Hardcover System Mauser: A Pictorial History of the Model 1896 Self-Loading Pistol by John W. Breathed Jr. and Joseph J. Schroeder Jr.		Hardcover English County Folk Songs by Cecil J. Sharp
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In the late-night hours of June 27, 1787, Edward Gibbon came to the end of a twenty-three-year journey. His six volume work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, had come to a close. The History was published in quarto format from 1776 to 1789; our octavo set was published from 1783 to 1791. Covering over fourteen hundred years (180-1590) Gibbon' s work was — and still is — the history of one of the greatest civilizations ever known. Add to Gibbon's tireless scholarship the unmistakable voice of... (read more)

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