Jeremiah Curtin. Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World collected from Oral Tradition in South-West Munster. Little Brown : Boston 1895 First American edition. Green cloth hardcover with gold lettering. Some flecking of the color on the cloth, gold gilt dulled. Sl wear to head and foot. S. bumping of the corners. Octavo 198 pp

“Curtin visited Ireland in 1871, 1872, 1887, 1891, and 1892-93; collected folklore in south-west Munster and other regions with the aid of interpreters; visited the Aran Islands; issued Myths and Folklore of Ireland (1890; reps. 1911; 1975), among the first accurate collections of folk material, and an important source for W. B. Yeats (viz., “Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea”); also Hero Tales of Ireland (1894) and Tales of the Fairies and Ghost World (1895); he proudly possessed a note from Gladstone applauding his work on Irish mythology.” Ricorso – A Knowledge of Irish Literature.

“The volume before us comprises, of course, many variants of tales already well known, while others appear to be quite new. All are told with freshness; and most of them illustrate with striking force Mr. Curtin’s statement that the beliefs to which they relate ” are among the main articles of faith for a good number of the old people” still living. Scattered up and down are interesting observations on the practices of the peasantry, those on funeral customs and the superstitions attaching to the clothes of the dead being specially worth study.” Folklore Vol 6 1895

King, William (1650-1729). The State of the Protestants of Ireland (1633-1701)
Dublin: Powell 1733 Rebound in modern leather with marbled boards. Good Octavo 270 +124 pp appendix.

This volume came out originally in 1691 and lists the names of the military units, chancery courts and other civil officials. King was best known for De Origine Mali

William Ridgeway. The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards. Martino 2006 Grey cloth hardcover with blue lettering. Sl soiling to cover.Octavo 417 pp Facsimile of 1892 edition

Hibbert, Samuel. A Description of the Shetland Islands Comprising an Account of Their Scenery, Antiquities and Superstitions. T & J Manson : Edinburgh 1891 Leather rebound spine with original boards. Good Quarto 294 pp Reprint of 1822 edition but without the maps and plates that were in that edition with the exception of the frontispiece

Bernd Peyer. Native Americans of the Northeast: The Tutor’d Mind : Indian Missionary-Writers in Antebellum America. University of Massachusetts Press 1997. Softcover. Very good cond. Octavo 420 pp

“Each of whom struggled to negotiate a secure place between the imperatives of colonial rule and the rights of native peoples. In the view of the English colonists and their descendants, Indian converts to Christianity were expected to repudiate native traditions and affirm the superiority of European civilization, to serve as role models, and to spread the gospel far into the wilderness. Yet as Bernd C. Peyer shows, Indian missionaries did not always fulfill the expectations of those who trained them. Once the Indians recognized that conversion alone did not guarantee protection from discrimination, they devised a variety of strategies, theological as well as practical, to resist assimilation into the dominant white culture. Making effective use of their literacy and education, they called attention to the discrepancy between the Protestant ideals they had been taught and the Anglo-American practices to which native people were subjected. By uncovering this subtext of dissent and resistance, Peyer at once alters and enriches our understanding of the evolution of the American Indian literary tradition.”

JH Crouwel. Well Built Mycenae Fasc. 21 : Mycenaean Pictorial Pottery. Oxbow 1991 Softcover. Very Good. Unused Octavo 48 pp

” They come from the Citadel House area on the south-west slope of the acropolis, and represent a corpus of material that is valuable both for its quantity and the variety of shapes and designs, andfrom the fact that it comes from controlled excavations.”

Farmer, John S. edit.(pseudonym for E.O. Wolcott).  Merry Songs and Ballads prior to the year AD 1800. Privately printed for Subscribers only. National Ballad and Song 1897 5 vols.  Leather covers, ribbed spines Some have cracked hinges. Volume three has a 1.5 ” tear to the leather at the hinge. Vol 5 has damage to spine. Vol 5 cover detached but present. Needs a bookbinder’s tender mercies. Quarto 280, 267, 286, 287, 269 pp

” It has often been observed that the only connection between scholars and dollars is the rhyme. Farmer’s was an outstanding case of utter devotion to a valuable and quixotic work, struggling and staggering for decades under the encumbrance of crippling penury.  No connection with the university world in which scholarly publication has always been a patronized activity so long as it stays safe and polite. A sort of allowed self-advertising by means of which instructors slowly become professors, on the unwritten law of ‘Publish or perish!’ – Framer would under ordinary circumstances, have had recourse to commercial publishers. He however, made up his mind to produce linguistic and folkloristic works absolutely unexpurgated during the notably prudish late Victorian age, which is not yet over by any means so far as scholarly publication is concerned…”

W. M. Flinders Petrie and LI Griffith. Two Hieroglyphic Papyri from Tanis. Martino Publishing 2007 Rust colored hardcover with gold lettering. Very good cond. Folio 25 pp text, 15 line drawing plates Facsimile of 1889 edition

John Hoole, edit. Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Otridge and Son et al. : London 1799 5 volumes. Rebound in black covers with gold lettering (not by Rock Top Bindery) . Good. Frontispiece to Vol 3 missing. Octavo 335, 322, 407, 438, 427 pp not including postscript and index

Caroline Johnson. The King’s Servants. Men’s dress at the accession of Henry VIII. A Tudor Tailor Case Study. Fat Goose Press 2009. Softcover, unused condition. Quarto 48 pp