Scarce history of the Civil War with two fine plates attributed to Wenceslaus Hollar. English Civil War – Charles I Historical Discourses upon Several Occasions... by Sir Edward Walker, London, W B for Sam Keble at the Turks Head in Fleet Street 1705. Contemporary calf boards, top cover detached, but otherwise a fine fresh copy of this important Royalist version of events during the first few years of the Civil War. This copy has two fine engraved plates, one definitely by Hollar, showing Charles I on charger about to go into battle, and a second, a folding plate, almost certainly by Hollar based on an oil painting (now in the National Gallery) showing Charles I giving instructions to Sir Edward Walker, with the Royalist Army in the background. This is an important collection of material relating to the Civil War with eye witness accounts of some campaigns. Walker was Secretary of War to the King and also his Chief Clerk at the Treaty of Newport.