[Rarebooks] FS - Haliday, Scandinavian Dublin

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*HALIDAY, Charles / Introduction by Breandan O. Riordain / Edited, with 
some notice of the author's life by John P. Prendergast. /THE 
SCANDINAVIAN KINGDOM OF DUBLIN./*/ /Irish University Press, Shannon, 
Ireland. 1969. Royal 8vo. First published in 1881, and again in 1882 and 
1884; this is the first facsimile reprint (of the 2nd Dublin edition, 
1884).

A scarce title, even in the facsimile edition. Relates the founding of 
the city of Dublin by the Norsemen. By the middle of the ninth century 
Dublin became an important seaport and trading centre to the Viking 
world. Haliday's work remains today the most comprehensive study on the 
social and political history, the archaeology and topography, of 
Scandinavian Dublin. Pagination: ix, cxxiii, 300; with seven folding 
plates and maps. In the publisher's dust jacket (not clipped), showing 
light chipping and rubbing to folds, with some light general soiling; 
else in good plus condition. The book has a few very slight blemishes to 
the cloth, and the binding is very slightly shaken; else clean, tight, 
and in very good condition.

Price: $250.00.

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charge is $8 in North America; $15 overseas. Returnable within seven 
days of receipt if not as described.

 
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