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Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Early edition. Vibrant purple cloth binding with elaborate blindstamped design of Murray's British Classics. Gold titles, rough-cut pages. 425 pp. followed by two black and white maps and a color fold-out map "The Migrations of the Barbarians". Occasional foxing, some water damage to ffep and staining on corner of a few pages. Front hinge open, title loose. Good condition.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early edition. Vibrant purple cloth binding with elaborate blindstamped design of Murray's British Classics. Gold titles, rough-cut pages. 415 pp. preceded with a fold-out map of Italy and followed by a fold-out map of the Eastern Empire. Very good condition.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Eight volumes. 3/4 leather with marbled board, endpapers, and edges. All in excelent shape, save for volume one, where the spine is separating from the covers and the top third is missing. This was from the library of Alfred A. Cohen. Cohen was the founder and president of the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad in 1863 which later merged with the Central Pacific Railroad where he became the Chief Attorney. This was the railroad founded by the "Big Four" of Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mark Hopkins, and Collis Huntington. His booksplate is inside the front cover of volume one.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$677.80 + shipping
Description: With notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot. A New edition, with additional notes by William Smith. 8 vol. complete. xxxii, 415 p. with portrait of E.G. on frontispice, with 2 folded maps; x, 425 (3 maps); viii, 433 (1 map); viii, 410 (1 map); viii, 415 (2 maps); vii, 428 (2 maps); x, 412 (1 map); ix, 434 (2 maps), large octavo, half leather with gilt spine and marbled flyleaves and edges. 6900 g
Seller: Antiquariat Im Seefeld / Ernst Jetzer, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 vols, 8vo (8¾ x 5½), steel engraved frontispiece portrait, 14 maps including 12 folding, some hand-colored. Half calf & marbled boards, backs in six gilt paneled compartments, gilt lettering pieces in the second & fourth, gilt corner & center ornaments in the rest, matching marbled edges & end papers. Very good, complete with all maps. Sheets & maps unusually clean & fresh, unmarked, complete. Calf with some wear to edges & extremities, head-cap of vol 1 repaired, no names or bookplates. H8295.
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1019.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart complete set of the new edition of Gibbon's renowned work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Complete in eight volumes. New edition. An account from the year 98 to 1590, witnessing the peak of the Roman Empire, the history of early Christianity, the emergence of the Roman State Church, the rise of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, the decline of the Roman Empire and the fall of Byzantium, as well as discussions on the ruins of Ancient Rome. According to Gibbon, the Roman Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions in large part due to the gradual loss of civic virtue among its citizens, though he also began an ongoing controversy about the role of Christianity in this history. Written by Edward Gibbon, an English essayist, historian, and politician best known for this work. With notes by Henry Hart Milman, an English historian and ecclesiastic, François Guizot, a French historian, orator, and statesman, and Sir William Smith, an English lexicographer. Volume one is illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and two folding maps to the rear. Volume two is illustrated with a folding map frontispiece and two maps to the rear. Volume three is illustrated with a folding map frontispiece. Volume four is illustrated with a folding map frontispiece. Volume five is illustrated with a folding map frontispiece and a folding map to the rear. Volume six is illustrated with a folding map frontispiece and a folding map to the rear. Volume seven is illustrated with a folding map frontispiece. Volume eight is illustrated with a folding map frontispiece and a folding map to the rear. Collated complete. In the original half red cloth with marbled boards. Externally, smart with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd mark to the boards. Cracks to the joints of volumes one, two, and five. Minor loss to the head of the spine to some volumes. Front hinge starting but firm to volume one. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light age toning to the first and last few pages. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. The odd pencil note to the pages. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1090.35 + shipping
Description: Eight volumes 8vo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches) complete. Pages: xxxii, 415; x, 425; viii, 433; viii, 410; viii, 415; vii, 428; x, 412; ix, 434. Engraved portrait. 14 maps of which 12 folding, some coloured in outline. Contemporary full tan calf, narrow gilt rules to sides. Spines gilt extra in 4 compartments and with green lettering piece and crimson gilt numbering piece, all edges marbled. A little darkening at the base of the spines. A fine and handsome set in excellent condition and entirely clean and crisp within, with no foxing or browning. Weight 7.3 kg thus extra overses shipping will be requested.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom