Pacata Hibernia; or, A history of the wars in Ireland, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Taken from the original chronicles. Illustrated with portraits of Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Totness; and fac similes of ... maps and plans. First published in London, 1633.
Sir Thomas Stafford (fl.1633)
Category
Books
Date
1810
Materials
Place of origin
Ireland
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3056918
Summary
Bibliographic description
3v. (in 1), plates : ill., maps, ports. 4to. 3 vols. bound in 1. Bookseller's pencil price note: £2 ... Scrap paper page marker (plate no. 1). Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate: "Sr Foster Cunliffe Bart." (signed "F. Bartolozzi fecit") [i.e. Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd bart. (1755-1834)]; twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Binding: nineteenth-century calf; blind fillet and blind roll border; four raised bands; gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Sir Thomas Stafford (fl.1633) George Carew, Earl of Totnes (1555 - 1629)