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Southey, Scott, and Crabbe. Apparently Campbell complained of not
being included. Of the that of his own style, Byron remarked: “Tell the
author I forgive him, were he twenty times our satirist … Parodies give,
as a rule, a bad impression of the originals, but in the `Rejected
Addresses” the reverse is the fact”.
(2)
SKINNER (John).
Amusements of Leisure Hours: or
poetical pieces, chiefly in the Scottish dialect. To which is
prefixed, a sketch of the author’s life, with some remarks on
Scottish poetry.
Edinburgh: Printed by John Muir, and sold by Stuart
Cheyne … Alexander Brown …,
1809. FIRST EDITION, 144-
pages, large 12mo, original boards, uncut, with printed paper
spine label: spine a little worn but the binding strong, otherwise
a nice copy in original state.
Edited by his son. Includes `Tullochgorum’, called by Burns the best
Scots song Scotland ever saw. This was not an isolated success, as
Skinner was one of the finest Scottish song writers.
(3)
GORLE (James).
Sacred Poems.
Printed for J. G. F. & J.
Rivington,
1841. FIRST EDITION, pages xvi, 123, (1) and
advert leaf, 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth, by Remnant &
Edmonds, with their ticket: library label on front endpaper and
discreet library number on spine, and still a bright, fresh and
attractive copy
Gorle, a graduate of Clare College, Cambridge, was curate of the
village of Sheldon in Warwickshire - an association amply reflected in
the 9-page list of subscribers.
(4)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
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ORANGE INSTITUTION.
Rules and Regulations for
the government of the Orange Institution, as revised and
corrected; 1813.
Manchester: Printed by C. Wheeler and Son,
1814
Pages (2),27, (3, blank), with half-title, 8vo, contemporary,
possibly original, dark blue paper wrappers: stitching loose, a
fingered, but very good copy with the small oval stamp of the
King William Lodge 194, Packet House Inn, Haigh.
Not traced in any of the usual sources, though there is a copy in D on-
line. The Orange Order or Institution, found in Ireland in 1795, spread
to Great Britain, with its headquarters till 1821 in Manchester, when it
moved to London.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1160
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OREGON.
Canada and the Oregon. The Backwoods of
Canada: being letters from the wife [Catherine Parr Traill née
Strickland] of an emigrant officer, illustrative of the domestic
economy of British America, to which is appended an account
of the country of the Oregon. M. A. Nattali, 1849 [with:] The
Oregon Territory, consisting of a brief description of the
country and its productions; and of the habits and manners of
the native indian tribes. With a map of the territory. M. A.
Nattali, 1846.
M. A. Nattali,
1849-46
I. With 16 full-page illustrs (including 2 maps), pages (4), 351.
II. With frontispiece map, pages (2), 78, in 1 vol, large 12mo,
original green cloth: binding a little dull but sound and strong,
with some light internal browning and staining, but in good to
very good state.
Howes conjectures that the anonymous author of the second item was
probably a Hudson’s Bay employee. An entirely different work with a
similar title was issued by Knight in the same year and was also bound
with Mrs Traill’s work.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MACKINNON (Lauchlan
Bellingham), R. N.
Atlantic and Transatlantic: sketches afloat
and ashore.
New York: Harper & Brothers,
1852. FIRST
AMERICAN EDITION, pages 324, 8(adverts), (2, blank), cr
8vo, original cloth: the binding lightly and evenly faded but
sound and strong, and with a very faint old water stain in the
lower margins, otherwise a crisp, clean copy.
Staton & Tremaine 8217. With some 40-pp on the Falklands. The
appendix includes a section on the history and construction of plank
roads in Canada and the USA.
(2)
MACKAY (Alexander).
The Crisis in Canada; or,
vindication of Lord Elgin and his cabinet as to the course
pursued by them in reference to the Rebellion Losses Bill.
James
Ridgway,
1849. FIRST EDITION, pages 67, (1, blank), 8vo,
recent paper wrapper: faint old oil stain in the blank margin of
the first three leaves, otherwise a very good copy.
With a three-line presentation inscription by the author on the title-
page.
(3)
LYDEKKER (John Wolfe).
The Faithful Mohawks.
Cambridge U. P.,
1938. FIRST EDITION, with a folding map
and 15 plates, pages xii, (4),206, 8vo, original cloth: the binding
lightly discoloured but still a very good copy.
Survey of British relations with the Mohawk Indians during the
eighteenth century, culled mainly from the archives of the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel.
(4)
BARBAROUX (Charles O.).
Résumé de l’histoire des
Éats-Unis d’Amérique. Deuxièm édition. [bound with:]
[BODIN (Félix)] Défense des Résumés historiques.
Paris,
Lecointe et Durey
1824. Together two works in one volume, pages
(6), 356: 27, 12mo, contemporary half calf: the spine worn, but
the binding still strong and internally in very good state.
Sabin 3298. Possibly published together (they share the same printer,
publisher and date), but the NUC does not have a similar combination,
noting only the DLC and MH copies of the `Défense’. Barbaroux(1792-
1867), son of a French revolutionary guillotined in 1794, dedicated this
work to General Lafayette. It became a popular and oft-reprinted text
book for students of both the French language and American history.
(5)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1161
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ORIENTAL SPORTING MAGAZINE.
The Oriental
Sporting Magazine from June, 1828, to June, 1833. In two
volumes.
Henry S. King & Co., London (Beccles printed),
1873
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, pages viii, 492: viii, 436 and
31, (1) advertisements for C. Kegan Paul’s publications dated
10. 80, and with the small single-line stamp of ‘Thacker & Co.,
Ld., Bombay’ on both front flyleaves,2 vols, 8vo, original red
cloth, gilt: light scattered foxing of prelimiary leaves, one very
small section working loose, all four inside joints intact: an
attractive and very good to nice copy.
Complete thus: reprinting the Bombay edition vols one-five, Jun 1828 to
June 1833
(2)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1162
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OTHO (Georgius).
Palæstra linguarum Orientalium: hoc
est: quatuor primorum capitum Geneseos, I. textus originalis
tam ex Judæorum quàm Samaritanorum traditionibus. II.
Targumim seu paraphrases Orientales præcipuæ, nempe I.
Chaldaicæ, (Onkelosi, Jonathanis et Hierosolymitana) II.
Syriaca, III. Samaritana, IV. Arabica, V. Æthiopica, VI. Persica
omnia cum versione Latinâ, ex Bibliis polyglottis Anglicanis
maximam partem desumta & eo fine seorsum edita, ut &
linguarum studiosi habeant, in quibus sese exerceant, et alii
præstantiam ac utilitatem harum paraphrasium hinc tanquam
ex ungue leonem perspicuè cognoscant... Accedit brevis
ejusdem de scopo & usu hujus opusculi præfatio, &
qualecunque specimen: et omnium quæ in IV. his capitibus
earumque paraphrasibus occurrunt vocum index alphabeticus,
qui lexici vicem supplere queat.
Francofurti ad Moenum: Impensis
Friderici Knochii. Typis Martini Jacqueti,
1702
Pages (18), 140; 147, (3, errata), 4to, later half divinity-style calf
over marbled boards: a very good to nice copy.
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