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1847 SURGERY Principles & Practice Robert Druitt Human: 1847 SURGERY Principles & Practice Robert Druitt Human Anatomy Medicine RARE Robert Druitt was a 19th-century English author, best-known for his medical treatises. One of his medical works was ‘The

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1633 1ed TURKISH Ottoman Empire Busbecq Letters: 1633 1ed TURKISH Ottoman Empire Busbecq Letters Constantinople Politics Elzevier Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq was a 16th-century Flemish author who is best known for his ambassador service to the Ottoman

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1877 Boys of 1776 American Revolutionary WAR: 1877 Boys of 1776 American Revolutionary WAR Illustrated Battle Scenes MAPS Charles Coffin was a 19th-century American author who is best remembered for his ‘The Boys of’ books – works on the so

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1850 1ed FAMOUS Literature Shakespeare Bacon Swift: 1850 1ed FAMOUS Literature Shakespeare Bacon Swift Ben Franklin Dickens 4v In the mid-19th-century, iconic English editor Charles Knight published a periodical entitled ‘Half-Hours with the Best Aut

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1596 Huguenot French Wars of Religion Troubles France: 1596 Huguenot French Wars of Religion Troubles in France Henry III & IV Pierre Matthieu Pierre Matthieu was a 16th-century French author and poet, best remembered for his account of the history of Fra

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1785 English Housewifery Elizabeth Moxon Cooking Recipe: 1785 English Housewifery Elizabeth Moxon Cooking Recipes Domestic Life Food Elizabeth Moxon was an 18th-century English author who is best remembered for his book ‘English Housewifery’. This book

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1891 Native American INDIANS Cree Salteaux: 1891 Native American INDIANS Cree Salteaux Canada Canoe & Dog Train Egerton Young was a 19th-century author who is best-known for his works on Native American Indians. “By Canoe and Dog-Train” is

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1761 Folard War Military Tactics Frederick the Great: 1761 Folard War Military Tactics Frederick the Great Prussia Seven Years’ War Jean-Charles de Folard was a French military author who is best known for his treatise and commentary on Polybius. In 17

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1890 1ed Great Northwest VOYAGES Colorado INDIANS: 1890 1ed Great Northwest VOYAGES Colorado INDIANS Illustrated Wild West Hezekiah Butterworth was an American author who is best remembered for his enormous, seventeen volume work ‘Zig-Zag Journeys��

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1761 Folard War Commentaries Frederick the Great: 1761 Folard War Commentaries Frederick the Great Prussia Seven Years’ War Jean-Charles de Folard was a French military author who is best known for his treatise and commentary on Polybius. In 1753,

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1882 Journeys in Orient Moscow Vienna Golden Horn: 1882 Journeys in Orient Moscow Vienna Golden Horn Constantinople Crusades Hezekiah Butterworth was an American author who is best remembered for his enormous, seventeen volume work ‘Zig-Zag Journeys

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1891 1st ed Native American INDIANS Cree Salteaux: 1891 1st ed Native American INDIANS Cree Salteaux Canada Canoe & Dog Train Egerton Young was a 19th-century author who is best-known for his works on Native American Indians. “By Canoe and Dog-Train

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1865 1ed Civil War SLAVERY Vicksburg Confederacy Knox: 1865 1ed Civil War SLAVERY Vicksburg Confederacy Knox Campfire & Cotton-field Thomas Knox was a 19th-century American author who is best known for his works on the Civil War. Curiously, Knox was from

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1895 Around the World CHINA Iceland Jerusalem Asia: 1895 Around the World CHINA Iceland Jerusalem Asia Brazil ZigZag Journeys Hezekiah Butterworth was an American author who is best remembered for his enormous, seventeen volume work ‘Zig-Zag Journeys

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1696 Gines de Hita Civil Wars of Granada SPAIN: 1696 Gines de Hita Civil Wars of Granada SPAIN – 1st Historical Fiction Novel Ginés Pérez de Hita was a 16th-century Spanish author who is best known for his novel ‘Wars of Granada’. This nove

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FOUR VOLUMES.

Including biographical and critical notices, by Charles Knight.

Illustrations my William Harvey.

Publishers navy cloth with gilt title to spines.

Gilt top page-blocks. decorative endpapers.

Title vignettes, in-text illustrations.

A collection of excerpts from various influential British authors

throughout history. Divided into what is intended to be half-hour

sections, with the intention of the work being read over a year.

Written according to the canon of the nineteenth century,

with contributors such as Milton, Pope, Dante, Longfellow, Wordsworth,

Kingsley, Goldsmith, Donne, Dr. Kitto, Dryden and many more.

A very lovely set.

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