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Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Six volumes; 3/4 brown leather binding. Gilt edging to the top of the pages. Bookplate of Frances H. Catlin. I: xlii, 600 pages; 3 folding maps (hand colored). II: xii, 559 pages; 3 maps (one folding, hand colored). III: xv, 543 pages; 2 folding maps (one hand colored). IV: xv, 524 pages; 2 folding maps. V: xv, 506 pages; 2 folding maps (both hand colored). VI: xv, 498 pages; index; 2 folding maps (one hand colored), errata page. Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) was an English historian and member of Parliament. "The Decline and Fall" was his magnum opus and is considered to be the first modern history written based on primary sources rather than secondary sources and was not influenced or swayed by official church doctrine. This handsome set is in very good condition.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$667.30 + shipping
Description: 'With notes by the Rev. H.H. Milman, prebendary of St. Peters, and rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster.' Intricate gilt detail to spine with five raised bands. Edges of textblock are coloured redbrown. One original handcoloured, foldout map to first volume. Condition is as follows.nbsp; Small amount of foxing to Vol. 2, 3, and 5's endpapers. Front board's cloth on volume three is lifting slightly. Condition is relatively uniform throughout the set. Loss and rubbing to leather, particularly to corners which are wellworn, with some intermittent marking to boards. Some loss to heads and tails of all spines.Overall, this is a set which is externally fair but still internally intact with mostly cosmetic outer damage. A decorative and complete set with price adjusted according to condition.nbsp;
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom