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TOUCHET, JAMES, 3RD EARL OF CASTLEHAVEN.
The Memoires .... his engagement and carriage in the Wars of Ireland, from the
year 1642 to the year 1651 - London: 1681. 8vo. pp. [vii], 136, [7], 79. A very good
copy in old calf rebacked. Wing C 1235.
First authorised edition “for Joanna Brome”, a pirated version having been pub-
lished “for Henry Brome” the previous year. The author having commanded forces
for the Confederate Catholics and afterwards for the Royalists, it was only to be
expected that his would one of the most controversial of the memoirs dealing with
the civil war in Ireland, and that it spawned its own literature. Sweeney 5120.
€200 - €300
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TRAGICUM THEATRUM ACTORUM & CASUUM TRAGICORUM
LONDINI PUBLICE CELEBRATORUM
Amsterdam: 1649. 8vo with eight engraved portraits of Charles I and II, Thomas
Wentworth, Archbishop Laud, Sir Thomas Fairfax, Oliver Cromwell, James
Hamilton, Henry Earl of Holland together with a folding plate showing the execu-
tion of Charles I at Whitehall on January 30th. pp. 320. A very good copy in old
vellum, title on brown morocco letter piece on spine.
Although many copies lack the Henry Holland portrait. An interesting set
of pen-pictures relating to the principal characters involved in the civil war.
Provenance: The Evelyn Library copy. Sweeney 5128. COPAC locates the BL copy
only.
€400 - €600
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TRAVERS. JOHN.
A sermon preached in St Andrew’s-Church, Dublin; before the Honourable, the
House of Commons, the 8th day of October 1695 - Dublin [1695]. 4to. pp. [iii], 14.
A very good copy in modern quarter morocco. Wing T 2057. COPAC locates the
BL copy only.
Travers was Minister of St Andrew’s and Chaplain to the House. This was a day of
thanksgiving to mark “the preservation of .... King William, and the good success
of his, and his allies forces this last campagn”. He argues of the Irish Papists “that
their fairest pretensions of friendship, and professions of fidelity, have proved alike
perfidious and consequently most dangerous .... and they are very conformable to
Cardinal Mazarines maxim ....that no honest man ought to be a slave to his word.”
Sweeney 5129.
€400 - €600
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