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De Búrca Rare Books A selection of fine, rare and important books and manuscripts Catalogue 141 Spring 2020 DE BÚRCA RARE BOOKS Cloonagashel, 27 Priory Drive, Blackrock, County Dublin. 01 288 2159 01 288 6960 CATALOGUE 141 Spring 2020 PLEASE NOTE 1. Please order by item number: Pennant is the code word for this catalogue which means: “Please forward from Catalogue 141: item/s ...”. 2. Payment strictly on receipt of books. 3. You may return any item found unsatisfactory, within seven days. 4. All items are in good condition, octavo, and cloth bound, unless otherwise stated. 5. Prices are net and in Euro. Other currencies are accepted. 6. Postage, insurance and packaging are extra. 7. All enquiries/orders will be answered. 8. We are open to visitors, preferably by appointment. 9. Our hours of business are: Mon. to Fri. 9 a.m.-5.30 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. 10. As we are Specialists in Fine Books, Manuscripts and Maps relating to Ireland, we are always interested in acquiring same, and pay the best prices. 11. We accept: Visa and Mastercard. There is an administration charge of 2.5% on all credit cards. 12. All books etc. remain our property until paid for. 13. Text and images copyright © De Burca Rare Books. 14. All correspondence to 27 Priory Drive, Blackrock, County Dublin. Telephone (01) 288 2159. International + 353 1 288 2159 (01) 288 6960. International + 353 1 288 6960 Fax (01) 283 4080. International + 353 1 283 4080 e-mail [email protected] web site www.deburcararebooks.com COVER ILLUSTRATIONS: Our front and rear cover is illustrated from the magnificent item 331, Pennant's The British Zoology. The inside covers are illustrated from the superb item 130, Fine Binding. ii Catalogue 141 1. [ACHILLES] Log of H.M.S. Achilles. Commanded by Captain A. C. F. Heneage, afterwards Admiral Heneage. Kept by F. Hammond. February 4th 1880 - November 1881. The log then continues for H.M.S. Diamond from November 1881 to March 30th 1882. Illustrated with several tipped in pen and pencil charts with signals. Small folio volume bound in full vellum parchment, title in manuscript on paper label on upper cover and with three decorative titlepages in watercolour (one with photograph). Unpaginated. pp. [267], [35 (Charts)]. Fine copy. €1,500 HMS Achilles was an armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in the 1860s. Upon completion in 1864 she was assigned to the Channel Fleet. The ship was paid off in 1868 to refit and be re-armed. When she recommissioned in 1869, she was assigned as the guard ship of the Fleet Reserve in the Portland District until 1874. Achilles was refitted and re-armed again in 1874 and became the guard ship of the Liverpool District in 1875. Two years later, she rejoined the Channel Fleet before going to the Mediterranean in 1878. The ship returned to the Channel Fleet in 1880 and served until she was paid off in 1885. Achilles was recommissioned in 1901 as a depot ship at Malta under a succession of different names. She was transferred to Chatham in 1914 and was again renamed multiple times before she was sold for scrap in 1923. Achilles had more changes of her rigging and armament than any other British warship, before or since. The charts include: Vigo Bay; West Coast of Spain; Southern Tip of Portugal; Azores; H.M.S. Achilles, Signed F. Hammond; Gibraltar; Southern Tip of Portugal and Spain including Gibraltar; Sailing from Ireland to Azores; Four Plans of H.M.S. Achilles; Sailing from Bantry to Portsmith; Bantry Bay; Sailing from Bantry to Vigo and from Bantry Bay to Plymouth; Sailing from Plymouth to Vigo; Profile of H.M.S. Achilles; Sailing along African Coast, etc. EXTREMELY RARE KILLARNEY ITEM 2. ADAMS, William. Glena of the Creek. A poem of Killarney. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870. First edition. pp. [8], 63, [1], iv (Notes). With a half-title. Green cloth, title within a gilt decoration on upper cover. Signature of W.W. Burton on upper wrapper and front endpaper. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €375 COPAC locates the BL and Cambridge copies only. Not in NLI. O'Donoghue p.6. WATERFORD AUTHOR & PUBLISHER 3. ALLEN, F. M. [Pseud. Edmund Downey] Through Green Glasses. Illustrated by M. Fitzgerald. London: Ward and Downey, 1887. pp. vi, 236, 12 (Catalogue). Publisher's green illustrated cloth over bevelled boards. All edges gilt. A very good copy. Exceedingly rare. €175 COPAC locates only 1 copy of this edition (NL Scotland). Loeber D160. Edmund Downey (1856-1937) was born in Waterford, son of a ship owner. He was educated at the Catholic University School and John's College, Waterford. In 1878 he moved to London and worked 1 De Búrca Rare Books for the publisher Tinsley Brothers and two years later became editor of Tinsley's Magazine. In 1884 he established his own publishing house, Ward and Downey. He was one of the few publishers who issued works by living Irish authors, greatly contributing to the popularisation of the Irish novel. See items 2 & 4. 4. ANNESLEY, Sophia. A Full and Accurate Report of the Entire Proceedings and Investigation in the King's Bench, in Hilary Term, 1810, At the Prosecution of The Countess Dowager of Annesley, and Lady Arabella Jeffries Groves against George Charles Jeffries, Esq. and David Foley, on an Information for a Libel Containing a direct allusion to the cause of the Murder of Several Persons in this Country; With the very able and masterly Statement of Mr. Serjeant M'Mahon, of Counsel for Defendant Jeffries, Never Before Published. Taken in Court by an eminent Short-hand Writer. Dublin: Printed by W. Cox, 1811. pp. 36. Brown stitched wrappers. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €375 COPAC locates the Manchester University copy only. RARE HIBERNIA PRESS PRINTING 5. [ANON] Nice Distinctions: A Tale. Dublin: Printed at the Hibernia Press Office for J. Cummins, 1, Temple-Lane. London: Hurst, Reeves, Orme, and Brown, 1820. 16mo. First edition. pp. vii, 330. Olive-green half calf over marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. Signature of Richard Smyth Ballintra at head of chapter one. Spine faded, board edges and corners rubbed, endpapers foxed. A very good copy. Very rare. €275 COPAC locates 6 copies only. 6. [ANON] A most unusual Brochure with Gaelic text in calligraphed lettering illuminated in colours, including an Annual Calendar of Saints' days. With sketches of a Round Tower, Celtic Cross and Armorial Shields throughout. Paris: Printed by L. [1918]. pp. 8. Printed in brown, black and green. Signed 'I.M.', also 'P.B. del.' on grey laid paper, two tissue guards. Cream cover printed in orange, green, yellow and black. Titled '1918' above a shield with an Irish harp, surrounded by a cluster of shamrocks and flourishes. Fastened by a green ribbon. (164 x 221mm). Mild foxing to covers. In very good condition. Exceedingly rare. €375 The text begins with an account of 'Éire an tSeana Shaoghail' (The Ireland of Ancient History), describes Irish participation in America’s struggle for independence. Oiléan Nua 1778-83, and concludes with an account of Irish soldiers in 'An Cogadh Mór' (The Great War: Gallipoli, Serbia etc.). Its authorship is a mystery. The uncritical reference to Irish soldiers in the Great War would seem to rule out a Sinn Féin source. An exceedingly rare and unusual item. 2 Catalogue 141 See item 6. 7. ATKINSON, Robert. The Passions and the Homilies from the Leabhar Breac: Text, Translation, and Glossary. Dublin: Hodges Figgis, 1887. pp. vi, [5], 36-957, [1]. Contemporary full polished calf with original printed wrappers bound in. Covers framed by double gilt fillets, enclosing in gilt on the upper cover the badge of Glasgow University. Spine divided into six panels, title in gilt on red morocco label in the second, the remainder tooled in gilt to a centre- and-corner design. Glasgow University Prize label on front pastedown; splash marbled endpapers; red and gold endbands. All edges sprinkled. A very attractive copy. €385 Like most copies our copy does not contain the "Introductory lecture on Irish lexicography", announced for pp 3-34, and which was published separately. Atkinson, Robert (1839-1908), philologist, was born near Gateshead, County Durham, the only child of John and Ann Atkinson. He attended Anchorage Grammar School, and entered TCD (1856), but spent 1857-8 at Liège, Belgium, and worked as a schoolmaster in Kilkenny until he won a scholarship (1862). After graduation he became professor of Romance languages in TCD in 1869, and in 1871 was appointed to the chair of Sanskrit and comparative philology. He held both posts until 1907. In 1884 he was also Todd professor of the Celtic languages in the RIA; he had been elected MRIA in 1875, and was a member of the Academy council for thirty-two years, secretary for twenty-three years, librarian, and president (1901-6). An exceptionally gifted linguist and teacher, Atkinson studied most of the European, Near Eastern, and Indian languages, including Persian; also Chinese and Coptic, and planned a dictionary of Vedic. Most of his published work, however, deals with the Irish language, beginning in 1876, when at the Academy's request he produced a valuable edition of the manuscript Book of Leinster. In 1880 Atkinson became first editor of the RIA's planned Dictionary of the Irish language; despite lack of funding, some progress was made. The texts he subsequently worked on were selected chiefly to serve the dictionary's needs: introductions to facsimile editions of the Book of Ballymote and the Yellow Book of Lecan appeared in 1887 and 1896; he published the Passions and homilies from the Leabhar Breac (1887) 3 De Búrca Rare Books and Trí Bior-ghaoithe an Bháis (1890), and edited, with J.