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IRISH EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION?, pages (2), iv, (1,
advert), (1, blank), 152, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a little dusty
at beginning and end and with some light old damp staining, but
a very good copy.
All published. ESTC locates copies of this issue at D, Di, MY, Dt /
MWA, MH and IU.. There was another Dublin edition of the same
year, without the advert leaf and with a longer imprint. Regarded as a
rather impressionistic account of the English colonization of Ireland and
the union of England and Scotland.
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€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
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LINEN AND HEMPEN MANUFACTURE,
IRELAND, 1817.
Minutes of the trustees of the linen and
hempen manufactures of Ireland, of Ireland, containing the
report of a tour of inspection through the provinces of Leinster,
Munster & Connaught, by Mr. Peter Besnard. Inspector general
of those provinces, in January, February. March, April, May,
June, September and October, 1817.
Dublin: Printed by W. Folds
and Sons,
1817
FIRST EDITION, pages (8), 83; 62, (2, blank), 8vo, original
boards, with printed paper spine label, edges entirely uncut: the
spine worn, lacking portion of the backstrip but still a bright,
fresh and attractive copy in original state.
Goldsmiths’ 21719. An important report. The appendix contains
information on the brown linen markets in the three provinces.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
IRELAND, AGRICULTURE.
Tracts on Irish agricultural interests.
London: Printed by John
Strangeways, Castle St., Leicester Sq.,
1872. FIRST EDITION,
pages iv, 107, (1), roy 8vo, original mauve cloth, gilt: the spine
evenly faded, otherwise a bright, fresh and attractive copy.
Privately published and rare. WorldCat and COPAC both have ULRLS
only. There is, also, another copy on-line in D. On the title-page is
printed “Presented by the Compiler”. Above and below this is written in
a coontemporary hand, presumably that of the compiler, “To Richard
Montesquieu Bellew Esqr D. L. / Poor Law Commissioner, / With
respects. “
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TALLERMAN (Daniel).
“Railway Abattoirs”, and other
papers relating to meat distribution. Second edition.
Dublin:
Browne and Nolan, London: Simpkin, Marshall,
1891. With 17
plates, pp 117, (3, blank), roy 8vo, original red cloth, gilt: binding
discoloured but sound and strong, small hole in blank portion of
title, some fingering: good-very good copy
COPAC has the Bodleian copy only, but there is a copy on-line in D.
“Railway abattoirs and preserving factories applied to Irish meat and its
kindred industries”. Tallerman published extensively on food production
and distribution.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1056
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LINEN TRADE.
Report from the committee appointed
to enquire into the present state of the linen trade in Great
Britain and Ireland.
[London:] Printed in the year
1773
FIRST EDITION, with 2 large folding tables, 46-pages,
including appendices, folio, a small faint stamp in four places,
otherwise a nice, large-margined copy attractively bound in
recent cloth-backed boards, with label, gilt.
Kress 6969. ESTC locates copies at L: NNC, MH-BA, MNoanMV,
InU-Li, ICU and TxU. D on-line has the 1803 issue only. An important
parliamentary report from a time when the linen trade was under
pressure from cheap foreign imports, with a consequent rise in
unemployment - one of the factors leading to the increase in emigration
to N. America. Substantial testimony and correspondence concerning the
plight of manufacturers and of their employess - in one case leading to
riots - is included, together with tables of statistics.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1057
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LIP(P)OMANUS (Aloysius).
Sanctorum priscorum
patrum vitae numero centum sexaginta tres, per gravissimos et
probatissimos auctores conscriptae. Et nuper per R. P. D.
Aloysium Lipomanum Episcopum Veronensem in unum
volumen redactae, cum scholijs eiusdem omnium praesentium
haereticorum blasphemias & delyramenta profligantibus. Lege
pie lector, quia lectionis tam fructuosae nunquam te poenitebit.
Venetiis: ad signum Spei,
1551
FIRST EDITION, woodcut device on title-page and woodcut
initials throughout with some left blank but for a guide letter,
leaves (14), 494, 4to, contemporary vellum, lettered in
contemporary manuscript: vellum on inside lower cover lifting,
four of the six cords broken with the binding though intact lifting
away, stitching strong and internally a well-margined a very
good, unsophisticated copy, outwardly in attractive
contemporary state.
Adams L 738. The first of eight volumes of the lives of the church
fathers published under various imprints from 1551 to 1560. Adams
records only the first seven, treating them all as separate items.
Lippomano, (1500-59), renowned for his historical and linguistic
learning, successively bishop of Modon, Verona and Bergamo, was
several times commissioned by the pope for diplomatic missions. This,
“his chief work, for which he engaged the services of many learned men,
and himseIf, on his travels, searched libraries and archives … gave a
great impulse to scientific hagiography, and opened the way for Surius
and the Bollandists. “ - Cath. Ency. “Hagiology entered on a new
development with the publication of the Sanctorum priscorum patrum
vitae of Aloysius Lipomanus … As a result of the co-operation of
humanist scholars a great number of Greek hagiographic texts became
for the first time accessible to the West in a Latin translation. ” – Ency.
Brit. A highly important and influential work.
€500-€700 (£400-£560 approx.)
1058
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[LLANOS GUTIERREZ (Valentin)].
Sandoval; or, The
Freemason. A Spanish tale. By the author of “Don Esteban”.
Henry Colburn,
1826
FIRST EDITION, pages viii, 345, (1, blank), (2, adverts): (2),
422: (4), 450, (2, adverts) with the half-title in vol 3, no others
called for, 3 vols, large 12mo, original blue paper boards, drab
paper spines, with printed paper labels, uncut, with ‘Sandoval /
Donegall’ in ink on two upper boards: old repair to foot of one
spine, wanting the blank flyleaf in one volume and one board
loose, otherwise a very good copy in original state.
Garside 1826: 53. Wolff 4164 (his copy rebound, wanting half-title and
adverts). Llanos knew Keats and visited him three days before his death
in 1821. In 1826 he married Fanny Keats, the poet’s sister, and in 1833
took her to Spain where they remained for the rest of their lives.
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ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
[FRASER (James Baillie)].
The
Highland Smugglers. By the author of “Adventures of a
Kuzzilbash”, “Persian Adventurer”, &c. In three volumes.
Henry
Colburn and Richard Bentley,
1832. FIRST EDITION, pages vii,
358: (2), 347: (2), 419, 3 vols, large 12mo, original cloth-backed
boards, uncut, with contemporary manuscript paper spine labels
(‘Donegall’ in ink on upper boards): inside joints weak and
wanting the paper from the upper cover of one volume but still a
very good copy in original state.
Sadleir 903(his copy rebacked and the labels renewed). Wolff 2346 (his
copy rebound). The noted traveller’s only novel on a Scottish theme - a
tale notable for its detailed description of illicit whiskey distillation.
Copies in original condition are particularly uncommon.
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€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
1059
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LONGFIELD (Lewis).
Twilight to Dawn: “Samaria”,
and other poems.
London: T. Weston
(1899)
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages (8), 72, 8vo, original cream
coloured cloth, decorated in silver and the top edges also silver: a
very good copy.
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