Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
1860
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/1
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Quaritch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a Ground Plan of the Cathedral and Liberties ; the Monuments of Deans Sutton and Fyche ; full-length portrait of DEAN Swirr, and the Monument of Richard, site Earl of Cork (pub. at £3. 3s) bds. 9s Dublin, printed for the Author, 1820 ASON we Monck) the same, LARGE PAPER, impl. 4to. Proof Impressions hee plates, (pub. at £4. 14s 6d) bds. 15s 1820 196 ———— the same, LARGE PAPER, 4to. with a double set of the Plates, PROOFS AND Inpra PRoors, hf. bound green morocco, gilt top, wneut, 32s 1820 A very small number of the Lance Paver corres remain for sale. This book was originally published at the Author’s expense and only a few copies were sold shortly after publication. Mr. Monck Mason then went abroad, and the remainder of the edition has been locked up in a warehouse, the book being considered not only very valuable, but also very scarce. Copies have often sold at sales for large sums. At the recent dispersion of the Author’s magnificent collection of Irish Literary Curiosities, the advertiser bought the remaining copies, and now offers them at the above extremely low prices; the Large Paper copies he confidently expects to report soon out of print ; even of the small paper copies the entire remainder is under 100 copies. The total edition comprised probably 250 copies. Es” To the Biography of Dean Swiet and Memoir of his literary labours are devoted 220 ‘pages, in which the author traces every source of light and information to investigate the life and illustrate the writings of that extraordinary man. And to the lucid details of the text are super- added in notes a wealth of copious extracts and quotations from every work, as well contemporary as modern, which has assisted to enlighten or to prejudice the public mind upon the real character of Swift. ** An elaborate work, displaying much antiquarian research. It contains some new and inter- esting matter relative to the life and writings of Swift.’’—Lowrndes. 197 O'BRIEN (Henry) on the Round Towers of Ireland, or the Mysteries of Free- Masonry, of Sabaism, and of Budhism unveiled, 8vo. cuts, cloth, 24s 1834 Very rare; Purton Cooper’s copy fetched 28s. ‘‘ In O’Brien’s work on the Round Towers of Ireland, may be found much curious matter ; and a good deal of light is thrown on the Horrors of Serpent or Boodhist Worship. It is, however, a wild and irreverent book, and by no means to be recommended to the general reader, independently of the nature of its details.” 198 O’Conor’s Chronicles of Eri, being the History of the Gaal Sciot Iber, or the Irish People, translated from the original in the Phenician Dialect of the Scy- thian Language, 2 vols. royal 8vo. bds. 14s 1822 199 O’CONOR (C.) Rerum Hisernicarum Scriprores VETERES, 4 vols. 4to. £20. Buckinghamia, 1814-26 Only 200 copies were privately printed at the expense of the late Duke of Buckingham. The expenses incurred by the Duke of Buckingham for the researches and for the printing of these four volumes exceeded the sum of £3,000. They contain Latin Translations from the origi- nal Iberno-Celtic MSS. in the library formerly at Stowe. The most important and interesting works illustrative of the history and antiquities of Ireland were selected, and these volumes embody no article ever before printed, or, it might be almost added, ever before known to the literary world, excepting perhaps, by name. The original manuscripts are now in the ‘possession of the Earl of Ashburnham, his lordship having purchased the Stowe collection of manuscripts. Priced 1837, and 1840, bds. Payne and Foss, £25. ; Gardner’s copy, Large Paper, bds. fetched 1854, £20. 10s. 200 Rytanp’s History, Topography, and Antiquities of WatERForRD, 8v0. map and 195 plates, hf. calf gilt, 3s 6d 1824, 201 SHEFFIELD. Observations on the Manufactures, Trade, and Present State of Ireland, by John, Lord Sheffield, 8vo. LanGE PAPER, calf, 5s 1785 202 VALLAN iChy (Col. Charles) Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis : Essays, &e. (chiefly from original MSS.), on the History and Antiquities of Ireland, a com- plete set, 7 vols. 8vo. portrait and plates, £8. 8s 1770-1804, Tn addition to the scarce Vol. VI. 1804, the above set contains: Vol. VII. An Essay on the primitive Inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland, 1807—The Ancient Stone Amphitheatre in Kerry, 1812—Antiquities of Kilmackcumpshaugh, 1790. 203 ———— Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, 14 parts in 4 vols. stout 8vo. plates and maps, calf, 30s Dublin, 1786 —_ the same, Vols. I. to V. 8vo. plates, calf neat, £2. 2s 1786-90 These volumes are of great literary merit, and much sought after, in spite of Mr. Petrie’s _ Opinion, who says: ‘It is a difficult and rather unpleasant task to follow a writer 80 rambling in » his reasonings and so obscure in his style ; his hypotheses are of a visionary nature.’’ Mr. Petrie’s account of the Round Towers differs materially from that given by Vallancey in his sixth volume. Vallancey advocates a similar view to that of O’Brien. Altogether the collection is well worth the attention of every Celtic and Irish Scholar.