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SESSION 2:
Commencing at 11am on Saturday 20 October 2012
At The Freemasons Hall, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2
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ABBOT (Robert).
The Second Part of the Defence of the
Reformed Catholicke. Wherein the religion established in our
Church of England (for the points here handled) is apparently
iustified by authoritie of Scripture, and testimonie of the
auncient Church, against the vaine cauillations collected by
Doctor Bishop seminary priest, as out of other popish writers,
so especially out of Bellarmine, and published vnder the name
of The marrow and pith of many large volumes, for the
oppugning thereof.
Londini [R. Field], impensis George Bishop.
1607
Pages (16), 176, 187-1241, (1, blank), complete thus in spite of
pagination jump, 4to, contemporary boards - all that is presently
left of the original calf or vellum binding, but the cords are
strong and the boards are secure: a very good to nice, well-
margined copy.
STC 49. Abbot (1559/60-1618), Bishop of Salisbury. His reputation
was increased by the publication in 1594 of his ‘Mirror of Popish
Subtleties, ’ designed as a refutation of the arguments advanced by
Sander and Bellarmine against the protestant theory of the sacraments.
But the work which chiefly served to establish his reputation with his
contemporaries was his ‘Defence of the Reformed Catholike of Mr.
William Perkins’ (published in three separate parts, 1606–9). The
‘Reformed Catholike’ of that eminent divine was admitted by writers of
the Roman party to be the ablest exposition of heretical belief, and
Abbot, in his ‘Defence, ’ clearly indicates his sympathy with the puritan
party, deriving the true tradition of the early church through the
Albigenses, Lollards, Huguenots, and Calvinists, in distinct opposition
not only to Tridentine doctrine, but also to the views of the Arminian
party, which were then beginning to gather strength within the English
church (pt. ii. p. 55). In the concluding part he drew ‘the true ancient
Roman Catholike’ as he himself conceived the character (DNB).
€200-€300 (£160-£240 approx.)
506
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ACKLOM (J. E.).
England’s Agricultural Rifle
Volunteers: a further development of the town rifle volunteers as
now existing.
No printer, publisher, place or date
(1871)
Drop-title, 12-pages, 8vo, unbound, sewn as issued: a little dusty
but a very good copy
COPAC locates the Bristol University copy only. WorldCat has no
library holdings.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MARTIN (Wm. Henry).
The
social crisis in England. A letter addressed by permission to the
Rt. Hon. The Earl of Shaftesbury … by W. Martin. Fifth
edition.
Birmingham: White and Pike,
1874. Pages 18, (1, adverts),
8vo, unbound, sewn as issued: small stamp on title, but very
good.
On improved housing for the working classes.
(2)
HART (Mary H.).
Poverty and its remedy. Papers on the
reconciliation of capital and labour.
Issued by the Decorative Co-
operators’ Association …
[1885?]. FIRST COLLECTED
EDITION, pages (2), 20: 11, (1): 7, (1): 11, four parts in 1 vol,
8vo, in the original, lightly chipped, original printed paper
wrappers: in very good to nice state.
Four articles, each also published separately: - A brief sketch of the
“Maison Leclaire”. —Obstacles to industrial reform. —A practical
method of reconciling capital and labour. —The organization of
labour.
(3)
ADAMS (Maurice).
The ethics of social reform. A paper
read at a meeting of the Fellowship of the New Life, London.
W. Reeves,
1887. FIRST EDITION, pages 26, (1, advertisement),
cr 8vo, unbound, sewn as issued: with two small, faint stamps
on the title-page but a very good copy.
The Fellowship sought to transform society by setting an example of
clean simplified living for others to follow. When some members
attempted to become politically involved to aid society’s transformation,
a separate society, the Fabian Society, was also set up. All members were
free to attend both societies. The Fellowship was disbanded in the early
1890s.
(4)
ELLIS (Wm.).
A chart of industrial life: with some
instructions for its use.
London: Simpkin & Marshall, Manchester:
A. Ireland & Co.,
1869. FIRST EDITION, pp 33, (1, blank), large
12mo, unbound, sewn as issued: very good copy
Ellis (1800–1881), economist and educational reformer, sought to
inculcate useful knowledge by ‘investigation and well-directed research’,
rather than rote learning, always with a view to the most important
knowledge of all: ‘the knowledge of the laws of conduct which affect
human well-being and the obedience to which only can the welfare of
the individual and the community be obtained’. - Blyth.
(5)
IMPEY (Frederick).
Small Holdings in England. A paper
read at the meeting of the British Association at Dublin, 1908,
and with additions republished in the “Revue Economique
Internationale” Brussels.
P. S. King & Son …,
1909. FIRST
EDITION THUS, 28-pages, 8vo, disbound but retaining the
original stiff printed paper wrappers: with a small stamp on the
title-page, but a very good copy
In 1886 Impey published his “Three acres and a cow”: one of the best
statements of the case for small holdings.
(6);
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
507
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AESOP.
Æsopi Phrygis fabulæ, elegantissimis iconibus
veras animalium species ad viuum adumbrantibus. Gabriæ
Græci fabella XLIII. [Batrachomuomachia] Homeri, hoc est,
ranarum & murium pugna. [Galeo¯muomachia], hoc est felium
& murium pugna, fabulæ græca. Hæc omnia cum Latina
interpretatione. Accesserunt Auieni antiqui auctoris fabulae.
Editio postrema, cæteris castigatior.
Genevae: Typis & sumptibus
Ioannis de Tournes,
1628
In Greek and Latin in parallel columns (and, in a few instances,
on facing pages), with oval woodcut portrait of Aesop on title-
page and 61 woodcut text illustrations, pages 410, (6), 12mo,
contemporary unlettered calf, with the initials “C D” in blind on
both boards and the armorial bookplate of Lord Branden
(“Indignante invidia florebit justus”) on verso of title leaf: light
and not unattractive contemporary colouring added on title-
page woodcut and on one text illustration, very light signs of
use, still a sound, very good, unsophisticated copy.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
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AGRICULTURE.
First [- Second - Third] Report from the
select committee [: of the Commons] appointed to inquire into
the State of Agriculture; with the Minutes of Evidence and
Appendix [and extensive index]. [with:] Agriculture. Return to
an address to His Majesty … Copies of any instructions …
addressed to, of any reports received from His Majesty’s consuls
abroad, with respect to the state of agriculture, and the
condition of the population, within the districts of their
consulates - (1833 to 1835) [in France, Prussia, Germany,
Holland and Belgium, and, Italy and Austrian States].
Ordered...
1836
Pages iv, 220: iv, 288: 169, (1): iv, 624; 147 (index), strongly
bound in 2 vols, folio, recent boards, with labels: with some light
marginal foxing in places, but otherwise a strongly bound and
very good set.
A complete set. Command numbers 79, 189, 84 and 465. Important
and valuable for containing much general agricultural information.
Much of the evidence is concerned with the effects of the Corn Laws on
agricultural production. There is much of Irish interest included:
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