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With an engraved portrait, engraved title-pages and a folding
genealogical table of the Corsini family, pages xv, 383: 375, 2
vols, 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt bordered sides, gilt
spines, edges gilt, silk markers: with a little wear at the
headbands but both volumes sound and strong and otherwise an
attractive copy with the bookplate of Lady Maria E. Dunalley in
both volumes.
Edited by Giusto Conti.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
PIRON (Alexis).
Oeuvres
choisies.
Londres [?Paris printed]
1782. With an engraved portrait,
pages xii, 180: (4), 196: (4), 168, with the half-titles, 3 vols,
24mo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt bordered sides, gilt
spines, edges gilt, silk markers: with just a little wear at the
headbands but all volumes sound and strong and otherwise an
attractive set with contemporary bookplate of Lady Maria E.
Dunalley in each volume.
Piron (1689-1773), a light, witty poet,
author of many keen epigrams, verse tales, satires, etc., not free from
coarse buffoonery.
(2)
GUARINI (Giovanni Battista).
Il Pastor Fido,
tragicommedia pastorale.
Glasgua, della stampa di Roberto ed
Andrea Foulis …,
1763. Wiith additional engraved title-page and
6 engraved plates, 264-pages, small 8vo (10 by 15. 5 cms),
contemporary calf, gilt, label supplied: the headbands worn but
the binding strong and otherwise a very good copy.
Gaskell 418.
(3)
[LIPPI (Lorenzo)].
Il Malmantile Racquistato di Perlone
Zipoli, colle note di varj, scelte da Luigi Portirelli.
Milano, Soc.
Tip. de’ Class. It. (vol 165 in the series),
1807. With an engraved
portrait, pages xxxi, 573, (1), 8vo, near contemporary half calf
over marbled boards, gilt ruled and lettered spine: a very good to
nice copy.
(4)
[MONTESQUIEU (Charles de Secondat), Count de].
Il
Tempio di Gnido nuovamente transportato dal Francese in
Italiano.
Parigi presso Prault,
1767. With an engraved frontispiece,
engraved title-page and pages 45, (3), 147, (9), 12mo,
contemporary mottled calf, gilt bordered sides, gilt spine, edges
gilt, silk marker: with just a little wear at the headbands but the
binding sound and strong and otherwise an attractive copy with
the bookplate of Lady Maria E. Dunalley.
(5)
ALGAROTTI (Francesco), Count.
Il congresso di Citera.
Accresciuto del [sic] alcune lettere e del Giudizio d’amore.
Parigi, appresso Marcello Prault,
1768. With an engraved title-page
and 3 attractive engraved head-pieces, pages (4), 69, (1, blank),
(3), 72 - 85, (1, blank), (169) - 201, complete thus in spite of
pagination jump, though possibly wanting an engraved
frontispiece, 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt bordered
sides, gilt spine, edges gilt: with just a little wear at the
headbands but binding sound and strong and otherwise an
attractive copy with the bookplate of Lady Maria E. Dunalley.
The erratic pagination is noted in the NUC entry but not in BLC.
(9)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
701
.
COSGRAVE (Ephraim Mac Dowel), MD &
STRANGWAYS (Leonard R.).
The Dictionary of Dublin.
Being a comprehensive guide to the city and its neighbourhood.
Illustrated by [i. e from] numerous photographs taken by the
authors. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker … London: Simpkin,
Marshall …, 1907. [bound with:] COSGRAVE (Ephraim Mac
Dowel), MD The Tourist’s Guide to the International
Exhibition, 1907, Herbert Park, Dublin, together with an up-to-
date plan of buildings and grounds, and numerous illustrations.
Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker, Middle Abbey Street (1907).
Dublin
1907
With 3 maps (2 folding) and many illustrs from photographs, pp
xxxiii, (1, adverts; (4),229, (3, adverts): 48,2 works (the first in
two parts) in one vol, cr 8vo, original red cloth, gilt: the spine a
little dull but sound and the binding strong: a clean, sound and
very good copy.
The author’s copy, with his small oval stamp on the title-page and his
attractive engraved bookplate. Interleaved throughout - apparently
issued so, as the binding shows no evidence of alteration or repair. The
first work, both parts, carries corrctions or additions in the author’s
hand on some 148 pages (some in the text, some on the blank leaves).
The only correction to the second work is a change in the author’s
designation on the title-page from president of the The Royal
Geological, to The Royal Zoological Society of Ireland.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
702
.
COSGRAVE (Ephraim Macdowel), M. D.
Dublin and
Co. Dublin in the twentieth century. Contemporary Biographies.
Edited by W. T. Pike. Pike’s New Century Series. No. 26.
Brighton and London: W. T. Pike,
1908
FIRST EDITION, profusely illustrated with views and portraits,
pages 286, (2), large 4to, original publisher’s full morocco, richly
gilt, edges gilt: lightly rubbed and just a little worn, but the
attractive, ornate binding sound and strong and still a very good
copy.
A valuable work: notably scarce. With biographies of over 500
distinguished Dubliners, each with a portrait: the various groupings
include, nobility and gentry, magistrates, clergy, the bench and the bar,
legal, medical, scholastic, literary and musical, auctioners, land agents,
engineers, architects, and, accountants.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
O’BRIEN (Henry).
The Round
Towers of Ireland; or, the history of the Tuath-de-Danaas for
the first time unveiled. Second edition.
London: Parbury and Allen
… Dublin: J. Cumming,
1834. With 4 plates and 28 other, mostly
full-page, illustrations, pages (4), (2, adverts),524 and
errata/advert leaf, 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, with
printed paper spine label: the label lightly chipped, otherwise a
very good copy in original state.
Enthusiastic and self-deluding, O’Brien (1808-35), wrote a dissertation
for a prize offered by the Royal Irish Academy. Although he did not
win, he was awarded a small gratuity. The object of this present work
(an expanded version of his prize essay) was to show that the round
towers were Buddhistic remains. The book was condemned as wild and
extravagant in the
Gentleman’s Magazine
and by George Petrie, a
fellow Irish antiquary. Thomas Moore wrote a hostile review in the
Edinburgh Review,
and, in response O’Brien accused Moore of
appropriating his discoveries in his
History of Ireland
. F. S. Mahony,
known as Father Prout, a warm friend and admirer of O’Brien’s, came
to his defence in
The Reliques of Father Prout
(1836). (ODNB).
(2)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
703
.
COULTER (John), M. D.
Adventures in the Pacific; with
observations on the natural productioins, manners and customs
of the natives of the various islands; together with remarks on
missionaries, British and other residents, etc. etc.
Dublin: William
Curry, Jun. and Company …,
1845
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages xi, (1, blank),290, (2, blank),
8vo, contemporary half calf, neatly and recently rebacked, gilt
lettered spine, top edges gilt: a very good copy.
An account of his experiences in the Pacific as surgeon aboard the
English whaler Stratford, 1832-36. Includes a chapter on whaling, and
others on the Falklands, Chile, Juan Fernandez, the Galapogos, the
Marquesas, the Tuammotu Archipelago, and Tahiti. A sequel,
Adventures on the Western Coast of South America, and the interior of
California, followed in 1847.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
164
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