1. 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.

2. Mitchell, Frank.

The Irish Landscape.

London, Collins, 1976. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 240 pages. Several black and white photographs, drawings, illustrations and plates throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Previous owner’s name stamped onto endpaper and labeled to front cover.

3. Naylor, D. / Shannon, P.

Geology of Offshore Ireland and West Britain.

London, Graham and Trotman, 1982. 21 cm x 26 cm. XII, 161 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Slight tear to dustjacket at upper edge of spine.

4. Nelson, E.Charles / Walsh, Wendy F.

Trees of Ireland: Native and Naturalized.

Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1993. 20 cm x 29 cm. VII, 247 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition. Very Rare !

5. O’Riordan, C.E.

A Catalogue of the Collection of Irish Marine Crustacea in the National Museum of Ireland.

Dublin, Stationery Office, no year (c. 1969). Quarto. XII, 98 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. [Praeger, Robert Lloyd] Collins, Timothy.

Floreat Hibernia. A Bio-Bibliography of Robert Lloyd Praeger (1865 – 1953). Preface by David Bellamy.

Dublin, Royal Dublin Society, 1985. Large Ocatvo. XIV, 151 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare, out-of-print.

7. Thacker, Christopher.

The Genius of Gardening: The History Gardens in Britain and Ireland.

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994. 17 cm x 24 cm. 352 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only very minor signs of external wear.