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British & Continental Auction | June 26, 2024

Wed, Jun 26, 2024 10:00AM EDT
Lot 186

14 Books on Greek and Roman History

Estimate: $400 - $600

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14 volumes total including: Lays of Ancient Rome: with Ivry, and the Armada by Thomas Babington Macaulay (English, 1800-1859), Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1856, bound in full leather, marbled edges and endpapers; The History of Greece Under Ottoman and Venetian Domination by George Finlay, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1856, bound in full leather with blind stamped and gilt ruled covers, morocco spine label, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, marbled edges and endpapers; A History of Greece by George Grotes, London: John Murray, 1869, 12 volumes (complete), bound in three quarter brown leather, covers with blind stamped and gilt British armorial decoration (three stags trippant), morrocco spine labels, marbled edges and endpapers

Provenance: Private Collection, South Carolina

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Private Collection, South Carolina

light wear to extremities, scattered scuffs and losses to leather and boards, bumped corners, hinges tender, some staining and foxing throughout