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engraved plate, pages xv, 73; 121; 100; 92; 11, (4), 4to,
contemporary calf, fully gilt spine, with label, gilt: just a little
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Romans, and obtain, at the same time, a comparative view of the
English. “ - Monthly Review.
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JUVENAL & PERSIUS.
Satyrae. Cum veteris scholiastae
& variorum commentariis. Editio nova. Qua quid praestitum sit,
praefatio ad lectorem docebit.
Amstelaedami, apud Henricum
Wetstenium.
1684
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KAUFFMANN (Angelica): - Manners (Victoria), Lady &
Williamson (G. C.).
Angelica Kauffmann, R. A. Her life and
her works.
John Lane,
1924
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standard work.
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KEENAN (Michael) & BROWNE (Edward), et al.
A
report of the trial of Michael Keenan, for administering an
unlawful oath. (with: A report of the trial of Edward Browne
and others for administering and of Laurence Woods for taking
an unlawful oath).
Dublin: Printed by J. Exshaw,
1822
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O’Higgins 4. 338 and 4. 334. Trials of Ribbon men in Dublin for
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KEILL (John), MD, FRS.
An introduction to natural
philosophy: or philosophical lectures read in the University of
Oxford, Anno Dom. 1700. To which are added, the
demonstrations of Monsieur Huygens’s Theorems, concerning
the centrifugal force and circular motion. Translated from the
last edition of the Latin. The third edition.
Printed [by Henry
Woodfall] for J. Senex, W. Innys and R. Manby, J. Osborn and T.
Longman,
1733
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Keill was one of the most influential natural philosophers in Britain,
helping to establish and disseminate Newtonian principles.
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ALBINUS (Bernhard Siegfried).
Academicarum annotationum. Liber tertius [& quartus].
Leidae,
apud J. & H. Verbeek,
1756-58. (2)
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KELYNG (Sir John).
A report of divers cases in pleas of
the crown, adjudged and determined in the reign of the late
King Charles II. With directions for justices of the peace and
others. Collected by Sir John Kelyng, knt. late Lord chief justice
of His Majesty’s Court of King’s Bench. From the original
manuscript under his own hand. To which is added, the report
of three modern cases, Armstrong and Lisle —— the King and
Plummer —-the Queen and Mawgridge. As originally published
by Lord Chief Justice Holt. With additional notes and
references, by G[eorge]. J[oseph]. Browne, barrister at law.
Dublin: Printed by P. Byrne, No. 108, Grafton-street,
1789
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the direction of Sir John Holt. “It is a valuable collection of Cases upon
Crown Law, although the author was more than suspected of improper
and arbitrary proceedings as a Judge. ” – Marvin 436.
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KIPLING (Rudyard).
A Song of the English. Illustrated
by W. Heath Robinson.
Hodder & Stoughton
[1909]
FIRST TRADE EDITION THUS, with 16 mounted colour
plates by Heath Robinson, pages 123, (1), 4to, original cloth,
gilt: a very good copy.
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SAVOY, The.
An illustrated
quarterly. No. 1. January 1896.
Leonard Smithers
1896. With
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printed boards, uncut: worn at corners, spine heavily worn but
binding strong, internally clean and very good.
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Arthur Symons and dominated by Beardsley’s illustrations. This first
number includes W. B. Yeats’s “The Binding of the Hair’ and ‘Two
Poems’. The Beardsley Christmas card, usually tipped in at end, is not
present.
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LESLIE (Sir Shane).
The Poems of Shane Leslie.
London: At
the Cayme Press,
1928. FIRST EDITION, 96-pages, 4to, original
cloth, gilt: the binding, though sound and strong, is a little
rubbed and lightly stained, otherwise a very good to nice copy.
One of 350 copies, numbered and signed by the author, this copy further
nscribed on the limitation leaf No. “193 and is for Lady Patricia
Moore”, also, on front endpaper “I pour forth the essences of my /
songs like perfume on your / feet - Shane”, and, on the rear endpaper
“For my sweet Little Patricia / Rodin’s Hand of God / They do not
speak nor weep / they do not jist nor chide [and four further lines] /
Shane Leslie”.
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SHAKESPEARE: - Holzapfel (Rudolf M.).
Shakespeare’s
Secret. A new & correct interpretation of Shakespeare’s sonnets,
which are now for the first time fully explained, with a word-for-
word interpretation of each sonnet & a running commentary
proving the continuity of the first 126 sonnets and a re-
arrangement of the Dark Lady sonnets.
Dublin: Printed &
published at the Dolmen Press for the Melander Shakespeare Society,
1961. FIRST EDITION, with 2 portraits, pages xxi, (3), 160 and
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