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gilt, by F. Pilkington of Dublin, with ticket: a bright, fresh copy.
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[McGAULEY (James Wm.)].
Electricity, Galvanism,
Magnetism, Electro-Magnetism, Heat, and the Steam Engine
… forming the second volume of natural philosophy for the
use of schools. Printed and published by direction of the
Commissioners of National Education Ireland.
Dublin:
Alexander Thom, printer and publisher …,
1861. With 78 woodcut
illustrs, pp iv, (5) - 179, (1), (8, adverts for school books), with
half-title, 12mo, original dark brown blind-stamped cloth, with
printed paper spine label: lightly rubbed and with a small
circular stamp in four places, otherwise a very good-nice copy.
McGauley (d. 1867), priest, scientist, inventor. In 1835 he read to the
first Dublin meeting of the British Association a widely noticed paper
on the nature and potential of magnetism. The following year he
became professor of natural philosophy to the board of national
education in Ireland, promoting science and training teachers in the
model schools. His relationship with the board, and especially with
Robert Sullivan, was somewhat acrimonious.
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[McGAULEY (James Wm.)].
Electricity, Galvanism,
Magnetism, Electro-Magnetism, Heat, and the Steam Engine
… forming the second volume of natural philosophy for the
use of schools. Printed and published by direction of the
Commissioners of National Education Ireland.
Dublin:
Alexander Thom, printer and publisher …,
1862. With 78 woodcut
illustrs, pp 4 (“selections from the rules of the
Commissioners”), iv, (5) - 179, (1), without half-title, 12mo,
original dark brown blind-stamped cloth, with printed paper
spine label: little worn at headband and inside hinges weak,
otherwise a nice copy.
McGauley (d. 1867), priest, scientist, inventor. In 1835 he read to the
first Dublin meeting of the British Association a widely noticed paper
on the nature and potential of magnetism. The following year he
became professor of natural philosophy to the board of national
education in Ireland, promoting science and training teachers in the
model schools. His relationship with the board, and especially with
Robert Sullivan, was somewhat acrimonious.
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€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
762
.
DUTTON (Matthew).
The law of landlords and tenants
in Ireland. Collected from the books of reports, common law
and practice, and from the acts of parliament of [sic] force in
this kingdom, touching this subject … Digested under
alphabetical titles. By Matt. Dutton. V[olume I. - this line
lightly erased].
Dublin: Printed by P. Rider and T. Harbin, for
Edward Hamilton, at the Corner of Christ-Church-Lane,
1726
ALL PUBLISHED, FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, pp viii, 694,
8vo, contemporary calf: a little wear at cormers but binding
very strong, otherwise very good-nice copy.
ESTC locates nine copies: L, Cku, LONd, KLN, D, Drc, KILcc, Dt:
CSmH. Though the volume concludes with “End of the First Volume”
the ESTC does not mention this nor the volume statement from the
title-page. Sweet & Maxwell and Marvin both call for two volumes.
One must infer that neither had seen a copy.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
763
.
EASTON (James).
Human Longevity: recording the
name, age, place of residence, and year, of the decease of 1712
persons, who attained a century, & upwards, from A. D. 66 to
1799, comprising a period of 1733 years. With anecdotes of the
most remarkable.
Salisbury: Printed and sold by James Easton …,
1799
FIRST EDITION, pages xxxii, (60),292, wanting half-title,
8vo, 19C half morocco, gilt lettered spine: a strongly bound
and very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
ABERNETHY (Sir John), FRS.
Surgical Observations on the constitutional origin and
treatment of local diseases; and on aneurisms: including
directions for the treatment of disorders of the digestive orders
[: volume one, all published]. Ninth edition.
Printed for
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green,
1817. Pages xii, 346,
8vo: a very good to nice, unpressed and uncut copy, pleasantly
bound in recent paper boards, with label.
Penultimate edition of a medical classic. “... epoch-making … records
the first successful ligation of the external iliac artery for aneurysm, an
operation carried out by Abernethy in 1796. “ - Garrison-Morton
5584, note to the first edition(1809).
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HOOPER (Robert), M. D.
The Anatomist’s Vade-Mecum.
Containing the anatomy, physiology, morbid appearances, &c.
of the human body; the art of making anatomical preparations,
&c. To which are added, anatomical, physiological, medical,
and surgical examinations for students. A new edition, very
materially improved.
Printed for John Murray,
1811. Pages xxiii,
416, 417 - 420 (adverts), large 12mo, contemporary half calf:
the binding worn but still strong and otherwise a very good
copy.
A highly successful work. Hooper (1773-1835), made a special study of
pathology and formed a large collection of illustrative specimens.
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MAIDEN HOSPITAL.
for governing and managing the
Maiden-Hospital, founded by the Company of Merchants, and
Mary Erskine, in Anno 1695 … 1731.
A fascinating glimpse of the
rules under which poor women and girls of Edinburgh city were
sheltered and provided for. The penultimate of five editions noted by
Hanson (252) which were published at Edinburgh between 1702 and
1734.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
764
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EBERLEIN (Harold D.) & RICHARDSON (A. E.).
The
English Inn, past and present. A review of its history and social
life.
Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott,
1926
FIRST US EDITION, with a coloured frontispiece and many
plates and illustrations, pages xi, 308, finely bound in full red
crushed morocco, gilt, glt bordered sides, fully gilt spine,
contrasting double labels, gilt, all edges gilt, watered silk
endleaves and flyleaves, inside gilt borders, silk marker, by
Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf, in a matching cloth and
morocco fleece-lined slip case: a choice, unmarked copy in a
superb modern binding.
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
765
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ECTON (John).
Liber regis vel thesaurus rerum
ecclesiastticarum. By John Bacon, Esq. Receiver of the first
fruits. With an appendix, containing proper directions and
precedents relating to presentations, institutions, inductions,
dispensations, &. and a complete alphabetical index.
London,
Printed for the Autor by John Nichols; and sold by J. F. and C.
Rivington … J. Robson …T. Cadell …,
1786
FIRST EDITION THUS, pp viii, 1391, (1, blank), large 4to,
original boards, printed paper spine label, entirely uncut and
almost entirely unopened: signature Rrr (4 leaves) repeated
without corresponding loss, some wear to binding with loss of
small portion of backstrip at base, but binding sound and very
strong, otherwise a remarkable copy in fine original state
Ecton (d. 1730), ecclesiastical administrator, deputy remembrancer of
first fruits in the office of Queen Anne’s bounty. Bacon (1738–1816),
ecclesiastical administrator, spent nearly the whole of his working life
in the first fruits department of the office of Queen Anne’s Bounty,
where he rose from being junior clerk to become the receiver in 1782. He
combined these offices with the duties of treasurer to the Corporation of
the Sons of the Clergy. In 1786 he published this edition of Ecton’s
Thesaurus rerum ecclesiasticarum, a detailed account of the valuations
of all ecclesiastical benefices which were charged with first fruits and
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