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VALLANCEY, CHARLES. A Grammar of the Iberno-Celtic, or Irish Language. 8 engraved plates. [8], li, [1], 192 pages. 4to, contemporary calf, worn, crudely rebacked, front cover detached; dark stain in upper outer corners through first half of volume, scattered marginalia. Signature of Richard Twiss on title; bookplates and signature of Francis Massey O'Brien. Dublin: R. Marchbank for G. Faulkner et al., 1773
first edition. The author (d. 1812) was an English Hibernophile who believed that the origins of ancient Irish civilization could be traced to the Middle East and that Gaelic was related to Phoenician and Algonquian.
