Basic HTML Version
good, crisp copy with the armorial bookplate of Edward Duke
(“Deo ducente”).
An edition not in ESTC, which has, however, an identically collated
Dublin edition of 1757 printed by J. Smith - L, C, O / AuNU only.
The names of the eight booksellers in the imprint are fictitious and the
work is most likely a piracy. There are three other examples of such
‘Compendiums’ first published in Dublin in 1757 and then pirate
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[BRYAN (——)].
The Temple of
Fame. A poem. Inscrib’d to Mr. Congreve.
Printed and sold by H.
Hills
1709. Pages 15, (1, catalogue of poems printed by Hills),
8vo, recent marbled boards: very good
Foxon B552. First published 1703 with the fuller title “ … a poem
occasion’d by the late success of the Duke of Ormond, the Duke of
Marlborough, Sir George Rook &c. against France and Spain …”.
“Wrote by one Bryan a worthy chaplain to Bishop. Of Norwich. “ -
Dobell 2665. Sometimes confused with Yalden’s poem of this title,
published in 1700. Later reissued with other remaindered Hills poems
in ‘A collection of the best English poetry’, 1717.
(2)
REYNOLDS (Frederick).
Laugh when you can: a comedy,
in five acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent-
Garden.
Dublin: Printed by George Folingsby,
1799. FIRST IRISH
EDITION, 83-pp, 12mo, recent marbled paper wrapper: a very
good copy.
Pages 82-83 are advertisements for dramatic pieces sold by Folingsby.
(3)
OTWAY (Thomas).
Venice Preserved; or, a plot
discovered. A tragedy.
Dublin: Printed by P. Wogan,
1794. Pages
59, (1, blank), 12mo, recent marbled paper wrappers: a nice
copy.
Stratman 4932.
(4)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1144
.
[NORRIS (Sylvester), SJ].
An antidote or treatise of
thirty controversies: with a large discourse of the church …
Deuided into three parts. By S. N. doctour of divinity. The first
[and second] part. [with:] An Appendix to the Antidote …
Togeather [sic] with a counter-catalogue discovering the
interruptions of hereticall sects …
[Saint-Omer: English College
Press] Permissu Superiorum,
1622-22-21
Pages (20), 335, (1) and errata leaf: (8),207 [i. e. 307], (1): 107,
(1, blank), in 1 vol, 4to, 19C half calf: two smal faint oval
stamps on title and an inscription “William Carroll Waterford
1775” at head of title and also an earlier inscription “Ex Lib.
Jacobi Carroll... “: the binding sound and very strong but
rubbed at corners and worn at the headbands, otherwise a very
good to nice, well-margined copy.
NSTC 18659 and 18658. 5. Milward 611 and 610. Norris (1572-
1630), English-born Roman Catholic controversialist. Notable among
his controversial writings is this work in three parts entitled ‘An
Antidote against the protestant and puritan writers of the time’. The
first part was published in 1615, the second in 1619. In 1622 a further
edition of these two parts together was published as ‘a treatise of thirty
controversies’. The third part, not present here, appeared in 1621, was
entitled The Guide of Faith, devoted to specific criticism of Francis
Mason’s important treatise, Of the Consecration of Bishops in the
Church of England (1613). Also in 1621 Norris brought out An
Appendix to the Antidote, with ‘A catalogue of the visible and
perpetuall succession of the catholique professours of the Roman
Church’, similar to one already compiled by his fellow Jesuit John
Fisher (ODNB).
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
1145
.
NOTA (Alberto), Baron.
Commedie di Alberto Nota.
Edizione Seconda, accresciuta e corretta dall’autore.
Torino,
Domenico Pane …,
1818
With portrait, pp (6),205, (1, blank), (2),211-314, (1): (4),290,
(1): (4),291, (1): (4), 312, complete in spite of pagination jump,
4 vols, 8vo, near contemporary half green calf over marbled
boards, gilt spines, contrasting labels, gilt: light foxing of
preliminary leaves, but still an attractive set from Coole Park,
with armorial bookplate of Sir Robert Gore Booth.
“The best edition. “ - Ebert 14901. Baron Nota (1775-1847), Italian
dramatist and nephew of the botanist Carlo Allioni. His comedies were
very popular in Italy and were translated into French, German,
Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
DANTE: - Troya (Carlo).
Del
Veltro allegorico di Dante. [bound with:] AZZOLINO
(Pompeo), Marquis Sul Veltro di Dante. Lettera... (with:
Pensieri sullo spirito della Divina Commedia... vita di Dante...
di G. Boccaccio).
Firenze,
1826-27. FIRST EDITIONS, with a
portrait and a folding plate, pages (8),216: 78 and tipped on
errata slip: (4), 37: 96, complete with the half-titles,2 works in 4
parts bound in 1 vol, 8vo, contemporary half vellum over
marbled boards, gilt spine, with label, gilt, silk marker, with
Cangort in gilt at foot of spine: nice copies, with the attractive
binding in nice state.
The historian Troya’s work is on the Ghibelline Uguccione della
Faggiola who is said to have sheltered Dante and who also figures in
the Divina Comedia.
(2)
GUICCIARDINI (Francesco) and BOTTO (Carlo).
Storia
d’Italia.
Firenze, Borghi e Compagni,
1836-35-35-35. With 12
plates, pages (2), xx, 813: (2), 618: (2), 619 - 856, 855 bis - 1213:
(2),552, 4 vols, 8vo, contemporary half vellum, gilt spines, with
green and black labels, gilt, silk markers, and name Cangort in
gilt on each spine: a fine set in a handsome binding in nice
state.
I. Guicciardini 1490-1534. II - IV. Botta 1534-1660, 1660-1789, and,
1789-1814.
(9)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1146
.
NOVEL.
Memoirs of Sir Charles Goodville and his
family: in a series of letters to a friend. In two volumes....
Dublin: printed for G. and A. Ewing,
1753
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages iv, 124: 152, (4, a catalogue of
books printed for G. and A. Ewing),2 vols bound in 1, 12mo,
contemporary calf, with label, gilt: the front free flyleaf skilfully
renewed, with the contemporary signatures of Mary and Jane
(?)Dunbarie and the armorial bookplate of Robert
Montgomery, Convoy, Co. Donegal.
A rare edition of an uncommon epistolary novel - ESTC has D & NjP
only - not in L, C or O. First published in the same year at London
(ESTC locating thirteen copies - three in UK and ten in USA). Raven
173 (the London edition only). Black, The Epistolary Novel,249.
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
1147
.
[O’BRYEN (Denis).
A defence of the Right Honorable
the Earl of Shelburne, from the reproaches of his numerous
enemies; in a letter to Sir George Saville, Bart. and intended for
the direction of all other members of parliament, whose object
is rather to restore the glory of the British Empire, than
administer to the views of a faction. To which is added, a
postscript, addressed to the Right Honorable John Earl of Stair.
By the author of Junius’s Letters. The ninth edition.
Dublin:
Printed for W. Wilson, No. 6, Dame-street,
1783
84-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
There were three Dublin “ninth editions” published in 1783: this
present, one printed for Moncrieffe and others and a third for Exshaw
and Byrne. This Wilson printing is known to ESTC by eight copies:
D(5), MY(2) and Dt - none in UK, Europe or USA. “Ironically titled,
this attack on Shelbourne includes a section on American affairs. “ -
Adams, The American Controversy, 82-62j, noting only the Moncrieffe
printing. “O’Bryen (1755–1832), playwright and political pamphleteer,
277