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Brittanica Great Books Series 54 Volume Set

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Fifty Four Books on the Great Thinkers by Brittanica, 1950. Titles include:The Great Conversation, The Great Ideas 1, The Great Ideas 2, Homer, Aeschylus Sophocles Euripedes Artisophanes, Herodotus Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle 1, Aristotle 2, Hippocrates Galen, Euclid Archimedes Apollonius Nicomachus, Lucretius Epictetus Marcus Aurelius, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy Copernicus Kepler, Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas 1, Thomas Aquinas 2, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare 1, Shakespeare 2, Gilbert Galileo Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Fielding, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Newton Huygens, Locke Berkeley Hume, Swift Sterne, Montesquieu Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon 1, Gibbon 2, Kant, American State Papers The Federalist JS Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier Fourier Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Willam James, Freud. SHIPPING: In-House Shipping availble on this lot. Please read our Shipping Policies prior to bidding!

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Brittanica Great Books Series 54 Volume Set

Name: Brittanica Great Books Series 54 Volume Set
SKU: 167861043
Price: 850 USD
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