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with the half-title, large 12mo. WorldCat and COPAC both record only
the British Library copy. [AND:] (4) APPARENTLY
UNRECORDED. Light infantry exercise: as ordered by his majesty’s
regulations for the movements of the troops. [London:] Printed for the
War-Office, by T. Egerton, at the Military Library, near Whitehall.
1804. Pages 22, (2, blank), large 12mo. [AND:] (5) GENERAL
ORDERS and observations on the movements and field exercise of the
infantry. London: Printed for T. Egerton, at the Military Library,
Whitehall, 180. Pages 43, (1, blank), large 12mo. Usually attributed to
Calvert, whose name appears at foot of page 3. WorldCat locates four
copies, including that at the British Library.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[BUTLER (Samuel)].
Hudibras:
The first [-second-third] part. Written in the time of the late
wars. Corrected and amended. With several additions and
annotations. Adorned with cuts.
Printed for John Baker,
1711-09-
10. With portrait and 17 plates (1 folding), pp (6), xii, 199; 167;
226, (2, adverts for books sold by Baker), 393-410 (annotations
to the third part), (18, index), complete in spite of pagination
jump, continuous signatures, 18mo, contemporary calf, neatly
rebacked: some light browning, lower outer corner of one leaf
torn off without serious loss: very good.
An edition not found in either ESTC90 or NUC. The most memorable
burlesque poem in the English language and the first English satire to
make a notable and successful attack on ideas rather than personalities.
It is directed against the fanaticism, pretentiousness, pedantry, and
hypocrisy which Butler perceived in militant Presbyterians and
Independents.
(2)
MacPHERSON (James).
The Poems of Ossian, the son of
Fingal. Translated by James MacPherson, Esq. A new edition.
Carefully corrected, and greatly improved.
Berwick: printed by and
for W. Phoprson,
1795. Pages 398: 318, (1), without the half-
titles,2 vols, large 12mo, contemporary calf, with red and green
labels, gilt: a very good to nice copy. (4)
€350-€450 (£280-£360 approx.)
1245
.
ROUSSEAU (Jean Jacques).
Emilius; or, an essay on
Education. Translated from the French. By Mr. Nugent.
Printed
for J. Nourse and P. Vaillant,
1763
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with 6 engraved plates after
Schley, pp (4), xiv, (2),227, (1, blank): (2), (231) - 406, (2,
adverts): (4), 172: (2), (175) - 406, (37, index), with half-titles
and advert leaf, 4 parts bound as 2 vols, 8vo, finely bound in
recent calf-backed marbled boards, gilt lettered spines: light
browning in places, but still a very good copy.
The first appearance in English of this highly important work, first
published in French during the previous year. Its impact on the history
of Western education cannot be over-estimated.
(2)
€600-€800 (£480-£640 approx.)
1246. ROYAL MEATH MILITIA. Regimental Standing
Orders: issued by the colonel; to be observed by the 17th, or
Royal Meath Regiment of Militia: and to be read to the men
with the Articles of War.
Cork: Printed by Anthony Edwards,
1796
Pages viii, (10, blank),21 - 27, (9, blank),29 - 31, (9, blank), 41
-50, (8, blank),59 - 64, (8, blank), p. 73, (9, blank), 83 - 86, (8,
blank), 95 - 96, (8, blank), 105 -108, (8, blank), 117 - 119, (9,
blank), 129 - 135, (9, blank), 145 - 148, (8, blank), 157 - 159,
(9, blank), 169 - 173, (9, blank), 183 - 184, (8, blank), 193 -
197, (11, blank) and 3 numbered folding leaves of tables, 8vo,
contemporary mottled calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt,
and a further, large label on the upper cover, lettered in gilt
“17th. or Royal Meath / Regiment”: a little wear to the
binding which is otherwise sound and very strong, internally
in very good to nice state
ESTC has the BL copy only, which would seem to have somewhat
fewer blank leaves than are present in our copy: there is a copy in D
on-line, but no mention is made of folding tables. WorldCat locates
the D (NLI) copy only - none in the USA.
€1,200-€1,500 (£960-£1,200 approx.)
1247
.
RUSSELL (Richard), MD.
A dissertation on the use of
sea-water in the diseases of the glands. Particularly the scurvy,
jaundice, king’s evil, leprosy, and the glandular consumption.
Translated from the Latin of Richard Russel [sic], M. D. by an
eminent physician.
Dublin: Printed for Geo. Faulkner and J. Exshaw,
1753
FIRST IRISH EDITION, with attractive engraved frontispiece
and 2 engraved plates on one leaf, pp xii,204, large 12mo,
contemporary calf, with label, gilt: a nice, fresh copy.
Uncommon edition: ESTC locates five copies: D, Dp, Dpr / PPL,
DNLM. Not in L, O or C. An expanded version of the author’s Latin
dissertation ‘De tabe glandulari’, Oxford, 1750, in which he advocates
both the internal and the external use of sea water. It has been suggested
that the book was responsible for the original popularity of Brighton as
a watering place.
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
1248
.
RUSSELL (Wm.).
Letters of William Russell, on the
doctrine of constructive contempt. With the original affidavit,
upon which the Sheriff [Henry Steevens Reily] of the County of
Dublin was attached, and an accurate report of the judgment of
the King’s Bench in that case. The whole dedicated to …
William Pitt. To which are added, a letter of the Hon. Mr.
Erskine, and William Russell’s letter on the Dublin Address.
Dublin: Printed in the year
1786
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, pages xl, 155, (1, errata), bound
without the half-title, 8vo, neat, later cloth-backed boards, uncut
and in part unopened: with a small circular stamp in three
places and with some light browning, but still a very good,
uncut copy.
Uncommon item on contempt of court. Though well represented in Irish
libraries, the ESTC indicates that Cambridge is the only library outside
Ireland credited with a copy: which copy, incidentally, also without the
half-title, carries a manuscript note suggesting B. T. Duhigg (1750?-
1813), the noted Irish legal antiquary, may have been the author. NUC
has DLC and MH-L. There was no London edition.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
O’CONNOR later CONDORCET
O’CONNOR (Arthur), General.
The State of Ireland. By
Arthur O’Connor. Second edition. To which are added his
addresses to the electors of the County of Antrim.
London:
Printed and sold by the booksellers,
1798. Pages iv, 111, (9), 8vo, old
quarter calf, the spine worn but binding strong and with old,
faint, internal staining, but a good to very good copy.
ESTC does not record an earlier edition. O’Connor (1763–1852), Irish
nationalist, political theorist, the most sophisticated political thinker
amongst the United Irishmen, regarded by Napoleon as the accredited
representative of the United Irishmen. “In his most important
pamphlet, The State of Ireland (1798) his project was to reinterpret
Irish social and political development in the context of general
European trends. Working from the Scottish social theorists, especially
Smith, he argued for an ideal of the nation as a productive community
organized through an equality of political and civil rights” - ODNB..
(2)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1249
.
RYAN (Charles Aloysius), Major.
Records of the
Tipperary Artillery, with a list of officers who have served in the
regiment from 1793 to 1889, by Major C. A. Ryan, Royal
Artillery.
Clonmel: The Chronicle Steam-Printing Works
(1890)
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages (2), 140, 8vo, original cloth,
gilt: the binding discoloured but sound and strong and otherwise
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