201. Hennessy, R.M. / [Molloy, Constantine] / [Wolfe, Jasper Travers].

The Justice of the Peace for Ireland. – A Treatise on the Powers and Duties of Magistrates in Ireland. In Cases of Summary Jurisdiction and in other Matters founded partly on Molloy’s Justice of the Peace. With an Appendix of Statutes.

Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1910. Large Octavo. XXXVII, 989 pages. Stunning Original Hardcover Wallet Binding (beautiful full calf binding with original spinelabel and original leather flap). Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. Excellent Provenance: From the library of irish independent politician and solicitor Jasper Travers Wolfe of Skibbereen. With Jasper Wolfe’s name in ink on the endpaper. The price for this Volume includes the 1890-edition of Molloy’s “Justice of Peace (see images – Titlepage of this Volume is missing / The Volume belonged to William Boyle, Solicitor in Coote Hill).

202. Hensey, Brendan.

The Health Services of Ireland.

Second revised edition. Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 1972. 22 cm. xi,238 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. The dustjacket in poor condition. The Volume itself in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man. Name of preowner on endpaper. Rare publication !

203. Herbert, Maire (editor) / Murray, Kevin (editor).

Retrospect and Prospect in Celtic Studies. Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Celtic Studies held in University College, Cork, 25-31 July 1999.

Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2003. 16 cm x 24 cm. 128 pages. Original hardcover with silver lettering on cover and spine. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Slight yellowing of page edges. Signed by two of the contributors: Caoimhin O Muirigh and Maire Herbert.

204. Hezlet, Arthur.

The “B” Specials – A history of the Ulster Special Constabulary.

Belfast, Mourne River Press, 1997. Octavo. 246 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

205. Hickey, Margaret.

Irish Days – Oral histories of the Twentieth Century. Compiled by Margaret Hickey with photographs by Tom Kelly.

London, Kyle Cathie, 2001. 24 cm. 288 pages. With photographs. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

206. Hickin, Norman / [Naylor, Verney].

Original, Irish Butterfly – Specimen – Collection of entomologist and naturalist, Norman Hickin. 70 boxes with Butterfly – Specimen from the irish countryside in Dromreagh (Durrus, West Cork, Ireland), Ballycommane, Glengarriff, and wider surroundings. Many boxes labelled. The collection was established in the outgoing 1970s and early 1980s and gives an excellent view into the specimens still common at that time in Ireland and its unspoiled, non-industrial countryside. Norman Hickin subsequently published a Field Guide on Butterflies in Ireland (1992), clearly based on the specimens collected here.

West Cork, 1978 – 1982. Folio Box. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Provenance: The collection was treasured and professionally stored by Norman Hickin’s daughter, renown Garden Designer, Verney Naylor.

207. Hodges, Rev. Richard J. / Pike, W.T.

Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century / Contemporary Biographies. / [History of Big Houses, Town Houses and Country Estates in Cork, County Cork, North Cork, East Cork & West Cork with original Photographs of Houses and Portraits as well as Biographies of the Men and their Families who lived in these Houses] / [Half-Leather-Version – Limited Edition Reprint]. Edited by W. T. Pike.

Limited Edition Reprint of the First and only Edition by Pike in 1911. [Skibbereen (County Cork)], Inanna Rare Books / Inanna Reprint Series, 2022. 4° (24,5 cm wide x 33,5 cm high). 319 pages with hundreds of photographs and including an Index to Biographies and Illustrations. Hardcover / Half-Leather with marbled-paper-covered boards in protective Collector’s Mylar. [Important Information: This special limited edition has a special feature which makes each volume of this reprint unique: Each version of the book is bound by hand by a craft-bookbindery and the colour of the leather and endpapers, as well as the marbled-paper-covered boards, are always different / This means the interior is always the same while the look of the binding can differ from the image attached to this description]. One of 350 copies of the Half-Leather-version of a limited edition, republished by Inanna Rare Books Ltd. / This high-quality reprint, hand-bound and hand-numbered, includes hundreds of photographs of grand houses in the irish countryside from South Cork to North Cork, from East Cork to West Cork. The stories of the houses are not only accompanied by photographs of now mostly vanished or derelict homes, the images also show the original state of homes which are now restructured etc. The second part of the publication offers an abundance of historical biographies of local irish Nobility (Meade family, O’Callaghan, Browne, Kelly etc.), Gentry and Clergy and general owners of Country Houses etc. [Pike’s New Century Series].

208. Hodges, Rev. Richard J. / Pike, W.T.

Cork and County Cork in the Twentieth Century / Contemporary Biographies. / [History of Big Houses, Town Houses and Country Estates in Cork, County Cork, North Cork, East Cork & West Cork with original Photographs of Houses and Portraits as well as Biographies of the Men and their Families who lived in these Houses] / [Full-Leather-Version – Limited Edition Reprint]. Edited by W. T. Pike.

Limited Edition Reprint of the First and only Edition by Pike in 1911. [Skibbereen (County Cork)], Inanna Rare Books / Inanna Reprint Series, 2022. 4° (24,5 cm wide x 33,5 cm high). 319 pages with hundreds of photographs and including an Index to Biographies and Illustrations. Hardcover / Full-Leather with marbled-paper-covered boards in protective Collector’s Mylar. [Important Information: This special limited edition has a special feature which makes each volume of this reprint unique: Each version of the book is bound by hand by a craft-bookbindery and the colour of the leather and endpapers, are always different / This means the interior is always the same while the look of the binding can differ from the image attached to this description]. One of 150 copies of the Full-Leather-version of a limited edition, republished by Inanna Rare Books Ltd. / This high-quality reprint, hand-bound and hand-numbered, includes hundreds of photographs of grand houses in the irish countryside from South Cork to North Cork, from East Cork to West Cork. The stories of the houses are not only accompanied by photographs of now mostly vanished or derelict homes, the images also show the original state of homes which are now restructured etc. The second part of the publication offers an abundance of historical biographies of local irish Nobility (Meade family, O’Callaghan, Browne, Kelly etc.), Gentry and Clergy and general owners of Country Houses etc. [Pike’s New Century Series].

209. [Hogan, James] Ó Corráin, Donnchadh.

James Hogan – Revolutionary, historian, and political scientist. [including an interesting newspaper-clipping with a review of this book]

Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2001. 25 cm. xi, 249 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Cork studies in history and culture ; 1].

210. Howard, John / [Daniel Conner Library]

An account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe; with various papers relative to the Plague: Together with further Observations on some foreign Prisons and Hospitals; and additional remarks on The Present State of those in Great Britain and Ireland. [Including chapters on English Prisons and Hospitals, Hulks [Prison-Ships] on the Thames, Remarks on the Gaol-Fever, Remarks on Penitentiary Houses, Scottish Prisons and Hospitals, Irish Prisons and Hospitals, Charter Schools in Ireland etc.]

First Edition. Warrington, Printed by William Eyres; And sold by T. Cadell, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, and J. Taylor in London, 1789. Quarto (24,5 cm x 30,5 cm). VIII, 259 pages plus 13 unnumbered pages of Index and 1 page “Directions to the Book-Binder”. Collation complete with 22 plates of which 20 are large fold-out-engravings. Hardcover / Contemporary 18th century calf with gilt lettering on spine. Stunning Volume, recently restored and rebacked by two english master-binders. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. After the restoration now a highly-desirable collectable. One of the first sociological studies of conditions within the penal system of England and Ireland compared to other 18th-century practices within European Jails / Gaols. The partly romantic engravings seem sinister when one imagines what inmates and children endured within these settings. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

211. Hughes, Ian / TASC (Organization).

Power to the people ? – Assessing democracy in Ireland. Written and edited by Ian Hughes with John Baker and others.

Dublin, TASC at New Island, 2007. 24 cm. 654 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [TASC report].

212. [Hughes, T.Jones] Smyth, William J. / Whelan Kevin.

Common Ground – Essays on the Historical Geography of Ireland: presented to T. Jones Hughes.

Cork, Cork University Press, 1988. 19,5 cm x 26 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 332 pages, [36] figures, [13] plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Pencil underlining on pages XIV and XV, otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

213. Hunt, John.

Irish Medieval Figure Sculpture 1200 to 1600. – John Hunt Centenary Exhibition.

Limerick, The Hunt Museum, 2000. Slim Quarto. 64 unnumbered pages with illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

214. Hurley, Michael S.J. ed.

Irish Anglicanism 1869-1969: Essays on the Role of Anglicanism in Irish Life Presented to the Church of Ireland on the Occasion of the centenary of its Disestablishment by a Group of Methodist, Presbyterian, Quaker and Roman Catholic Scholars.

Dublin, Allen Figgis, 1970. 18.5 cm x 24.5 cm. XI, 236 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective Mylar covering. Some marks to the back cover. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed by previous owner.

215. Hutton, Mary A.

The Táin – An Irish Epic Told in English Verse by Mary A. Hutton.

Dublin, Maunsel & Co., 1907. Small Quarto (18 cm x 22 cm). XII, 495 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine and board. Top edge gilt. The Volume now in collector’s Mylar. Binding with some fraying and rubbing to spine. As usual, the text deckled edges with some foxing. Last page of the Appendix unopened with a small tear. A very rare and important book with all the History and insight into “The Táin”.

216. [Hyde, Douglas]

Collection of two important publications on Douglas Hyde, including five very interesting newspaper-clippings with articles on Douglas Hyde. The two books are: 1.Janet Egleson Dunleavy and Gareth W. Dunleavy – Douglas Hyde – A Maker of Modern Ireland / 2. Brian Murphy – Forgotten Patriot – Douglas Hyde & The Foundation of the Irish Presidency.

Berkeley / Oxford / Cork, University of California Press / Collins, 1991 – 2016. Octavo. XIII, 462, VII, 320 pages. The publication by Dunleavy in original Hardcover with dustjacket / The publication by Murphy in original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. The newspaper-clippings neatly folded inside the Dunleavy publication.

217. Illustration of 19th century Fishery and Nets – Brabazon, Wallop [Rath House, Drogheda] / Cooper, William / [Provenance: William Le Fanu]

The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland, with suggestions for the working of a Fishing Company. Illustrated by William Cooper. Dedicated by Permission to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland. [With 21 Plates]

Original First Edition. Dublin / London / Derby, James McGlashan / Simpkin, Marshall & Co. / Richardson and Sons, 1848. Octavo. Folded Frontispiece, X, 111 pages with 21 plates (original Lithographs often large folding). Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth, embossed with gilt lettering to cover. Excellent condition of one of the rarest books on the History of irish commercial fishing and suggestions for professionalizing irish fishing industry in the 19th century. This book comes from the library of irish engineer William Le Fanu, with his bookplate to the pastedown and a stamp “Board of Public Works” to the dedication-page. The books interior with all the lithographic illustrations in very good condition. Occasional foxing only. Extremely rare; very scarce publication ! This is a superior example of this book; with all illustrations in place and in excellent condition.

218. Inglis, Tom.

Moral monopoly – The Catholic Church in modern Irish society.

Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, 1987. 22 cm. [xi], 251 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man, including a newspaper-clipping related to the topic. Name of preowner on endpaper.

219. Inglis, Tom:

Moral monopoly – The rise and fall of the Catholic Church in modern Ireland.

Second edition. Dublin, University College Dublin Press, 1998. 24 cm. vii, 312 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man, with several remarkable newspaper-clippings related to irish politics, constitution and History.

220. Innes, P.R.

The History of the Bengal European Regiment, now the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and how it helped to win India.

First published in 1885. Uckfield, The Naval & Military Press, 2002. 14 cm x 21,5 cm. X, 572 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. Reprint of original 1885 publication.