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Author: Laurie & Whittle
Title: A Map of the Kingdom of Ireland, Divided into Provinces Counties and Baronies...
Place: London
Publisher:
Date: 1794
Item # : 172550
Sale Number   332
Lot Number   408
Sale Name    
Americana - Travel - Exploration - Maritime; Maps & Atlases
Sale Date   05/25/2006
Price realized   $ 460
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Description:
Copper-engraved map on two large sheets, hand-colored in outline, with large uncolored pictorial cartouche (featuring a naked damsel lying on the groung), inset of "The Seacoasts of Great Britain and Ireland." Each sheet approx. 58x98 cm. (23x38½").
Detailed and significant map of Ireland at the end of the 18th century.
Condition:
Some soiling, wear along creases, tape repairs on verso mending this and a few other tears, darkening at edges; about very good.
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