a Ground Plan of the Cathedral and Liberties; the Monuments of Deans Sutton and Fyche; full-length portrait of DEAN SWIFT, and the Monument of Richard, first Earl of Cork (pub. at £3. 38) bds. 9s Dublin, printed for the Author, 1820 195 MASON (W. Monck) the same, LARGE PAPER, impl. 4to. Proof Impressions of the plates, (pub. at £4. 14s 6d) bds. 15s 196 1820 the same, LARGE PAPER, 4to. with a double set of the Plates, PROOFS AND INDIA PROOFS, hf. bound green morocco, gilt top, uncut, 32s 1820 A very small number of the LARGE PAPER COPIES remain for sale. This book was originally published at the Author's expense and only a few copies were sold shortly after publication. Mr. Monck Mason then went abroad, and the remainder of the edition has been locked up in a warehouse, the book being considered not only very valuable, but also very scarce. Copies have often sold at sales for large sums. At the recent dispersion of the Author's magnificent collection of Irish Literary Curiosities, the advertiser bought the remaining copies, and now offers them at the above extremely low prices; the Large Paper copies he confidently expects to report soon out of print; even of the small paper copies the entire remainder is under 100 copies. The total edition comprised probably 250 copies. To the Biography of DEAN SWIFT and Memoir of his literary labours are devoted 220 pages, in which the author traces every source of light and information to investigate the life and illustrate the writings of that extraordinary man. And to the lucid details of the text are superadded in notes a wealth of copious extracts and quotations from every work, as well contemporary as modern, which has assisted to enlighten or to prejudice the public mind upon the real character of Swift. "An elaborate work, displaying much antiquarian research. It contains some new and interesting matter relative to the life and writings of Swift."-Lowndes. 197 O'BRIEN (Henry) on the Round Towers of Ireland, or the Mysteries of Free1834 Masonry, of Sabaism, and of Budhism unveiled, 8vo. cuts, cloth, 24s Very rare; Purton Cooper's copy fetched 288. "In O'Brien's work on the Round Towers of Ireland, may be found much curious matter; and a good deal of light is thrown on the Horrors of Serpent or Boodhist Worship. It is, however, a wild and irreverent book, and by no means to be recommended to the general reader, independently of the nature of its details." 198 O'CONOR'S Chronicles of Eri, being the History of the Gaal Sciot Iber, or the Irish People, translated from the original in the Phoenician Dialect of the Scythian Language, 2 vols. royal 8vo. bds. 14s. 1822 199 O'CONOR (C.) RERUM HIBERNICARUM SCRIPTORES VETERES, 4 vols. 4to. £20. Buckinghamia, 1814-26 Only 200 copies were privately printed at the expense of the late Duke of Buckingham. The expenses incurred by the Duke of Buckingham for the researches and for the printing of these four volumes exceeded the sum of £3,000. They contain Latin Translations from the original Iberno-Celtic MSS. in the library formerly at Stowe. The most important and interesting works illustrative of the history and antiquities of Ireland were selected, and these volumes embody no article ever before printed, or, it might be almost added, ever before known to the literary world, excepting perhaps, by name. The original manuscripts are now in the possession of the Earl of Ashburnham, his lordship having purchased the Stowe collection of manuscripts. Priced 1837, and 1840, bds. Payne and Foss, £25.; Gardner's copy, Large Paper, bds. fetched 1854, £20. 10s. 200 RYLAND'S History, Topography, and Antiquities of WATERFORD, 8vo. map and plates, hf. calf gilt, 3s 6d 1824 201 SHEFFIELD. Observations on the Manufactures, Trade, and Present State of Ireland, by John, Lord Sheffield, 8vo. LARGE PAPER, calf, 5s 1785 202 VALLANCEY (Col. Charles) Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis: Essays, &c. (chiefly from original MSS.), on the History and Antiquities of Ireland, a complete set, 7 vols. 8vo. portrait and plates, £8. 8s 1770-1804 In addition to the scarce Vol. VI. 1804, the above set contains: Vol. VII. An Essay on the primitive Inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland, 1807—The Ancient Stone Amphitheatre in Kerry, 1812-Antiquities of Kilmackcumpshaugh, 1790. 203 204 Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, 14 parts in 4 vols. stout 8vo. plates and maps, calf, 30s Dublin, 1786 1786-90 the same, Vols. I. to V. 8vo. plates, calf neat, £2. 2s These volumes are of great literary merit, and much sought after, in spite of Mr. Petrie's opinion, who says: "It is a difficult and rather unpleasant task to follow a writer so rambling in his reasonings and so obscure in his style; his hypotheses are of a visionary nature." Mr. Petrie's account of the Round Towers differs materially from that given by Vallancey in his sixth volume. Vallancey advocates a similar view to that of O'Brien. Altogether the collection is well worth the attention of every Celtic and Irish Scholar. 206 205 WALKER'S (J. C.) Historical Memoirs of the Irish Bards, 4to. with the music of Irish Melodies, cloth, 9s London, 1786 Historical Memoirs of the IRISH BARDS; memoirs of Cormac Common, and of Carolan: and select IRISH MELODIES, 1 vol. 8vo.-A historical Essay on the DRESS of the ancient and modern Irish; and a Memoir on their Armours and Weapons-2 vols. 8vo. with Music and Antiquarian plates, calf, 9s 1818 207 WAREI (J.) Archi-Episcoporum Casseliensium et Tuamensium Vitæ, cum Historia Coenobiorum Cisterciensium Hiberniæ, Dublinii, 1626-De Præsulibus Lageniæ sive Provinciæ Dubliniensis liber unus, ib. 1628-in 1 vol. smallest 4to. blue morocco extra, gilt edges, £2. 2s On the fly-leaf is the autograph signature of the author "Jacobus Wareus," and there are also two corrections of the text in his handwriting. 208 WARE (Sir James) History and Antiquities of IRELAND, with the history of the Writers of Ireland, translated, revised, improved and continued by HARRIS, 2 vols. in 1, folio, portrait of Ware and 21 fine large plates of Costume, Coins, Antiquities, calf, fine copy, £2. 2s Dublin, 1764 209 Scotland. SIBBALDI (Sir Rob. 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(pub, at £8. 8s in bds.) 1806-Itinerarium Cambriae seu Baldvini per Walliam Legationis accurata descriptio, cum annotationibus D. Powell, 1804, 1 vol.together 3 vols. impl. 4to. (pub. at £11. 11s) £5. 1804-6 "The learned Editor's Annotations and Notes are peculiarly valuable."-Lowndes. "Giraldus' descriptions of Wales and Ireland are marked by a clearness of narrative and a distinctness of conception which are seldom found among the medieval writers; but they are strictly interspersed with monkish legends and fairy tales, which render him a valuable authority for the earlier history of our popular mythology."-Thomas Wright. Giraldus is the most ancient topographer of Wales, he was Bishop of St. David's from 1169 to 1203 inclusive. Two hundred copies only of the above elegant edition (edited by Sir Richart Colt Hoare) were printed. 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"If I am not deceived there is something in all the compositions of Boileau, so finished, so removed from conceit, and from forced thought; there is such an ardent zeal for propriety in sentiment and in expression, such a sense of the dignity of the human character, when undebased; such a hatred of hypocrisy; such a love of purity; such an abhorrence of all profaneness, and of indecency, and even of indelicacy; that I am not able to name a man whose works, as a poet and a critic, may be read and studied with equal advantage.”—Pursuits of Literature, &c. p. 49. "Boileau may be compared to the dog, whose sagacity is remarkable, as well as its fawning on its master, and its snarling on those he dislikes. If Boileau was too stern to admit the pliancy of grace, he compensates by good sense and propriety. He is like (for I will drop animals) an upright magistrate, whom you may respect, but whose public justice and severity leave an awe that discourages familiarity."-Works of Hor. Walpole, vol. v. p. 600. 250 BOISMONT (A. B. de) des Hallucinations, Histoire raisonnée des Apparitions, des Visions, du Magnetisme, de Somnambulisme, etc. 8vo. 626 pp. sd. 5s Par. 1845 251 BRANTÔME (P. de Bourdeilles, Seigneur de) les Euvres de; avec des Remarques historiques, et critiques, par Le Duchat, Lancelot et Prospère-Marchand, 15 vols. 12mo. old calf gilt, Lord Orford's copy, £3. Londres (Maestricht), 1779 "Brantôme is frequently an amusing and instructive writer, but his naïveté often borders upon what must be considered not a little licentious. He has preserved many important facts, as well as entertaining anecdotes, which must have otherwise perished. It is pleasant to find the unaccountable omission of his name by La Harpe, supplied by a short, but smart notice of him, by Barbier." Dibdin's Library Companion, p. 538. The reader will find the notice mentioned by Mr. Dibdin, in Barbier's Bibliothèque d'un Homme de Goût, vol. 4, p. 17. 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Because Brantôme wrote with the feelings and simplicity of his age; while Robertson was merely a citizen of Edinburgh, who had become learned by poring over the works of old authors, but he wanted that turn of mind which was necessary to enable him to see events as they really happened."-New Monthly Magazine, vol. 23, p. 95. 252 BROSSES (Chas. de) du Culte des Dieux Fétiches, ou Parallèle de l'ancienne Religion de l'Egypte avec la Religion actuelle de Nigritie, 12mo. 286 pp. sd. rare, 3s 6d 253 BROUSSAIS, de l'Irritation et de la Folie, 8vo. 590 pp. sd. 28 6d 254 (Paris), 1760 1828 de l'Irritation et de la Folie, ou les Rapports du Physique et du Moral établis sur les bases de la Medicine Physiologique, 2 vols. 8vo. 1182 pp. sd. 3s 6d 16s Paris, 1839 Rouen, 1635 255 BRUSCAMBILLE (Euvres, contenans ses Fantasies, Imaginations, et Paradoxes, et autres discours Comique, 18mo. calf gilt, rare, 24's "There are not three Bruscambilles in Christendom (said the stallman) except what are chained up in the libraries of the curious.”—Tristram Shandy. 256 BUSSY-RABUTIN, Histoire amoureuse des Gaules, suivie de la France_galante, romans satiriques du 17e siècle, avec des notes et une introduction par Poitevin, 2 vols. 12mo. cloth, 5s Paris, 1857 257 Mémoires et Correspondance, 1666-93, 6 vols. 12mo. sd. 9s Par. 1857-8 258 BUTLER, Hudibras, poëme écrit pendant les guerres civiles d'Angleterre, traduit en vers français par TOWNELEY, 3 vols. 12mo. with plates after Hogarth, cloth, Paris, 1819 the same, 3 vols. hf. calf neat, rare, 20s 1819 The English original and French translation on opposite pages. 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