[CURIOSE]. Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra, Mysteries of State and Government. London: Bedell, Collins, 1663. Copy coming from the library of the Dukes of Grafton in Euston Hall of this collection of political and diplomatic documents of England of the Tudors and the first Stuarts, including letters, dispatches and state papers of sovereigns, ministers and leading men of government from the kingdoms of Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I. Published during the Restoration, the work constitutes one of the First large press collections of English political correspondence and is an essential source for the study of diplomacy, foreign policy and the events that led to the British Civil War. Folio (300 x 190mm) Frontispiece printed in red and black (flowering and browning). Coeva bonding in full skin (first plate detached, defects and shortcomings). Origin: "D. of Grafton, Euston library" signature of possession to the frontispiece. (1)