JOHN NALSON. A TRUE COPY OF THE JOURNAL OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, FOR THE TRYAL OF K. CHARLES I. AS IT WAS READ IN THE HOUSE OF COMMON. London: Printed by H.C. For Thomas Drings, 1684. Folio. Later full brown leather, worn, rear cover detached (with publisher's catalog), 6-panel spine with label and gilt arabesques. Extensive sepia ink ms. notes on front free endpaper, other occasional notes in margins. Text leaf explaining engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait of Charles I by R. White, [4],1-LXX (2 pages bound out of order and pages LXII and LXII misnumbered LXIII and LXIV), engraved view of the Court and occupants, 2pp explanation of the Court (tear in lower margin and old waterstain there and lower corner of plate), 1-128, 6pp List of Members of the Court, 1p Publisher's Catalog. Wing N116. $200 - $300 Estimate $200-300
PROVENANCE: Estate of Ambassador and Mrs. William H.G. FitzGerald, Washington, DC, by descent from Ignaz Petschek and Nikodem Caro, Austro-Hungarian Empire.
