° ° French and European History.- A collection of 19th/20th ...

° ° French and European History.- A collection of 19th/20th historical works, including Thiers' Histoire de la Révolution française, Carlyle's The French Revolution, and other titles, some bearing Hamilton armorial bookplates. (18) volumes of Adolphe Thiers' Histoire de la Révolution française, in half calf with gilt-ruled spines and contrasting title labels; Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1900), volume I of a two-volume edition; Napoleon the Third and His Court, by A Retired Diplomat (London: John Maxwell and Company, 1865); volumes of J. H. Merle d'Aubigné's Histoire de la Réformation; and further historical works in various leather bindings, some with decorative gilt tooling. Several volumes bearing heraldic ownership stamps incorporating the name 'Kenilworth' to the title pages. The Carlyle volume with a prize label from the Royal School for Naval and Marine Officers' Daughters, St. Margaret's House, Twickenham, awarded to Miss Grace Elsie Thompson for English History, dated 20 October 1905. Various editions and dates.

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