The Works of William Robertson, D.D. Principal of the University of Edinburgh, Historiographer to His Majesty for Scotland, and Member of the Royal Academy of History at Madrid. To Which is Prefixed an Account of His Life and Writings, by the Rev. Alex. Stewart. In Twelve Volumes. London: Printed for W. Sharpe & Son, W. Allison, C. Chapple, etc. 1820.
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Containing:
- The History of Scotland During the Reign of Queen Mary and of King James VI. Till the Accession to the Crown of England.
- The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. with a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century.
- The History of America.
- An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge Which the Ancients Had of India; and the Progress of Trade with that Country Prior to the Discovery of the Passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope.
Size: 140 x 216 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[title, half title, i-cxxxvi, 223pp.]; [title, half title, 430pp.]; [title, half title, 503pp.]; [title, half title, i-xi, 500pp.]; [title, half title, 376pp.]; [title, half title, 459pp.]; [title, half title, 400pp.]; [title, half title, i-xlviii, 374pp.]; [title, half title, 427pp.]; [title, half title, 427pp.]; [title, half title, 404pp.]; [title, half title, i-v, 402pp.]
Spines lightly rubbed and scuffed with wear to heads and bottoms, most prominently to the heads with some having small fragments of backstrip peeling lightly. All boards attached with wear to joints and hinges, some starting or cracked with some boards fragile. Boards with very minor rubbing and superficial scratches. Shelf and edge wear. Very minor superficial scratches to page edge gilt. Text blocks very clean with light toning to edges and very sporadic very minor foxing. Text transferred onto the reverso of the half title in most volumes and onto an endpaper in some volumes. Bound without any plates or maps if called for (?).
[OCLC: 1015509268].
