[Rarebooks] FS: Some Beauties of Ireland

[Clare Murphy]

1.  BLACK'S PICTURESQUE TOURIST OF IRELAND. 
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1854. Illustrated 
by a b&w map of Ireland, numerous charts of the 
more interesting localities and plans of the 
principal cities, mostly all fold-out and are 
tipped-in. First edition. Light Green cloth with 
gilt embossed design and lettering at front board 
and  spine. 6"  x 3.75". [310/48 pgs] Very good. 
Includes 48 pages of illustrated advertisements 
to the rear of contents.  Large map of Ireland 
has a long tear, with no loss  Minor wear to 
flexible boards, front cover and spine cloth 
faded to light brown.  Contents are tight and 
clean.  $250.00

2.  ANON. (CARLETON, WILLIAM).  TRAITS AND 
STORIES OF THE IRISH PEASANTRY. Dublin., 1830. 
Illustrated by etchings by W. H. Brooke. First 
edition. 2 volumes. Contemporary full polished 
calf with raised bands, leather labels and gilt 
decorations in the spine compartments. 12mo. 
[275, 304 pgs] Fine. Carleton's father was a poor 
Irish tenant farmer. After gaining some useful 
education from his hedge schoolmasters, he and 
his parents and 13 siblings were evicted. 
Carleton took to the road and some wild living. 
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On his way from Ulster to Dublin, he picked 
up many stories from other peasants which were 
first published in the Christian Examiner, a 
brutally anti-Catholic rag. Carleton, by this 
time, had married a Protestant girl and became a 
Protestant himself. However , he was not really a 
bigot but  a practical man who wrote for whomever 
would pay him."One immense value in his work is 
that he gives the normally inarticulate peasant's 
viewpoint, wishing Godspeed to the idealists and 
damnation to the foreigner while concentrating on 
getting in the hay." Brady and Cleeve. Irish 
Writers. pg. 18. Very scarce.    $1200.00
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3.  BREWER, J[AMES]. N[ORRIS], FL. 1799-1830. 
BEAUTIES OF IRELAND: BEING ORIGINAL DELINEATIONS, 
TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND BIOGRAPHICAL OF 
EACH COUNTY, THE. London: Sherwood, Jones & co, 
1825, 26. Translated by 24 engravings (views) by 
J. & H. S. Storer, after original drawings, 
chiefly by Mr. Petrie of Dublin. 2 volumes. Bound 
in half dark green contemporary calf, gilt 
decorated raised bands, red morocco title labels, 
marbled boards and edges, with the bookplates of 
Samuel Bronfman, famous CEO of Seagram's. 
Binder's ticket "Bound at Jackson Works, 
Aberdeen. 8vo, 21.5cm. [[ix], cc,493, [3] & [iv], 
501 pgs] Fine. A projected third volume was never 
published which accounts for the discrepancy 
between some of the places in the text and the 
plates of the same. Counties included in the text 
are from Leinster; Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, 
Kilkenny, Carlow, Kildare, Laois, Offaly, Meath, 
Westmeath, Longford and Lorth- and from Munster, 
Cork. The plates, pages and bindings are clean, 
bright and sound. Scarce. Bradshaw 78887. 
$750.00
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4.  HALL, MR & MRS. S.C.  IRELAND: ITS SCENERY, 
CHARACTER, ETC. . New York: A. W. Lovering, ca 
1880. Illustrated by 3 steel engraved titles 
pages, 47 full-page steel engravings with tissue 
guards by Wm. Bartlett and others, 4 maps in 
color and 6 color plates. Later edition. 3 
volumes. Original green cloth, highly decorated 
in gilt designs. Small 4to. [436/468/512 pgs] 
Near fine. Complete. Gorgeous books with only a 
bit of soiling to boards. Contents clean with no 
foxing. Plates excellent. Three owner's 
signatures.           $450.00
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5.  JOYCE, P[ATRICK]. W[ESTON] (1827-1914). 
ANCIENT IRISH MUSIC. Dublin: M. H. Gill , 1912. 
Later edition. Green cloth with gilt lettering. 
4to. [104 pgs] Near fine. "Comprising One Hundred 
Irish Airs Hitherto Unpublished; Many of the Old 
popular Songs: and Several New Songs". Contains 
the music and words of many of these old Irish 
tunes. Born at Ballyorgan, Co Limerick; "ed. in 
hedge-school and at Kilfinane, Kilmallock, 
Galbally (Co. Limerick), and Mitchelstown, Co. 
Cork; later at TCD, BA 1861, MA, 1864; at first 
taught in Clonmel; mbr. Society for Preservation 
of the Irish Language; entered Commission of 
National Education, 1845; appointed to a 
commission charged with reforming the management 
of the National Schools, 1856; head of Central 
National Model Schools, 1860; MRIA, 1863; Pres. 
Royal Soc. of Irish Antiquarians, 1906-08; 
Principal of Marlborough St. Teacher Training 
College, 1874-1893; chiefly remembered for Irish 
Names and Places, 3 vols. (1869, 1875, 1913), 
significantly founded on the records of the 
Ordnance Commission's Topography Dept. and later 
cited facetiously by James Joyce in "Gas from a 
Burner" Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco): 
2001
A couple of scratches to front board and a 
small fingermark, otherwise bright and clean. 
Scarce.  $250.00

6.  KENNEDY, PATRICK, 1801-73.  LEGENDARY 
FICTIONS OF THE IRISH CELTS . London: Macmillan 
and Co, 1866. Illustrated by W. Small. First 
edition. 3/4 contemporary green polished calf 
with green and red marbled cloth boards, gilt 
decorated raised bands and florets in spine 
compartments with red leather title label and 
gilt lettering. All edges marbled. [352 pgs] 
Fine. Some of a sub-genre of Irish stories and 
legends covered here are: Household Stories, 
Legends Of The "Good People". ;Witchcraft, 
Sorcery, Ghosts,and Fetches; Ossianic and Other 
Early Legends; and Legends Of The Celtic Saints. 
Gorgeous book.        $250.00
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7.  MOONEY, THOMAS.  HISTORY OF IRELAND: FROM ITS 
FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME INCLUDING A 
PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF ITS LITERATURE, MUSIC, 
ARCHITECTURE, AND NATURAL RESOURCES; WITH UPWARDS 
OF TWO HUNDRED BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ITS MOST 
EMINENT MEN INTERSPERSED WITH A GREAT NUMBER OF 
IRISH MELODIES ORIGINAL AND SELECTED, ARRANGED 
FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, A. Boston: Privately 
published by the author, 1845. Illustrated by 
many fine quality engravings and lithographs. 
First edition. 2 volumes. Orig. decorated cloth 
gilt. Large 8vo. [1652 pgs] Near fine. Edgewear 
to spine extremities of Volume I, otherwise 
clean, tight, unfoxed and unfaded. Contains many 
old Irish tunes, both words and music. Also an 
interesting list of Boston subscribers.  $275.00

8.  O'NEILL, CAPT. FRANCIS (1849-1936).  IRISH 
MINSTRELS AND MUSICIANS. Chicago: The Regan 
Printing House, 1913. Illustrated by many 
photographic plates and other graphics. First 
edition. Bright green cloth with a picture of a 
piper in gilt on front board and a harp in gilt 
on spine. Borders decorated with celtic design. 
4to. [497 pgs] Fine. A very attractive book with 
only the mildest of shelf wear. No foxing or 
marking of any kind. "With numerous dissertations 
on related subjects." Very good index. A 
scholarly and entertaining treatise on a subject 
seldom undertaken. Captain Francis O'Neill; b. 
Tralibane, Bantry, Co. Cork; ran away to sea; 
travelled world as seaman; shipwreck in Pacific; 
taught school at Edina, Knox, Co., Missouri; 
worked in freight yard; joined Chicago police 
force, July 1873.

"O'Neill is regarded as one of the foremost 
collectors of traditional music and song. He was 
a flute player himself and so had a deep 
understanding of the music. He was Chief of 
Police in Chicago and recruited traditional Irish 
musicians into the police force. He collected 
tunes from all available sources and published 
the following collections:

1. 1903 - O'Neill's Music of Ireland containing 
1,850 assorted pieces of music, airs, jigs, 
reels, hornpipes, long dance marches etc.

2. 1907 - 1,001 tunes.

3. 1915 - 400 tunes arranged for piano and violin.

4. 1922 - Waifs and Strays of Gaelic Melodies 365 
pieces. He also published books giving 
biographies of the musicians from whom he 
collected music. In 1913 he published one such 
book entitled Irish Minstrels and Musicians. In 
1910 he published a book called Irish Folk Music 
- a fascinating hobby. His collections are 
regarded as a very important reference for 
traditional Irish musicians." Comhaltas Ceoltóirí 
Eireann. Very scarce indeed.  $250.00

9.  STOCKWELL, LA TOURETTE.  DUBLIN THEATRES AND 
THEATRE CUSTOMS, 1637-1820. Kingsport, Tennessee: 
Printed by Kingsport Press, 1938. Illustrated by 
fifteen b&w plates. First edition. Limited to 500 
copies, this is #294. Green cloth with paper 
title labels at front board and spine. Inscribed 
by the author at the title page. 9" x 5.75". [406 
pgs] Near fine. Spine is lightly sunned and 
soiled.  Contents are tight and clean.  $225.00

10.  THACKERAY.  IRISH SKETCH BOOK. London., 
1843. First edition. 2 volumes. Original green 
embossed cloth housed in custom-made tri-fold 
pull-cases within a half morocco slipcase with 
gilt lettering, raised bands and gilt rules. Near 
fine. The half-title pages, which are often 
absent in this title are here present. The 
binding has been professionally and almost 
invisibly reinforced at outer hinges. Residue to 
pastedowns where bookplates have been removed. 
Contents clean and tight, nearly free of foxing. 
Scarce in this lovely condition. VAN DUZER 96. 
$950.00
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