Beattie, William (text) / Bartlett, W.H, Allom, T (drawings).

Scotland / Caledonia. Illustrated In A Series Of Views Taken Expressly For This Work By Messrs. T.Allom, W.H.Bartlett, and Others.

Two Volumes – Complete. London and New York, George Virtue, ND (c. 1840). 27 x 21 cm. Vol.1 : 200 pages / Vol.2: 172 pages. Illustrated with steel plates. Complete with all Plates, as listed. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards. Marbled edges and end papers. Gilt titles and decorations. Very good condition. Bindings rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Some foxing / browning. Gift inscription in ink in both volumes. A nice set in good sturdy bindings.

Raftery, Joseph.

The Tumulus-Cemetery of Carrowjames. Co. Mayo.

Galway, Reprinted from the Journal of Galway Arch. and Historical Society, 1940. Pages numbered 16 to 85. With Plates and Illustrations. Original paper wrappers. Soft covers. Good condition. Ruubbed and bumped. Wrappers and first pages coming apart. Dust dulled.

Guy, Joseph.

Guy’s Geographia Antiqua: or, School Treatise on Ancient Geography. Upon a New Plan, adapted to the Classical and the English Learner, both in Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Schools.

Second Edition, Corrected. London, Baldwin and Cradock, 1834. 16 x 9 cm. vii, 216 pages. With five folding Maps. New (2024) cloth. Hard cover with spine label. Gilt title. New end paper. Blue speckled edges. Very good condition. New binding. Edges dust dulled. Internally clean. Short closed tear to Italy map. All maps in very good condition.

De Terra, Helmut.

Man and Mammoth in Mexico. Translated from the German by Alan Houghton Brodrick.

First Edition. London, Hutchinson, 1957. 22 x 14 cm. 191 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth hard cover. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. Edges dust dulled. Internally a bright clean copy.

C. Blake Whelan.

The Flint Industry of the Northern Irish (25-foot) Raised Beach: A Preliminary Study of its Relation to the Asturian Industry of Portugal.

Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. London, Royal Anthropological Institute, [1030]. 27 x 19 cm. Pages 169 to 184. One Plate and Illustrations in text. Original green wrappers. Very good condition. Includes one hand-written and one typed letter, both signed by the Author. See images.

Howard, John Eliot.

“The Island of Saints;” or, Ireland in 1855.

First Edition. London, Seeleys, 1855. 16 x 10 cm. xxiv, 276 pages. With 10 (out of 11) Lithotint Plates and three woodcut Illustrations. Original green cloth with gilt titles on front board and spine. Elaborate blind decorations to boards and spine (see images). Very good condition. Binding with minor shelf wear. Spine faded into brown. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Small Ex Libris on front paste down. Inscription on front free end paper reads : ‘From the Author Sept. 1855’. A few neat annotations. A very nice copy.

Knox, Hubert Thomas.

The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century.

First Edition. Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1908. 24 x 15 cm. xvi, (2), 451 pages. With two Plates and two small Maps. Missing the large Map of County Mayo at the end of the book. Original brown cloth. Hard cover with gilt title on spine. Good condition only, due to lack of large map. Binding worn, frayed edges. Joints and hinges started to crack (see images). The book is full of annotations and underlining (see images). A very good reading copy or candidate for rebinding.

Henry, Francoise.

Remains of the Early Christian Period on Inishkea North, Co. Mayo. Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Vol. LXXV. Part III.

Dublin, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1945. Pages 127 to 155 with numerous Plates, a folding Plate and Illustrations in text. Original paper wrappers. Very good condition. A clean and bright copy.

Westropp, Thomas J.

Archaeology of the Burren. Prehistoric Forts and Dolmens in North Clare.

Ennis, Clasp Press, 1999. 24 x 15 cm. (10), iii, 226 pages. Illustrated. Original red cloth. Hard cover with gilt title on spine. Inside original dust jacket. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Top edge dust dulled.

Borlase, William Copeland.

The Dolmens of Ireland. Their Distribution, Structural Characteristics, and Affinities in other Countries; together with the Folk-Lore attaching to them; Supplemented by Considerations on the Anthropology, Ethnology, and Traditions of the Irish People. With four Maps, and eight hundred Illustrations, including two coloured Plates.

First Edition. In three Volumes – Complete. London, Chapman & Hall, 1897. 26 x 17 cm. Vol.1: xxxvi, 312 pages / Vol.2: pages numbered 313 to 712 / Vol.3: pages numbered 713 to 1234. Complete with the four folding coloured Maps and the two Frontipiece Plates. Original green cloth. Gilt titles and decorations. Top edge gilt. Black end papers. Very good condition. Bindings rubbed and bumped. Some discoloration (see images) to Bindings. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Small stamp of previous owner (‘Rosturk Castle’) on half title page of all three volumes. Internally very bright and clean. A lovely set.