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including: [Baron, William]. A Just Defence of the Royal Martyr K. Charles I. From the many False and Malicious Aspersions in Ludlow's Memoirs, and some Other Virulent Libels of that Kind. London: for A. Roper, R. Bassett, W. Turner, 1699. First edition, 8vo (17.9 x 10.5cm), 19th-century half calf, gilt spine, backstrip gilt-lettered 'Parish Library Castleton' along front board, browning, a few damp-stains, marginal spill-burn in ³N4 [ESTC R13963; Wing B897]; Warwick, Sir Philip. Memoires of the Reigne of King Charles I. With a Continuation to the Happy Restauration of King Charles II. London: Ri. Chiswell, 1701. First edition. [Bound with:] Idem. A Discourse of Government. London: for Mat. Wotton [and others], 1701. Second edition. 2 works in 1 volume, 8vo (19 x 11.2cm), contemporary panelled calf, Memoires half-title with engraved portrait verso, Earl of Rosebery bookplate [ESTC T63889 & T61708; 7 UK copies for A Discourse]; [Kimber, Isaac]. The Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: for J. Brother and T. Cox, 1724. First edition, 8vo (19.6 x 12cm), contemporary panelled calf, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisement leaf, book-label (John Rutherfurd, Esq, of Edgerston, possibly the member of parliament for Roxburghshire, noted as a soldier and councillor in New York, 1712-1754), head of front joint worn, frontispiece damp-stained, pale damp-staining elsewhere, a2 (index) torn with loss of text [ESTC T134562]; Noble, Mark. The Lives of the English Regicides. London: John Stockdale, 1798. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (21.2 x 12.8cm), contemporary sprinkled calf, 4 pp. advertisements, bookplates of Montagu Burgoyne (1758-1836), politician and writer, numbering-pieces perished; Baillie, Robert. Letters and Journals, written by the deceased ... Principal of the University of Glasgow ... Containing an Impartial Account of Public Transactions ... both in England and Scotland, from 1637 to 1662. Edinburgh: W. Gray, 1775. First edition, second issue, 2 volumes, 8vo (20.3 x 12.3cm), contemporary tan calf, twin morocco labels; and 7 others (these not fully collated): Sir John Dalrymple, Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Dissolution of the Last Parliament of Charles II, 1795 (new edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt); William Harris An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Charles the Second, 1766 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary calf, bookplates of Robert Shafto of Benwell, spines worn); Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, A Collection of the State Letters, Dublin, 1743 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, volume 1 title-page with marginal loss); Thomas Carte, A Collection of Original Letters and Papers concerning the Affairs of England, from the Year 1641 to 1660, found among the Duke of Ormond's Papers, 1739 (2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, bookplates of John Campbell of Stackpole Court, Pembrokeshire, joints cracking); [Thomas Birch], An Inquiry into the Share, which King Charles I. had in the Transactions of the Earl of Glamorgan, 1756 (second edition), 8vo, contemporary sprinkled calf, front joint cracked at head and foot); Thomas Skinner, The Life of General Monk, 1723 (first edition, 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked, inner hinges strengthened); Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks, 1727 (fourth edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked) (23) 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).