Adam's Works on Paper ONILNE Auction Ending August 10th 2020

130 Bidding ends 10am Monday 10 th August 360 O’CURRY, EUGENE On The Manners and Customs of The Ancient Irish A series of lectures delivered by the late Eugene O’Curry, M.R.I.A., Professor of Irish History and Archaeology in the Catholic University of Ireland ... Edited with an introduction, appendices, etc. by W.K. Sullivan. Three volumes. Dublin, 1873. Cloth. Very good. His thirty-eight lectures ‘On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish’, delivered at the University between May 1857 and July 1862 (the last one only a fortnight before his death) were published in Dublin in three volumes. These were edited with an introduction (which takes up the whole of the first volume), appendices and other material by Dr. W.K. Sullivan. O’Curry’s works stand to this day as a monument to one of our greatest Celtic scholars. € 250 - 350 361 PUBLIC RECORDS REPORTS OF THE COMMISSIONERS, appointed by His Majesty to execute the measures recommended in an address of the House of Commons, respecting the Public Records of Ireland: with Supplements and Appendixes. 1810-1815. London: [Hansard], Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed, 14th July 1813; 27 July, 1814, & 1 June, 1815. Folio. [4], 10-571, [1] pp. € 300 - 400 362 DALLAS, ALEX, REV. The Story of the Irish Church Mission, Part I [All published]. An account of the providential preparation which led to the establishment of the Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics in 1840. London, circa 1867. viii, 232 pp. Cloth, old repair to head of title. Previous owner’s signature on title page. V rare. COPAC locates the Oxford and BL copies only. € 300 - 400 359 TEMPLE, SIR JOHN, KT. The Irish Rebellion: or, an History of the beginnings and first progress of the Gen- eral Rebellion, raised within the Kingdom of Ireland, upon the three and twentieth day of October, 1641; together with the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres which ensued thereupon. Publish’d in the year 1646. By Sir John Temple ... within the Kingdom of Ireland.The Sixth Edition, Reprinted from the London-Edition 1679 ...To which is added, Sir Henry Tichborne’s History of the siege of Drogheda, in the year 1641.As also, the whole tryal of Connor Lord Mac-Guire, with the perfect Copies of the Indictment, and all the Evidences against him.Together with the Pope’s Bull to the Confederate Catholicks in Ireland. Engraved frontispiece depicting the barbarous cruelties. Dublin, 1724 Quarto. (18 x 22.5 cm). xvi, 245 pp. Title page in red and black. In three parts, the second, ‘A letter of Sir Henry Tichborne to his lady’, and the third, ‘The whole tryal of Connor Lord Mac-Guire’, with separate title pages; pagination and register are continuous. Nineteenth century half calf, spine rebacked. Very copy. Rare. € 400 - 600