De Búrca Rare Books A selection of fine, rare and important books and manuscripts Catalogue 140 Autumn 2019 DE BÚRCA RARE BOOKS Cloonagashel, 27 Priory Drive, Blackrock, County Dublin. 01 288 2159 01 288 6960 CATALOGUE 140 Autumn 2019 PLEASE NOTE 1. Please order by item number: Wilde is the code word for this catalogue which means: “Please forward from Catalogue 140: 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. 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The lower cover is illustrated with a watercolour of Anne McGarahan from item 281, James Mongan's Report of the Trial. ii Catalogue 140 NANGLE AND THE ACHILL MISSION 1. [ACHILL MISSION] The Achill Mission, and the Present State of Protestantism in Ireland: being The Statement delivered by Rev. Edward Nangle, at a meeting of the Protestant Association, in Exeter Hall, December 28, 1839. pp. 28. Together with: Statement of Views and Objects, Fundamental Resolutions, and Rules, 21 other pamphlets, 4 handbills and First-Third Annual Report, 1837-1839 [of various reissued editions] of the Protestant Association, Volume 1. Includes papers by the Bishop of Exeter, the Revd's Dr. Crolly, Dr. Holloway, H. Melvill, R. Monro, Hugh McNeile, R.J. McGhee, and Edward Nangle, J.C. Colquhoun, Esq. M.P., and G.H. Woodward, Esq. A.B. London: Published by the Protestant Association, 1839. Original cloth rebacked A very good copy. €575 The contents include: The Uses of the Established Church to the Protestantism and Civilisation of Ireland; Statement of the Circumstances attending the Publication of the Bible with the Rhemish Notes, in Dublin, 1813-16 and in Cork, 1818; The Doctrines promulgated by the Romish Bishops in Ireland, touching the power of the Romish Church over heretics - etc.; Roman Catholic Oath. Speech of the Bishop of Exeter - on presenting a petition from certain inhabitants of Cork; A Letter to the Duke of Wellington; The Popish College of Maynooth, etc. The Protestant Association [later the British Society for Promoting Religious Principles of the Reformation] was founded in 1827, publishing vehement Anti-Catholic propaganda from the radically conservative wing of Anglican Evangelicalism. Edward Nangle the 'Apostle of Achill' (1799-1883), founded a Protestant Missionary Colony in 1831. The land on which the Achill colony was built was leased from the island’s landlord, Sir Richard O’Donnell, and was located near the village of Dugort, under the shadow of Achill’s highest mountain, Slieve Mór. His settlement flourished and he founded there a school, a church, a hospital and a printing press from which flowed numerous tracts, pamphlets and articles for his propagandist newspaper, the Achill Missionary Herald and Western Witness, in which he attacked the 'superstition and idolatry of the Church of Rome'. This incurred the wrath of both the Catholic and Protestant clergy. The Colony flourished and numbers flocked to his congregation. The Catholic church was soon reminded of its neglect of the West of Ireland, and the early successes of the mission spurred it into action. The turning point came in 1837 when the Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, John MacHale, visited the Island and stirred up the populace against what he called ‘these venomous fanatics’. The Achill Herald recounts an incident during MacHale’s visit to neighbouring Clare Island when a scripture reader and a schoolmaster from the mission were beaten and pursued ‘almost to the death’ by the locals, and had to flee the island by night to save their lives. The arrival of Father John Dwyer, appointed by John MacHale, as parish priest of Achill, heralded a sustained attack on the colony, its staff and supporters. Caesar Otway’s biased but evocative description of these early attacks on the mission give us a feel for the passions aroused on both sides. In A Tour in Connaught (1839), he relates a sermon preached against the mission by Fr Dwyer: "Have nothing to do with these heretics - curse them, hoot at them, spit in their faces - cut the sign of the cross in the air when you meet them, as you would against devils - throw stones at them - pitch them, when you have opportunity, into the bog holes ... don’t take any medicine from their heretic doctor [Neason Adams], rather die first." 2. ANDREWS, C.S. Dublin Made Me. An Autobiography. Dublin & Cork: Mercier Press: 1979. First edition. pp. 312. Green papered boards, titled in gilt. Signed presentation copy from Todd Andrews, with one date correction by the author (1921 crossed out - should read 21 Nov. 1920). A fine copy in fine dust jacket with a few nicks. €95 In this work Andrews describes the surge of nationalism and the making of a revolutionary. He participates in street fighting against the British, is jailed and escapes from internment. His stance against the Treaty and his experiences of the Civil War make as fine an account of this period. RARE CORK PRINTING 3. ANON A Chronological Epitome of the Most Remarkable Events that have occurred during the French Revolution from 1789-1796. Cork: Printed by Daly and Travers, No. 16 St. Patrick Street. 12mo. pp. [2], 134. Modern half calf on cloth boards, titled in gilt on upper cover. Paper repair to margin of titlepage and first leaf. A very good copy. Extremely rare. €875 ESTC T218016 with 2 locations only. WorldCat 1. Price on titlepage: Price One Shilling & Seven-pence Halfpenny. 1 De Búrca Rare Books A HAPPY PARSON'S BOOK WITH HAND-COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS 4. AN OXONIAN [S. Reynolds Hole]. A Little Tour in Ireland. Being a Visit to Dublin, Galway, Connemara, Athlone, Limerick, Killarney, Glengarriff, Cork, etc. With coloured frontispiece and hand-coloured illustrations by John Leech. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1859. Small quarto. pp. viii, 220. Bound in the style of Birdsall of Northampton and London in full dark green calf. Covers decorated with double gilt fillets. Spine divided into six panels by five gilt raised bands, title and illustrator in gilt in the second and third, the remainder blocked in gilt with a floral device in centre; corners of board edges hatched in gilt; turn-ins gilt; red and gold endbands; splash-marbled endpapers. With an exquisite bookplate depicting a Tudor-style library with a view of a church and rectory from an open door, with the legend: 'This is the book of Charles Lewis Slattery a happy Parson'. All edges gilt. Superb copy in pristine condition. €1,250 Woods 147. Samuel Reynolds Hole (1819-1904) Anglican priest, author and horticulturalist was born at Ardwick, near Manchester (where his father was then in business), was only son of Samuel Hole, of Caunton Manor, Nottinghamshire, by his wife Mary, daughter of Charles Cooke of Macclesfield. After attending Mrs. Gilbey's preparatory school at Newark, he went to Newark grammar school. Of literary tastes, he edited at sixteen a periodical called The Newark Bee. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1844 and spent 43 years at his father's parish of St. Andrew's Church, Caunton, firstly as curate and from 1850 as its vicar. A prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral and an honorary chaplain to Edward Benson, the then Archbishop of Canterbury, he became Dean of Rochester in 1887. Noted for his expertise with roses and an inaugural recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal of Honour. 2 Catalogue 140 In 1858 Hole came to know John Leech, and a close friendship followed. In the summer of 1858 the two, who often hunted together, made a tour in Ireland, of which one fruit was Leech's illustrated volume, A Little Tour in Ireland (1859), with well-informed and witty letterpress by Oxonian (i.e. Hole). A reprint of 1892 gives Hole's name as author. Of Limerick Hole recollected: "Limerick is divided into three parts, the Irish town, the English town, and Newtown Perry (so called after a Mr. Sexton Perry, who commenced it); and these are connected by bridges, of which the old Thomond, hard by King John's Castle, and new Wellesley, said to have cost 85,000l, are interesting. The eccentricities of the workmen must have added materially to the costliness of the latter structure, inasmuch as they seem to have been Odd Fellows as well as very Free Masons, who, instead of cementing stones and friendships, only turned the former into stumbling blocks for the latter, by throwing them at each other's heads.