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Government, History, &c. Third edition.
Dublin: Printed and sold
by Thomas Morton Bates, 89, Coombe. Nearly opposite Meath-Street,
1797. With 5 folding engraved plates, pages (8), 624, 8vo,
contemporary calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: with light
marginal worming on the last few leaves without serious loss,
and the binding rubbed and worn but still very strong and not
unattractive.
The ‘Directions to the binder” states that five of the plates should be
bound in as in this copy and that the 26 maps be bound in a separate
volume, forming “a complete small or Pocket Atlas”: not present here.
ESTC finds copies at D, Dt, O / PPL, ICU, PU, AuANL and AuWu.
(3)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
519
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ANTHOLOGIA GRAECA.
Epigrammatum Graecorum.
Annotationibus Ioannis Brodaei Turonensis, nec non Vincentii
Obsopoei, et Graecis in pleraque epigrammata scholiis
illustratorum libri VII. Accesserunt Henrici Stephani in
quosdam Anthologiae epigrammatum locos annotationes.
Additi sunt indices tres, pernecessarij.
Francofurti, apud Andreae
Wecheli …,
1600
In Latin and Greek throughout, with large device on title-page,
pages (4), 632, 30, (29), (1, blank), folio, contemporary calf, gilt
spine, with label, gilt, neatly and recently rebaacked retaining
the original backstrip, endpapers and flyleaves; a well-margined
and very good to nice copy, with the armorial bookplate of
Richard Prime.
Adams A 1188 and E 247. Uniting the best text to date with the most
substantial commentary.
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
520
.
APPIANUS, of Alexandria.
… (Greek) Appiani
Alexandrini Rom. historiarvm, Punica, siue Carthaginiensis,
Parthica, Iberica, Syrica, Mithridatica, Annibalica, Celticae &
Illyricae fragmenta quaedam. Item, De bellis civilibus libri V.
Henr. Steph. annotationes in quasdam Appiani historias, & in
conciones per totum opus sparsas.
[Geneva:] Excudebat Henricus
Stephanus,
1592
columns, pages (12), x, (2, blank), 767, (1, blank); 72, 36 (last
leaf blank), complete with the original blank leaves **6 and i6,
folio, strongly bound in near contemporary blind-stamped
vellum, with leather spine label, gilt: a handsome copy with
generous margin, with the armorial bookplate of Joseph
Leycester.
Adams A 1352.
€400-€600 (£320-£480 approx.)
521
.
ARABIAN NIGHTS: - Lane (Edward Wm.).
The
Thousand & One Nights; or, Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.
Translated by Edward William Lane, with an introduction by
Joseph Jacobs, and illustrations by Frank Brangwyn. In six
volumes.
Gibbings & Company,
1896
With decorative titles in red and black and 36 half-tone plates, 6
vols, 8vo, original yellow cloth, printed paper spine labels, edges
uncut: labels lightly rubbed but an attractive set.
Number 94 of 100 sets on large paper, each volume numbered by hand
and the first volume also initialed by Gibbings, the publisher.
(6)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
522
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ARAM (Eugene).
The genuine account of the life and trial
of Eugene Aram, for the murder of Daniel Clark... who was
convicted at York Assizes, August 3, 1759... After a short
narration of the fact, is prefixed, an account of the remarkable
discovery of the human skeleton at Thistle-Hill …With the
apology, which he left in his cell, for the attempt he made on his
own life; and his plan for a lexicon, some pieces of poetry, &c.
… To this edition is further added, the surprizing story of
Jaques du Moulin.
Dublin: Printed by Peter Hoey,
1793
108-pages, 12mo, sewn as issued in original blue paper wrappers
but these are no longer present: a little dusty at beginning and
end but still a very good copy.
A scarce edition: ESTC locates four copies (D, Dm: Yc and McBJ-P -
not in L, C or O). Somewhat enlarged on the 81-pages of the previous
Dublin edition of 1759. Aram’s legacy has been very different from
what he or any of his contemporaries would have imagined. As a
linguist he recognized Celtic as part of the European family of
languages and rejected the sequential origins of European languages in
favour of a lateral relationship as descendants of a common mother
tongue. His view of the prominence of Celtic as the mother tongue has
been discredited by later developments in scholarship, however, and he
has not been remembered in the mainstream history of philology. His
greater significance is in the context of popular English literary history
in the century following his execution. Evoking little public sympathy at
the time of his death, he was afterwards elevated to heroism as a symbol
of the human capacity for both good and evil. His shocking arrest was
dramatized in Hood’s familiar ballad ‘The Dream of Eugene Aram’
(1829), and his life romanticized to almost Byronic proportions in
Edward Bulwer’s best-selling eponymous novel of 1832(ODNB).
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
523. ARCHIMEDES. Monumenta omnia mathematica, quae
extant, quorumque catalogum inuersa pagina demonstrat: ex
traditione... D. Francisci Maurolici... opus præclarissimum,
non priùs typis commissum [ed. J. S. Salva].
Panormi
[Palermo]: apud D. Cyllenium Hesperium, sumpt. Antonini
Giardinae bibliopolae Panorm.,
1685
The title-page in red and black with large woodcut device,
with many woodcut diagrams, pages (8), 296, folio, near
contemporary calf, gilt spine, with label, gilt, silk marker: the
binding worn and rubbed but sound and very strong and
otherwise a very good to nice, unpressed copy with generous
margins.
A paraphrase of Archimedes’ works made between 1534 and 1550
by the Sicilian Francesco Maurlico (1494-1575) some of which was
printed at Messina by Paolo Bonacota, 1670-72. This was never
published but the sheets were acquired by Lorenzo di Tommaso and
then confiscated by the Spanish authorities in 1678. Juan Siverstre
Salva acquired 425 copies of the original edition (COPAC). Bound
in are two excerpts from other printings of Archimedes, both are in
Latin and Greek in parallel columns and both have woodcut
diagrams. (1) Planorum Aequiponderantium, seu centra gravitatum
planorum, pp 145-218, signed N-S6, T1. (2) De insidentibus
humido libri duo…, pp 487-549, (1, blank), signed Ss4-6, Tt-Yy6,
Zz4. The first bears an 18C inscription reading “Gennete / Ex libris
Domini s’Gravesande”.
€1,200-€1,500 (£960-£1,200 approx.)
524
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ARGENTINE-CHILE BOUNDARY CLAIMS.
Argentine-Chilian Boundary. A short reply to the Chilian
statement. Presented to the tribunal appointed by His Britannic
Majesty‘s Government “To consider and report upon the
differences which have arisen with regard to the frontier between
the Argentine and Chilian Republics”, to further justify the
Argentine claims for the boundary along the summit of the
Cordiller de los Andes according to the treaties of 1881 & 1893.
(with: Appendix: Award pronounced … Argentine-Chile
Arbitration Report …)
Printed for the Government of the Argentine
Republic by William Clowes and Sons,
1902
With 21 maps and plates, mostly large folding and mostly
folding panoramas and with two endpaper pockets containing
four limp cloth sleeves with printed labels containing 4 further
large folding maps on 14 sheets, pages (4), 67, (1), large 4to,
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