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Title: Lot of fourteen titles Author: ** Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Comprises: Blair, Edward T. Henry of Navarre And The Religious Wars. Philadelphia, 1895. * Maugras, Gaston. The Duc De Lauzun And The Court of Marie Antoinette. London, 1896. * The Desert World. From the French of Arthur Mangin. London, 1869. * Hesekiel, John George Louis. The Life of Bismarck, Private and Political; With Descriptive Notices of His Ancestry. London, 1870. * Carthage And Her Remains: Being an Account of the Excavations and Researches on the Site of The Phoenician Metropolis In Africa, and Other Adjacent Places. London, 1861. * Lord Roberts of Kandahar. Forty-One Years in India From Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief. London, 1898. * Palgrave, William Gifford. Personal Narrative of A Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63). London, 1873. * Half Hours In The Wide West: Over Mountains, Rivers, and Prairies. London, 1878. * Froude, James Anthony. English Seamen in The Sixteenth Century: Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4. London, 1912. * M. De Bourrienne. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. To Which are Now First Added, An Account of the Important Events of the Hundred Days, Of Napoleon's Surrender to the English, and of His Residence and Death at St. Helena. With Anecdotes And Illustrative Notes From All The Most Authentic Sources. London, 1836. Four volumes in 2. * James, G.P.R. The Life and Times of Louis The Fourteenth. London, 1838. 4 volumes. * Lord Mahon. History of England From the Peace of Utrecht to The Peace of Aix-La-Chapelle. London, 1836. 4 volumes. * Prescott, William. History of the Conquest of Mexico, With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortez. Boston, 1855. 3 volumes. * Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs of The Court of Queen Elizabeth. London, 1823. 2 volumes. Together, 24 volumes. Mostly illustrated with frontispieces and/or other plates. Mostly, 8vo, bound in half or full morocco or calf, spines gilt. Lovely collection of leather-bound histories, including several prize bindings in full calf. Lot Amendments Condition: Condition varies; about very good with overall rubbing to bindings, some hinges cracked, corners showing, spines sunned; a few bookplates, scattered light foxing and wear. Item number: 154869