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1788260128London: Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand 1788. New Edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece after Sir Joshua Reynolds. 12 vols. 8vo 53 x 34 mm. Bound in contemporary tree calf contrasting leather title labels on spine. Very Good. New Edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece after Sir Joshua Reynolds. 12 vols. 8vo 53 x 34 mm. Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand unknown
17967588baZ4London: Strahan Cadell Davies 1796. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. English literature; biography; first edition; 2 volumes; 27.8cm; modern 3/4 maroon leather binding by Corey; volume 1 frontispiece silhouette portrait of author English historian; volume 1 errata leaf facing page 1; volume 2 errata leaf after index; supplementary volume 3 published in 1815 not present; owner marks. Strahan, Cadell, Davies Hardcover books
17971249C004London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies 1797. New Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xxiv 456; xv 496; viii 412; viii 413; vii 432; viii 420; viii 424; viii 375; xii 502; xiii 384; xii 460; 12 432 96 Index. Good. 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 22 cm. Complete twelve volume set of the 1797 octavo 'New Edition'. Full tree calf leather bindings. Decorative gilt spines with red leather title and volume labels several labels are absent. Front board of Volume I is detached. Volumes VI and XII have been rebacked and endpapers replaced old repairs. Rubbing to boards wear to ends of spines and corners. Old auctioneer's paper label to front board of Volume V. Some minor insect damage to bindings a few short worm trails to page margins. Damp staining to inner margin of first and last few pages in most volumes. Heavy staining to margins of Volume IV. A few volumes have water splashes to page edges a couple have slight insect damage to page edges. Cracking to some of the joints but apart from Volume I all books remain securely bound. Light foxing to the text. Engraved portrait frontis to Volume I with light staining. Two fold-out maps in Volume I with tears and marking. Old paper repair to reverse of the first map has caused some staining. One fold-out map in Volume II in very good condition. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper in all volumes John O. Harrisson Baintree. Old inked name crossed out to title page of Volume XI. Twentieth century inscription to front free endpaper in Volume I. An imperfect but robust eighteenth-century set. ESTC: N33264. Overall condition is Good. Please Note: This is a very heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate - a postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Please contact us for an accurate postage cost for your location. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches 14 x 22 cm. A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies hardcover
176420791London: printed for T. Beckett and P.A. De Hondt 1764. First edition in English of Gibbon's first published work 12mo pp. 8 168 including ads; contemporary full speckled calf ruled in gilt leather spine label lettered in gilt previous owner's name written neatly in ink on title else a very good copy. In 1753 Gibbon a young man of twenty-five was sent by his father to Lausanne to study with the Calvinist minister Pavillard and did not return until 1758. By this time he had already begun his Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature which he finished in England in 1759 where it was published on the urging of his father in 1761. Published in French the work found little audience in England but succeeded apparently abroad and it was reprinted in both Paris and Geneva in 1762. After its publication in English in 1764 it became highly sought after but Gibbon refused to republish it himself. Only one other contemporary edition appeared in 1788 in Dublin which was pirated. Contains a touching 5-page dedication to his father. Norton 6; Rothschild 939: The translation was not made by Gibbon though it was announced as being prepared "under the inspection of the author" Norton p. 4. <br/><br/> printed for T. Beckett and P.A. De Hondt hardcover books
179623989London: A. Strahan & T. Cadell 1796. First edition 2 vols. 4to pp. xxiv 703; viii 726 2; silhouette frontis portrait of Gibbon; full contemporary tree calf neatly rebacked red and black morocco labels on spines; very good and sound. U1 in Vol. I is a cancel as usual. A supplementary third volume published in 1815 is not present. Rothschild 949; Norton 131. <br/><br/> A. Strahan & T. Cadell unknown books
179623989London: A. Strahan & T. Cadell 1796. First edition 2 vols. 4to pp. xxiv 703; viii 726 2; silhouette frontis portrait of Gibbon; full contemporary tree calf neatly rebacked red and black morocco labels on spines; very good and sound. U1 in Vol. I is a cancel as usual. A supplementary third volume published in 1815 is not present. Rothschild 949; Norton 131. A. Strahan & T. Cadell unknown
178936164London.: G Kearsley 1789. First Edition thus. Hardback. .2 volumes both in Good condition. Edgewear and corners bumped with vertical cracks down spine of Vol. 1 and volume label absent. Chipping to spine of Vol. 1. Vol. 2 is bumped at extremities vertical crack down back edge of spine. Both vols. have very light foxing to outer pages. Pages crisp and bright. 2 solid volumes. With bookplates of the politician and banker Thomas Somers-Cocks. 1st abridged edition. 8vo full contemporary calf with red gilt title labels and green volume labels. The picture on this listing page is of the actual book for sale G Kearsley hardcover
178928218Basle: J. J. Tourneisen. Very Good. 1789. Reprint. Hardcover. 9 volumes of 13 vol. Set. Missing vols. 1 23 4. Brown morocco leather Arabic numerals on spine bands. Last volume #13 states "Notes to the six first volumes." Maroon spine label six bands. Boards mildly bowed corners turned inward slightly spine edges lightly rubbed. Inner pages show foxing sunning but are otherwise unmarked. Extra postage will be required for this multi-volume set. . J. J. Tourneisen hardcover
1796010164London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies Successors to Mr. Cadell in the Strand 1796. Book. Very Good. Half Mottled Calf. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Two volumes a third volume was published separately in 1815 by John Murray not included. xxv 1 errata 703 viii 726 1 errata ads verso pages. Bound in contemporsry half mottled calf over marbled boards marbled end papers the armorial bookplates of Moncure Biddle front paste downs. Very Good Vol. I missing volume label Vol. II missing title label bookplate in Vol. II partially removed wear at joints and spine ends. With one sheet handwritten partial translation from French to English of Gibbon's letter to Mons. Deverdun dated 20 May 1783 laid in at p. 570 Vol. I where the letter is printed in French. No attribution to the letter although given the provenance of the Moncure Biddle bookplate likely in the hand of John Lord Sheffield. Investment banker Moncure Biddle was.a famous bibliophile and connoisseur of editions of the classics. The translation is in handwritten ink on paper similar to the paper used In the book and has many corrections. A quite intriguing addition indeed. Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, (Successors to Mr. Cadell,) in the Strand, Hardcover
1796B2570London: A. Strahan T. Cadell jr. & W. Davies c. 1796. Occasional light foxing otherwise an excellent copy text is clean and crisp. Edition: First edition Binding: Contemporary full tree calf with gilt greek-tooled border rebacked expertly in seven compartments of gilt-tooled bands and gilt floral motifs gilt red and yellow morocco labels on two and five respectively. Notes: During his life Edward Gibbon made several attempts at writing his memoirs. After his death these were pieced together by his close friend Lord Sheffield who added letters and additional writings. A third volume of miscellaneous works was added in 1815. Size: 4to Illustration: Ex-libris on front paste-down endpaper. With frontis silhouette portrait. Volume: Two volumes. References: Rothchild 948 Pages: P. Volume 1. frontis title blank iii-xxv 1 1-703; Volume 2. title blank iii-viii 1-726 errata advertisement. Category: Book Biography A. Strahan, T. Cadell jr., & W. Davies unknown
1796202758London: Strahan 1796. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece portrait 2 vols. large 4to bound in full mottled calf green leather spine labels; light foxing on a few pages otherwise fine. London: A. Strahan T. Cadell Jun W. Davies 1796. Very good <br/><br/> Strahan unknown books
1796202758London: Strahan 1796. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece portrait 2 vols. large 4to bound in full mottled calf rubbed green leather spine labels; light foxing on a few pages otherwise fine. London: A. Strahan T. Cadell Jun W. Davies 1796. Very good <br/> <br/> Strahan unknown
1782LL6375W. Strahan & T. Cadell 1782. ~DATE RANGE: 1782-1788 ~FULL PAGINATION: vii 13 704 8 640 8 640 viii 8 620 8 684 10 646 52pp ~First edition of vols IV-VI; new edition of vols I-III. Vol. I is 1782 ESTC T78359 Norton 26. Vols II & III are 1787 ESTC N36543 Norton 27. Vols IV-VI are 1788 ESTC T78365 Norton 29. Frontis portrait to vol. I by Hall after Joshua Reynolds. 3 maps 1 to vol. II; 2 folding to rear of vol. V. Half titles to vols II-VI. Index and errata page to vol. VI. Early full tan calf boards framed in double gilt fillets. Ornate gilt decor to board edges and turn-ins. Rebacked in near-matching tan calf. Raised bands and brown gilt label per spine. 4tos 22 x 27.3cm. Mild wear to board corners and edges. Hinges just starting to crack in vol.6 only other hinges sound. All edges marbled in Stormont pattern reinforced at gutters with old repair probably when rebacked. Hinges sound. Early replacement blank endpages some with 1819 watermark. All vols signed to top t.p. by G. Kinnear perhaps George Kinnear 1751-1823 of the Edinburgh-based banking family. Old repair to fore-edge of map of the Western Roman Empire with minor loss to edge of image. Small 1cm single tear to edge of each folding map. Old repairs / reinforcements to fore-edges of sigs a-a3 in vol. I with a little damp-rippling to edges of these same pages but no loss to text. Mild occasional foxing severe on a few pages. A very few old annotations to margins in some vols. Gibbon's masterpiece first published between 1776 and 1788 'occupies the summit of European Enlightenment historiography'; 'remarkable for the way Gibbon pushed at the edges of received opinions and found fresh and fruitful ways of linking approaches and subjects which elsewhere lay unconnected' ODNB. A handsome solid square set. ~Robust packaging. Overseas orders trackable on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. Hardback. Hardback. Very Good/Fine. c. 700pp. per vol. W. Strahan & T. Cadell Hardcover
17891120London: Printed for G. Kearsley 1789. First edition of Abridged Editiion. Two Volumes. Contemporary full sprinkled calf matching red morocco labels and gilt ruling to spines. An exemplary set near fine internally hinges expertly repaired. A nice example of Gibbon's enduring classic. In custom slipcase. <br/><br/> Printed for G. Kearsley unknown books
1787declineromanJ J Tourneisen 1787. Hardcover. Pages generally clean with light/Fine leather binding with raise. 9" by 6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. 6 volumes complete 1787 printed by J J Tourneisen. 1st revised edition. Printed for sale by Pissot in Paris. Fine typography English textFine leather binding with raised spines and gold emboss decoration. Pages generally clean with light foxing throughout all volumes. Bindings all tight boards have bumps to corners. Volume 2 missing front cover and volume five separated front cover and partial separation to rear cover. Leather still supple and smooth to touch. J J Tourneisen hardcover
1783978F8London: W. Strahan; and T. Cadell 1783-1790. Leather. Good. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. The very scarce complete first octavo edition of Gibbons's 'Decline and Fall' tracing Western civilization from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium in the 15th century. The very scarce complete first octavo edition of Gibbons' famous work uniformly bound in full calf. While billed as 'A New Edition' to the title pages these volumes are all the very scarce first octavo edition.Volumes I-III of Gibbons's magnum opus were first published between between 1776 and 1781 in three quarto volumes and are here found bound in six volumes in the very scarce first octavo edition dated 1783. ESTC T78366Volumes IV-VI were first published in quarto volumes between 1788 and 1789 and are here found bound in six volumes and in the very scarce first octavo editions dated 1790. ESTC T78370Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece to volume I a folding map to volume II two large folding maps to the rear of volume VI. Collated complete.Gibbon here offers a condensed detailed and thorough history of the fall of the Roman Empire covering a period from 98 to 1590. He further explores the history of Europe Christianity and the Church.Gibbon has been criticized for his flawed interpretations of various religions with his scathing views on Christianity leading the book to be banned in several countries upon its publication.Volumes VI-XII retaining half titles. With the bookplates of W. Combes to front pastedown of volume I. In contemporary calf bindings with gilt detailing to back strips and boards. Significant rubbing to back strips most concentrated to tails and with small losses to back strip heads. Minor losses to perimeters of a small number of spine labels. Joints of volume I starting with front board somewhat tender. Head of front joint of volume III IV VI VII IX X strained and generally firmly held. Joints of volumes XI and XI starting and a touch tender. Remaining hinges strained but firmly held. Bookplates to front pastedown of volume I. Internally firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned due to paper type otherwise clean and bright. Good W. Strahan; and T. Cadell hardcover
1784187960Dublin: printed for W. Wilson 1784. An early pirated Irish set The first half of Gibbons's magisterial history printed before the release of the final volumes in 1788. Dublin booksellers swiftly issued their own editions as soon as the first volume was published in 1776 and sold them at a lower price in England. "Such piracy was advertisement as well as competition" and Gibbon himself remarked that they "have printed it very well" Norton p. 94. 6 vols octavo 206 x 128 mm. With 3 folding maps. Contemporary sprinkled calf flat spines divided into compartments by gilt rolls red and green morocco labels. Contemporary bookplates. Craquelure to spines loss to ends with some restored bindings marked corners worn contents fresh loss to vol. 4 rear free endpaper and corner of vol. 5 p. 401 text not affected. A very good set. Jane E. Norton A bibliography of the works of Edward Gibbon 1970. unknown
178472472twelve volumes in six of the pirated Dublin editions; the first 3 volumes are published by W. Wilson the later three by Luke White. Each contains two volumes of 300-400 pages. 4 plates including 3 fold out maps and 1 portrait frontispiece. Published by W. Wilson and Luke White hardcover
1783046022W. Strahan And T. Cadell In The Strand. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1783 new edition. Hardcover. Hardcover; Hardcover 6 volume set. Leather boards with beautiful rebacked spines. Boards show edge wear and bumping. Scuffing and rubbing. Newer decorative spines with titles in gold over brown leather labels and volume numbers in gold over black leather labels. Hinges are nice and tight due to the new spines. Fore edge and endpaper soil text pages show occasional foxing. Maps in volumes I and II are in nice condition. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.; 8VO . W. Strahan And T. Cadell In The Strand hardcover
17967055<b><i>Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon Esquire. With Memoirs of His Life and Writings Composed by Himself: Illustrated From His Letters. With Occasional Notes and Narratives by John Lord Sheffield.</i></b> <br /><br />4to.<b> Bound in original publisher's boards</b> rebacked in cloth original paper labels on spines with the price of 4 shillings preserved on the label for the third volume; in slipcases.<br /><br />London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies. <b>1796. 2 volumes. <br /></b><br /><b>Together with the third volume</b> London Printed for John Murray . . . <b>1815. First Edition</b>. Frontispiece in volume I and III. Rare errata leaf in volume II. Untrimmed throughout with deckle edges. <br /><br />Comprising the first appearance in print of Gibbon's "Memoirs" one of the earliest and finest of literary autobiographies; plus the first published collection of Gibbon's correspondence. Also included is the "Essay on the Study of Literature" in English and in its French original; plus copious and entertaining notes on Buffon and Walpole among others. <br /><br />Early 19th century bookplate of George Home Drummond of Blair Drummond on the front endpaper of each volume. <br /><br />Occasional minor foxing in the first and second volumes; small puncture hole in the lower outer corner of the final leaves of the third volume. The original spines of the first and third volumes are laid-in the first volume. Internal hinges of the first volume are somewhat weakened. Boards show minor to moderate wear at the corners and edges. Otherwise a clean wide-margined untrimmed copy. Very Rare in original boards. A. Strahan, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies hardcover
1796135133London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies 1796. First edition of Gibbon’s memoirs letters and additional works posthumously collected and published by his closest friend John Baker Holroyd 1st Earl of Sheffield. Quarto bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards morocco spine labels lettered in gilt elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands engraved frontispiece portrait of Gibbon. In near fine condition. A very attractive example of one of the first modern autobiographies published in the English language. When Gibbon died in 1794 he left his personal papers to Lord Sheffield who carefully selected and edited them. “Few men I believe have ever so fully unveiled their own character by a minute narrative of their sentiments and pursuits as Mr. Gibbon will here be found to have done; not with study and labour-not with an affected frankness-but with a genuine confession of his little foibles and peculiarities and a good-humoured and natural display of his own conduct and opinions.†Gibbon's Memoirs are considered one of the first autobiographies in the modern sense of the word and have a secure place in the canon of English literature. Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies hardcover
178785193Basil Paris: J.J. Tourneisen Pissot 1787. Hardcover Octavo. Hardcover. Good. leather spine gilt lettering red papered boards 434474403431426411 pp spines and boards are lightly scuffed no marks to endpapers or pages top edge darkened <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Standard shipping no tracking / Priority with tracking / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. J.J. Tourneisen, Pissot hardcover
1788206212London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand 1788. Third edition of Vol. 1 First editions of Vols. 2-6. Neat contemporary ownership signatures; hinges worn and most covers detached or nearly so; spines dried and flaking; extremities rubbed; portrait in Vol. 1 foxed otherwise the set is internally clean and with only scattered marking and soil a few inoffensive spots of foxing. Six volumes uniform 4tos; frontispiece portrait of Gibbon from a painting by Joshua Reynolds I: 3 vi-vi 18 1-704; II: 10 1-640 with folding map between pp. 22-23 1 errata; III: 10 1-640 1 errata; IV: i ii-viii 8 1-620; V: 8 1-684; VI: 12 1-646 51 General Index 1 errata; contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards; folding map loosely inserted in Volume 1; bound without half-titles. Complete set of the indelible work that invented the modern discipline of history writing. Offered together with the three volumes of Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works 1796-1815 in full calf. Additional shipping charge required. Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand unknown
1779166741Paris: Chez la veuve Duchesne 1779. A rival view of the virtues of republican Rome First edition from the Lausanne library of Edward Gibbon with the earlier simpler form of his bookplate on the front pastedown. Butel-Dumont's views on the virtues of republican Rome differ widely from Gibbon's and might indeed have been taken as a direct criticism of them Gibbon's landmark history having first appeared just three years before in 1776. Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont 1725-1788 was a great admirer of English political economy. He was one of the first in France to write extensively about the British North American colonies in his Histoire et commerce des colonies anglaises 1755; in the same year he published a translation and enlargement of John Cary's Essay on the State of England 1695 as Essai sur l'état du commerce d'Angleterre. The present volume represents his last published work continuing the overarching argument of his Theory of Luxury 1771. "Not only did the modern world order require an overthrow of antiquated moralities but it entailed a concomitant overthrow of nostalgia for the ancient world itself. Rome had been but a brutish vampire state that no agrarian virtue could redeem no matter what the Fénelonians argued. Romans had preyed on the industry of others and one could only pray to 'heaven' that such a nation never appeared again on the 'face of the earth'" Reinert p. 185. Provenance: 1 Edward Gibbon 1737-1794 with his first state bookplate from his Lausanne library; 2 purchased in 1796 by William Beckford 1760-1844 who famously bought Gibbon's whole Lausanne library "to have something to read"; 3 by gift from Beckford to Gibbon's physician Dr Frederic Schöll d. 1835; 4 sold by him in 1825 to John Walter Halliday residing near Geneva; 5 Halliday's house and library acquired by Charles Bedot; 6 by descent to his son the marine biologist Maurice Bedot 1859-1927; 7 sold at auction 20 Dec 1934 Sotheby's to Maggs; 8 Sir John Russell 1872-1965 for the Rothamsted Experimental Station library for its agricultural content with discreet ink acquisition number dated 1937 and circular inkstamp of Rothamsted Experimental Station to front pastedown. Octavo 199 x 125 mm. Contemporary tan polished calf smooth spine richly gilt in compartments red morocco label brown edges. Front joint a little tender occasional trivial mark to contents else a fine copy. Keynes Gibbon's Library p. 84. Sophus A. Reinert Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy 2011. unknown
177644482London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell 1776-88. Six volumes volume I second edition volumes II-VI first edition. 4to. Recent panelled calf spines with raised bands the old twin spine labels preserved a few with repair and renewed gilt with gilt decoration to the other panels the 19th century armorial bookplates of Lord Rendlesham "Labore et Honore" retained to the front pastedowns. Portrait frontispiece in volume I plus 3 folding maps. A handsome set. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell unknown
