Stafford, Sir Thomas Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced or, an Historie of the Late Warres of Ireland, especially within the Province of Mounster. London: printed by A[ugustine] M[athewes], 1633. First edition, second issue, folio (32.5 x 20.5cm), 20th-century half calf, 16 engraved plates (of 19: without the 2 portrait frontispieces and 'Map of Mounster'), extant plates comprising views of battles, castles and cities (Limerick, Yougal, Cork), 'A Map of the Siege of Kinsale' folding, 'A Map of Muskrey' single-page, the rest all double-page, title-page laid down, marginal repair to final leaf of prelims, small hole in 2D3, plates sometimes closely trimmed or frayed along edges, marginal damp-staining to pp. 1-50 and approx. 377-391 (end) affecting 3 plates, folding plate with discreet old repairs verso [ESTC S117457; STC 23132a]; Sprigg, Joshua. Anglia Rediviva; Englands Recovery: being the History of the Motions, Actions, and Successes of the Army under the Immediate Conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax, Kt. Captain-General of all the Parliaments Forces in England. London: by R. W. for John Partridge, 1647. First edition, folio (28 x 18.2cm), contemporary blind-ruled sheep, armorial woodcut frontispiece, folding engraved portrait, folding letterpress table, extremities worn, lacking plan (Battle of Naseby) and text-leaf L2, damp-staining to title-page and final few leaves, spill-burn in D1, short closed handling tears to folding portrait and table [ESTC R18123; Wing S5070]; [Davies, John]. The Civil Warres of Great Britain and Ireland. Containing an Exact History of their Occasion, Originall, Progress, and Happy End. By an Impartiall Pen. London: by R. W. for Philip Chetwind, 1661. First edition, folio (29 x 18.5cm), contemporary sprinkled sheep ruled in blind, rebacked and relined, front board detached, title-page in red and black, ownership inscription to front pastedown ('A. W. G. Lowther F.S.A., 1957'), browning [ESTC R9924; Wing D393]; and 7 others similar (these not collated): John Nalson, An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State, from the Beginning of the Scotch Rebellion in the Year MDCXXXIX to the Murther of King Charles I, 1682 (first edition, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, 'Mind of the Frontispiece' leaf present, old repairs to spine-ends); Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, A Collection of Several Tracts, 1727 (first edition, folio, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, The State Letters of Henry Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland during the Reign of J. James the Second, Oxford, 1763 (first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary cat's-paw calf, volume 2 rebacked, inscribed 'The gift of the Right Honourable Lord Milton to John Armstrong of Tipperary July 1766' on initial blanks), [William Dugdale], A Short View of the Late Troubles in England, 1681 (folio, contemporary panelled sheep, rebacked, portrait discarded); Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafforde, Letters and Dispatches, Dublin, 1740 (2 volumes, folio, contemporary tree calf gilt, worn, endpapers renewed); Richard Musgrave, Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland, Dublin, 1801 (first edition, 4to, contemporary marbled calf, 10 engraved folding maps and plans, a few closed tears, binding worn, front board near detached); [Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke, editor], Miscellaneous State Papers from 1501 to 1726, 1778 (first edition, 2 volumes, 4to, contemporary tree calf, joints cracked, volume 2 front board detached, frontispiece offset) (14)

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).