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Great books of the Western World. Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago

General t.p. in vol. 1 only: each vol. has special t.p

"Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the editor." L.C. copy neither numbered nor signed

"19th printed, 1971"

Includes bibliographies

English Book

Great books of the Western World. Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago

[Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief]&

Founders' ed., Collectors library ed

[Chicago

William Benton

1952, 1971]&

54 v.: ill.

1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins. -- 2-3. The great ideas. -- 4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey. -- 5. Aeschylus. Sophpcles. Euripides. Aristophanes. -- 6. Herodotus. Thucydides. -- 7. Plato. -- 8-9. Aristotle. -- 10. Hippocrates. Galen. -- 11. Euclid. Archimedes. Apollonius. Nicomachus. -- 12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius. -- 13. Virgil. -- 14. Plutarch. -- 15. Tacitus. -- 16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler. -- 17. Plotinus. -- 18. Augustine. -- 19-20. Thomas Aquinas. -- 21. Dante. -- 22. Chaucer. -- 23. Machiavelli. Hobbes. -- 24. Rabelais. -- 25. Montaigne. -- 26-27. Shakespeare. -- 28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey. -- 29. Cervantes. -- 30. Francis Bacon. -- 31. Descartes. Spinoza. -- 32. Milton. -- 33. Pascal. -- 34. Newton. Huygens. -- 35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume. -- 36. Swift. Sterne. -- 37. Fielding. -- 38. Montesquieu. Rousseau. -- 39. Adam Smith. -- 40-41. Gibbon. -- 42. Kant. -- 43. American state papers. The Federalist. J. S. Mill. -- 44. Boswell. -- 45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday. -- 46. Hegel. -- 47. Goethe. -- 48. Melvilie. -- 49. Darwin. -- 50. Marx. Engels. -- 51. Tolstoy. -- 52. Dostoevsky. -- 53. William James. -- 54. Freud

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