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FORBES (James D.), FRS.
Norway and its glaciers visited
in 1851; followed by journals of excursions in the high alps of
Dauphiné, Berne, and Savoy.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black,
1853
FIRST EDITION, with 10 coloured litho plates, 1 other plate,
22 other illustrations and 2 maps (1 folding), pp xxiv, 349,
wanting half-title, roy 8vo, recent quarter calf, gilt: some foxing
in the extreme outer blank margins, otherwise a very good,
attractively bound copy
“Forbes spans the era from de Saussere to Alfred Wills and his books are
the first English accounts of systematic Alpine exploration and
description of various regions. “ - Neate 276.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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FORBES (Sir John), MD, FRS.
Memorandums made in
Ireland in the autumn of 1852.
Smith, Elder, and Co.,
1853
FIRST EDITION, with 4 tinted litho plates of views, 11 text
illustrations and a folding map, pp xiv, (1), 308, 16 (adverts
dated June 1853): xv, 414 and imprint leaf, 2 vols, 8vo, original
cloth, gilt: paper library labels on upper boards, lower portions
of spines discoloured, slight wear at headbands but bindings
strong and inside joints intact: a very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
PIM (Jonathan).
The condition
and prospects of Ireland and the evils arising from the present
distribution of landed property: with suggestions for a remedy.
Dublin: Hodges and Smith,
1848. FIRST EDITION, pages xxiii,
296, 296a-f, (2), 297-348, (6, adverts, dated January 1848,
printed in blue and brown), (2, blank), 8vo, original brown cloth,
uncut: a very good copy.
Kress C 7530. Pim was one of the secretaries of the General Relief
Association of the Society of Friends during the Irish famine.
(2)
KANE (Sir Robert J.), MD, FRS.
The industrial resources
of Ireland.
Dublin: Hodges and Smith …,
1844. FIRST EDITION,
pages xii, 417 and errata slip, 8vo, original cloth, uncut: with
some light foxing at beginning and end, otherwise a very good
copy of this Irish economic classic.
(3)
SHAW (Alec. W.).
Irish Trade: being two papers read before
the Literary and Debating Class of the Limerick Protestant
Young Men’s Association, November, 1888. Together with
discussion thereon, in which Lord Monteagle … and prominent
citizens took part.
Limerick: Guy & Co. Ltd, publishers and printers,
1888. FIRST EDITION, 72-pages, 8vo, original cloth, gilt, by
Guy of Limerick, with ticket: a very good-nice copy, inscribed
on title “With the Authors Compliments / Alec W Shaw”. (5)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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FORFEITED ESTATES: -.
A Report from the
Commissioners appointed to enquire of the estates of certain
traitors, &c. In that part of Great Britain called Scotland.
Printed
by J. Baskett... and by the assigns of T. Newcomb, and H. Hills,
deceas’d,
1717
FIRST EDITION, pages 13, (1, blank); 72; 10, folio, recent
paper wrapper: paper lightly browned, otherwise a very good to
nice, uncut copy.
Not in Kress. Goldsmiths’ 5342. Hanson 2275.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HOADLY (Benjamin): -.
A
report of the committee of the lower house of Convocation,
appointed to draw up a representation to be laid before the arch-
bishop and bishops of the province of Canterbury; concerning
several dangerous positions and doctrines, contain’d in the
Bishop of Bangor’s preservative, and his sermon preach’d March
31, 1717. Read in the lower house, May 10, 1717, and voted,
nemine contradicente...
Printed for John Morphew,
1717. FIRST
EDITION, pp 15, (1, blank), folio, recent wraps: a very good to
nice, uncut copy.
Goldsmiths’ 5413.
(2)
GREGG (Wm.): -.
The humble address of the right
honourable the Lords spiritual and temporal in parliament
assembled, with the reports therein contained, and the several
examinations annexed, presented to Her Majesty on Munday
the two and twentieth day of March, 1707. With Her Majesty’s
most gracious answer.
Printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of
Thomas Newcomb,
1708. FIRST EDITION, 32-pp, folio, recent
paper wrapper: a very good to nice, uncut copy.
(3)
WILKINSON (Henry), Capt.
The information of Capt.
Hen. Wilkinson, of what hath passed betwixt him and some
other persons, who have attempted to pervail with him to swear
high treason against the Earl of Shaftsbury.
For Henry Wilkinson,
1681. FIRST EDITION, pages (8), 4, 9 - 12, 9 (bis) - 11, (1,
blank), complete in spite of erratic pagination, folio, recent
wraps: with some light browning, but a very good, uncut copy.
Wing W 2218.
(4)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
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FORSYTH (James).
The Highlands of Central India.
Notes on their forests and wild tribes, natural history, and
sports. Second edition.
Chapman & Hall,
1872
With 6 coloured plates, a folding map and a few text
illustrations, some full-page, pages xii, 472, 30 (adverts), wanting
a blank flyleaf at end, 8vo, original green cloth, gilt: with some
light foxing of the frontispiece but still a very good copy of this
Indian classic.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
NEVILL (Henry Rivers).
Bulandshahr: a gazetteer, being volume V of the District
Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.
Allahabad,
1903. With a folding map, pages (8), 314; (4), xxxvii,
v, 8vo, original cloth: the inside hinges cracked: a very good
copy.
The first edition edited Nevill.
(2)
DRAKE-BROCKMAN (D. L.).
Jalaun, a gazetteer, being
volume XXV of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces
of Agra and Oudh.
Allahabad,
1909. FIRST EDITION
EDITED BY D-B, with a folding map, pages (8), 192, (4),
xxxiii, iv, 8vo, original cloth: a very good copy. (3)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
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FORTEGUERRI (Nicolo).
The first canto of Ricciardetto:
translated from the Italian … with an introduction, concerning
the principal romantic, burlesque, and mock-heroic poets; and
notes, critical and philological. By Sylvester (Douglas) Lord
Glenbervie.
John Murray,
1822
FIRST PUBLIC EDITION, with 2 engraved plates and 3
portraits (Glenbervie, the author and an unidentified lady), pp
xxvii, 232 and leaf of imprint, with half-title, 8vo, contemp-
orary calf, gilt, edges gilt: binding rubbed and worn, though
sound and strong, wanting most of spine label, otherwise a very
good copy, inscribed on title “To Lady [Annabella, died 1825]
Bayning / in testimony of the sincere / regards and affection of
/ the Author. “
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[HOWARD (Mary M.) ].
Compton Merivale: another leaf from The Lesson of Life. By
the author of Brampton Rectory; or, The Lesson of Life.
John
W. Parker,
1850. FIRST EDITION, pages iv, 407, (1), 8vo,
contemporary half calf: a very good copy.
Wolff 3311. The
particularly scarce sequel to a famous novel.
(2)
GORE (Catherine G. F.), Mrs.
New Year’s Day, a winter’s
tale. Second edition.
Fisher, Son, & Co.
[1846]. With 4 plates by
George Cruikshank, pages (4), 303, bound without the half-title,
large 12mo, recent half crimson morocco, gilt lettered spine,
edges gilt: a nice copy.
(3)
MILLER (John Moodie).
Miller’s New British Songster,
containing a copious collection of the finest, humorous, heroic,
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