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Carlyle (Thomas) The Works…, 11 vol. only (of 20), Edition de luxe, number 183 of 315 sets, the first volume including a 2pp. signed autograph letter by Carlyle, engraved frontispiece, morocco gilt, most volumes with at least one board and endpaper detached, Dana Estes and Charles E. Lauriat, 1884; Macaulay (Thomas Babington, Lord) The History of England, 8 vol., half-titles, portrait frontispiece to vol. 1, full calf, spine gilt-tooled with morocco labels, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1862-63; Prescott (William H) History of the Conquest of Mexico, 2 vol., new edition, staining, calf, Eton College crests in gilt, George Routledge, c.1894; James (William) The Naval History of Great Britain..., 6 vol., new edition, 20 engraved portraits, frontispiece to first vol., spotting, Richard Bentley, 1837; Vernet (Carle) Campagnes des Francais sous le Consulat et L’Empire. Album…, title and first few pages loose (sold as a collection of plates), [1850]; Desborough (Lord) Fifty Years of Sport at Oxford, Cambridge and the Great Public Schools, custom morocco by Cedric Chivers, spine slightly loose with loss to head, Walter Southwood & Co., 1922; v.s., with 12 others similar (41)

*** The Carlyle letter, dated 1845, discusses visits to a museum: “I got the letter (first letter) to the Mayor of Waterford copied from it…”