Volume 3

The bibliographer's manual of English literature : containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing; with bibliographical and critical notices, collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold / by William Thomas Lowndes.

  • Lowndes, William Thomas, 1798?-1843.
Date:
1871
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Credit: The bibliographer's manual of English literature : containing an account of rare, curious, and useful books, published in or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the invention of printing; with bibliographical and critical notices, collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold / by William Thomas Lowndes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    O’CoNOR, Charles. Disserta- tions on the History of Ireland. Dublin, 1766, 8vo. An elegant and valuable work. Garrick, 1698, 7s. Gosset, 3780, 9s. 6d. Boswell, 2082, 15s. Towneley, pt. ii. 895, 19s.— Dublin, 1753, 8vo. a, b, c, B—R r, in fours. At page 43 a folding leaf of ‘ The Scotish Feadha or Letters,’ at p. 171 a map of ‘ Scotia antiqua,’ or Ireland. Lloyd, 400, 5s.—new title only.—Dublin, 1812, 8vo. Ac Aosount of the Nature and Con- diticns of a Charter to be granted for the working and manufacturing Mines and Minerals in Ireland. 1754. See O’FLAnEKTY, R. — Charles, D.D., Member of the Academy of Cortona. Me- moirs of the Life and Writings of the late Charles O’Conor, of Belanagare, Esq. M.R.I.A. Yol. I, (aU printed.) Dublin, 1796, 8vo. portrait. This biographical and genealogical work is of great rarity, a few copies only hav- ing been printed for circulation amongst the friends of the author. By some it is said to have been suppressed. Sir M. M. Sykes, pt. ii. 568, morocco, 14Z. resold Heber, pt. iv. 6^, No second volume ap- peared. Columbanus ad Hibernos, or, seven Let- ters on the present Mode of appointing Catholic Bishops in Ireland, &c. Buck- ingham, 1810-16,8vo. IZ. 11s. 6d. 'A sin- gular work, abounds with information.’— C. Butler. Answered by Dr. F. Plowden. Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores. 1814- 25-26, 4to. 4 vols. See Ireland. A Narrative of the most interesting Events in modern Irish History. 1812, 8vo. 7s. Appeal to the Pope. Lend. 1822, 8vo. Bibliotheca MS. Stowensis: a descrip- tive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Stowe Library, by the Rev. Charles O’Co- nor, D.D. Buck. 1818-9, 2 vols. and an Appendix, 4to. Eytou, in 1848, russia, 15Z, 15s. Of this elaborate and valuable catalogue 200 copies were printed at the expense of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. [The MSS. are now in the pos- session of the Earl of Ashburnham, who purchased them in 1849 for 8000Z. after they had been catalogued for public sale by Messi's. Sotheby and Wilkinson. Ilis Lordship, at the same time, obtained nearly the whole impression of the auc- tion catalogue, of which some copies were on large paper, sm. 4to.] — E. A Gri'ammar of the Graelic Language. By E. O’C. Dublin, 1818, 12mo. 4s. — et Daly. La vie e le mar- tyre du Eev. P. Erere Corneille O’Conor et du Erere Eugene Dalii, Beligieux de I’ordre de Saincte Txi- nite et redemption des captifs au pays d’Hybernie, par F. J. de Yi- lette. Paris, 1645, 8vo. Sotheby (Bp. Daly). June 25, 1858, 5Z. 7s. 6d. OcTAVTAN. Here begynneth Octavyan the Emperoure of Rome. Lend, (probably by Copland), 4to. with a wood-cut on the title. Heber, pt. iv. imperfect at the end, 2Z. 11s. OcTAViAN, Emperor of Rome, a Romance. Oxford, 1809, post 8vo. Fifty copies of this elegant translated abridgment, from a French MS. in the Bodleian Library, were printed for pri- vate distribution by the Rev. J. J. Cony- beare. Bindley, pt. iii. 268, 15s. Inglis, 1070, IZ. Boswell, 2472, IZ. 4s. Bishop Randolph, 931, 2Z. 2s. Bright, 9s.. Another version, from MSS. at Lincoln and Cambridge. See Percy Society, Ap- pendix. Octauian Imperator. An ancient En- glish metrical romance printed in the third volume of Weber’s Collection. It is re- markable for the singularity of its stanza, and its giving a curious specimen of the Hampshire dialect, nearly as it is now spoken. October Club. History of the Loud. 1711, 8vo. O’Daly, Dom. de Rosario. Initi- um, Incrementa et Exitus Familise Geraldiuorum Desmonise Comitum, Palatinorum Kyerrise inHibernia,ac Persecutionis Hsereticorum descrip- tio, ex nonnuUis Fragmentis col- lecta, ac Latinitate donata. IJlyssip. 1655, 8vo. Collation. Pp. 1-403; title and prefatory matter, 41 leaves; index, &c. 9 leaves. Bindley, pt. ii. 2186, 21Z. resold Heber, pt. iv. i2Z. Sotheby (Bp. Daly), June 25, 1658, 15/. Oddities.—Book of Oddities, or wonderful Story-teUer, by Jacky Strange. Lend. Cooke, n. d. 12mo. Nassau, pt. i. 285,12s. 5 R 2