History, America – Prescott (William H.) History of the Conq...

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History, America – Prescott (William H.) History of the Conquest of Peru with a Preliminary View of the Civilisation of the Incas, 3 vols., London, Richard Bentley, 1854, small 12mo, marbled edges and end papers, marbled boards bound half calf, five raised band sto spines, gilt embossed titles on red reserves; Vol I: xxxi + 357, engr. frontis and map; Vol. II: xvi + 357pp, engr. frontis., Vol III: xv + 330pp, facsimile frontis. of signatures of Pizarro; Kouwenhoven (John Atlee), Adventures of America 1857-1900: A Historical Record from Harper’s Weekly, New York and London, Harper Bros., 1938, 4to, 255 woodcut illustrations from the well-known periodical, supporting script, bookplate M. C. Griswold, oatmeal cloth with mounted printed vignette to front board, titles, dirty, with some splitting to spine (4)