World's Great Classics, 22, Odes From Divan of Hafiz, Arts

Dwight, Timothy; Stoddard, Richard Henry; Marsh, Arthur Richmond; Van Dyke, Paul; Bergh, Albert Ellery; Editors. The World's Great Classics, 22 Volumes New York, The Colonial Press, 1899, Hard Cover, Condition: Very Good, 1) History of Europe During the Middle Ages; Henry Hallam; (1898), Volumes 1 & 2; 2) Hebrew Literature: Comprising of Talmudic Treatises, Hebrew Melodies and The Kabbalah Unveiled (1901); Introduction by Epiphanius Wilson, a magnificent illuminated frontispiece, "Battle Between the Idumeans and Jews"; 3) History of Florence, from the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent (1901) by Nicco Machiavelli; 4) The History of Philosophy (1901), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Preface by Charles Hegel, translation by J. Sibree; 5) A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green (volumes I & II), Frontispiece of Green & beautiful Illuminated frontispiece, Delilah's Treachery To Samson (from the Clermont Tomerre Bible Hystorians, written about 1370). Volume I begins with The English Kingdoms, 607-1013 (Britian and the English); Volume II begins with the Reformation, The Protestants, 1540-1553; 6) Green's History of the English People, Civilization in Europe; frontispiece photo of Queen Victoria; begins with Modern England, William Pitt, 1742-1762, (volume III); 7) Principals of Political Economy, with some of their applications to Social Philosophy, by John Stuart Mill, (volume II); begins with "Summary of the Theory of Value," introduction and frontispiece of Arthur T. Hadley, (President of Yale until 1899); 8) Moorish Literature, comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabylie, Folk-Lore and National Traditions; translated into English for the First time. Special introduction by Epiphanius Wilson (1901); frontispiece "A Harem in Granada" (photograph from the original painting by Edouard Ruchter, Paris Salon 1883; 9) Essays of British Essayists (volumes I & II), including biographical and critical sketches; special introduction by Chauncey C. Starkweather;Vol. I., frontispiece Joseph Addison, works by: Frances Bacon; Robert Burton; John Milton; John Dryden; Sir William Temple; Fuller; John Locke; Daniel DeFoe; Jonathan Swift; Joseph Addison; Henry Fielding; Horace Walpole, Earle of Orford; Alexander Pope; Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, etc; Vol. II.frontispiece Charles Lamb. Works by: Dickens; Lamb; Walter Savage Landor; William Hazlitt; Leigh Hunt; Thomas De Quincey; Shelley; Carlyle; Macaulay; Douglas Jerrold; Thackeray; Arthur Helps; Froude; Ruskin; Kingsley; Herbert Spencer; Matthew Arnold; Edward Augustus Freeman; Thomas Henry Huxley; Sir John Lubbock; 10) Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel Kant; frontispiece of Kant; introduction by translator J.M.D. Meiklejohn. Beautiful illustration of "Early Venetian Printing"; 11) Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum, (1899), by Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam), with a special introduction by James Edward Creighton; frontispiece, photogravure of Francis Bacon; 12) The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri; translated by Henry Francis Cary, frontispiece, photogravure of Dante, from the original painting by Giotto di Bordone; 13) The Nibelungenlied, translated by William Nanson Lettsom (1901); frontispiece, Wotan's Farewell to Brunhild, photogravure of original painting by Kourad Diehitz. An epic German Gothic Poem. Originally written in Middle High German, sometime around 1200 A.D. 14) Orations of British Orators; including Biographical and Critical Sketches; intro. By Julian Hawthorne. Volume I (only): Hugh Latimer, Thomas Cranmer, John Knox, Richard Hooker, John Donne, The Earl of Strafford, Sir John Eliot, Robert Leighton, Lord Chesterfield, Sir Robert Walpole, Henry Grattan, John Wesley, and many others; Chronicles of England, France, Spain and adjoining countries; from the latter part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV; (1901) by Sir John Froissart, translated from the French by Thomas Jones, (volume I, only), Frontispiece, Sir John Froissart, photogravure from a rare print; 15) The Spirit of Laws, by Baron De Montesquieu (Charles De Secondat) (1689-1755) Montesquieu was an important French thinker during the first have of the eighteenth century; including D'Alembert's Analysis of the Work, translated from the French by Thomas Nugent; Frontispiece, Part of a Column of Gutenberg's Bible, (1899), volumes I and II; 16) Oriental Literature, the Literature of Persia (volume II); introduction by Richard J.H. Gottheil, Ph.D., Prof. of Rabbinical Literature and the Semitic languages at Columbia Univ; Contents: The Gulistan: customs of Kings; Morals of Dervishes; Preciousness of Contentment; Benefit of Being Silent; Love and Youth; Imbecility and Old Age; Impressions of Education; Duties of Society; Frontispiece, Good Advice, photogravure from a painting by L. Knaus (an aged Persian, instructing his son in the wisdom of the Persian Sages. (1900); 17) Oriental Literature, The Literature of China, with critical and biographical sketches by Epiphanius, Wilson; Frontispiece, Confucius, photogravure from an old Chinese print, (1899), Volume IV. Contents: The Analects of Confucius; The Sayings of Mencius; The Shi-King; The Travels of Fa-Hein; The Sorrows of Han. Pronunciation of proper names; 18) Jerusalem Delivered (about the First Crusade), by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), translated by, Edward Fairfax (1901); Frontispiece of Tasso, photogravure from an original painting by Wilhelm Von Kaulbach; 19) The Republic of Plato, An Ideal Commonwealth, Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett; (1901), Frontispiece, A Reading from Homer, photogravure from the original painting by Laurence Alma-Tadema; 20) Drama, by Greek, Spanish, French, German and English Dramatists, with a special Introduction by Albert Ellery Bergh (volume II only) (1900): Faust; The Rivals; Mary Stuart; A Doll's House; Les Pattes De Mouche; Frontispiece, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, photogravure from an oil painting by J.K. Stieler. With many photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Cloth bindings, blue, brown, orange, red, pastedown title panel to spine. Deckled edges, many pages unopened. Bindings all solid, pages clean, no foxing or writing. Mild rubbing, few spots, soil to boards. "The Revised Edition" 1899 to 1901. 22 volumes of important literature. TEG. Each volume approximately 400 pp, sm 4to (Nobn, Elizabethan, Philosophy, Francis, Bacon, Advancement, Of, Learning, Novum, Organum, Bacon, Baron, De, Montesquieu, Spirit, Of, Laws, French, Philosophers, 18th, Century, ), Jerusalem, Delivered, Torquato, Tasso, Talmudic, Treaties, Kabalah, Unvieled, World, S, Greatest, Classics, Colonial, Press, Persian, Literature, Confucius, Sayings, Of, Mencius, Torquato, Tasso, Republic, Of, Plato, British, Orators, John, Donne, Robert, Walpole, History, Of, The Middle, Ages, Illuminated, Illustrations, English, Kingdoms, Moorish, Literature, Edwardian, Literature, The Nibelungenlied, Translated, By, William, Nanson, Lettsom, Green, S, History, Of, The English, People, Jonathan, Swift, Daniel, Defoe, Works, Of, Addison, Henry, Fielding, Commonwealth, Letters) Cat No. 4007.	155.00
Dwight, Timothy; Stoddard, Richard Henry; Marsh, Arthur Richmond; Van Dyke, Paul; Bergh, Albert Ellery; Editors. The World's Great Classics, 22 Volumes New York, The Colonial Press, 1899, Hard Cover, Condition: Very Good, 1) History of Europe During the Middle Ages; Henry Hallam; (1898), Volumes 1 & 2; 2) Hebrew Literature: Comprising of Talmudic Treatises, Hebrew Melodies and The Kabbalah Unveiled (1901); Introduction by Epiphanius Wilson, a magnificent illuminated frontispiece, "Battle Between the Idumeans and Jews"; 3) History of Florence, from the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent (1901) by Nicco Machiavelli; 4) The History of Philosophy (1901), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Preface by Charles Hegel, translation by J. Sibree; 5) A Short History of the English People, by John Richard Green (volumes I & II), Frontispiece of Green & beautiful Illuminated frontispiece, Delilah's Treachery To Samson (from the Clermont Tomerre Bible Hystorians, written about 1370). Volume I begins with The English Kingdoms, 607-1013 (Britian and the English); Volume II begins with the Reformation, The Protestants, 1540-1553; 6) Green's History of the English People, Civilization in Europe; frontispiece photo of Queen Victoria; begins with Modern England, William Pitt, 1742-1762, (volume III); 7) Principals of Political Economy, with some of their applications to Social Philosophy, by John Stuart Mill, (volume II); begins with "Summary of the Theory of Value," introduction and frontispiece of Arthur T. Hadley, (President of Yale until 1899); 8) Moorish Literature, comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the Berbers, Stories of the Kabylie, Folk-Lore and National Traditions; translated into English for the First time. Special introduction by Epiphanius Wilson (1901); frontispiece "A Harem in Granada" (photograph from the original painting by Edouard Ruchter, Paris Salon 1883; 9) Essays of British Essayists (volumes I & II), including biographical and critical sketches; special introduction by Chauncey C. Starkweather;Vol. I., frontispiece Joseph Addison, works by: Frances Bacon; Robert Burton; John Milton; John Dryden; Sir William Temple; Fuller; John Locke; Daniel DeFoe; Jonathan Swift; Joseph Addison; Henry Fielding; Horace Walpole, Earle of Orford; Alexander Pope; Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, etc; Vol. II.frontispiece Charles Lamb. Works by: Dickens; Lamb; Walter Savage Landor; William Hazlitt; Leigh Hunt; Thomas De Quincey; Shelley; Carlyle; Macaulay; Douglas Jerrold; Thackeray; Arthur Helps; Froude; Ruskin; Kingsley; Herbert Spencer; Matthew Arnold; Edward Augustus Freeman; Thomas Henry Huxley; Sir John Lubbock; 10) Critique of Pure Reason, by Immanuel Kant; frontispiece of Kant; introduction by translator J.M.D. Meiklejohn. Beautiful illustration of "Early Venetian Printing"; 11) Advancement of Learning and Novum Organum, (1899), by Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam), with a special introduction by James Edward Creighton; frontispiece, photogravure of Francis Bacon; 12) The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri; translated by Henry Francis Cary, frontispiece, photogravure of Dante, from the original painting by Giotto di Bordone; 13) The Nibelungenlied, translated by William Nanson Lettsom (1901); frontispiece, Wotan's Farewell to Brunhild, photogravure of original painting by Kourad Diehitz. An epic German Gothic Poem. Originally written in Middle High German, sometime around 1200 A.D. 14) Orations of British Orators; including Biographical and Critical Sketches; intro. By Julian Hawthorne. Volume I (only): Hugh Latimer, Thomas Cranmer, John Knox, Richard Hooker, John Donne, The Earl of Strafford, Sir John Eliot, Robert Leighton, Lord Chesterfield, Sir Robert Walpole, Henry Grattan, John Wesley, and many others; Chronicles of England, France, Spain and adjoining countries; from the latter part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV; (1901) by Sir John Froissart, translated from the French by Thomas Jones, (volume I, only), Frontispiece, Sir John Froissart, photogravure from a rare print; 15) The Spirit of Laws, by Baron De Montesquieu (Charles De Secondat) (1689-1755) Montesquieu was an important French thinker during the first have of the eighteenth century; including D'Alembert's Analysis of the Work, translated from the French by Thomas Nugent; Frontispiece, Part of a Column of Gutenberg's Bible, (1899), volumes I and II; 16) Oriental Literature, the Literature of Persia (volume II); introduction by Richard J.H. Gottheil, Ph.D., Prof. of Rabbinical Literature and the Semitic languages at Columbia Univ; Contents: The Gulistan: customs of Kings; Morals of Dervishes; Preciousness of Contentment; Benefit of Being Silent; Love and Youth; Imbecility and Old Age; Impressions of Education; Duties of Society; Frontispiece, Good Advice, photogravure from a painting by L. Knaus (an aged Persian, instructing his son in the wisdom of the Persian Sages. (1900); 17) Oriental Literature, The Literature of China, with critical and biographical sketches by Epiphanius, Wilson; Frontispiece, Confucius, photogravure from an old Chinese print, (1899), Volume IV. Contents: The Analects of Confucius; The Sayings of Mencius; The Shi-King; The Travels of Fa-Hein; The Sorrows of Han. Pronunciation of proper names; 18) Jerusalem Delivered (about the First Crusade), by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), translated by, Edward Fairfax (1901); Frontispiece of Tasso, photogravure from an original painting by Wilhelm Von Kaulbach; 19) The Republic of Plato, An Ideal Commonwealth, Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett; (1901), Frontispiece, A Reading from Homer, photogravure from the original painting by Laurence Alma-Tadema; 20) Drama, by Greek, Spanish, French, German and English Dramatists, with a special Introduction by Albert Ellery Bergh (volume II only) (1900): Faust; The Rivals; Mary Stuart; A Doll's House; Les Pattes De Mouche; Frontispiece, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, photogravure from an oil painting by J.K. Stieler. With many photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Cloth bindings, blue, brown, orange, red, pastedown title panel to spine. Deckled edges, many pages unopened. Bindings all solid, pages clean, no foxing or writing. Mild rubbing, few spots, soil to boards. "The Revised Edition" 1899 to 1901. 22 volumes of important literature. TEG. Each volume approximately 400 pp, sm 4to (Nobn, Elizabethan, Philosophy, Francis, Bacon, Advancement, Of, Learning, Novum, Organum, Bacon, Baron, De, Montesquieu, Spirit, Of, Laws, French, Philosophers, 18th, Century, ), Jerusalem, Delivered, Torquato, Tasso, Talmudic, Treaties, Kabalah, Unvieled, World, S, Greatest, Classics, Colonial, Press, Persian, Literature, Confucius, Sayings, Of, Mencius, Torquato, Tasso, Republic, Of, Plato, British, Orators, John, Donne, Robert, Walpole, History, Of, The Middle, Ages, Illuminated, Illustrations, English, Kingdoms, Moorish, Literature, Edwardian, Literature, The Nibelungenlied, Translated, By, William, Nanson, Lettsom, Green, S, History, Of, The English, People, Jonathan, Swift, Daniel, Defoe, Works, Of, Addison, Henry, Fielding, Commonwealth, Letters) Cat No. 4007.	155.00
Le Gallienne, Richard. Odes From the Divan of Hafiz (Freely Rendered From Literal Translations) Boston, St Botolph Society, 1925, Hard Cover, Condition: Very Good, Hafiz (d. 1388 AD) the most revered poet of Persia (Iran), who had great spiritual insight, which the people of Persia sought after. Hafiz poetry is lyrical and reflective of the life in Persia; he expresses daily wisdom, joy, and sorrow of the earth. Beautifully bound; 1/4 blue cloth spine, with gilt title to front and spine, gilt dulled; 3/4 covered in fine hand made paper of purple, gold and blue, matching e.p. Mild damp stain to upper portion of front board. Spine ends and edges rubbed. No writing, clean, clear text, deckled page ends. Portrait of translator, frontispiece (portait loose at lower hinge). Private library plate to verso of e.p. sm 4yo, 194 pages. In archival polyester film wraps. Issued for the St. Botolph Society (Odes, From, The Great, Sufi, Odes, From, The Divan, Of, Hafiz, Persian, Literature, Hafiz, S, Translations, Persian, Poetry, Ode, S, 14th, Century, Literature) Cat No. 4008.	24.50
Le Gallienne, Richard. Odes From the Divan of Hafiz (Freely Rendered From Literal Translations) Boston, St Botolph Society, 1925, Hard Cover, Condition: Very Good, Hafiz (d. 1388 AD) the most revered poet of Persia (Iran), who had great spiritual insight, which the people of Persia sought after. Hafiz poetry is lyrical and reflective of the life in Persia; he expresses daily wisdom, joy, and sorrow of the earth. Beautifully bound; 1/4 blue cloth spine, with gilt title to front and spine, gilt dulled; 3/4 covered in fine hand made paper of purple, gold and blue, matching e.p. Mild damp stain to upper portion of front board. Spine ends and edges rubbed. No writing, clean, clear text, deckled page ends. Portrait of translator, frontispiece (portait loose at lower hinge). Private library plate to verso of e.p. sm 4yo, 194 pages. In archival polyester film wraps. Issued for the St. Botolph Society (Odes, From, The Great, Sufi, Odes, From, The Divan, Of, Hafiz, Persian, Literature, Hafiz, S, Translations, Persian, Poetry, Ode, S, 14th, Century, Literature) Cat No. 4008.	24.50
Hendrik Willem Van Loon. The Arts New York, Simon and Schuster, 1939, Hard Cover, Condition: Very Good/Good Plus, Dr. Van Loon's vastly researched and ambitious work on the backround, and history to understanding the arts. Wonderful illustrations, many in full color. He covers: painting, architecture, music, sculpture, and the minor arts. Beginning with the Cave drawings of 25,000 B.C., through the art of Egypt, Babylon, and Chaldea; at the Athens of Pericles; amid the mysterious remains of Etruscan art; in Byzantium and medieval Russia; in the desert of the Islamites and the gardens of beautiful Persia; in Provence, Renaissance Italy, Rembrandt's Holland, Beethoven's Vienna, etc. From how violins were made to how a German grocer rediscovered early Mediterranean civilization for us. Troubadours, minnesingers, monks, saints, criminals, bohemians, generals: all troop in a colorful cavalcade. DW yellow, illustrated, darkend spine, chips to upper and lower spine corners, dw spine repaired at hinge with professional filmoplast. Closed tear, price to lower rear flap edge, with stamped mark down price, not obscuring original. Rear has a hand written not to S&S. DW reverses to a map "To locate and date the most important events in the history of The Arts, by Hendrik Willem Van Loon-1937". Red cloth binding, illustrated end papers. Mild toning, no writing, solidly bound. DW in mylar. tall 8 vo, 677 pp (Van, Loon, S, The Arts, Cave, Drawings, Prehistoric, Art, Etruscan, Art, Medieval, Russian, Art, History, Of, Art, Troubadours, Minnesingers, Monks) Cat No. 4009.	25.00