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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. The second edition.
Dublin:
Printed for G. and A. Ewing, at the Angel and Bible in Dame-street,
1760
Pages (2), 41, (1, blank), with the half-title, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good 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’. “Of the
highest importance for the history of the Settlement as regards our
interest in Canada and the American colonies. ” - Higgs 2238. One of
four editions published at Dubin during 1760: ESTC locates copies at
L, C, D, Di, Dp: CSmH, RPJCB and CU-SB.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MODERN OBSERVATIONS.
Modern Observations on Antient History. Translated from the
Italian, by the author of the first chapter. To which is added, a
translation of the mottoes, and an index to the six chapters.
Chapter the Sixth.
[Dublin?] Printed in the year
1756. FIRST
EDITION, pages 50, (1),54 - 56, complete thus though without
a half-title, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Black 263. The translation attributed to the Rev. Peter Bristow. Also
issued as part of “The Patriot Miscellany”, 1756.
(2)
FITZWILLIAM (Wm. Wentworth), Earl Fitzwilliam.
A
letter from a venerated nobleman who recently retired from this
country, to the Earl of Carlisle: explaining the causes of that
event.
Dublin [no printer or publisher]:
1795. Pages (2),29, (1, note
explaining the publication of this second letter before the first),
8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
(3)
HARPER (Robert Goodloe).
Observations on the dispute
between the United States and France, addressed. The fourth
edition.
Philadelphia printed, Dublin: re-printed by P. Byrne, (108)
Grafton-street,
1798. 160-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: light
old staining, but a good to very good copy.
(4)
PEEL (Sir Robert), first baronet.
The substance of the
speech of Robert Peel, Esquire. … in the … Commons, on
Thursday, the 14th of February, 1799, on the question for
receiving the report of the committee on the resolutions
respecting an incorporate union with Ireland. With a correct
copy of the resolutions, as they were finally amended by the
House of Commons.
Dublin: Printed by John Exshaw, 98, Grafton-
Street
1799. FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages 22, (1, adverts), (1,
blank), 8vo, recent wrapper: lightly foxed with with a small,
faint old oval stamp on the title-page, otherwise a very good
copy.
McCormack S56. Presumably reprinted from Stockdale’s London
edition of the same year.
(5)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
750
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DOUGLAS (Sir Howard), FRS.
An essay on the
principles and construction of military bridges, and the passage
of rivers in military operations. Second edition, containing
much additional matter.
Thomas and William Boone,
1832
With engraved frontispiece and 12 folding plates, pages (2), vi,
(4), 417; (2),28, (12, index), 8vo, original cloth, uncut, with
printed paper spine label: a very good-nice copy.
The first British work on military bridging: here greatly enlarged on the
204-pages of the original edition of 1816 and with improved plates.
Originally compiled as a text-book for the use of the Royal Military
College, it is said to have furnished Telford with the idea of the
suspension principle in bridge construction. Douglas distinguished
himself as a soldier both in Canada and in Spain, and was later to
become governor of New Brunswick and to found the University of
Fredericton.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
PACK (Reynell).
Sebastopol
Trenches and five months in them.
Kerby & Endean,
1878.
FIRST EDITION, with a double-page coloured frontispiece and
2 large folding panoramas by M. A. S. Biddulph, pages xii, (9) -
212, 8 (adverts), complete thus in spite of pagination error, 8vo,
original red, pictorial cloth, gilt: a nice copy.
(2)
HEAD (Sir Francis B.).
The Royal Engineer.
John Murray,
1869. FIRST EDITION, with an additional lithographed title-
page, 6 plates and 2 text illustrations, pages xii, 391,20 (adverts
dated November 1868), 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt by
Edmonds & Remnants, with their ticket: a clean and very good
copy.
Head served in the Royal Engineers 1811-25, was present at Waterloo
and in 1825-26 was manager of the Rio de la Plata Mining
Association. His demonstration of the military usefulness of the lasso
brough him a knighthood in 1831.
(3)
JACKSON (Sir Louis C.).
History of the United Service
Club.
Published by the Committee of the United Service Club, May,
1937. FIRST EDITION, 15 plates, pp (12), 132, roy 8vo,
original cloth, gilt: very good to nice. (4)
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
751
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[DOUXMENIL ()].
The memoirs of Ninon de l’Enclos:
with her letters to Monsr. De St. Evremond, and to the Marquis
de Sevigne. Collected and translated from the French, by Mrs.
Griffith. In two volumes.
Dublin: Printed for J. Beatty, No. 32,
Skinner-Row,
1778
Pages (2), xiii, (1, blank),296, with the half-title,2 parts in 1 vol,
with separate title-pages and continuous signatures and
pagination, 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt bordered sides, fully
gilt and lettered spine: an attractive copy, pleasantly bound.
This second Dublin printing, a resetting, not a reprint, with translator’s
name acknowledged on the title-page, is somewhat more scarce with
ESTC locating eight copies: L(2), D, Dt / CU-BANC, PU, CaBViV
and CtY. The letters to de Sevigné are spurious ones attributed to Louis
Damours. Griffith did a number of book-length translations from the
French, which on inspection add considerably to our knowledge of her
ideas. She believed that translators had a right to comment on the texts
they translated, so her translations characteristically contain
interpolated, even on occasion feminist, commentary. Despite her
English literary persona as a champion of sentimental virtue, she
translated some French libertine texts, notably The Memoirs of Ninon
de L’Enclos and Claude Joseph Dorat’s The Fatal Effects of
Inconstancy (Brandeis Univ).
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
752
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DOYLE (Roddy).
The Commitments.
Dublin: King Farouk,
1987
FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 144, 8vo, original coloured printed
wrappers: a fine, fresh copy, with no crinkling or wear of the
delicate backstrip.
This, his first novel, published by himself, reflects an intimate
knowledge of Dublin working-class life and creates a world of engaging
vitality as it tells the story of the rise and fall of an Irish soul band.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
753
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DREXEL (Jeremias), SJ.
Heliotropium seu conformatio
humanæ voluntatis cum diuina: libris quinque explicata coram
Ser[enissi]mo vtriusq[ue] Bavariae Duce S. R. I. Archidapifero,
Electore: Maximiliano et Ser[enissi]ma coniuge Elizabetha:
eisdem Ser[enissi]mis Pri[n]cipib[us] inscripta & dedicata ab
Hieremia Drexelio e Societate Iesu.
Coloniæ Agripp.: Sumptibus
Cornelii ab Egmond et Sociorum [i. e. Amsterdam, Bleau],
1634
With engraved title-page and 5 full-page engraved emblematic
illustrs by Philipp Sadeler, pp (16),514, (6), (2, blank), 32mo,
contemporary vellum, with ties: a fine, fresh copy.
Backer & Sommervogel I. 1650. No. 11. First published 1627. On
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