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A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D., London
(Campbell, Thomas)
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777.
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12mo. Contemporary full leather in a straight-grain pattern; spine simply ruled with two initials (W. D.) in the title spot; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; ribbon markers. Light wear to the hinges and edges, gilt worn, else a very nice copy. Scarce Common Prayer specifically for the use of the Irish Church. ESTC T91485.
The Book of Common Prayer, And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches
(Church of Ireland)
Dublin: Executors of David Hay, 1778.
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Two volumes in one. 8vo. 421,(3)pp. Half titles are both present., with the half title for Part II at page (127). Frontispiece is a folding map of Ireland. Bound to style in quarter leather; green leather lettering piece, gilt; paper over boards. Light foxing and staining typical of US printings of this period; the map has a short closed tear at one of the folds (no loss) else this is a very good copy. Extensive history of the 1798 uprising involving Father Murphy, the Wexford Regiment and Vinegar Hill. Following page 360 is an appendix containing, inter alia, the Constitution of the Society of United Irishmen, extracts from publications signed by James Napper Tandy, and The Catechism of the United Irishmen. "Oh, I spoke to Napper Tandy and he took me by the hand...."
The History of the Irish Rebellion, in the Year 1798 &c. Containing an Impartial Narrative of the Proceedings of the Irish Revolutionists, From the Year 1782, till the suppression of the Insurrection;: With a Review of the History of Ireland.
(Ireland)
Philadelphia: John Clarke, & Co., 1813.
Price: $300.00
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The 3d. Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, with an Entire New Set of Plates. 8vo. (xvi),(323),(31)pp. Full contemporary calf, red lettering label, gilt. Double column text with each column bearing its own number (i.e., 2 numbers per page). Illustrated with an engraved title, engraved frontispiece, and 4 engraved plates (3 folding, one of them a map), but lacking the general map of Ireland. Ownership signature dated 1814. Light scuffing and edgewear else a very good copy.
The Post Chaise Companion: Or A Traveller's Dictionary Through Ireland: 'Containing a New & Accurate Description of the Direct and Principal Cross Roads... Forming an Historical & Descriptive Account of the Kingdom. To Which is Added, a Travelling Dictionary, or Alphabetical Tables, Shewing the Distances of All the Principal
(Wilson, William, topographer)
J. & J. H. Fleming: Dublin, ca. 1810.
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The Gael and Cymbri.: Or an Inquiry in to the Origin and History of the Irish, Scoti, Britons, and Gauls, and of the Caledonians, Picts, Welsh, Cornish and Bretons.
Betham, Sir William
Dublin: Curry, 1834.
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8vo. xlviii, 548pp. Publisher's deep green cloth, gilt spine title. Map endpapers. Illustrated, Index. Printed in the Republic of Ireland at Shannon. A fine copy. Dustwrapper has trace of soil and rubbing, is not clipped, else near fine.
A History of the Diocese of Cork From the Earliest Times of the Reformation
Bolster, Evelyn
NY: Barnes & Noble/ Harper & Row, 1972.
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vi,275pp. 8vo. Volume VIII of "Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature". Bound to style in quarter tan buckram; watered silk Victorian cloth boards; green lettering label, gilt. A fine copy. Two studies in one volume., The first, Iwain, has as its object to investigate the vexed question of the sources of Chretien's "Ivain". The author is noted to seek analogues from Celltic myth to explain incidents and objects of the Grail quest. IN the second section, Kittredge discusses the four versions of the Werewolf's Tale, reconstructing X; the Welsh version; the Irish version, the Werewolf's Tale in Malory, etc. and finishes with remarks on a Judaeo-German version, and on werewolves in Ireland in general. For modern Arthurian scholarship, see New Arthurian Encyclopedia, p. 407.
Iwain: A Study in the Origins of Arthurian Romance; Arthur and Gorlagon
Brown, Arthur C. L.; and G. L. Kittredge
Boston: Modern Language Departments of Harvard University, 1903.
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The Stranger in Ireland; Or, a Tour in the Southern and Western Parts of That Country, in the Year 1805
Carr, John
London: Richard Phillips, 1806.
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Motif-Index of Early Irish Literature
Cross, Tom Pete
Bloomington: Indiana University, (1952).
Price: $125.00
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The Fourth Edition. 8vo. 296pp. Complete with nineteen hand colored plates. Publisher's green cloth blocked in black . Rebacked with original spine laid-on else a very good copy. Tooley 201.
Real Life in Ireland, Or, The Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles, and Sprees...of Brian Boru, Esq. ...
Egan, Pierce, attrib.
London: William Evans & Co., (1826).
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Thin 4to. vii,(i),70,(ii),71-138pp. Contemporary full brown sheep. Spine in 5 compartments with raised bands, gilt title and tooling on the bands. Ribbon marker. Father Hogan's Grammar is followed by excerpts from the Book of Armagh, in Irish and Latin, which is in turn followed by an Index et Glossarum Hibernicum. Leather unevenly sunned else a very good copy.
Outlines of the Grammar of Old-Irish. With Text and Vocabulary.
Hogan, Rev. Edmune, S.J.
DUblin: The Gaelic League, 1900.
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First edition. 4to. xx,112pp. Contemporary half leather, marbled paper boards; spine tooled in gilt into 6 compartments, with floral tools and Celtic harps. Full page, hand colored engraved frontispiece by Rowlandson showing a bard and his harp on a mountainside surrounded by local listeners. Pp. 61-112 consist in full page engraved plates of bardic music. This volume comprises the Second Volume of the 'Musical, Poetical, and Historical Relicks of The Welsh Bards and Druids'. Text includes Bardic Triads, Taliesin's Creed, British Proverbs and a Dialogue between Arthur and Guinevere among many other collected relics. A contemporary hand has altered the date and place of publication. Light rubbing and edgewear, armorial bookplate, else a very good copy of a landmark study. Preceeded by 'Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards' in 1784 (enlarged in 1794), and followed by 'Hen Ganiadau Cymru' in 1820. The three volumes collect 209 bardic melodies, most of them Welsh.
The Bardic Museum, of Primitive British Literature; and Other Admirable Rarities ....
Jones, Edward, Bard to the Prince
London: Printed for the Author, 1802.
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4to. xx,492pp plus (4)pp. publisher's ads of works relating to Ireland. Illustrated with one hundred and eighty-six engravings on wood, chiefly from photographs and original drawings. Added engraved title. Original green pebbled cloth blocked in gilt on the spine and upper board; top edge gilt. Small stamp of the Scottish Rite Temple on p. 1; inner front hinge repaired; bookplates; else a very good copy.
The Towers and Temples of Ancient Ireland: Their Origin and History Discussed from a New Point of View
Keane, Marcus
Dublin: Hodges, Smith and Co., 1867.
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8vo. iv,248,(ii),100,pp. Two works bound in one Contemporary full calf binding; spine in six compartments with raised bands, tooled in blind with gilt lines; the upper board blocked in gilt with a prize notice with leaf borders: "Praemium Ingenii Artibus Liberalibus Feliciter Dediti in Academia Glasguensi". Marbled endpapers. Only a trace of wear else a very good copy.
England Wales, and Scotland
Kohl, J. G.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844.
Price: $750.00
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8vo. iv,248,(ii),100,(ii),202pp. 32pp. publisher catalogue. Three works bound in one, the last titled at its beginning, England and Wales". Original greenish-brown T-grain cloth blocked in blind on the boards and with gilt spine titles. coated endpapers. Hinges neatly and nearly invisibly mended, head and tail of the spine worn, light wear to the edges and corners, else a very good copy.
Ireland, Scotland, and England
Kohl, J. G.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844.
Price: $750.00
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Large 4to. 3 volumes. First editions. (52),lvi, 388;(4),516;(4),664,(30)pp. Index. Contemporary polished calf. Spines in 6 compartments with raised bands with simple gilt rules; red morocco lettereing labels, gilt. Hinges neatly and nearly invisibly repaired; some scuffing and wear to the edges and corners; chipping at spine tips; the first and last few pages have marginal offsets from the leather turn-ins, but essentially a very good copy. ESTC T135878.
The History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II: With a Preliminary Discourse on the Antient State of That Kingdom'
Leland, Thomas
London: J. Nourse, et al., 1773.
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4to. The third edition, revised and greatly enlarged. (xii),404,(viii)pp. Intriguing study of the manners, religion, languages, government, kings law and other aspects of the Britons, Scots, Irish and Anglo-Saxons. Short sections on the Druids, and a section on Gildas. Vocabulary list comparing Latin, Irish and English. Bound to style in quarter leather; spine has simple gilt rules, a red leather lettering piece, gilt, and tooled in blind with a crown, a thistle, a Celtic harp and a spray of shamrocks; marbled paper boards. Occasional light foxing, title lightly soiled and with two short closed tears, else a very good copy. Ownership name dated 1866 in Hamilton, Ohio. ESTC N17038
An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland:Or, An Inquiry into the ... Britons, Irish, Scots and Anglo-Saxons.
Macpherson, James
London: T. Becket & P. A. De Hondt, 1773.
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The Poems of Ossian
Macpherson, James
Edinburgh: Macredie, Skelly & Muckersy, 1814.
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First edition. 8vo. (xvi), 219pp. Original brown cloth blocked in gilt. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece protrait of author. Basically an exposition of the ancient Irish religious system prior to Christianity (and thereafter as 'fairy lore'). A fine, bright copy.
Ireland's Fairy Lore
Mahon, Rev. MIchael P.
Boston: Thomas J. Flynn & Company, 1919.
Price: $275.00
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Aboriginal American Basketry: Studies in a Textile Art Without Machinery
Mason, Otis Tufton
Washington: GPO, 1904.
Price: $250.00
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