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MILLER (Philip).
The Gardener’s Dictionary:
containing the methods of cultivating and improving the
kitchen, fruit, and flower garden, as also, the physick garden,
wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard; according to the
practice of the most experienced gardeners of the present age.
Interspersed with the history of the plants, the characters of
each genus, and the names of all the particular species, in Latin
and English; and an explanation of all the terms used in botany
and gardening. Together with accounts of the nature and use of
barometers, thermometers, and hygrometers, proper for
gardeners; and of the origin, causes, and nature of meteors, and
the particular influences of air, earth, fire, and water, upon
vegetation, according to the best natural philosophers … The
fifth edition, corrected.
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for R. Gunne,
in Capel-Street; G. Risk, G. Ewing, and W. Smith, in Dame-Street;
and J. Smith, on the Blind-key; Booksellers,
1741
With engraved frontispiece, 11 engraved plates, 3 folding, and a
few woodcut text illustrs, pages xii, (792), folio, strongly bound
in recent paper boards, with label: the frontispiece neatly
strengthened, with a neat repair to a short tear without loss,
with some light old staining and light browning, but still a good
to very good, well-margined copy.
Henrey 1108. An uncommon edition: ESTC locates copies at L, Dp,
Lnhm, Drc, Dt / Omansk, OCLloyd, NNBG, SdB and KU-S. There
was another Dublin edition of 1732 with four plates. There was no
London ‘fifth edition’. One of the best-known and most useful 18C
gardening books, setting the standard for botanical nomenclature. It had
an enormous impact on botanical cultivation and preservation, notably
of North American and medicinal plants.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1109
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MILLOT (Claude F. X.), Abbé.
Elements of the history
of France, translated from the Abbé Millot, confessor in
ordinary to the French king. By the translator of Tales from
Marmontel [Miss R. Roberts]. In two volumes.
Dublin: Printed
for James Williams, in Skinner-row,
1772
FIRST IRISH EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, pages
viii,267, (1, blank): (4),276,2 vols, large 12mo, contemporary
calf, with labels, gilt: with the contemporary signature of John
Morrison on both title-pages: an attractive copy.
ESTC locates three copies: L, Dt / PBm – there is also a copy in D on-
line. Of the London original of 1771 ESSTC locates five copies: L, C,
O / MB, CLU-C. “As the reading of history is now become a part of
female education, this Abridgment, with that of the History of
England, translated from the same Author, by the Ingenious Mrs.
Brooke, has, by many very able judges, been thought more proper than
any other, to be put into the hands of youg ladies at school. “ - The
Translator’s Preface.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
ELWES (John): - Topham
(Edward).
The life of the late John Elwes, Esquire; Member in
three successive Parliaments for Berkshire. First published in the
paper of The world. Inscribed to Sir Paul Jodrell, by Edward
Topham, Esq. Late Captain in the Second Troop of Horse
Guards, and Magistrate for the Counties of Essex and York.
Dublin: Printed for P. Byrne, J. Moore, G. Draper, and R. White,
1790. FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (2), xix, (3, blank),219,
(1, blank), complete with the half-title, 12mo, contemporary tree
calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: a nice copy.
Uncommon first Irish printing of a best-selling biography of an
eccentric miser: first published earlier in the same year in London.
ESTC locates nine copies, but only NBiSU in N. America.
(2)
HORACE.
Opera.
Dublini: e typographia academiae
1745.
FIRST EDITION THUS, with engraved vignette title-page,
pages (4),248, large 12mo, contemporary mottled calf, old neat
rebacking, with label, gilt: a very good copy with the early
ownership inscription of ‘Jo: Brown’ on the title-page.
The first edition edited Hawkey. Hawkey (1702/3–59), classical
scholar, son of John Hawkey, gaoler, may have been born in Cove,
Devon. He may have been educated at Mr Spare’s school in Liskeard
before he entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1720. He won a foundation
scholarship in 1723 and graduated in 1725. Little is known of him,
except for his translation of Xenophon’s Anabasis, before the publication
in 1745 of his elegant and accurate editions of Virgil and Horace. In
the same year he dedicated an edition of P. Terentii Afri comoediae to
the earl of Chesterfield. By 1746 he had established a school in Dublin,
but continued his scholarly publications with editions of the satires of
Juvenal and Persius (1746), dedicated to Bishop Mordecai Cary, and of
Sallust in 1747 (ODNB).
(4)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1110
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MILTON (John): - Ribouville ().
L’Allegro et le
Pensieroso de Milton. Traduits en vers François.
A Londres, chez
Messrs. Becket & De Hondt,
1766
FIRST EDITION THUS, pages viii, 3, 4 - 30, 4 - 30, (1, blank),
parallel texts in French and English on opposite pages, 4to,
contemporary mottled calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt,
inscribed on title in a contemporary hand “Given me by the
Author Jan. 1766” and, in the same hand, on the front endpaper
“Given me by the Translator Mons. De Riboubille”, with the
fine contemporary armorial bookplate of Dudley Alex. Sydney
Cosby, Lord Sydney of Leix and Baron of Stradbally: an
attractive copy
ESTC locates eight copies (Birmingham, Brighton, Edinburgh, Hans
Soane, Sorbonne, Huntington, Hopkins and Illinois). There was
another issue of the same year, published by Heydinger, of which ESTC
locates only the copy at Cambridge: however, that copy comprises 30-
pages only and is, presumably, only the French text. The page
numbering for the French text ([4]-30) is repeated for the parallel
English text (i. e. both pages of an opening having the same number).
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
1111
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MILTON (John).
Paradise Lost. A poem in twelve books.
A new edition, with notes of various authors, by Thomas
Newton.
Dublin: Printed for John Exshaw, at the Bible on Cork-hill,
1751
FIRST IRISH EDITION THUS, with engraved frontispiece
portrait, engraved vignette portrait on title-pages and engraved
portrait head-piece on the first page of “The Life”, pages (16),
xlvi (life), (4),22, (2, subscriber list), 372: 474, (18),2 vols, 8vo,
contemporary calf, gilt ruled spines, with red and dark blue
labels, gilt: vol two title leaf carries a light old stain and an old
erasure on verso resulting in a small hole which affects only the
final ‘D. ‘ of ‘D. D. ‘ on recto, the bindings lightly rubbed but
strong and attractive: with the contemporary signature of “H.
Corbet” on page 27 of both volumes.
First Irish edition edited Newton, the most reprinted variorum edition of
the 18C. This Dublin edition is not in Coleridge, though he does
mention it in passing on page 255.
(2)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
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MILTON: - [Toland (John)].
The life of John Milton,
containing, besides the history of his works, several
extraordinary characters of men and books, sects, parties, and
opinions.
London, Printed by John Darby in Bartholomew Close.
1699
FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, pages 165, (1, errata), without
the initial blank leaf which is only rarely found, 8vo, a very
good copy, pleasantly and sympathetically bound in recent
quarter calf, gilt ruled and lettered spine, vellum corners.
Wing T 1766. Coleridge 414. Toland’s important biography of Milton
was first published in 1698 in the ‘Amsterdam’ edition of the collected
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