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FIRST EDITION, with portrait frontispiece, pages (4),
clxiv,281, (3), 8vo, recent half calf, gilt, gilt ruled spine, with
label, gilt: some minor light staining but still a very good copy
The most extensive contemporary work on the Volunteers. Wilson
(?1756-1808), native of Bailieborough, Co. Cavan, son of a Protestant
minister, author of Poems Translated from the Irish Language into the
English (1782), moved to London in pursuit of literary fame, there
issued a comedy, Poverty and Wealth and edited Beauties of Edmund
Burke, Swiftiana, Brookiana, and, published anonymously, The Irish
Valet: he is the object of grateful mention in the Introduction to
Charlotte Brooke’s Reliques.
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1406
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[WILSON (Wm.)].
The Post Chaise Companion: or
traveller’s directory through Ireland. Containing a new &
accurate description of the direct and principal cross roads, with
particulars of the... seats, cities, towns, parks, natural curiosities,
antiquities, castles, ruins, manufactures, loughs, glens, harbours,
&c.... (with) a travelling dictionary, or alphabetical tables... The
3d. edition, corrected and enlarged. With an entire new set of
plates.
Dublin: Printed & published by J. & J. H. Fleming,
1803
With engraved title-page, 4 engraved plates of views (2 folding),
a large folding engraved map, 1 other folding engraved map and
pages (2), columns xxviii, 646, pages 647 - 660, (19), 8vo,
original boards, uncut: old sympathetic rebacking in paper,
retaining the original printed paper spine label, light worming in
the inner blank margins on first and last few leaves, otherwise a
very good copy.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1407
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WINGFIELD (Wm. F.).
A tour in Dalmatia, Albania,
and Montenegro; with an historical sketch of the Republic of
Ragusa, from the earliest times down to its final fall.
Richard
Bentley,
1859
FIRST EDITION, pp viii, 348, 8vo, original cloth: inside hinges
cracked but binding sound and strong and, in spite of an
occasional finger mark, a very good copy in original state.
Written to “detail certain facts at the crisis of 1853-4, relative to the
condition of Christians in a Turkish province … to draw attention to
the Slave nationalities, important from their connexion with that
widely-extended family of which Russia is the acknowledged head …
and to describe an interesting tour … “ - Preface.
€150-€200 (£120-£160 approx.)
1408
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WINSTANLEY (Wm.).
A Visit to Abysinia. An account
of travel in modern Ethiopia. In two volumes.
Hurst and Blackett,
1881
FIRST EDITION, with a frontispiece, pages xi, (1, blank), 310:
viii, 307, wanting the first half-title,2 vols bound in one, as
issued, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth, gilt, edges gilt: the
endpapers renewed, with library markings on the first title-page
and the spine lightly and evenly faded, otherwise a fresh, clean
and attractive copy of an uncommon book.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
SCHEER (Frederick).
The Cape
of Good Hope versus Egypt; or, political and commercial
considerations on the proper line of steam communication with
the East Indies.
Benjamin Steill
(1839). FIRST (ONLY)
EDITION, 16-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a nice copy.
Kress C 4988. Not in Goldsmiths’, Black or Mendelssohn (2). NUC
notes ICU and MH-BA copies only - NSTC adds NLS and BL. Scheer,
who also published pamphlets on the Californian and Australian gold
discoveries, strongly opposes public funding for the opening of a route to
India via Egypt but has no objections to such a venture if privately
funded.
(2)
WARD (Emily).
Three Travellers in North Africa. With
photographs and a chapter on southern Tunisia by Lord Leigh,
and a preface by the Hon. Agnes Leigh.
John Lane,
1921. FIRST
EDITION, with a folding map and 12 plates, pages xii,224, (4,
adverts), cr 8vo, original cloth: the binding dull and worn but
sound and strong: a good copy.
(3)
WHITE (Geoffrey Henry Shelswell).
A Guide to Zanzibar
(Second Edition). By G. H. Shelswell-White, Administrative
Officer and Private Secretary to His Higness the Sultan.
Zanzibar: Printed by the Government Printer,
1934. With 2 folding
maps, 74-pages, roy 8vo, original cloth-backed printed boards:
very good
First published 1932, here with many amendments and some slight re-
arrangement.
(5)
€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1409
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WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY.
The
Year-Book of Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony. 1913.
Published
for the Marconi Press Agency Ltd …
(1913)
FIRST EDITION, with large folding coloured map, 32 plates
and some other illustrs, pages xxiv (adverts),563, (1), xxv-lxxv
(adverts), 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt: a very good copy
The first year of issue: rarely found in such good state.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HOTINE (Martin).
Surveying
from Air Photographs.
Constable,
1931. FIRST EDITION, 7
plates & 102 other illustrs, pp xi,250, 4to, original cloth: very
good
For many years the standard textbook in English on its subject.
(2)
LODGE (Sir Oliver J.), FRS.
Modern Views of Electricity.
Macmillan and Co., Nature Series,
1889. FIRST EDITION, with
55 illustrs, pp xvi, 422, (2, adverts), 8vo, original cloth: nice copy
Lodge (1851-1940), physicist who perfected the coherer, a radio wave
detector and the heart of the early radio receiver and was the first to
suggest that the sun might be the source of radio waves - a fact not
confirmed until 1942.
(3)
KING (George A.).
John King. The story of his ancestry,
career and descendants.
Amsterdam / Cape Town: Printed for the
Author in an edition of fifty copies by A. A. Balkema,
1958. FIRST
EDITION, with 2 potraits, a folding panoramic view of Carrizal
Bajo and a genealogical tree, 84-pages, 8vo, original full blue
calf, gilt: a nice copy.
Engineer with Dubbs and Co., of Glasgow, manufacturers of railway
locos and railway rolling stock, emigrated to Chile on behalf of Dubbs
to work on the Chilean state railway, appointed manager of the
Carrizal Railway, invented and patented a rifle sight, a lubricator for
the cylinders of steam engines, an automatic coupling for railway
rolling stock, a mountain railway engine, a floating breakwater, etc.
Only 50 copies were printed. Not found in British Library Catalogue,
WorldCat or COPAC.
(4)
PAGE (Victor Wilfrid).
The Model T Ford Car. Its
construction, operation and repair... A complete practical
treatise …
Hodges and Stoughton
(1915). FIRST UK EDITION,
with some 100 illustrations and plates, two folding or double-
page, cr 8vo, original blue cloth: a very good copy.
With tipped in printed slip regarding left / righ hand driving and a
large folding illustrated catalogue of Ford accessories. With the printed
slip of Morris, Riussell & Co. Ltd, sole concessionaires, overlaying the
title-page imprint.
(5)
LAVILLE (Ch.).
Les occasions dans le commerce
automobile. Le problème psychologique - le problème technique
- l’identification de la voiture - renseignements pratiques.
Paris:
H. Dunod & Pinat, Bibliothèque du Chauffeur,
1908. FIRST
EDITION, with 134 full-page and other illustrs, pp vii, (1,
adverts), 326, (2, blank), cr 8vo, original printed wrappers: spine
worn, stitching weak, but clean and very good.
Not in the British Library Catalogue. NUC has ICJ copy only, but not
found in WorldCat.
(6)
€150-€180 (£120-£144 approx.)
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