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Bindings:  Carleton(Wm.) Traits and Stories of The Irish Peasantry, 2 vols. Lond. 1868. Engd. plts. after Phiz MacManus etc., hf. titles, attracti...

Shaw (Bernard) The Plays of Bernard Shaw, 12 vols. sm. 8vo Lond. (Constable & Co.) 1929. All top edge gilt, orig. dark blue mor. tooled gilt spine...

Rare Cork Printing King (William) Archbishop of Dublin The State of the Protestants of Ireland Under the late King James's Government, 8vo Cork (P...

Presentation Copy Conran (M.) The National Music of Ireland containing The History of the Irish Bards, The National Melodies, The Harp and other M...

[McCollum (Rev. Randall)] Sketches of the Highlands of Cavan and of Shirley Castle in Farney, taken during the Irish Famine, 8vo Belfast (J. Reed)...

Wicklow interest:  O'Toole (John) The O'Tooles, Anciently Lords of Powerscourt (Feracualan), Fertire and Imale, With Some Notices of Feagh MacHugh...

Illustrations of Lord Rosse's Telescope Astronomy: Mitchel (O.M.) The Planetary and Stellar Worlds, 8vo Lond. n.d. Frontis & 15 plts.; with a late...

Scarce Irish Author [Rochfort (Luke)] The Genealogie of Protestants, or, A Briefe Discoverie of the first authors, founders and parents of their ...

Lommel (Dr. Eugene) The Nature of Light with a General Account of Physical Optics, Lond. 1875, First Edn., lacks frontis; Scott (R.H.) Weather Cha...

Helmholtz (H.) Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects,... With An Introduction by Professor Tyndall. 8vo Lond. 1873. First English Edn., hf. titl...

Liebig (Justus) M.R.I.A. Chemistry in its Application to Agriculture and Physiology, 8vo Lond. 1842. Second Edn., ed. by Lyon Playfair, 10pp adver...

Fraser (James) The History of Nadir Shah, Formerly called Thomas Kuli Khan, The Present Emperor of Persia. 8vo Lond. (W. Strahan for The Author) 1...

With Original Photographic Illustrations Astronomy: Smyth (C. Piazzi) Tenerife, An Astronomer's Experiment, or, Specialities of a Residence above ...

Astronomy:  Doig (Mary) Stories about Stars and Star-Gazers, 8vo Lond. 1856. First Edn., frontis, 6 blue plts., & text illus. plus illus. initials...

Travel:  Roney (Sir Cusack P.) How to Spend a Month in Ireland, 8vo L. & D. 1866. First Edn., Fold. map frontis, full page & other illus. adverts....

Wakefield (Priscilla) The Juvenile Travellers; Containing the Remarks of a Family during A Tour through .. Europe, 12mo Lond. (Darton & Harvey) 18...

[Walford (T.)] The Scientific Tourist through Ireland, .. By An Irish Gentleman. Sm. 8vo Lond. (for John Booth) 1818. First Edn., engd. frontis, e...

Baudier (Michael, of Languedoc), The History of the Administration of Cardinal Ximenes, Great Minister of State in Spain, Translated into English ...

Doyle (Martin) Irish Cottagers, 12mo Dublin 1830. First Edn., hf. title, adverts at end, cloth; also, An Address to the Landlords of Ireland, on s...

Temple (Sir John) The Irish Rebellion: or, A History of The Beginnings and First Progress of the Great Rebellion raised within... Ireland .. in th...

[Stevens (John)] Monasticon Hibernicum, or, The Monastical History of Ireland 8vo Lond. (Wm. Mears) 1722. First Edn., Fold. map frontis red & bl. ...

Illustrations by Jack B. Yeats Synge (John M.) In Wicklow, West Kerry, and Connemara, 8vo Dublin (Maunsel & Co.) 1911. First Edn., hf. title, 8 fu...

Co. Tipperary:  Maher (James)ed. Romantic Slievenamon in History, Folklore and Song, A Tipperary Anthology, 8vo Mullinahone 1954, First Edn., illu...

Attractive Hand-Coloured Plates de la Tour (Mme. Charlotte) Le Langage Des Fleurs, sm. 8vo Paris 1858. Hand-cold. frontis & 11 hd. cold. plts., i...

County Galway Author Americana:  Bodkin (M. Mc D.) A Trip through the States and a Talk with the President, 8vo Dublin 1907. First Edn., Frontis &...

American Declaration of Independence [Burke (Edmund)] & others, editors, The Annual Register or a View of the History, Politics and Literature for...

Owenson (Miss) The Lay of an Irish Harp; or Metrical Fragments, 8vo L. (Richard Phillips) 1807, First Edn., engd. vignette t.p., dedit, hf. calf, ...

[Hutchinson (Francis)] Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, A Defence of the Antient Historians..., 8vo D. (S. Powell) 1734, First Edn., contemporary f...

Signed Limited Edition Huxley (Aldous) Brave New World, A Novel. Roy 8vo Lond. (Chatto & Windus) 1932. Lim. Edn. No. 228 of 324 Copies, Signed by ...

Famous Irish Writer & Traveller Presentation Copy Fitzgerald (Wm. Walter Augustine) Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islan...

Inscribed Presentation Copy Bellew (H.W.) Kashmir and Kashghar, A Narrative of The Journey of the Embassy to Kashghar in 1873-74,8vo London 1875. ...

Co. Tipperary, Author & Traveller: Deasy (Capt. H.H.P.) In Tibet and Chinese Turkestan Being the Record of Three Years Exploration, 8vo London 190...

Irish Travel: Forbes (Sir John) Memorandums of a Tour in Ireland, 2 vols. in one, 8vo Lond. 1853. First Edn., 2 litho frontis & 2 other litho plts...

Young (Arthur) A Tour in Ireland: with General Observations on the Present State of that Kingdom. Made in... 1776, 1777, and 1778 and brought down...

Doyle (Martin) Notes and Gleanings Relating to the County of Wexford, in its Past and Present Conditions, 8vo Dublin 1868. First Edn., lg. fold. h...

Doyle (Martin) A Cyclopaedia of Practical Husbandry and Rural Affairs in General, 8vo Lond. 1844. New Edn., hf. title, text illus. orig. cloth, go...

Comerford (Rev. M.) Collections Relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and Leighlin, 3 vols. Dublin (James Duffy & Co.) n.d. [1883] First Edn., engd....

[Wilde (Oscar)] The Ballad of Reading Gaol by C. 33, [Oscar Wilde], roy 8vo Lond. (Leonard Smithers) 1899. First Edn., with author's name. Hf. tit...

Astronomy: Airy (Geo. Biddell) Six Lectures on Astronomy, delivered at ..Ipswich. 8vo Lond. [1849] First Edn., 7 fold. plts. orig. crimson cloth, ...

Brewster (Sir D.) Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, 2 vols. 8vo Edin. 1855. First Edn., 2 hf. titles, 2 engd. por...

Tobacco: Fowler (Thos.) Medical Reports on the Effects of Tobacco, Principally with Regard to its Diuretic Quality, in the Cure of Dropsies and Dy...

Presentation Copy Lloyd (Rev. Humphrey) Lectures on the Wave-Theory of Light, 8vo Dublin 1841. First Edn., 2 fold. plts., orig. cloth, paper label...

MacNamara (N.C.) The Story of an Irish Sept, Their Character & Struggle to maintain their Lands in Clare, 8vo Lond. 1896. First Edn., hf. title, p...

Lowell (Percival) Mars, 8vo Boston & New York (Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 'Riverside Press,') 1895. Rare First Edn., Cold. frontis & 23 other plts. (...

Wallace (Alfred Russel) Is Mars Habitable? A Critical Examination of Prof. Percival Lowell's Book 'Mars and its Canals, with An Alternative Explan...

Holley (Alex L.) A Treatise on Ordnance and Armor, thick 8vo New York (D. van Nostrand) 1865. First Edn., hf. title, full page & text illus. thro....

Stevenson (Rob. Louis) St. Ives Being The Adventures of A French Prisoner in England, 8vo Lond. (Heinmann) 1898. First Edn., Advert leaf & hf. tit...

The Great Famine: Quakers: Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends During The Famine in Ireland, in 1846 and 1847, ...

Bindings:  Austen - The Novels of Jane Austen, 12 vols. 8vo Edin. (John Grant) 1911. Winchester Edition. The final two volumes, of this set are fr...

Astronomy:  Smyth (Capt. Wm. H.) A Cycle of Celestial Objects, For the Use of Naval, Military and Private Astronomers. Vol. I 'Prolegomena,' Vol. ...

Gill (Capt. Wm.) The River of Golden Sand, The Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah. 2 vols. Lond. 1880. First Edn., 2...

Du Chaillu (Paul B.) The Land of the Midnight Sun.. Journeys through Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and Northern Finland, 2 vols. Lond. 1888. Fourth Edn...

Co. Offaly: Crotty (Rev. M.) A Narrative of the Reformation at Birr, in the King's County, Ireland, 8vo, L. (T. Hatchard) 1850, Second Edn., hf. t...

Marmion (Anthony) The Ancient and Modern History of the Maritime Ports of Ireland, 8vo Lond. 1855. First Edn., errata leaf at end, orig. cloth. Go...

With Hand-Coloured Plates  Hewitson (Wm. C.) British Oology; Being Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds, 2 vols. 8vo Newcastle-upon-Tyne, n....

Laufer (Berthold) Sino - Iranica, Chinese Contributions to the History and Civilization of Ancient Iran. Roy 8vo Chicago 1919. [The Blackstone Exp...

Stein (M. Aurel) Ruins of Desert Cathay, Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China, 2 vols. roy 8vo Lond. 1912. Fir...

Willcocks (Sir Wm.) The Nile Reservoir Dam at Assuan and After, roy 8vo Lond. 1903. Second Edn., hf. title, lg. fold. frontis, 12 fold. plts., err...

Pool (Robert) & Cash (John) Views of the Most Remarkable Public Buildings, Monuments and other Edifices in the City of Dublin,  4to Dublin (.. for...

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