CHARLES II. Goupil & Co. 1901.
4to. v + 282pp. Colour frontis., numerous plates and ills. Very light age toning, browning, marbled e.ps., intricate gilt dentelles, bound by Zaehnsdorf in crushed morocco, gilt armorial device to centre of boards with gilt crowns to corners and to compartments of spine, upper board and spine brown, lower board showing signs of original green colour, some discolouring, minor marking and wear, t.e.g.
No. 543 of a Limited Edition of 1250 Copies.
£375.00 [ref: 290023]
THE LIFE OF RICHARD DEANE, Major-General and General-at-Sea in the service of The Commonwealth, and one of the Commissioners of the High Court of Justice appointed for the trial of King Charles the First. Longmans, Green & Co. 1870.
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xii + 718pp. + [iv]. Port. frontis., 4 plates, 1 folding. Frontis. and title page spotted, lower hinge tender but firm, upper hinge glued, e.ps. sl. rubbed, contemporary ownership inscription, original gilt lettered blue cloth with gilt anchor device to upper board, lightly soiled and rubbed, corners bumped with sl. wear, joints rubbed with some wear, spine darkened and worn at head and tail with some loss.
From the library of Christopher Hill with his signature, marginal markings and some annotations in pencil,
£250.00 [ref: 290665]
GRAVES MEMOIRS OF THE CIVIL WAR Compiled from Seventeenth Century Records. William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. 1927.
1st Ed. 4to. 415pp. 45 plates, 5 folding pedigrees in rear pocket, e.p. map. Light browning, gilt lettered white cloth backed blue cloth boards, some soiling, spine rubbed and frayed with loss to tail, t.e.g.
Particularly Colonel Richard Graves, Thomas and Mary Graves of Waterford and Richard Graves of Lincoln's Inn.
Ex.-libris Somerset Henry Paul Graves Colonel Indian Army. Colonel Somerset Henry Paul Graves was born in Bath, Somerset in 1846, he served in the Indian Army, late Burma Police Department and was the First Commandant in 1868, he served in the 26th native infantry and in June 1885 was appointed Superintendant of Police at Port Blair, by 1887 he was appointed Inspector General of Police, Upper Burma and reverted to military duties in 1888.
£150.00 [ref: 290543]
CANTERBURIES DOOME. Or The first part of a compleat history of the commitment, charge, tryall, condemnation, execution of William Laud, late Arch-bishop of Canterbury. Containing the severall orders, articles, proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first accusatio therein, till his tryall: together with the various evidences and proofs produced against him at the Lords Bar, in justification of the first branch of the Commons charge against him; ... with his severall answers to those evidences, proofs, and the Commons reply thereunto. Wherein this Arch-prelates manifold trayterous artifices to usher in popery by degrees, are cleerly detected, and the ecclesiasticall history of our church-affaires, during his pontificall domination, faithfully presented to the publike view of the world. By William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire; specially deputed to this publike service, by the House of Commons order; dated 4 Martii. 1644. Printed by John Macock for Michael Spark senior, at the sign of the Blue Bible in Green Arbour 1646.
1st Ed. Sm. folio. [4], 100, 89-128, 131-134, 141-142, 151-154, 147-488, 491-565, [13] p. Frontis. by Hollar (crudely repaired to verso), decorative/historiated initial letters, dec. headpieces, full page engraving to pp.122. [Lacking portraits of Prynne and Laud and final blank]. Title page within double rule and with cut crudely repaired to verso, occasional marginal tears (3 with marginal loss), browning, early speckled calf, triple blind rule to borders, loss to corners, some surface wear and marking, rope exposed to hinges cracked in part though firm, gilt motifs and ruling with gilt lettered label to spine with sl. loss to head and substantial to tail.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), P3917; McAlpin II/443; Lowndes 1988; Davies/Keeler 1266; ESTC No R19620; ‘Frontis. illustration (pi1v) signed: W: Hollar fecit. a: Order-to-print on verso of title page: Die Martiss Martii. 1644. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, ... H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com; Text continuous despite pagination; With final errata leaf. Includes index.’
William Prynne (1600–1669), pamphleteer and lawyer. ‘... Prynne's record of Archbishop Laud's trial, Canterburies Doome (1646), was constructed with one end in view: to show that Laud's crime lay not in advancing royal absolutism, but in subverting it. He was impenitent about rigging the record to fit the conclusion: 'no indifferent person can justly taxe me with partiality or injustice for inserting into the History, [materials] for the fuller discovery of his Popish intentions in this kinde' (Canterburies Doome, dedicatory epistle) ...’ ODNB.
£450.00 [ref: 289859]
THE PYTHOUSE PAPERS: Correspondence Concerning the Civil War, The Popish Plot, and a Contested Election in 1680. Transcribed from MSS. in the possesssion of V.F. Benett-Stanford. Bickers & Son 1879.
1st Ed. vii + xcviii + 105pp. Light age toning and occasional spotting, marbled e.ps., inner gilt dentelles, armorial calf binding with gilt tooling to edges of boards and armorial device to upper board, sl. faded gilt tooling and lettering to spine, sl. rubbed, a.e.g.
£100.00 [ref: 290541]
THE GREAT CIVIL WAR IN DORSET 1642-1660. Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, the Wessex Press 1910.
1st Ed. Large 8vo. xx + 493pp. + [iii] adverts. Red & black lettered title page, folding map at rear (sl. curled to fore edge), dec. initial letters. Ex.-libris Christopher Green, other ownership inscriptions, e.ps. lightly spotted, fore and lower edge uncut, edges sl. spotted intruding onto inner margins, original gilt lettered red cloth, some minor soiling, corners sl. rubbed, spine faded and sl. rubbed at head and tail.
£200.00 [ref: 290295]
WITH THE KING AT OXFORD. A Tale of the Great Rebellion. Seeley and Co., Limited 1890.
5th Thousand. [xii] + 298pp. + [ii] + 16pp. publ. adverts. 16 mainly colour plates. Fore and lower edge spotted occasionally intruding internally, f.e.ps. lightly browned, large contemporary ownership inscription, original gilt lettered light blue cloth ruled and decorated in red and gilt to upper board, minor rubbing to corners and joints, head and tail of spine sl. bumped.
Fiction.
£25.00 [ref: 290456]
THE HISTORY OF THE REBELLION and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641. Re-Edited from a Fresh Collation of the Original Ms. in the Bodleian Library with Marginal Dates and Occasional Notes by W. Dunn Macray. Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1888.
6 vols. Folding facsimile document. Light marginal browning, marbled e.ps. and edges, Marlborough School prize binding in maroon calf, double gilt rule edging to boards, some marking and wear, decorative gilt compartments and gilt lettered labels to spines, sm. nick to head of spine of volume 2.
With inscription to flyleaf of volume 1 ‘Ian Pendlebury Macdonald 2nd Congreve Prize Marlborough June 1908 Frank Fletcher.’ And with the bookplate of Ian P. Macdonald, and ‘In Memoriam Congreve Prize’ bookplate to end papers of each volume.
£300.00 [ref: 290519]
THE LIFE of ... Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Containing, I. An Account of the Chancellor's Life from his Birth to the Restoration in 1660. II. A Continuation of the same, and of his History of the Grand Rebellion, from the Restoration to his Banishment in 1667. Written by himself. Printed from his original manuscripts, given to the University of Oxford by the Heirs of the late Earl of Clarendon. Oxford : at the Clarendon printing-house, 1759.
1st Ed. 3 vols. Dec. headpieces. Misbound, i.e. Volume 3 has the text of volume 2 and Volume 2 has the text of volume 3., light browning, sporadic foxing, marbled e.ps., ex.-libris Chas Willm. Bigge, ex.-libris Charles Wm. Orde Nunnykirk, speckled calf with gilt ruled border with gilt motifs to corners, joints cracked with some loss to calf, dec. gilt compartments with crude modern gilt lettered labels, vol. 3. with vertical crack to spine, some loss to spines.
ESTC T55769; ‘Vols.2 and 3 each have a titlepage reading 'The continuation of the life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, ...'. Vol.1 has separate pagination; that of Vols. 2 and 3 is continuous.’
£200.00 [ref: 289855]
A REGICIDE’S CAREER Pseud St. Peter or The Prince of Army Chaplains. London: Burns & Oates, Limited N.d. c.[1899].
1st Ed. viii + 206pp. Light marginal browning, some ink annotations, upper hinge cracked but firm, f.e.ps. browned, original gilt lettered red cloth, some soiling and sl. marking, fore edge of lower leading corners of both boards wormed?, spine lightly faded and sl. bumped at head and tail.
Author’s Copy? with ‘Col Colcomb J.N.S.? Club London S.W.’ inscribed to front pastedown.
£75.00 [ref: 290344]