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

ALISON, Sir Archibald

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

Price: $750.00

The Winchester Edition of the Works of Jane Austen [in twelve volumes]. Jane AUSTEN

AUSTEN, Jane

The Winchester Edition of the Works of Jane Austen [in twelve volumes]

Edinburgh, John Grant, 1911 and 1912. A reissue of the ten-volume edition of 1898 (comprising Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Northanger Abbey; Mansfield Park; Emma; and Persuasion), with an additional two volumes containing Lady Susan, The Watsons, and letters of Jane Austen. More about The Winchester Edition of the Works of Jane Austen [in twelve volumes

Price: $1,800.00

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

BOLINGBROKE, Lord Viscount, Henry St JOHN

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

Price: $800.00

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian...

BURTON, Richard Francis (translator)

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Translated and annotated by Richard F. Burton

[No publishing details given, other than 'Privately printed by the Burton Club' on the title page, but probably a 1970s American facsimile reprint of the Burton Society edition of 1900-1901, which was the first reprint of the first unexpurgated edition of 1885-1888]. Penzer's bibliography of Burton contains interesting details of... More about The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian...

Price: $400.00

History of the English People [four volumes]. John Richard GREEN

GREEN, John Richard

History of the English People [four volumes]

London, Macmillan and Co., 1880 to 1883 (early printings). An attractive set of this popular social history of England from the invasion of the Anglo-Saxons to Waterloo. Provenance: James Richard Fowler (1865-1939), of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty, with this ownership signature and 'St John's College, Cambridge' in each volume. More about History of the English People [four volumes

Price: $300.00

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

GREVILLE, Charles C.F.

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

Price: $250.00

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

HALLAM, Henry

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

Price: $1,500.00

The Works of Ben Jonson in nine volumes. With notes critical and explanatory, and a biographical...

JONSON, Ben

The Works of Ben Jonson in nine volumes. With notes critical and explanatory, and a biographical memoir by W. Gifford

London, printed for G. and W. Nichol [and numerous others], 1816 (first thus). Loosly inserted is an early receipt 'Bought of S.& J. Ridge ... Newark', dated 1829. More about The Works of Ben Jonson in nine volumes. With notes critical and explanatory, and a biographical...

Price: $770.00

The History of England from the Accession of James II. Thomas Babington MACAULAY

MACAULAY, Thomas Babington

The History of England from the Accession of James II

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864. Ex libris Sir John and Sir Alick Downer; each volume bears Sir Alick's armorial bookplate on each front pastedown, and the plain bookplate of 'J.W. Downer' overlaying the bookplate in the first volume. More about The History of England from the Accession of James II

Price: $250.00

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years'...

MOTLEY, John Lothrop

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce, 1609

London, John Murray, 1868 (second edition) (first two volumes) and 1867 (first edition) (last two volumes). More about History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years'...

Price: $200.00

The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland; with a View of the Primary Causes...

MOTLEY, John Lothrop

The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland; with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years' War

London, John Murray, 1875/ 1874. Provenance: James Richard Fowler (1865-1939), of the Adelaide-based wholesale grocery dynasty, with his ownership signature in ink in each volume (and his neat underlining and marginal marks in pencil on virtually EVERY page). More about The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland; with a View of the Primary Causes...

Price: $200.00

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

PENZER, N.M. (editor)

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

Price: $750.00

The Diary of Samuel Pepys.. Transcribed .. from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library...

PEPYS, Samuel

The Diary of Samuel Pepys.. Transcribed .. from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library .. Edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley

London, Bell, 1923/ 1904 (a reissue in eight volumes of the publisher's much-reprinted ten-volume edition first published in 1893-99). More about The Diary of Samuel Pepys.. Transcribed .. from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library...

Price: $400.00

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

WALPOLE, Horace

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

Price: $3,500.00

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

ZOLA, Emile

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

Price: $1,100.00

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