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Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales between 1894-1900. O’Brien
(1847–1918), Irish nationalist, journalist, and author, was born in
Kilrush, County Clare. This biography, “based on extensive conversations
with its subject, remains the principal source for the judge’s life. ” –
ODNB.
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€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1086
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[MANLEY (Mary de la Riviere)].
Secret memoirs and
manners of several persons of quality, of both sexes. From the
New Atlantis, an island in the Mediteranean. Written originally
in Italian.
Printed for John Morphew and J. Woodward,
1709
FIRST EDITION OF BOTH VOLUMES, WITH THE TWO
KEYS, with the engraved frontispiece to the second volume as
called for, pages (2), vi,246, (2, blank): (2, key): (12),272: (2,
key),2 vols bound in 1, the two ‘keys’, printed on slightly larger
sheets and folded in, 8vo, contemporary red morocco, gilt
bordered sides, gilt spine: some light browning and the boards
with a faint old waterstain, perhaps at one time recased, still an
attractive copy.
The most important of the scandal chronicles of the early 18C, a form
made popular and practiced with considerable success by Mrs Manley
and Eliza Haywood. Mrs Manley was important in her day not only as a
novelist, but as a Tory propagandist. Her fiction “exhibited her taste for
intrigue, and impudently slandered many persons of note, especially
those of whiggish proclivities. “ - D. N. B. “Mrs. Manley’s scandalous
‘revelations’ appealed immediately to the prurient curiosity of her first
audience; but they continued to be read because they succeeded in
providing certain satisfactions fundamental to fiction itself. In other
words, the scandal novel or ‘chronicle’ of Mrs. Manley and Mrs.
Haywood was a successful form, a tested commercial pattern, because it
presented an opportunity for its readers to participate vicariously in an
erotically exciting and glittering fantasy world of aristocratic corruption
and promiscuity. “ - Richetti, Popular Fiction before Richardson. ESTC
notes only the Cambridge set of the two volumes with the two keys and
also copies at L and CU-Riv with another version of the keys.
€1,500-€2,000 (£1,200-£1, 600 approx.)
1087
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MARCHANT (Petrus).
Tribunal sacramentale et visibile
animarum in hac vita mortali, tomis duobus explatum …
Gandavi, ex officina Bartholomaei Pauli,
1642-43
FIRST EDITION, with a fine additional engraved title-page and
pages (20),256, (12, index), (4, blank): (27), 420, (16),2 vols
bound in 1, folio, contemporary calf, gilt, old neat rebacking: the
spine worn but the the binding very strong, and otherwise, apart
from a tear without loss in two leaves, a nice, crisp copy.
Marchant (1585-1661), native of Liege, acquired a profound knowledge
of scholastic philosophy and theology. In 1625 he was elected definitor
general of the Franciscans and, in 1639, commissary general of the
provinces of Germany, Belgium, Holland, Great Britain, and Ireland.
His duties brought him into contact with Irish politics during the
troublesome times of the ‘Confederation of Kilkenny’. Unfortunately he
allowed himself to be deceived by false reports on the true state of affairs
in Ireland and took sides with the Ormondists, thus giving
encouragement to their opposition to the nuncio Rinaccini. Marchant
was a voluminous author. His chief work is “Tribunal Sacramentale”,
for the use of confessors (first published in two volumes in 1642-43, the
Antwerp edition of 1650 adding a third volume). It contains a full
exposition of moral theology, putting aside all disputed opinions, and
simply stating the doctrinal teaching of the Church, drawing his proofs
from Scripture, the decisions of councils, the constant tradition of the
Church, and the writings of the saints (Catholic Ency.). NUC has MH-
AH and PU only.
;
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
1088
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MARKHAM (Frederick).
Shooting in the Himalayas. A
journal of sporting adventures and travel in Chinese Tartary,
Ladac, Thibet, Cashmere, &c.
Richard Bentley,
1854
FIRST EDITION, with additional engraved title-page, folding
map, 8 fine tinted lithograph plates, and 16 woodcut illustrations,
pages xii, 375, (1), roy 8vo, half green polished calf, gilt, gilt ruled
and lettered spine, top edges gilt, with the original green cloth,
gilt of the original binding, both the boards and the backstrip,
neatly preserved at end: a handsome copy.
A rather attractive copy of one of the earliest books on hunting in the
Himalayas: musk, deer, ibex, bear, gerow, tapir, etc. “An excellent and
early work on sport in the Himalayas. “ - Czech. Markham records the
experiences of hunting and natives’ customs in the Indian borderlands,
Tibet and the Himalayas, travelling from 1846 to 1852.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1089
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MARKHAM (Sir Clements R.), FRS.
East India
(Progress and Condition). Statement exhibiting the moral and
material progress and condition of India, during the years 1872-
73...
Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed,2 June
1874
With 11 folding coloured maps and 2 other uncoloured plates of
maps, pages xviii,236, folio, recent boards: a very good copy.
In essence this represents a second and almost entirely rewritten edition of
the unsatisfactory statement issued for 1871-2.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
SAHNI (J. N.).
Indian Railways One
Hundred Years. 1853-1953
New Dehli, Ministry of Railways
(Railway Board),
1953. With endpaper maps, plates and other
illustrations, pages (8),200, 4to, original blue cloth, gilt: with a
small snag at headband, otherwise a very good copy. (2)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1090
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MARTIN (T. E.).
Hermosa, or, In the Valleys of the
Andes. A tale of adventure.
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, &
Rivington,
1887
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, pages (4), 320: (4), 318, (1, imprint),
(1, blank), 32(adverts dated October 1886), with the half-title in
the second volume, none called for in the first,2 vols, 8vo, original
blue cloth: a very good to nice copy.
WorldCat has Princeton only and COPAC finds copies at E, L and C.
Not in Sadleir or Wolff. The brief preface suggests that the tale, based on
the fortunes of the Harrington and Stannett families, may be fact.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SHIPLEY (John B and Marie A.).
The English rediscovery and colonization of America.
Elliot Stock
[1890]. FIRST EDITION, pages xvi, 151, cr 8vo, original green
cloth, gilt: a nice, fresh copy.
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DAWSON (Samuel E.).
The Saint Lawrence: its basin &
border-lands. The story of their discovery, exploration and
occupation.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes,
1905. FIRST EDITION,
with folding maps, plates, etc., pages xl, 451, 8vo, original cloth,
gilt: a very good to nice copy.
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LUMMIS (Charles F.).
A Tramp across the Continent [:
Ohio to California].
Sampson Low...,
1893. FIRST UK EDN, pp
xiii,270 & 30, (2) ads dated 1892, 8vo, orig cloth: very good-nice
Lummis (1859-1928) spent most of his life in California, where he
laboured in many ways to create interest in the historical, archaeological,
and ethnological backgrounds of the Southwest.
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GRUBB (W. Barbrooke).
Among the Indians of the
Paraguayan Chaco: a story of missionary work... edited by
Gertrude Wilson.
Charles Murray...,
1904. FIRST EDITION, with
frontispiece,57 illustrs, some full-page and a folding coloured
map, pp xiv, 176, 8vo, original cloth: wanting a blank flyleaf at
end, otherwise very good-nice.
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KOEBEL (W. H.).
Argentina past and present.
Kegan Paul...,
1910. FIRST EDITION, with a folding map and 64 plates, pages
xxiii, 455, (3, adverts), roy 8vo, original cloth, gilt, top edges gilt:
the binding dull and lightly soiled, with a small label mark, but
sound and strong: internally a very good to nice copy. (7)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
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