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STEVEN (Robert)).
An inquiry into the abuses of the
Chartered Schools in Ireland. With remarks upon the education
of the lower classes in that country. Second edition.
London:
printed for Thomas and George Underwood,
1818
Pages vii, (1, blank),206, (2, blank), 16(adverts), 8vo, original
drab paper boards, with printed paper spine label, edges uncut: a
fine, bright, fresh copy. with the circular bookplate of Lord
Eldon and inscribed “From the Author” on the half-title.
EDUCATION OF THE LOWER CLASSES IN IRELAND.
Goldsmiths’ 22244 (this edition). “The ‘Inquiry into the Abuses of the
Chartered Schools in Ireland, ’ by my excellent friend, Robert Steven,
Esq., the indefatigable promoter of the Hibernian school society; a work
which cannot be too strongly recommended, or too generally read. ” –
John Howard, prison reformer
€350-€450 (£280-£360 approx.)
1316
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STILLMAN (Samuel).
A discourse, delivered before the
members of the Boston Female Asylum, Friday, Sept. 25, 1801,
being their first anniversary. Preached and published at the
request of the Society.
Boston, printed by Russell and Cutler,
1801
FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 18, with the attractive and rarely
present half-title, 8vo, sewn as issued in the original plain paper
wrappers: some light browning and faint staining but still a very
good, unsophisticated copy in original state.
Sabin 91791. Stillman (1737–1807), Baptist minister, original fellow or
trustee for the chartering in 1764 of the College in the English Colony of
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (the original name for Brown
University). From 1765 he was minister of the First Baptist Church of
Boston, Massachusetts, until his death. He was a member of the
American Philosophical Society and politically active as a member of
the 1779 Massachusetts Senate Convention for the formation of the
State constitution and also for the adoption in 1788 of the United States
Constitution.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HOWARD (George W. F.), 7th
Earl of Carlisle.
Two lectures, on the poetry of Pope, and on
his own travels in America … deliveed to the Leeds Mechanics’
Institution & Literary Society, December 5th and 6th, 1850.
Revised and corrected by the author. Eighth thousand.
Simpkin,
Marshall, and Co.; Leeds: Baines and Newsome,
1851. 44-pages, 8vo,
original green, glazed, printed wrappers: a very good copy in
original state.
Howard (1802–64), Viscount Morpeth, chief secretary and lord
lieutenant of Ireland, remembered as one of Ireland’s most genial
viceroys.
(2)
[HOWARD (Johm)].
Howard and Napoleon contrasted; in
eight dialogues between two young Americans. By the author
“The Sword, or Christmas presents”.
Houlston and Stoneman,
1840. FIRST EDITION(?), pages viii, 91, 12mo, original cloth:
a nice copy.
Attributed in NSTC to the philanthropist & prison reformer (1726?-90).
A juvenile piece not in Osborne or NUC. ‘The Sword’ also fails to figure
in NUC or NSTC.
(3)
POEMS.
A Glance at the Nations, with other poems.
Boston
[Mass.]: Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf,
1835. FIRST EDITION,
pages (4), 60, 12mo, original cloth, gilt: a very good to nice
copy.
Sabin 27532. NSTC, this edition only, notes Harvard and British
Library copies only and does not suggest an author.
(4)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
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STOBAEUS.
…(Greek) Sententiae, ex thesauris
Graecorum delectae. Cyri Theodori dialogus, de amicitiae
exilio. Opusculum Platoni adscriptum, de Iusto. Aliud eiusdem,
an virtus doceri possit. Huic editioni accesserunt eiusdem
Ioannis Stobæi Eclogarum physicarum et ethicarum libri duo.
Item Loci communes sententiarum, collecti per Antonium &
Maximum monachos, atque ad Stobæi locos relati. Subiunctis
capitum, auctorum, verborum & rerum locupletissimis
indicibus. (Eclogarum libri duo … Sententiarum …).
Aureliæ
Allobrogum [Geneva]. Pro Francisco Fabro, Bibliopola Lugdunensi.,
1609-09-09
In Greek and Latin throughout in parallel columns, the first
title-page printed in red and black, each title-page with a large
printer’s device, pages (24), 632, (29), (3, blank): (12),207, (1,
blank): 305, (7), 3 vols bound in l, folio, contemporary calf, gilt
bordered sides, gilt spine: with three small areas of worming in
the lower inner blank margin, the binding a little worn but
sound and strong and otherwise a a very good, well-margined
copy with the armorial bookplate of Richard Prime.
A fifth century compilation, prepared for the author’s son, of excerpts
from poets and prose-writers, dealing with a variety of topics from
metaphysics to household economy. Its value today consists in the large
number of citations from earlier literature which not only supplement
our knowledge of classical authors, but often throw light upon
difficulties in the regular ms traditions. “This edition is sought after, as
it is the only one which contains both the works of Stobaeus together. “ -
Ebert 21779. “First edition to reunite both volumes. The Eclogues are
copied from Antwerp 1575 and the Sentences from Frankfurt 1581. “ -
COPAC.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
1318
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STOCQUELER (Jocquim Hayward).
Fifteen months’
pilgrimage through untrodden tracts of Khuzistan and Persia, in
a journey from India to England, through parts of Turkish
Arabia, Persia, Armenia, Russia, and Germany: performed in
the years 1831 and 1832
London: Saunders and Otley,
1832
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, with 2 brightly coloured
frontispieces of costume and a large folding map (neat repair to
short tear in one fold), pp xii,263: v, (1, blank),228,2 vols, large
12mo, recent boards: occasional suggestion of light foxing: a
very good to nice copy.
An excessively rare book, only occasionally found and then wanting the
attractive plates or the map. Stocqueler (1801-86), English journalist,
government employee, entrepreneur in England, India, and the USA,
wrote several books about his travels and experiences in various wars.
Not in Speake, Cox, Blackmer or Howgego. At intervals from 1860 to
his death, he used the name Joachim Heyward Siddons, mainly in the
USA but at times in Britain claiming that he was the illegitimate son of
George Siddons, Sarah Siddons’s son. He died in Washington, D. C.,
USA in 1886, not in 1885 at Bath, England, as is often seen.
(2)
€800-€1,000 (£640-£800 approx.)
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STOWE (Harriet Beecher).
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or,
Negro Life in the Slave States of America.
Richard Bentley
(Bentley’s Standard Novels series 121),
1852
With engraved frontispiece, pages x (i. e. iv), 461, (1), small 8vo,
contemporary half deep olive green morocco, gilt, gilt spine, top
edges gilt: some light foxing of endleaves, but still a very good
copy with some fore-edges unopened.
A legendary rarity in Bentley’s series of Standard Novels. From vol 93
onwards in this series, no additional engraved title-pages were issued
and from volume 115 to the end series-titles were not issued and the
volumes carried no evidence of their actual number in the series.
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
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STREET (George E.).
Some account of Gothic
Architecture in Spain. Second edition.
John Murray,
1869
With 52 plates and 25, mostly folding, plans, after the author,
xiv,527, 8vo, orig green cloth, gilt, top edges gilt: inside joints
neatly strengthened, otherwise very good-nice
His most substantial contribution to architectural history, based on three
tours in Spain.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
ATKINSON (Joseph B.).
An Art
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