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[EMERSON ( John Swift )]

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[EMERSON ( John Swift )]

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
[EMERSON ( John Swift )]. One Year in the Administration of His Excellency the Marquess of Wellesley in Ireland. Printed for J. Hatchard and Son … and Neary Mahon, Dublin. 1823FIRST EDITION, pages 137, (1, blank), 8vo, recent paper wrapper : a very good to nice copy, inscribed on the title-page in a contemporary hand "From the Author". Some four editions were published within the year. Black 3367 notes the second edition only.ALSO WITH THS LOT : (1) WALSH ( Wm. J. ), Archbp. Mr. George Wyndham's Treatment of Irish Statistics [on the Irish land question]. No printer, publisher, place or date, circa 1888. Drop-title, 14-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper : light spotting but a very good copy. Inscribed "With the / Archbishop's / Compliments". Evidently an author's off-print of an article in the Contemporary Review. Not traced in COPAC, WorldCat or on-line in D or Dt.(2) MILES ( Wm. A. ). A letter to the Earl of Wycombe, &c.&c. from Mr. Miles, on the present state of Ireland. Printed for R. Faulder, and Vernor and Hood, 1804. FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 86, without half-title, 8vo, recent wrapper : a very good copy. Catholic emancipation, jewish disabilities, abuse of paper money, etc. Miles (1753?-1817), political writer, travelled in America, served under Rodney in the West Indies, was in Newfoundland in 1779 and in 1781 was a prisoner of war in St Lucia. He was also the author of two comic operas.(3) MacCOMBIE ( Wm. ). A letter to … William Ewart Gladstone … 1869. Black 8649, noting the NLI copy only. McCombie (1809–70), farmer and journalist. His final publication was a pamphlet entitled The Irish land question practically considered : a letter to … Gladstone (with whom he had corresponded during the 1860s). In order to prepare himself for constructive comment on the Irish land issue he toured Ireland in the autumn of 1868. In the pamphlet he argued that Irish nationalism was ‘exotic’ and was only sustained by the continuing injustices of the land system and the church. If these two issues were dealt with then, in his view, it would ‘speedily die’. He was critical of both tenants and landowners, the former for their lack of initiative and exertion and the latter for their selfishness and ‘utter disregard for the public interest'. Nevertheless, he felt that ‘were the resources and capabilities of the soil properly developed it might maintain in comfort as large a population as that before the famine’. This pamphlet was perhaps his most accessible and most practical piece of work; his other writings were, like much of his journalism, rather abstract and even metaphysical (ODNB).(4) PALMERSTON ( Henry J. T. ), viscount : - Monteith ( Robert J. I. ). against Lord Palmerston, in the Dublin Unversity Magazine. 1841. This scarce pamphlet is in reply to an article in the January 1841 issue of the Dublin University Magazine, entitled "Is Lord Palmerston a Traitor?" In that article, the author of this attack on British policy towards Turkey and Russia, is described as being "connected with the Urquhart clique". This riposte warmly supports David Urquhart's pro-Turkish, anti-Russian stance, in opposition to the prevailing government policy of the day.(5) IRELAND. Suggestions on the Irish question. By a resident agriculturist. Wyman & Sons, 1880. FIRST (ONLY) EDITION, pages (2), 32, 8vo, recent wrapper : a very good to nice copy. Not in Black. On land tenure, agricultural improvement, etc.(5)HISTORY; IRELAND; ECONOMICS; LAND; CATHOLIC CLAIMS; AGRICULTURE; LAND TENURE; ; ; ; ;