A catalogue of original manuscripts, presentation copies, first editions and autograph letters of modern authors.

427 items; annotated and priced.

Scribners present The modern library in first editions.

Bound in blue boards stamped in silver on spine and front cover.

Imperfect Creatures : Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1550-1750 /

Plagues of pests have always been a part of recorded history, but they hold special significance in the early modern period. 'Imperfect Creatures' is the first full-length study to investigate the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of “vermin” as creatures and category in the early modern literary and scientific imagination.

Memoirs of the loves of the poets : biographical sketches of women celebrated in ancient and modern poetry /

First published under title: Loves of the poets, London, 1829.

The modern Dunciad : a satire, with notes, biographical and critical.

Mode of access: Internet.

Modern classics. [A collection of prose and poetry]

Mode of access: Internet.

The identity of the old Hartford Convention Federalists with the modern Whig, Harrison Party. Carefully illustrated by living specimens, and dedicated to the young men of the Union.

Note of explanation at end signed by Charles G. Greene and B. F. Hallett, Boston, Aug. 1840.

The influence of literature upon society /

Published in 1803 under title: A treatise on ancient and modern literature.

The modern Dunciad, a satire; with notes, biographical and critical.

Mode of access: Internet.

Studies and notes in philology and literature.

Mode of access: Internet.

A digest of the laws, customs, manners, and institutions of the ancient and modern nations.

Ancient history: Antediluvian history. Postdiluvian history. Monumental history. Egypt. Asia. Europe. Greece. Rome.--Modern history: Feudal system. Chivalry. Religions compared, rise of Christianity. Cities, growth and decay of their power. Revival of literature. Progress of regal authority, standing armies, balance of power. Reformation. Formation of English constitution. French revolution.

The modern course in English /

V.1. Language and literature.

Romance literature pamphlets.

A collection of miscellaneous pamphlets.

Christian apologetics of the second century in their relation to modern thought,

The Hulsean prize essay, 1917.

A Homiletic and illustrative treasury of religious thought : or twenty thousand choice extracts, selected from the works of all the great writers, ancient and modern with copious indices /

Includes indexes.