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[POTTS (Thomas).
An inquiry into the moral and political
tendency of the religion called Roman Catholic.
London: Printed
for G. G. J. and J. Robinson … and R. Fauulder …,
1790. FIRST
EDITION, pp (4), 163, (1, blank), 8vo, title-page lightly dusty,
with 2 small, faint oval stamps and the contemporary signature
“P Jenkens”, recent wrapper: a very good copy
Potts (1754-1819), president of Oscott College. “An elegant, temperate
and argumentative work. “ - Weedall. Gillow V. 350-1.
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[WOLLASTON (Francis), FRS].
The state of subscription
to the articles and liturgy of the Church of England, towards the
close of the year 1773. With a view of its progress from the
beginning, and of the alterations that have been made in it by
the late debates … By a Consistent Protestant.
Printed for J.
Wilkie,
1774. Pages (2), 66, (1, errata), without half-title, 8vo,
recent wrapper: a very good-nice copy.
First published earlier in the same year, here with a change of title, the
author’s advertisement outlining his reasons for change of title (to
distinguish the work from ‘Considerations on the Propriety of requiring
Subscription’) and an errata leaf not in the earlier edition. Sometimes
attributed to Owen Manning.
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€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
892
.
HAZELGROVE, (G. P).
A Vocabulary, English and
Hindoostanee. In Three Parts; Containing 1. - A Nomenclature
of Ordnance Stores. 2. - A List of Adjectives, Nouns, &c. 3. - A
Collection of Military Terms, Phrases, Names, Titles, &c.
Bombay, Printed at the Bombay Education Society’s Press,
Byculla, 1865
8vo. Original cloth. Rare.
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
893
.
HEANEY (Seamus).
District and Circle
Faber and Faber
2006
FIRST EDITION, pages (12), 76, (8, blank), 8vo, original cloth-
backed boards, with printed paper spine label, in the original
matching cloth and paper boards slip-case: a fine, fresh,
unmarked, virtually as new, copy.
Number 168 of 300 copies, specially bound and signed by the author.
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
894
.
HEANEY (Seamus).
District and Circle
Faber and Faber
2006
FIRST EDITION, pages ix, (1, blank), 77, (1, blank), 8vo,
original pale green printed wrappers: a bright, fresh, unmarked,
virtually as new, copy.
Signed by the author on the title-page. Publisher’s “uncorrected proof
copy”.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
HEANEY (Seamus).
District and
Circle
Faber and Faber
2006. FIRST EDITION, pages (10), 76,
(10, blank), 8vo, original cloth: a bright, fresh, unmarked,
virtually as new copy with dust wrapper.
Signed by the author on the title-page.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
895
.
HEANEY (Seamus).
Seeing Things [: verse].
Faber and
Faber,
1991
FIRST EDITION, pages (10), 113 and limitation leaf, 8vo,
original black and purple cloth, with printed paper spine label,
in a matching cloth slip-case: a nice, fresh copy.
Number 150 of 250 specially bound copies, signed by the author.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
896
.
[HEATHCOTE (Ralph)].
Sylva: or, the Wood. Being a
collection of anecdotes, dissertations, characters, apophtegms,
original letters, bon mots, and other little things. By a Society of
the Learned. The third edition, corrected and enlarged.
Dublin:
Printed by P. Byrne, No. 108, Grafton-Street,
1789
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages xvi, 368, 8vo, contemporary
calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: a nice fresh copy.
An interesting collection of essays on conduct and human behaviour, “A
letter of Dean Swift to his curate”, “Of abuses in female dress”, “Of
fine gentlemen: with the character and description of an upstart”,
“Against the marriage of old men”, “Of government …”, “Of the
promulgation of laws”, “Electioneering”, “An apology for Dr James’s
fever powder”, “Against the abridgnment of labour”, “Of jesting and
frolic, as well as jesting upon serious occasions: and of David Hume,
Esq. so far as he is concerned in this”, Of the liberty of the press”, “Of
the spirit and conduct of East India adventurers”, “Of ante-nuptial
fornication, with a hint or two for its prevention”, “Of personal
identity”, “Of academies and waterologers”, Of great men; and of Dr
Samuel Johnson”, “Upon David Hume’s moral character”,
“Concerning the dispute between Mr. Hume and Mr. Rousseau”, etc.,
etc.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
897
.
[HEATHCOTE (Ralph)].
Sylva: or, the Wood. Being a
collection of anecdotes, dissertations, characters, apophtegms,
original letters, bon mots, and other little things. By a Society of
the Learned. The third edition, corrected and enlarged.
Dublin:
Printed by P. Byrne, No. 108, Grafton-Street,
1789
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages xvi, 368, 8vo, contemporary
pale brown calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt, green edges: a
nice, fresh copy.
An interesting collection of essays on conduct and human behaviour, “A
letter of Dean Swift to his curate”, “Of abuses in female dress”, “Of
fine gentlemen: with the character and description of an upstart”,
“Against the marriage of old men”, “Of government …”, “Of the
promulgation of laws”, “Electioneering”, “An apology for Dr James’s
fever powder”, “Against the abridgnment of labour”, “Of jesting and
frolic, as well as jesting upon serious occasions: and of David Hume,
Esq. so far as he is concerned in this”, Of the liberty of the press”, “Of
the spirit and conduct of East India adventurers”, “Of ante-nuptial
fornication, with a hint or two for its prevention”, “Of personal
identity”, “Of academies and waterologers”, Of great men; and of Dr
Samuel Johnson”, “Upon David Hume’s moral character”,
“Concerning the dispute between Mr. Hume and Mr. Rousseau”, etc.,
etc. “The Third Edition, Corrected and Enlarged”; in fact the first Irish
edition, after London editions of 1786 and 1788. Not nearly so genial as
the title would imply, and full of invective against, especially, Samuel
Johnson and David Hume. The attack on Johnson describes him as,
among other things, “the meanest of bigots, ” and refers to The Lives of
the Poets as “malevolent. ” The various attacks on Hume are apparently
a follow-up to Heathcote’s 1776 anti-Hume Letter to Horace Walpole,
and somewhat disingenuously presume to contradict Adam Smith: “was
he so supremely excellent, as Dr. Smith describes him? was there not
something little, contracted, (I had almost said) worldly, in his make?
did not his soul want much of... dignity and greatness?”
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
WALPOLE (Horace).
A
catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, with a list
of their works. In two volumes. The third edition, corrected and
enlarged.
Dublin: Printed for George Faulkner … and Hulton Bradley,
1759. FIRST IRISH EDITION, pp 166, (2): (2), 147 - 288, (4),
complete thus,2 vols in 1, large 12mo, contemporary mottled
calf, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, with label, gilt:
bookplate of St Edmud’s College on front endpper and 19C
signature of “R. Stanfield”.
Hazen, Strawberry Hil, 3 (p. 36). First published at Strawberry Hill
during the previous year. There was another Dublin issue, also 1759,
with a slightly different pagination and without a title-page to the
second volume. The eleven Irish peers included are separately indexed.
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€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
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