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Spengler, Oswald
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description
Der Untergang des Abendlandes: Unrisse einer Morphologie der Weltgeschichte. Vienna and Leipzig: Wilhelm Braumüller 1918 (vol. 1), Munich: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1922 (vol. 2)
2 volumes, in 8s (7⅞ x 6 in.; in. 225 x 153 mm). 3 folding letterpres tables; vol. 2 browned as usual. Publisher's uniform half maroon morocco, plain endpapers, top edges stained brown; minor chipping to extremities.
2 volumes, in 8s (7⅞ x 6 in.; in. 225 x 153 mm). 3 folding letterpres tables; vol. 2 browned as usual. Publisher's uniform half maroon morocco, plain endpapers, top edges stained brown; minor chipping to extremities.
Literature
PMM 410
Catalogue Note
First edition. Spengler's wildly popular work "contended that all civilizations, like every living organism, pass through a predetermined 'life cycle' of prime, maturity and decay, and that this trend can be neither halted nor reversed" (PMM). Spengler's work greatly influenced the more academic study of Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History (Oxford, 1934–54; PMM 421).