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estrangement between King George and Queen Caroline on the one
hand and Prince Frederick and Princess Augusta on the other.
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867
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GREAT EXHIBITION, 1851.
Lectures on the results of
the Great Exhibition of 1851, delivered before the Society of
Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, at the suggestion of H. R.
H. Prince Albert, President of the Society. Second series.
London: David Bogue,
1853
Pages (2, adverts), vi, 466, pagination erratic but complete, cr
8vo, original cloth, by Bone & Son, with ticket: binding worn
and discoloured, headbands worn but binding strong, a very
good, mostly unopened copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GREGORY (Olinthus).
A
treatise of mechanics, theoretical, practical, and descriptive. The
third edition, corrected and improved.
Printed for F. C. and J.
Rivington …,
1815. With 58 double-page engraved plates, pages
iv,569 and errata leaf: vii, (1),565 and advert leaf: (2), 3 vols,
8vo, contemporary calf, gilt ruled spines, with labels, gilt: the
bindings worn and the joints weak but internally in nice, clean
state.
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LATHAM (Baldwin).
Sanitary Engineering. A guide to the
construction of works of sewerage and house drainage …
E. &
F. N. Spon …,
1878. SECOND AND BEST EDITION, with 26
plates (21 folding) and 169 text illustrations, pages xxxii,559,
8vo, original cloth, gilt: a very good to nice copy.
Baldwin (1836-1917), civil engineer and meteorologist, had, by 1868,
designed the sewerage, irrigation, and water works for fifteen English
towns. He is best remembered for his contributions to public water
supply, particularly in the Croydon area. His “Sanitary Engineering”
was regarded as a classic in its day.
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[SLACK (Thomas)].
The British negociator: or, foreign
exchanges made perfectly easy. Containing tables for all the
various courses of exchange from, and the several Coins
equated of, Holland, Hamburgh, Germany, France, Spain,
Portugal, Venice, Leghorn, Genoa, Denmark, Poland, Sweden,
Russia, & Ireland. together with Tables and Rules for
Exchanges, from Asia, Africa, and America, or the West-Indies:
And the Exchanges of the Principal Foreign Nations with one
another. Also, Arbitrations of Exchanges, in a new and concise
Method applicable to Business. Likewise, the weights and
measures of foreign nations. To which is annexed, several
mercantite tables, equally useful to Foreign Traders and Factors,
and to Inland Merchants and Dealers; among which is inserted
an entire new Table for the Flax Trade. And an essay on the
nature and business of exchanging in general is prefixed, by
Way of Introduction. The third edition, corrected and enlarged.
By S. Thomas, Merchant.
London: Printed for G. Robinson and J.
Roberts in Pater-noster Row; and T. Slack in Newcastle.
1769. Pages
(14), (i) - iii, 320, long 12mo, contemporary calf, with label, gilt:
the binding heavily worn but cords strong, wanting the blank
flyleaves, internally a sound and very good copy.
ESTC locates five copies: L, MRu / NNC, Mhi, OkU: all editions are
scarce. Slack, the Newcastle bookseller, is less well known as a writer
than his wife, the grammarian Ann Fisher.
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868
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GREGORY IX, Pope.
Decretales … suae integritati, una
cum glossis restitutae …
Venetiis, apud Magnam Societatem, una
cum Georgio Ferrario & Hieronymo Franzino (Apud Ioan. Baptistam a
Porta),
1584
The title-page with large woodcut of Gregory at prayer and
large woodcuts on Bbb4 and Bbb6 (tree of consanguinity and
tree of affinity), printed throughout, including title, in red and
black, pp (32), cols 1966, pp 29 (i. e. 46), (2), folio, strongly
bound in old half vellum: some signatures lightly browned,
otherwise very good or better and well margined copy.
An edition not in Adams
€350-€500 (£280-£400 approx.)
869
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GREY (H. and J.).
Practical Arithmetic; or, concise
calculator, adapted to the commerce of Great Britain and
Ireland. By Messrs. Grey. Tenth edition, enlarged and improved
…
Dublin: Printed for the Author, by C. Crookes, 85 Capel-St.,
1830
60-pages, 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt, old, unlettered
rebacking in calf, wanting the blank flyleaves, but otherwise a
very good copy.
A successful work which ran to some fourteen editions including at least
one London one. This tenth edition is represented in COPAC by the Dt
copy only and in WorldCat by two copies in the USA. It is not on-line
in D. The final three pages comprise a subscriber list, mostly Irish and
mostly Dublin - Guinness, La Touche, Crampton, Hammond & Co.,
etc.
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SAMPSON (Wm.): -.
Memoirs
of William Sampson, an Irish exile; written by himself.
Including particulars of his adventures in various parts of
Europe, his confinement in the dungeons of the Inquisition, &c.
&c. To which is added, a brief historical sketch of the British
connexion with Ireland, and some obervations on the present
condition of America. Reprinted from the second American
edition. With an introduction, detailing the causes of the Irish
insurrection of 1798, and notes, by the author of the History of
the Civil Wars of Ireland.
Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot
1832.
With a portrait, pages xxxii,292, large 12mo, original cloth,
uncut, with printed paper spine label: the label rubbed and worn
but otherwise an attractive copy in original state.
Sampson (1764-1836), United Irishman, lawyer, political activist, born
in Derry city. Although arrested in 1798 he was never brought to trial
but was exiled to Portugal in 1799 and, after various wanderings on the
continent, was re-arrested in England and exiled again to America in
1806. He was quickly admitted to the New York Bar and soon became
prominent in that city’s legal and political circles. Originally published
in New York in 1807, this first English edition is based on the text of
the second American edition (1817) and has an introduction by the
Youghal born author and economist William Cooke Taylor.
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HAUGHTON (James).
A Plea for Teetotalism, and the
Maine Liquor Law.
London: William Tweedie (R. D. Webb, printer,
Dublin),
1855. FIRST EDITION, pages (6),230, 12mo, original
cloth: wanting end flyleaves and the preliminary leaves a little
used, a good, sound copy.
Not found on-line in D, Dt or Dp. COPAC locates 4 copies. Haughton
(1795-1873), social reformer and temperance activist. For many years he
gave most of his time and energies to promoting total abstinence and to
advocating legislative restrictions on the sale of intoxicating drinks and
was one of the earliest and most devoted disciples of the leading Irish
temperance reformer, Father Mathew (1790–1856). He was also one of
the first members of the Statistical Society of Dublin (1847), a founder
of the Dublin Mechanics’ Institute (1849), and a member of the
committee of the Dublin Peace Society. He aided in abolishing
Donnybrook fair (1855), which had long been a target of temperance
reformers owing to the alleged high incidence of drunkenness at the
popular Dublin event, and took a chief part in 1861 in opening the
botanic gardens at Glasnevin on Sundays (ODNB).
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870
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GREY (Zachary).
An impartial examination of the third
volume of Mr. Daniel Neal’s History of the Puritans …With a
large appendix of letters and papers …
Printed by J. Bettenham:
and sold by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch,
1737
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages 404; 143, (1, blank), 8vo,
contemporary calf: the binding heavily worn, wanting label, but
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