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only: that at University of London - see Goldsmiths’ 11056 and
Higgs 5807, neither of which mentions another printing. The
Dublin printer, John Milliken (d. 1812) “left Ireland in 1774 and is
next heard of as bsr in Whitehaven 1777-78, then as pr in Carlisle
1778-88 … He was back in Dublin by late 1789 …” - Pollard. Set
out in six columns: County, Stages, Miles, Totals of miles, [Inn]
Signs, and, Observations, the last including prices per mile for
different forms of transport.
€800-€1,000 (£640-£800 approx.)
1208
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[POWER (Sir Alfred), MD].
A few penny readings, with
other scraps. By the author of “Sanitary Rhymes. “
London:
Printed by T. Richards, 37, Great Queen Street, W. C.,
1874
FIRST (?ONLY) COLLECTED EDITION, 48-pages, 8vo,
unbound, sewn as issued: first and final page dusty and soiled
and tear in margin of final leaf without loss: a very good copy,
inscribed on title-page ‘For Master G. / with the Author’s
Complts / 4/9/74. “
Privately published and rare. Not in WorldCat, COPAC, O’Donoghue
or on-line in NLI. Original verse, here first collected. The sixteenth and
final piece based on “The Irish Exodus of 1863-64” on the tug The
Willing Mind. Power (1805-88), ‘The Irish Chadwick’, was an Irish
Poor Law Commissioner and Vice-President of the Irish Local
Government Board.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GRIFFITH (George Chetwynd).
Valdar the Oft-Born: a saga of seven ages. Illustrated by Harold
Piffard.
C. Arthur Pearson,
1895. FIRST EDITION, with 16
plates, pages vi, (1), 416, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth, gilt: a
very good to nice copy.
A reincarnation story by the UK’s first really prolific science fiction
author: NUC has PU only. With few exceptions, his books are very hard
to find, and none were published in the USA in his life-time because of
a strongly anti-American strain in his writing (Locke). Wolff 2799.
(2)
GIVEN (Patrick), et al.
Poems, from college and country.
By three brothers. With biographical sketches by the Rev.
George Raphael Buick, A. M., LL. D., Cullybackey.
Belfast:
Printed by W. & G. Baird,
1900. FIRST COLLECTED
EDITION, 12 plates of portraits and views in the Cullybackey
area, pp (2),263, including a 3-page subscriber list, roy 8vo,
original red cloth, gilt: very good.
O’Donoghue 498. Poems by three Co. Antrim brothers - Patrick,
Samuel Fee and Thomas Given, with biographical notices.
(3)
WILDE (Oscar).
The Ballad of Reading Gaol. by C. 3. 3.
[Oscar Wilde]
Leonard Smithers and Co.,
1899. SEVENTH
EDITION, leaves (4), 31, (1), original cloth: a very good copy.
The first edition to bear the author’s name on the title-page.
(4)
POWER (Wm. F.), SJ.
1910.
Not found in COPAC, but there is a copy in NLI and WorldCat locates
three further copies.
(4)
DAY (Dorothy),
et alia.
Seen by Five.
Dublin: E. Ponsonby,
1912. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 79-pp, small 8vo,
original printed wrappers: very good
Not in NSTC, COPAC or Dt on-line: but D has a copy. Poems by five
authors: Dorothy Day, A. I. D., Alice May Finny, Frances Highmore,
and, Stephen Grace. This copy signed on the title ‘Dorothy M. Day’
and, tipped on to blank verso of dedication leaf, two contemporary
newspaper review clippings, one quite damning.
(5)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1209. POZZO (Andrea). Perspectiva pictorum atq;
architectorum …
Augsburg, Jeremias Wolff,
1706-1709
FIRST GERMAN & LATIN EDITION, with 3 engraved
frontispieces and 221 engraved plates,2 vols, folio,
contemporary calf: the spines worn, wanting small portion of
one backstrip but the cords strong and still a very good copy of
this striking book.
First published in Italian at Rome in 1693-1700, this is the first
combined German and Latin edition of Pozzo’s masterpiece. His
dramatic use of perspective was the strongest single influence in the
spread of high baroque decoration outside Italy, and in this sense his
book was more influential than his executed work.
(2)
€1,000-€1,200 (£800-£960 approx.)
1210
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PRATT (Peter).
History of Japan. Compiled from the
records of the English East India Company at the instance of
the court of directors, by Peter Pratt 1822. Edited by M. Paske-
Smith, C. B. E., H. B. M. Consular Service, Japan. In two
volumes.
Kobe: J. L. Thompson,
1931
FIRST EDITION THUS, pages (6), xxvii, 488: (2), v, 339, (1),
(4, adverts),2 vols bound in 1, as issued, roy 8vo, original green
cloth: a very good to nice copy.
500 copies were printed.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
CHAMBERLAIN (Basil Hall).
Things Japanese. Being notes on various subjects connected
with Japan. For the use of travellers and others. Fifth edition
revised.
John Murray,
1905. With a large folding map, pages vi,
(1), 352, (4), 8vo, original green cloth, gilt: the inside joints
cracked but the binding sound, strong and attractive: a very
good copy. (3)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1211
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PRESTON (John).
The Breastplate of Faith and Love. A
treatise, wherein the ground and exercise of faith and love, as
they are set upon Christ their object, and as they are expressed
in good workes, is explained. Delivered in 18 sermons upon
three severall texts … The second edition, corrected. (A Treatise
of Effectual Faith, with separate title-page). London: Printed by
W[illiam] I[ones and George Purslowe] for Nicolas Bourne …,
1631. [bound with:] Life Eternal … The third edition, corrected.
Imprinted at London by R. B. and are to be sold by Nicholas
Bourne … and by Rapha[sic] Harford …, 1633. [and:] Sins
Overthrow; or a godly and learned treatise of mortification …
The second edition, corrected and enlarged. London: Printed by
I. Beale, for Andrew Crooke …, 1633 1631-33-33
Three works in 1 vol, the first and the second with fine
architectural title-borders, pages (4), (2, blank), 128; (2), 34, 37 -
200; 205, (21), (3, blank): (2, blank), (27), (1, blank), 157, (1,
blank): (2, blank), (22),256; 15, (1, blank), 94 (i. e. 102), (2
blank); 26, 4to, contemporary unlettered calf: the calf, still in
one piece, lifted from the upper board, clean and well margined
copies in dire need of some tlc.
STC 20210,20233A and 20276, Preston, a great scholar with a fine
command of English, succeeded the great John Donne as preacher at
Lincoln’s Inn in 1622. Thomas Ball, his biographer, described him as
“of an able, firme, well-tempered constitution, comely visage, vigorous
and vivid eye”. Fuller sums him up as “a perfect politician”, apt “to
flutter most on that place which was furthest from his eggs”.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
1212
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PRETORIA FRIEND.
Pretoria Friend. Vol. 1 Nos 1-17.
Pretoria,26th June to July 14th,
1900
All published, 17 numbers, each of 4-pages, folio, unbound as
issued: in fine, fresh state.
A complete set of the newspaper published by the military press censor
at Pretoria soon after British occupation of the town.
(17)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1213
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PRICE (Charles): -.
Memoirs of a Social Monster; or,
the history of Charles Price, otherwise Bolingbroke, otherwise
Johnson, otherwise Parks, otherwise Wigmore, otherwise Brank,
otherwise Wilmott, otherwise Williams, otherwise Schutz,
otherwise Trevors, otherwise Polton, otherwise Taylor,
otherwise Powel. … and commonly called Old Patch.
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