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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 (2), xxiv, (iii)-iv, (5)-158, (2), 159-
294,293(bis)-438, including the 16-page subscriber list, 8vo,
recent full red calf, gilt bordered sides, gilt ruled and lettered
spine: the title-page lightly and evenly dusty and with some light
staining in places but a sound and very good copy.
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).
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1013
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LAMOTTE (Charles), FRS.
An essay upon poetry and
painting, with relation to the sacred and profane history. With
an appendix concerning obscenity in writing and painting.
Dublin: Printed for Ignatius Kelly,
1745
Pages (2),202, (12), 12mo, recent boards: light old corner water
stain, but very good copy.
An edition represented in ESTC by copies at D, Dt and four in the USA
(PHC, PPL, NjP and CU-I), but none in the UK.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SAINT JOHN (Henry),
Viscount Bolingbroke.
Letters on the study and use of history.
Dublin: Printed for O. Nelson, P. Wilson, J. Exshaw (and four others),
1752. FIRST IRISH EDITION(?), pp 139: 108, (2),2 vols in 1,
separate signatures and pagination, 12mo, erasure with loss of
small blank portion of first title-page touching a single letter
only, some neat pencil annotations, a good, sound copy, neatly
bound in recent boards.
Joint first Dublin edition: there was another published in 1752 by John
Smith - the original had been published at London during the same
year, This would seem to be the scarcer of the two Dublin printings:
ESTC on-line locates copies at BMu, L, Dp / KU-S, NeGU & TxU
only.
(2)
CONGREVE (Wm.).
Love for love. A comedy.
Dublin:
Printed for Peter Wilson, in Dame-street,
1757. Pp 94, (2), 12mo,
strongly bound in cloth, with label, gilt: a little browning but
very good. (3)
€200-€300 (£160-£240 approx.)
1014
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LAMY (Bernard).
Apparatus Biblicus, sive manuductio
ad sacram scripturam tum clarius, tum facilius intelligendam.
Nova editio. Aucta, & locupletata omnibus quae in apparatu
biblico desiderari possunt …
Lugduni [Lyon]: Apud Joannem Certe,
1696
With 11 folding maps and plates, pp (32), 336, 331(bis)-586,
(71), complete thus in spite of erratic pagination, with the half-
title but without the leaf of plate list (avis aux relieurs), 8vo,
contemporary calf, fully gilt spine: the binding worn at
headbands and edges but very strong and otherwise a very good
copy.
“In this work he calls in question the historical character of the books of
Tobias and Judith, and maintains that even after the Council of Trent a
difference of authority should be recognized between the proto-canonical
and deutero-canonical books of the Bible. “ - Cath. Ency.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
STORR (Gottlieb K. C.).
Opuscula Academica ad interpretationem librorum sacrorum
[of the New Testament] pertinentia. Volumen I [- II - III].
Tubingae, impensis Joannis Georgii Cottae,
1796-97-1803. FIRST
EDITIONS, pages vii, 367, (1, errata): vi (i. e. iv), 438, (2,
adverts): vi, (2), 382 and errata leaf, presumably wanting half-
title, 3 vols bound in 1, 8vo, 19C half calf, gilt lettered spine: the
binding a little rubbed but sound and strong and otherwise a
very good copy.
Storr (1746–1805), German Protestant theologian, studied at Tübingen,
and following his theological examination in 1768, undertook an
educational journey through Germany, Holland, England and France.
He was an outspoken advocate of Biblical Supranaturalism, and
founder of Ältere Tübinger Schule. He proposed that the NT book of
Mark was written prior to the other Gospels, an assertion that opposed
the traditional view that the book of Matthew was the earliest Gospel
written.
(2)
CABASSUT (Jean).
Notitia Conciliorum Sanctae Ecclesiae,
in qua elucidantur... tùm sacri canones, tùm veteres, nouique
Ecclesiæ ritus, tùm præcipuæ partes ecclesiasticæ historiæ …
Venetiis, apud Antonium Bortolum,
1692. Pages (16),508, (44),
with the final leaf blank, 8vo, contemporary vellum: a very good
to nice copy in original state.
Of this edition COPAC has L only. Cabassut (?1604-85), French moral
theolog-ian, historian, canonist, long a noted authority on the councils
of the RC Church.
(3)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1015
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LANDSBOROUGH (David).
Arran: a poem. In six
cantos.
Edinburgh [printed]: William Blackwood, London, T. Cadell,
1828
FIRST EDITION, with additional engraved title-page, pages xi,
(3), 167, with the half-title, large 12mo, original boards, uncut:
old rebacking with new endpapers and new label; light browning
and soiling: a good to very good copy.
The first publication of ‘the Gilbert White of Androssan’: he is said to
have discovered nearly seventy species of plants and animals new to
Scotland.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
JACKSON (Thomas).
Waterloo:
a poem.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme …,
1832. FIRST
EDITION, pp (2), ix, (1, blank), 84, with half-title, large 12mo,
contemporary (?original) half calf, edges gilt: very good copy,
inscribed by the author to T. L. V. Tuthill.
A long narrative poem on the battle, with appendices giving names of
officers mentioned in the poem, commanding officers of regiments and
returns of losses of the forces concerned.
(2)
[DIBDIN (Charles), the elder].
The Lion and the Water-
Wagtail: a mock heroic poem, in three cantos. By Castigator.
For
Sherwood, Neely, and Jones,
1809. FIRST EDITION, pages (4),
174 and leaf of adverts, 12mo, pleasantly bound in later cloth:
with some extremely light marginal pencil marks, but still a
fresh, uncut copy
A lengthy political and social satire, ‘a sort of prediction’, attacking the
Duke of York and others. COPAC locates O, C and L copies only.
(3)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
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LANFRANCHI ROSSI (Carlo Giuseppe).
Telemaco
nell’ Isola di Calipso. Drama per musica del nobile signore
Carlo Lanfranchi Rossi, patrizio Pisano, da rappresentarsi in
Firenzi di Via del Cocomero dell’ autunno dell’ anno 1773 …
Firenze, appresso Anton-Giuseppe Pagani,
1773
Title-page in red and black, pp vi, 3-6, 11-56, apparently
complete thus though erratically paged and signed, 12mo, recent
paper wrapper: the attractive title-page border of printer’s
ornaments shaved at top and bottom and the running headlines
and page numerals touched or shaved, otherwise a crisp and
very good copy.
Not in COPAC or WorldCat, though Sartori 22907 locates two copies:
Florence and Congress. The possibly missing leaves separate the plot
synopsis from the beginning of the libretto with no obviously missing
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