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introduction of the Poor Laws into Ireland, Irish bacon and pork,
banking system, Cattle, Price and quality of corn, imports from Ireland
and bad effects on English farmers, Irish flour, labourers, linens, oats,
malt, Poor Commission, Irish produce, &c.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
COTTAGES AND FARM
BUILDINGS.
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Manual
for the guidance of county councils and their architects in the
equipment of small holdings. Part I. Planning and construction
of cottages. Part II. Planning and construction of farm
buildings. September, 1920. 3rd Edition - Revised.
H. M. S. O.,
1920. With 25, mostly full-page, illustrations, 47-pages, folio,
original printed paper wrappers: the spine worn and the
wrappers loose, but still a very good copy. (3)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
509
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AITKEN (Thomas).
Irish Roads Improvement
Association. Good Roads: how to make and how to maintain
them. Efficiency with economy. With an introduction by the
Council of the Irish Roads Improvement Association (Belfast
Centre).
Belfast: Printed by W. & G. Baird, Limited, Royal Avenue,
1902
With 3 plates and 5 text illustrs, pp (2), 20, (1), 8vo, recent
wrapper: very good-nice copy.
A rare piece by a major figure in road-making: we have failed to find
another copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
NORTH (John Henry).
Speech,
delivered in the court of King’s Bench, on the 5th February,
1823, by Mr. North, on behalf of William Graham and Henry
Handwich, upon a trial at bar, of two informations, ex-officio,
filed by His Majesty’s Attorney-General.
Dublin: Richard
Milliken, Grafton-Street …,
1823. FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 46,
8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
COPAC locates copies at C and L only, but O’Higgins, 9. 52, locates
four. A Galway printing followed, presumably later, in the same year.
Graham and Handwich stood accused, along with four others, of an
attempt to assassinate Marquis Wellesley.
(2)
LEO XII, Pope.
The encyclical letter of Pope Leo the XII.,
to his venerable brethern, the patriarchs, primates, archbishops,
and bishops, of the Catholic Church, with an English
translation of the same., to which are annexed pastoral
instructions by the R. C. Archbishops and Bishops, to the clergy
and laity of their communion throughout Ireland.
Dublin:
Printed by Richard Coyne …,
1824. FIRST EDITION THUS,
pages 59, (1, imprint), 8vo, recent wrapper: a very good copy.
The text of the encyclical “Ubi primum” of 3 May 1824. Published by
the Roman Catholic hierarchy of Ireland, together with their joint
pastoral instructions on the subject, Leo XII made himself intensely
unpopular with his subjects by constraining them to observe endless
rules and regulations concerning private as well as public matters.
(3)
WEST (John), Archdeacon of Dublin.
Membership in
Christ and its social obligations. A discourse delivered in Christ
Church Cathedral, Dublin, at the annual meeting of the
Additional Curates’ Fund Society, on Thursday, November 24,
1853.
Dublin: James McGlashan, 50, Upper Sackville Street.
1854.
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, 16-pages, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
COPAC locates three copies and WorldCat makes no additions. There is
a copy on-line in D.
(4)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
510
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[ALEXANDER (Catherine), Countess of Caledon].
Friendly advice to Irish mothers, on training their children.
Armagh: John M’Watters, English-Street,
1842
Pages 116, 12mo, original brown cloth, with printed paper spine
label: with very slight foxing of the endpapers, otherwise a most
attractive copy in original state
Religious and scoial advice, with medical, culinary and household hints
for Irish peasant mothers. The writer (1786-1863) cites her better
education, extensive travels and “having lived much in England” as
enabling her to analyse, and proscribe for, the character of the native
Irish. Pages 52 onwards comprise household, and some farming,
receipts. First published at Armagh in 1839. A London edition followed
in 1840: all three editions are particularly uncommon.
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
511
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ALISON (Archibald).
Essays on the nature and principles
of taste. The fourth edition.
Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay
for Archibald Constable …,
1815
Pages xxix, 376: (4), 447, with the half-titles, 2 vols, 8vo,
strongly bound in contemporary diced brown calf, gilt bordered
sides, fully gilt spines, with double lettering-pieces and with the
large oval stamp in gilt on each upper board of the ‘Feinalgian
Institution Luxembourg’: with small circular stamps on title-
pages, otherwise a strongly bound and very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
CARTAUD DE LA VILATE
(François).
Essai historique et philosophique sur le goût.
Londres [no printer or publisher, Paris printed?]
1751. Pages (8), 327,
(1, blank), 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine: very
good copy.
The third edition (previous editions were Paris, 1736 and The Hague,
1737) of an influential, wide ranging essay on taste. ESTC90 notes L,
Ota, CtY-BA and IU.
(2)
BURNET (John), FRS.
Practical Essays on various
branches of the fine arts … (with) a critical inquiry into the
principles and practice of the late Sir David Wilkie.
D. Bogue,
1848. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, with frontispiece
(lightly foxed), pp x, (1), 200, and 4, (16) adverts, with initial
advert leaf and half-title, 8vo, recent quarter calf: very good to
nice. (4)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
512
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[ALLESTREE (Richard)].
The lively oracles given to us.
Or the christians birth-right and duty, in the custody and use of
the Holy Scripture. By the author of the Whole duty of man,
&c.
At the Theater in Oxford (with 2-line tipped-on printed slip, And
are to be sold by Thomas Guy at the corner / of Lumbardstreet and
Cornhill, London)
1678
FIRST EDITION, VARIANT ISSUE, with engraved
frontispiece (“burg sculp. “, ie Michael Burghers) and engraved
vignette title-page, pages (12), 88, 73(bis) - 80, 97 - 226, (1),
complete thus, with imprimatur leaf, 8vo, contemporary deep,
dark green morocco, gilt, gilt panelled sides, richly gilt spine,
with label, gilt, edges gilt: with the near contemporary signature
of Frederick Rogers: an attractive copy.
Wing A 1149(?). No Madan entry exactly describes this copy. We have
failed to find another copy with the added imprint slip for Thomas Guy.
In this copy the title-page lines 6-7 have ’SCRIPTuRE... DUTY’; p. 3,
last line has ’Acts 7. 38. ’; last 8 lines from foot on p. 11 have italic
characters; pp. 89-96 are misnumbered 73-80; p. 131, penultimate line
has ’Clarks’; M2r line 9 up ends “man”; in title on engraved t. p., the
word ’or’ is above ’ri’ of ’birthright’; on title-page engraving the weather
vane points to the left. Sometimes also attributed to Dorothy Pakington,
John Fell, Humphrey Henchman, and Richard Sterne. “A treatise on
the importance and authority of the Scriptures, their fitness for their
sacred object, and the restrictions on their use by the laity in the Roman
Catholic Church. ” - Madan 3169-70.
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
513
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ALMANAC.
The Old and Real Paddy’s Watch, for the
year of Our Lord, 1829. Being the first after leap year.
Dublin:
Printed by Patrick Truth! Correct from Moore’s Almanack
(1829)
Large single sheet, 15 by 20 inches approx, printed on one side
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