William.

Diamonds [Kimberley and Its Diamond Mines]. With 24 Illustrations.

London and New York, Harper & Brothers, 1909. 11 cm x 17.5 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 145 pages. 24 monchrome photographs on 24 plates, including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine. Blindstamped design to front board. Blind stamp of ‘Harper’s Library of Living Thought’ embossed on back board. Deckled edging. Gilt top-edge. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Staining to front board. Interior bright and clean. [Harper’s Library of Living Thought].

6488. Hoffenstein, Samuel.

Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing.

New York, Boni & Liveright, 1928. 8°. 217 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. First edition. A classic collection of humorous verse, including a section of parodies. Dark offsetting to half of each free endpaper, top edge stain a bit faded, else overall very good+ in dust jacket with occasional shallow chipping to extremities. Inscribed (fully signed) by Hoffenstein to Abraham Heller on the front free endpaper.

6489. Wells, Warre B.

An Irish Apologia. Some Thoughts on Anglo-Irish Relations and the War.

Dublin and London, Maunsel & Co., Ltd., 1917. 8°. 82 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper (W.P.Pearse). Original newspaper review of this title tipped in on rear pastedown (from “The Irish Homestead” – 1917).

6490. Benedict, Sir Julius.

The Lily of Killarney. Opera in Three Acts. The words by Dion Boucicault and John Oxenford. Edited by J. Pittman.

London, Boosey and Co, 1872. 26 cm. 272 pages. Including one vocal score. Original hardcover. Good condition but with signs of external wear. Some noticeable rubbing of spine with a tear on its bottom outer edge. Also, the spine has become half-detached on inside page. Royal Edition of Operas.