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COLLECTED EDITION, pages viii, 38: 36: 18: 15, (1, blank):
27, (1, advert): 40: 35, (1, blank), 8vo, original cloth, edges
uncut: with a small ink note on the general title-page, wanting
the backstrip and both boards loose, otherwise in very good to
nice state.
An uncommon collection of seven lectures, previously individually
published by Bleakley, as evinced by the advert page, with a collective
title-page and an explanatory note from the publisher. It contains J.
Quarry, The rule of faith and right of private judgment; T. Walker,
The church of Christ; J. N. Lombard, The doctrine of
transubstantiation; W. Thompson, The sacrifice of the amass; H.
Townsend, The doctrine of purgatory; J. Lyons, The necessity of the
reformation; G. Berkeley, The doctrine of the invocation of saints and
angels.
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LEASK (Harold G.).
Irish Castles and Castellated Houses.
Dundalk,
1964. Revised edition, well illustrated, pp (8), 170,
8vo, original cloth, glt: fine in defective dw.
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DENNEHY (Henry Edward).
History of the Great Island,
ancient Cove and modern Queenstown [Co. Cork]. Being the
substance of a lecture … Revised, annotated and supplemented
by James Coleman. (Published for subscribers only).
Cork: Guy
& Co.,
1923. With a portrait and 5 plates, pages ix, (1, blank), (3,
subscriber list), (1, blank), (2), 110, large 12mo, original cloth-
backed printed boards: a tiny marginal wormhole in the first six
leaves without serious loss, otherwise a very good copy.
The subscriber list states at end that 250 copies were printed. Dennehy
was formerly curate and administrator of Queenstown Parish.
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€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
553
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[BENTHAM (Jermey)].
A fragment on government;
Dublin: Printed for J. Sheppard, W. Whitestone …,
1776
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pp (2), xli, 132, 8vo, full polished
calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: a pale old corner stain in a
few places, but still a very good copy, pleasantly bound.
A rare edition of his first published work: ESTC locates only ten copies,
all but one being in the UK and Ireland. A masterly criticism on
Blackstone’s Commentaries, marking a new point of departure in
jurisprudence, criticisms so masterly could come, it was felt, from no
ordinary writer and the work was the first indication of the genius
which later made him the foremost writer in this field.
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
554
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BENYOWSKY (Moritz August von).
Memoirs and
travels … consisting of his military operations in Poland, his
exile into Kamchatka, his escape and voyage from that
peninsula through the northern Pacific Ocean, touching at
Japan and Formosa, to Canton in China, with an account of
the French settlement he was appointed to form upon the island
of Madagascar. Written by himself. Translated from the original
manuscript [by William Nicolson]. In two volumes.
Dublin:
Printed by William Porter, (volume two: by Zachariah Jackson) for P.
Wogan, L. White (and seven others),
1790
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages xxxviii, (2), 390, (2, blank): (4),
372, 2 vols, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt ruled spines,
with red and green labels, gilt: one section of four leaves slightly
sprung, but otherwise a bright, fresh and attractive copy.
The first Irish edition of the English translation of this classic work.
One of the early descriptions of eastern Siberia, with accounts of
Kamschatka, the Kurile Islands and the Aleutians. “Contains
information on economic activity in Siberia, Alaska, and the northern
Pacific, as well as an account of an unsuccessful attempt to establish a
settlement in Madagascar. “ - James Ford Bell Catalogue B193.
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€400-€600 (£320-£480 approx.)
555
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BERINGTON (Joseph).
The Memoirs of Gregorio
Panzani; giving an account of his agency in England, in the
years 1634, 1635, 1636. Translated from the Italian original,
and now first published. To which are added, an introduction
and a supplement, exhibiting the state of the English catholic
church, and the conduct of parties, before and after that period,
to the present times.
Birmingham: Printed by Swinney & Walker;
for G. G. J. & J. Robinson, and R. Faulder, London,
1793
FIRST EDITION, pages xliii, (1, blank), 473, (1, blank),
wanting an advert leaf at end, 8vo, strongly bound in 19C dark
brown calf, with label, gilt: the binding worn at corners but very
strong and otherwise a very good copy, internally fine.
The present work elicited ‘Remarks on the book entitled Memoirs of
Gregorio Panzani’ (1794), from the jesuit Charles Plowden, expressing
doubts as to the authenticity of the ms. Berington vindicated its
genuineness in the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine’ for June 1795, and was
answered by Milner in the number for September. Berington’s shorter
works during this period, showing his affinities with Priestley, made
common cause with religious dissenters and supported a public
educational religious code capable of reaching all believers (ODNB).
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
WHITTINGHAM (Wm.) ?.
A
brief discourse of the troubles begun at Frankfurt, in the year
1554, about the Book of Common Prayer and Ceremonies.
Reprinted from the black-letter edition of 1575, with an
introduction.
London: John Petheram,
1846. Pages xiv, (2), ccxv,
8vo, original cloth: the spine slightly worn but otherwise sound
and strong and a very good copy.
Probabbly written by Whittingham, Dean of Durham (c. 1524-79),
whose Calvinistic views forced him to flee from England. He took a
leading part in the organization of the English congregation at
Frankfurt, where he supported Knox against Cox, and on Knox’s
defeat, followed him to Geneva.
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THOMPSON (Edward Healy).
The unity of the episcopate
considered, in reply to the work of the Rev. T. W. Allies …
Thomas Richardson and Son …,
1847. FIRST EDITION, pages
xii, 243, (1, adverts), large 12mo, original cloth, with printed
paper spine label: the label chipped, otherwise a very good to
nice, mainly unopened, copy.
Thompson (d. 1891), after some years of Anglican ministry at
Marylebone, Ramsgate, and elsewhere, became a Catholic in 1846 and
published as his defence: “Remarks on certain Anglican Theories of
Unity” (1846); “The Unity of the Episcopate considered” (1847); and
“A few earnest thoughts on the Duty of Communion with the Catholic
Church” (1847). In 1851 he undertook the editorship of the valuable
series of controversial pamphlets known as “The Clifton Tracts”. Most
of his useful work consisted in the skilful adaptations of foreign books
which he thought were of value to English-speaking Catholics (Cath.
Ency.).
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[HOPE (Alexander James Beresford Beresford)].
Letters
on Church Matters. By D. C. L. Reprinted from the “Morning
Chronicle”. Vol. I [- II. - III].
James Ridgway
1851-51-52-52.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, pages (2), 154: (4), 155-310:
(4), 311-470: (2), 471-576, 3 vols in 4 bound in 1 vol, 8vo,
contemporqary half calf: in very good state.
Hope (1820-87), one of the most active and enthusiastic among private
patrons of the Gothic revival: his devotion to the Church of England
was the leading feature of his life. In 1851, at the time of ‘the papal
aggression’, he wrote this series of 130 letters (here complete) to the
‘Morning Chronicle’ in vindication of religious liberty
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LELAND (John).
The advantage and necessity of the
christian revelation … and a summary of the principal
evidences for the truth and divine origin of the christian
religion; by the Right Rev. Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London.
Dublin: Graisberry and Campbell,
1818. Pages (2), 236, 8vo, neatly
bound in cloth, all edges uncut: with some light foxing and the
occasional pencil note or mark: a very good copy.
An uncommon edition: not found in COPAC or NSTC.
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€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
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