1. 19th century European Travel – Ireland (Carrick-A-Rede / Giant’s Causeway / Bideford (Devon) / Torrington (Devon) / Lynton (Devon) / Lynmouth (Devon) / Watersmeet (Devon) / Ilfracombe (Devon) / Carnarvon Castle (Wales) / Forth Bridge – (Wales)/

Original Photoalbum from ca. 1870 / 1880 with 37 original Albumen Print / Albumen Silver Print – Photographs of a Tour through Europe. With very interesting photographs of Ireland’s favourite attractions in County Antrim , a large section of the Devon Region in England (The DEVON – Section includes 15 photographs alone), and some beautiful and rare early colour photographs of Luzern in Switzerland: Examples of images: 8. Bideford in Devon (Promenade with ships and people) / 9. Torrington – Devon (Town Mill Bridge) / 10. Torrington – Devon (Northern Bridge) / Two smaller photographs on one board: 11. Torrington – Devon (Castle Ruins) / 12. Torrington – Devon – (Near Railway Station) / Two smaller photographs on board: 13. Torrington – Devon – (The Avenue) / 14. Torrington – Devon (Valley of Rocks / Castle Rock) / 15. Lynton – North Devon / 16. Lynton – North Devon (Castle Rock) / 17. Lynmouth – Watersmeet / 18. Lynmouth (Bridge /Watersmeet near Lynmouth) / 19. Lynmouth (Picturesque Harbourscene with old fisherhuts on left) / 20. Ilfracombe – North Devon (from the Tours Walk – Top of the Hill) / 21. Ilfracombe – Tour Walk / 22. Ilfracombe – View from Capstone Hill /

Devon, ca.1870/1880/1890. Oblong – Quarto. 37 plates. Hardcover. Recently, professionally rebound in half leather with gilt lettering on spine. The large photographs in very good condition.

2. A Real Paddy. [Egan, Pierce].

Real Life In Ireland: Or, The Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders and Bodderation and Blarney of Brian Boru, Esq., and his Elegant Friend Sir Shawn O’Dogherty.

London, Methuen and Co., 1904. 11 x 17.5cm. Frontispiece, (16), 312 pages, with 18 coloured illustration plates. Additional spine label included in rear of book. Original clothbound hardcover. Very good condition, with minor signs of shelf wear to spine. [The Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books].

3. [A.E.] Russell, George William.

The National Being – Some thoughts on an Irish polity.

Irish Academic Press, 1982. 22 cm. 176 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4. Aalen, F.H.A. / Whelan, Kevin / Stout, Matthew. [Eds].

Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape.

First edition. Cork, Cork University Press, 1997. 24.5 x 30.5cm. 352 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Adolph, Anthony.

Collins tracing your family history.

New edition. London, Collins, 2008. Quarto. 320 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only to the jacket.

6. Ainsworth, Henry.

Two Treatises by Henry Ainsworth. The First, “Of the Communion of Saints”. The Second: “An Arrow Against Idolatry” etc. – To this Edition is prefixed, some “Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”.

Edinburgh, Printed by D.Paterson, 1789. Octavo. LXIX, 344 pages with two titlepages announcing the two titles separately. Hardcover / Original 18th century leather, professionally restored with a modern spine to the style of the period. The Volume in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. Rare edition with an early biographical account on Henry Ainsworth. Heavily annotated with contemporary comments. Annotations on pastedown, endpaper and within text are focused on crossreferencing Ainsworth’s publication with other contemporaries and their conflicting or corresponding thoughts on Idolatry (Hugh Broughton “on the consent of times” gets mentioned etc.).

7. Aldous, Richard.

Great Irish Speeches. [Includes CD of Ireland’s greatest speakers]. With a Foreword by Colm Tóibín.

London, Quercus, 2007. Quarto. 223 pages with many illustrations. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent, as new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8. Almqvist, Bo / O Cathasaigh, Roibeard / Feiriteár, Bab.

Coiglimis an Tine. Cnuasach Seanchais agus sceálta Bhab Feiriteár. Bo Almqvist agus Roibeard O ´Cathasaigh a choírigh agus a chuir in eagar.

Baile an Fheirteáraigh, Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne, 2010. 21 cm. 230 pages. With illustrations (colour, and black & white), map, portraits. With two audio CD’s. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

9. [Anonymous].

Guide to Killarney and Glengariff. With a Map and Six Plates.

New Edition, revised and corrected. Dublin, William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1835. 11 cm x 17 cm. Frontispiece, [4], 130 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with spinelabel and label on frontcover. Some staining to the binding but otherwise firm and with the original endpapers intact. Interior in very good condition besides some pages and illustrations being a little dusty. Few illustrations with faded dampstain. Rare and early publication for the tourist in 19th century Ireland. With name of prewoner in ink on titlepage: “Robert Morrison, Shanakiel, Cork”.

10. Arnold, Mavis / Laskey, Heather.

Children of the Poor Clares – The Story of an Irish orphanage.

Belfast, The Appletree Press Ltd, 1985. 22 cm. 160 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

11. Arnold, Richard.

Come Shooting With Me.

First Edition. London, Frederick Muller Ltd., 1953. 16 x 24 cm. 152 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

12. Ashton, Robert / Michelburne, John.

Two Historical Plays: The Battle of Aughrim, or the Fall of Monsieur St. Ruth / Ireland Preserved, or the Siege of Londonderry.

Dublin, C.M. Warren, No date [c.1880] 9 cm x 14 cm. 144 pages. Softcover / Original, titled brochure. Good condition with signs of external wear. Damage to corners of front page. Spotting on page edges, front and rear page and several pages within. Otherwise clean inside and intact.

13. [Barrington, Jonah]

Collection of two (2) publications by Jonah Barrington. 1. The rise and fall of the Irish nation : a full account of the bribery and corruption by which the Union was carried : the family histories of the members who voted away the Irish Parliament with an extraordinary black list of the titles, places, and pensions which they received for their corrupt votes by Sir Jonah Barrington / 2. Jonah Barrington – Personal Sketches and Recollections.

Dublin / Glasgow, James Duffy and Co. / Cameron, Ferguson & Company, c.1880. Octavo. 299, 498 pages. Original Hardcover. Both bindings damaged and in poor condition with strong signs of wear. Some pages detached in the “Personal Sketches”. Still good reading copies.

14. Barrington, Jonah.

The Ireland of Sir John Barrington. Selections from his ‘Personal sketches’. [With an Appendix: The Library at Cullenaghmore]. Edited by Hugh B. Staples.

London, Peter Owen, 1968. 22 cm. XXVII, 328 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Beautiful Exlibris on pastedown. Decent Giftinscription on endpaper.

15. [Barry, Denis] Barry, Denis.

The Life and Times of Denis Barry 1883-1923. [written by the nephew of Denis Barry who carries the same name]. With a foreword by Cathal McSwiney Brugha.

Cork, Collins Press, 2010. 20 cm. xiv, 237 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps, portraits, facsimiles. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed / Inscribed by the author with his name in gaelic.

16. [Barry, Kevin] O’Donovan, Donal.

Kevin Barry and his time.

Dublin, Glendale, 1989. 22 cm. 244 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Including an interest newspaper-clipping related to Kevin Barry. Name of preowner on endpaper.

17. [Beckett, Samuel] O’Brien, Eoin.

Beckett Country – Samuel Beckett’s Ireland. Photography David H. Davison ; foreword James Knowlson ; illustrations Robert Ballagh ; design Ted and Ursula O’Brien.

(Monkstown), Black Cat in association with Faber, (1986). 27x28 cm. xxvi, 402 pages with illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Inscribed and signed by the author Eoin O’Brien.

18. Bell, John Bowyer.

The secret army – A history of the IRA; 1915-1970.

London, Sphere Books, 1972. Small Octavo. 478 pages. Softcover. The binding with stronger signs of wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

19. Bennett, Richard.

The Black and Tans. By Richard Bennett.

New York, Barnes & Noble Books, 1995. 21 cm. 228 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Including some interesting newspaper-clippings related to the topic.

20. Bew, Paul / Ellen Hazelkorn / Henry Patterson.

The Dynamics of Irish Politics.

First Edition. London, Lawrence And Wishart, 1989. 13 x 21.5 cm. 247 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.