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.