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postreme editione facta collatione cum Mss. Vat. alijsq antiquis
codicibus emendatae, & in duos tomos distributae …
Romae:
apud Ludovicum Grignanium,
1628
With fine engraved title-pages and engraved portrait and pages
(52), 210, 620: (2), 553, (146) and leaf of errata and register, 2
vols, folio, contemporary calf, gilt spines: some marginal
worming (not touching text) and a little wear at the headbands,
but still a strongly bound and very good copy
An excellent edition, considered by Brunet (I. 1259) as “la plus
complète”. Saint Birgitta, also known as Santa Brigida or St. Bridgid of
Sweden and Birgitta of Vadstena, born Birgitta Birgersdottir (1303–
73), mystic and saint, founder of the Bridgettine Order. Uniquely
among saints of the second millennium, she was also the mother of a
saint - Saint Catherine of Vadstena of Sweden. Her revelations were
influential during the Middle Ages.
(2)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
582
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BLACKSTONE (Sir Wm.).
Commentaries on the Laws of
England.
Dublin: Printed for John Exshaw...,
1766-67-69-70
FIRST IRISH EDITION, with 2 folding engraved plates, pages
(4), iii, (4), 473: (8), 520, xix: (8), 455, xxvii: (6), 436, vii, (46),
with the half title to volume one (no others called for), 4 vols,
8vo, contemporary calf, labels supplied: a very good to nice
copy.
The first Irish and first 8vo edition of this classic work. Two sections in
volume four are misbound but complete, slight loss at an old misfold to
one of the plates in volume two and some worming in the extreme blank
margin of twenty leaves of the same volume: nonetheless, a very good to
nice copy of a rather uncommon edition. With the contemporary
signature of William Hodder.
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€300-€400 (£240-£320 approx.)
583
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BLACKSTONE (Sir Wm.).
Law Tracts … Containing, I.
An essay on collateral consanguinity, its limits extent and
duration. II. Considerations on the question whether tenants by
copy of court roll, according to the custom of the manner,
though not at the will of the lord, are freeholders qualified to
vote in elections for knights of the shire. III. The law of descents
in fee-simple. IV. The Great Charter and Charter of the Forest,
with other authentic instruments: to which is prefixed an
introductory discourse containing an history of the charter.
Dublin: Printed for Elizabeth Watts, in Skinner-Row,
1767
FIRST OCTAVO AND FIRST IRISH EDITION, with 2
engraved tables (1 folding), pages (2), vi, 136; (2), 87, (1, blank);
cxiv; (2), 105, (1), 8vo, recently and pleasantly bound in quarter
calf, with label, gilt: a very good copy.
Rarer that the original Oxford edition of 1762: ESTC locates copes at
C, Lvu, Oa, Dt / MeB, NNC-L, MH-L(2 copies), CLL and CLU-L. It
is not on-line in either D or Dt. It collects four essays by Blackstone
which were published before he began work on the Commentaries (1764-
69). Material from the first three essays, which were originally published
in 1750, 1758 and 1759, were incorporated into the Commentaries. The
final essay, a critical edition of Magna Charta with an interpretive
essay, was originally published in 1759. The first critical edition of the
charter, it established Blackstone’s reputation. According to Eller, there
is no bibliographical record of a second edition, so she cites this as the
following edition.
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
584
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BLACKWOOD (Frederick T. H. T.), Marquis of
Dufferin & Ava.
A Yacht Voyage. Letters from High Latitudes:
being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht
“Foam”, to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen.
New York:
Lovell, Adam, Wesson & Company
(1873)
With illustrations, pp xvi, 268, (4, blank), 8vo, original brown
pictorial cloth, gilt: little wear to headbands and inside hinges
tender, but binding strong, still a very good copy.
Inscribed “Captain Temple/from his affectionate cousin/Dufferin/Feb.
4th. 1878. “ With a 4-page preface specially written for the Canadian
edition, dated 1873..
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SANSOM (Joseph).
Travels in
Lower Canada, with the author’s recollections of the soil, and
aspect; the morals, habits, and religious institutions, of that
country.
Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co.,
1820. FIRST UK
EDITION, with an engraved plate of a view of Quebec and one
text woodcut, pages iv, 116, 8vo, pleasantly bound in recent stiff
marbled paper wrappers, with printed paper label: a nice, uncut
copy.
Includes an interesting supplement, on pages 96 to 106, ‘Tour in
Virginia, Tennessee, &c. ‘ by the noted pioneer missionary, Elias
Cornelius.
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DE WINDT (Harry).
Through the Gold-Fields of Alaska to
Bering Straits.
Chatto & Windus,
1898. FIRST UK EDITION,
with 32 plates and a large folding map, pp (4), viii, 312, 32
(adverts dated Jan. 1898), 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt, top edges
gilt: a very good to nice copy.
De Windt, one-time correspondent of the London Times, journeyed
from Juneau via Chilkoot Pass and Lake LeBarge, to the Klondike,
down the Yukon River to St. Michael, stayed with the Oumwajik in the
Bering Straits where he was kept by the Tchuktchis until rescued by the
whaler Belvedere. Several chapters on Eskimo manners and customs are
included.
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STENHOUSE (Fanny).
An Englishwoman in Utah: the
story of a life’s experience in Mormonism. An autobiography:
by Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse... introductory preface by Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Including a full account of the
Mountain Meadows massacre, and of the life, confession, and
execution of John D. Lee. 1880. FIRST UK EDITION, 14
plates, pp xii, 404, 8vo, original brown cloth: very good copy.
(4)
PLUNKETT (Sir Horace).
The Rural Life Problem of the
United States. Notes of an Irish observer.
New York: Macmillan,
1910. FIRST COLLECTED EDN, pp xi, 174, (4, ads) & errata
slip, cr 8vo, orig cloth.: very good
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BUTLER (Sir Wm. F.), FRGS.
The Great Lone Land. A
narrative of travel and adventure in the north-west of America.
Fifteenth and cheaper edition.
Sampson Low, Marston (Low’s
popular library of travel and adventure series), circa
1896. With large
folding map and 6 plates, pp (2), x, (1), 386, cr 8vo, original
cloth: very good.
An account of Butler’s mission to investigate the situation in
Saskatchewan and to report on the need for troops, on the Indians, the
fur trade, etc.
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€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
585
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BLAGDON (Frasncis W.).
Brief history of India, ancient
and modern: from the earliest periods of antiquity to the
termination of the Mahratta War.
Calcutta: Printed for George
Matthew Anderson,
1833
110-pages, 8vo, contemporaqry half roan, gilt, gilt spine, with
the small oval stamp of “Peter Aungier / Belcamp Hall” on
title-page: light fingering, but a good to very good copy.
An edition not in COPAC, which locates one copy of an edition of
1823. WorldCat has two. In an appearance before the Court for Relief
of Insolvent Debtors, Calcutta, 1830, Anderson is described as Printer,
Publisher, Bookseller, and a prisoner in the Common Gaol of Calcutta.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MUNDY (Godfrey Charles).
Pen and Pencil Sketches, being the journal of a tour in India. In
two volumes. The second edition.
John Murray,
1833. With
folding map, 16 plates (lightly foxed) and 9 text illustrs, pp xiv,
(1), 381, (1, ads): viii (i. e. vi), 379, (1) with half-titles, 2 vols,
8vo, old rebound cloth: clean and very good copy
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