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KEMPE (Alfred J.).
Historical notices of the collegiate
church or Royal Free Chapel and Sanctuary of St. Martin-le-
Grand, London; formerly occupying the site now appropriated
to the new General Post Office; chiefly founded on authentic
and hitherto inedited manuscript documents … Also
observations on the different kinds of sanctuary formerly
recognized by the common law.
Printed for Longman, Hurst …,
1825. FIRST EDITION, with 2 engraved plates, pp x, (1,
errata),212, 8vo, original boards, uncut: spine defective,
wanting label, and upper joint cracked, but a clean and very
good copy.
Kempe(1785?-1846), antiquary, friend of C. A. Stothard & Thomas
Crofton Croker, formed the Noviomagnus Society and was on the staff
of the Gentleman’s Magazine.
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€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1340
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[TAPLIN (Wm.)].
The Aesculapian labyrinth explored;
or, medical mystery illustrated: in a series of instructions to
young physicians, surgeons, accouchers, apothecaries,
druggists, and practitioners of every denomination, in town
and country: interspersed with a variety of risible anecdotes
affecting the faculty: inscribed to the College of Wigs, by
Gregory Glyster, an old practitioner.
Dublin: Printed by
Zachariah Jackson, for Messrs. P. Wogan, P. Byrne, W. M’Kenzie, J.
Jones, and Grueber and M’Allister,
1789
Pages (2), 79, ii, without the half-title, 8vo, pleasantly bound in
recent cloth: the title-page evenly dusty, with some light signs of
use: a good to very good copy.
Wellcome Catalogue V. 233.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GEORGE III: -.
A sketch of the
reign of George the Third, from 1780, to the close of the year
1790.
Dublin: Printed by Brett Smith, for Messrs. R. Cross...,
1791.
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pp (2), 173, (1, blank), 8vo, recent
cloth-backed marbled boards: light staining of last few leaves,
but otherwise a clean, large and very good copy.
Includes an account of the political measures respecting the American
Colonies and the conduct of the War; with the subsequent peace
negotiations, also, an account of the negotiations with Spain regarding
the North West Coast of America. Six London editions were published
by 1791: this Dublin edition is uncommon. Goldsmiths’ has the fourth
edition only (15040): no edition in Kress.
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BOSSUET (Jacques Benigne).
A discourse on universal
history, in order to show the progress of religion, and the
revolutions of empires … to the Empire of Charlemagne.
Translated from the French.
Dublin: Printed by J. Christie,
1811.
Pages x, (11, subscriber list),524, wanting the blank flyleaves,
8vo, contemporary half calf: the upper joint cracked but still
very secure: a very good copy.
An uncommon edition: NSTC has Dt only.
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SOUTHEY (Robert).
The Correspondence of Robert
Southey with Caroline Bowles. To which are added:
correspondence with Shelley, and Southey’s Dreams. Edited,
with an introduction, by Edward Dowden.
Dublin: Dublin
University Press series,
1881. FIRST EDITION, with portrait, pp
xxxii, 384, (2), 385-388 and 2,24 adverts, 8vo, original cloth,
gilt, by Cavenagh of Dublin, with their ticket: a bright, fresh,
almost as new copy.
A correspondence of twenty years which fully attests to their entire
congeniality.
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HARCOURT (Sir Wm. Vernon): - Gardiner (Alfred.
The
life of Sir William Harcourt.
Constable & Company,
1923. FIRST
EDITION, 8 plates, pp xi, 608: vii, 670,2 vols, 8vo, original
cloth: very good
Standard work. Gladstone’s closest Commons lieutenant. Much of
Irish interest.
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€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
1341
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TAPLIN (Wm.).
The Gentleman’s Stable Directory; or,
modern system of farriery … To which is now added, a
supplement, containing practical observations upon thorn
wounds, punctured tendons, and ligamentary lameness … The
fourteenth edition.
Dublin: Printed by P. Wogan, No. 23, Old-
Bridge,
1800
With engraved frontispiece, pages xvi,240, (8): vii, (1, blank),
184, complete with the half-titles,2 vols bound in 1, 8vo,
contemporary calf, gilt ruled spine, with green label, gilt: an
attractive copy in nice state, inscribed on first half-title “Edw.
Lloyd Junr, May 1st, 1818”, and, on the front flyleaf in the
same hand “I will not lend this book / E. Lly. “.
ESTC locates only a single copy (British Library) of this edition:
COPAC adds Edinburgh (vol one only). Not found on-line in D or Dt.
As in the BL copy vol two is of the sixth edition. Taplin (d. 1807), a
noted veterinary surgeon who made many important improvements in
his art, was the author of several works on farriery and the treatment
of lame horses.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1342. TASSIN (Nicolas). Les plans et profils de toutes les
principales villes et lieux considerables de France. Ensemble
les cartes generales de chacune province: & les particulieres
de chaque gouvernement d’icelles.
Paris: Martin Gobert
(seconde partie: Michel Van Lochom),
1634
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, with two additional
engraved title-pages and 446 engraved plates (3 folding), of
maps, views, plans and engraved section titles and tables,
pages 39, (1, blank): 44 and with leaves E2-E3 in the second
volume present in two different states without corresponding
loss, also with the general map of France duplicated (that of
Paris is present) and in the second book (Champagne) plates
49 and 50 are duplicated in place of plates 51 and 52 which
are not present,2 vols, oblong small 4to, contemporary calf,
old neat rebacking, with labels, gilt: the second volume
shorter by 4 mm, otherwise a clean and very good, well-
margined copy with the bookplate of Egerton Castle in both
volumes.
The first collected edition of all seventeen suites of a fine,
illustrated topographical survey of seventeenth century France,
published by this royal geographer from 1631 onwards and which is
only very rarely found entirely complete. This issue, with the
imprint of Gobert and Vanlochum, is particularly uncommon.
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€1,200-€1,500 (£960-£1,200 approx.)
1343
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TERENCE, PHAEDRUS, SYRUS,
et alia.
Comoediae,
Phaedri Fabulae Aesopiae, Publii Syri et aliorum veterum
Sententiae, ex recensione et cum notis Richardi Bentleii.
Cantabrigiae, apud Cornelium Crownfield …,
1726
FIRST EDITION THUS, with engraved portrait and engraved
frontispiece to Phaedrus, pp (6), xxv (i. e. xxvi), 444; (8), 87,
4to, contemporary calf, fully and richly gilt spine, with label,
gilt: a little wear at corners but binding sound, strong and
attractive, a very faint old stain to the portrait in no way
detracts from this being a large and attractive copy.
Bartholomew 175. ‘The Terence is one of Bentley’s titles to fame …
Bentley was the first modern who threw any clear light on the metrical
system of the Latin dramatists. ‘ – Jebb. ‘In the Terence he laid the
foundations of all subsequent work on the Latin comic metres, in itself
an achievement which would suffice to make the reputaion of an
ordinary man. ‘ – Kenny.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1344
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THEODORET, Bishop of Cyrrhus.
…(Greek) … Opera
omnia ex recensione Iacobi Sirmondi denuo edidit … et
variantes lectiones adiecit Ioann. Ludov. Schulze …
Halae, typis
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