1. [Anonymous].

Guide to Killarney and Glengariff. With a Map and Six Plates.

New Edition, revised and corrected. Dublin, William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1835. 11 cm x 17 cm. Frontispiece, [4], 130 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with spinelabel and label on frontcover. Some staining to the binding but otherwise firm and with the original endpapers intact. Interior in very good condition besides some pages and illustrations being a little dusty. Few illustrations with faded dampstain. Rare and early publication for the tourist in 19th century Ireland. With name of prewoner in ink on titlepage: “Robert Morrison, Shanakiel, Cork”.

2. Berquin, M. [Arnaud].

The Children’s Friend. Translated from the French of M. Berquin; complete in Four Volumes (here only Volume I and Volume III).

A New Edition. Two Volumes (of Four). London, Printed for J.Stockdale, 1804. Small Octavo (11 cm wide x 17 cm high). Volume I: Frontispiece, XII, 200 pages / Volume III: Frontispiece, 218 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather of the early 19th century. Both Volumes firm but stronger rubbed. Good+ condition with only minor signs of wear but with some minor staining inside and two defects to the frontispiece of Volume III and a tear to the rear endpaper of Volume III. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with manuscript entries of names in the books by the Meade family.

3. Bolster, John / [Callanan, Jeremiah Joseph] / Letitia Elizabeth Landon [L.E.L.]/ Sloane, Hans.

Bolster’s Quarterly Magazine. Volume I. No. I (February, 1826) – Volume I. No. IV (November, 1826).

Cork, John Bolster, Patrick Street, 1826. Octavo. VIII, 394 pages. Hardcover / Original Half-Leather with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with some minor rubbing to the boards and corners. Interior very good with only occasional signs of foxing. A very rare Cork publication with some extremely scarce, often anonymously published essays on local history, poetry etc. The publications signed with J.J.C. are by Corkonian Jeremiah Joseph Callanan. Name of 19th century preowner on endpaper: “Michael Higgins”.

4. [Carew, Sir Peter / MacCarthy Glas / MacCarthy Reagh] MacLean, John.

The Life and Times of Sir Peter Carew, Kt. (From the Original Manuscript) – With a Historical Introduction and Elucidatory Notes, by John MacLean.

London, Bell & Daldy, 1857. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of Sir Peter Carew (Steel Engraving by J.J.Chant, being Plate I.), CXVIII, 317 pages plus 6 pages “List of Subscribers”. With several Plates: Plate II: Musical Notes: “By a Bank as I lay” / Plate III: Monument to Sir Peter Carew in St.Peter’s Cathedral, Exeter (Steel Engraving) / Plate IV: Folded Map of Kylkenny (Kilkenny) / Plate V: Pedigree of the Family of Carew (Large Fold – out Plate). Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and armorial emblemata on front board. Professionally repaired and now in excellent and firm condition in protective Collector’s Mylar. With the armorial supralibro of the Carew Family to the binding’s front board: Arms of Carew: Or, three lions passant in pale sable / Exlibris-Bookplate of the Mac Carthy Glas family on the pastedown with their family motto: “Lam Laidir Aboo” [The Mac Carthy Glas family descended from the princes of Carbery and the Mac Carthy Reagh family].

5. [Cullen, Stephen] Anonymus.

The Haunted Priory: or, The Fortunes of The House of Rayo. A Romance founded partly on historical Facts.

The Second Edition / [Original Edition – This is NOT a reprint]. London, Printed for J. Bell, 1794. Small Octavo. 256 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather with gilt lettering on spine and paper-covered boards. In bespoke made clamshell-box / solander-box. Beautifully restored and bound by a master bookbinder. Including the original endpapers and the original half-title. Front free endpaper and halftitle with dampstain to lower corner only. Dampstain in lower corner of the titlepage only faintly present. One of the rarest titles of Irish Literature and one of the rarest, early gothic-novels / horror-novels. Extremely, sbsolutely scarce publication and in excellent condition after the beautiful restoration.

6. Edwards, Jonathan.

A careful and strict Enquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of that Freedom of Will, which is supposed to be essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame.

First British Edition. Boston / London, Re-Printed for Thomas Field, 1762. Octavo. IX, [5], 414, [8] pages plus two pages of advertising for Jonathan Edwards’ “Treatise concerning Religious Effections”. Hardcover / Original 18th century calf, rebacked with new spine and spinelabel. Interior all original and besides some minor signs of foxing in very good condition. Name of preowner in ink on titlepage. Binding overall excellent with only minor signs of external wear. A very rare and important book.

7. Gisborne, Rev. Thomas.

Sermons.

London, Printed by A. Strahan for T. Cadell Jun. and W.Davies in The Strand, 1802. Octavo. XV, 453 pages. [Layer with pages 23- 26 loosened but included]. Hardcover / Original 19th century full-leather with gilt ornament and original spine-label. Binding rough with stronger signs of rubbing and defects to the leather-covered – boards. But the binding is firm and holding. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

8. Home, Henry [Lord Kames].

Sketches of the History of Man [With an Appendix on a “Plan for improving and preserving in order the Highways in Scotland”]”

Considerably Improved in A Third Edition. In Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed by James Williams, 1779. Octavo (14 cm x 21 cm). Volume I: VIII, 552 pages / Volume II: [4], 551 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with original spine-labels and gilt ornament to spine. Both Volumes firm and strong / Leather with stronger wear and some strong abrasions to the boards with some loss to leather. Interior in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Minor wormhole passages to outer margin of text. Paper in excellent condition. From the library of John & Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with their ownership – signatures to titlepages and a gift-inscription: “Helena Meade to her nephew William Richard Meade – October 3rd, 1837”.

9. 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.

10. [Jones, Sir William] / [Franklin, Benjamin] / John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth.

Memoirs of The Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones [With a little Essay by Jones on the Grecian Orators: “De Graecis Oratoribus”].

A New Edition. London, Sold by John Hatchard (Bookseller to her Majesty), 1807. Octavo (13.6 cm wide x 21.3 cm high). XIV, [3], 636 pages including an Appendix. Hardcover / Original, very decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Bining a bit rubbed but overall in a firm and very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The interior in bright and excellent condition. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.