[Gill, William Daniel (W.D.) / Naylor, David (Dave).

Collection of Printed Materials / Offprints / Publications / Papers, Essays by english geologist, William Daniel Gill (1916 – 1922). This extensive collection of materials, authored by this eminent geologist, was part of the Reference-library of his colleague David (Dave) Naylor. You find a detailed account of the publications at the end of this description. The collection also includes the original offprint of his landmark-publication “Sand Volcanoes on Slumps in the Carboniferous of County Clare, Ireland”, which he authored together with P.H.Kuehnen in 1957.

England / Ireland, c.1950 – 1990. Octavo / Quarto. Hardcover Box / Bespoke made Box, labelled “General Gill” , for the private library of Prof.David (Dave) Naylor. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Ayearst, Morley.

The Republic of Ireland – Its Government and Politics – Collection of 215 books on Irish Politics, Irish Government, Irish local planning and Local government, Irelands connection to the EU, History of Irish Elections, books on Governmental policy (general and irish related), books on the history of Ireland’s connection to the UK etc. Also included are several publications on the history of the irish political parties. The comprehensive collection comes from the library of a former council man and university lecturer and includes many of the minor and major publications needed to understand the forming of the irish state from 1940 onwards. The collection includes publications like: 1. John McG. Smyth – The Theory and Practice of the Irish Senate / 2. John Coakley and Michael Gallagher – Politics in the Republic of Ireland / 3. Desmond Roche – Local Government in Ireland / 4. Patrick Keatinge – Maastricht and Ireland – What the Treaty means / 5. Stephen Collins – The Power Game – Fianna Fail since Lemass / 6. Cornelius O’Leary – Irish Elections (1918 – 1977) – Parties, Voters and Proportional Representation / 7. Bruce Arnold – What Kind of Country – Modern Irish Politics 1968-1983 / 8. Michael Flannery – Sanitation – Conservation and Recreation Services in Ireland / 9. Peter Mair – The Changing Irish Party System / 10. R.C.Geary – and F.S.O Muircheartaigh – Equalization of Opportunity in Ireland – Statistical Aspects / 11. Mary Minihan – A Deal with the Devil – The Green Party in Government / 12. Donal de Buitleir – Problems of Irish Local Finance / 13. Communications and Community in Ireland (Brian Farrell) / etc. etc.

London, University of London Press, 1971. 24 cm. vii,241 pages with 8 plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The collection of 215 books (of which only c.60 are listed here) is in very good condition (only a few volumes with stronger wear).

Pugilism (Boxing) – Baert-Duholant, Charles-Alexandre-Balthazar-François de Paule baron de / Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage.

Tableau de la Grande-Bretagne, De L’Irlande et des Possessions Angloises dans les quatre parties du Monde. [Large Paper Copy / Better Paper Copy / Exemplaire de Luxe] [With five (5) large, folded Maps by Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage: Large, oblong folded Map/Plan of Gibraltar / England / Scotland / Ireland / India] / [With four (4) stunning copper-engravings: Grotte de Fingal, Chaussée des Géants / Plan et vue de Gibraltar / Combat de Boxe (Pugilists)] / [With two (2) portraits: 1.Portrait of William Pitt (after William Owen) and 2. Portrait of Charles Jacques Fox (after Karl Anton Hickel)].

Four Volumes (complete set). Paris, Chez H.J.Jansen, L’An 8me [1800]. Octavo (21.5 cm x 14 cm). Collation: Volume I: (8), 459, (1), 11 pages with Eleven (11) copper-engravings of which are: 5 Maps / Plans and 4 Engravings: The folded view of Fingals Cave (″Grotte de Fingal dans l’Ile de Staffa” – (20.5 cm x 31.5 cm) / “Folded Plate of the Giants Causeway (″Vue occidentale de la Chaussee des Geans et des Caps voisins” (20.5 cm x 39 cm)) / Fantastic, large Map/Plan of Gibraltar by Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage, with a Birds-Eye-View of the Ville de Gibraltar (20.5 cm x 65.5 cm) [also showing the Ville Irlandaise on Gibraltar] / Scenic View of Gibraltar (″Vue de Gibraltar, prise du cote de l’Espagne” (20.5 cm x 33 cm) / Large Fold-Out-Map of England by Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage with an Inset-View of Stonehenge (47 cm x 51 cm) / Large Fold-Out-Map of Scotland by Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage, including the Western Isles and Shetland, with a stunning Inset-View of the irish pilgrimage-mountain Croagh Patrick [Craig-Phadrick] in Westport, Ireland (37 cm x 50 cm)/ Large Fold-Out-Map of Ireland with an Inset-View of the Lakes of Killarney (39 cm x 44.5 cm) / Volume II: 532, (1), 12 pages with Large Fold-Out-Map of India (″Possessions Anglaises”) by Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage – the large India-Map showing areas as far as Tibet, Siam, Sumatra and the Andaman Islands, Ceylon, Burma (48 cm x 43 cm) / Volume III: 502, 48, (2) pages with two portraits: Guillaume Pitt [William Pitt] & Charles Jacques Fox (each 20.5 cm x 12.5 cm)/ Volume IV: 486, 22, (2) pages with the very famous Fold-out-Illustration of Pugilists / Boxers at Odiham in Hampshire [″Combats de Boxers a Odiham”] showing a boxing-match between Humphrey and Mendoza (32 cm x 20.5 cm). Hardcover / Original, very decorative original half leather bindings with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Volume One professionally rebacked by an english master bookbinder. All four Volumes in protective Collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of François-Xavier de Valenzi with his bookplate / exlibris to the pastedowns of each Volume. Maps in this de Luxe Edition are all considerably larger than in the normal-paper-edition and all the maps and illustrations are in superb condition. An underestimated collectable.

Illustration of 19th century Fishery and Nets – Brabazon, Wallop [Rath House, Drogheda] / Cooper, William / [Provenance: William Le Fanu]

The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland, with suggestions for the working of a Fishing Company. Illustrated by William Cooper. Dedicated by Permission to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland. [With 21 Plates]

Original First Edition. Dublin / London / Derby, James McGlashan / Simpkin, Marshall & Co. / Richardson and Sons, 1848. Octavo. Folded Frontispiece, X, 111 pages with 21 plates (original Lithographs often large folding). Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth, embossed with gilt lettering to cover. Excellent condition of one of the rarest books on the History of irish commercial fishing and suggestions for professionalizing irish fishing industry in the 19th century. This book comes from the library of irish engineer William Le Fanu, with his bookplate to the pastedown and a stamp “Board of Public Works” to the dedication-page. The books interior with all the lithographic illustrations in very good condition. Occasional foxing only. Extremely rare; very scarce publication ! This is a superior example of this book; with all illustrations in place and in excellent condition.

Ireland – Lotter, Tobias Conrad. (1717 – 1777).

Regnum Hiberniae, tam secundum IV Provincias Principales Ultoniam, Connaciam, Lageniam, Momoniam.

Original hand-coloured copper engraving. Augsburg, Lotter, [c.1760]. Plate Size: 49.5 cm x 57.2 cm. Sheet Size: 55.7 cm x 64.5 cm. Original map. In very good condition with only the faintest traces of browning and paper defects to outer margins.

[Wilson, Peter / Martin, Benjamin].

The Universal Gazetteer [Very Rare Dublin Edition] : or a Description of the several Empires, Kingdoms, States, Provinces, Countries, Cities, Towns, Seas, Lakes, Rivers, Mountains, Volcanos &c. in the Known World. Together with an Account of The Extent, produce, Revenue, Forces, Trade, Manufacturer, Religions &c. of the several Countries and of the Battles, Sieges and other Transactions that have sendered them remarkable. To which is prefixed a copious Introduction to Geography. The whole calculated to explain the Occurences in Modern History. Illustrated with four large and accurate Maps of Europe, Asia, Africa and America (only the Map of Asia is present: “New & Correct Map of Asia – Drawn from the latest and best Authorities by J. Gibson”). The Second Edition, in which several necessary Corrections and Material Additions have been made; the Geography of Ireland has been revised and enlarged; about four hundred entire new Articles have been added, chiefly relative to North America and Ireland, none of which are contained in the London Impression, and comprising in the whole, many thousand Places more than any other Gazzetteer; Whereby it is rendered the largest, cheapest, and most compleat Work of the Kind extant.

Dublin, Printed for Peter Wilson in Dame-Street, 1759. Small Octavo. XXXVIII, (1), 512 unnumbered pages (collation complete) with only the folded Map on Asia present and the other three maps missing. Including 6 pages of “Books, printed for and sold by Peter Wilson, in Dame-Street”. Original Hardcover (full calf on five raised bands with original spinelabel intact). Half a page in chapter “M” torn out. Faint dampstain throughout. Otherwise in very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped on the corners but absolutely firm and tight. Minor traces of foxing and staining only. Name of preowner in 17th or 18th century ink on endpaper: “Daniel Eugene MacNamara”. Very rare Dublin Edition of this publication with a full-page recommendation of the famous Lexicographer Benjamin Martin.

[Connemara] Anonymus [Bowden-Smith, Richard].

Fly Fishing in Salt & Fresh Water. With Six Plates, representing artificial Flies, etc. [Handcoloured]. [With a special chapter on Flyfishing in Connemara – Fly-Fishing Lough Ina, near Clifden, in Bertraghboy Bay, at the Skyard Rocks, at Deer Island and off the Isle of Mweenish and the Isle of Arran].

First and only edition. London, John van Voorst, 1851. Octavo. VIII, 74, (1) pages plus VI plates (including the frontispiece) of which V plates are beautifully handcoloured. Hardcover / Original publisher’s blindstamped cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With some fraying to two pages. Unbelievably rare edition with the excellent handcoloured plates in fresh colours and overall excellent condition.

Hutchinson, Walter.

Hutchinson’s Britain Beautiful.

Three Volumes. London, Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, No Year [1924]. 20.9 cm x 27.3 cm. Pagination: Volume I: 624 pages / Volume II: 1176 pages / Volume III: 1696 pages. About 2,000 beautiful illustrations in each volume, mainly in 2 colours. Numerous coloured plates and maps in each volume also. Original Hardcovers in protective collector’s Mylar. Bound in Green cloth with extensive gilt decoration and titles to front and spine. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing to edges, pastedowns and endpapers of each volume and to the ocassional page throughout. Corners slightly rubbed. Binding in excellent condition. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

Tryal of Connor Lord MacGuir – Temple, John / Tichborne, Sir Henry.

The History of the General Rebellion in Ireland raised upon the Three and Twentieth day of October 1641. Together with the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres which ensued thereupon. To which is added, Sir Henry Tichborne’s History of the Siege of Drogheda, in the Year 1641. As also, The whole Tryal of Connor Lord MacGuir, with the perfect Copies of the Indictment, and all the Evidences against him. Together with the Pope’s Bull to the Confederate Catholicks in Ireland.

The Seventh Edition. Cork, Phineas and George Bagnell, 1766. 14 cm x 21 cm. xxiv, [12 pages with list of Subscribers], 412 pages. Hardcover / Professionally rebacked, original boards with gilt lettering and ornament to style of the 18th century. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Title and following page slightly fingerstained. Else in very good condition and especially beautiful and firm after the restoration of the volume by an english masterbinder.

Minihan, John / McCabe, Eugene.

Shadows from the Pale: Portrait of an Irish Town. [Signed by John Minihan]

London, Secker & Warburg Ltd., 1996. 25cm x 28cm. Introduction 20 pages / Photographs 117 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Signed copy. Excellent/ close to new condition with only minor signs of wear (very fine tear to dustjacket only). Signed by John Minihan on the endpaper.

Stokes, William.

Die Brustkrankheiten. deren richtige Würdigung und Behandlung. Neueste Übertragung ins Deutsche, mit Zugabe der später vom Verfasser veröffentlichten Aufsätze: I. Ueber Krebs der Lungen und des Mediastinums / II. Ueber akute Induration der Lungen / III. Ueber Cirrhose der Lungen. Unter der Redaction des Dr. Fr. J. Behrend (practischer Arzt in Berlin).

Leipzig, Christian Ernst Kollmann, 1844. 8°. 475 Seiten. Originales Halbleder mit marmoriertem Einbanddeckel. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. / Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. [Bibliothek von Vorlesungen der vorzüglichsten und berühmtesten Lehrer des Auslandes über Medizin, Chirurgie und Geburtshülfe, bearbeitet oder redigirt von Dr. Friedrich J. Behrend. Band XXXII.].

[John Minihan Collection] – O’Connor, Ulick.

Executions.

First edition. Dingle, Brandon Books, 1992. 15 x 23 cm. 183 pages. Hardcover (Original cloth with dustjacket). Very good condition. From the collection of photographer John Minihan. Inscribed by Ulick O’Connor to John Minihan on the front free endpaper. Few clean markings inside.

Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles.

A Complete Guide to Heraldry. [With a chapter: “The Status and the Meaning of a Coat of Arms in Great Britain”]. Illustrated by Nearly 800 Designs, Mainly from Drawings by Graham Johnston, Herald Painter to the Lyon Court.

Revised Edition. London and Edinburgh, T. Nelson & Sons, Ltd. / T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd., no year [c.1925]. 18 cm x 24 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 647 pages. With 779 illustrations and 9 plates including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original tanned cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Large heraldic device on front board. With rare illustrated dustjacket in protective mylar. Deckled fore and tail-edges. Gilt top edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dustjacket chipped and torn. Some minor foxing to endpapers and edges. Some untrimmed pages. Unmarked interior.

Palm House Conservatory Belfast – Anonymus.

Palm House Conservatory – Botanical Garden in Belfast.

Original 19th century Gouache painting with title in ink mounted separately. Belfast, c. 1880. Beautifully framed. The frame with the Gouache measures: 36 cm x 38.5 cm. The Gouache itself measures: 15 cm high x 19 cm wide. Excellent condition of this beautiful original artwork showing the spectacular 19th century Palm House with surroundings.

[Ó Ríordáin, Seán Pádraig] Ó Coileán, Seán.

Seán Ó Ríordáin, beatha agus saothar. [Including a vintage photograph of Seán Ó Ríordáin (he stands with a group of two other people) and a very interesting newspaper-clipping with an article called″Secret fears of an influential poet” by Mary Leland in which she refers to a new translation of poems of Seán Ó Riordáin that were published 30 years after his death and which “reveal his genius and hints at the demons that haunted him”].

Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin], Clóchomhar, 1982. 23 cm. xiv, 417 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely scarce and important publication on one of Ireland’s most beloved poets. [Leabhair thaighde ; 38 ú himleabhar].

Britain and Ireland – [Anonymous].

Views of Picturesque Locations in the British and Irish Isles – The Giant’s Causeway, Pistyll Rhaeadr, Staffa’s Fingal’s Cave and the Bullers of Buchan

Original engraving. Gentleman’s Magazine, and others, 1750. Plate Size: 13.5 x 9.5 cm – 15 cm x 21.5 cm. Sheet Size: 20 cm x 11.7 cm – 19.5 cm x 24.3 cm. Original engravings. In good- condition. Some browning evident. One sheet has significant tear with section of margin missing.

Uí Chatháin, Bláthnaid.

Éigse Chairbre. Filíocht ó Chairbreacha i gCo. Chorcaí agus ón gceantar máguaird, 1750-1850. [edited by] Bláthnaid Uí Chatháin.

Baile Átha Cliath, Clóchomhar Tta, 2006. 23 cm. xii, 533 pages with illustrations, maps. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Johnson, Stowers.

Before and After Puck. (Cork, Killarney and County Kerry). With 32 photographs by the author.

London, The Fortune Press, 1953. 20 cm x 13,5 cm. 224 pages. With 32 black-and-white plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare!

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].

[CUMANN NA nINNEALTOIRI] The Institution of Engineers of Ireland / Cormack, Patrick P.

Irish Engineers’ Handbook – Official Handbook of the Engineers’ Association [With a chapter on the engineering profession in Ireland and some Irish Engineers in the Past] / Town Planning / Patrick Leahy – Engineering Aspects of the Emergency / Captain J.G.McDonald – The Army and the Engineer / P.G.Murphy – Electricity Supply in Eire / Thomas Murphy – Applied Geophysics etc.]

Dublin, The Parkside Press, 1944. Octavo. Portrait of Patrick P. Cormack, 313 pages plus advertising. Original blue Hardcover (blue cloth). Very good condition. Very Rare !