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15. Charles Smith, The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, in Four Books, 2 vols, (Dublin, 1750).
Charles Smith (1715–62) was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and practised medicine in Dungarvan in Co. Waterford. He compiled histories of the counties of Cork, Down and Waterford. The Cork volume was first published in 1750, and boasted a number of fine maps and prints of the principal towns in the county.
There are at least 43 copies of this 1750 edition extant across the world, mainly in Ireland and the United States of America.
This copy was purchased by the Library in May 1927 to replace one which was first noted as missing in 1767.
Citation:
15. Charles Smith, The Antient and Present State of the County and City of Cork, in Four Books, 2 vols, (Dublin, 1750).,
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