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[George-Louis Le Rouge] Les Curiositez de Paris, de Versailles, de Marly, de Vincennes, de S. Cloud, et des Environs. Avec les Antiquitez. 2 vols. 12mo Paris 1733. New Edn., hf. title, & engd. frontis Vol. I, also 29 engd. plts. mostly fold.; Nouveau Voyage de France Geographique, Historique et Curieux, 12mo Paris 1730. Last Edn. Lg. fold. map, & 10 fold. plts., all uniform cont. calf, raised bands, spine profusely gilt in panels, mor. labels. V. good. (3)
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Horace – Dacier (M.) & Sanadon (P.) trans. Oeuvres D’Horace, 8vols. 12mo Amsterdam 1735. End. frontis port. Vol. I, red & bl. titles with vign. some engd. heads & 1 engd. plt. cont. calf, raised bands, mor. labels. V. good. (8)
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[Lever (Chas.)] Charles O’Malley, The Irish Dragoon, 2 vols. 8vo D. 1841. First Edn., 2 engd. frontis & add. engd. titles + 40 engd. plts., cont. hf. mor.; also Butt (Isaac) The Irish People and the Irish Land, A Letter to Lord Lifford, 8vo D. 1867, cloth. (3)
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Africana: Patterson (Lieut. Col. J.H.) In the Grip of the Nyika, Further Adventures In British East Africa, L. 1909, illus.; Bland-Sutton (J.) Man and Beast in Eastern Ethiopia, L. 1911, illus.; Cranworth (Lord) A Colony in the Making, or Sport and Profit in British East Africa, L. 1912, illus.; Massam (J.A.) The Chief Dwellers of Kenya, L. 1927, illus.; Hobley (C.W.) Kenya From Chartered Company to Crown Colony, L. 1929, illus., all 8vo, decor. cloth, clean, as a lot, w.a.f. (5)
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Rollin – Ancient History, 10 vols. 12mo Edin. 1768., 10 engd. frontis, attractive cont. full calf, raised bands mor. labels, gilt tooled spines in panels. V. good. (10)
Disraeli (Benjamin, Earl of,) Endymion, 3 vols. 8vo L. 1880. First Edn., 3 hf. titles, advert. leaf end of Vol. III, orig. silver lettered crimson cloth; Anon. False Positions; or Sketches of Character, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1863. First Edn., 2 hf. title,s 32pp. Chapman & Hall catalogue at end of Vol. II, orig. green cloth, good. (5)
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[De Tassy (Laugier)] Histoire de ‘Alger, et du Bombardement de Cette Ville en 1816, 8vo Paris 1830. Hf. title, fold. pltd. & a fold map, later cloth backed marble boards. (1)
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Broughton (John) Psychologia: or, An Account of the Nature of the Rational Soul, In Two Parts. 8vo L. 1703. First Edn., cont. sprinkled calf, dble gilt fillet borders, raised bands, some wear, otherwise good copy. (1)
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de Bourgogne (Mss. The Duke) Elemens de Geometrie, Ed. by M. de Malezieu. 8vo Paris 1729. Third Edn., text diagram, 1 fold. plt., some cont. m/ss notes, orig. mottled calf, tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. label. (1)
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Sotherland (Alex) Attempts to Revive Antient Medical Doctrines, 2 vols. in one, 8vo L. 1763. First Edn., 1 lg. fold. plt. cont. full calf, dbl. gilt fillet borders, raised bands, cont. paper label. (1)
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Francis (P.) The Odes Epodes and Carmen Seculare of Horace, 4 vols. 8vo D. & L. 1742-46; The Works of Virgil, 2 vols. L. 1754; Ramsay (A.) The Travels of Cyrus, 2 vols. L. 1727; Dryden (J.) The Works of Virgil, 3 vols. L. 1803., all calf, as a lot, w.a.f. (11)
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Gordon – The Comedies of Terence, 12mo L. 1752; Bourne (V.) Poematia, Latine partim reddita, Partim Scripta.. 12mo L. 1764. Fifth; [Burke (Ed.)] A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 12mo Bewick (for R. & J. Taylor) 1772; Hoyle (E.) Hoyle’s Games, 12mo L. n.d. Signed by the Author, calf, gilt fillet borders.; Rousseau – Oeuvres Diverses, 2 vols. 16mo Brussels 1732. New Edn. red & bl. titles; Les Poesies D’Horace, Traduities en Francois 2 vols. 16mo Paris 1763. New Edn., 2 hf. titles, all cont. mottled calf, tooled gilt flat spines; also 2 others, 16mo, Latin classics. All calf; also Dublin Printing: de Gomez (Mme.) La Belle Assemble: or The Adventures of Twelve Days, 4 vols. 12mo D. 1740. Fourth Edn. 4 engd. frontis, red & bl. titles, & 15 engd. plts. some gatherings loose, some loose ends lacking, cont. calf, mor. labels. (14)
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[Maxwell (W.H.)] Wild Sports of The West, 2 vols. 8vo L. 1833. New Edn. 5 litho plts. (2 frontis) text illus., cont. diced calf, mor. labels; Thackeray (W.H.) The Irish Sketch Book, L. 1860. Third Edn., frontis, text illus. cont. calf, with gilt armorials, lacks labels. (3)
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Mountmorres (Rt. Hon. Ld.) The History of the Principal Transactions of the Irish Parliament from the Year 1634 to 1666, 2 vols. L. 1792. First Edn., fine tree calf, mor. labels. Good. (2)
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Churchill (C.) Poems, 2 vols. 4to L. 1763. Printed for The Author, 2 hf. titles, cont. calf, worn, but fine attractive spines, profusely tooled in panels, gilt, mor. labels. (2)
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de Fer (N.) Histoire des Rois de France, 4to Paris 1722. Lacks title, engd. contents sheet, and dedit, & 66 engd. plts. some damp stains, cont. calf, dam. S.N.S.R. (1)
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[Deidier (Abbe)] Le Parfait Ingenieur Francois, ou La Fortification Offensive et Defensive.. . 4to Paris 1736. Second Edn., engd. add. title (frontis), red & bl. title, engd. heads, & 41 engd. fold. plts. (ex. 42), cont. mottled calf, raised bands, mor. labels, spine tooled gilt, in panels. V. good. (1)
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Rapin de Thoyras – Histoire D’Angleterre, 10 vols. 4to The Hague 1724-27. Hf. titles, engd. frontis, vign. titles, fold. maps 1 plt, some damp stains, cont. mottled calf, single gilt fillet, raised spines, profusely gilt, mor. labels. (10)
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Children’s Books (Walter Crane & Randolph Caldecott) A very good collection including Crane (Walter) This Little Pig His Picture-Book, with the original coloured pictures, Engraved & Printed by Edmund Evans, L. 1895 (Lane), 4to dec. cloth; Cinderella’s Picture-Book, with the original coloured pictures & new additions by Walter Crane, Engraved & Printed by Edmund Evans, L. 1897 (Lane), quarto dec. cloth; Goody Two Shoes, col. plates, L.n.d. (Routledge), quarto dec. card; Jack and the Beanstalk, Re-Issue, col. plates, L.n.d. (Lane), quarto dec. card; also R. Caldecott’s Second Collection [of] Pictures & Songs, quarto dec. cloth, L. (Warne), col. & other plates; and eleven titles from R. Caldecott’s Picture-Books, col. dec. card, quarto and oblong quarto, n.d., col. plates, incl. A Frog he would a-Wooing go; An Elegy on the Glory of her Sex ,Mrs. Mary Blaize; Ride A-Cock Horse to Banbury & c.; Come Lasses and Lads; The Fox jumps over the Parson’s Gate; The Milkmaid; Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting; The Three Jovial Huntsmen; Sing a Song for Sixpence; The Farmer’s Boy; The Mad Dog; and a few others.A fine collection of late Victorian children’s books, generally clean and sound. As a collection, w.a.f. (1)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection. Probably a gift from Ethel FitzGibbon (a family friend, wife of Gerald).
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[Yeats, Anne] A collection including Pyle (Hilary) Yeats, Portrait of an Artistic Family. NGI 1997, quarto, specially bound in full morocco, slipcase inscribed ‘Presented to Anne Yeats on the occasion of the opening of The Yeats Museum, March 3rd, 1999′; Images in Yeats. NGI Catalogue, July 1990, 4to illus. card, inscribed to Anne Yeats by Charles J. Haughey [Taoiseach] and Hilary Pyle; Irish Women Artists from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day [NGI Catalogue]. Anne Yeats’ copy (exhibitor, see p. 43), enclosures; Le Brocquy (Louis) A La Recherche de W.B. Yeats. Paris 1976, catalogue, typescript of a speech by Anne Yeats laid in; Arnold (Bruce). Jack Yeats. L. 1998, quarto cloth in d.w, inscribed to Anne Yeats on t.p. (5)Provenance: The Yeats Family Collection.