Desiderata Curiosa…Containing, I. The Complete Statesman, Exemplified in the Life and Actions of Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley…5. Queen Elizabeth's Annual Expence, Civil and Military…14. A Description of Burghley House in Stanford; and of all the principal Paintings and other Rarities now to be seen there. With many other Memoirs, Letters, Wills, and Epitaphs…Adorned with Cuts.
London: 1732. First edition of an uncommon book in the first edition. Only 250 copies of each volume were printed. A second edition appeared in 1779. Engraved frontisportrait in each of the two volumes, plus nine other engraved plates. Title-pages in re and black, with engraved vignettes. Dedication to Lord.....