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Wing B 4779. Sweeney 1414. Lord Digby’s letter is dated at
Middleborough, Jan. 21, 1641 [1642], “Ioyfull news from Jreland
[sic], or A true relation of the great overthrow which the English gave
the rebels before Droheda [sic], &c., “ pages 5-7, is dated Feb. 27, 1641
[1642] and signed: Ed. Loftus.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
740
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DILLON, (Wentworth – Earl of Roscommon)
Poems by
the Earl of Roscommon. To which is added, An Essay on
Poetry, —. Together with Poems by Mr. Richard Duke.
London,
J. Tonson
1717.
8vo. Contemporary full panelled calf with label. Very Good.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
741
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DIMSDALE (Thomas), FRS, MD.
The present method
of inoculating for the small-pox. Towhich are added some
experiments, introduced with a view to discover the effects of a
familiar treat-ment in the natural small-pox. The third edition,
with additions.
Dublin: Printed by J. Exshaw, at the Bible in Dame-
street,
1767
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (4), 171, (1, blank), 8vo, old
undistinguished calf-backed marbled boards, with label: with
some light old staining and browning but still a well-margined
and very good copy.
ESTC locates nine copies of this edition: L, Cpr, Ds, Du, Mru, Lwe,
Luht: MRCo, DNLM. Dimsdale (1712-1800) retired from practice on
inheriting a fortune … In 1767 he published, The Present Method of
Inoculating for the Small-Pox, which enjoyed great popularity, going
through six large editions in five years. It was also translated into
several foreign languages. In this work, Dimsdale described a safer, less
invasive inoculation procedure, which had first been pioneered by
Daniel Sutton. In 1768 he was invited to St Petersburg by the Empress
Catherine the Great to inoculate herself and her son, the Grand Duke
Paul. The empress seems to have been confident of Dimsdale’s good
faith, but she could not answer for her subjects, and therefore had
relays of post-horses prepared for him so that his escape might be
instant and rapid in case of disaster. Fortunately both patients did
well, and Dimsdale was created a councillor of state, with the
hereditary title of baron. He received a sum of £10,000, with an
annuity of £500, and £2000 for his expenses. ” – ODNB.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
742
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DION CASSIO.
…… (Greek) Dionis Cassii Romanorum
Historiarum libri XXV, ex Guilielmi Xylandri interpretatione.
[Paris:] Excudebat Henricus Stephanus 1592. [bound with:] E
Dione excerptae historia ab Ioanne Xiphilino. Ex
interpretatione Guilielmi Blanci, a Guilielmo Xylandro
recognita. [Paris:] Excudebat Henricus Stephanus 1592. 1592
With large printer’s device on both title-pages, in Latin and
Greek throughout in parallel columns, pages (12), 792, (22), (2,
blank): (8), 376, (2, blank), (22),2 works in 1 volume, folio,
strongly bound in near contemporary vellum, with leather
spine labels, gilt: some very light stains in places but
nonetheless strongly bound and attractive, well-margined
copies.
Adams D 505 and D 514. Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus, c. AD 155
or 163/164 to after 229, known in English as Cassius Dio, Dio
Cassius, or Dio, a Roman consul and noted historian writing in
Greek. He published his history of Rome in 80 vols, beginning with
the legendary arrival of Aeneas in Italy down to AD 229. He is an
important witness for contemporary events and a valuable
commentator on the political aspects of history through his own
experience, but he is unreliable about republican institutions and the
style is coloured by his rhetorical traiining.
€300-€400 (£240-£320 approx.)
743
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DIRECTORY AND ALMANANC, 1794.
The Treble
Almanack for the year 1794. Containing I. Watson’s Irish
Almanack, II. Exshaw’s English Court Registry, III. Wilson’s
Dublin Directory with a new correct plan of the city.
Dublin:
Sold by all the booksellers,
1794
With a folding engraved map, engraved general title-page and
pp 151, (1, blank): (4), 171, (1, blank): (2), 161, (1, blank),
12mo, original sheep, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: binding
lightly and evenly rubbed but sound & very strong: attractive
copy in original state.
Each part has its own titlepage, pagination and register and was also
issued separately. The imprint of the ‘Gentleman’s and citizen’s
alamanack’ lists the names: Samuel Watson and Thomas Stewart; the
imprint of the ’English Registry’ lists John Exshaw, and that of the
’Dublin Directory’, William Wilson.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
DIRECTORY, DUBLIN, 1832.
Watson’s Gentleman’s and Citizen’s Almanack … … for …
1832 … Dublin: Printed for C. Hope …, (1831). [bound with:]
The English Registry for …, 1832 … Dublin: Published by C.
Hope …, (1831). The Post Office Annual Directory for 1832 …
, Dublin: John S. Folds, 1832.
Dublin
(1831)-1832. Pages 215:
215: viii, 300; 100, large 12mo, original red roan, gilt ruled and
lettered spine: binding rubbed and worn at corners but still
very strong and otherwise in very good state.
Without the map
usually found.
(2)
DIRECTORY, DUBLIN, 1821.
The Treble Almanack for
the year 1821 Containing I. John Watson Stewarts Almanack
II. The English Court Registry III. Wilsons Dublin Directory
with a new correct plan of the city …
Dublin & sold by all the
booksellers
(1820). With collective engraved title & folding
engraved map, pages 30, 35 – 215, (1, blank): 225, (1, blank):
208, (12), large 12mo, original red roan, neatly rebacked and
gilt: very good.
In this copy the interleaved Calendar lacks the two
leaves for December (pages 31-34).
(3)
ALMANAC.
The Gentleman’s and Citizen’s Almanack,
compiled by John Watson Stewart, for … 1810 … Dublin:
Printed by JohnWatson Stewart, 1809. [with:] The English
Registry for… 1810; (By John Watson Stewart,) or a
collectionn of English lists … Dublin: Printed by John Watson
Stewart [1809].
Dublin,
1809. Pages 120, 123-138, 137(bis)-152,
155-170, 169(bis)-215: 199, complete in spite of erratic
pagination, small 8vo, original marbled paper wrappers: a little
dog-eared at beginning and end but still a very good copy in
original state. (4)
€300-€350 (£240-£280 approx.)
744
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DISMAL STORM.
An account of the dismal storm
which lately happen’d in England, on Saturday the twenty-
seventh of November last, 1703, which occasion’d great
damages both by sea and land.
(Ccolophon: ) Dublin re-printed at
the Post-Office Coffee-House in Fish-shamble-street.
1703
Broadside, 300 x 200mm approximately, printed on both sides
of the leaf, (2)-pages, folio, unbound, with fore and lower edges
uncut: a fine copy.
An unrecorded Dublin broadside. Fascinating reports from around
England on the effects of the famous storm of 27 November 1703,
when terrible damage was done by a hurricane that struck overnight.
This collection of reports from around England is said to be reprinted
from, one assumes, a London original, but no broadside with a
precisely similar title is known. The closest comparison is with ‘A
Letter from a Gentleman in London, to his friend in the country,
containing an account of the dismal effects of the terrible storm of
wind, or hurricane’, which is dated ‘London, Novemb. 29. 1703’ at
the head. That broadside is almost as rare as this one, with just two
copies recorded, at the Guildhall Library and Chetham’s Manchester;
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