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Click here to subscribeWith Tinted Illustrated Plates Mecham (Clifford Henry) Sketches and Incidents of the Siege of Lucknow,.. with descriptive notices by George Couper. Lg. atlas folio Lond. (Day & Son) Lithographers 1858. Illus. full title, & 27 tinted illus. on 18 leaves (include. title), lacks frontis, a few tears, all foredges frayed, good clean images, orig. cloth, recent re-case & re-back. As a coll. of plts. (1)
Mitchell (Flora H.) Vanishing Dublin, 4to, D. (Allen & Figgis) 1966, First Edn., cold. plts., green cloth, d.j. (some wear); Liddy (Pat) Dublin, A Celebration, from 1st to 21st Century, folio Dublin (Vision Design) 2000, Hors. Commerce Edition, hf. calf, boards, by Antiquarian book binders, in matching slip case. (2)
Landmark in Irish Printed Literature Incunabula: O'Fihily (Maurice) Duns Scotus Joannes: O'Fihely, Maurice Abp. Questiones subtilissme Scoti in metaphysicam Aristotelis Folio Venice (Octavianus Scoti) 20th November 1497. First Edn., 131 leaves (include. the rare title page), very fine wd. cut initials thro.-out, bound in later decorated vellum binding, composed from leaves from an old antiphonary. An extraordinarily fine copy of this rarity. Sweeney 1603. Emf. (1) The above volume is a landmark in Irish Bibliography. It is in fact, the First Edition of the First Book by the First Irish Author to write for a Printing Press rather than the Scriptorium.
Incunabula: Platina (Bart.) Platynae in vitas Pontificium ... ad Sixtum IIII Pontificum Maximum, ... Folio Venice (Printed at the expense of Giovanni de Colonia by Johannes Manthem) Venice 1479. Partly illuminated title, & illuminated capitals thro-out, some leaves lacking, in v. good condition. Armorial bookplate of John Spencer Esq., marble ends, later full calf, rebacked, raised bands, gilt spine, as is. Emf. (1) * The First Edition of Platina's outspoken and pioneering Lives of the Saints. * Please note this should read Lives of Popes.
Duns Scotus: Questiones Scoti super Porphyrii necnon Aristotelis Predicamenta ac Pergamenias. Item super libros Elenchorum. Et Autonii Andree super libros Sex principiorum. Item quones Johannis Angelici super questiones universales eiusdem Scoti. Folio Venice (Filippo Pincio) 1512. Edited by Maurice O'Fehihy. Woodcut initials (Some not included) (title page, no loss of text) printers device at end, 101pp, in vellum binding composed of leaves from an old antiphonary. V. good. (1) * Commentaries by Duns Scotus on Porphyry and Aristotle, with critiques by A. Andreas and Joannes Angelicus.
William III: Leti (Gregorio) Il Prodigio della Natura, e della Gratia, Poema Heroestorico, Sopra la miracolosa Intrapressa d'Inghilterra, del Real Prencipe d'Orange. Hora Monarca della Graude Brettagna, Nel fine dell Anno 1688, di Gregorio Leti, Dedicato alla stessa Real Maesta. Sm. folio Amsterdam 1695. Red & black title, full page engraved port., lacks plts. Orig. embossed full vellum. Good. (1)
Thomas Matthew Ray's Copy [Daniel O'Connell] Tradesmen of Dublin: Combination of Tradesmen, Meetings in Dec. 1837, Jan. & Feb. 1838, A folio Album containing Press Newscuttings of the different meetings held in Dublin, identified in manuscript at top of each page, approx. 62pps. Orig. marble boards, rebacked, & new mor. spines. As an Album, Rare. (1) * T.M. Ray's copy, inscribed on front cover, 'T.M. Ray, Richmond Bridewell, 1844'.
Illustrated by L. le Brocquy Kinsella (Thomas) The Tain, folio Dublin 1969. Dolmen Edition IX. First Edn., bl. & white illus. thro.-out, orig. black buckram, & pict. d.w., & slipcase. V. good; also T.C.D. - Henry (Francois)ed. The Book of Kells, folio Lond. (Thames & Hudson) 1974. First Thus, fine cold. plts. & cloth d.w. (2)
Anon: Korea and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, with Korean, Japanese, and Israelitish Illustrations. Dedicated to Great Britain, America, Germany, France and the other Teutonic Nations of Europe... and to the Jews or Judah, who are with them, also to China, Japan and Korea. Oblong sm. folio Published for the Author Partly at C. Levy and the Sei Shi Bunsha Co. Yokohama and Engraved in Tokyo 1879. First Edn., [5], 23pp, 23 engd. plts., orig. decor. silk brocade. V. good. Ex. Scarce.(1)
Maps & Plans: Burgoyne (J.F.), Griffith (R.) & Jones (Harry D.) The Commissioners Appointed ... for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Shannon, Folio Dublin (Alex Thom) 1837. Second Report. 75 engd. lg. fold. maps & plans, some hand cold. in outline, orig. cloth backed boards, ptd. paper label. As maps, w.a.f. (1)
With Contemporary Manuscript Poem [Duns Scotus] Secundus scripti Oxoniensis Doctoris Subtilis fratris Joannis Duns Scoti ordinis Minorum super Sententias. Titulus conueniens scripto & scriptori Mauritio iuentore, Folio Venice (by Simon de Luere for Andreas Torresanus de Asula) 1506, with wd. cut device of A. Torresanus, a Tower on end leaf, 149pp [1-96 [2] 97 - 149]; With a 28 line manuscript Poem by Paulus Ranadldus, in honour of the 'Subtle doctor' (Scotus); and continuing with Tortius script Oxoniensis .. (as above) 113pp [1-72 [2] 73-113], with manuscript commentary on margins, a few wd.-cut illus, in cont. vellum backed boards, detached, text v. good., w.a.f. (1)
Avrei (Greg. Pomi) Jeannis Duns Scoti Philosophi Subtilissimi, Theologique profundissime, & Seraphicae Religionis splendidissimi iubaris. Scriptum Oxoniense, In Primum Sententiarum Librum. Opera, et Labore Admodum... Folio Venice (B. Juntam, Jo. Baptistam Ciottum, & Socios) 1612. Red & bl. title, with wd. cut vignette, some damp stains, cont. full vellum. Emf. (1)
With Attractive Hand Coloured Plates McLean (Thos.) Publisher. The Military Costume of Turkey, Folio Lond.(Howell & Brimmer) 1818. First Edition, Hf. title, hd. cold. frontis port. & hd. cold. title plus 30 full page hand cold. plts., a.e.g., orig. full straight grained crimson mor., lg. gilt and blind tooled borders. V. good copy. (1)
With Attractive Hand-Coloured Plates Miller (William) Publisher. The Costume of Turkey, Illustrated by a Series of Engravings; With Descriptions in English and French. Lg. folio Lond.(T. Bensley) 1802. First Edn., hd. cold. stipple vignette on title, & 60 hand coloured plates, some offsetting, a.e.g., orig. full straight grained crimson mor., lg. gilt and blind tooled borders. Good clean copy. (1)
With Attractive Hand-Coloured Plates Miller (William) Publisher. The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria, Intro. & descriptions by A.F. Bertrand de Moleville. Lg. folio Lond. (Wm. Bulmer & Co.) 1804. First Edn., 2 titles, & 50 hand coloured aquatint plates, some offsetting, a.e.g., orig. strait grained crimson mor., gilt & blind tooled borders, a few scuffs, but good. (1)
With 73 Attractive Hand-Coloured Plates Miller (William) Publisher. The Costume of the Russian Empire, Description in English and French, Lg. folio London (S. Gosnell) 1803. First Edn., two titles & 73 hand coloured aquatint plates, clean copy, a.e.g., orig. straight-grained crimson mor., gilt & blind tooled borders. V. good copy. (1)
With 60 Attractive Hand-Coloured Plates Pyne (W.H.) The Costume of Great Britain, Lg. folio London (Wm. Miller) 1808. First Edition. Hf. title, with hand coloured vignette title, & 60 hand coloured aquatint plates, some off-setting, but v. clean plts., a.e.g., original strait grained crimson mor., gilt & blind tooled borders, some rubbing. Good. (1)
With 82 Attractive Hand-Coloured Plates Mason (Geo. Henry) The Costume of China, Illustrated with Sixty Engravings, With Explanations in English and French. Lg. folio London (for W. Miller) 1800. First Edn., titles in English & French, & 60 hand coloured aquatint plates some off-setting; also The Punishments of China, lg. folio Lond. (for Wm. Miller) 1808. First Edn., titles in English & French & 22 fine hand coloured aquatint plts. Both with a.e.g. & in matching straight grained crimson mor., gilt & blind tooled borders. Both v. good. (2)
Ferguson (Samuel) The Cromlech on Howth, A Poem. With Illuminations From the Books of Kells and of Durrow. Folio Lond. (Day & Co.) [1864]. Sole Edn., with printed red & bl. title, & litho title, & 7 full page coloured illustrations, & colour printed text thro. out, a.e.g. cont. full green cloth, the front cover profusely gilt with Celtic decorations. V. good copy. (1)
Illustrated with Original Photographs Dunraven (Edwin, Third Earl of,) Notes on Irish Architecture, 2 vols. large folio London 1875. First & Only Edition, both vols. containing 141 orig. photographic illustrations, some mounts spotted, recent rebind in attractive full vellum, lg. blind tooled borders., raised bands, mor. labels. V. fine set. Ex. Scarce. (2)
Galway Election: Report of the Commissioners Appointed to investigate the Existence of Corrupt Practices in ... The County and Town of Galway, with the Minutes of Evidence, Folio Lond. 1857, also Copy of Minutes of the Evidence taken at The Trial of the Galway County Election Petition (1872), Folio Lond. 1872, both hf. mor. Emf. (2)
With Approx. 385 Wood-Cut Illustrations, 1650 Jonston (John) Historiae Naturalis, - De Quadrupetibus - De Audibus, - De Picibus et Cetis - De Exanguibus Aquaticis, - de Insectis - de Serpentibus, Libri Duo. Lg. thick folio Francofurti ad Moenum (Haeredium Math. Meriani) 1650-1653. engd. titles, and two with wd. cut vignettes, 80, 62, 47, 20, 29 & 13 engd. plts. in the 6 works, together 251 full page plts., a few small straight tears, some finger marks or other stains, text plts. generally clean, first engd. title loose. (1)
Folio Edition Clanricarde - The Memoirs and Letters of Ulick, Marquis of Clanricarde and Earl of Saint Albans; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,... Governor of the County and Town of Galway... V. lg. folio Lond. (J. Hughs) 1757 cont. full calf, raised bands, mor. label, joints cracked. Scarce. (1)
[Walsh (Wendy)] Wendy Walsh - A Lifetime of Painting, folio D. (Strawberry Tree) 2007, illus., cloth and d.j.; Nelson (E.C.) & McCracken (E.M.) The Brightest Jewel, 4to, Kilkenny (Boethius Press) 1987, First Edn., illus., cloth; Butler (P.) Irish Botanical Illustrators & Flower Painters, folio, Suffolk (A.C.C.) 2000, illus., cloth &d.j.; Nelson (E.C.) & Walsh (W.) The Burren, 8vo, Kilkenny (Boethius Press) 1991, illus. ptd. wrappers, as a lot, w.a.f. (4)
Co. Donegal: County Applotment of the Barony of Boylagh, [Districts of Inishkeel and Killybegs]; Barony of Banagh, [District of Glencolmkille]; North Half-Barony of Raphoe, [District of All Saints], 3 vols. folio Londonderry (David Irvine) 1890. Uniform cloth backed blue wrappers, with ptd. labels. (3)
Illustrated & Children's Books: Dahl (Roald) The Witches, illus. by Quentin Blake, roy 8vo Lond. 1983. First Edn., pict. d.w.; Greenaway (Kate) An Apple Pie, oblong, Lond. n.d. cold. plts., lacks loose ends, cold. boards; Gibson (C.D.) Eighty Drawings including the Weaker Sex, lg. oblong folio Lond. 1903, illus. thro.-out, boards; Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass, lg. folio N.Y. (Doubleday, Doran & Co.) 1940. Cold. & other illus., cloth. (as a lot). (4)
[O'Fehily (Maurice)] Commentaria doctoris subtilis Joannis Scoti in XII libros metaphysicae Aris[totelis]. Emendata et quattationibus atque annotationibus decorate per fratrem Mauricium Hibernicum, Commentary of John Scotus on the 12 books of Aristotle's Metaphysics, corrected by O'Felily. Folio Venice (By Ottaviano Scoto by Boneto Locatello) 1507, cont. m/ss inscriptions on title page, woodcut initials, sm. engraved vignette of saint on page 1, woodcut initials, some wd. cut diagrams in text, device of Ottaviano Scoto on end leaf, 162 leaves, some mis-pagination. In later decorated board. V. good copy. (1)
Early Printing: P. Virgilii Maronis Opera, Mauri Seruii Honarati grammatici in eadem Commentarii.. Bound with, Castigationes & Varietates Virgilianae Lectionis, per Joannem Pierium Valerianum. Folio Paris (Robert Stephani) 1532. title page with device, with fine woodcut initials, text within ruled red lined borders, some damp dam. in top rt. corner of t.p., the second portion with full page wd. cut title, generally good and later calf rebacked with tooled gilt spine laid down. (1)
Incunabula: Expositio Ugonis Senesis super aphorismos Hypocratis [et] super comentum Galieni eius interpretis, Folio Venice (... per Bonetum Locatellum Bergomensem) 1498. Title repaired with patch (no loss of type) 157 leaves (ex 159) some mis-pagination; Bound with another sim. item, (Defective) wd. cut initials thro.-out, some hand coloured, later hf. vellum. S.N.S.R. (1)
Early Printing:Quin Horatii Flacci Poetae Venusini Opera Poemata cum Ratione carnunum,... necon Jodoco Badio Ascensio, viris eruditissimis. Folio Venice (Venturinum Rossinellum) 1546, title with printers device, dam., & repaired, some wd.-cut vignettes in text, wd.-cut initials, some damp stains & finger marks, 19th Cent. mor. backed marble boards. (1)
Probably A Unique Collection Roman State: Circulari i Documenti sur Gorverno delle Communitadello Stato Ecclesiastico, Folio 1709-1771. A miscellaneous collection of circulars, orders, edicts, notifications, instructions, schedules and letters, many folded broadsides, printed in colour etc., mostly printed but some in manuscript, approx. 69 items, with cont. manuscript index at front, between 1709 and 1771, but more unlisted down to 1781. Bound in early 19th Century hf. vellum. V. good condition. A unique collection. As a coll., w.a.f. Emf. (1)
[Bede (Venerable)] Ecclesiastica Historia gentis Anglorum Venerabilis Bede, Prolongus Rufini ... ad Cromacium Episcopum, Folio Hagenau (Heinrich Gran, at the expense of Johann Rynmann) 1506. Rubricated initial letters omitted, m/ss inscription on title page, text good, later calf backed boards, spine dam. (1)
A Delightful Copy Hand-Coloured Plates: Shaw (Henry) Dresses and Decoration of The Middle Ages, 2 vols. sm. folio London (Wm. Pickering) 1843. First Edn., titles printed in red and black, hand cold. title Vol. I, & 94 hd. cold. plates & text with hand coloured woodcuts & initials in text, in fine hf. crimson mor. profusely gilt spine, in panels, raised bands, by Arthur S. Colley, Bookbinder. V. good copy. (2)
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