21. [Newton, Sir Isaac] Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] / Leibniz / Baker, David Erskine / [Berkeley, George].

The Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton : Or, A Comparison between the Opinions of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Leibnitz [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]. By M. De Voltaire. Translated from the French by David Erskine Baker / [Bound together with a First Edition of George Berkeley’s Miscellaneous Tracts which also include “De Motu ; sive de motus principio & natura, & de causa communicationis motuum” in which Berkeley rejected Sir Isaac Newton’s absolute Space, Time and Motion. (″With this essay, Berkeley is considered to be the “precursor of Mach and Einstein” – Karl Popper)].

First English Edition. London, Printed for R.Dodsley, 1747. Octavo. 72 pages. Modern cloth. The bookblock with signs of stitching to the inner margin (possibly used to be part of a Sammelband). Last three leaves with paper-restoration and manuscript inscription to last page (looks like a 18th century gift-inscription). With numerous manuscript – annotations in the tracts of George Berkeley, namely in “A Word to the Wise”, “Farther Thoughts on Tar-Water”, “The Querist”. From the library of Daniel Conner, Manch House, County Cork.

22. [Noël-Antoine Pluche] / [Humphreys, Samuel].

Spectacle de la Nature : Or, Nature Display’d. Being Discourses On such Particulars of Natural History As were thought most proper To Excite the Curiosity, and Form of the Minds of Youth. [With Chapters on The Cultivation and Manner of Pruning Fruit – Trees / The Plantation of Orange – Trees / The Plantation of Fig – Trees / The Plantation of Olive – Trees etc.] / [Including: “A Plate showing Elevation and Sections of a Mill on Boats”, which is basically illustrating the Invention of a Paddle Wheel Boat] / [Including: “A Memoir on the Fabric of Glasses at Saint Gobin”]. Illustrated with [204] Copper Plates. Uniformly bound set of Seven Volumes (complete set in three different editions: Third Edition / Fourth Edition, revised and Corrected / Sixth Edition).

London, Printed for R.Francklin etc., 1743. Small Octavo. Volume I: (in Sixth Edition, 1744): Frontispiece, [3], XVIII, 323 pages plus 13 pages of an Index / Volume II: (in Sixth Edition, 1743): Frontispiece, VIII, [4], 312 pages including Index / Volume III: (in Sixth Edition, 1743): Frontispiece, XVIII, 366 pages including Index / Volume IV: (In Fourth Edition,1743) Frontispiece, 368 pages including Index / Volume V: (In Fourth Edition, 1763): Frontispiece, [2], 329 pages / Volume VI: (In Third Edition, 1763): Frontispiece, [3], XXXII, 308 pages / Volume VII: (In Fourth Edition, 1763): Frontispiece, [4], 323, [1] pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Extremely beautiful publication with an abundance of illustrations of Insects and Butterflies, Maps, etc. The 204 Plates overall in excellent condition with only very few of them with some tears. Interior and plates really bright and clean ! An exceptional version of this work.

23. [O’Connell, Daniel / Grattan Prosecution] Anonymous.

The Law Recorder [Defaced with satirical alteration of the Frontispiece]: Containing Reports of Cases and Proceedings in the Courts of Law and Equity, &c. &c. &c. at Dublin and elsewhere, from Michaelmas Term, 1827 to Trinity Term, 1828, (both inclusive) with Essays, Communications &c. &c. on Legal Subjects.

Original First Edition. Volume I only. Dublin, Printed for the Proprietor, 1828. Large Quarto. Engraved portrait-frontispiece of Sir Anthony Hart, Knight, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland [with a few caricatural corrections in contemporary ink (see image)], XXIV, 586 pages. Hardcover / Original half leather of the early 19th century with original spinelabel. Slightly dusty and and the binding a little stronger rubbed. Interior still very good with some browning to corners of the bookblock and some occasional foxing. Very rare, original edition with several appearances of Daniel O’Connell as defender and speaker !

24. [O’Connor, Arthur / United Irishmen] Hayter-Hames, Jane.

Arthur O’Connor, United Irishman.

Cork, Collins Press, 2001. 24 cm. xi, 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

25. [Daniel Conner Library (Manch House)] – [Ossian] McPherson, James.

The Poems of Ossian, Translated by James MacPherson, Esq. With The Translator’s Dissertations on the Era and Poems of Ossian ; Dr.Blair’s Critical Dissertation; And An Inquiry into the Genuineness of These Poems, Written Expressly for this Edition, by the Rev. Alex[ander] Stewart.

Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, High-Street, no year [c.1820]. Duodecimo. Frontispice and engraved Titlepage, VIII, 590, 2 pages. Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Binding slightly shaky but still holding. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his name in ink to endpaper.

26. [Oxford University].

Parecbolae Sive Excerpta E Corpore Statutorum Universitatis Oxoniensis. [With an Appendix on the Statutes of the Bodleian Library: “Statuta Bibliotheca Bodleiana [1610]” / Includes also in english at the rear: Oath of Allegiance / Oath of Supremacy / Oath at the Matriculation of a Scholar / Oath at the Matriculation of a Privileged Person]. Accedunt Articuli Religionis XXXIX In Ecclesia Anglicana Recepti: Nec Non Juramenta Fidelitatis et Suprematus. In Usum Juventutis Academicae.

Oxford, E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1808. Small – Octavo. [13], 267, [1] pages. Hardcover / Original full calf. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate falsely applied upside down to rear pastedown.

27. [Selden, John] / Bacon, Nathaniel.

An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England – From the First Times to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. [With a special chapter, prefixed to the second part of the publication: “A Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments in England”]. With a Vindication of the Antient Way of Parliaments in England. Collected from some Manuscript Notes of John Selden, Esq. The Fifth Edition: Corrected and Improved by a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple.

Two Parts in One Volume (complete). London, Printed for D.Browne and A.Millar, in the Strand, 1760. Large – Quarto (24,5 cm x 29,5 cm). Part One: XIX, (1), 203 pages / Part Two: XII, 178, (plus 8 unnumbered pages Index). Hardcover / Stunning, recent masterbinding with quarter – leather over buckram-covered-boards; original spine-label applied. Excellent condition with text being especially clean and in wonderful condition. Rare and important publication on british law and parliamentary history. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

28. [Provenance: Manch House – Daniel Conner & Henry Langfield Conner Library] – [Spenser, Edmund / Campion, Edmund / Hanmer, Meredith / Marlborough, Henry of].

Ancient Irish Histories – The Works of Spencer, Campion, Hanmer and Marleburrovgh [sic] – In Two Volumes. Volume I: Containing Spencer’s View of the State of Ireland and Campion’s Historie of Ireland / Volume II: Containing Doctor Meredith Hanmer’s and Henry Marlebvrrough’s ‘Chronicles of Ireland’.

First Hibernia Press Edition in the year 1809 of the original 1633-Edition. Two Volumes [complete set]. Dublin, Printed by the Society of Stationers / Reprinted at the Hibernia Press, for the Proprietors, by John Morrison, 1809. Large Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: [2], 22, [4] pages, including the rare, engraved dedication-leaf with allegorical vignette for the “Dublin Society” [showing the Irish Harp etc.], [10], 266, [8], 204 pages plus one errata-leaf / Volume II: [4], 410, [II], 32 pages. Hardcover / Original, 19th century publisher’s binding. Now professionally restored by a professional bookbinder. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Binding with some staining. Deckled edges. Name of pre-owner, H.L.Conner. to both title-pages.

29. [Steele, Richard] Bickerstaff, Isaac.

The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. [With four engravings by F.Haymandel / C.Grignion].

Four Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson, J.Buckland, H. Woodfall, etc., 1764. Small Octavo (11 cm x 17 cm). Frontispiece, [2], 300, [14], Frontispiece, [3], 336, [13], Frontispiece, [5], 318, [16], Frontispiece, [7], 320, [12] pages. Hardcover / Oiginal 18th century full leather with original spinelabels and gilt lettering on spine. All four Volumes complete and in protective Mylar. Housed in a wonderful, bespoke Solander-Box. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown of each Volume.

30. [Thucydides] Bauer, Carl Ludwig.

Thucydides – De Bello Peloponnesiaco Libri Octo Cum Versione Latina Et Variis Lectionibus Ex Editione Caroli Ludovici Baueri Accurate Expressi.

Bilingual Edition (Greek-Latin). Three Volumes [complete set]. Oxford, J.Parker, 1811. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I:XXIV, 440 pages / Volume II: 418 pages / Volume III: 266 pages plus 60 unnumbered pages of Index Rerum and Index Verborum. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Occasional annotations and textmarkings. Bindings rubbed and a little dusty but very firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.Hinges all attached with only the front boards of Volume I and II slightly starting. Besides a few dogears a nd minor signs of only occasional foxing in very good + condition. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. This is a rare version of this text !

31. [Thucydides] Smith, William.

The History of the Peloponnesian War, Translated from the Greek of Thucydides. To which are Annexed Three Preliminary Discourses: I. On the Life of Thucydides / II. On his Qualifications as an Historian / III. A Survey of the History. By William Smith, Rector of the Parish of the Holy Trinity in Chester and Chaplain to the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Derby.

A New Edition. Two Volumes with Two Maps [complete set]. London, Printed for J.Walker, 1812. Octavo. Pagination: Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait of William Smith, Dean of Chester, XXIV, LXXI, Large Fold-Out-Map, 427 pages / Volume II: [2], Large Fold-Out Map, 398 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering on spine. Bindings rubbed and a little dusty but very firm and overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate loosely inserted to the pastedown.

32. [Williams, E.].

An Introduction to the Latin Tongue, for the Use of Youth.

A New Edition, carefully revised and improved. Eton / London, Printed nand Sold by E.Williams, Successor to Mr.Pote / Sold also at the Eton Warehouse, London, 1816. Small-Octavo (10,5 cm x 17,5 cm). 190 pages plus two pages of “School Books printed by E.Williams, Successor to Mr.Pote, at Eton”. Hardcover / Original, private, early 19th century leather in protective Mylar. Leather with some defects. Overall in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown and several examples of Daniel Conner’s signatures and locations of study in pencil on endpapers and pastedown. With Daniel Conner’s rare library – stamp verso title-page (see image).

33. [Wykeham, William] Lowth, Robert.

The Life of William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester. Collected from Records, Registers, Manuscripts, and other Authentic Evidences: By Robert Lowth, D.D. Prebendary of Durham, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty.

The Secon Edition, corrected. London, Printed for A.Millar, in the Strand; an R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1759. Octavo. Frontispiece, Engraved Title-page, XXXIV, 357, LIV pages plus Large, fold-out Genealogical Plate “Tabula Genealogica exhibens cognatos & affines William de Wykeham…”. Including an additional, full-page, detailed engraving of William of Wykeham’s pastoral staff (crosier). Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering on spine. Very good and firm condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

34. Addison, Joseph / Steele, Richard ] [Pope, Alexander etc.].

The Spectator. [Authors of this 1798-edition in Eight Volumes include Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell, Thomas Tickell, John Hughes, Dr.Thomas Parnell, Alexander Pope, Laurence Eusden, Richard Ince, Henry Martin, John Byrom, Gilbert Budgell, Rev. Richard Parker, Henry Grove, Henley and others / Of the remaining contributors to this work, we may remark that their papers are either so few or so littlea ccount can be given of them with certainty, that we shall rest satisfied with annexing their names to the pieces that are respectively ascribed to them. The most noted, however, of these are, Dr.Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, who furnished Nos. 572 and 623; and the Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, who wrote the Letter on Travelling, No.264].

Eight Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for C.Bathurst, C.Nourse, T.Carnan, F.Newbery, W.Johnstone, P.Valliant, T.Davies, and R.Tonson, 1798. Small Octavo (11 cm wide x 17.8 cm high). Volume I: XVI, [2], 327 pages / Volume II: 338 pages / Volume III: 311 pages / Volume IV: 292 pages / Volume V: 294 pages / Volume VI: 307 pages / Volume VII: 328 pages / Volume VIII: 286 pages. Hardcover / Original, full 18th century leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spine. Endpaper of Volume I missing. The bindings a little rubbed and bumped to upper spine. Rare in this original binding. Very good and especially firm condition of all Volumes.

35. Anonymous [Barrow, John].

A family tour through South Holland; Up the Rhine; And Across the Netherlands, to Ostend.

[London], [Murray], [1831]. Duodecimo. Frontispiece, VIII, 295 pages. With 10 original steel-engravings and with the little fold-out map: “Route of a Tour in South Holland, up the Rhine and through Belgium”. Hardcover / Original half leather with gilt lettering on spine. Good condition in firm binding. Previous owner has cut out the lower part of the frontispiece (image not effected) and also cut out the printer and publishing information on the titlepage. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with the name of a relative (H.L.Conner) to endpaper.

36. Anonymous / [Synge, Mary / Carr, Dr.D.W. and others] .

Mercy and Truth – A record of C.M.S. Medical Missions – Volume IV. [for the year 1900 – with essays on: Women Patients Rich and Poor – by Mary Synge about a fishing Village called Sang Sua / A Week in the Kyber (Khyber Pass visit by three workers of the C.M.S. during their time at Peshawar / The Opening of the New Mengo Hospital – by Mrs. Albert Cook (with images) / Medical Staff at Hang-chow (Dr. Kember, Dr. Main, Dr. Tsang), Some Men and Women in Hakodate (North Japan) / A Day of Medical Work in a Persian Town (by Henry White) / In Touch with the sick in Oyo (Yoruba) – with support from the Royal irish Constabulary / Moslem Fatalism (by L. Cropper in April 1899) / Photograph of a Temporary Hospital in Onitsha, West Africa / An Acquaintance with sickness in Central Africa [with a diagram that shows how many and what kind of operations were done (Teeth Extractions, Gynaecological Cases etc.) and how the natives paid for the treatment with Shells !!] / Dr. L.G. Hill of Pakhol – Overcoming Obstacles in China / Photograph of “Serai at Lundi Kotal – C.M.S. Dispensary in the Corner / etc. etc.

London, Church Missionary Society, 1900. Slim Quarto. 300 pages with numerous photographs and Index. Hardcover, light blue publisher’s cloth with red lettering to spine and cover. Binding a little stained and rubbed. Otherwise in excellent condition ! Rare !! Name of Patience Conner on title.

37. Bielfeld, Baron [Jakob Friedrich von] / W[illiam] Hooper.

The Elements of Universal Erudition – Containing An Analytical Abridgment of the Sciences, Polite Arts, and Belles Lettres. Translated from the last Edition printed at Berlin by W[illiam] Hooper. [With the printed Dedication “To His Royal Highness, George, Prince of Wales”].

Three Volumes (complete set). London, Printed by G.Scott for J.Robson Bookseller in New-Bond Street and B. Law in Ave-Mary Lane, 1770. Octavo. Volume I: XV, 445 pages / Volume II: II, 433 pages plus two pages of an advertising of Books printed for J.Robson plus a large Fold-out- Illustration of musical scores / Volume III: II, 444 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full-leather with original spine-labels and gilt elemnts on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

38. Birch, Thomas.

An Inquiry into the Share which King Charles I had in the transactions of the Earl of Glamorgan, afterwards Marquis of Worcester, for bringing over a Body of Irish Rebels to assist that King, in the Years 1645 and 1646. In which Mr.Carte’s imperfect Account of that Affair, and his Use of the MS. Memoirs of the Pope’s Nuncio Rinuccini, are impartially considered. The whole drawn up from the Best Authorities, Printed and Manuscript. The Second Edition; to which is added an Appendix, containing several Letters of the King to the Earl of Glamorgan, from the Originals in the Harleian Library of Manuscripts.

London, A.Millar, 1756. Octavo. VIII, 376 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full calf. Spine starting and professionally reinforced. New spinelabel. In protective Mylar. Two names of previous owners on titlepage in ink: “O’Connor” / “Francis Hutchinson – (Lord Donoughmore)”. Subsequently the book was owned by Daniel Conner, with his bookplate / Exlibris to pastedown.

39. Blackwall, Anthony.

The Sacred Classics Defended and Illustrated: Or, an Essay Humbly offer’d towards proving the Purity, Propriety, and True Eloquence of the Writers of the New Testament. In Two Parts. In the First of which Those Divine Writers are vindicated against the Charge of barbarous Language, false Greek, and Solecisms. In the Second is shewn, That all the Excellencies of Style, and sublime Beauties of Language and genuine Eloquence do abound in the Sacred Writers of the New Testament. With an Account of their Style and Character, and a Representation of their Superiority, in several Instances, to the best Classics of Greece and Rome. To which are subjoin’d proper Indexes. [The Second and Last Volume – In Three Parts. Containing: I. A farther Demonstration of the Propriety, Purity and sound Eloquence of the Language of the New Testament Writers. / II. An Account of the wrong Division of Chapters and Verses, and faulty Translations of the Divine Book, which weaken its Reasonings, and spoil its Eloquence and Native Beauties. / III. A Discourse on the Various Readings of the New Testament. With a Preface, wherein is shewn the Necessity and Usefulness of a New Version of the Sacred Books. By the late Reverend and Learned A.Blackwall, A.M. – AUthor of the First Volume. To which is annex’d a very copious Index.].

The Second Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for C.Rivington, 1727. Octavo. 432, [16], Portrait-Frontispiece of A. Blackwall by G.Vertue, XXXI, 359, [24] pages. Original Hardcover / 18th-century full leather with new spine-labels in the style of th eperiod. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

40. Burn, Robert.

The Works of Robert Burns ; With An Account of his Life, And A Criticism on his Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of The Scottish Peasantry.

The Seventh Edition. Four Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for T.Cadell and W.Davies and W.Creech at Edinburgh, by J.McCreery, Black-Horse-Court, Fleet-Street, 1813. Octavo (14.2 cm wide x 22 cm high). Pagination: Volume I: Portrait-Frontispiece-Portrait of Robert Burns, XII, 395 pages / Volume II: XXIV, 470 pages / Volume III: XII, 422 pages / Volume IV: XXIV, 414 pages. Hardcover / Original, very decorative, full leather with gilt lettering on spine. Beautiful, marbled endpapers and marbled adges. Excellent, unusually firm condition with only minor signs of wear. The bindins, hinges and spine in sturdy condition, very rare for such a set of Burns’ Works, which were always read intensely in the 19th century. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch Hose), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. With an additional manuscript-entry of a pre-owner: “Elizabeth Conner, Nov. 12th, 1827”.