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GREY ( H

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GREY ( H

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+01:00 : BST/CET)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
GREY ( H. and J. ). Practical Arithmetic ; or, concise calculator, adapted to the commerce of Great Britain and Ireland. By Messrs. Grey. Tenth edition, enlarged and improved … Dublin : Printed for the Author, by C. Crookes, 85 Capel-St., 183060-pages, 12mo, contemporary calf, gilt, old, unlettered rebacking in calf, wanting the blank flyleaves, but otherwise a very good copy. A successful work which ran to some fourteen editions including at least one London one. This tenth edition is represented in COPAC by the Dt copy only and in WorldCat by two copies in the USA. It is not on-line in D. The final three pages comprise a subscriber list, mostly Irish and mostly Dublin - Guinness, La Touche, Crampton, Hammond & Co., etc.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) SAMPSON ( Wm. ) : -. Memoirs of William Sampson, an Irish exile ; written by himself. Including particulars of his adventures in various parts of Europe, his confinement in the dungeons of the Inquisition, &c. &c. To which is added, a brief historical sketch of the British connexion with Ireland, and some obervations on the present condition of America. Reprinted from the second American edition. With an introduction, detailing the causes of the Irish insurrection of 1798, and notes, by the author of the History of the Civil Wars of Ireland. Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot 1832. With a portrait, pages xxxii, 292, large 12mo, original cloth, uncut, with printed paper spine label : the label rubbed and worn but otherwise an attractive copy in original state. Sampson (1764-1836), United Irishman, lawyer, political activist, born in Derry city. Although arrested in 1798 he was never brought to trial but was exiled to Portugal in 1799 and, after various wanderings on the continent, was re-arrested in England and exiled again to America in 1806. He was quickly admitted to the New York Bar and soon became prominent in that city's legal and political circles. Originally published in New York in 1807, this first English edition is based on the text of the second American edition (1817) and has an introduction by the Youghal born author and economist William Cooke Taylor. (2) HAUGHTON ( James ). A Plea for Teetotalism, and the Maine Liquor Law. London : William Tweedie (R. D. Webb, printer, Dublin), 1855. FIRST EDITION, pages (6), 230, 12mo, original cloth : wanting end flyleaves and the preliminary leaves a little used, a good, sound copy. Not found on-line in D, Dt or Dp. COPAC locates 4 copies. Haughton (1795-1873), social reformer and temperance activist. For many years he gave most of his time and energies to promoting total abstinence and to advocating legislative restrictions on the sale of intoxicating drinks and was one of the earliest and most devoted disciples of the leading Irish temperance reformer, Father Mathew (1790–1856). He was also one of the first members of the Statistical Society of Dublin (1847), a founder of the Dublin Mechanics' Institute (1849), and a member of the committee of the Dublin Peace Society. He aided in abolishing Donnybrook fair (1855), which had long been a target of temperance reformers owing to the alleged high incidence of drunkenness at the popular Dublin event, and took a chief part in 1861 in opening the botanic gardens at Glasnevin on Sundays (ODNB).(3)SCIENCE; MATHEMATICS; ARITHMETIC; DUBLIN PRINTED; HISTORY; IRELAND; AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA; ; EUROPE; 1798 REBELLION; TEMPERANCE