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A group of 13 volumes including: Robespierre: A Study. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First American Edition. [with] Dido, Queen of Hearts. New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. [with] Alexander: A Romantic Biography. New York: Cosmopolitian Book Corporation, 1928. [with] Danton: A Study. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First American Edition. With new preface and 17 illustrations. [with] Charlemagne and the United States of Europe. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1932. Illustrated. [with] The Life and Times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. A Study in the Origin of the Roman Empire. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. New and Revised Edition. Illustrated. [with] Lorenzo the Magnificent. New York: Brentano's, 1929. [with] The Life and Times of Catherine de Medici. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1935. With 16 illustrations. [with] Tamerlane, the Earth Shaker. New York: Robert M. McBride, 1930. Illustrated. [with] Louis the Fifthteenth and his Times. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1934. [with] William the Conqueror. London: Longmans, Green, 1932. First Edition. [with] Josephus. New York: The Viking Press, 1932. [with] Hannibal. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1930. Third printing, illustrated. 8vos, 3/4 blue morocco on blue cloth, spines gilt, t.e.g., some with marbled endpapers. Frontispieces on some volumes. Slight rubbing to spines; minor wear to edges; rubbing to corners. Property from the Collection of The Steins, Glencoe, Illinois


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Date:
2017-05-04

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