GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: for Thomas Tegg, 1816, 12 vols., 8°, engraved portrait frontispiece and folding maps, contemporary polished calf, spines gilt; and circa 450 vols. miscellaneous literature, most 18th-century and bound in calf, including works by Hume, Smollett and Voltaire. (a lot)