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Chambers, circa
1894. With a full-page illustration, pages (4), 19,
(3, adverts), 8vo, original printed paper wrapper: a very good to
nice copy.
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BLAKE (Wm. H.).
Coal: its origin, constitution,
classification, etc. A paper read before the … Newcastle-on-Tyne
Commercial Exchange Debating Society … 1907.
Sunderland:
Printed for private circulation by Hills and Co.,
1907. FIRST
EDITION, 6 plates (3 large folding), pp vi, 32, cr 8vo, original
printed wraps: nice
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ZEDA (Umberto).
Telephones and Lightning Conductors.
Translated from the original Italian and revised by S. R. Bottone.
Guilbert Pitman,
1907. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 60 illustrs,
100-pp, cr 8vo, original cloth: a very good copy (6)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
984
.
JUSTINUS (Marcus Junianus).
Iustini ex Trogi Pompeii
Historiis externis libri XXXXIIII: His accessit ex Sexto Aurelio
Victore De uita & moribus Romanorum imperatorum epitome.
Omnia qum diligentissime ex uariarum exemplarium collatione
castigata.
Lugduni, apud Seb. Gryphium,
1555
With a woodcut griffin device on the title-page, pages 313, (35),
(4, blank), small 8vo, contemporary red morocco, the sides with
both plain and gilt borders enclosing a large oval in gilt of a key
with an entwined snake within the motto “Scilicet is superis
labor est” {“Surely this is toil for the gods”), gilt spine, lettered
directly and vertically: with a small circular stamp on the title-
page, the first gathering slightly sprung with the inside front
hinge gaping but the binding sound and the cords strong, a little
wear at the headbands: a very good, well-margined copy.
An edition not in Adams.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
985
.
JUVENAL AND PERSIUS.
D. Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis
Satirae XVI. ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensitae
varietate lectionum perpetuoque commentario illustratae et
indice uberrimo instructae a Ge. Alex. Ruperti; quibus adjectae
sunt, A. Persii Flacci Satirae, ex recensione et cum notis G. L.
Koenig.
Glasguæ: Excudebant Andreas et Joannes M. Duncan,
academiæ typographi; impensis Ricardi Priestley, Londini,
1825
With engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page and
pages viii, (xiii) - clx, 419: (2), (5) - 733, apparently complete
thus, though without the half-title,2 vols, roy 8vo, contemporary
full dark blue morocco, gilt lettered spines, inside gilt borders,
edges gilt: old small circular stamp on title-pages, faint foxing of
titles but otherwise a bright, fresh, large-paper copy, with the
vellum, gilt, Gosford book label on both front endpapers.
“A very correct and elegant edition. “ - Lowndes. Inscribed on front
endpaper in a small, neat hand “Acheson / Ch. Ch. 1826 - Large Paper
/ Bound by [?] C. Lewis. “ [last word illegible]. Archibald Acheson, 3rd
Earl of Gosford (1806–64), MP for Co. Armagh from 1830 to 1847,
formed, at Gosford Castle, a very large and extremely beautiful library.
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€200-€300 (£160-£240 approx.)
986. [KAHLERT, Karl Friedrich.]. The Necromancer, a
German story: or Tale of the Black Forest: founded on facts.
Translated from the German of Lawrence Flammenberg. By
Peter Teuthold.
Dublin: Printed by Brett Smith,
1795
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages 160: (2), (3) - 172, (4, blank),2
vols, 12mo, bound in 1, with separate title-pages, signatures
and pagination, contemporary calf, with label, gilt: one or two
early gatherings a little proud, otherwise a very good-nice copy
of a very rare book.
ESTC, misquoting pagination as (172), locates ViU and CU-BANC:
none in UK or Ireland. The very rare first Irish edition of a novel
first published by the Minerva Press in 1794. Blakey 166. Garside,
Raven and Schowerling, 1794: 34. Summers Gothic Bibliography
442. Frank The first Gothics 209. One of Jane Austen’s seven
“Horrid Novels”, once thought to be a figment of her imagination.
This Irish edition is rarer than the Minerva predecessor; it is the only
Irish edition of any of the “Horrid Novels” that we have ever seen or
handled.
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€5,000-€7,000 (£4,000-£5,600 approx.)
987
.
KANHAN BRIDGE, INDIA.
Kanhan Bridge. Renewal of
girders (cover title). Commenced 20th February, completed 18th
May, 1905. (1905)
29 photographs (19 by 13 cms) mounted on thick card, each with
printed caption, linen-hinged in oblong 4to, original half
morocco, gilt: the binding rubbed but sound and strong and
internally in very good to nice state
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
988
.
KEATE (George), FRS.
A short account of the ancient
history, present government, and laws of the Republic of
Geneva.
Printed for R. and J. Dodsley,
1761
FIRST EDITION, with folding map, pages xv, (5),218, 8vo,
recent boards: nice copy.
Keate (1729-97), published for his own pleasure, not for profit, and was
in turn poet, naturalist, antiquary, and artist. The present work is
dedicated to Voltaire in return for ‘many marks of esteem’ and ‘hours of
social mirth, and refined entertainment’.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
989
.
KELLY RIOTS, SMOCK ALLEY THEATRE.
An appeal
to the public, by a gentleman of Trinity-College, Dublin.
Colophon: Dublin: Printed for Peter Wilson in Dame-Street,
1747
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, broadside, printed on both sides of
the leaf,2-pages. folio, folded, edges uncut: in very good state.
Only one other copy recorded: Dt. Not included in Lowe, Arnott,
Robinson. Essentially, a plea for reconcilliation. “Two decisions made in
Dublin in 1744–5 were to have a long-term effect on [Thomas]
Sheridan’s life. The first led to the uniting into a single company of
Dublin’s two theatres, Aungier Street and Smock Alley, the second to
Sheridan’s appointment as manager of the united company. His first
period of management began triumphantly, aided by his recruiting of
Garrick and George Anne Bellamy … (his) second season as manager
was marred by an incident that gave rise to the notorious Kelly riot.
Kelly, a Galway ‘gentleman’, had made a drunken assault on one of the
Smock Alley actresses at a performance of Vanbrugh’s Aesop on 19
January 1747, and Sheridan had twice forcibly expelled him from the
theatre. Kelly’s supporters considered this a player’s affront to a
gentleman, and expressed their outrage two nights later by breaking up a
performance, storming the stage, and physically damaging the backstage
area. Kelly’s trial was perceived in part, not least by Sheridan, as a test
of the manager’s right to the status of ‘gentleman’. There were sections of
the Dublin public that never forgave him. “ - ODNB.
€400-€500 (£320-£400 approx.)
990
.
[KENNEDY (Grace)].
Dunallan; or, know what you judge;
a story. Second edition.
Edinburgh: Published by W. Oliphant …,
1825
Pages (4),270 and advert leaf: (4),272: (4),220, with the half-titles,
3 vols, large 12mo, original boards, uncut, with the attractive
label of Grant and Bolton on the upper board of vol one: spines
heavily worn retaining the remains of the second vol spine label,
but bindings and stitching strong and firm and otherwise a very
good unsophisticated copy.
The longest of Miss Kennedy’s novels, first published in the year of her
death (1825). Presumably it was published without her revisions, as the
text differs in some respects from that published in her collected works.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
PORTER (Jane).
Duke Christian
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