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places, but still a very good copy, neatly, strongly and recently
bound in cloth.
(2)
SELBY (Elizabeth).
Teynham Manor and Hundred [: Kent],
(A. D. 798-1935).
Ashford, Kent, Headley Brothers,
[1936]. FIRST
EDITION, with maps and plates, pages xv, 126, 4to, original
cloth, gilt: the binding lightly marked but sound and strong and
otherwise a very good to nice copy.
(3)
MACKINTOSH (H. B.).
The Inverness-Shire Highlanders
or 97th Regiment Of Foot 1794-1796.
Elgin: J. D. Yeadon,
1926.
With 5 plates, 79-pages, 4to, original cloth, gilt, top edges gilt: a
very good copy.(4)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
349
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PECK (Francis).
Desiderata curiosa: or, a collection of
divers scarce and curious pieces relating chiefly to matters of
English history; consisting of choice tracts, memoirs, letters,
wills, epitaphs, &c. Transcribed, many of them, from the
originals themselves, and the rest from divers antient ms. copies,
or the ms. collections of sundry famous antiquaries and other
eminent persons, both of the last and present age: the whole, as
near as possible, digested into an order of time, and illustrated
with ample notes, contents, additional discourses, and a
complete index. By Francis Peck, M. A. rector of Godeby near
Melton in Leicestershire. Adorned with cuts. A new edition,
greatly corrected, with some memoirs of the life and writings of
Mr. Peck …
Printed for Thomas Evans,
1789
With a portrait frontispiece and 9 plates, pages xvii, (7), 238,
(10): vi, (10), (239) - 581, (9), 2 vols bound in 1, large 4to, recent
boards, with label, with the large armorial Ranfurly bookplate -
‘noveo et profiteor’, i. e. (?) Thomas Knox, known 1781-91 as
“The Lord Welles”: a large and very good, uncut copy.
The work by which he is most remembered. Thomas Pennant, David
Garrick and Edward Gibbon are included in the 2-page subscriber list.
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
350
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PEDLAR’S LETTER.
The Pedlar’s letter to the bishops
and clergy of Ireland.
Dublin: Printed in the year
1760
FIRST EDITION, pages 30 and leaf of adverts, 8vo, recent
wrapper: a very good copy.
Attributing the prevalence of Popery in Ireland to the neglect of the
clergy. Reprinted at London during the same year. “Relative to glebes
and livings. “ - Higgs 2175. “On provision for the clergy and rebuilding
of Churches. “ - Goldsmiths’ 9647.
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
351
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PEMBERTON (Christopher R.), FRS, MD.
A practical
treatise on various diseases of the abdominal viscera. Third
edition, revised and corrected.
Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., for
G. and W. Nicol,
1814
With 2 engraved plates, pages xv, (1), 201, without the half-title,
8vo, contemporary half calf: the spine label chipped at edges,
otherwise a very good to nice, large copy.
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MAIDEN HOSPITAL.
for
governing and managing the Maiden-Hospital, founded by the
Company of Merchants, and Mary Erskine, in Anno 1695 …
1731.
A fascinating glimpse of the rules under which poor women and
girls of Edinburgh city were sheltered and provided for.
(2)
LOMMIUS (Jodocus).
Observationum medicinalium libri
tres; quibus omnium morborum signa, & que de his haberi
possunt, praesagia, accuratissime pertractantur. Opusculum
aureum. Editio quarta.
Amstelodami, apud Janssonio Waesbergios,
1738. Pages (16), 328, (8), large 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt
spine: the binding worn but strong and internally in very good
to nice state (3)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
352
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PEMBERTON (Henry), M. D.
Observations on Poetry,
especially the Epic: occasioned by the late poem upon Leonidas.
Printed by H. Woodfall. Sold by J. Brotherton, J. Nourse and R.
Dosley,
1738
FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages xii, (2, errata), 167, (1, blank),
12mo, recent boards: with the errata leaf but without the half-
title, otherwise a very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[MATHIAS (Thomas James) ].
The Shade of Alexander Pope on the banks of the Thames. A
satirical poem, with notes. Occasioned chiefly, but not wholly,
by the residence of Henry Grattan, ex-representative in
parliament for the city of Dublin, at Twickenham, in November,
1798. By the author of The Pursuits of Literature. Second
edition.
Printed for T. Becket,
1799. Pages (2), 86, without half-
title or final advert leaf, 8vo, recent wraps: a very good copy.
(2)
GLOVER (Richard).
Leonidas. A poem. The fourth edition.
Printed for R. Dodsley,
1739. Pages xxii, 262, (2), 12mo, with the
errata leaf but without the half-title and with a very small piece
cut from the extreme upper outer blank margin of the title-page,
otherwise a very good copy in recent paper wrappers. (3)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
353
.
[PENNANT (Thomas) ].
A Tour in Wales. M DCC
LXXIII.
Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Sleater, Potts, Moncrieffe (and
seven others) …,
1779
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (2), v, (1, blank), 455, (1,
blank), (8), 8vo, neatly bound in recent quarter calf over
marbled boards, gilt ruled spine, with label, gilt: a very good
copy.
All published in this edition, issued without illustrations and possibly a
piracy. The work by which he is chiefly remembered.
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LEWIS (George).
Drych
Ysgrythyrol; neu Gorph O Dduwinyddiaeth... Yn chwech
rhan... Yr ail argraffiad.
Bala: Robert Saunderson,
1812. Pages vi,
(1), 515, (3), 8vo, near contemporary half calf: binding worn
and rubbed but sound and strong and with ample internal signs
of use, but a good copy.
George Lewis (1763-1822), dissenting divine, all whose works were
written in Welsh. This manual of divinity was first published in 1799
(ESTC notes just the BL copy)
(2)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
354
.
PEPYS (Samuel).
Diary and Correspondence …With a
life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. In four volumes.
George Bell & Sons,
1902
With 31 plates and portraits, 4 vols, cr 8vo, finely bound in half
brown polished calf, gilt, top edges gilt, silk markers, by T. Nunt:
an attractive library set.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
ESSAIS DE MONTAIGNE.
Essays
De Montaigne Nouvelle Édition Avec Des Notes Choisies Dans
Tous Les Commenteurs Et La Traduction De Toutes Les
Citations Que Renferme Le Texte 1925. (2)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
355
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PERSIUS.
The Satyrs of Persius. Translated into English
by Thomas Sheridan, D. D.
Dublin: Printed by George Grierson, at
the Two Bibles in Essex-Street,
1728
FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, in Latin and
English on facing pages, pages xvi, 101, (1), 12mo,
contemporary calf, with label, gilt: a very good to nice,
unpressed copy, inscribed on front flyleaf in a contemporary
hand “The Gift of the Right / Honble the Lord Viscount / Mt.
Cashell to J. Cantrell” and, in a later hand, “And afterwards /
given to / The Right Honble Earl of / Westmeath of Castle /
Town Delvin. “
One of the most noteworthy of the publications of this schoolmaster
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