24973 WATSON [(John) Bookseller], Gentleman and Citizen's Almanac for 1752 and 1767, 2 vols. 12mo. calf, 7s 6d Dublin, 1752-67 Includes lists of members of Societies, governors of schools and offices, etc. of Dublin. Inserted is a plan of Dublin by Sam. Byron.

24974 WEBB (W.) Analysis of the History and Antiquities of Ireland, prior to the 5th century, 8vo. hf. morocco, 5s

Dublin, 1791 24975 WELD (Isaac) Illustrations of the Scenery of Killarney, 4to. map, 18 plates and vignettes, hf. bd. 78 6d

24976

1807 Statistical Survey of the County of Roscommon, thick 8vo. large coloured map, hf. morocco, 5s

Dublin, 1832

24977 WILDE (Sir William R.) Beauties of the Boyne and the Blackwater sm. 8vo. woodcuts, cloth, 5s

24978

Dublin, 1850 Catalogue of Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 3 vols. 8vo. full of woodcuts, bd. 15s 1857-62 24979 WOOD (Th.) Inquiry concerning the Primitive Inhabitants of Ireland, 8vo. map after Ptolemy, bds. 28 1821 24980 WRIGHT (Th.) Louthiana; the Ruins, Curiosities, etc. of the County of Louth, 4to. 66 plates, hf. morocco, 108 1748 24981 YOUNG (Arthur) Tour in Ireland, 1776-78, 4to. front. hf. bd. 24s

1780 "The first, and among the best; of the treatises on the agricultural state of Ireland."-Shaw Mason.

24982 TRACTS ON IRELAND AND THE CIVIL WARS; viz.

1641

ROYAL MESSAGE from the Prince of
Orange to the Peeeres and Commons in
England to advertise them of some
dangerous plots of forrane enemies, and
how he proffered himself to resist both
them and the Irish Rebels, sm. 4to. 1641
COPY of a Letter of Father Fhilips, the
Queenes Confessor, discovered and
produced in the House of Commons
by Mr. Pymme, sm. 4to.
DELIGHTFULL Newes to all loyall sub-
jects being his Majesties royall assent
to the Scotch Commissioners for assist-
ance to our brethren in Ireland, written
and avowed by Richard Newrobe, Cleric,
sm. 4to.
PETITION of the Lords and Commons
presented to his Majestie by the Earle of
Stamford, April 18, 1642, with his
Majesties answer, sm. 4to.
1642
DECLARATION sent to the King of France
and Spayne from the Catholiques or
Rebells in Ireland, with a manifesto of
the Covenant they have taken, translated
out of French by R. C. sm. 4to. 1642
DIFFERENCE about Church Government
ended, written by J. M. (? John Milton),
sm. 4to.

1642

1646

1642

REMONSTRANCE presented to his Majestie
by the Parliament in June, 1628, wherein
is discovered the names of some of
the enemies of the State, as Dr. Laud,
etc. sm. 4to.
ANSWER to the Declaration of the imagin-
ary Parliament of the unknowne
Commonwealth of England . . . wherein
their frivolous reasons are cleerly refuted,
sm. 4to.
Rotterdam, 1652

altogether 12 rare and valuable pieces in 2 vols. smallest

4to. hf. morocco, £10.

1641-52

24983 TBACTS: a collection of 14, somé relating to Ireland, or printed at Dublin, in 1 vol. thick sm. 4to. from Lord Gosford's library, £4. 4s

n. d.

The King's Cabinet opened, secret letters and papers written by the King's own hand, and taken in his Cabinet at Nasby Field, by Sir T. Fairfax

The Examiner

1645

1714

Defence of the Vindication of King Charles the Martyr

1699

Secret Intrigues of the French King's
Ministers for the enslaving of Europe

1691

Cibber, The Double Gallant, or Sick Lady's
Cure, a comedy
24984 TRACTS On Ireland, about 35 in 4 vols. 8vo. hf. bd. rare, £2. 10s

Historical, Description of the Conquest of
Buda

1686

Sæc. XVIII

INCLUDING: History of Irish Banks, 1760-List of the Absentees of Ireland, 1767-Value of Coin in Ireland, 1729-List of Officers in Church and State, 1723-Trade and Navigation of Great Britain, 1730-The Woollen Manufactury, 1730, etc.

24985 TRACTS: 13 in a parcel, sm. 4to. £2.

INCLUDING: Charge of the Scottish Commissioners against Canterburie and the Lieut. of Ireland, 1641-Walker's Sermon on the Protestants Victory before London-Derry, 1689-Lord Balmerino's Speech concerning the levying of an Army against the Papists, 1641-Proclamation of the Lords Justices for the apprehension of the Rebels, 1641-His Majesties Message to Parliament concerning his Resolution to goe into Ireland, black letter, 1642-True declaration of the last affaires in Ireland, showing the overthrowes given to the Rebels, 1642-On the Woollen Manufactory of Ireland, 1698-Ireland's Ingratitude to the Parliament of England, by Col. Crawford, 1643-Vindication of the Protestants of Ireland, 1689; and others.

24986 TRACTS: 6 in 1 vol. sm. 4to. hf. morocco, 25s

CONTENTS: List of names of the Nobility, etc. of England and Ireland, who are by an Act of a pretended Parliament at Dublin, 1689, attainted of High Treason, 1690-Account of the Sessions of Parliament in Ireland, 1692, London, 1693. Memento for English Protestants, containing an Epitome of the Massacres in Piedmont, France, and Ireland, etc. 1680D'Assigny's Short relation of the brave exploits of the Vaudois, Dublin, 1699. Most of these tracts, which are written against Popery, give an account of the religious persecutions in Ireland and elsewhere. Several of them are

scarce.

24987 TRACTS and Treatises on the Natural History, Antiquities and the Political and Social State of Ireland, prior to the present century, 2 vols. 8vo. cloth, 368

Dublin, 1861

A reprint of eleven scarce works, including: J. Waræus de Hibernia et Antiquitatibus ejus-Ireland's Natural History, by Gerard Boate-Lists of the Absentees-The Quærist, by George Berkeley, etc.

24988 TRACTS on the subject of an UNION between Great Britain and Ireland, 146 tracts in 9 vols. 8vo. with general titles having lists of contents, hf. bd. 20s Dublin, 1800, etc.

24989 TRACTS: Whitelaw (Rev. J.) the Population of Dublin, 1805Population Tables, Dublin, 1798-Danger of granting Catholic Emancipation, 329 pp. 1812-Effects of the Irish Grand Jury Laws, 1815-1 vol. 8vo. calf, 7s 6d

1785

24990 TRACTS on the Manufactures and Trade of Ireland, and Commercial Regulations between England and Ireland-6 in 1 vol. calf, 78 6d 24991 TRACTS on Irish Affairs (Local Taxation, Condition and Improvement, Church of Ireland, etc.), 15 in 2 vols. 8vo. hf. morocco, 58 1821-24

BOOKS OMITTED.

ARUNDEL. CROWNE (William) True Relation of all the remarkable places and passages observed in the travels of the right honourable Thomas Lord Howard, Earle of Arundell and Surrey 4to. brown morocco extra, gilt edges, by Hardy, £4.

sm.

1637

GOULD (Sabine Baring) Iceland: its scenes and Sagas, roy. 8vo. map, and numerous plates and cuts, some COLOURED, cloth, £2. 8s 1863 RARE: this is probably the best of Mr. Gould's numerous works.

Milton and Cromwell. MILTONI (Joannis) pro Populo Anglicano defensio contra . . . Salmasii defensionem regiam, 12mo. old English red morocco, gilt edges, Cromwell's copy, with his autograph signature on the back of the title, £12. Londini, 1651

1747

Pretender. HEREDITARY RIGHT not indefeasible... with an appendix occasioned by the dying Speeches of some of the Rebels. by a true Scotchman, 8vo. hf. bd. 3s 6d SHAKESPEARE'S TAMING OF THE SHREW, first quarto, sm. 4to. wanting preliminary leaves, sewed, unbound, £63. About 1615-20

This undescribed edition (which Collier rashly assigned to the year 1607, because that date appears in a half-cut-away inscription in a Jacobean hand at the top of the first page), would at first sight appear identical with Smethwick's edition of 1631, until a close inspection reveals variations (for example, A 4 verso, thorine for thornie, and on the last page tratour for traitour), as well as the fact that the page of type is a fraction longer in this than in that; and the type, although of identical setting-up in each,-excepting in the instances of variations,―is much clearer and more perfect in the Collier book, while it is burred and worn away in that of 1631. The only way to account for these discrepancies lies in the assumption that W. S. (William Stansby who was at work between 1597 and 1631) printed the book for Smethwick probably between 1611 and 1620, and reissued it in 1631, without allusion to a prior appearance. Hitherto the piece dated 1631 has been the first known quarto of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew (and consequently of no great importance as being posterior to the first folio); but the article above described reveals the existence of an edition anterior to the first folio, not till now recorded by bibliographers.