[Rarebooks] FS: Dalrymple's carefully crafted attack on Gibbons. Edinburgh: 1786

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Dalrymple, David. AN INQUIRY INTO THE SECONDARY CAUSES WHICH MR. GIBBON
HAS ASSIGNED FOR THE RAPID GROWTH OF CHRISTIANITY. Edinburgh: Printed
by Murray & Cochrane. For T. Cadell. 1786. 4to. First edition.
(4),214pp. With the printed presentation leaf, to Richard Bishop of
Worcester, before the title page. Later calf, gilt, with red calf
label, over original marbled boards. Verso of title with 2 rubber
library stamps (1, for deacession) of St. Andrews University.  
Scarce.	$650.00
(trade discount allowed)
Dalrymple's (1726-1792) carefully crafted attack on Gibbon's
interpretation of the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire.

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