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Sale 373: Travel - Exploration - Maps - Natural History including Afghanistan, Central Asia & the Subcontinent (#373) 02/14/2008 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #21The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland

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Sale 373: Travel - Exploration - Maps - Natural History including Afghanistan, Central Asia & the Subcontinent (#373) 02/14/2008 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Description

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(Bartlett, William Henry)

Title:

The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland

Author:

Willis, N[athaniel] P[arker], J. Stirling Coyne, et al.

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Virtue & Co.

Date Published:

[1842, possibly later]

Description:

2 volumes in 1. [4], 124; [4], 108 pp. Illustrated with 120 steel-engraved plates from drawings by William Henry Bartlett; steel-engraved map. (4to) 11x8¼ modern morocco backed marbled boards.

Famed illustrated work on Ireland. Apparently a later printing, with occasional broken type, but the plates with excellent impressions.

Condition:

Light wear to board edges; dampstain at head of first engraved title page and frontispiece map; other occasional light foxing; else very good.

Item#:

188110

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