A Protestation of the Most High and Mighty Prince Charles Lodowicke, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Archidapifer, and Prince Elector of the Sacred Empire, Duke of Bavaria, & c.

Karl Ludwig, Elector Palatine

Richard Whitaker, 1637

Fine modern leather spine over blue boards and vellum tips.  [4], 26 pages. This book was notably published by a female printer, Anne Griffin.  Quite unusual for the era.  A translation of: Protestatio serenissimi & celsissimi principis Caroli Ludovici. "Given at Hampton-court, the 27. of January, anno 1637"--Colophon.  Signature on renewed end pages of Leonard Forster, Oxford, 1938. Forster was a noted German scholar and Schroder Professor of German at Cambridge. During the war he served in the British Naval Reserve as a code breaker with the enigma machine.

Early English books, 1475-1640, 1829:45.  Pollard & Redgrave 5050.  STC 5050; STC ESTC S107767.