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Urbana-Champaign. Not in D or Dt. Bonaparte-Wyse (1826–92), was
born in Waterford, attended Prior Park College, near Bath, and Oscott
College, and married Ellen Linzee Prout (d. 1925) in 1864. A justice of
the peace and high sheriff for Waterford (1855), he was noted for his
strong unionist views. His love lay in southern France, where he
participated in the Félibrige, the movement to revive the Provençal
literary tradition under the leadership of the poet and Nobel laureate
Frédéric Mistral.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
592
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BOOK CATALOGUES.
A collection of nineteenth
century auction and retail book catalogues.
Kilkenny, Dublin and
London,
1841-60
Together 8 catalogues bound in one volume, 8vo, near
contemporary half calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: in very
good to nice state throughout.
Bound in the following order: (1). Longman, Orme … A catalogue of
old books for the year 1841; comprising useful and valuable works in
every class of literature. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and
Longmans (1841), 4053 items in alpabetical order on pp (2), 285. (2). A
classified list of new, valuable, and most important books, in the fine
arts, architecture, natural history, philology, and belles lettres, at very
reduced prices. [Added in contemporary manuscript on title-page: Sold
by / S. J. Machen 28 Westmoreland St[reet] / Dublin / 1844. “ - G.
Norman, printer, Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. 178-pp. (3). LEWIS
(H.) Catalogue of the valuable library of the late Frederick Wm.
Conway, Esq. Comprising rare and early English & foreign theology;
ecclesiastical history and antiquities; illuminated and other
manuscripts, of the XIII, XIV. and XV. Centuries; with many very fine
specimens of early printing … which will be sold by auction … in the
literary sale rooms, 31, Anglesea Street, on Tuesday, May 30th, 1854,
and 24 following days … (1854). 7547 lots on pp (4), 224. (4). Thomas
Connolly’s Select General Catalogue of second-hand books, on sale for
the very moderate prices affixed, at “The Old Book Shop”, 10, Upper
Ormond-Quay, Dublin. 1859. Drop-title, 232-pp. (5). New, valuable,
and most important books, offered at very reduced prices, arranged in
classes …With a general index. Circa 1844. Stuck on, presumably
agent’s slip, torn from head of title thining the paper but without any
other loss, imprint at end: London: Harrison & Sons, printers, St.
Martin’s Lane. 126-pp. (6). Catalogue of classical and popular foreign
books sold by William Bernard Kelly, English and foreign bookseller. 8
Grafton Street, Dublin. (London: printed by W/ Clowes and Sons),
circa 1850. 36-pp. (7). Catalogue of the library of the late alderman
Robert Cane, M. D., F. R. C. S. I., comprising valuable & scarce works
on Irish history, antiquities, and general literature, which will be sold by
auction, at the residence of the deceased, William-Street, Kilkenny, on
Thursday, the 30th of September, 1858, and two following days …W.
J. Douglas, auctioneer, High-street, Kilkenny. Kilkenny: Shearman,
printer, bookseller and stationer, High-street (1858), pp (2), 28. (8).
Catalogue of a collection of books, including many of high repute in
various classes … miscellaneous effects … paintings … large engravings
… to be sold by auction, by John F. Jones … No. 8 D’Olier-street, on
Wednesday, the 6th of June, 1860, and four following days … Dublin:
1860, 32-pages.
€500-€700 (£400-£560 approx.)
593
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BORROW (George).
Lavengro; the scholar - the gypsy -
the priest. In three volumes.
John Murray,
1851
FIRST EDITION, with a portrait, pages xx (i. e. xviii), 360: xi,
366: xi, 426, bound without the half-titles or advert leaves, 3
vols, 8vo, original cloth, with printed paper spine labels: the
boards lightly discoloured, the labels rubbed, four inside hinges
cracked, bookplate removed from each front endpaper:
internally very good to nice.
In this set there is no sign that the half-titles were ever present, all three
title versos are blank (Wise states that there are adverts on each), the
endpapers in volume one and three are pale yellow and in volume two
mid-brown.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[PEMBERTON (), Mrs].
The
only one of her mother. A novel. By the author of “Altogether
Wrong”. “Madame la Marquise”, “A Winter Tour in Spain”.
&c. &c. In three volumes.
Tinsley Brothers,
1874. FIRST (ONLY)
EDITION, pages (4), 323, (1, blank): (4), 348: (4), 333, (3,
blank), 3 vols, 8vo, original green cloth: a very good copy
Inscribed “With the Author’s kind regards / June 1875”. Wolff 5514,
quoting extensively from correspondence concerning the possible identity
of the author. None of her six novels is represented in Sadleir. Not in
WorldCat or COPAC, though there is a copy on-line in BL.
(2)
ELIOT (George),
pseud.
Adam Bede. Fifth edition. In two
volumes.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons …,
1859. Pp vi,
(2), 431: vi, 382, 16(adverts), with half-titles, 2 vols, 8vo, original
orange brown cloth, by Edmonds & Remnants, with ticket: a
little very light browning in places, otherwise a bright, fresh and
attractive copy. (8)
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
594
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BOUHÉREAU (Élie).
Traité d’origéne contre Celse. Ou
défence de la Religion Chrétienne contre les accusations des
Païens. Traduit du grec par Elie Bouhéreau.
Amsterdam, chez
Henry Desbordes, marchand libraire, dans le Kalver-straat,
1700
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, with an engraved frontispiece,
pp (30), 480, (4, additional notes and errata), complete with the
preface and the two final leaves, 4to, contemporary calf, gilt
spine, with label, gilt, neatly repaired retaining original
endpapers and flyleaves, very slight worming at beginning
affecting the blank margin only of the frontispiece, the title and
the first few leaves, otherwise a very good copy with the 18C
armorial bookplate of Charles Grave Hudson, a director of the
South Sea Company, of Wanlip Hall, Leicestershire.
The only substantial published work by Élie Bouhéreau, the first public
librarian in Ireland. Bouhéreau (1642?-1719) a learned Huguenot
physician who fled to England in 1685 on the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes. With the accession of William III he was appointed secretary
first to Thomas Cox, envoy to the Swiss Cantons, and then in Piedmont
to Henri de Massue de Ruvigny, Deputy-general of the Huguenots, and
subsequently Earl of Galway. Galway was Lord Justice of Ireland in
1697-1701, and Bouhéreau probably first came to Ireland in his train.
While in Dublin he came to the notice of Narcissus Marsh, the
protestant primate, who was then campaigning for the establishment of
a public library in Dublin: Marsh persuaded Bouhéreau to give his own
library (valued at £500-600) on condition that he be appointed
stipendiary library keeper. The library was established by Royal
Warrant in 1701 and by Act of Parliament in 1707; Bouhéreau
occupied the post until his death in May 1719, latterly with the
assistance of his son John. This translation of Origen’s Contra Celsum
(a reply to the pagan Celsus’s attack on Christianity) was begun as early
as 1669, when Bouhéreau’s friend Valentin Conrart, one of the founders
of the Académie Française, persuaded him to direct his studies in a
definite course.. NUC records only three copies: OCH, PPL, ICU. Not
included in Sweeney, Ireland and the Printed Word.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
595. [BOYLE (John), Earl of Cork and Orrery]. Verses by a
young nobleman, on the death of His Grace the Duke of B—
—- [.] [London: 1736?]. Drop-title, 8-pages, [bound before:]
BOYLE (John), Earl of Cork and Orrery. A poem to the
memory of Edmund Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, Duke
and Marquess of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, and Baron of
Butterwick. By John Boyle, Earl of Orrery. Dublin: printed by
George Faulkner, in Essex-Street, 1741. Pages (4), 8, bound
without the half-title and the advertisement leaf at end.
London, 1736? - Dublin 1741
1736?-41
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