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1862ref. 194749London: John Murray 1862. An "ageless masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style" PMM A smart set copiously illustrated with folding maps. This edition incorporates both English and French 19th-century scholarly readings of the great history. Published between 1776 and 1788 Gibbons's work remains one of the great achievements of the Enlightenment. 8 vols 215 x 135 mm. Portrait frontispiece to vol. I 12 folding maps 6 hand-coloured 2 maps. Contemporary half calf red and green morocco labels spines with gilt rolls and lozenge tools to compartments marbled sides endpapers and edges. Bookplates of Sir Ralph Lewis Wedgwood 1st Baronet 1874-1956 contemporary bookseller's tickets to front pastedown. Nicks to a few spine ends bindings rubbed outer leaves faintly foxed. A very good set. unknown
1784ref. 187960Dublin: 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
1887ref. 187010Londno: 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
2006ref. __0415342309Routledge 2006. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 1880 pages. 9.75x6.75x5.75 inches. Routledge hardcover
1840ref. 561The Euclid Press 1840. Editon De Luxe. The Euclid Press unknown
1784ref. 72472twelve 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
1997ref. 30407Arlington Virginia U.S.A.: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc. New. 1997. Spiral Bound. 0880489324 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - --BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED -- -- with a bonus offer-- . Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc unknown
1996ref. 30406Arlington Virginia U.S.A.: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc. New. 1996. Paperback. 0880489316 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - --BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED -- -- with a bonus offer-- . Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc paperback
1991ref. 70219Arlington Virginia U.S.A.: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc. Very Good. 1991. Paperback. 0880482834 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE - 515 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc paperback
1997ref. 30405Arlington Virginia U.S.A.: Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc. New. 1997. Paperback. 0880488107 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - --BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED -- -- with a bonus offer-- . Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc paperback
1846ref. 146461London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell in the Strand 1846. Finely bound second edition set of Gibbon's masterpiece. Octavo 6 volumes bound in full calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands red and brown morocco spine labels gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers all edges marbled illustrated with numerous folding maps in each volume. In very good condition antiquarian gift inscription to the front free endpaper of volume I. A handsome presentation. "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. Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, in the Strand hardcover
1783ref. 046022W. 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
1807ref. 308098London: T. Cadell and W. Davies 1807. New edition. Hardcover. All 12 volumes Very Good in boards. Owner name inked on title page of all 12 volumes. Foxing throughout text blocks of all 12 volumes. Water staining on top and side text block edge of volume 1. Rear hinge of volume 7 starting. Open tear on 2nd front end page of volume 10. Volumes 7-12 dated 1802. T. Cadell and W. Davies hardcover
1796ref. 135133London: 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
2007ref. InstkSB-9780811860598Chronicle Books 2007. Hardcover. New. Chronicle Books hardcover
2007ref. InstkSB-9780811860598Chronicle Books 2007. Hardcover. New. Chronicle Books hardcover
1791ref. 53160London UK: A Strahan and T Cadell 1791. Leather Bound. Good/None Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The 1791-1792 edition of Gibbon's ground-breaking history of the Roman Empire which covered the period from the height of the Empire to the fall of the successor Byzantium Empire 98 to 1590 AD and relied on primary sources. The original quarto printings were now converted to a more convenient octavo printing. Volume XII contains an extensive index to the work. The volumes are uniformly and bound in contemporary full tree-calf. Each has decoration in gilt to the spines with two contrasting Morocco title plates with gilt lettering. Boards are decorated in gilt with edge-tooling. All volumes show age with light rubbing to their extremities and joints and minor bumping to the corners. Light sunning to the spines. Occasional light rubbing to the surfaces of the boards. Each volume has the title plate of Abraham Spooner Lillingston of the midlands banking and iron industry family along with his hand-written name on the front paste downs. There are signs of a previous bookplate being present with off-setting from the front paste-down to the first free endpaper. Text-blocks remain tight with no obvious loose gatherings and the pages are bright with little ageing. ESTC T79691; Norton 38; cf.PMM 222. 1 - Includes a b/w frontispiece and two folding maps. xxiv 456pp. Upper rear corner bumped. 2 - xvi 496pp. Scuff to surface of lower board. 3 - Includes a folding map. viii 412pp. 4 - viii 443pp. 5 - vii 432pp. Small ink stain near the head of the upper joint. 6 - viii 420pp. Rubbing to surface of upper board near foot of upper joint. There is loss along the fore-edge of the first free endpaper. 7 - xii 424pp. Scuff to lower part of the upper joint. 2cm closed tear to leading edge of rear endpaper. 8 - viii 375pp. 9 - xii 502pp. 10 - xii 385pp. Scuff to lower corners of both boards. 11 - xii 460pp. Surface of the calf is rubbed to the lower corner of the upper board. 12 - xii 432 civ pp. This set is very heavy approximately 8.5 kg additional delivery fees and highly recommended insurance costs will need to be added. A Strahan and T Cadell hardcover
ref. 8210London: H. Woodfall J. Beecroft W. Strahan J. Rivington. 1768. In Seven Volumes. FROM THE LIBRARY OF EDWARD GIBBON. Each volume bears the book-plate of Edward Gibbon and the set is mentioned in Keynes' Bibliography. Bound in contemporary full tan calf gilt raised bands 3 of the vols. lack their red morocco labels extremities worn spines rubbed upper joint to vol. III tender. Contents mostly clean and fresh. "The Library of Edward Gibbon. A Catalogue." by Geoffrey Keynes is in original black cloth gilt and is illustrated. According to Keynes' catalogue of Gibbon's library this set came from the Bentinck Street collection. It is very exciting to handle a set that was in the London library of the writer of 'The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire'. hardcover
1787ref. 85193Basil 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 Standard shipping no tracking / Priority with tracking / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. J.J. Tourneisen, Pissot hardcover
1906ref. 42471New York NY: Fred Defau & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1906. Hardcover. 15 volume set. Edition Lausanne. Number 590 of 1000 registered sets. Edited by J. B. Bury with an introduction by The Rt. Hon. W. D. H. Lecky. Magnificent leather work on both sides of front and back boards. Lettered in gilt on spines raised bands. Front and rear free silk endsheets face the internally decorated front and back boards. Personal bookplate of famed California industrialist and bibliophile Leonard Buck in each volume. Please call us to further discuss intricate binding. Due to number of volumes and insurance additional postage will be required. ; 6" x 8 3/4" . Fred Defau & Company hardcover
1906ref. L3 box800 b5The Gibson Book: A Collection of the Published Works of Charles Dana Gibbon In Two Volumes. Eleven Gibson Books in Two Volumes 1. Drawings; 2. Pictures of People; 3. London; 4. Sketches and Cartoons; 5. The Education of Mr. Pipp; 6. Americans; 7. A Widow and Her Friends; 8. The Social Ladder; 9. Eighty Drawings including The Weaker Sex: The Story of a Susceptible Bachelor; 10. Everyday People; 11. Our Neighbors. Published in 1906 by Charles Scribner's Sons and R. H. Russell & Sons. Complete two volumes red cloth hardcover gilt lettering of book name and decoration on front cover of each volume gilt top edge. Extra large size and heavy books: 17.5" x 11.5" x 2.5". Charles Scribner's Sons, and R. H. Russell & Sons. hardcover
1838ref. 70052London: For T. Cadell Strand 1838. 8 volumes. A New Edition. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 engraved folding maps. 8vo very handsomely and sumptuously bound in full russia presentation bindings lettered and decorated in gilt with the crests and regalia of Archibald Primrose fifth Earl of Rosebery and Prime Minister in compartments of the spines between gilt ruled raised bands two compartments lettered in gilt one compartment with gilt tooled panel design the covers with triple gilt fillet lines at the borders meeting a floral device gilt at the intersections enclosing an arabesque styled central panel enclosing the gilt arms of Christ College Cambridge gilt turnovers marbled endleaves and edges. lii 509; viii 488; xii 571; xii 533; xvi 555; xii 501; xi 555; xi 468 index. A very fine and handsome set very well preserved and in excellent condition. A VERY FINE AND SUMPTUOUSLY BOUND SET WITH EXCELLENT PROVENANCE OF THE GREATEST HISTORICAL WORK EVER UNDERTAKEN. 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. "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. 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. For T. Cadell, Strand hardcover
1788ref. 206212London: 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
ref. 7778T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt. London. 1761. First edition of the authors first book. 8vo. xxxii 159pp. All original blank leaves present two before the title and four after last leaf that has text. "From the Author" in Gibbon's own hand to blank opposite title page. This has offset lightly to title page. Bound in contemporary full brown speckled calf worn at extremities rebacked with original spine laid down. Original spine darkened as if scorched. Outer margins of e/ps. and title browned some occ. foxing. Inner hinge visible but sound. The whole contained in a purpose made clam-shell marbled box with leather lettering piece. Norton 1. Though not published until 1761 Gibbon wrote this first work in French in 1758 when he was 21. He let Dr. Maty of the British Museum read it and on gaining approval revised and completed it in 1759. It was only published due to his fathers urging. The dedication to his father is both sincere and touching. The book mostly due to being written in French was more successful abroad than in England. The publishers covered the costs of producing the book and took the profits Gibbon retained the copyright and received a number of free copies. According to Norton 42 copies were made available to Gibbon. 21 copies were presented by the author to several eminent characters in England and France one was presented to the Duke of York and 20 were given by the author to his friends in Lausanne. This copy is one of these 42. hardcover
1779ref. 166741Paris: 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
