Donovan, Very Rev. Jeremiah.

Rome Ancient and Modern and Its Environs.

First Edition. Four Volumes – Complete. Rome, Printed for the Author by Crispino Puccinelli, 1842 – 1844. 21 x 13.5 cm Vol.1: xxvi, 652 pages with one folding map and five Plates / Vol.2: 508 pages with three Plates / Vol.3: pages 507-1074 with 21 Plates / Vol.4: 933 pages with 30 Plates. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards. Red speckled edges. Black spine labels with gilt titles and volume numbers. Raised bands. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Small stamp (‘Canon McNamara Bequest 1956’) and a number in ink on all four front paste downs and on one page in each volume (see image). Internally very clean. A very nice complete set.

Dostoieffskaya, L.F. [Aimée Dostoyevskaya].

The Emigrant. Translated by Vera Margolies, with an introduction by Stephen Graham.

First American Edition. New York, Brentano’s, 1916. 12.5 x 19cm. (9), 320 pages. Original clothbound hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good in good dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Dust jacket worn with some paper losses to front, rear and spine ends. Now in archival jacket. Internally bright and clean.

Doucet, Camille-Antonio.

The Trappists of Oka. 1881 – 1981. Their History from the Foundation of their Abbey in 1881 Until the Present Day.

First English Edition. Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec, 1981. 23 x 15 cm. 170 pages. With B&W Photos. Original stiff paper covers. Paperback. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Internally bright and clean.

Douglas, Gawain.

Fortuna.

London, Alma Books Ltd., 2009. 19.6cm x 12.5cm. 191 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition.

Douglas, Sir George / Ramsay, Sir George Dalhousie (Editors).

The Panmure Papers. Being a Selection from the Correspondence of Fox Maule, Second Baron Panmure, afterwards Eleventh Earl of Dalhousie, K.T., G.C.B. With a supplementary Chaper by the Late Rev. Principal Rainy, D.D.

Second Edition. Two Volumes. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. 24 x 16 cm. Vol.1: viii, 515 pages / Vol.2: viii, 547 pages. Each volume with a frontispiece. Uniform cloth with gilt titles on spine. Gilt decorations. Top edges gilt. Other edges deckle. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Deckle edges dust dulled and spotted. Spines faded. Internally clean. From the library of Howth Castle, Dublin. No Ex Libris or inscriptions.

Downey, Alan / Nioclas Toibin (Translator).

Datad A Haon. (Forty-One. A Story of the second Anglo-Irish War in the Seventeenth Century.)

First Irish Edition. Dublin, 1955. 18 x 12 cm. 344 pages. Original red cloth with black titles on front board and spine. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Head of spine a little frayed. Mild browning to edges and end papers. Paper sticker on title page with names of author and translator (by publisher?). Internally bright and clean.

Downey, Edmund (Editor) / Walker, Francis S. (Artwork).

Killarney’s Lakes and Fells. Twelve Mezzotint Engravings by Francis S. Walker. Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers; Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. With some Accounts of Killarney, its Legends and its Poems. Edited by Edmund Downey.

First Edition. Ordinary Edition, printed on India paper by Gilbert & Rivington. London, Downey & Co., 1902. 27 x 37 cm (oblong). (4) [Title / TOC], 120 pages plus 12 Mezzotint Engravings, as called for. Original boards, rebacked in 2024 with new cloth spine. Original green moire cloth boards with gilt title across fron board. New black end papers. Good condition. Binding rubbed, bumped, and damp damaged (see images). Half-title and first title page chipped on side edges; light chipping to edges of feps and pages. Internally dust dulled with light ink smudging from plates to opposite pages. Most pages show mild damp staining to the bottom edge, not affecting the text or the actual angravings. Despite the wear; still an impressive book with wonderful illustrations.

Doyle, Doirin.

The Secret of Kerrytown. Signed.

[First Edition]. Dublin, Kamac Publications, [1974]. 18 x 12 cm. 36 pages. Original decorated stiff paper covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, dust dulled. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page. Internally bright and clean.

Doyle, Lynn (editor) / McGamish, Gil (translator).

Babel Babble – An Extravaganza.

First edition. Dublin, The Talbot Press Limited, 1945. 22 x 14,5 cm. 26 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs on dustjacket and rubbed edges.

Dr. Franklin / Sterne / Pratt / Dr. Goldsmith / Mackenzie / Addison et al.

The First Collection of Pathetic, Sentimental, and Moral Narratives; selected from the best Authors. Embellished with six Engravings by Hopwood and Son.

[First Edition]. London, Printed for B. Crosby and Co., 1807. 19 x 11 cm. (10), 68, 72, 72, 72 pages. With six engraved Plates (complete). Contemporary paper covered boards. Hard cover. Handwritten title on spine. Small library paper label on front board. Good condition. Binding seriously worn with some material losses (see images). Library stamp on title page. Internally dust dulled, otherwise clean. Despite the heavy wear a somewhat attractive book.