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Irish Topography1842. Chambers, G: Faces of Change. The Belfast and Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1783-1983 Belfast: Century Books 1983. vi+314pp. illustrated, d.w. v.g. The book contains much material about the history of the town as well as the Chamber. £12.0019901. Dalzell, Warwick: The John Street Heroes. Newtownards: Warwick Dalzell 2014. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. 119 pp. softcovers, in very good condition. £10.0016329. Newhouse, Neville H: A History of Friends School Lisburn. Lisburn: Friends School Lisburn, 1974. 148 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Seventeen illustrations. Gold-blocked green card covers. Slight damage to the edges of two leaves during production, o/w in good condition. This is the first modern history of the school and remains an important work. £18.0018925. Aickin, Robert: Guide to North of Ireland Giant's Causeway and Belfast with History of Belfast. Belfast: C.W. Olley. London, Dublin and Belfast, Thomas Cook & Son, 1890. xiii + 214 pp. 18.5 x 13 cm. 52 illustrations. Folding double-sided map showing Ireland and Britain with railways on one side, and a map of the NCC Railway and connections on the other side. A two-page plan of Belfast and a coloured two page-map showing Cook's Tours in Ireland. Green boards with faded gilt lettering. A little light spotting here and there but otherwise a very good copy of a seriously scarce local guide. £75.0013108. Allen, Harry: Donaghadee an illustrated history. Belfast: The White Row Press, 2006. 134pp. 19.5 x 24 cm. Eighty-eight superb illustrations and maps, most in colour. This is local history at its very best, written by a long-time resident of Donaghadee. There are notes on each chapter, a five-page bibliography, an index, and a very useful map of the townlands of the parish of Donaghadee. In mint condition, in glazed pictorial card covers. £10.00462. Allison, R.S: The Seeds of Time, being a short History of the Belfast General and Royal Hospital 1850 - 1903 Belfast: 1972. xx+318pp, illustrated, hardback, in a v.g. dustwrapper. the standard history of the hospital from its founding in 1817 until the founding of the present Royal Victoria Hospital. £10.0017452. Anderson, John, Hon. Secretary: History of The Belfast Library and Society for Promoting Knowledge, Commonly Known as The Linen Hall Library, Chiefly taken from the Minutes of the Society, and Published in Connection with The Centenary Celebration in 1888. Belfast: The Linen Hall Library, 1888. Centennial Memorial Volume, presented to the Subscribers, 1888. 128 pp. 26.5 x 19 cm. A very detailed history of the Library, set against the development of Belfast itself. Eleven illustrations, including The Linen Hall, View of High Street in 1786, View of Belfast from the Paper Mill Bridge 1805 (double page), and maps of Belfast 1685 (double page), 1757 (double page), 1791 (double page), and 1888 (opening out to 72 x 53 cm). The double-page maps are not included in the pagination. The large folding map is by Marcus Ward, at a scale of 9" = 1 mile, and has a tear across one panel. Index. Gold-blocked green boards. A lovely clean copy in very good condition, apart from the tear to the folding map. £95.0020500. Anderson, Robert: The Port of Coleraine ( A Short History ) Coleraine: Impact Amergin 1976. 25 x 19 cm. 113 pp. 2 maps, 35 full page illustrations, gold blocked blue boards, in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper.This title seems to have become scarce. £45.0018497. anon.: The Traveller's New Guide through Ireland: containing a New and Accurate Description of the Roads.... London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown and John Cumming, Dublin; 1819 574 pp. 21 x 14 cm. Frontispiece engraved plate. Half leather and marbled boards. Gold lining and title to spine. The overall map of Ireland is not present, as is all too usual to this volume, and the map of the lakes of Killarney is also not present. Eight road maps, showing part of the road from Dublin to Carlow, Dublin to Waterford, Dublin to Cork, Dublin to Limerick, and Dublin to Galway, the engraved plate of the Giant's Causeway, the Table of Fairs, and the Lists of the Mail Coaches and Post Towns, and Index, are present. Extensive edge rubbing, and corners bumped. The text block is tight, clean, and unmarked, as are the road maps. A fair to good copy, despite the 2 missing maps. £195.0017182. Armstrong, Robert: Through the Ages to Newtownabbey. Muckamore: Shanway Publications Ltd, 1979. First edition. xiii + 393pp. 28 x 20 cm. Profusely illustrated. Splendid, and very handsome, local history. Map, and folding map. Gold-blocked dark-blue boards with the borough arms on the front board. Integral silk bookmarker. There is a museum's bookplate on the front pastedown, and the accession number "1980 - 250" discreetly written on the title page. The dw is frayed at the top of the spine and that and two edge nicks have been strengthened with peelable tape. There is also a damp stain at the bottom of the dw. This, however, is the very rare first edition of this book . £75.0011878. Auld, Con: Holywood Co. Down Then and Now. Holywood: Con Auld, 2002. 176 pp. 21 x 29.5 cm. Essays by an Old Resident at the Beginning of a New Millenium. Illustrated with drawings and maps. Bibliography. Really useful biographies of local artists. Pictorial glazed card covers. Author dedication on title-page, o/w as new. £20.0017381. Bailey, Mark E, editor: Border Heritage Tracing the Heritage of the City of Armagh and Monaghan County. Belfast: The Stationery Office, 2008. 285 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. "This book, which has been produced by members of the Armagh Visitor Education Committee {AVEC}, presents contributions from the first two Armagh Heritage days, held in May 2006 and May 2007. The primary aim of these meetings was to highlight the rich cultural and intellectual heritage of the city, as well as that of the surrounding region. The story embraces the historical development of counties Monaghan and Armagh over more than two thousand years, culminating in the City of Armagh's present position as a commercial and administrative centre and the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland." 168 illustrations. Bibliography. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. The book shows a little wear and has a crease to the rear cover, but is overall in good condition. £20.0015046. Bailey, Mark E., editor: Border Heritage Tracing the Heritage of the City of Armagh and Monaghan County. Norwich: The Stationery Office, 2011. First published 2008, but reprinted with amendments 2011. 311 pp. 21 x 15 cm. The title seems to be a bit of a misnomer since all but one of the chapters deal with Armagh. 169 illustrations, almost all in colour. Bibliography. Pictorial card covers. In very good condition. £10.0020653. Baker, J: From Bodysnatchers to Bombs The History of Clifton Street Cemetery Belfast.. Belfast: Glenravel Local History Project, 1998. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. 54 pp. Well-illustrated, with photographs, documents, and maps. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Near fine. The history of this old Belfast cemetery seems to have become scarce. £12.009157. Baker, Joe: Old Belfast Ghost Stories (Part One) Belfast: Glenravel Local History Project n.d. no pagination c. 46 pp. illustrated, card covers. In very good condition. Glenravel seem reluctant to paginate and date their otherwise very good productions, this was probably done in the 1990's. £10.0016271. Baker, Joe, compiler: Ulster Ghost Stories. Belfast: Glenravel Local History Project, 1994. 28 pp. Nine illustrations. Pictorial matt card covers. In good condition. £10.0019870. Baker, Joe, editor: Snapshots of Belfast Photographs of old Belfast 1920-1929 Belfast: Glenravel Local History Project, n.d c.2008? 190 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs. Pictorial thin semi-matt card covers, in very good condition. Scarce. £20.0010602. Ball, Len and Rainey, Desmond: A Taste of Old Comber The Town and its History. Dundonald: White Row Press, 2002. 125 pp. 19.5 x 24 cm. Illustrated. Pictorial card covers, almost as new. An excellent and well illustrated history of this County Down town. £20.0016723. Ballygawley Local History Group.: Ballygawley in the Twentieth Century. Ballygawley: Ballygawley Local History Group, c2000. 94 pp. 16.5 x 23 cm. 78 illustrations, maps, period ads and documents, and Census material. Gold-blocked brown boards. In very good condition, but no dustwrapper. A beautifully-illustrated and comprehensive look at Ballygawley. A very scarce item. £45.0017722. Ballymoney Borough Council: Memories frae the Toon A nostalgic look at Ballymoney's past. Ballymoney: Ballymoney Borough Council, 1995. 74 pp. 15 x 21 cm. A wonderfully-nostalgic book of illustrations, ads, and articles. Pictorial glazed card covers. Light crease to the edge of the front cover, otherwise good. This appears to be a somewhat scarce title. £20.0018532. Bangor Spectator: Bangor Directory and Map 1970/71. Bangor, County Down: Spectator, 1970. 293 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Wonderful advertisements, many illustrated. Printed card covers, showing some wear. There is a little staining from the cover on the front page. The first few pages are a bit dog eared, but overall good. Scarce. Please note this is Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. £20.0019589. Bardon, Jonathan: Belfast A Century. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 2001. Reprinted with corrections. xii + 204pp. 31 x 24.5 cm. "Over 340 striking photographs" of twentieth-century Belfast. Gold-blocked black boards. In very good condition, in a very good d.w. Please note: unpackaged weight is 1,500g. £21.0015245. Bardon, Jonathan and Conlin, Stephen: Dublin One Thousand Years of Wood Quay. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1985. ii +34 pp. 30.5 x 42.5 cm. Maps of Medieval, Tudor, Georgian, and Modern Dublin on endpapers. The fifteen coloured illustrations by Stephen Conlin chronicle the development of Wood Quay over a thousand years. Bibliography and Index. Pictorial glazed boards, in very good condition. No dw. £32.5019544. Barrington, TJ: Discovering Kerry its History, Heritage & Topography. Dublin: Blackwater, 1976. 336 pp. 25.5 x 25 cm. Extensively illustrated. 6 maps, and bookmark transparent scale.. Bibliograhy. Index of places. General index. Gold-blocked red boards. In a very good dustwrapper. One of the folded maps is slightly detached, otherwise the book is in good condition. £20.0014401. Barry, John: Hillsborough A Parish in the Ulster Plantation. Belfast: William Mullan & Son Ltd., 1962. 124pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. Twenty-two illustrations, including an aerial view and three maps. Hardcover, in worn dustwrapper. £15.0016888. Bartlett, W.H.: The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland. London: James S. Virtue, 1841. Two volumes in one. 29 x 22 cm. Volume I, 124 pp. Vol II 107 pp. Each volume has a separate title page with vignette. Illustrated with 120 full-page engravings from drawings by W. H. Bartlett. Full-page map. Gold-blocked half-leather and cloth binding, five panelled spine with raised bands and faded gilt decoration. Marbled fore-edges and endpapers. Boards are edge-rubbed, and corners are bumped. Fore-edges are faded, and there is a little scattered foxing. A fair copy of one of the most famous of Irish nineteenth-century illustrated books. £195.009437. Bassett, George Henry: County Down 100 Years Ago a guide and directory 1886. Belfast: The Friars Bush Press, 1988. A reprint of the first edition of 1886. "Including the Borough of Newry. A book for manufacturers, merchants, traders, land-owners, farmers, tourists, anglers, and sportsmen generally." 414 pp. 20 x 13 cm. Fascinating Illustrated advertisements. Pictorial glazed card covers. In good condition. The original 1886 copy is very scarce, and even these reprints are now increasingly hard to find. £15.003365. Bates, Norah: Up the Down Street, A Book on Growing up in Saintfield. Banbridge, Adare Press 1994. 80 pp. illustrated, paper covers, as new. Saintfield is a handsome village 10 miles south of Belfast on the road to Downpatrick. This book has become very scarce. £15.0020815. Beale, George and Eamon Phoenix: Stran. Stranmillis College 1922-1998 An Illustrated History. Belfast: Stranmillis Press1998 26 x 21 cm. 130 pp. illustrated, soft covers. This Teacher Training College was founded in 1922. £15.006592. Beckett, J.C. and Glasscock, R.E: Belfast: The Origin and Growth of an Industrial City. Belfast: BBC, 1967. ix + 204 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Endpaper maps. Gold-blocked blue boards in a very good dustwrapper. A very good copy. A classic study of the City. £10.0013925. Beckett, J.C. and R.E. Glascock: Belfast The Origin and Growth of an Industrial City. Belfast: B.B.C, 1967. ix + 204pp. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Endpaper maps. Gold-blocked blue boards, in good condition, in a good dustwrapper. £10.006280. Beit, Sir Alfred: The Irish Heritage Series Russborough Blessington County Wicklow. Dublin: Easons, 1978. The Irish Heritage Series 13. 24 pp. 25 x 15 cm. Illustrated. Very good, in pictorial laminated card covers. £6.0017294. Belcoo & District Development Group: If Only Historical Sketches of the Belcoo Area. Belcoo: Belcoo & District Development Group, c1991. With contributions from Belcoo and District Historical Society. 190 pp. 21 x 29.5 cm. Profusely illustrated, with plates, documents, drawings, and lots of maps. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In very good condition. A comprehensive study, well illustrated, of this area of south Fermanagh, bordering Cavan. £23.0010384. Belfast City Council: Your City, Your Space Belfast City Council Strategy for Open Spaces. Belfast: Belfast City Council November 2005. 29.5 by 21 cms. 99 pp. illustrated, illustrated card covers, in very good condition. This is the Council's broad strategy for open spaces/parks in the City £6.0012160. Belfast Harbour Commissioners: Belfast Harbour Commissioners Centenary 1847-1947. Belfast: Belfast Harbour Commissioners, 1947. 58 pp. 25.5 x 18 cm. Twenty-five plans and illustrations indicate the development of Belfast Harbour, with a further six photographs of Commissioners and Officiers in 1947. Six of the plans and one of the photographs fold out, and the plans are very generous in size, and on exquisitely thin paper. The clarity of the illustrations is superb. Statistical appendices indicate the grown, facilities, and trade of the port. £45.0018644. Belfast Telegraph: Bombs on Belfast The Blitz 1941. Belfast: Pretani Press, 1984. xiv + (56 pp) + (i). 24.4 x 18.5 cm. A modern edition of a wartime publication giving a vivid photographic record of the impact of the wartime blitz, from photographs taken for the Belfast Telegraph. Introduction by Christophr D. McGimpsey. Gold-blocked black boards, in a price-clipped dw. Name and date neatly written on ffep, o/w In good condition. £10.0011470. Bell, Brian and McAuley, Liam: Destination Dublin Insight Travel Guide. Singapore: APA publications (HK) Ltd. 1989. 25 by 30.5 cms. 128 pp. illustrated, laminated pictorial boards, in very good condition. £8.006175. Bell, Fergus Hanna: Newry, Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Early Photographs from the Lawrence Collection 1865-80. Belfast: Friars Bush Press, 1989. 78 pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. Superb photographs of this area. Introductions to each town. Period maps. Bibliography. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.0018919. Bell, Henry V: Diligence and Skill 100 Years of Education at Belfast Institute. Belfast: Belfast Institute, 2006. 65 pp. 24.5 x 29.5 cm. The history of the Belfast College of Technology from 1906-2006. 94 illustrations. Pictorial card covers, with a lengthy dedication written on the bottom of the contents page. Apart from a mark on the front cover from an old price label, in very good condition. Good educational history material £12.0015167. Benn, George: A History of The Town of Belfast from The Earliest Times to The Close of the Eighteenth Century. & A History of the Town of Belfast from 1799 till 1810 together with some incidental notices on local topics and Biographies of many well known families. London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1877, 1880. 770 + 238 pp. 14 x 22cm. Benn's Belfast consists of two volumes, here bound together. Volume I takes the history up to 1799 and Volume II carries it on to 1810, along with biographies of well-known families. Each volume is separately paginated and indexed. The one view, seven maps and plans, genealogies of the O'Neills and the Chichesters, and two portraits are all present as called for. This book is the indispensable foundation for all studies of Belfast's history. A recent facsimile edition has been published, but this original edition has become very hard to find. The signatures of Hugh Moore, Yew Villa, Newtownards and Norman McMurray, Malone Park House, Malone Park are on the half title. The brown boards are ruled and the spine is blind stamped with the title, author, and publisher, and the arms and motto of Belfast. There is slight tenderness to the joints, and occasional light foxing. The unpacked weight is 1,550g. £550.0013512. Benn, George: The History of the Town of Belfast with an accurate account of its former and present state. Ballynahinch: Davidson Books, 1979. 298 pp. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. A statistical survey of the Parish of Belfast and a description of some remarkable antiquities in its neighbourhood. A facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1823. Illustrated, hardback, in a dustwrapper, two small discreet library stamps in a margin, otherwise in very good condition. A classic account of the early history of Belfast. This was the first reprint of Benn's work. £95.0020171. Black, Eileen: Paintings, Sculptures and Bronzes in the Collection of The Belfast Harbour Commissioners. Belfast: The Belfast Harbour Commissioners, 1983. 136pp. 26.5 x 21 cm. Illustrated, paper covers good. This was the first study of the rich, but little known, catalogue of this institution's collections. £18.0020514. Black, Eileen: Paintings, Sculptures and Bronzes in the Collection of The Belfast Harbour Commissioners. Belfast: The Belfast Harbour Commissioners, 1983. 136pp. 26.5 x 21 cm. Illustrated, paper covers, in good condition. This was the first study of the rich, but little known, catalogue of this institution's collections. £15.0014377. Blaney, Mary and McGoran, Sheila, compilers: How It Used To Be 'The Clachan Project In Schools'. Cushendall: Glens of Antrim Historical Society, c2006. iv + 76pp. 24.5 x 18 cm. A survey of clachans in the Glens of Antrim, by local school children, 2002 to 2006. Over one-hundred-and-twenty photographs, almost all in colour, and maps, tables, and documents. The project was sponsored by the National Lottery, and the quality of the production is superb. Pictorial glazed card covers. Near mint condition. £10.006549. Bowsie, George A. and Murphy, Graham: Carryduff 2000. Carryduff: 2000. "A chronological record of events in the life and development of Carryduff, Past and Present and Memoirs of the District from Bygone Days". 90 pp. 30 x 21cm. Development of a village at a major road junction eight miles from Belfast. Forty-seven illustrations, including two aerial views. Map. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition, almost as new. £10.0019075. Boyle, E.M.F-G, editor: Records of the Town of Limavady 1609-1808. Limavady: North-West Books, 1989. A reprint of the first edition. xvi + 164 pp. 21.5 x 15 cm. 6 illustrations. Gold blocked blue boards, in a very good dustwrapper. lmost as new. An elusive title. £23.0016931. Boyle, Maureen: The Story of Drumalis. Larne: The Sisters of the Cross and Passion, 2003. 22pp. 17 x 26 cm. The story of a house overlooking Larne in Co Antrim: its extensions by the families that lived there, and its refurbishment by the Sisters of the Cross and Passion. Twenty-six illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. Near-mint condition. £20.007307. Bradley, John. editor: Viking Dublin Exposed. Dublin: The O'Brien Press 1984 184 pp. illustrated, very good in dustwrapper. A combination of superb Viking archaeology, crass development, a then philistine Council, insensitive planning and a public passion to protect the past. £15.0015054. Brett, C.E. B.: Architectural Schizophrenia. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1981. 24 pp. 25 x 20 cm. Nineteen plates. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.0019026. Brett, C.E.B: Buildings of North County Down. Belfast: The Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2002. iv + 290pp. 31 x 21.5 cm. An important study of the architectural heritage of this part of North Down. Lavishly illustrated in colour and b&w. Photographs by Anthony Merrick. Gold-blocked navy boards. In very good condition, in a vg d.w., which is not price clipped. This is a very heavy book and extra postal charges may be needed. £45.0017817. Brett, C.E.B.: Buildings of Belfast 1700 - 1914. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969. First edition, second impression. xii + 72 pp. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. The pioneering study of the city's architecture. 72 plates. Endpaper maps. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked brown boards. A previous owner has written her name and the date on the title page, o/w in very good condition, in a good dustwrapper. £10.0017359. Brett, C.E.B.: Court Houses and Market Houses of the Province of Ulster. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1973. 108 pp. 20 x 20.5 cm. Thirty-eight illustrations. Minor wear, otherwise in good condition. This publication has become quite scarce. £23.007304. British Association for the Advancement of Science.: Belfast In Its Regional Setting A Scientific Survey. Belfast: Local Executive Committee for the British Association, 1952. Prepared for the Meeting held in Belfast 3rd to 10th September, 1952. 211 pp. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. 8 plates and 35 illustrations. 2 folded maps. In good condition. No dw. Excellent study of the region though now seventy years old. £10.006940. British Medical Association: British Medical Association One Hundred and Fifth Annual Meeting Belfast July 16th to 24th, 1937 Ladies Section Handbook. Belfast: Mayne, Boyd & son 1937. 18.5 by 12 cms. 111 pp. endpapers maps, green cloth textured boards, in very good condition. The Ladies Handbook is now fairly scarce. £25.0017343. Brody, Hugh: Inishkillane Change and Decline in the West of Ireland. London: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1973. First edition. xii + 226 pp. 22.5 x 14 cm. 11 Figures. 2 tables. Map. Gold-blocked terracotta boards, in dw. The boards show some fading and the dw shows some shelfwear. Inishkillane is not a place: it is a composite impression of a lot of places, written from an essentially pessimistic point of view. £10.0017284. Brody, Hugh: Inishkillane Change and Decline in the West of Ireland. London: Jill Norman & Hobhouse, 1982. Second edition. xii + 226 pp. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. 11 Figures. 2 tables. Map. Pictorial glazed-card covers. In very good condition. The cover photograph is by the Irish artist and poet, Anthony Weir. £10.0017677. Brunicardi, Niall: John Anderson Entrepreneur. Fermoy: Eigse Books, 1987. xii +177 pp. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. The story of John Anderson and Fermoy, County Cork. 27 illustrations, and 2 endpaper plans. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In very good condition. £15.0017622. Brunicardi, Niall: The Bridge at Fermoy. Fermoy: Eigse Books, 1985. Fermoy Heritage Series No.3. 13 pp. 21 x 15 cm. 6 illustrations. Map. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £20.0020786. Buchanan, George: Green Seacoast. London: Gabberbocchus Press Ltd first edition 1959. 19 x 13 cms. 124 pp. owner's inscription on the ffep.gold blocked green boards, in a slightly rubbed dustwrapper. In good condition. George Henry Perrot Buchanan, 1904 -1989, was born at Kilwaughter, near Larne and this autobiography, in part, reflects on a childhood in the Ulster countryside, much of it in the company of Forrest Reid. As a poet, novelist, critic, George Buchanan seems to have been neglected in the recent history of poetry and literature in the Province. £20.0016745. Buchanan, RH and Anthony Wilson: Downpatrick. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1995. Irish Historic Towns Atlas No.8. 41 x 31 cm. A card folder, in a transparent sleeve, containing a 16-page booklet with 5 "Figures", which are maps and plans, and four illustrations. This is followed by 7 maps, and the map legends, on loose sheets, and a further sheet of two "Plates": an aerial view, and a street scene. £25.0011434. Byrne, Art & McMahon, Sean: Faces of the West A Record of Life in the West of Ireland. Belfast: Appletree Press, 1976. First edition. 114 pp. 19.5 x 20 cm. Illustrated with 82 b&w photographs. Gold-blocked maroon boards, in dw. The book is in good condition. The reverse of the dw has been slightly stained by the colour of the boards. £10.0017907. Byrne, D.R.: Vintage Port A View of Portrush Using Hitherto Largely Unseen Photographic And Other Material. Portrush: The Ballywillan Drama Group, 2005. 216 pp. 20.5 x 21.5 cm. 226 illustrations. Pictorial semi-matt boards. In very good condiion, almost as new. In this book there is a lot of new material on Portrush, never before published, and the book has already become hard to find. £30.0019317. Calley, Daniel: City of Derry An Historical Gazetteer to the Buildings of Londonderry Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2013. xxii + 484 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Pictorial glazed card covers. Signed by the author, on the title page. In very good condition. £20.0011889. Calwell, H.G. MA, MD: The Life and Times of a Voluntary Hospital - The History of the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children 1873 to 1948. Belfast: Brough, Cox and Dunn Ltd, 1973. 27.5 x 20.5 cm. xiii+138 pp. illustrated, hardback, A superb history. Thirty-five Plates. In gold-blocked but quite rubbed, green boards, in a very good dustwrapper. The standard history of this Hospital. in overall good condition £12.003319. Camblin, Gilbert: The Town in Ulster. Belfast: Wm. Mullan & Son (Publishers), Limited, 1951. First edition. xv + 131 pp. 28.5 x 22 cm. 62 plates and maps from contemporary sources. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked red boards. No dw. Neat signature on ffep, o/w in good condition. An account of the origin and building of the towns of the Province of Ulster, and the development of their rural settings. This was a pioneering study, never reprinted or updated. Ulster, in this instance, is the six counties of Northern Ireland: not the nine counties of the historic province of Ulster. £17.0016668. Camblin, Gilbert, John Bulloch, and Hugh Halliday: Ulster Lakeland A Tourist Plan for County Fermanagh. Belfast: H.M.S.O., 1963. 88pp. 27 x 21.5 cm. Eleven plates, twenty-six tables, and nine plans and diagrams. Large folded plan in rear pocket. Pictorial glazed card covers. Minor wear, and Record Office stamp inside front cover, otherwise in good condition. An extra-ordinarily complete snapshot of Fermanagh in the early 1960s. The authors were government planning officers, and Camblin's magnus opus is The Town in Ulster. These early development plans have become very scarce. £23.0016845. Campbell, Aidan: Beaconsfield A Brief History of Marie Curie Centre, Belfast & Knock District. Belfast: Aidan Campbell, 2007. Second edition. 93 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. Good history of the building, locality, families and businesses in the area, the effects of WW2, and transport, including the B&CDR. Fifty-four illustrations including photographs, advertisements, and maps. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Author inscribed. £30.0018625. Campbell, Aidan: Knock An Illustrated and Spoken History of Knock, East Belfast. Belfast: Aidan Campbell, 2008. Number 181 of the limited edition. 172pp. 21.5 x 28 cm. 132 photographs. 2 maps. Bibliography. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. A beautifully-written nostalgic survey of a Belfast surburb. £10.0016918. Campbell, Arthur: Return Journey Belfast and Beyond Photographs by Arthur Campbell 1936-1939. Belfast: The Friar's Bush Press, 1999. Reprint. 73 pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. Foreword by Michael Longley. 72 photographs of Belfast and beyond, taken between 1936 and 1939. Pictorial glazed card covers. Slight damage to both covers where old price labels have been removed. £8.0011896. Campbell, Arthur: Return Journey Belfast and Beyond Photographs by Arthur Campbell 1936-1939. Belfast: The Friar's Bush Press 1987. First edition. Foreword by Michael Longley. 18 by 21.5 cms. 73 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in good condition. 72 photos of Belfast and beyond taken between 1936-9. £8.0017066. Canavan, Tony, editor: Every Stoney Acre has a Name: a celebration of the townland in Ulster. Belfast: Federation of Ulster Local Studies, 1992. Reprint, first published 1991. 62 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Eighteen illustrations, including maps and documents. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. A very useful study £12.0019020. Carr, Peter: Portavo An Irish Townland and its People Part 2 The Famine to the Present. Belfast: The White Row Press, 2005. xiii + 339 pp. 25 x 19.5 cm. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. In good condition. This is the second volume of this two-volume history of the Townland of Portavo, on the northern end of the Ards peninsula. It is an exhausive look at the place, its people, archaeology, folklore, and the Ker family who owned it. Absolutely absorbing, the sweep of Irish history as experienced in one small space. A heavy book extra postage may be needed. £20.003366. Carr, Peter: The Most Unpretending of Places. Belfast: 1987. 252 pp. illustrated paper covers. An excellent local history of this village on the eastern edge of Belfast from the Ice Age to the present. £12.0016303. Carroll, Michael J.: The Castles and Fortified Houses of West Cork. Bantry: Bantry Studio Publications, 2001. 165 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Illustrations. Double-sided folding map. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £45.0019993. Carter, H. R. compiler: Belfast and Province of Ulster Year Book Belfast: H. R,. Carter n.d. ( 1922 ). A guide to the City and the Northern Province, for the use of visitors. What to see and where to buy. An historical record of the rise and progress of Belfast and other Ulster towns. 23 x 15 cm. 124 + 8 pp. black blocked linen backed boards. The boards are a little dusty and discoloured but otherwise in good condition. It is clear from the text that this was produced in 1922. Scarce £55.0019140. Casement, Anne: An Admiral's Eye View Sketches of Ireland by Lord Mark Kerr. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2010. xii + 106 pp. 27 x 25.5 cm. Introduction by Hector McDonnell. Frontispiece map. 159 illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition, in a good dustwrapper. A large heavy book, and overseas shipping will involve extra postage charges. £27.501090. Chapman, Barbara.: Newtownbutler, The Story of a Local Community. Dublin: Nonsuch, 2005. 80 pp. 21 x 15 cm. 34 illustrations. 1 map. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. A very good study of this town some 17 miles south of Enniskillen in County Fermanagh. £10.0017113. Charlesworth, J.K. and J. Preston: Geologist's Association Guides No.18: The Geology around the University Towns: North-East Ireland -The Belfast Area. London: The Geologists Association, 1958. 30 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Five itineraries. 10 figures. Bibliography. Printed matt card covers. In very good condition. £8.0017371. Christian Brothers School Omagh: From Mount St Columba to Kevlin Road 150 years of Education in the Edmund Rice Tradition. Omagh: Booklink, 2012. 95 pp. 25.5 x 25.5 cm. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Pictorial laminated boards. No dw. In very good condition. £20.006325. City and County Borough of Belfast: The City of Belfast Official Handbook Ninth Edition 1938-1939. Belfast: City and County Borough of Belfast, 1939. 100 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Illustrated. The folding district map is present, but the street plan is missing, otherwise in good condition, in slightly dusty pictorial card covers. £10.003293. City and County Borough of Belfast: The City of Belfast Official Handbook. Belfast: City and County Borough of Belfast ,c1948. 11th edition. 192pp. Illustrated. Folding map of Belfast and District. Good, in illustrated card covers. £12.0010822. Clark, Wallace: Linen on the Green An Irish Mill Village 1730 - 1982. Belfast: The Universities Press (Belfast) Ltd., 1983. Second edition. xii + 183 pp. 22 x 14 cm. 18 illustrations, 26 plates, 2 plans, and endpaper maps. Family tree. Notes. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked linen-covered boards. No dustwrapper. A previous owner's name has been scribbled over at the top of one of the preliminary pages, o/w in very good condition. An affectionate account of his family's linen business, and the community which grew up around it, in Upperlands, on the Clady River, in Co. Londonderry. £19.506275. Clarke, Harold: Georgian Dublin. Dublin: Easons, 1976. The Irish Heritage Series 2. 25 pp. 25 x 15.5 cm. 26 Illustrations. Map. Very good in pictorial laminated card covers. £6.5015777. Clongowes Wood College: The Clongownian 2007. Naas, Co. Kildare: Clongowes Wood College, 2007 112th year of publication. 176 pp. 24.4 x 18 cm. Profusely illustrated, in colour and b&w. Pictorial glazed card covers, in very good condition, with compliments slip from the headmaster. £15.0020485. Common, Robert: Some Observations on Dunmurry's Past. Dunmurry: Published for the author 1999. 21 x 15 cm. 32 pp. map and five figures, softcovers, in very good condition. £12.0019053. Coote, Sir Charles: Statistical Survey of the County of Armagh, with Observations on the Means of Improvement drawn up iin the years 1802 and 1803 for the consideration of The Dublin Society. Ballynahinch: Spa Books, 1984. A facsimile reprint of the first edition, Dublin 1804. xxv + 395 + 33 pp. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Folding county map. Folding chart of Lough Neagh. Occasional drawings and tables in text. Gold blocked red boards. No dustwrapper. Previous owner's name written neatly on the ffep, otherwise in very good condition. This edition was limited to 550 copies. £75.0011837. Corcoran, Doreen: A Tour of East Antrim. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1990. Historic Photographs from the W.A. Green Collection in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. 18 by 21.5 cms. 92 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. £12.0017050. Corr, Ben: From the Mountains to the Sea Photographs of the people of Mourne 1955-75. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1989. First edition. 92 pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. Eighty-eight photographs taken by the author. Pictorial glazed card covers. Spine sunned, o/w in very good condition. £12.0017143. Costello, Peter: Dublin Churches. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1989. 238 pp. 24.5 x 19 cm. "Over 150 places of worship... at least one photograph of every chuch". Gold-blocked black boards, in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. A thoughtful study done in the spirit of Betjeman. £15.0011739. Coughlan, John: Memories A Pictorial Celebration for Dublin's Millennium. Dublin: Smurfit Publications Ltd, 1988. 128 pp. 22 x 30.5 cm. Profusely illustrated. Amazing range of very atmospheric images, most not previously published. Gold-blocked blue boards, in a somewhat battered dustwrapper. Title on dw is not the title on the title page. £11.5018735. Coughlan, Stephen, editor: Picture That A Century of Cork Memories. Cork: The Cork Examiner, 1985. First edition. 128 pp. 22 x 30.5 cm. Profusely illustrated. Gold-blocked orange boards, in good condition, in a slighly worn dustwrapper. Great photographs. £12.0017927. Coyne, J. Stirling: The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland. London: Mercury Books, 2003. 455 pp. 28 x 21 cm. Drawings by WH Bartlett. A modern reprint of one of the great nineteeth-century books on Ireland. 113 full-page illustrations. Pictorial boards, in matching dw. New book. £18.0019754. Craig, Julie: See Dublin on Foot An Architectural Walking Guide. Dublin: Dublin Civic Trust, 2001. 20.5 x 20.5 cm. 76 pp. illustrated in colour. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.0020125. Craig, Maurice & Michael Craig: Mausolea Hibernica. Dublin: The Lilliput Press 1999. 19.5 x 13 cm. 118 pp. illustrated with 15 Vignettes, gold blocked black boards, with a good dustwrapper. The book is in good condition but has not been bound as well as might be expected. £12.006769. Crosbie, Jane E. M: A Tour of North Down 1895-1925 Historic Photographs from the WA Green Collection at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1989. iv + 90pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. soft covers. As new. Photographs from the W.A. Green collection of Holywood, Bangor, GroomsportHelen's Bay, Crawfordsburn, Donaghadee. £5.004090. Crosbie, Jane E.M.: A Tour of Mid and South Down, 1910-1935. Belfast: Friars Bush Press, 1992. iv + 91pp. 17.5 x 21.5 cm. Nostalgic photographs of Ballynahinch, Saintfield, Hillsborough, Dromore, Banbridge, Newry, Warrenpoint, and Castlewellan. Introduction. Bibliography. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.0016919. Crosbie, Jane E.M.: A Tour of The Ardes, 1910-1935. Belfast: Friars Bush Press, 1990. iv + 91pp. 17.5 x 21.5 cm. "Covering the Ardes Peninsula and including the towns of Newtownards, Comber, and Killyleagh, these fascinating photographs reflect many aspects of life in the area in the opening decades of the twentieth century." Introduction. Bibliography. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.0013609. Crosbie, Jane E.M.: Strangford's Shores. Donaghadee: Cottage Publications, 2001. Second reprint of the 1996 book. ii + 87 + v pp. 18.5 x 26 cm. Illustrated with reproductions, in colour, of the watercolours of Alison Brown. The 30 evocative plates are supported by a lively text, map, bibliography, and list of sponsors. Very good condition, in pictorial padded boards. No dw. £10.0018513. Crowe, W. Haughton: The Ring of Mourne. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1969. xii + 136 pp. 19 x 13 cm. 26 illustrations. Gold-blocked black boards in a worn dustwrapper. Inscription on ffep and a light stain to the rear of the dustwrapper, otherwise in good condition. £12.0019360. Crowe, W. Haughton: The Ring of Mourne. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1969. xii + 136 pp. 19 x 13 cm. 26 illustrations. Gold-blocked black boards in a worn dustwrapper. Bloomfield Collegiate School prize bookplate, otherwise in good condition. £12.008692. Crowe, W. Haughton: Village in Seven Hills The Story and Stories of Rostrevor Co. Down. Dundalk: Dundalgan Press (W. Tempest) Limited, 1972. ix+106 pp. 18 x 12 cm. 33 illustrations. Dates and Placenames. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. An attractive look at this part of County Down. A crease and scuff to the front cover, but internally very good. £15.0013423. Crowe, W. Haughton: Village in Seven Hills The Story and Stories of Rostrevor Co. Down. Dundalk: Dungalgan Press, 1973. ix+106 pp. 18 x 12 cm. Two drawings, and 33 illustrations, including a map. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In good condition. A useful little book about this lovely village on Carlingford Lough. £20.0020846. Cunningham, John B.: A History of Castle Caldwell and its Families 1610-1870. Enniskillen: Water Gate Press n.d. 1980. 23 x 15 cm. 210 pp. plan and illustrations, gold blocked black boards in a slightly worn dustwrapper, autographed and dated by the author on the title page. in very good condition, a scarce title. Families are the Blennerhassetts, Caldwells and Bloomfields. £50.0020665. Curran, C.P.: Dublin Decorative Plasterwork of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. London: Alec Tiranti 1967. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. viii+124pp.+173 plates, map endpapers, gold blocked blue boards, no dustwrapper otherwise in good condition. £20.006290. Dallat, Cahal: A Tour of the Causeway Coast. Belfast: Friars Bush Press, 1990. 92 pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. Glazed pictorial card covers. Historic photographs from the W.A. Green collection in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. V.g. condition. £6.001230. Dallat, Cahal and Gibson, Faith: Rooms of Time Memories of Ulster People. Antrim: Greystone Books, 1988. x + 206 pp. 22.5 x 22.5 cm. Very evocative photographs with commentary of ordinary life in the Province pre-war. Shelf wear, previous owner's name neatly written on front pastedown, and ffep removed, otherwise good tight copy. £10.006176. Dallat, Cahal and McKinney, Jack: Ulster Images A Cultural Heritage Miscellany. Belfast: The Educational Co. Ltd, 1992. 225 pp. 20 x 21.5 cm. Eight articles about all aspects of life in Ulster in the recent past, and much, much more. 47 illustrations. Bibliography. Pictorial glazed card covers. £10.0018259. Davidson, James: Our Daily Bread A Look at Ulster Bakeries. Newtownards: Colourpoint Books, 2004. 80 pp. 20.5 x 24 cm. 107 illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £25.0010820. Davis, John editor.: Rural Change in Ireland. Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies Queens University 1999. xii+228 pp. maps, hardback, very good in a v.g. dustwrapper, almost as new. "essential reading for anyone with an interest in historical or contemporary aspects of Irish rural affairs. £20.0010733. De Latocnaye: Stevenson, John, translator: A Frenchman's Walk Through Ireland 1796-7 ( Promenade d'un Francais dans l'Irlande ) Belfast: McCaw Stevenson & Orr Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. 1984. Translated from the French of De Latocnaye by John Stevenson. vi+292 pp. hardback, no dustwrapper, two pages, 131 and 134 have a printer's fault, a small ink blot on a couple of lines of text otherwise in good condition. £23.0019029. Dean, J. A. K. Dean, J.A.K.: The Gate Lodges of Ulster A Gazetteer. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1994. 168 pp. 29.5 x 20.5 cm. An illustrated gazetteer. This is a magisterial and exhaustive study. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £23.0017711. Deane, C. Douglas: The Ulster Countryside. Belfast: Century Books, 1983 v + 170 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Contents include Belfast - houses and people, Winter on Strangford Lough; The Bird Man - James Parsons Burkitt, born in 1870 at Killybegs, Co. Donegal; Copeland Islands; Newry Canal, natural history, and Northern Ireland - people and places. Forty-five Illustrations, 22 in colour. Pictorial glazed card covers. Neat inscription on titlepage. £9.0017764. Devaney, Christina, Claire Ring & Diana Allen, editors: Slane Reflections A Collection of Articles, mainly relevant to Slane & Surrounding Areas, compiled by members & friends of the Society. Slane History & Archaeology Society, 2008. 178 pp. 21 x 15 cm. 32 articles. 49 illustrations, including maps, some in colour. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £18.0018174. Devenney, Donnchadh: Footprints through the Rosses. Published for the author, 1993. vi + 166 pp. 21 x 15 cm. 92 illustrations. Maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. Superb local history of west Donegal. Scarce. £50.0018047. Doherty, Paul editor: Geographical Perspectives on the Belfast Region. Geographical Society of Ireland Special Publications No. 5. 1990. 24.5 x 18cm. 114 pp. paper covers, in very good condition, apparently scarce. £15.0019488. Donnan, Leo G: Living in Dunsilly A History of the Donnan Family in Antrim. Antrim: Antrim and District Historical Society 1990. 21 x 14.5 cm. 43 pp. Illustrated. Very good, in pictorial glazed card covers. £10.0011770. Donnelly, J.P. and Donnelly, M.M: Downpatrick and Lecale a Short Historical Guide. Newtownards 1980. 57 pp. illustrated, map, card covers. A series of short articles about this area. Owner' name, I. Fowweather, on title page. £12.0011675. Donnelly, Maureen: The Nine Glens A Personal Look at the History, Folklore and Poetry of the Nine Glens of Antrim. Downpatrick: Nov. 1974. 116 pp. illustrated, card covers, owner's name to rear of front cover otherwise in very good condition. £12.0017908. Down County Museum: Ballynahinch Island Town. Downpatrick: Down County Museum, 2013. 63 pp. 21 x 25 cm. 53 illustrations. Pictorial card covers. In very good condition. £12.0019358. Dromara Local History Group.: Dromara "In the Shadow of Slieve Croob The Source of the River Lagan". Dromara: Dromara Local History Group, c2012. 116 pp. 19.5 x 25 cm. 78 illustrations. 2 maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. This is a useful and well illustrated local history study. £20.0019846. DuBois, Edward: My Pocket Book; or Hints for "A Ryghte Merrie and Conceitede Tour, in Quarto to be called " in 1805 with Humorous Plates, by A Knight Errant.The Stranger in Ireland" Libel Sir John Carr against Hood and Sharpe, Report of the above Case. London: Printed for Vernor, Hood and Sharp, Poultry, Third edition with various additions and improvements 1808. xxviii+197+39 pp. with four humorous aquatints, the frontispiece with left half missing, This edition includes, with a separate half title and title page, Libel Sir John Carr against Hood and Sharpe, Report of the above Case....on Monday the 23rd July 1808, ... to which are added Several Letters on the Subject written by the Earl of Mountnorris, Sir Richard Phillips, and the author of My Pocket Book". London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe 1808. 39pp. Internally the book is worn with some light staining, a corner of the first title page is torn off, no loss, illustrations good, internally . It is very unusual to get the separately printed libel case which Sir John Carr brought against the publishers for this burlesque, or satire, on Sir John Carr's Stranger in Ireland. It makes the whole more interesting. Sir John lost his case which was seen as a verdict for free speech. £55.0018761. Dubourdieu, Rev. John: Statistical Survey of the County of Antrim, with observations on the means of improvement; drawn up for the consideration and by direction of the Dublin Society. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell, 10 Back Lane, 1812. xxiii + 630 +112 pp. 21 x 13 cm. Map, and 17 other engravings, many folding. All plates are present, and are in very good condition. Half leather and marbled boards, six panelled spine with original brown and gold-blocked lettering, faded gold lining and ornaments. Showing some shelfwear, boards edge rubbed, corners a little bumped, spine label chipped, a couple of old tape repairs to the folding map, and one illustration has wear along the lower edge, otherwise the book is in very good condition. This original printing is very scarce. £350.0016765. Dubourdieu, Rev. John: Statistical Survey of the County of Antrim, with observations on the means of improvement; drawn up for the consideration and by direction of the Dublin Society. Dublin: Printed by Graisberry and Campbell, 10 Back Lane, 1812. xxiii+630+112 pp. 21 x 13 cm. Map and 17 other engravings, many folding. This original edition, at some time, has been rebound by R. Carswell and Son of Belfast. Gold-blocked black boards. All plates are present, and are in superb condition. There are some light, very faint, traces of underlining, but the underlining seems to have been removed a long time ago, leaving the book essentially unmarked. This original printing is very scarce. £550.0019712. Dunlop, Eull compiler: Mid-Antrim Articles on the History of Ballymena & District. Ballymena: Mid-Antrim Historical Group1983. 180 pp. illustrated, softcovers, a former library copy, with a library label on the rear of the front cover, a small sticker with barcode on the title page, and a plastic dustwrapper to the covers, otherwise in very good condition. This first volume of two is now rather scarce, as is the second volume.. £20.0019711. Dunlop, Eull compiler: Mid-Antrim Part 2 Further Articles on Ballymena & District. Ballymena: Mid-Antrim Historical Group1991. 208 pp. illustrated,softcovers, a former library copy but the only sign of that is a small sticker with barcode on the title page, otherwise in very good condition. Now rather scarce. £20.0020408. Dunlop, Eull editior: Buick's Ahoghill Ballymena: Mid-Antrim Historical Group 1987. 25 x 17 cm. 112 pp. maps, illustrations, softcovers, the fonrt cover has some staining around its edges, inscription on the title page from the editor otherwise it is in good condition. £15.009810. Eason & Son: Souvenir of Giant's Causeway. Dublin & Belfast: Eason & Son, Ltd, c1920. 12pp. 18.5 x 24cm. Twelve titled views of the Causeway, mounted on light-brown pages with dark-brown ruling. The first view is of Kane's Royal Hotel, with a jaunting car at the front door. Printed card covers, with a mounted label "British Manufacture", the whole held together with a brown silk cord. An attractive item. There are a few faint spots on the covers, otherwise in good condition. £25.0013616. Elder, Ellen Hanna: Home Fires, Bangor in the Great War. Belfast: Northern Whig 2005. 108 pp. illustrated, card covers, showing a little wear otherwise good. £10.0020509. Enniskillen, The Countess of: Florence Court My Irish Home. Monaghan: R. & S. Printers 1972. 21.5 x 16 cm. 85 pp. 12 illustrations, gold blocked blue boards, in a slightly shelf worn dustwrapper. In very good condition. This title is a little elusive these days. The house and estate are now in the care of the National Trust. £35.0010898. Evans, E. Estyn: Irish Heritage The Landscape, the People and their Work. Dundalk: W. Tempest, Dundalgan Press, 1944 Fourth impression. xvi+190 pp. 23 x 14.5 cm. Six Plates and 114 Figures in text. Gold-blocked blue binding strip and gray boards, no dustwrapper, neat inscription on ffep, fore-edge slightly foxed, otherwise a very clean, tight copy. £20.0017276. Evans, E. Estyn: Irish Heritage The Landscape, the People and their Work. Dundalk: W. Tempest, Dundalgan Press, 1942. First edition. xvi + 190 pp. 23 x 14.5 cm. Six Plates and 114 Figures in text. Gold-blocked faded red boards, no dustwrapper. Signature of William McElheran, the Belfast Irish-Language scholar, neatly written on titlepage. Ffep removed. £20.0018726. Evans, E. Estyn and Turner, Brian S: Ireland's Eye The Photographs of Robert John Welch. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1977. Ulster Museum Series No. 201. 195 pp. 26.5 x 21 cm. 164 Welch photographs, with extended captions. Gold-blocked textured gray boards, in a dw. Ffep and pastedown autographed, and label on ffep, o/w in good condition. Clumsy attemp at removing label from front of dw, and small piece torn from top corner of dw, neatly repaired. Welch was a great naturalist, and a pioneer of photography in Ireland. His photographs of Irish life and landscape are justly famous. £12.001924. Evans, E. Estyn, editor: Harvest Home The Last Sheaf A Selection from the Writings of T.G.F. Paterson relating to County Armagh. Armagh: The Armagh County Museum, 1975. First edition. xx+242pp. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Eight plates, frontispiece portrait, and tailpiece. Introduction by E. Estyn Evans. An Appreciation by the Reverend John Paterson. Twenty-seven essasys on Armagh history, including: Outlaws, The Royal School, School Life, Coursing, The Cathedral, Railways, Lurgan, Portadown, Benburb, Castledillon, Ardress, Richhill, The Brontes, Militia, Harvest Customs, etc., etc. The contents headings of Patterson's twenty-five volumes of Miscellanea. Bibliography of Patterson's published work. The book itself is a nice clean fresh copy of an increasingly scarce title. The dw is stained, and has been carefully repaired with peelable tape.. £15.0020465. Evans, Rae: Grosvenor Road Redevelopment : Advanced Feasibility Study Belfast: N.I.H.E. Oct 1972 30 x 20.5 cm. 16 pp 7 map/plans 6 of which are folded. Spiral ring binding, softcovers, in very good condition. Evans was Director of Development for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. The original sceme was prepared by the Housing Trust in 1968/70. It was a multi-storey slab block proposal similar to what was built at Divis. The Troubles and resistance to high rise and high density lead to this very revised scheme. £20.0019768. Fedden, Robin: The Giant's Causeway An Illustrated Account. London: Garnstone Press Limited, 1971. 20pp. 20 x 13 cm. Map. 12 plates. £5.0020045. Feeney, Marie: The Cleggan Bay Disaster: An Account of the Savage Storm in October, 1927 That Devastated the Connemara Communities of Inishbofin and Rossadilisk Co. Donegal: Penumbra Press 2001. 24 x 16.5 cm.111 pp. 40 illustrations, map, soft covers, in very good condition. In the storm many fisherman from these parts lost their lives. £25.0018737. Finaghy Friendship Group: Finaghy Life A history of the growth and development of life in Finaghy since 1900 as remembered by those who have lived there. Finaghy: Finaghy Friendship Group, 2006. 101 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Map. 49 illustrations. Pictorial matt card covers. In very good condition, almost as new. An excellent compilation of text and illustrations. £20.008807. Fisher, John: Belfast Zoo. Belfast: Belfast City Council, 2001. 60pp, in pictorial glazed card covers. 24 x 16 cm. Profusely illustrated. Map. Good condition. £10.0019346. Fitzgerald, Maurice: Romance of the Strangford Power Scheme A Historical Narrative. Belfast: McGowan & Ingram, 1950. Reprint of the 1930 edition. viii + 208 pp. 18.5 x 13 cm. Gold-blocked green boards. No dustwrapper. In very good condition. A proposal presented to Stormont for a hydro-electric scheme across the narrows in Strangford Lough, on similar fashion to the Shannon scheme. £75.0014119. Forde, The Rev. Canon: Sketches of Olden Days in Northern Ireland. Belfast: McCaw Stephenson & Orr, 1926. Second, enlarged, edition. 139 pp. 23.5 x 14.5 cm. Foreword by Sir James Craig. Original grey yapp edge card over thick boards. Repaired damage to head of spine. £20.0018594. Forde, The Rev. Canon Hugh: Round the Coast of Northern Ireland: Antrim, Derry and Down. Belfast: R. Carswell & Son, Limited, 1928. First edition. 215 pp. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. 40 illustrations. Foreword by Rt. Hon. Sir John Ross. Gold-blocked red boards. No dustwrapper. Slight wear, corners a little bumped, and discoloured streak to bottom of the boards, otherwise a good copy. Rather scarce nowadays. Articles written for the Northern Whig and other newspapers. Some illustrations from the Midland Railway Company. £42.0018049. Forthspring InterCommunity Group.: A Quare Book Springfield Memories. Belfast: Forthspring InterCommunity Group, 2004. 92 pp. 24.5 x 20.5 cm. 38 illustrations. Pictorial semi-matt card covers, in very good condition. Almost as new. Folk memories of this area of west Belfast. £10.0017323. Freeman, T.W.: Ireland Its Physical, Historical, Social, and Economic Geography. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd,1950. First editiion. xv+555 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. 8 plates, 2 folders and 96 text maps. Gold-blocked purple boards, no dustwrapper. Sun faded, otherwise good. The classic study. £10.0020842. Frith, Francis Helen Livingston editor.: Francis Frith's Ireland. Frith Book Company revised edition 2000. 24.5 x 19 cm. 123 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. £15.008499. Gaffikin, Thomas: Belfast Fifty Years Ago A Lecture delivered by Thomas Gaffikin, in the Working Men's Institute, Belfast on Thursday evening., April 8th, 1875. Belfast: James Cleland Third Edition with Map of Belfast in 1819 and notes 1894. James Alex. Henderson Ex-Mayor of Belfast in the chair. 45 pp. folding map, the 3 page appendix lists all street with the number of houses and male, female numbers in either 1822 or 1823. The original paper covered edition is now cased in new maroon boards with gilt spine title and new endpapers. The map is a folded sheet which is probably missing the bottom 2.5 cm foldover, which loses the Ballymacarret section east of the river, otherwise the plan is complete showing improvements to 1819. Two old tape marks to title and rear pages otherwise in very good condition. A very scarce item. First edition published in 1875, the second expanded edition was published in 1885, and this further expanded edition in 1894. £150.0018776. Gailey, Alan, Victor Kelly, and James Paul: Rural Housing in Ulster in the mid-nineteenth century. Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1974. 19 + 36 pp. 30 x 22 cm. A folder with text and plates, in a clear plastic folder. 8 plates. Maps. Introduction by E. Estyn Evans. In very good condition. £25.0015071. Gallagher, Lyn: Proud to be Best 50 Years of Best Kept Awards 1957-2007. Belfast: Northern Ireland Amenity Council, 2007. 80 pp. 21 by 22 cms. A fascinating account of these environmental improvement awards. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Very useful chronology. Pictorial card covers. In very good condition. £10.0020535. Gibson, Faith and Sue Towers: Pain and Pleasure Rathmoyle Reminisences. Coleraine: Northern Health and Social Services Board1990. 21 x 16 cm. 85 pp. 35 illustrations, softcovers, in very good condition. £12.0019132. Gilsenan, Anne: 50 Years through the Eye of the Camera. Trim, County Meath: Anne Gilsenan, 2011. 188 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. A lovely record of Trim in the twentieth century. Extensively illustrated: literally thousands of Trim folk. Pictorial glazed card covers. Iin very good condition. £18.0010109. Girvan, WD: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society List of Historic Buildings Groups of Buildings Areas of Architectural Importance in North Antrim including.. Portrush, Ballymoney, and Bushmills. Belfast: U.A.H.S,.1972. 51pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Illustrated. Maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. One of a series produced by the Society. An excellent guide to the area. £10.0014582. Glens of Antrim Historical Society: A Wheen O' Things that used to be. A Social History of the Clachan Settlements of the Glens of Antrim 1800-1950. Glens of Antrim Historical Society, c2008. 28 by 21.5 cms. xii+164pp. illustrated, laminated boards, in very good condition near mint. A very comprehensive and well illustrated study. £30.0011838. Glens of Antrim Historical Society: The Glensman or Fifty Years Ago. Ballycastle: Glens of Antrim Historical Society, 1982. This publication by the Glens of Antrim Historical Society reprints all the issues of "The Glensman", a local magazine which ran to fourteen monthly issues in 1931/32. Paginated as per the original issues. 25 x 19 cm. Illustrated. Gold-blocked green boards in good condition, in a chipped dustwrapper. A fascinating glimpse of life in the Glens over 70 years ago. £30.004001. Gorham, Maurice: Ireland from Old Photographs. London: Batsford, 1971. vi pp. + 206 illustrations. 25.5 x 19 cm. Price-clipped dw. Reprinted in 1985 as, "Ireland Yesterday." £15.0020830. Gracehill Moravian Church: The Moravian Settlement Gracehill A History Prayer Walk, Moravian History Magazine reprinted Mar. 2006. 21 x 15 cm. 12 pp. illustrations, card covers, in very good condition. £5.0018707. Green, E.R.R.: The Lagan Valley 1800-1850 A Local History of the Industrial Revolution. London: Faber and Faber, 1949. 188 pp. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. 3 illustrations. 4 maps. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked blue boards. No dustwrapper, and spine a bit sunfaded, otherwise in very good condition. £20.005668. Gribbon, H.D.: The History of Water Power in Ulster. New York: Augustus M. Kelley 1969. 299 pp. illustrated, almost as new in very good dustwrapper. A publication of the Institute of Irish Studies Queen's University Belfast. This is a regional study of the water power stage in industrial development and was an important early study in Irish industrial archaeology. This was the American edition of the book. £10.0020440. Grimes, Mick: Till We Meet Again. Fintona: Mick Grimes 2008. 20.5 x 15 cm. 224 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. Life in rural northern Ireland around Beragh Co. Tyrone £6.007366. Gwynn, Stephen: The Famous Cities of Ireland. Dublin and London: Maunsel & Co. 1915. xii+352+16 pp. illustrated by Hugh Thompson. Dark green boards with gilt celtic patterns to front board, gilt a little faded, t.e.g., some edge rubbing, spine restored, internally a tight fresh copy. £23.0012825. Haines, Keith: Images of Ireland East Belfast. Dublin: The History Press, 2010. Reprint. 127 pp. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. A wonderfully-clear collection of carefully-chosen and carefully-captioned historic photographs. Pictorial card covers. In very good condition. Almost as new. £8.0013134. Haines, Keith: North Down Memories Photographs 1860s-1960s. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press 2000 22 by 22.5 cm. 146pp. illustrated, softcovers, in good condition, interesting photographs, many not seen before. £20.007497. Haines, Keith, compiler: Images of Ireland East Belfast. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1997. 128 pp. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.0018645. Hall, Henry: Photographic Memories Francis Frith's Around Belfast. Salisbury: Frith Book Co, 2000. 87 pp. 24.5 x 19 cms. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial glazed boards, in very good condition, in a very good dw.. £12.0015870. Hall, Henry: Photographic Memories Francis Frith's Around Belfast. Salisbury: Frith Book Co, 2000. 87 pp. 24.5 x 19 cms. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial glazed card covers, in very good condition. £10.004018. Hall, Mr & Mrs S. C: Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c. London: Hall, Virtue, & Co, c1850. "A New Edition" in three volumes. Volume 1 - xiii + vii + 436pp, and 188 illustrations. Volume 2 - viii + 468pp, and 204 illustrations. Volume 3 - viii + 512pp, and 217 illustrations. Each volume 25 x 17 cm, half-leather, with professionally strengthened hinges, preserving original marbled endpapers, and all edges marbled. The coloured maps and full-page plates are not included in the pagination. At some time something has been pinned to the ffep of Volume 2. £200.0013038. Hall, Mr & Mrs S. C: Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c. London: Hall, Virtue, & Co, c.1841-43. "A New Edition" in three volumes. Volume 1 - xii+436pp, and 188 illustrations. Volume 2 - viii + 468pp, and 204 illustrations. Volume 3 - viii + 512pp, and 217 illustrations. Each volume 25 x 17 cm, The coloured maps and full-page plates are not included in the pagination. Dark green bevelled boards with gilt titling, black decorative lining and a gilt bordered vignette to front boards, a.e.g. maps and full page plates are tissue guarded. Showing some wear but tight copies, in generally good to very good condition. £295.0012201. Hamilton, Rev. William: Letters Concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim Containing such circumstances as appear worthy of notice respecting the Antiquities, Manners and Customs of that County. Together with the natural history of the Basalts, Belfast: Printed for Simms and McIntyre 1822. 18 by 11 cms. 265 pp. 1 folding map, plus 6 full page engraved views in the text, frontispiece portrait not present. In two parts, the first covering Manners, Customs, Antiquities and observations relating to its natural history, the second on the Minerological history, the basaltic fossils and a view of the Volcanic theory of the Basaltes, to these is added an introductory memoir of the author, and "an Itinerary from Belfast to the Giants Causeway, coastways, and returning by Coleraine &c, also a Guide to the Causeway. "The itinerary has its own title page and was published by the same publishers. In its original boards with original spine label, as issued. Boards a little rubbed and scuffed, corners bumped, label a little faded, a small tear in the hinge of the bottom of the spine and a small tear in the hinge a little above. Internally a very tight, generally clean copy, a few small old pencil annotations, some light discolouration to plates, as usual. This book is scarce in its original boards. This is an important book on Irish geology. The author was murdered at the age of 40. £225.0013323. Hamilton, Roy and Roddy Hegarty editors: Footsteps from the Past A Dander through the Townlands of Shantallow. Londonderry: Greater Shantallow Area Partnership, 2006. 118 pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. A very useful survey. Illustrated. Maps. Pictorial card covers, in very good condition. £25.0015247. Hamond, Fred and Tom Porter.: A Tour of the Mournes Historic Photographs of South-East Down from the WA Green Collection at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1991. iv + 92 pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. Newcastle, Annalong, Kilkeel, Greencastle, Spelga, Bryansford, and Tollymore. Eighty plates, four maps, Notes, and Bibliography. Pictorial glazed card covers. Almost as new. £10.0015924. Hanly, Joseph: Farm Surveying A Concise Practical Text Book. Dublin and Belfast: Educational Company of Ireland, 1922. 63 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. Thirty-three illustrations. Black-blocked blue boards, in a dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is a bit dusty and discoloured, and the book has some foreedge browning. Overall in fair condition. A scarce title. £60.0012273. Hanna, John: Malone Golf Club 1895-1995 A History. Belfast: Malone Golf Club, 1995. The centenary history of the Club. 189 pp. 19 x 22.5 cm. Illustrated, endpaper map. Hardback, in a slightly worn dustwrapper. £30.0017053. Hanna, John: Old Lisburn. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing, 2002. First edition. 48 pp. 17.5 x 24 cm. 53 photographs. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. A fascinating selection of photographs of Lisburn and its surroundings. £10.0017054. Hanna, John, and Des Quail.: Old Dromore, Hillsborough and Donaghcloney. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing, 2002. First edition. 48 pp. 17.5 x 24 cm. 52 photographs. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. A fascinating selection of photographs of Hillsborough and its surroundings. £20.0019223. Harbinson, Peter, editor: Gabriel Berenger's Drawings of the Principal Antique Buildings of Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, National Library of Ireland, 1998 228 pp. 21 x 25 cm. map, illustrated in colour with 100 of Berenger's views of historical sites and buildings in the late 18th century, with text by Harbinson. A rather lovely book. £23.0018036. Hardy, PD, editor, and Brett, C.E.B.: Twenty-One Views in Belfast and its Neighbourhood (Dublin 1837). Belfast: Linenhall Library and Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2005. Reprinted, with notes and an introduction by C.E.B. Brett. First published Dublin, 1837. 63 pp. 21 x 25 cm. 26 illustrations. Pictorial endpapers. Bibliography. Gold-blocked blue boards, in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. Almost as new. £12.0020429. Harkness, Kate J.: Grandfather's Box An Irish Family History. Published by the author 1993. 21 x 15 cm. 134 pp. illustrated softcovers, slight damage to the bottom of the rear cover where a label has been removed,author's inscription on the title page, otherwise good. A History of the Moore Family of Ballymacmary Co Antrim. £10.0019771. Harron, Paul editor: New Life for Churches in Ireland Good Practice in Conversion and Reuse. Ulster Historic Churches Trust 2012. 30 x 21 cm. 143 pp. illustrated, softcover, in very good condition, almost as new. An excellant and beautifully illustrated study. overseas shipping may require increased postage. £23.0020817. Hayes, Maurice: Sweet Killough Let Go Your Anchor. Belfast: Blackstaff Press reprinted June 1994 with corrections. 21 x 13.5 cm. 219 pp. illustrated by Jim Manley. Softcovers,owner's inscription on the title page. and rear cover, in very good condition.The Introduction is by Seamus Heaney. Life in a small, pretty seaside village in County Down in the 1930's £12.0017921. Hayward, Richard: Border Foray. London: Arthur Barker Limited, 1950. First edition. 190 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. Endpaper maps. Brown-blocked cream boards, in dw. There is very occasional light foxing, and slight marking to the front edge of the print block, o/w the book itself is in very good condition. The dw is worn, especially at the top, and has been repaired with peelable tape. £14.504801. Hayward, Richard: In Praise of Ulster. Belfast : William Mullan & Son, 1946. 5th edition. viii+347pp. 25 x 19 cm. Thirty-two drawings by J.Hubert Craig. Spine professionally relaid, discolouration and wear to boards, light foreedge spotting otherwise internally good. No dw. Poor/fair overall. £30.007375. Hayward, Richard: This is Ireland. Ulster and the City of Belfast. London: Arthur Barker Ltd.,1950. First edition, and the second in this series of four books. 256 pp. 22 x 14cm. Front endpaper map of Ulster. Rear endpaper timeline, and geological map. Seventy-nine pencil drawings by Raymond Piper. Printed Autograph on title page. The autograph dedication on a preliminary page reads "Hazel, her book - Richard Hayward. Mullartown House, 1/ 2/ 1962. Olive may read it too!". Hazel Carruthers and her sister, Mrs (Olive) Windram, ran Mullartown House, Annalong, as a guest house. Slight staining to spine o/w in very good condition. £50.0016270. Heatley, Fred and Gillian Boyd: Belfast Paintings and Stories from the City. Donaghadee: Cottage Publications, 1998. 92 pp. 18.5 x 25.5 cm. Reproductions of thirty-one beautifully-painted watercolours, with accompanying letter press by renowned local historian. Map, and Bibliography. Pictorial matt padded boards, in near-mint condition. £10.006414. Heavener, R.W: Places of Interest in Northern Ireland No 2 Co. Fermanagh. Belfast: Army Welfare Services 1945. 18.5 by 12.5 cms. 63 pp. illustrated, paper covers, staples becoming rusty otherwise very good. This nicely produced introduction and guide was written to help visiting troops of the United Nations to become better acquainted with this particular part of Ireland £15.0016428. Henderson, Emmeline: Thomas Street A Study of the Past A Vision for the Future. Dublin: Dublin Civic Trust, 2001. 82 pp. 25.5 x 21 cm. A study of one of Dublin's oldest streets. Profusely illustrated, with photographs, plans, and drawings. Illustrated gazetteer of Thomas Street buildings. Pictorial glazed card covers. Former owner's name on title page, o/w in very good condition. £10.0010608. Henry, Maeve: The River Shannon. Dublin: Conna Press 1996. 28 by 21 cms. 191 pp. illustrated, hardback, with very good dustwrapper. In very good condition, almost as new. Describing the river Shannon from its beginnings in Cavan to the sea in Clare. £20.0010683. Hill, Douglas A: The Land of Ulster The Report of the Land Utilisation Survey 1 The Belfast Region. Belfast: H.M.S.O. 1948. 25 by 18.5 cms. xii+135 pp. maps, softcover , some edge fading, to some of the edges of the cover and spine otherwise very good. Ideally it should be read in conjunction with the Land Utilisation Map Sheet 7. £12.5016394. Hill, Judith: The Building of Limerick. Cork: Mercier Press, 1991. 194 pp. 24 x 17 cm. Profusely illustrated with maps, plans, elevations, and photographs. Gold-blocked green boards, in a good dustwrapper. A major groundbreaking study, indispensable. £23.007462. Historic Buildings Council for Northern Ireland.: Eleventh Report of the Historic Buildings Council for Northern Ireland 1988-1991. Belfast: HMSO 1991. 29.5 by 21 cms. 48 pp. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. £5.0011568. Hutchinson, Clive: Ireland's Wetlands and their Birds. Dublin: Irish Wildbird Conservancy 1979. 24 by 18 cms. 201 pp. illustrated, maps, hardback, in a slightly worn dustwrapper. In very good condition. This is the first book devoted exclusively to the birds of these wetlands. It seems now scarce. £20.0010905. Hutton, Arthur Wollaston editor: Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland ( 1776 - 1779 ). London: George Bell & Sons 1892. edited with an introduction and notes by A. W. Hutton, with a bibliography by John Anderson of the British Museum. Vol II only . Containing part II of the tour, the author's contributions on Ireland to the "Annals of Agriculture", Bibliography and Index. vi+401 pp. hardback, a little fading to spine otherwise good. The second volume only of this two vol. work. £32.0011902. Hydrographic Department Admiralty: Irish Coast Pilot, Ninth Edition. London: Hydrographic Department Admiralty, 1941. xxiv+450 pp. All Bearings are True. Maps. Illustrations. Hardback. A few minor annotations here and there, otherwise very good. A good wartime issue. £22.0020759. Irvine, M. E.: About Killead and Gartree. published for the author 2003. 29.5 x 21 cm. 128 pp. maps, illustrations, softcovers, in good condition. These two townlands are to the south of Antrim town embracing Langford Lodge estate and Aldergrove airport. £20.006886. Johnstone, Robert and Kirk, Bill: Images of Belfast. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 1983. 28.5 x 22 cm. v + 175pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w, with emphasis on people in their surroundings. Gold-blocked black boards. Crease to the top of the dustwrapper, otherwise good. £10.009162. Joyce, P. W.: The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places. Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1887. Fifth Edition. xiv + 589 pp. 17.5 x 12 cm. Blindstamped dark green boards. Endpapers browned. Iinternally tight. A good copy overall. £40.0019618. Joyce, P. W.: The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places. (First Series.) Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1875. Fourfth Edition. xviii + 593 + (2) pp. 17.5 x 12 cm. Blindstamped dark green boards. Replacement endpapers. Internally tight. A good copy overall. £40.0010682. Joyce, P. W.: The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places. (First Series.) Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1875. Fourth Edition. xviii + 593 + (2) pp. 17.5 x 12 cm. Blindstamped dark green boards. Boards a bit rubbed and worn. Joints tender. £40.0015882. Joyce, P.W.: Irish Local Names Explained. Dublin: Roberts Books, 1996. First published in 1923. 107 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Pictorial glazed boards, in very good condition, in a vg dustwrapper. £10.0019665. Joyce, P.W.: The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places Vol. II. Dublin Talbot Press, London: Longmans Green. no date. (1913) viii + 538 (4) pp. 17.5 x 11.5 cm. Gold-blocked green boards, gilt now faded, in very good condition. A classic study. £40.0017302. Joyce, P.W.: The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places Vol. III. Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1976. Reprint of the 1913 edition. x+598 pp. 17.5 x 11.5 cm. Gold-blocked red boards, in good condition, in a good dustwrapper. A classic study. £20.0010816. Joyce, Weston St. John: The Neighbourhood of Dublin. Dublin: Gill & MacMillan, 1976. Facsimile of the 1939 edition. xx+512 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. With a new Introduction by Maurice Craig. 128 illustrations. Gold-blocked red boards, good, in good dw. Dedication on ffep, o/w in good condition. £30.0018970. Kane, Hugh: Portstewart The Flood Tide. Portstewart: Hugh Kane, 1999. 128 pp. 30 x 21 cm. Illustrated. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. This has become quite a scarce publication. History of the town gleaned from the local newspaper. £25.0020512. Keady & District Historical Society.: Keady Journal of Keady & District Historical Society. Keady: Keady Historical Society 1992. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. 158 pp. maps, extensively illustrated, softcovers. "a unique collection of writings (factual and not so factual , poems, and photographs of Keady and the surrounding area." In very good condition. £23.0018815. Keane, Rory, Anne Hughes, and Roanan Swan: Ardgillan Castle and the Taylor Family. Dublin: Ardgillan Castle, 1995. 65 pp. 21 x 15 cm. 18 illustrations. Folding family tree of the Taylor family. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £15.0019684. Kelly, Bill and Vonnie with Ronan Foster: The Book of Kelly's. Dublin: Zeus Publishing 1995. 23 x 15.5 cm. 88 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition.One of the oldest hotels in Ireland, at Rosslare, and the generations of Kellys who owned it. £10.006602. Kelly, Deirdre: Four Roads to Dublin The History of Ranelagh, Rathmines and Leeson street. Dublin: O'Brien Press 1995. 256 pp. illustrated, maps, very good, near fine in dustwrapper. An excellent local study of this delightful south Dublin suburb. £16.5019968. Kelly, P.V. and G.A. Fleming: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Geochemical Survey of Ireland: Meath-Dublin Area. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy 30 June 1969 Papers Read Before the Academy. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. 28 pp. 8 coloured folded maps. A small repaired tear on the front page otherwise in good condition. Maps cover Potassium, Vanadium, Cobalt, Copper, Zinc, Selenium, Molybdenum, and Lead. £20.0015605. Kenny, James G. editor: As The Crow Flies Over Rough Terrain Incorporating the Diary 1827/1828 and more of a Divine. Ballymena: James G Kenny, 1988. 429 pp. 21.5 x 14.4 cm. The third book by this author about the area around Crebilly, Co. Antrim. The diary is of the Reverend Robert Magill. Useful genealogical interest. Profusely illustrated. Gold-blocked green boards, in very good condition. Now scarce. £95.0016934. King, Mike: Down Town 120 years of Downpatrick's shops in photographs. Downpatrick: Down County Museum, 2011. 49 pp. 21 x 29.5 cm. A walking guide to six of Downpatrick's main thoroughfares. Great mix of 285 historic and modern photographs, in colour and b&w. Pictorial glazed card covers. Slight edge wear to covers, o/w in very good condition. £20.0020286. King, Sandra: History of the Religious Society of Friends Frederick Street, Belfast. Belfast: printed for the author 1999. 21 x 15 cm. 76 pp. 7 illustrations, light card covers, in very good condition. This celebrated the 200 years of the Frederick street Meeting.Scarce. £15.0010296. Kirkpatrick, Noel: Take A Second Look Around County Down. Comber: Alkon Press, 1993. 231 pp. 21 x 15 cm. A wander round northern County Down. Copiously illustrated. Pictorial card covers. In very good condition. £10.008917. Kissane, Noel: Ex Camera 1860-1960. Photographs From the Collections of The National library of Ireland. Dublin: National Library of Ireland 1990. 22 by 21.5 cms. 96 pp. illustrated, softback, in very good condition. £12.0017818. Larmour, Paul: Belfast An Illustrated Architectural Guide. Belfast: Friars Bush Press,1987. xii + 120 pp. 29.5 x 22 cm. An excellent record of of the rich heritage of buildings and architectural interest in Belfast. Profusely illustrated in b&w, and with 20 coloured plates. Gold-blocked blue boards, in very good condition, in a good dustwrapper. The dw has a 3-cm closed tear at the rear top. £18.0018727. Larmour, Paul: Belfast An Illustrated Architectural Guide. Belfast: Friars Bush Press,1987. xii + 120 pp. 29.5 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated in b&w, and with 20 coloured plates. Pictorial card covers, in very good condition. An excellent record of of the rich heritage of buildings and architectural interest in Belfast. £15.0019198. Larmour, Paul: The Architectural Heritage of Malone and Stranmillis. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1991. 186 pp. 20.5 x 15 cm. An excellent record of of the rich heritage of buildings and architectural interest in this area of South Belfast. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial glazed card covers. This is a reviewer's copy with a very large number of neatly-written marginalia, and a copy of review, notes, and correspondence loosely inserted at end. £20.007956. Larmour, Paul: The Architectural Heritage of Malone and Stranmillis. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1991. 20.5 by 15 cms. 186 pp. An excellent record of of the rich heritage of buildings and architectural interest in this area of South Belfast. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial card covers. In very good condition, almost as new . £10.0012719. Lavelle, Des: Skellig Island Outpost of Europe. Dublin: The O,Brien Press second edition 1977. 25.5 by 19 cms. 112pp. illustrated, hardback, good in a good dustwrapper. An autographed inscription from the author on the half title page. £15.0015895. Lavine, Kirsten+2 copies with Conor MacCarthy: Twin Spire Life A Social History of St. Peter's. Belfast: Cathedral Community Services, 2002. 151pp. 25 x 18.5 cm. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial matt card covers, in very good condition. Inscription by Kirsten Lavine on the half-title page. £15.0018466. Lewis, Samuel: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate, Market, and Post Towns, Parishes, and Villages, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions, Embellished with Engravings of Arms of the Cities.... London: Published by S. Lewis and Co., 1846. ... Bishoprics, Corporate Towns, and Boroughs, and of the Seals of the Several Municipal Corpoations. Volume 2 only, of 2 volumes, covering K to Z. 704 pp. 29 x 23 cm. Embossed dark green boards, and 5-panel spine with gilt lining and titling. Light shelfwear to boards, lower spine extremity slightly damaged, and corners bumped. Partially unopened. One very discreet library impressed stamp. A fair to good copy. The Dictionary is useful, having been published before The Great Famine. £100.0019133. Lewis, Samuel: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate, Market, and Post Towns, Parishes, and Villages, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions, Embellished with Engravings of Arms of the Cities.... London: Published by S. Lewis and Co., 1847. Second Edition. ... Bishoprics, Corporate Towns, and Boroughs, and of the Seals of the Several Municipal Corpoations. Volume 1, A - J, 696 pp, volume 2, K to Z. 704 pp. 29 x 23 cm. Embossed dark green boards, and 5-panel spine with gilt lining and titling. Light shelfwear to boards. A fair to good set. The Dictionary is useful, having been published before The Great Famine. £250.0017804. Lewis, Samuel: Counties Londonderry & Donegal A Topographical Dictionary of the Parishes, Villages, and Towns of These Counties in the 1830s. Belfast: Friars Bush Press, 2004. v + 110 pp. 29.5 x 20.5 cm. Preface by Brian M. Walker. Illustrated with contemporary maps and engravings. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition, almost as new. The text, of course, is from the 1837 edition of Lewis. £12.0012159. Lewis, Samuel: County Antrim - A Topographical Dictionary of the Parishes, Villages and Towns of County Antrim in the 1830s. Belfast: Friars Bush Press, 2002. vi + 90 pp. 30 x 20 cm. "Illustrated with Contemporary Maps and Engravings". Profusely illustrated, with useful Preface by Dr Brian M Walker. Glazed pictorial covers. In very good condition. £15.0019143. Lewis, Samuel: County Down A Topographical Dictionary of the Parishes, Villages, and Towns of County Down in the 1830s. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 2003. v + 90 pp. 29 x 21 cm. Preface by Brian M. Walker. Illustrated with contemporary maps and engravings. A reviewer's copy, with occasional neat corrections, and one paragraph crossed out. Pictorial glazed card covers. £15.0010107. Lincoln, Colm: Dublin as a Work of Art. Dublin: O'Brien Press 1992. 224 pp. illustrated with photographs by Alan O'Connor, hardback, with v.g. dustwrapper. Three chapters cover The Quays, Gardiner's Dublin and Town and Gown. A topographical odessey, forming a narrative of how Dublin came to be what it is today. £12.0018185. Loughrey, S. V. P., editor: Ordnance Survey Memoir for the Parish of Ballinascreen 1836-1837. Ballinascreen: Ballinascreen Historical Society, 1981. (2) + vii + 84 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Numerous drawings. Numerous tables. Appendices. Index. Semi-matt card covers, in very good condition. £20.0018847. Lowe, Henry N.: County Fermanagh 100 Years Ago A Guide and Directory 1880. Belfast: The Friar's Bush Press, 1990. 1990 Reprint of Lowe's Fermanagh Directory and Household Almanac for 1880, published 1880. 204 pp. 19.5 x 13 cm. Index of Towns, Villages, Rural Post-Offices, &c. General Index. Index of Manufacturers, Merchants, Traders, &c., &c. The book is a useful directory of County Fermanagh, greatly enlivened by the advertisements. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £20.0020284. Luke, G. P: Boyhood in Antrim. Antrim: 1994. 61pp. illustrated, card covers, very good fresh condition. Memories from the 1920s onwards. £10.0018385. Lyttle, Wesley Guard: Daft Eddie or The Smugglers of Strangford Lough. Newcastle: Mourne Observer Press, 1979. Republished, with appendix. 86 pp. 25 x 19 cm. 22 illustrations. Gold-blocked blue boards, in good condition. Internally tight, bright, and clean. The dustwrapper is worn, with old repairs. First published in the North Down Herald, and later in book form c1890. Not reprinted since 1979, as far as we know. Lyttle, 1844-1896, was the author of Robin's Readings, Betsy Grey, My Bangor, and Daft Eddie or the Smugglers of Strangford Lough. £25.0011886. Lyttle, Wesley Guard: The Bangor Season what's to be seen and how to see it. Belfast: The Appletree Press 1985. Also includes The Parables of the Rulers A Skit upon the doings of the Bangor Town Commissioners. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. 61 pp. +advertisments, soft covers. An abridged facsimile edition of the first edition of 1885. In very good condition. Lyttle was Robin of Robin's readings and author of Betsy Grey etc. £9.5018034. M'Comb: M'Comb's Guide to Belfast, The Giant's Causeway, and The Adjoining Districts of The Counties of Antrim and Down, .... Wakefield, Yorkshire: S.R. Publishers Ltd, 1970. ...with an account of the Battle of Ballynahinch, and the celebrated mineral waters of that neighbourhood. Irish Reprints. Illustrated with numerous Engravings, and a Map of Belfast. A facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1861. xvi + 198 pp. 20.5 x 13 cm. Folded map. 15 illustrations. Gold-blocked red boards, in very good condition, in a good dustwrapper. £20.0018542. Mac Giollarnath, Sean: Conamara. Dublin: At the Sign of theThree candles, 1954. Irish Life and Culture IV Conamara. 77pp. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. 6 illustrations by Rowel Friers. Map. Printed matt card covers. The half title has the name Anthony Weir, Irish poet and artist. In good condition.. £10.00553. Mackay, John: The Rape of Ireland or Ireland Irredenta. Dublin: The Talbot Press Limited, 1940. 280 pp, 22 x 14 cm. 8 illustrations. The subject is forestry replanting, the re-use of waste land, etc. £15.0020501. Mackey, Brian: Lisburn The Town and its People 1873-1973. Belfast: Blackstaff Press 2000. 22 x 22.5 cm. x+164 pp. 170 illustrations, softcovers, in very good condition. £15.006872. MacLiammoir Michael: Ireland. London: Thames and Hudson, 1970. Third printing of 1966 book. 224pp. 31.5 x 22.5 cm. 113 photogravure plates, 10 colour plates and 5 maps. Photographs by Edwin Smith and notes on the plates by Olive Cook. Gold-blocked green boards in price-clipped dw. £18.0015865. MacLoughlin, Adrian: The City of Belfast. Dublin: Swift Publications, 1982. 110 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Well illustrated. Pictorial matt card covers. Previous owner's signature on the title page, otherwise in very good condition. £15.007862. Magee, John: A Journey Through Lecale Historic Photographs of County Down from the W.A. Green Collection in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. Belfast: Friars Bush Press n.d. 18 by 21 cms. 92 pp. illustrated, paperback, very good. Photographs of Downpatrick and the Lecale area to the south, including, Ardglass, Killough, Tyrella, Dundrum. £14.5010883. Magill, Paul: Garron Tower County Antrim. Belfast: Ulster Tatler Publications 1990. 18.5 by 21.5 cms. 91 pp. illustrated, maps, softcovers in very good condition. The story of this Co. Antrim mansion owned once by the Londonderry family and now St MacNissi's College. "A history of glittering aristocracy, stricken peasantry, war, tourism & education from original documents and pictorial records." £15.002227. Maguire, W.A.: Caught in Time The Photographs of Alexander Hogg of Belfast 1870 - 1939. Belfast: The Friar's Bush Press, 1986. First edition. xxv + 202 pp. 21 x 26 cm. Splendid photographs of Belfast and the North of Ireland showing all aspects of life. Hardback, in a good dustwrapper. Slight spotting of ffep, o/w near mint condition. £10.0017792. Maguire, WA: Heydays Fair-Days and Not-So-Good Old Days.... Belfast: Friars Bush Press, 1986. ....A Fermanagh estate and village in the photographs of the Langham Family 1890-1918. 83 pp. 18 x 21 cm. 74 photographs. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.0016949. Mahaffy, Rev JP, Rev JW Stubbs, Sir R Ball, Rev TK Abbott, UR Burke, WM Dixon, and EP Wright: The Book of Trinity College, Dublin 1591- 1891 . Belfast: Marcus Ward & Co, Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co, 1892. First edition. xii + 316 pp. 29 x 22.5 cm. The official history of TCD, prepared for the tercentenary in 1891. Title page printed in black and red. Frontispiece and 70 plates and illustrations from engravings, and portraits. Folding plan. Lists of subscribers. Quarter vellum-backed green cloth boards, with gold-blocked titles and decorations. T.e.g. The top of the front board is stained. "A.M. Wilson T.C.D. 1946-1951" neatly written on ffep. Heavily-repaired dw. Unpackaged weight 2,300g. £40.0020341. Maitland, W.H.: History of Magherafelt Moyola Books 1988. A reprint of the first 1916 edition. 24.5 x 17 cm. 111pp. illustrated, £18.0018003. Malins, Edward and Patrick Bowe: Irish Gardens and Demenses from 1830. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1980. 190 pp. 30.5 x 21.5 cm. Over 150 Victorian photographs and 14 colour illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked green boards, pictorial endpapers. In very good condition, in a v.g. dustwrapper. £18.001758. Marshall, Robert: Fifty Years on the Grosvenor Road an Account of the rise and Progress of the Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast during the Years 1903-1953 Belfast: 1953. xvi + 139pp. illustrated, 25 x 18.5 cm. Worn cloth, faded spine. £10.00485. Marshall, Ronald: Stranmillis College Belfast 1922 - 1972. Belfast: Stranmillis College, c1973. 141pp. 21.5 x 15 cm. 2 illustrations. Map, at p30, not as frontispiece in this copy). Gold-blocked blue boards, In good condition. No dustwrapper. The history of this teacher training college. £12.0012949. Marson, Peter: Belmore The Lowry Corrys of Castle Coole 1646 - 1913. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation 2007. 27 by 20.5 cms. xiii+290 pp. illustrated, autographed by the author on the half title. Hardback, with dustwrapper, in very good condition, almost as new. The story of the Lowry and Corry family and the construction of one of the most beautiful neo-classical houses in these islands, Castlecoole, now cared for by the National Trust. £45.0015935. Mason, William Shaw: Statistical Account, or Parochial Survey of Ireland. Drawn up from the Communications of the Clergy. Volume II. Dublin: John Cuming, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Browne, and Edinburgh: Constable & Co., 1816. The second volume only, of three. lxxxvii+560 pp. 23 x 14 cm. Nine maps and plans, several folding. In its original boards. Corners bumped but otherwise in very good condition. Parishes in this volume include: Aghalee, Co. Antrim; Annahilt, Down; Arklow, Wicklow; Ballymascanlon, Louth; Ballymoyer, Armagh; Cahircorney, Limerick; Carrick, Tipperary; Clonmacnois, Kings County; Culdaff, Derry; Cloncha, Donegal; Devenish, Fermanagh; Faughart, Louth; Glenavy, Antrim; Inver, Donegal; Kilfergus, Limerick; Kilgeriff, Cork; Killuken, Roscommon; Killmacahill, Kilkenny; Kilmactige, Sligo; Kilmore, Roscommon; Kilrush, Clare; Ramoan, Antrim; Seagoe, Armagh; and Whitechurch, Wexford. £275.0020488. Mawhinney, Graham compiler: Shaw Mason's Maghera (1814) & Killelagh (1819) Extracts from A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland. Ballinascreen Historical Society 2001. 20 x 12.5 cm. 82 pp. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. £15.0010762. Maxwell, Constantia: Dublin Under the Georges 1714 - 1830 London: Harrap & Co. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co 1946. 331 pp. illustrated, folding map, grey linen and cloth boards, no dustwrapper, a little foxing to endpapers otherwise in good condition. First published in 1936 this first postwar edition is printed on the poorer quality paper which reflected contemporary shortages. A classic study. £15.0019138. Maxwell, Constantia: Dublin Under the Georges 1714 - 1830. London: Harrap & Co, 1936. First edition. 289 pp. 22.5 x 15 cm. 32 illustrations. Folding map. Gold-blocked blue boards. No dustwrapper. O'Connor bookplate, otherwise in good condition. A classic study. £15.006939. Maxwell, W. H.: Wild Sports of the West. Dublin: The Talbot Press, c1915. Every Irishman's Library. xix+398 pp. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. A classic book about country sports in the west of Ireland. Introduction by the Right Honorable The Earl of Dunraven, and Frontispiece by George Morrow. Gold-blocked embossed green boards, a little faded. Boards embossed with Celtic designs. Very small area torn off margins of page 7 and page 45 but no loss of text: torn in production? Back of frontispiece inscribed "Sam Ellison Jnr from A.T. Herdman March 1916", o/w in good condition. £45.008722. McAughtry, Sam: My Own Place Writings about The Ards by the People of the Ards. Newtownards: n.d. c.1991. 79 pp. illustrated by Andy Pancott. Paperback, covers a bit rubbed and becoming detached otherwise good. £5.0011545. McAuley, Leon: The Fountain People from the Fountain Belfast Londonderry: The Arts Council & The Verbal Arts Centre 1993. 25 by 17 cms. 152 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. A photo essay of The Fountain estate in Derry / Londonderry, the last loyalist area on the west bank. £10.0019655. McAuley, Rioberta E.: Inch School Memoir 1838-1982.. Ballynahinch: South Eastern Education and Library Board n.d. ( 1982 ) 30 x 21 cm. 49 pp. 25 illustrations, map, softcovers, stapled, in very good condition. 21 of the illustrations are photographs, with names, of the children and teachers from 1907 - 1982 £18.0014576. McBride, Patrick G: Watertop Where the Curlew Flies. Cushendall: Patrick G McBride, 1990. iv + 134 pp. 21 x 15 cm. The very best sort of family and local history, with lots of plates, drawings, and anecdotes. Signed by the author. Pictorial glazed card covers, showing slight shelf-wear, o/w In good condition. £15.0015606. McCavery, Trevor: Newtown A History of Newtownards. Dundonald: White Row Press, 1994 First edition. 221 pp. 24.5 x 19 cm. A comprehensive history of the town of Newtownards, Co Down. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £23.0014254. McClintock, major H. S.: Random Stories Chiefly Irish. Belfast: Marcus Ward & Co. n.d. (1895) 147 pp. illustrated with drawings, decorative headpieces and decorated capitals, hardback blue boards gilt titling, boards and spine extremities lightly rubbed, spine a little faded, otherwise very good. Contains a letter from the author's daughter Emily McClintock sending the book, written by her father, as a gift to a Mrs Walden who was going with Mr Walden to a new parish. The stories are from the Louth/Down area mostly. A scarce title not often found. £65.0020816. McClure, Cardwell and Wilson Steen: A History of " The Foundry" - 1844-1983 ( Portadown Foundry Ltd ) Portadown: Published for the Authors 2012 21 x 27 cm. 231 pp. maps, illustrations, softcovers, contains as two loose inserts The Foundry's Employees 1936-1983 and 1919, not complete. In very good condition, almost as new. This ws one of the key industries in the town. £35.006315. McConnell, Charles: Ramparts The Defences of Carrickfergus. Carrickfergus: Carmac Books 2002. 68 pp. illustrated, paper covers, one of a series of books on local history, very good. £6.0019171. McCormick, Finbar: Struell Wells. Downpatrick: Lecale and Downe Historical Society, 2011. Lecale Review Monograph No. 1. 36 pp. 19.5 x 21 cm. 30 illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition, almost as new. Scarce. £15.003523. McCoy, Jack: The Winding Roads Poems & Postcards of County Down. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1980. 88 pp. 19 x 21 cm. Map. 42 illustrations. Contemporary descriptions, and postcards. £8.0013367. McCreary, Alf: A Vintage Port Larne and its People. Antrim: Greystone Press, 2000. 197 pp. 27.5 x 20.5 cm. Profusely illustrated, in colour and b&w. Hardback, in a very good dustwrapper. Previous owner's label on ffep, otherwise a very fresh copy. £30.0019240. McCullough, S.: Ballynahinch The Centre of Down . A Study prepared as a contribution to Civic Week Activities. Ballynahinch: Chamber of Commerce, 1968. 148 pp. 20.5 x 14 cm. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial matt card covers. Spine rubbed, o/w in good condition. Scarce. £20.0017588. McCurry, Victor M.: The Roe From Head To Toe Limavady: Vincent Marshall McCurry, 2000. Limited edition of 1,500 copies. 113 + (5) pp. 18.5 x 26.5 cm. 60 illustrations by the author, of which 30 are in colour. Bibliography. Pictorial semi matt card covers. In very good condition. £20.0018488. McDermott,Matthew J.: Ireland's Architectural Heritage An Outline History of Irish Architecture. Dublin: Folens & Co. Ltd, 1975. 200 pp. 24 x 18.5 cm. Profusely illustrated. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial matt card covers. Sun-fading to covers, otherwise in good condition. £12.004094. McDonald, Tom & Anderson, Robert: Memories in Focus N.E. Ulster from Old Photographs 1860-1960 Volume Three. Coleraine: Impact Printing, 1986. First edition. 100 pp. 18 x 23 cm. 100 photographs of Coleraine, Portrush, Ballycastle and the area around, and Bibliography. Cover vignette a little rubbed otherwise in good condition. £15.0018167. McDonald, Tom & Robert Anderson: Memories in Focus N.E. Ulster from Old Photographs 1850 - 1950. Coleraine: Impact Printing, 1981. (vii + 120 + i pp). 19.5 x 23 cm. Illustrated with 120 plates. Bibliography. A much-collected series: this first volume of the four volumes eventually published is now very scarce. Gold-blocked brown boards, with mounted print on front board. No dw, as issued. In very good condition. This is a presentation copy, in a much heavier binding, extra blank preliminary pages, gold-blocked spine, and title page signed by Tom McDonald and Robert Anderson, and dated December, 1981. £50.0015598. McDonald, Tom & Robert Anderson: Memories in Focus N.E. Ulster from Old Photographs 1850 - 1950 Volume Two. Coleraine: Impact Printing, 1983. First edition. 117 pp. 18 x 23 cm. 117 photographs of Coleraine, Portrush, Ballycastle and the area around, and Bibliography. Gold-blocked green boards, with mounted print on front board. No dw, as issued. Neat signature on ffep, o/w in very good condition. This volume is now scarce. £24.5020340. McDonnell, Randal: Cushendun in The Glens of Antrim. Cushendun: Randal McDonnell, c2000. 67 pp. 21 x 15 cm. The author has not given any publishing details. Articles about the local area. Twenty-one illustrations. Pictorial card covers, in very good condition, almost as new. Signed by Randal McDonnell on the title page. £15.0014456. McDonnell, Randal: Cushendun in The Glens of Antrim. Cushendun: Randal McDonnell, 2nd edition enlarged, c1996. 21x15cm..144 pp. 29 illustrations. The author has not given any publishing details. First published some years earllier, this edition corrected and enlarged by 33 pages. Articles about the local area. Twenty-nine illustrations. Autographed by the author on the title page. Pictorial card front cover, in very good condition. £20.0020392. McEarlean, Thomas, Rosemary McConkey, Wes Forsythe: Strangford Lough An Archaeological Survey of the Maritime Cultural Landscape. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, Environment and Heritage Service: 2002. Northern Ireland Archaeological Monographs No.6. xxiii+688 pp. illustrated, maps, gold blocked blue boards in a very good dustwrapper. It was reprinted with corrections in 2003. This is an exceptionally heavy book 3.2 kg. unpacked and overseas customers should note that extra postage will be required. Please check with us before ordering. £125.0019185. McFadden, Vera: Island City. Derry: Lederg Press, 1982. 109 pp. 22 cm. The story of Derry / Londonderry. 21 illustrations. Pictorial semi matt card covers. Previous owner's name scribbled out on the title page, and minor wear, otherwise good. £12.0020820. McIlmurray, Jim: In The Dougher Places in Time - histories of Dougher Cemetery and Lurgan. Dublin: Kilmainham tales Teo. 2015 21 x 14.5 cm. 51 pp. well illustrated, card covers, in good condition. A collection of short stories relating to Lurgan, including a brief history of the Dougher Cemetery and tales of some of those laid to rest there. £10.0019903. McKay, Patrick: A Dictionary of Ulster Place-Names Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies 1999. 23 x 15.5 cm.xiv+159 pp. paperback, in very good condition, a useful study. £15.0017579. McKendry, S. J.: Ballyclare Remembered. Shanway Press, 2006. 111 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Inscribed by the author on the ffep. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £12.0013513. McKibbin, Jack: Memories Under the Chestnut Tree. Dundonald, Heath Hill, n.d. (1978). Privately printed as a nostalgic glimpse of Dundonald in bygone years when it was only a village. 42 pp. 21 x14 cm. Seventeen illustrations. Scarce item. £45.0017123. McKinney, Jack: Where the Six Mile Water Flows Historic Photographs of the Ballyclare Area, County Antrim. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1991. 92 pp. 17.5 x 21.5 cm. 77 photographs. Map. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.0011092. McLeod, W. W. (Verax): Motor Touring in Ulster First Series. Belfast: Belfast Newsletter 1935. 188 pp. illustrated, maps, soft covers, minor wear otherwise in very good condition. Comprising a series of articles from the Belfast Newsletter describing tours in the Counties of Antrim, Down, Armagh and Londonderry. £23.0011093. McLeod, W. W. (Verax): Motor Touring in Ulster Second Series. Belfast: Belfast Newsletter 1936. 212 pp. illustrated, maps, soft covers, small areas at spine extremities missing, some spotting to front cover, rusty staples, minor wear otherwise in good minus condition. Comprising a series of articles from the Belfast Newsletter describing tours in the Counties of Antrim, Down, Armagh and Londonderry. £18.0020115. McLeod, W. W. (Verax): Motoring in Ulster Combined Series. Belfast: Belfast Newsletter 1937. 264 pp. illustrated, maps, soft covers, some wear otherwise in good condition. Comprising a series of articles from the Belfast Newsletter describing tours in the Counties of Antrim, Down, Armagh and Londonderry. £23.0020887. McManus, Joe: Milford The Home of the Penalty Kick Red Bricks and Golden Memories A Village History. Lurgan: Inglewood Press revised edition 2007 29 x 20 cm. iv+405 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition, autographed by the author on the ffep. . First published in 2002. Both editions seem to have become scarce. This industrial village is famed for being the home of the penalty kick. £45.0011095. McNally, Kenneth: The Islands of Ireland. London: Batsford 1978. 25 by 19 cms. 168 pp. illustrated with photographs by the author. hardback, very good in a slightly creased dustwrapper. A comprehensive study with excellent photographs. £15.0016781. McParland, Edward: Public Architecture in Ireland 1680-1760. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2001. ix + 241 pp. 34 x 25.5 cm. The ultimate book on Dublin Georgian public buildings. Beautifully-illustrated. 256 plates, many coloured. Silver-blocked gray boards, in dw. Both the book and the dw are in very good condition. £30.0014903. McSheffrey, Gerald: Planning Derry Planning and Politics in Northern Ireland Liverpool University Press 2000. 24.5 by 17 cms. xvi+136 pp. illustrated, softback, in very good condition. The story of the 1968 Regional Plan. £10.0020394. McSparran, Malachy, Cahal Dallat, Jimmy Irvine: Oh Maybe it was Yesterday Glimpses of the Glens of Antrim From Old Photographs Coleraine: Glens of Antrim Historical Society 1980. 25.5 x 20 cm. (8) 60 pp. 60 illustrations, gold blocked green boards, in a very good dustwrapper. In very good condition. £18.0020202. McTear, Thomas. Edited with notes by Francis Joseph Biggar: Personal Recollections of the Beginning of the 19th. Century. no printing details. 31 pp.17 small illustrations. Hardcovers, a library binding, a bookplate has been removed from the ffep. The Town of Belfast at the start of the 19th century. £18.0017514. Mercer, Robin: Hillmount 75 Years of Growing. Donaghadee: Cottage Publications, 2015. 107 pp. 21 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Pictorial glazed boards. Inscribed by the author, o/w in very good condition. £15.0018710. Meyer, Sir Robert, The Town Clerk: Public Parks Recreaion Grounds, Open Spaces and Municipal Burial Grounds. Belfast: Cemeteries and Parks Committee, 1922. 118 pp. 22.5 x 15 cm. 33 illustrations. Gold-blocked blue boards, in very good condition. The photographs have great value in recording how parks appeared at this time. Many of the photographs are by Welch. This appears to be a very scarce item. £150.0013610. Midgley, C.: The Homeland A Geography of Ireland. Belfast: The Northern Publishing Office (Belfast) Ltd., 1957. Fourth Impression of the 1954 book. 112 pp. 21 x 16.5 cm. Lots of b&w plates. Near mint condition. No dw. £10.0014621. Millisle YFCU: Millisle YFCU Golden Jubilee 1933 1983. Millisle: Millisle YFCU, 1983. 56 pp. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. History, cups, officials, lots of photographs of members, teams, and committees, and advertisements. Loosely inserted is the programme for the 50th Anniversay Dinner Dance. Very good condition. £10.0011049. Ministry of Development: Mourne A Study by Technical Officers of the Ministry of Development. Belfast: H.M.S.O., 1970. 85 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. The Mourne Area of County Down. 118 illustrations, including plates, maps, and panoramas. Also tables, graphs, and appendices. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. Slight score on front cover, otherwise in very good condition. £50.0011818. Mogey, John M: Rural Life in Northern Ireland Five Regional Studies made for the Northern Ireland Council of Social Service (Inc.). London: Oxford University Press,1947. xiv+240 pp. 22 x 14 cm. Eight plates, 44 figures, including maps, some folding, and 65 tables Gold-blocked green boards, in a dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is a little dusty with darkened spine, otherwise the book is in very good condition. Studies of Fermanagh, Hilltown, the Braid Valley, north Down and north Antrim. A valuable study. £35.0015613. Moneyrea Young Farmers Club: The Moneyrea Pioneer Special Golden Jubilee Edition 1933-1983. Moneyrea: Moneyrea Young Farmers Club, 1983. 88+viii pp. 21 x 15 cm. Issued by Moneyrea Young Farmers Club to celebrate the Club's 50th Anniversary. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial matt card covers. In very good condition. An unusual item of County Down interest. £23.0016594. Mooney, P. A.: Photographic View Album of Ballyshannon Bundoran Belleek. Ballyshannon: Independent Office, c1900. Photographed and printed by Valentine & Sons, Dundee. 16pp. 17.5 x 22.5 cm. With 20 photographs. Gold-blocked dark-green boards with decorative gilt title to front board. Joints quite tender, and some browning to title page, but otherwise good. £42.0020232. Moore, Alf S. ( Nomad ): "Belfast Today" The Only Handbook. Official Guide and Souvenir. Irish Week Belfast 1909. Belfast: Nomad Press 32 Berry Street 1909. Published under direct official approval and sanction of the Lord Mayor and City Council of Belfast.. 151 pp. illustrations, red boards with black titling. This early guide grew into the Official Handbook published by the City Council. It seems to be quite scarce. £45.0018712. Moore, Alfred S.: Old Belfast. Belfast: Carter Publications, 1951. 70pp. 22 x 14 cm. Curious and entertaining sidelights on the history of Belfast. 11 charming illustrations by Raymond Piper. Gold-blocked blue spine. No dustwrapper. Bookplate removed from front pastedown, and neat signature on ffep, o/w In good condition. £15.005401. Morton, Grenfell: Victorian and Edwardian Newcastle. Belfast: Friars Bush Press, 1988. First edition. 94 pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. Victorian and Edwardian photographs of this ever-popular seaside resort, and vicinity. Maps, plans, postcards, menu-cards, advertisements, references, and bibliography. Pictorial glazed-card covers. Near mint. £10.0012788. Morton, Osborne: Marine Algae of Northern Ireland. Belfast: Ulster Museum 1994. vii+123 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. An important study. £20.0015887. Mould, Daphne D. C. Pochin: Valencia Portrait of an Island. Dublin: Blackwater, 1978. 143 pp. 25 x 19 cm. Eight-five illustrations. Gold-blocked brown boards, no dustwrapper. Endpapers dusty, otherwise in good condition, £45.0016161. Moylurg Writers: Boyle The Origins The Buildings The Times. Boyle: Moylurg Writers, 1988 191 pp. 21 x 15 cm. A series of articles on the town and its area. Profusely illustrated: personalities, groups, occasions, drawings, elevations, and documents. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In good condition. £12.0015792. Mulcahy, Michael: A Short History of Kinsale, Ceann Saile Laidir, Acfuinneach, Teann. Kinsale: 1968. 68 pp. 17.5 x 11 cm. Seven charming illustrations, and a line drawing in text. Folded map showing the seige of Kinsale. Bibliography. Pictorial matt card covers. A couple of small scratches on the front cover, otherwise in good condition. £10.0015754. Mullin, T. H.: Coleraine in by-gone centuries. Belfast: Century Services, 1976. 189 pp. 21 x 14 cm. Nineteen illustrations. Pictorial semi-matt card covers, in good condition. Nowadays a very scarce title. £35.0019700. Mullin, T. H. and J.E. Mullin: The Kirk and Parish of Ballyrashane since the Scottish Settlement. Belfast: The Belfast News-Letter 1957. 18.5 x 13 cm. 195 pp. gold blocked blue boards, no dustwrapper. The boards are a bit sun faded and there is an ink annotation on page 138 otherwise in good condition. This has become one of the Mullin's scarcer books. £42.0018920. Munro, Dr. Keith: Building Bridges A History of the Foyle Hospice. Derry: Foyle Hospice Publishing, 2005. 224 pp. 24 x18 cm. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Gold-blocked black boards, in a dustwrapper which is slightly damaged to the bottom rear. Inscription on the ffep. Overall in good condition. £15.003851. Murphy, Allison: When Dublin was the Capital - Northern Life Remembered. Portaferry: Belcouver Press, 2000 vi + 168pp, 24 x 18 cm, pb. The best book of Irish reminiscences in the last hundred years, with 37 carefully-chosen and superbly-reproduced photographs, plus reproduced advertisements, newpaper-cuttings, etc, etc , in mint condition. £7.5017190. Neely, WG: Kilkenny An Urban History, 1391 to 1843. Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1989. xiii + 306pp. 25 x 16 cm. "One of the first modern histories of an Irish city". Eighteen illustrations, Glossary, Bibliography, Notes, Index, and endpaper maps. £50.0014404. Neely, WG: Kilkenny An Urban History, 1391 to 1843. Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1989. xiii + 306pp. 25 x 16 cm. "One of the first modern histories of an Irish city". Eighteen illustrations, Glossary, Bibliography, Notes, Index, and endpaper maps. The rear of the front endpaper is inscribed by the author "To my dear friends Harry and May....". Harry was Harry McConnell of Carryduff, County Down. £50.0017075. Nesbitt, Noel, editor: The Changing Face of Belfast. Belfast: Ulster Museum, 1969. Ulster Museum Publication No. 183. First edition. 47 pp. 23.5 x 18.5 cm. Deals with changes in the physical appearance of Belfast. Frontispiece map and 48 plates. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In very good condition. £10.0020874. Ni Dhuibhne, Aine editor: Rathmullan, Ramelton, & Raphoe Diocese at the time of the Flight of the Earls. Donegal: Rathmullan & District Local History Society 2997. 64 pp. illustrated, 3 maps, softcovers, signed by the author on thetitle page, in very good condition. scarce £20.006333. Northern Ireland Housing Executive: Building a Better Belfast. Belfast: NIHE, 1991. 68 pp. 30 x 20 cm. Profusely illustrated. Glazed pictorial covers. An outline of the work of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, 1971 to 1991. Condition as new. £10.0020832. Northern Ireland Housing Executive: Carrick Hill Renewal Strategy. Belfast Region: N.I.H.E. July 1988. 30 x 21.5 cms. 35 pp. with seven folded coloured maps/plans. Laminated card covers, in a white plastic spiral binding in a clear plastic protective cover. In very good condition. Report produced by N.I.H.E. Planning and Feasibility Belfast. This was the Strategy for the demolition of the old Belfast Corporation Maisonette Blocks preparing for their replacment with a more traditional housing scheme. It was a complex renewal challenge. £20.0020831. Northern Ireland Housing Executive: Divis Renewal. Belfast Region: N.I.H.E. April 1987. 30 x 21.5 cms. 19 pp. with eight folded coloured maps/plans. Laminated card covers, in a white plastic spiral binding in a clear plastic protective cover. In very good condition. Report produced by Divis Strategy Group, Planning and Feasibility Belfast. This was the Strategy for the demolition of the unloved Sectra Blocks, preparing for their replacment with a more traditional housing scheme. £20.0020833. Northern Ireland Housing Executive: Greater East Belfast Sectoral Study. Belfast Region: N.I.H.E. Aug 1997. 30 x 21.5 cms. 60 pp. with maps/plans, card covers, In very good condition. £20.0020834. Northern Ireland Housing Executive: Greater Shankill Housing and Regeneration Strategy. Belfast Region: N.I.H.E. Sept. 2004. 30 x 21.5 cms. 60 pp. illustrated, card covers, owner's initials on front cover otherwise in very good condition. £20.0020835. Northern Ireland Housing Executive: Tullycarnet "Entering into a Process"...... Building Communities. Belfast Region: N.I.H.E. Sept. 2004. 20.5 x 21 cms. 48 pp. illustrated, card covers, in very good condition. Based on a research programme into issues and opportunities. £15.0012955. Northern Ireland Public Record Office: Ordnance Survey Memoir for the Parish of Antrim. Belfast: Northern Ireland Public Record Office 1969. 20.5 by 14.5 cms xlii+109+19 pp. illustrated maps. Card covers. Showing a little wear but otherwise good. Valuable material for this area before the Great Famine. £10.0020442. O Donnell, Pat: Mountjoy Post Office Ulster American Folk Park. Omagh: Ulster-American Folk Park. 30 x 21 cm. 12 pp. map, illustrated, softback, in very good condition. A reconstruction project at the Ulster American Folk Park. £10.007191. O'Carroll, Joseph C: Historic Kilkenny Kilkenny: Second Edition 1980. 20.5 by 15 cms. 76 pp. illustrated with drawings, map, plan. paperback, very good. A Guide to Historic Kilkenny. £8.0018739. O'Donnell, E E: The Genius of Fr. Browne Ireland's Photographic Discovery. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1990. 128 pp. 26 x 24.5 cm. 128 illustrations. Gold-blocked brown boards, in good condition, in a price-clipped dustwrapper. Fr. Browne, 1880-1960. £15.0017285. O'Donovan, Patrick: Irish Shopfronts. Belfast: Appletree Press, 1981. First edition. (viii) + 100 pp. 20 x 20 cm. 100 superb photographs by John Murphy of shops, pubs, and post offices. Pictorial glazed-card covers. In near-mint condition. £10.0020502. Ordnance Survey (Ireland): Ordnance Survey Memoir for the Parish of Coleraine ( County Londonderry ) Coleraine Historical Society in association with the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 1986. A description compiled as part of the field survey for the First Edition of the Six inch Ordnance Survey Maps. 21 x 15 cm. xiv+139 pp. illustrations, softcovers, in very good condition. £14.0019598. Owen, D. J.: A Short History of the Port of Belfast. Belfast: Mayne, Boyd & Son Ltd, 1917. 96 pp. 25 x 17.5 cm. Four folded maps. Illustrations. Gold-blocked brown boards. New endpapers. The binding is relatively modern, a replacement of the original. In good condition. £40.0017503. Parson, H. and Building Design Partnership: Mid-Down Area A Planning Statement. Downpatrick: Down County Council, 1972. Produced for Down County Council. 77 pp. 30 x 22 cm. Sixteen maps. Pictorial glazed card covers, in a black plastic spiral binding as issued, in very good condition. These early planning documents are now scarce but they help us to understand the continuity of particular proposals in an area. £20.0020823. Partkinson, Edward and edited by R.E. Parkinson: The City of Downe from its Earliest Days. Belfast: Erskine Mayne, London: Simlkins, Marshall & Co.1927. Edited by his son R.E. Parkinson. 22 x 14.5 cm. 162 pp. folded plan of Downpatrick 1729, five further illustrations. Inscription from the author dated Dec. 1927 on the ffep. Gold blocked green boards, gilt a bit faded, some wear to spine and the upper spine extremity, no dustwrapper, in good condition. £25.0016108. Patton, Marcus: Central Belfast A Historical Gazetteer. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1993. xiii + 354 pp. 21 x 15.5 cm. An architectural survey of central Belfast. Fascinating illustrations and maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £20.008889. Pearson, Peter: Peter Pearson's Decorative Dublin. Dublin: The O'Brien Press 2002. 28.5 by 22 cms. 158 pp. illustrated, very good in a v.g. dustwrapper. A record and celebration of the city's decorative detail in iron brick, stone, glass, plaster, terracotta, wood, stucco, fanlights, doors, windows etc etc. £16.5019805. Pearson, Peter: The Heart of Dublin Resurgence of an Historic City. Dublin: The O'Brien Press, 2000. 480 pp. 25.5 x 18 cm. More than 900 llustrations. Gold-blocked green boards. In very good condition, in a v.g. d.w. Almost as new. £20.0020630. Pettigrew and Oulton: The Post Office Dublin Directory and Calendar 1846. Dublin: Pettigrew and Oulton 36 Dame Street 1846. 13th Annual Edition. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. (24)+915+54 pp. includes the Dublin Street Directory for 1846. In a modern dark red cloth rebinding with gilt spine titling. No title page, and page 8/9 of the index is missing, there are a very few small ink annotations in the Street Directory,. Apart from these the book overall is in very good fresh condition. An early edition of this Directory is quite scarce. This was the year before An Gorta Mor, the Great Famine, and only now in 2023 has the population of Ireland grown to the size it was in the year of 1846. £295.0015169. Pierce, Nicola: Ballymena City of the Seven Towers. Belfast: Waterstone's Booksellers Ltd, 2007. 160 pp. 20.5 x 13 cm. Number 986 of Limited Edition of 1,000. Thirty-six plates. Photography by Stephen Stewart. Suggested Websites, Bibliography and Index. Gold-blocked black boards, in good, unclipped, dw. Lovely condition. £20.0020710. Porter, Tom: Annalong in the 1800's. Newcastle: published for the author 1997. 21 x 15 cm. 60 pp. maps and a few drawings as illustrations, in very good condition, a scarce item. £23.0014820. Portlock, J.E.: Report on the Geology of the County of Londonderry, and of Parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh. Dublin: Andrew Milliken, etc, 1843. 784 pp. 22 x 14.5 cm. The Reports on the Geology were to accompany the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, but this was the only volume published. A great deal of economic and social history is included, as well as geology. Twenty-six woodcut illustrations in text, BUT PLEASE NOTE neither the folding, coloured, map nor any of the folding illustrations called for are present. Still a very useful source for local history. Three-quarter leather and cloth-covered boards. Professionally replaced spine, and head and tail bands. Unpackaged weight 1,200g. £65.0018543. Praeger, R. LLoyd: Irish Landscape. Dublin: At the Sign of the Three Candles, 1961. Irish Life and Culture IV Irish Landscape as seen by a naturalist. 42pp. 18.5 x 12.5 cm. 9 illustrations. Map. Printed matt card covers. The half title has the name Anthony Weir, Irish poet and artist. In good condition. £10.0018029. Price, Liam: The Place-Names of Co. Wicklow IV - The Barony of Talbotstown Lower. Dublin:The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1953. iv + pp.185 - 280 + ix pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. 2 maps. Index. Textured matt card covers, printed black. In very good condition. £15.008668. Proctor, E.R. and Joseph Molloy: Belfast Scenery in Thirty Views 1832. Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 1983. A facsimile edition. 23 x 31.5 cm. No pagination. 30 full-page acquatint plates, and 11 pages of commentary, showing houses around Belfast. Modern commentary by Fred Heatley and Hugh Dixon, covering both architecture and family history of the houses. Gold-blocked green boards, in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. These are among the earliest views of the landscape around Belfast. Houses illustrated include Ormeau, Ballyleidy (Clandeboye), Belvoir, Bangor Castle, Crawfordsburn, Purdysburn, Suffolk, Rockport, Seaview, Lakefield, Oldpark, Wheatfield, Merville, Cultra, Ligoniel, Rathgael, Drum House, Glenburne, Whitehouse, Lambeg House, Seymour Hill, and Richmond. £10.0018038. Rainey, Desmond and Laura Spence: A Chronicle of Comber The Town of Thomas Andrews Shipbuilder 1873-1912. Belfast: Ulster Historical Foundation, 2011. viii +198 pp. 24 x 17 cm. 2 maps. 117 illustrations. Andrews family-tree. Index. Pictorial gold-blocked semi-matt card covers. In very good condiion. Almost as new. £12.0012038. Rankin, PJ: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society Historic Buildings Groups of Buildings Areas of Architectural Importance in the Mourne Area of South Down. Belfast: U.A.H.S,1975. 83pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated. 2 Maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. One of a series produced by the Society. An excellent guide to the area. £10.0018782. Reeves-Smith, Terence and Richard Oram, editors.: Avenues to the Past Essays Presented to Sir Charles Brett on his 75th Year. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2003. 365 pp. 29 x 22 cm. 27 essays on historic buildings, conservation, architectural and garden history, and the history of the arts. Illustrated in colour and b&w. Gold-blocked green boards, in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. Almost as new. Unpackaged weight 1,600g. £22.0012916. Reeves-Smith, Terence and Richard Oram, editors.: Avenues to the Past Essays Presented to Sir Charles Brett on his 75th Year. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2003. 365 pp. 29 x 22 cm. 27 essays on historic buildings, conservation, architectural and garden history, and the history of the arts. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Gold-blocked green boards, in very good condition, in a vg dustwrapper. £20.0019079. Reid, Archie R: Ballyclare, Doagh and Ballyeaston Four Thousand Years in the Valley of the Holestone. Ballyclare: Shanway Press, 2005. 136 pp. 21 x 15.5 cm. A history of the Sixmileriver Valley. 93 illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition, almost as new. Excellent historic photographs.. £20.0020757. Reid, Archie R: Ballyclare, Doagh and Ballyeaston Four Thousand Years in the Valley of the Holestone. Ballyclare: Shanway Press 2005. 21 x 15.5 cm. 136 pp. illustrated, soft covers, in very good condition, almost as new. A history of the Sixmileriver valley. Excellent historic photos. £20.0016666. Reilly, Terry: Ballina One Town, Three Wars & More 1880-1923. Ballina: Yew Plain Publishing, 2014. 431 pp. 25 x 17 cm. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial semi-matt boards, in very good dustwrapper. As new . Another excellent study of Ballina by this local historian. Unpackaged weight 1,200g. £45.005443. Richardson, H., editor: The Ordnance Survey Memoirs for the Parishes of Desertmartin and Kilcronaghan 1836-1837 Ballinascreen: Ballinascreen Historical Society, 1986. (2) + ix + 94 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Numerous drawings. Numerous tables. Appendices. Index. Semi-matt card covers, in very good condition. £10.0018534. Rockport School: Rockport 1906-1986. Holywood: Rockport School, 1986. 54 pp. 19.5 x 21 cm. 74 illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. A price label has been removed from the back cover, o/w In very good condition. A well-illustrated history of this County Down school. £10.0019033. Roden, The Earl of: Tollymore The Story of An Irish Demesne. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Society, 2005. xii + 193 pp. 27.5 x 22.5 cm. Profusely illustrated, in colour and b&w. Maps. Plans. Bibliography. Softcovers. In very good condition, almost as new. A lovely book. £25.0019113. Rogers, Mary: Prospect of Tyrone. Enniskillen: Watergate Press, 1988. 132 pp. 21.5 x 15 cm. 21 illustrations. Pictorial semi matt card covers. Previous owner's neat signature on half title, and crease to front cover, o/w in good condition. £18.0019371. Royal, Stephen A.: Belfast Part 11, 1840 - 1900. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy in association with Belfast City Council, 2007. Irish Historic Towns Atlas No. 17. 16 pp. 41 x 31 cm. 7 Maps. Map legends. 2 plates. In folder. Bibliography. Lists of lease holders. In clear plastic wallet. £25.003980. Scott, Robert: A Breath of Fresh Air The Story of Belfast's Parks. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2000. 221 pp. 27.5 x 21.5 cm. Profusely illustrated. Appendix, bibliography, and index. Gold-blocked dark-blue boards, in d.w. Almost as new. £12.0014614. Scott, Robert: Wild Belfast On Safari in the City. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 2004. ix + 200 pp. 24.5 x 19 cm. Flora, fauna, and wildlife sites. Lavishly illustrated in colour. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.0018883. several copiesCostecalde, Claude and Alicia Mcauley, editors: The Mater The Story of a Belfast Teaching Hospital and Its Community. Belfast:: Cadolux, 2010. 156pp. 25.5 x 25.5 cm. This book is much more than the history of a great teaching hospital founded in 1883. It describes medical care in nineteenth-century Belfast, Belfast's other early hospitals, the changing needs for medical care, nursing, hospital development, post-War struggles for continued growth, the Mater in the NHS, management, development, anaesthetics, radiology, psychiatry, and the enduring value placed on teaching. This lavish publication is profusely illustrated with photographs illustrating the life of the hospital, and its contribution to the life of Belfast. £10.0018366. Seyers, William Charles: Reminiscences of Old Bangor. Belfast: Lion Gate Press, 1983. First edition thus. Originally published in the 'County Down Spectator' in 1932 and 1933. 56 pp. 21.5 x 15 cm. Nine plates. Pictorial glazed card covers. Slight shelfwear. William Charles Seyers, 1854 - 1941. Amazing reminiscences of Bangor places and people. £10.0018783. Shaffrey, Patrick and Maura: Buildings of Irish Towns Treasures of Everyday Architecture. Dublin: O'Brien Press, 1984. 127 pp. 30 x 21cm. A classic beautifully-illustrated study. 159 illustrations in colour and b&w. Gold-blocked green boards, in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper. In very good condition, almost as new. £20.0020761. Shearman, Hugh: Northern Ireland Its History Resources and People. Belfast: H.M.S.O. revised edition1955. 20.5 x 12.5 cm. First published in 1946. 36 pp. folded small map, illustrated, softcovers in very good condition. £10.0020170. Sheehy, Jeanne: J.J. McCarthy and the Gothic Revival in Ireland. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society 1977. 20.5 by 20 .5 cms. 72 pp.illustrated, hardback. This was the first study of the work of this architect whose church buildings enhance so many local communities. These early books from the Heritage Society were not reprinted and have become quite scarce. £18.0019014. Sheridan, Tom and Dennis Hagan, editors: "Dirty Town - Proud People" Newry A History of Church Street & Surrounding Areas. Newry. for the authors, 1984? 95 pp. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. 44 illustrations. Lists of local residents from Bradshaw's Directory of 1820, and from the Newry Reporter Year Book of 1935. Pictorial semi matt card covers. In very good condition. Scarce. £20.004257. Sibbett, RM: On the Shining Bann Records of an Ulster Manor. Belfast: RM Sibbett, 1928. 207pp. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. 40 Illustrations. The book covers the Bann valley in Northern Ireland. This first edition is increasingly scarce. Rusted staples. £35.0020583. Simon, Ben: By the Banks of the Lagan Belfast to Drum Bridge. Belfast: Laganside and Lagan Valley Regional Park 2011, 21.5 x 21.5 cm. 192 pp. illustrated, silver blocked black boards, in very good condition in a v.g. dustwrapper. £30.0019095. Simon, Ben, editor: A Treasured Landscape the Heritage of Belvoir Park. Belfast: The Forest of Belfast, 2005. First edition. 178 pp. 21 x 30 cm. Fourteen contributors, twelve essays. Colour photographs, and b&w, with sketckes, maps, tables, and references. History, memories, and natural history of this great house and estate just outside Belfast, with the emphasis on the natural history of the estate. Pictorial semi matt card covers. Very good condition. £20.00492. Simpson, Noel: The Belfast Bank 1827 - 1970. Belfast: 1975. xiii+361 pp. maps illustrated. in a dustwrapper in very good condition. The definitive history of this Northern Irish Bank. £15.0017583. Simpson, Robert: The Annals of Derry Showing the Rise and Progress of the Town from the earliest accounts on Record to the Plantation under King James I. - 1613... Limavady: North-West Books, 1987 A facsimile edition of the 1847 first edition. Half-title, frontispiece, titlepage, dedication page, Preface, Contents, Errata, Introduction - the second page of which is numbered iv, and Chapter 1 - the second page of which is numbered 6, and thence to page 275. 21.5 x 15 cm. The five illustrations are not included in the pagination. The illustrations are: Londonderry in 1847 from the North East (Miller & Buchanan 21 Argyll Street Glasgow), Plan of the City in 1688/9 - Copied from a plan taken at the time by Capt. P. Neville, Plan of the Siege (folding), and Views of the Cathedral - South Side, and East End "Copied". An antiquarian account of Derry/Londonderry and the Siege. Particularly useful are the lists of names, like the Muster of the "well-armed men", with their names, and weapons, in 1622. Endpaper maps. Gold-blocked red boards, in very good condition, in a price-clipped dustwrapper. £15.009436. Smyth, Pat: Cregganconroe The Adventures of a National Assistance Man in West Tyrone 1943-1953. Lurgan: Patrick Smyth, 1995. 84+xxvi pp. 21 x 14.5 cm. Illustrated. Assisted by the Ulster Local History Trust. Smyth worked around Omagh during and just after the War as an officer with the Assistance Board. A fascinating description of social conditions in the area and the character of local people. Pictorial glazed card covers, in good condition. Scarce. £15.007483. Speers, Sheela: Under the Big Lamp Historic Photographs of the county and town of Carrickfergus. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1989. First edition. 86 pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. 84 photographs. 3 maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition, probably unread. A fascinating selection of photographs of the town and its surroundings. £12.0020061. Stephen Gordon & son Solicitors: Colonel G. Rowan Hamilton to Lt. Colonel Augustus A.I. Heyman Conveyence of Shaganah Castle and Demesne Dublin: Stephen Gordon & Son 5 Molesworth Street. 25th August 1919 15 single sided pages. no maps. Shanagagh Castle Wicklow £20.0019601. Stevenson, John: Two Centuries of Life in Down 1600-1800. Belfast, McCaw, Stevenson & Orr Limited, 1920. viii + 508 pp. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. 56 Illustrations, including maps. This is the first published edition of 1920. Black-blocked tan boards, some very minor fore-edge spotting otherwise in very good condition. "A book of vast range and daring and one of the great landmarks of literary Co. Down". £45.0018816. Stewart, Desmond: Portrush of Old. Coleraine: D. Stewart, 1991. (73pp) 17 x 21.5 88 llustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers, in very good condition. Includes many photographs which have not been previously published, and the book is already fairly scarce. £15.0020642. Stewart, John Stewart: Watson's or the Gentleman's and Citizen's Almanack for the year of our Lord 1833..... Dublin: C.Hope 1833. Bound with The Post Office Annual Directory for 1833 containing an alphabetical list of the Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, and others in Dublin, Kingstown &c. with an Appendix and Street Directory.18 x 10.5 cm.219+xx+106 pp. Professionally rebound in brown cloth boards but reusing the original spine with its gilt lettering., new endpapers, in very good tight clean condition £150.0018175. Stewart-Moore, Kath: Royal Portrush Ladies - a Backward Glance. Coleraine: Royal Portrush Golf Club Ladies' Branch, 1992. 128 pp. 18.5 x 22.5 cm. Extensively illustrated with archive and modern photographs. Endpaper maps of the course for the Ladies Championship 1895. Gold-blocked burgundy boards. No dustwrapper, as issued. In very good condition. Original matching bookmark loosely inserted. Now a scarce item. £70.0018002. Stout, Geraldine: Newgrange and the Bend of the Boyne. Cork: Cork University Press, 2002. Irish Rural Landscapes: Volume I. xxiii + 233 pp. 30.5 x 24.5 cm. Profusely illustrated in colour, with lots of maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked blue boards, in very good condition, in a very good dw. Almost as new. Unpackaged weight 1,500g. This is a heavy book, overseas shipping will require extra postage. £20.0011053. Strain, R.W.M.: Belfast and its Charitable Society A Story of Urban Social Development. London: Oxford University Press, 1961. xvi+333 pp. with 80 illustrations, endpaper maps, hardback, foreedge spotting , in fair/good condition in a rather edgeworn, rubbed dustwrapper. The Society was a significant factor in the social history of the town. This is an important secondary source for the history of Belfast. £10.001931. Strain, R.W.M.: The History and Associations of the Belfast Charitable Society. Belfast: The Ulster Medical Journal, 1953. 1953 Reprint from The Ulster Medical Journal 22, pp31-60. 30pp. 24 x 17 cm. The twelve plates have nineteen illustrations and maps, and the frontispiece is Raymond Piper's 1952 drawing of Clifton House. Gray card covers, in v.g. condition. £15.0015233. Strain, R.W.M.: The History and Associations of the Belfast Charitable Society. Belfast: The Ulster Medical Journal, 1953, 1967. 1967 Reprint, with amendments, from The Ulster Medical Journal 22, pp31-60. 30pp. 24 x 17 cm. The twelve plates have nineteen illustrations and maps, and the frontispiece is Raymond Piper's 1952 drawing of Clifton House. Buff card covers, in v.g. condition. £15.0014398. Strain, R.W.M.: The History and Associations of the Belfast Charitable Society. Belfast: The Ulster Medical Journal, 1953, 1971. 1971 Reprint, with amendments, from The Ulster Medical Journal 22, pp31-60. 30pp. 24 x 17 cm. The twelve plates have nineteen illustrations and maps, and the frontispiece is Raymond Piper's 1952 drawing of Clifton House. Yellow card covers, in v.g. condition. £15.0013926. Stuart, James: Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh by James Stuart Dublin: Browne & Nolan Ld and M.H. Gill & Son, 1910. New Edition revised, corrected and largely re-written by Rev. Ambrose Coleman, O.P. xxiv+477 pp. 25 x 19 cm. Stuart's Armagh "having been written by a Protestant, and mainly for Protestant readers, the work would not be acceptable, without many modifications, to the Catholic public, for whom the re-issue has been chiefly intended". It having "occurred to his Eminence, Cardinal Logue, to have the work re-edited" Cardinal Logue himself granted the book the Imprimatur, and it was issued with a photograph of the Cardinal as the frontispiece. A preliminary page carries a printed label stating "His Eminence Cardinal Logue, presents this volume as a souvenir of the National Cathedral Bazaar, July, 1900" and the ffep is inscribed "Convent of Mercy, Crumlin Road, Belfast". The twelve maps and illustrations called for are present. There is an Index. The book is in its original binding, with only very slight wear to the top and bottom of the spine. There is some foxing of the preliminaries, including the title page, and of pages 441-443 and Plate 11. £95.003180. Sweetnam, Robin and Nimmons, Cecil: Port of Belfast 1785-1985 - An Historical Review. Belfast: The Belfast Harbour Commissioners, 1985. vii+103pp. 25.5 x 1.5 cm. Illustrated, maps, paper covers. v.g. £18.002939. Symons, Leslie. ed.: Land Use in Northern Ireland, The General Report of the Land Utilisation Survey of Northern Ireland. London: University of London Press 1963. 288 pp. illustrated with photographs, maps and diagrams, in a dustwrapper, v.g. Compiled in the Dept of Geography Queen University Belfast, a Dept. now closed. It was the culmination of a 25 year study programme. £25.0018809. Taylor, George and Andrew Skinner: Maps of the Roads of Ireland. Shannon Ireland: Irish University Press, 1969. Reprint of the second Dublin edition, of 1783. xvi + xxvii + 289 + (10) pp. 24 x 15 cm. Folding map of ireland. Introduction by Dr. J. H. Andrews. Index. Gold-blocked green boards, in very good condition. No dw. The first edition was published in 1778, and even this reprint is fairly scarce. £175.0020047. The Foyle Civic Trust: The Foyle Source Book A Directory of the Heritage & Sources of Heritage Information for the Foyle Basin. Moville, Co. Donegal: Dedalus Architecture. Compiled by Duncan McLaren. 30 x 21 cm. 146 pp. maps, illustrations, softcovers, in very good condition. This is intended to provide an accessible document about the historic and natural environment of the Foyle basin. £40.006891. The Government of Northern Ireland: Ulster. Belfast: The Government of Northern Ireland, 1953. 64 pp. 27 x 21 cm. A profusely-illustrated up-beat review of Northern Ireland in Coronation Year. In pictorial textured boards. Endpaper maps. Condition vg. £15.0020072. The Honourable The Irish Society: Photographs The Irish Society Visit to Londonderry / Derry Londonderry: The Londonderry Sentinel n.d. ( 1935 ) 16.5 x 21 cm. 13 monochrome photographs of a visit to Derry and surrounding area by members of the Society and local dignitaries. Included, Coleraine Infants P.E. School, the Diamond Derry, works at a Harbour, visiting a Hospital or Nursing home, at a Banquet, with a narrow gauge locomotive, and others. There is a compliments slip from the Society Secretary and a printed luncheon menu dated 29 Jan. 1935. All in very good condition £25.0014694. The National Tourist Publicity Organisation for Ireland: Official Guide to Killarney. Dublin: The National Tourist Publicity Organisation for Ireland, c1960. viii + 31 + xxv pp, and 16pp photographic section. 17 x 10.5 cm. Splendid folding plan of the Killarney area with panorama. Pictorial matt card covers. Slight wear to front cover, o/w in good condition. £10.0017307. The National Trust Committee for Northern Ireland: Strangford Lough. Belfast: The National Trust Committee for Northern Ireland, 1971. 29 pp. 15 x 21 cm. Published to mark the inauguration of the Strangford Lough Wildfowl Scheme - then the largest of its kind in the British Isles. Eight essays on different aspects of the area. 22 illustrations by Deirdre Crone. Four maps. Pictorial card covers. In very good condition. £10.0018183. The Rotary Club of Portadown: Portadown's Pictorial Past. Portadown: The Rotary Club of Portadown, 1986. 141 pp. 15 x 41 cm. 139 illustrations. Pictorial glazed card covers. Published to celebrate fifty years of Rotary in Portadown. First page is numbered 3, but there is no evidence of earlier pages having been removed. £25.0020003. Thompson, Hugh C.: The Schools Ballygowan. Belfast: n.d. c.1990? 21 x 15 cm. 12 pp. card covers, a crease on the upper right corner otherwise in good condition. Scarce. Includes as a loose insert one copy of Ballygowan Business post for Sept. 2000. 16 pp. paper covers. £12.0015266. Tourist Information Centre: The Ulster Guide. Belfast: Tourist Information Centre, c.1951. 224 pp. 18.5 x 12 cm. Foreword by Lord Brookeborough, Prime Minister. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Two folding maps: Street Map of Belfast City Centre/ Belfast and Environs, 35 x 50 cm; and very nice coloured map of Northern Ireland, 35 x 50 cm, re-attached with sellotape. Pictorial card covers, in good condition. £15.0010736. Tourist Information Centre: Ulster for The Motorist. Belfast: Ulster Tourist Development Association 1939. 104 pp. illustrated, large folding map, maps, soft covers, part of the top corner rear cover torn off otherwise in very good condition. Very attractive, if dusty, decorative cover of a red sports car on an empty coastal road. £15.0010691. Tourist Information Centre: Ulster Northern Ireland for The Motorist. Belfast: Tourist Information Centre n.d. c.1930's 104 pp. illustrated, maps, soft covers, in very good condition, almost as new. Very attractive decorative cover of a car and motorcycle on an empty mountain road. £15.0011964. Town and Country Directories: Belfast and District Trades Directory Accompanied with a Gazetteer of Ireland. Edinburgh: Town and Country Directories, 1951. Fifty-First edition. 89+26+55 pp. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Hardback, dark green boards. The top 3 cm. of pages 35/ and 71/72 have been cut out, boards a little stained, otherwise very good. These directories have now become quite hard to find in any condition. £55.0018254. Turner, Brian: The Common Ground Down County Museum. Downpatrick: Down County Museum Trust, 2015. 94 pp. 20 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. The story of this local museum, based in the eighteenth-century gaol in the county town. £10.006037. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society: Buildings at Risk Some Options & Solutions and a Review Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 2000 120 pp. 29.5 x 20.5 cm. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial glazed card covers. Very good, near mint. A look back at what has happened to historic buildings at risk in Northern Ireland, a selection of good schemes, and what still needs to be done £10.0015742. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society: Buildings at Risk Vol. 2. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, January 1995. 79 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. A second catalogue of historic buildings at risk in Northern Ireland. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial matt card covers. Very good condition. £10.008205. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society: Buildings at Risk. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, Autumn 1993. 119 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. The first catalogue of historic buildings at risk in Northern Ireland. Profusely illustrated, mostly in b&w. Pictorial semi-matt card covers. In very good condition. £20.0012199. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society: Buildings of North Derry Belfast U.A.H.S. 1975. Prepared by W.D. Girvan. 64 pp. illustrated, maps, card covers, minor wear otherwise very good. One of a series produced by the Society. An excellent guide to the area. Includes Limavady, Ballykelly, Castlerock, Downhill, and Magilligan. £10.006257. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society: Heritage Newsletter No 3 Summer 1986. Belfast : Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1986. 24 pp. 21 x 15 cm. Illustrated. A regular publication of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society. Very good in pictorial glazed card covers. £5.0010108. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society List of Historic Buildings Groups of Buildings Areas of Architectural Importance in and near the City of Derry. Belfast: U.A.H.S,1970. 62pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated. 4 maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. One of a series produced by the Society. Prepared by Ferguson, W.S., Rowan, A.J., and Tracey, J.J. An excellent guide to a city which has lost much but still has a fine legacy. £10.0012039. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society List of Historic Buildings Groups of Buildings Areas of Architectural Importance in the town of Downpatrick. Belfast: U.A.H.S,1975. 31pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated. Map. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. One of a series produced by the Society. Prepared by Lady Dunleath, P.J. Rankin and A. J. Rowan. An excellent guide to the area. £10.0012041. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society List of Historic Buildings Groups of Buildings Areas of Architectural Importance in Antrim and Ballymena. Belfast U.A.H.S.1969. 33pp. illustrated, maps,card covers, very good. One of a series produced by the Society. prepared by D. Girvan, R. Oram and A. Rowan.. An excellent guide to the area. £10.0012040. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society List of Historic Buildings Groups of Buildings Areas of Architectural Importance in Portaferry Strangford. Belfast U.A.H.S.1969. 39pp. illustrated, maps,card covers, very good. One of a series produced by the Society. prepared by G. Phillip Bell, C.E.B. Brett, Sir Robert Matthew. An excellent guide to the area. £10.0012194. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society List of Historic Buildings Groups of Buildings Areas of Architectural Importance in the Island of Rathlin. Belfast U.A.H.S. October 1974. Prepared by C.E.B. Brett. 20 pp. illustrated, maps, card covers, minor wear otherwise good. One of a series produced by the Society. £10.0017798. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society Survey and Recommendations for the Joy Street & Hamilton Street District of Belfast. Belfast: U.A.H.S., 1971. Prepared by C.E.B. Brett and R. McKinstrey. 16 pp. 29 illustrations, including maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. Minor wear, otherwise very good. One of a series produced by the Society. £10.006250. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society Brett, C.E.B. and Dunleath Lady: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society List of Historic Buildings Groups of Buildings Areas of Architectural Importance in the Borough of Banbridge. Belfast U.A.H.S.1969. 18 pp. illustrated, card covers, very good. One of a series produced by the Society. £6.006251. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society Brett, C.E.B. Dunleath, Lady. Oram, R. and Rowan, A.J: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society List of Historic Buildings Groups of Buildings Areas of Architectural Importance in the Desigmnated Area of the Craigavon Development Commission. Belfast U.A.H.S.1970 10+12+15 pp. illustrated, maps,card covers, very good. One of a series produced by the Society. £8.0012196. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society National Trust of Guernsey: Buildings in the town and parish of St Peter Port . Belfast U.A.H.S. 1975. Prepared by C.E.B. Brett and others. 96 pp. illustrated, maps, card covers, minor wear otherwise very good. One of a series produced by the Society. An excellent guide. £20.0018923. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, C.E.B. Brett: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society List of Historic Buildings Groups of Builmdings Areas of Architectural Importance in the Glens of Antrim. Belfast: U.A.H.S, 1970-71. First edition. 56 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. One of a series produced by the Society. An excellent guide to the area. £10.0018775. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, C.E.B. Brett, and R. McKinstry: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society Survey and Recommendations for the Joy street and Hamilton street District of .Belfast Belfast: U.A.H.S, 1971. 15 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. 23 illustrations. 4 maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. Minor wear, otherwise very good. One of a series produced by the Society. An excellent guide to the area. £10.0018771. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, David Evans and others: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society Historic Buildings Groups of Buildings Areas of Architectural Importance in the Vicinity of the Queen's University of Belfast. Belfast: U.A.H.S, 1980. Second revised edition. 46 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Profusely llustrated. 3 maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. Minor wear, otherwise very good. One of a series produced by the Society. An excellent guide to the area. £10.0018926. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, Hugh Dixon and David Evans.: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society Historic Buildings Groups of Buildings Areas of Architectural Importance in the Vicinity of the Queen's University of Belfast. Belfast: U.A.H.S, 1975. Revised edition. 46 pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. Profusely llustrated. 3 maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. Minor wear, otherwise very good. One of a series produced by the Society. An excellent guide to the area. £10.0018189. Ulster Museum: A list of the photographs in the R.J. Welch Collection in the Ulster Museum - Volume 2 Botany, Geology, and Zoology. Belfast: Ulster Museum, 1983. 36pp. 29.5 x 21 cm. A very useful list.. £12.0020530. Unknown Photographer. L'Atelier Studio Billy Lee?: Photograph. McKeown's Linen Warehouse 49 Main Street, Portrush Portrush, no date. c.1930 (?) A mounted photograph. The photograph is 8 x 13.5 cm. The card is 19.5 x 28 cm. This was done by a professional local photographer but the identity is not known. This Linen Shop had a branch in Belfast and shipped on a world wide basis. It was one of the most important shops in the town but closed in the 1950's and became a paint shop. We think the photograph dated to the early 1930's. We have never seen another. The Photograher may have been Billy Lee but the L'Atelier Studio archives were lost in the 1976 bombing of Main street. £15.0019102. Urwick, William: The Early History of Trinity College Dublin 1591-1660 As told in contemporary records on occasiion of its Tercentenary. London: Fisher Unwin, Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co, 1892. iv + 99 pp. 21.5 x 14 cm. Empasis on the Provists. Printed matt green card covers. The spine is chipped, with some loss, otherwise in good condition. Scarce. £70.004789. Victoria College: Victoria College Belfast Centenary 1859-1959. Belfast: Victoria College,1959. 42pp. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Illustrated, in a slightly worn, chipped, repaired glassine dustwrapper. A good history of this excellent Girls Grammar School. £15.0019975. Villiers-Tuthill, Kathleen: Beyond the Twelve Bens A History of Clifden and District 1860-1923. Published by the author 1986. 21.5 x 15 cm. 240 pp. illustrated, softcovers, in good conduition. £10.0014479. Vinycomb, John: Historical and Descriptive Guide to the City of Belfast. Belfast: Marcus Ward, 1895. 120 pp. 16 x 10.5 cm. 39 illustrations. Folding map with reverse birds-eye view. Embossed gold on blue card covers, with replacement backstrip. Some light edge chipping to covers, but otherwise a tight clean copy. Quite a scarce title. £45.0016377. Walker, Brian and Dixon, Hugh: No Mean City Belfast 1880-1914. Belfast: The Friars Bush Press, 1998. ix+134 pp. 22 x 30 cm. Photographs by Robert French. Pictorial glazed card covers, in vg condition. £15.004095. Walker, Brian and Hugh Dixon: In Belfast Town 1864-1880 Early Photographs from the Lawrence Collection. Belfast: Friars Bush Press, 1984. First edition. 48 pp. 21 x 30 cm. Forty-four early photographs from the Lawrence collection. The earliest collection of photographic views of Belfast. Notes. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. Makes you really regret what was trashed and destroyed in the 20th century! £10.00561. Walker, Brian Mercer.: Faces of Ireland, 1875 - 1925. Belfast; Appletree Press. Leicester: Promotional Reprint Company 1992. An omnibus edition of four vols. Faces of the Past (1975), Faces of the West (1977), Faces of Munster (1977), Faces of Old Leinster (1978). First published in 1984 and here reprinted. 113+117+97+122 pp. illustrated, hardback, very good in a very good dustwrapper. A photographic and literary picture of the past. £15.0015140. Walker, Brian Mercer.: Faces of The Past A Photographic and Literary Record of Ulster Life 1880-1915. Belfast: Appletree Press, 1981. Reprint. 19.5 by 19.5 cms. 111 pp. An excellent collection of photographs from a variety of photographers with explanatory texts. Pictorial card covers. Very good condition. £8.007538. Walker, Brian Mercer.: Faces of The Past A Photographic and Literary Record of Ulster Life 1880-1915 Belfast: Appletree press 3rd imp. 1975 19.5 by 19.5 cms. 111 pp. illustrated, paperback, very good. An excellent collection of photographs from a variety of photographers with explanatory texts. £12.0011432. Walker, Brian Mercer.: Shadows on Glass A Portfolio of Early Ulster Photography. Belfast: The Appletree Press Ltd, 1977. First edition, Second Impression. 140 pp. 24.5 x 19 cm. An excellent collection of photographs from a variety of photographers with explanatory texts. Bibliography. Pictorial glazed card covers. Slight wear to covers. £10.0014664. Walker, Brian Mercer.: Shadows on Glass A Portfolio of Early Ulster Photography. Belfast: Appletree Press, 1977. Second impression. 140 pp. 24.5 x 19 cm. An excellent collection of photographs from a variety of photographers with explanatory texts. Pictorial glazed card covers, in very good condition. £10.0011112. Walker, J. Crampton: Irish life and Landscape. Dublin & Cork The Talbot Press n.d. c. 1926. 28.5 by 22.5 cms. 146 pp. illustrated in monochrome and colour. a selection of Irish artists and their work. Ffep missing, silver coloured boards with green and claret titling. A useful collection not least for giving a clear artist's signature for each of the 67 works. £55.0020600. Wallace J. Craig: Gardens in Mid-Antrim. Ballymena 1960. 21.5 x 14 cm. 52 pp. illustrated card covers, in very good condition. Many articles appeared in the Ballymena Weekly Telegraph in 1960. Gardens include, Rathowen, Glebe House, Heather Cottage, The Quary Ballycloughan, Red cottage, Craigdun, Fenaghy, Hillmount House, etc. £12.0020784. Walsh, C. Manley, M. McCormick, F. and Madill, H: Killough The Church on the Lough Aspects of Village History and collected stories. Killough: The Palatine Trust May 2000. 21 by 21 cms. 119 pp. illustrated, in very good condition. Killough is a small Co. down village and harbour of some charm. This is a series of essays on the history of the village. Includes an important essay on the Killough Yawl. £15.0020285. Watson, Charles: The Story of the United Parishes of Glenavy, Camlin and Tullyrusk; together with short accounts of the history of the different denominations in the Union. Belfast: Printed by McCaw Stevenson & Orr 1892. Reprinted by Burning Bush Publications 1986. 21 x 15 cm. 63 pp. 6 illustrations, light card covers, in very good condition. Scarce. £15.0018729. Watson, Fredeick Gilbert: All Around Lambeg Historical Walks. Newtownards: Colourpoint Books, 2010. 28 x 22.5 cm. 248 pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. Bibliography. Index. Gold-blocked green boards, in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. £12.0012893. Watson, Philip S.: The Giant's Causeway and the North Antrim Coast. Dublin: The O'Brien Press, 2006. 96 pp. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. The history, folklore, people, geology, wildlife, and stunning landscape of this unique place. The Giant's Causeway is one of Ireland's most popular tourist attractions, with half a million visitors each year. Pictorial glazed covers. Near mint. £10.006771. Weatherup, Roger: Armagh Historic Photographs of the Primatial City. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, c1990. viii + 86 pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. 92 Illustrations, including 3 maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. As new. £10.0011172. Webster, Denise: A Whiff of Ulster From Old Cigarette Cards. Belfast: Appletree Press, 1975. 18 by 23 cms. no pagination, ( 90 pp. ) illustrated, hardback, rubbing to covers otherwise good, now scarce. Faithful reproductions of original bromides and glass negatives. £23.0011054. Welch R.: Album of Belfast Views. Belfast: J. Thompson & Co. Donegall St. n.d. c.1900. A View Book, Camera Series, 21 by 16 cms. a series of 24 views taken from R. Welch's Platinotype series of Belfast views, hardback, dark green boards with an embossed gilt decorative cover, now a little faded, internally bright and fresh, overall in very good condition. Views include, Castle place, Art Gallery, Museum Free Library, Town Hall, Queens College, Elmwood church, Queens bridge, Teutonic in Alexandra Graving Dock, Harland & Woolfs, Queens Island, Larne Lough, Garron Tower, Grand Central Hotel, Corn Market, new Campbell College, new Harbour Office, Fortwilliam Park Church,Carlisle circus, Belfast Academy, new City Hall, Ulster Hall, Methodist College, Botanic Gardens, Presbyterian College. £45.0019972. Welsh, Henry: Ulster Archaeological Society Survey Report No 19.Survey of Site of the Queen Anne Period Mansion Castle Ward Co. Down UAS/09/04 Belfast: Ulster Archaeological Society in association with the National Trust 2011. 29.5 x 21 cm.23 pp. illustrations, plans, softcovers, in a black plastc spiral binder, in very good condition. £15.0019973. Welsh, Henry: Ulster Archaeological Society Survey Report No 19.Survey of Site of the Queen Anne Period Mansion Castle Ward Co. Down UAS/09/04 Belfast: Ulster Archaeological Society in association with the National Trust 2011. 29.5 x 21 cm.23 pp. illustrations, plans, softcovers, in a black plastc spiral binder, in very good condition. £15.0016165. Whammond, G.K.: Whammond's Illustrated Guide to Dublin and Wicklow with an historical sketch of the city , and original comments. Dublin: Robert M'Gee, 1868. Sixth edition. (23) iv+187, (8)(118) pp. 16 x 10.5 cm. Illustrated with six views and with a small map of the city. Green boards with gilt titling and decoration. A.e.g. Many excellent advertising pages, including a tipped in insert for the Royal Dublin School of Photography, 11 Upper Sackville Street, including their "solar photographic enlargements". A nice item. £95.0011948. Wibberley, Leonard: The Shannon Sailors A Voyage to the Heart of Ireland. New York: William Morrow & Company 1972. 156 pp. map, hardback, in a slightly worn dustwrapper. Sailing on the Shannon. £10.0019591. Williams, Guy St. John: A Sea-Grey House the History of Renvyle House. Connemara: Renvyle House Hotel 1995 reprinted 2001. 22x16.5 cm. viii+136 pp.illustrated, softcovers, in very good condition. £10.0018744. Wilson, Anthony M.: St Patrick's Town A History of Downpatrick and the Barony of Lecale. Belfast: The Isabella Press, 1995. First edition. 243 pp. 24 x 19 cm. Profusely illustrated. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Pictorial glazed card covers. In good condition. £15.0016826. Wilson, H.E.: Regional Geology of Northern Ireland. Belfast: H.M.S.O.,1972. Second impression. x+114 pp. 27.5 x 21.5 cm. Eighteen plates, thirty three figures, including maps, and five tables. Glossary, bibliography, and index. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. £10.0017051. Wilson, Ian: Bangor Historic Photographs of the County Down town 1870 - 1914. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1992. First edition. 92 pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. 90 photographs. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition, probably unread. A fascinating selection of photographs of the town and its surroundings. £10.0015932. Wilson, Ian, editor: North Down A Century of Photographs. Bangor: North Down Heritage Centre, 1999. 104 pp. 17.5 x 21 cm. One hundred photographs, published to celebrate the Millennium. Pictorial glazed card covers. Former owner's name on ffep, otherwise in very good condition. £10.0019319. Windele, J: Hand Book to Killarney through Bantry, Glengariff, & Kenmare. Cork: Messrs Holster; Dublin: John Cumming; London: Longman and Company, 1846. Third edition. 159 pp. 17.5 x 11 cm. Five illustrations. Map. Giold-blocked brown boards with original printed label to the front board. In very good condition. Windele, 1801-1865, first produced this work in 1844, and the final edition was 1848. The Great Famine would have made tourism in the area difficult, and the book is very scarce. Copac lists only two copies in UK libraries. There appears to be no copy in the NLI. £300.0017315. Wood, Helen Lanigan: Enniskillen Historic Images of an Island Town. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1990. 96 pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. Scholarly introduction, and 86 photographs, including two maps. Pictorial glazed card covers. In very good condition. Historic photographs of the town. £15.0011876. Wood, Helen Lanigan: Enniskillen Historic Images of an Island Town. Belfast: Friar's Bush Press, 1990. 96 pp. 18 x 21.5 cm. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial glazed card covers, in very good condition. Historic photographs of the town. £10.0016987. Wright, Rev. G. N.: A Guide to the Giants Causeway, and the North-East Coast of the County of Antrim. London: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1823 (Davidson Books, 1982). A facsimile reprint of the 1823 edition. vii+134 pp. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Four plates "after the designs of George Petrie", and a folding map. Gold-blocked blue boards, in very good condition, in a v.g. dustwrapper,autographed by the publisher. £23.0019318. Wright, Rev. G. N.: Scenes in Ireland with Historical Illustrations, Legends, and Biographical Notices. London: Printed for Thomas Tegg and Son Cheapside...and W.F. Wakema, Dublin: 1834 viii + 235 pp. 19.5 x 11 cm. 36 engravings. Each of the 12 plate pages has 3 views to the page. Original printed card boards. The boards show a little wear, with a few old small ink stains along the right hand margin of the front board. Internally a very good, clean, tight copy. No foxing. This is a scarce title by Wright, and no further contemporary editions are recorded. Copac/ Jisc. list only 7 copies in UK and Ireland Institutional Libraries. £95.0016396. Wylie, Robin: Ulster Model Schools. Belfast: Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, 1997. 48 pp. 21.5 x 21cm. These schools were built in the mid-nineteenth century as models for the new system of National Education in Ireland. Illustrated with plans, elevations, drawings, photographs, and interiors. Pictorial glazed card covers. The ffep is signed and dated by the author. The top corner of the ffep has been neatly removed, o/w in very good condition. A useful study. £15.0016846. Young, Alex F. and Des Quail: Old Armagh. Catrine: Stenlake Publishing, 2003. 48 pp. 17.5 x 24 cm. Fifty period illustrations, with useful captions. Pictorial glazed card covers. Author inscribed. £30.0018666. Young, Robert M.: Historical Notices of Old Belfast and Its Vicinity. Belfast: Marcus Ward & Co., 1896. xii + 287 + (16) pp. 24.5 x 19.5 cm. A selection from the MSS collected by William Pinkerton for his intended History of Belfast, etc, etc. 123 illustrations. Gold-blocked red, thick, bevelled boards. The boards are age-darkened, a little edge-rubbed, with some wear to upper spine extremity, othewise in good condition. An indispensable book on Belfast history. Unpackaged weigh 1,600g. £85.00 |
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