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[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,
1789
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages xvi, 368, 8vo, later half dark
green morocco, gilt, fully gilt spine, top edges gilt, the fore and
lower edges uncut: the binding rubbed but sound and strong and
otherwise a very good copy.
The first Dublin edition, following London editions of 1786 and 1788.
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.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
BROOKE (Henry).
The Tryal of the
Roman Catholicks.
Dublin: Printed, London, re-printed, for T.
Davies … J. Fletcher … and T. Robson,
1762. (2)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
899
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[HELYOT (Pierre)].
Histoire des ordres monastiques,
religieux et militaires, et des congregations seculieres de l’un &
de l’autre sexe, qui ont este´ establies jusqu’a` present …
A Paris:
chez Jean Baptiste Coignard,
1714-19
FIRST EDITION, complete with 811 engraved plates of
costume, the printed title-pages in red and black with large
vignette, pages xcviii, (6), 399, (24): (8), 436, (14, table), (2,
additions, (4, another state of pages 311/2 and 283/4), (1,
corrections): xvi, (8), 456, (47): (8), 464, (42): (6), 488, (20): (8),
446, (24): (8), 493, (35): (8), 446, (38), 8 vols, 4to, contemporary
calf, gilt spines, with labels, gilt: printed titles with two small
stamps in the blank margin, otherwise without any markings, all
cords strong but the spines defective and well worn, internally in
very good to nice state with the fine plates clean and fresh.
Colas 1417 without mention of the extra leaves in vol two. Published
anonymously: vols 1-5 by Helyot and vols 6-8 generally attributed to
Maximilien Bullot. Helyot (1660-1716) made lengthy journeys
throughhhout Europe, which afforded him ample opportunity to collect
material for his great work on the religious orders. It treats of the history
of religious and knightly orders, and of congregations of both sexes,
down to his own time, and exhibits more particularly their origin,
growth, deterioration, suppression, or dissolution, various offshoots and
reforms; adding also the lives of the chief founders, and illustrations of
different monastic habits. Being written on scientific principles, though
not always with critical insight, it was very favourably received, and
achieved a wide circulation (Catholic Ency.).
(8)
€350-€400 (£280-£320 approx.)
900
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HENKL later HENNEQUEL (Rolf).
Encounter with
Hofmannsthal by Rolf Hennequel.
The Wattle Grove Press
[Newnham, Tasmania], circa
1961
FIRST EDITION, with 2 plates containing three mounted
photos, pp (3), xi, (4), 4to, original stiff wraps, tied with silk
cord, with large printed label on upper cover, edges uncut: nice.
No 38 of 50 copies on thick hand-made paper, numbered & initialled by
the author.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[HENKL later HENNEQUEL
(Rolf)].
Solitaries by Albin Eiger.
The Wattle Grove Press
[Newnham, Tasmania],
1961. FIRST EDITION,57-pp, 4to,
original stiff printed wraps, tied with silk cord: nice copy.
Copy number 38 of 1000 (sic) copies printed, numbered and initialed by
the author.
(2)
[HENKL later HENNEQUEL (Rolf)].
Red on Purple. A
Dream of the Ancient World by Albin Eiger.
The Wattle Grove
Press [Newnham, Tasmania], circa
1961. FIRST EDITION, pages
(4), lx, pasted in errata slip, tipped in printed slip warning
against damaging the fragile binding and two of the press’s
flyers tipped in, 4to, original stiff paper wrappers, tied with silk
cord: a nice copy.
No. 35 of 300 copies printed, the limitation fully written out and
initialled by author.
(3)
[HENKL later HENNEQUEL (Rolf)].
Three Aegyptian
Stories by Albin Eiger.
The Wattle Grove Press [Newnham,
Tasmania],
1962. FIRST EDITION, pages (6), 18, (3), 4to,
original stiff paper wrappers, with a large printed label on the
upper cover, with 2 of the press’s flyers tipped in: a nice copy.
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies, numbered and initialled by the
author.
(4)
[HENKL later HENNEQUEL (Rolf)].
In Capricornia.
Pointless exotic ballads by Albin Eiger.
The Wattle Grove Press
[Newnham, Tasmania],
(1963). FIRST EDITION, with a
frontispiece after H. Buehler, (26)-leaves, printed on one side
only, folio, original printed paper wrappers, with 3 of the press’s
flyers tipped in: a nice copy.
Limited edition of 205 numbered copies, initialled by the author.
(5)
[HENKL later HENNEQUEL (Rolf)].
Paris (: an essay).
By Albin Eiger.
Wattle Grove Press [Newnham, Tasmania]
1960.
FIRST EDITION, xxxiv leaves, printed on one side of the leaf
only, large 4to, original red stiff paper wrappers, with large
printed label on upper cover: a very good to nice copy.
Limited edition of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author, on grey
eucalyptus paper. With, a single leaf publisher’s flyer for the same, with
one ms correction. Also, ‘Vox Populi or “what an author and a
publisher are up against”, viii large 4to leaves, printed on one side only,
Wattle Grove Press (1962?). Also, a 3-leaf catalogue of ‘Albin Eiger’
items published by the Wattle Grove Press.
(6)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
901
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HERALDRY: [Grant (Sir Francis J.),
ed.].
Memorial
Catalogue. Heraldic Exhibition. Edinburgh 1891.
Edinburgh:
Printed for the Committee by T. and A. Constable,
1892
With 118 plates, some double-page, some coloured, each with
leaf of title and pp xxiv, 116, (6), 4to, stronly bound in recent
boards, top edges gilt: a very good to nice copy.
Copy number 48 of the large paper edition limited to 250 copies. For the
exhibition some 1, 300 copies of a descriptive list were printed and this
de luxe edition with substantially augmented and improved text and
excellent illustrations, was published during the following year The
comprehensive exhibition included assorted grants and genealogies,
books on heraldry, heraldic bookbindings, heraldic china and glass,
heraldic seals and armorials, orders of chivalry, insignia, drawings,
stained glass, playing cards, etc.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
LEIGHTON (John).
Suggestions
in Design. Being a comprehensive series of original sketches in
various styles of ornament. Arranged for application in the
decorative and constructive arts. With descriptive and historical
letterpress by James K. Colling.
Blackie & Son
(1880). With a
frontispiece and 101 tinted lithographed plates of Leighton’s
designs and 321 text illustrations, pages (2), xii, 176, 4to,
original cloth, gilt, edges gilt, neatly repaired retaining the
original endpapers and flyleaves: with some light foxing, but a
very good copy.
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