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Jan 13, 2020

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An auction featuring an impressive collection of books and maps, including several notable cartographic depictions of California as an island, first editions of notable books including Sir Richard Burton’s “1001 Nights,” and a page from the Nuremberg Chronicle. Revere Auctions info@revereauctions.com

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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 “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, “The Journal of John Woolman”, “Fruits of Solitude William Penn,” three works in volume no. 1; “The Apology, Phaedo and Crito of Plato”, “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus”, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius,” two works in vol. no. 2; Francis Bacon, “Essays, Civil and Moral and the New Atlantis”, John Milton, “Areopagitica and Tractate on Education”, Sir Thomas Browne, “Religio Medici,” three works in Vol. no. 3; “The Complete Poems of John Milton,” written in English, Vol. no. 4; R. W. Emerson, “Essays and English Traits,” Vol. no. 5; “The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns,” Vol. no. 6; Thomas A. Kempis, “The Confessions of St. Augustine; The Imitation of Christ,” Vol. no. 7; Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, ”Nine Greek Dramas,” Vol. no. 8; “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with his treatises on Friendship and Old Age”, “Letters of Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus,” two works in Vol. no. 9; Adam Smith, “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,” Vol. no. 10; Charles Darwin, “The Origin of Species,” Vol. no. 11; “Plutarch’s Lives of Themistocles Pericles Aristides Alcibiades and Coriolanus Demosthenes and Cicero Caesar and Antony,” Vol. no. 12; “Virgil’s Aeneid,” Vol. no. 13; “Stories from the Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments),” Vol. no. 16; “Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen,” Vol. no. 17; “Modern English Drama: Dryden, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shelley, Browning, Bryon,” Vol. no. 18; “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Faust, part I, Egmont, Hermann and Dorothea”, “Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus,” two works in Vol. no. 19; “The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise,” Vol. no. 20; Alessandro Manzoni, “I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed),” Vol. no. 21; Homer, “The Odyssey,” Vol. no. 22; R. H. Dana, Jr., “Two Years Before the Mast, and Twenty-Four Years After,” Vol. no. 23; “Edmund Burke on Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful Reflections on the French Revolution, A Letter to a Nobel Lord,” Vol. no. 24; “John Stuart Mill, Autobiography Essay on Liberty”, “Thomas Carlyle, Characteristics Inaugural Address Essay on Scott,” two works in Vol. no. 25; “Continental Drama: Calderon, Corneille, Racine, Moliere, Lessing, Schiller,” Vol. no. 26; “English Essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay,” Vol. no. 27; “Essays, English and American,” Vol. no. 28; Charles Darwin, “The Voyage of the Beagle,” Vol. no. 29; “Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology,” Vol. no. 30; “The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini,” Vol. no. 31; “Literary and Philosophical Essays. French, German, and Italian,” Vol. no. 32; “Voyages and Travels, Ancient and Modern,” Vol. no. 33; “French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes,” Vol. no. 34; “Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed,” Vol. no. 35; Niccolo Machiavelli, “The Prince”, Sir Thomas More, “Utopia”, Martin Luther, “Ninety-Five Theses address to the German Nobility Concerning Christian Liberty,” three works in Vol. no. 36; “English Poetry, Volume I from Chaucer to Gray,” Vol. no. 40; “English Poetry, Volume II from Collins to Fitzgerald,” Vol. no. 41; “English Poetry, Volume III from Tennyson to Whitman,” Vol. no. 42; “American Historical Documents, 1000-1904,” Vol. no. 43; “Sacred Writings. Volume I, Confucian, Hebrew, Christian (Part I),” Vol. no. 44; “Sacred Writings. Volume II, Christian (Part II), Buddhist, Hindu, Mohammedian,” Vol. no. 45; “Elizabethan Drama. Volume I, Marlowe, Shakespeare,” Vol. no. 46; “Elizabethan Drama: Dekker, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, Massinger,” volume II, Vol. no. 47; “Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Letters, Minor Works,” Vol. no. 48; “Epic and Saga: Beowulf”, “The Song of Roland”, “The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel”, “The Story of the Volsungs”, and “Niblungs,” five works in Vol. no. 49; “The Editor’s Introduction Reader’s Guide, Index to the First Lines of Poem Songs & Choruses Hymns & Psalms, General Index, Chronological Index,” Vol. no. 50. Some discoloration to book covers and water damage.

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