Ireland. [Smith (Charles) & Harris (Walter)], The Antien...

Hammer

£250

Ireland. [Smith (Charles) & Harris (Walter)], The Antient (sic) and Present State of the County of Down [...], first edition, Dublin: Printed by A. Reilly, For Edward Exshaw, at the Bible on Cork-hill, 1744, folding county map engraved by Samuel Wheatley, two or three leaves with contemporary and later marginalia, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked to style in the 20th c, reinforced at recto and verso gutters, some rubbed wear and minor chipping, 8vo; [&] Drummond (William Hamilton, DD), The Giant's Causeway, A Poem, first edition, Belfast: Printed by Joseph Smyth, et al, 1811, a broad-margined copy, 2 maps and 5 plates as called for, original publisher's boards, chipped, split, upper-cover detached, the other just holding, perished spine, uncut, 8vo, (2)

Provenance: 1st: Daniel De La Cherois/Delacherois JP, DL (1825-1905), of the Manor House, Donaghadee, County Down; ink manuscript ownership inscription to title-page and verso of map, his armorial bookplate to pastedown.