1838 Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. 8 Vols. Art Deco Length: 35cm

Length: 35cm

steam engines and other tin toys

with some small areas of brass tarnish to the top and sides particularly (please see photographs)

Queen Victoria visited Derby to lay the foundation stone of the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary and to knight Sir Alfred Haslam

A 'Cary-Gould Type' pocket microscope

1838 Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. 8 Vols. Art Deco Length: 35cm'The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire' by Edward Gibbon. New edition complete in eight volumes, published 1838. Frontispiece to Volume I and folding maps to Volumes I and V (note the Volume I map is detached but remains neatly folded and fully intact). Edward Gibbon's 'History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776 88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate