SMITH The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. Portrait frontispiece of...

SMITH The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Waterford. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical, and topographical description thereof. Portrait frontispiece of the author. The second edition, with additions. Dublin: Printed for W. Wilson, 1774. pp. xx, 376, 6 (index), 2 (list of Wilson's publications). With the armorial bookplate of Frederici Trench on front pastedown. Contemporary full calf gilt with contrasting labels. Surface wear to leather on cover. Upper joint starting but firm. A fine copy internally The maps in these histories are the first printed maps of their respective counties since Petty's in the seventeenth century, and for them, Smith claims to have made his own triangulations.

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