Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
First Edition of Baruch Spinoza's Opera Posthuma – Amsterdam, 1677
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Opera Posthuma, Baruch Spinoza. [Amsterdam]: [Jan Rieuwertsz], 1677. Latin and some Hebrew. First edition.
First edition which comprises all of the works by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, published posthumously. The volume contains the compositions: Ethica, Tractatus Politicus [Political Treatise], Tractatus De Emendatione Intellectus [Essay on the Improvement of the Understanding], Epistolae… Et auctoris responsiones [Epistles…] and Compendium Grammatices Linguae Hebraeae [Hebrew grammar]. The text is accompanied by several diagrams and illustrations (woodcuts).
* Bound with: Arcana Atheismi Revelata… Examine Tractatus Theologico-Politici by Franciscum Cuperum (Franz Kuyper) - composition against Spinoza’s “Tractatus Theologico-Politicus”.
[40], 614, [34], 112, [8] pages; [16], 304 pages, 20.5 cm. Without the frontispiece engraving (missing in most copies). Good condition. Some stains and damages. Some ancient inscriptions in handwriting. Original vellum binding.
First edition which comprises all of the works by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, published posthumously. The volume contains the compositions: Ethica, Tractatus Politicus [Political Treatise], Tractatus De Emendatione Intellectus [Essay on the Improvement of the Understanding], Epistolae… Et auctoris responsiones [Epistles…] and Compendium Grammatices Linguae Hebraeae [Hebrew grammar]. The text is accompanied by several diagrams and illustrations (woodcuts).
* Bound with: Arcana Atheismi Revelata… Examine Tractatus Theologico-Politici by Franciscum Cuperum (Franz Kuyper) - composition against Spinoza’s “Tractatus Theologico-Politicus”.
[40], 614, [34], 112, [8] pages; [16], 304 pages, 20.5 cm. Without the frontispiece engraving (missing in most copies). Good condition. Some stains and damages. Some ancient inscriptions in handwriting. Original vellum binding.