Description:
Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: by Dove for Cowie, et al., 1825.
Eight octavo volumes, portrait frontispiece of Gibbon in volume one, three folding maps, uniformly bound in full contemporary diced calf, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 10 in.
Estimate $500-700
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