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LOCAL PICK UP OR OWN FEDEX UPS ACCOUNT FOR DELIVERY P.F. Collier & Son Corporation, New York / The Collier Press, 1910. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. THE HARVARD CLASSICS COLLECTION 49 VOL. No Jacket. Limited edition, #456 of 1000 - each volume numbered in red ink on front flyleaf. Most volumes very good condition, and most of them never opened, most spines toned. Red binding “Five-Foot Shelf of Books,” first published in 1909, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot that was first published in 1909. Each volume had 400 to 450 pages IT INCLUDES: Vol. 1: FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN: His Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin; Journal, by John Woolman; Fruits of Solitude, by William Penn; Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS: The Apology, Phædo and Crito, by Plato; The Golden Sayings, by Epictetus; The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius; Vol. 3. BACON, MILTON'S PROSE, THOS. BROWNE: Essays, Civil and Moral & The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon; Areopagitica & Tractate of Education, by John Milton; Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne; Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON: Complete Poems Written in English, by John Milton; Vol. 5. ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON: Essays and English Traits, by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Vol. 6. POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS: Poems and Songs, by Robert Burns; Vol. 7. CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATIONS OF CHRIST: The Confessions of St. Augustine; The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas á Kempis; Vol. 8. NINE GREEK DRAMAS: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies & Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus; Oedipus the King & Antigone, by Sophocles; Hippolytus, The Bacchæ, by Euripides; The Frogs, by Aristophanes; Vol. 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY: On Friendship, On Old Age & Letters, by Cicero; Letters, by Pliny the Younger; Vol. 10. WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH: Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith; Vol. 11. ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DARWIN: The Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin; Vol. 12. PLUTARCH'S LIVES: Lives, by Plutarch; Vol. 13. AENEID, VIRGIL: Aeneid, by Virgil; Vol. 14. DON QUIXOTE, Part 1, CERVANTES: Don Quixote, Part 1, by Cervantes; Vol. 15. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, DONNE & HERBERT, BUNYAN, WALTON: The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan; The Lives of Donne and Herbert, by Izaak Walton; Vol. 16. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS: Stories from the Thousand and One Nights; Vol. 17. FOLKLORE AND FABLE, AESOP, GRIMM, ANDERSON: Fables, by Aesop; Household Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen; Vol. 18. MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA: All for Love, by John Dryden; The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; She Stoops to Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith; The Cenci, by Percy Bysshe Shelley; A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, by Robert Browning; Manfred, by Lord Byron; Vol. 19. FAUST, EGMONT, ETC. DOCTOR FAUSTUS, GOETHE, MARLOWE: Faust, Part I, Egmont & Hermann and Dorothea, by J.W. von Goethe; Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe; Vol. 20. THE DIVINE COMEDY, DANTE: The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri; Vol. 21. I PROMESSI SPOSI: I Promessi Sposi, by Alessandro Manzoni; Vol. 22. THE ODYSSEY, HOMER: The Odyssey of Homer; Vol. 23. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, DANA: Two Years Before the Mast, by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.; Vol. 24. ON THE SUBLIME, FRENCH REVOLUTION, ETC., BURKE: On Taste, On the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & A Letter to a Noble Lord, by Edmund Burke; Vol. 25. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC., ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, J.S. MILL, T. CARLYLE: Autobiography & On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle; Vol. 26. CONTINENTAL DRAMA: Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca; Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille; Phèdre, by Jean Racine; Tartuffe, by Molière; Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Wilhelm Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller; Vol. 27. ENGLISH ESSAYS: SIDNEY TO MACAULAY; Vol. 28. ESSAYS: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN; Vol. 29. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE, DARWIN: The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin; Vol. 30. FARADAY, HELMHOLTZ, KELVIN, NEWCOMB, ETC; Scientific Papers: Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology; Vol. 31. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini; Vol. 32. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS: Montaigne, Sainte-beuve, Renan, etc.; Vol. 33. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS: Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern; Vol. 34. FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS, DESCARTES, VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, HOBBES: Discourse on Method, by René Descartes; Letters on the English, by Voltaire; On the Inequality among Mankind & Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar, by Jean Jacques Rousseau; Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes; Vol. 35. CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE, FROISSART, MALORY, HOLINSHEAD: Chronicles, by Jean Froissart; The Holy Grail, by Sir Thomas Malory; A Description of Elizabethan England, by William Harrison; Vol. 36. MACHIAVELLI, MORE, LUTHER: The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli; The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper; Utopia, by Sir Thomas More; The Ninety-Five Theses, Address to the Christian Nobility & Concerning Christian Liberty, by Martin Luther; Vol. 37. LOCKE, BERKELY, HUME: Some Thoughts Concerning Education, by John Locke; Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists, by George Berkeley; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume; Vol. 38. HARVEY, JENNER, LISTER, PASTEUR: The Oath of Hippocrates; Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré; On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, by William Harvey; The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox, by Edward Jenner; The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, by Oliver Wendell Holmes; On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery, by Joseph Lister; Scientific Papers, by Louis Pasteur; Scientific Papers, by Charles Lyell; Vol. 39. FAMOUS PREFACES: Prefaces and Prologues; Vol. 40. ENGLISH POETRY 1 CHAUCER TO GRAY; Vol. 41. ENGLISH POETRY 2: COLLINS TO FITZGERALD; Vol. 42. ENGLISH POETRY 3: TENNYSON TO WHITMAN; Vol. 43. AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS: American Historical Documents: 1000-1904; Vol. 44. SACRED WRITINGS 1: Confucian: The Sayings of Confucius; Hebrew: Job, Psalms & Ecclesiastes; Christian I: Luke & Acts; Vol. 45. SACRED WRITINGS 2: Christian II: Corinthians I & II & Hymns; Buddhist: Writings; Hindu: The Bhagavad-Gita; Mohammedan: Chapters from the Koran; Vol. 46. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1: Edward the Second, by Christopher Marlowe; Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth & The Tempest, by William Shakespeare; Vol. 47. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 2: The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker; The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson; Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher; The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster; A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger; Vol. 48. THOUGHTS AND MINOR WORKS, PASCAL: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works, by Blaise Pascal; Vol. 49. EPIC AND SAGA: Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel; The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs; Vol. 50 INTRODUCTION, READER'S GUIDE, INDEXES; LECTURES.

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