Edward Earl of Clarendon. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland. J. Wilford, 1720.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: London, 1720; brown leather covered boards; edge and corner wear with board exposed; spine edges chipped; front board detached but present; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Ex-Library with typical stamps and markings; interior foxed; Interior is clean and unmarked; 381 pages.

Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.

CLARENDON Edward [Hyde] Earl of 1609-1674. The History of the rebellion and civil wars in Ireland, with the true state and condition of that kingdom before the year 1640 ; and the most material passages and actions which since that time have contributed to the calamities it has undergone.. J. Wilford; and T. Jauncy, London. at the Three-Flower-de-Luces in Little-Britain; and at the Angel without Temple-Bar., 1720.

Price: US$834.12 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Clarendon's account of the events in Ireland after the death of Charles 1, the supplement to his famous History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England (1702-04). First edition, 1720, in worn contemporary calf, gilt edge tooling, corners bumped, joints cracked, bands holding. Spine, raised bands, worn gilt tooling, lacking the title label. Internally, portrait frontis, [16], 381 pp, [1] adverts, 1 pl (frontis), ink name to fep (Catherine Williams), some hipping to edge of fep & frontis, small area of very light staining to first few leaf margins, text block edges sprinkled red. (192*117 mm). (ESTC T 53951).

Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom

CLARENDON, Edward, Earl of. The History of the rebellion and civil wars in Ireland, with the true state and condition of that kingdom before the year 1640 ; and the most material passages and actions which since that time have contributed to the calamities it has undergone. , 1720.

Price: US$2755.17 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: de frontispice, XVI, 381, (1) London, J. Wilford, 1720, in-8, de frontispice, XVI, 381, (1) pp., plein veau anglais de l'époque, dos à cinq nerfs, d'une pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, Édition originale. Signé sur la page de titre par James Abercromby, peut-être le même homme décrit par ODNB comme "corpulent, lethargic, and unambitious", néanmoins, même avec ces attributs, il était commandant en second de l'armée de Grande-Bretagne en Amérique du Nord pendant La guerre de Sept Ans, il devint général en 1772. Petite fente en marge du frontispice, sinon bel état.

Seller: Librairie Alain Brieux, paris, France