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assistance of Nathaniel Hooke - for which he was apparently
handsomely paid by her.
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YOUNG (Arthur): - Baker (John Wynn), FRS.
An
abridgment of the six weeks, and six month’s tours … through
the southern, and northern counties of England and part of
Wales. Containing all the most important articles … relating to
agriculture … for the use of the common farmers of Ireland.
Abridged at the request of the Dublin Society.
Dublin: Printed by
S. Powell, in Dame-street, printer to the Society,
1771. FIRST
EDITION, pp 15, (1), 328, 12mo, original blue paper wrapper,
edges uncut: wating backstrip, just a little dog-eared at
beginning, otherwise clean, sound copy in original state.
Without the frontispiece usually present.
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€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
562
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BERKELEY (George).
The medicinal virtues of tar water
fully explained … To which is added, the receipt for making it,
and instructions to know by the colour and taste of the water
when the tar is good, and of the right sort. Together with a plain
explanation of the Bishop’s physical terms. Digested for the
benefit of all who drink it, and those who make it themselves.
[London:] Dublin printed, London reprinted, for the proprietors of the
Tar-Water Warehouse, behind the Thatch’d-House-Tavern, in St.
James’s-Street; and sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-row,
1744
FIRST EDITION UNDER THIS TITLE, 32-pages, 8vo, recent
wrapper: a very good copy.
“This account of tar-water is taken from Siris, though with many
adjustments. No Dublin edition has yet been found. All the addresses
are in London, and the ‘reprinting’ may refer only to the original edition
of Siris, from which this is taken. “ - Keynes 69. Jessop 147.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
563
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BERNAL (Ralph): -.
Catalogue of the celebrated
collection of works of art, from the Byzantine period to that of
Louis Seize, of that distinguished collector, Ralph Bernard,
Esq., deceased; also, of the beautiful decorative furniture and
service of plate: which (by order of the executors) will be sold
by auction, by Messrs. Christie & Manson, at the mansion, No.
93 Eaton Square, commencing on Monday, March the 5th,
1855, at one o’clock precisely. (1855)
With 34 plates, 357-pages, 8vo, original red cloth, neatly
rebacked: a very good copy.
Bernal (d. 1854), politician but better known as a art collector in glass,
plate, china, armour and miniatures. Following his death an
unsuccessful attempt was made to secure his extensive collection for the
nation. The catalogue extends to 4294 lots, many with prices realised
entered in a contemporary hand, and realised almost £71,000 over
thirty-two days. J. R. Planché contributes a prefatory eulogy of Bernal’s
taste and knowledge.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
WEATHERLEY (Frederick E.).
Out of Town. Illustrated in colour by Linnie Watt. Monotints
by Ernest Wilson.
Hildesheimer & Faulkner
[1884]. FIRST
EDITION, attractively illustrated throughout in colour and in
monotone on 64-pages, 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial
glazed printed paper boards: a very good-nice copy.
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SCHWEIZER ALPENCLUB.
Jahrbuch der Schweizer
Alpenclub. Fünfzigster Jahrgang. 1914 und 1915.
Bern, Schweizer
Alpenclub,
1916. With a coloured frontispiece, 30 plates (2
folding), 5 folding maps and large panoramas in holder at end
and over 100 full-page and other illustrations, pages viii, 440,
4to, original cloth: the binding discoloured but sound, internally
in nice state.
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KAHN (Ely Jacques).
Design in Art and Industry.
New
York: Scribner’s,
1935. FIRST EDITION, with 36 illustrs, 204-
pages, 4to, original cloth, gilt: a very good copy. (4)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
564
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BERNARD (Claude) & HUETTE (Charles).
Illustrated
manual of operative surgery and surgical anatomy. Edited, with
notes and additions, and adapted to the use of the American
medical student, by W. H. Van Buren … and C. E. Isaacs …
New York: H. Bailliere …,
1855
FIRST AMERICAN AND BEST EDITION, with 113 fine
coloured plates, pages vi, (12), ix - xxx, 513, complete thus,
though bound without the half-title, 8vo, contemporary half
morocco, gilt, top edges gilt, other edges uncut: the binding
neatly and recently repaired and with very light suggestion of
foxing in the text and very light suggestion of fingering in
places, but still a very good copy of a book rarely found in fine
state.
The first American edition of an important surgical atlas by the great
physiologist. Copies of the 1861 edition were distributed to every
surgeon in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
€300-€400 (£240-£320 approx.)
565
.
[BERNARD (Richard)]
A Short View of the Praelaticall
Church of England: Wherein is set forth the horrible abuses in
Discipline and Government, layd open in tenne Sections by way
of Quare and Petition, the severall heads whereof are set downe
in the next page. Whereunto is added a short draught of
Church-government. (London), Printed in the yeare. 1641.
. [4], 39, [1]pp. 4to. Disbound. ESTC, R45. Wing, B2032. Very
Good
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
566
.
BEST (Richard I.),
ed.
The Commentary on the Psalms
with glosses in Old-Irish, preserved in the Ambrosian Library
(MS. C 301 inf.). Collotype facsimile, with introduction.
Dublin:
Published by the Royal Irish Academy …,
1936
With 306 collotype plates on 160 leaves, pp viii, 39 and, loosely
tipped-in, the erratum slip in its original envelope, folio, original
quarter blue morocco: a bright, fresh, as new copy
“This Irish manuscript, preserved in Milan and here reproduced in
excellent facsimile, has long been familiar to Irish scholars on account of
the interlinear and marginal glosses in which it abunds, and which form
one of the chief and most copious sources for the study of the Old-Irish
language. ` - Introduction. Best discusses the contents (primarily the
commentaries on the Psalter), authorship, foliation of the codex, Latin
orthography, syllabification, script, abbreviations, the second glossator,
date and origin of the manuscript. There is also a short introduction to
codex Taurinensis F IV 1, fasc. 7, the commentary on St. Mark.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
567
.
BESTIARY.
The natural history of animals: containing an
account of remarkable beasts, birds, fishes, and insects.
Dublin:
Smith & Son, printers, Mary-Street,
1822
With 36 woodcut text illustrations (none full-page), pages vi, (7)
- 180, 12mo, original sheep, gilt ruled and lettered spine: the
upper joint cracked but the binding still very strong, otherwise a
fresh, clean copy of an uncommon issue of this popular
children’s book.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
INSECTS.
The natural history of
remarkable insects, with their habits and instincts.
Dublin:
Printed by A. O’Neil, 17, Chancery Lane,
1822. With a frontispiece,
5 crude full-page woodcut illustrations and a few woodcut
decorations, pages viii, 169, 12mo, original sheep, gilt ruled and
lettered spine: the binding rubbed and a little worn but sound,
the head of spine chipped: a very good copy in original state.
Perhaps the second edition: there was another in 1819, printed for
129
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