History of Greek Culture

by Jacob Burckhardt, Palmer Hilty

$75 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

London: Constable, 1963 . Reprint. Softcover. Quarto. XI, 1 , 352pp text , 80pp. plates . Original photographic wrappers over orange cloth with gold lettering on spine. This remarkable work is the first truly realistic approach to the civilization of the ancient Greeks. Burckhardt stripped the subject of all superficial trappings, preconception and sentimentality, and pierced it with a searching eye. The present volume is

• Printing: later
• Binding: Softcover

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