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the cultivation of literary taste among young people and priding itself

on including contributions from both catholic and non catholic

authors.

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WHEELER (Daniel).

Extracts from the letters and

journal of Daniel Wheeler, while engaged in a religious visit to

the inhabitants of some of the islands of the Pacific Ocean,

Van Diemen’s Land, New South Wales, and New Zealand,

accompanied by his son, Charles Wheeler.

Philadelphia: Printed

by Joseph Rakestraw …,

1840. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION,

with a portrait, 324-pages, 8vo, original brown cloth, neatly

and sympathetically rebacked: with some light foxing but still a

very good copy.

Ferguson 3125. A noted Quaker missionary - cited by Herman

Melville as a source.

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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)

1229

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RAYNAUD (Théophile), SJ.

De ortu infantium contra

naturam, per sectionem Caesaream, tractatio …

Lugduni

[Lyon], (Claudii Cayne) sumpt. Gabr. Boissat

1637

FIRST EDITION, title-page in red and black with small

device, pp (24), 398, (18), with the final leaf blank but for

Claude Cayne’s imprint within an attractive circular wreath,

8vo, contemporary unlettered vellum, wanting ties: name cut

from two small blank areas of title-page (with just slight loss to

the device), and hairline worming in two signatures (affecting

text slightly in one), title-page lightly dusty, but still a very

good, unsophisticaded copy.

Wellcome 5351. Young, History of Caesarean Section,29-30.

€350-€450 (£280-£360 approx.)

1230

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REMBRANDT: - Daulby (Daniel).

A descriptive

catalogue of the works of Rembrandt, and of his scholars, Bol,

Livens, and Van Vliet, compiled from the original etchings,

and from the catalogues of De Burgy, Gersaint, Helle and

Glomy, Marchus, and Yver.

Liverpool, printed by J. M’Creery, and

sold by J. Edwards … and Cadell and Davies …

1796

FIRST EDITION, with engraved portrait frontispiece (foxed

in blank margins), pages (4), xxii, (2), 339, (1, blank), (2) and

errata leaf, 8vo, original marbled boards, with printed paper

spine label, edges uncut: upper board loose, otherwise a very

good copy in original state.

ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)

HAGGITT (John).

Two letters

to a Fellow of the Scoiety of Antiquaries on the subject of

Gothic Architecture: containing a refutation of Dr. Milner’s

objections to Mr. Whittington’s Historical Survey of the

Ecclesiastical Edifices of France. And an inquiry into the

eastern origin of the Gothic, or Pointed Style.

Cambridge:

Printed by J. Smith, for Messrs. Cadell and Davies,

1813. FIRST

EDITION, with 5 engraved plates, pages (4), 67, (1, blank),

(69*)-70*, 69bis - 122, 8vo, original boards, uncut, rebacked in

cloth, with new label: light foxing and staining in places, but

still a large and very good copy.

Two letters on the controversial subjects of the invention of the

pointed arch and the origin of Gothic architecture.

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€120-€150 (£96-£120 approx.)

1231. RICARDO (David). On the Principles of Political

Economy and Taxation. Third edition.

John Murray,

1821

THIRD, BEST, AND LAST LIFETIME EDITION, pages

xii,538, (2, blank), with the half-title and the blank leaf at

end, 8vo, comtemporary polished calf, gilt ruled spine, with

label, gilt: the label chipped and the outer joints cracked but

the binding strong, otherwise a very good to nice copy with

the attractive armorial bookplate of William Smith O’Brien,

with his full signature in ink and his neat marginal pencil

notes (slightly cut into by the binder) on some sixteen text

pages, on the verso of the blank leaf at end and on the verso

of an end flyleaf, and with the later signature in ink, dated

1864, of Edward O’Brien.

WILLIAM SMITH O’BRIEN’S COPY. The best edition of

Ricardo’s classic work on political economy and the fullest

statement of his “principles of poIitical economy”. The most

influential 19C work in its field. In this last lifetime edition

Ricardo made considerable text revisions, adding new material to

the chapter on value, a new chapter on machinery, an examination

of Say’s doctrines on ‘Distinctive properties of value and riches’,

new views on taxation, corn and the national debt, &c..

€800-€1,200 (£640-£960 approx.)

1232

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RIESBECK (Johann Kaspar).

Travels through

Germany. In a series of letters; written in German by the

Baron Riesbeck, and translated by the Rev. Mr. Maty, late

secretary to the Royal Society, and under librarian to the

British Museum. In two volumes.

Dublin: Printes for Mess.

White, Byrne, and Whitestone,

1787

FIRST IRISH EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, pages

vii, (1, blank), xiii, (1, blank), 433: (4), x, 454, complete with

the half-titles,2 vols, 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt ruled spines,

with red and green labels, gilt, the spines expertly repaired

retaining all the original backstrip, endpapers and flyleaves:

with some old and generally unobtrusive waterstaining in the

extreme blank margin but still an attractive copy with the

engraved armorial bookplate of the Earl of Granard in both

volumes.

Morgan 7495. A translation of the Riesbeck’s ‘Briefe eines reisenden

Franzosen über Deutschland’, Zurich 1783. A native of Wurtenbery,

Riesbeck (1750-86) travelled extensively in Germany observing the

politics, customs, manners, mining and other industries etc. In the

German original he assumed the character of a French traveller to

secure himself from the probable effects of his critical remarks on the

gvernment, manners and customs of the country. The work comprises

71 letters, with the first written in 1780 from Strasburg and the last

just before he sailed for England and in which he provides an overview

of his travels. The preface contains a frank apology for the many

inaccuracies, excused by the ‘painful and tedious (and fatal) illness’

suffered by the translator. Many of these inaccuracies, it is claimed,

are corrected in this Dublin edition.

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€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)

1233

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