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only, with a large (4 by 3. 5 inches approx.) woodcut at top centre
and, across the bottom quarter of the sheet, the fairs and their
dates in 13 central and northern English counties, the whole
within a border of printer’s ornaments: folded, but in very good
to nice state, unusual for such a fragile item.
WorldCat has issues for 1812 and 1820 - both of which are at the
Guildhall Library, London, none in the USA. Not represented in
COPAC and not on-line in D or Dt.
€300-€400 (£240-£320 approx.)
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ALTHAUS (Julius), MD.
The Spas of Europe.
Trübner &
Co.,
1862
FIRST EDITION, pages xix, (2, errata), 494 and (2), 32
advertisements, 8vo, original green cloth: the binding, though just
a little worn at the headbands and the inside hinges cracked, still
very strong and otherwise a clean and very good copy.
A substantial work. Althaus (1833-1900), the first to employ electrolysis
for medical purposes, took his degree at Berlin in 1855, worked with
Charcot in Paris and later settled in London where he was instrumental
in founding the Regent’s Park Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MAIDEN HOSPITAL.
for
governing and managing the Maiden-Hospital, founded by the
Company of Merchants, and Mary Erskine, in Anno 1695 …
1731.
A fascinating glimpse of the rules under which poor women and girls of
Edinburgh city were sheltered and provided for. The penultimate of five
editions noted by Hanson (252) which were published at Edinburgh
between 1702 and 1734.
(2)
[SANDERS (E.), Miss].
Practical Face Treatment and
Natural Beauty.
Truslove, Hanson & Comba
[1902]. FIRST
EDITION, with 3 plates, pages 46, (2, adverts), cr 8vo, original
red cloth, gilt: slightly shaken, but still a very good copy.
(3)
SCHREBER (Daniel G. M.), MD.
Medical Indoor
Gymnastics: or, A System of Hygienic Exercises for home use...
Revised and supplemented by R. Graefe... Translated from the
twenty-sixth German edition by H. A. Day …
London; Leipzig
printed: Williams & Norgate,
1899. With large folding plate & 45
illustrs, pp x, 98, 8vo, original pictorial cloth: nice, fresh copy.
Schreiber (1808-61), principal of a Leipzig orthopaedic mental hospital,
developed this new system of physical education and youth gymnastics.
He was also a pioneer of the therapeutic effects of allotment gardening.
(4)
MENDEL: - Wilson (James).
A manual of Mendelism
A. &
C. Black,
1916. FIRST EDITION, pages (8), 152, cr 8vo, original
cloth: a very good to nice copy.
W. was Prof of Agriculture in the Royal College of Science for Ireland,
Dublin. This work, a highly detailed exposition of Gregor Mendel’s
theories, includes some added examples cited from Irish sources, including
the hens of a Miss Murphy from the Munster Institute, Cork.
(5)
SMITH (Eustace), MD.
A practical treatise on disease in
children. Second edition.
J. & A. Churchill,
1889. Pages xxiv, 895,
16(ads), 8vo, original cloth: spine neatly repaired: a very good
copy.
A very extensive monograph, here revised, enlarged, and with a new 2-
page preface.
(6)
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
515
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516
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ANDERSEN (Hans Christian).
Fairy Tales.
Hodder and
Stoughton
[1924]
FIRST EDITION THUS, with 12 mounted coloured plates, with
printed tissue guards, 17 full-page and many other line
illustrations, pages 197, (3, blank), 4to, original green cloth, gilt:
the attractive binding sound and strong, inside hinges intact, very
small marginal fore-edge stain barely obtrudes and the attractive
series of coloured plates in excellent state.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
MILNE (A. A.).
A Gallery of
Children. Illustrated by Saida (H. Willebeek le Mair).
Stanley Paul
& Co.,
1925. FIFTH EDITION, with coloured title and 12
attractive coloured plates in delicate colouring, pages 105, (1),
large 4to, original blue cloth with coloured overlay: a nice, fresh
copy.
First published in the same year. A charming book, rarely found in nice
state.
(2)
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
517
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ANDERSEN (Hans Christian).
In Spain. Translated by
Mrs. [Anne S.] Bushby.
Richard Bentley,
1864
FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, with 8 attractive
engraved plates of views after various artists including Leith Hay,
Bonnington, and Vicars, pages (4), 306, large 12mo, original
brown cloth, gilt, edges gilt: an attractive copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
ROBBINS (Archiibald).
A
journal, comprising an account of the loss of the brig Commerce,
of Hartford (Con.) James Riles, master, upon the western coast
of Africa, August 2nd, 1815; also of the slavery and suffering of
the author and the rest of the crew, upon the Desert of Zahara, in
the years 1815, 1816, 1817; with accounts of the manners,
customs, and habits of the wandering Arabs; also, a brief
historical and geographical view of the continent of Africa. Fifth
edition.
Hartford. Published by Silas Andrus …,
1818. With a
folding map (misfolded and frayed on the outer, eastern, side,
with slight loss), 275-pages, 12mo, contemporary, presumably
original, sheep, gilt ruled spine, with red label, gilt: with the usual
light browning throughout, but still a good to very good copy in a
custom-made, fleece-lined folding quarter morocco library case,
with fully gilt and lettered spine. (2)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
518
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ANKETELL (John).
Poems on several subjects. To which
are added, the epistle of Yarico to Inkle; and the English and
Latin songs of Chevy Chase.
Dublin: Printed for the Author, by
William Porter,
1793
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, pages (2), lvii, (23), 333, (1,
blank), with the 26-page subscriber list and errata leaf, 8vo,
contemporary calf, neatly rebacked retaining the original label,
gilt: used and stained, but a good sound copy.
Anketell (b. 1750?), possibly of Monaghan, contributed to the Dublin
Chronicle and to Walker’s Hibernian Magazine. His very lengthy preface
is full of personal complaints at lack of subscription, yet his subscription
list is an ample one. “He is most interesting as a poet when he deals with
local and national customs. “ - O’Donoghue.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SHERIDAN (Thomas).
Lectures
on the Art of Reading; first part: containing the art of reading
prose.
Printed for J. Dodsley, J. Wilkie, E. and C. Dilly and T. Davies,
1775. FIRST EDITION, pages xii, 392, the preliminary leaves
misbound but complete, 8vo, old half calf over marbled boards,
the spine repaired, with new label, gilt: a very good copy.
The second part, not present, on reading poetry, followed.
(2)
WALKER (John).
Elements of geography, and of natural
and civil history. Containing, I. The Order of the Spheres. II. The
Economy of the Sublunary Works of Creation, inanimate and
living. III. Picturesque and general Sketches of the different Parts
of the Earth; and the varied Appearances and Manners of it’s
Inhabitants. IV. The Rise, Revolution, and Fall, of the principal
Empires of the World. V. Changes through different Ages in the
Manners of Mankind. VI. VII. VIII. IX. Description of the
different Quarters of the World; Europe, Asia, Africa, and
America. Their Divisions into Countries, Provinces, &c. Their
Climates, Soils, Animals, Plants, Minerals, Mountains, Rivers,
Lakes, Canals, Commerce, Manufactures, Curiosities, Schools,
Learning, Literati, Religious Professions, Language,
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