PETRIE, George. On the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. Bound with: Remarks on the Book of Mac Firbis, an Irish Manuscript lately transcribed for the Royal Irish Academy. Bound with: An account of an Ancient Irish Reliquary, called the Domnach-Airgid.

With engraved plates. [Dublin: 1839] Printed for the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. Quarto. pp. [3], 25-232. Quarter buckram on green paper boards. Previous owner’s signature. A very good copy. Very rare.
JISC locates 3 copies only of this edition. Not in Bradshaw.
A learned and exhaustive treatise on the Hill of Tara, the chief seat of the Irish Monarchs from the dawn of history to the middle of the sixth century. Contains also many transcriptions from the Dinnseanchus, Books of Ballymote, Book of Lecan, the Leabhar Breac and the Leabhar Gabhala, with parallel translations chiefly by the great John O’Donovan.

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