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[HISTORY - IRELAND] O'KELLY OF AGHRIM, Prosper, Count A Historical Essay on Ireland, containing the origins of all the noble families of that country, followed by a historical chronology of all the kings who ruled Ireland from the earliest times until the English invasion Brussels, D. Wiart, 1837 8vo. Contemporary brown glazed half-calf. Spine with four raised bands adorned with a gold fillet. Title label in black glazed calf with gold lettering. Marbled edges. Stains and foxing. First edition of this rare genealogical and historical work written by Count Prosper O’Kelly of Aghrim, a descendant of an ancient line of Irish nobility that took refuge on the continent. This treatise traces the origins of Ireland’s great noble houses as well as the chronological succession of its sovereigns up to the Anglo-Norman conquest. The copy is complete with all its plates, including maps and large fold-out genealogical charts (tears). References: De Jonghe Catalog, 8875 Also included: GUIZOT, François Monk. The Fall of the Republic and the Restoration of the Monarchy in England, 1660. A Historical Study Brussels, Meline, Cans et Compagnie, 1851 In-12°. Contemporary brown glazed half-calf. Spine with 4 raised bands decorated with a gold fillet. An important Belgian reprint published in the same year as the original Paris edition (by Didier). Written by the historian and statesman François Guizot, this text was originally published as an article in 1837 before being extensively revised in 1851. The main interest of this edition lies in its political preface, in which Guizot draws a striking parallel between the end of the English Puritan republic and the situation in France in 1851 (on the eve of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s coup d’état), as well as in the numerous unpublished supporting documents and diplomatic correspondence appended at the end. Provenance: from the library of Philippe Kervyn of Volkaersbeke (bookplate and/or library label)