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Welcome to Edith Wharton's Library! This site displays searchable image files for the books contained in Wharton's library at The Mount, her historic estate in Lenox, MA.

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From the 1551 English translation by Raphe Robynson. No mark of ownership is found on the book, but is presumed to belong to the twelve other identical Temple Classics editions included in Wharton's library.

"Made by Sea or Overland to the Remote & Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 Yeares"

Volume 8 (of 16)
This is Part 1 (of 3) about Asia.

This book explores, in both English and Latin, the…

With Frontispiece and Colophon by Frank Lockwood
4th Edition (enlarged)
The Frontispiece has the latin phrase "Cras animarum" written beneath it, translating roughly to "Tomorrow's souls"
Half blue morocco

"Quotations, proverbs, maxims, and mottos, classical and mediaeval, including law terms and phrases."
Inscribed: "Xmas 1874 from E.N.J"
Gift from Wharton to Henry Jones, her brother, Christmas 1874; Henry Jones has signed his name twice on the…

"Vulgatae Editionis. Ed. Valentius Loch."; "7a ed."; Three volumes in two, gilded in morocco (half), one of said volumes lacks a backstrip
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