6851. Goldsmith, Oliver.

Viocáire Wakefield. Seán Ó Cíosáin do chuir i nGaedhilg.

Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Díolta Foilseacháin Rialtais, 1931. Octavo. 256 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket design by Austin Molloy. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely Rare edition of the Vicar of Wakefiels in gaelic (As-gaeilge) !

6852. O’Donnell, F.Hugh [Major George Bernard O’Connor / IRA].

The Ruin of Education in Ireland and the Irish Fanar [including a chapter: “The Priestly Boycott and the Irish Language” and with an Appendix: “The Mind of the Jesuit Order To-Day on the Killing of Heretics and the Liberty of Peoples”].

London, David Nutt, 1902. Large Octavo (17 cm x 23 cm). XXIII, 202 pages. Hardcover / Recently professionally restored. Modern half-leather-binding with dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Some pages with some minor browning. From the library of Major George Bernard O’Connor, with his name “O’Connor” on titlepage and his Rochestown address (″Illane Roe, Rochestown, Co.Cork”, to endpaper). O’Connor, of the 6th Dragoons, was identified as spy and executed by the IRA on July 10th, 1921.

6853. Burgess, Gelett (S.B.).

Are You a Bromide ? or The Sulphitic Theory, expounded and exemplified according to the most recent researches into the psychology of boredom, including many well-known Bromidioms now in use. With decorations by the author.

Fourth Printing. New York, B.W. Huebsch, 1906. 18cm x 12.5cm. 63 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated frontcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Upper hinge with minor split. Very interesting bookplate of the ABAA (American Booksellers’ Association) to the front pastedown. The bookplate has the printed dedication “Compliments of B.W.Huebsch” and is signed in ink by Gelett Burgess.

6854. [Savigny, Friedrich Carl von] Stern, Dr.Jacques.

Thibaut und Savigny – Zum 100jährigen Gedächtnis des Kampfes um einheitliches bürgerliches Recht für Deutschland (1814 – 1914). Die Originalschriften in ursprünglicher Fassung mit Nachträgen, Urteilen der Zeitgenossen und einer Einleitung.

Erstausgabe. Berlin, Verlag von Franz Vahlen, 1914. Oktav. 238, (2), Seiten. Hardcover / Originaler Pappband der Zeit. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur wenigen Gebrauchsspuren. Eine Lage geloest.

6855. Aridjis, Homero.

Ojos de Otro Mirar: Poesía 1960-2001.

Primera edición. México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002. 22cm x 14.5cm. 882 páginas. Encuadernación cartoné. En muy buen estado, la encuadernación puede presentar signos de desgaste. From the library of Stasys Gostautas [author of Arte Lituano (1959) and Arte Colombiano (1960)] – with his bookplate/exlibris to pastedown; beautifully inscribed to Gostautas by Homero Aridjis on the titlepage.

6856. [Clandillon, Seamus / Hannaga, Margaret].

“Londubh an Chairn” Being Songs of the Irish Gaels. In Staff and Sol-Fa / With English metrical translations. Edited by Maighread Ni Annaga agus Seamus de Chlanndioluin.

First Edition. Volume I (All Published). London / Oxford / Edinburgh etc., Published for the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust by the Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1927. Quarto (21.5 cm wide x 28.2 cm high). XII, 36, 150 pages [with scores and notations]. With the often missing Errata-Leaf. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6857. Irish Georgian Society.

Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies. Collection of eight Volumes (seven Volumes plus Index): Volume I / Volume II / Volume VIII / Volume IX / Volume X / Volume XI / Volume XII / Index – Volume //

Dublin, Irish Georgian Society, 1998 – 2008. Octavo. c. 1600 pages. Original Softcover. All 8 Volumes in close to new condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6858. Demosthenis / Demosthenes [Johannes Rust, Med. Tem. & Trin. Coll. Cantab.].

Demosthenis Orationes De Republica Ad Populum Habitae: Latio donatae ab Jo: Vincentio Lucchesinio patritio Lucensi, cum notis criticis, & historicis. Ad SS. Dnm Nostrum Clementem Undecimum Pontificem Maximum.

Romae, Ex Typographia Antonii de Rubeis in Platea Cerensi, 1712. Large Octavo. XII, 232 pages. Original Hardcover (Pigskin) with contemporary handwritten title on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small, professional repair to upper spine. Some paper damage with text-loss internally to pages 267 – 278 as well as pages 315 – 320. Several defects to some pages with small text-lesions and tears. From the library of Johannes Rust, Trinity College Cambridge. His small bookplate pasted to the dedication page. Contemporary entries in ink on the pastedown and endpaper.

6859. [Lewis, C.I. (Clarence Irving)] Aiken, Henry David.

Definitions, Factual Premises and Ethical Conclusions [Inscribed by Aiken to C.I.Lewis, american philosopher, progenitor of modern modal logic and the founder of conceptual pragmatism].

Philosophical Review, 1952. Octavo. 18 pages (pages 331-348 of the Volume LXI of the Philosophical Review). Original Offprint. Very good+ condition. Signed and inscribed by Henry David Aiken to fellow philosopher C.I.Lewis.

6860. Pearse, Pádraic H.

Plays – Poems – Stories.

Sixth Edition. Dublin/Cork/Belfast, The Phoenix Publishing Co., [1924]. 8°. Portrait of Pearse as Frontispiz, XIX, 340, VIII pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Preowner’s name on endpaper (″Katie O’Shea”). [Collected Works of Pádraic H. Pearse].