Maccarthy glas (5 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 2nd Edition. A very good copy in publishers cloth, a reprint of the rare 1867 first. Old price on the front end paper.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy in recent buckram, the text is a bit toned, no markings or inscriptions.

Etat : Wie neu. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of Sir Peter Carew (Steel Engraving by J.J.Chant, being Plate I.), CXVIII, 317 pages plus 6 pages "List of Subscribers". With several Plates: Plate II: Musical Notes: "By a Bank as I lay" / Plate III: Monument to Sir Peter Carew in St.Peter's Cathedral, Exeter (Steel Engraving) / Plate IV: Folded Map of Kylkenny (Kilkenny) / Plate V: Pedigree of the Family of Carew (Large Fold - out Plate). Hardcover / Original publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and armorial emblemata on front board. Professionally repaired and now in excellent and firm condition in protective Collector's Mylar. With the armorial supralibro of the Carew Family to the binding's front board: Arms of Carew: Or, three lions passant in pale sable / Exlibris-Bookplate of the Mac Carthy Glas family on the pastedown with their family motto: "Lam Laidir Aboo" [The Mac Carthy Glas family descended from the princes of Carbery and the Mac Carthy Reagh family]. Sir Peter Carew (1514 27 November 1575) of Mohuns Ottery, Luppitt, Devon, was an English adventurer, who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England and took part in the Tudor conquest of Ireland. His biography was written by his friend and legal adviser, the Devon historian John Hooker (d.1601). (Wikipedia). …

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition thus. Florence, otherwise known as Finian or Finghín (c.1562-.1640), flexible in his loyalties (England, Spain, his wife Eileen and the MacCarthy clan) but, above all else, steadfast in his commitment to his own interests and to Catholicism. His final 40 years saw confinement in London, mainly in the Tower where much of the material in this book was compiled. A remarkable collection of documents about a fascinating person. Facsimile of 1867 first edition. Unlike somme other Miros Press books, the quality of reproduction is good. A heavy book. Will incur extra postal costs outside Ireland.…

Hardcover. Etat : As New. 2nd Edition. A clean unmarked copy in publishers cloth, a reprint of the rare 1867 first.