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in the Abbe’s account of the revolution of Amreica [sic] are
corrected and cleared up.
London: printed for J. Ridgeway, M,
DCC,. XII [sic]
[1792]. Pages (5), 6 - 36, large 12mo, recent paper
wrapper: light foxing, but a very good copy.
A late printing of Paine’s defence of the American Revolution, with the
imprint date incorrectly stated, page 10 numbered ‘01’ and page 35,
frequently printed as ‘3’, here corrected. An issue not in the Thetford
catalogue. ESTC locates some twelve copies.
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PAINE (Thomas).
The Rights of Man; part the second.
Combining principle and practice. The sixth edition.
London:
Printed for J. S. Jordan, No. 166, Fleet-Street,
1792. Pages 103, (1,
blank), large 12mo, recent paper wrapper: lightly toned and with
the lower outer corner of leaf C1 torn off with very slight loss: a
very good copy.
Thetford Catalogue 281. An uncommon issue: ESTC locates copies at
L, C, Luu / DLC, CLU.
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€300-€400 (£240-£320 approx.)
1167
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PALLAVICINO (Pietro Sforza), S. J.
Istoria del
Concilio di Trento … Nuovamente ritoccata dall’ autore …
Roma, per Biagio Diversin, e Felice Cesaretti …,
1664
SECOND AND BEST EDITION, pages (40, last leaf blank),
862, (58): (12), 806, (18, last leaf, 4L4, blank), (60, last leaf
blank): (8), 885, (17), (2, blank), (52), with half-titles, 3 vols, 4to,
near contemporary calf, gilt bordered spines, fully gilt and
lettered spines: two leaves misbound, without loss, the small
centre of the ornament at the conclusion of libro II (leaf Z4) in
volume one has been cut out with some loss of text on recto,
some light marginal staining, but not serious, the headbands
worn and with some cracked joints but all three bindings sound
and strong, and still an attractive, strongly bound and well-
margined set.
The odious and hostile account of the Council of Trent by Sarpi
appeared as early as 1619 under a fictitious name (Historia del Concilio
Tridentino, nella quale si scoprono tutti gli artifici della corte di Roma...
di Pietro Soave Pollano, London, 1619). Several Catholic scholars had
already begun to collect the material for a refutation … but none had
been able to finish the gigantic undertaking. Contelorio and the Jesuit,
Alciati, in particular, had collected a rich mass of material and had
already begun.., when Alciati died suddenly in 1651. Pallavicino by
order of the pope was now to take up the work anew … he utilized all
the available material gathered by Contelorio and Alciati, and added
much that was new from Roman and non-Roman archives.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HUET (Pierre-Daniel).
Demonstratio Evangelica, ad serenissimum Delphinum. Octava
editio, & prima Venetiis recognita, pluribusque mendis
expurgata. In duos tomos divisa.
Venetiis, ex thypographia [sic]
Josephi Lovisae,
1733. The title-pages with large device, pages
(22), 160, 157(bis) - 188, 193 - 425: (2), 429 - 826, complete in
spite of erratic pagination,2 vols, 4to, contemporary limp
vellum: the vellum lifting, but the bindings strong and internally
in clean state: a very good copy.
Huet (1630-1721), Bishop of Avranches, native of Caen, one of the
most promising scholars of his time. During the famous ‘Ancients and
Moderns’ dispute he took the side of the Ancients against Perrault and
Desmarets. He was ppointed assistant tutor to the Dauphin in 1670 and
edited, with the assistance of Anne Lefvre, afterwards Madame Dacier,
the well-known Delphin Classics series. He was admitted to the
Academy in 1674 and in 1679 issued this, one of his greatest works,
first published 1679, against the Tractatus theologico-politicus of
Spinoza, in which he attempts to give mathematical proof for the truth
of Biblical writings.
(3)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1168
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PANTON (Edward).
Speculum Juventutis: or, a true
mirror; where errors in breeding noble and generous youth, with
the miseries and mischiefs that usually attend it, are clearly
made manifest; as likewise remedies for every growing evil.
Portray’d to the life in the legend of Sisaras and Vallinda.
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pp (16), 403, (1, blank), (3, adverts),
small 8vo, contemporary unlettered calf, wih old neat repair to
headband: the licence leaf neatly repaired with loss to a small
portion of the blank margin only: a very good, unpressed copy
Wing P. 277. Newberry, Courtesy Books, 1093. Only edition of a
strange book, half novel and half educational treatise, written in the
form of a conversation or dialogue in the Castle of Tinoe, the home of a
Flowerdelucian nobleman called Dorilas. The ‘improving’ parts are
spatchcocked into a story of frustrated love, elopements, duels and
voyages recounted by Sisaras himself (Grinke).
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1169
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PAPER CREDIT.
Some thoughts on the nature of paper-
credit, relative to the late failures of bankers and receivers in
Ireland. By a Free-Citizen.
Dublin: Printed in the Year
1759
FIRST EDITION,24-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very
good copy.
Kress 5816. Wagner 277. With, at end, “A Scheme for supplying the
broken banks with cash”, signed J—-n T—-w, i. e. John Tew, Lord
Mayor of Dublin. A London edition, entitled “Paper-credit considered”
was published later in the same year.
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
1170
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PARKER (Thomas Netherson).
An essay, or practical
inquiry concerning the hanging & fastening of gates and
wickets, with plates.
Printed by J. Whiting, at the Cicero Press, for
Lackington, Allen, & Co.,
1801
FIRST EDITION, with 4 engraved plates, pages (4), (2, advert
leaf),57, complete with the half-title, 8vo, a very good copy,
neatly bound in modern cloth.
Parker, a landed gentleman, was a natural ‘inventor’ and turned his
mind to improving a wide range of mechanical devices.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
CREMONA (Luigi).
Two
treatises on the graphical calculus and reciprocal figures in
graphical statics. Translated by Thomas Hudson Beare. 1890. a
bright, fresh and attractive copy.
A key work. Cremona (1830-1903), originator of graphical statics (the
study of forces in equilibrium using graphical methods), Italian
mathematician, devoted his life to the study of higher geometry and
reforming the more advanced mathematical teaching in Italy. Known
particularly for his work in projective geometry and graphical statics, he
availed of this first English edition of his most important work to make
some revisions and has added a new preface to each of the two treatises.
(2)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1171
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PARNELL (Henry Brooke), first Baron Congleton.
A
history of the penal laws against the Irish Catholics, from the
Treaty of Lmerick to the Union.
Dublin: Printed by H. Fitzpatrick,
1808
FIRST EDITION, pages (2),226, xxxii, 8vo, recent paper
boards: a very good copy.
Parnell (1776–1842), a strong advocate of Catholic emancipation and
of economic and political liberalisation in general (supported
broadening of the franchise, freedom of labour and of capital, abolition
of the corn laws, abolition of flogging and impressment, etc.), and, like
his father, voted against the Union in 1799-1800. Shortly afterwards he
became involved in the question of the Irish currency and of its
subsequent amalgamation with the pound sterling. The economic
expertise that he so gained made a powerful influence in the British
parliament and brought him ministerial office. This, his most
influential work on the Catholic Question, was several times reprinted
in later years.
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