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The History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in MDCCLXXXIX to the...

The History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in MDCCLXXXIX to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCCXV [twelve volumes in six, plus an index volume]. [Together with] History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII [eight volumes in four]

Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1853-1880 (ninth edition, one a later reprint), and 1864-1878 (eighth and ninth thousands). With the later pictorial bookplate of 'Bernard G. Brett, Mahon, Toorak' in each volume. This set does not contain the companion atlas (oblong large octavo). More

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The Philosophical Works of the late Right Honorable Henry St John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, in...

The Philosophical Works of the late Right Honorable Henry St John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, in Five Volumes

London, David Mallet, 1754 (first collected octavo edition). Each volume contains the armorial bookplate of A.R. Downer, Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer (1910-1981), politician and diplomat. He was the Minister for Immigration under Menzies from 1958, and the Australian High Commissioner in London from 1963 to 1972. Henry St John..... More

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The Greville Memoirs. A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV. Edited by...

The Greville Memoirs. A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV. Edited by Henry Reeve

London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874 (second edition). The complete first series in an attractive Victorian binding. A further five volumes in two series were published, covering the reign of Queen Victoria. Each volume contains the armorial bookplate of the South Australian pastoralist and book collector Henry Hampden Dutton (1879-1932);..... More

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The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II...

The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II (three volumes), [together with] View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages (three volumes), [and] Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries (three volumes)

London, John Murray, respectively 1854 (seventh edition), 1856 (eleventh edition), and 1854 (fourth edition). A handsome set of the principal works of Henry Hallam in nine volumes, with the armorial bookplates of Sir Alexander 'Alick' Russell Downer KBE (1910-1981) and Sergius Henry d'Avigdor in each volume. More

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The Ocean of Story. Being C.H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara (or Ocean of...

The Ocean of Story. Being C.H. Tawney's Translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara (or Ocean of Streams of Story). Now edited with Introduction, fresh Explanatory Notes and Terminal Essay by N.M. Penzer

London, Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd., 1924. Number 240 of 1500 sets. Read on only if you need enlightenment: 'Somadeva, (flourished 1070), Kashmiri Brahman of the Saiva sect and Sanskrit writer who preserved much of India's ancient folklore in the form of a series of..... More

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A uniformly bound collection of works by or relating to Horace Walpole, comprising seven titles...

A uniformly bound collection of works by or relating to Horace Walpole, comprising seven titles in 28 octavo volumes. [1] A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland.. Enlarged and continued to the present time, by Thomas Park (5 volumes; London, printed for John Scott, 1806). [2] Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third.. Edited, with notes, by Sir Denis Le Marchant (4 volumes; London, Richard Bentley, 1845, first edition). [3] Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second. Edited .. by the late Lord Holland (3 volumes; London, Henry Colburn, 1846-1847, first edition). [4] Anecdotes of Painting in England, with some Account of the Principal Artists .. A new edition, revised, with additional notes, by Ralph N. Wornum (3 volumes; London, Bohn, 1849). [5] Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his Contemporaries .. Edited by Eliot Warburton (2 volumes; London, Henry Colburn, 1851, first edition). [6] The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Edited by Peter Cunningham (9 volumes; London, Richard Bentley, 1857-59, first edition). [7] Journal of the Reign of King George the Third, from the year 1771 to 1783.. Edited, with notes, by Dr Doran (2 volumes; London, Richard Bentley, 1859, first edition)

Horace Walpole (1717-1797), fourth Earl of Orford, English author, letter-writer, politician, collector, architectural innovator ... but 'above all, a wit, a virtuoso, and a man of quality' ('Dictionary of National Biography'). More

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The Masterpieces of Emile Zola. [Comprising] L'Assommoir; La Curée; Germinal; Nana; Pot-Bouille;...

The Masterpieces of Emile Zola. [Comprising] L'Assommoir; La Curée; Germinal; Nana; Pot-Bouille; [and] La Terre

[Philadelphia], 'Printed for subscribers only from the plates made by the Lutetian Society' [by George Barrie & Son, circa 1924]. Number 160 of 1000 sets of the 'Library Edition, with the etchings on Japan paper', comprising unexpurgated translations of six novels from Zola's sweeping Rougon-Macquart novel cycle. The stated aim..... More

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