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“Reported (at the desire of the Post Office) by / Harding Giffard Esq. “
See Séamus Breathnach, ‘The trial of Arthur Wallace’. Carloviana:
[Journal of the Old Carlow Society],53 (2004),56-59, for a full account.
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
1382
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WALLACE (Thomas).
An essay on the manufactures of
Ireland: in which is considered, to what manufactures her
natural advantages are best suited; and what are the best means
of improving such manufactures.
Dublin: Printed by Campbell and
Shea …,
1798
FIRST EDITION, pages xxi, 340 and errata leaf, 8vo, light
browning, blank margins on four leaves strengthened, a small,
faint stamp in four places, but still a very good copy, pleasantly
bound in recent cloth-backed boards, with leather label, gilt.
Not in Kress (though there is a copy in the Baker Library). Goldsmiths’
17276. Black 2035. His only substantial publication, dedicated to
Francis, Earl of Moira. Wallace, “of the King”s Inn, Dublin, “
submitted this essay to the competition held by the Royal Irish Academy
as a consequence of the Cunningham bequest, and it was one of two
finalists, along with Preston”s better known essay. It includes a long,
occasionally caustic, preface detailing substantial delays in making the
award and what Wallace perceived as irregularities in the judging
process, most notably the fact that Preston sat on the committee that
selected the winner. Wallace’s essay surveys Ireland’s political and legal
structures, its supply of raw materials, its individual industries and its
trading legislation. It is a reasoned investigation of Ireland’s strengths
and weaknesses in manufacturing industry, comparing Irish production
to that of the rest of Great Britain.
€180-€220 (£144-£176 approx.)
1383
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[WALMESLEY (Charles), FRS].
The general history of
the christian church, from her birth to her final triumphant state
in heaven, chiefly deduced from the Apocalypse of St. John the
Apostle. By Sig. Pastorini.
Dublin: Printed by J. Mehain, No. 75,
Aungier-Street,
1790
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pp (2), xxv (i. e. xvii), (7),504,
including the (4)-page subscriber list, 8vo, recent boards: some
light signs of use, but a very good copy.
ESTC locates four copies: KLN, Dm, D / NN. Not in L, O or C.
Walmesley (1722–97), vicar apostolic of the western district. The
uncommon first Irish edition of his principal theological work, a
commentary on the book of Revelation which secured his gloomy
prophecies about the future on a foundation of Newtonian theory. First
published in 1771, it went through ten editions in Great Britain and five
more were produced in America. Translations also appeared in Latin,
French, German, and Italian, and were also reprinted. The book
prophesied the end of Protestantism and particularly the destruction by
God of the Anglican churches by 1825. It was popular with Irish
Catholics in the years before Catholic Emancipation in 1829. His
scientific attainments brought him into notice as an astronomer and
mathematician. He was consulted by the British Government on the
reform of the calendar and introduction of the “New Style” in 1750-52.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
ZACCARIA (Francesco
Antonio), SJ.
Anti-Febbronio … o sia apologia storico-
polemica del primato del Papa … Edizione seconda
notabilmente accresciuta.
In Cesena, per Georgio Biasini,
1770.
Pages (12), 499: 444, (2): xxxi, 628: (4), 375, 4 vols, 8vo, slightly
later half calf over marbled boards, gilt ruled spines, double
lettering pieces, gilt: a very good to nice set.
Zaccaria (1714-95), librarian at the court of Modena and later at
Mantua. This extensive rebuttal to Febronianism, here somewhat
enlarged, was first published at Pisaro in 1767. Febronianism, in some
ways the German counterpart of Gallicanism, a movement against the
claims, temporal especially, of the papacy, is named after Justinus
Febronius, the pseudonym of J. N. von Hontheim.
(2)
GOETHE (Johann W. von).
Faustus: the second part. From
the German of Goethe, by John Anster …
Longman, Green …,
1864. FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, pages
lxxxvii, 485, (3, blank), without the errata slip sometimes found,
8vo, original green cloth: just a little dull, but a sound (inside
joints intact) and very good copy
The first translation into English of any part of this poem was
published by Anster, the eminent Irish barrister, native of Cork, in
Blackwood’s Magazine in 1820, though it was not until 1835 that he
completed his translation of the first part, and that of the second part
followed in a further 29 years. “Its high merits were at once recognised.
Occasionally somewhat lacking in conciseness, it is throughout the
translation of a poet by a poet. “ - DNB.
(3)
ERASMUS (Desiderius).
Colloquia, cum notis selectis
variorum, addito indice novo. Accurante Corn. Schrevelio.
Lugd. Batav. et Roterod., ex officina Hackiana,
1664. With fine
engraved title-page (cut to margin and neatly mounted), pp (12),
784, (20), 8vo, 19C half calf, gilt spine, with label, gilt: six leaves
with neat repairs to blank margin (no text loss) and the binding,
though still very strong, worn at headband: a very good copy.
For centuries one of the most used Latin schoolbooks, discussing basic
scholarly and moral issues, here with the extensive annotations of the
great critic and philologist Cornelius Schrevelius (1608-1664.)
(7)
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1384
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WARD (Robert Plumer).
An enquiry into the foundation
and history of the law of nations in Europe, from the time of
the Greeks and Romans, to the age of Grotius. In two volumes.
Dublin: Printed by P. Wogan, P. Byrne, W/ Jones, and J. Rice,
1795
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (4), liii, (3, blank),236: (4), 379,
(3, blank), complete with the two half-titles, though possibly
wanting a further blank leaf at end of vol 2,2 vols bound in 1,
8vo, light browing of text, but a very good copy, pleasantly
bound in recent quarter calf, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt.
The very unommon first Irish edition of the first actual history of
international law. ESTC locates only eighteen copies: none in D or Dt.
€250-€350 (£200-£280 approx.)
1385
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WARING (Edward Scott).
A Tour to Sheeraz, by the
route of Kazroon and Feerozabad; with various remarks on the
manners, customs, laws, language, and literature of the Persians.
To which is added, a history of Persia, from the death of
Kureem Khan to the subversion of the Zund dynasty.
Printed for
T. Cadell and W. Dsavies., by W. Bulmer, and Co.,
1807
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, with 2 engraved plates, pages xiii,
(3), 329, bound without the half-title, 4to, recent quarter calf
over marbled boards, with label, gilt: with some light foxing, but
otherwise a large and very good copy, pleasantly bound.
An uncommon work by a major in the Bengal civil service, here, it is
claimed, much improved on “the numerous and absurd errors of the
press” in the Bombay edition of 1804. Allibone characterises this
London edition as “very rare”.
€350-€450 (£280-£360 approx.)
1386
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WATSON (Robert Spence).
The history of English rule
and policy in South Africa. A lecture delivered in the lecture
room, Nelson Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne … on Friday, the
30th May, 1879, at the request of the Newcastle Liberal
Association.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: J. Forster
(1879)
FIRST EDITION, with a map on verso of front wrapper, pp (2),
32, and printed wraps (the lower wrapper blank), 8vo, disbound:
a small stamp in two places, otherwise very good
“An attack on the policy of the British Government in South Africa
with respect to the first annexation of the Transvaal and the Zulu War.
With regard to the latter it is asserted that ‘the English people are
engaged in a strange enterprise in Soth Africa. They are deliberately and
of malice aforethought compassing the subjugation and possible
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