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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman 5 VOLUME SET COMPLETE

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History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire 6 volume set

18221908020002New York E. Duyckinck 1822. 3rd. Hardcover. Acceptable. Third American edition. 6 volume set. Bound in contemporary calf. Spines rebacked with brown binding tape. German Society of Pennsylvania 19th century book plate. Blind stamp on title. New York, E. Duyckinck hardcover

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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Incorporating the Researches of Recent Commentators The Student's Gibbon

Z1-C-080-00246Murray. Used - Acceptable. Used - Acceptable. Hardcover Edition. Binding split with threads exposed. Some waterstaining within book. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Murray hardcover

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History of the Decline and Fall of the R

E11K-00325PENGUIN. Used - Good. Good condition. Volume 3. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates stamps limited notes and highlighting or a few light stains. PENGUIN unknown

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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

18041299471804. First Edition. GIBBON Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Philadelphia: William Y. Birch & Abraham Small 1804-05. Eight volumes. Octavo contemporary full brown tree calf gilt burgundy morocco spine labels. $9800.First American edition set of one of the greatest classics of Western thought with three folding engraved maps in a beautiful contemporary binding.""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 equaled to this day; and the result was clothed in an 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 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. The first edition of Gibbon's History was published in England in six volumes from 1776 to 1788. It was of great interest to American readers who were taught Roman history from an early age a common reference point for the educated classes At pivotal moments in history the shadow of ancient Rome has dramatically shaped perceptions of the present. The Founding Fathers of the United States were no exception. They found the history of Rome utterly compelling and for many of the same reasons as people today but amid the fervour of the American Revolution the Founding Fathers drew upon Roman history for the unique task of creating a republicThis went further than a superficial interest in ancient Rome. Classical republicanism was at the heart of the Founding. American colonists had relied on translations of the original Roman texts by radical Whigs such as Thomas Gordon Basil Kennet Walter Moyle and Edward Wortley Montagu. Learning from antiquity would help America to avoid the same mistakes that had befallen ancient Rome and now Britain David Cowan. Copies of Plutarch and Livy were brought to the Continental Congresswhile the Federalist Papers were written under pen-names like Caesar Brutus and Publius and John Adams attributed his world view to CiceroWhen George Washington deigned not to hold a third term he was compared to the noble dictator Cincinnatus who dropped his sword for a plow Ed Simon. It was natural that the Founding Fathers discovered Gibbon. John Adams began reading the available volumes of Gibbon by the winter of 1787 finishing the first volume by the end of the year and beginning the second in January 1788 it was slow going for him writing if a book does not interest me exceedingly it is a task too me to go through it; and I fear for this reason I shall never get through Gibbon. Indolence indolence I fear will be my ruin. During the same period Jefferson was recommending the book on his various reading lists and James Madison referred to it in his 1787 notes in his Ancient and Modern Confederacies. So it is little wonder that by 1804 demand had grown enough in America that a publisher in Philadelphia printed it in this country for the first time claiming that it would be the most complete Edition of Gibbon extant as it would include Memoirs of My Life and Writing at the end of the last volume. Norton 102. Scattered foxing to text a bit of dampstaining to first few leaves of Volume I and last few leaves of Volume VIII; expertly repaired closed tear to last leaf of Volume III affecting text but not readability; expert paper repairs to G1 and G2 in Volume V affecting side notes but not readability. Folding maps with offsetting and light embrowning as is typical of the era. Beautifully bound. hardcover

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History of the London County Council 1889-1939. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

193914281Macmillan 1939. 8vo. First Edition with large folding frontispiece original tissue guard present numerous plates illustrations in the text and large folding coloured map; green cloth upper board blocked in gilt gilt back gilt top a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper the latter mildly browned at backstrip and with small loss at upper edge of front panel. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Macmillan, hardcover