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The Examiner called Steele’s paper a ‘scandalous libel’. Defoe
published an anonymous reply, and Swift his masterly ad hominem
assault on Steele, The Importance of the Guardian Considered, also
anonymous, shortly followed (ODNB).
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
STURT (Charles).
The Real
State of France, in the year 1809; with an account of the
treatment of the prisoners of war, and persons otherwise
detained in France. Fourth edition.
Printed for J. Ridgway,
1810.
Pages (4), xii, (13) - 168, with half-title, 8vo, recent paper
wraps: very good to nice copy
Sturt, MP for Bridport, detained in France as a hostage for nearly
seven years, here writes to counter recent claims ‘that the price the
revolution has cost the [French] nation in blood and treasure, has been
well worth the object obtained’.
(2)
EDEN (Wm.), Baron Auckland.
The substance of a
speech made by Lord Auckland, on Monday the second day of
May, 1796, on the occasion of a motion made by the Marquis
of Lansdown.
Printed for J. Walter,
1796. FIRST EDITION, pp
41, (3, blank), with half-title, 8vo, recent wrapper: very good.
On the state of the national finances. Lansdown’s report is included
on pages 5-14.
(3)
[WALPOLE (Robert), Earl of Orford].
Observations
upon the Treaty between the crowns of Great-Britain, France,
and Spain, concluded at Seville on the ninth of November,
1729. N. S.
Printed, and sold by J. Roberts,
1729. FIRST
EDITION, pages 29, (1); 23, (1), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a
very good copy.
European Americana 729/221, issue with erratum on p. 29. The
Treaty, printed at the end with a separate title-page, was a landmark
in the history of diplomacy, marking the breakdown of the Austro-
Spanish Alliance and the beginning of the collapse of the Franco-
British Alliance. Walpole comments on the economic advantages
secured and on the possible political effects.
(4)
[ST JOHN (Henry), Viscount Bolingbroke].
A final
answer to the Remarks on the Craftsman’s Vindication; and to
all the libels, which have come, or may come from the same
quarter against the person, last mentioned in the Craftsman of
the 22nd of Nay.
London: Printed for R. Francklin, in Russell-
street, Covent-Garden,
1731. 32-pages, 8vo, unbound: some light
old marginal staining, the stitching absent so the sheets loose,
still a very good copy, inscribed on title in a contemporary
hand “The late Ld: Bol-”, and with the initial ‘A” of the title
crossed out in the same hand..
A resetting of the first edition, without the erratum note.
(5)
WITHERS (Philip).
Alfred, or a narrative of the daring
and illegal measures to suppress a pamphlet intitled, Strictures
on the Declaration of Horne Tooke, Esq. respecting “Her
Royal Highness the Princess of Wales”, commonly called Mrs.
Fitzherbert. With interesting remarks on a regency; proving,
on principles of law and common sense that a certain
illustrious personage is not eligible to the important trust...
New edition, enlarged.
Printed for the Author,
1789. 48-pages,
8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good to nice copy. (6)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1312
.
STEPHANUS (Robertus), the elder.
Concordantiae
Bibliorum utriusque Testamenti, Veteris & Novi, novae &
integrae …
[Paris or Geneva:] oliua (excud.) Rob. Stephani (7 Cal.
Febr.),
1555
FIRST EDITION, printer’s large device on title-page,548
leaves, folio, later half calf, gilt lettered spine: a very good to
nice copy, faintly rubricated throughout: the binding strong but
undistinguished, internally a nice, fresh copy.
Adams S 1798, citing Paris, but British Library Catalogue cites
Geneva.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
AMAT DE GRAVESON (Ignatius
Hyacinthus), OP.
Epistolae ad amicum scriptae theologico-
historico-polemicae …
Venetiis, apud Joannem Baptistam Recurti,
1729-30-30. FIRST EDITION, pages xx,235: xvi,252:
xxxvi,267, 3 vols, 4to, bound in 1, contemporary vellum: a
little light worming in the last few leaves with the loss of only
a few letters in the index, otherwise a very good to nice copy.
Amat de Graveson (1670-1733), French Domican, ardent follower of
St Thomas Aquinas, was professor of theology at Arles, Grenobles,
Lyon and Rome, and, as well as these nteresting letters on theological
method, the author of several theological books.. He was influential in
persuading the Jansenistic and Gallican Cardinal Archbishop
Noailles finally to submit in the affair of the bull Unigenitus. First
published Rome 1728, this Venetian edition is not represented in
COPAC.
(4)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
1313
.
STEPHENS (James).
Irish Fairy Tales.
Macmillan & Co.,
1920
FIRST EDITION, with 16 coloured plates, each with printed
tissue, and some other illustrations by Arthur Rackham, pages
x, 318, (1, advertisements), 4ro, original green cloth, gilt: the
binding lightly marked and just slightly worn at corners but
still a very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
RACKHAM: -.
The Allies’
Fairy Book. With an introduction by Edmund Gosse, C. B.
and illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
William Heinemann …
[1916]. FIRST UK TRADE EDITION, 12 coloured plates
with printed tissue-guards, and with other illustrs, pp xxii, 120,
small 4to, original blue cloth, gilt: very slight wear to spine, but
still a very good copy.
Fairy tales from each country allied against Germany during WWI
(2)
DISNEY (Walt).
The Adventures of Mickey Mouse.
Story and illustrations by staff of Walt Disney Studies.
George
G. Harrap & Co.
1931. FIRST LONDON EDITION, printed in
colours throughout on (32)-pages, with pictorial endpapers and
flyleaves, small 8vo, original pictorial printed boards: wanting
the backstrip: a clean and very good copy.
The first British edition of any Disney book.
(3)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1314. STERLING (Joseph). Bombarino, a romance: with
poems on the four sister arts, viz. Eloquence, Poetry,
Painting, and Music: and other miscellaneous poems. By
Joseph Sterling, T. C. D.
Dublin: Printed by George Cecil,
1768
FIRST (APPARENTLY ONLY) EDITION, pages xv
(including a 7-page subscriiber list), (1, blank), 144,
complete with the half-title and the blank leaf F8, small 8vo,
contemporary calf: the label chipped, otherwise a very good,
unsophisticated copy with the contemporary signature of
John Hart (of TCD, a subscriber) on the half-title.
ESTC, only edition, locates four copies: L, C, D and MH. A
subscriber’s copy of the first and only edition of his first published
book, apparently privately published. Sterling, (fl. 1765–94, poet
and antiquary, the leading Irish Spenserian of his generation.
Nothing is known of his origins, and very little of his life. He
entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a sizar in 1765, although no
degree is recorded, and though he took orders, he seems to have
lived as a private gentleman. At Trinity he composed Bombarino, a
Romance (1768) in imitation of Tasso, Ariosto, and Spenser, with
an essay on romance echoing Horace Walpole’s defence of the
genre in the preface to the Castle of Otranto. In fact, Sterling’s
archaizing mannerisms here and elsewhere might be described as a
kind of Strawberry Hill Gothic (ODNB).
€800-€1,000 (£640-£800 approx.)
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