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[LIVINGSTON FAMILY]. A group of 3 works, including: MOTLEY, John Lothrop. The Rise of the Dutch Republic. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856. 8vo. Complete in 3 volumes. Contemporary half calf with titles gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, marbled page edges (rubbing, foxing throughout, damp stains and warping to boards on vol. 2). Provenance: Julia Boggs Livingston (bookplates, dated gift inscription from relative). –– SPENSER, Edmund. The Works of Edmund Spenser. London: F.C. and J. Rivington, T. Payne, Cadell and Davies, and R.H. Evans, 1805. 8vo. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Complete in 8 volumes. Contemporary teal straight grain morocco ruled in gilt with titles gilt on morocco labels, marbled endpapers, and marbled edges (rubbing, foxing throughout, toning, some pages creased). Provenance: Julia Boggs Livingston (bookplates, dated signatures). –– HALL, Samuel Carter, editor. Book of Gems. London: Saunders and Otley, 1836. 3 volumes, 8vo. Illustrated. Contemporary half calf over green cloth with titles gilt, marbled endpapers, page edges gilt, raised bands with intricate scrollwork in compartments, gilt tooling (front hinge mostly detached on vol. 2, rubbing, toning, toning and foxing throughout). Provenance: Julia Boggs Livingston (bookplates, gift inscriptions on half titles of each volume from owner’s mother). –– FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN FAMILY whose notable descendants include Philip Livingston (signer of the Declaration of Independence), William Livingston (signer of the United States Constitution), Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush.