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born in Ireland. He became a surgeon but relinquished the profession
and settled in London. The work that first brought him notoriety was
the ironical Defence of the earl of Shelburne … a mock-defence … it
provoked replies from William Petty, first marquess of Lansdowne. ” –
ODNB.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HOBART (John),2nd Earl of
Buckinghamshire: -.
A review of the conduct of His
Excellency John, Earl of Buckinghamshire, Lord Lieutenant
General, and General Governor of Ireland, during his
administration in that kingdom; in a letter addressed to a noble
lord.
Dublin: Printed for L. Flin, No. 15, Castle-Street.
1781. FIRST
(ONLY) EDITION, pages vii, (1, blank),51, (1, blank), wanting
half-title, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good copy.
Hobart (1723–93), a man of great charm, but of weak character,
described as the ‘most discredited and disgraced lord lieutenant of the
period 1777–1811’ (Malcomson).
(2)
CHURCHILL (Sarah), Duchess of Marlborough.
An
account of the conduct of the dowager Dutchess of
Marlborough, from her first coming to court, to the year 1710.
In a letter from herself to my lord —-.
Dublin: Printed for W.
Smith, in Dame-street, J. Smith on the Blind-quay; and G. Faulkner,
in Essex-street,
1742. Pages 171, (1, adverts), 12mo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
A reissue, with cancel title page, of the 1742 edition printed by George
Faulkner. Of this edition ESTC locates only copies at L, C, Di;
CaQMBM, CSmH, WMM and IU. Written with the assistance of
Nathaniel Hooke - for which he was apparently handsomely paid by
her.
(3)
YOUNG (Edward).
A vindication of providence: or, a
true estimate of human llife. In which the passions are
considered in a new light. Preach’d in St. George’s Church near
Hanover-Square, soon after the late king’s death. The fourth
edition corrected.
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for George Risk …,
1734. Pages (8), 64, 12mo, recent paper wrapper: a sound, but
used and fingered copy.
(4)
[BUSHE (Charles Kendal)].
The Union. Cease your
funning.
Dublin: Printed by James Moore, No. 45, College-Green
1798. FIRST EDITION, pages 45, (1, adverts), 8vo, recent
paper wrapper: wanting the half-title and the final page evenly
dusty but otherwise a very good copy.
McCormack C11. Satirical attack on Edw Cooke’s Arguments for and
against a Union (1798).
(5)
GRATTAN (Henry).
An answer, to a pamphlet entitled,
The speech of the Earl of Clare, on the subject of a legislative
union, between Great Britain and Ireland. Fifth edition, with
considerable additions.
Dublin: Printed for J. Moore,
1800. Pages
(2), ii,52, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good to nice copy.
McCormack A17. Edition statement at head of title.
(6)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1148
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[O’CONNELL (Daniel)].
Historical account of the laws
against the Roman-Catholics of England.
[London:] Printed by
Luke Hansard & Sons, for Keating, Brown, & Co. … and Fitzpatrick
& Coyne, Dublin,
1811
FIRST EDITION, pages 51, (1, blank), (2, adverts for books
published by Keating, Brown, and Keating), 8vo, recent
marbled paper boards, with label: the title-page lightly dusty,
but otherwise a large, uncut, and in great part unopened, copy.
His first published work, remarkably scarce in commerce: NSTC locates
four copies (L, C, O & E), all, excepting O, ascribing authorship to
O’Connell. “While in popular esteem O’Connell is the quintessential
Irish national champion, his international significance is
underestimated. He was a key figure in the emergence of European
democracy and no Irish person before or since has commanded so much
attention on the continent as he did in his lifetime. Similarly forgotten
to a large extent is his role as an advocate of the rights of those civilly
disadvantaged such as Jews, black slaves, and Australian Aborigines.
Universalist and nationalist, champion of the weak and truculent
bully, man of principle and shameless opportunist, O’Connell remains,
like Napoleon or Gladstone, one of those figures with whom historians
will never even imagine that they have finished. “ - ODNB.
€400-€500 (£320-£400 approx.)
1149
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O’CON(N)OR (Bonaventure), OFM.
Lumen
orthodoxum, spargens duodecim radios illustrioris præ cæteris
lucis, & ignis, fidei Cathol. emicantes ex q. 2. prologi senten.
enthei viri Ioan. Duns Scoti …
Bulsani, [printed by Carlo Girardi?]
in Typographia Archiduc,
1661
FIRST EDITION, pages 24, 390, (2, errata leaf), complete with
the half-title, small 8vo, contemporary vellum: upper corner of
one leaf torn off just touching, but without loss of, text, the
binding rubbed and worn but sound and strong and otherwise a
very good copy.
Sweeney 3219. A notably rare work by this Irish Franciscan, native of
Kerry and proudly so in that he subscribed his name as “O. Conoro
Kieriae” on the works he wrote in Latin during the twelve years he
spent in the Tyrol at the Francisan study-house at Bolzano in the north
of Italy. This is the third, possibly the second, oldest example of
printing at Bolzano: the first recorded printing there, Theses
Theologicae, is ascribed to O’Con(n)or and is said to have appeared in
1658, possibly it was only a single sheet but no copy has survived.
O’Con(n)or joined the Franciscans and was in charge of studies at
Bolzano for twelve years from 1648. He became lecturer in theology in
Prague in 1661 at a time when the habit of alternating lecttruers - to
satisfy different factions whose rivalry carried over from the wars in
Ireland - had incurred the displeasure of Cardinal von Harrach
(Sweeney). Though acknowledged by his community as a man of
outstanding abilities, his capriciousness lead to conflict. This, his
compendium of Catholic teaching was compiled for the consolation of
the faithful and as a handy vade-mecum for Irish missionaries who, he
attests, were frequently going to England to spread the faith. He divides
his exposition into twelve arguments, which he calls twelve rays of
light, to illustrate and prove the truth of the Catholic faith. Like most of
his fellow Franciscans, O’Con(n)or was an ardent promoter of the
teachings of their fellow Franciscan, John Duns Scotus, whom,
O’Con(n)or believed, was a native of Ireland, and the Franciscans
were, consequently, a potent force in disseminating his opinions
throughout Europe (Giblin).
€1,500-€2,250 (£1,200-£1,800 approx.)
1150
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O’CONOR (Charles),
ed.
Rerum Hibernicarum
scriptores …
Buckinghamiae, excudebat J. Seeley, veneunt apud T.
Payne, Londini,
1814-25-26-26
With 14 plates (5 folding), pages (2), v, (1, blank), ii, cclxxvi;
(2), xl, xxxvii (bis) - xxxviii, xliii, xliii (bis) - clxxxiv; (11), vi -
xxxviii, xxxvii (bis) - ccvii, (1, errata): (1), xxxii, 6, (2, blank), 7
-74, (2), 75 - 128, 128b(verso blank), 129 - 148, 149b(verso
blank), 149 - 317, (3); (5), xii, 156; (3), viii - ix, (1, blank); 83,
(1); (2), 48, (1), (1, blank): (4), xxxii, (4), 840 and errata leaf:
(8), 192; (4), 193 - 344, 341(bis) - 402, (4),25, 1 blank, 4 vols,
large 4to, handsomely bound in modern cloth, gilt lettered
spines: a large, crisp and attractive copy.
Ony 200 sets were printed. Privately published. One of the most
important and valuable books ever written on the antiquities of
Ireland. In this ambitious and costly work, O’Conor (1764-1828), RC
priest and scholar, draws attention to the existence of early Irish
documents, compares versions of Irish manuscripts between Stowe and
other libraries, includes the first facsimile of the Book of Durrow and
initiates the controversy, which raged through most of the 20C, as to
which manuscripts are Irish and which Anglo-Saxon, publishes the first
facsimiles of some and provides translations into Latin. O’Conor’s
scholarship was not equal to the task and by the later 19C these
volumes were no longer consulted, their value becoming
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