A Descriptive Catalogue of The Antiquities of Animal Materials and Bronze. Illustrated with Three Hundred & Seventy-Seven Wood Engravings. Dublin: Hodges, 1861. First Edition. Pp iv, 247-642. Publisher’s green diced cloth boards, with title label to spine. Ex library copy, with ink stamps & with occasional label residue to endpapers; otherwise a nice copy.

The second part of Wilde’s catalogue, the others being; ‘Stone, Earthen, and Vegetable Materials’ & ‘Catalogue of Gold,’ in the Museum of The Royal Irish Academy.

The author Sir William Wilde, was a noted surgeon, antiquarian and father of Oscar Wilde.