Sales catalogue: Quaritch

Date:
June 1872
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/17/6
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    a ne ht a aa ee es 6518 LIST OF THE CLAIMS as they are entered with the Trustees at Chichester-House on College-Green,, Dublin, on or before 10 August, 1700, folio, no title, but this copy has 4 & folding leaves of Index, old “calf, £10. 10s Dublin, 1701 EXTREMELY RARE, and one of the most valuable records of modern Irish his- tory, as verifying the settlement of property, and the derivation of title of the ancestors to the present possessors. 6519 LYNCH (Jo.) Duamensis Archidiac. seu Gratiani Lucit Hiberni, CAM- BRENSIS EVERSUS, seu potius historica Fides in Rebus Hiber- nicis Giraldo Cambrensi abrogata, folio, calf, from the library of the Marquis of Hastings, EXTREMELY RARE, £12. 1662 This book was written by John Lynch, titular Archdeacon of Tuam (though he takes upon himself the fictitious name of Gratianus Lucius). He wrote it in France whither he fled after Galway was surrendered to the arms of Cromwell. Many copies are supposed to have perished in the Great Fire of London, which accounts for its excessive rarity. , Copies have been priced as follows: Payne and Foss, 1848, £25.; Thorpe, 1834, £18. 18s. In 1854 Gardner’s copy fetched £12. 12s. “Liber inter Historicos Hibernicos RARISSIMUS ET INVENTU DIFFICILLIMUS, quippe cujus pars maxima exemplarium in Incendio periit Londinensi.”—Manuscript note by Rev. Tho. Crofts. “This is the celebrated attack of Lynch, the titular Bishop of Killala, on Gerald Barry. Its rarity is supposed to be occasioned by nearly all the copies being burnt in the great fire of London.” ‘‘ Lynch was a good scholar and antiquary.”—Ledwich. 6520 MA-GEOGHEGAN (l’Abbé) Histoire de l’Irlande, 3 vols. 4to. maps, half green roan, 12s Paris et Amst. 1758-63 Willett’s copy fetched £3. 12s. This work is the result of considerable study and research, the author being descended from one of the exiled old Celtic families. 6521 MAHONY (Father Connor) an Irish Jesuit. Disputatio Apologetica, de Jure Regni Hibernize pro Catholicis Hibernis adversus Hereticos Anglos, sm. 4to. halfmor. uncut, 15s Francof. 1645. |Dublin, 1826} “« An attempt to excite his countrymen. to persevere in their endeavours to extir- pate the name, manners, and religion of Englishmen from amongst them.” “ Held to be a damnable and seditious work by the Mayor and Council of Galway, and burnt.” One hundred copies only reprinted. 6522 Monasticon Hisernicum: or the Monastical History of Ireland (by Stevens), Svo. map and plates of religious Habits, half calf neat, ane 722 copy, 20s 6523 Monrmorency-Morres, Origin and Primitive Use of the Irish Pillar. Tower, 4to. plates, bds. 78 Gd 1821 6524 MORYSON’S (Fynes) Ten Yeeres Travell through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohmerland, Sweitzerland, Netherland, Denimarke, Poland, Italy, Turky, France, England, Scotland, and IRELAND, folio, russia, £4. 1617 6525 ——— the same, title and first leaf mended, but fine tall copy in Pe by Clarke §& Bedford, £6. 617 These copies have the leaf opposite the title, containing the words “ An i to z which is often wanting. “‘ Moryson,”’ says Dr. Drake, “ is a sober-minded and veracious traveller, and that part of his ‘book which relates to the manners and customs of England and Scotland is particularly intervsting.” “He began his travels,” relates Fuller, “ May Ist, 1591, over a great part of Christendome, and no small share of Turkey, even to Jerusalem, and afterwards printed his observations in a large book, which, for the truth thereof, is in good reputation, for of so great a traveller, he had nothing of a traveller in him, as to stretch, in his reports. At last he was seeretary to Charles Blunt, Deputy of Ireland, saw and wrote the conflicts with, and conquest of Tyrone; a discourse which deserveth credit, because the writer’s eye guides his PeIy. and the privacy of his place ~ acquainted him ‘with many secret passages of importance.”