THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE - Verbatim Reprint in Four Volumes by Gibbon, Edward - 1892

Paris: Furne et Cie, 1849. Hardcover. Very Good +. Vol 1 � vii, 528 pgs. Vol 2 � 502 pgs. Vol 3 � 510 pgs. Vol 4 � 494 pgs. Text in French.6 x 9 in. Half chocolate-brown morocco with red marbled shiny paper boards. 4 raised bars on spine with gilt lettering and designs. Brown marble endpapers. Marbled edges to text block. Brown silk bookmark. Tissue-protected frontis illustration. Vol 4 has fold-out map at end. Condition of books is VERY GOOD+ ; leather and gilt on spines very clean and bright, some very slight wear, very faint cracking. Some wear to paper boards. Tops of text block darkened with age. Foxing sporadic throughout text. Large David B. Ogden bookplate on front paste down. Wear to and very small tears to corners. Very tight Vol 1 � slight damage to raised bars on spine, wear to front board.Vol 3 � tiny damage to one raised band of spine.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. Hardcover. Fair. Gift inscription signed by author on half-title page - dated March 2, 1888. No chips, tears, creases to pages. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Boards have bumping at corners and fraying at head and tail of spine. Book is cocked. Hinges are exposed. Front board partially separated from text block. 355 pp.

London: John C. Nimmo, [printed by Ballantyne, Hanson, and Co., Edinburgh and London], 1889. 4to [28.4 cm]. xxxvii, [1], 396 pages, including half title. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 11 plates. The other etchings are vignettes appearing as chapter headpieces and tailpieces. Contemporary half dark blue morocco by Bumpus of Oxford Street (London), with raised bands and gilt tooling on spine, single gilt rules on covers, and top edge gilt. Penciled ownership inscription of North Carolina collector, Forster A. Sondley, on the front flyleaf. Tasteful bookplate of Sondley Reference Library and gilt manuscript call number on front pastedown. Ink stamp on front free endpaper, verso of title, and in margin of one other page. Embossed stamp on title page and on each of the plates, placed on the border of the printed area, not affecting the subject matter. Else very good plus. Binding shows some minor wear, but hinges are solid, inside and out. Occasional and light traces of marginal… Read More

Paris: Desenne 1807. (Hardcover set) 346, 505, 469, 431pp. Very good. In full calf fine bindings which have been expertly rebacked. Marbled endpapers and edges. The covers are worn and the spines brittle with minor loss at the tops and bottoms, and a 1.5-inch piece missing from the bottom of the spine of Vol.1, also a tasteful bookplate in each volume. The pages are clean and the books have mylar jackets. Text in French Language. (History--Poland, History--Poland, Sets).

Naples: Francesco Savio, 1648. Leather_bound. Very Good. [8], 450 [i.e. 462], [10] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: a4 A-3N4 (4to). Contemorary limp vellum with handwritten spine title. Errors in pagination: p. 458-459 misnumbered 454-455; p. 462 misnumbered 450. Woodcut tail-pieces and initials; printed marginal notes. Includes index. The first edition of the first two parts of the author's history of Spain under the Goths and the Moors. The third and fourth parts of the history were published in 1653. In Very Good Condition: fore-edge of front cover curling up; occasional light soiling; some pages browned.

Paris: Furne et Cie, 1849. Hardcover. Very Good +. Vol 1 � vii, 528 pgs. Vol 2 � 502 pgs. Vol 3 � 510 pgs. Vol 4 � 494 pgs. Text in French.6 x 9 in. Half chocolate-brown morocco with red marbled shiny paper boards. 4 raised bars on spine with gilt lettering and designs. Brown marble endpapers. Marbled edges to text block. Brown silk bookmark. Tissue-protected frontis illustration. Vol 4 has fold-out map at end. Condition of books is VERY GOOD+ ; leather and gilt on spines very clean and bright, some very slight wear, very faint cracking. Some wear to paper boards. Tops of text block darkened with age. Foxing sporadic throughout text. Large David B. Ogden bookplate on front paste down. Wear to and very small tears to corners. Very tight Vol 1 � slight damage to raised bars on spine, wear to front board.Vol 3 � tiny damage to one raised band of spine.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. Hardcover. Fair. Gift inscription signed by author on half-title page - dated March 2, 1888. No chips, tears, creases to pages. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Boards have bumping at corners and fraying at head and tail of spine. Book is cocked. Hinges are exposed. Front board partially separated from text block. 355 pp.

London: John C. Nimmo, [printed by Ballantyne, Hanson, and Co., Edinburgh and London], 1889. 4to [28.4 cm]. xxxvii, [1], 396 pages, including half title. Complete with frontispiece portrait and 11 plates. The other etchings are vignettes appearing as chapter headpieces and tailpieces. Contemporary half dark blue morocco by Bumpus of Oxford Street (London), with raised bands and gilt tooling on spine, single gilt rules on covers, and top edge gilt. Penciled ownership inscription of North Carolina collector, Forster A. Sondley, on the front flyleaf. Tasteful bookplate of Sondley Reference Library and gilt manuscript call number on front pastedown. Ink stamp on front free endpaper, verso of title, and in margin of one other page. Embossed stamp on title page and on each of the plates, placed on the border of the printed area, not affecting the subject matter. Else very good plus. Binding shows some minor wear, but hinges are solid, inside and out. Occasional and light traces of marginal… Read More

Paris: Desenne 1807. (Hardcover set) 346, 505, 469, 431pp. Very good. In full calf fine bindings which have been expertly rebacked. Marbled endpapers and edges. The covers are worn and the spines brittle with minor loss at the tops and bottoms, and a 1.5-inch piece missing from the bottom of the spine of Vol.1, also a tasteful bookplate in each volume. The pages are clean and the books have mylar jackets. Text in French Language. (History--Poland, History--Poland, Sets).

Naples: Francesco Savio, 1648. Leather_bound. Very Good. [8], 450 [i.e. 462], [10] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: a4 A-3N4 (4to). Contemorary limp vellum with handwritten spine title. Errors in pagination: p. 458-459 misnumbered 454-455; p. 462 misnumbered 450. Woodcut tail-pieces and initials; printed marginal notes. Includes index. The first edition of the first two parts of the author's history of Spain under the Goths and the Moors. The third and fourth parts of the history were published in 1653. In Very Good Condition: fore-edge of front cover curling up; occasional light soiling; some pages browned.