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LAWRENCE (T. E.).
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: a triumph.
J. Cape,
1935. SECOND IMPRESSION, with 4 maps and 53
plates, 672-pages, 4to, original brown cloth, gilt: a very good to
nice copy in the dust wrapper, the wrapper intact and not price-
clipped, though a little stubbed at headband.
O’Brien A042. Lawrence’s brilliant narrative of his experiences during
World War I. Hailed by Sir Winston Churchill as one of “the greatest
books ever written in the English language. “
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€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1279. SHELLEY (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern
Prometheus. By the author of The Last Man, Perkin Warbeck,
&c. &c. Revised, corrected, and illustrated with a new
introduction, by the author. [with:] SCHILLER (Friedrich)
The Ghost-Seer! From the German of Schiller. In two
volumes. [and:] BROWN (Charles Brockden) Edgar Huntly;
or, The Sleep Walker.
Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley …
Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh … Cumming, Dublin (Bentley
Standard Novels IX and X)
1831-31-31
With 2 engraved frontispieces and 2 additional engraved title-
pages, pages xii,202, with series title: (2), 163, (1), with half
title: (2), 176: xvi,258, with half-title, three works in 4 vols
bound in 2, small 8vo, uniform contemporary deep olive green
half morocco, gilt, fully gilt and lettered spines, top edges gilt:
old neat repair to clean short tear in one leaf without loss,
light suggestion of endpaper foxing, light rubbing of bindings
at corners, but bindings sound and attractive and still an
attractive copy in a pleasing contemporary binding.
Author’s final text and first illustrated edition. This third published
edition of Mary Shelley’s classic tale is significant for the inclusion
of a fine frontispiece of Frankenstein fleeing in terror from his
awakening creation – the first illustration to accompany the text –
and for the author’s new introduction in which she explains more
fully the circumstances of her creation. The additional engraved
title-page provides her name as the author for the first time. An
attractive set: rarely found complete, as here, with the usually
discarded Schiller and Brown volumes.
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€1,500-€2,000 (£1,200-£1,600 approx.)
1280
.
SHELLEY (P. B.): - Scott (Walter Sidney),
ed.
(1) The
Athenians. Being correspondence between Thomas Jefferson
Hogg and his friends Thomas Love Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Percy
Bysshe Shelley, and others. (2) Harriet & Mary. Being the
relations between Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and
Thomas Jefferson Hogg. As shown in letters between them now
published for the first time. (3) Shelley at Oxford. The early
correspondence of P. B. Shelley with his friend T. J. Hogg,
together with letters of Mary Shelley and T. L. Peacock and a
hitherto unpublished prose fragment by Shelley.
The Golden
Cockerel Press,
1943-44-44
FIRST EDITIONS, with 6 plates, 3 vols, 4to, uniformly bound
in the original quarter brown morocco, top edges gilt: a very
good to nice set.
Limited editions of 350,500 and 500 copies, respectively: the individual
copy numbers being 89,202 and 230.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1281
.
SHERIDAN (Charles Francis).
A history of the late
revolution in Sweden: containing an account of the transactions
of the three last Diets of that country; preceded by a short
abstract of the Swedish history, so far as was necessary to lay
open the true causes of that remarkable event.
Dublin: Printed by
M. Mills, No. 135, Capel-Street,
1778
FIRST DUBLIN EDITION, pages (4), 443, (1, blank), 8vo,
contemporary sheep, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: binding a
little worn but sound and strong, otherwise very good copy.
“The only correct and authentic Copy of the History of the Revolution
in Sweden, either in England or Ireland, I have given to Mr. Mills,
Boolseller, in Capel-Street. Charles Francis Sheridan. “ - printed note on
verso of title-page. Dublin-born author and politician (1750-1806),
secretary to the British envoy in Sweden for some years. His narrative of
eye-witness experiences attracted some attention and a French
translation was published in 1783.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
EHRENSTRÖM (Marianne L.
K. L. d’).
Notices sur la littérature et les beaux-arts en Suède.
Stockholm, de l’imprimerie d’Eckstein,
1826. FIRST EDITION, pp
(6), vi, (2), 157; (3), 79; (3), 111, 8vo, original unlettered stiff
blue paper wrappers, entirely uncut: a bright, fresh and attractive
copy in original state.
UCBA I. 488.
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EHRENSTRÖM (Marianne L. K. L. d’).
Notices sur la
littérature et les beaux-arts en Suède.
Stockholm, de l’imprimerie
d’Eckstein,
1826. FIRST EDITION, pp (6), vi, (2), 157; (3), 79;
(3), 111, 8vo, original unlettered stiff blue paper wrappers,
entirely uncut: a bright, fresh and attractive copy in original
state.
UCBA I. 488.
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HELMFRID (Björn).
Holmenöden under fyra sekler:
studier i Holmens bruks historia
Norrköping,
1954. With many
plates and illustrs, some coloured, 464-pp and errata slip, 4to,
full blue morocco, gilt, edges gilt, by Isbergs dated 1954: slight
mark on upper cover, otherwise a fine copy.
A presentation copy of this handsomely produced history of the firm of
Holmens, founded in the late 16th century: arms, armour, paper,
textiles, etc.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1282
.
SHIRLEY (Evelyn P.).
Original letters and papers in
illustration of the history of the church in Ireland, during the
reigns of Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth. Edited, with notes,
from autographs in the State-Paper-Office.
Francis & John
Rivington,
1851
FIRST EDITION, pages xxiv, 336, 8vo, original cloth by
Westleys & Co., with their ticket, the inside hinges cracked but
the binding strong and otherwise a very good to nice copy.
It was in the study of history and antiquity that Shirley’s real interests
lay, and in his library at Lough Fea he acquired and developed one of
the finest private collections in Ireland. Disraeli portrayed him in
Lothair as Mr Ardenne, ‘a man of ancient pedigree himself, who knew
everybody else’s’.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
KING (Wm.).
The State of the
Protestants of Ireland under the late King James’s governement
…With an appendix …
Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for George
Risk … George Ewing … and William Smith …,
1730. Pp (18),270;
124, 8vo, light browning: very good in recent boards, armorial
bookplate of Surgeon Lieut. Colonel Greene and, on verso of
title, the small, neat stamp of R. H. Inglis
First published 1691. “Though more of a party pamphlet than an
impartial history, it is a powerful vindication of the principles of the
revolution … “ - D. N. B.
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O’SULLIVAN BEARE (Philip).
Ireland under Elizabeth.
Chapters towards a history of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth.
Being a portion of the history of catholic Ireland by Don Philip
O’Sullivan Bear. Translated from the original Latin by Matthew
J. Byrne.
Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker,
1903. FIRST EDITION
THUS, with a folding map (short tear without loss), pages xx,
xxvii,212, (3, subscriber list), 8co, original cloth: a very good
copy.
His most important work, probably the single and most important
source for the Elizabethan wars in Ireland written by an Irishman. It
“is an important reflection of Irish Counter-Reformation mentality,
with miracles, prophecy, and providence to the fore. This patriotic
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