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COURTESY BOOK.
Letters addressed to two young
married ladies, on the most interesting subjects.
Dublin: Printed by
and for James and Williams Porter, No. 12, Skinner-Row. And for John
Cash, No. 14, Capel-Street,
1782
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pp vi,221, (1, blank), 12mo,
contemporary calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: the joints
lightly cracked but the binding very strong and otherwise a very
good to nice copy with the neat contemporary signature of Anne
Bayly on the title-page.
ESTC locates copies at L, Dp, D and none in USA or elsewhere. The
London edition, also 1782, was published in two volumes and is almost
as rare, ESTC locating copies at L, C, BMu, O / CSmH and MNS. A
notably rare printing, one we have not previously seen. The letters are
written from Hotwells, Bristol, by an aged and apparently seriously ill
lady. They contain much on behaviour and education for youth.
€800-€1,200 (£640-£960 approx.)
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COWAN (Samuel Kennedy).
Laurel Leaves; or, Lays of a
Laureate.
Belfast: M’Caw, Stevenson & Orr, Linenhall Works,
1888 [i.
e. 1885]
FIRST EDITION, pp 69, (3, blank), 12mo, original green cloth,
gilt: very good-nice copy.
Cowan (1850-1918), native of Lisburn, Co Antrim, educated at Trinity,
where he was a contemporary of Oscar Wilde and contributed to
“Kottabos”, the college periodical. As a poet he published at least ten
volumes of work before the end of the 19C and a number of his
narrative poems continued to be drawing room favourites for recitation
well ito the next century. “Laurel Leaves” opens with the long poem
“William and Betsy” which gives a graphically frank description of
acute female dipsomania. Although originally published in 1885, this
copy has had the date on the title-page neatly altered to 1888,
undoubtedly by the author who was in the habit of amending his books
with manuscript corrections and paste-down errata. In the present copy
there are two such errata slips, on pages 38 and 61.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GALLWEY (Thomas).
Lays of
Killarney lakes, descriptive sonnets, and occasional poems.
Dublin: Hodges, Foster & Co.,
1871. FIRST EDITION, with an
actual mounted photo frontispiece view of Innisfallen, pages viii,
(1, (1, blank), 129, (1), large 12mo, original green cloth, gilt,
edges gilt: a very good to nice copy.
The first edition of, apparently, his first published work. “Author of some
legal works, and seemingly a Kerryman. “ - O’Donoghue. COPAC has
the second (enlarged) edition of 1871 only and locates two copies: C and
L.
(2)
IRWIN (Thomas Caulfield).
Versicles.
Dublin: W. M.
Hennessy, Crow-Street.
1856. FIRST EDITION, pages vi, (1), (1,
blank),240, large 12mo, original cloth: the binding evenly
rubbed, worn and dull but sound and strong and otherwise a
very good copy.
His first published book. “ … one of the best Irish poets of the century
…” - O’Donoghue.
(3)
SHARPE (Wm.), MD.
Humanity and the Man: a poem.
Dublin: Hodges, Foster, and Figgis. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and
Co.,
1878. FIRST EDITION, pages 130 and advert leaf and a
further leaf of adverts tipped in at end, also an advert leaf on
pale violet coloured paper for the author’s “The Cause of Colour
among Races” mounted on the front endpaper, large 12mo,
original green cloth, gilt by Cavenagh of Dublin, with ticket: a
very good copy, inscribed on the title-page “To Surgeon Major
Flood / with the author’s Compts” and with 3 corrections in the
text in the same hand.
O’Donoghue 420.
(4)
DAVIS (Francis).
or, an autumn gathering [: verse]. With an
introductory essay by the Rev. Columban O’Grady, C. P. 1878. a
very good copy.
His collected works with a 21-page introduction by O’Grady. Davis
(1810-85), native of Cork, later a muslin weaver in Belfast, sometimes
called “the Belfast Man” and, with more enthusiasm than justice, “the
Burns of Ireland”.
(5)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
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CRAIG (Sir Thomas).
Jus feudale tribus libris
comprehensum. Quibus non solùm consuetudines feudales &
prædiorum iura, quæ in Scotia, Anglia, & plerisque Galliæ locis
obtinent, continentur; sed universum ius Scoticum, et omnes ferè
materiæ iuris clarè & dilucidè exponuntur, et ad fontes iuris
feudalis & civilis singula reducuntur. Authore clarissimo &
doctissimo viro Mro Thoma Cragio de Riccartoun, in senatu
Edinburgensi patrono celeberrimo & iurisconsultissimo.
Londini
[i. e. Edinburgh], impensis Societatis Stationariorum,
1655
FIRST EDITION, pages (12), 383, (1, blank), folio,
contemporary panelled calf, with red label, gilt: an attractive,
unsophisticated copy with the contemporary signature of Robert
Scott of Dunninade on title-page.
Wing C 6802. Craig (1538?–1608), lawyer and jurist, In 1578 he was
appointed a commissioner to consider the laws and also to a committee
to consider publication of acts of parliament. Throughout the 16C
concern was repeatedly expressed over the state of the law in Scotland,
and various attempts were made to collect and publish texts of both
customary laws and statutes. This was the context in which Craig’s great
work of legal history and exegesis, Jus feudale, was created …The
culmination of a lifetime’s professional involvement in Scots law, it was
enriched by frequent allusions to practice. Written in admirably clear
Latin (which the poor English translation represents rather miserably), it
is a typical humanistic w ork in its classical quotations and references
and historical and philological discussions. That it originated in a
patriotic concern for Scots law is revealed by Craig’s stated Ciceronian
aim of reducing that law to an ordered science, thereby making it easier
for students to learn. He achieves this admirably, writing an accessible,
learned, and well-structured work, in which he stresses the feudal origins
of much Scots law (and English law too), and from that basis explains
and expounds his subject in a logical fashion. He ultimately validates
Scots law and its practices in the law of nature and nations in a way
that to some extent anticipates Grotius. Craig gave full weight to the
important late medieval commentators Bartolus and Baldus, but the
principal intellectual influence on the work is French humanism,
particularly the legal writings of the radical protestant François Hotman
(with whose political views Craig will have disagreed strongly). Craig’s
systematic account of feudal land law and its principles influenced
numerous later Scottish writers, and in particular Lord Stair in his
Institutions, but also had an impact on English legal writers and on
English understanding of the history of the common law. ” – ODNB.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
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CRAWFORD (Robert).
Reminiscences of foreign travel.
Longmans, Green, and Co. …,
1888
FIRST EDITION, pp xx, 308, (6, adverts), 8vo, full mid-brown
polished calf, gilt borderd sides, fully gilt and lettered spine,
edges gilt: a handsomely bound and attractive copy.
Crawford, Prof of Civil Engineering at Trinity College, Dublin, recounts
his early career in Montreal following the great fire, as an employee of
the engineer Thomas Keefer, of his part in the survey of the city for an
enlarged waterworks, during the construction of the Canadian Grand
Trunk Railway from Montreal and Toronto, and as a railway engineer
in Austria, Germany, Egypt, Argentina and Algeria. The author’s own
copy, with his signed armorial bookplate (“Sine labe nota”).
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
708
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CRAWFORD (Wm.).
A History of Ireland. From the
earliest period, to the present time. In a series of letters addressed
to William Hamilton, Esq.
Strabne: Printed by John Bellew,
1783
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages xxx, 350: 387, including the
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