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80), “the last man who knew everything”, published around 40 works,
most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology, and medicine.
€300-€400 (£240-£320 approx.)
1002
.
KIRWAN (Richard), FRS.
An estimate of the
temperature of different latitudes.
Printed by J. Davies, for P.
Elmsly
1787
FIRST EDITION, pages viii, 114, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a
very good copy.
Kirwan (1733?-1812), native of Galway, chemist, mineralogist,
geologist and meteorologist. In this pioneering work of comparative
climatology, he assembled data on bands of latitude from the equator to
the poles, and considered in some detail the sources of heat and cold in
the atmosphere, the local influences of elevation, proximity to the oceans
or to ocean currents, the differing abilities of air, land and water to
absorb and transmit heat, seasonal variationse, etc. This original
ediition in English is rare, but a translation of the work into French had
a much greater success, and, presumably, influence.
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
1003
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[KLOPSTOCK (Friedrich Gottlob)].
Der Messias.
Halle,
1751-56
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, with frontispiece and 10
engraved plates, pages (8), 84, (4): (16), 160, (3),2 vols bound in
1, 8vo, neatly bound in recent paper boards, with label: with
some light browning of some plates, but still a very good copy.
The first book edition of Gesang 1-X of Klopstock’s religious epic,
consciously intended to rival Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
1004
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KNOX (Alexander).
Essays on the political
circumstances of Ireland, written during the administration of
Earl Camden; with an appendix, containing thoughts on the will
of the people. And a postscript, now first published. By a
Gentleman of the North of Ireland.
Dublin: Printed by Graisberry
& Campbell, Back-Lane,
1798
FIRST EDITION, pages xviii, (1, errata), (1, blank), 72, 71-72
bis repeating the same text, 73 - 234, 8vo, contemporary half
vellum over marbled boards, gilt lettered spine: with some light
occasional foxing but still a very good copy, inscribed “For the
Honble Mr Justice Crookshank / from the Author” and with the
small book label of Catharine F. Boyle.
Knox, born in Londonderry city in 1757, died in Dublin in 1831, now
remembered as a theologian, but his importance as a forerunner of the
tractarian movement is currently increasingly recognised. He became
active in political life during the 1790s. He was a friend of moderate
parliamentary reform at the beginning of that decade, and remained an
advocate of RC emancipation and of a moderate endowment of the
Irish Catholic priesthood. However, alarmed by events in France and at
the proceedings of the United Irishmen (with which he had some early
connections) and by the unrest and subsequent rising of 1798, he moved
in a more conservative political direction. In 1798 he was appointed
private secretary to the chief secretary for Ireland, Robert Stewart, Lord
Castlereagh. His political skills as an administrator in this post were
underpinned by a profound historical understanding of the
philosophical principles of government and the peculiar conditions of
Ireland, and were reflected in his Essays on the political circumstances
of Ireland … (1799), which was written at intervals between 1795 and
1797 and originally intended as papers ‘for insertion in newspapers, or
for circulation in the form of handbills’ (ODNB).
€250-€300 (£200-£240 approx.)
1005
.
KNOX (Alexander).
Essays on the political
circumstances of Ireland, written during the administration of
Earl Camden; with an appendix, containing thoughts on the will
of the people. And a postscript now first published.
Printed for
the Author, by J. Plymsell, at the Anti-Jacobin Press … and sold by C.
Chapple,
1799
FIRST LONDON EDITION, pp xviii,240, (1, errata), 8vo,
recent half calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: with a small,
faint stamp in a few places, but still a very good copy.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1006
.
[KNOX (Wm.)].
Extra official state papers. Addressed to
the Right Hon. Lord Rawdon, and the other members of the
two houses of parliament, associated for the preservation of the
constitution and promoting the prosperity of the British Empire.
By a late Under Secretary of State.
London: printed, Dublin:
reprinted, and to be had at No. 1, Eustace-Street,
1789
FIRST IRISH EDITION, 308-pp, with half-title, 8vo, recent
boards, uncut: very good/nice.
A reprint, with additional matter, of volume one of the two-volume
London edition, containing correspondence dealing largely with Irish
afairs, though with some American interest. Volume two was not
included in this Dublin edition.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SOUTHEY (Robert).
of Robert
Southey with Caroline Bowles. To which are added:
correspondence with Shelley, and Southey’s Dreams. Edited,
with an introduction, by Edward Dowden. 1881.
A correspondence of twenty years which fully attests to their entire
congeniality.
(2)
KEMPE (Alfred J.).
The Loseley Manuscripts. Manuscripts
and other rare documents, illustrative of some of the more
minute particulars of English history, biography, and manners,
from the reign of Henry VIII. to that of James I. Preserved in
the muniment room of James More Molyneux, Esq. at Loseley
House, in Surrey. Now first edited, with notes.
John Murray,
1836. FIRST EDITION, with four plates of facsimiles (1
folding), pages xxiv,506, (2), without the half-title, 8vo, strongly
bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled
spine, with label, gilt: a very good copy.
Consists chiefly of the papers of Sir Wm More (1520-1600), sometime
sheriff of Surrey. Some letters of Queen Elizabeth, while princess, are
included. Kempe(1785?-1846), antiquary, friend of C. A. Stothard and
Thomas Crofton Croker, formed the Noviomagnus Society and was on
the staff of the Gentleman’s Magazine.
(3)
WILLIAMS (W. P.), of Cardiff, editor of ‘The
Principality’.
A monograph on the Windsor Family, with a full
account of the rejoicings on the coming of age of Robert
George Windsor-Clive, Lord Windsor,27th August, 1878.
Cardiff: Damiel Owen & Company,
1879. FIRST (?ONLY)
EDITION, with an actual mounted photo frontispiece, pages
viii, (8),204, 8vo, original cloth, gilt.: recently rebacked, some
marginal fingering, one leaf frayed in margin (without loss): a
good, sound copy. (4)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1007
.
[KNOX (Wm.)].
Extra official state papers. Addressed to
the Right Hon. Lord Rawdon, and the other members of the
two houses of parliament, associated for the preservation of the
constitution and promoting the prosperity of the British Empire.
By a late Under Secretary of State [William Knox].
Printed for J.
Debrett,
1789
FIRST EDITION, pp (2),55, (1, blank); 49, (1, blank); 14, (1,),
(1, blank); 174, (1, errata), 8vo, contemporary calf, pleasantly
rebacked and gilt, retaining the original label, gilt: with
contemporary inscription “Leo: MacNally” on title-page (and a
few marginal ms notes iand the recto of the penultimate endleaf
with 21-lines on the subject of ‘shall we have a Union, all in the
same hand), with the Rossmore armorial bookplate: a very good
to nice copy.
The first volume of the two-volume London edition, containing
240