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Volumes I and III only of a three volume set (i.e. lacks Volume II). Full title: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. POSTHUMOUS WORK OF THE BARONESS DE STAEL EDITED BY THE DUKE DE BROGLIE AND THE BARON DE STAEL . . . TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. IN THREE VOLUMES. Both hardcover, H 21cm x L 13.5cm, uniformly bound in original half leather bindings. Handsome light brown calf leather spines have five slightly raised bands delineating six compartments, bright gilt stamped tooling to four compartments with other two having gilt lettered maroon labels for title and author/vol. Marbled boards with spine-matching light brown calf leather corners. Mild scuffing at spine ends and at board corners; some rubbing to boards. All edges marbled as are endpapers. Varied foxing and toning to interior leaves; each volume has past owner's ink name stamp "J.O. Banks" at top of their respective title pages. VOLUME I: xvi, 432 pages; past bookseller's pencil notes on rear flyleaf verso; pages 17-18 pulled with some edge-wear to leaf; binding otherwise firm. VOLUME III: vii, [1], 416 pages; binding is firm. Born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, James Oliver Banks (1829-1904) graduated with a bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alabama in 1847 and 1850 respectively later followed by a medical degree from Jefferson College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Banks entered Civil War military service as a captain in September 1861 in Columbus, Mississippi with Company A, 5th Battalion, Mississippi Confederate Infantry rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in October 1862 with the 43rd Mississippi Infantry participating in action at the Battle of Corinth and Vicksburg with final service in Alabama and Georgia. Banks was first married to Martha Jane Coleman (1833-1868) of Greene County, Alabama with whom he had five children (of which two passed in infancy) and, following her death, married Lucy Watkins Young (1841-1933) on May 11, 1870 with whom he had five children (all surviving to adulthood). Lucy Young was one of ten children of George Hampton Young who owned the architecturally renowned Waverly Plantation on the west bank of the Tombigbee River between Columbus and West Point, Mississippi. Please note that this set has an approximate shipping weight of 3.25 pounds (1.47 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.