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 dust jacket with '21s net' on inside front flap and printed on re-used war-time paper with map on verso. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, very light browning to edges of boards, interior clean and without previous ownership markings, dust jacket with some wear to the top edge and minor losses at spine head. An excellent copy and scarce.
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 Germany as a result of wartime paper rationing.