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a fine, fresh copy.
A notable rarity: COPAC has the Bodleian copy only, while WorldCat
has the NLI copy only. The regiment was formed in 1793 as the Duke of
Clarence’s Munster Artillery or South Tipperary Militia. In 1855 it was
re-embodied as the Duke of Clarence’s Munster Aetillery or 1st South
Tipperary Militia. In 1881 transferred to artillery militia and in 1902
re-designated as the Tipperary militia regiment of the Royal Garrison
Artillery. It was disbanded in 1908.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1250
.
RYLAND (Richard Hopkins).
The history, topography
and antiquities of the County and City of Waterford; with an
account of the present state of the peasantry of that part of the
south of Ireland.
John Murray,
1824
FIRST EDITION, with an attractive hand-coloured folding
map, 8 plates (some folding) and a few text illustrations, pages
(6), (v) - x, 6, (9) - 419, (1), (4, adverts), complete thus in spite of
erratic pagination, with the half-title, 8vo, old parchment-backed
marbled boards, leather spine label, gilt: a bright, fresh and
attractive copy.
A fresh, attractive copy of the original and best edition of a standard
county history
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1251
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RYMER (Thomas).
Acta Regia; being the account which
Mr. Rapin de Thoyras published of the History of England …
collected in that inestimable fund of history Mr. Rymer’s
Foedera … and numerous other publick acts relating to families,
and our own domestick affairs.
Printed for James, John and Paul
Knapton …
[1734?]
The title-page printed in red and black, pages (4), 828, (30),
folio, contemporary panelled calf, with label, gilt: an attractive
copy, with the contemporary signature of Hayes St Leger and
price ‘£1: 6: 6’ on title-page: possibly an Irish binding.
A translation by Stephen Whatley of the abridgment by Paul de Rapin-
Thoyras of Thomas Rymer’s Foedera. The translator’s dedication dated
December 20th, 1733.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
[SHOWER (Sir Bartholomew)].
Cases in Parliament Resolved and Adjudged, upon Petitions and
Writs of Error.
Printed for A. and J. Churchill,
1698. FIRST
EDITION, pages (12),224, (2), small folio, contemporary calf,
neatly rebacked, with label, gilt: with some light browning, but
still a very good copy.
Wing S. 3650. The first edition of the first reports of cases in the House
of Lords, published at a time when it had become the final court of
appeal from courts of law and of equity yet finally found by the House
Lords itself to be in breach of privilege, with the result that no further
reports were published for nearly a century.
(2)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1252. [RYVES (Ellizabeth)]. The Hermit of Snowden: or
memoirs of Albert and Lavinia. Taken from a faithful copy of
the original manuscript, which was found in the hermitage, by
the late Rev. Dr. L- and Mr. -, in the year 17**.
Printed at the
Logographic Press, (under the direction of the Literary Society,) and
sold by J. Walter; C. Stalker; and W. Richardson,
1789
FIRST EDITION, pages (4), xvii, (1, blank), (19) - 230, (2,
blank), with the half-title, large 12mo, original blue paper
boards, original white paper spine with no evidence of
lettering or label, all edges uncut: a very small hole on pages
49/50 affects only one or two letters, but not the sense, the
extreme outer edge of the upper board slightly affected by
damp which has also slightly affected the outer edges of the
first 25 leaves, nowhere approaching the text, a minor defect
in what is otherwise an exceptional copy of a very rare novel
ESTC has L: CSmH and MdBJ. The ESTC entry does not call for a
half title, which is present in our copy, nor, indeed, for the original
blank leaf at end, which is also present here. Block 203. Summers
166. Garside, Raven and Schöwerling 1789: 67. This novel was
twice reprinted: Dublin, 1790 (L: PU, TxU): London: printed under
the direction of the Literary Society, 1793 (MH-H, MnU, PU). It
was serialised in Weekly Entertainer, 1791. All editions are rare. No
Irish library is credited with a copy of any edition. Elizabeth Ryves
(1750-97), Irish poet, playwright, novelist and translator, daughter
of a long-serving army officer. Lawsuits swallowed her inheritance
and she lived in London attempting to earn a living from her various
writings. Poems on Several Occasions, published by subscription,
appeared in 1777. Several unacted plays produced some income. She
translated Rousseau and Raynal and started a translation of
Froissart. The heroine of her only novel, The Hermit of Snowden,
dies destitute (after ill-paid playwriting). Elizabeth Ryves made the
acquaintance of Isaac D’Israeli who regarded her novel as
autobiographical, which it clearly is, and made her a type of female-
author victim in Calamities of Authors 1812. Blain, Clements and
Grundy, The Feminist Companion 935-6. Albert, the hermit of the
title, loses his money gambling, goes to Ireland to make his fortune,
accepts a post as secretary to the Irish lord lieutenant, but resigns in
disgust when he realizes that his allotted task is to bribe members of
the Irish parliament to vote in favour of a proposed union between
Ireland & England (Loeber R288).
€1,500-€1, 800 (£1,200-£1, 440 approx.)
1253
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SADLER (Michael T.).
The law of population: a treatise,
in six books; in disproof of the superfecundity of human beings,
and developing the real principle of their increase.
John Murray,
1830
FIRST EDITION, pages xvi, 639, (1): xii, 690, wiithout the
half-titles,2 vols, 8vo, pleasantly bound in recent cloth-backed
marbled boards, gilt, top edges gilt: with some neat and legible
marginal notes in a contemporary hand mainly in the first third
of the first volume: a very good and not unattractive copy of a
work that has become rare in commerce.
The most ambitious work of this social reformer and political economist
(1780-1835). Although he was a man much respected for his tireless
efforts towards Factory Reform, and usually noted for his eloquence, this
work was not well received, not only because of flaws in its arguments,
but also because of its labourious length. Over 100 statistical tables are
included. Malthus called it “a strange work”, but it may have prompted
him into publishing his Summary View of the Principle of Population
in the same year. Sadler had his supporters and should be noted as,
probably, the last of the contemporary anti-Malthusian writers.
(2)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1254
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SAINT JOHN (Henry), Viscount Bolingbroke.
Letters
on the study and use of history. A new edition corrected.
Printed
for A. Millar,
1752
Pages 481, (3), with the contents leaf bound following title-leaf,
rather than at end, with the two-line errata slip pasted on at foot
of p. 481, 8vo, recent paper boards: a very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[RUFFHEAD (Owen)].
Considerations on the present dangerous crisis.
Edinburgh:
Printed in the Year
1763. 34-pages, 8vo, recent marbled paper
boards, with leather label, gilt: a very good copy. (2)
EDEN
(Wm.), Baron Auckland.
Four Letters to the Earl of Carlisle...
The second edition.
Printed for B. White and T. Cadell,
1779. Pages
(4), 163, including half-title, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very
good to nice copy.
Sabin 21827. Adams 79-6b. Kress B. 172. On the spirit of party, the
circumstances of the war, raising supplies, and, free trade with Ireland.
(3)
[MacPHERSON (James)].
A short history of the opposition
during the last session of parliament.
Printed for T. Cadell,
1779.
FIRST EDITION, pp vi,58, with half-title, 8vo, recent paper
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