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Signed A-F6, with prologue by Garrick and epilogue by Colman on the
final leaf. ESTC locates some eighteen copies, but only one in Ireland
(Dt).
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€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
600
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BROUGHAM (Henry Peter), FRS, Baron Brougham and
Vaux.
An inquiry into the colonial policy of the European
powers.
Edinburgh,
1803
FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 588: (6), 588, 2 vols, 8vo, original
boards, entirely uncut, with printed paper labels, in a fitted
folding cloth case: the spines worn, wanting most of the
backstrips, but the labels intact and the cords strong and with
some light browning in places, but otherwise a very good copy
in original state of a work rarely found thus.
“This, which was the earliest, is, perhaps, also the best of the many
publications put forth by its prolific and versatile author. It has
comparatively little of the exaggeration which characterizes his later
writings. It evinces, also, considerable research. “ - McCulloch. “His
first considerable work … Criticising Adam Smith, maintains that the
monopoly of colonial trade did not produce all the detrimental effects
ascribed to it … he not only denouces the slave trade as iniquitous - ‘not
a trade, but a crime’ - but also argues that it is unprofitable. “ -
Palgrave. “He was very hostile to emancipation. More than a quarter of
a century later, when he championed the latter step, his words here were
turned against him. “ - Ragatz.
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€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
601
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BROWN (John).
An estimate of the manners and
principles of the times.
Dublin: Printed for G. Faulkner, J. Hoey,
and J. Exshaw,
1757
FIRST IRISH EDITION, 132-pages, large 12mo, contemporary
calf, with label, gilt, with the signed armorial bookplate of
Thomas Greene: a rather nice, unpressed copy.
“A vigorous attack on the ‘vain, luxurious and selfish EFFEMINACY’
of England’s higher ranks, in the wake of the loss of Minorca to the
French at the opening of the Seven Years’ War. Brown rehearsed the
usual complaints of corruption under Walpole and argued that public
virtue had been undermined by a preoccupation with luxury and
commerce. Garrick is mentioned as an exception to the general decay in
the arts, Warburton is appreciated as the intellectual ‘colossus’ of the
age, and Pitt is hailed as ‘the Great Minister’ to whom England should
turn for salvation. Printed seven times within the year, the book earned
for its author the sobriquet Estimate Brown. Macaulay attributed the
book’s success to England’s morbid interest in its own decline. ‘The
inestimable estimate of Brown’, wrote Cowper in ‘Table Talk’, ‘Rose
like a paper kite and charmed the town’.
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
602
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[BROWN (Nicholas)].
The North-Country-Wedding, and
the Fire, two poems in blank verse.
Dublin: Printed by A. Rhames,
for F. Hyde, Bookseller, in Dame-Street,
1722
FIRST EDITION, 16-pages, 4to, sewn into old blue paper
wrappers: light staining in the blank fore-margin, but still a very
good copy of a remarkably rare item.
Foxon B506. ESTC, this edition only, records copies at D, Dp, O and
CtY. “Nicholas Brown (c. 1699-1734) was the son of Rev. Nicholas
Brown, the Church of Ireland rector at Rossgarn, Co. Fermanagh, who
was an Irish speaker. After a childhood spent in Co Fermanagh, Brown
was sent to school in England, butnreturned to Ireland and entered
Trinity College Dublin in 1716. He was ordained and became rector of
Timolin in the diocese of Leighlin. He seems to have published only
two poems, both when he was in his early twenties, ‘The North-
Country-Wedding’ and ‘The Fire’ - a poem describing the discomforts
of life in Trinity College and the consequent attractions of the nearby
alehouse run by Nurse Musgrove. The two poems appeared in Dublin
in 1722 and again in Matthew Concanen’s 1724 ‘Poems by Several
Hands’. The ‘north-country’ of the poem’s tile is the area of counties
Tyrone and Fermanagh. “ - Andrew Carpenter. “ … his poems are
interesting. “ - O’Donoghue 43.
€800-€1,000 (£640-£800 approx.)
603
.
[BROWNE (Peter), Bishop of Cork and Ross].
The
procedure, extent, and limits of human understanding. The
second edition, with corrections and amendments.
Printed (by
James Bettenham) for William Innys,
1729
Pages (8), 477, (3, advertisements for books printed for William
Innys), complete with the half-title, 8vo, contemporary calf,
with label, gilt: a nice copy in original state.
The major philosophical work of this Dublin-born divine (d. 1735)
who first became known as a writer by his attack upon Toland’s
‘Christianity not Mysterious’. His was one of the best known replies to
this work, refuting Toland’s notion that mystery was the equivalent of
nonsense: Toland was in the habit of boasting that he had thus made
Browne a bishop. Browne held that Toland was beyond the pale of
toleration and here provides a full elaboration of his argument.
Browne’s views were criticised as leading to atheism in Berkeley’s
‘Aciphron’ (1732).
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
604
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[BROWNE (Peter), Bishop of Cork and Ross].
Things
divine and supernatural conceived by analogy with things
natural and human. By the author of The Procedure, Extent
and Limits of Human Understanding.
Printed by William Iunnys
and Richard Manby,
1733
FIRST EDITION, pp (4), 554, 8vo, contemporary calf:
attractive, unpressed copy in original state, with contemporary
ownership inscription of Wm Moore and price (‘5s: 6d’).
A lengthy reply to Berkeley.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
605
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BRUNFELS (Otto),
ed.
Precationes Biblicae …
Argentorati
[Strasbourg] apud Ioannem Schottum,
1528
FIRST EDITION, the title-page printed in red and black within
chiaroscuro woodcut border, woodcut on A8v followed by (181)
pages of text and colophon all within wide woodcut borders of
children playing, hunting and satirical scenes, trophies,
grotesques, plants, animals, insects, etc., attributed to Hans
Weiditz, wanting the final leaf which is blank except for
printer’s device, leaves (8), 91, small 8vo, 19C polished calf, gilt
lettered spine, edges gilt, with the armorial bookplate of the
bibliographer and author Percy L. Babington and the booklabel
of T. Connolly, bookseller, Dublin: the last three leaves skilfully
repaired and the upper hinge weak, but still a very good copy of
a rare book.
Adams P 2071: FM only. “One of the earliest publications of Brunfels
and very little known. “ - Fairfax Murray 100. A collection of biblical
texts suitable for use as prayers collected by Brunfels (1488-1534),
devoted follower of Luther and a leading botanical authority considered
by Linnaeus to be one of the founders of modern botany. A rare book
and one of the earliest examples of an illustrated protestant prayer
book. In one of the borders is represented a fox in monkish garb selling
indulgences to several geese with a treasure chest and papal standard
behind: an excellent example of early anti-catholic satire in the art of
book illustration. It appeared in German translation in 1531 as
“Biblisch Bettbuchlein dar altvatter” and other translations followed.
In England Robert Redman published it in 1535 as “Prayers of the
Byble”. Weiditz (c. 1495-c. 1536), sometimes known as ‘The Petrarch
Master” for his woodcut illustrations to Petrarch’s “De remediis
utriusque fortunae”, also illustrated Brunfels’ Herbarium. In 1520 he
was probably studying at Durer’s wookshop.
€800-€1,000 (£640-£800 approx.)
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