Debates Relative to the Affairs of Ireland in the Years 1763 and 1764 taken by a Military Officer, to which is added an Enquiry How Far the Restrictions Laid Upon the Trade of Ireland by British Acts of Parliament are a Benefit &c., with Extracts of such Parts of the Statutes as Lay the Trade of Ireland under those Restrictions, Volume Two

Volume II (of II) only.  406-854pp.  Bound in full brown calf’s leather, with gilt framed upper panel, gilt decorations on a six panelled spine, gilt lettering on red leather spine label.  8vo.  Boards are heavily worn, rubbed and scuffed all over with portions of leather missing from verso, cracked along spine joints loosening front panel, crumbling at spine ends.  Text block edges dark and dull.  Front paste down curling away from board; previous owner’s label on front paste down.  Endpapers a little spotted, marked and toned at edges else internally neat, clean, bright and text block tight.

Sir James Caldwell (c1720-`794) was an Anglo-Irish soldier , 4th Baronet of Wellsborough (and by happenstance, also Count of Milan) and deeply involved in the economic and political affairs of Ireland, and posthumously widely recognised for his work on the debates of the Irish House of Commons, written from his memory of attending the sessions.