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50th anniversary of first publication on 21st September 1937”-
Publisher’s printed label on front flyleaf..
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
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TRADE CATALOGUE: - Harris (Philip) & Co.
Catalogue of chemical and physical apparatus and chemicals.
Manufactured and imported by Philip Harris & Co., Limd.
Manufacturing, wholesale, and export chemists, Bull Ring,
Birmingham.
Birmingham,
(1889)
With some 3000 text illustrations, a few full-page, pages
(4),202, viii (index) and errata leaf, with 30 printed correction
slips tipped in throughout, roy 8vo, original cloth, gilt: the spine
lightly faded and wanting the front flyleaves, otherwise a very
good to nice copy.
An uncommon, well-illustrated and priced catalogue. Not in either
NUC or NSTC.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BROOKS (Wm. Alexander),
M. Inst. C. E.
Treatise on the Improvement of the Navigation
of Rivers: with a new theory on the cause of the existence of
bars.
John Weale,
1841. FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pp v (i. e.
iv), 154, (2, blank), 8vo, original cloth, gilt: nice.
Brooks(1802-77), wrote extensively on harbours and river
improvements. His `Report on the improvements in the river Clyde’ is
included here as an appendix.
(2)
LAWSON SEED & NURSERY CO.
Agrostographia. A
treatise on the cultivated grasses and other herbage and forage
plants. The Lawson Seed and Nursery Company (Limited)
successors to Peter Lawson and Son.
Edinburgh and London:
William Blackwood & Sons,
1877. With a portrait frontispiece
and 16 coloured plates, pages x, (2), 43, (1), 4to, original stiff
blue glazed paper wrappers, edges gilt: a trifle worn but sound,
clean and very good copy
“Sixth edition revised” on half-title.
(3)
€100-€120 (£80-£96 approx.)
1352
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TRAPP (Oswald Graf).
The Armoury of the Castle of
Churburg. Translated, with a preface, by James Gow Mann
Methuen & Co.,
1929
With 72 plates and numerous illustrations of maker’s marks,
pages xlv, 324 and errata slip, large 4to, original cloth, gilt, top
edges gilt: the binding evenly and lightly faded and otherwise a
very good to nice copy of this scarce and important catalogue.
Copy number 7 of a limited edition of 400 copies.
€400-€500 (£320-£400 approx.)
1353
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TRENT, COUNCIL OF, Catechism.
The Catechism by
decree of the Holy Council of Trent, published by command of
Pope Pius the Fifth. Translated into English and published with
the original Latin text by J. Donovan D. D.
Rome, printed at the
Propaganda-Press,
1839
In Latin and English on facing pages, pages xii, ix, 671, (1):
(4),577, (1), possibly wanting a half-title,2 vols, 8vo,
contemporary pale brown calf, fully gilt spines, red and black
labels, gilt, silk markers, with Maynooth crest in gilt on boards,
by George Bellew of Dublin, stamped in blind on front inner
turn-in of both vols: a strongly bound and handsome pair.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MUZZARELLI (Alfonso), SJ.
De auctoritate Rom. Pontificis in conciliis generalibus, opus
posthumum.
Gandavi, typis Bernardi Poelman
[1815]. FIRST
EDITION, pages (2), cxvi, 194, (2): (2),522, (10),2 vols bound
in 1, 8vo, neat nineteenth century cloth: a very good to nice
copy.
(2)
GERBET (Olympe P.), Bishop of Perpignan.
Considerations on the Eucharist, viewed as the generative
dogma of Catholic piety, translated from the French … by a
Catholic clergyman.
Cork: Printed at the South Mall Book Office by
F. Jackson,
1839. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp xi,237 and
errata leaf, large 12mo, original boards, uncut, wanting
backstrip: a very good copy.
An uncommon Cork printing: NSTC has Bodleian only and COPAC
has only the 1840 London reprint, though NLI on-line does have a
copy.
(3)
[GUYARD (Sr. Marie)].
The life of the venerable Mother
Mary of the Incarnation, joint foundress and first superior of
the Ursulines of Quebec. By a Religious of the Ursuline
Community, Blackrock, Cork.
Dublin: James Duffy & Sons,
(1880). FIRST EDITION, pages x, (9) - 350, large 12mo,
original cloth: a very good-nice copy.
Not found in Staton & Tremaine. COPAC has only O and L, the latter
a photocopy.
(4)
[ARNAULD (Antoine & Pierre Nicole)].
The perpetuity
of the faith of the Catholic Church on the Eucharist. With the
refutation of the reply of a Calvinistic minister [i. e. Jean
Claude]. Translated from the French [by P. J. Carew and W.
Kelly].
Dublin: Printed by John Coyne,24, Cooke-street,
1834.
FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, with a folding
leaf and pages iv, 344, 355 - 423, (1, blank), complete in spite of
pagination jump, 8vo, contemporary half calf, with label, gilt: a
very good to nice copy.
This 17C Catholic refutation of Calvinist doctrine is here privately
published and translated into English by Patrick Joseph Carew & Wm
Kelly: Carew was Bishop of Bengal and the author of an Ecclesiastical
History of Ireland, while Kelly was professor of literature at
Maynooth.
(6)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
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TRIALS.
A full and true relation of two very remarkable
tryals at the Quarter-Sessions of the Peace for the City and
Liberty of Westminster held in the Great Hall, on Monday the
third of October, and ending the eleventh of the same. The one,
for scandalous words, by one Shippon: the other, of a priest in
the Gate-house, for spoiling a girl of nine years old. By way of
a letter to a friend.
(Colophon: London, Printed for W. H. and T. F.
1680)
FIRST EDITION, drop-title, 4-pp, folio, sewn in recent
marbled wrappers, preserved in a custom-built folding cloth slip
case, with label, gilt: a very good, well-margined copy.
“THAT BEE MY CHARITEE”: SEXUAL ABUSE OF A NINE
YEAR OLD GIRL BY AN IRISH PRIEST. Wing F 2337. The
second part of the pamphlet contains “a very foul case” of sexual
abuse of a nine year girl by an Irish Catholic priest of the name of
Dowdel. The girl, named Bishop, swore in court that the previous
August she used to visit Dowdel, then a prisoner in the Gate-house
where she had first made his acquaintance when her mother was also a
prisoner there. According to her testimony: “he used to kiss her, to take
her upon his knee, and to give her sugared beer, some time put his
tongue into her mouth, and his hands up her coats; that he hurt her
once with his finger, which made her cry; and then to please her, gave
her two groats: and that a week after he took her in like manner upon
his knee, and after he had kissed her a while, he threw her upon his bed
(having made his Door fast with a stick) fell upon her, pull’d up her
Coats, and hurt her with something... “ When the matter came out the
girl’s father, being drunk, told Dowdel that for forty pounds he could
see to it that everything would be hushed up. Dowdel thought forty
pounds too much and offered ten. At his trial Dowdel shamelessly
confessed his misdemeanour with a frankness which later earned some
leniency from the court. He speaks in what appears to be the writer’s
attempt to imitate his Irish accent. “Being asked if he would challenge
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