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Washington, June 23, 1883, with the reply of the president.
No
printer, publisher, place or date
(1883)
FIRST EDITION, 14-pages, roy 8vo, recent paper wrapper: a
very good copy.
Not in COPAC. WorldCat has Minnesota Historical Society only. Not
on-line in D or Dt. Sullivan, lawyer, born 1847 near Waterville, Maine
of Irish parents, acquired a reputation as an orator in Michigan before
he became of age. He later removed to Chicago, and in 1876 shot and
killed Francis Hartford, the author of an anonymous letter
calumniating Sullivan’s wife, which had been read at a meeting of the
common council. The shooting took place at an interview that Sullivan
sought for the purpose of obtaining a retraction, at which not only he
was assaulted by Hanford and one of the latter’s friends, but his wife
was also struck by Hanford. Sullivan was tried and acquitted. He was
admitted to the bar and took an honorable place in his profession. In
1883 he was chosen first president of the Irish national league of
America, whose object was to promote home rule in Ireland. In an
address to President Arthur he pointed out that the British government,
under the dictation of evicting landlords, first reduced their victims to
pauperism and then shipped them out of the poor-houses under an
assisted emigration law. Sullivan took this step with the approval of
Parnell and the other home-rule leaders, by whom it was pronounced
“the worst blow England had received since the war of 1812. “
President Arthur, after hearing Sullivan’s argument, immediately
ordered the emigration commissioners at New York to enforce the statute
against the admission of paupers. The wide publicity given to this
address did much to benefit the Irish cause (Appleton).
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
433
.
SWANZY (Henry Biddall).
Some account of the family of
Hassard, with a list of descendants in England and Ireland.
[Privately Printed]. (colophon: Dublin: Printed by Alex. Thom & Co.),
1903
FIRST EDITION THUS, with 18 plates and a few text
illustrations, pages 106, (2, addenda), (107) - 113, (1), roy 8vo,
original full morocco, gilt: a very good to nice copy.
COPAC locates copies at O and L and WorldCat adds copies at Yale
and NYPL. There is a copy on-line in D but not in Dt. A particularly
scarce volume, with strong Irish connections.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
434
.
SYNGE (Edward).
Religion tried by the test of sober and
impartial Reason. [bound with: ] A plain and easy method,
whereby a man of moderate capacity may arrive at full
satisfaction in all things that concern his everlasting salvation.
To which is added, a paraphrase on St. Athanasius’s creed. [and:
] The Rule of Self-Examination; or, the only way of banishing
doubts and scruples … [and: ] St. Paul’s description of his own
religion, opened and explained.
Printed for Richard Sare,
1713-15-
15-21
FIRST OR FIRST LONDON EDITIONS, pages (2), xviii, 87,
(1, adverts): (8), 69, (6, adverts), (1, blank): (4), 42, (2, adverts):
48, with all the advert leaves as called for, 4 works bound in one
volume, 12mo, contemporary sprinkled and blind-tooled
unlettered calf: a small paper flaw affects a few letters on leaf E5
in the first item, otherwise in very good to nice state throughout,
with a contemporary manuscript table of contents on the front
flyleaf and the note “All Written by Dr. Synge now ArchBishop
of Tuam. ”.
First or first London edition of each work, some surprisingly
uncommon and with the first work given Cashel Cathedral as the only
location in Ireland by ESTC. Synge was acquainted with Swift, who,
though he had reason to dislike him, must have approved Synge’s
direction that part of his emoluments as a clergyman be used to improve
the lives of his parishioners.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
435
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SYNGE (John M.).
Riders to the Sea. Edited by Robin
Skelton from the manuscript in the Houghton Library in
Harvard University. With five linocuts in colour by Tate Adams.
Dublin: The Dolmen Press, Dolmen Ediuts VIII,
1969
With 5 coloured plates, pages 58, (2), small folio, original cloth,
gilt: a nice, fresh copy in the dust wrapper.
750 copies were printed.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
GORE-BOOTH (Eva): - Barone
(Rosangela).
The Oak Tree and the Olive Tree. The True
Dream of Eva Gore-Booth. Graphic Presentation by Glauco
Lendaro Camiless.
Bari, Edizioni dal sud,
1991. FIRST
EDITION, with coloured and other illustrations, pages 82, (18):
56, (3), 2 vols (the second volume being an Italian translation of
the text), folio, original limp cloth wrappers: a fine copy in the
original, now lightly soiled, printed card slip-case.
“A scholarly, moving book about … a woman of remarkable talent,
courage and independence of mind and heart … an evocative portrait
… “ - Brendan Kennelly.
(2)
YEATS (Jack B.): - Rosenthal (T. G.).
The Art of Jack B.
Yeats. Chronology, list of exhibitions, bibliography and notes on
the plates by Hilary Pyle.
A. Deutsch
1993. With 283 illustrations
(111 coloured), pp xi, (1), 308, 4to, original coloured wraps: fine
copy.
(3)
MALTON (James).
A Picturesque & Descriptive View of
the City of Dublin. Reproduced from the edition of 1799, with
and introduction by The Knight of Glin.
Dublin: The Dolmen
Press, in association with the Irish Georgian Society,
1978. With
folding map and plates, oblong small 4to, original cloth, gilt:
with a short tear in the dust wrapper, otherwise a bright, fresh
copy.
(4)
GREGORY (Isabella A.), Lady.
Coole, by Lady Gregory.
Completed from the manuscript and edited by Colin Smythe,
with a foreword by Edward Mallins.
Dublin: Dolmen Editions X,
1971. Pages 105, (2), small folio, original cloth-backed boards:
with a small, discreet name stamp on fly leaf and on a blank leaf
at end, otherwise a bright, fresh, as new copy in an equally fine,
fresh and intact dust wrapper
Designed by Liam Miller and finely printed in an edition of 1050 copies
on cartridge paper.
(6)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
436
.
TADEMA (Laurence Alma).
Love’s Martyr. By Laurence
Alma Tadema.
Longmans, Green, and Co.,
1886
FIRST EDITION, pages (6), 208, 8vo, original red cloth:
binding worn and stained, inside joints cracked, internally clean
and otherwise a very good copy.
Uncommon. Not in Sadleir. Wolff has only ‘The Wings of Icarus’, her
second novel. Blain 1053.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
WALLACE (Edgar).
Writ in
Barracks.
Methuen & Co.,
1900. FIRST EDN, pp x, 121, (3,
blank), 47 (ads), cr 8vo, original red cloth, gilt: very good.
(2)
PRAED (Winthrop Mackworth).
The poems of Winthrop
Mackworth Praed. With a memoir by the Rev. Derwent
Coleridge.
Edward Moxon,
1864. FIRST AUTHORISED
COLLECTED EDITION, with a portrait, pages 8 (adverts
dated August 1864 tipped in at front), lxvii, 390, (8), (2, blank):
viii, 437, 2 vols, cr 8vo, original brown cloth, giltt: a bright, fresh
and attractive copy.
Tinker Library 1683.
(3)
COCHRANE (Thomas), tenth earl of Dundonald.
The
Autobiography of a Seaman.
London: Richard Bentlry …,
1861.
FIRST ONE-VOLUME EDITION, with portrait frontispiece
and 4 charts (2 folding), pages xvii, (1), 517, 8vo, original blue
blind-stamped cloth by Westleys, with their ticket: the binding
lightly dampstained and discoloured but strong and the inside
joints not cracked, penciil notes on the blank portion of two
pages, otherwise a clean and very good copy.