[Rarebooks] fa: 17th-18th Century British History Titles (ESTC, Sabin, etc.)

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

The first part of a large collection of uncommon (and some downright 
scarce) Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century works relating to the 
political, religious, military, naval, legal and social history of 
ENGLAND, SCOTLAND and IRELAND. Numerous STC titles. No reserves and 
crazy low opening bids. Ending Saturday, March 10. They can be found at 
the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

Cheers,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZarchQ5finQ5fla

Including:

ANNO REGNI GEORGE II - Acts of Parliament 1727-1732 re: AMERICA Whaling 
NAVIGATION Mutiny BEER Taxes etc.
An extraordinary collection of thirty-eight Parliamentary Acts enacted 
from 1727-1732, providing a fascinating glimpse of early Georgian 
politics, economics, law, religion and society.

John Oldmixon - HISTORY OF ADDRESSES - Swiftian Satire 1709

HISTORIA MAJORIS BRITANNIAE 1740 - SCOTLAND - ROBIN HOOD

James Macpherson HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN - 2 vols. 1775. CHARLES II 
James II WILLIAM & MARY Queen Anne GEORGE I...

An Enquiry Into the MISCARRIAGES OF THE FOUR LAST YEARS REIGN - 1714.
QUEEN ANNE - JACOBITES - THE PRETENDER - SCOTLAND

Reflections on a late Speech by the Lord Haversham, in so far as it 
relates to the Affairs of Scotland... London: B. Bragg, 1704. First 
Edition.

BOXING - THE PATRIOT : LORD BUCKHORSE - Cambridge 1768
[Christopher Anstey:] The Patriot: A Pindaric Address to Lord 
Buckhorse. The Second Edition. With an Appendix. Cambridge: Fletcher 
and Hudson, 1768. Softcover 4to (9.5 x 7.5in) in original tan stiff 
wrappers; 67 pp. A mock-heroic ode to John Smith, alias "Lord" 
Buckhorse, a pugilist active from about 1730 to 1750. A superb example 
of this delightful and scarce work, a must for any collection of 
Boxiana, Cambridgiana, and/or 18th century English sporting life....

The RISE and FALL of the Late Projected EXCISE, Impartially Consider'd 
: By a friend to the English Constitution. London: Printed for J. 
Peele, 1733. First Edition. Kress 4135; ESTC T063487; Hanson 4589; 
Goldsmiths' 7157. A famous post-mortem defense of the controversial 
"excise scheme" of Robert Walpole and his administration...

The NEW ASSOCIATION of MODERATE-CHURCH-MEN, MODERN WHIGS & FANATICKS to 
BLOW-UP the CHURCH & GOVERNMENT.  1702-05

JAMES MELVILLE Memoirs 1735 - MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS & JAMES I

Dugdale ORIGINES JURIDICIALES 1671 - Heraldry INNS OF COURT
William Dugdale: Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the 
English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal, Punishment in Cases 
Criminal, Law-writers, Law-books, Grants and Settlements of Estates, 
Degree of Serjeant, Innes of Court and Chancery. Also a chronologie of 
the lord chancelors and keepers of the great seal, lord treasurers, 
justices itinerant, justices of the Kings Bench and Commom Pleas, 
barons of the Exchequer, masters of the rolls, Kings attorneys and 
sollicitors, and serjeants at law... Engraved portraits and coats of 
arms.

Jacobite MEMOIRS OF SCOTLAND Queen Anne to Union - 1714

Proceedings of the PARLIAMENT OF SCOTLAND 1703-04

and more...