HISTORY OF REMARKABLE CONSPIRACIES; Connected With European History, During The Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries

Edinburgh: Constable, 1829. First Edition. 12mo, pp. (x), 326; viii, 320pp. Two volumes. Blank end paper torn, bound in rubbed 3/4 leather and marble boards, a very good set. This work is divided into nine sections including "the assassination of James I of Scotland," "Death of James III of Scotland," "Conspiracy of John Lewis Fiesco.against Genoa," "Death of Don Carlos.Spain 1588," "Gowrie Conspiracy," "Gunpowder Plot," "Conspiracy of the Spaniards Against the Republic of Venice 1618," "Rise and Fall of Mansaiello," and "The Popish Plot. (Inventory #: 57322)