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An Irish-AMERICAN'S Service & Claims

United States. Congress. House. Committee of Claims. Report of the Committee of Claims to whom was referred, on the twenty-second ultimo, the petition of Oliver Pollock, of the state of Pennsylvania. January 23, 1807. Read, and referred to a committee of the whole House, on Monday next. City of Washington: A. & G. Way, printers, 1807. 8vo. 30 pp.
$25.00

• Shaw & Shoemaker 14058. Removed from a nonce volume. Librarian's lightly pencilled notation on title-page. Stray brown spots. Very good. (18017)

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Anti-British & Early AmericanCatholicum

Walsh, Robert, Jr. An appeal from the judgments of Great Britain respecting the United States of America. Part first, containing an historical outline of their merits and wrongs as colonies; and strictures upon the calumnies of the British writers. Philadelphia: Pub. by Mitchell, Ames, and White; W. Brown, Pr., 1819. 8vo. lvi, 512 pp.; errata slip.
$225.00

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Of particular note is the lengthy section on the American slave trade, Walsh justifying it against fierce British attacks and describing the state of the institution as he saw it, at the time.

Provenance: Released as a duplicate from the greatest collection of American Catholica in the world, the Georgetown University Library, with a few of the requisite and expected stamps; Walsh, a leading literary critic and editor of the American Quarterly, was an early and distinguished Catholic-American literateur.

• Parsons 631; Shaw & Shoemaker 50024; Sabin 101158; Howes W67. On Walsh, see: The Dictionary of American Biography, XIX, 391–92. Recent quarter natural linen shelfback with blue-green paper sides in the style of the era. Library markings noted above. A very good copy. (24005)

Rights Granted, Taken Away, & Granted Again

Waterford (Ireland). The great charter of the liberties of the city of Waterford, with explanatory notes. To which is added a list of the mayors, bailiffs, & sheriffs of the city of Waterford, from the year 1377, to the year 1803, inclusive. Kilkenny: J. Reynolds, 1806 [but 1831?]. 8vo (23.8 cm, 9.4"). 110, [

14 (1 blank)] pp.
$1750.00

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held by only one institution outside of Ireland

NUC Pre-1956

• NSTC C4545. Period-style calf, framed and panelled in gilt rolls, panels with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather label and gilt-stamped shamrock devices in compartments. Title-page mounted; one leaf with paper flaw with absence of a few letters, one lower outer corner torn away. Pages with edges untrimmed, last few chipped, some slightly dust-darkened; previous sewing holes visible. Manuscript notes extending the roster of sheriffs added to the bottom of two pages.

BEFORE His Falling-Out withthe Wesleys — Travels in Georgia

Whitefield, George. A journal of a voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia. In two parts. Part I. From London to Gibraltar. Part II. From Gibraltar to Savannah. [bound with the same author's] A continuation of the Reverend Mr. Whitefield's journal from his arrival at Savannah, to his return to London. London: Pr. for James Hutton, 1739. 8vo. [2] ff., 38 pp., [1] f.London: Pr. for James Hutton, 1739. 8vo. 55, [1 (blank)] pp.
$2000.00

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Continuation

time spent in Ireland

Fifth edition of the Voyage from London and second edition of the Continuation.

• Voyage from London: Sabin 103534; Alden & Landis 739/343; ESTC T29204. Continuation: Sabin 103535 & 103538; Alden & Landis 739/340; ESTC T34033 & T34025. Recent full calf antique-style with gilt concentric panels on covers and gilt corner-devices on same; round spine with raised bands, each accented by gilt rules. 19th-century wood-engraved portrait of Whitefield added as a frontispiece. A very pleasing volume. (21775)

Hatred & “Horace”

[Wolcot, John]. A poetical epistle to a falling minister; also, an imitation of the twelfth ode of Horace. By Peter Pindar.

Dublin: P. Byrne, 1789. 8vo (20.7 cm, 8.1"). [2], 22 pp.
$200.00

• ESTC T121646; NCBEL, II, 695. Removed from a nonce volume and now in a Mylar folder. One corner creased; first and last page lightly spotted, otherwise clean.

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Killarney Tour for a Reader

Wright, G[eorge] N[ewenham]. A guide to the lakes of Killarney. London: Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy (pr. by T.C. Hansard), 1822. 12mo (17.5 cm, 6.9"). viii, 97, [3] pp.; 1 plt. (of 6).
$150.00

• NSTC 2W33589. Recent plain paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Frontispiece, title-page, and several other pages stamped by a now-defunct institution. Lacking all but one plate (the frontispiece). Page edges untrimmed.

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