iv NOTICE TO THE TENTH PART. WHITTINGTON, Robert; WIGHT, Robert; WILD, Charles; WITCH WILKINSON, Sir Gardner; WILSON, Alexander; WIT; YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, March 15, 1864. HENRY G. BOHN. 2747 V. V. R.-The True Testimonie of a Faithful Subject. Lond. n. p. or d. 8vo. In prose and verse. V. R.-New Court Songs and Poems. Lond. 1672, 8vo. V. R.-See VEEL, Robert. STEGAN, Richard. VER V. T.-See VINCENT, Thomas. V.V.Bas.-See WHITE, Richard. V. W.-See VALLANS, William. VADE MECUM; a Manuall of Essayes Morall and Theologicall. Lond. 1629, 8vo Heber, pt. ii. 6088, 8s. 6d. VAGABONDS.-The Fraternitye of Vacabondes, with a Description of the crafty Company of Cousoners and Shifters: whereunto also is adioyned the XXV Orders of Knaues, other wise called a Quartern of Knaves. Confirmed for ever by Cocke Lorell. Lond. by John Awdeley, 1575, 4to BLACK LETTER, nine leaves. One of the first books, exhibiting not only the tricks but the language of thieves. 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Kerry, 1812, 1 vol., making together 7 vols., some vols, wanting the general titles, 67. CONTENTS OF THE SIX VOLUMES. VOL. I.-No. 1. Description of the County of Westmeath, written in 1682, by Sir Henry Piers, with large map.-No. 2. Letter from Sir John Davis to the Earl of Salisbury. Abp: Usher's Original and first institution of Corbes, Erenachs, and Termon Lands. Account of two ancient Instruments lately discovered, with plate.- No. 3. On the ancient Irish Laws, or National Customs, called Gavel-kind and Thanistry. Part I. No. 4. the same, Part II., containing the Tanistic Law of Senior-Succession. -Part of the ancient Brehon Laws of Ireland. Two Laws from the Corporation Book of Irish town, Kilkenny. VOL. II. No. 5. Literature of the Irish in Heathenish Times. Translation of a Fragment of the Brehon Laws, or a Glossary of the Brehon Terms. Gavel Law of the ancient Irish explained. Literature of the Irish after the establishment of Christianity. On the first Inhabitants of Ireland. 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Ledwich's Letter to Pownal concerning the Ship-Temple. -No. 12. Vallancey on the Irish Festival La Saman, or Allhallow Eve; on the Gule of August, or Lammas Day; Description of the Banqueting-Hall of Tara, plate; of the Kiss of Salutation, Curses, &c.; Ancient History of Ireland Vindicated; Probability of a Colony of Scytho-Polis in Palestine being brought to Ireland by the Phoenicians; of the Phoenician and Thebaian Dialects of the Irish, &c. &c.; Fragment of Sanchoniathon, in old Chaldee or Phoenician, collated with the Irish, with a literal translation. O'Connor on the Heathen State and antient Topography of Ireland, &c. VOL. IV.-No. 13. Vallancey on the Ancient Implements, &c. of the Irish, plates. No. 14. Vallancey's Vindication of the ancient History of Ireland, containing the Descent of its old Inhabitants from the Phoeno-Scythians of the East; the early skill of the Phono Scythians in Navigation, Arts, and Letters; several Accounte of the ancient Irish Bards. VALLANCEY, Charles-continued. VOL. VI-Pt. 1. — Vallancey's further The parts of Vol. VI. are very scarce, The two following Essays are part of an intended 7th Volume. Essay on the Primitive Inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland. Dublin, 1807, 8vo. Ancients. To which is added a Correc- A Grammar of the Iberno-Celtic or Irish Language, with an Essay on the Celtic Language, shewing the Importance of the Iberno. Dublin, 1773, 4to. 17. 18. Horne Tooke, 748, 27. 12s. 6d. Dent, pt. ii. 1175, 19s. Heber, pt. ii. 9s. 6d. - Second edition, with Additious, Dublin, 1782, 8vo. 10s. 6d. An Essay towards illustrating the ancient History of the Britannic Isles, by C. V. Lond. 1786, 8vo. 2s. 6d. A Vindication of the ancient Kingdom of Ireland. Dublin, 1786, 8vo. with a map and ten plates. (No. 14 of the Collectanea). Heber, pt. vii. 6s. The ancient History of Ireland, proved from the Sanscrit Books of the Bramins of India. Dublin, 1797, 8vo. pp. 30, with title and plate. Privately printed, and distributed among the author's friends. Prospectus of a Dictionary of the Language of the Aire Coti, or Ancient Irish, compared with the Language of the Cuti, or ancient Persians, with the HindostaAccount of the Ancient Stone Amphi- nee, the Arabic and Chaldean Languages: theatre lately discovered in the with a Preface, containing an Epitome of County of Kerry, with Fragments of the ancient History of Ireland, corroboIrish History relating thereto. Dub-rated by late Discoveries in the Puranas lin, 1812, 8vo. of the Brahmins, and by our learned Countrymen in the East; and an Account of the Ogham Tree Alphabet of the Irish, lately found in an ancient Arabic MS. in Egypt. Dublin, 1802, 4to. 15s. Heber, pt. vii. with MS. Notes by W. Whiter, i. 1s. "This useful compilation (the Collectanea) was commenced in 1774. Its original design was to bring into public notice scarce and inedited tracts relating to Ireland. After the publication of a few numbers on this plan, it lay dormant till the year 1781, when it was revived, chiefly at the instigation of the late Rt. Hon. W. Burton Conyngham, who then instituted a Society for the investigation of Irish antiquities. Some differences arising concerning colonization and etymology, the Society dissolved; and the author of the Collectanea, with some trifling assistance from Mr. O'Conor of Bafinagare, carried on the work nearly to the close of his life, but with a material deviation from the original design; for the latter numbers consist wholly of original disquisitions." -Sir Robert Peel's Catalogue called Biblio theca Hibernicana.' An Essay on the Antiquity of the Irish Language, being a Collation of the Irish with the Punic Language, with a Preface proving Ireland to be the Thule of the Several dissertations on antiquities, by Dr. Vallancey, will be found in the Transactions of the Irish Academy. VALLANS, W. A Tale of two Swannes; wherein is comprehended the Original and Encrease of the River Lee, commonly called Ware River: together with the Antiquitie of sundrie Places and Townes seated upon the same. Lond. by Roger Ward, 1590, 4to. Pp. 24. A poetic fiction in blank verse, describing the situation and antiquities of several towns in Hertfordshire. It is reprinted in Hearne's edition of Leland's Itinerary. |