Group of 34 Leatherbound Books on History
some fine bindings, The History of England, with a continuation to the year 1859, by Hume and Smollett, London: James S. Virtue, three volumes, in full blue leather, morocco spine label, elaborately gilt spine; Macaulay's History of England, tree calf leather, with morocco spine labels, elaborately gilt spine, marbled endpapers and matching edges, eight volumes (complete), plus two volume Life and Letters; Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, London: Dean and Son, 1911, teg; Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters, by Logan Marshall, illustrated; Historical Memorials of Canterbury, by Arthur P. Stanley, London: John Murray, 1895; English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century, by James Anthony Froude, Bombay and Calcutta, Longmans, Green and Company, 1909; two sets of Prescott's Works, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1860, including three volume set Conquest of Mexico, three quarter leather over marbled boards, morocco spine labels, elaborately gilt decorated spines, teg
Provenance: Private Bluffton, South Carolina Collection
Condition Report: general wear, bumped corners, interior inscriptions, foxing, at least one with interior bookplate
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some fine bindings, The History of England, with a continuation to the year 1859, by Hume and Smollett, London: James S. Virtue, three volumes, in full blue leather, morocco spine label, elaborately gilt spine; Macaulay's History of England, tree calf leather, with morocco spine labels, elaborately gilt spine, marbled endpapers and matching edges, eight volumes (complete), plus two volume Life and Letters; Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage, London: Dean and Son, 1911, teg; Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters, by Logan Marshall, illustrated; Historical Memorials of Canterbury, by Arthur P. Stanley, London: John Murray, 1895; English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century, by James Anthony Froude, Bombay and Calcutta, Longmans, Green and Company, 1909; two sets of Prescott's Works, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1860, including three volume set Conquest of Mexico, three quarter leather over marbled boards, morocco spine labels, elaborately gilt decorated spines, teg
Provenance: Private Bluffton, South Carolina Collection
Condition Report: general wear, bumped corners, interior inscriptions, foxing, at least one with interior bookplate