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Dublin: Printed by W. Porter,
1789. FIRST EDITION, pp
(2), 63, 8vo, sewn in original blue paper wrappers, entirely
uncut: a little dog-eared and the first and final page lightly dusty:
a very good copy in original state.
This, apparently unchaged, quickly ran to a second edition. The Whig
Club, its main leaders being Flood and Grattan, was established at
Dublin on June 26th, 1789.
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O”LEARY (Arthur).
Mr. O’Leary’s defence; containing a
vindication of his conduct and writings during the late
disturbances in Munster: with a full justification of the
Catholics, and an account of the risings of the White-Boy. In
answer to the false accusations of Theophilus, and the ill-
grounded insinuations of the Right Reverend Doctor
Woodward, Lord Bishop of Cloyne.
Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne,
No. 108, Grafton-street,
1787. FIRST EDITION, pages ix, (1,
blank), (11) – 112, 115 - 175, complete in spite of pagination
jump, though without the advert leaf at end, 8vo, recent
morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt: with a small and very
faint stamp in three places, otherwise a very good copy.
In answer to Duigenan’s ’An address to the nobility and gentry’. In this
copy the errata is printed on title-page verso: previous copies through our
hands had an errata slip pasted on.
(3)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
973
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JOHNSTON (Denis).
The Dramatic Works.
Gerrards Cross,
1977-79-92
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, pages (6), 395: (6), 404:
(2),516, 3 vols, 8vo, finely bound by Newman in uniform half
morocco (volume one green, volume two blue and vol three
red), gilt, top edges gilt, with a large unicorn device in gilt on the
upper boards, silk markers: a handsome set.
Each volume is number 17 of 25 numbered, specially bound copies,
with a preliminary limitation leaf signed by the author. “The most
intelligent, and, with Samuel Beckett, the most daring Irish playwright
of his time... his work has rarely fallen much below a high level of
excellence, and his finest plays are among the best the modern Irish
theater has to offer. “ - Hogan.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SIGERSON later SHORTER
(Dora).
The Sad Years [: poems].
Constable and Company,
1918.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, with a portrait, pages xv, 86,
(1, advertisements), 8vo, finely bound by Riviere in full dark
green crushed morocco, gilt lettered spine, inside gilt borders,
edges gilt: a fine copy, handsomely bound.
Pages vii-xii comprise ‘A tribute and some memories. By Katharine
Tynan”.
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YEATS (Wm. B.).
The Collected Poems. Definitive edition,
with the author’s final revisions.
The Franklin Library,
Pennsylvania,
1979. With 13 coloured plates after Jack B. Yeats,
pages xxvi,522, 8vo, original publisher’s brown morocco-backed
cloth, gilt, edges gilt, silk marker: a bright, fresh, almost as new
copy. (5)
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
974
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JOHNSTONE (John).
An account of the most approved
mode of draining land; according to the system practised by Mr.
Joseph Elkington, late of Princethorp, in the county of
Warwick: with an appendix, containing hints for the farther
improvement of bogs and other marshy ground, after draining;
together with observations on hollow and surface draining in
general … Drawn up for consideration of the Board of
Agriculture and Internal Improvement, by John Johnstone,
land-surveyor.
Dublin: Printed by order and under the patronage of
the Dublin Society,
1800
FIRST IRISH EDITION, with 16 folding engraved plates and 2
small text illustrations, pages xiii, (1, blank), 180 and leaf of
“Conclusion”, 8vo, original boards, uncut: the binding worn
with most of the spine label legible, otherwise a very good copy
in original state.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
YOUNG (Arthur).
The Farmer’s
Calendar: containing the business necessary to be performed on
various kinds of farms during every month in the year. The
tenth edition, greatly enlarged and improved.
Printed for Richard
Phillips …,
1815. With 2 plates and a few woodcut illustrs, pp xi,
(1), 658, 8vo, recent boards: very good.
Author’s last revised
edition, with a new preface. An enormously popular guide.
(2)
PUBLISHER’S SPECIMEN: - Fish (D. T.),
ed.
Cassell’s
Popular Gardening.
Cassell and Company, circa
1895. Comprising
samples of the front and lower printed wrappers (“Part [blank]-
Special Edition, supplied to subscribers only”), 10 coloured
plates (6 double-page) and pp iv, 16, 65-80, 193-208, 305-320,
49-64, 193-208, 353-368, 177-192, 385-396 and (4)-pp blank for
subscribers’ names, roy 8vo, original green cloth, lettered in gilt
on upper board “SPECIMEN”, other-wise unlettered, and,
inside upper board, a full page sample of the upper cloth cover,
gilt, and, on front flyleaf, a sample of the gilt lettered spine: in
clean and very good state.
(3)
DEHN (Charles).
Tales of the Taunus Mountains.
Oxford,
Basil Blackwell (Shakespeare Head Press printed),
1937. FIRST
EDITION, with full-page and other illustrations by Charles
Folkard, pages (8), 119, small 4to, original cloth: a very good
copy. (4)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
975
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JOINVILLE (John), Lord.
Memoirs of … written by
himself; containing a history of part of the life of Louis IX.
King of France, surnamed Lord Louis, including an account of
that king’s expedition to Egypt in … 1248. To which are added,
- the notes & dissertations of M. Du Cange … the dissertations
of M. le Baron de la Bastie on the life of St Louis, M. l’Evesque
de la Ravaliere and M. Falconet on the Assasins of Syria; from
the ‘Memoires de l’Academie de Belles Lettres et Inscriptions de
France’. The whole translated by Thomas Jones
[Aberystwyth] At
the Hafod Press, by James Henderson,
1807
FIRST EDITION THUS, complete with 3 plates (1 double-
page) and 3 maps (2 double-page), pages (8), 426: vii, 328, with
the half-titles,2 vols, large 4to, bound in one, contemporary half
red straight-grained morocco, gilt, gilt ruled and lettered spine,
edges uncut (a few unopened): the binding a little rubbed and
worn but very strong and not unattractive, with the armorial
bookplate of Richard Verschoyle.
Joinville (c. 1224-1317). This, his famous ‘Histoire de saint-Louis’, the
second great crusade chronicle in French prose, provides a supreme
account of the Seventh Crusade (1248-54). His sense of the personal,
the concrete, and the human, played against the scope of the events and
the nobility of the King continues to make it a book of major
importance (Ency Brit).
(2)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
976
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JONES (Inigo),
et alia.
Designs of Inigo Jones and others.
Published by I: Ware.
Printed for J. Millan opposite to the Admiralty
Office White-Hall
1743
Engraved on 53 numbered plates on 45 leaves, a few folding,
8vo, old coloured paper boards: the fold-out portion of plate 27
not present, some old scribbling on blank flyleaves and light
fingering of some of the plates: quite a decent copy though,
with the small stamp of A. McAlister, architect of Belfast and
the name stamp “C. Vierpyl” on the blank margin of the title
and on the blank margin of the final plate.
Designs for craftsmen of chimney-pieces, ceilings, screens and other
ornaments. Charles Vierpyl, sculptor, son of Simon Vierpyl (c. 1725-
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