£3,528
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
comprising:
1) [New Model Army]. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament; for the Speedy Raising of Money in the Easterne Association, and Other Counties Adjacent, for the Maintanence of the Forces imployed in reducing of the Garrison of Newarke. London: by T. W. for Edw. Husband, 13th August 1645. [2] 5 [1] pp., unopened [ESTC R13700: 3 copies worldwide];
2) [Ireland]. Sixteene Queres propounded by the Parliament of Ireland to the Judges of the Said Kingdom. London: [no printer], 1641. [2] 14 13-18 pp., without final blank [ESTC R17541];
3) [Ireland]. The Particular Relation of the Present Estate and Condition of Ireland ... with those Battels and overthrows lately given to the Rebels to the 16. of this Present February. London: Joseph Hunscott, 1642. 20 pp., deckle edges [ESTC R9885];
4) [Yorkshire; Siege of Hull]. A Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the Preservation and Safety of the Kingdom, and the Town of Hull. With the Assurance of both Houses to Satisfie all Losse sustained by any Service done for the Safety of the said Town, by Reason of the Overflowing of the Water upon any the grounds there. London: by Luke Norton and John Field, for Edward Husbands and John Frank, July 13th, 1642. 8 pp., deckle-edges, unopened [ESTC R27933: 10 UK copies];
5) [Douglas, Lady Eleanor]. The Benidiction [sic], [London: no printer], 1651, [4] pp., with caption-title 'For the Armies General, His Excellency', [ESTC R26482: 10 copies worldwide];
6) Overton, Richard. An Appeale from the Degenerate Representative Body, the Commons of England ... to ... the Free People in General of the Several Counties, Cities, Townes, Burroughs ... and in especially ... Sir Thomas Fairfax ... by Richard Overton, Prisoner in the Infamous Goale [sic] of Newgate. London: [no printer], 1647, [2] 38 pp., [ESTC R201704, 14 copies worldwide];
7) An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament; concerning the Proceedings of divers ill-affected persons and Papists within the Counties of Denbigh, Mountgomery [sic], Flint, Merioneth, Carnarvon and Anglesey, who have in Contempt of the Parliament, entered into an Hostile and Dangerous Association amongst themselves. London: for Edw. Husbands, July 11, 1643, 8 pp. [ESTC R6464];
8) The High Court of Justice, or Cromwels New Slaughter-House in England ... being the Third Part of the History of Independency. [London]: In the second year of the States Liberty, and the Peoples Slavery, 1660. 71 [1] pp., ink-stamp to final page and blank [ESTC R17922];
9) An Advertisement to the whole Kingdome of England, but more especially to the Citie of London, speedily to consider their present Dangers, and prevent their approaching Miseries. London: by R. O and G. D., 1642. [2] 6 pp., title-page with pencilled notes and shallow chip to corner [ESTC R5449: 9 UK copies];
10) Pickering, Benjamin. A Firebrand Pluckt out of the Burning. A Sermon preached ... before the Honourable House of Commons ... by Benjamin Pikering [sic]. London: by I. L. for Philemon Stephens, and Samuel Gellibrand, 1645. [8] 28 pp. [ESTC R18962];
11) Sedgwicke, William. Zions Deliverance and her Friends Duty ... In a Sermon preached at a Publicke Fast before the Honourable House of Commons. London: for John Bellamy and Ralph Smith, 1642. [4] 54 [2] pp., annotations to title-page and final leaf [ESTC R18932];
12) Whittaker, Jeremiah. Eirenopoios. Christ the Settlement of Unsettled Times, in a Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons. London: for John Bellamy & Ralph Smith, 1642, [8] 61 [1] pp., without A1 (licence leaf or blank?) [ESTC R27065];
13) Wilkinson, Henry. Babylons Ruine, Jerusalems Rising. Set forth in a Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons. London: for Chr. Meredith, and Sa. Gellibrand, 1643. [8] 32 pp. [ESTC R40697].
Together with 5 similar pamphlets: Henry Dove, A Sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the City of London, 1682, without initial blank and licence leaf, closely trimmed shaving signature-marks and catchwords, contemporary pen-trials and ownership inscriptions, closed tear in final leaf [ESTC R31365]; John Standish, A Sermon preached before the King at White-Hal, 1675, without initial blank but retaining advertisement leaf [ESTC R13595]; Luke Milbourne, The Danger of Changes in Church or State, 1715/15, Arabic quotation from Erpenius on title-page, [ESTC N28349]; Sir Jonathan Trelawny, A Sermon … for the Signal Successes vouchsafed to Her Majesties Forces by Sea and Land: under the Command of the Earl of Marlborough in the Low Countries, 1702 [ESTC T143136]; Charles Bathurst, A Serious Exhortation to the People of England, to mind their Present Visitation, it being the Day of the Lord's Love unto them, 1669, this edition not in ESTC, one leaf largely torn away.
Variable browning, all stitched in modern card wrappers and housed together in single custom quarter-morocco solander box
Provenance: The Millmore English Civil War Collection.