24 April 2012 - Rare Book Sale

#0217

Lot 181/0217

Swift (Jonathan) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver. 8vo D. (G. Faulkner) 1735. Vol. III of the Author’s Works, 6 full page maps & plts. wd.-cut decor. heads & tails etc. thro-out, [4] VIII,[8], 404 pp., orig. calf, rebacked. (1)

Lot 182/0217

Mandeville (Bern. de) The Fable of the Bees; or Private Vices, Public Benefits. 2 vols. 8vo L. 1724. Third, some gatherings loose, cont. panel calf, raised bands, mor. labels. (2)

Lot 183/0217

Forster (John Reinhold)trans. A Voyage Round the World … 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769. 8vo D. 1772, by Lewis de Bougainville. 8vo D. 1772. Lg. fold. map, & 1 fold. plt., damp stains & dam., cont. calf, lacks label. (1)

Lot 184/0217

Young (Arthur) A Tour in Ireland, 2 vols. 8vo D. (Geo. Bonham) 1780, no plts. Cont. full calf, raised bnads,mor. labels (1 lacking), some wear. (2)

Lot 185/0217

Benson (Rev. Charles Wm.) Our Irish Song Birds, sm. 8vo D. 1886. First Edn., hd. cold. frontis & hd. cold. plts. adverts at end; Ussher (R.J.) & Warren (R.) The Birds of Ireland, 8vo L. 1900. First Edn., cold. frontis & plts. & illus. also 2 fold. maps, both orig.cloth. Good. (2)

Lot 186/0217

Curwen (J.C.) Esq., Observations on The State of Ireland, Partiuclarlly directed to its Agriculture and Rural Population, 2 vols., 8vo Lond. 1818, First Edn., uncut, recent grey cloth. (2)

Lot 187/0217

Hoare (Sir Richard Colt) Bart., Journal of a Tour in Ireland, A.D. 1806, 8vo Lond. 1807, First Edn., Hf. title, engd. frontis, 8pp cat. at end, later calf backed boards. Good. (1)

Lot 188/0217

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)

Lot 189/0217

Liebig (Justus) M.R.I.A., Chemistry in its Application to Agriculture and Physiology, 8vo L. 1842. Second Edn., ed. by Lyon Playfail, 10pp adverts at end. Orig. cloth. (1)

Lot 190/0217

Ryan (Richard) Biographica Hibernica, A Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland. 2 vols. L. 1821. First Edn., engd. port. frontis. Vol. I, & 1 plt., cont. hf. calf, recent reback, mor. labels. Scarce. (2)

Lot 191/0217

Rutty (John) M.D. An Essay towards a Natural History of the County of Dublin, 2 vols., 8vo D. 1772, folding map frontis Vol. I & 5 folding plts in Vol. I, and 7 folding tables in Vol. II, recent tan cloth. (2)

Lot 192/0217

Irish Charties: Dublin Charties, Being a Handbook of Dublin Philanthropic Organisations and Charties; 8vo Dublin, [1902], First Edn., adverts. etc front & rere, orig. cloth backed boards. V. clean copy. (1)

Lot 193/0217

Cusack (M.F.) A History of the Kingdom of Kerry, 8vo Lond. 1871, First Edn., cold. map frontis, text. illus., orig. hf. calf, gilt spine. Good sound copy. (1)

Lot 194/0217

Blennerhassett Rowan (Ven. Arthur) Brief Memorials of The Case and Conduct of Trinity College Dublin, A.D. 1686-90, Sm. 4to D. (Hodges Figgis & Co.) 1858, Sole Edn., engd. frontis, forld. fac-simile, orig. gilt decor. blue cloth. Scarce. (1)

Lot 195/0217

Anon: A Brief Account of the Most Authentic Protestant Writers of the Causes, Motives and Mischiefs of the Irish Rebellion, on the 23rd Day of October 1641,…. 8vo L. 1747. [IV], 162pp some finger-marks later cloth. (1)

Lot 196/0217

Military: Cuthbertson (Bennett) A System for the Complete Interior Management and Oeconomy of a Battalion of Infantry, 8vo D. (Boulter Grierson) 1768. First Edn., tables at end (3 fold), cont. calf backed marble boards, raised bands, mor. label. V. good. (1)

Lot 197/0217

Wingate (Ed.) Mr. Wingate’s Arithmetick: Containing a Plain and Familiar Method for Attaining the Knowledge and Practice of Common Arithmetick, 8vo L. 1740, damp dam. to some fore-edges, cont. calf, mor. label. (1)

Lot 198/0217

Bion (Mse N.) U’ Usage des Globes Celeste et Terrestre et Des Spheres Suivant les Differens Systems du Monde. 8vo Paris 1728. Fifth Edn. red & bl. title, 48 fold. plts. & maps, 2 fold. tables, errata leaf at end, cont. sprinkled calf, raised bands, spine tooled in panels, mor. label. V. good copy. (1)

Lot 199/0217

Vertot (Rene Aubert de) The History of the Revolutions .. of the Roman Republic, Ed. by J. Ozell. 2 vols. 8vo D. (R. Reilly) 1736. Fifth 2 engd. frontis, 2 fold. maps, advert. leaf end of Vol. II, cont. calf, raised bands, mor. labels. Good. (2)

Lot 200/0217

Military: Simes (Thos.) The Regulator: or Instructions to Form the Officer, and Complete the Soldier upon Fixed Principles, 8vo L. 1780. First Edn., advert leaf at end, cont. calf,mor. label. (1)