28. Grose, Francis.

The Antiquities of Ireland [Complete with 260 engravings, illustrating the Pagan – Celtic – Druidic Antiquities of Ireland – “The plans were taken from original drawings in the collection of the Right Honourable William Conyngham [William Cunningham]”. With a Preface by Edward Ledwich.

First Edition (Original – Vintage – 18th century Edition). Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for S.Hooper, 1791. Large Octavo (19.5 cm x 27.5 cm). Pagination / Collation: Volume I: Frontispiece, engraved titlepage, XL, 88, VIII pages, interleaved with 135 plates (as called for) / Volume II: Frontispiece, engraved titlepage, XV, 98, VI pages, interleaved with 125 plates (as called for). Hardcover / Modern, beautifully and professionally restored and rebacked original 18th-century,irish bindings with gilt orament to boards and new lettering and ornament on spine. During the restoration, the original endpapers were retained. Several plates with a faded dampstain, only one plate (planche 79 in Volume II) with a minor tear. A wonderful, magnificent set with some patina to pages and plates. The plates overwhelmingly beautiful and most of them in excellent condition.

Hall, S.C. Mr and Mrs.

Killarney and the South of Ireland.

Cork, Miros Press, 1976. 17.5 cm x 25 cm. VI, 174 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective Mylar covering. Frontispiece is damaged and detached. There is a loose page inside the front cover. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Harbison, Peter.

Cooper’s Ireland – Drawings and Notes from an Eighteenth-Century Gentleman.

Dublin, The O’Brien Press, 2000. 23.s cm x 23.5 cm. 288 pages. 132 black and white plates throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Hodges, Rev. Richard J. / Pike, W.T.

Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century / Contemporary Biographies. Edited by W. T. Pike.

First and only Edition. [Cork], W.T.Pike & Co. (19, Grand Parade, Brighton), 1911. 4°. 319 pages with hundreds of photographs and including an Index to Biographies and Illustrations. Rebacked Hardcover / Stunning, recent half-leather with gilt lettering on spine and use of the original boards. Fantastic restoration by english master binders. This notoriously scarce publication is now, after the restoration, an excellent addition to the libraries of collectors of local West Cork history. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Includes hundreds of photographs of grand houses in the irish countryside from South Cork to North Cork, from East Cork to West Cork. The stories of the houses are not only accompanied by photographs of now mostly vanished or derelict homes, the images also show the original state of homes which are now restructured etc. The second part of the publication offers an abundance of historical biographies of local irish Nobility (Meade family, O’Callaghan, Browne, Kelly etc.), Gentry and Clergy and general owners of Country Houses etc. [Pike’s New Century Series].

[Ireland]

The Romantic Scenery of England, Ireland and Scotland.

[London], [T.T. & J. Tegg], [1833]. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, 111 steelengravings / illustrations on 38 plates. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. All steel engravings in beautiful condition with only a very faint dampstain to outer margins of the plates.

Ireland – Lotter, Tobias Conrad. (1717 – 1777).

Regnum Hiberniae, tam secundum IV Provincias Principales Ultoniam, Connaciam, Lageniam, Momoniam.

Augsburg, Lotter, [c.1760]. Original hand-coloured copper engraving. Plate Size: 49.5 cm x 57.2 cm. Sheet Size: 55.7 cm x 64.5 cm. Original map. In very good condition with only the faintest traces of browning and paper defects to outer margins.

Ireland – Mercator, Gerhard. (1512 – 1594).

Irlandiae Regnum by Mercator. [Southern Ireland with Provinicae Momonia Munster with West Cork (Carbery as “Carbre”)/ Kerry as “Kyry” / Mizen Head as “Myssyn Head” / Fastnet as “Fasteney”/ Crookhaven as “Croke” / Glandore as “Glandorse” / Kilbrittain as “Kylebreton” / Limerick as “Lymerick” / Clare with Galway Bay / Rosscarbery as “Roß” / Drimoleague as “Drenmalyn” / Most of Lagenia (Leinster)] – Latin Text verso.

Amsterdam, Gerardum Mercatorum / J.Hondius, c. 1595-1602. Original handcoloured engraving / Vintage Mercator Map. The Map measures: 55.3 cm wide x 45.3 cm high. Extraordinary, original late 16th or early 17th century Map by Mercator with Irelands south in beautiful hand-coloured outline. Wide margins with two minor lesions to the outer margins (Map itself not affected). A Dream of a Map and the best condition and original colouring of this Map we have ever seen.

Ireland and Britain – Seutter, Matthaus. (1678-1757).

Tabula novissima accuratissima Regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae.

Augsburg, Seutter, 1730. Original hand-coloured engraving. Plate Size: 49.5 cm x 57.7 cm. Sheet Size: 53 cm x 62.6 cm. Original map. In very good condition. Some minor browning evident with the slightest traces of staining to outer margins. Some minor paper defects to outer margins. Repaired tear evident.

Ireland in 19th century Illustration – Bartlett, W.H. / Willis, N.P. / Stirling Coyne, J.

The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland, illustrated [with 111 original steel-engravings] from Drawings by W.H. Bartlett; The Literary portion of the Work by N.P. Willis and J.Stirling Coyne, Esq. [With a map of Ireland and early steel engravings of Cork Harbour, Cobh Harbour, Clew Bay from Westport / A Pattern in Connemara / Galway / Blackwater Valley / Lismore Castle / Glengariff / Sugar-Loaf-Mountain from Bantry Bay / Waterford / Enniskerry / Bray / etc.].

Two Volumes (complete set). London, George Virtue, 1841. Quarto. Volume I: IV, 170 pages with 62 original steel engravings (including the Vignette, but lacking the portrait of N.P.Willis) / Volume II: IV, 185 pages with 59 original steel engravings. Hardcover / Original, very decorative half-leather with gilt lettering on spines. Both Volumes in very good and firm condition with only occasional signs of some spotting to the plates and titlepage. Interior text and plates overall purely white and clean. The Volumes are often broken. This set is intact with its original endpapers frim. A stunning collection of the most romantic sceneries of 19th century Ireland. A must-have for every Ireland collector. The scenes so very beautiful and telling (Illustrations like the “A Pattern in Connemara” are accompanied by wonderful historical narratives by the authors.)

Lalor, Brian. (1941 – )

A Vision of Glendalough in the thirteenth century.

West Cork, 2008. Excellent, original Etching. Artist Proof No. I (AP I), signed and titled in pencil. Beautifully Framed. Size of frame with etching: 56 cm x 86 cm. Size of the actual etching: 49 cm x 79 cm. Excellent, strong and fresh etching in wonderful framing.