THE POST CHAISE COMPANION: OR TRAVELLER`S DIRECTORY THROUGH IRELAND.
CONTAINING A NEW & ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE DIRECT AND PRINCIPAL CROSS ROADS, WITH PARTICULARS OF THE NOBLEMEN & GENTLEMEN`S SEATS, CITIES, PARKS, NATURAL CURIOSITIES, ANTIQUITIES, CASTLES, RUINS, MANUFACTURERS, LOUGHS, GLENS, HARBOURS, ETC.ETC.

FORMING

AN HISTORICAL & DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A TRAVELLING DICTIONARY,

OR

ALPHABETICAL TABLES,

SHOWING THE DISTANCES OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES, BOROUGHS, MARKET & SEA PORT TOWNS IN IRELAND FROM EACH OTHER.

BY

WILLIAM WILSON (TOPOGRAPHER)

 

THE 3d. EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED, WITH AN ENTIRE NEW SET OF PLATES.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J & J. H. FLEMING, DUBLIN.

1803 3d. EDITION

 

RARE, THIRD EDITION OF THIS RENOWNED TRAVELLER`S GUIDE TO IRELAND BY THE TOPOGRAPHER WILLIAM WILSON. THIS VOLUME BEING AN EVEN RARER TRADE COPY IN PAPER COVERED BOARDS AND SPINE, AND WITH MAP ATTACHED TO INSIDE REAR BOARD.

 

BOUND IN GREY PAPER COVERED CARD BOARDS, BEIGE COLOURED PAPER TO SPINE, WITH PASTEDOWN TITLES TOWARDS TOP END. AND SIX SECTIONS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE. 8vo, FRONTISPIECE, 646 DOUBLE COLUMNED PAGES, WITH 660 ROUGH CUT PAGES TOTAL, FOLLOWED BY INDEX TO REAR. FOUR ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS THREE OF WHICH ARE FOLD-OUT. LARGE FOLD-OUT MAP OF IRELAND TO REAR BY TAYLOR & SKINNER DATED 1778. IN GOOD USED CONDITION. BOARDS DISPLAY SURFACE MARKS, SCRATCHES, EDGE RUBBING, CORNERS ARE BUMPED AND RUBBED. SPINE LOOKS GREAT, NO DAMAGE JUST SOME MINOR CREASING. INTERNALLY, BLANK ENDPAPERS FRONT AND BACK, SOME MINOR DUSTY LOOKING MARKS BUT NO PEN/PENCIL MARKS AND NO INSCRIPTIONS. FOLD-OUT MAP IS FIRMLY ATTACHED TO THE REAR BOARD AND IS FREE FROM DAMAGE. FOLD-OUT ILLUSTRATIONS LOOK GREAT AND WITH NO MAJOR DAMAGE, JUST SOME MINOR CREASES AND FOLDS AT EDGES ON SOME, AND WITH A BIT OF DARKENING HERE AND THERE. PAGES A LITTLE YELLOWED THROUGHOUT, IT IS OTHERWISE BRIGHT, CLEAN AND TIDY. FANTASTIC ILLUSTRATIONS. GOOD TIGHT BINDING. PRICED ACCORDING TO RARITY AND CONDITION.

 

 A LOVELY RARE THIRD EDITION AND TRADE COPY WITH ALL ILLUSTRATIONS & MAP COMPLETE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. A SUPER ADDITION FOR THE DISERNING RARE BOOK COLLECTOR.

 

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U.S.A. @ £24.

AUSTRALIA @ £29.

 

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