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and will live is his ‘Brevis Explicatio’ … his exegetical work is deservedly
famous … (his) clearness, brevity, and critical acumen have won him the
praise of friend and foe. “ - Catholic Encyclopaedia. The first edition of
this present work is notably uncommon: NUC has three copies (CU,
WaSpG and NjNPT) and COPAC has the BL copy only.
(2)
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
1099
.
MENZIES (Sutherland), ?
pseud.
Turkey Old and New:
historical, geographical and statistical. Third edition.
W. H. Allen
& Co.,
1883
With a frontispiece, 12 plates and some text illustrations, pages
xv, 608, 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt, all edges gilt: a very good
to nice copy.
Sometimes ascribed to the novelist and historian Elizabeth Stone (1808-
c. 1881).
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HYNES (M.).
The story of
Russian aggression and Turkish defence: being a reply to Messrs.
Gladstone and Bright’s recent utterances on the eastern question.
To which is appended, extracts from the works of resident
authors, consular reports, and the evidence of travellers
conversant with the subject.
Liverpool: Printed and published by the
author,29, Thomas St.,
1877. FIRST EDITION, pages (2, blank),
60, (2, blank), 8vo, original grey printed wraps: small stamp in
two places and first few leaves little dog-eared: good, sound copy
in original state
A scarce, privately published account. COPAC locates copies at BL and
Bristol only.
(2)
GURNEY (Joseph John).
A Winter in the West Indies,
described in familiar letters to Henry Clay, of Kentucky.
John
Murray,
1840. FIRST UK EDITION, with 2 plates of views,
pages xvi,282, (1, leaf of imprint) and 8, 4 pages advertisements
dated September 1840, 8vo, original mauve cloth, uncut, neatly
rebacked, retaining most of the original backstrip and all of the
original endpapers and flyleaves: with some light foxing, but still
a very good copy.
Quaker philanthropist who cooperated with Clarkson, Buxton (his
brother-in-law), and Wilberforce in the cause of emancipation and whose
efforts after 1834 brought about an early end of the apprenticeship
system.
(3)
GERMANY & ITALY.
The Warringtons Abroad: or, twelve
months in Germany, Italy, and Egypt.
Seeley, Jackson, and
Halliday,
1866. FIRST EDITION, with 35 illustrations, some
full-page, pages vi, 140, small 4to, original red cloth, gilt, signed
‘J L’ (John Leighton): spine lightly faded, otherwise a nice, fresh
copy.
The only edition of this fictional travel account for a juvenile readership -
it is not in Osborne. Neither NSTC (5 copies) nor NUC (2 copies) suggest
an author.
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RAUCAZ (L. ouis M.).
In the savage South Solomons. The
story of a mission.
Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son (Lyon printed)
1928.
FIRST EDITION, with many illustrs, pp 270, (1), roy 8vo,
original cloth, gilt: very good.
Pacific Bibliography 520.
(5)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1100
.
MERATI (Gaetano Maria.).
La verita della religione
christiana e cattolica … Parte Prima [- Seconda].
Venezia, nella
stamperia Baglioni,
1721
Pages xxxvi, 379, (1, blank): 508,2 parts, separate titles, bound in
vol, 4to, contemporary vellum: light old marginal pencil marks: a
very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
TRENTO (Girolamo).
Panegirici
e discorsi morali del Sign. Co: Abate Girolamo Trento. Nobile
Padovano. Seconda Editione.
Venezia, presso Tommaso Bettinelli,
1788. 268-pages, pagination erratc but complete, 4to,
contemporary quarter vellum: very good.
(2)
PAOLETTI (Agostini).
Discursus praedicabiles, sive
Viridarium Sacrarum Concionum in Dominicas et Festa, a
Dominica Adventus unque ad Dominicam Quinqua-gesima
occurrentia: Consitum ex Sacrae Scripturae, Sanctorum …
(Quadragesomale … Sanctuarium …).
Coloniae Agrippinae, apud
haeredes Thomas von Collen …
1724. Pages (16),248, (44): (16),564,
(44): (8),260, (44): (12), 488, (6), 4 vols, 4to, bound in 2,
contemporary roll-stamped calf, gilt spines: heavily rubbed and
worn, joints weak, some foxing of text,: a very good copy. (5)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1101
.
MERCHANT SHIPPING: -.
The humble address of the
right honourable the Lords spiritual and temporal, in parliament
assembled, with the several papers contain’d and refer’d to
therein, presented to Her Majesty on Monday the first day of
March, 1707. With Her Majesty’s most gracious answer.
Printed
by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb,
1707
FIRST EDITION, 40-pages, folio, recent paper wraper: with
some light browning, but still a very good to nice, uncut copy.
An appeal for more and better convoys to protect merchant shipping to
America, Russia, and the Mediterranean against marauding French
ships. Not in ESTC, Kress or Goldsmiths’, all of which have the Dublin
1708 reprint only. Not in Landis’s European Americana. Hanson 936.
James Ford Bell Library G763.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
ASHBY (Matthew) and WHITE
(Wm.): -.
The report of the Lords committees appointed to draw
up the state of the case upon the writ of error, lately depending
in the House of Peers; wherein Matthew Ashby was plaintiff and
William White and others defendants. With the resolutions of
the House of Peers relating thereunto.
Printed by Charles Bill, and
the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb,
1704. FIRST EDITION, variant
issue, pp 14, (2, blank), folio, recent wrapper: title-page and verso
of final leaf with some old ink stains, otherwise a very good to
nice, uncut copy.
Variant issue, with press figure D on page 3 and no press figure on page
6. ESTC90 notes only the BL copy of this issue and does not mention
the final blank leaf present in our copy. On March 24th, 1704 the Lords
voted in favour of the appeal of the Aylesbury cobbler Ashby against
disenfranchisement.
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GYLLENBORG (Karl), Count.
Letters which passed
between Count Gyllenborg, the Barons Gortz, Sparre, and
others, relating to the design of raising a rebellion in His
Majesty’s dominions, to be supported by a force from Sweden.
Published by authority.
Printed by S. Buckley,
1717. Pages (4), 39,
(1, blank), with licence leaf, folio, recent wraps: a very good,
uncut copy.
Goldsmiths’ 5405. Parallel French and English text.
(3)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1102
.
[MERCIER (Louis Sébastien)].
The Night Cap. In two
volumes.
Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Wilson, White, Cash, Moore and
Jones,
1786
FIRST IRISH EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, pages (6),
(5) - 243, (1, blank): (6), (5) - 256, (1, blank), complete thus,2
vols, 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt ruled spines, with red and
green labels, gilt, inscribed “Mary Hastie February 10th / 1793”
on both title-pages: some light browning in places but still an
attractive copy.
First Irish edition of an anonymous English translation of his ‘Mon
bonnet de nuit’, first published London 1785: ESTC locates L, Dp /
NIC & CSmH. There is a copy in D on-line.
(2)
€400-€500 (£320-£400 approx.)
1103
.
MERCURIUS POLITICUS Numb. 104.
Mercurius
Politicus. Numb. 104. Comprising the summe of all intelligence,
with the affairs and designs now on foot in the three nations of
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