1804/William Mavor/vol XV/Portugal/Spain/UNIVERSAL HISTORY, ANCIENT AND MODERN; FROM THE EARLIEST RECORDS OF TIME, TO THE GENERAL PEACE OF 1801 IN TWENTY-FIVE VOLUMES: VOL. XV or vol VI of the modern part: the history of Portugal and Spain

 

Publisher: printed by Isaac Collins and Son, for Samuel Stansbury, New York1804

 

Hardcover: 388pp;

 

Condition: ex-library; original full leather boards; faded gilt lettering and bands on spine; spine cover darkened; wear at spine ends, edges and corners; minor rubbing; thick frontispiece and its two front end papers loosely attached; front hinge cracked; sound binding; pages stiff and slightly wavy; moderate tanning and foxing throughout

 

This is one of 25 volumes of “Universal History” and is in fairly good condition in view of its age. This appears to be a rare original edition of a work only currently available as a later reprint.

 

Measures: 7 1/4” x 4 1/2” x 1 1/4”; weighs 13oz; online at $354 for a different original volume from this publisher with half-leather boards.

 

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