50 - [HISTORY - GAUL & THE ROMAN EMPIRE]

[HISTORY - GAUL & THE ROMAN EMPIRE] An interesting collection bringing together two important 19th-century historical and geographical studies: - Baron Charles-Athanase Walckenaer - Ancient, Historical, and Comparative Geography of Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul, followed by a Geographical Analysis of Ancient Itineraries. Paris, P. Dufart, 1839. 3 vols., in-8°. First edition of this major scholarly work in geographical archaeology, analyzing the territorial structures of Roman Gaul based on ancient itineraries. Without the atlas. References: Brunet, V, 1403; Quérard, X, 475. - SISMONDI, Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de - *History of the Fall of the Roman Empire and the Decline of Civilization, from the Year 250 to the Year 1000*. Brussels, Henri Dumont, 1836. 1 vol., in-8°. An early Belgian pirated edition of this masterful synthesis analyzing the collapse of Rome’s political and cultural structures through the Early Middle Ages. References: Quérard, IX, 181; Brunet, VI, 23908. Provenance: from the library of Philippe Kervyn of Volkaersbeke (bookplate)