De Búrca Rare Books A selection of fine, rare and important books and manuscripts Catalogue 142 Summer 2020 DE BÚRCA RARE BOOKS Cloonagashel, 27 Priory Drive, Blackrock, County Dublin. 01 288 2159 01 288 6960 CATALOGUE 142 Summer 2020 PLEASE NOTE 1. Please order by item number: Four Masters is the code word for this catalogue which means: “Please forward from Catalogue 142: 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 cover illustration is taken from item 70, Owen Connellan’s translation of The Annals of the Four Masters. ii De Búrca Rare Books RARE DUBLIN PRINTING 1. [A BARRISTER] History against Colenso, Examination of The Witnesses. By A Barrister. Part I. Dublin: William Curry and Company, 1863. pp. 232. Green cloth, titled in gilt. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €285 COPAC locates the BL copy only. Not in NLI. A reply to Bishop Colenso’s work, ‘The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua critically examined.’ WITH NOTES IN MARIA EDGEWORTH HAND BEQUEATHED TO ROSA F. EDGEWORTH BY MARIA EDGEWORTH 2. ALISON, Archibald. History of Europe. From the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815. Ten Volumes. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, & Cadell, 1839. Third edition. Contemporary full diced russia. Spine divided into five panels by four gilt raised bands, author, title and volume numbers in gilt on contrasting maroon and navy morocco letterpieces. Covers framed by double gilt fillets. Marbled endpapers; blue and white endbands. Inscribed on front endpapers ‘Bequeathed to Rosa F. Edgeworth / by Maria Edgeworth as a token of love.’ With several notes and comments to each volume in Maria Edgeworth’s hand. Bookplate of Sao Hkun Hkio and Booksellers label on front pastedowns. All edges marbled. A very good set with a remarkable association. €2,350 Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849), novelist, children’s writer and educationalist, was born at Black Bourton near Reading, and educated in England. She returned to Ireland with her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, in 1782, and taught the children of his later marriages, sharing his progressive views on education. Her early works included ‘The Parent’s Assistant’ (1796) and ‘Practical Education’ (1798). During the 1798 rebellion Edgeworthstown was spared by the insurgents because of the family’s standing with its tenants. In 1800, Maria, published ‘Castle Rackrent’, the earliest regional novel in English, which made her internationally famous. Her work earned the admiration of Sir Walter Scott who acknowledged his debt to her in the general preface to the ‘Waverley Novels’. She edited and completed her father’s ‘Memoirs’ in 1820. In later years she was largely occupied with rectifying her brother’s mismanagement of the Edgeworthstown estate, and in relieving victims of the Famine. Aid came from her admirers around the world (from Boston came 150 barrels of flour addressed simply to “Miss Edgeworth, for her poor”). Her last work ‘Orlandino’ (1848) was written for the Poor Relief Fund. The first scholarly survey of the French Revolution in English, written by the prominent Edinburgh legal figure and historian Archibald Alison (1792-1867). Following the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars in 1815, Scottish lawyer Archibald Jr. toured Europe before embarking on his legal career, awakening a life-long interest in politics both at home and abroad. He began writing for a living following his dismissal due to the election of a Whig government in 1830, articulating a strongly conservative, Tory political vision. His ‘History of Europe During the French Revolution,’ begun in 1833, was the first English-language account to be published, winning great attention and many sales 1 Catalogue 142 around the world, despite Disraeli’s caricature of the author as ‘Mr. Wordy.’ His ‘History’ was eventually regarded as the ‘Bible of the Tory Party,’ consistently promoting a paternalist, anti-trade- union, anti-capitalist agenda totally. Provenance: Bequeathed to Rosa Florentina Eroles (1815-1864). Francis Beaufort Edgeworth, son of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and Frances Ann Beaufort “was a restless philosophy student at Cambridge on his way to Germany when he decided to elope with a teenage Catalan refugee Rosa Florentina Eroles he had met on the steps of the British Museum”. They married in 1831 at Old Church Street, St. Pancras, London. One of the outcomes of their marriage was Ysidro Francis Edgeworth (the name order was reversed later), who was destined to become one of the most brilliant and eccentric economists of the 19th Century. Francis Beaufort Edgeworth was 21st child of Richard Lovell Edgeworth. The 5th child of Richard and his fourth wife Frances Anne Beaufort. ALAMEIN FORCES PRESS 3. [ANON] Swaying Pines. Salisbury: Printed by el Alamein Forces Press, n.d. (c.1942). Small quarto. pp. 42. Bound in contemporary polished blue levant morocco. Covers framed by a dotted line with floral tools in the corner enclosing a double blind fillet and an arabesque centre lozenge. Spine divided into five panels by four gilt raised bands, title in gilt direct along the third, the remainder with gilt tooling, turn-ins with double gilt and dotted line fillets, with a rose tool in gilt in corners; pale blue moiré silk endpapers; blue and gold endbands. All edges gilt. A unique and magnificent item. A fine copy in leather-entry slipcase with silk pull. €650 No copy located on COPAC or WorldCat. Poems included: Peace; Country After Rain; Autumn; Moorhens; Rabbits at Winspit; Gulls at Low Tide; Dragonflies; Flames; Alpine Crocuses; Dawning Day; A Patch of Daisies on a Moraine; Peaks above a Sea of Cloud; Himalayan Pines; Night in the High Alps; Frost; Sea; Friendship. See items 3 & 4. 2 De Búrca Rare Books 4. AN SEABHAC [Pádraig O Siochfhradha] Jimín. Eagrán Scoile de “Jimín Mháire Thaidhg”. Baile Átha Cliath: Cómhlucht Oideachais na hÉireann, n.d. (c.1919). pp. 115. Blue cloth over green pictorial boards. A good copy. €30 5. ARCHDALL, Mervyn. Monasticon Hibernicum: or, A History of the Abbeys, Priories, and other Religious Houses in Ireland; interspersed with Memoirs of their several Founders and Benefactors, and of their Abbots and other Superiors ... collected from English, Irish, and foreign historians ... With engravings in gold and colours of the several religious and military orders, and maps and views illustrating the history. Edited with extensive notes by Rt. Rev. Patrick F. Moran, Lord Bishop of Ossory, and other distinguished antiquarians. Two volumes (all published). Dublin: Kelly, 1873-1876. Quarto. pp. (1) iv, 336, (2) iv, 348. Contemporary quarter roan over marbled boards, title and St. Patrick in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. A fine set. €465 This edition, not in Bradshaw or Gilbert. Mervyn Archdall, (1723-1791), historian, antiquarian and genealogist was a native of Dublin. After graduating from Trinity, he took a keen interest in antiquities and literary research. Having made the acquaintance of Walter Harris, Charles Smith, and Thomas Prior he resolved on collecting material for an ecclesiastical history of Ireland. His ‘Monasticon Hibernicum’ first appeared in 1786, the product of forty years zealous research. “It contains many particulars which will gratify the antiquary’s curiosity ... It is more valuable on account of its being compiled from authentic official records” - London Monthly Review, 1786. This publication was intended as an edition of three volumes, but, the Publisher died before the third volume was completed. It was first issued in Dublin in a single quarto volume in 1786. Archdall added much extra material, as he did with his edition of ‘Lodge’s Peerage of Ireland’. Engravings of the Several Religious and Military Orders in gold and colours. 6. [BALLINA CASE] I.N.T.O. and the Ballina Case. Report of the Central Executive Committee to Easter Congress, Killarney 1957. This Pamphlet is Confidential and is not for Publication. Dublin: Wood Printing Works, 1957. pp. [2], 83. Printed stapled wrappers. A good copy. €185 Dispute over the appointment of Rev. Brother Alphonsus of the Marist Order, as principal of Ballina School, on the grounds of the infiltration of religious into a school previously occupied by lay teachers. The teachers of the national school took a stand and went on strike. It was eventually resolved with an acknowledgment from Cardinal Dalton in a letter to Dr. Hillery, Minister for Education, in which on behalf of the Hierarchy, he expressed recognition of the normal expectations of lay national teachers in regard to posts as principal teachers. 7. [BANDMASTER] Trumpet & Bugle Sounds for the Army, With Words also Bugle Marches. Word Compiled and Arranged by A Bandmaster.