Jacobi Waraei Equitits Aurati De Hibernia & antiquitatibus ejus, disquisitiones. Editio secunda, emendatior & quarta parte auctior. Accesserunt rerum Hibernicarum regnante Henrico VII, annales. Nunc primùm in lucem editi.
Sir James Ware (1594 - 1666)
Category
Books
Date
1658
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3052537
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],356,[6],99,[3]p. . ill.. (metal cuts, woodcuts), map . 8vo.. Imperfect: wanting frontispiece, leaves D8 and V8 (with illustrations) and illustration on Z8. The illustrations are presumably still in the Hollar collection at Enville Hall. Identified in 1768 catalogue (later entry): L.3.. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: 'Andrew Colteè Ducarel L.L.D. Doctor's Commons', Franks 9174-5 [i.e. Andrew Coltee Ducarel (1713-85), antiquary, keeper of Lambeth Palace Library from 1757. His library was sold over eight days in 1786] Previous shelfmark[?] in manuscript on front pastedown: "B.35". manuscript price on front endpaper "very rare 10-6".. Binding: Seventeenth-century vellum binding; manuscript spine title.
Makers and roles
Sir James Ware (1594 - 1666) Wenceslaus Hollar (Prague 1607 - London 1677)