adverts, 8vo, original cloth, gilt: small stamp on blank verso of
portrait and binding stained but sound and strong, internally
very good.
(4)
CLEMENT (Clara Erskine).
Naples, the City of
Parthenope.
Gay and Bird [U. S. A. printed],
1894. FIRST UK
EDITION,20 plates, pp (8), 340, 8vo, original light blue cloth,
gilt, top edges gilt, silk marker, with original olive green stiff
linen dust wrapper, lettered in gilt replicating the book’s spine
lettering: wanting half-title and a blank flyleaf, else a nice, fresh
copy.
(5)
BALL (John), FRS.
The Central Alps... being the second
part of the Alpine Guide. New Edition.
Longmans, Green, and
Co.,
1882. With folding panorama and 8 folding maps, pp xviii,
cxxx, (2),521, (2, adverts), small 8vo, original mauve cloth, gilt:
lower cover lightly discoloured, otherwise clean & very good. (7)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
816
.
[FRESHFIELD (Jane)].
Alpine Byways, or light leaves
gathered in 1859 and 1860. By a lady.
Longman, Green, Longman,
and Roberts,
1861
FIRST EDITION, with an attractive engraved title-page vignette
and dedication leaf, 4 maps and 8 coloured lithographed plates
of Alpine views, pages viii, (1), (1, blank),232, complete with
the half-title, 8vo, contemporary half dark blue morocco, gilt
ruled and lettered spine, top edges gilt: a very good to nice,
attractive copy.
“Classic travel book. “ - Neate 294. An account of tours in the Bernese
and Pennine Alps by the mother of the renowned climber Douglas
Freshfield.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
WHYMPER (Edward).
Chamonix
and the range of Mont Blanc. A guide. Third edition [with
minor corrections].
John Murray… Geneva: Georg & Co.,
1898.
With many full-page and other illustrs (2 folding) and a folding
map, pp 24 (ads), xiv, (1),205, (2, ads, folding),25-42 (ads), and
tipped in printed slip of train times, with original printed papers
preserved, finely bound by Asper of Geneva in half vellum, gilt,
gilt spine, contrasting spine label, gilt, top edges gilt: a fresh
attractive copy, handsomely bound. (2)
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
817
.
FRESHFIELD née QUINTIN (Jane).
A summer tour in
the Grisons and Italian valleys of the Bernina. By Mrs. Henry
Freshfield, author of ‘Alpine Byways’.
Longman, Green …,
1862
FIRST EDITION, with 4 attractive tinted lithographed plates of
views and 2 folding coloured maps, pages (8),292, bound
without the half-title, cr 8vo, contemporary half calf, gilt ruled
spine, with label, gilt: the binding a little worn and scuffed but
sound and very strong and not unattractive, internally a clean
and very good copy.
The Freshfields were keen mountaineers. Jane Freshfield’s husband
Henry was an early member of the Alpine Club and their son Douglas
was one of the greatest mountaineers in history. She wrote this book as
a guide for intrepid Victorian ladies so that they “ may now enjoy the
wildest scenes of mountain grandeur with comparative ease. “ - Neate
F74.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
818
.
FRIEND (John).
Emmenologia: written in Latin …
Translated into English by Thomas Dale, M. D.
Printed for T.
Cox,
1729
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, pages (16),216, (8), complete
with the preliminary and final leaves of advertisements, 8vo,
contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked, with label, gilt: a
very good copy.
Friend (1675-1728), noted as the first English historian of medicine.
This famous exposition on menstruation on iatro-chemical principles
caused considerable controversy at the time but has since been greatly
admired.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
CLARKE (Sir Arthur), M. D.
An
essay on warm, cold, and vapour bathing, with practical
observations on sea bathing, diseases of the skin, bilious, liver
complaints, and dropsy. Fourth edition, with several new cases
and observations.
Printed for Henry Colburn… and sold by John
Cumming, and at the Public Baths, Dublin,
1819. With a woodcut
illustration, pages xii, v, (1, blank), (7) - 177, (1, blank), (2,
adverts), large 12mo, contemporary half calf, gilt lettered spine:
with a little wear at the headband but the binding sound and
strong and otherewise a nice copy.
With a new 4-page preface and some additions. Clarke, described on the
title-page as Surgeon and Agent to HM’s Sick and Wounded Seamen
and Marines at Dublin, Physician to St. George’s Dispensary and
House of Recovery. He wrote “The Mother’s Medical Assistant”, was
physician to the Bank of Ireland and to the Dublin Metropolitan Police,
founded or helped to found several hospitals such as the Dublin Fever
Hospital and was an early promoter of commercial baths in Ireland, the
first being in Dublin followed by Cork and Newry. There are no copies
of any edition of this title in the Irish National Library on-line.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
819
.
FRY (Wm. H. P.).
Annals of the late Major Oliver Fry, R.
A., formerly of Frybrook, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, and
late of Pembroke House, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, who was born
in 1773, married in 1806, and died in 1868; with some notes as
to his descendants, compiled by his grandson, Mr. William
Harloe Phibbs Fry, commonly known as William Fry, of Wilton
House, Merrion Road, and 14, Lower Mount Street, Dublin …
Bradford and London: (Printed for Private Circulation by) Percy Lund,
Humphries & Co.,
1909
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, with a coloured plate of coat of
arms and 29 plates or full-page illustrs (5 folding), pp (2), 104,
4to, original morocco style cloth, gilt: a fine, fresh copy.
Evidently printed in a limited number for family circulation: this copy
unnumbered. It is not in NUC or NSTC. COPAC records only the
Trinity College, Dublin copy.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
820
.
FULKE (Wm.).
A Defense of the sincere and true
Translations of the holie Scriptures into the English tong,
against the manifolde cavils, frivolous quarels, and impudent
slaunders of Gregorie Martin, one of the Readers of Popish
divinitie in the trayterous Seminarie of Rhemes. Whereunto is
added a briefe confutation of all such quarrels & cavils, as have
bene of late uttered by diverse Papistes in their English
Pamphlets, against the writings of the saide William Fulke.
At
Londo[on,] Imprinted by Hen[rie Bynneman] for Georg[e Bishop.]
Anno
1[583] Cum gratia [& priuilegio.]
FIRST EDITION, printer’s device on title (just touched in lower
outer corner), pp (4), 95, (1); 144, 147-514,517-532, (4); 71, (1,
blank), complete thus, 8vo, contemporary vellum, with
contemporary signature of “Ra: Smith{?)” on title: lower outer
corner of title torn off with loss as indicated in brackets above,
inside front hinge cracked but stitching strong, otherwise a very
good, well-margined, unsophisticated copy: the full imprint is
repeated on recto of final leaf and the copy is complete with the
4-page dedication to Queen Elizabeth - frequently lacking.
STC 11430. First edition of an important book. Fulke was nicely hoist
on his own petard in this book, and what was intended to be a
damming comparison between the Douai and Bishops’ versions turned
out in fact to be indispensable publicity for the former. It is doubtful if,
but for this publication, the Roman Catholic version would have had as
much influence as it did on the King James translation.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
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