Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859

[WORKS : LIPPINCOTT UNIFORM EDITION : 15 VOLUMES]

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865. Octavo; 15 volumes; Fair+; Hardcover; Spine, brown with gold print; Boards half bound with brown leather to spine and corners and marbled paper to boards, wear, scuffing, and surface tears to leather spines, corners, edges, torn hinges, shelfwear to paper; Text blocks have marbled edges and endpapers with a frontispiece in each volume; Set as a whole is unnumbered, each title bears its own volume numbering; CONTENTS: History of the Conquest of Peru : With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas (2 vols.; vol. II has bent front board; text blocks have cracked hinges front and rear, else clean and tight) — History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain (3 vols.; v. II has warping to boards with bent rear board, text blocks clean and tight) — History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic (3 vols.; vol. I rear board separated; text blocks have cracked front hinges, else clean and tight) — The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth / by William Robertson : With an Account of the Emperor’s Life After His Abdication / by William H. Prescott (3 vols.; vol. I rear board detached, vol. II front and rear boards detached; text blocks have cracked hinges, else clean and tight) — History of the Conquest of Mexico : With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization and the Life of the Conqueror Hernando Cortez (3 vols.; vol. II has detached rear board; text blocks clean and tight but for cracked front hinge of vol. II) — Biographical and Critical Miscellanies (1864) (1 vol.; front board detached; text block clean and tight but for cracked rear hinge). Shelved in 15's overstock, in Room X along the top of one of the shelves.

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