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ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
HEANEY (Seamus).
The Haw
Lantern. [: verse].
Faber and Faber,
1987. FIRST PAPERBACK
EDITION, pages (10), 51, small 8vo, original stiff printed paper
wrappers: with the small, neat signature of Maura Scannell on
the title-page, otherwise a fresh, unmarked copy. (2)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
222
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HEANEY (Seamus).
The Burial at Thebes. Sophocles’
Antigone translated by Seamus Heaney.
Faber and Faber
2004
FIRST EDITION THUS, pages (8), 56, 8vo, original black
paper boards, with black and gold dust wrapper: a fine, fresh,
unmarked, virtually as new, copy.
Signed by the author on the title-
page.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
HEANEY (Seamus).
Finders
Keepers. Selected prose, 1971-2001.
Faber and Faber
2002.
FIRST EDITION, pages x, 416, (6, blank), 8vo, original black
cloth: a fine, fresh copy in the dust wrapper.
Signed by the author on the title-page.
(2)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
223
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HEANEY (Seamus).
The Government of the Tongue. The
1986 T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures and other critical writings.
Faber and Faber,
1988
FIRST EDITION, pages xxiii, (1, blank), 172, 8vo, original red
cloth: a fine, bright, fresh, virtually as new, copy in dust wrapper.
Signed by the author on the title-page.
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
224
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HERODOTUS.
… (Greek) Herodoti Halicarnassei
Historiarum libri IX. IX. Musarum nominibus inscripti.
Eiusdem Narratio de vita Homeri. Cum Vallae interpret. Latina
Historiarum Herodoti, ab Henr. Stephano recognita: &
spicilegio Frid. Sylburgii. Item cum iconibus structurarum
Babyloniacarum ab Herodoto descriptarum. Excerpta e Ctesiae
libris de rebus Persicis & Indicis, & ex iisdem fragmenta
auctiora. Cum indice aucto & locupletato … Editio adornata
opera & studio Gothofredi Iungermani.
[Geneva: ] Oliva Pauli
Stephani,
1618
With 3 folding plates (of 4, wanting the bridge of Babylon),
large printer’s device on title-page, pp (12), 52, 708, (30), (2,
blank), folio, contemporary calf: the first fifty pages a little dog-
eared in upper outer corner, two of the three plates creased,
loose and in need of repair, binding rubbed and worn but sound
and very strong: a well-margined and very good copy.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
225
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HERVEY (James).
Meditations and Contemplations. The
twentieth edition. With many additions and alterations, taken
from the last edition, printed in London.
Dublin: Printed by T.
Dyton,
1767
Pages xxiii, (1, blank), 169: (2), vi, (9), (1, blank), (9) - 252, 2
vols, 12mo, bound in 1, old unlettered roan-backed marbled
boards: small flaw on two leaves with the loss of only a few
letters, with some light browning, but still a very good copy of
an uncommon edition. (2)
€50-€70 (£40-£56 approx.)
226
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HIGGINS (F. R.).
Arable Holdings: Poems.
Dublin: The
Cuala Press,
1933
FIRST EDITION, pages (16), 42, (6), 8vo, original cloth-backed
printed paper boards, with printed paper spine label: a nice copy.
Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. His fourth verse collection,
containing `The Woman of the Red-haired Man’.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
YEATS (Wm. B.).
Dramatis
Personae.
Dublin: The Cuala Press,
1935. FIRST EDITION, 8vo,
original cloth-backed printed paper boards, with printed paper
spine label: label just slightly chipped and without the errata
slip, otherwise a very good copy.
Wade 183. 400 copies were printed.
(2)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
227
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HILARY OF POITIERS, St.
Opera …
Coloniae Agrippinae,
sumptibus Antonii Hierat,
1617
The title-page in red and black, with large woodcut device, pages
(26), 348, (36), complete with the half-title, folio, half calf, gilt
ruled and lettered spine: with some light marginal worming,
clear of text, not serious, otherwise in very good or better state.
Hilary (circa 315-67), the ‘Athanasius of the West’, the ‘Hilary’ of
‘Hilary Term’, a convert from Neoplatonism, became involved in the
Arian disputes, considered the leading and most respected Latin
theologian of his age.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
228
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[HILDROP (John) ].
A letter to a Member of Parliament,
containing a proposal for bringing in a bill to revise, amend or
repeal certain obsolete statutes, commonly called The Ten
Commandments.
London: Preinted for R. Minors, in St. Clement’s-
Chhurch-Yard, in the Strand.
1738
FIRST edition, 38-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very good
to nice copy.
An amusing jeu d’esprit directed against the irreligion of the time,
which, at the time, which, at the time, was attributed to Swift. Some
four editionns appeared within the first year. This first edition is
uncommon.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
229
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[HILTON (Wm.) ].
Caps Well Fit: or, select epigrams.
Serious and comic. By Titus, in Sandgate, and Titus,
everywhere.
Newcastle: Printed by T. Angus, for T. Fishburn,
Monkwearmouth, and sold by all booksellers in town and country,
1785
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pp 162, (1), 174-190 and errata leaf,
complete in spite of pag-ination jump, 12mo, 19C blind-stamped
russia, neatly rebacked, gilt ruled spine, retaining original labels,
gilt: light browning in paces, but still a very good, pleasantly
bound copy.
Uncommon: ESTC locates eleven copies but two are digital copies and
four are without the errata leaf. An easy-flowing series of 134 eight-line
verses, “Titus in Sandgate”, describing life in the Sandgate area
(between Newcastle and North Shields), followed by a further 172.
“Titus Everywhere”, on life further afield. NCBEL II 406 queries “by
several hands?”.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
230
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HIPKINS (Alfred J.).
Musical Instruments: historic, rare
and unique. The selection, introduction and descriptive notes by
A. J. Hipkins … illustrated by …William Gibb.
A. and C. Black,
Ltd.,
1921
With 48 coloured plates, pp xxiii, 123, folio, original cloth, gilt:
a very good to nice copy
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
NAGELI (Hans Georg).
Teutonia Rundgesange und liederchore. Erster heft.
Zurich
(1808). 19-pages, 4to, original yellow printed paper wrappers: in
very good to nice state.
(2)
MILNE (Alan Alexander).
Songs from “Now We are Six”.
Methuen,
1927. FIRST EDITION, with illustrations, pages (6),
33, 4to, original cloth-backed boards, with printed paper label
on the upper cover: a nice copy.
The music by H. Fraser-Simson
and the illustrations by E. H. Shepard.
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