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original cloth: a very good to nice copy in dust wrapper.
Limited edition of 1,000 copies, signed by the editor.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
873
.
GROSIER (Jean Baptiste G. A.).
A general description of
China: containing the topography of the fifteen provinces which
compose this vast empire; that of Tartary, the isles and other
tributary countries: the number and situation of its cities, the
state of its population, the natural history of its animals,
vegetables and minerals. Together with the latest accounts that
have reached Europe, of the government, religion, manners,
customs, arts and sciences of the Chinese … Translated from
the French …
Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson,
1788
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with a folding engraved map,
coloured in outline, and 15 engraved plates (1 folding), pages vii,
(1, blank), xvi,582, (2, blank): viii,524, complete with the half-
titles,2 vols, 8vo, recent calf-backed marbled boards, with labels,
gilt, entirely uncut: a very good to nice, large and entirely uncut
copy.
A valuable general description, originally intended as the thirteenth
volume of De Mailla’s history of China. “Very rich in the observation
and detail amassed by the Jesuits. “ - Lust 31. First published, in
French, in 1787, five editions followed in England, France and
Germany by 1820.
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€350-€400 (£280-£320 approx.)
874
.
GULLIVER (Martin),
pseud.
The proctor’s banquet: a
pindarick ode.
Dublin: Printed in the year
1731
FIRST EDITION, 8-pp, 12mo, recent wraps: light old
dampstain, but still a very good copy.
“In Solemn Majesty of Fat” The only recarded edition. A rare item:
ESTC locates five copies: L, Dp, Dt; CSmH & IU. Foxon G318 adds
CtY. Teerink 1246, citing only a copy in private hands. Another of the
small series of poems published in Dublin under this Swiftian
pseudonym, and again a satire on Hugh Graffan, who seems to have
occupied an office of Censor at Trinity College, Dublin. At the feast
burlesqued in this poem, the Censor is described as sitting “enthron’d in
solemn majesty of fat, “ with someone referred to as “the amphibious
Fanny” by his side. In the final strophe the Censor is aroused from a
drunken stupor to survey a scene involving Swift, James Arbuckle, and
others unnamed, all part of an earlier poem called The Censoriad (cf.
Foxon G313-5): “Hark! hark! the grumbling sound Has rais’d up his
head, As awak’d from the dead, And amaz’d he stares around. Revenge,
revenge, the Piper cries, See! Arbuckle arise See! the crutch that he rears,
How revengeful he stares, And the fury that glows in his eyes! Behold!
Jonathan stand With all the ghastly band Of heroes, who in the
Censoriad were slain, And unpitied remain In Gulliver’s strain. “ All
this was no doubt fully intelligible to students of the day. Arbuckle was
in fact crippled, and walked with the aid of crutches.
€500-€700 (£400-£560 approx.)
875
.
GULLIVER, Martin,
pseud.
The Censoriad: a poem.
Written originally by Martin Gulliver. The second edition.
Illustrated with sundry curious annotations of divers learned
commentators, scholiasts and criticks.
[Dublin:] London: Printed,
and Dublin re-printed, and sold by James Hoey and George Faulkner,
at the Pamphlet-Shop in Skinner-Row, opposite to the Tholsel,
1730
FIRST EDITION, pages 22, (1), 12mo: cut a little close in the
lower margin barely touching the last line of the imprint, and
one line of text, all fully legible, otherwise a very good copy in
recent paper wrapper.
An unrecorded variant of the earliest printing recorded. No earlier
Dublin mprint has been found and Foxon (cf G313-4) presumes there
was none. The suggestion of a prior London edition is clearly false,
though there is a London reprint from the third Dublin edition. Together
the ESTC and Foxon report three copies of a “second edition, “ but
these all consists of 17 pages only. The present copy has 22 pages,
followed by a final leaf with an “advertisement” on recto, promising “a
curious collection of notes” to be inserted in the next printing. This
corresponds to the collation for the “third” edition, also 1730, Foxon
G314 (Dt only) and a “fourth” edition of the same year (not in Foxon:
L only). One of a series of Irish poems written under the pseudonym
“Martin Gulliver”. Most are satires on Hugh Graffan, a local public
figure who was a persistent object of ridicule in Trinity College circles,
but whose transgressions are now obscure. Foxon suggests that these
poems may have been written by a small coterie of Dublin writers:
O’Donoghue suggests the Rev. Walter Chamberlaine, the clever brother
of Frances Sheridan and thus Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s uncle, but he
provides no evidence. The text is amply furnished with footnotes, in the
Scriblerian mode, signed with such names as Vossius, Heinsius, and
Bentleius, in the manner of the Dunciad Variorum.
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
876
.
GULLIVERIANUS (Martinus),
pseud.
The art of
beauing: in imitation of Horace’s Art of Poetry. Address’d to a
certain lord. The third edition.
[Dublin:] London Printed, and
Dublin: Reprinted by J. Watts, and W. S. Anburey, in Caple-Street; and
sold by J. Thompson on Cork-Hill,
1730
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages (6), 17, (1, blank), complete
with the half-title, 12mo, recent paper wrapper: with a faint old
dampstain, but a very good copy.
No other edition is known. Very scarce: ESTC cites eight locations: L,
D, Di, Dp, Dt; CLU-C, CSmH & NjP. Foxon G320. Teerink 1245. A
satire on contemporary social follies, closely modelled on the Earl of
Roscommon’s version of Horace’s Ars Poetica, but with beaux and
belles substituted for the poets and literary niceties of the earlier text. “It
is a valuable document for its social revelations. “ - Bond, English
Burlesque Poetry, 1700-50, 107. A copy is known with a manuscript
attribution to James Dalacourt, or De La Cour, a poet from Cork who
was active at this period. These lines are not inconsistent with his known
work, but the ascription has not been confirmed, and one line, ending in
“D——-” and rhyming with “transport, “ seems to be an allusion to
Dalacourt.
€500-€700 (£400-£560 approx.)
877
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GUNN (John).
The theory and practice of fingering the
violoncello containing rules & progressive lessons for attaining
the knowledge & command of the whole compass of the
instrument by John Gunn.
Printed for & sold by the author …
[1793]
FIRST EDITION, with engraved title-page and engraved plate
illustrating instruments, fingering, &c, pp (6), 96, pp 33-35 and
73-96 being engraved music, and with the 3-pp subscriber list,
folio, recent boards: title-page repaired, the lower blank corner
renewed and rubbed with loss of a few letters of title, otherwise
a well-margined and very good copy.
ESTC locates three copies: L(wanting all after page 72), DLC and
NCGU. Gunn (c. 1765-c. 1824), Scottish violoncellist and writer on
music, taught the cello at Cambridge (reflected in the large number of
Cambridge subscribers) and in 1790 established himself in London as a
professor of the cello and the flute.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
878
.
[HALIDAY (Wm.)].
Uraicecht na Gaedhilge. A grammar
of the Gaelic language.
Dublin: Printed by John Barlow,29, Bolton-
Street,
1808
FIRST EDITION, with an engraved plate of the Irish and
Ogham characters, pages xv, (1, blank),201, (1, errata),
contemporary calf, gilt ruled spine, wanting label, with the
initials “R. C. B. “ in gilt on the upper board: the binding a little
worn but sound and strong.
“The first use of the Barlow type”. - McGuinne, Irish Type Design,
209