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Lot 193
[POLITICS] A group of works on politics from the library of William Safire.
Comprising LEWIS, GEORGE CORNEWALL. A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics. London: 1852; [Idem]. An Essay on the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion. London: 1849. Publisher's cloth; [Idem]. Remarks on the Use and Abuse of some Political Terms. London: 1832. Presentation copy to the Viscount Herford. Publisher's boards, neatly rebacked retaining original label; HAZLITT, WILLIAM. Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters. London: 1819. Period quarter calf; ATKINS, ROBERT, Sir. Parliamentary and Political Tracts... London: 1734. Period calf, rebacked (front board detached); [TEMPLE, HENRY]. The New Whig Guide. London: 1819. Period calf, neatly rebacked; BANCROFT, GEORGE. Reflections on the Politics of Ancient Greece ... From the German of Arnold H. L. Heeren. Boston: 1824. First edition. Period calf; and approximately eight other 19th century works, mostly on American politics.
Most volumes have the book-label of William Safire, speechwriter to Richard Nixon and others, and a keen observer of the American political scene.
C From the Collection of the late William Safire
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