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Lot 1168
Large Group of Assorted Books
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
19th and 20th century, many leather bound, to include:

one volume of Marcus Tullius Cicero's Opera Omnia, edited by Ernesti (Oxford: Collingwood, 1810); one volume of Delle Rivoluzioni d'Italia by Carlo Denina (Florence: Della Stamperia Piatti, 1820); (9) volumes of The Percy Anecdotes. Original and Select. by Sholto and Reuben Percy (London: Printed for T. Boys, 1823); (7) volumes (complete) of The Works of Mrs. Hemans, with a Memoir by Her Sister, and an Essay on her Genius, by Mrs. Sigourney (Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard, 1840); The Ladies' Wreath and Parlor Annual (New York: Burdick and Scovill, n.d. [ca. 1850s]); one volume of Hypatia: or, New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1857. Copyright edition); one volume of A History of Greece by George Grote (London: Murray, 1869. New ed.); (10) volumes of The Holy Bible (London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., n.d. [late 1800s]); (6) volumes (complete) of P. L. M. Grande Romance Parisiense by Xavier de Montépin (Lisboa: David Corazzi, 1886-1887); Landgreven by Alex. Thorsoe (Kobenhavn: Forlag, 1906); (4) volumes of John L. Stoddard's Lectures (Chicago and Boston: Geo. L. Shuman & Co., 1925); The Williamsburg Art of Cookery or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion... by Mrs. Helen Bullock (Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg, 1955. 7th printing. Facsimile of 18th-century book).

Largest 9 x 6 1/4 in.; smallest 4 3/4 x 3 5/8 in.

Fair to very good condition; many sets incomplete; most with typical age wear such as toning, foxing, occasional small damp stain, and scuffing and edgewear to boards; a few with loose boards and a History of Greece with lower board detached but present and significant wear to backstrip.