![Annála Rioghachta Éireann. The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, by the Four Masters from the Earliest Period to the Year 1616. Edited by John O'Donovan. Second edition. Dublin: Hodges, Smith & Co. 1856. 7 volumes 4to. Later red/black calf with gilt titles. Although a number of manuscript copies were circulated, this monumental work remained unprinted for more than two centuries after its compilation by Fr. Michael O’Clery and his associates (1632-36). Eventually in 1846, Owen Connellan issued his translation into English of those Annals which cover the period after the Norman invasion. Connellan’s work was so severely criticised, that the Dublin bookseller George Smith, employed the renowned Irish scholar John O’Donovan to make a fuller and more accurate translation, with copious annotation. This he did with considerable assistance from Eugene O’Curry, the work first appearing in three volumes 1848-51. Its success was immediate, so O’Donovan was encouraged both to turn his attention to the period before the invasion, and to produce the Indexes to Places and People, which are so helpful to the researcher. As a result, copies of his [first] edition are sometimes found bound in five cumbersome volumes with the later period preceding the earlier years, and with seven title pages included in the final volume, to allow subscribers the option of rebinding their sets in correct chronological sequence. In this “second” edition, the text remained unaltered, but for the first time sets were offered for sale in seven more manageable volumes, and in their correct order.](https://content.easyliveauction.com/auctions/images_lots/8332BB5E3C4AE3B81E8483AABD015C7A_pur01/1100297741_PREVIEW.JPG)
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Yeats, Jack. B Life In The West of Ireland, Drawn and Painted by Jack B. Yeats. Maunsel Dublin & London 1912 with extremely rare pen sketch inside cover and signed Jack B. Yeats, July 14th 1945. Blue gilt cloth
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Joyce, James ULYSSES Paris: Published for the Egoist Press, London, by John Rodker, Paris 1922. Limited edition, No. 1343 of 2000 copies on handmade paper. Printed by Maurice Darantiere at Dijon, France
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Fynes Moryson. An Itinerary containing His Ten Years Travel Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmelland, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland & Ireland. 1617. 1st edition . Small folio. 8 copper plates of European cities. Part Two of this scarce work relaters to Ireland and Hugh 0’Neills 9 Year War. Rubbed, very rare. Half calf.
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Thomas Kinsella. The Tain – Translated by Kinsella from the Irish Tain Bo Cuailnge. 1969. Dolmen Press, Dublin. Limited edition (1000) Illustrated by Louis Le Brocquy. Original signatures of Thomas Kinsella and Louis Le Brocquy on limitation page (tipped in). Fine pictorial dust jacket in the original decorative slip case. Rare.
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Bernard Scale. An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of The Kingdom of Ireland. Published London. 1776 “And may be had of the Author at his House in Dublin”. First edition. 37 hand coloured maps, comprising general maps of Ireland, Leinster, Ulster, Connaught, and Munster and 32 maps of the counties. First hand coloured Atlas of Ireland & extremely rare. Fine contemporary calf. Spine professionally rebacked. Irish armorial book plate. A remarkably clean copy.
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Exceptionally Rare Set of Eight Limerick Dessert Spoons, c.1800, marked Sterling and with mark of John Purcell, family crest of an eagle upon a crown of feathers, c.249grams and c.17cm long
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Rare 12 Air Victorian Music Box by Nicole Freres for T Cox of the Savoy, Cornhill, London, with key (a/f)
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John McGahern The Barracks. Faber, 1963. First Edition Signed. Very Good + in cloth. Unclipped dj. Protective cover. Beautiful copy.
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