Group of Twelve Miscellaneous Sets. New York and elsewhere: [1815]-1984. Mixed editions.... (Total: 22 Items)

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[Ambrose Bierce, Benjamin Franklin, et al]. Group of Twelve Sets. New York and elsewhere: [1815]-1984. Includes: Hewson Clarke. An Impartial History of the Naval, Military and Political Events in Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Entrance of the Allies into Paris and the Conclusion of a General Peace Including a Copious & Original Narrative of the Origin & Progress of that Revolution... Suffolk: Brightly & Childs, [1815]. Two octavo volumes. [and:] [Thomas Moore, Oliver Goldsmith, James Clarence Mangan, et al]. The Poets & Poetry of Ireland. New York: Thomas Farrell & Son, [n.d. circa 1820]. [and:] [The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge]. The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. London: Charles Knight, 1833. Seven octavo volumes. [and:] Princess Marie Liechtenstein. Holland House. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. Two octavo volumes. [and:] J. R. Seeley. Life and Times of Stein, or Germany and Prussia in the Napoleonic Age. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1878. Three octavo volumes. [and:] Charles de Kay. Life and Works of Antoine Louis Barye Sculptor with Eighty-Six Wood-Cuts Artotypes and Prints in Memory of an Exhibition of His Bronzes Paintings and Water-Colors Held at New-Yorkin Aid of the Fund for His Monument at Paris. New-York: Barye Monument Association, 1889. Octavo. [and:] [John Milton]. Gustave Doré (illustrator). Milton's Paradise Lost. New York: Cassell & Company, [n.d. circa 1890]. Quarto. [and:] Rossiter Johnson. Campfire and Battlefield: An Illustrated History of the Campaigns and Conflicts of the Great Civil War. New York: Bryan, Taylor & Co., [1894]. Quarto. [and:] Arthur Rackham (illustrator). Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen Children's Books, [1973]. Octavo. [and:] Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary. Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1980. Octavo. [and:] J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur. Letters from an American Farmer; Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs, Not Generally Known; and Conveying Some Idea of the Late and Present Interior Circumstances of the British Colonies in North America. Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1982. Octavo. [and:] Benjamin Franklin. The Prefaces, Proverbs, and Poems from Poor Richard's Almanacks for 1733-1758. Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1984. Octavo. Contemporary bindings. Boards and edges somewhat rubbed and scuffed, edges and corners mildly worn, a few spine ends chipped. Text blocks lightly toned, some with leaves foxed. A few volumes with boards detached but present. Overall, very good. From the library of Sylvester Stallone.