41. Potter, John.

Archaeologia Graeca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece – Volume the Second – Containing: I. The Military Affairs of the Grecians [With the complete set of illustrations on Ancient Military Strategy] / II. Some of their Miscellany Customs.

The Eighth Edition. London, Printed for A.Wilde, H.Whitridge, J.Whiston etc., 1764. Octavo. [2], 420 pages plus 11 unnumbered pages of an Index for Volume I and 22 unnumbered pages of Index Dictionum & Locutionum & Proverbiorum Latinorum. With Hardcover / Original 18th century full calf with gilt ornament to spine. Binding solid and firm and only minor signs of wear to lower spine and some corners. Original spine-label missing. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. All plates in excellent condition.

42. Ludlam, William.

The Rudiments of Mathematics: Designed for the Use of Students at the Universities. Containing an Introduction to Algebra, Remarks on the First Six Books of Euclid, the Elements of Plane Trigonometry.

The Fifth Edition, corrected and enlarged by M. Fryer. London, Printed for W. Baynes, 1809. Octavo. V, (1), 352 pages plus three folded plates. Original Hardcover / Full contemporary leather with gilt lettering on original, red spinelabel. Upper hinge with small defect. Binding rubbed but overall in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean ! From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

43. [Carew, Sir George] Brewer, J.S. / Bullen, William.

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts, Preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, 1589 – 1600. Edited by J.S.Brewer and William Bullen.

London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1869. Quarto (20 cm x 27 cm). CII, 604 pages. Hardcover / Original, contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Binding slightly rubbed. Overall firm, strong and in very good condition. Name of G.B.O’Connor on titlepage in ink. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate loosely inserted.

44. Anonymous / [Synge, Mary / Carr, Dr.D.W. and others] .

Mercy and Truth – A record of C.M.S. Medical Missions – Volume IV. [for the year 1900 – with essays on: Women Patients Rich and Poor – by Mary Synge about a fishing Village called Sang Sua / A Week in the Kyber (Khyber Pass visit by three workers of the C.M.S. during their time at Peshawar / The Opening of the New Mengo Hospital – by Mrs. Albert Cook (with images) / Medical Staff at Hang-chow (Dr. Kember, Dr. Main, Dr. Tsang), Some Men and Women in Hakodate (North Japan) / A Day of Medical Work in a Persian Town (by Henry White) / In Touch with the sick in Oyo (Yoruba) – with support from the Royal irish Constabulary / Moslem Fatalism (by L. Cropper in April 1899) / Photograph of a Temporary Hospital in Onitsha, West Africa / An Acquaintance with sickness in Central Africa [with a diagram that shows how many and what kind of operations were done (Teeth Extractions, Gynaecological Cases etc.) and how the natives paid for the treatment with Shells !!] / Dr. L.G. Hill of Pakhol – Overcoming Obstacles in China / Photograph of “Serai at Lundi Kotal – C.M.S. Dispensary in the Corner / etc. etc.

London, Church Missionary Society, 1900. Slim Quarto. 300 pages with numerous photographs and Index. Hardcover, light blue publisher’s cloth with red lettering to spine and cover. Binding a little stained and rubbed. Otherwise in excellent condition ! Rare !! Name of Patience Conner on title.

45. [Daniel Conner Library (Manch House)] – [Ossian] McPherson, James.

The Poems of Ossian, Translated by James MacPherson, Esq. With The Translator’s Dissertations on the Era and Poems of Ossian ; Dr.Blair’s Critical Dissertation; And An Inquiry into the Genuineness of These Poems, Written Expressly for this Edition, by the Rev. Alex[ander] Stewart.

Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, High-Street, no year [c.1820]. Duodecimo. Frontispice and engraved Titlepage, VIII, 590, 2 pages. Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Binding slightly shaky but still holding. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his name in ink to endpaper.

46. Major, J.R. [Head Master of King’s College School].

A Latin Grammar.

Fourth Edition. London, B.Fellowes, 1838. Small Octavo. 176 pages. Original Hardcover / Full leather. Binding in poor condition. Rear endpaper missing. Front endpaper with tear. Drawings by a child to endpaper and pastedowns. A rare book !! Name of preowner (″Daniel Conner – 1839”) written on front board in ink. [Daniel Conner from Manch House, Bandon].

47. Anonymous [Barrow, John].

A family tour through South Holland; Up the Rhine; And Across the Netherlands, to Ostend.

[London], [Murray], [1831]. Duodecimo. Frontispiece, VIII, 295 pages. With 10 original steel-engravings and with the little fold-out map: “Route of a Tour in South Holland, up the Rhine and through Belgium”. Hardcover / Original half leather with gilt lettering on spine. Good condition in firm binding. Previous owner has cut out the lower part of the frontispiece (image not effected) and also cut out the printer and publishing information on the titlepage. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with the name of a relative (H.L.Conner) to endpaper.

48. [O’Connor, Arthur / United Irishmen] Hayter-Hames, Jane.

Arthur O’Connor, United Irishman.

Cork, Collins Press, 2001. 24 cm. xi, 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

49. Le Fanu, W.R.

Seventy Years of Irish Life – Being Anecdotes and Reminiscences.

Popular Edition – Third Impression. London, Edward Arnold, [1914]. 8°. VIII, 325 pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition on poor paper-quality with signs of spotting and external wear. Page 75 torn. Name of preowner’s from the Conner-Family at Manch – Dunmanway on endpaper together with an entry: “John J. Sheridan – 1924 – IRA”. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House).