1. Tacitus, Publius Cornelius.

[Tacitus Opera] C. Corn. Taciti Opera Ex Recensione Joh. Augusti Ernesti Denuo Curavit Jer. Jac. Oberlinus Argentoratensis Instit. Litter., Francici Socius.

Four Volumes (complete set). London, T.Davison, 1825. Octavo (14.4 cm wide x 23 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: LXXI,386 pages / Volume II: 356 pages / Volume III: 401 pages / Volume IV: 284 pages plus 149 pages of an “Index Historicus” and “Index Latinatis”. Hardcover / Original, very decorative full leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. We purchased this set from the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House) but the book bears the original preowner’s name on endpaper of Volume I. It was Trinity College Dublin student “Colonel T. Ainslie Lunham – Coll. Trin.1868”. Loosely inserted is a postcard to Colonel Lunham from the year 1914.

2. Lucretius Carus, Titus / [Epicurus] / Creech, Thomas.

T. Lucretius Carus, Of The Nature of Things, In Six Books, Translated into English Verse; By Tho[mas] Creech, A.M. late Fellow of Wadham College in Oxford. In Two Volumes. Explain’d and Illustrated with Notes and Animadversions ; Being a compleat System of the Epicurean Philosophy.

Two Volumes [complete set]. London, J.Matthews for G.Sawbridge, at theThree Golden Flower de Luces [The Three Fleur de Lys] in Little Britain, 1714 Octavo (13 cm wide x 20.4 cm high). Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait of Lucretius, [This famous Frontispiece shows Lucretius pointing to the casus, the downward movement of the atoms] surrounded by Nature, Unicorn and Elephant,[This portrait by dutch engraver Michael Burghers], [36], 424 pages / Volume II: [3], pagination continues with pages 425 – 822 plus [5] pages of an “Alphabetical Catalogue of the Names of the Authors, as well Antient as Modern, cited in the Notes on Lucretius”, plus [28] pages of an “Alphabetical Index of the Principal Matters contain’d in the Text of, and Notes upon, Lucretius”, plus [1] page of an Errata Leaf. Hardcover / Original, tooled full leather with new spine-labels in teh style of the 18th century. Both Volumes in protective Mylar. Last 125 pages of Volume II with a minor, faded dampstain. Very minor signs of wormhole-damage in the pouter margins of a few pages only. Otherwise the interior in very good and bright condition. Bindings firm and only with very minor signs of fragility in the gutter. A stunning set of this rare work. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

3. [Horace / Horatius Flaccus Quintus] Fabrini, Giovanni Francesco.

L’Opere D’Oratio – Poeta Lirico Commentate da Giovanni Fabrini da Fighine in Lingua Vulgare Toscana, con ordine, che’l Vulgare e Comento del Latino; et il Latino e Comento del Vulgare, ambedue le Lingue Dichiarandosi l’una con l’altra. Dinuouo in questa terza Editione da molti errori emendato.

[Third Edition]. In Venetia, Appresso Giovanni Battista Sessa & fratelli, 1581. Small Quarto (16 cm wide x 21 cm high). [4], 390 pages. Hardcover / Original Vellum in Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Faded dampstain to a few pages in the rear. Titlepage professionally restored. Preowners name verso titlepage, signed in Ink as “Antonio Bartoly, 1793”.

4. Quintilian [Marcus Fabius Quintilianus].

M. Fabii Quintiliani Institutionum Oratoriarum Libri duodecim, Summa diligentia ad fidem vetustissimorum codicum recogniti, ac restituti. Novae huic Editioni adiecit Fabianarum Notarum Spicilegium Subcisivum Daniel Pareus Phil. Fil. Accesserum etiam Quintilianorum Declamationes. Cum Indice accuratissime.

Two Volumes (Parts) in One Volume (complete). London, Typis E.G. Impensis R. Whitakeri [Richard Whitaker], 1641. Octavo. Pagination: Part I: Titlepage, 722 pages plus 58 unnumbered pages of an Index / Part II [Eloquent Declamations]: 569 pages plus 6 unnumbered pages of an Index. Hardcover / Original 17th century boards with modern spine bound to style of the 17th century. New endpapers. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

5. Plato / Stallbaum, Gottfried.

Platonis Opera Omnia. Uno volumine comprehensa ad fidem optimorum librorum denuo recognovit et una cum scholiis graecis. Emendatius edidit Godofredus Stallbaumius. [Original Greek Edition, printed in double columns – With Latin Index / Includes all X Books of “De Republica” and also the XII books of “De Legibus”].

Editio Stereotypa C. Tauchnitiana. Nova Impressio. Leipzig / London, Holtze/Dulau, 1867. 4° (20 cm x 28 cm). XV, 725, 3 unnumbered pages. Hardcover / Original quarter Vellum with beautiful marbled endpapers and the original miniature booksellers-label from Sanders & Co. (Oxford) to pastedown. Original Greek Edition in a wonderful, firm, quarter vellum binding with vellum corners. With only very few notes and clean annotations.

6. [Aeschylus] Scholefield, Jacobus.

Aeschylus – recensuit Jacobus Scholefield, A.M. Coll. SS. Trin. Nuper Socius, et Graecarum Literarum Professor Regius.

Editio Secunda. Cantabrigiae [Cambridge], Typis Academicis Excudit Joannes Smith, 1830. Octavo. II,436 pages. Hardcover / original, 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of J. A. Ormerod B.N.C., with his Bookplate to the pastedown with the Motto: “Dedit Meliora Dabitque” [Ormerod died in 1864 and was a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford]

7. [Ovid]. Michie, James [translation].

The Art of Love – Publius Ovidius Naso. Paintings by Grahame Baker.

London, The Folio Society, 1993. 18.5 cm x 27.5 cm. 96 pages. With 8 illustrations. Original Hardcover, cloth-bound. With slipcase. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

8. Wrampelmeyer, Hermann.

Librorum manuscriptorum, qui Ciceronis orationes pro Sestio et pro Caelio continent, ratio, qualis sit, demonstratur. Dissertationem inauguralem ad summos in philosophia in Georgia Augusta rite assequendos honores.

Detmoldiae, Typis Meyetianis, 1868. 20 cm x 24.5 cm. 31 pages. Original cotton stitched bound hard board cover. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear and tear mostly to the spine. Tanning to pages throughout. Foxing to endpapers and title page. Half size free end papers cleanly trimmed. Title written in hand in blue pen on cover. Two small pencil markings on cover also.

9. [Williams, E.].

An Introduction to the Latin Tongue, for the Use of Youth.

A New Edition, carefully revised and improved. Eton / London, Printed nand Sold by E.Williams, Successor to Mr.Pote / Sold also at the Eton Warehouse, London, 1816. Small-Octavo (10,5 cm x 17,5 cm). 190 pages plus two pages of “School Books printed by E.Williams, Successor to Mr.Pote, at Eton”. Hardcover / Original, private, early 19th century leather in protective Mylar. Leather with some defects. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown and several examples of Daniel Conner’s signatures and locations of study in pencil on endpapers and pastedown. With Daniel Conner’s rare library – stamp verso title-page (see image).

10. Ward, J.P.

The Killing of Kin – A study of Greek Tragedy and Social Interactionism.

Saint David’s University College, 1979. 8°. 46 pages. Softcover. Original wrappers. Near fine condition. [Trivium 14]

11. Wagner, Richard.

De Priore quae Demostheneis Fertur adversus Aristogitonem oratione.

Cervimontii, Bote aus dem Riesengebirge, 1883. 8°. 49 Seiten. Softcover / Broschur. Guter Zustand / Etwas stockfleckig.

12. Süvern, Johann Wilhelm.

Über den Kunstcharacter des Tacitus.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1825. Quarto (22 cm x 26.5 cm). 63 Seiten (Seiten 73 – 136 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus den Jahren 1822 und 1823].

13. Strada, Famiano.

Famiani Stradae Prolusiones Academicae.

Oxonii [Oxford], E Theatro Sheldoniano, Impensis Jac. Fletcher Bibliopolae, 1745. Small Octavo. Engraved titlepage, [11], 325, [21] pages. Hardcover / Contemporary full calf with blindstamped ornament tooled along spine. Binding stronger rubbed and upper spine slightly damaged; but the volume firm and in very good condition. Small cutout to endpaper. Smaller, faded dampstain from page 247 onwards. Dampstain to both endpapers. Text otherwise clean and bright ! Name of William L. Webb in ink on titlepage.

14. [Strabo] Hasenmüller, Joseph.

De Strabonis Geographi Vita. Part I.

Bonn, Carl Georgi, 1863. 8°. 37 Seiten. Softcover / Titelbroschur. Sehr guter Zustand.

15. Seydel, Gerardus / [Dr.Max Drescher].

Symbolae ad doctrinae graecorum harmonicae historiam.

Leipzig, Noske,s, 1907. 8°. 111 Seiten. Softcover / Kartoniert. Minimale Gebrauchsspuren. Widmungsexemplar des Verfassers an Dr.Max Drescher.

16. [Seneca], Hughes, Ted.

Seneca’s Oedipus. Adapted by Ted Hughes.

Second printing. London, Faber and Faber, 1975. 12 cm x 20 cm. 55 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger.

17. Schwietering, Julius.

Philologische Schriften. [Includes: ″ The origins of medieval humility formula” and ″ On dictionary-making”]. Hrsg. von Friedrich Ohly und Max Wehrli.

München, Wilhelm Fink, 1969. 8vo. XXV, 561 Seiten. Mit Porträt. Hardcover / Originales Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren am Schutzumschlag. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Mängelexemplar. KEIN Besitzvermerk.

18. 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.

19. Plutarch [Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus] / Krebs, Johann Tobias (Editor).

Plutarchi Commentarius Quomodo Adolescens Poetas Audire. Debeat Graece et Latine ex Interpretatione Xylandri Secundis Curis Recensitus Emendatus et Multis Animadversionibus Novis Illustratus Opera Io. Tob. Krebsii Illustris Moldani Rectoris.

Lipsiae, Sumtibus Caspari Fritsch, 1779. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. 248 pages. Original Hardcover 18th century full leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Bookplate to the front: “Scholae Reformatae Fridericianae – Francof. AD O. Sigilium Curatorum” [Frankfurt / Oder] and Bookplate to the rear for the student: Johann Jacob Braunmüller. The rare Krebs – Edition, in greek and latin. Very good condition with signs of external wear. Faded dampstain to lower, outer margins only (Text not effected). Slight browning to preliminary papers and pastedowns only.

20. [Platon] / [Victor Cousin].

Lysis, ou de L’Amitié – Argument Philosophique.

[Paris], [Bossanges Freres], no year [c.1827]. 8°. 33 pp. Softcover / Originale Titelbroschur. [Extracted from Victor Cousin’s: “Oeuvres de Platon, Volume 4”.

21. Platon.

Die echten Briefe Platons. Griechisch und Deutsch. Übertragen und eingeleitet von Ernst Howald.

Zürich, Artemis-Verlag, 1951. 11 x 17,5 cm. 180 Seiten. Hardcover/ Gebundene Ausgabe. Sehr guter Zustand mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren.

22. Plato.

The Dialogues of Plato Volume 1 The Apology & Other Dialogues.

Reprinted Edition. London, Sphere Books, 1970. Octavo. 285 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

23. Plato – Doering, Fridericus / Döring, Friedrich.

De Legum Platonicarum Compositione [Translates: On the Composition of the Platonic Laws].

Leipzig, Robert Noske, 1907. 8°. 87 Seiten. Softcover / Titelbroschur. Minimal angerändert.

24. Plato.

Dialogues of Plato. Selections from the translation of Benjamin Jowett. Edited with an introduction by William Chase Greene.

New York, Liveright, 1927. 23 cm. XXXIX, 535 pages. Original illustrated hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some slight marks in white on frontcover and spine. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

25. Ovid / Moore, B.P. (Translator) / Reinganum, Victor (Illustrator).

Ars Amatoria. Translated by B.P.Moore. Drawings by Victor Reinganum.

London, The Folio Society, 1965. 13 cm x 19 cm. 127 pages. With many drawings. Original hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Some wear to leather spine. Preowner’s inscription. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding.

26. Ovid.

Die erotischen Dichtungen. Deutsche Gesamtausgabe. Neu übertragen von Viktor von Marnitz. Mit Einführung von Karl Büchner.

Stuttgart, Alfred Kröner, 1958. Small-8°. XXIII, 324 Seiten. Hardcover / Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Besitzvermerk oder sonstige Eintragungen. [Kröners Taschenbücher 263]

27. Oppermann, Hans [Hrsg.]:

Wege zu Horaz.

Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1972. Octavo. 392 Seiten. Hardcover. Leinen. Bibliotheksexemplar mit den üblichen Stempeln und Schildchen. Bis auf die Markierungen als Bibliotheksexemplar, in sehr guter Erhaltung. KEINE Anstreichungen. [Wege der Forschung ; Bd. 99].

28. Mikat, Paul.

Doppelbesetzung oder Ehrentitulatur – zur Stellung des westgotisch-arianischen Episkopates nach der Konversion von 587, 89

Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1984. 8°. 37 Seiten. Kartoniert. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur ganz geringen Gebrauchsspuren. Vorträge / Rheinisch-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften : Geisteswiss. ; G268

29. 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].

30. Lytton, Lord.

The Last Days of Pompeii.

London, Collins, 1953. 12 cm x 18.5 cm. 413 Pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the library of Kinsale Artist Brian Scott-McCarthy, with his name to the endpaper. [Collins New Classics].

31. Lichtenstein, Max.

Die Grundlagen und die Entwickelung der Bedeutung des Wortes nefes (Seele) im alten Testament. Teil 1.

Berlin, Mayer & Müller, 1915. 8°. 72 Seiten. Softcover / Titelbroschur. Minimale Gebrauchsspuren am Rücken. Sonst gut erhalten. SELTEN !

32. Instinsky, Hans Ulrich.

Der spätrömische Silberschatzfund von Kaiseraugst.

Mainz, Verl. der Akademie d. Wissenschaften u.d. Literatur; Wiesbaden : F. Steiner in Komm., 1971. 8°. 18 Seiten. Softcover / Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand. [Abhandlungen / Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Klasse ; Jg. 1971, Nr. 5]

33. Horace.

The Odes. Book I.

London, James Brodie Ltd, No Date. 12 cm x 18.5 cm. 24 Pages with additional protective layers between each page. Original softcover. Good condition with very minor signs of external wear. Stains on covers. [Brodie’s Interleavec – Classical Translations]

34. Holden, Constance W.

Hellas – Drawings by Constance W.Holden with Selections from the Greek Dramatists.

Limited Edition. Boston, Thomas Todd Company, 1969. Folio (32 cm x 41 cm). 62 pages with numerous illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. The rare dustjacket with tears. The Volume itself in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

35. Hiecke, Hermann.

De Pace Cimonica.

Gryphiswaldiae / Greifswald, Kunike, 1863. 8°. 52 Seiten. Softcover / Originale Titelbroschur. Nur minimale Gebrauchsspuren.

36. [Grierson, George and John]

[Sabbath – Servants – Burning Land – Impounding – Cattle Trespassing – Replevin] Sammelband / Collection of six Acts: 1. An Act for The better Observation of the Lord’s Day, commonly called Sunday [Sabbath]. Dublin, 1803. 22 pages / 2. An Act relating to Servants and Apprentices, Artificers and Day-Labourers. Dublin, 1831. 55 pages / 3. An Act to Repeal the several Laws for Recovery of small Sums due for Wages, in Ireland; and to make other Provisions for Recovery of such Wages. Dublin, 1830. 96 pages / 4. An Act to amend the 10° Charles I. for Impounding of Distresses in Ireland. Dublin, 1829. 22 pages / 5. An Act for preventing the Vexatious Impounding of Cattle for Trespass or Damage Feasant [Pheasant]. Dublin, 1829. 25 pages. / 6. An Act to provide for the Relief of Persons aggrieved by unlawful or excessive Distresses in Ireland. [An Act to show cause why Replevin should not be made] Dublin, 1830. 28 pages.

Dublin, G. and J. Grierson & His Majesty’s Printers, 1803-1831. Duodecimo. 22, 55, 96, 22, 25, 28 pages. Hardcover / Original, very decorative full 19th century calf with gilt lettering on original, red spinelabel. Binding and interior in unusually excellent condition. Only a very small lesion (fraying) to the outer margins of three pages.

37. [Ginger, W. / Collingwood, Samuel].

Sammelband of Latin Grammar in Westminster School: The Sammelband includes: I. A Short Introduction to the Latin Grammar, for use of the Lower Forms in Westminster School (London / Westminster, Printed for W.Ginger, 1814; 40 pages) / II. Rudimentum Grammaticae Latinae Metricum, in Usum Scholae Regiae Westmonasteriensis. (Oxford, Excudebat Samuel Collingwood, sumptibus Gul. Ginger, Westmonasertiensem, 1815; 56 pages) / III. The Translation of the Latin Verse Grammar. For the Use of the Lower Forms in Westminster-School. (Oxford, Printed by Samuel Collingwood, for W.Ginger, 1815; 65 pages).

Oxford / London / Westminster, Ginger / Collingwood, 1814 – 1815. Small-Octavo (12,5 cm x 19 cm). 40, 56, 65 pages. Hardcover / Original, private, early 19th century leather in protective Mylar. Leather with some defects. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown and several examples of Daniel Conner’s signatures and locations of study in pencil on endpapers and pastedown.

38. Gerhard, Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard.

Archemoros und die Hesperiden.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1836-1838. Quarto (23.2 cm x 28.5 cm). 113 Seiten plus vier (4) wunderbare, lithographische Tafeln im Anhang (Seiten 253 – 366 des Jahrgangsbandes 1836). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Nur die Tafeln etwas stockfleckig und Tafel IV mit kleinerem Schaden. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus dem Jahre 1836].

39. Ellis, William [Provenance: William Splaine and N. Splaine – Bandon Grammar School 1840].

A Collection of English Exercises – Translated From the Writings of Cicero, For School-Boys to Re-Translate Into Latin; And Adapted to the Principal Rules in The Eton Syntax; With Occasional References to Other Grammars. Sixteenth Edition, in which the Translation has been carefully compared with the Original and Corrected and to which are prefixed, Rules for the Use of the Subjunctive Mood. [Including a Preface of Thomas Dix Hincks of Fermoy School, made to the eighth edition in 1818].

London, Longman & Co., 1839. Small Octavo (10,5 cm x 18 cm). XXVIII, 269, [3] pages. Hardcover / Original full eather with gilt ornament to spine. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Several manuscript entries by preowners of the William Splaine – Family in Bandon.

40. [Dionysius of Halicarnassus] Weismann, Carl Julius.

De Dionysis Halicarnassei – Vita et Scriptis. Dissertatio Inauguralis quam Amplissimo Philosophorum Marburgensium Ordini ad Summos in Philosophia Honores Rite Capessendos.

Rinteln, Steuber, 1837. 4°. 30 Seiten. Originale Broschur mit minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. Etwas angestaubt. Kleiner Einriss und mit einigen Eselsohren. Inaugural-Dissertation der Universität Marburg.

41. Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Orationes Quaedam Selectae cum Interpretatione et Notis quas in usum Serenissimi Delphini edidit P. Carolus Merouville, S.J. Quibus Praefigitur Vita Ciceronis per Annos Consulares Digesta. Huic Editioni Accesserunt Dialogi De Senectute et De Amicitia.

Editio Decima Quinta Emendatior. Dublini, Ex Officina Hibernica, 1812. Octavo. XXXI, 554 pages plus 14 unnumbered pages Index. Original Hardcover (full calf with gilt lettering on original spinelabel). Stronger Rubbed. Good condition with some stronger signs of external wear. From the library of irish independent politician and solicitor Jasper Travers Wolfe of Skibbereen.

42. Buttmann, Philipp Karl.

Von den Aleuaden.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1825. Quarto (22 cm x 26.5 cm). 41 Seiten (Seiten 171 – 212 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus den Jahren 1822 und 1823].

43. Buttmann, Philipp Karl.

Über die Kotyttia und die Baptae.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1825. Quarto (22 cm x 26.5 cm). 17 Seiten (Seiten 213 – 230 des Jahrgangsbandes 1822-1823). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus den Jahren 1822 und 1823].

44. Bursian, Conrad.

Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart.

Muenchen und Leipzig, R. Oldenbourg, 1883. Octavo. VIII, 1271 Seiten [Erste Hälfte: VIII, 664 Seiten / Zweite Hälfte: Seiten 665 – 1271]. Hardcover / Fantastischer, moderner, weinroter Halblederband mit marmoriertem Buntpapierbezug auf den Einbanddeckeln. Die Kanten im identischen Leder verstärkt. Vergoldeter Rückentitel und neue Vorsatzblätter. Die sonst notorisch schlecht erhaltene Ausgabe (Das Papier der Ausgabe ist oft brüchig) hier in wunderbarer Erhaltung, auch durch die aufwendige Neubindung. Es handelt sich um ein ehemaliges Bibliotheksexemplar mit einigen wenigen Stempelchen (verso dem Titel und auf der letzten Seite des Inhaltsverzeichnises). [Geschichte der Wissenschaften in Deutschland – Neuere Zeit – 19.Band].

45. Bruns, Ivo.

Das literarische Porträt der Griechen im fünften und vierten Jahrhundert vor Christi Geburt.

Berlin, Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz, 1896. 8vo. X, 594 Seiten. Hardcover / Sehr dekorativer, grüner Halbleinenband mit Rückenvergoldung. Sehr guter Zustand der Originalausgabe von 1896. KEINE Anstreichungen.

46. Bekker, Immanuel [August Emanuel].

Die Scholien zu Aeschines Rede gegen den Timarchos – aus Pariser Handschriften (Coislin. 249 = f und Reg. 3003 = m) berichtigt und vervollständiget.

Erste Ausgabe. Berlin, Druckerei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1836-1838. Quarto (23.2 cm x 28.5 cm). 25 Seiten (Seiten 227 – 252 des Jahrgangsbandes 1836). Moderne Broschur mit eingebundener Originalabhandlung. Sehr guter Zustand. Es handelt sich hier um die seltene, originale Erstausgabe der Publikation. Extrahiert aus dem Sammelband der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Der originalen Publikation wurde eine Replika des Reihentitels vorgebunden. [Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Aus dem Jahre 1836].

47. [Aristophanes] Tucker, T. G.

The Frogs of Aristophanes. Edited with introduction, commentary and critical notes by T. G. Tucker.

London, Macmillan, 1906. 10 x 16.5 cm. LIX, 276 pages. Original hardcover. Good condition but with signs of external wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With annotations and markings. Classical Series.

48. Apuleius – Hildebrand, Gustav Friedrich.

Commentationis De Vita et Scriptis Appuleii Epitome.

Halle, Ploetz, 1835. 8°. 30, 2 nn. Seiten. Softcover / Titelbroschur. Gute Erhaltung bis auf einige Knicke und eine Abreibespur an der Heftung.

49. Anonymus [Cassius Longinus, Dionysius / [Pseudo-Longinus] / Schardam, Petro Joanne.

Dionysii Longini – “De Sublimitate Liber” [″On the Sublime”]– The Greek Text with Latin Translation and Schardam’s Philological Dissertation and Notes by George Millar / [Dionysii Longini De Sublimitate Commentarius – Curante Georgio Miller, Collegii Dublinensis Olim Socio. (Including: Petro Joanne Schardam – “Dissertatio Philologica De Vita et Scriptis Longini”)].

Editio Altera. Dublin, D.Graisberry, 1820. Octavo (14 cm x 21 cm). V, 257, [30 unnumbered] pages, including “Index Vocum et Phrasium Memorabilium” / “Index Auctorum” / “Index Sectionum”. Plus a16-page-catalogue of “W.B.Kelly’s Scholastic and other Publications” bound at the rear. Original Hardcover / Publisher’s cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Foxing Name of preowner on titlepage: “Geo. Sheehan – Cork”.

50. [Bellin, Jacques Nicholas / Senex, John / Ogilby, John]

The Roads through England or Ogilby’s Survey. Revised, improved and reduced by Senex. [Enlarged Edition of John Ogilby’s 1675 published “Britannia”] Distinctly laid down on onehundred & one Plates with the addition of some Roads newly drawn and several corrections of more general use to Travellers. [Including an Appendix with Cityplans of London (double-page), Plymouth, Shrewsbury, Yorck (York), Chester, [Scene of Carrick-Fergus (Ireland)], Waterford, Oxford, Leith [Edinburgh], Harwich, Scenery of Edinburgh / Itinéraire de toutes les routes de l ‘Angleterre. Revues corrigées, augmentées & réduites par Senex en 101 Cartes. [Titlepage bilingual in french and english].

Paris, Desnos, 1766. Quarto (30 cm x 22.5 cm). Collation complete: Bilingual titlepage, 12 double-page maps of England, partly beautifully border-coloured, 6 unnumbered pages of Index with distances in miles, one (1) General Map of England (″Carte Generale” of Engand by D’Ogilby), 101 full-page maps of routes/streets, Engraved titlepage for the Appendix, One (1) double-page of explanations for the London-City-Plan, 17 beautiful maps and engravings of a variety of english cities, also with a section on Ireland (Dublin, Waterford, Kinsale, Galway, Limerick). Original 18th-century contemporary calf with gilt lettering on spine and on five raised bands. The Volume is now protected in Collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some rubbing and corners slightly bumped but overall excellent. Interior near fine with only the slightest occasional spotting. Extremely Rare and even rarer in this condition !

51. [Zelnik, Friedrich / Morel, Emma] Brugmans, H. / Loosjes, A.

Amsterdam in Beeld. [From the library of Frederic Zelnik] Met 613 Afbeeldingen.

Zesde Vermeerdere Druk. Amsterdam, Scheltema & Holkema, (ca.1925). 4°. VIII, 372 pages with 613 photographs of Old Amsterdam, prior to the second world war. Original illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Hinge slightly shaky. From the library of Frederic Zelnik / Friedrich Zelnik. Inscribed to Frederic Zelnik by one of his silent cinema actresses, Emma Morel, during the filing of “Vadertje Langbeen”, based on a Novel from Jean Webster and adapted fror the screen by Rudolph Bernauer, the film was made by Zelnik and filmed in Amsterdam. Emma Mourel was one of the stars of the Movie and inscribed the book to Zelnik: “Van ouren voorbeeldigen Regisseur den Heer Friedrich Zelnik, her herinnering van Amsterdam Augustus 1938. Voor alle….Gross-aufnahmen !! Met reeht-hartelycken dank en auf Wiedersehen von Emma Morel”.

52. Bielfeld, Baron [Jakob Friedrich von] / W[illiam] Hooper.

The Elements of Universal Erudition – Containing An Analytical Abridgment of the Sciences, Polite Arts, and Belles Lettres. Translated from the last Edition printed at Berlin by W[illiam] Hooper. [With the printed Dedication “To His Royal Highness, George, Prince of Wales”].

Three Volumes (complete set). London, Printed by G.Scott for J.Robson Bookseller in New-Bond Street and B. Law in Ave-Mary Lane, 1770. Octavo. Volume I: XV, 445 pages / Volume II: II, 433 pages plus two pages of an advertising of Books printed for J.Robson plus a large Fold-out- Illustration of musical scores / Volume III: II, 444 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full-leather with original spine-labels and gilt elemnts on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

53. [Cumberbatch, Benedict] Cumberbatch, Henry Arnold / Rees, Helen / Basil Benwell Rees / William Benwell Rees / Etheldreda Blanche Barker / [Sir Winston Churchill / Sir Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne [Private Secretary to Sir Winston Churchill]].

Large Family Archive of the Benwell Rees – Family, including William Benwell Rees (brother to actor Benedict Cumberbatch’s grandmother Helen Rees, by marriage to British Diplomat Henry Arnold Cumberbatch, who was Consul in Romania, Turkey and Lebanon ). The archive includes at least one manuscript letter by Henry Arnold Cumberbatch and around one thousand documents chronicling the lives of the ex-patriate Benwell Rees family from 1890-1970 in Alexandria and Monaco, including William Benwell Rees, whose marriage to Etheldreda Blanche Barker cemented the family’s role in the highest circles of Alexandria life. The archive also charts their son Basil Rees’ decade in Monaco under Princess Grace and Prince Rainer III where he served as President of the British Association in the 1950’s-‘60s and solicited a letter written by Sir Anthony Arthur Duncan Montague Browne, on Winston Churchill’s behalf on Chartwell headed paper in which the former Prime Minister declined to attend an event in Monaco [signed by Montague Browne]. The archive is held in five heavy volumes, bursting with a plethora of amazing and wonderful historical letters, ephemera, emotional messages and telegrams, old images, theatre-programmes, and especially also includes programmes of plays in which ancestors of Benedict played (J.M.Barrie, Shakespeare etc.). The original letters and documents paint an interesting picture of Benedict Cumberbatch’s grandmother’s side of the family history in the Levant, their service in the Middle East and their social lives. The five volumes are bound in bespoke red morocco over textured paper-covered-boards and they contain at least one reference to Helen Rees next to a newspaper-clipping and dozens of wonderful handwritten letters and cards. Each volume about four inches across spine with title in gilt to upper cover and around 100 leaves in each with documents mounted recto and verso throughout, with photographs, invitations, business materials and clippings that chart the family’s life in their service for the British Colonial Office. The five Volumes include for example: Volume 1: The Benwell Rees’: begins with Egyptian Gazette, 1890 and a programme for a performance c1900 at the Port Theatre, Marina, Alexandria of Rumpelstilkskin; visiting cards and contemporary reports of the marriage of W B Rees and Etheldreda Blanche Barker in Alexandria, February 1901; Windsor Hotels prospectus and flyer (a WBR enterprise); 1913 Casino de Monte Carlo ticket for Ethel Rees; Kings School Canterbury ephemera and St Johns’ College, Cambridge for Basil Rees from 1920’s, graduated June 1924. Volume 2: The Benwell Rees’ Vol II, 1920’s-1990’s: includes J M Barrie, Quality Street programme for English Girls’ School, Alexandria, 1941; invitations from Princess Grace of Monaco etc Volume 3: Basil Rees Vol III, cover nearly detached, 1953- Basil Rees living at 2 Rue Origene, Alexandria, and covering period of move to Palais Majestic, Monaco after which he served as President of the British Association and his sudden death in 1967. Invitations to dinner and place settings with the Prince and Princess of Monaco. Birthday greetings; international stamp collecting societies. Photographic ‘Permis de Sejour’ for William Benwell Rees in Monaco, October 1918. Volume 4: Basil Rees Vol. IV Begins with telegram from Rees to the Queen; mostly very extensive formal correspondence concerned with Rees’ Presidency of he British Association in Monaco; invitations, notes, printed volume of Statutes of association from 1950, royal correspondence with Monaco and Britain. Volume 5: Basil Rees 4-5 1902 Vol II; William Basil Benwell Rees; Royal Navy ID card, British Forces, September 1943 – other material relating to Rees’ work as Duty Defence Officer at the Royal Navy Defence Base in Alexandria, HMS Nice. Volume begins in 1902 and includes Alexandria Dog Show, W B B Rees at Jesus College, Cambridge; Egypt NAAFI permits; lock of Basil Rees’ hair, aged 2 etc.

Alexandria / Monaco / etc., c. 1902 – 1967. Octavo. Half Morocco. Bindings stronger rubbed and slightly damaged.

54. Goff, Robert J. Goff & Co. [Bloodstock Auctioneer in Dublin].

Collection of fifteen (15) Historical Auction-Catalogues of Bloodstock-Sales between the Years 1938-1954. / Includes the 54th Annual Sale in Conjunction with the Royal Dublin Society’s Horse Show in 1938, 1939 and 1940 / Includes Sales of Horses in Training, Likely ‘Chasers, Untried Stock, Stallions, Yearlings, Mares and Foals. Sales happened at Paddocks in Ballsbridge, Dublin etc.

15 Volumes. Dublin, Robert J. Goff & Co., 1938-1954. Octavo. c.2500 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some stronger signs of external wear.

55. Brown, Thomas.

Lectures on The Philosophy of the Human Mind – With a Memoir of the Author, by David Welsh.

Seventeenth Edition. Edinburgh, William Tait, 1848. Octavo (14.5 cm wide x 22 cm high). Portrait-Frontispiece of Thomas Browne, XXXI, 692 pages. Hardcover / Original, very decorative full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. The Portrait with the original tissue-guard. Very minor signs of foxing only.

56. [Gifford, John / Gifford William] / Whittle, Thomas (Publisher) / Rowlandson, Thomas (Illustrator) / Davison, Alexander (Illustrator).

The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine ; Or Monthly Political and Literary Censor. From January to April, (Inclusive) 1799 – With an Appendix, containing An Ample Review of Foreign Literature. [This being the Rare Volume which deals with the 1798 Irish Rebellion and its aftermath reflected in publications]. Volume II (Embellished with Plates).

London, Printed for the Proprietors, by J. Plymell, at the Anti-Jacobin Press, 1799. Octavo (14 cm wide x 22.5 cm high). IV, 586 pages. With three Illustrations (Two XXL-Fold-out Caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson and one Engraving on Nelson in Octavo by Alexander Davison). Hardcover / Original, very decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and prnament on spine and marbled-paper-covered boards. In protective Collectors-Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very Rare original edition in its original binding !

57. [Burke, Edmund].

Account of the European Settlements in America – In Six Parts [Published in Two Volumes of which we offer here Volume II pf the rare Irish Edition only and which includes the “Description of Canada” and “Cape Breton”, The West-Indies, Nova Scotia, Several Southern States etc.]. The Six Parts are: I. A short History of the Discovery of that Part of the World / II. The Manners and Customs of the original Inhabitants. / III. Of the Spanish Settlements. / IV. Of the Portuguese. / V. Of the French, Dutch, and Danish. / VI. Of the English. / Each Part contains: An Accurate Description of the Settlements in it, their Extent, Climate, Productions, Trade, Genius and Dispositions of their Inhabitants : the Interests of the several Powers of Europe, with respect to those Settlements and their Political Commercial Views with regard to each other.

The Fourth Edition, with Improvements. Volume II [of two]. Dublin, Printed for Peter Wilson, in Dame-Street, 1762. Small Octavo (10.5 cm wide x 17.5 cm high). [5], 301 pages. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Binding still firm with the spine starting. Small stain to rear board. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

58. Burn, Robert.

The Works of Robert Burns ; With An Account of his Life, And A Criticism on his Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of The Scottish Peasantry.

The Seventh Edition. Four Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for T.Cadell and W.Davies and W.Creech at Edinburgh, by J.McCreery, Black-Horse-Court, Fleet-Street, 1813. Octavo (14.2 cm wide x 22 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: Portrait-Frontispiece-Portrait of Robert Burns, XII, 395 pages / Volume II: XXIV, 470 pages / Volume III: XII, 422 pages / Volume IV: XXIV, 414 pages. Hardcover / Original, very decorative, full leather with gilt lettering on spine. Beautiful, marbled endpapers and marbled adges. Excellent, unusually firm condition with only minor signs of wear. The bindins, hinges and spine in sturdy condition, very rare for such a set of Burns’ Works, which were always read intensely in the 19th century. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch Hose), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. With an additional manuscript-entry of a pre-owner: “Elizabeth Conner, Nov. 12th, 1827”.

59. [Derrick, Samuel].

A Poetical Dictionary; Or, The Beauties of the English Poets, Alphabetically Displayed. Containing The Most Celebrated Passages in the following Authors, viz. Shakespear, Johnson, Dryden, Lee, Otway, Beaumont, Fletcher, Lansdowne, Butler, Southerne, Addison, Pope, Gay, Garth, Rowe, Young, Thompson, Mallet, Armstrong, Francis, Warton, Whitehead, Mason, Gray, Akenside, Smart, &c.

First Edition. In Four Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for J. Newbery, J.Richardson, S.Crowder etc., 1761. Duodecimo (10.4 cm wide x 17.4 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: XII, 288 pages; Volume II: [II], 244 pages; Volume III: [II], 276 pages ; Volume IV: [II], 252 pages. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and spinelabels. Bindings a little rough with Volume One having a damage to the top spine. Overall in good condition with some signs of wear. Provenance: “Ex Libris (not a real bookplate but a written statement in ink) John Lysaght / James Lysaght, June 15th 1763”.

60. [Aeschines / Attic orator] / [Demosthenes] / [Taylor, John] / [Markland, Jeremiah] / [Reiske, Johann Jakob (Reiskio)].

Aischinou Ho kata Ktesiphontos kai Demosthenous Ho peri stephanou logos. Cum Delectu Annotationum, Præcipue e Tayloro, Marklando, Reiskio. In Usum Juventutis Academicae.

Two Volumes in one (complete), Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1801. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: Portrait-Frontispiece of Cicero, XLVIII, [2], Portrait of Aeschines, 130 pages / Volume II: XXI, Portrait of Demosthenes, 165 pages plus 24 unnumbered pages of an “Index sive Vocum Difficiliorum”. Hardcover / Original, full leather with original spine-label and gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Front hinge starting. Binding a bit scuffed to upper hinge but beautifully firm and with the endpapers intact. Some very interesting, contemporary annotations in ink. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. A very rare book !!

61. [Euclid / Euklid] Simson, Robert.

The Elements of Euclid ; Viz. The First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh and Twelfth. The Errors, by which Theon, or Others, have long ago vitiated these Books, are corrected, And some of Euclid’s Demonstrations are restored. Also “The Book of Euclid’s Data”, in like manner corrected. By Robert Stimson, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow. The Sixteenth Edition, carefully revised and improved. To which is added, “A Treatise on the Construction of The Trigonometrical Canon ; And a Concise Account of Lograithms”.

Sixteenth Edition. Three Volumes in One (complete). London, Printed for F.Wingrave and others, 1814. Octavo. VII, [1], 528 pages plus two plates 9as called for): 1. A Fold-Out-Plate of “Plane Trigonometry” bound in at page 484 and 2. A Fold-Ot-Plate “Spherical Trigonometry” bound in at the rear of the Volume. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Poor condition of the binding, boards nearly detached and the overall condition with stronger signs of wear. But this book is mostly interesting for the abundance of doodles by 19th-century Oxford – student Daniel Conner, from Ireland. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

62. [Thucydides] Bauer, Carl Ludwig.

Thucydides – De Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo Cum Versione Latina Et Variis Lectionibus Ex Editione Caroli Ludovici Baueri Accurate Expressi.

Bilingual Edition (Greek-Latin). Three Volumes [complete set]. Oxford, J.Parker, 1811. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I:XXIV, 440 pages / Volume II: 418 pages / Volume III: 266 pages plus 60 unnumbered pages of Index Rerum and Index Verborum. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Occasional annotations and textmarkings. Bindings rubbed and a little dusty but very firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.Hinges all attached with only the front boards of Volume I and II slightly starting. Besides a few dogears a nd minor signs of only occasional foxing in very good + condition. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. This is a rare version of this text !

63. Neilson, William / [Mac Néill, Uilliam].

Greek Exercises, In Syntax, Ellipsis, Dialects, Prosody, And Metaphrasis. To which is prefixed, A Concise but Comprehensive Syntax. With Observations on some Idioms of the Greek Language. By the Rev. William Nelson, Late Professor of Greek and Hebrew in Belfast College.

A New Edition. London, Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834. Octavo. VIII,236 pages. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt ornament to spine. Working copy of Daniel Conner with his name in ink to endpaper. With a further inscription in ink verso: “JGrant & D Conner, Esq. – Brothers – Two good boys”. Two endpapers missing at front and rear. With annotations to rear pastedown and last page. Last two pages creased. Otherwise in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear.

64. [Lancelot, Claude] Nugent, Thomas.

A New Method of learning with facility the Greek Tongue : Containing Rules for the Declensions, Conjunctions, Resolution of Verbs, Syntax, Quantity, Accents, Dialects, And Poetic Licence. Digested in the clearest and concisest order. With Variety of solid remarks, necessary for the attaining A complete knowledge of this language; And for understanding the Greek writers. Translated from the French of the Messieurs de Port-Royal, And improved by Thomas Nugent, LL.D.

A New Edition, carefully revised and corrected. London, Printed for Wingrave, in the Strand, Successor to Mr. Nourse, 1808. Octavo. XXX, [10], 476 pages. Hardcover / Original, full leather, with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Upper hinge slightly split. Besides a minor discoloration to the front board, in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

65. [Homer] Apollonius of Rhodes / Apollonius Rhodius / August Wellauer.

Apollonii Rhodii Argonautica – Ad Fidem Librorum Manuscriptorum Et Editionum Antiquarum Recensuit, Integram Lectionis Varietatem Et Annotationes Adiecit, Scholia Aucta Et Emendata Indicesque Locupletissiomos Addidit Augustus Wellauer.

Two Volumes (complete set). Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1828. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: XIV, 293 pages / Volume II: 318 pages. Hardcover / Very decorative, original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Minor signs of a faded dampstain to outer margins

66. Busby, Richard.

Grammatica Busbeiana, Auctior et Emendatior : Id Est Rudimentum Grammaticae Graeco-Latinae Metricum in Usum Scholae Regiae Westmonasteriensis.

London, G.Ginger, 1809. Octavo. 230 pages with Calendarium Romanum / [Bound with: “Graecae Grammaticae Compendium” – London, G.Ginger, 1810. 40 pages]. Hardcover / Fantastic, original full suede-leather binding with ornament on boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

67. Xenophon / Schneider, Johann Gottlieb.

Xenophontis Historiae Graecae – Libri Septem – Notas Io. Car. Zeunii in Librum Primum et Indices Adiecit Io. Gottl. Schneider, Saxo.

[Bilingual in Greek and Latin]. Leipzig, Caspar Fritsch, 1791. Octavo. XX, 474 pages plus 28 unnumbered pages of an Index. Hardcover / Binding expertly restored by using the original full leather with gilt lettering on spine and boards. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some pages unopened. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

68. Xenophon / Hutchinson, Thomas.

Xenophontis de Cyri Institutione – Libri Octo.

Edition Decima [Bilingual in Greek and Latin]. London, Impensis W.&W.Ginger, ad insignia Collegii Westmonasteriensis juxta Scholam Regiam, 1797. Octavo. Frontispiece-Map, [2], 548 pages. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering on spine and boards. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

69. [Thucydides] Smith, William.

The History of the Peloponnesian War, Translated from the Greek of Thucydides. To which are Annexed Three Preliminary Discourses: I. On the Life of Thucydides / II. On his Qualifications as an Historian / III. A Survey of the History. By William Smith, Rector of the Parish of the Holy Trinity in Chester and Chaplain to the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Derby.

A New Edition. Two Volumes with Two Maps [complete set]. London, Printed for J.Walker, 1812. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait of William Smith, Dean of Chester, XXIV, LXXI, Large Fold-Out-Map, 427 pages / Volume II: [2], Large Fold-Out Map, 398 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering on spine. Bindings rubbed and a little dusty but very firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate loosely inserted to the pastedown.

70. [Homer] Cowper, William.

The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, by the Late William Cowper, Esq. In Four Volumes (Complete set of the Third Edition) / [Plus: Uniformly bound: “The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq. – With Remarks on Epistolary Writers, by William Hayley, Esq. – A new Edition].

Eight Volumes in Total (complete set of Iliad, Odyssey and Life of Cowper). London / Chichester, Printed for J.Johnson, St.Paul’s Churchyard, 1809. Large Octavo (15 cm wide x 24.5 cm high). Pagination of Four Volumes of The Iliad and Odyssey: Volume I: XLII, 506 pages / Volume II: 462 pages / Volume III: 352 pages / Volume Four: 343 pages // Pagination of “The Life of and Letters of William Cowper”: Volume I: Portrait-Frontispiece, 399 pages plus 7 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume II: 441 pages plus 7 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume III: 458 pages plus 10 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume IV: 460 pages plus 4 unnumbered pages of an Index. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering on spine and boards. ALl Volumes firm with some minor cracks to the bottom of the spine of Volume II of the Homer (no effect on the usage of the Volume) / Some splitting to half of the spine of Volume I of Cowper’s Life. Overall a very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All eight Volumes in firm condition. A stunning set ! From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

71. James, John.

The Mother’s Help – Towards Instructing her Children in the Excellencies of the Catechism, and of the Services appointed by the Church of England. For the More Special Occasions which mark Christian Life.

London, Printed for J.G.F. & J. Rivington, 1842. Octavo (12.2 cm wide x 19.3 cm high). XI, 533, [1] pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s half cloth with new spine-label in the style of the 19th century. The binding is in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle). With a giftinscription: “Louisa S. Meade from R H M – 1866”.

72. [Hammond, Henry].

The Whole Duty of Man, Laid Down In A Plain and Familiar Way for The Use of ALL, but especially The Meanest Reader. [Before the Preface we find here printed “Letter to the Bookseller” by Henry Hammond, dated March 7, 1657”]. Divided into XVII Chapters ; One whereof being read every Lord’s Day, the whole may be read over thrice in the Year. Necessary for ALL Families. With Private Devotions for several Occasions.

Dublin, Printed for William Watson, No.7, Capel-Street, 1809. Small Octavo (11.3 cm wide x 18.3 cm high). XXII, [1], 452 pages plus a Book-Catalogue over 4 pages “Books Sold By William Watson, No.7, Capel-Street”. Hardcover / Stunning full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Armorial binding with supralibros on front and rear boards “Association for Promoting the Christian Religion Incorporated”. The beautiful binding in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle). This is a prize-binding, awarded to “Mary Townsend Meade” at Christ Church Cork, 19th if October, 1814 by The Reverend Richard Lee.

73. Dickson, R. W.

The Farmer’s Companion; being a complete System of Modern Husbandry: Including the Latest Improvements and Discoveries, in Theory and Practice. Illustrated by numerous Engravings. With 102 copper engraved plates (including two larger hand-coloured fold – out plates).

Second Edition. In two Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1813. Large Octavo. Both volumes together contain 948 pages interleaved illustrations throughout the volumes (many of these plates are folding out) including a General Index. [Please ask for a full list of the illustrations]. Hardcover / Two modern halfleather / full leather bindings (see images). Volume I in octavo format and in a brown full leather with spinelabel / Volume II in large octavo and bound in an excellent green half morocco with gilt lettering on spine, marbled boards and leather corners. Both volumes with new endpapers. Some illustrations and text towards the end of Volume II with some faint dampstaining only. Three illustrations are present twice in these volumes (Plates 35, 54 and 84). Extremely rare publication in very good condition !!

74. [Walter Benjamin Collection] – Guilleminot, Bœspflug et Cie. / [Paris during the World Exhibition in the Year 1900]

Collection of thirtyfour (34) original photographic glass-slides, allowing us to imagine the surroundings of Walter Benjamin’s “Arcades Project” and the Genesis of his Idea of “Paris as the Capital of the 19th Century”. While the Glass-Slides are NOT from Benjamin’s library or from one of his friends collections, they are contemporary artefacts which allow us to Timetravel into the Paris of Benjamin’s “Arcades” and illustrate Benjamin’s creation of the six sections of his “Arcades Project”: “Fourier, or the Arcades” ; “Daguerre, or the Panoramas”; “Grandville, or the World Exhibitions” ; “Louis-Philippe, or the Interior”; “Baudelaire, or the Streets of Paris”; “Hausmann, or the Barricades”. The slides were produced by Parisien Radio-Brom manufacturer of photographic plates and papers, “Guilleminot, Bœspflug et Cie”. The fantastic slides all produced around the time of the 1900 Paris Exposition (World’s Fair), known in french as “Exposition Universelle” in Paris. Included are photographic plates of the “Theatre Sarah-Bernhardt” at the “Place du Chatelet”, “Le Louvre”, “Paris – Buttes-Chaumont – Le Lac & Le Belvedere”, “Avenue de L’Opera”, “Place de Victoires”, “Gare St.Lazare – Rue de Rome”, L’Institut pris du pont des Arts”, “Gare Montsouris”, “Monument de Pasteur – Avenue de Breteuil”, “La Seine et L’Hotel de Ville”, “Pont au Change”, “Les Tuileries – avec “Charmeur d’Oiseaux”, “Le Conseil d’Etat”, “Avenue des Champs Elysees”, “Palais de Justice, Boulevard du Palais”, “Pont ALexandre III”, “Square d’Anvers”, “Grand Palais”, “Fontaine de Carpeaux”, “Jardin des Plantes” “Galerie de la Plaeontologie”, “Place du Carrousel – Arc de Triomphe”, “De Notre Dame sur l’Hotel Dieu – Tour St.Jacques – Sacre Coeur”, etc. Also included are some private images of family, picnic in the forests etc.

Paris, Exposition Universelle of 1900 / Guilleminot, Bœspflug et Cie., [c.1900]. 10.7 cm x 4.4 cm. 34 slides in three boxes (one of the boxes labelled: “Diapositifs de Verascope Richard”. Original Hardcover Boxes with glass-slides. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

75. Perry, Vincent G.

The Boston Terrier. By Vincent G. Perry – International Show Judge. Sketches by G.H.Lederer.

Original, First Edition. Chicago, Judy Publishing Company, 1928. Octavo. 153, (6) pages. Hardcover / Original, illustrated orange cloth with the very scarce original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear to the dustjacket. Name of preowner on endpaper. The dustjacket with some fraying and spotting. A very scarce book and the only true first edition form the year 1928 on the international market at he moment of cataloging !

76. Pincierus, Johannes / Pincier, Johannes / [ExLibris Adam Gottlob von Moltke – (Gut Bregentved / Gut Niendorf)]

Otium Marpurgense, in sex libros digestum: Quibus fabrica corporis humani, in fertis passim disputationibus, historiis & fabulis ad rem pertinentibus, facili ac perspicuo carmine describitur á Johanne Pinciero, Medicinæ Doctore.

Herbornæ Nassoviorum [Herborn], 1614. Octavo. [16], 423 p. Hardcover / Original, very decorative 17th century binding in full leather with coat of arms supralibro of Danish Statesman and Diplomat, Adam Gottlob Moltke to boards. Binding with some minor cracks to spine but still holding, boards slightly rubbed and partially with minor loss to leather but with the original spine-label intact and the binding overall still in splendid glory / Extrem seltene Publikation des Wetteraner Mediziners, Johannes Pincier, Professor in Herborn und Marburg sowie Leibarzt in Dillenburg und Braunfels. Aus der Bibliothek des dänischen Oberhofmarschalls am Hof in Kopenhagen, Adam Gottlob Moltke (1710 – 1791).

77. [Marana, Giovanni Paolo].

The Eight Volumes of Letters Writ By a Turkish Spy, Who lived Five and Forty Years Undiscovered at Paris: Giving an Impartial Account to the Divan at Constantinople of the Most Remarkable Transactions of Europe : And discovering several Intrigues and Secrrets of the Christian Courts, (especially of that of France) continued from the Year 1637, to the Year 1682 [plus the Supplement Volume covers the Years 1687 to the Year 1693]. Mixed Edition: Volume I: 24th Edition (1754) / Volume II , Volume III, Volume IV and Volume V in Seventh Edition (1717-1718) / Volume VI is missing (!) / Volume VII and Volum VIII (1718) / Supplement-Volume IX is titled: “A Continuation of Letters – Written by a Turkish Spy….continued from the Year 1687 too the Year 1693. Written originally in Arabick, Translated into Italian, and from thence into English.

Eight Volumes (of 9, inluding Supplement). Dublin / London, G.and A. Ewing / W.Taylor, 1717-1754. Small Octavo. Volume I: Frontispiece showing Mahmut the Turkish Spy, XXV, 312 pages / Volume II: 276 pages / Volume III: 287 pages / Volume IV: 287 pages / Volume V: 276 pages / Volume VI (missing) / Volume VII: 248 pages / Volume VIII: 280 pages / Volume IX: Frontispiece “Mohamet the Turkish Spy”, VIII, (6), 304 pages. Hardcover / Original full leather of the 18th century with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and boards. Only the first Volume (Dublin Edition) with some stronger damage to endpapers but very good and firm inside. All other Volumes in very good condition. Extremely rare with Volume IX, the nearly always missing Supplement Volume. Provanance: Volume I (Dublin Edition) from the library of John Morrison / Volumes 2 – 9 from the library of Chris Rogers. Both names written in contemporary ink to titlepages.

78. [Melancholy and Solitude in the 18th century] – Zimmermann, Johann Georg [Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann].

Ueber die Einsamkeit [On Solitude].

4 Baende (komplett). Frankfurt und Leipzig, [ohne Verlagsangabe], 1785. Klein-Oktav. XL, 328, [8 nn.], XL, 442, [12 nn.], XVI, 430, [6 nn.], XXXII, 416, [8 nn.] Seiten. Hardcover / Originales Halbleder des 18.Jahrhunderts. Alle Baende in sehr guter Erhaltung bis auf einen kleinen Schaden am oberen Kapital des 3.Bandes. Durchgehend minimal stockfleckig. Restaurierte Wurmspur auf einigen Seiten des 3.Bandes. Wahrscheinlich ein zeitgenoessischer Raubdruck dieser bedeutenden Publikation ueber die Melancholie.

79. Wagner, Richard (1813 – 1883) / Christoph von Dohnányi.

Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) – Behrens – Hale – Protschka – Rydl – Heilmann. Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor unter der Leitung von Christoph von Dohnányi.

Decca, 1994. CD Size. 2 CD’s. Original Softcover Cardboard-Box. This rare set of 2 CD’s is in excellent condition.

80. Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn.

Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church. Part I: Abraham to Samuel – With Maps and Plans (Plan of the Mosque at Hebron / Palestine before the Conquest / Migration of Abraham).

London, John Murray, 1863. Octavo. XLI, 523 pages with folded maps and plans. Hardcover / Original Half-leather with gilt lettering on spine. Upper spine slightly damaged. Otherwise in very good condition with some minor signs of wear only.

81. [Sinclair, Sir George] Grant, James.

Memoirs of Sir George Sinclair, Bart., of Ulbster. [Includes the “Interview with the First Napoleon”].

London, Tinsley Brothers, 1870. Large – Octavo. Portrait – Frontispiece with printed signature, X, 484 oages. Hardcover / Original half leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Binding slightly rubbed, Interior a little dusty but otherwise in very good condition with some minor signs of wear only.

82. [Roberts, William] [Exlibris Gulielme (sic) Roberts] Bonnechose, Émile de / L.Dussieux (cartographer).

Géographie Physique, Historique et Politique de la France avec dix-huit cartes coloriées représentant la formation successive du Royaume.

Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1847. Octavo (14 cm x 23 cm). V, (2), 104 pages, suivies de 18 cartes aux contours colorisés, de la France dans ses états successifs (104 pages plus 18 hand-coloured maps of France by L.Dussieux showing France through its History, with special maps showing historical military events with England etc. Original Softcover. Spine rubbed and slightly damaged. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Name of preowner William Roberts in pencil on titlepage [being William Roberts of the irish family Westropp-Roberts].

83. [Quine, W.V.O.] / Carnap, Rudolf / Buck, Roger C. / Cohen, Robert S.

PSA 1970 – In Memory of Rudolf Carnap. Edited by Roger C. Buch and Robert S.Cohen.

Dordrecht-Holland, D.Reidel Publishing Company, 1971. 8°. LXVI, 615 pages with two photographs of Rudolf Carnap, inserted just before the contents-page, showing a young Rudolf Carnap on a photograph from 1935 and the elderly Carnap on a photograph from 1962. 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. [Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Sciece – Volume VIII].

84. Morus, Thomas.

Utopia. Eine Konstruktion des humanen Staates. Ins Deutsche übertragen und eingeleitet von H.M. Endres.

München, Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, 1960. 11 cm x 19 cm. 134 Seiten. Hardcover / Originales, gruenes Ganzleinen mit dem seltenen Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter, aussergewoehnlich guter Zustand !

85. [Jaubert, Ernest] Tarchanoff, Jean de.

Hypnotisme, Suggestion et lecture des Pensées. Traduit du russe par Ernest Jaubert. [Avec une dédicace du traducteur Ernest Jaubert].

Paris, G. Masson, 1891. Octavo. VII, 163 pages. Modern Hardcover with original wrappers bound in. The Volume is now in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. The signature and dedication on the endpaper. Recipient of the dedication was removed.

86. Day, Angelique (Editor).

Letters from Georgian Ireland: The correspondence of Mary Delany, 1731-68. Edited by Angelique Day. Foreword by Sybil Connolly.

Belfast, The Friar’s Bush Press, 1991. Octavo. VIII, 303 p ages with 66 black & white illustrations plus 16 color plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

87. Anonymus.

Les Mille et un Tyrans.

No mentioning of place of print, no printer, no year [ca.1791]. 8°. 54 pages. Softcover / Unbound ! Bon etat. No wrappers (the book was part of a collection of pamphlets which were bound together (Benjamin Constant / Comte Antoine François de Nantes etc.)

88. Ammoun, Blanche D.

Histoire du Liban. [Avec Ephemera] Avec 70 Dessins de l’Auteur.

2eme Édition. Beyrouth, Editions “Le Jour”, 1940. 19,5 cm x 15,5 cm. 196 pages. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout the book. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Edges a little rubbed and faded. Comes with unique original bookmark.

89. Vincent, Andrew.

Modern Political Ideologies.

Second edition. Oxford and Malden, Blackwell Publishers, 1997. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. X, 361 pages. Original, illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Out-of-Print !

90. [Heidegger, Martin] Meyer, Hans.

Martin Heidegger und Thomas von Aquin.

München u.a., Ferdinand Schöningh, 1964. 8°. 154 Seiten. Hardcover / Leinen mit Schutzumschlag in Brodart Cover. Nur minimale Gebrauchsspuren am Umschlag (etwas nachgedunkelt). Der Band selbst tadellos. KEINE Anstreichungen.

91. [Homer] Murray, Gilbert / Alington, The Rev. Cyril / Pearson, A.C. / Fisher, H.A.L. / Rawlinson, A.E.J. / Lightfoot, R.H. / Miss Edith Crowdy.

Proceedings of the Hellenic Travellers’ Club 1929. [With Essays about the Greek World like: “Homer through the Ages” by E.E.Skies / “Ithaca and Santa Maura” by Canon Richards / “The Problem of St.John in Patmos” / “What Christianity owes to Greece” etc.].

Uxbridge / Ealing, Printed by King & Hutchins, 1929. Octavo. Pagination: Frintispiece [″A Greek Dancing Class on the Acropolis”, 202, VII, [1] pages. With many photographs throughout the Volume. Hardcover / Original full cloth with gilt elttering on spine and front board. Binding with some minor damages, spine fragile. The Volume general firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

92. [Homer] Korfmann, Prof.Dr. Dr. Manfred / Mannsperger, Prof.Dr. Dietrich P.

Troia / Wilusa – General Background and A Guided Tour. Prepared by the Director of the Excavations. English Translation by Jean D.Carpenter Efe.

Enlarged and revised Edition. Tuebingen, Canakkale-Tuebingen Troia Vakfi [Foundation], 2007. Octavo. 150 pages plus colourful fold-out map to the rear. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

93. Froude, James Anthony.

History of England – From the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth and To the Defeat of the Spanish Armada [12 Volumes – Complete set].

[Reprinted from the edition of 1862-1870, London]. New York, AMS Press, 1969. Octavo. Volume I: Reign of Henry The Eight (489 pages), Volume II: Reign of Henry The Eight (544 pages), Volume III: Reign of Henry The Eight (535 pages), Volume IV: Reign of Henry The Eight (557 pages), Volume V: Reign of Edward VI (515 pages), Volume VI: Queen Jane and Queen Mary (568 pages), Volume VII: Reign of Elizabeth – Part I (541 pages), Volume VIII: Reign of Elizabeth – Part II (483 pages), Volume IX: Reign of Elizabeth – Part III (595 pages), Volume X: Reign of Elizabeth – Part IV (563 pages), Volume XI: Reign of Elizabeth – Part V (671 pages), Volume XII: Reign of Elizabeth – Part VI (634 pages). Hardcover / Original grey publisher’s cloth. Unusually excellent, nearly unused condition with only minor signs of wear.

94. [Plato] McClain, Ernest.

The Pythagorean Plato – Prelude to the Song itself.

First Paperback Edition. York Beach (Maine), Nicolas-Hays, 1984. Octavo. VII, (3), 192 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare !

95. Gorham, Maurice.

Ireland from Old Photographs.

London, Batsford, 1979. Quarto (18.7 cm x 24.7 cm). 156 unnumbered pages with 206 stunning, historical photographs of 19th century Ireland. Illustrated Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Small personal inscription (not by the author).

96. Lenihan, Liam.

The writings of James Barry and the Genre of History Painting, 1775-1809.

Farnham/Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2014. Octavo (16.2 cm wide x 24 cm high). XII, 206 pags / Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed by Liam Lenihan.

97. Garrigou-Lagrange, Réginald.

The Mother of The Saviour and Our Interior Life. By Father Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., Professor of Dogma and Mystical Theology in the Angelico, Rome. Translated by Bernard J. Kelly, C.S.Sp., D.D.

The very Rare First English Language Edition. Dublin, Golden Eagle Books Ltd., 1948. Octavo (15 cm wide x 22 cm high). 338 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely rare publication !

98. [Pike, Mary] Groeger, Kieran.

The much-maligned Mary Pike – The Rebel County and ‘98.

Kieran Groeger, 2019. 8°. 193 pages. Illustrated. Illustrated Softcover. Excellent condition.

99. Barrell, John.

The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt – ‘The Body of the Public’.

First Paperback Edition. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1995. Octavo (13.7 cm wide x 21.8 cm high). VIII, 366 pages. Illustrated. Original, illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

100. Albers, Josef.

Interaction of Colour. Unabridged text and selected plates.

20th edition. Yale, University Press, 1975. Octavo. 81 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare.