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Lot 130:
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22 Hardcover Misc. Books on English History including Lord Rochester’s Monkey by Graham Green c. 1974; A Most Extraordinary Pair – Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin by Jean Detre c. 1975; The Memoirs of Sir James Melville of Halhill edited by Gordon Donaldson c. 1969 published by the Folio Society London in slip cover; Sir Francis Drake by John Sugden c. 1990; The Diary of Baron Waldstein – A Traveller in Elizabethan Englan by G.W. Groos c. 1981; Sir William Hamilton – Envoy Extraordinary by Brian Fothergill c. 1969; The Serpent and the Stag by John Pearson c. 1983; Two copies of The First Churchill by Correlli Barnett c. 1974, one with original dust jacket; The Cecils of Hatfield House – An English Ruling Family by David Cecil c. 1973; The Courts of Illusion by rosemary Hawley Jarman c. 1983; The Escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester by Richard Ollard c. 1966 1st edition in dust jacket; Lord Somers – A Political Portrait by William L. Sachse c. 1975; Statesman and Saint – Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, and the Politics of Henry VIII by Jasper Ridley c. 1982; Lord Chesterfield – His Character and Characters by Colin Franklin c. 1993; Fuller’s Worthies Edited by Richard Barber c. 1987 published by the Folio Society London in slip cover; Brief Lives by John Aubrey edited by Richard Barber c. 1975 published by the Folio Society in slip cover; The History of England from 1485 to 1685 by Thomas Babington Macaulay edited by Peter Rowland c. 1985 published by the Folio Society London in slip cover; England under the Stuarts by George Macaulay Trevelyan c. 1996 published by the Folio Society London in slip cover; England Under the Tudors by G.R. Elton c. 1997 published by the Folio Society London in slip cover; Britain in the Hanoverian Age 1714-1837 An Encyclopedia edited by Gerald Newman c. 1997; and The War of the Roses edited by Elizabeth Hallam c. 1988. Combined lot measures approximately 17"x14"x12".
Condition: Condition – Good to Very Good – Some volumes have light soiling and wear to covers. Some volumes may have light toning and/or foxing. Some dust jackets have small tears and wear to edges. Please see photos.
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