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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
2006__0415342309Routledge 2006. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 1880 pages. 9.75x6.75x5.75 inches. Routledge hardcover
1840561The Euclid Press 1840. Editon De Luxe. The Euclid Press unknown
18873805637London: John Murray 1887. Eight volumes octavo single portrait frontispiece 14 maps 12 folding and 5 coloured; understated half brown morocco gilt spine with raised bands. <p><p>A most attractive set of Gibbon's opus first published in 1776 and here re-issued with notes by Dean Milman M. Guizot and William Smith. The first volume includes a portrait frontispiece of Gibbon by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire remains an intriguing work; although in some respects superseded by the following century of primarily German classical scholarship Gibbon style is fresh and intriguing and the historiographical questions he raises are effectively timeless.</p> <p></p> </p> . John Murray unknown
1887187010Londno: John Murray 1887. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. All volumes Very Good in decorative boards. Vol. II chipping at spine heel. Rubbing along panel edges. Faint musty odor. Top text block edges gilded. John Murray 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
186225044London: John Murray 1862. Full leather. Very Good . The handsome 1862 John Murray edition complete in 8 octavo volumes all lavishly bound in a sumptuous full dark-green leather. With gilt-bordering along the panels finely gilt-tooled compartments and bright gilt-titling along the spines. Very minor wear to several of the outer hinges and spine ends light scuffing to a number of the panels. Armorial contemorary-to-the-period bookplate "Frederick John Walker" at each front pastedown. Lovely marbled edges and endsheets large fold-out map as well "A Map of the Eastern Part of the Roman Empire" at the rear of Vol. I. From the "Preface by the Editor" William Smith L.L.D.: "This edition of the 'History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' is distinguished by a correct text the verification of the references to ancient writers and corrective and supplementary notes. John Murray unknown
18621045London: John Murray 1862. Fine Leather Bound by Mansell. VG. A complete eight volume set in VG condition beautifully bound in full polished tree calf with bright gilt double rule to boards six compartments with bright gilt details and titles to spines. Some rubbing to leather extremities. Binding and hinges are excellent marbled end papers paste downs and bright gilt end pages pages are remarkably bright and clean without marks and little if any foxing. Illustrated with numerous foldout maps - many in color. Books measure 8.75"x5.75". 164 years old. A beautiful example in excellent condition. John Murray unknown
1811161453Edinburgh 1811. hardcover. 12 volumes. Frontispiece portrait and 2 large folding maps. Handsomely bound in contemporary full brown calf; gilt-stamped borders and spines with red leather labels; marbled endpapers and page edges leather is rubbed and a bit edgeworn in spots; hinge neatly repaired in two volumes still a quite attractive set. Edinburgh: Printed for Bell and Bradfute et al. 1811.<br/> <br/> unknown
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
1967100124Meridian Books. As New. 1967. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 224 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Meridian Books paperback
196328130Dell. As New. 1963. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- with a bonus offer-- . Dell paperback
199234974United Kingdom: Duckworth Pub. New. 1992. Paperback. 1853994995 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- Explaining the complex society of Athens through a number of important themes this book begins by looking at life in the city and life in the country then moves on to such individual areas as citizens slaves entertainment religion and the economy -- with a bonus offer-- . Duckworth Pub paperback
200434976United Kingdom: Duckworth Pub. New. 2004. Paperback. 1853991163 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED - 104 pages -- Focuses on the colourful period of the Peisistratid tyranny in Athens -- This study focuses on the colourful period of the Peisistratid tyranny in Athens. During these exciting years the great festivals were established monumental buildings were erected the population grew rapidly and there was lively progress in all the arts. This study considers the artistic archaeological and literary evidence for the period. Athens is seen largely through the eyes of Herodotus the "Father of History" and we can observe the foundations being laid for the growth of democracy in the following century. -- with a bonus offer-- . Duckworth Pub paperback
199768961Laurence King. New. 1997. Hardcover. 1856691519 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Corresponds to / 1997 edition of ISBN: 1856691519. 208 pp. With 115 ills. 84 col. . 31 x 25 cm. -- with a bonus offer--; 0.88 x 12.48 x 9.91 Inches . Laurence King hardcover
2011103457Palgrave MacMillan. New. 2011. Hardcover. 0230110614 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 256 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Palgrave MacMillan hardcover
200263900Museum. New. 2002. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 234 pp. With 133 ills. 130 col. . 29 x 24 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum hardcover
184634472London: John Murray 1846. 6 volumes. Illustrated with fine large folding maps of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire the Migrations of the Barbarians into the empire and many other maps at the end of each volume including among others Constantinople Environs of Rome The Eastern Empire divided Italy Europe Asia and Africa at the time of Charlemagne the Mohammedan Empire the Crusades and Ancient Rome with most accented in colour. 8vo in fine and handsome period bindings of three-quarter polished calf over marbled paper covered boards the spines very handsomely gilt tooled within six compartments and featuring large central gilt devices surrounded by elaborate gilt tooling filling the compartments two compartments with contrasting black and brown morocco labels gilt lettered and ruled all separated by raised bands decorated with gilt stippling marbled endpapers all edges marbled. xliii 2 600; xii 559; xv 1 543 1; xv 1 524; xv1 506; xv 1 498 pp. A very fine set internally fresh and clean and in excellent state of preservation looking for the most part unused the handsome bindings with just a touch of age very bright and solid and attractive. A very handsome PERIOD BOUND set of the greatest historical work ever undertaken. Adams in his Manual of Historical Literature states that 'the superiority of this edition is very great not simply in its material appearance but also in its more essential characteristics. It has excellent maps and it embodies the notes of Milman'.<br> It was in Italy while "musing amid the ruins of the Capital" that Gibbon formed the plan of his history. Originally published in six volumes from 1776 to 1788 Gibbon's fine scholarship has remained for the most part unchallenged. The work's numerous reprintings throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are evidence of its popularity and historical accuracy.<br> "For twenty-two years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly fifteen-hundred years. And so thorough were his methods that the laborious investigations of German scholarship the keen criticisms of theological zeal and the steady researches of two centuries have brought to light very few important errors in the results of his labors. But it is not merely the learning of his work learned as it is that gives it character as a history. It is also that ingenious skill by which the vast erudition the boundless range the infinite variety and the gorgeous magnificence of the details are all wrought together in a symmetrical whole. It is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written" Adams Manual of Historical Literature pp. 146-147.<br> The success of the work was immediate. "I am at a loss" Gibbon wrote "how to describe the success of the work without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pyrates of Dublin. My book was on every table and almost on every toilette." Publication of this grand work placed Gibbon at the "very head of the literary tribe" in Europe according to Adam Smith. John Murray hardcover
183841072John Murray 1838-1839. 13 vols. 8vo. First Edition thus with engraved portrait frontispiece in 'Life' and 14 engraved maps the majority folding and MANY COLOURED BY HAND IN OUTLINE the maps generally lightly foxed but crisply folded some mild and occasional offsetting; contemporary plum cloth boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind gilt backs primrose endpapers uncut one volume LARGELY UNOPENED two volumes expertly recased with original endpapers preserved backs moderately and uniformly sunned but all gilt wholly legible fore-edges lightly spotted a remarkably bright crisp clean extended set in largely unrestored publisher's binding. All volumes complete with half-titles; most volumes with publisher's catalogues variously dated 1838-39 at end confirming early issue; tenth volume with publisher's advance notice slip Milman's History of Christianity and Life of Gibbon mounted facing half-title; twelfth volume with separately printed errata slip mounted facing end of Contents. Maps and Catalogues as follows: Vol.I: 2 folding 8pp. March 1838 ; Vol.II: 1 folding; Vol.III: 2 full-page 12pp. May 1838; Vol. IV: 1 folding 12pp. June 1838; Vol. V: 1 folding 12pp. August 1838; Vol.VI: 1 folding 4pp. n.d.; Vol. VII: 1 folding 12pp. October 1838; Vol. VIII: 1 folding 32pp. October 1838; Vol.IX: 1 folding 6pp. December 1838; Vol. X: 1 folding 32pp. December 1838; Vol. XI: I folding 8pp. January 1839; Vol. XII: 1 folding 8pp. January 1839. The portrait of Gibbon is by Scriven after Reynolds. A CRISP EXTENDED SET OF THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MILMAN'S 'GIBBON' IN LARGELY UNRESTORED PERIOD CLOTH BINDING AND AS SUCH MOST UNUSUAL. John Murray, hardcover
13 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved portrait frontispiece (in 'Life') and 14 engraved maps, (the majority folding and MANY COLOURED BY HAND IN OUTLINE), the maps generally lightly foxed but crisply folded, some mild and occasional offsetting; contemporary plum cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, gilt backs, primrose endpapers, uncut, one volume LARGELY UNOPENED, two volumes expertly recased with original endpapers preserved, backs moderately and uniformly sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), fore-edges lightly spotted, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean extended set in largely unrestored publisher's binding. All volumes complete with half-titles; most volumes with publisher's catalogues (variously dated 1838-39) at end, confirming early issue; tenth volume with publisher's advance notice slip (Milman's History of Christianity and Life of Gibbon) mounted facing half-title; twelfth volume with separately printed errata slip mounted facing end of Contents. Maps and Catalogues as follows: Vol.I: 2 folding, 8pp. March 1838 ; Vol.II: 1 folding; Vol.III: 2 full-page, 12pp. May 1838; Vol. IV: 1 folding, 12pp. June 1838; Vol. V: 1 folding, 12pp. August 1838; Vol.VI: 1 folding, 4pp. n.d.; Vol. VII: 1 folding, 12pp. October 1838; Vol. VIII: 1 folding, 32pp. October 1838; Vol.IX: 1 folding, 6pp. December 1838; Vol. X: 1 folding, 32pp. December 1838; Vol. XI: I folding, 8pp. January 1839; Vol. XII: 1 folding, 8pp. January 1839). The portrait of Gibbon is by Scriven after Reynolds. A CRISP EXTENDED SET OF THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MILMAN'S 'GIBBON' IN LARGELY UNRESTORED PERIOD CLOTH BINDING AND AS SUCH MOST UNUSUAL.
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
98084A Paris, chez Maradan, Libraire / Moutard/Letellier / An Trois, An Quatrième, 1788-1795, 18 volumes in-8 de 200x130 mm environ, de 460 à 584 pages par volume, pleine basane granitée brune, titres et tomaisons dorés sur dos lisse, pièce de titres en maroquin bordeaux, tomaisons brunes plus ou moins foncées en fonction des volumes, ornés de caissons à motifs dorés. Série recomposée, Edition en partie originale de la traduction (pour les volumes publiés chez Moutard/Letellier, tomes : 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10). Quelques rousseurs, mouillures claires dans les marges, des frottements et épidermures sur le cuir, sinon bon état.
186238586London: John Murray 1862. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. London: John Murray 1862. With Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot. Edited with Additional Notes by William Smith. 8 vols. Bound by Bayntun. Illustrated with frontisportrait and maps. 415 425 433 410 415 428 412 434 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. 3/4 green crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards. 5 raised bands gilt lettering in compartments. Heads heels and corners very lightly rubbed; spines lightly sunned; top edges gilt. interior clean and tight. A nice set. Very good/No jacket issued. Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. John Murray hardcover books
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
