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FIRST DUBLIN EDITION, pages 23, (1, adverts), 12mo,
recent paper wrapper: some pale old staining, otherwise a very
good copy, complete with the half-title.
Foxon N 249. A satire in verse on Thomas Woolston, the freethinker,
first printed at London earlier in the same year. ESTC locates copies of
this edition at two locations only: Di and IU.
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
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NEWMAN (John).
Instructions necessary to be attended
to, in using Newman’s portable mountain barometer.
Manufactured and sold by J. Newman, philosophical instrument
maker to the Royal Institution of Great Britain, No. 122,
Reegent Street, London.
Geo. Nichols, printer, Earl’s Court,
Leicester Square
[1841]
FIRST EDITION, with one illustration, 8-pages, 8vo, recent
quarter calf: a nice, fresh copy.
Many scientists and explorers commissioned special apparatus from
Newman (d. 1860); Sir Charles Wheatstone and I. K. Brunel were
among his customers, as were the major colleges and institutions. From
the large number of surviving instruments, many of ingenious and
imaginative design, and of first-rate quality, his high reputation was
certainly justified (ODNB).
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
SIMMS (Frederick W.).
A treatise
on the principal mathematical instruments employed in
surveying, levelling, and astronomy; explaining their
construction, adjustments, and use; with an appendix and
tables. Eighth edition.
Troughton and Simms, 138, Fleet Street
1850. With illustrations, pages xi, 130, (10, tables); 16 (catalogue
of instruments), 8vo, original cloth, gilt, by Westley’s, with their
ticket: the binding lightly faded but sound and strong and
otherwiise a very good copy. (2)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
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NEWTON-LEIBNITZ CONTROVERSY: - Collins
(John), FRS, et aliorum.
Commercium epistolicum D. J.
Collins, et aliorum, de analysi promota, jussu Societatis Regiae
in lucem editum …
Londini: ex officina J. Tonson, & J. Watts,
1722
SECOND EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, pp (8),250, (2,
errata/adverts), 8vo, recent quarter calf, with label, gilt: with a
small oval stamp on the title-page, otherwise a very good copy.
“This is the celebrated report drawn up by the order of the Royal
Society and consisting of a selection from the correspondence of John
Collins, F. R. S. with some of the most celebrated mathematicians of
the time, which was to substantiate Keill’s charges against Leibnitz of
having derived the fundamental ideas of his calculus from papers by
Newton, said to have been communicated to him through Collins and
Oldenburg. Although greatly biased in Newton’s favour, the work is
nevertheless ‘a repertory of the utmost value to the history of science. ‘“
- D. N. B. This second edition contains original contributions by
Newton himself.
€400-€500 (£320-£400 approx.)
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NICOLL (Michael J.).
Nicoll’s Birds of Egypt. By
Colonel R. Meinertzhagen.
Hugh Rees Ltd.,
1930
FIRST EDITION, with a portrait, 3 folding coloured maps, 6
photogravure plates, 88 text illustrations and 31 coloured plates
after Thorburn, Gronvold, Lodge, and others, pages xvi, 348:
(4), (349)-700,2 vols, large 4to, original green cloth, gilt: a very
good to nice copy.
“An up-to-date, complete, systematic account of Egyptian birds from the
earliest times to the present, superseding other treatises on the subject.
The work was completed by Col. Meinertzhagen on the death of Nicoll,
who was (1906-24) Assistant Director of the Zoological Gardens at
Giza. ” – Casey A. Wood 492.
(2)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
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NIMMO (Alexander), FRS, FRSE.
New piloting
directions for St. George’s Channel and the coast of Ireland.
Written to accompany the chart of St. George’s Channel and
the coast of Ireland, drawn for the Corporation for improving
the port of Dublin, &c.
Dublin: Printed by A. Thom,
1832
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, pages (2), iv, (2), 166, *167 - *170,
167 - 208 and folding leaf listing light houses and light ships on
the Irish coast, 8vo, original unlettered cloth, uncut, neatly
rebacked retaining the original endleaves & flyleaves and most
of the original unlettered backstrip: a very good copy.
Skempton 1003, records BL and CE copies but does not note the extra
two leaves nor the folding leaf. NSTC and COPAC both have BL only.
Not in NUC. A remarkably scarce work by this noted Scottish engineer
(1783-1832), protégé of Telford, who made valuable reports on the bogs
of Ireland, constructed over thirty piers or harbours on the Irish coast,
designed the Wellesley bridge and docks in Limerick, etc. “From 1820
onwards he was employed by the Irish fisheries board to make surveys of
the coast and harbours of Ireland and their internal communication,
and to build various harbours and piers. Several of his charts were
published in 1821–2, his work culminating in 1832 with New Piloting
Directions for St George’s Channel and the Coast of Ireland. “ - D. N.
B. The present work, inscribed on the blank flyleaf “To [?] Gray Esq. /
in Memory of the Author”, was published posthumously and contains a
valuable 4-page introduction by G. Halpin, jnr. The chart, for which
this report is an accompaniment, was made for the Dublin Ballast
Board.
€250-€300 (£200-£240 approx.)
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[NIXON, Capt].
The ramble of Philo, and his man
Sturdy.
Dublin: Printed for W. Gilbert, P. Byrne, P. Wogan, J. Jones,
and J. Halpen,
1789
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages xi, (1, blank),273, (1, blank),
with the half-title, 12mo, light browning: a good to very good
copy recently and neatly bound in boards, with label.
ESTC locates six copies: C, D, NT: MH, CaOHM & CtY. First
published at London during the previous year, by W. Lane. Attribution
from a Minerva Library catalogue of 1814. A picaresque, self-conscious,
fictional narrative, peopled with coquettes, wine-merchants and
characters along the lines of “Lady Finefeelings”, with some
indebtedness to Sterne.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HOLT (John).
Characters of the
kings and queens of England... with observations and
reflections... adapted to common life... particularly intended for
the instruction of youth... (with) notes historical.
Dublin: Printed
by J. Moore,
1789. FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages xiv, 409, (1,
blank), 8vo, slightly later half green morocco, gilt, gilt ruled and
lettered spine: a very good copy with the armorial bookplate of
George Montgomery Traherne and signature of Margaret
Entwisle dated 1822
Holt acknowledges that much of his information is derived from
Anderson’s Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of
Commerce (1764), and some of his historical material is taken from the
histories of England by Hume and Smollett.
(2)
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
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NORDEN (Frederik L.), FRS.
A compendium of the
travels of Frederick Lewis Norden through Egypt and Nubia.
London [i. e. Dublin]: Sold by R. Rampier, J. Panton, T. Davidson, W.
Nixon, A Manson, H. Newton, A. Darnton and M. Oldman
[1757?]
Pages (2), ii, 300, 12mo, contemporary sheep, gilt ruled spine,
with label, gilt: slight worming in fore-margin on some leaves at
beginning and end, mostly clear of text but affecting only a few
letters, old repairs to small holes in blank margin on six leaves at
end, the binding worn but still very strong and otherwise a very
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