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letter and folding engraved map, pages viii, 293, (1), (4, adverts
for books by Philippart), 8vo, strongly bound in recent boards,
retaining the Templemore bookplate: a very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
SMITHERS (Henry).
Observations
made during a residence n Brussels: and several tours through
the Netherlands, comprising Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp,
Malines, and Brussels: with remarks on the works of nature and
art: and enquiries into agriculture, political economy,...: to
which are added... several original anecdotes relative to the
Battle of Waterloo. And the humane conduct of the inhabitants
of the city of Brussels, on that occasion. In a series of letters.
Second edition.
Brussels: Printed for the Author, at the British Press
…
[1820?]. FIRST EDITION THUS, with 3 engraved plates
and a coloured folding map of Waterloo, pages xv, 268,
including a 3-page subscriber list, 8vo, original unlettered pink
fancy boards, uncut, with the Bibliothesa Lindesiana, Balcarres:
a very good to nice copy in original state. (2)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
360
.
PHILIPS (Wm.).
St. Stephen’s=Green, or The Generous
Lovers. Edited by Christopher Murray. Being the tenth volume
of Irish Writings from the Age of Swift.
Dublin: The Cadenus
Press, Monkstown,
1979
With 3 illustrations, 155-pages, 8vo, original quarter calf: a nice
copy.
A comedy, set in Ireland, first printed in a very rare 1700 Dublin
printing.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
DICKSON (Charles), M. D.
Revolt in the North: Antrim and Down in 1798.
Dublin,
1960.
FIRST EDITION, 257-pp, 8vo, original cloth: very good copy in
dw of this scholarly work
(2)
LARKIN (Paschal).
Property in the Eighteenth Century,
with special reference to England and Locke.
Cork University
Press
1930. FIRST EDITION, pp xiii, 252, 8vo, original cloth: a
fine, fresh, unmarked copy in the dust wrapper.
(3)
PEARSE (Patrick H.): - Le Roux (Louis).
Patrick H.
Pearse. Adapted from the French … and revised by the author.
Translated into English by Desmond Ryan.
Dublin, The Phoneix
Publishing Company Limited, circa
1930. With a portrait, pages
xiii, 440, 8vo, original green cloth: with some very light fore-
edge foxing, but still a very good copy.
(4)
O’RAHILLY (Cecile),
ed.
The Pursuit of Gruaidh
Ghriansholus. Edited and translated.
Irish Texts Society XXIV,
1924. FIRST EDITION THUS, pages xxix, 158, 8vo, original
cloth, gilt: the binding dull but sound and strong and otherwise
a very good copy.
(5)
FLEISCHMANN (Aloys),
ed.
Music in Ireland. A
symposium. Foreword by by Sir Arnold Bax.
Cork University
Press,
1952. FIRST EDITION, with illustrations, pages (4), iv,
(4), 371, 8vo, original cloth: a very good to nice copy in a
slightly chipped dust wrapper.
(6)
YEATS (John B.): - WHITE (James).
John Butler Yeats
and the Irish Renaissance. With pictures from the collection of
Michael Butler Yeats and the National Gallery of Ireland.
Dublin, The Dublin Press, (New Yeats Papers VI),
1972. With 32
illustrations, 72-pages, roy 8vo, quarter calf over marbled
boards: a fine copy.
(7)
HANAGHAN (Jonathan).
Poems to Mary 1983.
(8)
BAKERE (Jane A.).
The Cornish Ordinalia 1980. (9)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
361
.
PIGOTT (Robert): - Pigott (Elizabeth),
ed.
The Waste of
the Revenue in the Excise Department, illicit distillation
produced by high duties, and the illegality of the Revenue Police
Force; abridged from the reports of Sir Henry Parnell’s
commission, and the papers of the late Robert Pigott, Esq.
Dublin: Printed for the Author,
1843
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, 28-pages, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
WorldCat has D only. Not in COPAC. A
rare, privately published account by Pigott’s widow. He had travelled to
London to petition parliament and died there within a few days.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
362
.
PLIMSOLL (Samuel).
Our Seamen. An appeal.
Virtue &
Co.,
1873
FIRST EDITION, with 65 plates, pp vi, (1), 89, with tipped in
corrections slip and another tipped in slip lettered “With Mr.
Plimsoll’s Compliments”, 4to, recently rebound dark blue paper
boards: a very few extreme blank margins a little dusty, but still
a very good copy.
A book which changed the course of maritime history, raised a storm of
controversy and awakened public feeling, ultimately leading to the
Merchant Shipping Act of 1876 and the introduction of the Plimsoll
Line.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
BRACKENBURY (George).
Descriptive sketches, illustrating Mr. William Simpson’s
drawings of the Seat of War in the East. First series.
Paul and
Dominic Colnaghi,
1855. With 10 plates, pp x, 112, 4to, orig
cloth-backed boards: boards rubbed, else very good-nice
Both the NUC and the British Library Catalogue have this first series
only.
(2)
€50-€70 (£40-£56 approx.)
363
.
PLOWDEN (Edmund).
The commentaries, or reports of
… containing, divers cases upon matters of law … originally
written in French, and now faithfully translated in to English,
and considerably improved by marginal notes and references …
(with) The Quaeries of Mr. Plowden, now first rendered into
English at large, with references and many useful observations.
In two parts. With two new tables, more complete than any yet
published; the one, of the names of the cases, the other of
principal matters.
Dublin: Printed for H. Watts … and W. Jones …,
1792
FIRST IRISH EDITION, unnumbered pages, with one or two
anomalies of signature, but apparently complete, 2 vols, thick
8vo, strongly and neatly bound (not unpleasantly) in 19C cloth:
in very good to nice state.
An uncommon edition, well represented in US, only two copies in
Dublin and none in the UK.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
KISBEY (Wm. H.).
The law and
practice of the Bankruptcy Court, Ireland, comprising the
statutes relating to bankrupts and debtors in Ireland... Third
edition.
Dublin,
1884. Pages lxxxii, (2), 534, 8vo, original cloth:
the binding dull and rubbed, but sound, though the inside hinges
are cracked: a very good copy.
(2)
CONNER (Maccarthy).
The Game Laws of Ireland, with
the Irish game statutes codified, and notes of reported cases.
Second edition, enlarged and carefully revised …
Dublin: Hodges,
Figgis, and Co.,
1891. BEST EDITION, pages viii, 207, cr 8vo,
original cloth: the extreme upper outer corner of the front blank
flyleaf neatly cut away, otherwise a very good to nice copy.
(3)
IRELAND.
Index to the statutory rules, orders and
regulations 1922-1938. (Treoir do Rialacha, Orduithe …).
Dublin: The Stationery Office
(1944). Pages viii, 287, roy 8vo,
original cloth-backed boards: a very good to nice copy. (5)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
364
.
PLUQUET (François A. A.).
Mémoires pour servir à
l’histoire des égaremens de l’esprit humain par rapport à la
religion chrétienne: dictionnaire des hérésies, des erreurs et des
schismes; précédé d’un discours …
Paris, chez Nyon … Barrois …
Didot …
1762
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