21. [Whyte’s School Dublin] / [Whyte, Samuel] / [Sheridan, Thomas].

Modern Education; or, An Attempt to Explain the Chief Causes and Effects of our Errours and Deficiencies in that Particular. With Practical Proposals for a Reformation. In the Course of which The Female Right to Literature is asserted ; The Supercilious Airs of Vain Pedants Exposed ; Their Wise Objections Exploded ; And the Trite Witticisms, Usual on the Question, Fairly Stated and Confuted : Clearly Demonstrating, That the Weakness and Depravity imputed to the Fair Sex, is wholly owing to our utter Neglect of their Minds ; and that the proper Cultivation of them is the First and Grand Principle of all Human Excellence, as well as of all our social and domestic Felicity. [Bound with: “Lectures On The Art of Reading ; First Part: Containing The Art of Reading Prose. By Thomas Sheridan, A.M., Author of Lectures on Elocution, British Education, &c.”].

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by R.Marchbank, Cole’s Alley, Castle-Street, 1775. Small-Octavo (11.2 cm wide x 17.2 cm high). Pagination: Whyte’s “Modern Education…” is bound to the rear of the Volume: 77 pages plus “Corrigenda” (complete” / Sheridan’s “Lecture on the Art of Reading – Part I” is bound at the start of the Volume: vii, (1), 213 pages plus 1 page “Advertisement” [of Whyte’s “English Grammar-School” in Dublin, Grafton-Street, No.75”]. Hardcover / Original, full 18th century leather with gilt ornament and new spine-label in the style of the 18th century. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely scarce title !

22. James, John.

The Mother’s Help – Towards Instructing her Children in the Excellencies of the Catechism, and of the Services appointed by the Church of England. For the More Special Occasions which mark Christian Life.

London, Printed for J.G.F. & J. Rivington, 1842. Octavo (12.2 cm wide x 19.3 cm high). XI, 533, [1] pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s half cloth with new spine-label in the style of the 19th century. The binding is in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle). With a giftinscription: “Louisa S. Meade from R H M – 1866”.

23. [Telemaque] Fenelon, François de Salginac de la Mothe.

Les Aventures de Telémaque, fils d’Ulysse. Avec un petit Dictionnaire Mythologique & Geographique : Nouvelle Edition. Revue exactement sur toutes les precedentes, corrigee avec soin, et Enrichie de Figures en taille-douce. [With 11 engravings and a larger fold-out-map: “Carte des Voyages de Telemaque”].

A Londres [London], Chez Nourse & Vaillant, 1756. Octavo (10.8 cm wide x 18 cm high). Pagination: Frontispiece, XXXII, 386 pages plus 22 unnumbered pages of a Dictionary for Mythology and Geography to the rear of the volume. With ten engravings plus one folded map throughout the Volume [resulting in 11 engravings including Frontispiece plus Map]. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering on spine-label. Edges of bookblock and binding slightly rubbed. Overall in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. Few dogears. Front free endpaper partially torn, name of pre-owner, Reverend Richard Meade, verso the frontispiece. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate loosely inserted.

24. Nove, Alec [Alexander] [Born Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky].

Collection of First Editions (including one signed Pamphlet) by Alexander [Alec] Nove, Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow and a noted authority on Russian and Soviet Economic History. The rare Pamphlets and Publications by Alec Nove came to us together with a small archive of Communist and Soviet Economic and Educational Material (″How Communists Educate Children”) and used to belong to a member and local educator of the British Branch of the Communist Party. See full list of the Communist Material below and find a list of the Alec Nove-Material here: 1. Alec Nove – “The Soviet Village in Press and Literature” [Rare original offprint from “St.Anthony Papers on Soviet Afairs” (Estratto dalla Rivista “Occidente” – Anno XII – 1 – 1956)] / 2. Alec Nove – “Communist Economic Strategy: Soviet Growth and Capabilities” [SIGNED by Alec Nove] (1959) / 3. Alec Nove – “The Politics Of Economic Rationality – Observations on the Soviet Economy” [1958] / 4. Alec Nove – “Collectivization of Agriculture in Russia and China” (Original, rare “Preprint” in 1961) / 5. Alec Nove – “The Soviet Economy” [Heavily annotated] (1961) //.

c. 1956-1970. Octavo. Hardcover / Pamphlets and Softover publications. Most of the publications in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some publications with stronger signs of wear or annotations or markings. A very interesting collection on Soviet Economy, Planing and Educational Material on Communist Ideology.

25. Greer, Germaine.

Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility. [SIGNED / INSCRIBED]

New York, Harper & Row, 1984. 23.6cm x 16.3cm. 541 pages. Original hardcover in original illustrated dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed by Germaine Greer to the translator, Bill Weaver: “For Bill, with Love – Germaine Greer”.

26. White, Morton.

Academic Freedom Logic, and Religion. [Including the important essay by George Boas & Sidney Hook: “The Ethics of Academic Freedom”].

Volume Two. Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953. 21.2cm x 14cm. 161 (2) pages. Original hardcover. Gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

27. [Commissioners of National Education in Ireland].

Seventh Report of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland for the Year 1840. To His Excellency Hugh Earl Fortescue, Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland.

1840. 21.7cm x 13.2cm. 38 pages. Softcover / Cover missing. Pages loosened.

28. Wright, Rev. Charles H.H.

The Irish University Question and the Proposed Endowment of a Roman Catholic University Considered.

Second Edition. London / Dublin, Williams and Norgate/ Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1901. 21.4cm x 14cm. 36 (2) pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

29. Carter, Emmett G.

The Catholic Public Schools of Quebec.

Toronto / Montreal, W.J. Gage Limited, 1957. 15.5 x 23.5cm. (13), 128 pages. Original hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.