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Wing C 4188D. See Griffiths 87: 13. Largely the translation of John
Durel (1625-83)
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WEDGWOOD: - Meteyard (Eliza).
The life of Josiah
Wedgwood from his private correspondence and family papers...
With an introductory sketch of the art of pottery in England.
Hurst and Blackett,
1865-66
FIRST EDITION, with 2 coloured plates, 10 other plates and
273 full-page and other illustrations, pages xxxv, 504: xxiv, 643, 2
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, 8vo, light old damp stain on the very extreme margins of
preliminary leaves, but still a finely and strongly bound copy in
full contemporary dark green morocco, gilt, gilt bordered sides
with a large central urn device in gilt on boards, fully gilt spines,
inside gilt borders, all edges gilt: an attractive copy.
A handsome copy of the original and best edition of this authoritative
work, usually found in well-used state. It is still the fullest single picture
of the potter and his world.
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
482
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WELD (Charles Richard).
A vacation tour in the United
States and Canada.
Longman, Brown …,
1855
FIRST EDITION, with a folding map, pages xi, 394, small 8vo,
contemporary half calf, with label, gilt: binding a little rubbed
but sound and strong, otherwise a very good copy.
Staton & Termaine 3620, ‘visiting Peterborough, Cobourg, Montreal,
Quebec and Toronto’ and also through Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
Virginia and Ohio. C. R. Weld (1813-69), historian of the Royal
Society, son of Isaac Weld of Dublin. He was the chief helper of
Franklin in the home work connected with his Arctic explorations, and
was an authority on every matter connected with the polar circle.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
WYON (Reginald) and PRANCE
(Gerald).
The Land of the Black Mountain. The adventures of
two Englishmen in Montenegro.
Methuen & Co.,
1903. FIRST
EDITION, folding map and 51 illustrations on 40 plates, pp
xviii, 300, 40 (ads), 8vo, finely bound in recent half calf, gilt, with
contrasting label, gilt: a very good-nice copy.
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KELLY (Walter Keating).
Syria and the Holy Land, their
scenery and their people. Being incidents of travel, from the best
and most recent authorities, including J. L. Burckhardt, Lord
Lindsay, and Dr. Robinson.
Chapman and Hall
[1844] (3)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
483
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WELLWISHER OF IRELAND.
A few thoughts on an
union, with some observations upon Mr. Weld’s pamphlet of “no
union. “ Addressed to the yeomenry of Dublin, by a wellwisher
of Ireland.
Dublin: Printed for J. Milliken,
1799
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages (3), 6 - 37, (1, blank), complete
thus, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: with a faint old water stain but
otherwise a very good to nice copy with the contemporary
signature of Capt Edward Walsh on page (3).
Mc Cormack F 3. Attributed to Alex Tytler Esq in the Dt copy. Also
issued as part of ’Tracts on the subject of an union’.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[JOHNSON (Wm.) ].
Reasons for
adopting an union between Ireland and Great Britain. By the
author of The Letter to Jos. Spencer, Esq.
Dublin: Printed for J.
Milliken, 32, Grafton-Street,
1799. FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 61,
(1, blank), 8vo, recent wrapper: a very good-nice copy.
Mc Cormack R 2. Goldsmiths’ 17531.
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[GIFFARD (Sir Ambrose Hardinge) ].
Union or not? By an
Orangeman.
Dublin: Printed by J. Milliken, No. 32, Grafton-Street,
1799. FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 42, with the half-title, 8vo,
recent wrapper: a very good copy
Mc Cormac U 8. Apparently, the only edition. A pro-union pamphlet by
the Wexford-born Giffard (1771–1827). While at TCD in 1785 his
private tutor was, for a few months, Theobald Wolfe Tone. In this copy
the catchword on sig. F1r is ‘their’: a variant, differing in style and
phrasing, has ‘weight’. Also issued as part of ’Tracts on the subject of an
union’.
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[JOHNSON (Wm.) ].
The probable consequences of a
union, impartially considered. By a Barrister.
Dublin: Printed for J.
Milliken, 32, Grafton-Street,
1799. FIRST EDITION, pp (4), 18, (2,
blank), with half-title, 8vo, recent wraps: very good copy.
Mc Cormack P 17. Attribution from Black. Apparently, the only edition.
Also issued as part of ’Tracts on the subject of an union’.
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POLITICAL SATIRE.
The contrast, a political pasticcio;
with recitative, cantatas, &c. Chaunted, with variations, in the
opera-house of St. Stephen, by Signor Carlo Reynardo, &c. The
third edition.
Dublin: printed by P. Byrne, No. 35, College-Green.
1784. FIRST IRISH EDITION, lacking frontispiece, pp vi, 50,
8vo, recent wrapper: very good.
Pages 19-29 are headed “East-Indian Affairs. Pickett 1420. A political
satire with reference to Charles James Fox, Edmund Burke, and others.
Carlo Reynardo = Charles James Fox.
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484
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WEST INDIES.
Report from the Committee on the
Commercial State of the West India Colonies.
65. Ordered to be
printed, 24th July
1807
Pages 85, (2, blank), (1), folio, a nice, uncut, disbound copy.
The evidence of seventeen proprietors or traders is included, with
extensive trade statistics.
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SLAVE TRADE.
Class A.
Correspondence with the British Commissioners, at Sierra
Leone, The Havana, Rio de Janeiro, and Surinam, relative to the
Slave Trade. 1831. Presented to both Houses... 1832.
Printed by R.
G. Clarke
(1832). Pages viii, 139, folio, disbound: a nice copy. (2)
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485
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486
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WHEELER (Sir R. E. Mortimer), FRS.
Twenty-Four
Hours’ Leave. By R. E. M. Wheeler.
No Publisher or place
1944
FIRST EDITION, 64-pp, cr 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt: very
good in a worn, plain d. w.
Robert Eric Moretimer Wheeler (1890-1976), one of the foremost British
archaeologists of the 20C. This collection of war-time jottings and some
verse, for the most part jotted down during active service in N. Africa,
was privately published as a farewell token to his friends. COPAC has
Aberystwyth and BL while WorldCat has only a copy at Alberta
University.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
WELLS (Herbert G.).
This
Misery of Boots. Reprinted with alterations from the
Independent Review, December 1905.
The Fabian Society,
1907.
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, 48-pages, small 8vo, original
paper wrapper with a large coloured printed paper title-label on
the upper cover: a very good copy.
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KING (Alfred Castner).
Mountain Idylls and other poems.
Chicago … Fleming H. Revell Company
(1901). FIRST EDITION,
with portrait and 16 plates of Colorado mountain scenery
(including a folding panorama), pp (4), 120, cr 8vo, original
pictorial cloth, edges gilt: a nice copy.
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ELIOT (Thomas S.).
The Classics and the Man of Letters.
The presidential address delivered to the Classical Association on
15 April 1942.
O. U. P.,
1942. FIRST EDITION, 27-pp, small
square 8vo, original printed wraps: very good-nice copy.
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WILSON (Edward M.) and CRUICKSHANK (Don W.).
Samuel Pepys’s Spanish Plays.
The Bibliographical Society,
1980.
FIRST EDITION, with some illustrations, pp (8), 196, 8vo,
original cloth: a nice, fresh copy.
Describing in detail the 26 Spanish plays and 2 pamphlets in the vol
Pepys 1553.
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