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Harvard Classics Alumni Edition

Estimate: $200 - $300

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Set of Harvard Classics. Alumni Edition, set no. 434. Edited by Charles W. Elliot, LLD. Published by P. F. Collier & Son, New York, 1910. Titles include ìThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinî, ìThe Journal of John Woolmanî, ìFruits of Solitude William Penn,î three works in volume no. 1; ìThe Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Platoî, ìThe Golden Sayings of Epictetusî, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius,î two works in vol. no. 2; Francis Bacon, ìEssays, Civil and Moral and the New Atlantisî, John Milton, ìAreopagitica and Tractate on Educationî, Sir Thomas Browne, ìReligio Medici,î three works in Vol. no. 3; ìThe Complete Poems of John Milton,î written in English, Vol. no. 4; R. W. Emerson, ìEssays and English Traits,î Vol. no. 5; ìThe Poems and Songs of Robert Burns,î Vol. no. 6; Thomas A. Kempis, ìThe Confessions of St. Augustine; The Imitation of Christ,î Vol. no. 7; Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, îNine Greek Dramas,î Vol. no. 8; ìLetters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with his treatises on Friendship and Old Ageî, ìLetters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus,î two works in Vol. no. 9; Adam Smith, ìAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,î Vol. no. 10; Charles Darwin, ìThe Origin of Species,î Vol. no. 11; ìPlutarchís Lives of Themistocles Pericles Aristides Alcibiades and Coriolanus Demosthenes and Cicero Caesar and Antony,î Vol. no. 12; ìVirgilís Aeneid,î Vol. no. 13; ìStories from the Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nightsí Entertainments),î Vol. no. 16; ìFolk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen,î Vol. no. 17; ìModern English Drama: Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Bryon,î Vol. no. 18; ìJohann Wolfgang von Goethe. Faust, part I, Egmont, Hermann and Dorotheaî, ìChristopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus,î two works in Vol. no. 19; ìThe Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise,î Vol. no. 20; Alessandro Manzoni, ìI Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed),î Vol. no. 21; Homer, ìThe Odyssey,î Vol. no. 22; R. H. Dana, Jr., ìTwo Years Before the Mast, and Twenty-Four Years After,î Vol. no. 23; ìEdmund Burke on Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful Reflections on the French Revolution, A Letter to a Nobel Lord,î Vol. no. 24; ìJohn Stuart Mill, Autobiography Essay on Libertyî, ìThomas Carlyle, Characteristics Inaugural Address Essay on Scott,î two works in Vol. no. 25; ìContinental Drama: Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Lessing, Schiller,î Vol. no. 26; ìEnglish Essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay,î Vol. no. 27; ìEssays, English and American,î Vol. no. 28; Charles Darwin, ìThe Voyage of the Beagle,î Vol. no. 29; ìScientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology,î Vol. no. 30; ìThe Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini,î Vol. no. 31; ìLiterary and Philosophical Essays. French, German, and Italian,î Vol. no. 32; ìVoyages and Travels, Ancient and Modern,î Vol. no. 33; ìFrench and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes,î Vol. no. 34; ìChronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed,î Vol. no. 35; Niccolo Machiavelli, ìThe Princeî, Sir Thomas More, ìUtopiaî, Martin Luther, ìNinety-Five Theses address to the German Nobility Concerning Christian Liberty,î three works in Vol. no. 36; ìEnglish Poetry, Volume I from Chaucer to Gray,î Vol. no. 40; ìEnglish Poetry, Volume II from Collins to Fitzgerald,î Vol. no. 41; ìEnglish Poetry, Volume III from Tennyson to Whitman,î Vol. no. 42; ìAmerican Historical Documents, 1000-1904,î Vol. no. 43; ìSacred Writings. Volume I, Confucian, Hebrew, Christian (Part I),î Vol. no. 44; ìSacred Writings. Volume II, Christian (Part II), Buddhist, Hindu, Mohammedian,î Vol. no. 45; ìElizabethan Drama. Volume I, Marlowe, Shakespeare,î Vol. no. 46; ìElizabethan Drama: Dekker, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, Massinger,î volume II, Vol. no. 47; ìBlaise Pascal, Thoughts, Letters, Minor Works,î Vol. no. 48; ìEpic and Saga: Beowulfî, ìThe Song of Rolandî, ìThe Destruction of Da Dergaís Hostelî, ìThe Story of the Volsungsî, and ìNiblungs,î five works in Vol. no. 49; ìThe Editorís Introduction Readerís Guide, Index to the First Lines of Poem Songs & Choruses Hymns & Psalms, General Index, Chronological Index,î Vol. no. 50.
Each volume; Height: 8 3/4 x width: 6 1/4 in.

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Some discoloration to book covers and water damage.
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