Antiquarian Books. The Illustrated London News, July to Dece...

Hammer

£20

Antiquarian Books. The Illustrated London News, July to December, 1875 & July to December, 1877, each lacking any general title-page, profusely illustrated throughout with in-text illustrations and some full-page plates, adverts, original publisher's cloth, pictorial gilt, split with some movement in places, bumped in places, folio (41 x 29.5cm); France: L'Ecluse des Loges (Pierre-Mathurin de, editor), Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister of Henry the Great [...], four volumes only (of five): volumes I-II & IV-V, Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1770, contemporary calf bindings, later ownership inscription: William Tod Ritchie, 8vo in 4s; & Thiers (M.A.), The History of the French Revolution, three volumes, London: Whittaker and Co., n.d. [c. 1850], black-ruled double-column, contemporary calf over marbled boards, later 19th c cypher bookplates to pastedown, 8vo, (9)