Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
June 1872
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/6
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6525*Muserave (Sir R.) Memoirs of the Rebellions in Ireland, particularly that of 1798, 4to. best edition, maps, hf. russia, 28s Dublin, 1801 6526 O'CONOR, BrsriorHEeca MS. Stowensis: a Descriptive Catalogue of the | Manuscripts in the Stowe Library, with Appendix, 2 vols. in 1, 4to. hf. green morocco, top edge gilt, RARE, £8. Buckingham, 1813-19 Very scarce, 200 copies having been printed for private circulation, by the Duke of Buckingham. A necessary Supplement to the Scriptures, being continually referred to in the very learned Dissertation. This valuable collection of Manuscripts was cheaply bought in one lot by the Earl of Ashburnham for £8000. * Learned and upright, the lineal descendant of Roderic O’Connor, king paramount of Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Saxon-Norman Invasion, Dr. O’Connor lived only to complete this monument of the literature of his country, of which his forefathers were the last native and independent rulers.” —Sir J. Mackenzie. 6527 O'CONOR FAMILY. Mobemorrs of the Life and Writings of the late Charles O’Conor, of Belanagare, by the Rey. Charles O’Conor, Vol. I. (all pudlished) Svo. ef. neat, £2. 10s | Dublin, printed by J. Mechain, no date (1796) Excessively rare, only a few copies having been printed for the author’s friends ; with autograph of Lady Morgan when Miss Owenson, dated Dublin, 1811; pages 117- 118 torn across, but nothing wanting; no portrait and no arms on title-page. Sir Mark Sykes’ copy fetched ¢14.; and afterwards sold at Hibbert’s sale for £6. The work is said to have been suppressed. 6528 O’CONOR (C.) Columbanus ad Hibernos, or Letters on the present Mode of appointing Catholic Bishops in his Native Country, 8 parts, in 3 vols. Svo. half morocco, £1. 16s Te Buckingham, 1810-18 6529 O’Curry’s Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, stout 8vo. with 26 plates of facsimiles, cloth, 14s Dublin, 1861 6530 O’DonoeHue’s historical Memoirs of the O’Briens, with genealogical notices, 8vo. cloth, 12s Dublin, 1860 6581 O’Hartoran’s (S.) Introduction to the Study of the History and Anti- quities of Ireland, with two Appendices, 4to. plates, calf, 20s 1772 6532 O’NEILL’S SCULPTURED CROSSES OF ANCIENT IRELAND, drawn to scale and lithographed, imperial folio, containing 36 plates in the best style of tinted lithography, descriptive letterpress, and an essay on Ancient Irish Art, cloth, rare, £5. 5s 1857 CONTENTS: Killamery Cross, Co. Kilkenny Clonmacnoise Crosses, King’s County Dunnamaggan Cross “i Kilkieran Cross, Kilkenny Kilklispeen Crosses, Tipperary ‘| Crosses at Kells, Meath Ullard Crosses, Carlow Aboe Cross, Tyrone Monasterboice Crosses, Louth Coloured Dlustrations of Irish Sculpture . Moone-Abbey Cross, Kildare View of Monasterboice, Louth Tuam Cross, Galway About Forty representations of Ancient Termonfechin Cross, Louth Ornamented Grave-Stones, with fac- Portions of Crosses, Co. Armagh similes of their inscriptions. This work is allowed to be the finest that has ever been produced on Irish Anti- quities. Less than 200 copies have been printed, the stones are cancelled, and a second edition will not be published. Very few copies remain for sale ; the selling price is now ten guineas, and it will be higher. 65383 OSULLEVANI Bearri (Philippi) Zbernz, Histories Catholice Iberniz Compendium, 4to. superbly bound in green morocco extra, gilt edges, VERY RARE, #7. 7s Ulyssipone, 1621 Une of the rarest and most interesting of all historical volumes relating to the History of Ireland. Copies have produced upwards of Twenty Guineas. ‘A volume of great rarity.” —Bibliotheca Grenvilliana. Priced 1831, Thorpe, £18. 18s; 1834, £12. 12s; 1841-2, £15. 15s. 6534 PEYRIE’S Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland, origin and uses of the Rovnp Towers, imp. 8vo. numerous woodcuts, cloth, 24s Dublin, 1845