Chillingworth, William The Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield, and are to be sold by John Clarke, 1638. First edition, folio (26.3 x 17.8cm), contemporary calf, endpapers and final blank discarded, spill-burn in O1, worm-track in text from quire 2M [ESTC S107216; STC 5138]; Heylyn, Peter. Aerius Redivivus: or the History of the Presbyterians. London: by Robert Battersby for Christopher Wilkinson [and others], 1672. Second edition, folio (29.5 x 18.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked, small hole in 3N3 [ESTC R6051; Wing H1682]; Stillingfleet, Edward. A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion. London: for H. Mortlock, 1681. Second edition, folio (31.5 x 19cm), contemporary mottled calf ruled in blind, imprimatur leaf [ESTC R10821; Wing S5625]; Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. The Works. Edinburgh: James Watson, 1711. First collected edition, folio (33 x 20cm), contemporary calf, 2 engraved portraits (one as frontispiece, both of Drummond, without the plate of the 'Five James's' occasionally noted but almost always absent), title-page frayed in fore margin, closed tear in 2Q1-2 [ESTC T125750]; Nicolson, William. The English, Scotch and Irish Historical Libraries. Giving a Short View of the Character of most of our Historians, either in Print or Manuscript. London: for G. Strahan [and others], 1736. 'Third edition, corrected and augmented' (first collected edition), folio (34.5 x 22cm), contemporary panelled calf, drawer-handle cornerpieces to covers in blind, joints superficially cracked [ESTC T60243]; and 3 others (these not collated): James Usher, A Body of Divinitie, 1653 (fourth edition, folio, early mottled sheep, engraved portrait frontispiece, stripping to leather, browning, marginal worming to rear); Gilbert Burnet, The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, 1677 (first edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, 2 engraved portraits, binding worn, joints cracked); Bulstrode Whitelocke, Memorials of the English Affairs, 1682 (first edition, folio, contemporary sprinkled calf, worn, joints cracked) (8)

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).