Taylor, Rex.

Assassination. The Death of Sir Henry Wilson and the Tragedy of Ireland.

First Edition. London, Hutchinson, 1961. 21 x 14 cm. 224 pages. Illustrated. Original black cloth. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. A very nice clean copy.

Temple, John / Tichborne, Henry.

The History of the General Rebellion in Ireland. Raised upon the Three and Twentieth Day of October, 1641. Together with the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres which ensued thereupon. To which is added, Sir Henry Tichborne’s History of the Siege of Drogheda, in the Year 1641. As also the whole Tryal of Connor Lord Macguire, with the perfect copies of the Indictment, and all the Evidences against him. Together with the Pope’s Bull to the Confederate Catholicks in Ireland.

The Seventh Edition. Cork, Printed by Phineas and George Bagnell, in Castle Street, 1766. 21 x 13 cm. 1 Blank, Title, xxiv [TOC, Preface], (12) [Subscribers Names], 412 pages, 1 Blank. Contemporary full calf with black spine label. Gilt title and five raised bands. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Age darkened throughout. Rear joint started to crack from the top. Binding sound. Ex Libris of previous owner on front paste down (‘Thomas Brownrigg’). Small bookseller stamp, just below. Front hinge started to crack. Lower corner of page 1 missing, not affecting text. Internally clean. A very nice copy of this scarce Cork publication.

Temple, John / Tichborne, Henry.

The Irish Rebellion. Or, an History of the Beginnings and first Progress of the General Rebellion, Raised within the Kingdom of Ireland, upon the Three and Twentieth Day of October, 1641. Together with the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres which ensued thereupon. To which is added, Sir Henry Tichborne’s History of the Siege of Drogheda, in the Year 1641. And also the whole Tryal of Connor, Lord MacGuire …

The Sixth Edition. Dublin, Printed by and for Aaron Rhames, 1724. 21 x 16 cm. Engraved frontispiece, title page in red and black. xvi, 245 pages. Later half leather over cloth. Raised bands. Gilt title on morroco spine label. Gilt line decorations. Pale green textured end papers and blanks. Binding with only minor shelf wear. Internally age darkened. A very clean complete copy. See images.

The Beauties of the Press. With an Appendix containing the Speech of Arthur O’Connor, on the Catholic Question, in the House of Commons of Ireland on Monday, May 4, 1795. Also his Letter to Lord Castlereagh.

London, [no publisher – privately printed for John Stockdale?], 1800. 21 x 12 cm. vi, 602 pages, 48 pages (Letter to Lord Castlereagh). Full brown calf. Small gilt decorations to spine. Blind stamp on front board (St. Patrick Library). Good condition. Binding worn. Corners, boards and spine rubbed and bumped. Spine label missing. Ex Library: Ink writings on title page and TOC, number 394 on spine and TOC. Head and tail bands damaged. Joints cracked, but boards attached and binding sound. No front free end paper. No half title. Half of rear free end paper missing. Otherwise text block complete. Title page creased. Internally age darkened with some stains and occasionally foxed.

The Count Joseph De Maistre / The Rev. Aeneas McD. Dawson (Translator).

Letters to a Russian Gentleman, on the Spanish Inquisition.

London, C. Dolman, 1851. 15 x 9.5 cm. vi, 114 pages plus 34 pages publishers list of Charles Dolman. Original embossed cloth with gilt title on fron board. Good condition. Binding rubbed bumped and age darkened (see images). Text block almost disconnected from binding. Ex Library with library stampand numbers on front free end paper. Text block bright and clean. A good reading copy or candidate for rebinding.

The Courier-Journal (Louisville). September 3 & 4, 1939 / December 8, 1941. Covers Pearl Harbour and other Aspects of WW2.

Three original Newspapers. Louisville, 1939 & 1941. 8 pages / 8 pages / 8 pages. Very good condition. Sep 3, 1939 issue with closed tear to title page. Age darkened. See images.

The Duke ofr Bedford.

The Road to Real Success.

First Edition. Glasgow, The Strickland Press [1930]. 18 x 12 cm. viii, 476 pages. Original brown cloth with gilt title on spine. Very good condition. Binding somewhat faded / discolored. Edges age darkened. Internally very clean. Inscribed on front free end paper: ‘With best wishes from the author’.

The Earl of Suffolk and Bershire Hedley Peek / Aflalo, F.G.

The Encyclopaedia of Sport.

First Edition. Two Volumes. London, Lawrence and Bullen, 1897 & 1898. 26 x 18 cm. Vol.1: x, 632 pages / Vol.2: v, 655 pages. Both volumes illustrated throughout in text and many fine, tissue guarded Plates. Original cloth. Gilt decorations and titles. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Spines faded. Hinges started to open, but binding remains intact. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.

The Georgian Society.

The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth-Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin. Vol. III.

First Edition. Volume 282 of 550. Dublin, Printed for the Society at the Dublin University Press, 1911. c. 30 x 24 cm. xxv, 135 text pages, CIII [103] Plates. Original cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Binding severely rubbed and bumped (see images). Small losses to spine ends and corners. Ex Library with the usual labels and stamps. Occasional mild foxing.

The Georgian Society.

The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth-Century Domestic Architecture and Decoration in Dublin. Vol. IV.

First Edition. Volume 70 of 550. Dublin, Printed for the Society at the Dublin University Press, 1912. c. 30 x 24 cm. xxx, 126 text pages, CXXII [122] Plates. Original cloth. Rebacked in 2025. New end papers. Very good condition. Sound binding. Occasional mild foxing.