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GIBBON, Edward (1737-94). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ... edited, with additional notes, by William Smith, London: John Murray, 1854-55. 8 volumes, 8° (213 x 135mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved maps. (Frontispiece and title in vol. I spotted, occasional light spotting.) 19th-century polished calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments with red and green morocco lettering-pieces (extremities lightly rubbed).
With 4 other works of related interest in 18 volumes, including George Rawlinson's History of Herodotus (London, 1862, 4 vols.) and Plutarch's Lives ... Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A. H. Clough (Boston, 1891, 5 vols.), all attractively-bound in contemporary calf gilt. (26)
With 4 other works of related interest in 18 volumes, including George Rawlinson's History of Herodotus (London, 1862, 4 vols.) and Plutarch's Lives ... Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A. H. Clough (Boston, 1891, 5 vols.), all attractively-bound in contemporary calf gilt. (26)
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