Central Committee for the Holy Year.

Pilgrim’s Prayer Book.

No place, Commission for Spiritual Assitance, 1949. 12 cm x 16.5 cm. 70 Pages with several musical notations. Original Softcover. Good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Carretto, Carlo. Barr, Robert [translation].

I Sought and I Found – My Experience of God and of the Church.

Reprint. London, Darton Longman and Todd, 1985. 14 cm x 22 cm. 154 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

[Burnet, Gilbert] / Higgons, B.

Historical And Critical Remarks on Bishop Burnet’s History Of His Own Time. The Second Edition, with Additional Remarks. To which is added a Postscript, in answer to the London Journal of the 30th of January and 6th of February, 1724/1725.

London, Printed for P.Meighan, 1727. Octavo. [8], 348, [12] pages including Index and advertising of Books sold by P.Meighan. Hardcover / Oriignal 18th century full calf with ornament to spine and new spine-label created to style. Very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

Brown, Terence.

The Whole Protestant Community: the making of a historical myth.

Derry, Field Day Theatre Company Limited, 1985. 14 cm x 22 cm. 24 pages. Original pamphlet / Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear to the dustjacket and an inscription by the pre-owner. [Field Day Pamphlet Number 7]

Brother Lawrence [Nicholas Herman] / David, Mary (Translator).

The Practice of the Presence of God.

New York / New Jersey, Paulist Press, 1978. 11 cm x 18 cm. 127 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor creases and dog ears to several pages. Pages clear and bright.

Brockett, Lorna / Yarnold, Edward (General Editor).

The Theology of Baptism.

Cork, The Mercier Press, 1971. 11 cm x 18 cm. 94 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pages and inside covers discoloured. [Theology Today Series No. 25].

Brinkworth S.J., Guy.

Take, O Lord: Everyman’s “Spritual Exercises” of St. Ignatius for Private Retreat or Prayerful Reading, at Home or Elsewhere, Full-time or Part-time.

Third Enlarged Edition. Fishguard, Convent of Mercy, No date (c.1980). 15 cm x 21 cm. 123 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Some light scuffing on cover. Clean inside with solid binding.

Brégy, Katherine.

The Story of St. Francis de Sales, Patron of Catholic Writers.

Dublin / London, Clonmore & Reynolds Ltd. / Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1960. 12.5 x 19cm. (10), 85 pages. Original hardcover. Minor signs of external wear, otherwise very good condition.

Breckensiek, Marne.

Adam’s Apple and Other Stories. As told by tennagers.

Missouri, Liguorian Books, 1970. 10.5 cm x 17.5 cm. 86 pages. Black and white pencil drawings throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Internal pages clean and bright.

Bloomfield, Rev. S.T.

The Greek Testament, with English notes, Critical, Philological, and Exegetical, Partly selected and arranged from the best commentators, ancient and modern, but chiefly original. The whole being especially adapted to the use of academical students, candidates for the sacred office, and ministers : though also intended as a manual edition for the use of theological readers in General.

Second Edition, corrected, greatly enlarged and considerably improved. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Longman, Rees & Co., 1836. Octavo. XXXI, 656, 672 pages. Hardcover / Original Half leather with gilt lettering on spine. Few pages with dogears. Binding a little rubbed but overall in very good an firm condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Black, Matthew / Best, Ernest / Wilson, R. Mc L.

Text and Interpretation: Studies in the New Testament presented to Matthew Black. Edited by Ernest Best and R. Mc L. Wilson.

Cambridge / London / New York / Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1979. 14 x 22cm. Frontispiece, (15), 268 pages. Original hardcover with silver lettering. Excellent condition, other than very mild foxing to top edges. Previous owner’s bookplate affixed to front endpaper.

Black, Alan W.

Religion in Australia: Sociological Perspectives.

Sidney, Allen & Unwin, 1991. 8°. IX, 222 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. Very rare Reader !

Batselier, Dom Pieter / Callender, Elsie (trans.)

Saint Benedict – Father of Western Civilization.

Antwerp, Mercatorfonds, 1981, 26 cm x 33 cm. 476 pages. 476 beautiful mononchrome and colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near fine condition. Interior in excellent condition also.

[Aquinas, Thomas] Robb, James H.

St. Thomas Aquinas – Quaestiones de Anima. A newly established Edition of the Latin text with an Introduction and Notes.

Toronto, PONTIFICAL INSTITUTE OF MEDIAEVAL STUDIES, 1968. 8°. 282 pages. Original Softcover. Former library copy – stamped (withdrawn from Crosby Library / Gonzaga University). Kenneth Brodey’s copy.

[Aquinas, St. Thomas] de Wohl, Louis.

The Quiet Light – A Novel of St.Thomas Aquinas.

New York, Image Books, 1962. 10.5 cm x 18 cm. 319 pages. Original Softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some evidence of dogears. Minor discoloration inside covers and endpapers. Rare.

Anonymous.

Blessed Mary of Saint Euphrasia Pelletier, First Superior-General of the Congregation of our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd of Angers.

London, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 1933. 14 x 22cm. (8), 419 pages, with black and white plates. Original hardcover. Spine faded, minor signs of shelf wear, otherwise excellent condition. Pre-owner’s stamp on title page.

Anderton, James.

The Protestants Apology for the Roman Church. [incomplete 17th century version of the 1608 edition / With manuscript annotations and dating by the owners of the book on page 512: Father John Coyne / Richard Power in 1683]. [Deuided into three seuerall tractes. VVherof the first concerneth the antiquity & continuance of the Roman Church & religion, euer since the Apostles times. The second 1. that the Protestants religion was not so much as in being, at, or before Luthers first appearing. 2. that the marks of the true church are apperteyning to the Roman, and wholy wanting to the seuerall churches, begun by Luther & Caluin. The third that Catholicks are no lesse loyall, and dutifull to their soueraigne, than Protestants. All which is vndertaken, & proued by testimonies of the learned Protestants themselues. VVith a conclusion to the reuerend iudges, and other the graue and learned sages of the law. By Iohn Brereley priest.]

[St. Omer], Permissu Superiorum, no year [c.1683]. Small Quarto. Pages 1 – 104 missing, pages 105 – 751 complete. Contemporary pigskin binding with original title in manuscript hand to spine. Poor condition with many damaged pages, frayed and traces of dried mold. Prt II and III of the book are complete: The Second Chapter: That the true Church must have her Pastours administration of the word and Sacraments evermore to continue / The Third Tract – Conteining the confessed Antiquity of Catholicke Priesthood, Confession, Absolution, Masse &c. and of the penall lawes made against them.

[Ammonas] Chitty, Derwas J. [Trans].

The Letters of Ammonas, Successor of Saint Antony. Revised and with an introduction by Sebastian Brock.

Oxford, SLG Press Ltd., 1979. 14 x 20.5cm (4), 21 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition. [Fairacres Publications, No. 72].

Alzati, Cesare.

Cristianità ed Europa – Miscellanea di Studi in Onore di Luigi Prosdocimi. Volume I – Tomo 2. [Articles include for example: James A. Brundage – The Lawyer as his clients Judge – The Medieval Advocate’s Duty to the Court etc. etc.] A cura di Cesare Alzati.

Roma/Freiburg/Wien, Herder, 1994. Gr.-8°. 494 pp (p. 357 – 851). Softcover. Articles in Italiano, Francais, Deutsch, English. Very good condition. [Volume I – Tomo 2.]

Robison, John.

Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati and Reading Societies. Collected from good authorities by John Robison, A.M. – Professor of Natural Philosophy and Secretary to the Royal Society in Edinburgh. [With the printed dedication to William Wyndham].

The Fourth Edition, corrected; to which is added a Postscript. Dublin, Printed by W.Watson and Son, 1798. Large Octavo (14 cm x 21.5 cm). [2], 531 pages (incl. Postscript). Hardcover / Stunning, recent half leather and marbled-paper-covered-boards with gilt lettering and ornament to spine, bound to style of the 18th/19th century. Tear to page 9 (!). Otherwise in unusually excellent condition besides some mild browning (very occasionally only). From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown and name in ink on titlepage. Extremely scarce publication on Illuminati and freemasonry by the first general secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-1798). Extremely rare in any edition; nearly impossible to find in this condition !

Blaikie, W.B.

Thomas Graves Law [Including an Appendix with: “A Bibliography of the Principal Writings and Editions of Thomas Graves Law”].

No Place of print Given, Privately Printed, 1904. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece (Black and white photograph of Thomas Grave Law). 39 pages. Original Softcover. Stiff card covers. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Foxing to endpapers and some isolated occurances to internal pages. Pencil marking by previous owner on endpaper.

[Hobbes, Thomas] Member of the Athenian Society [attributed to John Dunton].

The Athenian Oracle [Including: “An Elegy on the Death of the Honourable Robert Doyle” / “What think you of the Milky Way in Heaven ?” / “Who was the first Founder of Atheism ?” / “Whether Hobbs [sic] [Thomas Hobbes] or Lestrange [Roger Lestrange] is the better Christian ?” / “A Voluntary on the Nativity of our Blessed Lord: Christmas-Day 1692”]. Being an entire collection of all the valuable questions and answers in the old Athenian Mercuries : Intermix’d with many Cases in Divinity, History, Philosophy, Mathematicks [sic] [Mathematics], Love, Poetry, never before published : to which is added, an alphabetical table for the speedy finding of any questions.

The Third Edition Corrected. Volume I (of three Volumes). London, Printed for Andrew Bell, at the Cross Keys and Bible in Cornhill, near Stocks-market, 1706. 12.7 cm x 20 cm. 568 pages, inlcuding two leaves of advertising for “Books printed for Andrew Bell”. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with ornament to boards and recently rebacked spine. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Moderate foxing to front and rear pastedown and endpapers.

Vierhaus, Rudolf [Hrsg.].

Wissenschaften im Zeitalter der Aufklärung. Aus Anlass des 250jährigen Bestehens des Verlags Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1985. 8°. 282 Seiten. Illustriert. Hardcover. Sehr guter Zustand.

Howard, John / [Daniel Conner Library]

An account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; with various papers relative to the Plague: Together with further Observations on some foreign Prisons and Hospitals; and additional remarks on The Present State of those in Great Britain and Ireland. [Including chapters on English Prisons and Hospitals, Hulks [Prison-Ships] on the Thames, Remarks on the Gaol-Fever, Remarks on Penitentiary Houses, Scottish Prisons and Hospitals, Irish Prisons and Hospitals, Charter Schools in Ireland etc.]

First Edition. Warrington, Printed by William Eyres; And sold by T. Cadell, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, and J. Taylor in London, 1789. Quarto (24,5 cm x 30,5 cm). VIII, 259 pages plus 13 unnumbered pages of Index and 1 page “Directions to the Book-Binder”. Collation complete with 22 plates of which 20 are large fold-out-engravings. Hardcover / Contemporary 18th century calf with gilt lettering on spine. Stunning Volume, recently restored and rebacked by two english master-binders. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. After the restoration now a highly-desirable collectable. One of the first sociological studies of conditions within the penal system of England and Ireland compared to other 18th-century practices within European Jails / Gaols. The partly romantic engravings seem sinister when one imagines what inmates and children endured within these settings. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

[Nagle, Nano] O’Farrell, Sr Mary Pius.

Nano Nagle – Woman of the Gospel.

Cork, Cork Publishing Limited, 1996. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. XII. 305 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition. Very Rare. Signed and inscribed by the author.

Tomline, George.

A Refutation of Calvinism – in which, The Doctrines of Original Sin, Grace, Regeneration, Justification and Universal Redemption are explained and the peculiar Tenets maintained by Calvin upon these points are proved to be contrary to Scripture, to the writings of the Antient [sic] Fathers of the Christian Church and to the public formularies of the Church of England. [Bound with a rare Cork-Print of “Remarks on the late publication of Dr.G.Tomline, Lord Bishop of Lincoln, entitled a Refutation of Calvinism, extracted and abridged from the Eclectic Review, for August 1811].

[Third Edition of the main title / First edition of the Cork-print]. London, T.Cadell & W.Davies, 1811. Octavo. Main title: IX, (1), 590 pages / Additional title: (1), 23 pages (Printed in Cork, 1811 and sold by Edwards & Savage and J. & R. McMullin in Castle-Street).. Hardcover / Original, early 19th-century half leather with paper-covered boards. In protective Mylar. Paper on boards slightlys damaged. Binding otherwise firm and in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. One page of the additionally bound title slightly loosened. Bookplate of Richard Meade, Ballymartle, on pastedown. Rare and especially interesting version of this book with the Remarks on the Refutation bound in the rear.

Schmalz, Theodor Anton Heinrich von.

Handbuch des canonischen Rechts und seiner Anwendung in den teutschen evangelischen Kirchen. Zum Gebrauch für Vorlesungen vom Geheimen Rath Schmalz zu Berlin.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Achenwall und Compagnie, 1815. 13 cm x 21 cm. X, 325 Seiten und Errata-Blatt. Originaler, sehr dekorativer Halblederband mit reicher, filigraner Rückenvergoldung, blassgrünem Schnitt und organgenem Rückenschildchen. Sehr guter, aussergewöhnlicher Zustand der Bindung mit nur vereinzelten Stockfleckchen im Text. Als Beilage: Portrait von Theodor Schmalz (originaler Umriss-Stich des 19.Jahrhunderts unter Passepartout).

Randolph, Thomas [President of Corpus Christi College Oxford].

A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity – From the exceptions of a late Pamphlet entituled “An Essay on Spirit” &c. [By a Divine of the Church of England] / In Three Parts, with an Appendix [″An Appendix to the Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity &c Containing some Remarks on the Dedication prefix’d to the “Essay on Spirit”].

First Edition. Oxford, Printed at the Theatre for James Fletcher in the Turl, 1754. Octavo. 101, (2), 104, 134 pages plus Appendix: 70 pages plus (10 unnumbered pages, including one page of advertising). Hardcover / Original 18th-century calf with gilt ornament and original spine-label. In protective collector’s Mylar. Besides some abrasions and minor damages to the boards in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bookplate of Daniel Conner to pastedown. Extremely rare !

Yeats, W.B. / Shree Purohit Swami (Translators).

The Ten Principal Upanishads.

London, Faber and Faber, 1975. 20 cm x 14 cm. 159 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Faber Paperbacks].

Secker, Thomas.

Sermons on Several Subjects, by Thomas Secker, L.L.D. Late Lord Archbishop of Catherbury. Published from the Original Manuscripts by Beilby Porteus, D.D. and George Stinton, D.D. His Grace Chaplains. To which is Prefixed “A Review of his Grace’s Life and Character”.

First Edition. Four Volumes bound in Two (complete set). Dublin, Printed for J.Exshaw, H.Saunders, J.Potts etc., 1771. Octavo. LXX, 416, IV, 495 pages. Original Hardcover / 18th-century full leather with spine-labels and ornament. Both Volumes in protective Collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with some signs of external wear. Titlepage of Volume III slightly detached. Some minor staining only. From the libraries of John and Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with their names in ink to titlepages.

Jessop, T.E.

An Introduction to Christian Doctrine.

London / Edinburgh / Paris / a.o. Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1960. 14.8 cm x 22.5 cm VIII, 133 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor staining to front and rear hardcover. Minor fraying and staining to dustjacket, with staining to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. Minor foxing to edges and pages throughout. A previous owner’s name in ink pen on front endpaper. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

Herborn – Kempf, Joh.Chr.

Catalog der Bibliothek des evangelisch-theologischen Seminariums zu Herborn im Jahre 1837.

Herborn, Joh.Chr.Kempf, 1837. 8°. VII, 313 Seiten. Hardcover / Moderner, sehr dekorativer Halblederband mit neuem Vorsatz und eingebundener Titelbroschur. Das Werk ist vollständig erhalten. Titelblatt etwas hinterlegt. Vereinzelt stockfleckig. Bibliographie von grosser Seltenheit !

Hale, Matthew.

Contemplations Moral and Divine [Bound with “Meditations upon the Lord’s Prayer”].

True First Edition. The Second Part. London, Printed for William Shrowsbury at the Bible in Duke-lane and John Leigh at the Blew-Bell in Fleet-Street, 1676. Octavo (13 cm x 18 cm). Pagination: The Second Part: Titlepage [1], Preface [5], Conten-page [1], 243 pages with several Treatises / Pagination of: “Meditations upon the Lord’s Prayer”: 222 pages. Original first edition in a modern, recently designed half-leather – binding with new spine-label and marbled-paper-covered boards and new endpapers. The Volume in protective collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition.

[Garcia Hidalgo, Salvador (O.P.) / Blas, Juan Francisco de / Fray Bartholome de Roxas / Pedro Sanchez of Seville and Santo Domingo].

Panegyrico Funebre que a la Piadosa Memoria del V. Siervo de Dios el M.R.P. Pdo. Fray Pedro Sanchez, Hijo del Real Convento de San Pablo, del Sagrado Orden de Predicadores de la Cuidad de Sevilla, Celebrò la Venerable Orden Tercera de Nuestro Padre Santo Domingo, por cabode ano (como a su Maestro, y Director que sue). El Domingo Tercero 21. De Abril deste ano de 1720. Predicado por el M.R.P.Fray Salvador Garcia, Lector de Primade dicho Real Convento. Dalo a la Estampa Dicha Venerable Orden.

Sevilla, Juan Francisco de Blas, Impressor Mayor de dicha Ciudad, [1720]. 14 cm x 19 cm. [10], 24 pages. Disbound. Original pamphlet. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. The funeral orations and related ceremonies for Father Pedro Sanchez of Seville and Santo Domingo. OCLC locates one copy, at the University of Seville, and one is also listed in the Hispanic Society of America library catalog. Tiny Exlibris – stamp “Michael A. Spencer” verso titlepage.

[Cygnet Press / Hofer, Philip / Winship, George Parker] Matteo da Ferrara.

Vita de Sancto Hieronymo [with original manuscript letter by Philip Hofer, later Curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Harvard’s Houghton Library, discussing his work at the [Pierpont] Morgan Library and the first product of Cygnet Press, “Vita de Sancto Hieronymo”, which he and George Parker Winship had produced 6 years earlier: “The little book which accompanies this note is one which George Parker Winship and I set by hand and printed a few years ago. It amused us, and, I hope, will amuse you. Of course we would do it differently now – that is always the way !”. The letter, on Hofer’s stationery with his address at 14 East Ninetieth Street, is addressed to one Dr. Collija in Stockholm, on June 25, 1934 and Hofer reminisces about the wonderful time he had there and how he wants to return to Sweden.

Cambridge (Massachusetts), Cygnet Press, MCMXXVIII [1928]. Small Octavo (13.3 cm x 17 cm). [35] pages. Original Hardcover with Label. Housed in its original, protective box from Cygnet Press. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. The four-page-letter (on one sheet), signed by Philip Hofer in full.

[Curtayne, Alice] / McKevitt, P. / Lucey, C. / Conway, J. Jacobus / Christus Rex Society of Irish Diocesan Priests / Rísteard Ó Cíonga [Richard King as Illustrator] / etc.

Alice Curtayne as Contributor to Irish Periodicals / Journals / Digests. The collection aims for completion and collects not only issues of periodicals with contributions by Alice Curtayne but hopes to complete each set of periodicals to which Alice Curtayne contributed between the years of 1930 and 1980, in order to allow for cross-referencing of contributors, study cooperation between illustrators and Alice Curtayne, her influence and acceptance as early female contributor in a men’s world, possibly even deciphering pseudonyms under which Curtayne might have written or essays she might have contributed to but her name was omitted; in general: circumstances which have not been detected yet. The Collection is documented thoroughly in professional images and descriptions on our website and includes to date: I. Alice Curtayne as Contributor to “The Irish Digest”: 1. “The Irish Digest” from September 1940 – including the article: Alice Curtayne – “Lament of an Author” / II. Alice Curtayne as Contributor to “Christus Rex”: “Christus Rex” – An Irish Quarterly Journal of Sociology. A Collection of 24 issues of the important and underrated publication “Christus Rex” including: 1. Volume XX, No.4 of “Christus Rex”: Alice Curtayne – “The Council and Women” ]. / III. Alice Curtayne as Contributor to “The Furrow”: “The Furrow” – Monthly Journal published by the Leinster Leader, Naas and Edited by Rev. J.G.McGarry. A Collection of 56 issues of the Journal, including two issues with Curtayne – publications: 1. “Saint Patrick in his Confession” – (In: “The Furrow” from March 1951) and 2. “Marillac Manor” (in “The Furrow” from July 1959) and 3. “Ecumenism in Dublin” (In “The Furrow” from February 1966) / IV. Alice Curtayne as Contributor to “The Capuchin Annual”. Including: 1. Alice Curtayne – “For the Septcentenary of St.Anthony of Padua (1231 – 1931)” – [including a portrait photograph of Alice Curtayne] / 2. Alice Curtayne – “Five Irish Saints” (″The Living Patrick” / “Saint Colmcille – Irishman” / “Saint Brendan – The Navigator” / “Saint Ita” / “The Method of Saint Columbus” / (In: Capuchin Annual 1945-1946 – with Illustrations in color by Stained Glass Artist, Rísteard Ó Cíonga [Richard King].

Naas, Christus Rex Publications, 1949 – 1967. Octavo. 81 Issues with different amounts of pages and content. Overall c. 4800 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Some of the issues with annotations and some with a former library-stamp. Very rare run of these periodicals which invited contributions from other women writers like Ita Meehan.

Curtayne, Alice.

Alice Curtayne and “The Furrow” – Monthly Journal published by the Leinster Leader, Naas and Edited by Rev. J.G.McGarry. A Collection of 56 issues of the Journal, including two issues with Curtayne – publications: 1. “Saint Patrick in his Confession” – (In: “The Furrow” from March 1951) / 2. “Marillac Manor” (in “The Furrow” from July 1959) / 3. “Ecumenism in Dublin” (In “The Furrow” from February 1966).

Naas, The Furrow / Leinster Leader, 1951 – 1969. Octavo. 56 Issues with different amounts of pages and content. Overall c. 2200 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Some of the issues with annotations and some with a former library-stamp. Very rare run of these periodicals which invited contributions from other women writers like Mairin Allen, Anna Dundurs etc.

Curtayne, Alice.

Alice Curtayne and “Studies – An Irish Quarterly Review” – Irish Quarterly Scholarly Journal, historically published since the year 1912 by The Educational Company of Ireland / The Talbot Press / Messenger Publications for the Jesuits of Ireland. A Collection of momentarily 53 issues plus Index (1912-1961) of the Journal, including currently one identified issue with an Alice Curtayne – publication: 1. “Dante” – (In: “Studies” Summer/Autumn – Issue 1965).

Dublin, The Educational Company of Ireland / The Talbot Press, 1912 – 1969. Octavo. 53 Issues plus Index, with different amounts of pages and content. Overall c. 2800 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some issues with some stronger signs of wear but the majority of issues in firm and excellent condition. Some of the issues with annotations and some with a former library-stamp. Very rare run of this periodicals which invited contributions from other women writers like Mary M. Macken, Pamela Reilly, Helen Landreth, Eleanor Knott, Ethna Kavanagh, Lorna Reynolds, etc.

Blackwall, Anthony.

The Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated: Or, an Essay Humbly offer’d towards proving the Purity, Propriety, and True Eloquence of the Writers of the New Testament. In Two Parts. In the First of which Those Divine Writers are vindicated against the Charge of barbarous Language, false Greek, and Solecisms. In the Second is shewn, That all the Excellencies of Style, and sublime Beauties of Language and genuine Eloquence do abound in the Sacred Writers of the New Testament. With an Account of their Style and Character, and a Representation of their Superiority, in several Instances, to the best Classics of Greece and Rome. To which are subjoin’d proper Indexes. [The Second and Last Volume – In Three Parts. Containing: I. A farther Demonstration of the Propriety, Purity and sound Eloquence of the Language of the New Testament Writers. / II. An Account of the wrong Division of Chapters and Verses, and faulty Translations of the Divine Book, which weaken its Reasonings, and spoil its Eloquence and Native Beauties. / III. A Discourse on the Various Readings of the New Testament. With a Preface, wherein is shewn the Necessity and Usefulness of a New Version of the Sacred Books. By the late Reverend and Learned A.Blackwall, A.M. – AUthor of the First Volume. To which is annex’d a very copious Index.].

The Second Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for C.Rivington, 1727. Octavo. 432, [16], Portrait-Frontispiece of A. Blackwall by G.Vertue, XXXI, 359, [24] pages. Original Hardcover / 18th-century full leather with new spine-labels in the style of th eperiod. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

Al-Ghazali.

The Incoherence of the Philosophers. A parallel English-Arabic text. Translated, introduced, and annotated by Michael E. Marmura.

Second Edition. Provo, Utah, Brigham Young University Press, 2000. 24 cm. xxxi, 258 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition with some minor signs of wear only. [Islamic Translation Series].

Ainsworth, Henry.

Two Treatises by Henry Ainsworth. The First, “Of the Communion of Saints”. The Second: “An Arrow Against Idolatry” etc. – To this Edition is prefixed, some “Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”.

Edinburgh, Printed by D.Paterson, 1789. Octavo. LXIX, 344 pages with two titlepages announcing the two titles separately. Hardcover / Original 18th century leather, professionally restored with a modern spine to the style of the period. The Volume in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. Rare edition with an early biographical account on Henry Ainsworth. Heavily annotated with contemporary comments. Annotations on pastedown, endpaper and within text are focused on crossreferencing Ainsworth’s publication with other contemporaries and their conflicting or corresponding thoughts on Idolatry (Hugh Broughton “on the consent of times” gets mentioned etc.).

Stepniak-Kravchinskii, Sergej.

The Russian Peasantry. Their Agrarian Condition, Social Life and Religion.

Third Edition. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1894. 21.6cm x 14.1cm. x, 651 (2) pages. Original hardcover. Gilt lettering on spine. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor traces of foxing on some pages. Binding tight and firm. Rare !