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HEAD'S HISTORY OF IRELAND. LOT No. 792.

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THE RICHARDSON COLLECTION OF RARE
THE AND VALUABLE BOOKS RELATING
PUBLIC LIBRARY TO IRELAND.

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The splendid and extensive collection of rare and valuable books relating to Ireland offered in this Catalogue is from the Private Library of Mr. Stephen J. Richardson, of New York City, formerly editor and proprietor of "The Gael" and at one time President of the Gaelic League in America. It is one of the largest and best selected ever offered for sale in this city.

In forming this unique collection of scarce books during a period of twenty-five years, Mr. Richardson spared no expense because he had in view the preparation and ultimate publication of an Irish Encyclopedia, an exhaustive and comprehensive work on Ireland, modelled after the Encyclopedia Britannica or the Catholic Encyclopedia, and the rare and valuable books, manuscripts, government reports, etc., relative to the Arts, Industries, Antiquities, Music, Statistics, Language, etc., assembled by him were intended to furnish reliable data for that publication.

After many years' effort Mr. Richardson has decided the task is too great, has reluctantly abandoned the work, and will disperse his library; therefore, commencing Tuesday, June 3rd, and succeeding days, the collection which has taken so many years to assemble will be sold without reserve to the highest bidder.

Among the rare works in the collection is a unique manuscript copy of Keating's History of Ireland, in three handsome quarto volumes, bound in calf. These books are entirely in the Irish language and are not printed. They were carefully written with a pen by the famous Irish scholar, Prof. Eugene O'Curry, and were transcribed from an old manuscript in Trinity College,

MEA AOBK

Dublin. The writing is so neat and so even that at first glance the reader Images he is looking at a printed page!

There is a fine copy (atlas folio) of the exceedingly scarce Henry O'Neill's High Crosses of Ireland. A copy of this rare book has not been offered for sale in this city during the past 25 years. There is a fine set (7 vols.) of the Annals of the Four Masters, bound in three-quarter morocco. It was at one time in the library of William Desmond O'Brien, C. E., and was used by John O'Mahoney (the Fenian leader) when translating his History of Ireland for P. F. Haverty, the Catholic publisher.

There is a fine set of facsimile reproductions of Ancient Historic Irish Manuscripts, such as The Book of Leinster, The Book of Kells, The Yellow Book of Lecan, Leabhar Breac (the Speckled Book), The Book of Ballymote, and others. There are also facsimile reproductions of National Manuscripts, consisting of important Historic Documents, Royal Letters, Coats of Arms, etc., many of which are finely colored and some illuminated in gold.

There is a copy of the Forfeited Estates in Ireland Act, passed during Cromwell's Protectorship, and printed in Black Letter, London, 1657. There is a Hollinshead History of Ireland in Black Letter, folio, London, 1577; and a fine, sound copy of Bishop Bedell's Old Testament in Irish, the first ever printed in Irish, London, 1685.

There is a fine set, in three octavo volumes, of Abbe McGeoghegan's History of Ireland in French. This particular set was owned by Prince O'Rourke (Brefni) of the Irish Brigade, and each volume contains his autograph.

The collection is rich in History, there being nearly one hundred different authors represented in this branch alone. There is a scarce set of Irish Parliamentary Reports with Appendix from 1613 up to the union with Great Britain.

There is an exceptionally fine copy of the rare first edition of Moore's Irish Melodies, 2 vols., folio, half green morocco, London, 1807.

There are a number of rare and scarce County Histories and Surveys including Shirley's Monaghan (folio), O'Byrne's Queen's County, Ferrar's Limerick, Smith's Cork, etc.

There are fine, clean sets of the Kilkenny and Ulster Journals of Archæology and many scarce books and pamphlets on the Irish in America; Rebellions of 1641-1798 and 1803; the Quakers in Ireland; the Famine; Irish Music, Drama, etc., the whole forming a most valuable and interesting collection.

CATALOGUE.

NOTE: Bids should be PER LOT.

IMPORTANT NOTICE.

WE BEG TO CALL THE ATTENTION OF OUR PATRONS TO THE FACT THAT IN FUTURE ALL BIDS SHOULD BE MADE PER LOT

AND NOT PER VOLUME OR PIECE AS HERETOFORE.

In future all sets, bundles and aggregated parcels of whatever kind WILL BE SOLD AS ONE LOT AND ALL BIDS THEREFORE SHOULD READ ACCORDINGLY.

FIRST SESSION.

Tuesday Morning, June 3rd, 1913. Commencing at 10.30 o'clock.

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BINGTON (MRS.). The Life of Mrs. Abington, formerly Miss Barton, Celebrated Comic Actress, including Interesting Notes upon the History of the Irish Stage. Portrait. Small 8vo, cloth, uncut.

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2. ABSENTEES."

Lond., 1888 List of Absentee Landlords of Ireland

and the yearly value of their estates and income spent abroad. Post 8vo, half calf. London, 1730

3. ADAMNAIN. Anecdota Oxoniensia. Cáin Adamnáin: an Old-Irish Treatise on the Law of Adamnain.

Edited and trans

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5. ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY). Dermot MacMorrogh; or, The Conquest of Ireland. An Historical Tale of the Twelfth Century, in Four Cantos. Royal 8vo, half roan. Boston, 1832

6. AGHABOE PARISH. A Statistical Account of the Parish of Aghaboe, in the Queen's County, Ireland. By Edward Ledwich. Map and plates (one plate torn). 8vo, half calf.

Dublin, 1796

7. AGRARIAN. Disturbed Ireland: being letters written during the Winter of 1880-81. By Bernard H. Becker. Maps. Small 8vo, cloth, uncut. London, 1881

8. Articles on Irish Industrial, Agrarian and Political Matters, by the Knight of Kerry, J. A. Froude, John Morley, Earl Grey, and W. E. Gladstone, taken from the "Nineteenth Century." 32 pieces.

9. ALEXANDER (REV. W. LINDSAY, D. D.). The Ancient British Church: Being an Inquiry into the History of Christianity in Britain previous to the establishment of the Heptarchy and Iona. Frontispiece. Small 12mo, cloth. London (1810)

10. ALISON (SIR ARCHIBALD). Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Edinb., 1861 II. ALLEN (J. R.). Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times. Illustrations. 8vo, cloth, uncut. London (1904)

12. ALLEN (SERJEANT). The Sportsman in Ireland. By "A Cosmopolite." New Edition. Colored frontispiece, photogravure plate and other illustrations, by P. Chenevix Trench. 8vo, vellum, gilt top, uncut. London, 1897

Contains lively descriptions of travel in search of Sport, chiefly angling, in the west of Ireland, interspersed with interesting anecdotes illustrative of the character of the people, the history of the districts, etc.

13. ALLINGHAM (WM.). Fifty Modern Poems. First Edition. Crown 8vo, original cloth, uncut. Scarce. Lond., 1865

Edie Allingham written on the title-page.

14. ALMANAC. The Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack for 1783, by Saml. Watson;-Exshaw's English Registry for 1783;— Wilson's Dublin Directory for 1783. 3 in one vol. 12mo, old red morocco, gilt, with English coat of arms on sides (binding slightly rubbed). Dublin, 1783 Hutchings, 1827;-Hutchins' Improved, 1817. ToNew York (1817-27) 16. Bioren's Town and County, 1817;-Washington, 1819; -Prindle's, 1828;—Southern, 1868. Together, 4 vols. Thin 8vo,

15.

gether, 2 vols.

cloth.

17.

12mo, cloth.

New England,

v. p., v. d.

1802;-Hosford's Calendar, 1826;N. A. Calandar and R. I. Almanac, 1802. Together, 3 vols. Thin 8vo, cloth.

v. p., v. d.

WITH RARE MAPS OF NORTH AMERICA.

18. AMERICA, ATLAS MINOR, das ist eine kurtze jedoch grundliche Beschreibung der gantzen Welt, in zwey Theile abgetheilt. Engraved title and 214 engraved maps. Thick small oblong 4to, original vellum, gilt panel sides, gaufré edges with allegorical design (few margins at end slightly stained).

Amstelodami: ex officina Joannis Janssonii, 1651 Good sound copy of a very scarce work. Contains 11 rare copperplate maps of North and South America, Virginia and the West Indies, with descriptive text to the same, pp. 383 to 428.

19. AMERICA. Itinera Priscorum Scandianorum in Americam, Dissertatione Graduali . . . Præside Rectore Magnifico Dn. Petro Kalm... Publico Examini Submittit Georgius A. Westman, April 27, 1757. Small 4to, sewed. Aboae, n. d. (1757)

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