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KIRBY ( John ). The Suffolk Traveller : or, a journey through Suffolk. In which is inserted the true

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KIRBY ( John ). The Suffolk Traveller : or, a journey through Suffolk. In which is inserted the true

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
KIRBY ( John ). The Suffolk Traveller : or, a journey through Suffolk. In which is inserted the true distance in the roads, from Ipswich to every market town in Suffolk, and the same from Bury St. Edmund’s. Likewise the distance in the roads from one village to another; with notes of direction for travellers, as what churches and gentlemen’s seats are passed by, and on which side of the road, and the distance they are at from either of the said towns. With a short Hhstorical account of the antiquities of every market town, monasteries, castles, &c. that were in former times. By John Kirby, who took an actual survey of the whole county in the years 1732, 1733 and 1734. Ipswich : Printed by John Bagnall, 1735FIRST EDITION, pp (4), 206 and errata leaf, small 8vo, contemporary (?original) unlettered sheep-backed marbled boards, binding worn, rubbed and upper board loose, inscribed on fly-leaf "Henry Hill / 1736 / Buxhall", whose has also signed and added three names to the table of patrons for Buxhall parish church "Dr. Thos. Hill 1710 / his G.Dr [grandaughter] Miss Lydia Hill 1748 / Dr. Henry Hill 1759", adding his signature twice and with the later signature of W. Gooch on the title-page. Kirby (c.1690–1753), surveyor and topographer. By 1725 he was practising land surveying and during the next twenty years he drew up plans of estates in more than twenty east Suffolk parishes. In 1732 he set out with Nathaniel Bacon junior to survey the whole county for a small octavo gazetteer and road book entitled The Suffolk Traveller, which was published in Ipswich in 1735 (ODNB). Later editions were greatly expanded.<ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) BACULARD D'ARNAUD ( Francois T. M. de ). Elvire poeme par Monsieur d'Arnaud. Amsterdam, chez Pierre Mortier (at end : Imprime a Leipzic, chez Jean Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf), 1753. FIRST EDITION(?), pp 86, (2, blank), 12mo, contemporary calf, contemporary signature of John Salmond : the binding heavily worn, upper board almost loose, internally a very good. Not in COPAC. WorldCat, this edition only, locates three copies : Paris, Rostock and Halle. Arnaud (1718-1805), prolific French author of plays and fiction, whose greatest success was a collection of 24 novellas, Les Épreuves du sentiment (1772-80). His blend of romantic melancholy, Gothic horror, and improving sentiment was very popular in the years preceding the Revolution. He first came to Voltaire’s attention through his verse.(2) STEPHEN ( George A. ). Norfolk Bibliography. The local authors, printing, paper-making, rare books, libraries, and practical bibliography of Norfolk. Holt, Norfolk Press Syndicate, 1921. FIRST EDITION, 53-pp, small 8vo, original stiff printed wrappers : very good-nice copy.(3) RINGWALT ( J. Luther ). Marks and Maniacs. Being, in fact, excerpts from the American Encyclopedia of Printing, edited at Philadelphia in 1871. Grosse Pointe, Junto private press, 1961. Pages (8), 21, (1), small 8vo, original cloth, gilt : a nice copy.One of 75 numbered copies. The first book from this press.(4)ENGLISH PRE 1801; IPSWICH PRINTED; ENGLAND; topography; SUFFOLK; AMSTERDAM PRINTED; FRENCH LITERATURE; VERSE; LEIPZIG PRINTED; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NORFOLK; LIMITED EDITIONS