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The Home of the Eddas [: Iceland]. With a chapter on the
sprengisandr by Dr. C. Le Neve Foster.
Sampson Low, Marston …
,
1879. FIRST EDITION, with a folding map, pages xi, 347, (1),
32 (adverts dated April 1879) and an errata slip, 8vo, original
green cloth: a nice, fresh copy.
An account of his travels in Iceland,
with useful annotated appendices on Icelandic words and place-names,
routes, useful information for the tourist, etc.
(2)
NJALS SAGA: - Dasent (Sir George Webbe).
The Story of
Burnt Njal, or, life in Iceland at the end of the tenth century.
From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga. With an introduction,
maps, and plans.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas,
1861.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with 7 maps and plans (3
double-page or folding) and 2 large folding maps, pp xxx,
cciv,256: xiii,507,2 vols, 8vo, original cloth, gilt, by Burn & Co.,
with their tickets: slight fading on boards, but still a nice, fresh
and attractive copy. (4)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
921
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HOWARD (Gorges Edmond).
The Siege of Tamor. A
tragedy. The second edition.
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for
Elizabeth Lynch, bookseller, in Skinner-Row,
1773
Pages (4), vi, (1), vi-viii, 71, (1, blank), 12mo, recent wrapper:
extreme upper outer corner of one leaf torn off just touching
page numerals only, otherwise a very good to nice copy.
Uncommon edition: ESTC locating copies at BFp, L, D / Dfo, PPL
and NjP. Stratmas 2434.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HOLCROFT (Thomas).
Duplicity: a comedy. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal, in
Covent-Garden.
Dublin: Printed by P. Higly, for the Company of
Booksellers,
1782. FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (2), x, (2), 67,
(3), 12mo, recent wrapper: a very good copy.
His first play, a sentimental comedy on the evils of gambling. The plot
resembles the story of Edward Moore’s popular tragedy The Gamester,.
As in the copies at NsbSu and Du the half-title in this copy is bound in
at end.
(2)
MURPHY (Arthur).
The way to keep him, a comedy in five
acts, as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane.
Dublin: Printed by William Sleater at Pope’s-head on Cork-hill,
1765.
Pages 92, (1, Song for Mrs. Cibber), (3, adverts), 12mo, recent
paper wrapper: the upper outer blank corner a little dog-eared,
but otherwise a good to very good copy.
ESTC locates copies at C,
D(2), Dt, Mru, O and KU-S only in USA.
(3)
[COLMAN (George), the elder].
The Deuce is in Him. A
farce of two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in
Drury-Lane.
Dublin: Printed for A. Leathley, W. Smyth … G.
Faulkner... P. Wilson …,
1764. FIRST IRISH EDITION, 31-
pages, 12mo, recent paper wrapper: a good copy, Margaret
[Plunkett] Dunne’s copy, with her signature and date, October
11th, 1764, on the title-page.
An uncommon edition of Colman’s
comic afterpiece.
(4)
MORRIS (Edward).
False Colours, a comedy, as performed
at the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket, by his majesty’s
company. From the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane.
Dublin: Printed
by William Porter, for P. Byrne, W. Jones, J. Jones, and J. Rice,
1793.
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (8), 64, 12mo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
His second play, “one of the typical
sentimental-manners comedies of the time. “ - Nicoll.
(5)
MORTON (Thomas).
Secrets Worth Knowing; a comedy, in
five acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden.
Dublin: Printed by William Porter,
1798. FIRST IRISH
EDITION(?), pages 61, (1, blank), (2), 12mo, recent paper
wrapper: with a light old water stain, but a very good copy.
ESTC locates eight copies, only one in USA. Also published at Cork
during the same year.
(6)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
922
.
[HOWARD (Thomas), Earl of Effingham].
An essay on
the nature of a loan: being an introduction to the knowledge of
the public accounts.
York: Printed by A. Ward, and sold in London
by J. Debrett …,
1782
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages (2),28, 8vo, recent quarter
calf: a very good copy
Kress B. 463. Simple explanations of such terms as: loan, money,
interest, insurance, capital, principal, annuities, lotteries, three per cents,
premium, bonus, discount.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
FACTORIES & WORKSHOP
BILL, 1878.
Factories and Workshops - Legislation. The debate
on the Factories & Workshops Bill … in the House of
Commons … 1878 … from “Habsard’s Parliamentary Debates”
…
Cornelius Buck,
1878. 128-pages, roy 8vo, original printed
paper wrappers: with a small stamp on the title-page, the
wrappers worn, a little dusty but a very good copy in original
state.
(2)
CHORLEY (Wm. Brownsword).
The Model Reviewer
Reviewed. Some remarks on a criticism in the Athenaeum of
23rd August last, on A Handybook of Social Intercourse.
James
Ridgway,
1862. FIRST EDITION, 31-pages, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
Chorley had been harshly reviewed for attempting to set ‘grave professors
and learned economists right upon the fundamental principles of their
faith’.
(3)
BASTABLE (Charles F.).
The Commerce of Nations.
Methuen, Social Questions of To-Day series,
1892. FIRST
EDITION, pp viii,216, 8vo, original cloth: slight wear to spine,
but very good.
Bastable (1855-1945) held the Whately Chair of
Political Economy at Trinity College, Dublin for some 50 years (1882-
1932).
(4)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
923
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HOWITT (Alfred Wm.), FGS.
Inaugural address by A.
W. Howitt, C. M. G., D. Sc., F. G. S., President. Personal
reminiscences of central Australia and the Burke and Wills
expedition.
[Journal of the Australasian Association for the
Advancement of Science. Adelaide]
[1907]
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, drop-title, pages 43, (1, blank),
8vo, unbound, wire stitched as issued, presumably issued in
paper wrappers, which are not present: a very good copy.
Author’s off-print, evidently printed in an extremely limited number and
very rare. It is not in NSTC and COPAC has the Cambridge (Haddon
Library) copy only. An account of the Burke and Wills expedition,
1860, and Howitt’s journey in search of Burke and Wills, 1861.
“Briefly mentions early explorers; Sturt, Major Mitchell, Eyre,
Babbage, Stuart, Warburton; Narrinyeri, Dieri, Yantruwunta,
Yaurorka tribes met with on journey; Appendix gives extracts from
Parliamentary Papers, 1858-9, mainly about Warburton and
Babbage”.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
924
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HOWITT (Wm.).
Ruined Abbeys and Castles in Great
Britain and Ireland. Second series. The photograph illustrations
by Thompson, Sedgfield, Ogle, and Hemphill.
London: Alfred
Wm. Bennett,
1864
FIRST EDITION, with 26 original phographs mounted in the
text, pages (6),224, small 4to, original richly gilt green cloth,
edges gilt, with an original photo mounted on each board,
bound by Westleys, with their ticket: very light foxing of the
preliminary leaves but still a very good to nice copy of a book
usually found in poor shape.
Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature,214.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
WHEWELL (Wm.).
Architectural notes on German churches. A new edition. To
which is now added, notes written during an architectural tour
221