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George Routledge And Sons Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. Revised Editon. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth. Contains black and white photographic frontispiece. Contains 2 books, separately paginated. Pages are mildly tanned, with moderate foxing, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. A couple library labels to front endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf-wear, with noticeable corner bumping and some scuffing to edges. Spine and edges are moderately tanned, with slight crushing and splitting to ends. Various noticeable marks overall, with water stains to front board, and black marks to rear. Label to rear board.

Phillips, Sampson and Compan. 1856. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover; new edition; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; refe rence number taped to spine and front board; fading and shelf wear to exter ior; corners bumped; fading to pages, and staining to page edges; margin no tes; in fair condition with tight binding. .

J.B. Lippincott Company, Phil, 1895. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover. Near Fine/no dust Jacket. # 327 of Limited Edition 1500. . Vol 9 of The Complete Works. Green cloth with white title plate, black & red titles. Top edges gilt. Engraved tissued frontispiece in each volume, plus other tissed illustrations & maps. Deckle edges, most pages uncut and clearly never read. Very minor cover rubbing and title plate chipping , o/w fine. JA4A Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 4481. .

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. with no dust jacket. 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex library; some foxing. .

Denver CO: Tandy, Wheeler & Co., 1875. 682 pp. Blue cloth boards with gilt colophon on front. Outer layer of spine cover is missing. Bookplate on feb. Pages are faintly tanning. Text is clean with no markings, binding is sound.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris.

J. B. Lippincott & Co. , 1895. Book. Good. Hardcover. ORIGINAL, LIMITED EDITION; number 498 of 1500 copies; hardcover; deckle edges; top edges gilt; uppermost portion of paper title on spine perished; copyright page w/ a couple of small light smudges; o/w in good condition..

John Alden Publishers, 1886. Hard Cover. Good. Good. 1886, John Alden Publishers. Black leather at corners. Marbled cover, endpages and tips of pages. Frontispiece portrait inside cover. Ex-library with typical markings. Spine covered in black tape. Inside front and back hinge library repaired with tape. Light edge wear. Tight binding.

New York: Harper & Bros. 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. BAL 16344. Owner names on endpaper; half leather and marbled boards, some rubbing and wear but good. .

New York: Harper, 1845. Dampstaining in a few margins. About very good.. Hard Cover.

London: George Routledge And Sons, 1900. Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-library. This book does not have a publication date. It was not published in 1900. Boards are lightly marked and scored. Spine is creased and worn. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are lightly bumped and worn. Page block and pages are tanned and marked. Library plate on front pastedown. Paper is split on pastedown hinges, but binding remains intact. Text is clear throughout. HJW. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Ex-Library.

NY: John B. Alden, 1886. 234p. A hardcover book in good reading condition. Ex-library: number painted on spine; pocket on endpaper; stamp on title page. Front inside hinge cracked otherwise clean and tight. Includes pieces about Charles Brockden Brown; Cervantes; Sir Walter Scott; Moliere; and Italian Narrative Poetry.

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1875. New Edition Stated. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket (as issued). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New Edition Stated, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall in brown cloth w/black and gold dec and spine titles. Near Fine/No DJ, as issued. Wear at spine tips and corners w/tiny tear at crown, else Fine; square w/ firm binding, interior clean and unmarked. vi, 682pp inc. Preface to English Edition; illustrated in tissue-guarded frontis portrait.. Uncommon.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1882. Hardcover. Very Good; No Dust Jacket As Issued. Full thin-leather-bound with stamped gilt spine titles. 12mo; 7.5 inches tall; 682 pages; New Edition; Tissue guarded frontispiece of Prescott; all edges gilt. Faint sun-fading on the spine, partial fold 1.5 inches from the front edge of front cover. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear.. All of the essays except the first were originally contributed to the North American review. Background Information: William Hickling Prescott was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian.

This is a worn-covers copy, of which the interior is quite the opposite.  Aside from the pencilled signature in the f.e.p.s, there is only a slight, faded dampstain and a tiny marginal tear or two in the text, making this an adequate replacement to fill in a Prescott series.
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Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company. Good plus condition-ends of spine torn, partially uncut/No Dustjacket. 1864. 8vo., 729 pp. .

New York: Harper & Brother Publishers, 1855. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Spine head lightly rubbed, faint smudge on bottom page ridge corner, first few pages and rear endpapers foxed. 1855 Hard Cover. 729 pp. This new edition adds an article on Spanish literature that first appeared in the January 1850 issue of North American Review. Includes: Charles Brockden Brown, the American Novelist; Asylum for the Blind; Irving's Conquest of Granada; Cervantes; Sir Walter Scott; Chateaubriand's English Literature; Bancroft's United States; Madame Calderon's Life in Mexico; Moliere; Italian Narrative Poetry; Poetry and Romance for the Italians; Scottish Song; Da Ponte's Observations; Ticknor's History of Spanish Literature.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1883. Good Hardcover 1883, Rebound, endpapers replaced, previous owner's inscription 682 pages. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover.

Harper and Brothers, 1852. Cloth. Fair. This is an early edition of the great American historian's essay collection. Binding is nice and tight, but leather spine covering has come away, and there is some further loss on corners and covers. Foxing present throughout.

George Routledge & Sons, 1878. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume twelve of Prescott's Works. Contemporary brown half-leather with marbled papered boards, gilt decoration and gilt titles in leather title windows at spine. Covers rubbed, scraped, with points of fraying to fore-edges. Spines square. Bindings sound. Marbled textblock edges. Interior toned, texts unmarked.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1880. Good three quarter leather with marbled endpapers and edges, previous owner's bookplate, frontispiece, 1880 front hinge loose, some chipping and wear, 682 pages . Leather Binding. Good/No Dust Jacket.