Lot 152
  • 152

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Group of 18 first editions, uniformly bound. Boston, 1837–1878.
  • printed books
Together, 18 vols. (size varies). Most volumes internally very good. Full brown morocco by Best, spines gilt-lettered, covers ruled in blind, front covers with gilt laurel wreath surrounding gilt "E", gilt-decorated dentelles, top edges gilt, mottled yellow-green endpapers; spines lightly sunned, light wear to spines.

Condition

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Catalogue Note

Nature. 1837 — An Oration Delivered at the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837. 1837 — An Oration Delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838. 1838 — An Address Delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, 15 July, 1838. 1838 — The Method of Nature. An Oration, Delivered before the Society of the Adelphi, in Waterville College, in Maine, August 11, 1841. 1841 — Essays. 1841 — An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies. 1844 — Essays. Second Series. 1844 — Poems.  1847 — Nature. Addresses and Lectures. 1849.

Representative Men: Seven Lectures. 1850  — English Traits. 1856 — Miscellanies; Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures. 1856 — The Conduct of Life. 1860 — May-Day and Other Pieces. 1867 — Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters. 1870 — Letters and Social Aims. 1876 — Fortune of the Republic. A Lecture Delivered at the Old South Church, March 30, 1878. 1878.