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translations were published. (British Bee Books). Benjamin Franklin is
included amongst the list of subscribers.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
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[WILKES (John) }.
The North Briton. To which is
added, by way of appendix, the letters which passed between
the Rt. Hon. Earl Talbot, &c. and John Wilkes; previous to
their duel. Together with all the papers relative to the
confinement and enlargement of Mr. Wilkes. With many other
curious particulars. Vol. I. [-Vol. II.] Dublin: printed by J. Potts,
at Swift’s Head in Dame-street. 1763. [with, uniformly bound:]
The North Briton. V ol. III. Lnodon [sic]: Printed by especial
appointment for E. Sumpter, bookseller, in Fleet-street. And,
Dublin: re-printed, and sold by the Booksellers. 1763.
Dublin,
1763
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (2), 195: (2), 173, (1, blank);
33, (1, adverts): (2),216, 3 vols, 12mo, uniformly contemporary
Irish calf, with red labels, gilt, the extremities of spines only
very slightly chipped, with the early armorial bookplate in all
vols of John Robert Mowbray: clean worming towards the end
of vol II beginning at p. 111, affecting the text and visually
unpleasant, but the text always recoverable: an attractive copy
nonetheless.
The first Dublin edition of The North Briton, the sensation of political
journalism in Britain at the time. This edition includes the notorious
number 45, for which Wilkes was prosecuted; his own authorship
ended with no. 46, and the continuation published here in vol III,
which continues to no. 68, is said to be by J. W. Brooke (there is another
by William Bingley). This is a strikingly rare book. Although ESTC’s
records seem a bit confused, it is clear that very few copies survive: of
the three-vol set ESTC locates just two copies, at the British Library
and Bodleian; and of the two-vol Potts edition on its own it records
eight (two at the BL, one each at the Bodleian, Franciscan House of
Studies, Nuffield Oxford, and UCD; with Harvard and Huntington the
only ones in the US); and of the final vol, with its curiously different
imprint, ESTC adds copies at Oberlin College and Princeton.
(3)
€400-€500 (£320-£400 approx.)
1402
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WILLIAMS (Wm.), MD, FRGS.
Life in the Soudan:
adventures amongst the tribes, and travels in Egypt, in 1881 and
1882.
Remington & Co.,
1884
FIRST EDITION, with a portrait frontispiece and 6 plates,
pages (8), iv, (5) - 338 and advert leaf, 8vo, original brown
pictorial cloth: a very good to nice copy.
Travels and explorations in the Basé or Kunama country by a Surgeon-
Major, Imperial Ottoman Army, 1876-77 and occasional contributor to
the medical press.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SYKES (Clement A.).
Service
and sport on the tropical Nile. Some records of the duties and
diversions of an officer among natives and big game during the
re-occupation of the nilotic province.
John Murray,
1903. FIRST
EDITION, with a folding map, a portrait frontispiece and 16
plates, pages viii, (3), 306, (1), 8vo, original red cloth, gilt, top
edges gilt: a fresh, clean copy
“Sykes relates his military duties in the Sudan along the Nile but also
mixes in some exciting elements of big-game hunting. There are two
chapters on stalking elephant, one on hippopotamus, and one on
rhinoceros, as well as a dash of antelope hunting. Major E. A. P.
Hobday”s illustrations are patrticularly nice. “ - Czech 162.
(2)
ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN.
Notes on the Anglo-
Egyptian Sudan.
(Cairo: General Staff Intellegence, General
Headquarters, Middle East 1st November)
(1940). FIRST
EDITION, 103-pp, small square 12mo, original printed
wrapper: a very good copy.
Ownership inscription of W(olfe). Sacharin on front cover and
emendations in pen of the names of the province governors on p. 100.
Sacharin (brother of Joseph) served with the British in North Afria.
Later an FRIC and director of Building Services in Nothern Ireland.
(3)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1403
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WILLIAMSON (George C.).
The History of Portrait
Miniatures.
George Bell and Sons,
1904
With 104 plates, pp xxix,214, (1): ix,211, (1),2 vols, folio,
original white cloth, gilt, top edges gilt: spines rubbed & worn
but bindings strong, otherwise a very good to nice copy.
Limited to 520 copies, handsomely printed by Whittingham at the
Chiswick Press.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
FOSTER (Joshua James).
Miniature Painters British and Foreign. With some account of
those who practised in America in the eighteenth century.
Illustrated by numerous examples selected from celebrated
collections.
Dickinsons,
1903. AUTHOR’S EDITION, limited to
570 copies, with 123 photogravure plates, pp xii, 137: viii, 178
and tipped-in printed slip,2 vols, folio, original cloth-backed
boards: spines worn, one inside joint strengthened, otherwise a
clean, very good copy of this standard work. (3)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1404
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WILLOUGHBY (Howard).
Australian Pictures drawn
with pen and pencil.
The Religious Tract Society,
1886
With a folding map and 107 full-page and other illustrs after
Whymper and others, pp 224, 8(adverts), small folio, origl
pictorial cloth, gilt, edges gilt: a very good to nice copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GREEN (Samuel G.).
French
pictures drawn with pen and pencil. With illustrations by
English and foreign artists.
Religious Tract Society
[1878]. FIRST
EDITION, with plates,2 maps and many illustrs, pages xii,212,
small folio, original brown cloth, gilt, edges gilt: a bright, fresh
and attractive copy with the inside joints intact.
(2)
GREEN (Samuel G.).
Pictures from the German
Fatherland drawn with pen and pencil.
The Religious Tract
Society
[1880]. With many full-page and other illustrations,
pages 224, (8, adverts), small folio, original green pictorial
cloth, gilt, edges gilt: a little wear to the spine but a very good
copy.
(3)
BAKER (James), FRGS.
Pictures from Bohemia drawn
with pen and pencil.
The Religious Tract Society
[1894]. With a
map and 108 full-page and other illustrations, pages 192, (8,
adverts), small folio, original pictorial cloth, gilt, edges gilt: a
very good to nice copy.
(4)
LOVETT (Richard).
Pictures from Holland drawn with
pen and pencil.
The Religious Tract Society,
1887. With a map
and 133 full-page and other illustrs, pages 224, (8, adverts),
small folio, original blue pictorial cloth, gilt, edges gilt: a nice,
fresh copy, with the inside joints intact.
One of the rarer titles in this attractive series.
(5)
LOVETT (Richard).
Norwegian Pictures drawn with pen
and pencil. Containing also a glance at Sweden and the Gotha
Canal.
R. T. S.,
1885. With folding map and 127 full-page and
other illustrs, pp 224, (8, ads), small folio, original pictorial
cloth, gilt, edges gilt: light suggestion of wear at headbands but
still a nice copy. (6)
€100-€150 (£80-£120 approx.)
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WILSON (Charles Henry).
A compleat collection of the
resolutions of the volunteers, grand juries, &c of Ireland, which
followed the celebrated resolves of the first Dungannon Diet.
To which is prefixed a train of historical facts relative to the
Kingdom, from the Invasion of Henry II. down, with the
history of volunteering, &c. Vol. I [: all published].
Dublin:
Printed by Joseph Hill,
1782
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