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profusely illustrated, mainly in colour, 500-pages plus
advertisements and original coloured wrappers, small folio,
recent cloth: in very good state.
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ALLEN (Vida) & NIEKERK (F. van),
ed.
Experiences of a
siege. A diary of the siege of Kimberley. 21 September 1899 to
16 February 1900.
Kimberley,
2000. With illustrations, pp viii,
180, small folio, original cloth, gilt: as new, in dust wrapper.
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BOER WAR.
The Spion Kop Despatches. [Documents not
previously published or portions of previously published
documents which were omitted at the time of publication are
indicated by a black marginal line. ] … [Cd. 968. ].
For HMSO …
,
1902. 48-pages, folio, disbound: small circular stamp on title,
otherwise a very good-nice copy.
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JONES (Anthony D.).
The Boer Army 1899-1902. A
military handbook. 2000. With illustrations, pages (4), ii, 90,
small folio, original cloth-backed stiff printed wrappers: fine. (6)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
390
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ROWAN (Archibald Hamilton).
Report of the trial of
Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esq. on an information, filed, ex
officio, by the attorney general for the distribution of a libel;
with the subsequent proceedings thereon. Containing the
arguments of counsel, the opinion of the court, and Mr.
Rowan’s address to the court, at full.
Dublin, printed: London,
reprinted for C. and G. Kearsley,
1794
FIRST LONDON EDN, pp (4), 163, (1, blank), with half-title,
8vo, recent wraps: very good.
One of five editions published in 1794 - Dublin (2), London, Perth and
New York - ESTC locates just six copies of this London edition: 4 in
UK and 2 in USA - none in Ireland, though there is a copy on-line in
D. An edition not in O’Higgins. Rowan (1751-1834), United Irishman,
imprisoned for an allegedly seditious address to the Volunteers in 1794,
escaped after he was dangerously compromised by the Rev William
Jackson, going first to France where he became friendly with Mary
Wollstonecraft and then to Philadelphia. Disenchanted with
revolutionary politics following the French Terror, he accepted a pardon
in 1803 and settled in Co Down. He was, incidentally, one of the first
persons to whom Shelley addressed himself on his memorable visit to
Dublin in 1812.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
391
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ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS.
Catalogue of the Royal Institute of British Architects Library.
1937-38 reprinted 1972
Pp x, 1138: xiii, 514, 2 vols, 4to, original cloth: bright, fresh,
unmarked, virtually as new.
Vol I: Author catalogue of books &
manuscripts. Vol 2: Classified index & alpha-betical subject index of
books and mss. An extensive and important collection.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
KOECHLIN (Raymond) &
MIGEON (Gaston).
Cent panches en couleurs d’art
Musulmanm - céramique, tissus, tapis - (avec) introduction et
notices.
Paris, Albert Lévy, circa
1928. With 100 coloured plates
(with descriptive tissues), 19-pages, 4to, rebound cloth: fine.
Inscribed “Clare Sheridan gave this book to herself, it cost 300 francs,
and at that moment she had nothing left in the bank but 1000! She does
not regret it …1928”.
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€50-€70 (£40-£56 approx.)
392
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[RUFFHEAD (Owen) ].
Reasons why the approaching
treaty of peace should be debated in Parliament: as a method
most expedient and constitutional. In a letter addressed to a
great man. And occasioned by the perusal of a letter addressed
to two great men.
Dublin: Printed for James Hoey, Junior, at the
Mercury, in Skinner-row,
1760
FIRST IRISH EDITION, pages (2), 42, with the half-tile (with
adverts for Hoey edition of the life of Clarendon on verso), 8vo,
recent wrapper: a very good copy.
Sabin 68296, London edition only. Of this Dublin printing ESTC
locates only copies at L, D, Di, Dt: CSmH, RPJCB, InU-Li and IU.
Ruffhead (c. 1723–1769), legal writer, developed a practice in special
pleading and in drawing parliamentary bills, but found his chief work
as a writer. He was the first book reviewer for the Gentleman’s
Magazine, and contributed to Ralph Griffiths’s Monthly Review.
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
393
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SADLER (Michael T.).
Ireland; its evils, and their
remedies: being a refutation of the errors of the Emigration
Committee and others, touching that country. To which is
prefixed, a synopsis of an original treatise, about to be
published, on the Law of Population; developing the real
principle on which it is universally regulated.
John Murray,
1828
FIRST EDITION, pages (12), lviii, 414, 8vo, near contemporary
polished calf, gilt bordered sides, gilt panelled spine, with double
and contrasting labels, gilt: a very good copy
First edition of an important work by this social reformer and political
economist. It is, in effect, a protest against the application of
individualistic political economy to the problem of Irish distress,
including much on the social condition of the people, absenteeism,
emigration, free trade, population, etc. He proposes the establishment of
a poor law in Ireland on the principle that in proportion to its means
“wealth should be compelled to assist destitute poverty, but that,
dissimilar to English practice, assistance should in all cases, except in
those of actual incapacity from age or disease, be closely connected with
labour”.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
394
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SAINT JOHN (Henry), Viscount Bolingbroke.
Letters on
the study and use of history.
Dublin: Printed for John Smith, at the
Philosophers Heads on the Blind-Quay
[1752]
FIRST IRISH EDITION (?), pages (8), 119, 144 - 268: (4), 224,
complete thus, 2 vols bound in 1, large 12mo, contemporary
calf, with label, gilt: a fine, attractive copy.
With a collective half-title on the verso of the first leaf of vol. 1: ’Letters
on the study and use of history. To which are added, two other letters,
and reflections upon exile, by the same hand. In two volumes’. Joint
first Dublin edition: there was another published in 1752 by a conger of
the Dublin trade - the original had been published at London during the
same year.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
[COX (Sir Richard) ].
The
proceeding [sic] of the honourable House of Commons of
Ireland, in rejecting the altered money-bill: on December 17,
1753, vindicated by authorities taken from the law and usage of
Parliament. Wherein are occasionally exposed the fallacies of
two pamphlets, intitled, “Considerations on the late Bill, &c. “ -
and “Observations Relative to the late Bill for paying off the
Residue of the National Debt. “ The third edition.
Dublin:
Printed for Peter Wilson,
1754. 48-pp, 8vo, recent quarter calf:
discreet library marking on title verso, otherwise very good.
Goldsmiths’ 8938. On the financial Independence of the Irish
parliament and in reply to ‘Considerations on the late bill.. ‘ by
Christopher Robinson and ‘Some observations relative to the late bill.. ‘
attributed to David Bindon.
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€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
395
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SAN BUENAVENTURA (Manuel de).
Propugnaculum
probabilismi. Tractatus unicus de opinionum probabilitate, in
quo antiquus probabismus ab eius impugnatioribus vindicatur
… Elaboratus à P. Fr. Emmanuele à Sancto Bonaventura …
Pampelone: apud Franciscum Picart,
1725
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, device on title, pp (16), 304, 309-
428, folio, contemporary limp vellum, wanting ties: a very good
copy with neat signature ‘Gul: Egan 1750’ on title.
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