Catalogue these books.
THOM'S DUBLIN POST OFFICE DIRECTORY, 1886.
Denis Florence M'Carthy's POETICAL WORKS (copper beechleaf bookmark
at p. 5).
Shakespeare's WORKS (dark crimson morocco, goldtooled).
THE USEFUL READY RECKONER (brown cloth).
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE COURT OF CHARLES II (red cloth, tooled
binding).
THE CHILD'S GUIDE (blue cloth).
The Beauties of Killarney (wrappers).
WHEN WE WERE BOYS by William O'Brien M. P. (green cloth, slightly faded,
envelope bookmark at p. 217).
THOUGHTS FROM SPINOZA (maroon leather).
THE STORY OF THE HEAVENS by Sir Robert Ball (blue cloth).
Ellis's THREE TRIPS TO MADAGASCAR (brown cloth, title obliterated).
THE STARK-MUNRO LETTERS by A. Conan Doyle, property of the City of
Dublin Public Library, 106 Capel street, lent 21 May (Whitsun Eve)
1904, due 4 June 1904, 13 days overdue (black cloth binding, bearing
white letternumber ticket).
VOYAGES IN CHINA by "Viator" (recovered with brown paper, red ink title).
PHILOSOPHY OF THE TALMUD (sewn pamphlet).
Lockhart's LIFE OF NAPOLEON (cover wanting, marginal annotations,
minimising victories, aggrandising defeats of the protagonist).
SOLL UND HABEN by Gustav Freytag (black boards, Gothic characters,
cigarette coupon bookmark at p. 24).
Hozier's HISTORY OF THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR (brown cloth, a volumes, with
gummed label, Garrison Library, Governor's Parade, Gibraltar, on verso
of cover).
LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND by William Allingham (second edition,
green cloth, gilt trefoil design, previous owner's name on recto of
flyleaf erased).
A HANDBOOK OF ASTRONOMY (cover, brown leather, detached, S plates,
antique letterpress long primer, author's footnotes nonpareil, marginal
clues brevier, captions small pica).
THE HIDDEN LIFE OF CHRIST (black boards).
IN THE TRACK OF THE SUN (yellow cloth, titlepage missing, recurrent title
intestation).
PHYSICAL STRENGTH AND HOW TO OBTAIN IT by Eugen Sandow (red cloth).
SHORT BUT YET PLAIN ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY written in French by F. Ignat.
Pardies and rendered into English by John Harris D. D. London,
printed for R. Knaplock at the Bifhop's Head, MDCCXI, with dedicatory
epiftle to his worthy friend Charles Cox, efquire, Member of
Parliament for the burgh of Southwark and having ink calligraphed
statement on the flyleaf certifying that the book was the property of
Michael Gallagher, dated this 10th day of May 1822 and requefting the
perfon who should find it, if the book should be loft or go aftray,
to reftore it to Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate,
Ennifcorthy, county Wicklow, the fineft place in the world.
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