17th- and 18th-century English books Collection of works including: Goodwin, Thomas. Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta ... for the use of Abingdon Schoole. Newly revised and inlarged by the Author. Oxford: Leonard Lichfield for Henry Crypps, 1638. [Bound with:] Idem. Moses and Aaron. Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, used by the Ancient Hebrewes. London: by John Haviland, 1634. Fifth edition. [And:] Rous, Francis. Archaeologiae Atticae libri tres. Three Bookes of the Attick Antiquities. London: for John Williams, 1645. Second edition. 3 works in 1 volume, 4to (18.2 x 14.2cm), contemporary calf, binding worn, no endpapers, final few signatures loosening [ESTC S103289, R28817, S103224; STC 11964 (Goodwin, Romanae historiae), 11955 (Goodwin, Moses and Aaron); Wing R2032 (Rous)]; [Walker, Clement]. Relations and Observations, Historical and Politick, upon the Parliament begun Anno Dom. 1640 [Part 2: Anarchia Anglicana or the History of Independency. The Second Part]. [London]: printed in the year 1648 [i.e. 1660?] [Part 2: printed in the Year, M. DC. XL, IX., i.e. 1660?]. [Bound with:] Idem. The High Court of Justice, of Cromwels New Slaughter-House in England. [London]: printed Anno Domini 1660. 2 works in 1 volume (the first work in 2 parts), 4to (18.6 x 13.5cm), 18th-century sprinkled tan calf gilt, engraved folding plate to Anarchia bound as frontispiece to Relations, light worming to lower margins and gutter from front of Relations to quire S just touching foot image in plate [ESTC R33535, R200419, R17922; Wing W335, W318, W326B]; [State letters]. Cabala, Mysteries of State, in Letters of the Great Ministers of K. James and J. Charles. London: for M. M. G. Bedell, and T. Collins, 1654 [i.e. 1653]. First edition, 4to (19 x 14cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, initial blank, bookplate (Joseph Berens, Lincoln's Inn, recorded as a director of the Hudson's Bay Company), bound without advertisements, worm-track in gutter of first quire, closed tear to foot of F8, bound with a copy of James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae, 1645 (without engraved title) [ESTC R13349; Wing C183]; Segar, Simon. Honores Anglicani: or, Titles of Honour the Temporal Nobility of the English Nation ... have had. London: John Baker, 1712. First edition. [Bound with:] Hotoman, François. Franco-Gallia: or, an Account of the Ancient Free State of France, and most other Parts of Europe, before the Loss of their Liberties. London: Edward Valentine, 1721. Second edition in English. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo (19.2 x 11cm), contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, Mainsforth Library label to front pastedown, Hotoman with half-title, 6 pp. advertisements [ESTC T114134, T115191]; Shelton, Maurice. An Historical and Critical Essay on the True Rise of Nobility, Political and Civil; from the First Ages of the World, thro the Jewish, Grecian, Roman Commonwealths, etc., down to this Present Time. London: C. Rivington, 1718. First edition, 8vo (18.8 x 11.4cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked and recornered, contemporary ownership inscription (Henry Bradshawe) to title-page [ESTC T89512: 12 UK copies]; Whitelocke, Richard. Miscellaneous Essays. Viz. I. Of Company and Conversation ... V. Of Women [etc.]. London: Jonas Browne, 1715. First edition, 8vo (18.4 x 11.9cm), contemporary mottled calf, advertisement leaf, front joint cracking, light browning [ESTC T144050]; Burton, John, fellow of Eton College. The Genuineness of Ld Clarendon's History of the Rebellion printed at Oxford vindicated. Oxford: at the theatre, 1744. First edition, 8vo (18.7 x 11.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, leather split along joints, browning, F8 torn affecting a word either side, bound without advertisement leaf [ESTC T144783]; and 9 others (these not collated), all 8vo, contemporary bindings: Peter Barwick, The Life of John Barwick, 1724 (first edition, 2 engraved portraits); John Oldmixon, Clarendon and Whitlock Compar'd, 1727 (first edition, front joint cracked); Laurence Echard, The History of the Revolution, and the Establishment of England in the Year 1688, 1725 (first edition); Roger L'Estrange, A Brief History of the Times, 1687-8 (3 parts in 1 volume, first edition); Benjamin Hoadly, The Original and Institution of Civil Government, 1710 (second edition); Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Remarks on the History of England, c.1780 (new edition, relined); Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland, 1740 (third edition, bookplate of W. Wynne with motto in Welsh); idem, An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion, 1724 (apparent first edition, W. Wynne bookplate); George Buchanan, History of Scotland ... Second Edition, revised and corrected from the Latin Original, by Mr. Bond, 1722 (2 volumes, spines worn, joints cracked); David Lloyd, State-Worthies, 1766 (2 volumes) (19)

Provenance: Professor G. E. Aylmer FBA (1926-2000), historian of 17th-century England and sometime master of St Peter’s College, Oxford (with his bookplates).