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calf, recently and neatly rebacked and repaired, gilt ruled
spine, with morocco label, gilt: a well-margined and very good
copy.
Wing J 747. Sweeney 1808. An exceedingly rare book. John Scotus
Erigena was born in Ireland and came to the court of Charles the
Bald, where he taught at the Palace school. His principal work, the
five books ‘peri physeon merismou, i. e. de Divisione Naturæ, ’
written in the form of a dialogue, is of uncertain date, but plainly
later than the tract ‘de Prædestinatione’ (851) and the translations
from the pseudo-Dionysius. It presents the author’s developed system,
a system which has been taken for pantheism, but which is really a
Neo-Platonic mysticism. It is accompanied by his translation of the
Scholia Maximi in Gregorium Theologum which also appears here in
print for the first time (ODNB).
€1,500-€1,800 (£1,200-£1,440 approx.)
783
.
ERSKINE (John Elphinstone).
Journal of a cruise among
the islands of the Western Pacific, including the Feejees and
others inhabited by the polynesian negro races, in Her Majesty’s
ship Havanagh.
John Murray,
1853
FIRST EDITION, with 7 plates (4 coloured), a folding map and
11 text illustrs, pp (2), vi, 488, 32 (adverts), 8vo, finely bound in
recent quarter calf, gilt, top edges gilt: very good.
Relating to Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, New Hebrides, New Caldonia and
Loyalty Islands.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
CAMPBELL (George), Lord.
Log
Letters from “The Challenger”. 1876. FIRST EDITION, with
folding coloured map (neatly repaired with just slight loss), pp
(6), 448, wanting half-title, 8vo, finely bound recent quarter calf,
gilt, top edges gilt: very good
Relating to Bermuda, Melbourne, Tonga, Fiji Islands, Papua,
Philippines, Tahiti, Cape of Good Hope, etc. Informal account of an
important scientific expedition.
(2)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
784
.
ESPINASSE (Isaac).
A digest of the law of actions and
trials at nisi prius. The second edition, corrected, with
considerable additions from printed and manuscript cases, and
three new chapters on the law of corporations and evidence.
Dublin: Printed for E. Lynch, P. Wogan, J. Exshaw (and six others),
1794-93
Pages x, (34), 426: (2), (427)-791, (67),2 vols in 1, separate titles,
continuous signatures and pagination, 8vo, contemporary calf,
with label, gilt: headbands slightly worn and some browning in
places, but still a good to very good copy of an uncommon
edition.
First published in 1789 as ’A digest of the law of actions at nisi prius’.
Of this enlarged second Dublin edition ESTC locates only three copies:
D: MH-L, CSfH. Espinasse (1758–1834), law reporter and legal writer,
second of four sons of Isaac Espinasse of Mansfield, Co. Dublin, and his
wife, Mary Magenis.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
QUILL (Albert W.),
HAMILTON (F. P.) & LONGWORTH (E. V.).
The Irish Land
Acts of 1903 and 1904, with an appendix of rules and forms and
a commentary.
Dublin: E. Ponsonby,
1904. FIRST (ONLY)
EDITION, pages xxxvii,504, 8vo, original cloth: a very good
copy.
With bibliographical references. Wyndham’s Act of 1903 was unique in
that its contents were the product of agreement between representatives of
landlords and tenants.
(2)
SHILLMAN (Bernard).
The law relating to employers’
liability and workmen’s compensation in the Irish Free State …
Dublin: John Falconer,
1934. FIRST EDITION, pages xlviii, 434,
8vo, origiinal cloth: a very good to nice copy.
(3)
LAW LIBRARY OF IRELAND - Cooley (Thomas
Bolton).
in the library of The Incorporated Law Society of
Ireland, with an index of subjects. 1937.
The only edition, long out of print and scarce.
(4)
WYLIE (J. C. W.).
Irish Land Law [and, first supplement].
Abingdon
1975-80 reprinted 1980. Pages cxii, 914: xxi, 79, in 1
vol, roy 8vo, original cloth: a nice copy.
The standard work. Both
the Republic and Northern Ireland are included.
(5)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
785
.
ESPRIT (Jacques).
Discourses on the deceitfulness of
human virtues. Done out of French by William Beauvoir, A. M.
and Chaplain to His Grace James Duke of Ormond. To which is
added, The Duke de la Rochefoucaut’s Moral Reflections.
Printed
for And. Bell … R. Smith … and J. Round,
1706
FIRST EDITION THUS, pages (16),211,220 - 432; (4), xvi, 80,
77(bis) - 95, (1, blank), (8), complete thus in spite of erratic
pagination,2 parts, separate title-pages and signatures, in 1 vol,
8vo, neatly bound in recent paper boards: lightly browned and
with a small section of worming in three signatures, but not with
any serious loss: a very good copy.
Not in the Newberry Check List of Courtesy Books. Includes a 10-page
chapter ‘Of the Courage of Duelling”.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
BLAIR (Hugh).
Lectures on rhetoric
and belles lettres. In three volumes.
Dublin: Printed for Messrs.
Whitestone, Colles, Burnet, Moncrieffe … (and nine others),
1783.
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages vi, (1), (1, blank), 429, (3,
blank): (4), 444: (4), 389, (1, blank), (34, index), 3 vols, 8vo,
contemporary calf, gilt spines, with red and blue labes, gilt:
headbands slightly chipped, labels a little rubbed and the foot of
one upper joint worn, but still a strongly bound and very good
copy. (4)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
786
.
ESSEX HOUSE PRESS.
The Psalter or Psalmes of David
from the Bible of Archbishop Cramer. [colophon: edited from the
Cranmer Bible of MDXL by Janet E. Ashbee, and reprinted in
the honour of David the great singer, at the Essex House Press,
Mile End, E. in the years MDCCCCII, under the care of C. R.
Ashbee, who has also designed and drawn the woodcuts].
Essex
House Press,
1902
FIRST EDITION THUS, printed in red and black, with many
woodcut initials, on handmade paper, pages (2), 87, (1), folio,
original limp blue vellum, gilt lettered spine, edges uncut: spine
evenly faded and with patchy fading to the covers, with a few
spots of foxing on the preliminary blank leaves, but otherwise a
fine copy, with the two silk ties sound and intact.
Copy number 65 of 250 copies printed.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
787
.
[ESTE (Charles),
ed.].
Carmina quadragesimalia ab Ædis
Christi Oxon. alumnis composita et ab ejusdem ædis
Baccalaureis determinantibus in schola naturalis philosophiæ
publice recitata.
Oxonii, e Theatro Sheldoniano,
1723
FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 168, roy 8vo, contemporary
panelled calf, label chipped, with elephant-head device in gilt in
each of the five other spine compartments, with the attractive
armorial bookplate of John Putland: a little wear to the outer
joints, binding strong, otherwise a very good to nice copy.
Case 325. Este (1696-1745) moved to Ireland in 1724 under the
patronage of Archbishop Boulter of Armagh. He was created Bishop of
Ossory in 1736 and subsequently Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in
1740. He carried out notable renovations to both the bishop’s palaces in
both Kilkenny and Waterford. A second volume of these college verses
was edited by Anthony Parsons and issued in 1748. John Putland’s copy,
with his distinctive bookplate and a neat number in pen, probably his
catalogue number. Putland (1709-73), Dublin merchant and banker,
184