Great books of the Western World. Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc., in collaboration with the University of Chicago. /
Robert Maynard Hutchins, editor in chief.
- Founders' ed.
- Chicago : William Benton, Pub. : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1952.
- 54 v. ill., maps. ; 25 cm.
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.
Includes bibliographies.
The great conversation. The substance of a liberal education / Robert Hutchins Vol.1 (131 p.) : The Iliad of Homer and the Odyssey / Vol. 4 (322 p.) : Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes Vol. 5 (649 p.) : The history Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian war / Thucydides Vol. 6 (616 p.) : Hippocrates / Galen Vol. 10 (215 p.) : Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus Vol. 11 (848 p.) : Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius Vol. 12 (310 p.) : Virgil Vol. 13 (379 p.) : The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans / Plutarch Vol. 14 (897 p.) : The annals and the histories / Cornelius Tacitus Vol.15 (313 p.) : The Almagest / On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres / Epitome of Copernican astronomy / Ptolemy Nicolaus Copernicus Johannes Kepler Vol. 16 (1085 p.) : The six enneads / Plotinus Vol. 17 (360 p.) : The confessions. The city of God on Christian doctrine / Augustine Vol.18 (698 p.) : The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri Vol. 21 (163 p.) : Troilus and Cressida. The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer Vol. 22 (550 p.) : The Prince / Leviathan / Nicolo Machiavelli Thomas Hobbes Vol. 23 (283 p.) : Gargantua and Pantagruel / Francois Rabelais Vol. 24 (318 p.) : The essays / Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Vol. 25 (543 p.) : On the loadstone and magnetic bodies / Concerning the two new sciences / On the motion of the heart and blood / William Gilbert. Galileo Galilei William Harvey Vol. 28 (496 p.) : The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes Vol. 29 (429 p.) : Advancement of learning. Novum organum. New Atlantis / Francis Bacon Vol. 30 (214 p.) : English minor poems paradise lost samson agonisters areopagitica / John Milton Vol. 32 (412 p.) : The provincial letters pensees scientific treatises / Blaise Pascal Vol. 33 (487 p.) : Mathematical principles of natural philosophy / Treatise on light / sir Isaac Newton Christiaan Huygens Vol. 34(619 p.) : The history of Tom Jones. A foundling / Henry Fielding Vol. 37 (495 p.) : The spirit of laws / On the origin of inequality on political economy the social contract / Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu Jean Jacques Rousseau Vol. 38 (439 p.) : An Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations / Adam Smith Vol. 39 (468 p.) : The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Edward Gibbon: I Vol. 40 (900 p. : maps) : The decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Gibbon II Vol. 41 (855 p.) : American state papers. The federalist / On liberty. Representative government. Utilitarianism / Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay John Stuart Mill Vol. 43 (476 p.) : Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. / James Boswell Vol. 44 (618 p.) : Elements of chemistry / Analytical theory of heat / Experimental researches in electricity / Vol. 45 (898 p.) : Antoine Lavoisier Jean Baptiste Fourier Michael Faraday The philosophy of right. The philosophy of history / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Vol. 46 (369 p.) : Faust [Parts one and two] / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vol. 47 (294 p.) : Moby Dick; or, the whale / Herman Melville Vol. 48 (420 p.) : The origin of species by means of natural selection. The descent of man and selection in relation to sex / Charles Darwin Vol. 49 (659 p.) : Capital. Manifesto of the Comminist Party / Karl Marx and Friedrich Eb Vol. 50 (434 p.) : War and peace / Leo Tolstoy Vol. 51 (696 p. : maps) : The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky Vol. 52 (412 p.) : The principles of psychology / William James Vol. 53 (897 p.) :