PLATON- STATE vol. 1-2 [complete in 1 vol.] 1948

PLATON

STATE

t. 1-2 'complete]

Translated, with an introduction, explanations

and illustrations

Wladyslaw Witwicki

Warsaw 1948, "Wiedza" Cooperative Publishing, pp. 391,[2], 350, [2], format 16x21cm

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