A History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I: Major General Whalley, Major-General Goffe and Colonel Dixwell: Who, at the Restoration of 1660, Fled to America; and were secreted and concealed, in Massachusetts and Connecticut, for near thirty years
Hartford: Elisha Babcock, 1794.
First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Good Condition. Item #046755
ISBN: NoISBN
Later half leather over marbled boards, old bookplates on endpapers, old ownership signature to endpaper - boards detached, spine defective, frontis portrait resized and tipped back in, chipped at edges, very mild scattered foxing, old repair to bottom of one folding map plate (or just a missed impression of the plate). Otherwise very good internally, plates fine and unmarked. 357pp with errata tipped in at rear. 8 plates, 3 folding, numbered i-ix lacking plate vii as usual (no copies known with plate vii). Evans 27743; Howes S-999; Sabin 91742
Details the lives and legends of the three regicide judges who landed in Boston but hid out in New Haven and Hadley - New Haven was punished for harboring the judges by being merged with the Connecticut colony in 1665. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 046755.
Price: $400.00