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repaired, retaining the original endpapers and flyleaves but the
spine labels supplied (the original spine labels to volumes one
and two neatly preserved on the front endpaper of volume one),
otherwise a very good copy.
Sadleir 905. Wolff 2348. Fraser (1783-1856), Scottish traveller who
wrote valuable accounts of his extensive journeys into Persia and the
author too of a number of fictional works set in Persia.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[BOSWELL (Thomas
Alexander)].
Recollections of a Pedestrian. By the author of
“The Journal of an Exile”.
Saunders and Otley,
1826. FIRST
EDITION, pp (4),290: 307: (2), 353 and advert leaf, with the
half-titles in the first two vols (none called for in the third?), 3
vols, 8vo, original boards, uncut, sympathetically rebacked
retaining the original printed paper spine labels: a very good to
nice copy.
Not in Sadleir or Wolff. Block 24.
(2)
RANDOLPH (C. Emily Blanche), Mrs.
Gentianella. In
three volumes.
Hurst and Blackett,
1874. FIRST EDITION, pages
(4), 314: (4), 316: (4), 301, (1, blank) and (2), 16 adverts,
complete with the half-titles, 3 vols, 8vo, some soiling and signs
of use but a good copy, recently and pleasantly bound in paper
boards, with printed paper spine labels.
This, the first of her fifteen
novels, is not represented in Wolff.
(9)
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
812. FRAZER, Mrs. The Practice of Cookery, pastry,
pickling, preserving, &c. Containing figures of dinners, from
five to nineteen dishes, and a full list of supper dishes: also, a
list of things in season, for every month in the year, and
directions for choosing provisions: with two plates, shewing
the method of placing dishes upon a table, and the manner of
trussing poultry, &c. By Mrs. Frazer.
Dublin: Printed for Messrs.
R. Cross, G. Burnet, P. Wogan, J. Moore, W. Jones, J. Rice and R.
Mc. Allister,
1791
FIRST IRISH EDITION, with 2 plates, pages xv, (1,
blank),248, 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt ruled spine, with
label, gilt: light browning and some light fingering in places,
but still a very good and attractive copy.
ESTC locates copies of this Dublin edition, the only Irish printing,
at D, E, Leu / ViWC, MCR-S, CaBVaU. The work was first
published at Edinburgh in 1791, with second and third editions
following in 1795 and 1800 - ESTC locating seven, seven and three
copies respectively. It was an extremely popular work, running to an
eighth edition in 1827. Based upon Susanna MacIver’s ‘Cookery
and Pastry’, Edinburgh 1773 which was originally published for
pupils at the school run by MacIver where Mrs Frazer taught. On
MacIver’s death Mrs Frazer succeeded her in running the cookery
school and became, she claimed, the only cookery teacher in
Edinburgh.
€800-€1,200 (£640-£960 approx.)
813
.
FRENCH REVOLUTION.
Authentic narrative, of the
most interesting events, which preceded and accompanied the
late revolution in France. From the French. With preliminary
sketches of the government and court of Lewis XVI.
Dublin:
Printed by P. Byrne, No. 108, Grafton-Street.
1789
FIRST DUBLIN EDITION, pages 59, (1, blank), 8vo, recent
wrapper: very good copy.
ESTC locates five copies of this edition: D, Di / PP, PPL, CtYBr. No
copy in UK. The introduction is dated from Cork, Sept 1, 1789 and first
published, one assumes, at Cork. ESTC locates only four copies of the
Cork edition: L, D, MY, Dt / no copies in the USA. It has been
suggested by R. B. McDowell that John Sheares (1766?-98), a United
Irishman, native of Goldenbush, Co. Cork, was the author of this
pamphlet. There is no London edition recorded.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
FRANCE.
Lettre d’un françois à
un anglois, sur les moyens qui ont opéré la révolution de France,
et sur les effets qu’elle a produits.
[London:] Imprimée à Paris:
réimprimée à Londres, par T. Spilsbury & Fils, pour T. Hookham; & J.
Carpenter,
1791. ?ONLY EDITION, pages (2), 73, (1), with
erratum on verso of title, 8vo, recent wrapper: some light old
marginal staining on preliminary leaves but still a very good
copy.
ESTC locates four copies: L, MRc, D and AWn - none in USA or
Continental Europe. Not found on-line in the Bibliothèque nationale de
France. Not in Saricks.
(2)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
814
.
FRENCH REVOLUTION.
Chronological account of
remarkable occurrences, from the commencement of the French
Revolution to the 31st of December, 1815. Extracted from the
Belfast News Letter, commencing January, 1816. Corrected and
enlarged.
Belfast: Printed by Alexander Mackay, News-Letter Office,
1816
FIRST (ONLY) COLLECTED EDITION, with a folding map
of Waterloo (with the extreme lower left portion neatly restored)
and a tipped in printed explanatory slip, pages xi, 324, 12mo,
contemporary calf, gilt ruled and lettered spine: a very good
copy.
A rare chronology, with WorldCat locating just four copies. Apparently,
the only edition.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
ROBINSON (Thomas Romney).
Juvenile Poems. To which is prefixed a short account of the
author, by a member of the Belfast Literary Society.
Belfast:
Printed by S. Smyth & D. Lyons,
1806. FIRST EDITION, with
engraved portrait, pages xxxii, (2), vi, ix - xxx, (2), 106, (2,
adverts), complete with the half-title and 28-page subscriber list,
arge 12mo, contemporary unlettered linen: some light foxing in
places, but still a very good uncut copy, partly unopened.
A collection of juvenile poems by the astronomer and mathematical
physicist. It is prefaced by a life of the author, not yet thirteen years old,
and an impressive list of some fifteen hundred subscribers. Robinson,
later to become one of the foremost astronomers of his time, did what he
could to suppress the book.
(2)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
815
.
FRESHFIELD (Douglas W.).
Italian Alps. Sketches in the
mountains of Ticino, Lombardy, the Trentino, and Venetia.
Longmans, Green,
1875
FIRST EDITION, with 9 plates and 5 folding maps, pages xvi,
(1), 385, (1, blank), (2, adverts), 8vo, original cloth, gilt: a little
wear at the headband but the binding otherwise sound and
strong with the inside joints intact and still an attractive copy.
“One of the greatest mountain explorers … one of the most scholarly
and sensitive of mountain writers. “ - Neate 286.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
NOBLE (Mark).
Memoirs of the
illustrious house of Medici, from Giovanni … who died in
1428, to the death of Giovanni-Gaston, the last Grand Duke of
Tuscany, in 1737 …
Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies …
1797. FIRST EDITION, with 6 tables (5 folding), pages viii,
456, without the advert leaf sometimes found at end, 8vo, recent
boards: a very good copy.
(2)
STATIUS (P. P.).
Della Tebaide di P. Papinio Stazio tradotta
da Selvaggio Porpora [i. e. Cornelio Bentivoglio].
Firenze, presso
Leonardo Ciardetti,
1823. FIRST EDITION THUS(?), with a
portrait frontispiece, pages 56; 252: 320,2 vols, 8vo, bound in 1,
contemporary half green morocco, gilt, fully gilt and lettered
spine, edges gilt: the atractive binding just a little rubbed but
sound and strong and still quite nice, some light foxing
internally: a very good to nice copy.
(3)
MAGUIRE (John Francis), M. P.
Rome, its ruler, and its
institutions. Second edition, considerably enlarged.
Longman,
Brown...,
1859. With portrait, pp xxiv, 472, xcv and 4,24-pp
193