Gunthorpe's Freudeskollektion - Two

The title page from the book

Seneca's Morals

Life often takes some unexpected turns and often holds more than a few surprises. Not all off them are necessarily bad.

One surprise is to find that on my modest antiquarian bookshelf, sits Malachi Blake's copy of Seneca's Morals.

Another surprise is having an antiquarian bookshelf, in the first place.

Gunthorpe's Freudeskollektion - One

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Ephraim Chambers' acclaimed eighteenth-century classic, Cyclopaedia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences, in two volumes, appeared in 1728. The Supplement, also in two volumes, followed in 1753.

The complete text can be found here.