41. Seward, William Wenman.

Topographia Hibernica; Or the Topography of Ireland, Antient and Modern, Giving a Complete View of the Civil and Ecclesiastical State of That Kingdom ; With Its Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, Trade, Manufactures, Extent and Population. Its Counties, Baronies, Cities, Boroughs, Parliamentary Representation and Patronage ; Antient Districts and their Original Proprietors. Post, Market, and Fair Towns ; Bishopricks, Ecclesiastical Benefices, Abbies, Monasteries, Castles, Ruins, Private-Seats and remarkable Buildings. Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Mineral-Springs, Bays and Harbours with the Latitude and Longitude of the principal Places and their Distances from the Metropolis and from each other. Historical Anecdotes and remarkable Events. The whole alphabetically arranged and carefully collected. With an Appendix, containing some additional Places and Remarks and several useful Tables.

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by Alexander Stewart, 1795. Quarto. Frontispiece (Beautiful Handcoloured Fold-out-Map of Ireland), unpaginated with c.350 pages and Appendix. No Plates included in this Volume ! Original half-leather. Binding in poor condition. Interior a little dusty but very good. The Map in excellent condition.The Text clean.

42. 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).

43. Stokes, William.

A Treatise on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Chest. Part I. Diseases of the Lung and Windpipe (All that was ever published).

First Edition. Dublin, Hodges and Smith, College-Green, 1837. 8°. XX, 557 pages. Hardcover / Excellent, modern half leather binding from an english master bookbindery. Absolutely beautiful condition, perfect gift for a cardiologist. Faded, tiny stamp from Birmingham Medical Institute on title.

44. Thackeray, William Makepeace.

The Irish Sketchbook of 1842.

Dublin, Nonsuch, 2005. 23 cm. 319 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

45. [Thom, Alexander] / [Famine Year / Famine Year Almanac].

Thom`s Irish Almanac & Official Directory for the Year 1845 [including “Peerage of Ireland with alphabetical Index”].

First Edition. Dublin, Alexander Thoma, 1845. Octavo (13 cm x 18.5 cm). VIII, 906 pages. Original Hardcover (Publisher’s blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine). Very good and firm condition with some minor signs of wear only. This is one of the most important and rarest sources for Statistics in Ireland in 1845 and one year prior of The Great Famine [Gorta Mór / Irish Potato Famine].

46. [Trevor, Edward / Kilmainhaim Gaol (Jail)] / [Anonymous (attributed to Sanders, Robert)].

The Roman History, In a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son. [Personal copy of Edward Trevor, with the signed autographed name and original bookplate / Exlibris of this infamous medical inspector of convicts in Kilmainham Jail and later in Cork supervisor of Convict – departure to Australia].

First Irish Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed for J.Williams, 1775. Small-Octavo (11,5 cm x 17 cm). IV, 300, 262 pages. Original Hardcover with original spine-labels. In protective Mylar. New endpaper to Volume I. Minor wormhole-damage to pastedown and a few pages only. Binding slightly rubbed but firm and strong. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This set, with the exceptionally interesting provenance, does not only contain Trevor’s signature but also his bookplate and some doodling of a portrait of an 18th or 19th century figurehead.

47. Wakefield, Edward.

An Account Of Ireland, Statistical And Political [Volume Two (of 2)] / [With chapters on Irish Peerage and Inland Fisheries in Ireland (Eels / White Fisheries / Herring Fishery etc.)].

First and only Edition. London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1812. Quarto (24 cm x 29 cm). 838 pages plus Index with Tables [e.g.: “Table of Religious Sects” (in Ireland) / Table with Prices from 1790 to 1802 (taken from County-Surveys)]. Hardcover / Original Publisher’s half – cloth. In protective Mylar. Binding with stronger signs of wear, but professionally restored with new pastedowns and endpapers.

48. Williamson, Benjamin / [Conner, Richard].

Inscribed Association – Copy of: “An Elementary Treatise on The Differential Calculus, containing ‘The Theory of Plane Curves’, with numerous examples. [Inscribed and signed by irish Mathematician Benjamin Williamson to fellow Trinity College Mathematician, Richard Conner: “R.M.Conner with B. Williamson’s best regards” / Including one minor manuscript annotation by Richard Conner on page 264.

First Edition. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1872. Octavo. XII, 343 pages. Hardcover / original cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Last 8 pages with some fraying and paper-loss. Rear pastedown rubbed. Otherwise with some rubbing but in good, firm condition. A very rare example of an ealy association copy between two irish Trinity mathematicians of the 19th century.

49. Wilmot, Catherine / Sadleir, Thomas U. (editor).

An Irish Peer on the Continent (1801 – 1803) – Being a Narrative of the Tour of Stephen, 2nd Earl Mount Cashel, through France, Italy, etc. As related by Catherine Wilmot.

London, Wiliams and Norgate, 1920. 14 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, XX, 227 pages. With six illustrations (including frontispiece). The illustrations show: Moore Park, Kilworth, County Cork / Portraits of Stephen, 2nd Earl Mount Cashell / Stephen, 3rd Earl Mount Cashell / Margaret, Countess Mount Cashell / Henry, Cardinal York / Anne, Duchess of Cumberland //. Original hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

50. Winkles, B. [Engraver] / Petrie, George [Artist / After a Drawing by George Petrie].

Bank of Ireland, Dublin (South Portico) – “The Original Parliament House”.

Original, 19th century Steel Engraving. London, Charles Tilt in Fleet Street, [1829]. 23 cm x 18 cm. Very good condition.

51. Wright, Rev. G.N.

A Guide to the County of Wicklow. Illustrated by Engravings, after the Designs of George Petrie, Esq. and a Large Map of the County [the large map is missing].

Original, true first edition from 1822. London, Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1822. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, XII, [1],159, [7] pages. With 4 [of 5] illustrations, including Frontispiece. Original Hardcover of the early 19th century. Binding in poor condition. Illustrations slightly stained only. First layer of the bookblock slightly detached. Even though the large folding map and one of the iillustrations is missing , a rare and important, early tourguide through Wicklow with romantic descriptions of Bray, Glendalough,Luggelaw etc.

52. Wright, Thomas / Warren, H.

The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period of the Irish Annals to the Present Time. Illustrated with 43 [fortythree] Beautiful Steel Engravings from Original Drawings, executed expressly for this Work by H. Warren.

First Edition. 3 Volumes [complete set]. London / New York, The London Printing and Publishing Company, no year [c.1850]. Quarto (20.5 cm x 28 cm). Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece and engraved titlepage, XIV, 728 pages / Volume II: Portrait-Fronticpiece of James Butler (Second Duke of Ormond), IV, [2], 663 pages / Volume III: Portrait-Frontispiece of a young Queen Victoria plus engraved titlepage showing the visit of George IV to Ireland in 1821, [4], 592 pages. Original Hardcover / Contemporary half-leather with gilt lttering and ornament to spine. Volume I professionally rebacked and all three Volumes now firm and strong. Very good condition of this important mid-19th-century-publication, documenting the very essence of intertwining politics and History of Ireland and Victorian Britain. The work is difficult top find in excellent condition. Interior excellent besides a few very minor dogears to some pages. From the library of B.Burrowes, Belfast, with the armorial bookplate / Exlibris including the Motto: “Audaces Fortuna Juvat”.