Lough Corrib: Its Shores and Islands by Wilde, William - 1971

New York: Arno Press & the New York Times, 1971. Hardcover. Fine. [6], 306, [2] p., 1 leaf of a folded map: illustrations; 22 cm. Red cloth with gilt-on-black spine title; series title and emblem in gilt on black on front cover. Decorated endpapers. List of titles in the Physician Travelers series on one unpaginated page following text. Contains a facsimile reprint of the 1867 first edition. The author was an archaeologist and antiquarian, as well as an eye and ear specialist. He wrote several travel books and was the father of Oscar Wilde. In this book he introduces the traveller to the region of Lough Corrib in western Ireland as it was in the mid-19th century. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.