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popular of the series running to six editions by 1852. Responding to the
perceived threat of transmutationist theories Kidd sought to demonstrate
the natural superiority of man to all other animals.
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€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
469
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VIOLLET-LE-DUC (Eugène E.).
Lectures on
Architecture. Translated from the French... by Benjamin
Bucknall.
Sampson Low...,
1877-81
With 51 plates (38 double-page or folding, 2 tinted, l coloured)
and about 200 text illustrations, pp viii, 487 and erratum leaf:
viii, 468, 2 vols, large roy 8vo, original roan-backed cloth: the
spines neatly repaired and with some very light foxing in places:
a very good copy.
First edition of this translation. A key work, notable for its frank
acceptance of the role of iron in architectural construction.
(2)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
470
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VIVA (Domenico), SJ.
Damnatae Theses … (with: De
Jubilaeo, praesertim anni sancti … Quesnellianae Theses …)
Patavii [Passau], ex typographia Seminarii, apud Joannem Manfre,
1727-21
Pages (20), 596: (12), 103, (1): (40), 513, (11), 2 works in 5 parts
bound in 2 vols, 4to, strongly bound in contemporary blind-
stamped vellum over wooden boards, with metal clasps (one
clasp defective): the handsome bindings and the text throughout
in nice state.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HONORÉ DE SAINTE-
MARIE, OCD.
Animadversiones in regulas et usum critices …
Accedunt notationes historicae, cronologicae, et criticae …
Venetiis, excudebat Franciscus Pitteri,
1738-38-39. FIRST
ITALIAN EDITION, with 7 tables (2 folding), pp (32), 656, (3,
errata): xx, 494: xx, 396, 3 vols, 4to, contemporary mottled calf,
fully gilt spines, with red and green labels, gilt: some wear at
headbands but the bindings strong and attractive and still a
handsome set.
(2)
BELLARMINE (Robert), St, Cardinal, SJ.
Explanatio in
Psalmos. Editio novissima, ab innumeris mendis, &
omissionibus ex collatione diversorum adinuicem exemplarium
expurgata.
Lugduni, sumpt. Hieron. de la Garde, & Ioan. Girin,
1657. The title-page in red and black, with woodcut vignette,
pages (16), 1086, (26), 4to, contemporary calf, fully gilt spine:
the binding heavily worn but strong and the cords secure, with
some minor staining in places, but still a sound and very good
copy.
An edition not in Backer & Sommervogel.
(6);
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
471
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VOLTAIRE (François M. A. de).
The History of Charles
XII. King of Sweden. Translated from the French. The sixth
edition.
Dublin: Printed by A. Rhames, for George Risk … George
Ewing … and William Smith …
1732
FIRST IRISH EDITION, with an engraved portrait frontispiece,
pages viii, 315, (1), large 12mo, contemporary calf, with label,
gilt: a very good to nice copy.
The scarce first Irish edition of the English translation of this
pioneering essay in historiography: ESTC locates copies at Bodleian,
Toronto and Wesleyan University. There was another Dublin issue of
the same year comprising 300-pages.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
472
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VOLTAIRE (François M. A. de).
The Temple of Taste.
By M. De Voltaire.
Glasgow: Printed by Robert Urie.
1751
Pages xiv, 15-96, 12mo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy
An uncommon edition, represented in ESTC by eight copies. Inspired
by Alexander Pope’s Dunciad, this was Voltaire’s attempt to satirise
French cultural dullness. It provoked many denunciations.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[LESLIE (Charles) ].
Deism
Refuted, or the truth of christianity demonstrated, by infallible
proof from four rules which are incompatible to any imposture
that can possibly be. In a letter to a friend. By a lover of truth.
Dublin: Printed for Tho. Watson,
1755. FIRST IRISH EDITION
THUS, pp (6), 106, 12mo, recent wrapper: small blank portion
cut from title and replaced and with a faint stamp in two places,
otherwise a very good copy
An uncommon edition of a work first published in 1711 as ’The truth of
Christianity demonstrated.. ’. ESTC locates three copies: Killiney
(Dublin), Harvard and Iowa. Leslie (1650-1722), Irish-born nonjuring
divine and ardent Jacobite. His voluminous writings are learned and
ranked highly as controversial productions in his day.
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€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
473
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VOLTAIRE (François M. A. de).
The Tragedy of Zara.
As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His
Majesty’s servants.
Dublin: Printed for W. Smith, P. Wilson, J.
Exshaw, and H. Bradley,
1762
64-pages, 12mo, recent paper wrapper: some light old staining,
but a very good copy.
A translation by Aaron Hill of Voltaire’s ’Zaire’. A scarce (ESTC
locates only seven copies), if late, edition: one of two with the same
imprint but different pagination issued in 1762.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MURPHY (Arthur).
The Orphan
of China. A tragedy. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in
Crow-Street. By Arthur Murphy.
Dublin: Printed for W. Gilbert
and H. Chamberlaine,
1787. Pages 70, (2, blank), 12mo, recent
paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Stratman 4690. Translated and feeely adapted from Voltaire’s
L’Orphelin de la Chine. Cast lists for both the Smock-Alley and the
Crow-Street productions are included. ESTC locates seven copies of this
edition: L, D, Dp, Dt / NcD, CSt and KU-S.
(2)
MURPHY (Arthur).
The Old Maid. A comedy in two acts,
as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.
Dublin:
Printed for A. Leathly, H. Saunders, R. Watts (and four others)
1762.
FIRST IRISH EDITION, 36-pages, 12mo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
Based upon C. B. Fagan’s ’L’étourderie’.
(3)
[MURPHY (Arthur) ].
The Desert Island, a dramatic poem,
in three acts. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.
Dublin: Printed for G. and A. Ewing, G. Faulkner, P. Wilson … (and
nine others),
1760. FIRST IRISH EDITION, 60-pages, 12mo,
recent paper wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
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COLMAN (George), the elder.
The Spleen, or Islington
Spa; a comic piece, of two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre
Royal, in Drury Lane.
Dublin: Printed for Messers. Price, Corcoran
… (and 19 others),
1776. FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (8), 28,
21 (bis) - 23, (1, numbered 23), (1, epilogue), 12mo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
(5)
COLMAN (George), the elder.
The Spleen, or Islington
Spa; a comic piece, of two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre
Royal, in Drury Lane.
Dublin: Printed for Messers. Price, Corcoran
… (and 19 others),
1776. FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (8), 28,
21 (bis) - 23, (1, numbered 23), (1, epilogue), 12mo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy. (6)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
474
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VOTES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Numb. 1 [-
5]. Votes of the House of Commons, at Oxford. Lunae 21° die
Martii, 1680/1 …
[Colophon: ] Published by Langley Curtis,
1680-
81
Five numbers, each a single leaf, printed on both sides of the
leaf, folio, recent paper wrapper: with some light browning, but
very good copies.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
POPISH PLOT: -.
The French
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