Lot 99
Ireland - Rotunda Lying-in Hospital
Auction: 26 January 2011 at 11:00 GMT
Description
An account of the subsisting licences for private sedan chairs on the 25th of March, 1785. Folio, 8 folding tables [bound with] Extracts of an act for the more effectually paving, cleansing and lighting of the streets of the city of Dublin [bound with] A copy of His Majesty's Royal Charter... of the hospital for the relief of poor lying-in women in Dublin. December, 1756 [bound with] Bye-laws.. for the more effectual welfare of the hospital... 2 tables [bound with] Form of a presentment and letter for the maintenance and instruction of female pupils in the Lying-in hospital; [bound with] A list of the forty ladies and sixty gentlemen original subscribers toward building additional rooms to the Rotunda, folding plan, two orders relating to private sedan chairs and a title page from a pass book from the Lying-in hospital, contemporary tree calf, red morocco label to upper board, rubbed at edges
Footnote
Provenance: Subscriber's copy from the library of the Earl of Bective, a governor and benefactor of the hospital.