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DERMOTT (Laurence).
Ahiman Rezon or, a help to a
brother. Shewing, the excellency of secrecy, and the first cause of
the institution of Freemasonry; the principles of the craft, and
the benefits arising from a strict observance thereof; the sort of
man that ought to be initiated … ancient manner of constituting
new lodges … prayers used in Jewish and Christian lodges…old
and new regulations …large collection of masons songs,
entertaining prologues and epilogues, and Solomon’s Temple [by
James Eyre Weeks]: an oratorio. The fifth edition, with additions.
Belfast: Printed for the Editor, by James Magee,
1782
Pages xxiii, (2, list of members to October 1783), (1, blank),
complete with the half-title, 192, large 12mo, contemporary calf,
woth label, gilt: the casing weak, the binding rubbed and worn
but strong, a lightly used copy.
ESTC locates five copies of this edition (two in Belfast, BL, Gdansk and
Washington State). Laurence (1720–91), freemason, born in Ireland but
further details of his place of birth and parentage are unknown. He was
initiated into the masons in Dublin in 1740, and went to London about
1750. He was elected grand secretary of the ‘Antient’ masons in 1752.
Little is known of his life apart from his masonic activities. He is thought
to have been in the employment of a master painter shortly after his
arrival in London and later to have set himself up as a wine merchant in
London. He married, presumably before June 1770 when he drew up his
will, naming his wife, Elizabeth Dermott, as the sole beneficiary. In 1756
he published Ahiman Rezon, or, A Help to a Brother, an influential law
book the format of which was copied by other lodges. In 1771 the duke of
Atholl appointed him deputy grand master of the Antient masons, an
office he held until December 1787. He died in June 1791 at Mile End
Old Town, where he was living at that time. His place of burial remains
unknown (ODNB).
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
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DESLANDES (André F. B.).
An Essay on Maritime Power
and Commerce; particularly those of France. In an epistolary
discourse, address’d to The Count de Maurepas, Secretary of
State, and of the Marine.
Printed for Paul Vaillant,
1743
FIRST AND ONLY ENGLISH EDITION, pages xii, 163, (1,
adverts), 8vo, recent wrapper: with a light old water stain on the
fore-margin, but still a large and very good copy.
Only English edition of a work several times reprinted in French,
arguing in favour of a strong navy to ensure commercial dominance. “It
contains many interesting notices relating to America, particularly the
designs of Cromwell to become possessor of that country, the expedition
of Thomas Gage, etc. “ - Sabin. As commissaire general of the marine at
Rochefort and Brest, Deslandes was well qualified to write on the rôle of
naval forces for the protection of trade.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
PEAKE (James).
Rudiments of
Naval Architecture; an exposition of the elementary principles of
the science … for the use of beginners.
Virtue and Co., (Weale’s
Rudimentary series, No. 51),
1867. With 18 mostly folding
plates(last two misfolded and fingered), pp xii, 316 and 12, 32
(ads), large 12mo, original cloth, printed paper spine label: label
chipped, otherwise very good.
(2)
[EDEN (Wm.), Baron Auckland)].
Some remarks on the
apparent circumstances of the war in the fourth week of October
1795.
Printed for J. Walter,
1795. FIRST EDITION, 68-pages, 8vo,
recent marbled boards, with morocco label, gilt: a nice, fresh
copy with the contemporary signature of Ralph Creyke on the
title-page.
Eden here implicitly argues for a negotiated settlement with France upon
the basis of the status quo ante bellum.
(3)
CALCUTTA LIGHT HORSE.
Calcutta Light Horse, A. F.
(I.). 1759-1881-1947.
Aldershot, Gale & Polden,
1957. With 45
illustrations on 33 plates (1 coloured), pages xv, 175, 8vo, original
cloth, gilt, silk marker: the binding stained but sound and strong
and internally in nice, fresh state.
“An interesting and useful history.
“ - Perkins 529.
(4)
[PEARCE (Ellen J.)].
Peace or War? An appeal to the
women of Great Britain & Ireland, by a Cornishwoman.
Dedicated, by permission, to Mrs. Rose Mary Crashaw.
London: -
Elliot Stock, Truro: - Heard and Sons, Penryn: - John Gill,
1876.
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, pages 30, (2, blank), 8vo, stabbed
for stitching but threads gone, light fingering, but a very good
copy. (5)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
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DESPARD (Edward Marcus), Colonel.
High Treason. The
trial at large of Col. E. M. Despard, and his associates, on a
charge of high treason, at the new sessions-house, Horsemonger-
Lane, Southwark, on Monday, 7th February, 1803. Together with
memoirs of his life. From his birth to the present unfortunate
crisis. York: Printed and sold by E, Lower-Ousegate (1803).
[bound with:] Memoirs of the life of Col. E. M. Despard, now
under sentence of death for high treason; together with a variety
of interesting matter, from his birth till the present unfortunate
crisis. The third edition. London: Printed for Tegg and Castleman
… (1803). (1803)
(1) With engraved portrait frontispiece (“Published Feby. 14th,
1803”), pp 64 and (2), 4, (8) adverts, old, neat repair to small
portion of outer margin of leaf D6 affecting a few letters on recto
(verso blank) and a crude repair to one advert leaf without loss.
(2) With a portrait frontispiece (“etched by Barlow, from a sketch
taken at his trial …… Published by Tegg & Co., Feby. 14th, 1803)
London: Printed for Tegg and Castleman … (1803)”. Two works
in one volume, large 12mo, recent morocco-backed marbled
boards, gilt: in very good state
Despard (1751-1803), Laois-born naval hero, executed for alleged
revolutionary conspiracy in London. His activities, long dismissed as a
wild personal venture, are now seen as part of the clandestine plotting
still kept up, despite defeat in the insurrection of 1798 by the United
Irishmen and their radical allies in Great Britain, with possible links to
Robert Emmet’s venture later the same year (OCIH). Admiral Nelson
appeared at the trial and provided a character reference: they had served
together in the West Indies in the 1790s.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
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[DIBDIN (Charles), the elder].
The Lion and the Water-
Wagtail: a mock heroic poem, in three cantos. By Castigator.
For
Sherwood, Neely, and Jones,
1809
FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 174 and leaf of adverts, 12mo,
pleasantly bound in old two-tone paper boards, edges uncut, with
a few leaves unopened: a nice copy
A lengthy political and social satire, ‘a sort of prediction’, attacking the
Duke of York and others. COPAC locates O, C and L copies only.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
WILSON (George Henry).
Miscellaneous Poems by G. H. Wilson
Oscott: S. Cockburn & Son,
The Borough Printing and Publishing Works and Offices of the Oscott
Observer,
1896. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, pages vii, 106
and leaf of imprint, large 12mo, original red cloth, gil: a nice,
fresh copy.
A scarce, privately published collection. Not found in COPAC. WorldCat
locates three copies in the USA. There is a copy in the Kohler Collection
but not in the printed catalogue.
(2)
CHATTERTON (Thomas).
Poems by Thomas Chatterton.
With a memoir by Frederick Martin.
Charles Griffin and Company
[1865]. FIRST EDITION EDITED MARTIN, with portrait and
7 illustrations, pp xlvi, (47) - 168, 8 (adverts dated January 1886),
small 8vo, original green cloth, gilt, edges gilt: inside joints
tender, the cloth cockled and a little worn, otherwise a sound,
clean and very good copy.
M, secretary to Carlyle, wrote a life of Clare and on banking, insurance,
etc.
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