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18 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 129. Scarce Canadian Travel Magrath (T.W.) Authentic Letters from Upper Canada, with An Account of Canadian Field Sports;.. Edited by The Rev. T. Radcliff. 8vo Dublin 1833. Illustrations by Samuel Love Esq. Hf. title, frontis & 1 plt. uncut, orig. cloth. V. good. V. Scarce. (1) €220 - €350 131. Bennett (Geo.) The History of Bandon, 8vo Cork (Henry & Coghlan) 1862. First Edn., some m/ss notes & comments, orig. blue cloth, gilt V. good copy; Giles (Henry) Lectures and essays on Irish & other Subjects, 8vo N. York 1869. First Edn., port. frontis. cloth; Boyle (Rev. F.) Poems of Father Abram Ryan, D. n.d. d.w.; O’Connor (GB.) Elizabethan Ireland - Native and English, D. n.d.,; & others, poetry etc. (8) €150 - €200 132. In fine Binding - Cork Industrial Exhibition, 1833, Report of Executive Committee, Awards of Jurors and Statement of Accounts. 8vo Cork (Purcell & Co.) 1886. First Edn., [IV], 446, [VIII] pp. orig. cloth. With fine profusely gilt decor. front cover. Good. (1) €180 - €260 133. Webster (Wm.) Essays on Book-Keeping, .. A large Appendix .. by a Teacher of Book-Keeping. Sm. 8vo Glasgow (For John Orr) 1758. Red. & bl. title, fine orig. calf, tooled gilt spine in panels, mor. label; also Hayes (Richard) The Gentleman’s Complete Book-Keeper; 8vo Lond. (For J. Noon..) 1741, cont. calf, gilt fillet borders & raised bands. Scarce. (2) €200 - €300 129 132 130. Major Work on Political Economy Cantillon (Richard) Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général, Traduit de l'Anglois , Sm. 8vo London (Fletcher Gyles) 1756. Second Edn., wd. cut device on title, & wd. cut head, cont. mottled French calf, raised bands, 6 tooled gilt panels & orig. mor. label. An extremely fine copy. V. Rare. (1) * One of Cantillon's greatest contributions in the Essai (1755) was his conceptualisation of the role of the entrepreneur. He wrote that 'the entrepreneur buys at a known price to sell at an unknown price' - a one line sentence that is still difficult to surpass. €3000 - €4000 133