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of the electrical contractor’s training.
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons,
1929-30
With many fold-out, full-page and other illustrations, 7 vols,
8vo, original cloth, gilt: nice set
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
GRAHAM (Frank D.),
ed.
Hawkins
Electrical Guide. Questions, answers & illustrations. A
progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students
and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity
and its applications. A practical treatise by Hawkins and staff.
New York: Theo. Audel & Co.,
1927. Profusely illustrated
throughout, 10 vols, cr 8vo, original limp cloth, gilt, edges gilt:
with a tear without loss in two leaves, otherwise a very good to
nice, complete set. (11)
€40-€50 (£32-£40 approx.)
302
.
MASURY (John W.).
How shall we paint our houses? A
popular treatise on the art of house-painting: plain and
decorative.
New York: D. Appleton & Co.,
1868
FIRST EDITION, pages 216, (6, advertisements), cr 8vo,
contemporary polished calf, gilt, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt:
a very good to nice copy, inscribed on half-title “To / Dr Hughes
/ with compliments / of John W. Masury”.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BRUNTON (Robert).
A
Compendium of Mechanics, or text book, for engineers, mill-
wrights, machine-makers, founders, smiths, &c. Containing
practical rules and tables connected wiith the steam engine,
water wheel, force pump, and mechanics in general … examples
for each rule … adapted for the use of operative mechanics.
Glasgow: John Niven (and six other publishers in - London,
Birmingham, Edinburgh),
1824. FIRST EDITION, with
frontispiece and 2 plates (each with a leaf of letterpress), 132-
pages, large 12mo, contemporary half calf, gilt ruled and
lettered spine: a very good copy.
COPAC locates just four copies of this first edition.
(2)
ALMANAC, EDINBURGH, 1874.
Oliver & Boyd’s New
Edinburgh Almanac and National Repository for the year
1874...
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd...,
(1873). Pages (2), 920, 96
(ads), 12mo, original roan, gilt lettered spine: a very good to
nice copy. (3)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
303
.
MEAD (Richard), MD, FRS.
A mechanical account of
poisons in several essays. The fourth edition.
Dublin: Printed by
S. Powell, for George Ewing, at the Angel and Bible, in Dame’s-street,
and John Watson, on the Merchant’s-Key, near the Old-Bridge,
1736
With a folding engraved plate, pages (8), 109, (3), 8vo,
contemporary calf, gilt: old, neat, sympathetic rebacking, now a
little worn but binding strong, otherwise a very good copy
The second Irish edition: an edition not in Wellcome. A work which
fully displayed Mead’s commitment to Pitcairne’s style of
iatromechanics, stating that mathematical learning would soon
distinguish a physician from a quack. However, Mead (1673-1754) was
never known as a mathematician, and his book contained very little
mathematical analysis. His emphasis was rather on mechanical
chemistry, which explained phenomena in terms of particles of differing
sizes and shapes. Mead added an attractive force to this chemistry which
he identified with gravity, thus placing himself among the Newtonians.
His most original contribution was his discussion of venomous snakes,
which had been instigated by his studies with Paul Hermann at Leiden.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
304
.
[MERCER (Edward Smyth) ].
The Mercer Chronicle [: in
verse]. By an Irish sennachy. For Private Circulation.
Printed by
Woodfall and Kinder,
1866
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages xix, (1, arms of the family),
91, 8vo, original red cloth, gilt: a very good to nice copy.
COPAC locates copies at L, C and NLS. Not found on-line in D or Dt.
“A rhymed history of the Mercer family, with learned notes attached.
He was the son of Col. E. S. Mercer (who died December 24, 1847, and
is buried in Lisburn Cathedral), and was probably a native of Co.
Down, like his brother. “ - O’Donoghue, The Poets of Ireland, 308.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
305
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MOLLERUS (Christophorus)...
. Admirandum
propugnaculum. Das ist / Ein wunderbahre unüberwindliche
Vestung/ zu welcher alle glaubige Kriegshelden und getrewe
Kämpffer in dem Streitreich/ under dem Creütz und
Blutfähnlein unsers Herrn Jesu Christi/ in ihrer noth ihre
zuflucht nehmen... / Beschrieben durch Christophorum
Mollerum Herbornensem...
Frankfurt am Mayn: Anthoni
Hummen,
1655
FIRST EDITION, with additional engraved title-page, pages
(16), 486, 4to, contemporary unlettered, blind-tooled calf, old,
unlettered rebacking, light browning in places due to paper
quality, a sound and very good, strongly bound copy.
Apparently,
the only edition.
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
306
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MOLLOY (Gerald).
The Passion Play at Ober-
Ammergau, in the summer of 1871.
Burns and Oates (Dublin
printed),
1872
With 12 actual mounted photo plates, pages vi, (2), 109 and
advert leaf, cr 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt, top edges gilt, by
Galwey & Co., with ticket: a very good to nice copy.
This copy
belonged to the Irish novelist John Henry Edge and bears his signature
and address on the title-page.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
FITZPATRICK (Wm. J.).
History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries. By William J.
Fitzpatrick. Continued and edited by his son, under the
direction of the sub-committee of the board [of the Catholic
Cemeteries’ Committee].
Dublin: Published at the Offices [of the
Board], 4, Rutland Square,
1900. With a folding map and many
other illustrations, pages x, (2), 235, (1), xvii, (3), cr 8vo, original
green cloth, gilt: with a small piece neatly cut from a blank
flyleaf, otherwise a bright, fresh, almost as new, copy.
(2)
KIRK (Francis J.).
Some notable conversions in the County
of Wexford.
Burns & Oates,
1901. FIRST EDITION, pp 114, (2,
blank), 16 (adverts), 12mo, original cloth, gilt: very good.
Kirk was a CoI curate in Gorey in the 1850s at the time of his own
conversion.
(3)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
307
.
[MONCK (James Henry), Bp. ].
Correspondence between
[James Henry Monk] the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol and
Henry Hallam, Esq.
London. - [privately printed]
1844
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, 15-pages, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a nice copy, inscribed on title, presumably in the
author’s hand, to ‘His Grace / The Lord Archbishop of
Armagh’.
COPAC has BL only.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[HARNESS (Wm.) ].
Visiting
Societies and Lay Readers. A letter to the Lord Bishop of
London. By Presbyter Catholicus.
James Darling,
1844. FIRST
(ONLY) EDITION, 55-pp, 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a very
good to nice copy.
Harness (1790-1869), divine and author, friend
and correspondent of Byron.
(2)
URQUHART (David).
Effect on the World of the
restoration of the canon law; being a vindication of the Catholic
church against a priest.
Diplomatic Review Office,
1869. FIRST
EDITION, pages 78, (2, blank), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a
very good copy.
(3)
IRISH MIRACLES.
The Exposer exposed, in an Answer to