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Wallop Brabazon (Author) / Cooper, The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland,

Wallop Brabazon (Author) / Cooper, The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland,

Wallop Brabazon (Author) / Cooper, William (Illustrations). The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland, with Suggestions for the Working of a Fishing Company. Dedicated by Permission to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland. First Edition. Dublin, London, Derby, James McGlashan et al, 1848. 22 x 13.5 cm. x, 111 pages. Complete with 21 Plates, including 8 folding plates (see images). Later attractive quarter calf over marbled boards. Gilt title and blind line decorations on spine. New plain end papers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges dust dulled. Text block dust dulled with occasional mild foxing. See images

The Author, Wallop BRABAZON was born in Ireland in 1813. Lived at Portland Place, London for several years. He returned to Ireland in the mid-1840s, where he lived for two years in Newport, Co Mayo. He returned to Rath and by 1847 had written ‘The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland’ (Dublin, 1848). He later lived at Tracton House, Dublin. Wallop died at 55 Carysfort Avenue, (known as Holly Court), Blackrock, Co. Dublin on 17th April 1890.

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Wallop Brabazon (Author) / Cooper, The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland,
Wallop Brabazon (Author) / Cooper, The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland,
Wallop Brabazon (Author) / Cooper, The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland,
Wallop Brabazon (Author) / Cooper, The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland,
Wallop Brabazon (Author) / Cooper, The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland,
Wallop Brabazon (Author) / Cooper, The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland,
Wallop Brabazon (Author) / Cooper, The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland,

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