Search Results: Ireland and Irish Literature from Thompson Rare Books

No Place: No Publisher, No Date. First Edition (& 1st printing). Large octavo, original printed wrappers. Pp 325-356. "An Offprint, "Reprint from Orientalia Vol 52 (1983). First separate edition. From the library of Mystical Philosopher, Mathematician, Egyptologist & Assyriologist Charles A. Muses, with his handwritten notes and checkmarks in pencil throughout. In one instance Muses has corrected one of the translations in the text. A very good clean copy. Edward Hincks, Irish Clergyman, Irish clergyman, best remembered as an Assyriologist and one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform. He was one of the three men known as the "holy trinity of cuneiform", with Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson and Jules Oppert. After taking an M.A. at Trinity College, Dublin in 1817, he took on as the protestant pastor in Ardtrea and later, in Killyleagh. In the 1830s he turned his attention to Old Persian cuneiform, a form of writing that the Achaemenid emperors had used for monumental inscriptions in their own… Read More

Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 1969., 1969. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original green cloth titled in gilt on spine pane. A fine copy in dust wrapper, price corner clipped. First printing of this new edition. This book was originally issued pseudonomously in 1891.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster Square, MDCCCXCI [1891]. Second Edition.. Tall narrow octavo, 7 x 3½ inches. Issued as a volume in the publisher's Pseudonym Library. Bound without covers along with two other works in the same series in pebbled red cloth titled and ruled in gilt on spine. Pp iv., 196; half-title with publisher's monogram and the words Pseudonym Library at foot, verso with list of the first 10 volumes in the Pseudonym Library [ending with this title as No. 10]. This Second Edition appears to be identical with the first edition which was published in November 1891 in both cloth and paper wrappers; as this issue is also dated 1891 it was issued within a month of the First Edition. This copy is bound up with CAVALLERIA RUSTICA And Other Tales of Sicilian Peasant Life by Giovanni Verga (1893, No 29 in the series] and the Anonymously published THE HERB OF LOVE [by G. Drosines]. These later works are both 1st editions, THE HERB OF LOVE is a supernatural tale set on the Greek island of… Read More

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. , [1953].. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original black cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Yeat, plus reproductions of Sturge Moore's designs for the covers of Reveries, Responsibilities, Per Amica Silentia Luna, The Wild Swans at Coole, The Tower, & The Winding Stair, as well as his designs for bookplates for Yeats and his wife. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper which has a couple of tiny chips, some light browning to the spine panel and a bit of dust soiling. Overall, a very attractive copy.

Dublin: The Dolmen Press. , 1962.. First Edition (& 1st printing). Thin octavo, original pictorial boards in dust wrapper. 47 pages, indexes, map endpapers. A fine copy in dust wrapper with the price corner clipped from the front flap.