Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(ENGLISH CIVIL WAR.) Tragicum Theatrum Actorum, & Casuum Tragicorum Londini Publice Celebratorum. 8 engraved portrait plates; folding plate of the beheading of Charles I. 85, [3], 85-320 pages. Small 8vo, 144x91 mm, contemporary vellum boards with later morocco lettering piece, binding somewhat soiled; occasional browning of text leaves, contemporary inscriptions on title, short repaired clean tear in G1. Amsterdam: Jodocus Jansonius, 1649

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first edition in latin of a contemporary account of the executions of Thomas Wentworth, first Earl of Strafford; William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury; King Charles I; James Hamilton, first Duke Hamilton; and Sir Henry Rich, first Earl Holland. A Dutch version was published the same year. Lowndes, page 2660.