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Lot Description

[NONESUCH PRESS]. HERODOTUS. The History. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1935.

Folio. Wood engraved vignettes, title printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations by V. Le Campion, 9 maps at end. Original blue-stained vellum-backed cloth gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (minor spotting to fore-edge, covers very slightly bowed). Provenance: Caspar W. B. Townsend (his sale, Parke Bernet, 17 February 1947, Lot 525, with lot ticket).

LIMITED EDITION, number 365 of 675 copies.

Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York

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