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With a large folding world map (short, tear, no loss), with inset
maps of the West Indies and of Newfoundland, New
Brunswick, &c., pages xlvii, 616, (2, adverts on green paper),
pages 550-616 comprising adverts, partly illustrated, 8vo,
original cloth: a very good copy.
An enormously wide range of information useful to mariners and
traders. Characterised by McCulloch, ‘The Literature of Political
Economy’, as ‘Useful’.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
LAING (Samuel).
National
Distress; its causes and remedies. Atlas Prize Essay.
Longman,
Brown …,
1844. FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 4, (1) adverts, viii,
169, 32 (adverts), 8vo, original cloth, gilt, by Westleys & Clark,
with their ticket: with the occasional very light marginal pencil
mark, but otherwise a very good to nice copy.
A radical essay in which Laing graphically describes conditions in a
nation convulsed by the early Industrial Revolution. A third of the
population, he claims, “hover[s] on the verge of actual starvation”,
another third is forced to labour in “crowded factories” and only the top
third “earn[s] high wages, amply sufficient to support them in
respectability and comfort …” “Vivid description of the wretched
condition of the poor, based mainly upon Parliamentary reports.
Greatest stress is laid upon moral causes, but the influences of
population, the factory system, and foreign competition are also
investigated. Some reflections are made upon remedial measures, free
trade, taxation, currency, emigration, poor laws, saniutary regulations,
and education. “ - Williams I. 252.
(2)
WADE (John).
The Black Book: an exposition of abuses in
church and state, courts of law, municipal corporations, and
public companies; with a precis of the house of commons, past,
present, and to come. A new edition, greatly enlarged and
corrected. By the original editor … [with:] Appendix to the
Black Book … By the original editior. Sixth edition, with the
‘Crisis’ and a characteristic list of the anti-reform government.
Effingham Wilson,
1835. With a double-page engraved
frontispiece, pages xxxii, 683, (1, adverts): xii, 132, in 1 volume,
8vo, recently, neatly and appropriately bound in black cloth: a
very good copy with the contemporary signature of the Rev
John Fitzpatrick on the title-page.
“The `Bible of the Reformers’, a massive compendium of all the abuses,
electoral, ecclesiastical, legal... first published in 1820 and passed
through edition after edition, continually augmented with new
arguments, new reports of abuses and new statistics.... “ - Printing and
the Mind of Man,296. It produced a considerable sensation and was
Wade’s greatest success.
(3)
€200-€250 (£160-£200 approx.)
1203
.
PORTER (Anna Maria).
Roche-Blanche; or, The Hunters
of the Pyrenees. A romance. In three volumes.
London: Printed
for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row,
1822
FIRST EDITION, pages xi, (1), 374: (2), 419, (1, blank):
(2),568, without the half-titles called for in the second and third
vols (none issued in the first), 3 vols, large 12mo, contemporary
half calf over marbled paper boards, gilt ruled spines, with
labels, gilt: with some very light browning in places and a very
small section in the second vol slightly sprung, otherwise a very
good copy with the armorial bookplate of “Ellen Hone Senr. ”.
Wolff 5603. A gothic novel intended as a sequel to her “The Village of
Mariendorpt”, published in 1821. “In [this], the first issue of the first
edition, the head-lines are printed ‘Roche Blanc’ and an erratum, verso
xi, calls attention to the error. ” - Summers 481.
(3)
€200-€250 (£160-£200 approx.)
1204
.
PORTER (Jane).
Thaddeus of Warsaw. In four volumes.
The fourth edition.
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme,
1806
Pages xii,267: (4),247: (2),267, (1, adverts): (2),259,280 - 281,
complete thus in spite of pagination jump, with the half-titles in
the first and second volumes (?none issued in the others), 4 vols,
large 12mo, near contemporary half calf over marbled boards,
gilt lettered spines, with bookplate of Frances, Viscountess
Lorton in each volume: an attractive copy
Her first novel (1803). The first US edition, Boston 1809 in two vols,
was based on this fourth edition. “An exciting, but carefully written
story of a Polish exile … incorporating some reminiscences of the early
struggles of John Sell Cotman, to whom her brother Robert had
introduced her, and free use was made of the characters of others of
their friends. “ - D. N. B.
(4)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1205
.
PORTER (Jane).
Thaddeus of Warsaw. In four volumes.
The second edition.
Printed by A. Strahan, for T. N. Longman and
O. Rees,
1804
Pages xv,246, (2, adverts): (4),224: (4),240: (4),243, with the half-
titles, 4 vols, large 12mo, original boards, heavily worn though
the backstrips do retain the original directly printed volume
numbers for vols two, three and four, a tear without loss in one
leaf, the fore-margin of two leaves creased without loss,
otherwise a very good, entirely uncut copy.
With a new 3-page preface by the author mainly concerning the
situation and orthography of Prague, though neither NCBEL nor
Garside mention any changes in this edition. However, as the
pagination of the first, third and fourth volumes differs from that in a
copy of the first edition which we handled some twenty-eight years ago
we thought it best to leave this copy in its present untouched state. The
first edition of this, her first romance, was regarded by Sadleir as a
super-rarity among Gothic Romantic novels. “An exciting, but carefully
written story of a Polish exile … In it she incorporated some
reminiscences of the early struggles of John Sell Cotman, to whom her
brother Robert had introduced her, and free use was made of the
characters of others of their friends. “ - D. N. B.
(4)
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
1206
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PORTER (Josias Leslie).
Five Years in Damascus:
including an account of the history, topography, and antiquities
of that city; with travels and researches in Palmyra, Lebanon,
and the Hauran.
John Murray,
1855
FIRST EDITION, with 4 engraved plates, 6 plans (2 folding)
and a large folding coloured map, pages x, (2), 395: vi, (2), 372,2
vols, 8vo, near contemporary half calf by Wm Mullan of
Belfast, with his ticket: a clean and very good copy.
Porter (1823–89), missionary and promoter of Irish education. In 1849
he was sent to Damascus as a missionary to the Jews by the board of
missions of the Irish Presbyterian church. He reached Syria in
December 1849, and remained there for ten years. While discharging his
duty as a missionary he acquired, by frequent and extensive journeys, an
intimate knowledge of Syria and Palestine, which he turned to good
literary account. In 1855 he published his first book on the East, Five
Years in Damascus, with his own map, plans, and woodcuts, in which
he tells most graphically the story of his life there, and of adventurous
journeys to Palmyra, the Hauran, Lebanon, and other places (ODNB).
(2)
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
1207. POSTER’S GUIDE. The Poster’s Guide from London
to Dublin by way of Portpatrick.
Carlisle: Printed by J. Milliken,
circa
1785
Broadside (34 by 22 cms approx.), printed on one side only,
endorsed on the otherwise blank verso in a contemporary
hand with the route from Glasgow to Carlisle and dated 1785.
No other copy known. Not in ESTC, WorldCat or on-line in D, Dt
or Dp. ESTC does have an edition published at Dumfries, printed by
Robert Jackson and William Boyd, 1773 and locates a single copy
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