Rev James Olaverty (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A clean unmarked copy.

Orginal Green Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Pages, (6), 636, appendix & index. Original green cloth covers with title gilt on spine. Round Tower gilt centrepeice on front cover. Corners & spine ends bumped & rubbed. Top of spine & top corner of rear cover stained. Library no. on lower spine. Rear e.p. torn with some loss. Else good. Scarce 1st edition.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Pp. 310. Light green covers. Spine a little stained and worn. Else good. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Volume one of the Davidson books facsimile edition, good used condition, some discoluration to the page edges, minor marks etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good square copy, some marks to boards, original owners details in ink inside, inner hinges starting to strain, text block is square & tight, age tanning, neat ink annotations relating to the death & funeral of Most Rev Dr Henry.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Hardback fine in nr fine dust jacket. Vol one only. Also have volume two same price and condition. Volume one of the Davidson books facsimile edition, near fine condition, 448 pages Each volume complete unto itself.

Condition: Wie neu. Octavo. [4], 592, LXIV, IX, [2] pages. Original Hardcover / Green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and frontcover. Very good condition of the rarest of the Volumes from this set. Some minor rubbing to the binding. Dal-Riada / The Parish of Dunloy and Cloughmills / The Parish of Loughguile / The Parish of Ballymoney / The Parish of Coleraine / The Parish of Portrush / The Parish of Ballintoy / The Island of Rathlin / etc. The Parish of Ramoan etc.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Crown8vo, [iv], lxxi, 448 pp. Original green rexine, gilt. Fine copy in a near fine d/j. Each volume is complete in itself.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Complete in five volumes with the supplement. A very good set in publisher's cloth, the first volume is the 1980 facsimile of the original. Old college stamp on the front end paper and title pages of each volume, the contents is clean and unmarked. Scarce as a complete set. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Perfect bound trade paperback. 310 pages. Compiled by M. J. F. Comprising Indexes, Biographical Sketches and an Appendix. Signed on the top of the Alphabetical Index page by compiler ["with M. J. F.'s compliments]. First edition. Historical account of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Down and Connor. Previous owner's name on upper front cover and again on dedication page. Several pages show brief underlining to text and less than two dozen pages have marking in margins. Light toning and creasing to spine, else a tight, square, sound copy. Scarce. Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Foolscap8vo, [vi], 636, xviii, [2] pp. Original green bevel-edge, blind-stamped cloth, gilt, brown endpapers. Light cracking to paper on lower hinge, small presentation slip on the front pastedown, slight foxing to the title otherwise a VG+ copy with Carswell binder's ticket on the front pastedown. First edition. Each volume is complete in itself.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Octavo, 9.75 in, x 7.25 in., pp. 39, [1], i-xlv (appendix). Illustrated with fronti photograph, and the extensive appendix is illustrated with black and white photographs. Diagonally textured green cloth boards with gilt title to front. Light rubbing to corners, edges, and spine caps. Bookseller's sticker ("R. Carswell & Son, Belfast") to bottom front pastedown. Supple, unmarked interior. James O'Laverty (1828-1906) was born in Lecale, County Down, and was educated at St Malachy's College, Belfast, and Maynooth, where he was ordained in 1851. He was curate in Ahoghill and Portglenone, and in 1857 he became dean of the diocesan seminary in Belfast and chaplain to the Belfast Workhouse. He was parish priest of Holywood, County Down, for over thirty years until the time of his death. He established a National School in 1869 and erected a church dedicated to to St Colmcille. He wrote many articles for the Ulster Journal of Archaeology. From 1878 until 1887 he produced the definitive Historical Account of Down and Connor (4 vols), which he acknowledged as owing a debt to the work of Bishop William Reeves. A fifth volume dealt with the bishops of the diocese. In 1904 he became Monsignor. He is buried in the church-yard in Holywood. (from Dictionary of Ulster Biography). …

Condition: Very Good. 1884. hardcover. Volume III only. ex-libris.Some shelf wear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1884. hardcover. Volume III only. ex-libris.Some shelf wear. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Crown8vo, [iv], lxxi, 80, 136, 104, 128; [vi], 464, xci pp. Original green blind-stamped, bevel-edge cloth, gilt, dark brown endpapers. Paper on hinges cracked, small pieces of the rear free endpaper adhering to the rear pastedown of Vol. I otherwise a near fine tight and clean pair with Carswell of Belfast binder's ticket and a manuscript note from O'Laverty tipped in after the Vol. 1 title as follows: 'Recd £1- from Dr J. Woods Beck for 3 Vols. Down & Connor Vol. III to be delivered as soon as ready Jas O'Laverty I am glad that you are pleased with Vols. I and II. Vol III is I think more complete as a County History than the others. I have some 20 pages to finish yet.' Both copies signed on the title in ink 'John Woods Beck M.D. Belfast'. Author mss note tipped in. First edition. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Condition: Very Good. 1884. hardcover. Some shelf wear, library stamps, names on endpaper, scarce, selling as a set. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1884. hardcover. Some shelf wear, library stamps, names on endpaper, scarce, selling as a set. . . . .

Condition: V.G. First. p.p. 24. One illustration. Later marbled boards with printed paper label.