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of Euripides, with a revision of the text and a commentary.
Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer,
1871. FIRST EDITION
THUS, pages lii, (2), 93, 24 (advers dated January 1871), 8vo,
original brown cloth, gilt, uncut: boards lightly marked, small
oval stamp on title: a very good copy.
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STARK (Freya).
Alexander’s Path from Caria to Cilicia.
John Murray,
1958. FIRST EDN, folding map, plates, &c., pp
xxiii, 283, 8vo, orig cloth, gilt: very good in dw. (6)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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CITIZEN, The.
The Citizen; a monthly journal of politics,
literature, and art. (Vol. I. Nov., 1839 – Vol. 4, Dec., 1841).
Dublin: James Philip Doyle, 10, Crow-Street; and John Cumming,
Lower Ormond Quay. London: R. Groombridge …,
1840-41
ALL PUBLISHED UNDER THIS TITLE, with 48 engraved
plates of Irish music on 24 leaves and an engraved plan for a
Dublin dock improvement scheme pages iv, (3) - 532: iv, 508: iv,
368, (1): (4), 314, (1), with titles, contents leaves and indices, 4
vols, roy 8vo, uniform original patterned cloth: small stamp on
title-pages and, though the joints are secure, all four backstrips
are defective: internally in clean and very good state, no loose
sections and the stitching strong: excellent binding copies.
Waterloo Directory 628.
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COLBURN (Zerah).
Locomotive Engineering, and the
Mechanism of Railways: a treatise on the principles and
construction of the locomotive engine, railway carriages, and
railway plant, with examples.
London and Glasgow: William
Collins,
1871
FIRST EDN, with 240 illustrations, pp xiv, 5, (1, blank), (9) -
320, (2, blank), folio, cont half morocco: binding worn at
corners but sound and strong, internally in very good state.
Text
only of this authoritative and comprehensive work: the atlas is not
present.
€40-€60 (£32-£48 approx.)
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COLEMAN or COLMAN (Edward): -.
The tryal of
Edward Coleman, Gent. for conspiring the death of the king,
and the subversion of the government of England, and the
Protestant religion: who upon full evidence was found guilty of
high treason, and received sentence accordingly, on Thursday
November the 28th 1678.
Printed for Robert Pawlet,
1678
FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 80, 89 - 104, complete thus with
the imprimatur leaf, folio, recent paper wrapper: a very good
copy.
Wing T 2185. Coleman (1636-78), courtier, controversialist, politician,
secretary to the Duchess of York, converted to Roman Catholicism in
the early 1660s. He was beatified in 1929.
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IRELAND (Wm.),
PICKERING (Thomas) and GROVE (John): -.
The Tryals of
William Ireland, Thomas Pickering, and John Grove; for
conspiring to murder the King …
Printed for Robert Pawlet,
1678.
FIRST EDITION, pp (4), 84, with licence leaf, folio, recent
wrapper: a very good copy.
Wing T 2268. Ireland (1636-79), alias Ironmonger, Jesuit, procurator of
the province in London.
(2)
STAYLEY or STALEY (Wm.): -.
The tryal of William
Stayley, goldsmith; for speaking treasonable words against his
most sacred majesty: and upon full evidence found guilty of
high treason …
Printed for Robert Pawlet …,
1678. FIRST
EDITION, pages 8, (7) bis - 10, complete thus (A-C2), folio,
recent wrapper: a very good copy, inscribed on title “Charles
Cookson / From his Uncle / Thomas Cookson Esq. “
Wing T 2237. The day after his execution the first of the ‘popish plot’
trials proper, that of Edward Coleman, commenced: see above.
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COLLIER (Jeremy).
A short view of the immorality and
profaneness of the English stage: together with the sense of
antiquity upon this argument. The fourth edition.
Printed for S.
Keble and R. Sace,
1699
Pages (14), (2, adverts), 288, 8vo, pleasantly bound in quarter
calf over marbled paper boards, with label, gilt, edges gilt: a very
good copy.
Wing C 5266. The most serious attack ever made on the English stage.
It provoked replies from Congreve and other dramatists, but Collier was
completely victorious, and the best proof of his success, and of the
necessity for his attack, was the marked improvement in decency which
it produced. (Lowe).
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ANECDOTES: -.
The Curious
Book; or, literary relics.
Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans, for John
Thomson … and, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London,
1826. FIRST
(?ONLY) EDITION, pp ix, (1, blank), (2, advert leaf), 430, and
leaf of erratum, with half-title, 8vo, contemporary half calf, gilt
ruled spine, with label, gilt: a very good copy.
NSTC notes three copies and does not suggest an editor. Not in NUC. A
collection of anecdotes, few of Irish interest, with an index of authors.
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HERON (Robert) ].
The Comforts of Human Life; or smiles
and laughter of Charles Chearful and Martin Merryfellow. In
seven dialogues.
Printed for Oddy and Co...,
1807. (3)
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COLLIER (Jeremy).
An ecclesiastical history of Great
Britain, chiefly of England … to the end of the reign of King
Charles the Second. With a brief account of the affairs of
religion in Ireland … [bound with: ] COLLIER (Jeremy) An
answer to some exceptions in Bishop Burnet’s third part of the
History of the Reformation, &c. against Mr. Collier’s
Ecclesiastical Hiostory. Together with a reply to some remarks
in Bishop Nicholson’s English Historical Liibrary, &c. upon the
same subject. London: Printed for Richard Sare, Benjamin
Tooke, Daniel Midwinter and George Strahan, 1715.
London:
Printed for Samuel Keble … and Benjamin Tookse …,
1708-04-15
FIRST EDITIONS, with a fine impression of the engraved
frontispiece by Sturt after Lens, pages xx, 736, (24): xx, 904,
119, (1, blank), (20): 12, with a 4-page subscriber list (not
identical) in each volume, 2 works in 2 vols, folio, contemporary
panelled calf: one label defective and the bindings though
strong, are rubbed and worn, minor worming in the blank
margin of the last few leaves of the first volume, well clear of
text: a very good copy. (2)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
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[COLMAN (George), the elder].
The Oxonian in Town.
A comedy, in two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal
in Covent-Garden.
Dublin: Printed for G. Faulkner, A. Leathly, S.
Powell, P. and W. Wilson, H. Saunders [and 13 others in Dublin]
1769
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pp (8), 25, (2), (1, blank), 12mo,
recent wrapper: very good copy.
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REED (Joseph).
Tom Jones, a
comic opera: as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-
Garden.
Dublin: Printed for W. and W. Smith, G. Faulkner, P. and W.
Wilson … (and thirteen others),
1769. FIRST IRISH EDITION,
pages (4) 68, 12mo, recent paper wrapper: first and final page
stained, but otherwise a very good copy.
(2)
SOUTHERNE (Thomas).
Oroonoko. A tragedy.
Dublin:
Printed for Peter Wilson, in Dame-street,
1750. 78-pages, without
the advert leaves usually found at end, 12mo, recent wrapper:
very good.
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O’KEEFE (John).
The Agreeable Surprise. A comic opera,
in two acts … The music composed by Dr. Arnold.
Dublin:
Printed for J. Moore,
1792. 48-pages, 12mo, recent paper wrapper:
a very good to nice copy.
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