John Alden - The Alden Catalogue of Choice Books, May 30, 1889

No. 4, similar to No. 3, but without the birds-eye panels, and “solid” instead of “knock down,” price $8.00at store.

Allen, History and Mysteryof Common Things. By W. C. Allen. 12mo, cloth, 50c.(15c);

Allerton, Poems of the Prairies.By Ellen P. Allerton. Ideal Edition, cl. gilt top, 60c.(25c);

American Humorists.Sketches, with illustrative specimens, of the six most famous of American humorous writers, Irving, Holmes, Lowell, Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte. By H. R. Haweis. Elzevir Edition, cloth; price reduced from $2.00 to 25c.(9c);

American Patriotism.Famous Orations and Patriotic Papers connected with American History. Compiled by S. H. Peabody, President of the University of Illinois. 12mo, 681 pages, Brevier type, half Morocco, marbled edges. 85c.(25c);

Ancient Classicsfor English readers. The volumes contain about 200 pages each, Brevier type, leaded, and are sold separately, in paper, at 10 c. ; cloth, 25c.(6c). Also bound three volumes in one, arranged in the order given below. Price per volume, half Russia, 60c.(17c); per set of 6 volumes, $2.85 (70c). 1. Cæsar; 2. Herodotus; 3. Cicero; 4. Demosthenes; 5. Aristotle; 6. Plato; 7. Horace; 8. Juvenal; 9. Tacitus; 10. Virgil; 11. Homer’s Iliad; 12. Homer’s Odyssey; 13. Xenophon; 14. Æschylus; 15. Sophocles; 16. Pliny; 17. Aristophanes; 18. Greek Anthology; 19. Euripides; 20. Livy; 21. Ovid; 22; Thucydides; 23. Lucian; 24. Plautus and Terrence; 25. Lucretius; 26. Pindar; 27. Hesiod and Theognis. Volumes numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 cannot be supplied in half Russia. Nos. 6 and 10 cannot be supplied in paper.

Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius.The Thoughts of, translated by George Long, with a sketch of his Life and a view of his Philosophy. Ideal Edition, cloth, 30c.(7c)

Arabian Nights’Entertainments. Large 12mo, cloth, 30c.(7c)

Argyll; The Unity of Nature. 12mo, 354 pages, Long Primer type, leaded, cloth, 75c.(25c)

– Primeval Man. Uniform with The Reign of Law. Cloth; price reduced from $1.50 to 40c.(15c)

Arnold. Light of Asia, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 30c.(7c)

– Indian Song of Songs, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 25c.(6c)

– Pearls of the Faith, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 25c.(6c)

* Arthur. Home Stories.By T. S. Arthur, 6 vols., ills., 16mo, cloth, per set, $3.40(50c)

1. Sunshine at Home.

2. Hidden Wings.

3. Sowing the Wind.

4. Not Anything, or Peace.

5. The Peacemaker.

6. After a Shadow.

Bacon’s Essays.With notes of Devey. Elzevir Ed., cloth. 3Oc.(10c)

Bacon’sEssays, and Locke on the Understanding, in one vol. half Russia, 45c.(15c)

Baldwin. Maurice Rossman’s Leading.A Novel. By Mary R. Baldwin, 12mo, cloth, 60c.

Baring-Gould. Curious Mythsof the Middle Ages. By S. Baring-Gould. Elzevir Ed., cloth, 40c.(15c)

– Legends of thePatriarchs and Prophets. By S. Baring-Gould. Elzevir Ed., cloth. 50c.(15c)

Beckford. Vathek.By Wm. Beckford. Ideal Edition, Small Pica type, cloth, 30c.(10c)

Beecher, Henry Ward. Lectures to Young Men. A new and handsome edition, large type, large 12mo, cloth, gilt top. Price reduced from $1.50 to 60c.(20c)

Bernard. Civil Service Reform.By Geo. S. Bernard. Ideal Ed., cloth, 30c.

Birrell. Obiter Dicta.By Augustine Birrell. Ideal Ed., cl., 30c.(7c); half Mo., 45c.(12c)

Book-Lover’s Rosary.Elzevir Edition, gilt edges, ornamented, 30c.(10c)

* Book of the Ocean, and Life on the Sea. Thrilling adventures of ocean life. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, 672 pages, $1.25, reduced to 80c.(15c)

Berkowitz. Judaism on the Social Question.By Rabbi H. Berkowitz, D.D. Ideal Ed., cl., 60c.(20c)

Boswell’s Life of Johnson.Croker’s Edition, in 4 volumes, large 12mo, cloth, $2.75($1.25)

Brooklyn Bridge,Orations at opening, by Hewitt and Dr. R. S. Storrs, cloth, 25c.(10c)

Bronte. Jane Eyre.By Charlotte Bronte, 12mo, cloth, 30c.(6c)

Brown. A Sea-Island Romance.By William Perry Brown, 12mo, cloth, 60c.(20c)

Bryant’sPoems. Ideal Edition, cloth, 3Oc.(7c)

Buffon’s Natural History.Large 12mo, 588 pages, numerous illustrations, Cloth. 60c.(20c)

Bulwer’s Wit and Wisdom.Compiled by Callie L. Bonney, 12mo, cloth, 60c.(20c)

Bunyan’sPilgrim’s Progress. New Ideal Edition; cloth, 20c.(4c)

Burkeon the Sublime and Beautiful. New Ideal Edition, Long Primer type, cloth, 30c.(10c)

Burns, Robert: Poetical Works. Elzevir Edition, complete in three volumes, of 353, 330 and 356 pages. Bourgeois type, leaded. The set, fine cloth, $1.40(45c); full Russia, gilt edges, $2.25(60c)

– The same complete in one volume, large octavo, large type, 65c.(15c);

Caesar, Life of. By Liddell. Ideal Edition, Long Primer type, cloth, 25c.(7c)

Calhoun, Life ofJohn C. Calhoun, by Jenkins. Large 12mo, 454 pages. Cloth, price 60c.(17c)

Campbell’sInterest Tables. 16mo, cloth, price reduced from $2.50 to 60c.(25c) Showing interest on any sum from $1.00to $10,000 at 3, 7, 8, 9 and 10 per cent. Also Time Table, etc.

Carlyle. Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History.By Thomas Carlyle. Ideal edition Brevier type; cloth, 30c.(11c)

– Popular Works.French Revolution, Elzevir Edition, Brevier type, leaded, 2 volumes, cloth $1.00(30c) Past and Present, 12mo, cloth, 40c.(10c)

– Essays.Containing Portraits of John Knox: Signs of the Times; Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, again; Schiller; Characteristics, and Other Essays. Price $1.00(20c)

– Essays: Goethe, Burns, Scott, and other Essays. $1.00(20c)