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correspondence dealing largely with Irish afairs, though with some
North American and West Indian interest. This first volume (but not
the second) was reprinted at Dublin during the same year. ESTC calls
for an errata slip in this first volume, whereas our copy has a full leaf
of errata (38 lines). Leonard Macnally (1752–1820), Dublin-born
playwright and barrister: infamous as the most senior government
informer among the United Irishmen.
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1008
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KRAFFT-EBING (Richard F. von).
Die Melancholie.
Eine klinische studie.
Erlangen: Ferdinand Enke,
1874
FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 69, (2), 8vo, original yellow
printed paper wrapper, uncut: a nice copy with the signature
of Connolly Norman on the upper wrapper.
Connolly Norman (1853-1908), Superintendent of the Richmond
Asylum (later Grangegorman Mental Hospital), 1886-1908, the first
Irish doctor to campaign publicly against the futility of asylum
detention as an effective therapy and an early advocate of “care
within the community” and “voluntary admissions”. There is an
allusion to him in Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ (chapter 1) where an acquaintance
of Dedalus and Mulligan is described as being “up in Dottyville with
Connolly Norman”. Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902), German neurologist
and psychiatrist, a leading 19C pioneer of forensic psychiatry
especially in relation to paranoia, epilepsy and sexual aberrations. He
was the first to establish the relationship between syphilis and general
paralysis, and credited with coining the terms sadism and masochism.
ALSO WITH HTIS LOT:
[BRODIE (Sir Benjamin C.),
FRS].
Psychological Inquiries: in a series of essays, intended
to illustrate the mutual relations of the physical organization
and the mental faculties.
Longman, Brown...
1854. FIRST
EDITION, pages viii,264,24(advertisements), 12mo, original
cloth, neatly repaired, with new endpapers: a very good copy.
(2)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1009
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L’ESTRANGE (Alfred Guy Kingham).
Conna and
Desmond. By the Rev. A. G. L’Estrange, author of “The
Village of Palaces”, “The Friendships of M. R. Mitford”, etc.
(Not Published).
Bristol: T. & W. Goulding, printers and publishers
[1902]
FIRST AND APPARENTLY ONLY EDITION, with 6 text
illustrations, pages vii, 178, (2, blank), cr 8vo, original blue
cloth, gilt, with printed paper spine label: a nice copy.
Presumably printed in a very limited number: NSTC and NUC have
only L and FU copies.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
JOYCE (Patrick W.).
The
Wonders of Ireland, and other papers on Irish subjects.
Longman, Green … Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son,
1911. FIRST
EDITION, portrait, pp (6),242, (4, ads), cr 8vo, original cloth,
gilt: a nice copy.
(2)
YEATS (Wm. B.): - Pollock (John H.), M. D.
William
Butler Yeats.
London and Dublin: Gerald Duckworth & Co.,
Limited
1935. FIRST EDITION, 112-pages, cr 8vo, original
cloth: a very good copy.
(3)
ALLINGHAM (Wm.).
Flower Pieces and other poems.
With two designs by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
London: Reeves
and Turner,
1888. FIRST EDITION, with 2 plates, pages x,
194, small 8vo, original parchment-backed grey boards, uncut:
a very good copy.
(4)
O’NEILL (Moira),
pseud.
The Elf-Errant. Illustrated by
W. E. F. Britten.
Lawrence and Bullen,
1895. With 7 plates,
pages vi, (2), 109, (3, blank), printed on thick paper, 8vo,
original mauve cloth, gilt, top edges gilt: with just a little wear
at the headbands but still a very good copy.
O’Neill (1865-1955), poet and novelist, mother of Molly Keane, real
name Agnes Nesta Shakespeare Higginson, who married Walter
Clarmont Skrine. This fairy story for children, a fanciful tale with
elves and fairies, displays throughout a subtle comparison between
English and Irish character.
(5)
POWER (Wm. F.), SJ.
The King’s Bell and other verses.
Braine-le-Comte (Belgium). Zech and Son
1910. FIRST
EDITION, 96-pages, 8vo, original mauve cloth, gilt: with a
small stamp on the title-page but otherwise a very good copy.
Not found in COPAC, but there is a copy in NLI and WorldCat
locates three further copies.
(6)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1010
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LA CONDAMINE (Charles-Marie de).
Journal of a
tour to Italy. Containing, (among many other interesting and
curious Particulars) an account of the eruptions of Mount
Vesuvius … Curiosities discovered at Herculaneum … leaning
Towers of Pisa and Bologna. Detection of the Impositions
used in the pretended liquefying of the Blood of St. Januarius.
Parallel between the Horse-races at Rome and Newmarket.
Description of Port Specia and the neighbouring Coast … the
famous Emerald, or Holy Vessel, at Genoa. Remarks on the
mountains and ice vallies of Swisserland, &c. &c.
Dublin:
Printed for J. Potts, at Swift’s Head, in Dame-street,
1763
FIRST IRISH EDITION THUS, pages xxii, (2), 168, the
preliminary leaves misbound but complete with the half-title
and the advertisement leaf, 12mo, contemporary calf, with
label, gilt, with the armorial bookplate of Major Joseph
Sandford and the contemporary signature of Elizabeth
Hellena McDonnell: a pleasant copy.
The French original was never published. La Condamine (1701-74),
geographer, astronomer, mathematician, close friend of Maupertuis
with whom he was sent to Lapland to measure the circumference of
the Earth through the North Pole. He also travelled to the Quito area,
measuring the location of the equator and the size of the earth - his
findings have since been shown to be quite close to current
measurements. Later he campaigned for inoculation against smallpox
and visited Rome to determining the length of the Roman foot.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1011
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LAMB (Roger).
An original and authentic journal of
occurrences during the late American War, from its
commencement to the year 1783.
Dublin: Printed by Wilkinson
& Courtney,
1809
FIRST EDITION, pages iv, xxiv, (5) - 158, (2), 159 -
294,293(bis) - 438, with the 16-page subscriber list, 8vo,
contemporary calf, gilt ruled spine, with red label, gilt: a nice,
fresh copy with the signature of a subscriber and date “J.
Adamson / 1810” on title-page
A nice, fresh, subscriber’s copy of one of the most highly regarded
personal narratives of the American Revolutionary War. Lamb
(1756-1830), Dublin-born, a keen observer and a careful writer, and
his books — especially his account of a non-commissioned officer’s
experience of the American war — have since become an important
source for historians of the revolutionary period and of late 18C
warfare. His Journal and Memoir were also the basis for two
fictionalized accounts of his military career, Sergeant Lamb of the
Ninth (1940) and Proceed, Sergeant Lamb (1941), by Robert Graves
who, like Lamb, served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers (ODNB).
“Lamb left one of the most interesting accounts of the American
Revolution written from either side. Originally in the 9th Regiment of
Foot, he took part in Burgoyne’s invasion from Canada which ended
with the British surrender at Saratoga. Placed in captivity with the
“Convention army, “ he eventually escaped to New York City where
he joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a sergeant, taking part in the
Southern campaign that culminated with the surrender at Yorktown.
- Fusiliers of Renown.
€350-€450 (£280-£360 approx.)
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