A History Of The County Of Down. From The Most Remote Period To The Present Day: Including An Account Of Its Early Colonization, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military Polity, Geography, Topography and Antiquities And Natural History
Dublin: Hodges, Foster and Company, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Original brick red cloth decorated in black to the front panel and lettered in gilt to the spine. This very large book remains solid. There is some scuffing to the external hinges. [viii], 724 pp. "Illustrated by woodcuts, and a coloured geographical and geological map, based on the research of the Ordinance and Geological Surveys." With the armorial book-plate of John Godfrey Echlin affixed to the front paste-down. Echlin comes from a long family line dating back to at least the early 17th century. The large fold-out map is present and bound-in at the rear of the book. A very nice copy and quite valuable as a research tool.
Price: $400.00