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Hooper (Jacob). An Impartial History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, 1st edition, London: printed, and sold by all the booksellers in town and country, 1738, 27 engraved plates including frontispiece, occasional spotting and browning, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked, rubbed, rear joint cracked, folio (29.1 x 16.7 cm), together with: Burnet (Gilbert), The Memoires of the Lives and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, etc. In which an Account is given of the Rise and Progress of the Civil Wars of Scotland, 1st edition, London: J. Grover for R. Royston, 1677, engraved portrait frontispiece (with half-title recto), engraved portrait plate between quires V and X, vignette portrait to p. 380, full-page portrait to p. 416, without the 'Addenda' leaf inserted between a5 and a6 noted in ESTC, occasional spotting, 19th-century book-label (Rev. John Besley), 18th-century tan calf, rebacked with original gilt spine laid down, scuffed and marked, tips worn, folio (31.6 x 18.9 cm), Harris (William), An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Charles the Second, King Great Britain, after the Manner of Mr. Bayle, 2 volumes, 1st editions, London: for A. Millar, 1766, pp. viii 414 [2], viii 400, marginal worming to quires 2A-2C of volume 2, engraved armorial bookplates (John Bond Grange), contemporary sprinkled calf, modern morocco labels, gilt frames to sides, 8vo (20.6 x 12.2 cm), Welwood (James), Memoirs of the most Material Transactions in England, for the Last Hundred Years, preceding the Revolution in 1688, 2nd edition ('corrected'), London: for Tim. Goodwin, 1700, occasional marginal worming, affecting text in quires D and E, B6 torn at corner with loss of pagination, contemporary panelled calf, 8vo (19.2 x 11.2 cm), Warburton (Eliot), Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley 1849, 10 engraved plates, extra-illustrated with numerous plates, portraits and maps from other 19th-century works (mainly engraved, some maps hand-coloured), variable spotting and marginal damp-staining to plates, top edges gilt, 20th-century red-brown half morocco, spines sunned, 8vo (21.8 x 13.5 cm), and 3 others, not collated: 1) The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon ... written by Himself, 5 volumes, Basel, 1798, 2) Some Memorials of John Hampden ... by Lord Nugent, 2 volumes, 2nd edition, 1832, 3) A Survey of Englands Champions ... by Josiah Ricraft, 1647 [=c.1850], front board detached (Qty: 16) Provenance (Hooper): Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton (1857-1942), politician (Lyme Park bookplate dated 1904; armorial crest gilt to foot of spine). ESTC T73385 (Hooper), R15331 (Burnet), T146265 (Harris: 750 copies printed), R730 (Welwood); Wing B5832 (Burnet), W1307 (Welwood). ESTC calls for 16 unnumbered pages at the rear of Burnet's work, whereas other records call for 12 only, as in the present copy.