CHURCHILL, Winston.
The Island Race.
London, Cassell, 1964.
The abridged single volume edition of the earlier four-volume work published in the 1950s under the title; History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
First edition thus with a tipped-in Downing Street letter-head card printed; 'I thank you for your kind greetings on my eightieth birthday', with facsimile signature; 4to, (100 x 240 cm); colour plates and further black & white illustrations within the text, slight age-toning to text leaves, otherwise near-fine; original full crimson morocco for Asprey & Co. Ltd., gilt panelled with gilt botanical devices to spine panels representing Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England, all edges gilt, a fine, very handsomely-bound copy.
Stock code 123309
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The Island Race.
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
