Burnet (Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury)

Bishop Burnet’s History of his Own Time, 2 vols., First Edition, title-page vignettes, lists of subscribers, publisher's advertisement at rear of vol. I, manuscript note on verso of title page of Vol. II: ‘The Original Manuscript of both Volumes of this History will be deposited in the Cotton Library by T Burnett’, bookplates of Sir Charles Wolseley, Bart., contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt-tooled with raised bands, morocco title labels, worn, hinges and joints cracking, [ESTC T144689], folio, for Thomas Ward, the Editor, and Henry Woodfall, 1724 & 1734;

Gibbon (Edward) Miscellaneous Works…, 2 vols., First Edition, without the third volume published in 1815, silhouette portrait frontispiece to volume I, vol. II with errata leaf, bookplates of Henry Thomas Lane, contemporary calf, spine gilt-tooled with morocco labels, rebacked, 4to, for A. Strahan et al., 1796 (4)

*** Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), a notable Whig supporter, went into exile during the reign of James Il and landed with the Dutch Invasion force of the Prince of Orange in 1688.