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DRAPERS COMPANY.
Report from the Select Committee
on Irish Society and City Companies (Irish Estates); together
with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, and
appendix. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 30
July 1889 290. [bound with: ] The same... 24 July 1890 322 [and:
] The same... 4 May 1891 222. 1889-90-91
Pages x, 61, (1): xii, 595: xxx, 16, (1), in one volume, folio,
contemporary half calf: the binding lightly scuffed, but sound
and strong and otherwise very good copies.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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DRUMMOND (W. H.).
The large game and natural
history of South and South-East Africa. From the journals of the
Hon. W. H. Drummond.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas,
1875
FIRST EDITION, with attractive coloured vignette title and
coloured frontispiece, 12 tinted plates, map and some other
illustrations, pp xxi, 428, roy 8vo, original green cloth, gilt, by
Burn, with ticket: a little worn at corners and inside hinges weak,
still a clean, attractive copy.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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DUBLIN STREET BALLAD.
A devine pome [sic] written
on Saint Francis founder of the Ordek [sic] of thb[sic] Cord.
P.
Brereton, printer Lw. Exchange St, Dub [sic i. e. Dublin], circa
1875
Printed on one side only, with a woodcut at head. 29 by 11 cms:
in nice state.
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DUBLIN STREET BALLAD.
An
elegy on the death of the much lamented Very Rev Bishop
McCabe …
No printer, place or date [Dublin?], circa
1885. Printed
on one side only, with a woodcut at head. 28. 5 by 11 cms: in
nice state. (2)
€40-€50 (£32-£40 approx.)
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DUBLIN.
The industries of Dublin: historical, statistical,
biographical: an account of the leading business men,
commercial interests, wealth and growth.
Spencer Blackett …,
[1887?]
With many illustrations, 163-pp, 4to, original red cloth, gilt,
neatly rebacked: with a small oval stamp on title-page and some
very light fingering in a few places, still a very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
COYNE (Wm. P.),
ed.
Ireland
Industrial and Agricultural.
Dublin: Department of Agriculture and
Technical Instruction in Ireland …
1902. SECOND AND BEST
EDITION, with 6 folding maps and charts and many other plates
and illustrations, pp (14), 532, 4to, contemporary half red
morocco, gilt lettered spine, top edges gilt: a small and very faint
stamp on title-page, otherwise a very good to nice copy.
(2)
GILL (Conrad).
The Rise of the Irish Linen Industry.
Oxford,
1925. With a folding map and 12 plates, pages (12), 359, 8vo,
original cloth: a very good copy.
(3)
LONGFIELD (Ada K.).
Anglo-Irish trade in the sixteenth
century.
George Routledge & Sons, (London School of Economics,
Studies in Econmic and Social History series),
1929. FIRST
EDITION, with a folding map and a plate, pages viii, 241, 8vo,
original cloth: the spine faded and dull, otherwise a very good
copy. (4)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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[DUFFY (Sir Charles Gavan), et al.,
ed. ].
The Spirit of the
Nation. By the writers of the Nation newspaper. Second edition,
revised. [and: ] The Spirit of the Nation. Part II. Being a second
series of political songs and national ballads by the writers of the
Nation newspaper.
Dublin: Published by James Duffy,
1844-43
FIRST EDITION OF PART TWO, pp viii, 76: viii, 76, 2 vols in
1, 12mo, original green blind-stamped cloth, gilt, edges gilt,
boards stamped in blind “G. Bellew. Binder. Dublin”: with some
light foxing, but still an attractive copy, inscribed on title
“William Tottenham / March 26th 1844” and with the later
attractive bookplate of Abraham Holroyd.
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RUSSELL (Matthew), SJ.
Erin.
Verses Irish and Catholic.
Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, 50 Upper
Sackville-St.,
1881. FIRST EDITION, pp 110, (2, adverts), large
12mo, original brown cloth, gilt: a nice copy.
O’Donoghue 407.
(2)
ROS (Amanda M’Kittrick).
Irene Iddesleigh.
Belfast: Printed
by W. & G. Baird …and at London and Dublin.
1897. FIRST
EDITION, pages 189 and errata slip corrected by the author in
MS, as usual, 8vo, original grey smooth cloth, gilt: spine lightly
soiled and one small section working loose: a good to very good
copy with bookplate of Louis N. Parker, sold at Parker’s sale at
Sotheby’s in June 1945, where it was bought by Michael Holland
for £1. 10s (original bill enclosed).
Even in her lifetime Amanda McKittrick Ros (born Anna Margaret
McKittrick) was known as the World’s Worst Novelist, and on a short
reading of this book one would be pushed to disagree.
(3)
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DUTENS (Louis), FRS.
An inquiry into the origin of the
discoveries attributed to the moderns: wherein it is demonstrated,
that our most celebrated philosophers have, for most part, taken
what they advance from the works of the ancients; and that many
important truths in religion were known to the pagan sages.
Translated from the French of the Revd. Mr. Dutens, Rector of
Elsdon, in the County of Northumberland, &c. With
considerable additions communicated by the author
London:
Printed for W. Griffin, in Catharine-Street, in the Strand,
1769
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, pages xl, 459, (1, blank), 8vo,
contemporary calf, with label, gilt: a little worn at corners and
the upper outer joint lightly cracked but the binding strong,
otherwise a very good copy with the neat, small, contemporary
signature “W. Burgh” (? 1741/2–1808, Irish-born politician and
theological writer) on title-page.
(Dict. of the History of Ideas, I, 85). Wallis 382. 56.
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[MANNING (Robert) ].
The
Reform’d Churches proved Destitute of a Lawful Ministry. To
which is added The Antiquity of the Doctrine call’d Popery.
Reprinted from a book entituled, The shortest Way, &c. Part 1.
Ch. 4. 5.
Printed at Rouen, Ann.
1722. Pages xvi, 132, 8vo,
contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked, with label, gilt: with
some light fingering, but a sound and good to very good copy.
(2)
[MELMOTH (Wm.), the younger].
Letters on several
subjects. By the late Sir Thomas Fitzosborne, Bart. Published
from the copies found among his papers. The second edition.
Printed for R. Dodsley,
1748. With engraved vignette title-page,
pages xiv, (2, errata leaf), 192, with the half-title, 8vo,
contemporary calf, gilt, neatly rebacked in a sympathetic style,
with contrasting label, gilt: a very good copy, with the signature
of Ann Allen, 1749, and price, on front endpaper.
(3)
TILLOTSON (John).
The Rule of Faith, or an answer to the
treatise of Mr. I. S. entitled, Sure-Footing, &c. To which is
adjoyned a reply to Mr. I. S. his 3d appendix, &c. By Edw.
Stillingfleet … The third edition.
Printed for Brabazon Aylmer,
1688. Pages (10), 271, (1, blank); (2), 91, (1, blank), with the
licence leaf and the 2-leaves of postscript, 8vo, contemporary
unlettered calf: the calf lifting from the edge of the lower board,
otherwise a nice copy in original state.
Wing T 1219.
(4)
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DUTENS (Louis), FRS.
Origine delle scoperte attribuite a’
moderne. (Dissertazione sopra i progressi delle arti del Signor
Palissot) … Traduzione dal Francese. Prima edizione Veneta
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