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for the “Seton-Karr Flints”. This second edition, greatly enlarged on
the 332-pp of the first edition of 1889, adds an account of his
experiences in an ox-waggon in S. Africa, a return journey from
Teheran, to Constantinople, from Norsjo in Sweden to the Umeo, of
the Canadian Pacific Railway, of Deep Lake in Alaska, from Uleaborg
in Finland to St. Petersburg, to his accounts of sport and travel in
Norway 1880-81; Sardinia and Corsica 1883-5; trout fishing in
Lapland 1884; fishing in Quebec; hunting in Wyoming in 1885; the
monasteries of Mount Athos 1885-6; Alaska 1886; Finland and
Sweden in 1887; Kashmir and the Himalayas 1887-8; goat hunting in
the Cascades of British Columbia, etc.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
RAE (Wm. Fraser).
Egypt To-Day.
The first to the Third Khedive.
Richard Bentley & Son,
1892.
FIRST EDITION, pages (8), 331, (1, blank), 8vo, original
brown coth, gilt, with the armorial bookplate of Francis
Charles Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey from Mourne Park,
Co Down: a bright, fresh, attractive copy.
Rae (1835-1905), Scottish born barrister practising in England. A
prolific author, principally of political and economic travel studies, but
he also wrote novels and biographies and was a contributor to the
original Dictionary of National Biography.
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LAYARD (Sir Austen H.).
Discoveries in the ruins of
Nineveh and Babylon; with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and
the desert; being the result of a second expedition undertaken
for the Trustees of the British Museum.
John Murray,
1853.
FIRST EDITION, with 2 folding plates, 3 folding plans, 8
tinted lithographed plates, 1 other plate,2 folding maps and
many full-page and other illustrations, pages xxxiii, (1), 686, (2,
adverts), 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, uncut: neat
repair without loss to short tear in one folding map, the spine
neatly repaired, retaining the original endpapers and flyleaves:
a very good copy.
The classic account of Layard’s discovery of the remains of vast and
magnificent palaces of the Assyrian kings. Regarded as one of the best
written books on travel in the language.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1271
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SHAKESPEARE (Wm.): - Griffith (Elizabeth).
The
morality of Shakespeare’s drama illustrated. In two volumes.
Dublin: Printed for J. Beatty, Skinner-Row,
1777
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (3), (1, blank), (iii) - v
(dedication to Sheridan), (1, blank), (v) - xiv (preface), (2),298,
(2, blank): (4), 307, (1, blank), with the half-titles, the volume
two title-page bears no volume number designation,2 vols,
12mo, contemporary calf, with labels, gilt: a clean tear in one
leaf without loss and a little wear to the boards but the bindings
strong and attractive and otherwise a fine copy.
“An ambitious work of dramatic criticism, The Morals[sic] of
Shakespeare’s Drama Illustrated (1775), dedicated to Garrick, and
citing Elizabeth Montagu’s work as inspirational (she was also the
translator of A Letter from Monsieur Desefans to Mrs Montagu
(1777). Shakespeare is not only my Poet, but my Philosopher also’),
declared Griffith, extending Johnson’s concern with Shakespeare’s
‘purely ethic morals’ to highlight his ‘general economy of life …
domestic ties, offices and obligations’, and showing particular interest
in his heroines. “ - ODNB.
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€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
1272
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SHAKESPEARE (Wm.): - Griffith (Elizabeth).
The
morality of Shakespeare’s drama illustrated. In two volumes.
Dublin: Printed for J. Beatty,
1777
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages iv, (iii)-v(new preface), (1,
blank), (v) - xiv, (2),298, (2, blank): (4), 307, (1, blank), with the
half-titles, volume two title-page bears no volume number
designation,2 vols, 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt ruled spines,
with contrasting labels, gilt: a little wear to the boards but the
bindings strong and attractive and internally fine with the neat
small contemporary name stamp “W: Tennent” on both title-
pages.
With two dedications. “An ambitious work of dramatic criticism, The
Morals[sic] of Shakespeare’s Drama Illustrated (1775), dedicated to
Garrick, and citing Elizabeth Montagu’s work as inspirational (she
was also the translator of A Letter from Monsieur Desefans to Mrs
Montagu (1777). Shakespeare is not only my Poet, but my Philosopher
also’), declared Griffith, extending Johnson’s concern with
Shakespeare’s ‘purely ethic morals’ to highlight his ‘general economy of
life … domestic ties, offices and obligations’, and showing particular
interest in his heroines. “ - ODNB. This copy of the Dublin edition
contains, as well as Griffith’s original 2-page dedication to Garrick, a
fulsome 3-page dedication to Thomas Sheridan by the publisher John
Beatty.
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€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1273
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SHAKESPEARE (Wm.).
Romeo and Juliet. A tragedy.
Written by Shakespeare.
Dublin: Printed by P. Wogan,
1793
64-pages, 12mo, unbound, sewn as issued: light old staining to
title-page, contemporary inscription “John Cooke” lightly
crossed-out and “Sam Cooke / Brownstown” added in another
hand: a very good copy.
ESTC locates seven copies: L, C, O, D, BMp / Dfo and KU-S.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1274
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SHAKESPEARE: - [Heath (Benjamin)].
A revisal of
Shakespear’s text, wherein the alterations introduced into it by
the more modern editors and critics, are particularly
considered. Printed for W. Johnson, 1765. [bound with:]
EDWARDS (Thomas)] The Canons of Criticism, and
Glossary, being a supplement to Mr. Warburton’s edition of
Shakespear. Collected from the notes in that celebrated work,
and proper to be bound up with it. By the other gentleman of
Lincoln’s Inn. The fifth edition. Printed for C. Bathurst, 1753.
1765-53
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WORK, pages xiv, (1,
postscript), (2, contents), (1, errata),573, (3, blank): (12), 3 - 23,
(1), 179, (19), complete in spite of erratic pagination,2 works in
1 volume, 8vo, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, with
contrasting label, gilt: a little wear to the headbands but binding
strong and otherwise very good copies.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
JOHNSON (Samuel).
Letters to
and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL. D. To which are added,
some poems never before printed. Published from the original
mss. in her possession, by Hester Lynch Piozzi.
Dublin: Printed
for Messrs. R. Moncrieffe, L. White, P. Byrne … (vol two: Printed for
Messrs. G. Burnet, R. Moncrieffe …)
1788. FIRST IRISH
EDITION, pages xvi,279, (1, blank): ix, (1, blank), 306,2 vols,
8vo, bound in 1, contemporary calf, gilt ruled spine, with label,
gilt: with a light old waterstain on the two preliminary blank
flyleaves amd some very light scattered browning in the text,
but otherwise a strongly bound and very good copy.
Fleeman 88. 3L/2. More elusive than the London first printing of the
same year. A collection which is still an important source for Johnson’s
relations with the Thrale circle and which, at the time, was the subject
of heated discussion in London society. Hannah More quoted Burke as
saying, in alusion to the many books being written about Johnson,
“How many maggots have crawled out of that great body!”
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€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1275
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SHAKESPEARE: - Mason (John Monck).
Comments
on the last edition of Shakespeare’s plays.
Dublin: Printed by P.
Byrne, No. 35, College-Green,
1785
FIRST IRISH EDITION pages xv, (1), 440, (2), with the half-
title and the errata leaf, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, gilt
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