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CLAVERING (Robert).
An essay on the construction and
building of chimneys. Including an enquiry into the common
causes of their smoaking, and the most effectual remedies for
removing so intolerable a nuisance; with A Table to proportion
Chimneys to the Size of the Room. llustrated with proper
figures.
London, Printed for I. Taylor, at the Bible and Crown, No. 56,
nearly opposite Great Turnstile, Holborn,
1779
FIRST EDITION, with a folding engraved frontispiece and a
folding table, pages vii, (1, blank), 100, (4, adverts), 8vo, original
unlettered sheep, gilt ruled, unlettered spine: the spine skillfully
repaired retaining original endpapers and flyleaves: a very good
copy.
Harris, British Architectural Books 133. RIBA 657. A succesful work –
reprinted in 1788 and 1793 – by a professional builder, probably a
carpenter, with a ‘company’ of his own. ESTC finds ten copies: L, C, O,
Oe, Lria, Lu / GOT, CaOTU, ViWC / DURu.
€120-€160 (£96-£128 approx.)
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[CLIFFORD (Robert), Hon.].
Application of Barruel’s
Memoirs of Jaconism, to the Secret Societies of Ireland and
Great Britain. By the translator of that work.
London: Sold by E.
Booker,
1798
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages xxii, 50, 8vo, neatly bound in
recent cloth, gilt: a very good to nice, uncut copy.
Pages 1-28 specifically relate to Ireland, the United Irishmen, etc.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
JOHNSON (Robert): - Emerson
(John Swift).
A full and faithful report of the proceedings in
His Majesty’s Court of Exchequer in Ireland; in the case of the
Honorable Justice Johnson, containing the arguments of
counsel, and the opinions delivered from the bench, as taken
from original documents: with an appendix, comprising the act
of the 44th Geo. III. c. 92; - the writ of habeas corpus, and
return thereto; - copies of letters written by persons of high rank
in the Irish administration; - the several affidavits made in the
case; - an authentic report of the opinion delivered in the Court
of King’s Bench, on Mr. Justice Johnson’s case, by the Hon. Mr.
Justice Day; and a postscript. The whole carefully revised and
corrected by John Swift Emerson, solicitor to Mr. Justice
Johnson.
Dublin printed: London: Re-printed for John Stockdale,
Piccadilly,
1805. Pages (4), 238, (2, adverts), 8vo, recent paper
boards: a very good copy.
A complex Anglo-Irish extradition case. Originally published at Dublin
during the same year. COPAC locates two copies: C & O. Not found on-
line in D. The pagination in this present copy agrees with that quoted in
O’Higgins 3. 40. a, but not with that quoted by CUL in the COPAC
entry. J
(2)
HATCHELL (John P.).
A report of the arguments and
judgment upon the demurrer, in the case of Henry Edmund
Taffe, Esq. against the Right Hon. Wm. Downes, Lord Chief
Justice of the King’s-Bench, in Ireland, in... 1812 & 1813, in the
Court of Common Pleas, Ireland.
Dublin: Printed for John Cooke,
1815. FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 198, 201 - 218, complete
thus in spite of pagination jump, 8vo, pleasantly bound in recent
quarter cloth, with label, gilt: a very good copy. (3)
O’Higgins 3. 76.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
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COLLECTION OF PRINTS.
A collection of prints from
the works of the following celebrated masters. Parmigianino,
Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Zelotti, Paul Veronese, &c. &c.
and engraved by eminent Italian artists.
London: Printed by M.
Ritchie, for Lackington, Allen and Co., Temple of the Muses,
Finsbuuury Square,
1800
With an engraved frontispiece, a printed title-leaf and 49 images
engraved on 40 sheets, folio, old unlettered half morocco over
marbled boards: the binding rubbed and worn but very strong,
the title leaf lightly dusty, otherwise a sound and very good
copy.
A collection not traced in ESTC, COPAC or WorldCat. The only
auction record we can find, in 1998, was described as containing a
frontispiece and 46 plates on 40 sheets.
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
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COLLINS (Wilkie).
The Moonstone. A romance.
Copyright edition. In two volumes.
Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz,
Collection of British Authors, vol. 972-3,
1868
Pages viii, 342, (1): 354, (1), with the half-titles and the two
leaves blank but for imprint, 2 vols, 12mo, contemporary cloth-
backed marbled boards: the bindings worn but sound and strong
and with some light foxing of the endleaves, but still a very good
or better copy.
“The first, the longest and the best of modern detective stories. “ - T. S.
Eliot. The mystery is solved by Sergeant Cuff, possibly the first detective
in English fiction.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GABORIAU (Emile).
Lecoq, the
Detective. Gaboriau’s Sensational Novels. IV. In two vols.
[bound with:] In Peril of his life. Gaboriau’s Sensational Novels.
I.
Vizetelly & Co.,
1881. Pages 230: (2), (5) - 205: (2), (5) - 255, (1,
adverts), 2 works in 3 vols bound in 1, 12mo, near contemporary
half red calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled and lettered spine,
by McCann, bookbinder, King-Street, Kilkenny, with his ticket,
bookseller’s stamp of R. W. M. Grindley, Opposite Canal Walk,
Kilkenny and ownewrship inscription and date of W. Wall
7/1/87 on half-title: an unsophisticated copy personalised by its
19C owner with the use of pasted fore-edge tabls to separate the
volumes and with pencilled annotations of a quasi-
bibliographical nature, some childish pencil scribbling on the
title-page of volume two of Lecoq, otherwise a very good copy
of this rare translation.
The English translation of Gaboriau’s ‘Lecoq’ represents a landmark in
the development of English crime fiction, not least for its influence on
Conan Doyle’s ‘Sherlock Holmes’.
(2)
THOMSON (Sir Basil Home).
A Court Intrigue.
London:
William Heinemann,
1896. FIRST EDITION, pp (6), 228, (32,
adverts), 8vo, original green cloth, gilt: very good-nice.
A rare crime novel. Thomson (1861-1939), colonial administrator,
writer, barrister, prison goovernor, police officer and British intelligence
agent.
(4)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
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COLMAN (George), the younger.
The Battle of Hexham.
A comedy, in three acts, as performed at the Theatre-Royal,
Crow-Street.
Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, Grafton-Street,
1790
Pages 39, (1, blank), 12mo, recent paper wrapper: a very good
copy.
ESTC locates only three copies of this printing: NcD, TxHR, CaOTU:
none in UK or Ireland. There were four printing by Byrne in 1790, of
48, 58, 57 and 39-pages respectively - priority not established. In our 39-
page issue the imprint date is in arabic, ‘Theatre-Royal’ is spelled
correctly, and, ‘of ’ in the title is in Roman caps.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
LLOYD (Robert).
a comic opera. As
it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. The music
[not included in this edition] composed by Mr. Rush. 1764.
The only Dublin printing. Based upon Favart’s Caprices d’Amour.
(2)
[MADDEN (Samuel)].
Themistocles, the lover of his country.
A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln’s-Inn-
Fields.
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, George Ewing,
and William Smith, Booksellers, in Dame’s-Street,
1729. FIRST
IRISH EDITION, pages (10), 63, (2, epilogue), (5, adverts),
12mo, recent paper wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
Stratman 3476.
(3)
CUMBERLAND (Richard).
The Choleric Man. A comedy.
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