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[KAVANAGH (James W.)]
Mixed Education. The catholic case stated: or principles, working, and results of the system of national education; with suggestions for the settlement of the education question. Most respectfully dedicated to the Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland. By a catholic layman.
First edition, xvi, [9]-447, [1, errata]pp., small stamp in two places, repaired tear to front endpaper, orig. cloth, gilt, headband frayed. The preface is dated March 17th, 1859. In early August of the same year the Catholic hierarchy were summoned by Archbishop Cullen to discuss educational matters : amongst other items, they sought separate schools for the religious denominations.
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[CROCKER (John Wilson)]
A Sketch of the State of Ireland, Past and Present.
Second edition, [8], 64, [6, adverts for books published by Carpenter]pp., with the initial blank leaf and the half-title, and, tipped in before title, a 3, [1,] page prospectus for Bryan's Dictionary of Painting, and, tipped in opposite front endpaper, a [3] page advert for the Shaftesbury Subscription Library, cont. half calf, worn, rubbed and wanting backstrip, uncut. Supporting Catholic Emancipation. Croker's Sketch (1808) went through twenty editions (it was reprinted as late as 1884) and gained him further notice. It advocated catholic emancipation, a system of national education for all sects, and the payment of the catholic clergy by the state to undermine the influence of Rome. He was harshly caricatured in several fictional works : as the contemptible Rigby in Disraeli's Coningsby; as Wenlan in Thackeray's Pendennis, and as Counsellor Con Crawley in Lady Morgan's Florence MacCarthy.
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SHARP (Elizabeth) Editor.
Lyra Celtica: An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry. Ancient Irish Alban; Gaelic; Breton; Cymric; and Modern Scottish and Irish Celtic Poetry.
First edition, li, 422pp., decorative endpapers, orig. embossed green cloth, gilt, uncut, a nice copy.
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SHAW (James J.)
Mr. Gladstone's Two Irish Policies: 1868 and 1886. A Letter to an Ulster Liberal Elector.
First edition, 40pp., stitched as issued, orig. printed wrappers, a nice copy.
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[STANNARD (Eaton)]
The Honest Man's Speech.
First Edition, 15, [1]pp., printer's device on title, disbound, uncut, a nice copy. Charles Lucas spearheaded an attempt to combat practices in the way Dublin Corporation conducted its business which, he maintained, were incompatible with the liberties provided for under the 'ancient constitution' that were the birthright of every protestant subject. Stannard's pamphlet is in support of the prosection of Charles Lucas in the Irish House of Commons.
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[BRETT (John)]
A Free and Candid Inquiry humbly addressed to the Representatives of the Several Counties and Boroughs in this Kingdom: And proper at this Time to be read by their Several Electors. In a Letter to a Person of Distinction in the North from a Gentleman in Town.
First edition, 43, [1] pp., signature of Philip Wolfe on title, disbound, uncut. John Brett was Rector of Moynalty, (Irish: Maigh nEalta), is a village in the north-west of County Meath in Ireland.
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[BRETT (John)]
An Answer to a late Pamphlet, Intituled, A Free and Candid Inquiry, Addressed to the Representatives, &c. of this Kingdom.
First edition, 46, [2] pp., signature of Philip Wolfe on title, disbound, uncut. John Brett was Rector of Moynalty, (Irish: Maigh nEalta), is a village in the north-west of County Meath in Ireland.
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INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING ENGLISH PROTESTANT SCHOOLS IN IRELAND.
Two Letters on the Subject of the Corporated Society, Adressed to The Lord Lieutenant, The Archbishop of Dublin, and The Bishop of Cork.
First and only edition, 20pp., some light soiling, disbound. Copac records a single copy at the Bodleian Library.
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SCOTT (Abraham)
The Ordinance of the Lord's Supper, with Directions how to make a proper use of it. And also, the Propriety of Administering it amomgst the Methodists.
First edition, 12mo, iv, [5]-56 pp., modern marbled wrappers. Bodleian copy only on Copac.
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[CROKER (John Wilson)?]
A Short Letter from Quang-Tcheu. Translated by another Hand.
First edition, 12mo, 21, [1]pp., binder having been rather heavy-handed in shaving margins (2 letters cropped from final line of imprint), a little foxing on the last 2 leaves, disbound. This is a satire on "Cutchacutchoo" which was a game in much vogue in Dublin society at the time, a kind of "Blind Man's Buff," or "Hunt the Slipper" which was criticised as tending to immorality. It was denounced in an anonymous satire, supposed to be written J. W. Croker, who was attacked in various retaliatory squibs. The text is signed at the end "J.T.", possibly written by J. W. Croker.
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COLLINS (Mortimer)
Idyls and Rhymes.
First Edition, 96 pp., original pink embossed cloth, spine slightly faded, lettered in gilt on upper cover, uncut and partly unopened, a very nice copy. Collins, novelist and poet, was the son of a solicitor at Plymouth, and was for a time a teacher of mathematics at Queen Elizabeth's College in Guernsey. "Idyls and Rhymes", his first book was written while he was living in Guernsey, and includes poems on Wordsworth, the Daffodil, the Duke of Wellington and Hartley Coleridge. He settled in Berkshire and adopted a literary life, and was a prolific author, writing largely for periodicals. He also wrote a good deal of occasional and humorous verse, and several novels, including Sweet Anne Page (1868), Two Plunges for a Pearl (1872), Mr. Carrington (1873), under the name of "R.T. Cotton," and A Fight with Fortune (1876).
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POWELL (Roger)
Further Notes on Lebor na Huidre. Reprinted from ?RIU, Vol. XXI.
Tall 8vo, 99-102pp., large folding diagram, orig. printed wrappers.
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[Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland]
Journal of an English Traveller or Memoirs and Anecdotes of an Illustrious Personage: and of Her Court, Correspondence with the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Whitbread, &c.
Third edition, [2], 55, [1]pp., disbound.
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NICHOLS (Samuel)
National Gratitude Enforced. A sermon in commemoration of the relinquishment of the Bill of Pains and Penalties against Her Majesty : preached at the Independent Chapel Hill, Gloucestershire, oN Sunday evening November 26, 1820.
First edition, 24pp., disbound. Copac locates just two copies (School of Oriental & African Studies and Cambridge).
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[Guernsey, Countess of, pseud.]
Genuine Edition of the Death-Bed Confessions of the late Countess of Guernsey, to Lady Ann H****** : developing a series of mysterious transactions connected with the most illustrious personages in the kingdom. To which are added, the Q----'s last letter to the K----, written a few days before her M----'s death.
iv, 50pp., disbound. The Countess of Guernsey is intended to represent Frances, Countess of Jersey, but this is apparently a spurious publication.
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MILLER (Liam) Copiler.
Dolmen XXV: An Illustrated Bibliography of the Dolmen Press 1951-1976.
First edition, 4to, 96pp., one of 700 copies, illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.
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MACALISTER (R. A. S.)
The Book of Mac Carthaigh Riabhach otherwise The Book of Lismore. With descriptive introduction and indexes by R. A. S. Macalister.
Folio, xxxviipp., followed by 198 collotype facsimile leaves, from the library of Percy J. Paley, Castle Hacket (bookplate), orig. cloth, some light staining and scratches but overall a very good copy. The manuscript was prepared for Finghin MacCarthy Reagh in the fifteenth-century and discovered in 1814 at Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
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HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION. BEAUFORT (Duke of)
The Manuscripts of The Duke of Beaufort, K.G., The Earl of Donoughmore, and others. Twelfth Report, Appendix, Part IX.
First edition, xvii, [4], 640pp., very good ex-library copy, buckram.
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NEESON (Eoin)
The Life and Death of Michael Collins.
First edition, 163pp., illustrs., orig. cloth, dust wrapper clipped, with general wear and a couple of nicks, but overall a good sound copy of a book rare in the first edition.
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LYNCH (William)
The Law of Election in the Ancient Cities and Towns of Ireland traced from original records. With Fac-simile engravings and an Appendix of Documents.
First Edition, frontispiece, stamp of the Birmingham Law Society on title and in 2 blank margins, 3 engraved facsimile plates, folding table, [4], 90pp., contemporary cloth, spine chipped.
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[FOSTER (Sir Michael)]
A Report of Some Proceedings on the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for the Trial of the Rebels in the Year 1746, in the County of Surry, and of Other Crown Cases, to Which Are Added, Discourses Upon a Few Branches of the Crown Law.
First Irish edition, xi, [1], 412, [16]pp., cont. calf, worn, raised bands, without title label, the bottom inch of spine is worn through to stitching.
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WALKER (John)
An Essay on the Following Prize-Question, Proposed by the Royal Irish Academy, "Whether and how far the Cultivation of Science and that of Polite Literature assist or obstruct each other?"
First edition, vi, [7]-38, [2]pp., title, prelims and end leaves foxed, disbound. Goldsmiths'-Kress, 20612; Not in Black.
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[CROCKER (John Wilson)]
The Battles of Talavera. A Poem.
Eight edition, with some additions, 8vo (205 x 125mm), [4], 43, [1]pp., title page with presentation inscription from the author to Sir Francis Freeling, cont. short note on the authorship of the book on front-free endpaper, some foxing and browning throughout, cont. blue full morocco, lightly rubbed but a very nice copy. A heroic poem about the bloody but inconclusive battle at Talavera, southwest of Madrid (July 27-28, 1809), in which a combined British-Spanish force under Sir Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) forced the French army of King Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, to withdraw from field. The author, John Wilson Croker, was a high-Tory politician and man of letters, one of the founders of the legendary Quarterly Review and for nearly thirty years its primary contributor. Wellington himself singled out this poem for praise. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Sir Francis Freeling; small book label of Alan G. Thomas.
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HEATH (Christopher)
On the Causes and Treatment of Closure and Immobility of the Jaws.
First and only edition, 23, [1]pp., 5 illustrs., in the text, disbound. The author was Assistant Surgeon to, and Lecturer on Anatomy at, Westminster Hospital. Copac records the Wellcome and Royal College of Surgeons copies only.
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JUVENAL AND PERSIUS.
D. Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis Satirae XVI. ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensitae varietate lectionum perpetuoque commentario illustratae et indice uberrimo instructae a Ge. Alex. Ruperti; quibus adjectae sunt, A. Persii Flacci Satirae, ex recensione et cum notis G. L. Koenig.
2 Vols., royal 8vo, large paper copy, viii, [xiii]-clx, 419, [1, blank]; [2], 5-733, [1, blank]pp., without half-titles, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page to vol. I, Gosford book label on both front endpapers, inscribed on front endpaper in a small, neat hand "Acheson / Ch. Ch. 1826 - Large Paper / Bound by C. Lewis", old small circular stamp on title-pages, shelf label removed, faint foxing of titles but otherwise a bright and fresh, contemporary full dark blue morocco, gilt lettered spines, inside gilt borders, edges gilt, a handsome set. Archibald Acheson, 3rd Earl of Gosford (1806?64), MP for Co. Armagh from 1830 to 1847, formed, at Gosford Castle, "a large and extremely beautiful library which was sold by private contract in 1878 to the London bookseller James Toovey... the history, topography, natural history and the important series of books on large paper were dispersed by Puttick and Simpson (21 April 1884), the total for 3363 lots being over ?11,000." ? De Ricci, pp.156-157. "A very correct and elegant edition."?Lowndes.
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STEELE (William E.)
A Handbook of Field Botany, comprising the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to the British Isles, arranged according to the natural system ; the orders, genera, and species carefully analyzed, so as to facilitate their discrimination; with a synoptical table of the genera according to the the Linn?an classification; and a glossary of those terms most commonly in use.
First edition, 8vo (195 x 122mm), xxix, 249pp., engraved frontis., text lightly browned, orig. green embossed cloth, spine faded and lettered in gilt, joints worn with a couple of tears.
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REGEMORTER (Berthe van)
Some Oriental Bindings in the Chester Beatty Library.
First edition, 4to (310 x 240mm), 29, [3]pp., folio, coloured frontis., 70 plates (of which 20 are coloured), orig. cloth. Surveys the bookbinders art in all its forms throughout the oriental world. There is probably no library in the world where so many and such varied examples of bookbinding are to be found as in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin.
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HAMILTON (William)
Letters Concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim. Containing a natural history of its Basaltes: with an account of such circumstances as are worthy of notice respecting the antiquities, manners and customs of that country. The whole illustrated by an accurate map of the coast, roads, mountains, &c. In these letters is stated a plain and impartial View of the Volcanic Theory of the Basaltes.
First edition, 8vo (225 x 135 mm), viii, 195, [1]pp., with half-title, large folding engraved map of Antrim County, slight archival repair to fore-edge, handsomely bound in recent quarter calf over marbled boards, red morocco label lettered in gilt.
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SWEENEY (Tony)
Ireland and the Printed Word. A Short Descriptive Catalogue of Early Books, Pamphlets, Newsletters and Broadsides Relating to Ireland. Printed: 1475-1700.
First edition, 4to (310 x 210mm), 1,000pp., one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and publisher, former owners name in ink to front-free endpaper, numerous plates, orig. cloth, light wear, label on upper cover. Ireland and the Printed Word A Short Descrptive Catalogue
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ADAMS (J.)
A Students' Illustrated Irish Flora. Being a Guide to the Indigenous Seed-Plants of Ireland.
First edition, 8vo, (190 x 130 mm), viii, 343pp., illustrated throughout, orig. cloth, d.w.
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STEWART (Samuel Alexander) & CORRY (Thomas Hughes)
A Flora of the North-East of Ireland. Including the Phanerogamia, the Cryptogamia Vascularia, and the Musineae.
First edition, 8vo (190 x 130 mm), a very good ex-library copy, orig. cloth, gilt.
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STEWART (Samuel Alexander) & CORRY (Thomas Hughes)
A Flora of the North-East of Ireland. Flowering Plants, Vascular Cryptogams and Charophytes.
Second edition, 8vo (220x 145 mm), lix, 472pp., maps, a very good ex-library copy, orig. cloth.
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DICKIE (G.)
A Flora of Ulster and Botanist's Guide to the North of Ireland.
First edition, small 8vo (165 x 105 mm), xix, [1], 176 + 4pp., of publishers' ads, ex-library, orig. pebble patterned cloth, upper joint torn and worn.
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BRUNKER (J. P.)
Flora of the County Wicklow: Flowering Plants, Higher Cryptogams and Charace?.
First edition, 8vo (220 x 145 mm), [12], 310pp., folding map at rear, a very good ex-library copy, orig. cloth.
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LATUDE (Henry Masers de)
Memoirs of Henry Masers de Latude, who was confined during thirty-five years, in the different state prisons of France. Arranged from the original documents, by Monsieur Thierry, advocate, and member of several academies. Published in France in 1790, and now first translated into English, by John William Calcraft.
First English translation, small 8vo (180 x 110 mm), vi, [2], 364pp., orig. cloth, recased, uncut.
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HAYES-McCOY (G. A.) Editor.
Ulster and other Irish Maps c. 1600.
First edition, folio, xv, [1], 36pp., 21 plates (some coloured, some folding), orig. green cloth, gilt. 23 Early Irish manuscript maps are illustrated and fully described in scholarly essays.
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[TAYLOR (Jeremy)]
A Dissuasive from Popery. To the People of England and Ireland. Together with II. Additional Letters to Persons changed in their Religion. I. The first written to a Gentlewoman newly seduced to the Church of Rome. II. The second to a Person newly converted to the Church of England. By Jeremy Lord Bishop of Down.
8vo (185 x 115 mm), [24], 277, [3]pp., engraved frontispiece, old inscription on front fly-leaf "ELibris Edwardi Griffith ex dono Johannis Yeldman", double-page engraved plate, 2pp. of advertisements at end, contemporary sprinkled calf, rubbed.
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DODDRIDGE (Philip)
The Evidences of Christianity Briefly Stated; and the New Testament proved to be Genuine. In Three Discourses.
First Irish edition, tall 12mo (175 x 110 mm), xii, 84pp., full sheep, rubbed and worn. Provenance: Early ownership stamp of W. Hutchinson. ESTC gives just two locations (Cork University and National Library of Ireland).
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[HUTCHINSON (John Hely)]
The Commercial Restraints of Ireland considered in a Series of Letters to a Noble Lord. Containing an Historical Account of the Affairs of that Kingdom, so far as they relate to this Subject.
First edition, xxii, 240pp., library stamp on title and places in the text, early ownership signature on upper blank margin of leaf following the title, 3 folding tables at end (last defective), old water-staining of the tables and last 2 leaves, first and last few leaves chipped at margins, disbound. One of the significant works of it's era advocating free trade for Ireland, written in the form of a sequence of letters to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Buckinghamshire. However, "its doctrines being regarded as seditious it was ordered to be burnt by the common hangman." - DNB. Bradshaw, 2109; Wagner, 348; Kress, B203; Goldsmith, 11826.
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PHILLIPS (Charles)
The Lament of the Emerald Isle.
Seventh edition with additions, 8vo, ix, [2], 12-21, [1]pp., title page with funerary border, engraved frontispiece and 2 further engraved portraits, disbound. Written on the occasion of the death of the Princess Charlotte, consort of Leopold, Duke of Saxe Coburg.
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STEELE (William Edward)
A Handbook of Field Botany, comprising the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to the British Isles arranged according to the Natural System: the Orders, Genera, and Species carefully analyzed, so as to facilitate their discrimination; with a Synoptical Table of the Genera according to the Linn?an Classification; and a glossary of terms.
First edition, 8vo, [2], xxix, 249, [1]pp., frontispiece showing 73 plates and ferns, orig. green blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt, a nice copy. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Thomas Martin.
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SIMPSON (William Woolley)
Observations in reference to the present Mode of effecting Sales of Landed Estates and other property; with some remarks on a recent publication by Mr. Rainy, entitled "A Brief Exposition regarding the Transfer of Real Property;".
First edition, 8vo, 7, [1]pp., disbound pamphlet. The author was a Land Agent and Auctioneer, and a Member of the Royal Dublin Society. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 30340.
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NICHOLLS (Sir George)
A History of the Irish Poor Law, in Connexion with the Condition of the People.
First edition, 8vo, x, 424pp., ex-library, library half calf.
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NOVEL. [BURNEY (Fanny)]
Evelina; or, a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. In Two Volumes.
Fifth edition, 2 vols., 8vo (170 x 105 mm), [4], 282; 288pp., cont. calf, early neat reback, contrasting spine labels, a nice set. Provenance: Neat contemporary ink ownership signature of 'D. W. Maxwell, 1821' to titles; armorial bookplate of Laurence A. Waldron to vol. II; bookplate of 'Marino, Killiney' to rear of vol. I.
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HATCHELL (John)
A Report of the Arguments and Judgment upon the Demurrer, in the case of Henry Edmund Taffe, against the Right Hon. Wm. Downes, Lord Chief Justice of the King's-Bench, in Ireland, in Trinity, Michaelmas, and Hilary Terms, 1812 & 1813, in the Court of Common Pleas, Ireland.
First Edition, 8vo, [2], 218pp., pp.199-200 omitted in pagination, i.e. p.198 followed by p.201, with the stamp of Dublin Law Society on title, disbound, uncut and partly unopened. Henry Edmund Taffe had accused the Right Hon.William Downes of trespass with force of arms, in that he made an assault on him in Castle Street, in Dublin, and kept and detained him in prison, without any reasonable or probable course, for a long time, to wit, for the space of four hours. The damages were laid at ?5,000. Rare, JISC locating the BL copy only.
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[FOX (Charles James)]
The Speech of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons, on the Irish resolutions, on Thursday, May 12, 1785. To which is added, an authentic copy of the resolutions, as originally proposed and now altered by Mr. Chancellor Pitt.
New edition, 8vo, [4], 104pp., with half-title, disbound.
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ANDERSON (R. J.)
The Morphology of the Omohyoid Muscle. [Offprint from the 'Dublin Journal of Medical Science', August, 1881.]
Large 8vo, 16pp., one coloured lithographic plate, disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute with a couple of their neat library stamps.
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SULLIVAN (Sir Edward)
Decorative Bookbinding in Ireland. A Paper Read before Ye Sette of Odd Volumes.
34,[27]pp., 14 plates (8 coloured), orig. printed wrappers, spine staple a little rusty. Also includes an alphabetical list of Irish binders extracted from: Bookbinders of the United Kingdom, 1780-1840 by Charles Ramsden and Irish Bookbinding, 1600-1800 by Dr. Maurice Craig.
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[SWIFT (Jonathan)]
On Poetry: A Rapsody.
First edition, folio (327 x 209 mm), [3], 4-28pp., ornament on title and last page, on p.28 under the word 'Finis' there are two lines of errata, some light spotting, later wrappers contained in a red cloth folding case. Sir Walter Scott "was the first of Swift's editors to print a number of extra verses which according to a note in a Ms. transcript among the Orrery Papers at Harvard 'ought to have been inserted.... if it had been safe to print them'." These verses were omitted by the printer on political grounds. No copy of an earlier Dublin edition of this masterly satire is known: this edition (published in London, 31 Dec. 1733), though described as 're-printed', is presumed to be the first. The first recorded Dublin edition was published by Hyde in 1734. Foxon, S888; Rothschild, 2147; Teerink, 741; Hayward, 153; Williams, 639.
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COLGAN (Nathaniel)
Flora of the County Dublin: Flowering Plants, Higher Cryptograms, and Charace?.
First edition, 8vo (230 x 150 mm), lxx, 324pp., large coloured folding map at rear, orig. green cloth, bevelled boards, spine gilt, uncut, a fine copy. Provenance: Charles Edgar Salmon (ownership signature on half-title). Simpson, 413.
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