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Lot 301/0237
Medicine: Adams (Joseph) Observations on Morbid Poisons, Chronic and Acute, 4to L. 1807. Second Edn., 4 full page cold. plts. advert. leaf at end, uncut, recent cloth backed boards. (1)
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Lot 302/0237
Valuation of Ratable Property in Ireland
Co. Wexford: Griffith (Richard) Valuation of the Several Tenements Comprising The Union of Wexford, thick folio D. 1853. First Edn. 288pp orig. ptd. wrappers. Good. Scarce. (1)More details › -
Lot 303/0237
Fiddes (Richard) The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, folio L. 1726. Second Edn. port. frontis, 5 plts. (ex 6), B.P. of Canon Sean O’Corcora, cont. full panel calf, each cover stamped with gilt armorial of Earls of Drogheda. (2)
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Lot 304/0237
O’Donovan (John) Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, 7 vols. plus extra Index Vol. 8 vols. in all lg. 4to D. 1990 De Burca Reprint. Orig. decor. green cloth, v. good. (8)
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Lot 305/0237
Fine Limited Edition
[Lavery (John)] Shaw-Sparrow (Walter) John Lavery and His Work, lg. folio L. n.d. [c. 1920] Lim. Edn. No. 160 (160) L.P. 20 fine mezzotint type portrait & plts., uncut, orig. vellum backed boards. Fine Copy. (1)More details › -
Lot 306/0237
Medicine: Boivin (Mme V.) & Duges (A.) Traite Pratique des Maladies de l’Uterus et de ses Annexes,… Atlas folio Paris 1833. Atlas. 41 full page cold. plts. title with L.S. loose & brown, one plt. with straight tear, some browning, hf. calf, covers loose. (1)
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Lot 307/0237
Important Work with Coloured Plates
Medicine: Carswell (Robert) Pathological Anatomy – Illustrations of the Elementary Forms of Disease, Lg. folio L. 1838. First Edn. 48 hd. cold. full page plts. (1 loose), L.S. on verso of title, cont. hf. calf, mor. label. Good. (1)More details › -
Lot 308/0237
Medicine: Monro (Alexander) A Description of all the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body, Folio Edin 1788. First Edn. 10 lg. fold. plts. (some tears & repairs) L.S. thro-out, orig. hf. calf, mor. label, worn. (1)
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Lot 309/0237
Medicine: Albini (B. Siegfried) Explicatio Tabularum Anatomicarum Bartholomaei Eustachii,… Folio Leiden 1761. Hf. title, red & bl. title with engd. vignette, numerous full page plts. (some lacking), some stains, cont. calf, worn. (1)
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Lot 310/0237
Engravings: Cooke (W.B.)publ. River Scenery, folio L. 1827. 18 full page plts. on India paper, after J.M.W. Turner & Thomas Girtin, a.e.g., cont. hf. mor., spine dam. (1)
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Lot 311/0237
With Engraved Plates
Smith (John Thos.) Antiquities of London and its Environs, folio L. 1791, First Edn., Engd. title, & 98 full page plts., a.e.g., cont. str.-grained green mor. bind & gilt tooled borders. (1)More details › -
Lot 312/0237
“A Scribbler’s Diary”
Collins (William Herbert) A Scribbler’s Diary, Extracts from the Common-Place Book of a Common-Place Fellow. Compiler’s Copy. Compiled in Collaboration with Arthur Dennis 1907.
Manuscript, large quarto, circa 370 numbered pages in a large clear hand, handsomely bound in full green Morocco gilt, fitted with a heavy brass lock (key not present), spine with raised bands, doublures elaborately gilt, a.e.g., marble endpapers. With daily entries recording the writer’s views on life, with verses, stories and anecdotes. ‘Some seventeen years ago I had made for my use a book with a lock … In it from time to time I have jotted down odds and ends that have appealed to me… Some months ago .. for the amusement of my friends, I extracted a few hundred entries and arranged them as head-lines to the pages of this Diary..’ The ‘diary’ runs from 1 January to December 31. The subject-matter is mainly humorous and whimsical. The compiler gives his address as 9 Fell Road, Croydon; we have no further information about him. (1)More details › -
Lot 313/0237
Swift (Jonathan) Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift, Written by Himself; November 1731. Folio L. (for C. Bathurst) 1739. Third Edn. title page with wd. cut ‘bust’ in centre of decorated arrangement, 20pp uncut, some repairs, sewn, in brown paper covers. Now in recent cloth folder. V. Rare. Terrink 1603? (1)
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Lot 314/0237
Belfast Shipping Disasters: Robertson (Commd. R.) Report of An Investigation into the Circumstances Attending the Loss of the Steam Ship ‘Erins Queen’ of Belfast, by Collision with the Steam Ship ‘Sabrina’ of Cork, folio L. 1855. First Edn., 10pp; also Report of an Investigation into the Loss of ‘Morna’ of Belfast, folio L. 1855. First Edn., 14pp. both in recent blue cloth. Good. (2)
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Lot 315/0237
Box: Military interest: A good collection of mostly 19th Century Military Manuals etc., over 38 items, mostly leather bound, some interesting items. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1)
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Lot 316/0237
In fine Binding, possibly by George Mullen
Bindings: Flaxman (J.) The Iliad .. Odyssey of Homer, engraved from the Compositions of John Flaxman, R.A. Sculptor, 2 vols. in one, lg. oblong folio L. 1805, 73 plts.; also Compositions from .. Hesiod, and Compositions from The Tragedies of Aeschylus, 2 works in one vol., lg. oblong folio L. 1817 – 1831, 73 engd. plts., marble ends, both a.e.g., matching full cont. mor. with gilt & blind filet borders, & blind decor., roll borders outside a large tooled gilt border of shamrocks, acorns & foliage, spine in panels, decor. gilt bands. Good. As a binding, w.a.f. (2)More details › -
Lot 317/0237
Important Report on Royal Canal Company etc
Irish Inland Navigation: House of Commons – Report from Committee on Petition of Royal Canal Company [+ other Papers] Folio L. 14th June 1811 [-1817]., 2 fold. tables, & 2 large fold. maps by John Killaly, hand cold. in outline, over 700pp, calf backed boards recased.
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Lot 318/0237
Genealogy: [Fenton (Richard)] A Barrister, A Tour in Quest of Genealogy, through several parts of Wales, Somersetshire, and Wiltshire, in a Series of Letters to a Friend in Dublin, ; intersperced with a Description of Stourhead and Stonehenge… 8vo L. 1811. First Edn., 8 engd. plts. (includ. frontis), uncut, later cloth, stains. Scarce. (1)
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Lot 319/0237
Dublin Printing: Holcroft (Thos.)trans. The Life of Baron Frederick Trenck; 2 vols. in one 8vo D. 1789. Engd. port. frontis., VI, 220, 240pp with one ptd. title, cont. full calf, mor. label. Good. (1)
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Lot 320/0237
With Hand-Coloured Illustrations
Fishing: Crawhall (Joseph) Izaak Walton His Wallet Book, 8vo L. (Field & Tuer) 1885 With fine hand coloured illus., uncut, unopened, orig. boards. V. good copy. (1)More details ›