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publisher: they are the only Irish railway company featured in the
directory, in which they took a full-page advertisement.
€50-€70 (£40-£56 approx.)
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DIRECTORY, IRELAND, 1869.
Thom’s Irish almanac
and official directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland: for the year 1869 … Twenty-sixth annual
publication.
Dublin: Alexander Thom …,
1869
With a folding engraved map of Dublin, coloured in outline,
pages xliii, 1924, 68 (adverts) and errata slip, 8vo, original red
cloth, gilt: the inside joints neatly repaired: a strongly bound
copy, internally in nice, fresh state – rarely found so.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
DIRECTORY, DUBLIN, 1914.
The
Post Office Dublin Directory and Calendar, for 1914 … Eighty-
second annual publication.
Dublin: Alex. Thom & Co.
(1913).
Pages xii, 1125, (60, adverts), with many additional pages
designated a, b, c, etc., and many inserted advert leaves, 8vo,
original blindstamped cloth: the binding worn at corners but still
sound and strong and otherwise a very good copy.
Invaluable,
but, as so often happens, without the map called for.
(2)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
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DISNEY (Alfred N.), et al.
Origin and development of the
Microscope, as illustrated by catalogues of the instruments and
accessories, in the collections of the Royal Microscopical
Society, together with bibliographies of original authorities …
The Royal Microscopical Society,
1928
With 30 plates and 36 other illustratios, pages xi, (1), 303, 8vo,
original cloth: with cancelled bookplate of The Royal Society of
Arts, otherwise a clean and very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HOGG (Jabez).
The Microscope:
its history, construction, and application. Being a familiar
introduction to the use of the instrument, and the study of
microscopical science. Fifteenth edition, reconstructed, re-
written, revised, and enlarged throughout.
George Routledge &
Sons,
1898. With 20 plates and 446 other illustrations, pp xxiv,
704, 8vo, original cloth: very good-nice.
(2)
WOOD (John G.).
Common Objects of the Microscope.
With illustrations by Tuffen West. Revised and re-written by E.
C. Bousfield. With additional illustrations by the reviser.
George
Riutledge & Sons, circa
1912. With 14 tinted plates, pages x, (1),
186, (2, blank), small 8vo, original pictorial printed paper
boards: a very good to nice copy, in pleasantly nice state for a
‘yellowback’.
Topp I. 487
(3)
GRIFFITH (John W.), M. D.
An elementary text-book of
the microscope; including a description of the methods of
preparing and mounting objects, etc.
John Van Voorst,
1864.
FIRST EDITION, with 12 coloured plates, pages (10), 192, 8vo,
original cloth: with a small, neat library number at foot of spine,
otherwise a very good copy. (4)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
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DISRAELI (Benjamin).
Lothair.
Longmans, Green,
1870
FIRST EDITION, pp (8), 328, 32 (adverts dated January 1870):
(4), 321, (1), (2, adverts): (4), 333, (2, adverts), with half-titles
and preliminary blank in vol 1, 3 vols, 8vo, original green cloth,
by Westleys, with ticket: some light fore-edge foxing yet a nice,
fresh copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GOULD (Sir Francis
Carruthers).
Froissart’s Modern Chronicles. Told & pictured...
[with: ]... 1902... [and: ]... 1903-6.
T. Fisher Unwin,
1902-03-08.
FIRST EDITIONS (except the first which is a fifth impression),
with many illustrations, pages xii, 108: xii, 112: xii, 115, 3 vols,
small 4to, original cloth: the boards lightly discoloured and with
slight wear to the spine of the first volume: very good copies.
(2)
TAYLOR (Isaac), Canon of York, 1829-1901.
Words and
Places: or, etymological illustrations of history, ethnology, and
geography. 1865. With 2 folding maps, pages xxxi, 561 and
advert leaf, 8vo, recent boards: very good.
(3)
PRAED (Winthrop Mackworth).
The Political and
Occasional Poems. Edited, with notes, by Sir George Young.
Ward, Lock, and Co.,
1888. FIRST COLLECTED EDN, pp
xxxii, 325, 8vo, orig cloth: light foxing, but very good. (8)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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[DODINGTON (George Bubb) ].
An epistle to the Right
Honourable Sir Robert Walpole [: verse]. The Third edition.
Dublin: Printed in the year
1726
FIRST (ONLY) IRISH EDITION, 8-pages, 12mo, recent
wrapper: a very good copy.
Foxon D374. This first and only 18C Irish printing of a work first
published in folio at London earlier in the same year is rare: ESTC
locates four copies: D, O; MH-H, PU and Foxon adds ICN. In 1726,
mortified by Walpole’s recent failure to nominate him to the newly
revived knighthood of the Bath, he published this epistle to the minister
which, though complimentary, conveyed the pointed message that
loyalty outshone merit as a qualification for advancement
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
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DOMINICETI (Bartholomew di).
An address of
Bartholomew di Dominiceti, physician, from Venice, to the
most illustrious and venerable Royal Society, of London.
Printed
by J. Towers in Piccadilly,
1764
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, pages 51, (1), 8vo, recent wrapper:
cut close in lower outer and lower margin, affecting some
signatures and catch-words, otherwise clean and very good.
ESTC has six copies - five in UK, one in USA - none in BL. An appeal
to the Royal Society concerning his “artificial water-baths, pumps,
vapours, dry baths, fumigations, and frictions”.
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
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DOWDEN (Richard).
Walks after Wild Flowers; or, the
botany of the bohereens. By Richard Dowden (Richard).
London: John Van Voorst,
1852
FIRST EDITION, with an attractive coloured frontispiece,
pages viii, 232, (4, adverts), large 12mo, original dark blue cloth
with an overall marbled effect in a lighter shade of blue, edges
gilt: a rather attractive copy of a work rarely found in fine state.
A familiar description of plants found about his native Cork.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MARTLEY (John).
Fragments in
verse and prose.
Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, & Co., 104, Grafton-Street,
1883. FIRST EDITION, pp (2), iv, (2), 131, cr 8vo, original
green cloth, gilt: very good-nice.
COPAC has L and Dt: WorldCat adds four in USA. There is a copy in
D on-line.
(2)
COYLE (Edward), MD.
The Empire. A poem.
London:
Passmore & Alabaster, Belfast: T. H. Jordan,
1918. Pages 98, (2,
blank), large 12mo, original blue cloth, gilt: binding dull: good-
very good.
NSTC has BL and NLS only. An edition not in COPAC.
(3)
CHALMERS (Thomas).
The doctrine of Christian charity
applied to the case of religious differences: a sermon preached
before the Auxiliary Society, Glasgow, to the Hibernian Society,
for establishing schools and circulating the holy scriptures in
Ireland …
Glasgow. Printed for the Society by Andrew and James
Duncan ….
1818. FIRST EDITION, 52-pages, 8vo, sewn as
issued in the original drab brown paper wrappers, edges uncut:
with some light foxing, otherwise a fine copy in original state.
(4)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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