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SIONITA (Gabriel).
Arabia, seu Arabum vicinaruque
gentium Orientalium leges, ritus, sacri et profani mores, instituta
et historia. Accedunt preterea varia per Arabiam itinera, in
quibus multa notatu digna enarrantur.
Amsterdam, apud
Guiljelmum et Ioannem Blaeu
1635
FIRST EDITION, with an engraved title-page,247-pages, 12mo,
with some light staining and browning but still a very good copy
in contemporary vellum.
Gabriel Sionita, otherwise known as Gibra’il al-Sahyuni (1577-1648),
Maronite scholar, lived from 1614 to 1648 in Paris on I’Île St-Louis.
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1288
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SIRR (Joseph D’Arcy).
The church the rightful moral
instructress of the people. A sermon preached at the Bethel
Chapel, Kingstown, in behalf of the Church Education Society
for Ireland, 12th. January, 1840.
Dublin: George Folds, printer, 1,
Saint Andrew-Street. Opposite Trinity Street,
1840
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION,24-pages, 12mo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
COPAC has the Lambeth Palace copy only, while WorldCat adds one at
Brown University. Not found on-line in D. Sirr (1794-1868), native of
Dublin, became close to Trench, whose memoir he published. Ordained
in 1819, his first curacy was at Sutton, Winchester, after which he
became rector of Kilcoleman, Co. Galway (1823), then of Claremorris,
Co. Mayo (1841). He was the first honorary secretary of the Society for
Promoting Scriptural Education in the Irish Language.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
GRANNAN (Joseph C.).
Grannan’s
Warning against Fraud and valuable information. A treatise
upon subjects relating to crime and business... also... practical
suggestions for everyday life. Published by the Grannan
Detective Bureau Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Akron, O.,
1891. With a
portrait,514-pages, 8vo, original green cloth: a nice, fresh copy.
NUC has four editions, 1890-1903, each in one or two copies, but not
this.
(2)
ANDREWS (Wm.),
ed.
Legal Lore: Curiosities of Law and
Lawyers.
William Andrews & Co.,
1897. FIRST EDITION, with a
frontispiece, pages (8),290, (7, advertisements), 8vo, original
blue cloth, gilt, top edges gilt: a very good copy.
(3)
GAMBLE (Sidney G.).
A Practical Treatise on Outbreaks
of Fire, being a systematic study of their causes and means of
prevention...
Charles Griffin
1931. SECOND EDITION, with
some 300 full-page and other illustrations, pages (2), xii,543, (3,
advertisements), 8vo, original cloth: the boards lightly
discoloured but sound and with extensive tipped-in relevant
newspaper cuttings on endleaves, flyleaves and prelims.
A comprehensive work, with much historical material.
(4)
DUFF (Charles).
A Handbook on Hanging. Being a short
introduction to the fine art of hanging … New edition enlarged
…
John Lane
1938. BEST EDITION, 187-pages, cr 8vo, original
cloth, with printed paper label: a very good copy in a just
slightly worn dust wrapper.
“A masterpiece of irony and is perhaps the only example of truly
Swiftian satire written in our times. “ - Blurb.
(5)
HAWKINS (Sir Henry, Baron Brampton)
Reminisinces
E.
Arnold London
1904. (6)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1289
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SISMONDI (Leonard Simonde de).
Histoire des
Républiques Italiennes du Moyen Age. Nouvelle édition.
Paris:
Furne et Ce... Treuttel et Wurtz,
1840
With 25 plates (including some engraved views of Italian cities),
with the half-titles, 10 vols, 8vo, contemporary half vellum, gilt
spines, with red and green labels, silk markers, with name stamp
`Cangort’ in gilt at the foot of each spine, signed by the
publishers on verso of first half-title: one signature in volume
four misbound but complete: despite the inevitable light foxing
in places a most attractive library set without any binding
defects.
“Best and most beautiful edition”. The political economist’s first major
work as historiographer, a study of the Italian city state in which the
decadence of the Church is made the prime cause for the degeneration of
Italy. Volumes five and seven detail Cyprian affairs.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
DENINA (Carlo G. M.).
Delle
rivoluzioni d’Italia. Con giunte e correzioni inedite dell’ autore.
Firenze, dalla stamperia Piatti,
1820. With a portrait, pages viii,
337, (5): 394, (4): 382, (4): 292, (4): 404, (4),5 vols, 8vo,
contemporary half vellum, gilt spines, with brown and green
labels, gilt, with Cangort in gilt on each spine, silk markers: with
some very light foxing in places, but still a nice set in very good
to nice state in handsome bindings, all in fine state.
Attractive set of a good edition of the work on which Denina’s
reputation rests.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1290
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[SKELTON (Philip)].
The necessity of tillage and
granaries. In a letter to a member of parliament living in the
county of ——— [.]
Dublin: Printed in the Year
1741
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, 64-pages, 8vo, recent paper boards:
a very good, uncut copy.
Hanson 5521. Signed at end: Triptolemus. Skelton (1708-87), Irish
philosopher and divine celebrated for his charity and hypochondria.
Hume procured the publication of his dialogues on Deism, and Sherlock
warmly commended them. This present pamphlet was inspied by what
he witnessed during a period of famine. His local knowledge, and his
lifelong struggle against poverty well equipped him to write
authoritatively. It contains useful information on current costs and
prices of commodities and calls for the extension of tillage farming and
the erection of public granaries to alleviate future distress.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1291
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SMELLIE (Wm.).
The philosophy of natural history. In
two volumes.
Dublin: printed by William Porter, for Chamberlaine
and Rice, W. Wilson, P. Wogan … [and 8 others in Dublin],
1790
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pp xiv, 317 [i. e. 417], 1 blank): vii, (1,
blank), vii, (1, blank), 469, (3, blank),2 vols, 8vo, contemporary
pale brown calf, gilt ruled spines, with red and green labels, gilt:
with the contemporary signature, price and shelf mark of
Marcus Gage in both vols: light browning of endleaves, but still
a particularly bright, fresh and attractive pair.
A general view of the natural history of animals and of man, including
the different races of man, and a discussion of those who have written
on the subject from Aristotle to Buffon and Pennant. The author, for
many years a printer (he was the printer of, and a contributor to, the
first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica), became Professor of
Natural History in Edinburgh. His book was very successful, being
translated into German and ran to several editions in America. This
Dublin edition is uncommon – Fenning last handled a copy in 1973.
(2)
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
1292
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SMITH (Adam).
An inquiry into the nature and causes of
the weath of nations. In three volumes. The tenth edition.
London: Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street; for T. Cadell, Jun. and
W. Davies, in the Strand,
1802
Pages xii, 499, (1, blank): (2), vi,518. (5), (1, blank): vii, (1,
blank), 465, (1, blank), (51, index), (1, adverts), with all three
half-titles, 3 vols, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, spines rubbed,
wanting two of the six labels, spines worn and dull but very
strong with no cracked inner or outer joints, wanting the blank
flyleaves: a very good and strongly bound set.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BOURNE (Stephen).
Trade,
Population and Food. A series of papers on economic statistics.
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