81. Byrne, Patrick F.

The Bedside Book of Irish Ghost Stories. Collected and edited by Patrick F. Byrne.

Dublin, Mercier, 1980. 18 cm. 112 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

82. Bartolomew’s New Reduced Survey for Tourists & Cyclists.

Killarney & Cork. Scale: 4 Miles to an Inch.

Edinburgh, John Bartolomew & Son Ltd, No Date (c.1910). 10 cm x 20 cm. Coloured folded map. Original Softcover. Good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some parts of the map are slightly detached.

83. Bartholomew’s Quarter Inch Map of Ireland.

Galway and Mayo. With Contoured Colouring.

Edinburgh, John Bartholomew & Son Ltd, No Date (c.1950). 11 cm x 20.5 cm. Coloured folded map. Original Softcover. Good condition with minor signs of external wear. Map detached with additional loose sheets.

84. [Shakespeare] Magennis, William.

Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare. With Life Introduction Notes and Selected Subjects for Short Essays.

Dublin, The Educational Company of Ireland Limited, no date (c.1848). 12 cm x 19 cm. 166 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover. Good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [The Educational Series of English Classics – Junior Grade]

85. McMahon, Sean (Edited by).

The Best from The Bell – Great Irish Writing.

Dublin, The O’Brien Press Ltd, 1983. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 191 pages. With illustrations of books on the last four pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

86. Kjaerstad, Jan.

The Seducer. Translated from the Norwegian by Barbara J. Haveland.

First Edition. New York, The Overlook Press, 2006. 14 x 21 cm. vi, 606 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Slightly stained endpaper. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

87. Ó CRÓINÍN, Seán / O Croinin, Sean / Donna O Croinin.

Scéalaíocht Amhlaoibh Í Luínse / Seanachas Amhlaoibh I Luinse.

Baile Atha Cliath [Dublin], Comhairle Bhealoideas Eireann, 1980. Octavo. XXXII, 465 pages. Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

88. Cullen, L.M.

Six Generations. Life and Work in Ireland from 1790. Based on the RTE Series by L.M. Cullen.

Cork, The Mercier Press Ltd., 1970. 8°. 120 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

89. Hodges, Rev. Richard J. / Pike, W.T.

Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century / Contemporary Biographies. / [History of Big Houses, Town Houses and Country Estates in Cork, County Cork, North Cork, East Cork & West Cork with original Photographs of Houses and Portraits as well as Biographies of the Men and their Families who lived in these Houses] / [Half-Leather-Version – Limited Edition Reprint]. Edited by W. T. Pike.

Limited Edition Reprint of the First and only Edition by Pike in 1911. [Skibbereen (County Cork)], Inanna Rare Books / Inanna Reprint Series, 2022. 4° (24,5 cm wide x 33,5 cm high). 319 pages with hundreds of photographs and including an Index to Biographies and Illustrations. Hardcover / Half-Leather with marbled-paper-covered boards in protective Collector’s Mylar. [Important Information: This special limited edition has a special feature which makes each volume of this reprint unique: Each version of the book is bound by hand by a craft-bookbindery and the colour of the leather and endpapers, as well as the marbled-paper-covered boards, are always different / This means the interior is always the same while the look of the binding can differ from the image attached to this description]. One of 350 copies of the Half-Leather-version of a limited edition, republished by Inanna Rare Books Ltd. / This high-quality reprint, hand-bound and hand-numbered, includes hundreds of photographs of grand houses in the irish countryside from South Cork to North Cork, from East Cork to West Cork. The stories of the houses are not only accompanied by photographs of now mostly vanished or derelict homes, the images also show the original state of homes which are now restructured etc. The second part of the publication offers an abundance of historical biographies of local irish Nobility (Meade family, O’Callaghan, Browne, Kelly etc.), Gentry and Clergy and general owners of Country Houses etc. [Pike’s New Century Series].

90. Robison, John.

Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati and Reading Societies. Collected from good authorities by John Robison, A.M. – Professor of Natural Philosophy and Secretary to the Royal Society in Edinburgh. [With the printed dedication to William Wyndham].

The Fourth Edition, corrected; to which is added a Postscript. Dublin, Printed by W.Watson and Son, 1798. Large Octavo (14 cm x 21.5 cm). [2], 531 pages (incl. Postscript). 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. Tear to page 9 (!). Otherwise in unusually excellent condition besides some mild browning (very occasionally only). From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown and name in ink on titlepage. Extremely scarce publication on Illuminati and freemasonry by the first general secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783-1798). Extremely rare in any edition; nearly impossible to find in this condition !