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FIRST GENERAL SCIENTIFIC ENCYCLOPAEDIA folio 2 vols. [928]; [392], 44, [242], 120, [50]pp., portrait plus 14 plates (6 folding), contemporary calf with nesting dyed panels on sides defined by double blind fillets and with blind tooling at corners etc., some minor marginal spotting or damp marks, closed tears (no loss) in Oooo3 and Kkkkk4, narrow strip of leather torn from rear cover of one volume, very handsomely and sympathetically rebacked and refurbished at edges and corners. Nice copy. The oval stamp (a bishop inside a lettered border) of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on the title pages. First published in 1704-10, and the first general scientific encyclopaedia in any language. As he outlines in his preface, Harris (ca. 1666-1719) drew for the work upon many of the greatest contemporary authorities - on Newton in physics, astronomy, and mathematics; on John Ray and Joseph Tournefort in botany; and on Halley, Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, John Woodward, John Wilkins, and William Derham…
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Lexicon Technicum: or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves. The Fourth [Second] Edition
by HARRIS, John
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Ballads: ... founded on Anecdotes relating to Animals, with Prints, designed and engraved by William Blake
by HAYLEY, William [& BLAKE, William (illustrator)]
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WILLIAM BLAKE ILLUSTRATED first edition 8vo. [2 (blank)], [8 (title leaf, preface leaf, a blank leaf, half or sub-title)], 212, [2 (contents and colophon)], [2 (blank)]pp., 5 plates by Blake (untrimmed and clearly exhibiting the plate mark), near contemporary maroon roan backed boards, marbled paper over boards, edges untrimmed as issued, paper title label on spine lettered in faded ink manuscript, plain later endpapers, light water stain at the lower gutter side of the last 2 leaves (mainly evident on the terminal blank leaf) with very light marks at the same point on neighbouring leaves (including the last plate), leaves A4-A5 a trifle creased and dusty, some light dustiness mainly at the untrimmed edges, some plates with light foxing and some lightly toned at the untrimmed edges, last plate (The Horse) with small patch of light surface abrasion at lower corner (outside the image but inside the plate mark), occasional other minor dusty smudges, generally a very good and pleasing copy.…
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Door into the Dark
by HEANEY, Seamus
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HIS SECOND MAJOR COLLECTION INSCRIBEDfirst edition, first impression tall 8vo. 56pp., black cloth, spine gilt lettered, light fox spot at fore edge of half-title & title leaves, else a nice copy in a nice dust jacket (with just a hint of foxing).
Inscribed "Seamus Heaney/ 23rd December 1969" on title page and with a further non-authorial presentation inscription dated "Christmas 1969" on a preliminary blank (not the endpaper but the blank leaf following that).
Brandes & Durkan A5 His second major collection
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Sweeney's Flight.: Based on the revised text of Sweeney Astray [by] Seamus Heaney Photographs by Rachel Giese With the complete revised text of 'Sweeney Astray'
by HEANEY, Seamus & GIESE, Rachel
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WARMLY INSCRIBED BY HEANEY TO A FRIENDfirst edition thus and of the revised text 4to. [10], 117pp., 35 fine full-page photos, green cloth gilt, fine copy in fine dust jacket.
Inscribed on endpaper "Dear Kathleen/ Enjoy your flight/ Love/ Seamus/ 6th August 1992".
Brandes & Durkan, A34h The text of Sweeney Astray was revised for this edition."The American photographer Rachel Giese has produced a stunning portfolio of pictures of the northern Irish landscape, covering the boundaries of Mad Sweeney's original kingdom of Dal-Arie. She has resourcefully followed the clues to topography and the natural world in Sweeney's wanderings, and gathered together 34 exceptional photographs which Seamus Heaney has matched with extracts and quotations from his Sweeney Astray. He has revised many of his stanzas for inclusion [here] .... The whole of the revised text of Sweeney Astray is printed in the second part of the book. Mr. Heaney has written a preface to this joint work in which he reflects on the relation of… Read More
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The Haw Lantern
by HEANEY, Seamus
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INSCRIBED TO A FRIEND AT THE BELFAST LAUNCHfirst edition, hardbound issue 8vo. [12], 51, [1 (blank)]pp., red cloth lettered in silver, paper very lightly toning around the edges as usual, else fine in fine dust jacket.
Inscribed on title page "Seamus Heaney/ at the Belfast/ Launch, 39.vi.87".
Brandes & Durkan A41. Published in June 1987 in both cloth and paperback.
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The Cure at Troy.: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
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LIMITED TO 500 SIGNED COPIES ONLYfirst edition 8vo. [10], 81, [1 (blank)], [2 (colophon & blank)]pp., errata slip on card loosely inset, grey boards, fine copy in fine dust jacket.
Limited to 500 copies, numbered and signed by the author on the colophon at the rear, this no. 146.
Brandes & Durkan A49Issued in a paperback edition by Faber in London in the same month but this Derry edition is considered as the first edition.
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On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music.: Translated with the author's sanction from the third German edition, with additional notes and an additional appendix by Alexander J. Ellis.
by HELMHOLTZ, Herman L. F.
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THE BASIS OF OUR MODERN UNDERSTANDING OF OUR SENSE OF HEARINGfirst edition in English tall 8vo. xxiv, 824pp., numerous wood-engraved illustrations and figures, contemporary half dark green leather, marbled paper on sides, some scattered minor pen sidelines and a few trivial marks, neatly rebacked with the original spine relaid and with a new maroon title label, new endpapers, corners and board edges scuffed. A very good copy.
Very unobtrusive and rather attractive contemporary blind stamp of Queen's College Belfast on title page, their small and attractive gilt-blocked arms in top spine panel.
Helmholtz (1821-1894) exerted incalculable influence on nineteenth century science both through his seminal researches in the fields of energetics, physiological acoustics, physiological optics, hydrodynamics, and electrodynamics as well as through his brilliant popular lectures and his activities as a great teacher and important scientific administrator.When Helmholtz, who "belonged to that brilliant and… Read More
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The Useful Family Herbal,: Or, an account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues: And of the Drugs, which are produced by Vegetables of other Countries. With their Descriptions, and their Uses, as proved by Experience. Illustrated with figures of the mo
by HILL, John]
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RARE FIRST EDITION OF A POPULAR HERBAL first edition, first? issue without dedication 8vo. liv, 404pp., 8 engraved plates (each with multiple images), contemporary sprinkled calf, without the blank leaf c4 (at the end of the preliminaries, following p.liv), joints and ends of spine very neatly refurbished and with a new and sympathetic russet morocco label gilt. A fresh and attractive copy. Neat early signature at head of title page "William W. Fleming" and small and the unobtrusive twentieth century stamp of David Grant of Waterford in its lower margin. Henrey British Botanical & Horticultural Literature before 1800, 1446 cf. ESTC t62620 issue with dedicationThis first and anonymous edition was issued both without a dedication as here and with one and with a slightly different pagination (vide Henrey 1447).Hill (1716?-1775), apothecary and writer on botany, gardening and farming, was in 1750 awarded on the basis of his publications the degree of Doctor of Medicine by the University of S.…
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History of the Mongols from the 9th to the 19th Century: Part I. The Mongols Proper and the Kalmuks. Part II. The So-called Tartars of Russia and Central Asia. Part III. The Mongols of Persia
by HOWORTH, Henry H.
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CLASSIC WORK ON MONGOL HISTORYfirst edition 4 vols. tall 8vo. xxviii, 743; xxxiv, 626; [2], (627)-1087; x, 776pp., 2 folding coloured maps, very handsomely bound in later rich russet-red morocco with red cloth on sides, old scored-out library stamps on margins, else a very nice copy. Although intended to bring the history up to the nineteenth century these four volumes, all that were published during Howorth's lifetime, only covered the period to the fourteenth century. The project then collapsed but a very rare supplement and index (ca.378pp) was published in 1927.
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The History of England,: from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688. In Eight Volumes. A New Edition, Corrected. To which is added, a Complete Index. [and including The Life of David Hume, Esq. written by Himself]
by HUME, David
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HANDSOME TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN PRIZE BINDINGS FROM THE McKENZIE WORKSHOP 8 vols. tall 8vo. vol.1: [4 (half-title & title)], [4 (contents)], (5)-20 ('Life'), 490; vol.2: [4 (half-title & title)], [4 (contents)], 508; vol.3: [4 (half-title & title)], [4 (contents)], 455, [456 (blank)]; vol.4: [4 (half-title & title)], [4 (contents)], 472; vol.5: [4 (half-title & title)], [4 (contents)], 520; vol.6: [4 (half-title & title)], [4 (contents)], 576; vol.7: [4 (half-title & title)], [4 (contents)], 527, 528 (blank)]; vol.8: [4 (half-title & title)], [4 (contents)], 330, [238 (index)], engraved portrait of David Hume engraved by P. Halpin after the painting by Donaldson in vol. 1, handsome Trinity College Dublin prize binding of contemporary tree calf, sides with a gilt fillet border and with the oval arms of Trinity College Dublin boldly gilt blocked at the centre of both sides, smooth spines richly gilt tooled in panels and with a red morocco title labels gilt and olive green morocco…
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[Classic Surgery Papers] Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge
by HUNTER, John; HOME, Everard; JENNER, Edward; and othersOHN HUNTER AND HIS COLLEAGUES CONTAINS A CLASSIC EVERARD HOME PAPER
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JOHN HUNTER AND HIS COLLEAGUES - CONTAINS A CLASSIC EVERARD HOME PAPER first (sole) edition tall 8vo. [4], 343, [1 (blank)], [7 (ondex)], [1 (errata)]pp., 11 plates (7 folding), 2 folding tables, contemporary sprinkled calf, spine panelled by gilt fillets and with a plum morocco label gilt, plate 7 bound in wrong position, else a nice copy. Rare. Signed by a contemporary doctor, "C. G. [?] Foott, M.D.". Contains GARRISON & MORTON 2925 ESTC t106133Comprises 18 papers, including 5 by John Hunter, 1 by Edward Jenner, 3 by Everard Home, 4 by Matthew Baillie, 2 by George Fordyce, 1 by Anthony Carlisle, and 1 by John Clarke. This is the first publication of the society which had been founded in 1783. Two further volumes of transactions were issued, one in 1800, and another in 1812, each with different imprints.One of papers is Home's 'An Account of Mr. Hunter's Method of performing the Operation for the Cure of the Popliteal Aneurism', p.138-181. This paper, also published in the London…
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Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum Religionis historia.: Edition Secunda
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PIONEERING WORK ON ZOROASTRIAN RELIGIONsecond edition 4to. [4], 580pp., 21 engraved plates (of which 5 folding), contemporary sprinkled pale calf, sides with a double gilt filler border, sometime rebacked with a new matching calf spine, spine panelled by raised bands, panels tooled in blind, handsome red and dark green morocco labels gilt, original endpapers reused, few minor scrapes on sides, nice fresh and handsome copy.
Thomas Hyde (1636 - 1703), English Orientalist and divine, pioneered the serious study of the Zoroastrian religion in the west. He was in 1658 appointed reader in Hebrew at Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1659 was appointed under-keeper of the Bodleian Library where he organised and published the third published catalogue of the their collections. He was a notable linguist with a mastery of Turkish, Arabic, Syriac, Persian, Hebrew, Malay and Chinese (learned from a Chinese Jesuit). He used Greek, Latin and Arabic, as well as what few Zoroastrian sources he could locate for this his… Read More
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