621. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich / Gans, Eduard.

Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Geschichte.

Dritte Auflage, besorgt von Karl Hegel. Berlin, Verlag von Dunder und Humblot, 1848. 22.2cm x 140cm. XXVI, 547 Seiten. Hardcover / Originaler, sehr dekorativer Halblederband mit reicher Rückenvergoldung. Die Bindung wunderbar erhalten. Etwas berieben. Zu Beginn und im hinteren Teil etwas stärker stockleckig. Mit handschriftlicher Widmung auf dem Zwischentitel: “T.J.N.Utrecht from his friend Charly Jennings – Edinb. Feby.7.1853” [Werke – Neunter Band].

622. [Fly Fishing / Angling – Collection] – Brabazon, Wallop [Rath House, Drogheda] / Cooper, William / [Provenance: William Le Fanu]

The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland, with suggestions for the working of a Fishing Company. Illustrated by William Cooper. Dedicated by Permission to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland. [With 21 Plates]

Original First Edition. Dublin / London / Derby, James McGlashan / Simpkin, Marshall & Co. / Richardson and Sons, 1848. Octavo. Folded Frontispiece, X, 111 pages with 21 plates (original Lithographs often large folding). Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth, embossed with gilt lettering to cover. Excellent condition of one of the rarest books on the History of irish commercial fishing and suggestions for professionalizing irish fishing industry in the 19th century. This book comes from the library of irish engineer William Le Fanu, with his bookplate to the pastedown and a stamp “Board of Public Works” to the dedication-page. The books interior with all the lithographic illustrations in very good condition. Occasional foxing only. Extremely rare; very scarce publication ! This is a superior example of this book; with all illustrations in place and in excellent condition.

623. Pellico, Silvio.

Opere Complete. Con le Addizioni di P. Maroncelli.

Napoli, Franc. Rossi, 1848. 14.3 cm x 22 cm. XXI, 529 pages. Original Hardcover with marbled boards. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine shedding, rubbed and separated from book block. Corners rubbed. Heavy foxing to edges. Minor foxing to pastedowns, endpapers and to pages throughout. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

624. [Shakespeare] Magennis, William.

Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare. With Life Introduction Notes and Selected Subjects for Short Essays.

Dublin, The Educational Company of Ireland Limited, no date (c.1848). 12 cm x 19 cm. 166 pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover. Good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [The Educational Series of English Classics – Junior Grade]

625. Todd, John.

The Student’s Manual: Designed by specific Directions to aid in Forming and strengthening the Intellectual and Moral Character and Habits of The Student.

The Tenth Edition. Halifax, Printed & Published by William Milner, 1848. Miniature Book (8 cm x 12 cm). IV, 237 pages. Original Hardcover / Original publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. The binding unusually form and the original endpapers intact.

626. Staunton, Howard [Provenance: William Joseph O’Hanlon brother of irish chess player John’O’Hanlon].

The Chess-Player’s Handbook. A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, And Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions.

Second Edition, revised. London, Henry G.Bohn, 1848. Octavo. Coloured Frontispiece showing a Chessboard (″The Spynx”) with the position of “White Playing First Mates in Eleven Moves”, VIII, 518 pages. Original publisher’s binding. Red cloth with gilt-embossed chess board on front cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very interesting names of 19th and 20th century irish preowners written inside the book: J.J.O’Sullivan in Bantry / W. O’Hanlon (Cork) /

627. Francis, George William / [Provenance: Good, James (MRCSC in London) / Curtis, James (Cork)].

The Grammar of Botany ; Explaining the Structure, Form, Classification, Uses and Geographical Distribution of Plants, Illustrated by Poetry, Anecdotes, Popular Remarks and Three Hundred Wood Engravings.

Secoond Edition. London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1848. Small Octavo. 160 pages. Original, publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Names of two preowners in ink. The binding firm. The whole publication a bit dusty but interior very good and bright . An extremely important and very rare botanical publication of the later first Director of Adelaide Botanical Garden who emigrated to Australia just a year after its second edition was published.

628. De Lamartine, Alphonse.

Storia della Rivoluzione Francese dell’anno 1848. Tradotta in volgare italiano da Luigi Toccagni.

First Edition. Three volumes / Tre volumi (complete set). Milano, Per Borroni e Scotti, 1849. 12 cm x 18 cm. Volume 1: Antiporta, 257 pagine. Volume 2: Antiporta, 221 pagine. Volume 3: Antiporta, 217 pagine. Brossurato, legatura editoriale coeva verde, autore e titolo impressi sul dorso. Sulla copertina del primo volume sono impressi titolo, autore e un ritratto di Adolfo Thiers. L’antiporta del primo volume abbiamo il ritratto di A. De Lamartine. Sulla copertina del secondo volume sono impressi titolo, autore e un ritratto di Guizot. Sull’antiporta del secondo volume abbiamo il ritratto di Luigi Filippo D’Orleans. Sulla copertina del terzo volume e’ impresso titolo e autore senza alcuna immagine. Sull’antiporta del terzo volume abbiamo il ritratto di Eugenio Cavaignac. Condizioni accettabili, il libro presenta segni di usura dati dal tempo. La struttura e’ fragile ma maneggevole .

629. Helps, Arthur.

Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon.

Three Volumes (Original Series – Vol. I and II / New Series: Vol. II (of II)). London, William Pickering / John W. Parker and Son, West Strand, 1849 – 1859. 12.1 cm x 19.7 cm. Pagination: Volume I: Book One: VIII, 228 pages / Volume I: Book Two: VI, 324 pages / New Series – Volume II: VI, 370 pages. Hardcover / Original, very decoratiove full leather with raised bands, gilt lettering and ornament. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

630. A’Beckett, Gilbert Abbott.

The Comic History of England. With Twenty Coloured Etchings, and Hundred Woodcuts by John Leech.

Two Volumes in One Volume (complete set). London, Bradbury, Evans and Co., c.1850 14.5 cm x 22.3 cm. Volume I: XVIII, 320 pages with 10 hand-coloured steelengravings and wood-engravings throughout the text. / Volume II: 304 pages with 10 hand-coloured steelengravings and wood-engravings throughout the text. Original Hardcover with gilt decoration on spine and cover. Recently professionally repaired and restored binding with new endpapers and the saved original bookplate / exlibris of J. Henry H.V. Lane of Kings Bromley in Staffordshire to the pastedown. Gilted edge. Rubbed and sign of wear on cover and spine. Overall very good condition with firm binding and clean interior. Bookplate / Exlibris to pastedown. Inscribed on Augst 10,1879 by previous owner and embossed stamp marks by bookshop W.H.Smyth in London on endpaper.