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54pp. Disbound. Some pages are stained. Keywords: Church in Ireland, Catholic Church, 19th Century Ireland, Reports, Rare and Antiquarian Books
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Richard Milliken Dublin
- Publication date
- 1815
- Edition
- Second edition
- SKU
- KON0826770
€ 395.00
€ 395.00
hardcover. First Edition, very good copy in a dustwrapper
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1968
- SKU
- KTK0094051
€ 36.00
€ 36.00
Hardcover. "Bound in pictoral green cloth with white title on front and spine. Cloth is worn at spine ends and spine edges, corners slightly bumped and worn, slight staining to cover, page edges uncut, endpages slightly stained, inscription on front endpage." Keywords: Irish Fiction
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- The Century Co
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1902
- SKU
- KHS0077908
€ 38.00
€ 38.00
Hardcover. 88pp. Selected from the writings of G. F. Savage-Armstrong , the Poet of Wicklow and Down. Foreword by Sir James H Campbell. Fore and bottom edges uncut
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- E. Ponsonby Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1917
- SKU
- KHS1003883
€ 76.00
€ 76.00
Hardcover. "Good Copy in dust wrapper, owner's signature on front fly leaf". Keywords: "Literature, Irish playwright, Classic, German"
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Diogenes Verlag
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1961
- SKU
- KHS0081880
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Poster. Framed. Large color broadside designed by Wes Wilson featuring a photo of Ginsberg by Larry Keenan Jr. and printing the poem Who Be Kind To. Printed in many colors. 78.5cm x 41cm. Keywords: Poetry - Poster
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Cranium Press
- Publication date
- 1965
- SKU
- KHS0071193
€ 195.00
€ 195.00
Hardcover. 391pp. Printed by order of The Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland. Bound in half calf with marbled boards, gilt lettered red title label, gilt bands and blind pressed designs on spine, marbled endpapers. Very minor foxing to title page, and endpages. Keywords: Irish History
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- John Browne, Dublin Dublin
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1844
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KHS0077901
€ 392.00
€ 392.00
Hardcover. First edition, dustwrapper worn
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1943
- SKU
- KTK0094226
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Paperback. 64pp. Privately printed. Place and date of publication unknown. 4to, original printed blue-gray wrappers. First edition of this collection, one of 300 numbered copies. Wilde's comic ghost story and two ironic society sketches issued in a pirated edition produced by Leonard Smithers, or by Wright & Jones, a firm of unscrupulous booksellers on Fulham Street, or by both of them. Seperately and in cahoots, they issued numerous piracies of Wilde's writings shortly after his death. Wrappers a little worn at the head and foot of the spine and slightly soiled; very good copy. Keywords: Literature - Rare - Irish - Wilde
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Very Good.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1904
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KHS0068089
€ 895.00
€ 895.00
Pamphlet. Title continued; "by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, early in the present sessions of parliament. 8vo. 80pp. (Lacks the half title. First edition, second or third impression, but undetermined due to lack of half title. Modern wrappers; sometime removed from a nonce volume and respined with paper under the wrapper. Six digit numerical stamp to title-page and shadow of old pencilling, otherwise clean. Keywords: Rare Books - Literature - Burke
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Printed for J. Owen
- Publication date
- 1796
- SKU
- KHS0057427
€ 340.00
€ 340.00
Hardcover. 47pp. Bumped
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- The Talbot Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1939
- SKU
- KHS1004200
€ 65.00
€ 65.00
Hardcover. First edition. Keywords: "Literature, prose, collection of short stories, Fiction"
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Dublin: The Talbot Press,
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1946
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KHS0081913
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
Disbound. 37 pp. 24 cm. Rebound in modern marbled boards, with gilt lettering to front, new eps. A fine copy. Keywords: Local history, Galway, University
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- H.M. Stationery Office
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1908
- SKU
- KHS0004463
€ 100.00
€ 100.00
hardback. First edition in original cloth, stained. dustwrapper.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1945
- SKU
- KTK0094047
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Hardback. With a long inscription from John Varian, and some other inscriptions, on the front end paper. Frontispiece after a painting by A E. Original cloth, very good. Keywords: Mythology - Ireland - Plays
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Sealy, Bryers & Walker
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KHS0066817
€ 395.00
€ 395.00
Hardback. 223.pp plus 'Verbum Sapienti' 27.pp. 1719. A very nice copy, bound in leather with raised bands and gilt leather label to spine. Title: Political Survey of Ireland, with the Establishment of that Kingdom, when the Late Duke of Ormond was Lord Lieutenant; and also an exact list of the present Peers, Members of Parliament, and principal Officers of State. To which is added, An Account of the Wealth and Expences of England, and the Method of raising Taxes in the most equal manner. Shewing likewise that England can bear the Charge of Four Millions per Ann. when the Occasions of the Government require it. The Second Edition, carefully corrected, with Additions. By a Fellow of the Royal Society, [xvi], 223, [1] blank, 26 + 2 pp. advertisements, octavo, contemporary calf, slight wear to head of spine, hinges partially cracked but firm, neat ownership inscription in upper margin of title of Thomas McClure and with the fine contemporary engraved bookplate of Dive Downes (Bishop of Cork) on the front pastedown, an excellent copy, London, D. Browne, W. Mears, F. Clay, and J. Hooke, 1719. Second edition, this is an enlargement of the work originally published in 1691 as The Political Anatomy [now renamed Survey], with an additional section on 'The Present State of Ireland' (p.203-223) giving lists of the lords spiritual and temporal, the members of Parliament, and the principal officers in the government in 1719, as well as the Verbum Sapienti (p.1-26) which was included in the original edition. 'This, perhaps, is the best of Petty's works and is valuable alike for the authentic information it affords respecting the state of Ireland in the latter part of the 17th century, and for the judicious suggestions of the author with a view to its improvement' ( - McCulloch, The Literature of Political Economy, p. 211). "The Political Anatomy of Ireland was written in about 1671 after Petty's second long stay in the country. It provides a wide survey of Irish institutions and government with much statistical evidence.The Verbum Sapienti is an assessment of the wealth of a nation and its capacity to pay taxes." (- Keynes). It was probably written about 1665 and contains some of Petty's major contributions to economic thought, including his theory of value. It has been argued that this work contains the beginnings of the classical theory of wages and that Petty anticipates Ricardo's natural price of labour. Of the importance of 'Verbum Sapienti' as a foundation document in the English school of political arithmetic see Pearson, pp.61 et seq. "The first work of Petty which does deal more closely with statistical matters is the Verbum Sapienti which was first published in 1691 as an appendix to the Political Economy of Ireland, but which Petty himself says he wrote in 1665. The object of this pamphlet was to fix a valuation on the wealth of Great Britain. It is therefore essentially statistical. On the whole Petty's Verbum Sapienti is perhaps the best sample of his writings." [PEARSON, E S [Editor]. The history of statistics in the 17th and 18th centuries against the changing background of intellectual, scientific and religious thought. London, 1978, see p61 and p65]. Goldsmith 5514; Kress 3111; Keynes 38. PROVENANCE: from the library of BISHOP DIVE DOWNES with his bookplate. Dive Downes was descended from an ancient Suffolk family, son of Rev. Lewis Downes, Rector of Thornby in Northamptonshire, where he was born 16th October, 1653. He matriculated in the University of Dublin at the age of 16 and graduated in 1671. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1675. On the 24th February 1677-78 Downes was ordained deacon in St. Patrick's Cathedral and admitted to Holy Orders 5th May, 1678. He was retained by the Parliament of James 11 in 1689. By letters patent dated 18th April he was elevated to the Sees of Cork and Ross and enthroned i
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- D. Browne London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KHS1001640
€ 2,465.00
€ 2,465.00
Hardback. 240pp. Plus numerous plates and illustrations in the text. Original cloth. Title in gilt on spine and front board. Slight wear to dust jacket. Otherwise a fine copy. Keywords: Irish Art, Romanesque Period, 11th Century Ireland, 12th Century Ireland, Rare Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1970
- SKU
- KHS0044467
€ 125.00
€ 125.00
Pamphlet. 39pp. Edges uncut, shaded. Previous owner's signature on front cover. Translated into German, and with a foreword by Max Meyerfeld. Keywords: Irish literature, German Language
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- S Fischer
- Publication date
- 1907
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KHS1010425
€ 75.00€ 50.00
€ 75.00
€ 50.00
Hardcover. 1729. 205pp. Index. Appendix. The Dunciad is a landmark literary satire by Alexander Pope published in three different versions at different times. The first version (the "three book" Dunciad) was published in 1728 anonymously. The second version, the Dunciad Variorum was published anonymously in 1729. The New Dunciad, in four books and with a different hero, appeared in 1743. The poem celebrates the goddess Dulness and the progress of her chosen agents as they bring decay, imbecility, and tastelessness to the kingdom of Great Britain. This copy is the second version. Full calf. Title in gilt on spine. Embossed. Cover is slightly worn. Child's drawings on endpapers. Some notes in pen throughout. Hole burnt in title page. Overall very good considering age of the book. Binding is tight and text is clear and bright. Keywords: 18th Century Poetry, British Poetry, Rare and Antiquarian Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Printed and Reprinted for the Booksellers in Dublin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KON0826965
€ 395.00
€ 395.00
Hardcover. 256pp. ix. 15cm. No date given. Index of authors. Cloth boards, gilt title on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, spine sunned, shelf wear. Foxing, text clear and bright. Library markings. Keywords: Music - Songs - Ballads - Irish
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- James Duffy
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KHS1004568
€ 60.00
€ 60.00