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Translated from the German, by Sarah Austin [and H. E. Lloyd].
John Murray,
1836
FIRST EDITION THUS, pages xxxvi,280: vi, 310 and leaf of
imprint: v, (1, blank), 318 and advert leaf, complete with the half-
title in vol one (none called for in the others), 3 vols, 8vo,
contemporary half calf, gilt ruled and lettered spines, with labels,
gilt: with a small, faint oval stamp on each title and the bindings
lightly worn but still sound and very strong and altogether a not
unattractive set.
Morgan 7346. Vols 1-2 translated Sarah Austin, vol 3 by H. E. Lloyd.
Raumer (1781-1873), German historian, professor of political science
and history at Berlin, travelled extensively: Venice in 1815, Switzerland
and Italy in 1816-17, England in 1835, Italy in 1839 and America in
1843. This present series of observations on English society includes not
only the usual description of scenery but also valuable comment on
contemporary political and economic questions. Some observations on
the poor, the trade, the church, etc. of Ireland are included.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MOFFAT: - Walters (Wm.).
Life
and labours of Robert Moffat, D. D., missionary in South Africa,
with additional chapters on christian missions in Africa and
throughout the world.
Walter Scott, Limited
(1882). With 8 tinted
plates, pages 336, (16, ads), cr 8vo, original green cloth, gilt: very
good.
(2)
KIDD (Benjamin).
The Control of the Tropics.
New York:
The Macmillan Company,
1898. FIRST EDITION, pages (8), 101,
cr 8vo, original cloth: a very good copy with the ownership
inscription and light penil annotations of J. C. M. Eason, OBE, a
prominent Dublin businessman of the Irish Free State.
A neglected Irish Pioneer of Sociology. Kidd (1858-1916), native of Co
Clare, is not represented in the CDIB or by any edition of any of his six
published works in the National Library of Ireland. Following an
indifferent education he joined the Inland Revenue department of the
Civil Service. Addressing his educational deficiencies through private
study, and under the influence of Karl Marx and Herbert Spenser, he
published his pioneering Social Evolution in 1894. This brought him
financial success and international fame. Publication of his Control of
the Tropics originated in, and was printed in, America where he was
travelling at the time.
(3)
SIENKIEWICZ (Henryk).
The Field of Glory [: Na polu
chwaty...].
John Lane,
1906. FIRST UK EDITION OF THIS
ANONYMOUS TRANSLATION, pages ix, 360, 8vo, original
red cloth: a very good copy.
Curtin’s translation, as ‘On the Field of Glory’, was first published,
Boston, in 1906. NSTC does not suggest a translator for this Lane
edition nor does Lewanski include it. Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), Polish
novelist, author of ‘Quo Vadis’. Remarkable powers of description and a
strong religious feeling, at times bordering upon mysticism, characterise
the best of his work. He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in
1905.
(4)
BEETON (Samuel O.),
ed.
Beeton’s Dictionary of
Geography. A universal gazetteer...
Ward, Lock, and Tytler
(1868).
FIRST EDITION, with 108 plates and 11 folding maps, coloured
in outline, pp (2, adverts), vi, 898, 6(adverts), 8vo, original roan-
backed cloth, fully gilt spine: a bright, fresh copy. (7)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1227
.
RAY (John), FRS.
A collection of English words With
their significations and original, in two alphabetical catalogues.
The one of such as are proper to the northern, the other to the
southern counties. With an account of the preparing and refining
such metals and minerals as are gotten in England. The third
edition, augmented with many hundreds of words, observations,
letters, &c. (A compleat collection of English proverbs …).
London: Printed for J. Torbuck, in Clare-Court, Drury-Lane; O. Payne
and T. Woodman, in New-Round-Court, in the Strand,
1737
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, pages 150, (2, adverts); viii,
319, (1, blank), 8vo, con-temporary calf, gilt bordered side, gilt
ruled spine, with label, gilt: the headbands worn and the joints
lightly cracked but the binding strong, internally a bright, fresh
copy, with the 19C armorial bookplate of the Earl of Roden.
Invaluable for the study of dialect and folklore. The first edition to
combine the Provers and The Collection of English Words. Keynes
12/13 does not mention this issue, with the two parts bound as here in
reverse order.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SCHULTES (Henry).
Flowers of
Fancy, exhibited in a collection of similies taken from various
authors and alphabetically arranged.
Longman, Rees …,
1829.
FIRST EDITION, with an engraved title-page on india paper,
pages xxxv, (12), (288), with the preliminary advertisement leaf,
8vo, original cloth, uncut, with printed paper spine label: the
binding a little dull but sound and strong and otherwise a very
good to nice copy.
Schultes’s acknowledgement leaf provides a fulsome tribute “to the
kindness received from the nobel proprietor of the Charlemont Library in
Dublin, who with a liberality of mind characteristical of his country,
afforded the Compiler the utmost accomodation to enable him to
accomplish the object of his researches”. Schultes also wrote on aquatic
rights, the public fisheries of Britain, and on the elective franchise of the
citizens of London.
(2)
DIEZ (Friedrich C.).
Introduction to the grammar of the
Romance Languages. Translated by C. B. Cayley.
London:
Williams and Norgate,
1863. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pages
(4), 131, 8vo, original cloth: the spine chipped but the binding
strong and otherise a very good to nice copy.
The first English edition of one of the two great works on which his
fame, as the founder of Romance philology, rests.
(3)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1228
.
RAYNAL (F. E.).
Wrecked on a Reef; or, twenty months
among the Auckland Isles. A true story. From the French...
T.
Nelson and Sons,
1875
With additional vignette title-page and 40 full-page illustrations
after Alfred de Neuville, pages 350, (2, blank), small 8vo, original
maroon pictorial cloth, gilt: a little rubbed at the corners, but the
binding sound and strong and otherwise a very good to nice
copy.
Raynal was mate of the `Grafton’ and was one of the survivors.
“Though in the form of a boys’ book on the plan of `Robinson Cruscoe’,
it fills in quite a number of gaps in Musgrave’s Narrative. “ - Ferguson
14752, but he does not mention an English edition prior to 1880.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MURRAY (Robert Dundas).
A
Summer at Port Phillip.
Edinburgh: William Tait, Simpkin Marshall
… and John Cumming, Dublin,
1843. FIRST EDITION, with a
frontispiece, pages viii,264, wanting the half-title, small 8vo,
recent boards, with label, uncut: a very god copy.
Ferguson 3664: the issue with date on the title-page and the preface, on 2-
pages, dated 1843. Written “to furnish a faithful narrative …to exhibit
its actual state in relation to those points to which the emigrant directs
his attention …”
(2)
BERNDT (Ronald M.).
Djanggawul. An aboriginal
religious cult of north-eastern Arnhem Land.
Routledge & Kegan
Paul,
1952. With map and 29 illustrs, pp xxiii, 320, 8vo, original
cloth: good copy in defective dw.
A cult, primarily of fertility significance, from the extreme north of
Australian NT.
(3)
DOMINICAN STAR.
The Dominican Star. A New
Zealand Year Book. Papers literary, artistic, scientific,
entertaining. Second edition.
Dunedin: The Caxton Company,
1899.
With illustrs, pp (18, adverts), (8), 152, (20, adverts), 8vo, original
cloth, gilt: nice copy
Hocken II 38, this `second’ edition only. Not in NUC. Not in BL
catalogue to 1975. Neat inscription by the unidentified editor. Aimed at
297