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Lot 266
Seven Sets of Finely Bound Books, 19th - Early 20th Century
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To include: J. S. Clarke, Vie de Jacques II, Roi D'Angleterre (Paris, Arthus Betrand, 1819), four volumes, small 8vo (8-1/4 in.), gilt half leather over marbled boards. A French translation of Clark's English language biography of Britain's King James II; plus, Jackson, Catherine Charlotte. Three biographical titles in four books from a larger set of biographies (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1878 - 1890), small octavo (8 in.),all bound in full calf with gilt, titles being The First of the Bourbons, 2 volumes, Old Paris, Volume I; The Old Regime, Vol. II; plus, Hazlitt, W. Works of Michael de Montaigne (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1872), small 8vo (7-3/4 in.), three-quarter calf over marbled boards; plus, McCarthy, Justin. A History of Our Own Times (London: Chatto & Windus, 1887), small 8vo (8 in.), two volumes, three-quarter leather over marble boards; plus, Milman, Henry Hart. The History of Christianity (London: John Murray, 1892) three volumes, 12mo (7-1/4 in.), blue calf with gilt; plus, The Works of George Eliot (Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, n.d., circa 1890), six volumes, 12mo (7 in.), three-quarter red calf over marbled boards; Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda (two volumes) and Romola (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901-1904), three-quarter calf over marbled boards.

From the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Julius J. Chamberlain, Jr., Charlotte, North Carolina

Light shelf wear; stains to top board of the Old Regime; overall attractive books in very good estate condition.