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na officina de Bernardo Antonio Farropo, e Companhia,
1790-91.
FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION?, pages (4), 177
and errata leaf: (4), 168 and errata leaf, with half-titles, 2 vols in 1,
12mo, contemporary calf: very good to nice.
(2)
DANES (Petrus L.).
Generalis temporum notio … nunc ad
annum M. DCC. LXXII. producta, recensita, & suppleta ab
Joanne Natale Paquot.
Lovanii, typis Joann. Franc. Van Overbeke,
1773. Pp xxxii, 603, (29), 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt spine:
wanting label, otherwise very good
Danes (1684-1736), rector of Louvan university. His ‘ ‘General
Knowledge of the Times’ was successful and ran to a number of editions.
(3)
€80-€100 (£64-£96 approx.)
201
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GUINNESS (Bryan).
A collection of nine first editions, all
signed and inscribed by the author. 1947-70
FIRST EDITIONS, 9 vols, 8vo, original bindings, all but two in
dws: in nice, clean state.
(1). The Engagement, Rampant Lions Press [1970], one of 350 signed
copies, with additional author’s signed inscription. (2). A Fugue of
Cinderellas, 1956, with signed inscription by author, in price-clipped dust
wrapper. (3) Collected Poems (1927-55), signed, and with, loosely
inserted, two 4-pp printed poems, ‘The Clock’, and, ‘Nocturne’, both
signed and with further inscriptions. (4) Reflexions, 1947, with signed
author’s inscription. (5) The Animals’ Breakfast, and other stories.
Illustrated by Anne Yeats, 1950, with two 2-leaf ALsS, three signed cards
and his 4-pp ‘Snowfall’, with his signed inscription. (6) Leo and
Rosabelle. A passacaglia, 1961, with signed inscription, in price-clipped
dust wrapper. (7) Leo and Rosabelle. A passacaglia, 1961, with signed
inscription, in intact dust wrapper. (8) Under the Eyelid, 1947, with
signed inscription. (9) The Girl with the Flower, and other stories, with
signed inscription and 4-pp printed poem ‘Nocturne’, signed and with
further inscription, tipped in.
(9)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
202
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[GÉNARD (François) ].
The School of Man. A moral,
critical, and anecdotal work. Translated from the French. To
which is added, a key to the characters, which occasioned this
work to be publickly burnt at Paris. The fourth edition.
Printed for
Lockyer Davis,
1753
Pages 334, (8), (6, adverts), with the half-title, large 12mo,
contemporary calf: lightly used and a little dusty, with the
binding, though worn at corners, sound and strong: overall, a very
good, unsophisticated copy.
A scarce edition: ESTC locates British Library and Rice University copies
only: however, it does mention a plate not present here (no plate is
mentioned for any of the other editions recorded).
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[STEELE (Sir Richard) &
ADDISON (Joseph),
ed. ].
The Guardian. The fifth edition.
Printed for J. Tonson,
1729. Pp 350, (10): 358, (14), 2 vols, 12mo,
contemporary calf, red labels, gilt, with contemporary armorial
bookplate and signature of Thomas Greene in both voumes: an
attractive set.
A successor to The Spectator, this originally appeared as
175 daily numbers in 1713
(2)
DRYDEN (John).
Select essays on the belles lettres.
Glasgow:
Printed by Robert Urie,
1750. FIRST EDITION THUS, pp (2), 331,
(1, adverts), wanting a further leaf of adverts, 12mo,
contemporary sheep, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: some light
browning and the binding, though, strong and attractive, a little
worn at corners: a very good copy with the unusual booklabel of
the Dublin bookseller Sylvester Tyrrell of 20 Upper Dominick
Street.
NCBEL II. 440.
(4)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
203
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HALES (Wm.).
A synopsis of the signs of the times, past,
present, and future; humbly attempted to be traced from the
chronological prophecies, in the original scriptures.
Dublin: Printed
by George Grierson and John Rowe Power …, London: sold by Messrs.
Rivingtons …,
1817
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages (4), 71, (1, blank), 8vo, old
paper wrapper, uncut and unopened: a very good copy.
Hales (1747-1831), chronologist, professor of oriental languages at TCD,
author of theological treatises and mathematical papers, rector of
Killesandra, Co. Cork.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
PATRICK, St: - Jocelin of
Furnes: - Swift (Edmund Lewes Lenthal),
ed.
The life and acts
of Saint Patrick, the archbishop, primate and apostle of Ireland;
now first translated from the original latin of Jocelin …With the
elucidations of David Rothe, Bishop of Ossory. Dublin: Printed
at the Hibernia Press Company, by James Blyth, 1809 [bound
with: ] GODESCARD (Jean F.) Vies des Saints … Paris,
Angenault, 1835. 1809-35. FIRST EDITION THUS, with
engraved plate, engraved text illustr and 20 engraved plates in the
second work, pp (8), 266; viii, 43, (1, blank); (2), vi: (70), roy 8vo,
near contemporary half calf, rubbed and worn but sound and
very strong: in very good state
(2)
JOYCE (P. W.).
A Social History of Ancient Ireland.
Dublin,
circa
1920. SECOND EDITION, with a folding map and 358 full-
page and other illustrations, a few of which are coloured, pages
xxiii, 632: xi, 651, 2 vols, 8vo, original red cloth, gilt: a nice, fresh
copy of this standard work. (4)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
204
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[HALL (George Webb) ].
The origin and proceedings of the
Agricultural Associations in Great Britain, in which their claims
to protection against foreign produce, duty-free, are fully and ably
set forth. Printed for the use of the members of both houses of
parliament, and published for the information of the subscribers
& the public.
Printed at the Office of the Farmers’ Journal, by Ruffy
and Evans …
[1819]
FIRST EDITION, 39-pp, 8vo, unbound, sewn as issued and
uncut: first and last page lightly soiled and just a little dog-eared,
but still a good to very good copy in original state.
Kress C. 317.
Goldsmiths’ 22347
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
DANSON (John Towne).
A
Contribution towards an Investigation of the changes which have
taken place in the condition of the people of the United Kingdom
during the eight years extending from the harvest of 1839 to the
harvest of 1847; and an attempt to develope the connexion (if
any) between the changes observed during the same period in the
prices of the most necessary articles of food. [Read before the
Statistical Society, 21st Feb. 1848. ].
London: Printed by M. and W.
Collis,
1848. FIRST EDITION, 40-pages, 8vo, unbound, sewn as
issued: a fine copy.
Goldsmiths’ 35841. Kress C. 7346.
(2)
HOWARD (James).
Local rates as they affect the farmer.
Reprinted from the Farmers’ Club Journal.
“The Farmer” Office,
March
1880. First separate edition, 24-pages, 4to, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
(3)
BONWICK (James), FRGS.
Romance of the Wool Trade.
1887. FIRST EDITION, pp vi, (2), 472, 16 (ads), cr 8vo, original
red pictorial cloth: very good.
Ferguson 1887. With bookplate of the
historian William Lecky.
(4)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
205
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HANDS & FEET.
Economy of the Hands and Feet, Fingers
and Toes; which includes the prevention, treatment, and cure, of
corns, bunnions, & deformed nails; the removal of excrescences,
superfluous hairs, freckles, pimples, blotches, and other cutaneous
eruptions; with safe and certain methods of rendering the skin
white, soft, and delicate, without detriment to health. By an Old
Army Surgeon.
Effingham Wilson,
1830
FIRST EDITION, with an attractive lithograph frontispiece (with
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