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backed fancy boards: fine.
No 14 of 70 copies printed, on handmade paper, signed and numbered
by Sands.
(3)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1175
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PASQUIER (Etienne).
Les recherches de la France …
Reveuës & augmentées d’vn livre, & de plusieurs chapitres par la
mesme autheur.
Paris, Laurent Sonnius,
1607
With engraved portrait, pp (20), 776, 773(bis) - 1175, (1, blank),
(83, index), (1, privilege), 4to, strongly bound in contemporary
vellum: title-page lightly frayed in fore-edge (no loss), some light
marginal pencil marks, light browning and spotting: a good-very
good copy.
Uncommon edition, penultimate life-time edition: book seven here first
published. Pasquier (1529-1615), a learned French jurist, renowned for
this particular work - the first book of which was first published in 1560,
and the whole, posthumously, in 1621. It includes much miscellaneous
information relating to the history of France, its literature, and the
university of Paris, all told in a pleasant ingenuous style, without
pedantry. He favours toleration and condemns religious wars, and is
especially hostile to the claims of the Vatican to interfere in French
affairs
€200-€300 (£160-£240 approx.)
1176
.
[PEACOCK (Thomas Love)].
Rhododaphne: or The
Thessalian Spell. A poem.
Printes for T. Hookham, Jun. and
Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy,
1818
FIRST EDITION, pages xi, (1, blank), 181, (1), with the half-
title, large 12mo, original blue paper boards, uncut, with printed
paper spine label: with a barely perceptible stain in the lower
inner blank margin and the lower board loose, with the armorial
bookplate of Godfrey E. Arkwright and the later pencil
signature of Anthony R. Wagner, dated 22 Aug. 1945, but still a
very good, uncut copy
A narrative poem, his most ambitious, which was immediately described
by Shelley in an unpublished review for ‘The Examiner’, as ‘the
transfused essence of Lucian, Petronius and Apuleius, ‘ and later by
Edgar Allan Poe as ‘brimful of music.
€300-€400 (£240-£320 approx.)
1177
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PEACOCK (Thomas Love).
The works of Thomas Love
Peacock, including his novels, poems, fugitive pieces, criticisms,
etc., with a preface by the Right Hon. Lord Houghton, a
biographical notice by his grand-daughter, Edith Nicolls, and
portrait. Edited by Henry Cole.
Richard Bentley and Son,
1875
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, portrait, pp lii, 378, (2, ads):
(4), 476: viii, 471, (1), 3 vols, 8vo, original brown cloth: very little
wear at headbands, otherwise very good-nice.
First collected eiditon of the works of Peacock (1785-1866), satirist,
essayist, and poet, who remained a close friend of Shelley following their
initial meeting in 1812.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
URQUHART (Henry John).
Poems, Sacred and Classical.
Hamilton, Adams, and Co., Benson
and Barling, Weymouth,
1845. FIRST EDITION, pp xvi,257, 8vo,
original red cloth, with label, gilt: a very good copy, inscribed
“July 29th 1851-/ To [?]Nora J. Burgess / with the author’s kind
regards / HJU. “
An eccentric collection of poems, on local and family events, classical
and lyrical themes, &c., by this Dorset clergyman (1798-1862), based at
St. Mary’s, Melcombe Regis and a late fellow of New College, Oxford.
The only edition of his sole published verse collection: NSTC and
COPAC both have BL and NLS copies only.
(2)
[PAGET (Francis E.)].
The Owlet of Owlstone Edge; his
travels, his experience, his lucubrations. By the author of “S.
Antholin’s”, &c. Third edition.
J. Masters
1857. With
frontispiece, pp (4),236 + 35, (1) (ads), small 8vo, orig cloth, gilt:
very good-nice
Wolff 5370. Amusing satirical tale reflecting his views on church &
social reforms
(5)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1178
.
PEARD (Wm.), M. D.
A Year of Liberty: or, salmon
angling in Ireland from February 1 to November 1 (1865).
Horace
Cox,
1867
FIRST EDITION, pages xii, 300 and errata slip, 8vo, recent
boards: a very good copy.
The classic work on salmon angling in Victorian Ireland.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MacNEILL (John G. Swift).
Titled Corruption. The sordid origin of some Irish peerages.
T.
Fisher Unwin,
1894. FIRST EDITION, pages vii, 140, (1), (3,
blank) and 40-pages adverts dated 1893-94, 8vo, original cloth: a
very good copy.
(2)
HANDCOCK (Wm. Domville).
The history and
antiquities of Tallaght, County Dublin.
Dublin: Hodges, Foster, and
Figgis,
1877. FIRST EDITION, with 2 plates, 131-pp, small 8vo,
original red cloth, gilt: binding stained but strong and with the
occasional internal fingermark, but still, a good, sound copy.
(3)
ELLIS (George).
socially and politically considered;
embracing a general outline of the Celtic and Saxon races; with
practical inferences. 1852. a very good to nice copy.
An interesting attempt at impartiality and a decidedly uncommon book
even though NSTC does locate seven copies.
(4)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1179
.
PECK (Francis).
Academia tertia Anglicana; or, the
Antiquarian Annals of Stanford in Lincoln, Rutland, and
Northampton Shires, containing the history of the University,
Monasteries, Gilds, Churches, Chapels, Hospitals, and Schools
there, etc.... in XIV. books. (The Survey and antiquitie of the
Towne of Stamford... by R. Butcher... to which are added two
letters about the original and antiquities of Stanford by... W.
Forster).
London: Printed for the Author by James Bettenham in the
year
1727
FIRST EDITION, with a large folding engraved frontispiece by
G. Vander Gucht after P. Tillemans dated 1719, 33 engraved
plates, 4 text engravings and engraved vignette title-page, pages
xvi,26; 48; 36; 26; 18; 22; 24; 56; 58; 24; 68; 43; 14; 74; 24; vi,
31; 17, with the 4-page subscriber list, 18 parts in 1 vol, folio,
contemporary calf: the binding worn and rubbed, wanting spine
label, the frontispiece lightly toned with a small hole in the upper
blank margin, nonetheless, a well-margined, clean, unpressed
and very good copy.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1180
.
PENN (Wm.).
A defence of a paper, entituled Gospel-
Truths, against the exceptions of the Bishop of Cork’s
Testimony.
Printed and Sold by T. Sowle,
1698
FIRST EDITION, pages (6), 119, (1, blank), (8, adverts),
wanting the initial blank leaf but with the 4 leaves of adverts at
end, signed A1-4 and dated 1697, for books printed and sold by
Sowle, 12mo, contemporary unlettered sheep, the spine repaired
retaining most of the original backstrip and retaining the original
endleaves and flyleaves: a very good copy.
Wing P 1273. Sweeney, Ireland and the Printed Word, 3369,
“important and scarce”, indicating no copy in Irish libraries. In this
issue the top right serif of the “I” in “exceptions” in line 6 of title is not
broken and page 2, line 4, reads “GOD grant, to his Glory, and their
Peace”. Includes a reprinting of “Gospel-truths held” (Wing G
1314A?), dated 1698 as well as a printing of the testimony of the Bishop
of Cork, Edward Wettenhall (1636-1713) - the latter being one of the
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