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EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. A FINELY BOXED AND BOUND SET OF FIRST EDITIONS. Includes: Nature . Boston, 1836. 12 o. (Light foxing throughout.) Original cloth (BAL's cloth "B" with "Frame A" blind-stamping, spine ends frayed, cloth lightly stained and bubbled); blue morocco, gilt pull-off case. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. -- An Oration Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge, August 31, 1837. Boston, 1837. Second edition. [ Bound with :] An Oration, Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838. -- Essays. Boston, 1841. BAL's binding "C". -- Essays: Second Series. Boston, 1844. (Light foxing.) BAL's binding "C". -- 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. Boston, 1844. -- Poems . Boston, 1847. 12 o. Original yellow paper boards, spine label (old repairs to joints, else very good and scarce thus); blue morocco, gilt pull-off case. FIRST EDITION. -- Nature; Addresses, and Lectures. Boston, 1849. BAL binding "A". -- Representative Men. Boston, 1850. -- and 12 other titles in 13 vols. including English Traits and The Conduct of Life . All 12 o or 8 o. Uniformly bound in blue half-morocco and cloth, gilt (lightly shelfworn); with original publisher's cloth bound in at rear of each volume. Provenance: Agnes Neustadt, bookplate. ALL FIRST EDITIONS, unless stated. Together 21 titles in 20 vols. (20)