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lettered spine, edges gilt, with Samuel Hanna in gilt on front
glazed endpaper, neatly repaired: light fingering in places, still a
very good copy
Psalms and hymns numbered I. to CCC., with a table of subjects and
an index of first lines.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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PUTTER (John Stephen).
An historical development of
the present political constitution of the Germanic Empire.
Translated from the German, with notes, and a comparative
view of the revenues, population, forces, &c. of the respective
territories, from the statistial tables lately published at Berlin, by
Josiah Dornfold.
Printed for T. Payne and Son …,
1790
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, with a folding engraved leaf
of dedication, pages (4), xxxix, 512: xxxii, 492: xxx, 308; vi, 71,
(1, errata), (45, index), (3, blank), complete with the half-titles
and the 8-pages subscriber list, 3 vols, 8vo, contemporary
mottled calf, gilt ruled spines, with red and green labels, gilt:
with the very faintest suggestion of wear at the headbands, but
still a very good to nice, strongly bound set.
Morgan 7264*. Goldsmiths’ 14103. Not in Kress. Originally published
in German at Gottingen in 1786-87, this was written at the request of
Queen Charlotte of Great Britain who sought a book to explain the
current legal and political state of Germany and how it had arisen.
Puetter was the most distinguished jurist in late 18th century Germany.
(3)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
373
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QUESNEL (Pasquier).
Abbregé [sic] de la morale de
l’Evangile, ou, Pensées Chrétiennes sur le texte des quatre
Evangelistes. Pour en rendre la lecture & la meditation plus
facile à ceux qui commencent à s’y appliquer. Troisième édition,
reveuë & augmentée.
Paris: chez André Pralard,
1679
Pages (52), 568, (40), 12mo, contemporary calf, fully gilt and
lettered spine: a nice copy.
Quesnel (1634-1719), French Jansenist, whose Abrégé de la morale de
l’Évangelie, first published 1672 with a commendatory preface by the
Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne, later expanded and revised to four
volumes, became famous under its new title as Le Nouveau Testament
en français, avec des réflexions morales sur chaque verset, usually
referred to as Réflexions morales: a major contribution to the literature
of Jansenism. It attained wide popularity amongst Protestants and
Roman Catolics alike but was placed on the Index and condemned by
Clement XI in 1708, and, five years later, by the bull Unigenitus. This
third edition is not in COPAC and is represented in NUC by a single
copy only (NN).
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
[COLONIA (Dominique de), SJ].
Bibliothèque janséniste: ou catalogue alphabétique des
principaux livres jansénistes, ou suspects de jansénisme, qui ont
paru depuis la naissance de cette hérésie, avec des notes critiques
sur les veritables auteurs des ces livres, sur les erreurs qui y sont
contenuës & sur les condamnations qui en ont été faites par le
Saint Siége, ou par l’Eglise gallicane, ou par les évêques
diocesains. Seconde edition corrigée, & augmentée de plus de la
moitié.
[Lyon]
1731. Pages (18), 488, 14, (30), large 12mo,
contemporary calf, with label, gilt: the binding a little worn but
sound and strong and still attractive, a very good to nice copy.
Colonia (1660-1741), professor of rhetoric at Lyon, first published this
work in 1722, a biting criticism of some of the most highly esteemed
ecclesiastical writers of his day. The work was placed on the Index in
1749, where it remained till 1900.
(2)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
374
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QUINTILIAN.
Quintilian’s Institutes of the Orator. In
twelve books. Translated from the original Latin, according to
the Paris edition of Professor Rollin, and illustrated with critical
and explanatory notes, by J. Patsall, A. M. In two volumes.
Printed for B. Law and J. Wilkie,
1774
FIRST EDITION THUS, pages viii, xii, 404: (4), xii, 441, (1,
blank), (2, adverts), (4, blank), with both half-titles, 2 vols, 8vo,
contemporary mottled calf, gilt bordered sides, richly gilt spines,
with red and black labels, gilt; with just a little wear at the
corners but the bindings strong and sound - a handsome pair.
One of the most valuable contributions of the ancient world to
educational theory. “This translation [Patsall’s] is by many preferred to
that of Guthrie. “ - Lowndes.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
GELLIUS.
The Attic Nights …
Translated into English, by the Rev. W. Beloe, F. S. A., translator
of Herodootus, &c. In three volumes.
Printed for J. Johnson,
1795.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, pages xlvii, (1, blank), (xvii
bis) - lxiii, (1, blank), 339: (2), 372: (2), 438, (18, index and
addenda), 3 vols, 8vo, 19C half pale brown calf, fully gilt spines,
with double contrasting labels, gilt, with the armorial bookplate
of William C. Bonaparte Wyse (1826-92) in each volume: an
attractive set. (5)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
375
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RAGGED SCHOOL SHOE-BLACK SOCIETY.
The
Ragged School Shoe-Black Society. An account of its origin,
operations, and present condition. By the Committee.
Sold by
Seeleys, Nisbet, Partridge & Oakey, Wooldridge, Shaw, Haselden, and
at the Office of the Shoe-Black Society, 10, York Place, Adelphi, Strand,
July
1854
FIRST EDITION, 19-pp, 8vo, recent wrapper: an early owner
has added some light colour to the illustration on the title-page
of shoe-blacks at work, otherwise a very good copy.
Though not so designated, this correspondes to the society’s third annual
report.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
WHITESIDE (James).
The Past
and the Present: An address delivered at a meeting of the
[Belfast] Working Classes’ Association, in the Music Hall, on
October 22, 1849.
London [Belfast printed at the Banner of Ulster
Office]: Richard Bentley. Dublin: James M’Glashan. Belfast: Henry
Greer …
1849. FIRST EDITION, 46-pages, 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy.
Apparently the only edition. WorldCat notes two copies and COPAC
has Bristol only. There is a copy in D on-line, but not in Dt.
(2)
JONES (Ernest Charles).
Democracy vindicated. A lecture
delivered to the Edinburgh Working Men’s Institute. On the 4th
January 1867, in reply to Professor Blackie’s lecture on
democracy, delivered on the previous evening.
Edinburgh: A.
Elliot,
(1867). FIRST EDITION, pages 23, (1), 8vo, recent paper
wrapper: a very good copy
(3)
SMITH (Samuel).
Fallacies of socialism exposed, being a
reply to the manifesto of the Democratic Federation.
William
Reeves,
1884. Pages 19, (1), 8vo, recent paper wrapper: with a
small stamp on title, but a very good copy. (4)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
376
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RAMSAY (Andrew Michael).
The travels of Cyrus. In
two volumes. To which is annex’d, a discourse upon the
theology and mythology of the ancients.
Dublin: Printed by S.
Powell, for George Risk, George Ewing, and William Smith,
bookselleres in Dame’s-street,
1728
FIRST IRISH EDITION, with engraved frontispiece by P.
Simms, 2 vols bound in 1, 8vo, contemporary calf, fully gilt
spine, with label, gilt: a very good copy.
A widely-reprinted novel. A translation of Ramsay’s original French,
first published at Paris in 1727. This Dublin reprint, published the same
year as the London edition, is a scarce book: ESTC online locates only
nine copies: C, D, Dt, E, L; CaOLU, CLU, ICU, NcD.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
SAYER (Joseph).
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