1. Banks, [Isabella] Mrs. G. Linnaeus / [Isabella Banks].

The Manchester Man [Signed Edition]. Illustrated Edition with Pictures by Charles Green & Hedley Fitton.

Manchester / London, Abel Heywood & Son / Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, 1896. Quarto (20 cm x 25,5 cm). Frontispiece, IX, 480 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. An early Art Nouveau Binding ! Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Beautifully signed by Isabella Banks in her full name on the halftitle (see images). An especially good condition of this now rare book.

2. Boccaccio, Giovanni / [Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari].

L’amorosa fiammetta di M. Giovanni Boccaccio, di Nuovo Corretta et Ristampata, con La Tavola et le Postille delle cose Piu Notabili.

Venetia, Appresso I Gioliti, 1584. 9.5 cm x 15.4 cm. 107, [1] pages including illustrated titlepage with Giolito’s printer mark and Giolito’s stunning colophon of Phoenix rising from the ashes and the Motto: “Semper eadem” (″Always the same”). Hardcover in custom – made solanderbox. Recently rebound in half-leather with marbled paper-covered-boards. The bookblock in very good condition with some minor, contemporary inkstains. Name of preowner “Exlibris Bernard Rielliae [″Bernard Reilly”] in contemporary ink (16th or 17th century entry). Small lesion to titlepage and first three pages only. Very faint, faded dampstain to the outer margins of a few pages.

3. Buc’hoz, Pierre-Joseph.

The Toilet of Flora; or, A Collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing: Baths, Essences, Pomatums, Powders, Perfumes [Perfume] and Sweet-Scented Waters with Receipts for Cosmetics of every kind, that can smooth and brighten the Skin, give Force to Beauty, and take off the Appearance of Old Age and Decay. For the use of the Ladies [With a Supplement on “Different Ways of Preparing Snuff”].

A New Edition improved. London, Printed for J.Murray, 1779. Small Octavo (11 cm x 17,5 cm). Frontispiece, [22 unnumbered], 252 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century half-leather with marbled-paper-covered boards in protective Mylar. Spine slightly discoloured with some cracks and defects but overall the poublication firm and tight, endpapers stabilized. Interior in excellent, bright condition.

4. Chadwick, Whitney.

Mirror Images – Women, surrealism, and self-representation. Essays for example include: Dawn Ades – Surrealism and the Representation of the Female Subject in Mexico and Postwar Paris / Helaine Posner – Negotiating Boundaries in the Art of Yayoi Kusama, Ana Mendieta and Francesca Woodman / Katy Kline – Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman / Salomon Grimberg – The Self as an End / Dickran Tashjian – Marcel Duchamp and Transgender Coupling] Edited by Whitney Chadwick.

Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 1998. 28 cm. xiii, 193 pages with numerous illustrations (some in color). Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. [Clerke, Agnes Mary].

Collection of eight publications by and about Agnes Mary Clerke plus one autographed / signed manuscript-letter by Agnes Clerke [The letter answers the request of a fellow german Astronomer who complimented her on her History of Astronomy and asked for her permission to translate her latest work). The recipient is possibly german astronomer R.Engelmann who wrote about Nebula. The letter dates from 1891 and is written in perfect german (Agnes Clerke was known to have written reviews and letters in French, German, Greek and Italian). This rare collection includes the following books: 1. A.M.Clerke – Geschichte der Astronomie während des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Gemeinfasslich dargestellt. (Autorisierte deutsche Ausgabe von H.Maser) – First german edition of “A popular History of Astronomy during the 19th century” from 1889 – with a signed, contemporary manuscript letter by Agnes Clerke in german (!) regarding this publication / 2. Agnes Clerke – Familiar Studies in Homer (London, 1892) / 3. Agnes Clerke – “The Herschels and Modern Astronomy” (with a loosely inserted portrait of Sir William Herschel) (London, 1895) / 4. Agnes Clerke – “A popular History of Astronomy during the 19th century” (The important Fourth Edition, revised and corrected by the author) (London, Adam and Charles Black, 1902) – Famously: With the vintage photographs pasted to frontispiece and titlepage / 5. Agnes Clerke – “The System of the Stars” – Second Edition (London, 1905) / 6. Agnes Clerke – Modern Cosmogonies (London, 1905) / 7. Agnes Clerke – “A popular History of Astronomy during the 19th century” 1908-Reprint of the important Fourth Edition, revised and corrected by the author) (London, Adam and Charles Black, 1908) / 8. Mary Brueck / Mary Brück – Agnes Mary Clerke & The Rise of Astrophysics (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

A mixture of first and later editions. Berlin / London, Springer / Cassell / Longmans & Green and others, 1889 – 1908. Octavo. More than 2500 pages with many illustrations and diagrams etc. / The vintage letter has two pages filled and signed by Clerke in ink / The only modern publication within the collection is a very important monograph on Clerke by scientist Mary Brueck / Mary Brück, published by Cambridge University Press (275 pages). Original Hardcovers in bespoke protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. A stunning collection of all the major publications by this important woman astronomer. Agnes Clerke paved the way for women in science and must be seen as the pioneer female astronomer. The price includes worldwide free shipping of the collection per UPS Express Courier.

6. [Cork – West Cork / County Kerry History Pre-Famine] Nicholson, Asenath.

Ireland’s Welcome To The Stranger or An Excursion through Ireland in 1844 & 1845, for the Purpose of Personally Investigating the Condition of the Poor.

First Edition. New York, Baker and Scribner, 1847. Small Octavo. XV, 456 pages plus 22 pages of a catalogue for the publisher Baker and Scribner in the rear. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and ornament to covers. Recently, professionally restored. Very good condition with the usual signs of some browning and foxing to this publication. From the library of Lathrop Josiah Tracy, Honesdale, Pennsylvania (1825-1897). With his name to the halftitle. A very rare and important book !

7. [Crawford, Mabel] Anonymous.

Through Algeria.

London, Richard Bentley, 1863. 12 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 362 pages. The frontispiece is a colour-lithograph of El Kantara. Attractive hardcover [publisher’s original purple cloth] with gilt lettering and ornamental design on spine. Gilt lettering and richly decorative tooling on front board. Blind tooling on back board also. Pebbled boards. All edges gilt. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Cloth frayed at spine head and tail. Slight cracking to gutter between front pastedown and endpaper. Binding still very good and firm. Some foxing to endpapers. Interior very clean and bright. Some untrimmed pages. Handwritten message on front endpaper reads “A Prize gained by Louisea Mells for Progress in her French studies, Xmas. 1869. Magdalen House.” An extremely rare, rather scarce, early publication by an Irish Woman Traveller in Africa who also lived and helped through the Irish Famine and was not only an early Feminist but also one of the first members of the Suffragette Movement.

8. Cullen, Mary / Luddy, Maria [Editors].

Female activists – Irish women and change 1900-1960. [Mary Galway / Louie bennett / Kathleen Lynn / Hanna Sheehy Skeffington / Margaret Cousins / Helena Molony / Rosamond Jacob]

Dublin, Woodfield Press, 2001. 23 cm. 206 pages with several portrait illustrations. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare ! Out-of-Print !

9. Davies, Ross.

Women and Work.

London, Hutchinson of London, 1975. 13.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 191 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

10. De Bourdeille, Messire Pierre.

Memoires De Messire Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantome, Contenans Les Vies de Dames Galantes de fon temps.

Volume I et II en un volume. Amsterdam, Chez Jean de la Tourterelle, M.DC.LXXXIX [1689]. 8,5 cm x 14 cm. 358 pages, 408 pages. Hardcover / Original vellum. A tear to bottom of spine, some foxing to page edges, otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bookplate to pastedown.

11. De Ségur, Vicomte J. A.

Les Femmes – Leur Condition et Leur Influence dans L’Ordre Social chez différents peuples anciens et modernes. Nouvelle édition, Augmentée de l’influence des Femmes sous l’Empire, et de notes historiques, par M. Ch. N***.

Edition originale. Paris, Raymond Libraire, 1820. 13 cm x 19,5 cm. 474 pages/ 445 pages avec 2 gravures originale. Relié demi-cuir. Excellent condition !! Tome 1 et 2 (complet). Nouvelle Édition. Paris, 1820. 2 gravures. Bel exemplaire. Couverture et tranches de couverture un peu frottées. Intérieur bon état malgré quelques rousseurs éparses. Titre, Auteur et tomaison en dorés sur dos en cuir marron orné de fleurons. Exlibris Franco Crainz.

12. Faguet, Émile.

Le Féminisme.

Paris, Société Francaise d’Imprimerie et de Libraire, 1910. 18 x 12 cm. 380 pages. Hardcover / Relié demi-cuir marron. Bel exemplaire. Couverture défraîchie, tranches de couverture et coins frottées. Rousseurs et jaunissement sur tranches. Intérieur bon état malgré le jaunissement des pages. Titre et auteur en dorés sur dos á cinq nerfs orné de fleurons dorés. Belles gardes de papier marbré.

13. Gatti, Ellen.

Exploring We Would Go.

Second Edition. / Rare in collectible condition with dustjacket. London, The Travel Book Club, 1951. Octavo. VIII, 302 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

14. Gehrts, M. / [Major Hans Schomburgk].

A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland. The Adventures, Observations and Experiences of a Cinematograph Actress in West African Forests Whilst Collecting Films Depicting Native Life and When Posing as the White Woman in Anglo-African Cinematograph Dramas. With an Introduction by Major H.Schomburgk.

Philadelphia / London, J. B. Lippincott Co / Seeley, Service & Co Ltd, 1915. 15.2 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XX, 315 pages. 41 illustrations including frontis. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt pictorial on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to edges. One illustration slightly detached only. Interior is bright and clean. Binding is firm and strong. Rare in this very good condition. Tiny bookstamp from Chas.E. Lauriat Co. in Washington Street, Boston.

15. [Gifford Girls] Clare, Anne.

Unlikely rebels – The Gifford girls.

Cork, Mercier, 2011. 22 cm. 319 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. One page dogeared.

16. Gregory, G. [Reverend George Gregory].

Essays – Historical and Moral [including “Freedom of Speech and of the Press” and “Resistance to the Legislature” an ‘Essay on the Slavery of the Female Sex’ – ‘Of the Schemes asserting an Equality of the Sexes’ and ‘The History of the Female Sex’ and the ‘General State of the Controversy concerning the Inferiority of the Female Understanding’ / “Inquiry how far our commerce would be affected by the Abolition of the Slave Trade in respect of our West India Colonies”].

First Edition. London, Printed for J.Johnson, 1785. Octavo. VIII, 349 pages. Hardcover / Original, 18th century full calf with original spine-label. Front hinge weak but holding. Minor scuffing and rubbing. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Halftitle present but front free endpaper missing. Text in excellent condition. Exlibris / Bookplate of Daniel Conner to pastedown. Extremely Rare and important publication with early remarks on Gender Equality and a lengthy section on the justification of Slavery.

17. Haslett, Caroline / Pares, Bip [Ethel Pares].

The Electrical Handbook for Women. Foreword by Sir John Snell. Edited for the Electrical Association for Women.

London, The English Universities Press Ltd., 1936. 8°. 428 pages. Hardcover with the rare, illustrated Art-Deco-Dustjacket by Bip Pares in protective Mylar. New and revised edition. Minor foxing only. Includes the folding map of the Central Electricity Board of the Grid Transmission Lines of England. Original cloth with original, illustrated dustjacket. The rare jacket, designed by Bip Pares, nearly complete, but torn and with some minor loss of paper to the rear endpaper.

18. Herbert, Agnes [″The Authoress”].

Two Dianas in Somaliland. A Record of a Shooting Trip by Agnes Herbert / With Twenty-Five Illustrations Reproduced from Photographs.

Second Edition. London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, 306 pages. 22 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent version of this rare book in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Occasional spotting but interior otherwise bright and clean. Foxing to edges. Some untrimmed pages throughout.

19. [Hofland, Barbara] / Hofland, Mrs. [Barbara Wreakes].

Ellen, The Teacher – A Tale for Youth.

A New Edition. London, John Harris, c.1840. Duodecimo. Frontispiece, 185 pages plus two unnumbered pages of a catalogue of books published by Barbara Hofland [″The following Works, written by the same AUthor, may be had of the Publisher”]. Hardcover / Original half-leather of the time with gilt lettering on spine. Binding rubbed and corners bumped strongly. Binding very firm and fully intact. Some browning and pencil – marks inside. Very Rare publication by one of the most successful female authors of children’s books, educational and moral stories in the early 19th century.

20. [Inanna / Ishtar] De Shong Meador, Betty / Grahn, Judy.

Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart : Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess.

Austin, University of Texas Press, 2001. Octavo. 225 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover. New / Excellent condition.

21. [Inanna / Ishtar] Wolkstein, Diana / Kramer, Samuel Noah.

Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth – Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer.

Harper Perennial, 1983. Octavo. 256 pages. Original, illustrated softcover. New / Excellent condition.

22. Johnson, Osa.

Four Years in Paradise.

New York, Garden City Publishing Co. Inc., 1941. 15 cm x 23.5 cm. 345 pages. 54 illustrations on 34 plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original faded- green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good- condition with clear signs of external wear. Tail of spine lightly frayed / Cover slightly stained. Small abrasions to lower corners of boards. Light damp stains on front and rear boards. Signed and inscribed by the author, Osa Johnson, on half-title: “Best African Wishes – Osa Johnson”.

23. Kirkland, Caroline.

Some African Highways. A Journey of Two American Women to Uganda and the Transvaal. With Illustrations from Photographs and a Map. With an Introduction by Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell.

London, Duckworth & Co, 1908. 14.5 cm x 20.5 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 345 pages. 46 illustrations. One fold-out map of Mombasa to Victoria (Railway) near front. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Tooling to front board edges. Embossment to lower corner of rear board. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding is solid and square. Interior is bright and clean with sharp corners. Preowner’s name on front endpaper.

24. Kumin, Maxine.

The Designated Heir.

New York, The Viking Press, 1974. 14.5 cm x 21.3 cm. 174 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by Author on title-page. Endpaper and half-title are slightly separated.

25. Luddy, Maria.

Women and philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995. Octavo. 251 pages. Softcover. Some text markings by pre-owner. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

26. Margaret, Queen of Navarre.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre. Translated from the French with a Memoir of the Author by Walter K. Kelly.

Two Volumes in one (complete set). London, Published for the Trade, no date [c.1918]. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of Margaret, Volume I – 183 pages / Volume II – 245 pages. Illustrated throughout the two volumes. Original Hardcover. Binding a little shaky. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

27. [Markievicz, Constance]

Collection of two important biographies on Constance Markievicz including two interesting newspaper-clippings with articles on Markievivz. The books in the collection are: 1. Anne Marreco – The Rebel Countess – The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz / 2. Diana Norman – Terrible Beauty: Life of Constance Markievicz, 1868-1927.

London / Dublin, Phoenix Press / Poolbeg, 1988 / 2000. Octavo. 330 / 320 pages. Illustrated with photographs. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

28. Martz, Sandra Hademan (Editor).

I am becoming the woman I’ve wanted.

Watsonville, CA, Papier-Mache Press, 1994. 18 x 24 cm. XVI, 218 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. The dustjacket stronger frayed. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Giftinscription to endpaper.

29. [McAfee, Mildred Helen] de la Mare, Walter.

Ding Dong Bell.

London, Selwyn & Blount Ltd., 1924. 13 cm x 19 cm. IX, 76 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and fully signed by de La Mare to American academic Mildred Helen McAfee Horton on front free endpaper: “Helen McAfee with all good wishes from Walter de la Mare – June 1924”.

30. McCoole, Sinead.

Easter Widows – Seven Irish Women who lived in the shadow of the 1916 Rising.

Dublin, Doubleday Ireland, 2015. 24 cm. xvii, 444 pages. With illustrations (black and white, and colour). Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

31. Meier-Seethaler, Carola.

Ursprünge und Befreiungen. Eine dissidente Kulturtheorie.

Zürich, Arche, 1988. 8°. 561 Seiten. Illustriert. Hardcover / Originaler Pappband mit Schutzumschlag. Sehr guter Zustand. KEINE Anstreichungen.

32. Menzies, Mrs. Stephen [editor].

The Traveller’s Guide from Death to Life.

London / Liverpool, S.W. Partridge & Co. / British Gospel Book Association, no year (c.1880). 18.5 cm x 25 cm. 160 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original red pebbled-finished cloth]. Gilt stamped device with title and black tooled borders on front board. Blind border tooling to rear board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Faded cloth at spine. Binding still firm and solid. Sharp cornered interior clean and bright. Tricoloured Bookplate carrying “Sin, Subsitution, Salvation” and similiarly themed quotes. Preowner’s name on front endpaper. Loosely inserted ephemera: Maroon-coloured Recognition card of ‘Mrs Mary Maynard’ for the Young Women’s Christian Association with Biblical quotes dated ‘July 1885’.

33. [Mirror Club, The] / Henry Mackenzie / William Craig / Alexander Abercromby / Alexander Fraser Tytler.

The Mirror – A Periodical Paper, Published at Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780 [″Veluti in Specula”].

Fourth Edition overall [First Dublin Edition]. In Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed by T.Henshall for T.Walker, 1782. Small Octavo (10 cm x 18 cm). VI, 288, VIII, 288 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century leather with new spinelabels, made to style. Both Volumes now in protective Mylar. Some minor wormhole-damage to the last 20 pages of Volume Two.Minor lesions to some pages only. Faded dampstain to both Volumes. Still, both Volumes firm and complete. Important scottish enlightenment publication. From the library of one “John Courtenay”, with his name in ink on the titlepages of both Volumes. This is possibly John Courtenay (22 August 1738 – 24 March 1816), who was an Irish officer in the British Army, later becing a politician in England. He was a Whig member of Parliament (MP) at Westminster from 1780 to 1807, and again in 1812. (Wikipedia)

34. Montagu, Mary Wortley.

The Works of the Right Honorable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays. Published by Permission from Her Genuine Papers. [Including a Facsimile – “Extract from a letter written by Lady Montagu Wortleyfrom Belgrade to Mr. Wortley at Pera, describing the effects of inoculation for the Small Pox”].

First Edition. In Five Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for Richard Phillips, 1803. Small Octavo. Volume I: Portrait-Frontispiece of Lady Montagu by Sir Godfrey Kneller, V,309, [1] pages with 11 illustrations/folded facsimiles (including frontispiece) / Volume II: XI, 339 pages / Volume III: 288 pages / Volume IV: 326 pages / Volume V: 292 pages plus 36 unnumbered pages of an Index. Hardcover / Original, very decorative full leather-bindings of the early 19th century with original spine-labels and gilt lettering on spine. Besides some minor rubbing and some minor discoloration to the spines from white paint, the complete set is in firm and overall very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Previous owner’s name in ink on

35. Müller, Peter / Mueller, Peter.

De Jure Praegnantium – Vom Rechte Schwangerer Weiber [On the Rights of Pregnant Women – Abortion / Adultery / Marriage Fraud in the 18th century].

First Edition. Jena, Literis Ac Sumtibus Joh.Christ. Croeker, 1744. Octavo (17 cm x 21,5 cm). 160 pages plus 8 pages of an Index. Modern Hardcover with 18th-century bookblock bound in. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Faded dampstain to lower margins of some pages. An immensely important, early publication on women’s rights and pregnant women and their rights in particular.

36. Norton, Rictor.

Gothic Readings. The First Wave, 1764-1840. Edited by Rictor Norton.

London ; New York, Leicester University Press, 2000. 24 cm. XIII, 369 pages with 9 illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. [Continuum studies in Gothic fiction].

37. Palmer, Alice Freeman.

Manuscript Letter, signed (MLS) by Alice Freeman Palmer, American educator, President of Wellesley College, Dean of Women at then newly founded University of Chicago and most importantly, Advocate for College Education for Women. The letter, written in Cambridge, Mass. on March 16th, 1899 comes in its original envelope and is a wonderful example for her caring personality not only for women’s education but also for a mother’s anxiety who was worried about her son’s education and who found the courage to write to Alice Freeman Palmer and ask for her help. The six-page-manuscript-letter is addressed to a Mrs. Richmond in Adams, Massachusetts. Alice Freeman Palmer responds to Mrs. Richmond’s worries that her son may not be able to afford a second year at Harvard University. Alice Freeman Palmer writes: “My dear Mrs. Richmond, I have read your letter with the warmest interest and have discussed the possibilities with my husband, who is a Professor in Harvard. He has seen the Dean in confidence and they will do all they can to secure some Price Greenleaf Aid for your son for next year – as much as possible. Dean Briggs will send a blank to your son which he should fill out and return. I think the decision is mde here in June and then you will know how much you can reky on from that source. If your son decides to return to Harvard, my husband wil secure one hundred and fifty dollars in addition, to pay his tuition from a fund which he has for students whom he wishes to help; so that he can have any Greenleaf aid he receives & use in addition to his tuition bills. For how much can he get on in Cambridge ? We will do all we can to secure him work and as will the Dean but we cannot be sure there are as many students applying for the same thing. We hope he will get $ 250 from the Gren Leaf Fund. If he does and has 150.00 for his tuition, would it not be wise for him to come, hoping that you might do a little for him, and might get some work from time to time and live very economically, and so get through the year. He must do such good work in his sophomore year that he can stand a chance for a scholarship at the end, and I should think that would be likely. I hope very heartily that he can return to Harvard and you may be sure that we will help him in any way we can. He must come and see us at once and let me know how we can assist him. We shall hold your letter in strict confidence you may know. You can trust the Dean absolutely and his help is essential in getting your son the aid he needs; for the numbers who need aid quite as sorely are many more than the means to aid them. But your letter has made me feel that a boy as Frailed as yours deserves the chances to finish his college course, and I hope he can find a way to the next three years without any more delay. Let us hope too that your husbands business will improve, and your anxieties be removed and the other boys find their way after too ! Sincerley Yours, Alice Freeman Palmer”. [The Letter was loosely inserted in to an edition of George Herbert Palmer’s publication: “The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer”. The book is part of this collection.

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin/The Riverside Press Cambridge,, 1908. Octavo. Portrait-Frontispiece, 349, [3] pages with 6-page Autographed letter signed (ALS), loosely inserted. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

38. Parker, Juli L.

Representations of Murderous Women in Literature, Theatre, Film, and Television. Examining the Patriarchal Presuppositions Behind the Treatment of Murderesses in Fiction and Reality.

Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 2010. XVIII, 424 pages. Original Hardcover. Some staining to the rear board. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

39. Pemberton, A.C. / Harcourt Williamson, Mrs. / Sisley, C.P. / Floyd, Gilbert.

The Complete Cyclist. Illustrated. Edited by B. Fletcher Robinson.

London A.D. Innes & Co. 1897. 13 cm x 20 cm. Frontispiece, 400 pages with numerous photographic plates and text-illustrations / humorous woodcuts (the photographs show for example Victorian cyclists in Hyde Park / Photograph of a group of Cyclysts after a “Gymkana” / Professional Cycling Race past the Grand Stand by the Wall Brothers, St.Kilda / Military Cyclist tilting at the Ring, etc.). Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt lettering and design on front board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior is bright and clean. Occasional minor foxing. Very rare, early publication on cycling in the victorian society ! [The Isthmian Library – No.2]

40. Radcliffe, Ann.

The Mysteries of Udolpho.

First Edition. 4 Volumes [complete set]. London, Printed for G. G. and J.Robinson, 1794. Octavo. Collation complete with all four half-titles: Volume I: 428 pages / Volume II: 478 pages / Volume III: 463 pages / Volume IV: 428 pages. Original, unaltered, 18th-century half leather with gilt lettering on original spinelabels. All four bindings with vintage paper-covered boards and their original, reinforced corners. The set is now housed in a custom-made solander-box / clamshell-box. Excellent, firm condition of all four volumes with minor lesions to hinges and some rubbing to extremeties only and some general, neglectable external wear to corners and upper spines. In Volume I, two sentences partly censored with manuscript editing in ink. Interior very good with the occasional lesion (I, p.109), minor tear (II, p.93), and stains to a page here or there and a faded, very mild dampstain in the background of some pages of Volume IV. Two excellent provenance signs: Bookplate / Exlibris of “William Tennant, Ashton Hall” to the pastedown of each Volume / Previous owner-stamp of “O.W.O’Grady Young – Castlerea”. A fantastic, in this state, unbelievably rare version, of one of the most desirable books in the english language. The seminal gothic novel, a most desirable collectable and the best copy of this first edition we have ever handled.

41. Radcliffe, Ann.

The Mysteries of Udolpho – A Romance; interspersed with some pieces of Poetry.

First Dublin Edition / First Irish Edition. 3 Volumes [complete set]. Dublin, , by Hillary and Barlow, for Messrs. P. Wogan, W. Jones, and H. Colbert, 1794. Small Octavo (17.5 cm x 11 cm). Collation complete: Volume I: 310 pages / Volume II: 321 pages / Volume III: 357 pages. [Few pages with misprinted numerals, as often the case, but all pages in order and complete]. Original, unaltered, 18th-century full leather with gilt lettering on original spinelabels. Very rare, complete set of the first Dublin Edition. Very good- condition with stronger signs of external wear but all three Volumes in firm, original condition. Lesions to the leather-covered-boards and some stronger rubbing to extremeties. Interior with only very few problems. All three Volumes used to have two endpapers before and after the text and some of these endpapers are torn or missing. Textblock in general very good with some very minor and only occasional staining only. In Volume I, tear to corner of page 101/102 and 135/136. Faded stain to only the outer margins of pages 239 to 310 (text never affected). Volume II with small tear to pages 21/22 / Volume III with lesion to page 281/282 and tear to corner 305. These all sound worse than they are and the set is still in very good- condition. From the library of the Meade family in Ballymartle, the titlepage of each Volume bears the name of Helena Meade. An extremely rare and highly collectable set of one of the rarest titles in english literature.

42. [Riddell, Charlotte Elizabeth] / [Riddell, William Easton].

A Bright Sunset – Or, Recollections of the Last Days of a Young Scottish Football Player. With introductory Note by J.H.Wilson.

First Edition. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1884. Small Octavo. Pagination: Original portrait photograph of William Easton Riddell as Frontispiece, VI, (2), 142 pages with two wood-engravings (″Toward Point” and “Up the Kyles in the Ariel”). Original, beautifully illustrated Hardcover with a football-scene on the front board, gilt lettering and floral elements. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The rare first edition with the original photograph of William Easton Riddell. Private giftinscription on the front free endpaper.

43. Roberts, Peter.

The Cambrian Popular Antiquities; or, An Account of some Traditions, Customs and Superstitions of Wales with observations as to their Origins etc. [With a section: “Mry Thomas the fasting woman – near Dolgelley”]. Illustrated with Copper – Plates (Coloured from Nature).

London, E.Williams, 1815. Octavo. VIII, 3536, (1) pages with 10 illustrations of which 9 are handcoloured. Original Hardcover / Vintage 19th century Bayntun Binding (Bayntun-Riviere,Bath). In full red morocco with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Boards a little shaky. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

44. Roche, Regina Maria [Author of “The Children of the Abbey”].

Clermont – A Tale.

Second Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed by William Porter, 1799. Small-Octavo (11,5 cm x 17,5 cm). Volume I: 269 pages / Volume II: 326 (of 329) pages [3 pages missing at the end]. Hardcover / Modern, very decorative half-leather bindings with replicated spinelabels in the style of the 18th century. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Name of Richard Meade of Ballymartle on titlepage of both Volumes. Minor lesion and tear to titlepage of Volume II. Overall very good ! Extremely scarce publication in first or second edition !

45. Roome, Wm. J.W.

Through Central Africa for the Bible. [Inscribed – Signed / Including a map showing the Journeys of William J.W.Roome].

London and Edinburgh, Marshall, Morgan & Scott Ltd, [1929]. 14 cm x 20 cm. Frontispiece, 208 pages. 10 plates with black and white photographs. Map in front of Frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine slightly faded. Occasional foxing. Interior bright and clean with sharp corners. Binding is solid and square. Front endpaper carries signed inscription from author, “To my friend, W. H. Rowdon – With the Author’s good wishes, Wm. J.W. Roome, Feb. 5. 36.”

46. [Sainsbury, Hester Margaret (Illustrator)] / Morand, Paul.

Earth Girdled. With Eight Woodcuts by Hester Sainsbury. Translated from the French ‘Rien que le Terre’ by Charles Emile Roche.

London, Alfred A. Knoff, 1928. 14.5 cm x 22.6 cm. 172 pages. Black and white illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Marbled boards. Gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dustjacket has minor edgewear. Minor rubbing to edges. Minor tanning to edges, endpapers and pastedowns. Otherwise bright and clean. Binding strong.

47. [Saint Godelieve / Godeleva / Godeliève / Godelina / Sint-Godelieve] Sollerius, Joannes Baptista.

Acta S. Godelevae V. et M. patronae Ghistellensium.

Antwerp, apud Jacobum du Moulin [Jacob du Moulin], 1720. (15 cm x 18,5 cm). Collated: [24], 354, [15] pages including a thorough Index Rerum. With engraved title-vignette showing the murder of Saint Godelieve; with the title-vignette repeated on page one of the text and three further fold-out-illustrations (collation complete). Modern Hardcover (dark calf over marbled-paper-covered-boards) and new endpapers. Halftitle letter-press-text laid down an endpaper that precedes the title page. After the restoration and new binding the original bookblock is beautifully preserved and the whole volume in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear and some browning to a few pages. Very rare Hagiography of poor Godelieve, who was martyred by the servants of her angry husband because she preferred to become a nun rather than marry.

48. [Schreiner, Olive] Buchanan-Gould, Vera.

Not Without Honour – The Life and Writings of Olive Schreiner. With an Introduction by Field Marshal, The Rt. Hon. J.C. Smuts.

London, Hutchinson & Co, no year (c.1948). 14.5 cm x 21 cm. Frontispiece, 248 pages. 16 illustrations (including frontispiece). Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Preowner details on front endpapers: A.Allan Shearer – 10 Mount St. Wellington – 7-3-51.

49. Schreiner, Olive [Iron, Ralph].

The Story of an African Farm. A Novel.

London, Hutchinson & Co, 1896. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 346 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Small embossment to front board. Deckled top edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor bumps to board corners. Small cutout (of old name) on halftitle. Interior lightly tanned throughout but bright and clean. Binding is strong, firm and square.

50. [Slessor, Mary Mitchell] Livingstone, W.P.

Mary Slessor of Calabar – Pioneer Missionary.

Ninth Edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1917. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, XI, 347 pages. 12 plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with lettering on spine and front board with small pictoral. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior very bright and clean with sharp corners.

51. Smith, Charlotte.

Montalbert – A Novel.

First Irish Edition. In Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for P.Wogan, P.Byrne, J.Moore, J.Rice, G. Folingsby etc. etc., 1795. Small-Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). 270, 276 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th-century leather with original spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Bindings in excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Bookplate / Exlibris of Richard Meade of Ballymartle attached to pastedown of Volume I.

52. Smithson, Annie M.P.

Her Irish Heritage [″With the Printed Dedication: Dedicated to the Men who died Easter 1916”].

First Edition of her first book. Dublin, The Talbot Press, [no year (1917)]. Octavo. 270 pages. Hardcover / original publisher’s cloth-binding with decroative Celtic-Knot-Design. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is the best preserved version of this work we have ever seen. With a gift-inscription from the year 1934 (not from Smithson).

53. Strickland, Agnes / [and Elizabeth Strickland].

Lives of the Queens of England, From the Norman conquest. Now first published from official records and other authentic documents, private as well as public. A new edition, revised and greatly augmented, embellished with Portraits of every Queen.

8 Volumes (complete set). London, Colburn & Co., 1851. Octavo. Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait of Agnes Strickland and engraved titlepage, XXII, 614 pages with 15 illustrations (including Froontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume II: Frontispiece-Portrait of Isabella of Valois, engraved titlepage, VIII, 704 pages with 16 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume III: Frontispiece-Portrait of Jane Seymour, engraved titlepage, [4], 588 pages with 10 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume IV: Frontispiece-Portrait of Queen Elizabeth, engraved titlepage, [4], 790 pages with 4 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume V: Frontispiece-Portrait of Anne of Denmark, engraved titlepage, [4], 703 pages with 8 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume VI: Frontispiece-Portrait of Mary of Modena, engraved titlepage, [2], 672 pages with 5 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume VII: Frontispiece-Portrait of Mary II when Princess of Orange, engraved titlepage, [3], 466 pages with 4 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) / Volume VIII: Frontispiece-Portrait of Queen Anne, engraved titlepage, [2], 556 pages with 3 illustrations (including Frontispiece and Vignette on Title) // Original, very decorative half-leather bindings with gilt lettering and ornaments on spines, marbled-paper-covered-boards and marbled edges. Excellent, firm condition with only minor signs of wear. The set comes frm the private library of Major General Cosmo Alexander Richard Nevill, with his armorial bookplate / Ex Libris to the pastedown of each Volume, bearing his family-motto: “Ne Vile Velis” [″Wish for nothing Vile”].

54. Tennis (Eastbourne) – Anonymous.

Tennis Tournament – Eastbourne (Sep. 1899) – possibly showing the great rivals Charlotte Cooper and Blanche Bingley Hilliard during one of the two Challenge Cup Matches in the 1899 season at Eastbourne.

Large, vintage Albumen Silver Print of an original photograph. [Eastbourne], 1899. 19.3 cm wide x 14 cm high. Excellent condition. Very rare !

55. [Turquet, Suzanne].

Suite Du Récit d’Une Petite Fille de Quatorze Ans, Réfugée Française Pendant La Guerre.

Première Edition Originale. Angers, Chez E. Barasse, 1872. Small Octavo. 254 pages. Hardcover / Original 19th century half-leather with gilt lettering on spine. Binding slightly rubbed but overall in very good condition with some signs of external wear. Few pages with some markings. From the library of the Meade – Family in Ballymartle (near Kinsale in West Cork, Ireland) / Signed by Elizabeth Meade.

56. Ward, Rachel.

Women, unionism and loyalism in Northern Ireland – From ‘tea-makers’ to political actors.

Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 2006. 24 cm. xii, 196 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

57. [Westmacott, C.M.] / [Lady Mary Wortley Montagu].

The Gazette of Fashion, and Magazine of The Fine Arts and Belle Lettres, dedicated by permission to His Royal Highness the Duke of York [With the rare Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and an early case of “Musical Copyright” discussed on page 137]. Published in weekly, monthly and wuarterly parts. Composed of Original Papers and Music, with Reviews of Literature in General. Illustrated with numerous Engravings, Portraits of Eminent Persons and Subjects connected with Fashion and the Fine Arts.

Two Parts in one Volume (First half year from January to July, 1822). London, Published for C.M.Westmacott, by Hoffmann, 1822. Quarto (20 cm x 27 cm). Portrait-Frontispiece, 214, Portrait Frontispiece, 208 pages plus Index for both quarterly parts with listing of all engravings, scores of original pieces of music, portraits, engravings of the latest, “newest” Parisian Costumes etc. Original Hardcover / 19th – century half leather with gilt lettering on spine. With 11 instead of 23 full-page illustrations of which some included are not called for and others seem to have never been part of the collection. Some minor signs of wear only, a few very faint signs of foxing, a little dusty endpapers but especially the text and illustrations all in generally very good or even better condition with some minor signs of wear only. Extremely Rare !

58. Wilkinson, Mrs (Annie Margaret).

A Lady’s Life and Travels in Zululand and the Transvaal During Cetewayo’s Reign – Being The African Letters and Journals of the Late Mrs Wilkinson.

London, J.T Hayes, 1882. 13 cm x 19 cm. VIII, 264 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Name of preowner on endpaper in ink: “J. Babington Jones – June 1894” [possibly Julian Babington Jones]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean.

59. Yeats, William Butler / [George [Georgie] Yeats / Mrs. Eva Hempel / Eduard Hempel].

Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty. [Signed / Inscribed by George Yeats to Mrs. [Eva] Hempel, wife of german ambassador to Ireland during World War II].

No.8 / 200 copies, of the original limited edition. Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1944 [September 1944]. Octavo. 58 pages. Original Hardcover. Inscribed by George Yeats on the front free endpaper: “Mrs. Hempel from George Yeats, April 1944”. This has to be of course “April 1945”. The impossibility of signing/inscribing a book in April 1944 if it was only published in September 1944 is easily explained with the classic everyday-mistake of still writing the previous year in the first few months of the following year. A stunning association. The signature and inscription is a solid match to George Yeats’ autographs in her later hand and William Butler Yeats and George Yeats were frequent visitors to the Hempel’s in Dublin. In addition, the low number of the edition (8/200) suggests this being one of the reference copies given to George Yeats, who contributed heavily to the volume and even added an explanatory note (in print) verso the titlepage. This copy is near fine, bound in the publisher’s quarter buckram over yellow, paper-covered boards. The books pages remained unopened. Eva Hempel’s husband Eduard Hempel is one of the most controversial figures in modern Irish history, excoriated by some as ‘Hitler’s man’, defended by others such as the country’s first President, Eamon De Valera. Certainly, Hempel presented William Butler Yeats in 1938 with a copy of ‘Germany Speaks’ whose inscription described an ‘unforgettable afternoon’ spent together by Yeats and Hempel. Eduard Hempel and his wife were accepted socialites in the Dublin world of World War II, famously receiving a condolence call by de Valera upon the death of Hitler. Eduard Hempel and his wife Eva were granted asylum in Ireland after world war II and stayed way beyond the end of World War II.