Roisecco (Gregorio) Roma Antica, e Moderna..., vol.1 only (of 3), engraved frontispiece, folding plan and 18 folding plates, numerous engraved or woodcut illustrations, light browning, large plate of forum torn, contemporary vellum, rubbed, spine a little worn at foot, Rome, N.Roisecco, 1765 § Plutarch. Lives, translated by John & William Langhorne, 6 vol., engraved portrait, contemporary half calf, 1819 § Thirlwall (Connop) The History of Greece, 8 vol., folding maps, contemporary half morocco, 1845-52 § James (William) The Naval History of Great Britain, 6 vol., engraved portraits, folding tables, contemporary calf, spines gilt, 1847 § Carlyle (Thomas) History of Friedrich II. of Prussia called Frederick the Great, 6 vol., plates & maps, contemporary calf, gilt, 1886-87 § Partington (C.F., editor) The British Cyclopaedia..., 10 vol. (Arts & Sciences, Biography, Geography, Natural History), engraved plates, illustrations, contemporary half calf, 1835-38 § Clark (Sir George, editor) [The Oxford History of England], 16 vol. in 15, 1399-1485 & 1914-1945 vol. first editions, the rest second editions or reprints, original cloth, spines faded, Oxford, 1961-65 § Raubstaat England, 501-700 thousand, tipped-in illustrations, original wrappers, creased & frayed at edges, Hamburg-Bahrenfeld, [?1941], some with modern ink inscription of the historian Dr. Rohan Butler, some foxing, rubbed; and a small quantity of others, mostly OUP World's Classics, 8vo et infra (Qty)
⁂ The last is a German World War II cigarette card album of anti-British propaganda portraying the British as a predatory state, inscribed to the historian Rohan Butler on title.
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