Ancient history – Niebuhr (B. G.), trans. Hare (Julius Charl...

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Ancient history – Niebuhr (B. G.), trans. Hare (Julius Charles) & Thirlwall (Connop), The History of Rome, 3 vols., London, Taylor, Walter & Maberley, 1851, small 8vo, Vol. I: xxxiv + 626pp with folding map of ancient Italy’; Vol. II: xii + 644pp; Vol. III (translated Smith (William, LLD) & Schmitz (Leonhard, PhD, FRSE), xvi + 717pp; Niebuhr (B. G.) ed. Smitz (Leonhard, PhD, FRSE), Lectures on the History of Rome from the earliest Times to the Death of Constantine, 2 Vols of 3, London, Taylor, Walter & Maberley 1849, Vol. I: xxii + 552; Vol III: xii + 406, al five volumes small 8vo, uniformly bound en suite, red edges, half calf over marbled boards, five raised bands, gilt lines and titles to spine, all numbered in order as above as Vols. I-IV and VI, lacking Vol. V (Niebuhr’s Lectures Vol II.) (5)
Est: £50-70
155693.15 World history – Williams (Henry Smith, LLD), The Historian’s History oof the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations from the Earliest Times as Recorded by over Two Thousand of the Great Writers of All Ages, edited with the assistance of a Distinguished Board of Advisors and Contributors, 27 Vol. in 15, London, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 5th edn., 1926, 8vo, illustrated with some colour and numerous monochrome plates, bound half maroon buckram over red boards, gilt lines and titles to spines (15)