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More imagesPublished by Dublin, Printed for Peter Wilson in Dame-Street. 1759
- Softcover
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, IrelandInanna Rare Books Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used
£ 249.19
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Small Octavo. XXXVIII, (1), 512 unnumbered pages (collation complete) with only the folded Map on Asia present and the other three maps missing. Including 6 pages of "Books, printed for and sold by Peter Wilson, in Dame-Street". Original Hardcover (full calf on five raised bands with original spinelabel intact). Half a page in c…hapter "M" torn out. Faint dampstain throughout. Otherwise in very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped on the corners but absolutely firm and tight. Minor traces of foxing and staining only. Name of preowner in 17th or 18th century ink on endpaper: "Daniel Eugene MacNamara". Very rare Dublin Edition of this publication with a full-page recommendation of the famous Lexicographer Benjamin Martin. Extensive Gazzetteer that has enormous value for the irish and american 18th century History. Published by the Dublin bookseller Peter Wilson and praised by contemporary Lexicographer Benjamin Martin. "A Peter Wilson was a bookseller in Dame Street, Dublin, from the 1750s on, his publications including the Dublin Magazine. He published the first trade directories in Ireland, starting with Dublin in 1751 (An Alphabetical List of the Names and Places of Abode of the Merchants and Traders of the City of Dublin, included in The Treble Alma). It is probable that Peter was the father of [Dublin mapmaker] William Wilson." (Source: Dublin1798) Sprache: english.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA
Contact seller3-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Maps. Condition: Very good condition. A double hemisphere map of the world with California as an island, the east coast of New Zealand noted as per Tasman, as well as much of the Australian coast, including the tip of "Dimens Land". "Pacifick or South Sea", "Antartick Circle", "N. Zeeland". Copper engraving, a frontispiece for a… book ("front Page 1" in top right of image). 7 3/4 x13 1/4, two original folds. Laid down on archival tissue.
