6961. Coras Iompair Eireann.

Regulations for Train Signalling and General Instructions to Signalmen. To operate on and from 1st May 1979.

Dublin, Coras Iompair Eireann, 1979-1980. 15.8 cm x 21.6 cm. 203 pages plus 64-pages booklet. Original Plastic Hardcover bound with metal filing clips. Soft cover for the booklet, stapled. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Tear on the top hole on Page D39/D40. Edges are slightly rubbeed and tannned. Occational marks by previous owner throughout the book. An ephemera loosely inserted. (Amendant Notice) Additional booklet loosely inserted, “Additions and Amendments to Rule book 1967”. The booklet was issued in August 1980. Signed by previous owner on back of front cover, top of the booklet cover and back of the ephemera.

6962. [Bell, Charles] Simons, Phillida Brooke.

The Life and Work of Charles Bell. Including The Art of Charles Bell: An Appraisal by Michael Godby.

Vlaeberg South Africa, Fernwood Press, no year (c.1998). 28 cm x 24.5 cm. Frontispiece, 176 pages. Numerous coloured and monchrome illustrations. Hardcover / publisher’s original half leather with slate gray boards. Gilt lettering on spine with raised bands. Gilt pictoral on front board. Housed in grey cloth-covered book case with coloured vignette on front board. Fine, absolutely excellent condition throughout. Interior in excellent condition. Hand-numbered 21 of a collectors’ special edition of only 100 copies. Signed by author on the certification page. Presentation inscription in calligraphy to Christopher Robin White. Front endpaper beautifully embossed. Superbly produced work.

6963. Graetz, Heinrich.

Popular History of the Jews. Translated by Rabbi A. B. Rhine, D. D. With a supplementary volume of recent events, by Dr. Max Raisin. Edited by Alexander Harkavy.

Volumes I, II & V (of VI). New York, Hebrew Publishing Company, 1919. 23 cm. Vol. I: Frontispiece – Portrait of Graetz, VIII, 499 pages / Vol. II: IV, 526 pages / Vol. V: 546 pages. Illustrations, including frontispiece, in black and white. Original Hardcover now in protective mylar / brodart. Very good condition volumes with only very minor signs of external wear. There is a slight weakening of the spine at the title pages of each volume.

6964. Eliot, George.

Silas Marner. Aindrias Ó Baoghill a rinne an leagan Gaedhilge.

First Gaelic Edition. Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Díolta Foilseacháin Rialtais, 1938. Octavo. 300 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

6965. Vanston, George T.B.

The Law Relating to Municipal Towns under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854. [Inscribed Presentation copy]. – [With chapters on the “Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1893”].

First Edition. Dublin, Edward Ponsonby, 1900. Octavo. XXXI, 540 pages. Hardcover / original publisher’s blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed by the author. From the library of George J. Daly (Cork).

6966. Henley, Pauline.

Spenser in Ireland. [Presentation copy]

First Edition. Cork, Cork University Press / Educational Co. of Ireland, 1928. Octavo. Frontispiece-Fold-Out-Map of Ireland, 231 pages. Original Hardcover. Some minor signs of foxing only. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Pauline Henley on the endpaper: “With every good wish to a devoted lover of Ireland, Mlle. Etiennette Beuque. Pauline Henley – July 21st, 1928”. In his book: A ‘Manly Study’?: Irish Women Historians 1868-1949, N. Smith writes that Pauline Henley had previously corresponded with Etienne Beuque in the same year when Mlle. Beuque, a french writer on contemporary irish history, had asked her about Terence MacSwiney. This book must have travelled with her response to France. Excellent association copy !

6967. Artaud, Antonin / Genet, Jean / Jouhandeau, Marcel / Tardieu, Jean / Vian, Boris.

L’Arbalète – Revue de Littérature. [Boris Vian – “Les Poissons Morts”]. Imprimée tous les six mois sur la presse à bras de Marc Barbezat. No. 12.

Lyon, Chez Marc Barbezat, 1947. 19.5 cm x 28 cm. 184 pages. Original Softcover. Stiff card covers with illustrated paper dust jacket. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some foxing to rear endpaper and inside cover only. Includes two loose sheets (broadsides) of advertising for further publications from the publishing house (Jean Genet’s Poems and Miracle de la Rose (sizeable praise from Jean-Paul Sartre included) and errata-leaf loosely inserted. Several pages untrimmed / unopened. [L’Arbalète (No. 12)].

6968. Hatch, Frederick H. / Chalmers J.A.

The Gold Mines of the Rand – Being a Description of the Mining Industry of Witwatersrand South African Republic. With Maps, Plans and Illustrations.

Second Edition. London and New York, Macmillan and Co, 1895. 18 cm x 26 cm. XVII, 306 pages. 79 in-text illustrations and 14 monochrome photographs. 2 fold-out maps in pocket of rear board showing the South Transvaal and Witwatersrand. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and gilt tooling on boards. Deckled edges. Very good+ condition with some signs of external wear. Abrasion to cloth at heel of spine. Binding is strong and firm. Interior of book is unmarked but shows some signs of foxing. Name of preowner on titlepage: “Alma Stewart Arnold” (?)

6969. Zaccaria, Francisco Antonio.

Bibliotheca Ritualis – Concinnatum opus a Francisco Antonio Zaccaria ac duos in tomos tributum quorum alter de illorum explanatoribus agit. / Tomus I: De libris ad sacros utriusque ecclesiae orientalis, et occidentalis ritus pertinentibus [The sacred books of the Rites of the two churches to the east , and the west] / Tomus II: De librorum ritualium explanatoribus [The books of Rituals explained] / Tomus III: Supplementa continens praemisso cl. viri Joannis Maldonati inedito de Caeremoniis tractatu ciu praeter adnotationes adcedit gemina editoris dissertatio. [Supplement].

High-Class-Reprint of the Rome – edition from 1776. New York, Burt Franklin, no year (c. 1970). Large Octavo. Volume I: LXXXIII, 364 pages / Volume II: XVI, 468 pages / Volume III: 16, CCCLXIV pages. Original Hardcover (Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine). Excellent, close to new condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6970. [Quine, W.V.O.] / Ajdukiewicz, Kazimierz.

The Scientific World-Perspective and Other Essays 1931 – 1963. Edited and with an Introduction by Jerzy Giedymin.

Dordrecht-Holland, D.Reidel Publishing Company, 1978. 8°. LIII, 378 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Even though no indication inside the book, the publication comes from the private library of W.V.O.Quine. No markings or annotations by Quine. With a letter from the publisher, addressed to W.V.O.Quine, about the book being a complimentary gift from the publisher to Quine on recommendation of the Editor. [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Sciece – Volume VIII].