O’Sullivan, William (Editor).

The Strafford Inquisition of County Mayo. (R.I.A. MS 24 E 15).

First Edition. Dublin, Stationary Office for the Irish Manuscript Commission, 1958. 24.5 x 15.5 cm. x, 245 pages. Original brown stiff paper covers with titles on front cover and spine. Laminated covers. Printed on off-white paper. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Internally bright and clean.

D. Alfonso De Ligorio.

Homo Apostolicus. Instructus in sua vocatione ad audiendas confessiones, sive praxis, et instructio confessariorum.

Editio Quinta. Three Volumes in One. Bassani, Sed Prostant Venetiis Apud Remondini, 1782. 24.5 x 17.5 cm. xvi, 199 pages / viii, 166 pages, 120 pages. Contemporary fine calf with gilt title and decorations. Red and black morroco spine labels. All edges red. Marbled end papers. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. A little dust dulled. Mild damp staining to a few pages. Internally bright and clean. A very nice copy.

Haggard, Sir H. Rider / Niall Ó Domhnaill (Translator).

Maire .i. Marie.

Presumed First Edition in Irish. Dublin, Oifig Diolta Foillseachaim Rialtais, 1935. 18 x 12 cm. 400 pages. Original blue cloth. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Minor shelf wear. Edges and end papers age darkened. Internally clean. Dust jacket with some losses to spine ends. Number and tape residue on spine (not Ex Library).

Gray, Thomas.

The Poems of Thomas Gray.

Eton, The Eton College Press, 1894. 27 x 18 cm, xiv, 164 pages.Frontispiece showing Thomas Gray. Three full page plates and various decorations in text. Half leather on marbled paper. New binding; not contemporary. Binding in excellent, as new, condition. Text block very good condition. Some foxing and minor age darkening. Unguarded frontispiece transferred ‘shadow’ to title page. Small water stain on top fore corner on the first pages. Text block otherwise bright and clean.

Munier, Vincent (photography) / Ricard, Matthieu (text).

Solitudes. Tome 2.

[First Edition]. Brantigny, France, Kobalann Editions, 2013. 35 x 21 cm (oblong). unpaginated. Original paper covered boards. Hard cover with blind title and photo on front board. Near fine condition. Minor shelf wear. Internally bright and clean.

Lytton, Sir Henry [Gilbert & Sullivan]

The Immortal Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Containing the Stories of the Plays and the Words and Music of Famous Numbers from Each Opera. With an Appreciation by Sir Henry Lytton.

Four Volumes. London, The News Chronicle Publications Dept., Not dated (c. 1920s). 28 x 22.5 cm. Original red cloth with blue and yellow decorations. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally clean.

Ditchfield, P. H. / Jones, Sydney R.

The Manor Houses of England. Illustrated by Sydney R. Jones.

London, B.T. Batsford, 1910. 17.2cm x 26.4cm. Frontispiece, VI, 211 pages with many (nearly 100) wonderful sketches of Manor Houses in rural settings. (The Frontispiece is a beautiful original, coloured engraving of Grimshaw Hall in Warwickshire). Original Hardcover (illustrated blue cloth). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Excellent publication !

Sarr, Kenneth (author) / McGonigal, Maurice (illustrator).

The White Bolle-Trie. A Wonder Story by Kenneth Sarr. Illustrated by Maurice McGonigal.

First Edition. Dublin & Cork, The Talbot Press, 1927. 22 x 14 cm. 96 pages. With five plates and small illustrations in text. Original two-tone cloth. White title on front board. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Ex Library with a few faint stamps throughout.

Beverley Nichols (Ed.).

A Book of Old Ballads. Selected and with an Introduction by Beverley Nichols & Illustrated by H.M.Brock, R.I.

London, Hutchinson & Co., 1934. 22 x 28 cm, xxxix, 277 pages. Colour frontispiece and 15 full page colour plates. Some B&W illustrations. Original pale brown cloth with gilt title and decorations on front board and spine. Fore and bottom edge deckle. Now in protective archival jacket. Very good condition. Edges darkened. Some minor shelf wear and signs of use. Some pages unopened. Text block clean and bright, some minor foxing, mainly to first few pages.

Prunty, Jacinta.

Maps and Map-Making in Local History. Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History Number 7.

First Edition. Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2004. 23 x 15 cm. 344 pages. With many B&W map illustrations. Original black cloth with silver title on spine. In original decorated dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Nice copy. See images.