HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY BY BERTRAND RUSSELL 1946 FIRST EDITION
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[RUSSELL, Bertrand]. History of Western Philosophy, and its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1946.
First edition, first impression; cloth-bound, hardcover with dust jacket, thick octavo (22.5cm x 15cm x 5cm), pp. 916. English text; bound in publisher's original grey cloth; supplied in the original and complete dust jacket with '21s net' on inside front flap, printed on re-used war-time paper with map on verso. Condition: NEAR FINE. Very faint spotting to fore edge, else a bright and clean copy, without previous ownership markings.
Notes: Russell's History of Western Philosophy stands independently as a significant work in the discipline. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy notes that 'His History is still widely read and did much to initiate twentieth-century research on a wide range of historical figures from the presocratics to Leibniz', and still provides one of the most popular systematic introductions to western thought. This first edition holds interest as a historical artefact in itself, its dust jacket printed on part of a military map of Southern France as a result of wartime paper rationing.