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reprinted Galway
1978. With map, a plate and a folding
genealogical table, pages xiv, (8, new introduction by W. J.
Hogan), 469; 25, 4to, original cloth: nice, fresh copy in an only
very slightly worn d. w. (3)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1073
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MACDONALD (Robert).
Personal narrative of military
travel and adventure in Turkey and Persia; comprising a brief
sketch of the chequered life of the author.
Edinburgh: Adam and
Charles Black,
1859
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, pages xvi, 303, cr 8vo, original
blue cloth: with a small oval stamp in six places, a pale ink
splash on one opening, the inside front hinge weak, faint mark
on both boards indicative of the removal of a small label,
otherwise a very good copy.
A remarkably scarce narrative by a sergeant in the Rifle Brigade, First
Battalion, one of a specially selected party of nine sergeants which
embarked for Persia in 1836. The narrative extends to 1847, when he
purchased his discharge. Pp 295-303 comprise “A few suggestions on the
subject of recruiting and improving the army”.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MERRILL (Selah).
East of the
Jordan: a record of travel and observation in the countries of
Moab, Gilead, and Bashan. With an introduction by Profesor
Roswell D. Hitchcock.
Richard Bentley & Son,
1881. FIRST UK
EDN, with folding map and 70 full-page and other illustrs, pp
xv,549, (2, ads), 8vo, original cloth, gilt: binding strong though
with some wear, internally bright & fresh.
A record of work with the American Palestine Exploration Society
1874-77 by this leading biblical archaeologist.
(2)
BARTLETT (William H.).
Jerusalem Revisited.
Arthur
Hall, Virtue & Co.,
1855. FIRST EDITION, with additional
engraved vignette title-page, a folding panoramic view of
Jerusalem,20 engraved plates and some text illustrations, pages
viii, (3),202, (18, adverts), roy 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt,
top edges gilt, by Westleys, with their ticket: with some light
foxing, but still a bright, fresh and attractive copy.
(3)
PULSZKY (Ferencz Aurel).
The Tricolour on the Atlas; or,
Algeria and the French Conquest. From the German of Dr
Wagner and other sources, by Francis Pulszky, Esq.
T. Nelson
and Sons, Nelson’s Modern Library series,
1854. FIRST EDITION,
with 4 double-page tinted litho plates of views, pages vi, (9) -
402, complete thus, 8vo, original orange cloth, gilt, edges gilt: a
very good to nice copy.
Pulszky (1814—97), Hungarian politician and author, participated in
Garibaldi’s expedition to Aspromonte, later, as director of the National
Museum at Budapest, gained distinction by his archaeological
researches.
(4)
€500-€700 (£400-£560 approx.)
1074
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MacDUFF (John R.),
ed.
The Golden Gospel. Being the
Gospel according to St. John. With an introduction on the life
and writings of the evangelist. By J. R. MacDuff.
Marcus Ward
& Co.
[1885]
FIRST EDITION THUS, with frontispiece, decorative title-
page and (128)-pages, all within decorative borders and printed
entirely in gold throughout, small 4to, original gold cloth,
elaborately gilt, edges gilt: an attractive copy.
A scarce book in its own right, even more so in such attractive state as
here.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
STUDNITZ (Arthur von).
Gold: legal regulations for the standard of gold & silver wares
in different countries of the world. Translated and abridged
from “Die gesetzliche regelung … “ By Mrs. Brewer. With
notes and additions by Edwin W. Streeter. Second edition,
revised and enlarged. Fifth thousand.
Chapman & Hall,
1877.
BEST EDITION, with a coloured plate and a folding coloured
map, pages 140, 16(adverts for Streeter’s ‘Precious Sones &
Gems’), cr 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt: the binding a little
worn but sound and strong and otherwise a very good copy.
First published earlier in the same year, here with a new preface by
Streeter claiming it as “carefully revised”.
(2)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1075
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MacKEAN (Alexander).
Exposition of the practical life
tables, with digest of the most approved rules and formulae
(illustrated by numerous examples) for the solution of all cases
occurring in the actual daily business of life assurance,
annuities, reversions, &c. … By Alexander McKean, actuary,
Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London.
Published for the Author, and
sold by Henry Butterworth …,
1837
FIRST EDITION, pages vi, 151, 8vo, original cloth, with label,
gilt: with some light foxing, but a very good copy.
Not in Kress or Goldsmiths’. NUC has the American 1876 edition only
(DLC only). NSTC has CUL, Dt and L.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MacKEON (Hugh).
An inquiry
into the rights of the poor, in the parish of Lavenham, in
Suffolk, with historical notes & observations; being the result of
a long and laborious investigation … (with) biographical
sketches, of some of the most distnguished natives of
Lavenham, from the earliest accounts to the present time, with
some account of the late Henry Steward … Robert Ryece …
William Gurnall … By Hugh McKeon.
Printed for Baldwin and
Cradock … Price, to Subscribers only, Five Shillings,
1829. FIRST
EDITION, with 4 full-page type-facsimiles of 17C title-pages of
works by William Gurnall, pages xxv, (1), 83, (1, blank), (84) -
134, (1, blank), complete with the errata slip ‘To the Local
Reader’ and the 4-page subscriber list, 8vo, neat recent half
cloth over boards, edges uncut: with some light foxing, but still
a very good, uncut copy.
Goldsmiths 25968. Not in Kress. A very critical survey of local
charities by an Irish Catholic with radical sympathies who claims to
have lived in Lavenham for some thirteen years.
(2)
BAYLISS (F. C.).
The Master Salesman. Being a
handbook of technical information and instruction compiled
for the use and training of salesman.
Arden Press, W. H. Smith &
Son
(1915). FIRST EDITION, with many illustrations, pages
xvii, 414, (1), small 4to, original cloth: a very good copy, with a
seven-line signed inscription by the author on the half-title.
The W. H. Smith house manual for staff training - not regularly
published - strongly influenced by Cockerell and the Arts and Crafts
movement. An impressive overview of the history of books; paper;
letterpress printing; book illustration; methods of printing illustrations;
bookplates; bookbinding - a section on which Cockerell advised; leather
and book cloths; stationery; account books, &c.
(3)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
1076
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MACKENZIE (Georgina Mary Muir) and IRBY
(Adelina P.).
Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-
Europe.
Alexander Strahan,
1866
FIRST EDITION, with 20 plates (2 folding) and 4 maps (3
folding), pages (2), xxxii, 687, (1), 8vo, original cloth, gilt:
skilful repair (barely noticable) to head of spine, lower cover
lightly marked and slight weakness in inside front hinge, still a
clean and attractive copy.
In 1858 these two intrepid ladies began a two-year tour of the Austro-
Hungarian empire, during which they were arrested as spies with ‘pan-
Slavistic tendencies’. Later they made extensive journeys across Turkey
in Europe, examining the conditions of the Slav Christians under
Turkish rule and the position and education of Christian women and
girls.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
[DUNKIN (Robert)].
In the Land
of the Bora, or, camp life and sport in Dalmatia and the
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