Nov 08, 2007 - Sale 2127

Sale 2127 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
GIBBON, EDWARD. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 3 engraved maps (the first heavily foxed); lacks the portrait. Half-titles in second and third volumes, lacking in fourth through sixth, not called for in first. Errata leaf in Volume 3. 6 volumes. 4to, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, cover corners worn through; occasional heavy foxing, clean tears in G1 and 2L1 in Volume 2. London, 1777-88

Additional Details

Mixed set, comprising the third edition of the first volume, second edition of the second and third, and first edition of the rest. Rothschild 942; Printing and the Mind of Man 222.