Sale will feature rare book auction as well as a wide choice of reasonably priced second-hand books
A drawing by Flora Mitchell of the Campanile in Trinity College Dublin. Mitchell's 1966 book Vanishing Dublin will be among those on sale at the college next week. Photograph: iStock. Introduced in 1990 but not held since February 2020 – just before the Covid pandemic – the book sale goes ahead on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week in the Exam Hall in Front Square of the historic campus.
The three-day long event begins with an auction of rare books at 5.30pm on Tuesday, February 11th. The highlights ofmore than 80 rare books on history, travel and children’s and adult literature, according to Ferguson are the much sought-after Vanishing Dublin by Flora Mitchell and the three volumes of Peter Harbison’s The High Crosses of Ireland , which is the definitive work on the subject. Viewing for the Rare Books Sale begins at noon and admission to the auction itself is €3.
Proceeds from these book sales go towards the purchase of research materials for college libraries, and the sale is run by volunteers. Books purchased from the funds include the personal library of Dean Jonathan Swift, 18th-century French political pamphlets, a set of 1864 maps of Dublin, as well as modern scientific texts not otherwise available to the libraries at Trinity College.have about 400 books in the Irish language in their latest catalogue.
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