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author: and translated by Mr. Hughes.
Dublin: Printed by William
Forrest … for G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith,
1728
With engraved frontispiece, pp xi, (2), (1, blank), 168, (2), 12mo,
contemporary calf: the binding worn, wanting label, but the
cords strong, otherwise a clean and fresh copy.
First Dublin printing of this configuration of the text, following the
London edition of 1719, called the fourth edition. The first edition in
English actually appeared in Dublin in 1687 and was followed by a
London printing in 1688, competing translations by Aphra Behn,
Glanvil, W. Gardiner and others followed. Fontenelle’s text was one of
the most popular utopian texts of its time. ESTC locates nine copies of
this edition, only one of which is in Ireland.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
JOHNSON (Samuel).
A Journey
to the Western Isles of Scotland.
Dublin: Printed by Thomas
Walker,
1775. FIRST ISSUE OF WALKER’S EDITION,268-
pages, 12mo, recent quarter calf in an antique style, gilt ruled
spine, with label, gilt, with the neat contemporary signature of
James McCrea on the title-page: a very good copy.
Fleeman 75. 1J/5a. One of four pirated editions published at Dublin in
the same year as the original London edition (1775).
(2)
GRAY (Thomas).
Poems by Mr. Gray.
Dublin: Printed by
William Sleater,
1775. With an engraved frontispiece and 4
vignettes, pages 185, (6), 180(bis)-211, (4), 192(bis)-211, (1),
complete thus, large 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt ruled spine,
with label, gilt: a little worn at headband but the binding sound
and strong and otherwise a very good copy. (3)
Northup 12.
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
808
.
FORSTER (Charles).
The Monuments of Assyria,
Babylonia, and Persia: with a new key for the recovery of the lost
ten tribes.
Richard Bentley,
1859
FIRST EDITION, with 34 full-page illustrs and many illustrs of
hieroglyphics, pp (2), 354, 8vo, original blue cloth: small oval
stamp in two places, the spine a little dull, slight wear at
headbands but binding very strong and inside joints intact: a
clean and very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
JAHN (Johann).
Elementa
Aramaicae seu Chaldaeo-Syriacae linguae, latine reddita, et
nonnullis accessionibus aucta ab Andrea Oberleitner.
Viennae,
Antonii Schmid,
1820. FIRST EDITION THUS, pp xvi, (4), 196;
xxx and corrigenda leaf, 8vo, near contemporary cloth, with
label, gilt: some very light foxing in places, otherwise a nice,
uncut copy.
(2)
ARISTOPHANES.
The eleven comedies now for the first
time literally and completely translated from the Greek tongue
into English. With translator’s foreword, an introduction to each
comedy and elucidatory notes.
Printed for the Athenian Society,
1912. FIRST EDITION THUS, pages 392: (2), 476,2 vols, roy
8vo, original half parchment over cloth, top edges gilt, other
edges uncut: a very good to nice copy.
Copy number 288 of a limited printing of 600 copies.
(3)
BUONAMICI (Pietro Giuseppe Maria), later Count
Castruccio.
De rebus ad Velitras gestis commentarius ad
Trojanum aquavivam Aragonium …
Lugduni Batavorum [Leyden,
but actually Lucca printed], no printer or publisher,
1746. FIRST
EDITION, pages (8), 97, 4to, original stiff plain wrappers, uncut:
light old waterstain throughout (not disfiguring), wanting
backstrip, stitching weak, but otherwise a clean and very good
copy in original state.
A successful work on the battle of Velletri (1744), which ran to some five
editions by 1752 and gained him a pension from the king of Naples.
COPAC records just three copies of this first edition (L, C and
Birmingham). Buonamici (1710-61), Italian historian, spent his life
initially as an ecclesiastic and latterly as a soldier.
(5)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
809
.
[FOYER (Archibald)].
A Defence of the Scots Settlement
at Darien. With an answer to the Spanish memorial against it.
And arguments to prove, that it is the interest of England to join
with the Scots, and protect it. To which is added a description of
the country, and a particular account of the Scots colony.
(No
printer or place) Printed in the Year
1699
Pages (4), 60, 4to, first word (‘A’) of title cropped, eight running
headlines touched or trimmed, five leaves with skillful repairs to
extreme blank edges, some browning and soiling, but still a very
good copy finely bound in half morocco, gilt lettered spine.
Wing F 2047. Also attributed to George Ridpath and Andrew Fletcher.
A rejection of Spain’s claim that the settlement was an intrusion on
Spanish territory and an appeal for assistance from England in making
the colony a success. The Darien Scheme, a short-lived attempt by the
Scottish Africa and India Company to establish a trading colony at
Panama, secured broad support from the Scottish people but failed
because of the incompetence of its promoters, disease, Spanish threats
and the opposition of the British West Indies merchants, as well as that
of the government itself, which would have had to defend the settlement.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
810
.
FRANCIS (Francis).
A Book of Angling: being a complete
treatise on the art of angling in every branch, with explanatory
plates, etc.
Longman, Green, and Co.,
1867
FIRST EDITION, with 15 plates, including 5 plates of flies in
bright, fresh colouring, pages xi, (3), 429 and (6), 32 adverts
dated November 1866, 8vo, original mauve cloth, uncut: the half-
title removed, crack in the inside upper joint, the binding
discoloured and faded though sound and strong, a light single
crease in the frontispiece, otherwise a sound, clean and very good
copy with the signature of Henry B. Hook, dated May 27 1867,
on title-page.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[AYRTON (Wm.)].
Mr Barnacles
and his boat. By
(Imprint on boards: London: Whittaker and Co.;
Prichard and Roberts, Chester, circa
1856). FIRST EDITION, with
engraved title-page and 25 litho plates, including title, the plates
each with caption, oblong large 12mo, original printed boards:
the boards a litle worn at corners, inside joints cracked, front
flyleaf loose, nonetheless, a clean and very good copy, inscribed
on front endpaper “Matt Weld O’Connor / 10 Henriietta St. /
Dublin / to the Grey Hackle for the time being of the / Black
Hackle Club”.
A visual story of an Englishman’s fishing trip to Wales, and how he
came back with an entirely different catch than he originally expected – a
wife.
(2)
SCROPE (Wm.).
Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing in the
Tweed. With a short account of the natural history and habits of
the salmon, instructions to sportsmen, anecdotes, etc.
Edward
Arnold (: The Sportsman’s Library, edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell),
1898. With 13 plates (3 coloured) and a few text illustrs (some
full-page), pp xxiii, (2),268, 8vo, original half vellum, top edges
gilt: spine label little chipped, otherwise very good-nice.
(3)
GILBEY (Sir Walter).
Sport [i. e. Cock-Fighting!] in the
Olden Time. 1912. FIRST EDITION, with 9 plates, pages (10),
117, (3, blank), (4, adverts), 8vo, original orange cloth, gilt:
binding evenly discoloured, neatly and recently recased: very
good.
Cock-fighting classic by the wine merchant & founder of the well
known company.
(4)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
811
.
FRASER (James Baillie).
The Persian Adventurer: being
the sequel of “The Kuzzilbash”; By J. B. Frazer [sic].
Henry
Colburn and Richard Bentley,
1830
FIRST EDITION, pages xii, 365, (1): (2), 365, (1): (2), 392 with
the half-title to volume one (no others called for), 3 vols, large
12mo, original cloth-backed boards, uncut: the spines neatly
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