13 December 2016 - Rare Book Sale

#0294

Lot 532/10022

SOLD Hammer price €160

Legal: Wingate (Ed.) An Exact Abridgement of All The Statutes in Force and Use From the Beginning of Magna Charta, thick 8vo L. 1689. Title inscribed ‘George Butler, Ballyragget, 1713,’ cont. calf, blind tooled border. V. good. (1)

Lot 533/10022

SOLD Hammer price €220

Hill (Samuel) A Vindication of the Primitive Father against the Imputations of Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum, 8vo L. (for J. Whitlock) 1695. First Edn.,; Bound with; Harmer (Anthony) A Specimen of some Errors and Defects in the History of the Reformation of The Church of England; Wrote by Gilbert Burnet, D.D. now Lord Bishop of Sarum, 8vo L. 1693. Cont. panel calf, v. good copy. (1)

Lot 534/10022

SOLD Hammer price €340

With Engraved PortraitsSchoonebeek (Adrien) Histoire des Ordres Religeux De l’un & de l’autre Sexe, 2 Volumes, (6 Parts), 8vo Amsterdam 1695. Second Edn., Engd. general title, (lacks hf. title?), & 6 engd. divisional titles plus 144 engd. full page ports., some mis-pagination, later full vellum. (1)* Title with signatures of early collectors, & verso of title inscribed ‘Margaret Anne Swift her Book, April 1760.’

Lot 535/10022

SOLD Hammer price €200

With Early Woodcut IllustrationsFranzini (Federico) Roma Antica e Moderne, 8vo Rome 1668. Red. & bl. title with wd. cut device, L.S. on title, & 133 wd. cut illus (1 double), wd. cut heads & tails, lacks engd. title a few small water stains, cont. mottled calf, lacks spine. (1)

Lot 536/10022

SOLD Hammer price €300

A Jesu (Fr. P.F. Thoma) Cormelite, Stimulus Missionum: Siue de propaganda a Religiosis per Universum Orbem Fide. Sm. 8vo Rome (Apud Jacobum Mascardum) 1610. wd. cut device on title, initials, [8], 234, [4],pp. plus errata leaf, in cont. calf, tooled gilt spine, mor. label. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 537/10022

SOLD Hammer price €190

In Attractive Early Decorated Paper Boards[Edgeworth] Bulfon (Anton.) Rime di M. Vittoria Colonna a D’Avalo, Marchesana di Pescra, 12mo Napels 1692. First Edn., fine wd. cut printer device on title, [16], [175]pp, uncut in orig. attractive colour decorated boards, v. good. Rare. (1)* From the Library of Chas. Sneyd Edgeworth, with his B.P.

Lot 538/10022

SOLD Hammer price €950

Jesuitism Japan & China: Les Annales du Japon, de la Chine, et de Mogor, C’est a dire, les choses faictes en ces nations, par les Peres de la Societe de Jesus, l’an 1598 & 99, 16mo Liege (Chez Art de Coersvvarem Imp. Jure) 1601. First Edn., A1 – G12, wd. cut device on title, late hf. calf. Scarce. V. good. (1)

Lot 539/10022

SOLD Hammer price €90

Elzevir Press: [Segethus (Thomas)] De Principatibus Italiae, Tractatus Vary. Editio secunda Priore longe auctior. 20 mo Leiden (ex Officiana Elzeviriana) 1631. Engd. title, wd. cut initials, 372pp plus Index [8]pp., orig. full vellum. v. good copy. (1)

Lot 540/10022

SOLD Hammer price €300

Leoniceno (Nicholas) Aphorismi Hippocratis Graece et Latine; Una cum Galeni commentariis. 16mo Lond. 1668. Editio Postrema … 620, [36], (1), 191pp. cont. full vellum, with oval armorial in gilt on front cover. V. good. (1)

Lot 541/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

Erasmus (D.) Roterdamus, Enchiridion Militis Christiani, … Ejusdem de Praepartione ad Mortem Liber, cum aliis nonnullis. 12mo Cambridge 1685. Engd. frontis, title within dble ruled border, errata leaf, [400]pp, plus index [3]pp cont panel calf, rebacked. (1)

Lot 542/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

Plantin Press: Tacitus – Lipsius (J.)ed. C. Cornelii Taciti Opera Quae Exstant, 8vo Antwerp (Apud Christ. Plantium) 1588. Printers device on title, [16], 718, [1], [22]; Bound with … Curae Secundae, Ex Officiana Plantiniana (Apud Franciscum Raphelengium) 1588. Device on title, [16], 160pp some mispagination, text throughout within light ruled red borders, commentary at side, wd. cut initials and a few text illus., one leaf with slight repair in upr. corner, otherwise a very clean copy. Binding dam. (1)

Lot 543/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

Plantin PressL Lipsius (Just.) Politicorum sive Civilis Doctrinae Libri Sex, Qui ad Principatum maxime spectant. 8vo Leiden (Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Franciscum Raphelengium) 1589. Device on title, (& L.S.), [32], 568pp. Bound with .. Ad Libros Politicorum Breves Notae… 1589. Printers device, 55pp, in cont. calf, lacks label. V. good. (1)

Lot 544/10022

SOLD Hammer price €240

In Fine Irish Bindingde Fontenelle (M.) Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, 12mo D. (for Peter Wilson) 1761. First Dublin Edn., 4 fold. plts. complete, XX, 226 [6]pp, marble ends, cont. tree calf, roll tooled gilt borders, spine gilt in panels, flowers, urns, scrolls etc. mor label. In v. fine condition. Rare. (1)

Lot 545/10022

SOLD Hammer price €220

Bird (Isabella L.) Unbeaten Tracts in Japan, 2 vols. L. 1881. Fourth, 2 hf. titles, 2 frontis, fold. map, text illus., etc., cont. full diced calf, gilt fillet borders, tooled gilt spine, mor. labels, & armorial crest of Carton Library. (2)

Lot 546/10022

SOLD Hammer price €120

Westgarth (Wm.) Victoria and The Australian Gold Mines in 1857. With Notes on the Overland Route from Australia via Suez. 8vo L. 1857. First Edn., lg. fold. map frontis, hd. cold. in outline, & 2 other maps (1 fold.), 16pp. Catalogue at end, orig. cloth, gilt lettered spine. V. good. (1)

Lot 547/10022

SOLD Hammer price €80

Darre (Rev. A.) Elements of Geometry, with both Plain and Spherical Trigonometry. 8vo D. 1844. Revised by Rev. N.J. Callan, Maynooth College, L.S. on title, fold. table & 8 fold. plts., cloth backed boards; Elrington (Thos.) Euclidis Elementorum, Ex Libri Priores, cum Notis. 8vo D. 1802. Third, L.S. on t.p. 6 fold. plts. (ex 7), uncut boards. (2)

Lot 548/10022

SOLD Hammer price €140

Smith (Adam) An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 3 vols. Glasgow 1805. New Edn.,, L.S., cont. tree calf, mor. labels. (3)

Lot 549/10022

SOLD Hammer price €270

Lyell (Chas.) Travels in North America: With Geological Observations on The United States, Canada and Nova Scotia. 2 vols. 8vo L. 1845. First Edn. 7 fold. & other plts. & maps (some hd. cold.), text illus., 10pp cat. at end. Vol. II, orig. cloth, stained. (2)

Lot 550/10022

SOLD Hammer price €120

Voltaire (M. de.) Lettres de Quelques Juifs Portugaois, Allemands et Polonois 3 vols. 8vo Paris 1781. Fifth Edn., hf. titles, L.S.s., cont. mottled calf, tooled gilt spine, mor. labels (some lacking), worn. (3)

Lot 551/10022

SOLD Hammer price €160

Plantin Press: Ros-Vveydus (H.) De Fide Haeretics Servanda, ex decreto Concilii Constantiensis Dissertatio Cum Daniele Plancio Scholae Delphensis Moderatore. 8vo Antwerp (ex Officiana Plantiniana) 1610. Title vignette, [24], 236pp plus Approb. leaf, with device on verse, some early m/ss owners names on title. V. good copy. (1)