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CARPENTER (Wm. B.), MD, FRS.
The Microscope and
its revelations. Eighth edition, in which the first seven and the
twenty-third chapters have been entirely rewritten and the text
throughout reconstructed, enlarged, and revised by the Rev. W.
H. Dallinger.
J. & A. Churchill,
1901. LAST AND BEST
EDITION,23 plates, some coloured, and 900 other illustrs, pp
xx, 1181 (3, blank), 15(adverts dated 1909), 8vo, original cloth,
top edges gilt: very good-nice copy. (7)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
772
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ELGIN COMMISSION ON THE WAR IN SOUTH
AFRICA.
Report [and Minutes of Evidence and Appendices]
of His Majesty’s commissioners appointed to inquire into the
military preparations and other matters connected with the war
in South Africa. [Cd. 1789-90-91-92].
For HMSO …,
1903
With a plate, pages viii, 316: xii,534, (2, blank): x, 720, (2,
blank): (2), 445, 4 vols bound in 2, folio, recently and attractively
bound in quarter dark brown morocco, gilt ruled spines, with
contrasting labels, gilt: a very good to nice, handsomely bound
set.
Highly important: a major post-mortem. Hackett, South African War
Books, 8, wth full-page illustration.
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€120-€150 (£96-£120 approx.)
773
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ELIOT (George),
pseud.
Silas Marner: the Weaver of
Raveloe.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons,
1861
FIRST EDITION, pages (6), 364 and 16, (4) adverts, with the
half-title, 8vo, original bright-brown ripple-grain cloth, by Burn,
with ticket: skilfully rebacked retaining the original backstrip,
with the occasional light signs of use, but a very good copy.
Sadleir 819. Wolff 2063. The four unnumbered pages for
Autobiography of Alexander Carlyle at the end follow rather than
precede the 16 numbered pages of advertisements.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[HALL (Thomas)].
The Fortunes
and Adventures of Raby Rattler, and his man Floss. Illustrated
with twenty-eight illustrations.
Saunders and Otley,
1846. With 28
engraved plates by S. P. Fletcher, pages (2), 645, (1), 8vo,
original green cloth, gilt, by Westleys & Clark, with their ticket:
the inside hinges cracked, but the binding strong and quite fresh,
with the attractive plates quite free from the usual disfiguring
foxing.
An uncommon humorous novel, in the style of Lever originally
published during the previous year with the title ‘“Effects” and
Adventures of Raby Rattler’. No edition in Sadleir. Wolff 2932 has the
original edition with 27 plates only.
(2)
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
774
.
ELLIS (George).
Irish Ethnology socially and politically
considered; embracing a general outline of the Celtic and Saxon
races; with practical inferences.
Dublin: Hodges and Smith …,
1852
FIRST EDITION, pages v, (1, blank), (1), (1, blank), 156, (4,
blank), large 12mo, original blue cloth: a very good to nice copy.
An interesting attempt at impartiality and a decidedly uncommon book
even though NSTC does locate seven copies.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
A KEMPIS (Thomas).
Searc-
leanmhain Chriost …
Dublin: Dollard …,
1886. Pages xxii,270,
(2, blank), large 12mo, original green cloth, gilt: a nice copy.
In
Irish throughout, except for 2-pages in English regarding grammatical
and other errors in O’Sullivan’s translation. Errors in translation
cannot be avoided “until our printers secure the services of a workman
who knows Irish” !!!
(2)
YOUNG (Robert).
The Poetical Works of Robert Young, of
Londonderry, comprising historical, agricultural, and
miscellaneous poems and songs, with copious notes. Dedicated,
by permission, to the Right Hon. the Earl of Enniskillen.
Londonderry: Printed for the Author at the “Guardian” Office...,
1863.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, pages 252 (including 12-pp
subscriber list), large 12mo, original cloth: a very good copy.
“Known as `The Fermanagh True Blue’, born in 1800 at or near
Fintona, Co. Tyrone... a nailor by trade, but made a good deal of
money out of his poems, in which he fairly assailed the Catholics. He
was awarded £50 a year by the Government in the sixties, ostensibly for
literary ability, but as he had none, it must have been for political
services. “ - O’Donoghue.
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LAVIOSA (Bernardo).
The life of St. Mary Frances of the
Five Wounds of Christ. From the Italian. By the Rev. Daniel
Ferris, priest of the diocese of Down and Connor. With an
introduction.
Dublin: M. H. Gill … London: R. Washbourne, Belfast
[printed]: Clement Ellis,
1878. FIRST EDITION THUS, with
frontispiece, pages 318, (1), 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt, by
Allen & Johnston of Belfast, with their ticket: small light mark
from library label at foot of spine and library label removed
from front endpaper, nonetheless, an attractive copy. (4)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
775
.
ELLIS (Sir Henry).
Journal of the proceedings of the late
embassy to China; comprising a correct narrative of the public
transactions of the embassy, of the voyage to and from China,
and of a journey from the mouth of the Pei-Ho to the return to
Canton.
John Murray,
1818
SECOND EDITION, with a portrait and 2 folding maps, pp xii,
442 and leaf of imprint: vii, 359, (1), with half-titles,2 vols, 8vo,
original boards, uncut, neatly and recently rebacked in a
sympathetic style, retaining original endpapers & flyleaves: a
very good, uncut copy.
Ellis was a member of Lord Amherst’s diplomatic mission to China.
This second edition, while published without the plates of the original
quarto edition of 1817, is textually unchanged but for some minor
corrections & carries a new 3-pp preface.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
776
.
ELLIS (Wm.).
Polynesian Researches, during a residence
of nearly six years in the South Sea Islands; including
descriptions of the natural history and scenery... remarks on the
history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and
customs of the inhabitants.
Fisher, Son, & Jackson,
1829
FIRST EDITION, with 8 engr plates, 1 wood-engraved plate,2
maps (1 folding) and 15 text illustrs, pp xvi,536: viii,576 and 7,
(1) pp adverts tipped in in vol 1,2 vols, 8vo, original boards,
uncut, neatly rebacked: light browning in places, still a very
good, uncut copy.
A valuable ethnological work, mainly relating to Tahiti. In the words of
Southey, writing in the `Quarterly Review’, “a more interesting book we
have never perused”
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
KAEMPFER (Engelbert), MD.
The History of Japan. Together with a description of the
kingdom of Siam. Translated by J. G. Scheuchzer, F. R. S.
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons,
1906. With 162 illustrations,
including a portrait, 16 folding plates and maps, 7 other plates,
and many text woodcuts, some full-page, pages lxxxix, (3), 337,
(2): ix, (1), 397: ix, 386, 3 vols, 8vo, original red cloth: the spines
faded and a little worn (with a small puncture to that of vol two)
but very strong and otherwise a very good copy.
An important and influential history of Japan, first published in two
folio volumes in 1727 and not reprinted in full till this present edition.
Kaempfer (1651-1715), the first European to visit Japan with the mind
and the eye of a scientist and explorer. He was also the first to describe
the oilfields of Baku. A life of the author and a long historical
introduction are included.
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€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
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