A complete collection of his Christmas gift books, as below
New York, Hartford, & Boston: 1938-1949. Gracian. A selection of wise, witty, moral and satyrical maxims, pluck'd from the writings of the Spanish philosopher & monk, Baltasar Gracian y Morales, 1938. Title-page printed in red and black, 3 facsimiles. Burlingame's calling card laid in; Confucian Analects. A selection from the philosophy and reflective writings of Confucius, 1939. Text in Chanese and English; vignette title page printed in red and black; Excerpts from Plato's Republic, 1940. Tipped-in illustration and illustrations in the text; The Consent of the Governed. A few bits of immortal wisdom on the subject of democracy, published in the year of our need, 1941. 4 full-page illustrations. Burlingame calling card laid in; Boz on America: Being the observations and comment of Charles Dickens, Esq., on his visit to the United States in the year 1842, 1942. Frontispiece portrait and 4 full-page illustrations; Burlingame's calling card laid in; Toward a Better Land I Know. A modest selection of prayers appropriate to a determined American people, 1943. Printed in red and black by William E. Rudge's Sons; Shakespeare Psychiatry. A Random Selection of Mind-Matters from the Bard of Stratford-on-Avon: With Some Personal Comments, 1944; Burlingame's calling card laid in; Gracian. A selection of maxims dealing with interpersonal relationships, 1945. Printed at the sign of the Stone Book, by Case, Lockwood & Brainard. 16 illustrations by Ruth Allen Weld. Burlingame's calling card laid in; Charburough, 1946. Printed at the sign of the Stone Book, by Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1946. 18 illustrations by Ruth Allen Weld. Burlingame's calling card laid in; Publilius Syrus, Printed at the sign of the Stone Book, by Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1947. Illustrations by Kathryn Howard. Burlingame's calling card laid in; Mark Twain, 1948. Printed by The Bigger Press, Inc.; Benjamin Franklin, 1949. Printed in red and black with drawings by Frances L. Wadsworth and printed by The Bigger Press, Inc. Burlingame calling card laid in. A complete set of Burlingame's twelve Christmas gift books. All in very good to fine condition, most retaining their glassine dust jackets. Burlingame (1885-1950) was a neuro-psychiatrist and superintendant of the Hartford Retreat in connection with the Hartford Hospital. Item #47586
Price: $175.00
