University Library of Autobiography, in Fifteen Volumes: Autobiograpy in the Ancient World; The Middle Ages and Their Autobiographers; The Beginnings of the Modern World; Autobiography during the Religious Wars: From the Spanish Saint Teresa to the Engli…

Complete in fifteen hardcover volumes. Original green leatherette bindings, gilt titles & borders, gilt top page ridge. Full-page two-tone illustrations in each volume. An unparalleled collection of memoirs from a host of important historical figures, from ancient Babylon to the early twentieth century. Subjects include: King Sargon; Sennacherib; Socrates; Xenophon; Julius & Augustus Caesar; Josephus; Marcus Aurelius; Saint Augustine; Avicenna; Al Ghazali; Abelard; Salimbene; Dante Alighieri; Petrarch; Timur the Lame; Froissart; Comines; Martin Luther; Henry the Eighth; Thomas Platter; Charles the Fifth; Benvenuto Cellini; Jerome Cardan; Saint Teresa; Sir Francis Drake; Mary Queen of Scots; Sir Thomas Bodley; Sir Walter Raleigh; Marguerite de Valois; Duke de Sully; Sir Francis Bacon; Lord Herbert of Cherbury; Sir Kenelem Digby; William Lilly; John Milton; Count de Grammont; George Fox; John Bunyan; Princess Sophia of Hanover; Samuel Pepys; Sir Isaac Newton; Colley Cibber; Duke de Saint Simon; Lewis Holberg; Mohammed Ali Hazin; Benjamin Franklin; Rev. John Wesley; Carlo Goldoni; Dr. Samuel Johnson; Wilhelmine of Baireuth; David Hume; Frederick the Great; Jean Jacques Rousseau; Marmontel; Latude; Casanova; Baron Trenck; Oliver Goldsmith; Catharine the Great; Joseph Priestley; George Washington; Edward Gibbon; Thomas Jefferson; Mme. du Barry; Goethe; Alfieri; Solomon Maimon; Madame Roland; John Marshall; Alexander Hamilton; Lafayette; Admiral Nelson; Mary Robinson; Robert Burns; Fouche; Napoleon Bonaparte; Wellington; William Wordsworth; Sir Walter Scott; Metternich; Eugene Vidocq; Princess Marie Therese; Froebel; Thomas De Quincey; Peter Cartwright; Benjamin Haydon; Lord Byron; Heinrich Heine; Cardinal Newman; Victor Hugo; Marie Asmar; Hans Christian Andersen; Eugenie de Guerin; John Stuart Mill; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Garibaldi; Abraham Lincoln; Charles Darwin; Richard Wagner; Sir Henry Bessemer; Otto von Bismarck; John Ruskin; Queen Victoria; Herbert Spencer; Henri Amiel; Ernest Renan; Thomas Huxley; Leo Tolstoy; Arminius Vambery; Sir Archibald Geikie; Sonya Kovalevsky; Oscar Wilde; Marie Bashkirtseff; Clarence Hawkes; Clifford Beers.