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[BRUNTON (Mary)].
Discipline: a novel. By the author of
“Self-Control”.
Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay & Co., for
Manners and Miller … and Longman, Hurst …,
1814
FIRST EDITION, pp ix, (1, blank), (1, advert), (1, blank), 290:
(4), 306: (4), 292, with the half-titles, the advert leaf and, tipped
it at front of vol one, 4-pp adverts dated Jan. 1815 (a small piece
wanting from the lower margin of the first leaf of adverts), 3
vols, 8vo, original boards, uncut, with printed paper labels: the
spines worn, wnting a small portion at the foot of two spines,
inside joints strong: a very good copy with the name stamp ‘F.
Westley’ in the extreme upper left corner of the front endpaper
in volume one, presumably the binder.
Wolff 886. The second of the two novels published during her lifetime.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[GLEIG (George R.)].
The
Country Curate. By the author of “The Subaltern”, and “The
Chelsea Pensioners”.
Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley,
1830.
FIRST EDITION, pages iv, 334: (2), 354 (misnumbered 435)
and advert leaf, 2 vols, large 12mo, original drab paper boards,
green cloth spines, with printed paper labels: the labels chipped
on their outer blank edges, otherwise a very good copy in
original state.
Wolff 2573. A collection of ten sketches and tales set in an East Kent
parish: four of them originally appeared in ‘Blackwoods’ and
‘Friendship’s Offering’, the remaining six tales are here first published.
(2)
[JAMES (George P. R.)].
Mary of Burgundy; or, The
Revolt of Ghent. By the author of “Darnley” …
Printed for
Longman, Rees …,
1833 FIRST EDITION, pages vii, 318, with
12-pages of Longman’s advertisements dated March 1833 tipped
in at front: (4), 336: (4), 333, (1, imprint), (2, adverts), with the
half-titles to vols 2 and 3 (none called for in vol 1), 3 vols, 8vo,
original boards, uncut, with printed paper labels: the final
volume wanting the upper half of the backstrip and the lower
board, otherwise a very good copy in original state with all the
other inner joints firm and intact.
Wolff 3534. Not in Sadleir.
(8)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
607
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BRYDGES (Sir Samuel Egerton).
Human Fate, and, An
Address to the poets Wordsworth and Southey: Poems. Now
first printed (verbatim) from the author’s mss., in the possession
of Charles Clark. A very limited number printed.
Great Totham:
Printed at Charles Clark’s Private Press,
1846
FIRST EDITION, leaves (1), 19, (2), printed on one side of the
leaf only, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a nice copy.
Clark (1806-80), proprietor of the Great Totham press, evidently found
this a successful piece in that he republished it in 1848 and again in
1850.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MAINWARING (Sir Thomas).
A Reply to Sir Peter Leicester’s Answer to Sir T. Mainwaring’s
Admonition to the reader of Sir P. Leicester’s books... never yet
printed.
Manchester: John Gray Bell
1854. FIRST EDITION, pp
xi, 30, (2, blank), large 12mo, original printed wrapper: very
good.
100 copies printed. Edited by W. B. T, i. e. W. B. Turnbull. A scarce
item in the Chester Controversy.
(2)
CRICHTON (Arthur).
The Festival of Flora. A poem.
With botanical notes. Second edition.
Printed for N. Hailes (by C.
Whittingham, Chiswick),
1818. With 7 attractive plates and
additional engraved title, pp vii, 73 and (4, of 6, adverts), large
12mo, unlettered brown boards (?original), new endpapers: a
very good-nice, uncut copy
“Written for the amusement of a very young lady. “ In this edition the
notes ‘have been revised and enlarged (and) are arranged, to facilitate
reference, in the alphabetical order of the plants to which they relate. “
The additional poems (page 21 to end) “were written at an early age”.
(3)
EDINBURGH REVIEW.
General index to the Edinburgh
Review, from its commencement in October 1802, to the end of
the twenthieth volume, published in November 1812.
Edinburgh:
Printed by D. Willison, for A. Constable and Co …
1813. Pages (6),
545, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt ruled spine, double
lettering-pieces: slight wear at headbands, some light foxing,
otherwise very good, strongly bound copy. (4)
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
608
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BUCKINGHAM (James Silk).
Travels in Mesopotamia.
Including a journey from Aleppo to Bagdad, by the route of
Beer, Orfah, Diarbekr, Mardin, & Mousul; with researches on
the ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and other ancient cities.
H.
Colburn,
1827
FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, with folding map, 2 double-page
litho plans/views of Babylon, and 27 plates, pages xx, 479: vi,
102, *99-*102, 103-538, (2, advertisements), bound with-out the
half-title in volume two and wanting most of a single blank
flyleaf, 2 vols, 8vo, contemporary half calf, gilt ruled spines,
with labels, gilt: with some very light spotting of the plate
margins, but still a very good copy.
Buckingham (1786-1855), author and traveller. There were two editions
in 1827 of this work, 4to and 8vo. In the quarto the illustrations are
vignettes within the text and in the octavo they are separate plates. This
octavo issue includes a 22-page appendix “Containing a brief statement
of the result of certain legal proceedings connected with the literary
character of the author”. This libel case related to the publication of
Buckingham’s ‘Travels in Palestine’ and in particular the section on
Jerash, which the litigants had once visited together and which Banks in
a letter accused Buckingham of having purloined from his own
manuscript.
(2)
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
609
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BULL (George).
Opera Omnia … annotata Joannis
Ernesti Grabe. Cujus etiam praefatio …
Londini. Typis Samuelis
Bridge, impensis Richardi Smith,
1703
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, with fine engraved portrait
after Vander Gucht, pp (16), 296, (6); (2), 83 (i. e. 87); (2), 44;
(6), 120, (4); (4), 108; 84, (12), with 4-pp subscriber list, folio,
later polished calf, gilt, gilt ruled and lettered spine: one heavy
scratch on upper cover but binding strong and attractive and
internally, in nice, fresh state, with the attractive engraved
bookseller’s ticket of Grant, Dolton & Co. of 4, Dame Street,
Dublin.
A ‘beautiful edition’(DNB) of Bull’s Latin works, edited by Ernest
Grabe, with a preface and many annotations, which greatly pleased
Bull. Bull (1634-1710), staunch High Churchman, who died as bishop
of St David’s, was perhaps the one English ecclesiastic of the period
who attained to European fame.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
610
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BULLINGBROOKE (Edward) & BELCHER (Jonathan).
An abridgement of the Statutes of Ireland … and of all the
English and British Statutes which extend to and bind Ireland …
an alphabetal table … and also the new rules.
Dublin: Printed by
George Abraham Grierson … and G. and A. Ewing,
1754
Pages xii, (24), 946, 949-977, (1, blank); (18), (332), complete
thus in spite of pagination jump, 4to, contemporary calf, gilt
bordered sides, gilt ruled spine, with red label, gilt: minor
worming in last few leaves without serious loss, paper fault on
two leaves with the loss of a few letters: a very good copy in a
pleasing, skillfully repaired contemporary binding.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
611
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BULLINGER (Heinrich).
Fiftie godlie and learned
sermons, diuided into fiue decades, conteyning the chiefe and
principall pointes of Christian religion, written in three seuerall
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