A GROUP OF FIFTY-THREE ANTIQUE HISTORY BOOK TITLES, NAPOLEONIC, SCIENCE AND ENGLISH INTEREST,

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  A GROUP OF FIFTY-THREE ANTIQUE HISTORY BOOK TITLES, NAPOLEONIC, SCIENCE AND ENGLISH INTEREST, 1751-1902, comprising, "History of England," a set of twelve vols., Froude, London, 1870; "Hudibras," Butler, London, 1809; "The Poetical Works of Collins Gray and Beattie," engraved for Dove's English Classics, Piccadilly, London, 1831; "The Life of Nelson," Southey, London, 1853; "Ovid's Metamorphoses," vol. II, printed for J and R Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand,  London, 1751; "Conversations on Natural Philosophy in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained and Adapted to the Comprehension of Young Pupils," Blake, Boston, 1839; "Great Warriors: Nelson, Wellington, Napoleon," London and Edinburg, circa 1880; "Nelson and His Captains: Sketches of Famous Seamen," Fitchett, London and Bombay, "This Edition is issued for circulation in India and the Colonies only," 1902; "The War in the Crimea," for The Hule Grammar School - Oldham, Hamley, London and Edinburg, 1896; "Maxwell's Life of Wellington" Vols. I-III, Maxwell, London, 1845; "Napoleon and His Marshals," Vol. II, Headley, New York, with handwritten note by author's child, circa 1904; "Napoleon Warrior and Ruler and the Military Supremacy of Revolutionary France," Morris, New York, 1906; "Cyclopædic Science Simplified," Pepper, New York and London, circa 1887; "A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs," Ray, London, 1768; "The Campaigns of Napoleon Buonaparte...," compiled by an American, Boston, Gaylord, printer and publisher, 1835; "Genealogia della Famiglia Bonaparte," Valeriani, Vol. I, Napoli, 1842; "Bonaparte, and the French People under His Consulate," translation from the German, London, 1804; "The Battle of Waterloo,..." Booth and Egerton, London, 1815; "History of Napoleon," Moir Bussey, author, Horace Vernet, illustrations, vols. I & II, London, 1840; "History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France from the Year 1807-1814," Napier, Vols. I-VI, London, 1867; "History of Napoleon: From the French of M. Laurent de L'Ardeche," New York, 1853; "Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte," Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Vols I-III, Phipps, ed., New York and Edinburg, 1887; "The History of Napoleon Bonaparte," Abbott, Vol. II, New York, 1859; "History of Civilization," Vols. I-IV, Allen, Cincinnati, 1891; "Napoléon et Son Temps," Peyre, Paris, 1896; and "Life of Napoleon Bonaparte," Sloane, Vols. I-IV, New York, 1896.

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