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[LANGRISHE (Sir Hercules), FLOOD (Henry),
GRATTAN(Henry) et al.].
Baratariana. A select collection of
fugitive political pieces, published during the administration of
Lord Townshend in Ireland. The third edition, corrected and
enlarged.
Dublin: [no publisher or printer],
1777. Pages (4), 301, (7,
adverts for Edwards’s books and patent medicines), 12mo,
strongly bound in modern half calf, with label, gilt: light
browning in places and lower outer corner of leaf D1 torn off
with the loss of a few letters from the catchword on recto: a very
good copy.
With a portrait frontispiece and a folding engraved plate, pp
xviii, (6), 328, (32), large 12mo, contemporary calf, with
attractive red spine label, gilt: the joints cracked but firm and
otherwise a nice copy with the neat contemporary signature of
Joseph Sanford on title-page.
A collection of powerfully effective political essays by leading patriots
satirising Townshend’s administration.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
EDWARDS (Anthony).
Edwards’s
Cork Remembrancer; or, tablet of memory. Enumerating every
remarkable circumstance that has happened in the city and
county of Cork, and in the kingdom at large. Including all the
memorable events in Great Britain; with an account of all the
battles by sea and land in the present century. Also, the
remarkable earthquakes, famines, inundations, storms, frosts,
fires, and all other accidents of moment, in every quarter of the
globe, from the earliest period, to the year 1792.
[Cork:] By
Anthony Edwards, printer, bookseller and stationer, Castle-Street, Cork
1792. (2)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1022
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LATREILLE (Anthony).
Verdun, under Wirion,
Courcelles, De Beauchene, and De Meulan. By Anthony
Latreille, commonly called Black George. Translated from the
original French.
London: Printed for the Author, by John Tyler …,
1816
FIRST EDITION THUS, pages (2), vi, (1), (1, blank), 68, with
the half-title, 8vo, half calf over marbled boards, with
contrasting label, gilt, by Wood of London: a nice copy.
Latreille was employed by the Commandants of the Depot of Verdun to
supervise the English prisoners of war held there. Describing himself as
a ‘Late Corporal of Gendarmes’, he held this post from 1803 to 1814,
and writes this account of his time there in an effort to ameliorate his
destitute condition in London and in the hope of gaining suitable
employment on his return to France. The anonymous translator of this
piece, who signs himself ‘B. M. ‘ and was himself a hostage at Verdun
for six years, notes the influence that Latreille had with his superiors
and how he used it to the benefit of the English prisoners. The text
chronicles a catalogue of extortions imposed on the prisoners by their
keepers ranging from petty fines and charges to organized gambling and
prostitution. As it is estimated there were some 2. 5 prostitutes for each
prisoner, and the officer class being well represented, some effort woud
have been made at home to suppress or buyup copies of this privately
published and revealing account. Certainly it is very rare: COPAC has
BL and Leeds only.
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
1023
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LAWLESS (John).
The Belfast Politics Enlarged; being a
compendium of the political history of ireland, for the last forty
years. Compiled by John Lawless, Esq.
Belfast: Printed by D.
Lyons,
1818
FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 483, (1, blank), 8vo, old
nondescript two-toned cloth binding: some llgit foxing of
preliminary leaves but stilll a clean, very good, strongly bound
copy.
‘Honest Jack Lawless’ (1780?-1837), Dublin-born nationalist, lawyer,
journalist, political agitator, associate of Robert Emmet, regarded as
open, honest, and enthusiastic, but with little grasp of political reality.
An ardent politician, he was one of the most energetic members of the
committee of the Catholic Association and a leading opponent of the
proposed ‘veto’ on the appointment of Catholic bishops. He befriended
Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Harriet on their first visit to Ireland
in 1812; he was, to the young poet’s mind, ‘a republican’; but during
their second visit in 1813 he antagonised them in some way. In later
years he became particularly obnoxious to O’Connell, who spoke of him
as Mad Lawless and even opposed his candidature for Co Meath. His
‘Belfast Politics Enlarged’ was thought so offensive the government
ordered it to be burnt; copies of it are consequently rare (ODNB).
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1024
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LAWRENCE (T. E.): - Wilson (J. M.),
ed.
T. E.
Lawrence. Letters to E. T. Leeds, with a commentary by E. T.
Leeds. Edited and with an introduction by J. M. Wilson. With a
memoir of E. T. Leeds by D. B. Harden & illustrated with line
drawings by Richard Kennedy.
Andoversford, The Whittington
Press,
(1988)
With mounted frontispiece, 12 photo plates, 9 full-page and a
few other line illustrs, pp xxii, (1), 140, (1), small folio, original
quarter cloth, in matching slip-case: a fine, fresh copy.
Number 55 of 750 copies printed. Signed by Wilson and with, loosely
inserted, a signed autograph letter from him, on headed note-paper, to a
Miss [Kathleen] Fox, in which he corrects and enlarges upon his errors
on pages xvi, 109 and 128.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
WILLIS (N. P.).
American
Scenery; or land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic
nature. From drawings by W. H. Bartlett … Vol. II.
George
Virtue,
1840. With 52 engraved plates including additional
engraved title, pp iv, 106, 4to, contemporary half calf: the
backstrip defective but the binding strong: a clean and very good
copy.
Volume two only of this two-volume work, with the plates free of the
usual foxing.
(2)
DAVIS (Sir John Francis), FRS.
Poeseos Sinicae
commentarii. The Poetry of the Chinese. New and augmented
edition.
Asher and Co.,
1870. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION,
pages vii, 88, 4to, original cloth, gilt: the binding rubbed and
stained but strong, internally a very good copy.
First published some forty years previously in the quarto Transactions of
the Royal Asiatic Society and here published with ‘considerable
additions’.
(3)
AUBRÉVILLE (André).
The Niger Colony Forestry
Expedition, September to December 1935. Report by M.
Aubréville. Translated by E. A. L. Gaskin.
Ibadan, Forestry
Department
1937. With 4 maps, 83-leaves, printed from
typescript on rectos only, folio, original cloth-backed wrappers: a
very good copy.
(4)
GARCES (Francisco): - Galvin (John), translstor and
editor.
of travels in Arizona and California, 1775-76. A new
translation... 1967, a fine copy of this handsomely produced
book.
Possibly the first non American to explore the Grand Canyon of
Arizona.
(5)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1025
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LAWRENCE (T. E.).
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a
triumph.
J. Cape,
1935
FIRST TRADE EDITION, with 4 maps and 53 plates, 672-
pages, 4to, finely bound in full dark blue crushed morocco, gilt,
gilt ruled spine, with double red labels, gilt, top edges gilt, other
edges uncut: a fine and attractive copy, handsomely bound.
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