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Featured Work Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson First Edition. Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and first published in 1841, “Essays,” also known as “Essays: First Series,” is a collection of twelve essays that includes: “History,”...
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Featured Work The Obedience of a Christen Man, and How Christen Rulers Ought to Gouerne by William Tyndale With woodcut title-border and decorative initials. “The Obedience of a Christian Man, and how Christen rulers ought to gouerne, wherein also (yf thow marke...
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Featured Work Essays on Philosophical Subjects by Adam Smith First Edition. “Essays on Philosophical Subjects” was published posthumously in 1795 after Adam Smith’s death in 1790, from previously unpublished material prepared by Smith’s...
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Featured Work On the Virtues of Women and the Parallel Lives by Plutarch In Latin, with decorative initials. “Plutarchus de Claris Mulieribus. Plutarchi Paralelia (“On the Virtues of Women” [with] “Parallel Lives”) was written by Greek...
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Featured Work Letters by Mary Wollstonecraft First Edition. Written by British feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft, “Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark” is a personal travel narrative and an autobiographical memoir,...
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Featured Work The Republic by Plato First Glasgow Edition, with scarce publisher’s advertisement leaf at end. “The Republic of Plato” was published in 1763. It was translated from Greek by H. Spens and includes the translator’s preliminary...