LOT 3669
17th July 2024
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LOT 3669
SATIRE. – [William HALES and Thomas James MATHIAS.] Irish Pursuits of Literature in A.D. 1798, and 1799. Dublin: for J. Milliken, 1799. First edition, 8vo (210 x 127mm.) Half-title, a mock title-page for ‘Pursuits of Literature’ by ‘Octavius, with ‘Second Thoughts’, and ‘Rival Translations’, and 16pp. of a satirical ‘List of Standard Books’, and William Hales’ ‘The Monstrous Republic’. (Occasional browning and light spotting.) Contemporary boards (rebacked with original morocco lettering piece to spine, renewed endpapers, extremities rubbed). Provenance: United Presbyterian College (bookplate to the front pastedown); Michael Emerson MacRoberts (bookplate to front-free endpaper). – And a further volume related to Ireland (Henry Piers’ ‘A Chronological Description of the County of West-Meath’, Numbers I-IV of ‘Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis’, 1770-1775, 8vo) (2).
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