Book Details
| Author: | Whitelocke, The Lord Commissioner: |
| Title: | A Journal of the Swedish Ambassy, in the Years M.DC.L.III and M.DC.LIV From the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. |
| Published: | London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1772. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 01 - Literature |
| Description: | First edition. 8.75 x 11 inches. Written by the Ambassador The Lord Commissioner Whitelocke. With an Appendix of Original Papers. In Two Volumes. Volume I - Dedication To the Right Honourable George Augustus Lord Viscount Lumley, 532 pp - Journal commences August 23, 1653 and runs to 31 December, 1653, then commences January I, 1653 and ends Friday, 24 February 1653. Volume II - 502 pp - commences March 25, 1654 and ends July 17, 1654 (427 pp) + Appendix. [Number I - The Author's Preface and Dedication to his Children, of his General Work, Entitled, Whitelocke's Labours Remembered in the Annales of his Life, for Instruction to his Children. Number II - A Fragment, From the Forty-Ninth Year of the Author's Annales, Respecting the Laws, &c of the Swedes and Gothes. Number III - Notes Concerning the State of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland at the time of Whitelocke's Embassy to Sweden.Number IV - Whiteslocke's Larger MS - Notes Concerning the Duty of an Ambassador. Number V - A More Particular Character of the Ambassador's Train. Number VI - Translation of the Commission Under the Great Seal.Number VII - Translation of Whitelocke's Credentials. Text very clean in both volumes. All edges untrimmed. Many pages unopened. Bound in marbled hard paper boards with navy spine. No lettering on spines. Vol I - Spine split along front edge for about 4 inches. Top, bottom and edges of spine rubbed. Edges and corners of boards rubbed. Surface of marbled boards rubbed. Overall condition VG. |
| Book Number: | #3749 |
| Price: | € 560.00 |
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