A RARE BOOK OF HISTORICAL AND LOCAL CORK INTEREST: A BOOK CO...

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A RARE BOOK OF HISTORICAL AND LOCAL CORK INTEREST: A BOOK CONTAINING FOUR CORK ALMANACS EACH FOR THE YEARS (i) 1840, (ii) 1841, (iii) 1842, and (iv) 1843, almanacs containing rich and detailed information, advertisements, and notices regarding Cork City and County from the years 1840-1843; leather-bound on spine and corners, with marbled front and back covers, with gilt-tooling on spine - binding severely worn; book contains a collation of four alamancs: (i) Thomas Holt (Unknown, fl. 1820-1840s), "Purcell & Son's Cork Almanac of 1840", Cork: Purcell & Son's, 88, Patrick Street, 1840; text potentially incomplete, but appears largely intact; (ii) Thomas Holt (Ibid), "Purcell & Son's Cork Almanac of 1841", Cork: Purcell & Son's, 88, Patrick Street, 1840; text potentially incomplete, but appears largely intact; Unknown, "Finny's Almanac of 1842", Cork: Purcell & Son, No. 88, Patrick Street, 1841"; text potentially incomplete, but appears largely intact; Charles Thompson (Unknown, fl. 1840s), "The County and City of Cork Almanac of 1843"; text potentially incomplete, but appears largely intact, containing an extendable map of the borough of Cork City

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17th May 22 at 6pm BST

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