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seven bishops who remained in Ireland during the troubles which began
in 1688.
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
1181
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PENNANT (Thomas).
Arctic Zoology.
Printed by Henry
Hughs,
1784-85
FIRST EDITION, with engraved vignette title-pages,24 engraved
plates and 2 large, neatly linen-backed, folding maps, pages (10),
cc, (5), (1, blank), 185, (1, blank): (3), 188-586, (12) and errata
leaf,2 vols, 4to, near contemporary calf, gilt panelled sides, by
Winstanley of Manchester, with ticket in both vols, recently and
neatly rebacked: a very good copy.
The rare first edition of an important work on the zoology of N.
America, notably Canada. The greater part of it is devoted to birds, but
the lengthy introduction contains considerable material on geography,
geology and archaeology in addition to zoology and plates of rock
formations and antiquities as well as birds and mammals are included. A
supplement followed in 1787. but is not present here.
(2)
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1182
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[PERCEVAL (John), Earl of Egmont].
The question of
the precedency of the peers of Ireland in England, fairly stated.
In a letter to an English lord, by a nobleman of the other
kingdom.
Dublin: Printed in the year
1739
FIRST EDITION, pp (2), vi, 110, (2, blank), 8vo, half calf over
marbled boards: light foxing of endleaves and binding rubbed at
corners but sound and strong, otherwise very good
In this first edition it is stated in the preface that it was published without
the author’s knowledge or consent and the London edition which followed
much later in 1761 refers to this original 1739 edition as “never publickly
sold”.
€120-€150 (£96-£120 approx.)
1183
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PEREZ DE HITA (Gines).
Las Guerras Civiles; or the
Civil Wars of Granada; and the history of the factions of the
Zegries and Abencerrages, two noble families of that city, to the
final conquest by Ferdinand and Isabella. Translated from the
Arabic of Abenhamin, a native of Granada, by Gines Perez de
Hita, of Murcia [or rather written by him]; and from the Spanish
by Thomas Rodd. Vol. I.
Printed by J. Bonsor, for the Author, and
sold by Vernor and Hodd and Chapple,
1801
FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, ALL
PUBLISHED, pp xvii, (2), xviii-xix, (1, adverts), 438, without
half-title, 8vo, later half vellum, gilt: Denis Florence MacCarthy’s
copy, signed by him, from Summerfield House, Dalkey, and an
initialled five-line note by him concerning the second volume, his
armorial bookplate, and, tipped in, a 3-pp ALS from a London
bookseller (G. Bunnstead?) Jan. 29, 1862, on the supply of this
particular volume and other Spanish books he had ordered: a
strongly bound and very good to nice copy.
The first edition in English of any part of this classic of world literature:
the promised second volume, though written, was never published. “A
major historical novel. This, the first part, is a remarkable work of fiction
on a basis of history, but interspersed with frontier and Moorish ballads
already circulating out of context and ending with the fall of Granada in
1492. It inspired dozens of imitations, including Washington Irving’s
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada (1829), and many by French
writers … Scudery … Fayette …Chateaubriand… “ - Ward, OCSL.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1184. PETTY (Sir Wm.), FRS. The Political Anatomy of
Ireland. With the establishment for that kingdom when the
late Duke of Ormond was Lord Lieutenant. Taken from the
records. To which is added Verbum sapienti; or an account of
the wealth and expenses of England, and the method of raising
taxes in the most equal manner. Shewing also, that the nation
can bear the charge of four millions per annum, when the
occasions of the government require it …
Printed for D. Brown,
and W. Rogers …,
1691
FIRST EDITION, pages (16),205, (1, blank); (2),24, “Verbum
sapienti”, has separate half-title and pagination; the signatures
are continuous, 8vo, ontemporary calf, neatly and
sympathetically rebacked with a pleasing, period style label,
gilt: with the armorial bookplate of “William Talbot, Lord
Bishop of Oxford, 1702” on verso of title-page: some brown
spotting, but a very good copy, pleasingly bound.
Wing P 1931. Keynes 37. Editor’s dedication signed: N. Tate. Petty
(1623–87), physician, scientist, and administrator. This classic work
is a valuable source on the housing, health, diet, clothing, mortality,
trade, wealth, poverty and occupation of the Irish people. “The best
of his works … valuable alike for the authentic information it affords
respecting the state of Ireland in the latter part of the 17th century,
and for the judicious suggestions … with a view to its improvement. “
- McCulloch. “ … (his) writings … show Petty’s formidable
intellectual prowess, especially as the originator of statistical analysis
under the name of political arithmetic. “ - ODNB. “In his ventures,
he applied the doctrine that all should and could be reduced to
‘number, weight, and measure’. This rigorously statistical method
was expounded in his writings. Notable were his contributions to an
analytical demography first of London, and then of Dublin and
Ireland. His extended treatment of Ireland … mingled orthodox
description with quantitative and qualitative evaluation. He
advocated nostrums, some prophetic, others wildly impractical. He
proposed, for example, that Ireland be legally united with England,
and that peoples be transferred between the two kingdoms. “ - CDIB.
€1,200-€1,500 (£960-£1,200 approx.)
1185
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PHILO, Judaeus.
Scriptoris eloquentissimi, ac philosophi
summi, lububrationes omnes quotquot haberi potuerunt, nunc
primum Latinae ex Graecis factae, per Sigismundum Gelenium.
Addito in fine rerum memorandarum indice foecundissimo.
Lugduni, apud Ioannem Temporalem,
1555
With woodcut printer’s device on title-page, pages (8), 870, (2,
blank), (56), 8vo, later half calf, gilt ruled and lettered spine, with
label, gilt: old crossed-out ink inscription on the blank portion of
the title-page, a single, very small wormhole extending to the first
three hundred leaves, some light old staining, but still a very good
or better copy with the Colonel Cooper armorial bookplate and
the Markree Library label.
A variant imprint of the first separate edition in Latin. Philo of
Alexandria (c. 25 BC - c 50 AD), a Greek-speaking Jewish philosopher
and theologian whose attempt to synthesize revealed faith and
philosophical reason fore-shadowed later developments in Christian
theology.
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1186
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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS: - JONES
(Henry), FRS.
The Philosophical Transactions (From the year
1700, to the year 1720) abridg’d, and dispos’d under general
heads. In two volumes. By Henry Jones, M. A. and Fellow of
King’s College in Cambridge. Vol. IV. containing Part I. The
mathematical pepers. Part II. The physiological papers. The third
edition corrected. In which the Latin Papers are now first
translated into English.
London: Printed for W. Innys, R. Ware, J and
J. Knapton (and eight others) …,
1749
With 19 folding engraved plates, pages (16), 476: 326, (8),
complete with the imprimatur leaf, 4to, recent paper boards: a
very good to nice copy.
Includes papers by Newton, Halley, Flamstead, de Moivre, Papin, and
others.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
LARDNER (Dionysius).
An
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