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June, 1847, no illustrations are called for and the text block is not ruled
in red, pace Bibliotheca Monensis 177.
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[TINDAL (Matthew)].
New High-Church turned Old
Presbyterian. Utrum Horum, Never a Barrell the better
Herring.
Printed, and Sold by H. Hills,
1710. 16-pp, small 8vo,
recent wrapper: cut close with slight loss on five pages: very
good.
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GIBSON (Wm. Sidney).
A descriptive and historical guide
to Tynemouth: comprising a popular sketch of the history of
the monastery, the church, and the castle; with notices of
North Shields, Seaton Delaval, and neighbouuuring antiquities.
Second edition.
Tynemouth: Printed by J. Philipson,
1861. With
an engraved frontispiece and a few woodcut text illustrations,
pages xiii, 161, large 12mo, original purple/brown cloth: a very
good to nice copy. (6)
€500-€700 (£400-£560 approx.)
597
.
BRAMHALL (John), Archbishop.: - Berwick (Edward),
ed.
The Rawdon Papers, consisting of letters on various
subjects, literary, political, and ecclesiastical, to and from Dr.
John Bramhall, Primate of Ireland. Including the
correspondence of several most eminent men during the
greater part of the seventeenth century. Faithfully printed from
the originals; and illustrated with literary and historical notes
…
London: Printed by and for John Nichols and Son … sold also by
R. Milliken, Dublin,
1819
FIRST EDITION, with a plate of signatures and a folding
table, pp vii, (1, blank), 430, with half-title, 8vo, contemporary
half calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: very good-nice copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GILES (John A.),
ed.
The
British History of Geoffrey of Monmouth. In twelve books.
Translated from the Latin, by A. Thompson. A new edition,
revised and corrected. By J. A. Giles.
James Bohn,
1842. With a
frontispiece, pages xxvii, 282, recent boards, uncut: a very good
copy.
Complete in itself: part of Giles’s The Monkish Historians of Great
Briitain.
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GREY (Henry George Grey), 3rd Earl.
Parliamentary
government considered with reference to a reform of
parliament. An Essay.
Richard Bentley,
1858. FIRST EDITION,
pp xii, 219, (1), 8vo, original brown cloth: a very good to nice
copy.
Grey warned of the dangers of ill-considered tinkering with the
electoral system that would set Britain on the slide to unbridled
democracy.
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[HONE (Wm.)].
Another article for the Quarterly Review.
Second edition.
Printed for William Hone,
1824. 32-pages, 8vo,
recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
A reply to an attack in the ‘Quarterly Review’ on his ‘Aspersions
Answered’: five editions were published.
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HONE (Wm.): -.
The Real or Constitutional House that
Jack built. Eleventh edition.
Printed for J. Asperne and W. Sams,
1820. With 12 illustrations after Cruikshank, (24)-pages, 8vo,
unbound, sewn as issued and uncut: a very good to nice copy.
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ALLEN (John).
Inquiry into the rise and growth of the
Royal Prerogative in England. A new edition, with the author’s
latest corrections, biographical notices, &c. To which is added
an inquiry into the life and character of King Eadwig.
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,
1849. LAST AND
BEST EDITION, pages xciv, (2), 268, 8vo, original cloth: with
some very slight wear at the headbands, but still a very good
copy.
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WRIGHTSON (Thomas).
On the Punishment of Death.
Second edition. 1833. With a folding table, 44-pages, 8vo,
recent paper wrapper: a nice copy.
Advocating abolition and quoting statistics. A third edition followed in
1837.
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€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
598
.
BRITISH COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS
CONFERENCE, 1938.
Who’s who at the Second British
Commonwealth Relations Conference, Sydney, 1938.
Sydney,
Australian Institute of International Affairs,
1938
Comprising title-leaf and 248 leaves, each with a portrait, all
signed by their subject and each with a facing page of
biographical details, 8 are without their photos explained as not
then being available, large 12mo, original red cloth, gilt: in
clean and very good state.
The Irish delegates, each here with a signed photo, were James Mathew
Dillon, Henry Morgan Dockrell, James Meenan, John Thomas
O’Farrell, and, Donal Joseph O’Sullivan (the historian and
musicoligist) - this is the latter’s copy, with his signature on flyleaf.
€200-€300 (£160-£240 approx.)
599
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BROOKE (Henry).
The Earl of Essex. A tragedy. As it is
now acting at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane...
Dublin:
Printed for P. Wilson and W. Smith, junior, in Dame-street,
1761
FIRST IRISH EDITION, 60-pp, 12mo, recent wraps: some
light fingering, but very good
Stratman 536. Brooke (1703?-83), Cavan-born novelist and dramatist,
author of the poem ‘Universal Beauty’, reputed to have furnished the
foundation for Darwin’s ‘Botanic Garden’, but chiefly remembered for
his five-volume novel ‘The Fool of Quality’.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
LEE (Nathaniel).
The Rival
Queens, or, The death of Alexander the Great. As it is acted at
the Theatre-Royal, by His Majesty’s servants.
Dublin: Printed for
Geo. and Alex. Ewing, William Smith, and John Exshaw, Booksellers
in Dame-street,
1760. Pages 69, (2), (1, blank), 12mo, recent
paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Stratman 3198. An uncommon edition: ESTC locates copies only at
L(2), Dt / CLU-C & IU.
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DODSLEY (Robert).
Cleone. A tragedy. As it is acted at
the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden.
Dublin: Printed for G.
Faulkner, P. Wilson …(and four others),
1759. Pages (8), 56, 12mo,
recent paper wrapper: final page soiled, otherwise a very good
copy.
Stratman 1490: there were two Dublin issues in 1759, also a Belfast
one. His last play, one of the better 18C tragedies. Pages 51 to end
contain “Melpomene; or The Regions of Terror and Pity. An Ode. “ In
this present issue sigs B-D are of a setting marked by line 28 of p. 7
reading: “harmless the dove”.
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COLMAN (George), the younger.
The Surrender of
Calais. A play, in three acts. By George Colman, (the younger).
As performed at the Little Theatre, Hay Market.
Dublin: Printed
by P. Byrne, No. 108, Grafton-Street,
1792. 40-pp, 12mo, recent
wraps: with eight neat corrections in a contemporary hand:
very good.
ESTC locates three copies of this issue: L, Dp: TxHR. Byrne printed
four issues of this play in 1792, of 60, 40, 40 and 59-pages,
respectively: priority not established. Our issue has “(the younger)” in
the title and the street number in the mprint.
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CUMBERLAND (Richard).
The West Indian. A comedy,
as it is performed at the Theatre Royal.
Dublin: Printed for the
Company of Booksellers
[1785?]. Pages (4), 82, (2), 12mo, recent
paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Epilogue by ‘D. G. ‘ [Garrick?]. A late but uncommon edition of C’s
most popular play, an unflattering portrayal of the manners of a West
Indian planter during a visit to London.
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[SHERIDAN (Richard Brinsley)].
a comedy; as it is
performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. 1782.
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