Jordan, Anthony J.

The Yeats Gonne MacBride Triangle.

First Edition. Dublin, Westport Books, 2000. 20 x 14 cm. 154 pages. Original trade paperback. Soft covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear.

Hurley, Michael J. (editor).

Civilian Casualties of the War of Independence in Lackagh Parish 1920. Compiled by Michael J. Hurley. With a Foreword by Liam Rabitte.

First Edition. Lackagh Museum and Community Development Association, 2020. 32 pages. Illustrated. Original stapled paperback. Signed by the Author on title page. Very good condition.

Gavin, Mary.

Mayo Libraries. Memories, tales and anecdotes [Signed].

First Edition. Castlebar, Self-published, 2011. 96 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original trade paperback.

Various authors.

A Collection of 15 Books published by the Religious Tract Society. Each volume contains two Publications: The Life of Mohammed & The Life of Lady Russell / Our Song Birds & Our Domestic Fowls / Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation & Glimpses of the Dark Ages / Life of Julius Caesar & Life of Cyrus / The Solar System Parts 1 and 2 / Modern and Ancient Jerusalem / Remarkable Escapes from Peril & Life’s Last Hours / The Garden Flowers & The Wild Flowers of the Year / Cowper: The Task & Truth, and other Poems / Remarkable Delusions & Man, in his Physical, Intellectual, Social, and Moral Relations / Sketches of the Waldenses & Jamaica; Enslaved and Free / Idumaea with a Survey of Arabia and Arabians & The Jordan and the Dead Sea / Magic, Pretended Miracles, and Remarkable Natural Phenomena & The Telescope and Microscope (by Thomas Dick) / The Caves of the Earth & Blights of the Wheat and their Remedies / The Life of Luther & Life and Times of John De Wycliffe.

London, The Religious Tract Society, ND [several books with inscriptions dated 1854/55]. c. 15 x 10 cm. c. 400 pages in each volume. Uniform half calf over marbled paper boards. Gilt and blind decorations on spine. Red morocco spine label with gilt titles. Marbled edges and toned end papers. Several volumes with Ex Libris of James J. Cordes Junr. on front paste down. Several books inscribed by the same person and dated 1854/55. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally clean, apart from some neat ownership inscriptions. A very nice set of the Religious Tract publications in sound attractive bindings.

Gordon, Major-Gen. C.G.

The Journals of Major-Gen. C.G. Gordon at Kartoum. Printed from the original MSS. Introduction and Notes by A. Egmont Hake. With Portrait, two Maps and thirty Illustrations after Sketches by General Gordon.

First Edition. London, Kegan, Paul, Trench, & Co., 1885, 18 x 12 cm. xlvii, 416 pages. Two maps, one of them folding. Illustrated. Original cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Name of previous owner on front free end paper.

Grose, Francis.

The Antiquities of Scotland.

First Edition. Two Volumes. London, S. Hooper, 1789-1791. Folios. Vol.1: (8), iv, large folding map, xxiii, 176 pages / Vol.2: (6), iv, (2), pages 171 to 308 pages. Volume 1 with 84 Plates plus a large folding colour outlined map. Volume 2 with 106 Plates. Contemporary full calf. Gilt title and decorations. Very good condition. Bindings rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers age darkened. Spine leather dry and flaky. Occasional mild foxing.

Grose, Francis.

The Antiquities of Ireland.

First Edition. Two Volumes. London, Printed for S. Hooper, 1791 / 1795. 26 x 17.5 cm. Vol.1: (2), FP, Title Page w/ Vignette, iv, xlii, (18), 88 pages, iv (Index). With 138 Views on 135 Plates (incl. Frontispiece). / Vol.2: (2), FP, Title Page w/ Vignette, xv, 98 pages, vi (Index). With 124 Views on 121 Plates. See comments for more Explantions on Plates. Contemporary polished calf with gilt titles and decorations to boards and spine. Dentelles. Marbled end papers. Armorial Ex Libris (‘Woolsington’). Very good condition. Bindings rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers age darkened. Both joints of volume 2 are split, but still attached. One leaf (pages 11/12) lose. Page 13 misnumbered as 31. Internally bright and clean. See comments for more information on Plates.

Grose, Francis.

The Antiquities of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland. [With more than 1100 Plates].

England and Wales: New Edition / Scotland & Ireland: First Editions. 12 Volumes. London, Hooper and Wigstead / S. Hooper, ND [1810], 1789-1791, 1791-1795. Folios (c. 26 x 21 cm). England & Wales: Vol.1: iv, 160 pages [preface], 63 pages / Vol.2: (12), pages 61 to 250, (6) / Vol.3: (14), 168 pages / Vol.4: (14), 188 pages / Vol.5: (14), 195 pages / Vol.6: (14), 214 pages / Vol.7: (14), large folding map, 74 pages (6) / Vol.8: (8), 4, (2), iv, 172 pages. Scotland: Vol.1: (8), iv, large folding map, xxiii, 176 pages / Vol.2: (6), iv, (2), pages 171 to 308 pages. Ireland: (10), iv, xliii, (18), 88 pages, (2), vi / Vol.2: xv, (3), 98 pages (4), vi. see section below for numbers of Plates and Maps in each volume. Full calf bindings. Gilt titles and decorations. Volumes 1&2 of England and Wales recently rebacked with new spines and end papers (see images). Other volumes uniform with marbled end papers and Ex Libris Very good condition. Bindings rubbed and bumped. Some hinges weak, but holding. Spine leather dried out and flaky. Occasional mild foxing, age darkening.

Bernard O’Hara (Ed.).

Mayo. Maigh Eo. Aspects of its Heritage.

First Edition. Galway, The Archeological, Historical and Folklore Society, Regional Technical College, 1982. 16 x 23 cm, 313 pages with numerous B&W photos, illustrations, tables etc. Original hardcover with dustjacket, now inside archival jacket. Very good in good dust jacket. Internally a bright and clean copy.

O Laoi, Padraic.

History of the Castlegar Parish.

Galway, Published by the Author, ND. 216 pages. Original trade paperback. Very good condition.