Lot 350

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Description:

The Great Books of the Western World - 54 volume set, First Edition, 1952. 54-volume set by Encyclopedia Britannica Condition is Very Good Plus. Slight shelf wear on bindings of some volumes. Slight page discoloration from age. Barely used. The leather-look gold-embossed bindings still shine. 54 timeless volumes of curated ‘essential works’ by the greatest western authors, philosophers, poets, playwrights, and scientists. No library can be called “complete” if it is missing these greatest books of the western world. This 54-volume set was created to represent a “complete classical western education”, featuring the most highly valued and enduring books ever written. The Great Books of the Western World began as an educational project by the University of Chicago, who sought to develop a course of study rendering the reader as a fully intellectually rounded student familiar with the most important writings and thoughts of western civilization developed over three millennia. First introduced at the University of Chicago, this series of books was then published in limited edition for the general public in 1952 by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The set includes: A Synopticon (2 volumes) describing the selection and organization of these works to form an ideal classical western education, plus the collected works of Shakespeare (2 volumes) , Darwin, Freud, Tolstoy, Dolstoevsky, Plato, Aristotle (2 volumes), Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Milton, Pascal, Newton, Marx, Homer, Aquinas (2 volumes), Gibbon (2 volumes), Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Hippocrates, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius of Perga, Nicomachus, Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Plotinus, Augustine, Alighieri (Dante), Chaucer, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Gilbert, Harvey, Cervantes, Bacon, Spinoza, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Stern, Fielding, Montesquieu, Rousseau, A. Smith, Kant, Boswell, James, Lavouisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, and Melville.

    Provenance:
  • These books were acquired from a Virginia Estate
  • Medium:
  • Hardcover Book Set
  • Circa:
  • 1952
  • Condition:
  • Near Fine

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