Flann O' Brien- At Swim Two Birds, Longmans, 1939. FIRST EDITION. Original black cloth with gilt lettering, with Dust jacket. One of 244 copies sold before the Longmans warehouse was destroyed by German bombs. - carrying a long and enthusiastic quote from Graham Greene on its rear panel (also excerpted on the front), which makes the lapse of referring to the author as 'O'Nolan'. The failure to use his pseudonym enraged the author to the extent that he is believed to have removed any jackets that he laid eyes upon from the 80 or so copies exported to Dublin. With Associated ephemera

INCUNABULA: The Nuremberg Chronicle by Anton Koberger, 1493.

INCUNABULA: Boethius's The Consolation Of Philosophy. Diligently elaborated by Johannes de Westfalia at the University of Louvain (Belgium), 1484. Text in latin with rubricated capital letters throughout. Small quarto, full contemporary calf, contained in velvet-lined clamshell case with gilt titles to spine. 388 pp

Biblia Sacra Arabica, Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide iussu edita. Ad usum ecclesiarum Orientalium. Additis è regione Bibliis latinis vulgatis. [Al-kutub al-muqaddasah bi-al-lisan, al-'Arabi ma'a al-nuskhah al-Latiniyah al-'ammah al-matbu'ah .]. Rome: Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, 1671. Titles with identical woodcut title borders. Ex-libris

John Neuhoff and John Ogilby, Master of the Rolls in the Kingdom of Ireland. An Embassy from the East India Company of The United Province to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China. London. 1673. Second edition in English. Complete with 17 full page plates, 94 text engravings and 2 folding maps. Folio. Half calf. Extremely rare

CHAUCER, Geoffrey (c.1343-1400). The Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer Newly Printed, with Dyvers Workes which were Never in Print Before. c 1550. An important early edition of the works of Chaucer, with contemporary annotations. The text printed here was edited by William Thynne, who was commissioned by Henry VIII to search for copies of Chaucer's manuscripts in the libraries and monasteries of England. Full leather. Quarto. Facsimile title page, may lack some pages at rear

Holinshed's Chronicles. First, Second and Third Volumes of Chronicles compromising in the first two vols. 1 The Desription and Historie of England, 2 The Description and Historie of Ireland, 3 The Description and Historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent. and others. With convenient tables at the end of these volumes. Finished in Januarie 1587, and the 29 of the Queenes Majesties Reigne, with the full continuation of the former yeares, at the expenses of John Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henry Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke. The third volume comprises Beginning at Duke William the Norman, commonlie called the Conqueror; and defending by degrees of yeeres to all the kings and queens of England in their orderlie successions. First compiled by Raphaell Holinshed and by him extended to the yeare 1577. At London: Printed in Aldersgate Street at the Signe of the Starre. All in fine very contemporary and two tone full decorated calf, red labels on spine, gilt titles and five raised bands (3)

Patrick Kavanagh-Tarry Flynn, Published by Devin Adair, New York, 1949. This is the actual copy used in the now infamous court case involving Patrick Kavanagh and Brendan Behan. During cross examination Kavanagh denied that they were friends – upon which, a copy of his book Tarry Flynn was exhibited, with attention drawn to his inside cover inscription: “For Brendan, poet and painter, on the day he decorated my flat, Sunday 12th, 1950.” SIGNED. Black and White Photograph of Kavanagh in a rural setting c 1950's. 8.5" X 6.5" ( 3" Tear) Unique

Fynes Moryson. An Itinerary containing His Ten Years Travel Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmelland, Switzerland, Netherland, Denmarke, Poland, Italy, Turkey, France, England, Scotland & Ireland. 1617. 1st edition . Small folio. 8 copper plates of European cities. Part Two of this scarce work relaters to Ireland and Hugh 0’Neills 9 Year War. Rubbed, very rare. Half calf.

Some philosophical considerations touching the being of witches and witchcraft written in a letter to the much honour'd Robert Hunt, Esq. / by J.G., a member of the Royal Society Glanvill, Joseph. Printed for E C , London 1667. Full calf, 4 raised bands on spine. Good Morning. There are 62 pages not including the title page and the rear advertising page. There are no tears, annotations underlining or marginalia. The boards are original but the spine has been replaced. There is a marginally raised mark on page 11, second line. See photograph