Adam's The History Sale Tuesday 24th April 2018

48 Tuesday 24th April 69 WILLIAM BRUCE Pamphlet ‘Some Facts and Observations relative to the fate of the late Linen Bill’, Dublin 1753 € 500 - 800 70 LETTER TO HENRY BOYLE, EARL OF SHANNON, 1732 Free of postal charges because Boyle was MP of Cork, from his nephew Henry, who informs “I hear Dean Swift is writing a history of his own times, in verse”. Possibly referring to Swift’s ‘Drapier’s Letters’, first published in 1734 € 80 - 120 71 THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT OF IRELAND as it stood the 22nd day of May 1764 m.s.s ruled, in a clerk’s copperplate hand, p.p.s 130, each 180 x 115mm bound in limp red morocco as a wallet, spine lettered in gilt, (defective and worn at edges, the flap detached) A complete listing of regiments and battalions on the Irish establishment, names of officers, pay etc. including locally raised militia € 400 - 600