Gibbon, Edward. A Vindication of Some Passages in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Chapters of the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. W Strahan and T Cadell, London, 1779.

Price: US$939.14 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: [iv] 158pp, half title, 1pp advertisment at rear, cancel leaf M3, contemporary russia , lined and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, upper joint slightly rubbed, rear cover with partial ring mark, 8vo (12.5x21.5cm), Norton 30 Rothschild 947 ESTC T50834, a tall copy of Gibbon's reply to the numerous attacks on his great work

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