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1840044214Paris: Baudry's Eureopean Library 1840. Early Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Good Condition. 8 volumes in brown cloth backed boards. Wear to the cloth with tears and loss on a few of the spines two of the spines laid back down bindings generally sound. Mild to moderate foxing throughout owner stamps on titles. 3 folding maps one with color. Light wear in a few spots tear in one gutter foxed. Size: Octavo 8vo. 8-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 044214. <br/><br/> Baudry's Eureopean Library hardcover books
184123New York: Charles C. Bigelow & Co not dated. Hardcover. Good ex-library with library stamps and labels on blocks spines inside front and rear covers. Previous owner's name on title half-pages. Pages are lightly age toned but otherwise clean and clear. Six volume set bound in red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Each volume has a bw illustrated frontispiece with protective guardsheet. Six volume set detailing the decline of the Roman empire. Charles C. Bigelow & Co hardcover books
1887403456London: John Murray 1887. 8 volumes 8vo. Frontispiece portrait in vol. 1 by Sir Joshua Reynolds 12 folding maps. Near-contemporary brown half morocco marbled boards top edges gilt by Little Brown & Co. A near-fine set with a few trifling areas of wear at ends of spines two bumps to board edges several minor creases to folding maps. Provenance: James Ford Rhodes 1848-1927 American industrialist and historian signatures on titles of vols. 1 and 2 dated 1897 annotations; Felix O. Matton bookplates. A FINE SET EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED BY THE AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIST AND HISTORIAN JAMES FORD RHODES who signed the first two titles in pencil and dated them in 1897; he notes in several volumes that he completed reading them in 1898-99. Rhodes's pencilled underlinings in the text and densely written pencilled notes on the front and rear endleaves and on two titles show a close reading of this edition of Gibbon's text. There are in total 70 pages of notes on the endleaves all in the first six volumes as follows: v.1: 11pp; v. 2: 13pp and extensive notes on 7 pages of the table of contents; v.3: 14pp; v.4: 15pp; v.5: 7pp; v.6: 3pp all at end. The Cleveland-born Rhodes earned his fortune in iron coal and steel and retired from business in 1885 afterwards dedicating himself to historical research. His 8-volume 'History of the Civil War' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1918. Rhodes expressed his admiration for Gibbon in 1899 soon after his reading of this set: "To my mind one of the most charming things in historical literature is the praise which one great historian bestows upon another Gibbon speaks of 'the discerning eye' and 'masterly pencil of Tacitus-the first of historians who applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts' 'whose writings will instruct the last generations of mankind.' He has produced an immortal work 'every sentence of which is pregnant with the deepest observations and most lively images.' I mention Gibbon for it is more than a strong probability that in diligence accuracy and love of truth he is the equal of Tacitus. Gibbon's work has richly deserved its life of more than one hundred years a period which I believe no other modern history has endured. Niebuhr in a course of lectures at Bonn in 1829 said that Gibbon's 'work will never be excelled'" Rhodes paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in 1899. Published in: Annual Report of the American Historical Association 1899 56-63. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
1900318397Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co 1900. A New Edition. Frontis. 5 vols. 8vo. Bound in contemporary polished tan calf gilt spine marbled sides. Almost fine. A New Edition. Frontis. 5 vols. 8vo. Henry T. Coates & Co unknown books
195022640London Toronto Melbourne Sydney Wellington: Cassell and Company Ltd. 1950. Octavo cloth. First British edition. The author's second novel. "Life in an occupied city during the 'Third World War.'" - Clarke Tale of the Future 1978 p. 83. Reginald 05450. A near fine copy in about good dust jacket with shelf wear at edges and several long tears in rear panel with internal tape reinforcement. #22640 Cassell and Company Ltd. unknown books
1940WRCLIT79066London: Jonathan Cape 1940. 288pp. Large octavo. Gilt polished black buckram untrimmed. Portrait. Plates. Slight tanning to edges and endsheets but a near fine copy in good somewhat darkened and soiled dust jacket. First edition the uncommon first issue. Keynes notes in his autobiography that the first printing sold poorly due to the war and a significant portion of the edition was destroyed in the blitz. Rupert Hard-Davis wrote in THE BOOK COLLECTOR that "Gibbon's Library was duly brought out in one of the worst months in publishing history - April 1940. It achieved the splendid record of selling fewer copies than any other book ever published by Cape - under a hundred I remember - and since most of the unsold stock was soon destroyed by enemy action the book must be the rarest in all Geoffrey's extensive oeuvre." In 1950 the Bibliographical Society bound up some sets of rescued sheets with a missing signature reprinted constituting the second issue. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1839WRCLIT52593London: John Murray 1839. xvi451112pp. Large octavo. Original publisher's cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt. Frontis portrait after Reynolds. Cloth lightly rubbed and soiled with a few faint old splashmarks blank fore-margin of portrait has a light discoloration small nick in inner hinge else a very good copy. First edition of the text as edited by Milman enhanced by his privileged access to the original manuscripts. A decent association copy perhaps with the armorial bookplate of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. on the front pastedown. NCBEL II:1723. NORTON p.196-7. John Murray hardcover books
1878135043London: Macmillan 1878. Hardcover. Fair Ex-lib. labels at spines bookplate inside front covers pocket inside backs usual markings; Some wear to cloth particularly at extremities; Back board and last hundred pages of volume one show water damage only at the very top of the pages; Hinges cracking; Some pencil markings throughout but still very readable. Brown embossed cloth; Gilt titling at spine; 335 404 pp.; No illustrations other than title page of volume one. Scottish lawyer and writer; Founded the Edinburgh Phrenological Society in 1820; Combe's major work was The Constitution of Man. Macmillan hardcover books
1959019540London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1959. 226p. b/w illus. original blue cloth slightly frayed at head of spine ex libris. Rupert Hart-Davis unknown books
1948UGIBRED00MELSaturn Press 1948. Very Good. Gibbon Mark. The Red Shoes Ballet: A Critical Study. London: Saturn Press 1948. Second edition. 95pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with remains of an old sticker on front free endsheet. Saturn Press hardcover books
1926WRCLIT70816Fair Oak Hampshire: At the Sign of the Grayhound 1926. Polished khaki buckram. Title printed in red and black. Some foxing to cloth but a very good copy in slightly sunned dust jacket with internally mended edge tear. First edition of the poet's first book. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by A.W. Mathews. At the Sign of the Grayhound hardcover books
1926WRCLIT46885Fair Oak Hampshire: At the Sign of the Grayhound 1926. Polished khaki buckram. Title printed in red and black. First edition. One of two hundred and fifty numbered copies printed by hand by A.W. Mathews. Boards irregularly darkened some offset on endsheets tiny nick in top-edge of three leaves but a good sound copy. At the Sign of the Grayhound hardcover books
1827684591827. London 1827. London 1827. Contemporary Account of a Famous English Case of Forced Marriage Trial. Wakefield Edward Gibbon Defendant. Wakefield William Defendant. Wakefield Frances Mrs. Defendant. The Trial of Edward Gibbon Wakefield William Wakefield And Frances Wakefield: Indicted with One Edward Thevenot A Servant For a Conspiracy and For the Abduction of Miss Ellen Turner The Only Child and Heiress of William Turner Esq. of Shrigley Park in the County of Chester. London: John Murray 1827. xv 303 pp. Interleaved with de-acidifying paper. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-1/4". Recent library buckram white-stamped title shelf number and library name to spine. Text notably fresh some browning to final leaf and title page which has library marks and stamps. $300. Only edition. The first account of the Shrigley Abduction an 1826 British case of forced marriage by Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the 15-year-old heiress Ellen Turner. The couple was married in Scotland and travelled to France before Turner's father was able to notify the authorities and intervene. The marriage was annulled by Parliament. Wakefield and his brother William were convicted and sentenced to three years in prison. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:1217. unknown books
1958UGIBTRI00AFHarper Torchbooks 1958. Very Good. Gibbon Edward. The Triumph of Christendom in the Roman Empire. NY: Harper Torchbooks 1958. 411pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with faded and rubbed wraps. Harper Torchbooks paperback books
190698478New York: Fred Defau & Company 1906. The Complete Works of Edward Gibbon one of numbered 73 sets this is number 7. Octavo 15 volumes bound in full dark blue levant morocco inlaid red tulips at the corners of boards and center of each spine raised bands gilt titles to the spine brown morocco doublures and watered silk flyleaves binding by MacDonald plates in three states: photogravure colored on India paper and printed on velin. In fine condition. An exceptional set most rare and desirable. "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equalled to this day; and the result was clothed in inimitable prose" PMM 222. "For 22 years Gibbon was a prodigy of steady and arduous application. His investigations extended over almost the whole range of intellectual activity for nearly 1500 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 146-7. Fred Defau & Company hardcover books
1906117051New York: McClure 1906. Octavo pp. 1-8 1-2 3-293 294-296: blank note: last leaf is a blank original decorated green cloth. front panel stamped in white and blind spine panel stamped in white bottom edge untrimmed. First U.S. edition. Stories told by an old Boer woman to her household especially her granddaughter Katje grim tales about life and death on the frontier. "The Vrouw Grobelaar believed most entirely in Kafir magic in witchcraft and second sight in ghosts and infernal possession in destiny and in a very personal arch-fiend who presided over a material hell when not abroad in the world on the war-path." Of the seventeen stories here at least six are supernatural: "The Dream Face" "The Avenger of Blood" "The King of the Baboons" "The Peruvian" "Tagalash" "The Sacrifice." Hubin 1994 p. 323. Day The Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature p. 34. Not in Bleiler 1948; 1978 or Reginald 1979; 1992. Cloth rubbed at edges some staining along rear fore-edge inner hinges mended offsetting on pages 84-85 probably from an old laid-in newspaper clipping still a good solid copy. #117051 McClure unknown books
190668481A Beautiful Set Limited to 73 Copies GIBBON Edward. The Works of Edward Gibbon. New York: Fred DeFau & Company 1906-1907. The Sheffield Edition one of 73 numbered sets this being number 4. Fifteen octavo volumes 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 217 x 146 mm. Illustrated with the plates some of which are colored in three states. Comprising: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire The Autobiographies.Printed Verbatim from Hitherto Unpublished Mss. Miscellaneous Works and Private Letters. Beautifully bound by Macdonald in contemporary full dark blue levant morocco. Covers ruled in gilt with gilt red morocco floral onlay corner-pieces. Spines tooled and lettered in gilt with gilt red morocco floral onlays. Brown levant morocco doublures paneled in gilt. Cream watered silk liners. Top edge gilt others uncut. A superb set. GibbonÃs Decline and Fall brought to the subject a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equaled to this day. "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works which like the writings of Macaulay and Mommsen maintain their hold upon the layman and continue to stimulate the scholar although they have been superseded in many if not most details by subsequent advance of research and changes in the climate of opinion. Whereas other eighteenth-century writers in this field such as Voltaire are still quoted with respect the Decline and Fall is the only historical narrative prior to Macaulay which continues to be reprinted and actually read" Printing and the Mind of Man. Although superseded in many respects by two centuries of continuous research this great work is still read both for pleasure and for profit and has achieved an eminence denied most historical compilations of its kind. HBS 68481. $7500 Fred DeFau & Company unknown books
19821297841Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 1982. Hardcover. Octavo; VG; hardcover; bound in brown cloth gilt lettering; boards strong minor edgewear rubbing and bumping on fore corners and spine edges stamp and pen and penciling on front end paper penciling on rear pastedown; text block slightly age toned soiling on exterior head edge; xvi 380pp. 1297841. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. The Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover books
