101. Galvin, Michael.

The Slow Sunrise – Land Reform – Labour – Home Rule in Mid Cork 1865-1881.

Ireland, Privately published / Michael Galvin, no date (c.1999). Octavo. 301 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

102. Geoghegan, Philip / Bowe, Gerry / Byrne, Mark / Kelly, Tony / O Murchu, Giolla / Campbell, Mark / Kemler, Andrea / McMurtry, Polly / Morrissey, Terri / Hayden, Gerry.

Kinsale – A National Heritage Town – A Study in Conservation produced by the School of Architecture (University College Dublin), in the Housing Research Unit.

Kinsale, Kinsale Development Association, 1976. Quarto. 182 pages with several photographs of old buildings, maps etc. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and a small bump to lower corner. An extremely rare publication.

103. Gilbert, John T.

A History of the City of Dublin. Introduction by F.E. Dixon.

Three volumes (complete). Shannon, Irish University Press, 1972. 22.2cm x 14.2cm. Volume I: XVI, 437, (7) pages / Volume II: VI, 335, XIX, VII, (10) pages / Volume III: IV, 382, (10), 86 pages. Includes an especially compiled Index for this edition ! Original Hardcovers with original, unclipped dustjackets in protective Mylar. Some stronger foxing to the edges only. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

104. Gilpin, William. [Castle-Freke Library Bookplates]

Collection of four Volumes (bound in two) by Gilpin – All from the historical library at Castle Freke (Castlefreke, West Cork / Ireland). The Volumes include: I. & II. Observations Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-Lands of Scotland. [Second Edition, with an “Account of the Prints” bound to the rear] / III. Observations on the River Wye and several Parts of South Wales &c. relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; Made in the summer of the Year 1770 (Third Edition). / IV. An Essay on Prints – [″The chief intention of the following work was to put the elegant amusement of collecting prints, on a more rational footing; by giving the unexperienced collector a few principles and cautions to assist him”] (Fourth Edition with the printed dedication “To the Honorable Horace Walpole in Deference to his Taste in the Polite Arts; and the Valuable Researches he has made to improve them; the following work is inscribed by his most obedient and very humble servant, William Gilpin”). [Volumes I & II with 40 original illustrations and vintage 18th century maps [correctly 39 illustrations and one table], for example of Loch Lomond and the Firth of Forth/ all illustrations are vintage mezzotint-plates].

Mixed Editions. Four Volumes (bound in two). London, Printed for R. Blamire, Strand, 1792. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: XI, [1], 221 pages with 24 mezzotints / Volume II: 195, XVI pages with 16 mezzotints and an “Account of the Prints” as well as “Translations of Latin Passages” / [Volume III]: [River Wye]: XVI, 152 pages with 16 (of 17) full – page mezzotints / [Volume IV]: [An Essay on Prints]: XIII, [3], 174 pages plus XI pages Index and 1 page Errata. Hardcover / Early 19th century quarter – morocco with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Both volumes bound in unison. Very good + condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pages 185 – 191 of Volume I with some stronger browning. Otherwise the interior very clean. All mezzotints in very good or even better condition. This is the original copy from the historical Castle-Freke Library in West Cork (Ireland), with two armorial bookplates to front and rear pastedown with the family’s motto ‘Pro Patria’. With two pages of manuscript annotations by a contemporary hand with a reference between the common name “Tarbet” in Scotland and a place-name in County Kerry in Ireland” (pages 13 of Volume II) / another entry is on page 12 of Volume II regarding the name-sake “Loch-Loung” for a Lake of ships in Scotland and Ireland.

105. [Gogarty, Oliver St. John] Ussher, Arland.

The Face and Mind of Ireland.

Third Impression. London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1950. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 142 pages. Modern Hardcover binding (grey cloth with black lettering on spine andnew endpapers). Excellent condition. This book comes from the library of Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty and was signed and inscribed to him by Arland Ussher on the halftitle in May 1950. A very nice association copy.

106. Goldsmith, Oliver/ [Washington Irving] / [Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886)].

A History of The Earth and Animated Nature – With an Introductory View of the Animal Kingdom. Translated from the French of Baron Cuvier and with copious Notes, embracing Accounts of New Discoveries in Natural History. [Includes a Biographical Sketch of Oliver Goldsmith: “A Life of the Author”, by Washington Irving]. (Illustrated Edition with full-page portrait of Goldsmith, 45 (of 46) full-page hand-coloured Plates of Butterflies, Birds, Rhonocerous etc. as well as two hand-coloured, additional Titlepages with animal-scenes [plate XXVI (Crocodile) is missing and plates XXXI and XXXVIII were never inteded to be bound with the work]).

First Edition with the Biography of Goldsmith by Washington Irving. Six Parts in Two Volumes (complete set). London, Edinburgh and Dublin, A. Fullerton and Co., 1846-1848. Large Octavo. Pagination: Frontispiece-Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith by S. Freeman from a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Engraved and hand-coloured Titlepage (with tissue-guard), LIV, Hardcover / Original, decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Plate 40 with a minor defect to the outer margins only (no image effected). Bindings in wonderful and firm condition. From the library of one Sara Jeffares (Landscape, 1886), her full name, year and place of lodgings signed by her on the titlepage.

107. Goodman More, Alexander / Colgan, Nathaniel / Scully, Reginald W.

Contributions towards a Cybele Hibernica, being Outlines of the Geographical Distribution of Plants in Ireland [Including: “A List of the Principal Books, Papers, MSS. and Herbaria relating to the Flora of Ireland].

Second Edition – Founded on the Papers of the Late Alexander Goodman More. Dublin, Edward Ponsonby, 1898. Large Octavo (16 cm x 22,5 cm). Frontispiece-Map (folded), XCVI, 538 pages. Original Hardcover / Original publisher’s green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Unusual in this condition ! The second edition is the definitive, enlarged and revised version of this book.

108. [Grattan, Henry] Mac Carthy, John George [John George MacCarthy – Mallow M.P.].

Henry Grattan – A Historical Study [Inscribed by the author to Nichols Murphy, Esq.].

First Edition. Dublin, E.Ponsonby, 1876. Octavo. [3], 81, [2], pages including an advertising printed in the raer of the Volume for John George Mac Carthy’s book: “A Plea for the Home Government of Ireland” (with a mentioning of the “Opinion of the Press”). Original Hardcover / Green publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament. Excellent condition. With a beautiful inscription in ink by John George MacCarthy on the halftitle: “Presented to Nicholas Murphy Esq. with the writers best wishes and regards – January 7, 1876”.

109. Greaves, C. Desmond.

The Irish Case against Partition [Full facts and programme of Action].

[London], Connolly Association, no year [ca. 1952]. 19 cm. 36 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely scarce ! [A Connolly Association pamphlet].

110. Green, Alice Stopford.

The Making of Ireland and its undoing, 1200-1600.

Second Edition. Dublin / London, Maunsel and Company, 1920. Large Octavo. XXIV, 573 pages including a map of Ireland specially drawn to illustrate chapter I of the book. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine (Original blue publisher’s coth). Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the private library of Seosamh Laoide (English: Joseph H. Lloyd, 1865–1939), known as “Mac Tíre na Páirce” (″Wolf of the Park”). With his name in gaeilge on the endpaper. Seosamh Laoide was an Irish language scholar was an Irish language scholar.

111. Griffin, Gerald.

Talis Qualis; or Tales of the Jury Room.

First Edition, published posthumously. Dublin, James Duffy & Sons, no year [c. 1842]. 8°. Frontispiece and titlepage are original steel engravings, followed by 463 pages. Original publisher’s binding. Green cloth with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Beautifully tooled boards with irish harp embossed on frontcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper (W. Collins).

112. [Griffith, Arthur] Kabdebo, Thomas.

Ireland and Hungary. A study in parallels. With an Arthur Griffith bibliography. With a foreword by Árpád Göncz, President of the Hungarian Republic.

Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2001. 25 cm. 122 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

113. Grist, Berna.

An Introduction to Irish Planning Law.

Second edition. Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2012. 24 cm. xvi, 207 pages. Softcover. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare, out-of-print publication !

114. [Hales, William].

Irish Pursuits of Literature, in A.D. 1798, and 1799, consisting of I. Translations, II. Second Thoughts, III. Rival Translations, IV. The Monstrous Republic [The Monstrous Republic – Or, French Atrocities Pourtrayed [sic] Portrayed], V. Indexes.

Dublin, Printed for J. Milliken and J. Wright [London], 1799. Large Octavo. [2], XXVII, [1], 153, [1], 99, 71 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s interim – binding, paper-covered boards with spinelabel. Very good condition ‘Sammelband’ with several works bound in one. Only minor signs of external wear. The interior in excellent, near Fine condition. Extremely scarce compilation. From the library of Richard Meade, Ballymartle (County Cork), with his name in ink on titlepage and loosely inserted his bookplate.

115. [Haliburton, Thomas Chandler] Anonymous.

The Season-Ticket.

New Edition. London, Richard Bentley, 1861. Octavo (11,5 cm x 17 cm). 330 pages including Advertisement bound in front of the Volume for W.H.Smith & Son’s. Original Hardcover (Printed, paper-covered-boards. The original Volume now housed in a bespoke, recent Solander-Box. The binding a little shaky. The interior in excellent, extremely clean condition. Of utmost rarity. Already in the first chapter, Haliburton uses the technique of literary fiction in order to speak about the ability to travel everywhere (in mid 19th century)….″The Grand Tour now means a voyage round the Globe…” / Haliburton, known to have been “eager to promote immigration to the colonies of British North America” tries to entice to Travel. The Chapter “An Evening in Cork” talks about the narrator to “accompany my old college friend Cary to Monkstown in Ireland…..unlike my gruff and inhospitable countrymen, I advise you, when at Cork, to remain there, till you have ‘done’ the city and its environs and then to sail down the River…”.

116. Haliday, Charles / Brendain O Riordain (introduction).

The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin. Edited with some Notice of the Author’s Life by John P.Prendergast.

Reprint of the Second Edition – Dublin, 1894. Shannon, Irish University Press, 1969. 15 cm x 24 cm. CXXIII, 300 pages. Illustrated with maps and plans. Original Hardcover. Extensive spotting on endpapers and some on pages edges and spine. Interior pages mostly clean with intact binding. Inscription by preowner. Otherwise in very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

117. Hammond Lane Ironfounders [Dublin].

Company Catalogue of “The Hammond Lane Ironfounders Ltd. – 111 Pearse Street – Dublin” – Listing: Cast Iron Cookers – Grates – Ranges – Heating Stoves – Low Fires – C.B.Fires – R.W. & Soil Goods – Manhole Covers – Gulleys – Gratings – Ventilators – C.I.Tanks – W.C.Cisterns & General Castings. [With two Birds-Eye-View-Photographs of the Ironworks in Dublin’s Pearse Street pasted to the inner boards of the binding / Shows also a very interesting image-sheet with photographs of the Fleet of Lorries and one Service-Van which delivered the Stoves anywhere in Ireland].

[Dublin, Hammond Lane Ironfounders Ltd., 1954. Large Octavo (22.5 cm wide x 28.5 cm high). 71 single sheets with fantastic, photographic illustrations of Cast Iron Aga – Style – Stoves, Fireplaces etc. Hardcover with single sheets bound in. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

118. Hammond, Bill.

Soldier of the Rearguard: The Story of Matt Flood and the Active Service Column.

Fermoy, Éigse Na Mainistreach Publications, 1977. 12 cm x 18 cm. 69 pages, 3 illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent, near mint condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare book.

119. [Hansard, Luke].

The Imperial Review ; or London and Dublin Literary Journal [From 1805 on called “The Imperial Review or London, Edinburgh and Dublin Literary Journal”].

First and only Edition. Five Volumes. London, Printed by Luke Hansard, for T.Cadell and W. Davies, in The Strand, also for J.Archer, J. Cooke (Ormond Quay); and M.N.Mahon (Grafton Street, Dublin); A. Edwards (Cork Printer); J. Barry (Limerick) and W. Magee (Belfast), 1804 – 1805. Octavo. Two Annuals (complete for the Year 1804 and 1805) of this Rare Periodical, bound in five Volumes. Year 1804: Volume the First: (January to April, 1804) XII, 654 pages including Index / Volume the Second: (May to August, 1804) VIII, 639 pages including Index / Volume the Third: (September to December, 1804) VIII, 628 pages including Index // Year 1805: Volume the Fourth [Titlepage missing] (January to June, 1805): VII, 733 pages including Index / Volume the Fifth (July to December, 1805): VII, 706 pages including Index. Original Hardcover with new spinelabels. All Volumes in collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Provenance: From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Minor browning only. Titlepage of Volume four missing, otherwise complete and the interior in excellent condition. A very rare find, this is one of the more elusive periodicals of the early 19th century, printed just after the Act of Union in 1800 was established and printed by english printer Luke Hansard for publishers and printers in London, Dublin and Cork.

120. Harrison, Henry.

Ulster and the British Empire, 1939 – Help or hindrance ? – A sequel to “Ireland and the British Empire, 1937”.

Second Impression of the first Edition. London, Robert Hale Limited, 1939. Octavo. Frontispiece map, 231 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Dustjacket slightly frayed. The Volume itself in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.