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Lot 157
Four Antique Leather Bound Sets of Books
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include: Poems by C. (Charles) Churchill (London: John Churchill and W. Flexney, 1769), inscribed by a William Darby, 1770, 8vo (8-3/4 in.), full calf with gilt rules, marbled endpapers (light foxing, stains to calf, the top board warped); Gillies, John. The History of Ancient Greece, It's Colonies and Conquests (Philadelphia: James Y. Humphreys, 1822), 8vo (8-3/4 in.), four volumes, full calf, gilt to spine, Volumes I and 2 each with a fold-out map (fair with stains, warped boards, Volume II's top board is disbound, Fair condition); Gibbon, Edward. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (New York: J. & J. Harper, 1826), six volumes, 8vo (8-3/4 in.), full calf with gilt to spine; moderate chips and stains to boards; internal foxing; fair condition; Mills, Charles. The History of the Crusades, For the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land (London: Longman, Hurst & others, 1821), 8vo (8-3/4), full calf with gilt rules, fold-out map in Vol. I (spines lifting; stains; fair condition).