Sales catalogue 67: Peter Murray Hill Ltd.

Date:
Spring 1967
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/43/3
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sales catalogue 67: Peter Murray Hill Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 73 Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, London, S.W.3. 13 HORSE GUARDS. The Case of John Horsley, Late a Captain in the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards Blue. Printed for W. Stewart... 1805. £4 4s 8vo, unbound; title, pp. 56. Horsley had to leave the regiment following his refusal to fight Edward Goulburn, who had challenged him after an angry scene. But as this pamphlet points out, the quarrel was the Regiment’s rather than his own; for Lt. Goulburn had given much offence, by his behaviour and in particular by publishing his notorious Blueviad, a verse satire on almost all his brother officers from the Lieut. Colonel downwards. Later Goulburn was threatened with a libel action, and resigned; he took up the Law, became a judge, a recorder, and finally Serjeant-at-Law, wrote further verse, and a novel. An odd case, in which it is fairly Se repli senior officers devoutly wished that both parties would only keep quiet about it all. HOWELL (James) Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign . .. Tenth Edition, very much corrected. Printed for D. Midwinter (etc.), 2737. £7 10s 8vo, contemporary calf. Frontispiece. Lowndes’s “‘Best Edition”. HUMEIANA.,. SMELLIE (William) Literary and Characteristical Lives of John Gregory, M.D.; Henry Home, Lord Kames; Davip Hume, Esq.; and ADAM SMITH, L.L.D. To which are added a Dissertation on Public Spirit; and Three Essays. Edinburgh: Printed and Sold by Alex. Smellie, &c., 1800. £10 10s 8vo, wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Jessop, Hume & Scot. Philos., p. 45. INDIA. [ANDERSON (Rev. Christopher)] Brief Narrative of the Baptist Mission in India. Printed by 7. W. Morris, Dunstable . . . 1808. £3 3s 8vo, unbound; pp. 66, 3 Il. (tables). IRELAND. An Abridgment of the Statute .. . of King George the IId. For the better Regulating the WorK-HOUSE of the City of DUBLIN . . . to Provide for the Poor thereof . . . prevent Mischiefs which may happen by keeping Gun-Powder within the said City. Dublin: Printed by Sylvanus Pepyat ... 1728. £4 10s 8vo, unbound, 3 Il., pp. 3-19. IRELAND. CROKER (T. Crofton) Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland. fohn Murray, 1825. £12 10s Sm. 8vo, original boards uncut, back defective but a nice copy. Illustrations by W. H. Brooke. FIRST EDITION. IRELAND. Extracts from The Press: A Newspaper published in the Capital of Ireland . . . 1797 and 1798. Including Numbers 68 and 69, which were Sup- pressed by .. . the Irish Government, before... Publication. Piiladelphia: Printed by William Duane, 1802. £10 10s 8vo, contemporary mottled calf. The Press, edited by Arthur O’Connor and Peter Finnerty (both of whom were finally arrested and imprisoned) was the organ of the United Irishmen. The contributors often gave no name or a pseudonym. This is not a complete reprint, but does include the supressed Nos. 68 and 69. Both the Bodleian and the Yale file (the only one recorded by Crane & Kaye) of the original numbers end with No. 67. IRELAND. [REILy (Hugh)] Ireland’s Case Briefly Stated; or, A Summary Account of the most Remarkable Transactions in that Kingdom since the Reformation. In Two Parts. By a True Lover of his King and Country. To which is annex’d, The Last Speech and Dying Words of Oliver Plunket, Arch Bishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland. Printed in the Year, 1720. £12 10s 12mo, a crisp copy very prettily rebound in half calf gilt by Sotheran. Rare. Second Edition, though seemingly the first known of Part Two. Both originally appeared in 1695, but Wing records only Part One, R.767. Strongly pro-Roman Catholic.
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