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ESTC locates four copies: L / CSmH, CLU-C, KU-S. The Dublin
edition of the same year is recorded in ESTC by the Dt copy only. No
edition on-line in D. Leigh (c. 1689–1726?), actor and playwright,
possibly born in Ireland, according to Chetwood. He was a regular
member of the Lincoln’s Inn Fields company until 1726, playing a
range of important roles. He is also credited with two plays, both of
which were staged at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. The first, The Pretenders
(1719), published as Kensington Gardens (1720), is described by Genest
as ‘a moderate Comedy’. Leigh played the role of Lord George
Bellmour. It only managed a short run, playing for six days, or, as
Chetwood puts it, ‘walked consumptively six Nights, and then expir’d’.
Despite the relative lack of success of Kensington Gardens, Leigh made
a second attempt with Hob’s Wedding, (1720) in a double bill with
Molloy’s The Half-Pay Officers. Leigh’s play is in effect a sequel to
Doggett’s The Country Wake and is, at least in part, composed of scenes
not included in that play. Again, the run was short, but it provided an
opportunity for two benefit performances (ODNB).
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
DUCK (Stephen).
Poems on
several subjects: written by Stephen Duck, lately a poor thresher
in a barn in the county of Wilts, at the wages of four shillings
and six pence per week: which were publicly read in the
drawing-room at Windsor Castle, on Friday the 11th of
September, 1730, to Her Majesty. Who was thereupon most
graciously pleased to take the author into her royal protection,
by allowing him a salary of thirty pounds per annum, and a
small house at Richmond in Surrey, to live in, for the better
support of himself and his family. The eighth edition, corrected.
To which is added, some account of the life of the author.
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for George Ewing, at the Angel and Bible,
in Dame’s-street,
1731. 32-pages, 12mo, recent paper wrapper: a
very good copy.
A rare Irish printing. ESTC cites two locations: D (with four copies)
and CSmH. The third of three Dublin editions noted by Foxon (page
200). The first, of 1730, contained two poems only, “The Thresher’s
Labour” and “The Shunamite”; this edition adds “On Poverty”, a
short untitled piece beginning “Honour’d Sir”, and two final
commendatory poems.
(2)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1035
.
LEITCH (W.).
Directions for the adjustment and use of
the quadrant electrometer.
(Glasgow) George Richardson, printer to
the University of Glasgow, circa
1860
FIRST EDITION(?), with a plate, 11-pages, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper, the upper brown glazed printed paper wrapper
preseserved: a nice copy.
Not found in NUC, COPAC or BL. WorldCat has the Houghton
Library copy only.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
TURNER (Thomas).
The land
measurer’s ready reckoner, and farmers’[sic] guide to land
measure …to which are added directions illustrated by
examples, whereby persons unacquainted with land surveying
will be enabled to measure land of any figure or quantity, with
ease and dispatch. Likewise, two easy methods to save time and
labour in measuring the wheat lands …
Marlborough: printed and
sold by Harold and Emberlin, for the Author …,
1823. FIRST
(APPARENTLY ONLY) EDITION, with a folding frontispiece
containing eight numbered diagrams, pp xii, (13) - 124, 8vo,
recent wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
(2)
MARITIME.
[Proof. Draft.] [sic] British Association.
Report of the committee, consisting of James R. Napier, F. R.
S., Sir W. Thompson, F. R. S., W. Froude, F. R. S., J. T.
Bottomley, and Osborne Reynolds, F. R. S., Sec, appointed to
investigate the effect of propellers on the steering of vessels.
No
printer, place or date, circa
1878. Drop-title, 16-pages, 8vo, recent
paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Concerning the effects of the reverse screw on steering.
(3)
BRAIN (W. J.).
Teredo and Terebrans: their ravages on
timber. A paper read before the Civil and Mechanical Engineers’
Society, at No. 7, Westminster Chambers, on the 18th January,
1877.
No publisher or date (C. F. Adams, printe …Clerkenwell), c.
1877. Pages 14, (2, blank), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a nice
copy.
The author is not represented in NUC, NSTC or COPAC. On the
eradication of two marine pests: the Teredo sea worm and the Limnoria
Terebrans louse. Brain worked with Sir Isambard Brunel on a
maritume project and here claims that the great engineer formed the
idea of the Thames Tunnell from studying the wood boring activities of
the Teredo Navalis.
(4)
PEACOCK (Richard Atkinson), CE, FGS.
What is, and
what is not, the cause of activity in earthquakes and volcanos ?
E. & F. N. Spon …,
1877. FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, with a
folding map of N. W. France and the Channel Islands,23-pages,
8vo, recent paper wrapper: a nice copy.
Discusses the writings of Robert Mallet and others on earthquakes.
(5)
ROHDE (Robert Turner).
A Practicable Decimal System
for Great Britain and Her Colonies.
Printed by William Brown …
Effingham Wilson …
[1885]. With a few illustrations, pages 17,
(3, blank), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a nice copy.
Originally published in the “Bankers’ Magazine”.
(6)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1036
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LELAND (Thomas).
The History of Ireland from the
invasion of Henry II. With a preliminary discourse on the
antient state of that kingdom.
Dublin: Printed by R. Marchbank,
for R. Moncrieffe in Capel-Street,
1773
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (4), lvi, 387: (4),516: (4), 632,
663-664, (29), (1, blank), complete thus and with the three half-
titles, 3 vols, 4to, contemporary calf, neatly and recently
rebacked, retaining the original endpapers, flyleaves, etc., with
new and sympathetic labels: a well-margined and very good
copy.
Inscribed in a neat hand on each title “Letitia Balfour / 1773” - of
Townley Hall, Co. Louth. Published simultaneously at Dublin and
London: precedence has not been established. Leland (1722-85), Church
of Ireland clergyman and historian, born and educated in Dublin. His
History was more balanced than earlier Protestant histories. However,
its treatment of the 1641 rebellion dismayed liberal Catholics, such as
Charles O’Conor, who had assisted Leland’s research, and John Curry,
who published a rival account in 1775 (OCIH).
(3)
€350-€450 (£280-£360 approx.)
1037
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LENNOX (Charles), Duke of Richmond and Lennox.
A
letter from His Grace the Duke of Richmond to Lieutenant
Colonel Sharman, chairman to the committee of
correspondence appointed by the delegates of forty-five Corps
of Volunteers, assembled at Lisburn in Ireland; with notes, by a
member of the Society for Constitutional Information.
Sold by J.
Johnson … and all other booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland …,
1792
16-pages, 8vo, recent quarter calf, gilt lettered spine: a very good
copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
CLIVE (Robert), Baron Clive.
A
letter to the proprietors of the East India Stock, from Lord
Clive.
Printed for J. Nourse,
1764. FIRST EDITION, pages (4),
91, (1, blank), with the half-title (with 5-line errata on verso) and
without an errata leaf at end, 8vo, marbled paper boards, with
leather label, gilt: with some light staining in places, but still a
very good copy.
Kress 6164. Higgs 3201. Defending his conduct in the government of
India.
(2)
WHITESIDE (James).
The City of Rome, and its
vicissitudes: a lecture … before the Dublin Young Men’s
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