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London: by Robert Barker and John Bill 1620. First edition in English, folio (33.5 x 21cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, colophon leaf present, blanks and endpapers discarded, inner hinges strengthened, quires 2M-N transposed, C3 with short closed tear at foot [ESTC S116698; STC 21761]; Fuller, Thomas. The Church-History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ, to the Year M. DC. XLVIII. London: for John Williams [1655]. First edition, folio (33 x 21.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, engraved folding map of Cambridge, 4 engraved plates (one double-page), rear board detached, loss to lower fore corners of first 2 leaves to partial loss of imprint in title-page, occasional browning, a few damp-stains and other marks, folding map laid down, old repair and early annotations to final leaf verso [ESTC R14493; Wing F2416]; [Adams, John]. Index Villaris: or, an Exact Register, alphabetically digested, of all the Cities, Market-Towns, Parishes, Villages, the Hundred, Lath, Rape, Ward, Wapentake, or other Division of each County, London: for T. Sawbridge, 1690. Second edition, large folio (37 x 22cm), contemporary mottled calf, rebacked at an early date, no pp. 265-8 but text continuous, closed tear to foot of E2, light worming in gutter towards rear [ESTC R4927; Wing A480]; [Commonwealth of England]. Original Letters and Papers of State, addressed to Oliver Cromwell ... Found among the Political Collections of Mr. John Milton London: by William Bowyer and sold by John Whiston, 1743. Folio (35.5 x 21.5cm), contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered, contemporary bookplate (Lt. Colonel Pechell), Castle Goring book-label, heavy craquelure to sides, variable browning [ESTC T56123]; and 8 others, 17th and 18th century folios (these not collated): [John Stow, The Annales, or Generall Chronicle of England, 1615] (first edition, contemporary calf, lacking all before [par.]7 and all after 4Q2, ex library, covers near-detached); John Walker An Attempt towards Recovering an Account of the Numbers and Sufferings of the Clergy ... in the late Times of the Grand Rebellion, 1714 (contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Tracts, being a Collection of Several Treatises relating to the Government. Privately Printed in the Reign of K. Charles II, 1693 (contemporary mottled calf, front board detached); [John Oldmixon], The History of England during the Reign of the Royal House of Stuart, 1730 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked); Sir Robert Baker A Chronicle of the Kings of England, 1643 (first edition, 19th-century tan half calf, engraved portrait frontispiece and title-page, both laid down, early text-leaves remargined, browning); Peter Heylyn, The Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts, 1681 (first edition, contemporary panelled calf, worn lacking frontispiece); idem, Ecclesia Restuarata: The History of the Reformation of the Church of England, 1674 (third edition, contemporary mottled calf, rebacked and recornered); Isaac Barrow, A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy, 1683 (contemporary mottled calf, joints cracked, browning, worming) (12) 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).