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A journey as aide-de-camp to Lord Combermere in 1827-29 through the
northern provinces of India.
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€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
586
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BLOOMFIELD (Robert).
Good Tidings; or, news from the
farm. A poem.
Printed for Vernor and Hood …,
1804
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, pages 37, (1), (2, blank), with
the half-title, 4to, original printed paper wrappers: the spine
defective, otherwise a very good, uncut copy in original state
with the blank leaf at end unopened, on paper watermarked “I
Buttw. 1801”
Cranbrook and Hadfield 4. Dedicated to Edward Jenner. A poem
celebrating the discovery of vaccination.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
587
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BOETHIUS (Anicius M. S.).
Consolationis Philosophiæ
libros quinque interpretatione et notis illustravit Petrus Callyus...
jussu Christianissimi regis, in usum serenissimi Delphini.
Lutetiæ
Pansiorum: apud Lambertum Roulland,
1680
With engraved frontispiece and engraved vignette title-page,
pages (40), 352, (56), 4to, contemporary red morocco, gilt
panelled sides, fully gilt spine, with label, gilt, edges gilt: with a
small circular stamp on the title-page, otherwise a large and very
good to nice copy in a handsome contemporary binding.
“One of the more rare editions in usum Delphini. “ - Ebert 2628.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
588
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[BOLTON (Robert), attrib. to].
Letters to a Young
Nobleman.
Dublin: Printed for G. and W. Ewing and J. Exshaw,
Booksellers, in Dame-Street,
1763
FIRST (ONLY) IRISH EDITION, pages (4), 230, (6, adverts -
the first three for Ewing and two for Exshaw), 12mo,
contemporary calf, with label, gilt: outer joints lightly cracked
but binding otherwise sound and strong, the very extreme lower
outer corner of first four leaves lightly frayed (well clear of tex),
still an unsophisticated and very good copy.
A rare edition of a collection of eight essays first publiiished at London
in 1762. The original London edition is well represented in ESTC, but
ESTC locates only five copies of this Dublin printing: L, C, D, MY /
CLU-SC. The first three essays are on history, then one on biography,
followed by three on contemporary matters of taste, and, finally, one on
why “Poetry has flourised more in England than Sculpture or Painting.
“
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
WILSON (Thomas).
The Sacra
Privata; or, private meditations and prayers, of Bishop Wilson;
accommodated to general use.
Dublin: Printed by John Barlow,
Bolton-Street,
1796. FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages xvi (vii-xvi
being a subscriber list), (2, additional subscriber list), 248, large
12mo, contemporary calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: a few
patches of wear on the binding but the binding sound and strong
and otherwise a very good to nice copy, with the signature of
Mary Nisbett, June 1799, on the title-page.
ESTC locates 5 copies of this edition: all in Ireland and UK. We have
not found another copy with the tipped-in additional subscriber list. The
main subscriber list is notable for the large number of subscribers in
Donegal and Ballyshannon in particular. John Barlow was later printer
to the Gaelic Society of Ireland, where he was responsible for the issuing
in Irish type, of Halliday’s Grammar of the Irish Language and
O’Reilly’s Irish-English Dictionary. Although born in Cheshire,
England, Bishop Wilson (1663-1755) was educated at Trinity College
Dublin, where he was a contemporary of Jonathan Swift and Peter
Brown. Originally studying medicine, his career choice turned to the
church, being ordained a deacon in 1686 and as a priest in 1689.
Leaving Ireland in 1687 he held a number of clerical positions in
nngland before being made Bishop of Sodor and Man in 1698. While
serving on he Isle of Man, Wilson was noted for his tolerance of other
faiths, Roman Catholics were known to attend his services and he also
attracted the admiration of Dissenters and Quakers. In 1707 he was
responsible for the production of the first book printed in Manx, a book
of spiritual direction and prayer, often styled the “Manx Catechism”.
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€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
589
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BONANNI (Philippo).
Numismata summorum pontificum
templi Vaticani fabricam indicantia, chronologica ejusdem
fabricae narratione, ac multiplici eruditione explicata. Atque
uberiori numismatum omnium pontificiorum lucubrationi veluti
prodromus praemissa, opus tertiò impressum cum correctione, &
additamento, a patre Philippo Bonanni …
Romae: ex typographia
G. Plachi, apud S. Marcum,
1715
With engraved vignette title-page and 93 engraved plates (16
folding), pages (8), 190, (2, blank), 191 - 218, folio,
contemporary calf, with label, gilt: the binding worn but strong,
the endpapers a little dusty, otherwise a clean, well-margined and
very good, unsophisticated copy with the many fine plates in
fresh state.
The third and last edition of this comprehensive architechural and
sculptural history of the basilica, probably the fullest architectiural
monograph on any one building published anywhere in Western Europe
up to that date (Weinreb).
€500-€700 (£400-£560 approx.)
590
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BONAPARTE (Napoleon).
Supper at Beaucaire.
Translated into English for the first time, by Somerset de Chair.
Golden Cockerel Press.
1945
With a portrait, pages 38, (1), 12mo, original full vellum, blocked
in gold with Napoleonic honeycomb and bee design, edges gilt,
by Sangorski & Sutcliffe: a fine copy
Copy 39 of 100 specially bound, on Batchelor’s hand-made paper, signed
by de Chair.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GRAVES (Robert).
Whipperginny [: verse].
William Heinemann,
1923. FIRST
EDITION, pages viii, 72, 8vo, original boards, with printed
labels: very good-nice.
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EARNSHAW (John),
ed.
A Letter from the South Seas by a
voyager on the ‘Daedalus’, 1792. Introduced and annotated.
Cremorne, N. S. W., Talkarra Press,
1957. FIRST EDITION, (44)-
pages, cr 8vo, original cloth: nice in slightly worn dust wrapper.
Limited edition of 250 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered.
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BROWNING (Robert).
Pippa Pases. A drama. With
drawings by L. Leslie Brooke.
Duckworth & Co.,
1898. FIRST
EDITION THUS, 7 plates, small 4to, original cloth, gilt, top
edges gilt: very good
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ROLFE (Frederick), Baron Corvo.
Amico di Sandro. A
fragment of a novel.
Privately Printed [at the Curwen Press, for
George Sims, Harrow],
1951. FIRST EDITION, pp (8), 44, (1),
8vo, original cloth-backed patterned boards: nice copy.
Number 61 of 150 copies printed.
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LEWIS (Wyndham).
Wyndham Lewis the Artist, from
`Blast’ to Burlington House.
Laidlaw & Laidlaw,
1939. FIRST
EDN, 12 plates (3 col), 380-pp, 8vo, original cloth (top edges not
stained): light foxing at beginning and end and binding a little
dull but sound and strong: very good. (6)
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
591
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[BONAPARTE-WYSE (Wm. Charles)].
The Greased
Plank: or Projected Liberal Legislation for Ireland. By Hibern
Pessimistes.
Akman-Chester [i. e. Bath] Privately Printed (Bath:
Printed by E. R. Blackett, 10 Stall Street),
1883
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, pp 3, (2, blank), 8vo, a single folded
sheet: very good-nice.
A rare satirical anti-home rule poem. Not in O’Donoghue. Not found in
COPAC, though there is a copy at Kansas and another (dated 1884) at
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