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Lot 244

CIVIL WAR
Sesquiseculum Anglicanum oder Kurtze jedoch gründliche Erzehlung, was sich in Engeland von der Regierung Heinrici des Achten, biß auff die jüngst vorgenommene Enthäuptung Caroli des Ersten ... zugetragen, 2 parts in 1 vol., Leipzig, Timotheus Ritzsche, 1649

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
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CIVIL WAR

Sesquiseculum Anglicanum oder Kurtze jedoch gründliche Erzehlung, was sich in Engeland von der Regierung Heinrici des Achten, biß auff die jüngst vorgenommene Enthäuptung Caroli des Ersten ... zugetragen, 2 parts in 1 vol., folding engraved plate of the execution of Charles I, 5 engraved portaits, 'Genealogia' leaf at end, rather browned throughout, some old ink underscoring and marginal marks, 2 very small holes to folding plate, nineteenth century green half morocco, spine gilt, 4to (188 x 155mm.), Leipzig, Timotheus Ritzsche, 1649

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Extremely scarce German work on the English Civil War and its religious and royal origins. The only copy of listed in auction records was lacking the execution plate. The portraits, one signed by Johann Reinholdt Schildknecht, are of Cromwell, Thomas Wentworth, Thomas Fairfax, William Laud and Charles I.

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