[Rarebooks] FS: Rushworth's "Historical Collections" 5 lg. folio vols. bound in 8. 1680-1701

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(ENGLAND) Rushworth, John. HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of Private Passages of 
State. Of Weighty Matters in Law. Of Remarkable Proceedings in Five 
Parliaments. Beginning the Sixteenth Year of King James, Anno 1618... [and Ending with 
the Death of King Charles the First 1648]. Digested in Order of Time, and 
Now Published by John Rushworth. London: Printed by J. A. for Robert Boulter 
[and others]. 1680-1701. Folio (14" x 9"). 5 volumes bound in 8. Illustrated 
with copper engraved plates (see annotation below). All volumes are 
uniformly bound in cont. diced calf with elaborately gilt tooled borders, and all 
have been expertly rebacked in period style, featuring gilt decorated spine 
compartments and red morocco labels. Occasional light foxing. A very 
attractive set.     $3,750.00 (trade discount allowed)
This set comprises Wing R2317 (2nd ed. of 1682, 1st is 1659); R2318 (1st 
ed. of 1680, in 2 vols); R2319 (1st ed. of 1692, in 2 vols), and Wing R2333a, 
which is Rushworth's THE TRYAL OF THOMAS EARL OF STRATFORD... UPON AN 
IMPEACHMENT OF HIGH TREASON. London: M. Wotton and G. Conyers. 1686 (2nd ed., 1st 
is 1680). The final title (in 2 vols): "The Fourth and Last Part..." is a 
1st ed. dated 1701 (post Wing). There is a fine double-page Map of England in 
Vol. I, a folding plate of the Battle of Naseby, 1645, in Vol. VII, and a 
total of seven engraved portraits in the set.

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