Apr 24, 2006 - Sale 2076

Sale 2076 - Lot 311

Price Realized: $ 402
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Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
HAMILTON, WILLIAM. Letters concerning the Northern Coast of the County of Antrim . . . Together with the Natural History of the Basaltes, and its Attendant Fossils, in the Northern Counties of Ireland. 3 folding engraved plates; folding engraved map. xi, [5], 190 pages. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, spine worn, joints crudely reinforced; internally clean. Dublin: George Bonham for Pat. Byrne et al., 1790

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Epistolary account of the Antrim coast, site of the Giant's Causeway, first published in 1786. "In these letters is stated a plain and impartial view of the volcanic theory of the basaltes" (title page).