Strada, Famiano De bello Belgico The History of the Low-Countrey Warres, Written in Latine. In English by Sr. Rob. Stapylton. London: for Humphrey Moseley, 1650. First edition in English, folio (28.8 x 17.3cm), modern leather, engraved portrait frontispiece by William Marshall, 13 further engraved portrait plates, toning, a few marks, frontispiece repaired recto, small worm-track in top margins from front to quire G and in lower margins from quire 3A to end, closed tear in M2, closed marginal tear to plate facing 2H4 [ESTC 24631; Wing S5777]; Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State [-The Profane State]. London: by John Redmayne for John Williams, 1663. Fourth edition, folio (28.2 x 18.5cm), modern half sheep, engraved additional title-page, engraved portraits throughout the text, early ink annotations and underlining, browning, marginal repair to H4, I5 with spill-burn affecting text verso, a few leaves (e.g. H4, N2, Y2, 2B4, 2C1, 2Q5) strengthened in gutter, worming in gutter of 2C-2F, bound after a defective copy of The Holy Warre, third edition, 1647, lacking at least the engraved title-page, retaining the folding map (loose, laid down, closed tear to one fold) [ESTC R15500; Wing F2446]; Idem. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof. London: by J. F. for John Williams, 1650. First edition, folio (33.2 x 22cm), contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page, 7 double-page engraved plates and plans (only), tear to foot of spine, front joint reinforced, engraved title image shaved along fore edge, quire A also trimmed, frontispiece bound after quire A and repaired in lower margin, shallow chips and some paper-thinning to fore margins of temple plans facing 2Q2 and 2T3, map of Midian facing 3C1 with short closed tear, marginal paper-reinforcement in index [ESTC R18096; Wing F2455]; Ralegh, Sir Walter. The History of the World. London: for G. Conyers [and others], 1736, Eleventh edition, folio (34.6 x 22cm), contemporary marbled sheep, 8 engraved folding maps by Emanuel Bowen, bound without portrait frontispiece, bindings worn along extremities, volume 1 joints cracked, volume 2 rebacked with original spine laid down, one map (facing p. 101) with strip of browning [ESTC T36544]; Whitelocke, Bulstrode. A Journal of the Swedish Ambassy, in the Years M.DC.LIII. and M.D.C.LIV. London: for T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt, 1772. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to (25.3 x 19.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, half-titles, worn, labels perished, spotting to front and rear, early labels of Greenock library to front pastedowns [ESTC T144829]; Davila, Arrigo Caterino. The History of the Civil Wars of France. A New Translation ... by Ellis Farneworth. London: for D. Browne [and others], 1758. First edition thus, 2 volumes, 4to (26.1 x 19.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, front joints slightly cracked [ESTC N8421: 7 UK copies; 'Printed by William Bowyer; his records show 500 copies printed']; and 3 others (these not collated): Paul Rapin de Thoyras, The History of England, 1743 (third edition in English, 2 volumes, folio, contemporary speckled calf, numerous engraved plates and maps, several folding, joints cracked, labels perishing); James Macpherson, An Introduction to the History of Great Britain and Ireland, 1773 (third edition, 4to, contemporary calf); Vertot, The History of the Knights of Malta, 1728 (first edition in English, volume 2 only, folio, contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, engraved portraits) (13)

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).