HOLMES, Richard R.
Queen Victoria.
London, Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1897.
First edition; 4to (33 x 26 cm); hand-coloured lithographed frontispiece with gilt decorations, 40 plain lithographed plates (of which 22 full-page) with captioned tissue-guards, spotting to some pages, though not affecting legibility of text, browning to half-title and final leaf, else good; later half red morocco over pink cloth boards lined in gilt, gilt crest to upper board, spine in 6 compartments lined, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, a little offsetting to edges, some general signs of wear to extremities and joints, very mildly faded to edges of cloth boards, else very good; 201pp.
Stock code 124225
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Queen Victoria.
MALVEZZI, Virgilio; MONMOUTH, Henry Carey (Earl of).
[Romulus and Tarquin].
1637.
The first edition in English of Virgilio Malvezzi's histories of the legendary Roman kings Romulus and Tarquin, translated by Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth
$2,050.00
THUCYDIDES; HOBBES, Thomas (translator).
History of the Grecian War:
1676.
The final lifetime edition of Thomas Hobbes's English-language translation of Thucydides History of the Grecian War
$4,783.00
SARPI, Paolo; BROWN, Edward (translator).
The Letters of the Renowned Father Paul,
1693.
The first edition in English of the collected letters of Paolo Sarpi, translated out of the Italian by Edward Brown
$1,094.00
TROTSKY, Leon.
Stalin
1947.
The first UK edition of Leon Trotsky's biography of Joseph Stalin
$752.00
