7941. [Croker, John Wilson].

Familiar Epistles to Frederick Jones, Esq. – On the Present State of the Irish Stage. Fourth Edition, with considerable Additions.

Dublin, Printed by Graisberry & Campbell and sold by all booksellers, 1805. Small Octavo (11.5 cm x 18 cm). XXX, 178 pages plus Errata-leaf. Hardcover / Stunning, recent half leather and marbled-paper-covered-boards with gilt lettering and ornament to spine, bound to style of the 18th/19th century. Excellent condition. Tear in Errata-leaf professionally repaired. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his name in ink to titlepage.

7942. O’Kane, Bernard.

Die Schätze des Islam: Kostbarkeiten Aus Zwei Jahrtausenden.

[Königswinter], Tandem Verlag, 2008. 24 cm x 30.5 cm. 224 pages. With many colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

7943. Perry, Ralph Barton.

Economic Value and Moral Value.

First Edition. Oxford, Oxford University Press, [1916]. Octavo. pages 443 – 485. Original, stapled offprint. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Staples a little rusty but not bleeding.

7944. [Cromwell, Oliver] Carlyle, Thomas.

Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches : With Elucidations. [Including a special chapter on the Irish Campaign].

First Edition. Three Volumes (complete set with the Supplement in Second Edition). London, Chapman and Hall, 1845 – 1846. Octavo (14,5 cm x 22 cm). Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait of Cromwell, engraved by Francis Holl, with Cromwell’s facsimile – signature, XII, 522 pages / Volume II: XIV, 692 pages / [Volume III] Supplement to the First Edition: XVIII, 224 pages plus c. 230 empty pages for annotations and notes, which were left empty by the 19th century owner. Hardcover / Stunning, original 18th century full calf with gilt lettering and original spine-labels. Marbled Endpapers matched with marbled edges all around. Strengthened and restored bindings in splendid and firm condition. Minor, repaired tear to titlepage of Volume I only. The text in excellent, very clean condition (which is unusual for this set). Very Rare in this condition !

7945. McGee, Brian (Editor) / Coughlan, Stuart (Designer) / Cork City and County Archives Service.

Voice of the Many – Local archives from Cork 1914-1916.

Cork, Cork City and County Archives Service, 2016. Folio. XII, 177 pages with illustrations throughout the publication (in colour and black-and-white). Hardcover with dustjacket. Bookblock detached from the binding (like most of the Hardcover editions of this publication). Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is now an extremely rare and hard to find-publication !

7946. Ellis, Alfred Burdon.

The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa. Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, Etc.

London, Chapman and Hall, 1887. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. VII, 343 pages. Map near front showing Gold Coast. Hardcover [publisher’s original burgundy cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind tooling to boards. Dark brown surface-paper endpapers and pastedowns. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rubbing to corners and spine ends with minor scuff marks to boards. Very minor staining to spine. Cracking to gutter between front pastedown and endpapers near head of spine. Cracking to gutter between rear pastedown and endpaper also but binding still strong. A hint of browning to a nice and clean interior.

7947. Grass, Günter.

Local Anaesthetic. Translated by Ralph Manheim.

New York, A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book / Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970. Octavo. 284 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. First US edition of this novel narrated from a dentist’s chair. Fine in dust jacket with review slip laid in. Signed by Grass. Dustjacket Illustration after a painting by the author.

7948. Nospickel, Johannes.

Das Necrolog des Klosters Michelsberg in Bamberg. Herausgegeben von Johannes Nospickel mit Beiträgen von Dieter Geuenich, Elmar Hochholzer und Joachim Wollasch.

Hannover, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2004. 4°. XXXIV, 508 Seiten – 108 ganzseitige Abbildungen. Hardcover. Originales Ganzleinen. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur geringen Gebrauchsspuren am Einbandrücken. KEINE Anstreichungen. [Monumenta Germaniae Historica – Libri Memoriales et Necrologia – Nova Series – VI].

7949. Schmidt, Arno.

Abend mit Goldrand – Eine Märchenposse. 55 Bilder aus der Lä/Endlichkeit für Gönner der Verschreibkunst. Faksimileausgabe des 216 Blätter umfassenden Typoskripts mit 49 vom Autor in den Text gezeichneten oder eingefügten Abbildungen.

Eines von 3000 Exemplaren. Frankfurt am Main, S.Fischer Verlag, 1975. Gross-Folio (32 cm x 43.5 cm). 215, [1] Seiten mit einigen Abbildungen. Original Hardcover. Bindung etwas berieben. Innen tadellos erhalten.

7950. [Grattan, Henry] Mac Carthy, John George [John George MacCarthy – Mallow M.P.].

Henry Grattan – A Historical Study [Inscribed by the author to Nichols Murphy, Esq.].

First Edition. Dublin, E.Ponsonby, 1876. Octavo. [3], 81, [2], pages including an advertising printed in the raer of the Volume for John George Mac Carthy’s book: “A Plea for the Home Government of Ireland” (with a mentioning of the “Opinion of the Press”). Original Hardcover / Green publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament. Excellent condition. With a beautiful inscription in ink by John George MacCarthy on the halftitle: “Presented to Nicholas Murphy Esq. with the writers best wishes and regards – January 7, 1876”.