Author: Motley, John Lothrop:

Title: The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History; History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years Truce - 1609; The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland, with a View of the Primary Causes and Moveme

Publication: London: Bickers & Son, John Bumpus, Simpson, Marshall & Co., W.H. Smith & Son, Henry Sotheran & Co.; 1875; 1867; 1874.

Description: 9 vols., 8vo., pp.xix, [i], 544; xv, [i], 568; xiii, [i], 651, [i]; xii, 532 + portrait frontispiece and folding plate; vii, [i], 563, [i] + frontis; x, 599, [i] + frontis; vii, [i], 632 + frontis; xv, [i], 389, [i] + frontis and portrait plate ; vii, [i], 475, [i] + 2 plates. All title-pages in red and black. Occasional light smudges and spots of toning but generally very good. Uniformly bound in tan calf by Zaehnsdorf, spines gilt with raised bands, red morocco title labels and green morocco volume labels, plain gilt borders, head edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Spines very slightly sunned, a few small chips to edges, page edges a little foxed, a very good, handsome set.

The first work of the set, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, initially appeared in 1856, and is found here in 'a New Edition' comprising three volumes. The History of the United Netherlands comprises four volumes, the first two having previously been previously published in 1860, and now reissued together with two further, new volumes in 1867. The Life and Death of John of Barneveld is found here in its first edition, of 1874.

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Reference Number: [55138]

Price: £495

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