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A fine, handsomely bound copy of the frst published edition of
Lawrence’s brilliant narrative of his experiences during World War I.
Hailed by Sir Winston Churchill as one of “the greatest books ever
written in the English language. “
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1026
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LAYARD (Sir Austen H.).
Early adventures in Persia,
Susiana, and Babylonia, including a residence among the
Bakhtiyari and other wild tribes before the discovery of Nineveh.
John Murray,
1887
FIRST EDITION, with 2 frontispieces (1 a chromolithograph),2
other plates and 3 folding maps, pages 8, (2), 490, (2, adverts): 8,
(2),511, with the half-titles,2 vols, 8vo, with a relevant newspaper
cutting tipped on to one blank flyleaf and with the occasional
light finger mark, otherwise a very good, uncut copy in a pleasant
recent half pale brown calf over marbled boards, fully gilt spines,
with red and green labels, gilt.
A record of his first journey to the East: an elusive book characterised by
the Ency Brit as “a book of travel even more delightful than its
predeccessors. “
(2)
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1027
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LE BROCQUY (Louis).
Eight Irish Portraits in words &
watercolour.
Dublin
1990
Comprising 2 leaves of prelims (one by Le Brocquy, one by
Marie Donnelly) and 8 coloured litho portraits of noted Irish art
collectors, each print loosely inserted in a glassine sleeve on
which is printed a written profile of the subject, the whole within
a printed limitation wrap-around leaf, signed by Le Brocquy and
numbered 324, all within a half black cloth over printed paper
boards folding library case, in a matching slip-case with silk pull-
ribbon: a nice, bright, fresh and attractive copy.
A set of eight portraits of noted Irish art collectors: Dermot Desmond,
Vincent Ferguson, Charles Haughey, Paul McGuinness, Martin
Naughton, Vincent O’Brien, Tony O’Reilly and Michael Smurfit. It was
commissioned by Marie Donnelly on behalf of the Irish Hospice
Foundation.
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
1028
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[LE CRAS (Abraham Jones)].
Guide to the island of
Jersey. Containing its history, situation, produce, government,
institutions, and cheap living: descriptive particulars of its twelve
parishes, and a commercial directory, to the town of St. Helier.
Together, with its peculiar laws, customs, and privileges. Being
the most complete guide for strangers, ever published.
Jersey: A. J.
Le Cras, News and Patriot Office,5 Hope-street, St. Helier,
1834
FIRST EDITION, pages viii, 162, 12mo, original cloth, with
ticket of Lee late Bettison, bookseller &c, Cheltenham on front
endpaper, a printed title-label (London: Longman & Co.) on the
upper board and the contemporary signature of Edwd. Wilmot
on the front flyleaf: the binding faded, but otherwise an attractive
copy in original state
COPAC locates four copies: L, O, Leeds & V & A. WorldCat has just
one, Durham NC.
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1029
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[LE LONG (Jacques)].
Discours historique sur les
principales editions des bibles polyglottes. Par l’auteur de la
Bibliotheque Sacrée.
Paris, André Pralard,
1713
FIRST EDITION, pages (16),554, (5), large 12mo, contemporary
calf, gilt spine: the binding rubbed and worn, wanting label, but
still strong and internally in nice state.
Le Long (1665-1721), librarian of the Oratory at Paris and a renowned
Biblical bibliographer.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1030
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LEADBEATER (J.).
The gentleman and tradesman’s
compleat assistant; or, the whole art of measuring and
estimating, made easy … Part I … the names and exact prices of
all artificers work in general, relating to building, viz. such as
bricklakers, carpenters, joiners, carvers, plaisterers, painters,
masons, plumbers, glaziers, slaters, paviours, smiths, &c. Part II
… the method of squaring dimensions, or measuring the said
artificers works at large, thro’ all their various branches, both by
cross multiplication and inspectionary tables, to the extent of an
hundred feet square, including tables, which shew the number of
squares, square yards, and also the square root of any number of
feet, &c. whatsoever required. Part III … geometrical definitions
of lines, angles, &c. with the most useful and necessary problems,
or the rudiments of practical geometry, mensuration of
superficies, &c … an appendix, containing a plan and elevation
of a house, with the dimensions accurately figured of the true
proportioning the several stories, and the members thereto
belonging; with a sketch of some very good mouldings … with
several useful tables, viz. the scantling of timber, annuities upon
lives, and the purchasing and valuing of freehold and leasehold
estates … a table shewing how much in length of any board,
plank, pane of glass, pavement, or the like, makes a foot square;
the breadth thereof being given … made perfectly easy and
intelligible to the meanest capacity. Illustrated with copper-plates.
By J. Leadbeater, and assistants.
London: Printed for A. Webley, in
Holborn, near Chancery-Lane; and W. Todd, in Adam and Eve Court,
near Wells-Street, Oxford Road,
1770
With engraved frontispiece and 3 plates (2 folding), pp viii,263,
(5, adverts for architectural books printed for and sold by A.
Webley), 8vo, original unlettered sheep, title-page lightly soiled,
the binding worn and rubbed, upper joint cracked and lower
board loose, short tear in one plate without loss, a little dusty but
otherwise a very good copy inscribed “John Barnard / his book /
December 26, 1772” and also by Thomas Butcher and John
Butcher dated 1796.
RIBA 1787. Harris 481. ESTC has 8 copies: Lbal, L, E, Lria: NNC-A,
NcD, DeWint, NjP. The last of three editions: first published 1768 by
Webley, Todd and Turpin. The ‘second editon’ was published in 1769 by
Webley and Todd alone, though that was really a reissue of the sheets of
the first edition with a cancel title-leaf. This third edition carries an
additional third plate - in this present copy this plate is well-margined
and is clearly unnumbered.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1031
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LEE (Charles).
Memoirs of the life of the late Charles
Lee, Esq. Lieutent Colonel of the Forty Fourth Regiment,
Colonel in the Portuguese service, Major General, and aid du
camp to the King of Poland, and second in command in the
service of the the United States of America during the
Revolution: to which are added his political and military essays;
also, letters to, and from many distinguished characters, both in
Europe and America.
Dublin: Printed for Messrs. P. Byrne, J. Moore
…,
1792
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages xii, 439, (1, blank), 8vo,
contemporary calf, gilt ruled spine, with red label, gilt: with a
little wear at headbands, but still a nice copy with the attractive
contemporary (dated 1785) armorial bookplate of Thomas
James, Viscount Bulkeley.
An uncommon edition (ESTC notes nineteen copies but D only in
Ireland) published in the same year as the London edition. “It contains
many curious particulars relating to the war between Great Britain and
the Colonies. Published under the directioin of Edward Langworthy, of
Georgia. “ - Sabin. Howes states that the editor was claimed to have been
Thomas Paine, working under the direction of Langworthy. Lee (1731-
82), one of the most extraordinary and contradictory characters in
American history(DAB), eccentric in personality, whiggish in politics,
more comfortable in opposition to causes than in support of them, he left
a mixed legacy for the American cause that he so ardently embraced. At
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