(23) BOOKS: HISTORICAL, VARIOUS REFERENCE(23) BOOKS: HISTORICAL, VARIOUS REFERENCE & POETRY(lot of 23) Historical, reference, and poetry books, including: (1) "The Shropshire Lad," A.E. Housman, 1932, 110 pages, loss and wear to book sleeve, (1) "Mayhew's London," Henry Mayhew, edited by Peter Quennell, Spring Books, London, 592 pages, (1) "The London Underworld in the Victorian Period," Henry Mayhew and Others, 2005, 404 pages, (1) "Corruption and the Decline of Rome," Ramsay MacMullen, 1988, 320 pages, (1) "Speeches That Changed the World," edited by Simon Sebag Montefiore, revised edition, 2005, 224 pages, (1) "The Last Days of Pompeii," Lord Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, 1957, 513 pages, (1) "Notre Dame de Paris," Victor Hugo, 1955, 332 pages, (1) "The Trial and Death of Socrates," Plato, 1963, 275 pages, (1) "Poetry Speaks Expanded," edited by Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby, 2007, 384 pages, (1) "Speak Truth to Power," Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, signed by author on title page, 2000, 256 pages, minor water damage to pages; (1) "Currier and Ives' America - A Panorama of the Mid-Ninteenth Centruy Scene," edited by Colin Simkin, Crown Publishers, New York, 1952, eighty print illustrations, with loss and wear to cover, (1) "Inside the Victorian Home," Judith Flanders, 2003, 500 pages, (1) "Dorling Kindersley Handbooks - Gemstones," Cally Hall, 1994, 160 pages, (1) "The Story of Art," E.H. Gombrich, 2003, 688 pages, (1) "The Oxford History of Western Art," edited by Martin Kemp, 2000, 564 pages, (1) "Rights of Man," Thomas Paine, 1961, 270 pages, (1) "The Ocean World," Jacques Cousteau, 1993, 446 pages, (1) "How To Repair & Restore Furniture," William Cook, W.J. Cook & Sons, 2003, 256 pages, (1) "Nature Watch - Elephants," Barbara Taylor, 2008, 64 pages, (1) "Wild Amazon - A Photographer's Incredible Journey," Nick Gordon, 2004, 168 pages, (1) "Cyclodpedia Anatomicae," Gyorgy Feher, illustrated by Andras Szunyoghy, 1996, 603 pages, (1) "Oriental Carpets at the Philadelphia Museum of Art," Charles Grant Ellis, 1988, 304 pages, (1) "Van Gogh - In Provence and Auvers," Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, 319 pages; largest: 12.25"h, 16"w, 72lbs total **Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida estate**