Ireland.- Petty (Sir William) Sir William Petty's Political Survey of Ireland, second edition, with final advertisement leaf, contemporary ink inscription to title (partly crossed out), with manuscript correction tipped to p.8 concerning numbers of nationalities, papists etc., a little browned, contemporary panelled calf, gilt shelf-number to foot of spine, rubbed, spine chipped at head, [Goldsmiths 5514; Keynes 38; Kress 3111], 8vo, for D.Browne, 1719. .

⁂ An enlargement of the work originally published in 1691 as The Political Anatomy of Ireland, with an additional section on 'The Present State of Ireland' giving lists of the lords spiritual and temporal, the members of Parliament, and the principal officers in the government in 1719, as well as the 'Verbum Sapienti' which was included in the original edition.