1. Lindsay, The Rev. John.

[A New and Correct Chart of Cork Harbour (This is the rare 18th century Map of Cork Harbour which also shows Haulbowline Island, which is the original location of “The Royal Cork Yacht Club”, later “The Water Club of the Harbour of Cork”, the Map shows also the Old Head of Kinsale, Crosshaven Harbour, Haulbowline Island, Curraghbinny, Spike Island, Ringaskiddy etc.)] – Correct Title of the Map: “A New and Correct Chart of the Harbour of Corke by the Revd. J. Lindsay, Late of His Majesty’s Ship Fougueux”. There is an inset Map showing “A Continuation of Corke Harbour from a smaller Scale”. The scale of this reads “A Scale of three English”. Below the chart is a coastal profile entitled “A View of the Land from the Old Head of Kinsale to Hawks Rock, the Old Head W b S 7 Miles. Cork Harbour mark’d *. ″

Original, hand-coloured copper engraving on extra thick paper / Better paper – edition [differing from all other versions of this map we ever handled, this is only the second version of this high-quality version of this Map we encountered], possibly an admiralty issue since it was dedicated to the Office of the Lord High Admiral of Great Britain. London, Sold by W. & I. Mount, T. & T. Page on Tower Hill, [c. 1759]. Beautifully mounted and framed. Size of the actual map: c. 62 cm wide x 52 cm high. Spectacular, unusually excellent condition of this rare, hand-coloured seachart of Cork Harbour with the Old Head and clear geography of Little Island, Poor Head, Ringaskiddy, Cork’s Natural Harbour, Crosshaven, Haulbowline, Spike Island, Cloyne, etc. / Price includes worldwide free shipping per UPS Courier !

2. Coombes, James.

A Bishop Of Penal Times: The Life and Times of John O’Brien Bishop of Cloyne and Ross 1701-1769.

First Edition. Cork, Tower Books, 1981. 14.5cm x 21.5cm. 135 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. A very rare publication !

3. O’Sullivan, M.L. [Michael John] / [Moore, Thomas].

A Fasciculus of Lyric Verses : By the Late M.J.O’Sullivan, Esq., Barrister at Law, dedicated, (by Permission), to Thomas Moore, Esq. [With a Memoir of the Author and a “Biographical Sketch of the Late Joseph Augustine Wade – The Last Production of the AUthor, written a few days before his death”].

First Edition. Cork, From the Machine of W. Scraggs, 102, Patrick-Street, 1846. Octavo. 84 pages. Private half cloth – binding of the time. Bookblock nearly detached form binding. Some rubbing to corners and spine. Interior, pages and titlepage in excellent condition and very clean. Signed and dated by the preowner in the year 1847 (″JSA” or “HA”). Extremely Rare !

4. [Goodman, Canon James] Various.

Abbeystrewry: A Parish Memoir.

Blarney, Forum Publications, 1991. 20.5 cm x 14.5 cm. 80 pages including many black and white photographs. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear.

5. Father James.

African Adventure.

Dublin, The Father Mathew Record Office, 1936. Octavo. Portrait Frontispiece of Father Matthews in Livingstone, 201 pages wihth several photographs and plus folded map of Father Matthews’ Travels from Capetwon, South Africa, to Kimberley, Mafeking, Bulawayo in S. Rhodesia, Livingstone, Mongu Barotseland in North Rhodesia to Angola. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. Bolster, John / [Callanan, Jeremiah Joseph] / Letitia Elizabeth Landon [L.E.L.]/ Sloane, Hans.

Bolster’s Quarterly Magazine. Volume I. No. I (February, 1826) – Volume I. No. IV (November, 1826).

Cork, John Bolster, Patrick Street, 1826. Octavo. VIII, 394 pages. Hardcover / Original Half-Leather with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with some minor rubbing to the boards and corners. Interior very good with only occasional signs of foxing. A very rare Cork publication with some extremely scarce, often anonymously published essays on local history, poetry etc. The publications signed with J.J.C. are by Corkonian Jeremiah Joseph Callanan. Name of 19th century preowner on endpaper: “Michael Higgins”.

7. McCarthy, Kieran / Christensen, Maj-Britt.

Cobh’s Contribution to the Fight for Irish Freedom 1913 – 1990.

Cobh, Oilean Mor Publications, 1992. 14.5 cm x 20 cm. 223 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

8. Vallancey, Charles / Piers, Sir Henry [Provenance: Abraham Abell (Cork City)].

Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis – Five-Volume-Set with thirteen (13) Numbers (I – XIII) plus “A Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland” and “Anecdotes of Chess in Ireland”. [See full list of Numbers, Chapters and Illustrations below and detailed images on our website].

Dublin, Thomas Ewing, 1770 – 1790. Octavo (13,5 cm wide x 21,5 cm high). Pagination: Volume I (contains Numbers I, II, III, IV): Frontispiece-Portrait, XIV, [6 unnumbered pages of “Contents”], 636 pages, [2] pages with the contents-page misbound [2], and 24 pages on “The Brehon Laws of Ireland” to the rear of the Volume. Volume I includes three illustrations (including the Large Folding-Map of Meath)/ Volume II (contains Numbers V, VI, VII, VIII, IX): 562 pages and 10 illustrations (including the Large Folding-Plan of the City of Kilkenny) / Volume III (contains Numbers X, XI, XII): LXX, 682 pages with one illustration (being the Large Fold-Out-Map of “Antient Ireland” by William Beauford) and VI Tables on two large sheets in the rear of the Volume (containing Orthography/Names of Numbers in different Languages, Names of Numbers of some of the Indians of America etc. etc. compared to the antient Irish) / Volume IV (contains Number XIII of Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis and “A Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland” by Charles Vallancey”): LX, 161 pages (being the end of Number XIII), plus Pagination for “The Vindication of the Ancient History of Ireland”: Frontispiece-Map of Europe and Asia, XLVIII, 551 pages, followed by 16 unnumbered pages of an Index for “The Ancient History of Ireland”, followed by X (10) Plates (mainly fold-out plates with numerous illustrations for the “Ancient History of Ireland”, aslo included is a text-illustration “Inscription in the Cave of New Grange (page 212). / Volume V of Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis: 368 pages plus Hardcover / Original 19th century full-leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Spine of Volume Three is coming apart. From the library of Cork Antiquarian Abraham Abell, with an inscription and original manuscript letter by his friend and “Brother Antiquarian”, John Bennett, 9 Academy St., 18th September, 1841.

9. Finn, Tom (editor).

Conna in History and Tradition.

Mallow, Conna Community Council, 1998. 15 cm x 20 cm. VI, 412 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Slightly battered cover. Clean inside with solid binding.

10. Cronin, Tom.

Cork Then and Now.

Dublin, The History Press Ireland, 2012. 17 cm x 24.5 cm. 95 pages. Several black and white, sepia and colour photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New.