Gibbon (Edward) & Bowdler (Thomas, translator), History ...

Hammer

£170

Gibbon (Edward) & Bowdler (Thomas, translator), History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, five-volume set, London: Longman, et al., 1826, uniformly bound in full calf gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, Sheffield (John, Lord, editor), Gibbon’s Miscellaneous Works, five-volume set, London: John Murray, 1814, volume I with portrait frontispiece, uniformly bound in contemporary quarter-calf over marbled boards, vol. I upper-cover detached, others chipped & tired, 8vo, further Gibbon, Melmoth’s Letters of Cicero, three-volume set, fourth edition, London: J. Dodsley, 1789, contemporary calf, worn, 8vo, Melmoth’s Letters of Pliny, two-volume set, eighth edition, London: J. Dodsley, 1786, disbound contemporary calf, 8vo, ditto, a later copy, two-volume set, 1810, original publisher’s cloth over boards, 12mo,  [Ovid] & [, P. Ovidii Nasonis Epistolarum Herodium liber […], Roterodami: Typis Regneri Leers, 1698, contemporary English two-tone speckled calf cover only, 12mo, Arnold (The Rev. Thomas Kerchever, editor), A First Classical Atlas, London: Francis and John Rivington, n.d. [1849], 13 two-fold maps only (of 15), line-engraved with hand-coloured delineation, some manuscript annotations, original cloth, 8vo, Lesie (Shane, editor), Plato's Symposium, signed by the editor, one of 1,500 copies, London: The Fortune Press/Printed by The Whitefriars Press, n.d. [c. 1942], printed on English unbleached hand-made paper, original publisher’s cloth over boards, top-edge uncut, 8vo, Horace, further Latin and Classics, (31).

 
Provenance: 2nd: 1) The 19th Light Dragoons, a British Army cavalry regiment that saw action in British India and North America; ASSYE/NIAGRA/XIX, lettered in gilt within the spines’ compartments between an elephant and a military trophy; 2) George Duff, plain armorial bookplates to each pastedown. 3rd & 4th: 1) Stewart Marjoribanks (1774-1863), Whig MP, director of The New Zealand Company, landowner in Australia, and wine merchant; early 19th century crest bookplates to ffeps. 6th: Armytage, mid-18th century labels and inscriptions.