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20-page subscriber list,2 vols, 8vo, neatly and strongly bound in
a plain 19C cloth: a very good copy, with a small, faint stamp
and the contemporary signature of James Patterson on both
title-pages.
“A valuable contemporary account of the ‘Whiteboys’ and the
‘Oakboys’. Crawford was born in Crumlin, Co. Antrim, and was
educated in Glasgow. He was ordained Presbyterian minister of
Strabane and established an academy there. Like his father he was a
latitudinarian in theology but he took no part whatsoever in
ecclesiastical polemics; his tastes were literary and political. He
published, first, a critique of Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to his Son; his
plea, in the form of a dialogue, for a more robust morality attracted
notice at Oxford University. He next translated a treatise on natural
theology by the Genevan theologian John Alphonso Turretine. He
zealously promoted the volunteer movement, which he believed would
lead to national independence, was chaplain to the 1st Tyrone
regiment, and published in Strabane two stirring sermons to
volunteers. A more significant publication was A History of Ireland
from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (1783), which he
dedicated to the earl of Charlemont. Though largely derivative the
work provides an interesting example of the protestant tradition of
patriotism that combined reverence for the revolution principles of
1688 with a defence of Old English and Gaelic institutions (ODNB).
(2)
€200-€250 (£160-£200 approx.)
709
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CREASY (Sir Edward S.).
History of the Ottoman
Turks: from the beginning of their empire to the present time.
Chiefly founded on Von Hammer.
Richard Bentley,
1854-56
FIRST EDITION, with 6 maps (4 folding) and a lithograph
view of Malta, pages xi, (1), 413 and corrigenda leaf: vi,
(1),548 and corrigenda leaf,2 vols, 8vo, contemporary half calf,
fully gilt spines, with double labels, gilt: endpapers lighttly
foxed and a small piece chipped from one title-label, otherwise
a very good-nice copy with Kilmorey armorial bookplate.
A work highly regarded by his contemporaries. As Creasy
acknowledges, his work draws on those of Hammer von Purgstall,
Knolles, Roe, Mouradja d’Ohsson, Ubicini, Sir James Porter,
Urquhart and other sources.
(2)
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
710
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[CROLY (George)? or LUTTRELL (Henry) ?].
May
Fair. In four cantos.
William H. Ainsworth,
1827
FIRST EDITION, pp (4), 194, (2, ads), 12mo, original blue
paper boards, brown paper spine label, uncut: a little wear to
the spine, but still a very good to nice copy in original state.
Wolff 1632 (his copy rebound and crudely rebacked). NSTC is
undecided regarding authorship.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BYRON (George G. N.), Lord
Byron.
Hours of Idleness; a series of poems, original and
translated, by George Gordon, Lord Byron, a minor. Third
edition.
Paris: Published by Galignani,
1820. Pages (8), 158, (2),
with the half-title, 12mo, recent paper wrapper: with a light,
old lfore-edge water-stain and some light foxing: a very good
copy.
An uncommon edition of Byron’s first regularly published book.
(2)
WATSON (Sir Wm.).
Hymn to the Sea.
New York: John
Lane,
1895. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, 8-pages, cr 8vo,
original buff-coloured printed paper wrappers: disbound, but
the backstrip mostly intact and otherwise a nice, fresh copy.
Originally contributed to The Yellow Book. “One of a small number of
copies (?100) printed to secure copyright. “ - Colbeck.
(3)
STICKNEY later ELLIS (Sarah).
Pictures of Private Life.
Third Series. By Sarah Stickney.
Smith, Elder and Co.,
1837.
FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, pp viii, 357, (3,
adverts), small 8vo, original blind-stamped dark maroon
morocco, gilt ruled and lettered spine, edges gilt: a very good
copy.
The last of the three series published of her first book: the first series
was published in 1833.
(4)
STANHOPE (Elizabeth Still), Countess of Harrington: -
Hauff (W.).
From the German. Freely translated. 1875.
Morgan 3796. Juvenile tales not in Osborne. NSTC has BL and O
only.
(5)
[PARTON (Sara Payson Willis)].
Ruth Hall. A domestic
tale of the present time. By Fanny Fern.
Wakefield: William
Nicholson and Sons. London: S. D. Edwins & Co., circa
1860. With
mounted coloured frontispiece, pp 381, (3, adverts), 12mo,
original blue cloth: nice.
An autobiographical novel, first published New York 1855, one of the
bestselling novels of the 19C, revealing the mean-spirited behaviour of
her brother, the author and publisher Payson Willis.
(6)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
711
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CRORY (Wm. Glenny).
A treatise on industrial
resources (still neglected) in Ireland: in which the
manufacturing powers of Ireland are pointed out, their value
estimated, and how to work them on purely commercial
principles fully set forth.
Dublin: McGlashan & Gill,
1860
FIRST EDITION, pp xxii, (2), 182, 18 (adverts, with index),
and errata slip, 12mo, original cloth: two small old stamps on
title-page and the first two leaves with minor ink splashes, the
binding a little rubbed and dull but sound and strong and
otherwise a very good copy.
COPAC locates six copies, but the work is decidedly uncommon in
commerce. Dedicated, appropriately, to Sir Robert Kane
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
DILL (Edward Marcus), M. D.
The mystery solved: or, Ireland’s miseries; the grand cause, and
cure.
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers,
1854. Pages 346,
12(advertisements), (4, blank), large 12mo, original brown
cloth: with some light marginal browning and staining, but still
a very good copy.
An edition not in NSTC or COPAC.
(2)
BRADY (Thomas J.), TYRRELL (R. Y.) & CULLINAN
(Maxwell C.).
Hesperidum Susurri.
Rivington
1867. FIRST
EDITION, pp viii, (1), 119, (4, ads), 8vo, original cloth, gilt: a
very good copy.
(3)
INDERMAUR (John).
A concise practical treatise on the
law of bills of sale, embracing the Bills of Sale Acts of 1878
and 1892, with appendices of forms and statutes.
Stevens and
Haynes,
1882. FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages xi, 180, cr 8vo,
original red cloth, gilt: with a small light name-stamp on the
title-page, otherwise a very good to nice copy.
Uncommon:
COPAC has L, C and NLS only.
(4)
O’DUFFY (Richard J.).
Historic Graves in Glasnevin
Cemetery.
Dublin: James Duffy and Co.,
1915. FIRST EDITION,
folding map, pp vii,206, (1), 8vo, original mauve cloth, gilt:
very good. (5)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
712
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CULLUM (George G. M. G.).
The inscriptions in the
old British cemetery of Leghorn. Transcribed by Gery Milner-
Gibson-Cullum, F. S. A. and the late Francis Campbell
Macauley. With an introduction by Montgomery Carmichael,
British Vice-Consul at Leghorn.
Leghorn: Raffaello Giusti
1906
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, 3 plates, pp xxvii, 126, 8vo,
original cloth: very good-nice.
The edition was limited to only 300 copies.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GROSSETESTE (Robert).
Castel off Loue (Chasteau d’Amour or Carmen de creatione
mundu). An early English translation of an old French poem
… edited from MSS. in the British Museum, and in the
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