£600
Ireland. Two 18th c manuscript account books kept and inscribed by John Bayly, of Tolka Lodge, Finglas, Co. Dublin, and his heir or executor, each illustrating landownership and the expenses of a gentleman-farmer, the expenditure ledger dated from October 1786 to 1787, including a leaf of fruit preserved dated July 1788, approx. [77]ff, the deceased John Bayly's rental income and outgoings, dated from 1795, the year of his death, to 1800, approx. [45]ff, citing various names, including Robert Fowler, the Archbishop of Dublin, and other dignitaries of the Church of Ireland, loosely-inserted ALS and note by Cecil, 1st Baron Harmsworth (1869-1948), John Bayly's great-grandson, explaining the nature of each MS, harlequin contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards or wrappers, rubbed, split, and losses, almost disbound, 8vo, (2)
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