7601. [Clongowes Wood College S.J. – Alumni Matthae Byrne] Gillmore, Parker.

The Great Thirst Land : A Ride Through Natal, Orange Free State, Transvaal, and Kalahari Desert.

Second Edition. London / Paris / New York, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, [no year – c.1880]. Octavo. Frontispiece, XVIII, 466 pages. Hardcover / Fantastic 19th century Prize-Binding in red morocco from the Collegium Cluenense Soc. Jesu, also known as Clongowes Wood College. Gilt lettering and rich ornament all around the binding with armorial boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. With bookplate identifying the recipient being one Matthaes Byrne, gifted in August 1880 [probably under the rectorate of Friar Thomas Keating].

7602. Cooper, Capt[ain] T.H.

A Practical Guide For The Light Infantry Officer : Comprising Valuable Extracts From All the Most Popular Works on the Subject ; With Further Original Information: And Illustrated by a Set of Plates, on an Entire New and Intelligible Plan ; Which Simplify Every Movement and Manoeuvre of Light Infantry. By Capt. T.H.Cooper (Half-Pay 56th Regiment, Infantry).

Original First Edition. London, Printed for T. Egerton at the Military Library, 1806. Octavo. XXIV, Errata Leaves [1], 98, 6 unnumbered pages (including Explanation of Plates and Index). With 14 (of 16) Fold-out-Plates and one which is missing a small strip (Plate 2). Also including the two additional Music – Plates with Four Pages of: 1.and 2.: Barrack Sounds / 3. Field Sounds [for the Trumpeter] as well as 4. Quick and Slow Marches [Buglers Trumpet Call / Setting the Watch / Shoulder Arms / Order Arms / Cease Firing / Incline to the Right / Form Indian Files / On Discovering the Enemy / The Enemy is Infantry & Cavalry / Call in the Advanced Guard / Call in the Skirmishers / etc. Hardcover / Original 19th century full leather Spine cracked but holding. Interior in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All the plates in very good condition with one missing. This is the very rare original edition and NOT a reproduction.

7603. Sabatini, Rafael.

Scaramúis. Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin ‘d’aistrigh.

Baile Átha Cliath, Oifig Díolta Foilseacháin Rialtais, 1936. Octavo. 476 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Dustjacket Design by M.A.Keane. The Volume itself in excellent condition. The dustjacket with some minor fraying but in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare !

7604. Sandham, Miss [Elizabeth].

The Boys’ School; or, Traits of Character in Early Life – A Moral Tale.

London, Printed for John Souter, [1821]. Small Octavo. Engraved Frontispiece, IV, 152 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s boards with spinelabel. Binding firm but with lower corner of rear board missing. Overall a little stronger rubbed. Endpapers intact. Previous owner’s name in ink on titlepage, dated 1822. From the library of Richard Meade of Ballymartle, County Cork, Ireland, with a gift-inscription to rear pastedown: “the gift of M.J.Meade to H. Meade, April, 27th, 1821”. Frontispiece and text in very good condition. Pages 101 – 108 with clean tears and some paperloss (text not effected from loss). An extremely scarce publication !

7605. Egypt – Ortelius, Abraham. (1527 – 1598).

Aegyptus Antiqua.

Original engraving. Antwerp, Ortelius, [c.1595]. Plate Size: 51.2 cm x 35.8 cm. Sheet Size: 58 cm x 43.4 cm. Original map. In very good condition. Discreet tears near lower left and top right. Slight staining to top of sheet. Central vertical fold as issued. Professional repaired wormholes to above centre top border and near centre of map. A very minor hole along each lower vertical border of plate frame. Reverse carries Latin text. The map was orientated with Egypt’s north to the right.

7606. De Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo / [Giovan Gherardo de Rossi].

Commedie.

[Seconda Edizione]. 4 Volumes in 2 (complete set). Prato, Fratelli Giachetti, 1826. Octavo. Tomo Primo: XIX, 291, [1] pages / Tomo Secondo: 314, [2] pages / Tomo Terzo: 328, [2] pages / Tomo Quattro: 251, [1] pages. Original, wonderful and decorative vellum bindings. With new spinelabels. Very Rare, original edition of the second edition of de Rossi’s comedies.

7607. Derrida, Jacques & Fathy, Safaa.

Tourner les mots: au bord d’un film. [Signatures autographes de Jacques Derrida]

Edition limitée (No.60/70). Paris, Galilee, 2000. 8°. 169 pages with illustrations / photographs in colour. Softcover / Reliure Broché. Pages Unopened ! Signatures autographes de Jacques Derrida / First edition, one of seventy examples printed on “verge ivoire,” of this work produced as a companion to the film “D’ailleurs, Derrida”. Only seventy copies were produced, and most were distributed among the film’s collaborators. This copy signed by Derrida on the half title. Fine in publisher’s printed wrappers.

7608. [Emerson, George Waldo] Brydges, Sir S. Egerton.

Censura Literaria. Containing Titles, Abstracts and Opinions of Old English Books. With Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities. With the articles classed in chronological order under their separate heads.

Second Edition. 7 of 10 volumes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10. (Incomplete). London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. 16 cm x 24 cm. Vol. 1: VIII, LXIII, 432 pages. / Vol. 2: VIII, 450 pages. / Vol. 3: VII, 434 pages. / Vol. 4: VII, 435 pages. / Vol. 6: VIII, 416 pages. / Vol. 8: VIII, 411 pages. / Vol. 10: VIII, 580 pages. Original Hardcover. Volume 1 has dampstaining on boards, front board detached. Volume 8 has small dampstain on front board. All volumes with stronger rubbing, fading on boards, otherwise good condition with content intact.

7609. Milosz, Czeslaw.

The Seizure of Power [Signed – Uncorrected Proof]. Translated by Celina Wieniewska.

Unrevised, Uncorrected Proof. New York, Farrar – Straus – Giroux, 1982. Octavo. 245 pages. Original Softcover in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A very rare, signed version of this uncorrected Proof with Milosz’s signature on the titlepage.

7610. [English History Collection] – Heath, Baron [John Benjamin] / [Carritt, R. Graham].

Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London.

Third Edition. London, Privately Printed, 1869. Large Octavo. Frontispiece (Saint Anthony, tutelar Saint of the Company of Grocers), XVI, 601 pages with many illustrations (steel-engravings) and one facsimile. Hardcover / Original publishers quarter morocco with gilt lettering on spine and Emblemata on cover. Top edge gilt. Only some faint signs of dampstain to the outer margins of the illustrations. Otherwise in splendid condition with only minor signs of external wear. Presentation copy from Master Ernest Woodhame to R. Graham Carritt on the occasion of his admission to the Livery of the Company in June 1927. With a bookplate of Grocer’s Hall to the front pastedown.