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Lot 415
Important Quaker Medical Manuscripts Quaker Interest: Leadbeater (Mary) 1758-1826 - Two Manuscript Volumes containing Receipts for Herbal Prescriptions. Mary Leadbeater, daughter of Richard Shackleton, was born at Ballitore, Co. Kildare, Ireland, in a Quaker family. She was quite thoroughly educated, and was aided in her literary studies by the noted Aldborough Wrighton, a man of great ability. Her grandfather, Abraham Shackleton, was Edmund Burke's schoolmaster; and she, with her Father, visited Burke in London where she also became acquainted with Sir. J. Reynolds and George Crabbe. During her life she earned a reputation as a writer, with several publications: Poems (1808); Cottage Dialogues among the Irish Peasantry (1811); and perhaps her finest work, Annals of Ballitore (published 1862 as The Leadbeater Papers by R.D. Webb). Throughout her career she remained a close friend and correspondent of Burke. The two books contain 796 and 496 receipts for medicines that describe Mrs. Leadbeater as an accomplished Herbalist. The prescriptions are carefully written with ink in her hand; both volumes are 15 ½ x 19 ½ cms in size and are bound in green vellum. The more complete book, which is indexed, doubtless saw much use, and the spine, once repaired with linen, is loose and the vellum stained. The text in both volumes is quite well preserved. Here one may find a tried and true cure for The King's Evil; An extraordinary Cure for Pains; Ointment of Marshmallows; Snail Syrup; an Elder-tea for St. Anthony's Fire; cures for colds, for cancers, for eye pearls and burns, for an ague or dropsy or wind; and the forerunner to the aspirin tablet, an exotic (and infallible) receipt for Megrim in the Head: Take Peacock's Dung powdered: take as much as will lie on a sixpence in a spoonful of white- wine for three mornings together Mrs. Leadbeater gleaned her medical information from a variety of sources: from friends, from newspaper articles and advertisements, etc., and frequently a receipt bears an ascription, e.g., Daffy's Elixir; Doctor Fothergill's Aloetic Tincture for complaints of a gouty nature; Ruffy's Pills; a cure for Lunacy from the Farmer's Journal 1825, etc. Also included are several remedies for diseases of sheep and cattle and some 25 cures for a variety of injuries and illnesses in horses. For example: For a Horse that's very ill by Cold: Take two Quartes of Ale, half an ounce Diapenthe half an ounce Anise-seeds, half an ounce Elecampane powder, half an ounce sulphur brimstone, some grains of Paradise near half an ounce: dissolve & warm it & give the Horse to drink. Should you need to make a horse lie down, the way to do it is: Take half an ounce of Tobacco-Snuff & mix with Hog's- Grease, & rub on the Back-bone (of the horse) Finally, Mrs. Leadbeater has recorded several miscellaneous bits of information: directions for making cold-cream, opium, rhubarb powder and shoe blacking (which includes half a pint of beer); how to wash flannel and white silk-handkerchiefs, how to concoct various mineral waters and pomades; and a glorious panacea. Although the actual medicinal properties of the receipts must be considered with scepticism, the two volumes by Mr. Burke's good friend contain much of charm and interest. 1. D.N.B., Vol. XXXII, p.313 2. Ibid. Vol. LI, p.336 Very rare Manuscript compilations by one of the most famous irish Quakers. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)
![O'Driscoll (Stephen) Cork (c. 1825 - 1895)
[Silhouettes of late 19th Century Cork personalities]
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Lot 458
O'Driscoll (Stephen) Cork (c. 1825 - 1895) [Silhouettes of late 19th Century Cork personalities] A collection of 18 original silhouette caricatures mounted on cardboard by the Cork City artist Stephen O'Driscoll (c 1825-1895), highlighting local celebrities and events. Nearly all are captioned and some have pencilled notes identifying individuals. Dimensions generally about 31.5 x 25.5 cm. O'Driscoll worked as a lithographer in Pembroke St. Cork, but also churned out silhouettes of local personalities, from bishops to beggars, which sold well in the print-shops. The Crawford Art Gallery has a collection of his work, including his large picture "Assembly of Citizens in front of Commercial Buildings, South Mall", which includes hundreds of figures. The collection offered here comprises the following: · "'The Power of Love.' Magistrates meeting on the gangway." A gentleman disembarking from a vessel of the River Steamers Company raises his hat to a top-hatted gent, while holding a bottle of Old Malt in his other hand. He exclaims: "Hold on I'll be in the swim if you don't look out." The other says: "Haul in the gangway." · "The Power of Love. On the stage [left]. Off the stage [right]." The same gent raises his hat to another man, while holding a bottle labelled "Delicious" and exclaiming: "Richard is himself again. Hurrah for the North Centre Ward." · "Faugh a balla." A top-hatted man raises a shillelagh and trails his coat in front of a magistrate who is reading out the Proclamation of the Crimes Act, backed up by policemen. Endorsed "[ ] and Dr Tanner." · "Hospital Saturday." 1891. A man holds out a hat, while another gent seated on a bench throws coins into a box. · "Cork Butter Merchants." Two gents and a dog. One reads a pamphlet titled "The Queen's Jubilee." · A prosperous gent heads into the bank carrying a huge bag of cash. Behind him, a workman laboriously carries casks. Endorsed: "Sir John Arnott". 22 x 26 cm. · "The cup that cheers but not inebriates." Two gents drink tea. One exclaims "Our three shilling tea" and the other replies "No better". 1886. Endorsed: "B.J. Alcock." · "An alternative policy for Ireland." 1886. Two gents discuss a pamphlet. Endorsed: Sir John Arnott. Dr Cummins. · "Laying down the law." May 1889. Two gents: one reads out a statute of George III; the other has a pamphlet sticking out of his pocket labelled "Bill of costs warrant." · Two gents and a dog survey Blarney Castle. Endorsed: "Recreation. Sir Geo. Colthurst." · "First in the field." Lady on horseback. Blarney Castle in background. May 1889. Endorsed: Laying down the law. · "Horse Insurance Company. Capture of a runaway." A gent captioned "Manager" captures a runaway horse. A warrant sticks out of his pocket. · "[ ] to one on Bismarck." Bismarck is being lectured by a gent. Endorsed: Dr Ashe. · "Sketch on the South Mall. A Jubilee offering." A prosperous gent gives a coin to a legless man on a trolley. Endorsed: Dr O'Callaghan. · "Taste and Quality. Cork Butter Market." Discussion between a gent in a bowler hat and another in Turkish costume. · "The Bachelors' Jubilee. A chance meeting. Distraction. Attraction." A ponderous gent studies his programme for "The Bachelors' Jubilee Ball", watched by a lady dressed in pink. · "Cruelty to animals. Found drowned." A constable shows to a gent a dead dog with its legs tied. Another live dog at their feet. [Cork] Harbour in background. Endorsed: "M.P. Bolster and the drowned dog. (3 doors from Alcock's)." · "Constitutional difference." Two men discuss a copy of the Cork Constitution newspaper. Endorsed: [ ]. Paul Madden. 1886. The personalities caricatured include: · B.J. Alcock, grocer, 75 Patrick St. · Sir John Arnott (1814-1898), brewer at Fitton St. and 91 South Mall; entrepreneur, politician, philanthropist … · Charles K.D. Tanner, M.D., Lapps Quay (1849-1901), Nationalist MP for Mid-Cork, twice imprisoned under the Coercion Act in 1888 · William J. Cummins, M.D., 11 South Mall · Matthew P. Bolster, grocer, 79 Patrick St. · Edward G. Ashe, vet, 36 Georges St. · Paul Madden, grocer and wine merchant, Bridge St. · Richard O'Callaghan, M.D., 40 South Mall · Sir George St John Colthurst, 6th Bart (1850-1925), succeeded father 1878, married Edith Jane Thomasina née Morris. A highly important collection. As manuscripts, w.a.f. (1)
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