Great Books of the Western World: Set of 52 Hardcovers - 1952

Encyclopædia Britannica, 1952. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 52 books, octavos, hardcovers, almost all as new in brown boards. two or three are VG with minor flaws. Publication date is 1952. one of the most acclaimed publishing achievements of the 20th century, Great Books of the Western World. This monumental collection compiles history's greatest written works, from the ancient classics of Aristotle to more recent masterpieces. the set weighs over 100 pounds and will be fairly expensive to ship. If you live in the Bay Area you can pick them up without shipping charge. Contents: 1. The great conversation, by R.M. Hutchins --2-3. The great ideas --4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey --5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes --6. Herodotus. Thucydides --7. Plato --8-9. Aristotle --10. Hippocrates. Galen --11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. 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. John Milton --33. Pascal --34. Newton. Huygens --35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume --36. Swift. Sterne --37. Henry 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. Melville --49. Darwin --50. Marx --51. Tolstoy --52. Dostoevsky --53. William James --54. Freud.