The Ogygia Vindicated: Against the Objections of Sir George MacKenzie, King's Advocate for Scotland in the Reign of King James II (A Posthumous Work)

O'Flaherty, Roderic / O'Conor, Charles

Verlag: Printed for G. Faulkner, Dublin, 1775

Beschreibung

EXTERIOR POOR, INTERIOR GOOD+ CONDITION. Title continues: "To Which is Annexed an Epistle from John Lynch, D.D. to M. Boileau, the Historian of the University of Paris, on the Subject of Scotish Antiquities. With a Dissertation on the origin and Antiquities of the Antient Scots, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on Mr. O'Flaherty's Text, by C. O'Conor, Esq." SCARCE. [6], lxxxii, [2], 299pp, on laid paper, bound in polished calf covers, with spine label intact. Covers detached, showing worn edges/corners, endpapers detached, binding is tight, includes the List of Subscriber's, cellophane over the backstrip and on hinge of title page & ffp, occasional foxing. The book Ogygia traces Irish History back to the ages of Mythology and Legend, and was criticised for its scholarship by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, Dean of Faculty at Aberdeen, culminating in this 1775 The Ogygia Vindicated, adding footnotes to the original work. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004505

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Titel: The Ogygia Vindicated: Against the ...

Verlag: Printed for G. Faulkner, Dublin

Erscheinungsdatum: 1775

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: First Canadian Edition