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479 SABATINI, RAFAEL The Writings. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1924-1933

29 vols. 8vo, 3/4 dark brown morocco lettered in gilt. Autographed edition, number 80 of 750 copies. Volume I signed by Sabatini. $400-600

480 (PLUTARCH) LANGHORNE, JOHN, trans. Plutarch’s Lives. London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778.

6 vols. With bookplate of William Wordsworth. [Together with:] The British Plutarch. Edited by T. Mortimer. London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1776. 6 vols. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. By Edward Earl of Clarendon. oxford: Clarendon Press, 1807. 6 vols. (18 vols. total) $200-400 481 (CLASSICS) A group of 14 leather-bound volumes.

A History of Classical Greek Literature. By J.P. Mahaffy. London and New York: McMillan, 1895. 2 vols. The Works of Epictetus. Translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1890. Aristotle’s Treatise on Rhetoric and The Poetic of Aristotle. By Theodore Buckley. London and New York: Henry G. Bohn, 1750. The Grecian [and] The Roman History. By oliver Goldsmith. London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, 1774-1775. 4 vols. The Works of Cornelius Tacitus. By A. Murphy. Philadelphia: Edward Earle; New York: William Frey, 1813. 3 vols. With maps. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, et al. By M. Rollin. London: John Nichols, 1821. Vols. II and IV $100-200

482 VELLY, PAUL FRANCOIS Histoire de France. Depuis l’’tablissement de la monarchie jusqu’au regne de Louis XIV. Paris: chez Salliant & Nyon, 1757-1786

33 vols. 12mo, full contemporary mottled calf, giltlettered and -tooled spines. Nouvelle edition. $200-400 483 [NICERON, JEAN PIERRE] Memoires pour servir a l’histoire des hommes illustres dans la republique des lettres. Paris: chez Briasson, 1727 and 1736

40 (of 44) vols. 12mo, full mottled calf, gilt-lettered red and green leather spine labels. First edition of this bio-bibliography of European authors from the Renaissance to the 18th century. Bookplate Thomas Munro on front pastedown of all volumes. Literature: Brunet IV, 55 $300-500

484 (FRANCE) A group of 13 leather-bound volumes pertaining to the history of France. France: Social, Literary, Political [and] The Monarchy of the Middle Class [Second Series]. By Henry Lytton Bulwer. Paris: A.W. Galignani, et al, 1834, 1836. 2 vols. Oeuvres de Jean Racin. Paris: chez Pillot, 1805. 4 vols. A Year of Revolution. By The Marquis of Normandy. London: Longman, Brown, et al, 1857. 2 vols. The Life of Napoleon. By Sir Walter Scott. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, et al., 1843. 5 vols. $100-200

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485 JACKSON, A.V. WILLIAMS, ed. The History of India. London: The Grolier Society, 1906.

9 vols. 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards. Connoisseur edition, number 192 of 200 copies for England and America. Together with an album of photographs of India, each photograph signed in the plate. (10 vols. total) $800-1,200

486 (TRAVEL) Ricordo de Venezia. Album of 18 reproduction photographs of Venice. oblong 4to, full red morocco. $50-100 487 SMOLLETT, TOBIAS AND DAVID HULME, ed. The History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George the Second. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, et al., 1848.

10 vols. 8vo, 3/4 gilt-tooled calf over marbled boards. Together with Memoires de Maximilien de Bethune duc de Sully. London: n.p., 1767. 8 vols. Letters from England. By Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella. London: Longman, Hurst, et al., 1808. 3 vols. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. By Edward Earl of Clarendon. oxford: Clarendon Press, 1807. 6 vols. The Life and Letters, The Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome, The History of England, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Maccaulay. London, 1889. 5 vols. $200-400

488 JOHNSON, SAMUEL The Works. London: Printed by Luke Hanfard, 1801.

12 vols. 8vo, mottled calf rebacked, red leather giltlettered spine labels. $100-200 489 IRVING, WASHINGTON A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada. London: John Murray, 1729.

First UK edition. Together with Voyages of the Companions of Columbus. By Washington Irving. Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1854. Pirated edition, 1831, same year as first. [also with:] Further Portions from The Diary of Lady Willoughby. London: Longman, Brown, et al., 1848. Illustrations of Lying. By Amelia opie. London: Longman, Rees, et al., 1827. 2 vols. Third edition. Three titles by Thomas H. Huxley (Hereditary Genius, on the origin of the Species, Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature). New York: D. Appleton, 1871. 3 vols. Six works by George Borrow (The Roman Rye; Roman Lavo-Li, The Bible in Spain, Wild Wales, Lavengro and The Zincali). London: John Murray, 1907. The Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers in All Parts of the World. By C. MacFarland. London: Edward Bull, 1833. $200-400

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490 (MISCELLANEOUS) Die Memoiren des Don Juan I; The British Essayists. By James Ferguson. London, 1819. Vols. 36, 39 and 40; Robespierre, A Study. By Hillaire Belloc. s.l.: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1927; The Boy’s Life of Abraham Lincoln. By Helen Nicolay. New York: The Century Co., 1906. The Historical Geography of the Holy Land. By George Adam Smith. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1897. With six maps.

(7 vols. total) $50-100 491 (LITERATURE) A group of collected literary works in 59 leatherbound volumes.

The Curiosities [and] The Amenities of Literature [with] Literary Character. By Isaac Disraeli. London: Frederick Warne, et al., n.d. 6 vols. [The Works of Charles Dickens.] London: Chapman and Hall, 1875. 19 (of 30) vols. [The Works of Meredith.] London: Constable, 1915. 18 vols. The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for Young Readers. London: Wm. Ibister, 1880. The Library Companion. By Rev. T.F. Dibdin. London: Printed for Harding et al, 1824. 2 vols. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. London: Smith, Elder, 1901. 13 vols. $400-600

492 (BIOGRAPHY) A group of 24 leather-bound volumes pertaining to biography.

The Works [and] The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster. Boston: Little, Brown, 1864. 4 vols. The Letters of the Celebrated Junius. Volume 1 only. London: n.p., 1783. The Lives of the Engineers. By Samuel Smiles. London: John Murray, et al., 1874. 3 vols. The Works of Cornelius Tacitus. By A. Murphy. Philadelphia: Edward Earle; New York: William Frey, 1813. 3 vols. With maps. The History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great. By Thomas Carlyle. London: Chapman & Hall, n.d. 3 vols. Marlborough: His Life and Times. By Winston Churchill. London: George Harrap, 1947. 2 vols. The Memoirs of Marmontel. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, et al, 1805. 4 vols. The Private Papers of Senator Vandenberg. Edited by Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1952. Theodore Roosevelt and His Time. By Joseph Bucklin Bishop. Volume 1 only. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1920. The Autobiography of William Allen White. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1946. David Rockefeller. Memoirs. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2002. First edition. Inscribed by Rockefeller. $200-400

493 (AMERICANA) A group of 26 volumes bound in leather pertaining to American history.

The American Statesman. Edited by John T. Morse, Jr. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin; New York and Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1896, 13 vols. Harper’s Encyclopedia of United States History. s.l.: Harper & Bros., 1902. 10 vols. American Biography. Compiled by Thomas J. Rogers. New York: J. Gladding, 1834. The History of the Bucaniers of America. By Alexandre oliver Exquemelin. London: for T. Evans, 1774. 2 vols. Fifth edition $200-400

494 (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM) NICOLAY, JOHN AND JOHN HAY, ed. Abraham Lincoln: A History. New York: Century, 1904. 10 vols. 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco. $100-200

495 (THOMAS, ISAIAH, prnt.) BELKNAP, JEREMY American Biography: or An Historical Account of those Persons Who Have Been Distinguished in America. Boston: Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1794 and 1798

2 vols. 8vo, rebound in modern black leather, pastedown spine labels. First editions. Literature: BAL 934 & 942 Howes B-322 $200-400

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