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Mr Michael Powell, Librarian of Chetham’s Library, kindly informs us
that this London printing is not the same text as the present broadside –
and it is in any case only half as long, being on one side of the leaf only.
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
745
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[DOBBS (Arthur), attributed to.
Some thoughts
concerning government in general: and our present
circumstances in Great-Britain and Ireland
Dublin: Printed by and
for J. Hyde, Bookseller in Dame’s Street,
1728
FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 60, (2, blank), 8vo, recent marbled
boards: a: very good copy.
Kress 3767. Dobbs (1689–1765), colonial governor and writer on trade.
His Irish sensitivities, his personal stake in colonial development in the
prosperity and development of North Carolina, and his career ambitions
as a crown official were a volatile and potentially creative compound of
attitudes, temperament, and ideology. His friend and early patron, Lord
Hertford (who had introduced him to Holdernesse), frankly warned both
Dobbs and Holdernesse that his visionary proposals for reforming
English–Irish relations could wreck his career. The rebuke only spurred
Dobbs to bolder advocacy for the reform of Irish policy. Dobbs’s
experience in Scotland, moreover, convinced him that free trade could
effect the same social miracle in Ireland that it had in Scotland. Dobbs’s
encyclopaedic knowledge of Irish economic problems, especially the wool
trade, were of a piece with his candour, eloquence, and sense of imperial
urgency. He argued cogently for a strengthening of the North American
colonies as the best preparation for the inevitable next war with France,
and the implication that a distressed Ireland threatened Britain’s
national security lay just below the surface of his policy
recommendations. Dobbs’s ability to incorporate a radical indictment of
exploitation and injustice into writings on Irish and colonial policy
administration was typical of Anglican–Irish political discourse in the
age of Swift and Burke, and he was one of the foremost Irish protestant
‘commonwealth men’ of the 18C (Robbins) - ODNB. Dobbs was a
neighbour ad family friend of Jonathan Swift despite their political
differences.
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
746
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[DODGSON (Charles)].
Through the Looking-Glass, and
what Alice found there. By Lewis Carroll. With fifty illustrations
by John Tenniel.
Macmillan,
1872
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with illustrations by Tenniel,
pages (12),224, (4), 8vo, contemporary half red morocco, gilt
ruled and lettered spine: old skillful repair to a tear without loss
in one leaf, light signs of use in a few places and the binding
scuffed and worn at corners, but sound and strong: a good to
very good binding copy of this classic.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[DODGSON (Charles)].
Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland. By Lewis Carroll. With forty-two
illustrations by John Tenniel. Eighty-seventh thousand.
Macmillan and Co. …,
1898. With illustrs, pp (12), 192, (4), (3,
adverts), 8vo, original red cloth, gilt, all edges gilt: spine lightly
and evenly faded: a bright, fresh copy, with neat inscription dated
7th Oct 1898. (2)
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
747
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[DONALDSON (Joseph)].
Scenes and sketches of a
soldier’s life in Ireland
Edinburgh: Printed for William Tait …W.
Curry, Jun. & Co., Dublin …,
1826
FIRST EDITION, pp iv,212, 12mo, very good copy pleasantly
bound in modern boards.
Donaldson (1794–1830), Glasgow-born soldier and surgeon …With
some friends he ran away to sea and made a voyage to the W. Indies,
which disenchanted him of a sea life. In 1809 he again ran away,
enlisted in the old 94th (Scotch, or Scots, brigade), accompanied the
regiment to Jersey, then to Spain, where it took part in the desperate
defence of Fort Matagorda and later was with Picton’s division in the
Peninsula, 1811-14. After the peace the Scots brigade was stationed in
Ireland, where it was disbanded in 1818, except for the 94th, which
survived. In the meantime he married a young Irish girl, alluded to in
some of his writings under the name of Mary MacCarthy …. In 1815
he was discharged as sergeant, at the age of twenty-one … Returning to
Glasgow, he made a little money by the publication of his Scenes and
Sketches in Ireland. His hopes of obtaining employment in civil life
having utterly failed, he went to London, enlisted in the East India
Company’s service, and was employed as a recruiting-sergeant, first in
London and later in Glasgow. Disliking this, he transferred to the district
staff, and was employed as head clerk in the Glasgow district staff office
for some years. While in London, he had found time to study anatomy
and surgery, studies which he continued at Glasgow. Having qualified as
a surgeon, he took his discharge in 1827. He left his wife and children in
Glasgow, and, hoping to improve his medical prospects, went to London
and later to Paris, where he died in 1830, at the age of thirty-six. His
three books give a vivid picture of soldier’s life in the Peninsula and in
Ireland (ODNB).
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
748
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[DOUGLAS (John)].
A letter addressed to two great men,
on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be
insisted upon in the negociation.
Dublin: Printed for G. and A.
Ewing,
1760
FIRST DUBLIN EDITION, pp (2), 41, with half-title, 8vo,
recent wraps: nice, fresh copy
An important pamphlet, once attributed to Pulteney, strongly
recommending peace with France and the importance of requiring from
her all of Canada, Guadaloupe and Senegal. It prompted Benjamin
Franklin’s pamphlet ‘The Interest of Great Britain considered’. This
Dublin edition is uncommon: there was also an edition published at Cork
in the same year.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HUTTON (Henry Dix).
Modern
Warfare: its positive theory and true policy. With an application
to the Russian War, and an answer to the question - “What shall
we do?”
John Chapman …,
1855. FIRST EDITION, pages 73, (1),
and advert leaf, 8vo, recent wrapper: some light fingering and the
advert leaf with two small punctures with only slight loss: a very
good copy.
An expansion of a paper read before the ‘Statistical Society of Dublin’,
here with a new nine-page preface.
(2)
[PULTENEY (Wm.), Earl of Bath].
A Proper Answer to
the By-Stander. Wherein is shewn I. That there is no necessity
for, but infallible ruin in the maintenance of a large regular (or
mercenary) land force in this island … III. That publick credit is
now upon a more stable foundation … and can be ruined by
nothing but bad oeconomy, temporary expedients, and loss of
trade. …
Printed for T. Cooper,
1742. FIRST (ONLY) EDITION,
pages (2), 78, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Hanson 5646. Variously attributed to Pulteney and to Corbyn Morris.
(3)
TORRENS (Sir Henry).
Field exercises and evolutions of
the army. As revised by Major General Sir Henry Torrens …
Printed and sold by William Clowes,
1824. FIRST EDITION
THUS, with 12 folding engraved plates (2 misfolded and a little
dusty in the fore-edge), pp xvi, 335, (1), 8vo, contemporary half
calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: binding worn and chipped at
headband but still very strong, otherwise a very good copy.
(4)
TAILLEFER (Nugent).
Rondeaus of the British Auxiliary
Forces. Ninth edition.
Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co.,
1883. Pages
viii,24, (50),25 - 168, (2, adverts), 8vo, original red cloth: thr
binding stained, but sound and strong and otherwise a clean and
very good copy.
The author, ‘a rhymer, not a military man’, a militia enthusiast,
provides extensive personal comment to his collection of the songs of
various militia and other auxiliary military forces.
(5)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
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