[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Books about Ireland

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1.  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.

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 concetrating on getting in the 
hay." Brady and Cleeve. Irish Writers. pg. 18. Very scarce. <A 
HREF='http://www.oldbooks.com/images/71922.jpg> . $1200.00

2. 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. <A 
HREF='http://www.oldbooks.com/images/71832.jpg'> . $450.00

3.  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Airs Hitherto Unpublished; Many of the Old popular Songs: and Several 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): 2001A couple of scratches to 
front board and a small finger mark, otherwise bright and clean. 
Scarce.  $250.00

4. 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. <A HREF='http://www.oldbooks.com/images/71920.jpg'> 
 . $250.00

5.  LARMINIE, WILLIAM, (COLLECTED AND TRANSLATED BY).  WEST IRISH 
FOLK-TALES AND ROMANCES. London: Elliot Stock, 1893. First edition. 
Half burgundy cloth with green boards and gilt lettering and 
pictorial emblem on front board. Edges uncut. [258 pgs] Very good. 
Former owner's signature. Some soiling to the front board and 
darkening to the page edges. Part of the Camden Library Series. 
Laminie traveled the west of Ireland, collecting tales from the 
peasants and translating them into english. He gave the names and 
towns of the story tellers. Scarce original edition.  $275.00

6.  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

7.  NICHOLSON, A.  IRELAND'S WELCOME TO THE STRANGER OR AN EXCURSION 
THROUGH IRELAND, IN 1844 & 1845, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERSONALLY 
INVESTIGATING THE CONDITION OF THE POOR. New York: Baker and 
Scribner, 1847. First edition. Brown cloth with blind embossed 
designs to boards, bright gilt lettering at spine. 7.5" x 4.5". 
[456/22 pgs] Near fine. Mrs. Asenath Nicholson was an American woman 
from Vermont, who was a Quaker. She wrote very sympathically about 
the suffering Irish peasants. She spent four years with them. A few 
small light stains to front board.  One corner of head of spine is 
chipped.  Minor scattered foxing to otherwise bright tight binding 
with minor scattered foxing to some pages. Minor shelf wear.  $425.00

8.  (STAFFORD, SIR THOMAS).  PACATA HIBERNIA, IRELAND APPEASED AND 
REDUCED. London: Robert Milbourne , 1633. Illustrated by 17 folding 
plates and maps, but, but alas not including the famous and rare map 
of Munster (Mounster) by Speed; 2 ports . First edition. Original 
full leather, expertly rebacked. All original end papers. All edges 
marbled. Raised bands with leather title label, gilt. Gilt rules to 
boards. Some roughening to leather on boards. Old damp-stain, 
affecting top portion of most pages. This is sometimes very light and 
sometimes darker. Folio. [391 pgs] Very good. Has the armorial 
bookplate of Marquis William Kerr I of Lothian and another label with 
the shelf placement in his castle "The Newbattle Abbey".

  Full title: Pacata Hibernia. Ireland appeased and reduced. Or, an 
historie of the late vvarres of Ireland, especially within the 
province of Mounster, vnder the government of Sir George Carew, 
Knight, then Lord President of that province, and afterwards Lord 
Carevv of Clopton, and Earle of Totnes, &c. VVherein the siedge of 
Kinsale, the defeat of the Earle of Tyrone, and his armie; the 
expulsion and sending home of Don Iuan de Aguila, the Spanish 
generall, with his forces; and many other remarkeable passages of 
that time are related. Illustrated with seventeene severall mappes, 
for the better understanding of the storie.

Stafford was probably the natural son of Sir George Carew (1555-1629 
) under whom he served as a captain in Munster during the campaign 
against Hugh O'Neill; Carew (c. 1629) bequeathed him a vast 
collection of MSS relating to Ireland, thirty nine vols. of which are 
in Lambeth Library, and four vols. of which are in the Bodleian. 
Stafford alleges that the original of Pacata was written by Carew 
'out of his retiyred Modestie' but the consensus is that the book was 
composed by him, drawing on Carew's papers; Stafford was knighted by 
Chichester 1611.The author of the entry on Stafford considers that he 
may have been an Anglo-Irishman since 'it is as an Irishman not an 
Englishman that he speaks'. DNB OCIL <A 
HREF='http://www.oldbooks.com/images/71842.jpg'> . $3500.00

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, William Makepeace. 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.
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