Author: GIBBON (Edward):
Title: Historia om romerska kejardonets aftagande och fall, af Eduard Gibbon, esq:r, Oafversatting af C. G. Wadstrom och J. F. Hedblad.
Description: Orebro, tryckt hos N. M. Lindh. Pa. eget forlag, 1820 - 1834. FIRST SWEDISH TRANLSATION. 8vo, all volumes, 192 x 121 mms. original blue wrappers, uncut, with round library stamp on each title-page; fore-margins crushed and wrappers a bit soiled, but a very good set.Volume 1 [1820]: pp, [viii], 300 [301 – 307 index, 308 errata] Volume 2 [1820]: pp. [iv], 300 [301 – 308 index and errata] Volume 3 [1821]; pp. [iv], 264 [265 – 271 index, 272 blank]; lacks rear cover Volume 4 [1821]: [iv, 238 [239 – 243 index, 244 blank] Volume 5 [1822]: [iv], [258 [259 – 263 index, 264 blank; rear cover defective Volume 6 [1823]: [iv],248 [249 – 252 index] Volume 7: pp. [iv], 216 [217 – 220 index] Volume 8: pp. [iv],283 [284 – 289 index, 290 blank] Volume 9: pp. [iv], 213 [214 – 216 index]; 1826 Volume 10 [1829]: pp. [iv], 246 [247 – 249 index, 250 blank]; lacks rear cover Volume 11 [1829]: pp. [iv], 224 [225 – 228]; lacks rear cover 1829 Volkume 12 [1831]: pp. [iv], 290 [291 – 2906 index]; Volume 13 [1831]: pp. [iv], 283 [284 – 288 index; front cover torn Volum 14 [1832]: pp. [iv], 305 [306 – 310 index]; Volume 15 [1835]: [iv], 342 [343 – 345 index, 346 blank; Volume 16 [1834]: [iv], 282 The translators are , Carl Gustaf Wadström (1787-1841) and Johann Fabian Hedbland (1790 – 1854). They are indexed in Swedish Imprints1732 – 1833: A Retrospective National Bibliography (Volume 1), published in 1977 by Rolf du Riet and Gun-Britt du Rietz. In volume 5 of his Miscellaneous Works, Gibbon commented, "Superstition and clerical power reached the highest pitch in Sweden. At the time of their conversion, the Swedes adopted the whole papal system, and became Christians after the fashion of the twelfth century. They could not plead the authority of any ancient traditions; their history furnished them not with any argument the Roman faith, and their ignorance hindered them from seeking such arguments in the history of other nations, in reason, or in scripture." Norton, page 153. Copies in Yale University Library, University of Washington Library, National Library of Sweden. No copies located in UK libraries.

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