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One of the special edition of 100 copies, finely bound by Antiquarian
Bookcrafts, Dublin, this copy unsigned and unnumbered.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HERITY (Michael).
Irish
Passage Graves. Neolithic tomb-builders in Ireland and Britain
2500 B. C.
Irish University Press,
1974. Profusely illustrated, pages
x, (4), 308, small folio, original cloth: a very good to nice copy.
(2)
HERITY (Michael).
Neolithic tomb-builders in Ireland and
Britain 2500 B. C. 1974. a very good to nice copy. (3)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
410
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SMITH (Charles).
Tracts on the Corn-Trade and Corn-
Laws. A new edition. With additions from the original
manuscripts of Mr. Catherwood. To which is now added a
supplement of interesting pieces on the same subject. With
some account of the life of Mr. Smith.
London: Printed for John
Stockdale,
1804
LAST AND BEST EDION, pages xxiv, (17) - 323, (1, blank), iii
- vi, 7 - 54, (1, blank), complete thus, 8vo, contemporary half
calf, gilt, gilt ruled and lettered spine: the binding rubbed and
worn but still strong and internally in nice state.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
CAROLINE, Queen, consort of
George IV.
The Genuine Book. An inquiry, or delicate
investigation into the conduct of Her Royal Highness, the
Princess of Wales before Lords Erskine, Spencer, Grenville, and
Ellenborough, the four special commissioners of inquiry,
appointed by His Majesty in the year 1806. Reprinted from an
authentic copy, superintended through the press by the Right
Hon. Spencer Perceval. Third edition.
London: printed by R.
Edwards…published by W. Lindsell, reprinted and sold by S. A. Oddy,
1813. Pp (2), vii, (1, blank), (3) -246; (2), 108, (4), with errata
leaf, 8vo, later boards, with label: occasional very light marginal
pencil marks, otherwise a large, fresh copy, all edges uncut.
Unsavoury rumours led to the setting up in 1806 of an official
commission of inquiry known as the ‘delicate investigation’. Its report
found that the rumours about a pregnancy were false, but censured
Caroline’s ‘levity of conduct’.
(2)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
411
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SMITH (Eustace), MD.
A practical treatise on disease in
children.
J. & A. Churchill,
1884
FIRST EDITION, pp xxiv, 844, 16 (ads), 8vo, strongly bound
recent boards: very good.
Smith was in great part responsible for establishing the fine reputation
of the East London Hospital for Children.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
HAMER (Sir Wm. Heaton).
Manual of Hygiene.
J. & A. Churchill,
1902. FIRST EDITION,
with some 100 text illustrations, pp xii, 622 and 14, (2)
advertisements, 8vo, original cloth: with the occcasional neat
marginal annotation, but a very good copy.
(2)
CLOUSTON (Sir Thomas S.), MD.
Clinical lectures on
mental diseases. Third edition.
J. and A. Churchill,
1892. With
13, mostly coloured, plates, pp xii, 708, 8vo, original cloth: very
good to nice copy.
With a new 2-page preface. Clouston was the first to study juvenile
general paralysis and to demonstrate its relationship to congenital
syphilis.
(3)
MacNAUGHTON-JONES (Henry).
Practical manual of
diseases of women and uterine therapeutics. For students and
practitioners. Seventh edition, revised and enlarged.
Baillière,
Tindall and Cox,
1897. With 6 plates and 545 other illustrations,
pages xxiv, 909, 8vo, original cloth: with just a little wear at the
headbands but still a very good to nice copy.
(4)
LETTSOM (John Oakley), FRS: - Abraham (James J.).
Lettsom: his life, times, friends, and descendants.
William
Heinemanm,
1933. FIRST EDITION, with a folding
genealogical table and many illustrations from contemporary
sources, pages x, 498, 4to, original cloth, top edges gilt: a very
good to nice copy.
A valuable, well-illustrated survey of the life and
times of a successful quaker physician and philantropist.
(5)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
412
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SOUTH AFRICA.
Further correspondence relating to
affairs in South Africa (in continuation of [Cd. 547], April,
1901. Presented … January, 1902. [Cd. 903. ]. [with: ] Further
correspondence … (in continuation of [Cd. 903] January 1902).
Presented … July, 1902. [Cd. 1163. ]. [and: ] Further
correspondence … (In continuation of Cd. 1163). Presented …
February, 1903. [Cd. 1463. ].
For HMSO …,
1902-02-03
With 5 plates (3 folding), pp x, 202: viii, 178: vi, 79, 3 vols, folio,
original printed wraps: a little wear to the spines and one lower
wrapper slightly defective, otherwise in nice state.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BOER WAR.
South African
Republic. Papers relating to the complaints of British subjects in
the South African Republic. Presented to both houses … June,
1899. [C. 9345. ].
For HMSO …,
1899. Pages xii, 243, folio,
original printed wrappers: wrappers a little chipped, else very
good.
(2)
UNFIT MEAT AND VEGETABLES.
Army. Letter from
General Officer Commanding the forces in South Africa
transmitting the proceedings of a board of officers assembled to
report upon certain supplies of “Meat and Vegetable” rations at
Pretoria considered to be unfit for issue … [Cd. 1499. ].
For
HMSO …,
1903. Pp 6, (1), folio, unbound, sewn as issued: faint
small stamp on title, else very good-nice.
(3)
BOER WAR.
Africa. No. 2 (1900). Correspondence with the
presidents of the South African Republic and of the Orange
Free State respecting the war. Presented to both houses …
March 1900. [Cd. 35. ].
For HMSO …,
(1900). Pages 3, (1), folio,
unbound as issued: small circular stamp on title, else very good-
nice.
(4)
BOER WAR.
Return of Military Forces in South Africa,
1899-1902 … (In continuation of [Cd. 578].) … [Cd 892*]. [and:
] Return of military forces … (In continuation of [Cd. 892*]).
[Cd. 990].
For HMSO …,
1902. Pp (3); (4), two consecutive
papers, folio, disbound: faint stamp on first title, else very good.
(5)
BOER WAR.
Africa No. 1 (1900). Correspondence
respecting the action of her majesty’s naval authorities with
regard to certain foreign vessels …
For HMSO…,
(1900). Pages
iv, 28, (1), folio, unbound, sewn as issued: a nice copy.
Cd 33.
Regarding the detention of German shipping found aiding the Boers.
(6)
BOER WAR.
Correspondence relating to the prolongation
of hostilities in South Africa. Presented to both houses …
August, 1901. [Cd. 732. ].
For HMSO …,
1901. 7-pages, folio,
unbound, sewn as issued: a nice, unmarked copy.
Threatens
burghers who continue hostilities with banishment and military costs.
(7)
BOER WAR.
Correspondence, &c., between the
Commander-in-Chief in South Africa and the Boer
Commanders so far as it affects the destruction of property.
Presented to both houses … June, 1901. [Cd. 582. ].
For HMSO
…,
1901. 13-pages, folio, disbound: a nice copy. (10)
€50-€70 (£40-£56 approx.)
413
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SPEER (Wm.).
An enquiry into the causes of the errors
and irregularities which take place in ascertaining the strengths
of spirituous liquors, by the hydrometer, with a demonstration
of the practicability of simplifying and rendering this instrument
accurate.
Printed for Payne and M’Kenlay, Strand, and J. and A.
Arch …,
1802
FIRST (?ONLY) EDITION, pp (4), 48, (1, table), (1, blank), (1,
errata), (1, blank), 8vo, recent wrapper: leaf of folding table
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