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[EMERSON (John Swift)].
One Year in the
Administration of His Excellency the Marquess of Wellesley in
Ireland.
Printed for J. Hatchard and Son … and Neary Mahon,
Dublin.
1823
FIRST EDITION, pages 137, (1, blank), 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good to nice copy, inscribed on the title-page in
a contemporary hand “From the Author”.
Some four editions were published within the year. Black 3367 notes the
second edition only.
ALSO WITH THS LOT: (1)
WALSH (Wm. J.), ArchBishop.
Mr. George Wyndham’s Treatment of Irish Statistics [on the
Irish land question].
No printer, publisher, place or date, circa
1888.
Drop-title, 14-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: light spotting
but a very good copy.
Inscribed “With the / Archbishop’s / Compliments”. Evidently an
author’s off-print of an article in the Contemporary Review. Not traced
in COPAC, WorldCat or on-line in D or Dt.
(2)
MILES (Wm. A.).
A letter to the Earl of Wycombe, &c. &c.
from Mr. Miles, on the present state of Ireland.
Printed for R.
Faulder, and Vernor and Hood,
1804. FIRST EDITION, pages (2),
86, without half-title, 8vo, recent wrapper: a very good copy.
Catholic emancipation, jewish disabilities, abuse of paper money, etc.
Miles (1753?-1817), political writer, travelled in America, served under
Rodney in the West Indies, was in Newfoundland in 1779 and in 1781
was a prisoner of war in St Lucia. He was also the author of two comic
operas.
(3)
MacCOMBIE (Wm.).
A letter to …William Ewart
Gladstone … 1869.
Black 8649, noting the NLI copy only. McCombie (1809–70), farmer
and journalist. His final publication was a pamphlet entitled The Irish
land question practically considered: a letter to … Gladstone (with
whom he had corresponded during the 1860s).
(4)
PALMERSTON (Henry J. T.), viscount: - Monteith
(Robert J. I.).
against Lord Palmerston, in the Dublin Unversity
Magazine. 1841.
This scarce pamphlet is in reply to an article in the January 1841 issue
of the Dublin University Magazine, entitled “Is Lord Palmerston a
Traitor?”
(5)
IRELAND.
Suggestions on the Irish question. By a
resident agriculturist.
Wyman & Sons,
1880. FIRST (ONLY)
EDITION, pages (2), 32, 8vo, recent wrapper: a very good to
nice copy.
Not in Black. On land tenure, agricultural improvement,
etc.
(5)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
778
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ENGLAND (John), first RC Bishop of Charleston.
A
brief account of the introduction of the catholic religion into the
states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, U. S.
A.; of the creation of the diocess [sic] of Charleston, the state of
religion, and the wants of the church in that quarter.
Dublin: T.
O’Flanagan, printer,
1832
FIRST EDITION, 48-pp, 12mo, recent wraps: title-page lightly
soiled, otherwise very good.
Not in Sabin. NUC locates one copy only (IU). NSTC has TCD only,
but seriously misquotes the title. Next to O’Connell’s, England’s
influence was the greatest in the agitation which culminated in Catholic
Emancipation. This scarce pamphlet was published during his visit to
Dublin in 1832 en route to Rome.
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
779
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ENGLAND DISPLAY
.
England Displayed; or, a full and
accurate account of all the counties in England. Containing, a
curious and particular description of all the cities, market towns,
most considerable villages, royal palaces, public buildings,
remarkable and elegant seats of noblemen and gentlemen, and
whatever is most worthy of notice and observation, in every part
of the kingdom. In a series of letters to a friend.
Printed for R.
Goadby; and sold by R. Baldwin, in Pater-noster-Row; and J. Lee, near
Cripplegate, London,
1768
8-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper, lower edges uncut: in very
good to nice state
Unrecorded: not found in ESTC, WorldCat, etc. Comprising title-leaf,2-
page preface paged (iii) - iv, and pages (5) - 8 being the first two leaves of
text containing letters I and part of letter II ending with a catch-word
on page 8: almost certainly a flyer or sample of an intended but never
published work.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
780
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ENGLAND, PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Die Mercurii: 5 Maii. 1641. It is this day ordered by the House
of Commons now assembled in Parliament, that the Preamble,
together with the Protestation, which the Members of this
House made the third of May, shall be forthwith printed, and
the copies printed brought to the clark of the said House....
Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most
Excellent Majestie: and by the assignes of John Bill.
1641
Broadside, folio, 35 x 25cms approx, printed on one side of the
leaf, with woodcut royal coat of arms at head, lightly laid: a
bright, fresh copy.
POPISH ARMY LEVIED IN IRELAND” 1641. 5. May. Wing E
2611. One of five broadside editions: the present edition has three
paragraphs. A “Preamble”, printed in black letter, describes the efforts of
the adherents of the see of Rome to cause dissension and foment
disorder in England and to the existence of “A Popish army leavied in
Ireland”. The last paragraph contains the form of a protestation or vow
of loyalty to oppose “all Popery and popish innovations”.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
781
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ENGLAND, PARLIAMENT, WILLIAM III, 1697.
Anno Regni Gulielmi III. Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Francia &
Hiberniae, nono (and nono-decimo), at the parliament begun at
Westminster … being the third session of this present
pariament.
Printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas
Newcomb deceas’d,
1697-98
Pages 803, (1, blank), (4, table), folio, contemporary calf:
binding heavily worn, wanting backstrip, upper board almost
off, internally in clean, fresh state and with generous margins.
44 separate acts, each with separate title-leaf and with continuous
pagination and signatures throughout. Taxes to pay for wars in France
and Ireland, acts for relief of the poor, against corresponding with the
late King James and his adherents, To prevent further currency of
hammered silver coin, That all retailers of salt shall sell by weight, to
prevent the throwing or firing of squibbs, serpents, and other fire-works,
Duties on Malt, seeets, cyder amd perry, For explaining an act for
supplying the defects in the laws for the relief of the poor, For
continuing the duties upon coffee, tea and chocolate, and spices, For
better payment of inland bills of exchange, For better preventing the
counterfeiting, clipping, and other diminishing the coin of this
kingdom, Duties upon stampt vellum, parchment and paper, To settle
the trade to Africa, For licensing hawkers and pedlars, For exporting
watches, sword-hilts, and other manufactures of silver, To stop the
coining farthings and halfpence for one year, For better payment of
lottery tickets, &c., &c..
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
782. ERIGENA (Johannes Scotus). De divisione naturae libri
quinque, div. desiderati. Accedit appendix ex ambiguis S.
Maximi, Graece & Latine.
Oxonii, e Theatro Sheldoniano,
1681
FIRST EDITION, with engraved vignette title-page, pages
(14), 63, 66-98, 97(bis)-98, 101 - 104, 103(bis) - 312; (4), 88,
complete in spite of erratic pagination, the appendix with
separate divisional title-page with Latin and Greek text in
parallel columns,2 parts in one volume, folio, contemporary
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