County Kerry (8 results)

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. W H BARTLETT (illustrator). An original hand-coloured antique engraving. Hand-colouring not contemporary but delicately and expertly executed. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame. A fine opportunity to purchase an attractive and decorative engraving of the bay at Ballybunion.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine original antique aquatint. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame . . Very good condition, . A splendid opportunity to acquire an antique original view - decorative, attractive and scarce . - fine tinted mezzotint/aquatint of O'Sullivan's Cascade in Killarney - slight central crease otherwise very good.

Colour print, from Morris's "Views of Seats", 1880,

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A fine original antique aquatint. Mounted (matted) and ready to frame . . Very good condition, . A splendid opportunity to acquire an antique original view - decorative, attractive and scarce . - fine tinted mezzotint/aquatint of the Turk, Eagle's Nest and Glena Mountains, Muckross Abbey, part of the Lower Lake and Village of Cloghereen in Killarney - slight central crease othrwise a very good early view.

Condition: Molto buono (Very Good). . 8vo. pp. 436. . Molto buono (Very Good). . Prima ed. americana (First American Edition). . Rilegato mezza tela, sovracoperta (half-cloth binding, dust jacket). Book.

Original chalk lithograph mounted on carton / stiff paper. 32,5 cm x 24 cm. Closely cropped but in very good condition with only mild signs of foxing. A very rare work of early decorative tourist art for the 19th century traveller to Killarney; beautifully executed.

First Edition. Small Octavo. XV, 456 pages plus 22 pages of a catalogue for the publisher Baker and Scribner in the rear. Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and ornament to covers. Recently, professionally restored. Very good condition with the usual signs of some browning and foxing to this publication. From the library of Lathrop Josiah Tracy, Honesdale, Pennsylvania (1825-1897). With his name to the halftitle. A very rare and important book ! Includes for example the following essays: Departure form New York / Fellow Passengers / Voyage to Dublin and Arrival at Kingston / Asylum for unmarried Ladies / Dialogues with the Poor / Journey to Tullamore / The Poorhouse / Irish Beggars / Connaught Laborers / A Man's Merit can not be judged by his Coat / Visit to the County of Wicklow / Horrors of the Journey / Arklow / Shelton Abbey / Arklow Fishermen / Rathdrum / The Vale of Avoca / Wicklow Gold Mines / The Church of Kilbride / Methodism in Ireland / American courtesy to Females not universal in Ireland / The seven Churches of Glendalough / Foolish Legends connected with this locality [Glendalough] / Lady Harburton's School / The Second Cabin of a Canal Boat / Arrival at Kilkenny / Ride in a Turf Kish / A Rural Physician / Departure of an Emigrant / Fair at Urlingford / An irish Wake / Costume of the Peasantry / Visit to a National School / Cabin Life / Urlingford Spa / Rebuff from a Clergyman / New Birmingham Colliery / The Police / Mr.Barker of Kilcooley / Visit to Thurles / Journey to Clonmel, Dungarvan and Cappoquin / Visit to the Trappist Monastery of Mount Mellary / The Spirit of Caste Injurious in Ireland / Journey to Youghal / The Blessed Well of St.Dagan / Uncourteous Reception by Sir Richard Musgrave / Rejoicings at Lismore for O'Connell's Liberation / Dungarvan / Two Silent Quakeresses / Thoughts on Irish Hospitality / Unsuccessful Application to Bianconi / Strong National Peculiarities of the Irish / Happy Molly / Lord Rosse's Telescope / Walk from Ballinasloe to Lough Rea / Miserable Condition of the Poor / Scarcity of Female Beauty in Galway / Wicklow / The Scholar with his Iliad / Visit to Wicklow Lighthouses / Wexford / Infant School / Public Buildings in Wexford / Waterford / Clonmel / Lodgings in Cork / Temperance Tea Party / Dr.Barter's Hydropathic Establishment / Sail to Cove / City Jail of Cork / A Night in Bandon / A Peasant Family employed, a rare sight in Ireland / Arrival at the miserable town of Bantry / Exploration in Bantry / Poverty, Wretchedness and Filfth of the Dwellings / Grand Poorhouse standing unoccupied / Beautiful Bay of Bantry / GlengariffAccident at Kenmare / Sweet Innisfallen / Fellow Travellers on the Kerry Mountains / Protestant Whiskey-Selling [Whisky] / An Americanized Irishman / Island of Valentia / Kerry Dancing and Kerry Kindness / Banks of the Shannon / Clifden / Potatoes a Curse upon Ireland / A Connemara School / The Isle of Oma and the natives thereof / Change for the better in Connemara / Journey to Westport / Croagh Patrick / Return to Westport / Newport / Popery / Intemperance not banished from the County of Mayo / Westport - Castlebar - Sligo / The Mendicity Association / Mr.Nangle's Notice in the Achill Herald, of the Author's visit to the Settlement / Concluding observations relative to the objects of the Writer's Tour in Ireland and the Reception she met with from various Classes of the Community / etc. etc. Asenath Hatch Nicholson (February 24, 1792 May 15, 1855) was an American vegan, social observer and philanthropist. She wrote at first hand about the Great Hunger in Ireland in the 1840s. She observed the famine as she distributed bibles, food and clothing. Nicholson was born in Chelsea in Vermont in 1792. Her family were members of the Protestant Congregation Church and this was the source for her given name. She trained and became a successful teacher in her hometown before she married a man with three children and went to New York.

Condition: Fair. 41 p.; 21 cm. Pamphlet; self-cover, stained and rubbed. Loss of text from p. 41 from postage stamp torn from back cover. -- 'Looking back on the long years of persecution and discouragement through which the Catholic Church in Ireland has passed, considering the terrible machinery of the penal laws by which our people were deprived of civil rights, of Catholic education, and, to a great extent, of the ministrations of religion, we must marvel exceedingly that their faith has still endured. In later times, some poor starving creatures, who had not the spirit of martyrdom, saved their lives by becoming Protestants at least in name.' (10) -- 'While Protestantism elsewhere rapidly changed into rationalism, in these countries it even yet retains a large portion of Christian truth. The material and golden hand of an endowed establishment furnished the only reasonable explanation we can suggest for standing still upon this steep incline.' (15) -- 'There was a time, and it is not long past, when Irish patriotism was thoroughly orthodox and just and reasonable. But with that patriotism the principles of which are false and the tendencies of which are wrong, we can make no league; we can give it no sanction. That under-growl of muzzled rebellion, which of late some mistook for patriotism, was mingled with mutterings of impiety. It was thus that Luther and Voltaire began.' (25) -- 'Like the Jews of old, who cried out, "The Temple of God, the Temple of God", teachers of Protestantism used to cry out, "The Bible, the Bible". Now we see ordained and beneficed clergymen of the Establishment treating the Bible as if it were a work of fiction which conveys some moral truth. Beneficed clergymen may now deny without let or hindrance baptismal regeneration and the eternity of punishment.' (35) -- 'Whether the reduction of the Protestant Church Establishment to the dimensions of the sect to which it ministers, and the destruction of its ascendency, should result in a greater tendency to orthodoxy, is a question we cannot undertake to decide.' (39) -- In 1884, as Cardinal , John Henry Newman wrote 'I cannot have a greater favour or a greater pleasure done me than you so kindly propose by dedicating to me the volume of Dr Moriarty's Allocutions. I have ever felt the truest love and gratitude towards him. He was indeed a rare friend, one of ten thousand. He is in heaven doubtless --- but I mention him always in Mass, from the good which I am sure I can get from him.' (Letters and diaries XXX, 317).