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within the year. Richie lead the Voluntaryism movement of Presbyterian
clergy and laymen who believed that no church should accept
Government grants, subsidies or endowments.
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€120-€150 (£96-£120 approx.)
1259
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SARPI (Paolo).
Father Paul of Beneficiary Matters: being
a compleat history of ecclesiastical revenues. Shewing, I. Their
rise, progress, and the various means by which they have accrued
to the church …
Printed for Olive Payne,
1730
FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, pages (3), xviii-
xxi, (4), xxii-xlviii,260, complete thus, with the errata leaf, in
spite of erratic pagination, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, with
label, gilt: an attractive copy with the bookplate of Hugh Trevor-
Roper.
Translated by Christopher Hayes, with dedication to the Bishop of
Durham dated Oct. 26. 1730. “A brilliantly concise work dealing with a
problem which had become very serious, not only in Venice, but in every
European state. It showed the process by which vast treasures had been
taken from the control of the civil power and heaped up for ecclesiastical
pomp and intrigue, pointed out special wrongs done by the system to the
Church as well as the State, and advocated a reform which should restore
this wealth to better uses. His arguments spread widely and sank deep,
not only in Italy, but throughout Europe, and the 19C has seen them
applied effectively in every European country within the Roman
obedience. - A. D. White.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
CHAMBERLAYNE (John), FRS.
Magnae Britanniae Notitia: or the present state of Great-Britain,
with divers remarks upon the antient state thereof. The two and
twentieth edition of the south part call’d England, and first of the
north part call’d Scotland; with improvements, and more exact
and larger additions in the list of the officers, &c. than in any
former impression. In two parts.
Printed for Timothy Goodwin,
Matthew Wotton, Benjamin Tooke, Daniel Midwinter, and George
Wells,
1708. With engraved portrait and a large folding table
(clean tear, no loss), pp (10), x, (10),256,273-304, *289-320*, 321-
368, *365-*368; 369-756, (28), complete thus with 5-pp adverts at
end, 8vo, strongly bound in recent boards: light browning, a good
to very good copy.
The first printing of John Chamberlayne’s description of Scotland and
the first edition of Edward Camberlayne’s work overall to bear the title
Magnae Britanniae notitia.
(2)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1260
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SATIRE.
A Soldier’s Album
Printed by and for S. W. Fores,
1826
FIRST (APPARENTLY ONLY) EDITION, with an engraved
frontispiece in attractive contemporary hand-colouring, pages ix,
(1, blank), 123, (1, blank), large 12mo, recent cloth-backed
boards, with label: a nice, large and uncut copy.
An uncommon satire on English military life: COPAC locates only three
copies: L, C and E.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
ORPEN (Neil).
The History of
the Transvaal Horse Artillery, 1904-74.
(Johannesburg)
(1975).
With plates & folding maps, pp xii,275 & errata slip, 8vo,
original cloth: nice in dull dw
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CANNON (Richard),
ed.
Historical Record of The Fifteenth
or, The Yorkshire East Riding, Regiment of Foot; containing an
account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its
subsequent services to 1848.
Parker, Furnivall, & Parker,
1848.
FIRST EDITION, with 2 coloured plates, pages (2), xxxi, (2),
96, 8vo, original red cloth, gilt: a very good to nice copy.
(3)
HODSON’S HORSE.
10th Duke of Cambridge’s Own
Lancers (Hodson’s Horse). Nominal Roll of officers who have
served with the regiment, 1857-1912. Reprinted from the official
army lists.
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co.,
1913. FIRST EDITION
THUS, pages (4), 94, roy 8vo, original red and blue cloth: a nice
copy.
Perkins 402.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1261
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SAVILE (Sir John).
Les Reports... de divers special cases
cybien en le Court de Common Bank, come l’Exchequer en le
temps de Royne Elizabeth. Ovesque deux tables...
Printed for
George Pawlet...,
1688
Pages (12), 136, (14), (2, ads), with the preliminary licence leaf,
small folio, finely bound in recent quarter calf: some light
browning in places, but still a large and very good copy.
Wing S. 778. Edited by John Robertson. The only published work of
Savile (1545-1607), one of the barons of the exchequer. He it was who
decided that the king was “entitled by his sole prerogative to levy
impositions upon imports and exports”, a decision received by posterity
with universal disfavour.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
[CARTER (Samuel)].
Reports of
sevral [sic] special cases argued and resolved in the Court of
Common Pleas: in the XVI, XVII, XVIII, and XIXth years of
King Charles II... By S. C. of the Inner-Temple, Esquire.
Printed
by W. Rawlins...,
1688. FIRST EDITION, pages (8),243, (40),
complete with the licence leaf, small folio, finely bound in recent
quarter calf: with some browning, but a very good copy.
Wing C 666.
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€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1262
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SCHOALES (John) & LEFROY (Thomas L.).
Reports of
cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, in
Ireland, during the time of Lord Redesdale. First volume …
1802, to … 1804 (and: Second volume … from … 1804, to …
Lord Redesdale’s resignation of the Great Seal [1806].
Dublin:
Printed for John Jones … for J. Butterworth …London, and J. Cooke …
Dublin 1806 (vol two: London: Printed for Joseph Butterworth … and
John Cooke … Dublin 1821)
1806-21
Pages xx, (8),500 and errata leaf: viii, 762, complete in spite of
erratic pagination, though without the half-titles,2 vols, 8vo,
uniform contemporary calf, with labels, gilt: a little wear at the
joints but both volumes strongly bound and otherwise in very
good to nice state.
Curiously, not found on-line in NLI. One of Lefroy’s claims to fame is
that he enjoyed a youthful flirtation with Jane Austen, whom he had
met while visiting relatives at Ashe, Hampshire, in January 1796. He
later admitted to a ‘boyish love’ (Tomalin, 118) for her, and in her
earliest surviving letter she makes her own feelings clear: ‘I am almost
afraid to tell you how my Irish friend and I behaved. Imagine to yourself
everything most profligate and shocking in the way of dancing and
sitting down together... He is a very gentlemanlike, good-looking,
pleasant young man’. However, little is known of the precise nature of
the relationship, though the tantalising evidence available has ‘given
biographers room for a rich seam of speculation’ (Jones, 149), much of
which inspired the film Becoming Jane (2007) in which Lefroy is the lead
male character. Austen may have expected a proposal, but she was
penniless, and after Lefroy left Hampshire she never saw him again. In
October 1796 Austen had started the novel that would become Pride and
prejudice (1813), and it has been suggested that Lefroy inspired the
character of Mr Darcy. However, nothing in her correspondence
substantiates this, and Lefroy’s personality differed from Darcy’s. It is
more likely that the recurrent themes in her writings of brief
infatuations, unsuitable matches, and romantic disappointments may be
the true legacies of their encounter (IDNB).
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1263
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SCOTT (John).
Amwell. A descriptive poem.
Dublin:
Printed for S. Price, W. Watson, J. Potts (and ten others) …,
1776
FIRST IRISH EDITION, 32-pp, with half-title, large 12mo,
304