Description: I found 3 more volumes since I first posted this. I found The Great Conversation Volume 1 , and The Great Ideas: A Synopticon , Volume 1 : Angel to Love and Volume 2 : Man to World. All 3 are in excellent condition but not in shrinkwrap , unlike the majority of the volumes. So now you need to find 9 additional volumes to make it a complete 54 volume first edition set , and an additional 6 volumes , numbers 55-60 to make it like the second edition set. This lot includes 45 of 54 volumes of the Britannica Great Books of the Western World set. Immerse yourself in the rich history and culture of the Western world with this impressive collection. Explore topics ranging from ancient civilizations to modern-day politics and everything in between. Each book is filled with captivating content and insights that will expand your knowledge and appreciation for the world around you. Whether you are a collector looking to add to your antique book collection or a history enthusiast seeking to delve deeper into the past, this lot is the perfect addition to your library. Fine condition Almost all of the volumes are new in shrinkwrap. Specifically , 38 volumes are sealed in shrinkwrap and 4 are opened : The 2 Shakespeare volumes , Dostoyevsky , and Freud. The Following 42 Volumes are included : #1 The Great Conversation #2 and #3 : The Great Ideas : A Synopticon # 4. Homer : The Iliad & the Odyssey 6. Herodotus , Thucidides 10. Hippocrates & Galen 11. EUclid , Archimedes , Apollonius , Perga , Nichomachus 13. Virgil 14. Plutarch 15 Tacitus 17. Plotinus 18. St. Augustine 19 & 20 Thomas Aquinas Volumes 1 & 2. 21. Dante 22. Chaucer 23. Machiavelli & Hobbes 24. Rabelais 25. Montaigne 26 & 27 : Shakespeare Volumes 1 and 2. 28. Gilbert , Galileo , Harvey 29. Cervantes 30. Francis Bacon 31. Descartes , Spinoza 32. Milton 33. Pascal 34. Isaac Newton , Huygens 35. Locke , Berkeley , Hume (The British Empiricists) 37. Fielding 38. Montesquieu & Rousseau 39. Adam Smith : The Wealth of Nations, et al 40 & 41 Gibbon : The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire 42. Kant 44. Boswell 46. Hegel 47. Goethe 48. Melville 49. Darwin 50. Marx 51. Tolstoy 52. Dostoyevsky (opened -not in shrinkwrap. Still in fine condition ) 53. William James 54. Freud. The 12 Volumes missing from this originally 54 volumes of the first edition of the Great Books : Missing : 5. Aeschylus , Sophocles , Euripides , Aristophanes 7. Plato 8 & 9 : Aristotle Volumes 1 & 2 12. Lucretius , Epictetus , Marcus Aurelius 16. Ptolemy , Copernicus , Kepler. 36. Jonathan Swift & Laurence Sterne 43. American State Papers: Declaration of Independence , Articles of Confederation , The Constitution of the United States of America , The Feralist Papers : Hamilton, Madison and John Jay. John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, On Representative Government, Utilitarianism. 45. (science) Lavoisier : Elements of Chemestry , Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat , Faraday : Experimental Researches in Electricity You can look up the contents of the volumes 55-60 that were added to the second edition , which started the same year this edition ended. Just google Britannica Great Books Second Edition contents and look at the volumes 55-60.
Price: 199 USD
Location: Pinole, California
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Language: English
Special Attributes: Most volumes still im shrinkwrap.
Author: Various
Region: North America
Publisher: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc
Topic: World
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Reference
Character Family: The Great Books
Year Printed: 1990
