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Lot 1162
(24) Volumes in The Story of the Nations Series
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
All 8vo and published in London by T. Fisher Unwin, 1880s and later, uniformly rebound in half red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt-stamped spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt, authors and editions vary, with numerous b&w illustrations and many folding and colored maps and plates, to include: Rome: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic, The Jews: Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, Germany, Chaldea: From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria, The Goths, Assyria: From the Rise of the Empire to the Fall of Nineveh, Holland, Phoenicia, The Hansa Towns, Russia, The Jews Under Roman Rule, Scotland: From the Earliest Times to the Present Century, Switzerland, The Byzantine Empire, Sicily, South Africa, Venice, The Crusades, Vedic India, Bohemia, The Franks, China, Modern England: From the Reform Bill to the Present Time, and A History of Norway from the Earliest Times.

7 7/8 x 5 5/8 in. each

Boards with light scuffing and edgewear, occasional rubbing, discoloration, and fading and toning; spines lightly sunned with mild wear to ends, and occasional rubbing to joints; additional wear to China with backstrip separating and Venice with minor wear at endpapers and cracking at tail of rear joint; interiors with light toning and scattered foxing, stamp on half-titles. Overall good to very good condition.