Franklin Library GREAT BOOKS OF WESTERN WORLD 96 vols ~ COMPLETE SET

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FRANKLIN LIBRARYGREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD25TH ANNIVERSARYCOMPLETE 96 VOLUME SET______________VOLUMES IN NEAR FINE TO FINE CONDITION.*** Please note that the SHAKESPEARE Vols. IV-VII were added & are shown in last photo ***_______________________________NO SMOKY / NO MUSTY / NO FOUL ODORSNO BOOKPLATES OR PREVIOUS OWNER'S NAMENO MARGINALIAI AM ONE OF THE FEW ON EBAY WHO IS NOT A GAR(B)AGE SALE. AS A BUYER MYSELF I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN SOMETIMES FIND A GOOD DEAL ON EBAY AT A DECENT PRICE. HOWEVER, 9 TIMES OUT OF 10 A SELLER'S DESCRIPTION / PHOTOS DO NOT MATCH THE ITEM WHEN I OPEN THE PACKAGE. YOU DO NOT WANT ME AS A BUYER IF THIS IS THE CASE; BUT YOU DO WANT ME AS A SELLER BECAUSE MY STANDARDS ARE VERY HIGH. IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT TAKE A LOOK AT MY FEEDBACK FOR SALES.RAREHOBBS HAS 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACKKNOW WHAT THE EBAY BADGES BY A SELLER'S NAME MEAN (I CANNOT STATE THEM PER EBAY RULES EVEN THOUGH I'VE EARNED THEM ). BUT I CAN SAY THAT I AM TOP-EVERYTHING AS A SELLER.LASTLY , I HAVE ONE MOTTO IN LIFE: YOU OFTEN GET EXACTLY WHAT YOU PAY FOR._________The collection consists of the following titles (condition issues noted in GREEN ):Aeschylus - Complete Plays (1978) - light rubbing to spineSaint Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica I-II (1985) - vol. II - spot top giltAristophanes - Plays I-II (1982) Aristotle - I-IV (1978, 1979 , 1982, 1984) Saint Augustine - The Confessions of Saint Augustine (1980) - top right corner very lightly bumped Saint Augustine - The City of God and On Christian Doctrine (1985)Sir Fancis Bacon - Selected Writings (1980) James Boswell - The Life of Samuel Johnson I-III (1983) - vol. II & III rubbing to raised spine hubs/spine Cervantes - Don Quixote de la Mancha I-II (1978, 1982) Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales I-II (1983) - vol. I very light nick middle hub Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Cressida (1982) - small spot of putty (?) bottom edge Dante - The Divine Comedy (1978) Charles Darwin - The Descent of Man (1980) Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species (1978)Descartes and Spinoza (1982) - very light ding middle spine hub Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (1978) Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius and Nicomachus (1985) Euripides - Plays I-II (1983, 1984) Henry Fielding - Tom Jones I-II (1981) - vol. II rubbing to hubs Sigmund Freud - The Major Works, I-III (1981, 1982, 1983) Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire I-VI (1980, 1981, 1982) Gilbert, Galileo and Harvey (1984) - middle hubs dinged Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust (1978) Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay - The Federalist (1980) - rubbing t top hub Herodotus - The History of Herodotus (1984) Hippocrates and Galen (1979) Homer - The Odyssey (1978) - rubbing spine hubs Homer - The Iliad (1979) William James - The Principles of Psychology (1985) Kant and Hegel (1985)Lavoisier, Fourier and Faraday (1985) - bottom corners lightly bumped Locke, Berkeley and Hume (1984) Lucretius, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius (1981) Machiavelli and Hobbes - Political Writings (1983) Marx and Engels - Capital and The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1984) Herman Melville - Moby-Dick I-II (1980) - very minor dent bottom boardJohn Stuart Mill - Political Writings (1981) John Milton - Poetry and Prose (1978) Montaigne - Book I-III (1979, 1980) Montesquieu - The Spirit of Laws (1984) - rubbed hubs Newton and Huygens (1985) - light spotting top gilt Pascal - Provincial Letters, Pensées and Scientific Treatises (1984) Plato - The Works of Plato I-III (1979, 1981, 1983) Plotinus - The Enneads (1983)Plutarch - The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans I-IV (1979, 1980, 1981) - light spotting top gilt Ptolemy, Copernicus and Kepler (1985) - very light rubbing bottom front board François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel I-II (1979) - rubbing to hubs Jean Jacques Rousseau - Selected Writings (1982)Shakespeare - I (early history plays) (1978) Shakespeare - II (early comedies and t... read more

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