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Nixon of Maria Isabella of Somerset, Duchess of Rutland, to
whom there is a 25pp dedicatory poem (“L’ombra di Pope”), pp
(2),248, small 8vo, contemporary Italian vellum, gilt lettered
spine: very good.
Of this edition WorldCat notes only two copies at the British Library.
ESTC [sic] notes the same two copies and suggests Leghorn as the place
or printing.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SCHILLER (Johann C. F. von).
William Tell. An historical play from the German … with notes
and illustrations by William Peter. Second edition.
Luzern.
Printed for A. Gebhardt. London: Williams & Norgate
1867. Pages
viii,200, large 12mo, attractive original printed paper boards:
wanting the backstrip but the binding strong and otherwise a
nice copy. Morgan 8231.
(2)
WENDEBORN (Gebhardt Friedrich August.).
An
Introduction to German Grammar. By F. A. Wendeborn. The
fifth edition, in which the exercises are inserted in their proper
places.
Printed by Hamblin and Seyfang, for T. Boosey...,
1810. With
a plate, pp xii, 403, (5, ads), 12mo, light browning, but very
good in recent boards
An edition not in NUC. Wendeborn spent some twenty years in London
and, in 1791, published `A View of England’, translated from his own
German original.
(3)
RITCHIE (Leitch).
Travelling Sketches in the north of Italy,
the Tyrol, and on the Rhine … From drawings by Clarkson
Stanfield, Esq.
Longman, Rees …,
1832. FIRST EDITION, with
an additional engraved vignette title-page, a frontispiece and 24
engraved plates of views after drawings by Clarkson Stanfield,
pages iv, (4),256 and errata slip, 8vo, original publisher’s red
morocco, gilt, edges gilt, by F. Westley, with their ticket: with
some light foxing, but still an attractive copy.
Faxon 1401. Heath’s Picturesque Annual, 1832. The first year of issue.
(4)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1192
.
[PIGOTT (Richard)].
Parnellism. By an Irish
Nationalist.
Dublin (no publisher or printer)
1885
FIRST EDITION, pp (4),50, 8vo, contemporary unletered
cloth-backed boards: very good
The historian and bibliographer of the nationalist struggle, P. S.
O’Hegarty, attributed this work to the Parnell forger Richard Pigott. In
his short preface the anonymous author declares that “His patriotism
has personally profited him nothing - nor did he hope or expect that it
would. He has never had a ‘testimonial’, and never a ‘hat’ has
circulated to reward him. “ This is the first edition which, after one
further issue in 1885, was taken up as a propaganda tool for the newly
founded Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union in 1886. Copies of this
virulent but informed attack on the Land League and its finances are
uncommon.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
FOSTER (Cavendish H.).
Home-Rule. Irishmen, remember that if you are separated from
England as to your legislature, you must raise your own taxes to
replace those now paid by the imperial parliament for your
military and police, & your judicial and county courts. At
present you have no assessed taxes, no excise dutites on
railways. These exemptions amount to £4,000,000. Irish
members also will have no voice in the imperial parliament, and
Ireland will be no more than a colony. Think well over these
facts. Cavendish H. Foster. Feb. 7, 1874.
No place, printer or
publisher [Dublin?]
1874. BROADSIDE,28 by 45 cms, printed on
one side only: folded twice, an excellent copy.
A rare anti-home rule poster. Foster is not represented on-line in either
NLI or TCD.
(2)
IRISH HOME RULE.
Speech of …W. E. Gladstone, M. P.
introducing the Home Rule Bill, Thursday, 8th April, 1886.
Printed at the Office of the “Belfast Morning News” (1886).
[with:] Speech of …W. E. Gladstone, M. P., introducing the
Land Purchase Bill. Printed at the office of the Belfast Morning
News [1886]. 1886. (1). Drop-title, 16-pages. (2). Pages 13, (3,
blank), both items printed in double columns, 8vo, disbound: in
very good state.
On 13 March 1886 the Land Bill was explained to cabinet; on 26
March Chamberlain and Trevelyan walked out of the cabinet room,
resigning. On 8 April Gladstone introduced the Government of Ireland
Bill to the Commons. It was soon in difficulties and the accompanying
Land Bill was introduced by Gladstone on 16 April but taken no further
(DNB).
(3)
ARGUS,
pseud.
The Chronicles of East Belfast. By Argus I.
Second Edition. Enlarged.
No printer, publisher, place or date
[Belfast, circa
1890]. 12-pages, 12mo, wire-stitched as issued:
lightly dusty, but a very good copy.
Political satire rather than historical chronicles. “Second Edition.
Enlarged” at head of title.
(4)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1193
.
PLATINA (Bartolomeo).
The Lives of the Popes …
Written originally in Latin … translated into English …
continued … to this present time … By Sir Paul Rycaut. The
second edition, corrected.
Printed for C. Wilkinson, to be sold by A.
Churchil,
1688
With engraved portrait of Rycaut by Lely engraved by White,
pages (32), 416; 394, (18), folio, finely bound in recent calf-
backed marbled boards, with label, gilt: a very good copy
Wing P 2404. Platina (1421-81), Italian humanist and Vatican
librarian. His ‘History of the Popes’ is a work of considerable merit and
was frequently reprinted. A mention in it of the prayers and curses of
Callistus III in 1456 against the Turks, followed by a reference in the
same context to the appearance of Halley’s comet, gave rise to the fable,
frequently repeated in the nineteenth century, that the Pope had
excommunicated the comet.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1194
.
PLEADER’S ASSISTANT, The.
The pleader’s assistant;
containing a select collection of precedents of modern
pleadings, in the courts of King’s Bench and Common Pleas,
&c. viz. Declarations, Avowries, Pleas, Replications, Rejoinders,
Demurrers, &c. In a variety of actions: including the most usual
as well as more special matters; with forms of writs in several
cases: interspersed with cursory observations and instructions.
The whole drawn and settled by the most eminent counsel of
their time, viz. Serjeant Agar, - Bootle, - Belfield, Sir W.
Chapple, Serjeant Draper, Sir J. Darnell, Serjeant Eyre, -
Hawkins, - Hussey, Mr. Hardcastle, Mr. L. Robinson, Sir M.
Wright, the late Mr. Warren, and others.
Dublin: Printed by J.
Stockdale, for Messrs Byrne. Moore, Jones, and Rice,
1795
SECOND IRISH EDITION, pages iv, (4),520, (2), 8vo,
contemporary calf: light browning and foxing, the binding worn,
the joints cracked but holding, wanting the spine label, the final
leaf (verso blank) adheeres to the end flyleaf: a good to very
good copy.
ESTC locates copies at L, Dk and ten USA libraries: not found on-line
in either D or Dt. First published at London in 1786 and reprinted at
Dublin during the same year. Written by “a gentleman of considerable
knowledge and experience at the bar, for his own more immediate use” -
Preface. An index and table of cases are included.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BLACKSTONE (Henry).
Reports of cases argued and determined in the Court of
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