LYTE, Sir H.C. Maxwell.
A History of Eton College (1440-1910).
London, Macmillan and Co., 1911.
Colonel Robin George Sykes (b. 1917) would serve in the Royal Army Medical Corps, become a Fellowof the Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Surgeons of England, was awarded the Territorial Decoration, and made HM Honorary Surgeon in 1964.
Fourth edition, revised and enlarged; 8vo (25.5 x 18 cm); gift inscription in pen to front free endpaper, folding colour plan of Eton College and numerous other illustrations including an engraved frontispiece, full colour plates, and woodcut initials; contemporary full red morocco by Spottiswood and Co, spine lettered in gilt in six compartments, all edges gilt, occasional light spotting, spine a touch faded, else a fine copy; 627 pp.
Stock code 123159
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A History of Eton College (1440-1910).
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
£1,500.00
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
£3,500.00
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
£800.00
TROTSKY, Leon.
Stalin
1947.
The first UK edition of Leon Trotsky's biography of Joseph Stalin
£550.00
