21. [Saunders, Richard] Rider, Cardanus.

Rider’s British Merlin: For the Year of our Lord 1799. Being the Third after Bissextile or Leap-Year. Adorned with many delightful and useful Verities, fitting all Capacities in the Islands of Great Britain’s Monarchy. With notes of Husbandry, Fairs, Marts, High Roads and Tables for many necessary uses. Compiled for the Country’s Benefit by Cardanus Rider. [With: “The Arms of the Peers, Peeresses &c. of England, Scotland & Ireland the Insignia of the Different Orders of Knighthood with the Baronets of Great Britain and the Dates of their Creations” [With: “Heraldry in Miniature” / Including a small section to the end of the publication with “British Governments in America and the West-Indies with Upper Canada – Lower Canada – Cape Breton – Virgin Island – Montserrat – Grenada – Jamaica – Leeward Islands – Barbados [Barbadoes]” etc.]. [ With a section on “Peers, Peeresses and Bishops of Ireland – That are Not Peers of England”].

London, Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1799. Slim-Octavo (9,5 cm x 16 cm). Collation complete with parts of the book interleaved: 60, XXXVI, [122 + 4 misbound planches with coats of arms, pagination incorrect but all plates available that are called for], plus 321 pages [House of Peers of Great Britain with misprinted pagination to the beginning of the 321 pages]. Original Hardcover / 18th century or early 19th century red leather. Stronger rubbed but firm and intact binding. Interior with tear to page 15/16, some minor foxing and browning only, some writing to interleaved pages in a child’s hand. All plates with Heraldic Bearings, Coat of Arms, Emblemata, Badges etc. included. Here the rare 1799 publication with over 500 examples of Heraldry of Ireland, Scotland and England. Includes Irish Earls, Irish Barons, Irish Archbishops, Irish Viscounts, etc. [Coat of Arms of Fingal, Glandore, Lisburne, Winterton, Arran, Barrymore, Marq. Donegall, Clanricarde, Fife, Lowth, Upper Ossory etc. etc.]

22. [Kotzebue, August von].

“Sighs; or, The Daughter” / [Bound with an anonymously published title: “Alfred the Great: In which is related his conquests over the Danes; Entering the Danish Camp in Disguise; Separation from Ethelswitha; and his Death, after a Glorious Reign of Twenty-Nine Years and Six Months”].

Two works in one Volume. London, John Arliss, no year [c.1800]. Small Octavo. Pagination of “Alfred the Great”: Frontispiece, 36 pages / Kotzebue: 69 pages including Epilogue [without titlepage]. Hardcover / Stunning, recent half leather and marbled-paper-covered-boards with gilt lettering and ornament to spine, bound to style of the 18th/19th century. Excellent condition.

23. Berquin, M. [Arnaud].

The Children’s Friend. Translated from the French of M. Berquin; complete in Four Volumes (here only Volume I and Volume III).

A New Edition. Two Volumes (of Four). London, Printed for J.Stockdale, 1804. Small Octavo (11 cm wide x 17 cm high). Volume I: Frontispiece, XII, 200 pages / Volume III: Frontispiece, 218 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather of the early 19th century. Both Volumes firm but stronger rubbed. Good+ condition with only minor signs of wear but with some minor staining inside and two defects to the frontispiece of Volume III and a tear to the rear endpaper of Volume III. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with manuscript entries of names in the books by the Meade family.

24. [Jones, Sir William] / [Franklin, Benjamin] / John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth.

Memoirs of The Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones [With a little Essay by Jones on the Grecian Orators: “De Graecis Oratoribus”].

A New Edition. London, Sold by John Hatchard (Bookseller to her Majesty), 1807. Octavo (13.6 cm wide x 21.3 cm high). XIV, [3], 636 pages including an Appendix. Hardcover / Original, very decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Bining a bit rubbed but overall in a firm and very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The interior in bright and excellent condition. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

25. [Magasin des Enfans].

Le Bureau Typographique: Livre élémentaire, À l’usage des Enfans. Orné de 24 Jolis Tableaux des Arts Et Métiers, Propres à Intéresser la Curiosité des Enfans, et à leur faire aimer la Lecture.

Premiere Edition. À Londres [London], Au Magasin des Enfans, chez Didier & Tebbett, 1808. Duodecimo (13.5 cm x 9 cm). IV, 108 pp. Reliure originale / Original Hardcover in modern, bespoke built solander-box with title-label. Collation complete. No endpapers. Includes all 24 engravings. One plate (″Epicier”) with small tear and paperloss (illustration not effected). Some pages loosened. Binding fragile and nearly detached. A little rough but very rare and still in collectable condition.

26. [Lancelot, Claude] Nugent, Thomas.

A New Method of learning with facility the Greek Tongue : Containing Rules for the Declensions, Conjunctions, Resolution of Verbs, Syntax, Quantity, Accents, Dialects, And Poetic Licence. Digested in the clearest and concisest order. With Variety of solid remarks, necessary for the attaining A complete knowledge of this language; And for understanding the Greek writers. Translated from the French of the Messieurs de Port-Royal, And improved by Thomas Nugent, LL.D.

A New Edition, carefully revised and corrected. London, Printed for Wingrave, in the Strand, Successor to Mr. Nourse, 1808. Octavo. XXX, [10], 476 pages. Hardcover / Original, full leather, with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Upper hinge slightly split. Besides a minor discoloration to the front board, in very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

27. [Homer] Cowper, William.

The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, by the Late William Cowper, Esq. In Four Volumes (Complete set of the Third Edition) / [Plus: Uniformly bound: “The Life and Letters of William Cowper, Esq. – With Remarks on Epistolary Writers, by William Hayley, Esq. – A new Edition].

Eight Volumes in Total (complete set of Iliad, Odyssey and Life of Cowper). London / Chichester, Printed for J.Johnson, St.Paul’s Churchyard, 1809. Large Octavo (15 cm wide x 24.5 cm high). Pagination of Four Volumes of The Iliad and Odyssey: Volume I: XLII, 506 pages / Volume II: 462 pages / Volume III: 352 pages / Volume Four: 343 pages // Pagination of “The Life of and Letters of William Cowper”: Volume I: Portrait-Frontispiece, 399 pages plus 7 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume II: 441 pages plus 7 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume III: 458 pages plus 10 unnumbered pages of an Index / Volume IV: 460 pages plus 4 unnumbered pages of an Index. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering on spine and boards. ALl Volumes firm with some minor cracks to the bottom of the spine of Volume II of the Homer (no effect on the usage of the Volume) / Some splitting to half of the spine of Volume I of Cowper’s Life. Overall a very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All eight Volumes in firm condition. A stunning set ! From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

28. Busby, Richard.

Grammatica Busbeiana, Auctior et Emendatior : Id Est Rudimentum Grammaticae Graeco-Latinae Metricum in Usum Scholae Regiae Westmonasteriensis.

London, G.Ginger, 1809. Octavo. 230 pages with Calendarium Romanum / [Bound with: “Graecae Grammaticae Compendium” – London, G.Ginger, 1810. 40 pages]. Hardcover / Fantastic, original full suede-leather binding with ornament on boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

29. [Thucydides] Bauer, Carl Ludwig.

Thucydides – De Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo Cum Versione Latina Et Variis Lectionibus Ex Editione Caroli Ludovici Baueri Accurate Expressi.

Bilingual Edition (Greek-Latin). Three Volumes [complete set]. Oxford, J.Parker, 1811. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I:XXIV, 440 pages / Volume II: 418 pages / Volume III: 266 pages plus 60 unnumbered pages of Index Rerum and Index Verborum. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Occasional annotations and textmarkings. Bindings rubbed and a little dusty but very firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.Hinges all attached with only the front boards of Volume I and II slightly starting. Besides a few dogears a nd minor signs of only occasional foxing in very good + condition. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. This is a rare version of this text !

30. [Fox, Charles James] / [Arthur O’Connor] / Trotter, John Bernard [Late Private Secretary to Mr.Fox]

Memoirs of the Latter Years of the Honourable Charles James Fox [with a lengthy report on a meeting with Irish Revolutionary Arthur O’Connor in Calais].

Third Edition. London, Printed for Richard Phillips, 1811. Octavo (13.6 cm wide x 21.3 cm high). XXXIX, 552 pages. Hardcover / Original, very decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Binding a bit rubbed but overall in a firm and very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The interior in bright and excellent condition. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.