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of David Rothe, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ossory, ed. 

 1 6 17-19; a complete copy (rarely met with) of the 

 Acta Sanctorum of John Colgan (Louvain, 1645-7). 

 The Joly collection also contains a number of illus- 

 trated works — Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 ; Herwologia 

 Anglic a, Lond. 1620, the first book of English por- 

 traits; Iconograpbie des contemporains, Paris, 1832; 

 three Voyages of Captain Cook ; and a set of plates 

 illustrating the coronations of Napoleon and King 

 George IV. 1 



In this collection are to be found, in addition, 

 about twenty volumes of manuscripts nearly all re- 

 lating to Irish affairs. Among them will be found 

 a transcript of Keating's History of Ireland, made 

 in 1722 by Eugene O'Rahilly ; a copy of the Down 

 Survey of the county of Tipperary ; materials for a 

 statistical survey of Tipperary, 1833 (the volume 

 of this series for Tipperary was not printed ; see 

 pp. 183-4); records of the French consulate in Alex- 

 andria (a fragment, 1687-1694), found in Alexandria 

 when the British captured the city in 1807; Life of 

 Sir Richard Cox by Walter Harris ; Report of the 

 Commissioners on Bogs, and reports of surveyors em- 

 ployed by the Royal Dublin Society in making their 

 survey of bogs, bound in twelve volumes. One large 

 volume contains a number of unpublished plans and 

 sections. Translations from Buchoz's Dictionnaire 

 Veterinaire, made by the Rev. Dr. Lanigan ; Instruc- 

 tions for Shepherds, a translation made by Dr. Lanigan 

 in 1 800-1 ; and four volumes on mineralogy by Sir 

 Charles Giesecke. 2 



The Thorpe collection of Irish Historical Tracts, 



1 For these particulars I am indebted to The National Library of 

 Ireland, by Guthrie Vine (Library Association Record, 1902). 



2 From Report of the Librarian, National Library, 1900. 



