Newby, Eric / Ashmore, Sonia (eds).

A Book of Lands and Peoples.

London, HarperCollins, 2003. 16cm x 24cm. XII, 620 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition.

Nichevo.

Burned Bridges.

First Edition. London, Grayson & Grayson, 1935. 21 x 14 cm. 253 pages. Complete with seven Plates, as listed. Original black cloth. Hard cover with gilt title and decorations. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in good dust jacket. Edges dust dulled. Ex Libris of previous owner on front paste down. Internally bright and clean.

Nutting, Wallace.

Ireland Beautiful. Illustrated by the Author with three hundred and four Pictures covering all the Counties in Ireland.

First Edition. Framington, MA, Old America Company Publishers, 1925. 25 x 17 cm. 302 pages. Illustrated throughout in B&W. Later quarter morroco over marbled boards. Raised bands. Black spine label with gilt title and gilt decorations. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Neat inscription by previous owner, dated 1925. Ex Libris of previous owner. Internally clean. A very nice copy in an attractive binding.

Otway, Caesar.

A Tour in Connaught: Comprising Sketches of Clonmacnoise, Joyce Country, and Achill. With Illustrations engraved on Wood.

First Edition. Dublin, William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1839. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. xi, 412 pages. Complete with eight illustrations. Contemporary dark green calf over marbled boards. Gilt and blind decorations. Black spine label and gilt title. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Front hinge cracked. Internally clean with occasional mild foxing (see images).

Pike, Warburton.

The Barren Ground of Northern Canada.

New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, 1917. 20 x 13 cm. ix, 334 pages plus six pages publishers list. Complete with 15 Plates and a folded map, as listed. Original green cloth hard cover. Gilt titles on front board and spine. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Binding shaky, but holding. Internally clean.

Praeger, Robert Lloyd.

The Way That I Went. An Irishman in Ireland.

First Edition. Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1937. 24 x 16 cm. xiii, 394 pages. With a frontispiece, 38 photographic plates and a large folding map, as called for. Small illustrations in text. Original blue cloth, inside original pale dust jacket, now inside archival jacket. Deckle edges. Very good in good dust jacket. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Spine ends just starting to fray. Edges and end papers age darkened. Very mild spotting to first and last few pages. Internally bright and clean. Dust jacket with small paper losses to spine ends and corners. Now inside protective clear jacket. A nice copy in the rare dust jacket. See images.

Ritter, Lorenz (artist) / Dohme, Dr. Robert (text).

Malerische Ansichten aus Nürnberg.

Berlin, Verlag von Ernst Wasmuth, 1876. 42 x 32 cm. Engraved title page, title page, (4) [Dedication], 12 text pages (with Illustrations), followed by 25 tissue guarded engraved Plates – complete. Original textured cloth with elaborate gilt and black decorations. Gilt titles. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped with small material losses. Ex Libris of previous owner on front paste down. Blank Ex Libris sticker on one of the text pages. Foxing throughout, heavy in places (see images).

Roberts, Morley.

The Western Avernus. Or Toil and Travel in Further North America.

First Edition. London, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1887. 20 x 13 cm, 307 pages plus four pages publishers list. With a folding map of the author’s route through North America. Original dark green cloth with gilt title on spine. Hard cover. Dark brown end papers. All edges deckle. Very good condition. Slightly slanted. Extremities slightly rubbed and bumped. Head and tail of spine a little frayed. Two closed tears in map. Edges dust dulled. Internally bright and clean. Insribed on half title by the author: To Edward Downey with kind regards from Morley Roberts 4.10.9? Prosit!’ From the library of Edmund Downey, Publisher (Downey & Co.).

Rooke, Charles.

The Handy Pocket-Guide to Health & Health-Restoring Places.

250th Thousand. Scarborough, C. Rooke, 1884. 13 x 10 cm. 86 pages plus two pages ads. Illustrated in B&W. Original blue cloth with gilt title and black decorations on front board. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Dust dulled. Internally clean.

Saintine, X.-B. / Dore, Gustave (illustrations).

La Mythologie du Rhin et les Contes de la Mère-Grand’.

First Edition. Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1862. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. 403 pages. Illustrated throughout. Contemporary textured cloth. Hard cover. Gilt title and decorations. Rebacked in 2023. New end papers. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. First few pages with damp stain to lower edge. A few stains and annotations, mainly in pencil.