Ambrose, Saint. Bishop of Milan / Erasmus of Rotterdam (Translator-Editor)

Divi Ambrosii Episcopi Mediolanensis Operum Continens. Explanationes, hoc, est ea quae faciunt at interpretationem diuinarum scripturarum ueteris testamenti.

Volumes 4 & 5 (Quartus Tomus / Quintus Tomus) bound in one Volume . Basileae (Basel), Froben, MDXXXVIII (1538). 32 x 21 cm. (3)[blank], Title, 593 pages / Title, 414 pages plus 40 unnumbered pages Index, (3)[blank]. Panelled calf. Five raised bands. Red edges. Title with gilt decorations. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Some fraying/short cuts to spine ends. Internally some age darkening / dust dulling. Occasional mild foxing. Mild damp staining to tops of some pages. A few short and neat annotations and some neat underlining. Minor paper losses to lower corner of pages 97 to 114. Minor bookworm trails. Overall a very nice copy. Ex Libary with a single library stamp (‘College Library Carlow’) on title page. Names of various owners in ink on title page. Please see images to appeciate the condition of the book.

Anon.

A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge. Vol.1: Books printed in Dublin by known Printers 1602-1882. / Vol.2: Books printed in Dublin without Printer’s Name et al / Vol.3: Index.

[First Edition]. Three volumes – complete. Cambridge, Printed for the University Library and to be had of Bernard Quaritch, London, 1916. 25 x 17 cm. Vol.1: x, 690 pages / Vol.2: pages 690 to 1340 / Vol.3: pages 1341 to 1696. Uniform quarter black morrocco over black cloth boards. Hard cover. Very good condition. Clean and bright with minor shelf wear only. A very nice sturdy set.

Anon.

Sotheby’s. The Wardington Library Sales Catalogues. Complete Set. Important Atlases and Geographies [Two Volumes] / Bibles / Incunabula and the Wardington Hours.

Four Volume Set. London, Sotheby’s, 2005 – 2006. 28 x 22 cm. 344 pages / 368 pages / 282 pages / 124 pages. All volumes illustrated throughout. Aution results for one of the auctions losely inserted. Uniform red cloth with gilt titles on front boards and spine. See images. Illustrated end papers. Fine condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. A very nice set.

Anon / O’Connor, Frank (Translator) / Yeats, Jack B. (Illustrator).

A Lament for Art O’Leary: Translated from the Irish by Frank O’Connor, with six Illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.

Photo-Lithographic Reprint of the First Cuala Press Edition. Shannon, T.M. MacGlinchey for the Irish University Press, Robert Hogg – Printer, 1971. 28 x 19 cm. 32 unnumbered pages, incl. blank and title page. Title page vignette and six further Illustrations. Original quarter cloth over blue paper covered boards. Hard cover. Black title on front board. Blue end papers. In original plain paper jacket. Fine in very good, somewhat creased dust jacket. See images.

Ashton, John.

Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century with Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction.

First Edition. London, Chatto and Windus, 1882. 18.5 x 12 cm. xvi, 486 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth with gilt and black decorations and title on front board and spine. Appears to be recased, using new end papers. Very good condition. A little slant. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges age darkened. Ex Library with a few small stamps throughout.

Bedwell, C.E.A.

Manual for Hospital Librarians.

First Edition. London, The Library Association, 1947. 21 x 14 cm. (2), 120 pages. Original green paper covered boards. Hard cover. Good condition. Ex Library with stamps and stickers on front end papers and title page. Internally clean.

Bell, Don.

Bookspeak.

Limited edition of 120 copies. Francestown, Typographeum, 2000. 24,5 cm x 16,5 cm. 25 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Betham, Sir William.

Irish Antiquarian Researches. [Contains papers on: Leabhar Dhimma, The Caah, The Meeshac, Book of Armagh, St. Patrick et al.]

Dublin, William Curry, Jun. and Co. and Hodges and M’Arthur, 1827. 21 x 13 cm. Coloured frontispiece, Title page, (2), 442 pages, lv. Complete with 12 Plates of which seven are hand coloured and some are folding. Contemporary hald calf over marbled boards. Rebacked in 2022 using the original boards and spine. Black morroco label with gilt title. Gild decorations. Speckled edges. Very good condition. Rebacked. New end papers. Rubbed and bumped. Occasional mild age darkening / browning. A very nice clean copy.

Brander Matthews (Editor).

Ballads of Books. Books for the Bibliophile.

First Edition. New York, George J. Coombes, 1887. 16 x 10 cm. xiv, 174 pages. Small B&W Illustrations in text. Vellum with gilt decorations on boards and spine. Gilt title on brown spine label. Dentelles and marbled end papers. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Spine age darkened. Internally bright and clean. A very nice copy.

Burton, John Hill.

The Book-Hunter. ETC.

A New Edition, with Portrait. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1889. 14 x 19 cm, x, 427 pages. With a frontispiece and few small decorations in text. Quarter Leather with red clothed hard covers. Gilt title on spine. Fore and tail edge deckle. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges age darkened. Very mild foxing, mainly to end papers.