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Ware, Sir James. The antiquities and history of Ireland.
Five parts in one. First edition in English 1705. engraved frontispiece portrait title printed in red and black.
Errata leaf at end. Deals with the Annals during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Later panelled calf. Some
manuscript notes to recto. Rebacked with original spine. Folio.
12¼ x 8in. (31.12 x 20.32cm)
Estimate €450-€500 £351-£390
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 23
Grose, Francis. The Antiquities of Ireland. Reprint.
Wellbrook Press, Kilkenny. 1982. In two volumes, green cloth gilt, in matching slip-case.
Francis Grose was a well-known English antiquary, born in 1731. In 1757 he was elected a member of the
Society of Antiquaries, and 1759 he resumed his soldiering career, this time in the militia where he would be
able to avoid distant postings. Grose had the advantage of a good classical education and a gift for drawing.
He compiled the work which would gain him reputation - his Views of Antiquities in England and Wales.
This he first began to publish in numbers in 1773, and finished in 1776.
Grose undertook an expedition to Ireland but, soon after his arrival in Dublin, he suddenly was seized with
an apoplectic fit, on the 6th May 1791, and died immediately. He was interred in Dublin. His nephew Daniel
Grose and Dr. Edward Ledwich, who had already published a book on Irish antiquities, completed the final
volume of Grose’s Antiquities of Ireland in 1791.
The book is now a much sought after and valuable historical resource. Its drawings captured precisely how
the Irish monuments and antiquities looked at the end of the eighteenth century, which makes it an excellent
reference work for historians, archaeologists and antiquarians. The text is of somewhat less importance.
11 x 8in. (27.94 x 20.32cm)
Estimate €150-€200 £117-£156
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 3