Basic HTML Version
997
.
[KING [Wm.)].
The state of the Protestants of Ireland
under the late King James’s government: in which their carriage
towards him is justified, and the absolute necessity of their
endeavouring to be freed from his government, and of
submitting to their present Majesties is demonstrated. The third
edition, with additions.
London: Printed by Samuel Roycroft, for
Robert Clavell, at the Peacock at the West end of S. Pauls,
1692
Pages (21), (1, blank), 431, (1, adverts), complete with
imprimatur leaf, 8vo, recent boards: with some light marginal
pencil notes in a few places, otherwise a very good copy.
Wing K 539. A most important political work, a vindication of the
actions of the Church of Ireland and its members during the war years.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BUDGELL (Eustace).
Memoirs
of the lives and characters of the illustrious family of the Boyles;
particularly of the late eminently learned Charles Earl of
Orrery. In which is contain’d many curious pieces of English
history, not extant in any other author: extracted from original
papers and manuscripts. With a particular account of the
famous controversy between the Honourable Mr. Boyle, and the
Reverend Dr. Bentley, concerning the genuineness of Phalaris’s
Epistles; also the same translated from the original Greek. With
an appendix, containing the character of the Honourable Robert
Boyle Esq; founder of an annual lecture in defence of
Christianity. By Bishop Burnet, and others. Likewise his last will
and testament. The third edition, carefully corrected.
London:
Printed for, and sold by Olive Payne, at Horace’s Head in Round-Court,
opposite York-Buildings in the Strand,
1737. With an engraved
frontispiece portrait, the printed title-page in red and black,
pages xl,258; 34, 8vo, recent paper boards: a very good copy.
Originally published as: Memoirs of the life and character of the late
earl of Orrery, and of the family of the Boyles. The appendix was first
published in this third edition.
(2)
[PUDSEY (Wm.)].
A political essay: or, summary review of
the kings and government of England since the Norman
Conquest. By W. P——-y. Esq; .
Printed in the Year
1698. FIRST
EDITION, pages (12), 195, (1, blank), without the half-title,
8vo, light browning and staining but a good copy neatly bound
in recent boards, with label.
Wing P 4172.
(3)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
998. KINSALE. A full and particular relation of the taking
the town and forts of Kinsale, and how they were besieged
both by sea and land. Lecensed [sic], October 10. 1690. J. F.
London, Printed for Langley Curtiss near Fleet-bridge.
[1690]
BROADSIDE, printed on one side only: in very good to nice
state.
Wing F 2287, the only edition, locating three copies: MC / MH. NP.
Sweeney 2046 “Important and interesting / extremely rare”. A
graphic account, evidently by an eye-witness, of how the Earl of
Marlborough sent 500 horse and dragoons to reduce Kinsale, from
which King James had sailed for France after his defeat at the Boyne
some three months earlier. The town was quickly taken. After this
engagement Limerick was the only significant town in Munster still
in Jacobite hands.
€800-€1,200 (£640-£960 approx.)
999
.
KINSELLA (Thomas).
One [: poems]. Drawings by Anne
Yeats. Peppercanister 5.
(Dublin: Dolmen Press)
1974
FIRST EDITION, with 7 illustrations (6 full-page), (30)-pages,
roy 8vo, original calf-backed printed boards, top edges gilt: a
nice, fresh copy in the original clear glasine.
Copy no 94 of 124 copies on handmade paper, specially bound and
signed by both the poet and the illustrator, and signed again by Kinsella
and by Yeats, both inscriptions dated 1976, on the half-title.
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1000
.
KIRBY (John).
The Suffolk Traveller: or, a journey
through Suffolk. In which is inserted the true distance in the
roads, from Ipswich to every market town in Suffolk, and the
same from Bury St. Edmund’s. Likewise the distance in the
roads from one village to another; with notes of direction for
travellers, as what churches and gentlemen’s seats are passed by,
and on which side of the road, and the distance they are at from
either of the said towns. With a short Hhstorical account of the
antiquities of every market town, monasteries, castles, &c. that
were in former times. By John Kirby, who took an actual survey
of the whole county in the years 1732, 1733 and 1734.
Ipswich:
Printed by John Bagnall,
1735
FIRST EDITION, pp (4),206 and errata leaf, small 8vo,
contemporary (?original) unlettered sheep-backed marbled
boards, binding worn, rubbed and upper board loose, inscribed
on fly-leaf “Henry Hill / 1736 / Buxhall”, whose has also
signed and added three names to the table of patrons for
Buxhall parish church “Dr. Thos. Hill 1710 / his G. Dr
[grandaughter] Miss Lydia Hill 1748 / Dr. Henry Hill 1759”,
adding his signature twice and with the later signature of W.
Gooch on the title-page.
Kirby (c. 1690–1753), surveyor and topographer. By 1725 he was
practising land surveying and during the next twenty years he drew up
plans of estates in more than twenty east Suffolk parishes. In 1732 he
set out with Nathaniel Bacon junior to survey the whole county for a
small octavo gazetteer and road book entitled The Suffolk Traveller,
which was published in Ipswich in 1735 (ODNB). Later editions were
greatly expanded.
ALSO WITH (1)
BACULARD D’ARNAUD
(Francois T. M. de).
Elvire poeme par Monsieur d’Arnaud.
Amsterdam, chez Pierre Mortier (at end: Imprime a Leipzic, chez Jean
Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf),
1753. FIRST EDITION(?), pp 86,
(2, blank), 12mo, contemporary calf, contemporary signature of
John Salmond: the binding heavily worn, upper board almost
loose, internally a very good.
Not in COPAC. WorldCat, this edition only, locates three copies: Paris,
Rostock and Halle.
(2)
STEPHEN (George A.).
Norfolk Bibliography. The local
authors, printing, paper-making, rare books, libraries, and
practical bibliography of Norfolk.
Holt, Norfolk Press Syndicate,
1921. FIRST EDITION,53-pp, small 8vo, original stiff printed
wrappers: very good-nice copy.
(3)
RINGWALT (J. Luther).
Marks and Maniacs. Being, in
fact, excerpts from the American Encyclopedia of Printing,
edited at Philadelphia in 1871.
Grosse Pointe, Junto private press,
1961. Pages (8),21, (1), small 8vo, original cloth, gilt: a nice
copy.
One of 75 numbered copies. The first book from this press.
(4)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1001
.
KIRCHER (Athanasius), SJ.
La Chine … illustree de
plusieurs monuments tant sacres que profanes, et de quantite de
recherches de la nature & de l’art … avec un Dictionnaire
Chinois et Francois. Traduit par F. S. Dalquie.
Amsterdam: Jean
Jansson a Waesberge & les heritiers d’Elizee Weyerstraet,
1670
no loss) and 18 engraved plates (1 folding) and 57 large text
engravings, pages (8 of 16), 367, (12), (1, blank), folio, old calf,
old rebacking, the upper board loose: wanting the additional
engraved title-page, the 2 maps, four plates, and four leaves of
preliminary matter (*2, *3, **1 and **4): the printed title with
two small old stamps, worn at corners and laid down, some
light old staining in places, but still in very good state
throughout, the leaf size measuring 24. 5 by 37. 25 cms.
An incomplete copy of an important and influential work. The
Chinese-French vocabulary on pages 324-367, is new to this French
edition: it is of colloquial Chinese and is a pioneer work. Kircher (1602-
239