Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794). The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire / by Edward Gibbon: volume IV. London: John Murray, 1854.

Price: US$23.08 + shipping

Description: Poor copy with wear, tear and dust-dulling as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; vol. IV (only): 410 p. : port. ; folded map ; 24 cm. Subjects; Rome — History — Empire, (30 B.C.-476 A.D.). Byzantine Empire — History. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794). The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire / by Edward Gibbon: volume IV. London: John Murray, 1854.

Price: US$35.20 + shipping

Description: Poor copy with wear, tear and dust-dulling as with age. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; vol. IV (only): 410 p. : port. ; folded map ; 24 cm. Subjects; Rome — History — Empire, (30 B.C.-476 A.D.). Byzantine Empire — History. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in eight volumes (Die Geschichte vom Niedergang und Fall des Römischen Reiches) with notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot; edited, with additional notes by William Smith; with portrait and Maps. London: John Murray Verlag., 1854.

Price: US$241.76 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Bd. 1: 415 S.; Bd. 2: 425 S.; Bd. 3 433 S.; Bd. 4: 410 S.; Bd. 5: 415 S.; Bd. 6: 428 S.; Bd. 7: 412 S.; Bd. 8: 434 S.; 8 Bände mit vielen teils farbigen Karten vollständig, Portrait von Edward Gibbon in Bd. 1, mit Seidenpapier; Text in englischer Sprache. "Edward Gibbon (* 8. Mai 1737 in Putney, Surrey; † 16. Januar 1794 in London) war ein britischer Historiker in der Zeit der Aufklärung. Sein Hauptwerk ist The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Von 1776 bis 1789 veröffentlichte Gibbon die sechs Bände, ein Werk im Umfang von ca. 3200 Druckseiten (in modernen Ausgaben), das die Geschichte des Römischen einschließlich des Byzantinischen Reichs von der Mitte des zweiten Jahrhunderts nach Christus bis zur Einnahme Konstantinopels durch die Türken im Jahre 1453 schildert." SELTENES EXEMPLAR !!! NUR IN DER BIB AUSLEIHBAR !!! 5540 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 6400 8°, 15 cm x 22 cm, Halbledereinband Leineneinband in grün, Schmuckbuch, Lederecken, marmorierte Vorsatzblätter; Buchrücken goldgeprägter Titel 5 Bünde, oberer goldener Schnitt, sehr guter Zustand, Kanten teilw. leicht berieben, sehr gut erhalten, kaum Gebrauchsspuren.

Seller: Antiquariat REDIVIVUS, Regensburg, Germany

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Eight Volumes. London: John Murray, 1854.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Eight matching volumes. 8vo. About 400 pp. per volume. Illustrated with maps and frontispieces. Quarter-bound in green leather spine, hinges, and corners; Green cloth over boards; marbled end-papers. Five raised bands, gilt titling on the spines. Top edges gilt. Wear to the cover corners and some light wear to the spine ends. The bindings are tight. There are some notations in some of the volumes, but they are light and scattered. Some, not all, volumes have brown-spotting and foxing to the end-papers and some maps have the same. The set weighs about 15 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item.

Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.

Gibbon (Edward). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. With Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot. Edited, with additional Notes, by William Smith, LL.D. [Complete in 8 volumes.]. John Murray - 1855, 1854.

Price: US$3527.35 + shipping

Description: engraved frontispiece portrait to first volume, this with light waterstain at foot and foxed, folded maps, occasional small spots, one volume with a small amount of marginal marking in pencil at rear of volume, pp. xxxii, 415; x, 425; viii, 433; viii, 410; viii, 415; viii, 428; x, 412; ix, 434, 8vo, nineteenth-century half calf, brown cloth sides, the backstrip gilt in compartments between five raised bands, leather lettering pieces, the extremities rubbed a little with occasional wear, sprinkled edges, each volume with the bookplate of Clement Attlee, very good. The set of Prime Minister Clement Attlee, with his striking bookplate to each volume (including upside down to the rear endpaper of Vol. VI). In his reading memoir, 'The Pleasure of Books', in the National and English Review in 1954, Attlee refers to this 'handsome set' of Gibbon 'recently inherited' - that is (he clarifies), waiting for him at Chequers when Prime Minister (he had until that point 'never read Gibbon right through'), where the previous resident had been Winston Churchill. Churchill's great enthusiasm for Gibbon as a historian is well-known. This additional provenance, intriguing as it is, does not seem to have a direct bearing on the pencilled notes to the rear endpapers or blanks in vols III, IV (which also has a few at close of text), VII, & VIII: these identify themes ('The Varangian Guard', 'Scotland', 'Public worship', 'Saints and Christian polytheism') alongside their relevant page numbers, and are a little too sparse to confidently attribute - but we know that Attlee read and enjoyed this set, and the likelihood of Churchill having done so, though he had 'devoured' Gibbon much earlier, is strong.

Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom