401. [Oxford University-History / The Bodleian Library] Best & Lloyd Limited.

Architectural Lighting. [Extremely Rare Art Deco Lighting Catalogue of Best & Lloyd Limited – With several imgae sof Lighting applied to Nos. 10 and 11 Downing Street as well as the image of “The Bodleian Library now lit by artificial light for the First Time since its foundation” (this dates the catalogue to 1929/1930)].

London, The Kynoch Press, [Best & Lloyd Limited, Handsworth – Birmingham and 40 Gt. Marlborough St.], no year (c.1929/1930). Octavo (19 cm wide x 25.4 cm high). 63 pages with numerous photographs of Art Deco Lights, Art Deco Lighting products, Art Deco Lighting Fixtures, etc. Original Hardcover. Spine slightly damaged / Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

402. McCarthy, Patricia.

Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2016. Quarto: (25 cm wide x 28 cm high). 260 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition. The rare Hardcover-Edition.

403. [MacMahon, Ella [Eleanor Harriet] / Watson, Aaron / Edwardes, Charles / Bonney, Professor / etc.].

Historical Houses of the United Kingdom [and Ireland] – Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial. [The two articles on Lismore Castle and Kilkenny Castle were written by irish romance novelist Ella MacMahon].

London / Paris / Melbourne, Cassell & Company, 1892. Quarto (23 cm x 27.5 cm high). Frontispice, VIII, 328 pages with numerous text-illustrations and severl full-page illustrations of the Houses and Castles. Original, decorative Hardcover with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and cover. Bidning shaky but bookblock firm. Wonderful publication with many historical building-details of irish and english houses. To our knowledge the full-page illustrations of Kilkenny Castle and Lismore Castle are not found in any other publication.

404. [Wright, Frank Lloyd] Kaufmann jr., Edgar.

9 Commentaries on Frank Lloyd Wright.

New York, The Architectural History Foundation / The MIT Press, 1989. Small Quarto (22 cm wide x 23.5 cm high). 158 pages / Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover (no dustjacket). Excellent condition.

405. Skinner, David.

Wallpaper in Ireland 1700 – 1900.

Tralee, Churchill House Press, 2014. Quarto (25 cm 216 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Unusually excellent, as new condition. A fantastic, extremly important and now very (very !) rare publication.

406. [Arnoux, Thérèse] Jacques Prevert et Joseph Kosma.

CHANSONS – Illustrations de Thérèse Arnoux.

FIRST EDITION (No.00177 / 1500). Quarto. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

407. [Baines, Thomas].

The Birds of South Africa Painted by Thomas Baines (1820 – 1875) – Comprising the complete collection of ninety plates executed by Thomas Baines, together with descriptions from the text of C.J.Andersson’s ‘Notes on the Birds of Damara Land and the adjacent Countries of South-West Africa’, with a biographical Essay by R.F.Kennedy. [Includes an excellent illustration of the Red-necked Falcon (Falco chiquera) – see image].

Limited Hand-Numbered Edition [No.404 of only 500]. Johannesburg, Winchester Press, 1975. Quarto (28.4 cm wide x 33.5 cm high). Frontispiece-Portrait of Thomas Baines (see image), 204 pages with 90 colourful illustrations / plates. Original Hardcover with glassine jacket in original slipcase. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. A wonderful and now rare publication in excellent condition.

408. [Woolf, Virginia & Leonard / Hogarth Press] Fry, Roger.

Cézanne – A Study of his Development.

First Edition. London, Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1927. Quarto (20 cm wide x 25.5 cm high). 88 pages text plus XL plates with art / paintings of Cézanne. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear to the beautifully firm binding.

409. [Youghal] Williams, Alexander / Gwynn, Stephen.

Beautiful Ireland – Leinster / Ulster / Munster / Connaught. Painted by Alexander Williams / Described by Stephen Gwynn. [With 48 colour illustrations (12 in each Province-section)].

First Edition. London / Dublin / Belfast, The Gresham Publishing Company Limited, no year [c.1912]. Octavo (18 cm wide x 22.2 cm high). Frontispiece, 64, 64, 64, 64 pages [Total of 256 pages]. Original, beautiful, clover-illustrated Art Nouveau-Hardcover / Publisher’s original cloth. Very good and very firm condition with only minor signs of wear. One of the more underrated publications with 48 stunning colour-illustrations from important locations in all four Provinces.

410. James, John.

Chartres – The Masons who built a Legend.

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. Quarto (18.5 cm x 24 cm). 200 pages with illustrations throughout. Original Softcover (Paperback). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.