Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include (3) titles, (9) volumes:
Edward Gibbon; Rev. H. H. Milman. THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 5 vols. (complete). New York: A. L. Burt, [mid 1800s]. Hardcover. Blue cloth-covered boards, top edge gilt. 12mo; 662; 690; 720; 729; 649pp. Each volume with portrait frontispiece. (Boards scuffed with occasional small stain or mark, light edgewear with corners bumped, one with light offsetting; spines browned with wear at head and tail, slight separation from text block and occasional hinge cracking; previous owner sticker on paste-downs, occasional writing in pencil; pages toned, (2) leaves in vol. 4 frayed with tears and small losses, vol. 5 with small stains at head and small damp stains at fore-edge; overall about good set.)
William H. Prescott. HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO, WITH A PRELIMINARY VIEW OF THE ANCIENT MEXICAN CIVILIZATION, AND THE LIFE OF THE CONQUEROR, HERNANDO CORTÉS. 3 vols. (complete). Philadelphia: David McKay, Publisher, [1890s]. Hardcover. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt on spine, top edge stained yellow. 12mo; 430; 402; 448pp. Each volume with frontispiece. (Boards lightly marked and scuffed, corners mildly bumped, small tears at head and tail of spine; previous owner writing on first free endpaper, pages lightly toned with occasional light foxing mostly at fore-edges and endpapers, front hinge of vols. 1 and 2 cracked; good overall condition.)
Robert Hichens; Jules Guérin, ill. EGYPT AND ITS MONUMENTS. New York: The Century Co., 1908. Hardcover. Orange illustrated cloth-covered boards, top edge gilt. 4to; 272pp. With frontispiece and numerous full-page plates. (Boards slightly scuffed with gilt rubbed, browned especially at spine, corners lightly rubbed, spine with one pen mark, small stains and wear at head and tail; cracking at front hinge; pages very lightly toned with scattered foxing and occasional small stain.)
7 1/2 x 5 3/8 in. (first 8 volumes); 10 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.
From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.