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RUSSELL’S MODERN EUROPE EPITOMIZED. For the use of Students and Schools, with an Index, forming a complete Text-Book of Modern History; a perfect treasury of Facts, Dates, and Important Events; the History of Kingdoms and States, and Lives of celebrated Characters. By George Townsend.

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Three Editions of Robertson and Prescott’s Charles the Fifth.

PRESCOTT AND ROBERTSON’S HISTORY OF CHARLES the FIFTH, being Robertson’s History of his Reign. With important original additions by W. H. Prescott. New Index, and Steel Portrait. Uniform with the Editions of Mr. Prescott’s other Works published by R. Bentley.

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BANCROFT’S HISTORY OF AMERICA. The Colonization and its Results. With Index.

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BANCROFT’S HISTORY OF AMERICA. Vols. 3, 4, and 5, with Index. Continuing the History from its Colonization, and completing a period in the History of the American Revolution.

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MICHAUD’S HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES, The First English Edition translated from the French; with Notes. Memoir and Preface by W. Robson.

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THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO THE CRIMEA. By W. H. Russell, The Times’ “Special Correspondent.” Being a Revised Edition of “The War,” with additions and corrections. Illustrated with Plans of the Battles, Woodcuts, and Steel Portrait of Author.

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A HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA, from the Earliest Period of English Intercourse to the Present Time. By Charles MacFarlane. With Additions to the year 1858. Illustrated with numerous Engravings.

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New Edition, brought down to the Peace of Paris, 1856.
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RUSSELL’S MODERN EUROPE, with a View of the Progress of Society from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms. New Edition, continued to the Peace of Paris, 1856, to which is added a compendious Index compiled expressly for this Edition.

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THE HISTORY OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS. By Charles Mackay, LL.D. The Third Edition. Illustrated with One Hundred and Twenty Engravings, from scarce Prints and other authentic sources.

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BONNECHOSE’S HISTORY OF FRANCE. The first English Edition. Translated by W. Robson, Esq., Translator of Michaud’s “History of the Crusades,” &c. With Illustrations and Index.

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FELICE’S HISTORY OF THE PROTESTANTS OF FRANCE, from the Commencement of the Reformation to the Present Time. Translated from the Revised and Corrected Edition.

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HISTORY OF THE POPES. By Leopold Ranke. Including their Church and State, the Re-organization of the Inquisition, the Rise, Progress, and Consolidation of the Jesuits, and the means taken to effect the Counter-reformation in Germany, to revive Romanism in France, and to suppress Protestant Principles in the South of Europe. Translated from the last edition of the German by Walter K. Kelly, of Trinity College, Dublin.

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EMBASSIES AND FOREIGN COURTS. A History of Diplomacy. By The Roving Englishman. The Second Edition.

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PICTURES FROM THE BATTLE FIELDS. By The Roving Englishman. The Third Edition, with Illustrations from Sketches taken on the spot, and Chapters respecting—

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LANDMARKS OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By the Rev. James White. (The Twenty-second Thousand.)

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LANDMARKS OF THE HISTORY OF GREECE. By the Rev. James White.

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GOLDSMITH’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. A New Edition, with Continuation to the Death of Wellington. With Portraits of all the Sovereigns.

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