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Herzegovina, 1894-5-6. By “Snaffle”, author of “Gun, Rifle, and
Hound, “ etc. Illustrated by Harry Dixon, from sketches by the
author.
Kegan Paul, Trench …,
1897. FIRST EDITION, with 10
plates, pages viii, 406, (1), 8vo, original red cloth, gilt: without
the errata slip and with pencil markings on ten pages, otherwise
an attractive copy (2)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1077
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[MACKENZIE (Henry)].
Julia de Rubigné, a tale. In a
series of letters. Published by the author of The Man of Feeling,
and The Man of the World. In two volumes. The fourth edition.
London: Printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell, in the Strand; and W.
Creech, at Edinburgh,
1787
Pp xii, 195, (1, blank): vii, (1, blank),202 and advert leaf, with
half-titles,2 vols bound in 1, 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt ruled
spine, with label, gilt: spine a little worn with slight weakness in
the joints and a clean tear without loss in one leaf, otherwise very
good-nice.
Raven and Garside, English Novel, 1777: 13. Black, Epistolary Novel,
601. The last of Mackenzie’s three novels of sensibility. “One of the most
heart-wringing histories that has ever been written. “ - Sir Walter Scott.
An epistolary novel suggested by Lord Kames’s remark that a morbid
excess of sentiment, naturally good, often brought misfortune and misery
on those who indulged in it.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BOYSE (Samuel).
The Pantheon:
or, fabulous history of the heathen gods, goddesses, heroes, &c.
Explained in a manner entirely new; ... adorned with figures
from ancient paintings, medals, and gems, for the use of those
who would understand history, poetry, painting, statuary, coins,
medals, &c. With a dissertation on the theology and mythology
of the heathens, from the writings of Moses, the Aegyptian,
Grecian, Roman, and Eastern historians, philosophers, poets, &c.
By Samuel Boyse, A. M. With an appendix, treating of their
astrology, prodigies, auguries, auspices, oracles, &c. in which the
origin of each is pointed out; and an historical account of the rise
of altars, sacred groves, priests, and temples. By William Cooke...
The sixth edition. To which is now first added, a further
illustration of the Dii [sic] Majores of the Romans..
Printed for T.
Carnan … S. Crowder … and B. C. Collins …,
1787. With engraved
frontispiece and 18 engraved plates, pages xii,293, (1, blank), (17,
index), (1, blank), 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine,
wanting label: the binding rubbed and worn but sound and strong
and internally in nice state.
Not in Roscoe, cf. A51. First published, posthumously, in 1753 as ’A new
pantheon’. It proved popular and ran to a number of editions. Boyse
(1708–49), poet, and translator, born in Dublin, was educated there
privately, possibly a pupil of Francis Hutcheson …. In London he lived
hand to mouth, eventually finding work as a Grub Street hack writer.
Samuel Johnson considered him a talented translator, producing
translations of Voltaire (1738), Fénelon (1749), and Prévost. However,
he was also known to pawn the books he was commissioned to translate
(IDNB).
(2)
STERNE (Laurence).
Letters of the late Rev. Mr. Laurence
Sterne, to his most intimate friends. With a fragment in the
Manner of Rabelais. To which are prefixed, memoirs of his life
and family. Written by himself. And published by his daughter,
Mrs. Medalle. In three volumes.
Dublin: Printed for J. Exshaw, W.
Whitestone, W. Sleater, D. Chamberlaine, J. Potts J. Williams … (and
seventeen others),
1776. Pages xi, (1, blank),296, (4, blank), 3 vols
in one, with separate title-pages but continuous pagination and
signatures, 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt ruled spine,
with label, gilt: a nice copy, with the contemporary signature of
Cl. Ashworth on the first page of text.
An uncommon Dublin printing of 117 letters, including two from
correspondents of Sterne. Letter 58 may be a forgery.
(3)
€200-€250 (£160-£200 approx.)
1078
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MACLAINE (Archibald).
A Series of Letters, addressed
to Soame Jenyns, Esq; on occasion of his view of the internal
evidence of christianity.
Dublin: printed for W. Whitestone, J. Potts, J.
Williams, W. Colles, W. Wilson, W. Hall-Mead, R. Moncrieffe, T.
Walker, C. Jenkin, J. Beatty, J. Exsmaw, and J. Magee,
1777
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages 266, (2, adverts), large 12mo,
contemporary calf, wanting spine label: crisp, unpressed copy
with armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort
ESTC locates six copies: C, MY, Bfut / CaOHM, PpiPT, NNUT. M
(1722 - 1804), born in Ireland, studied with Francis Hutcheson and
William Leechman at the University of Glasgow, became a Presbyterian
minister in 1747 and in 1752 became the sole minister of the Scots
Presbyterian church in The Hague. He was familiar with contemporary
philosophy as well as other intellectual activities. He published this work
just a few months after Gibbon published the first volume of his Decline
and Fall, and he mentions Gibbon briefly in this work. It was published
in London in the same year, with a second edition in 1778.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1079
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MacNEILL (Sir John Benjamin).
Tables for calculating
the cubic quantity of earth work in the cuttings and
embankments of canals, railways, and turnpike roads.
Roake and
Varty,
1833
FIRST EDITION, with 4 plates (engraved by Edward Turrell),
pages xxxviii, (2),254, 8vo, the plates lightly foxed, but otherwise
a very good copy strongly bound in contemporary green vellum,
gilt ruled and lettered spine.
His first published book, dedicated to Thomas Telford. No edition on-line
in D or Dt.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
VIGNOLES (Charles B.), FRS: -
Vignoles (Olinthus J.).
Life of Charles Blacker Vignoles …
soldier and civil engineer … a reminiscence of early railway
history.
Longmans, Green,
1889. FIRST EDITION, with a folding
map,2 plates and some text illustrations, pages xx,
407,24(adverts), original brown cloth: a very good to nice copy.
The main source for the life of the chief engineer to the Dublin and
Kingstown Railway, the first railway in Ireland. From 1816 he was
engaged on a survey of South Carolina and adjacent states, in 1825 he
worked for the Rennies in England and later carried out surveys on the
Liverpool and Manchester Railway, introduced the flat-footed rails, etc.
Ottley 2586.
(2)
JUKES (Joseph Beete), FRS.
On the mode of formation of
some of the river-valleys in the south of Ireland. From the
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Soc., Nov., 1862. (1862).
FIRST EDITION,2 coloured maps, pp (l, title) and (378)-403,
8vo, wrapper: a nice copy
“This paper has become a classic in geomorphology: [his] views on the
importance of river action were quickly accepted by several leading
geologists, particularly Ramsay, Geikie and Croll. As a result, within a
few years Darwin had changed his views and Lyell had modified his. “ -
D. S. B. “A landmark paper. “ - D. C. B.
(3)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1080
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MALACHY [O’Morgair], Saint: - Germano (Giovanni).
Additione apologetico-istorica alle Preditioni circa i Sommi
Pontefici Romani del glorioso padre S. Malachia … Napoli,
appresso Carlo Porsile, 1675. [with:] Seconda additione istorico-
simbolica … Napoli per Carlo Porsile, 1676.
Naples, Carlo Porsile,
1675-76
FIRST EDITIONS, pages (8), 179, (5): (16), 96,2 works in 1
volume, 4to, contemporary vellum: very good, unsophisticated
copies.
Malachy (Máel Máedóc Ua Morgair), 1094-1148, Armagh-born
archbishop, papal legate, the most prominent advocate of the 12C reform
of the Irish church and the first Irishman to be canonized. “A brilliant
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