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The Time Traveller Collection

719

Matilya, P. (P. Martil). [Around the world in

photographs - Types and monuments of all

countries of the world]

Vokrug svjeta. Vidy, Pamiatniki, Tipy vsekh stran

svjeta. 240 raskrashennykh kartin s obyasnitjelnym

tekstom. Europa i Asiatskaya Rossiya. Moskva,

Grossman i Knebel, 1899. Oblong-4°. [34] pages

text, 114 (not 240 as wrongly mentioned on the

titlepage) full-page illustrations (reproduced,

coloured photographic prints). Hardcover. Originally,

illustrated cloth with later half-leather.

Estimate €400-€600 (approx £340-£510)

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720

Mitchel, John. Jail Journal - Irishleabhar Priosuin

No Cuig Bliaona I Bpriosunaid Na breataine.

Translated Into Irish By Eoghan O Neachtain. Dublin,

1936, two volumes 8vo, III, 238, VI, 334 pages.

Estimate €150-€200 (approx £127-£170)

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721

Montaigne, Michel de. The Essays of Michael

Seigneur de Montaigne. Ex-libris Henry Augustus

Viscount Dillon.

S. and E. Ballard, London, 1759, 8vo, three volumes,

volume I: [28],414,[26] pages/ Volume II: [4],608

pages / Volume III: [36], [4],468,[27] pages, full

contemporary calf with gilt lettering on spine. (3)

Ex libris Henry Augustus Viscount Dillon, with his

bookplate in all three volumes.

Henry Augustus was born on 28 October 1777 at

Brussels, the son of Charles Dillon-Lee, the twelfth

Viscount Dillon, and his wife Henrietta Maria, the

only daughter of Constantine John Phipps, 1st Baron

Mulgrave. In the year 1794, when he was seventeen

years old, Henry Augustus was a Colonel of the Irish

Brigade. In 1799, at age 22, he was a Member of

Parliament for County Harwich, and in 1802 became

a Knight for Mayo. His knighthood ended in 1813

upon the death of his father, when he acceded to

the Peerage as the thirteenth Viscount Dillon of

Costello-Gallen

Estimate €400-€500 (approx £340-£425)

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