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On offer are the collected works in 12 volumes of the Scottish cleric and historian William Robertson (1721-1793):

William Robertson – The Works. With an Account of His Life and Writings by G. Gleig – 12 volumes - London [etc.]: W. Baynes and Son [etc.], 1822

Contents: 

Vol. I-3: The Life of Dr. Robertson; The History of Scotland 
Vol. 4-7: A View of the Progress of Society in Europe; The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V
Vol. 8-11: The History of America
Vol. 12:  An Historical Disquisition concerning Ancient India

With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Robertson (in Vol. 1) and 6 folding maps and 1 folding plate.

A fine copy, the leather bindings are slightly rubbed at the extremities, the plates are slightly yellowed; marbled endpapers.


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