91. [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”.

92. Greaves, C. Desmond.

The Irish Case against Partition [Full facts and programme of Action].

[London], Connolly Association, no year [ca. 1952]. 19 cm. 36 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Extremely scarce ! [A Connolly Association pamphlet].

93. Green, Alice Stopford.

The Making of Ireland and its undoing, 1200-1600.

Second Edition. Dublin / London, Maunsel and Company, 1920. Large Octavo. XXIV, 573 pages including a map of Ireland specially drawn to illustrate chapter I of the book. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine (Original blue publisher’s coth). Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the private library of Seosamh Laoide (English: Joseph H. Lloyd, 1865–1939), known as “Mac Tíre na Páirce” (″Wolf of the Park”). With his name in gaeilge on the endpaper. Seosamh Laoide was an Irish language scholar was an Irish language scholar.

94. Griffin, Gerald.

Talis Qualis; or Tales of the Jury Room.

First Edition, published posthumously. Dublin, James Duffy & Sons, no year [c. 1842]. 8°. Frontispiece and titlepage are original steel engravings, followed by 463 pages. Original publisher’s binding. Green cloth with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Beautifully tooled boards with irish harp embossed on frontcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper (W. Collins).

95. Grist, Berna.

An Introduction to Irish Planning Law.

Second edition. Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2012. 24 cm. xvi, 207 pages. Softcover. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare, out-of-print publication !

96. Gwynn, Stephen.

Memories of Enjoyment.

Tralee, The Kerryman Limited, 1946. Octavo. 148 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare, original dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of fraying and some external wear to the jacket.

97. [Haliburton, Thomas Chandler] Anonymous.

The Season-Ticket.

New Edition. London, Richard Bentley, 1861. Octavo (11,5 cm x 17 cm). 330 pages including Advertisement bound in front of the Volume for W.H.Smith & Son’s. Original Hardcover (Printed, paper-covered-boards. The original Volume now housed in a bespoke, recent Solander-Box. The binding a little shaky. The interior in excellent, extremely clean condition. Of utmost rarity. Already in the first chapter, Haliburton uses the technique of literary fiction in order to speak about the ability to travel everywhere (in mid 19th century)….″The Grand Tour now means a voyage round the Globe…” / Haliburton, known to have been “eager to promote immigration to the colonies of British North America” tries to entice to Travel. The Chapter “An Evening in Cork” talks about the narrator to “accompany my old college friend Cary to Monkstown in Ireland…..unlike my gruff and inhospitable countrymen, I advise you, when at Cork, to remain there, till you have ‘done’ the city and its environs and then to sail down the River…”.

98. Haliday, Charles / Brendain O Riordain (introduction).

The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin. Edited with some Notice of the Author’s Life by John P.Prendergast.

Reprint of the Second Edition – Dublin, 1894. Shannon, Irish University Press, 1969. 15 cm x 24 cm. CXXIII, 300 pages. Illustrated with maps and plans. Original Hardcover. Extensive spotting on endpapers and some on pages edges and spine. Interior pages mostly clean with intact binding. Inscription by preowner. Otherwise in very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

99. Hammond Lane Ironfounders [Dublin].

Company Catalogue of “The Hammond Lane Ironfounders Ltd. – 111 Pearse Street – Dublin” – Listing: Cast Iron Cookers – Grates – Ranges – Heating Stoves – Low Fires – C.B.Fires – R.W. & Soil Goods – Manhole Covers – Gulleys – Gratings – Ventilators – C.I.Tanks – W.C.Cisterns & General Castings. [With two Birds-Eye-View-Photographs of the Ironworks in Dublin’s Pearse Street pasted to the inner boards of the binding / Shows also a very interesting image-sheet with photographs of the Fleet of Lorries and one Service-Van which delivered the Stoves anywhere in Ireland].

[Dublin, Hammond Lane Ironfounders Ltd., 1954. Large Octavo (22.5 cm wide x 28.5 cm high). 71 single sheets with fantastic, photographic illustrations of Cast Iron Aga – Style – Stoves, Fireplaces etc. Hardcover with single sheets bound in. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

100. Hammond, Bill.

Soldier of the Rearguard: The Story of Matt Flood and the Active Service Column.

Fermoy, Éigse Na Mainistreach Publications, 1977. 12 cm x 18 cm. 69 pages, 3 illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent, near mint condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare book.