44 volumes of Harper's Family Library with 9 volumes of the Classical Family Library. 53 volume set.

Various

New York: J. & J. Harper, 1835.

Small octavo. 53 volumes. Illustrated with frontis portraits/maps and plates. Original boards, 2 volumes in black cloth, 3 volumes rebound in modern boards. Moderate wear and soiling. Chipping and fraying to spines, some loss. Majority of volumes shaken. Some volumes lacking frontises. Foxing.

Volume in this set are: 1: History of the Jews Volume I; 3: History of the Jews Volume III; 4: History of Buonaparte Volume I; 5: History of Buonaparte Volume II; 6: Life of Nelson; 7: Life of Alexander the Great; 8: Natural History of Insects; 9: Life of Lord Byron; 13: The History of the Jews Volume II; 14: Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas and Regions; 16: Discovery and Adventure in Africa; 17: Lives of the Painters and Sculptures Volume I; 18: Lives of the Painters and Sculptures Volume II; 19: Lives of the Painters and Sculptures Volume III;  21: Mary Queen of Scots Volume I; 22: Mary Queen of Scots Volume II; 27: Palestine or the Holy Land; 28: Memoirs of the Empress Josephine; 29: The Court and Camp of Bonaparte; 31: The Eventful History of the Mutiny of the Bounty; 32: Turner's Sacred History of the World; 33: Celebrated Female Sovereigns Volume I; 34: Celebrated Female Sovereigns Volume II; 35: Lander's Discovery of the Termination of the Niger Volume I; 36: Lander's Discovery of the Termination of the Niger Volume II; 37: Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth; 43: Sketches from Venetian History Volume I; 44: Sketches from Venetian History Volume II; 46: Thatcher's Indian Biography Volume II; 48: History of British India Volume II; 53: Progress of Discovery on the more Northern Coasts of America; 54: Travels and Researches of Von Humboldt; 57: Popular Guide to the Observation of Nature; 58: The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings; 59: On the Improvement of Society by the Diffusion of Knowledge; 60: The History of Charlemagne;  61: History of Nubia and Abyssinia; 64: Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, etc; 66: Lives of Eminent Painters Volume IV; 67: Lives of Eminent Painters Volume V; 72: Turner's Sacred History of the World; 112: Hallec's British Poets Volume 1; 155: History of the Expedition of Lewis and Clarke Volume II. Classical Library: 2: Xenophon Volume II; 3: Demosthenes Volume I; 4: Demosthenes Volume II; 14: Sophocles; 17: Horace Volume I; 18: Horace Volume II; 29-31 Herodotus in 3 volumes.

J & J. Harper were pioneers in the area of series publishing. Harper's Family Library, advertised as the "cheapest series of popular works ever published," grew over fifteen years to include 187 non-fiction titles. "The program encompassed the principal branches of "useful knowledge:" history, voyages and travel, biography, natural history, physical sciences, agriculture, and the history of philosophy and religion. It was suggested that the intellectual value of any one book was enhanced by its being part of an approved system or circle of knowledge." (Freeman, Harper and Brothers Family and School District Libraries, 1830-1846, 2013)

This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.