Opera Posthuma. Five parts in one: Ethica; Tractaus Politicus, Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione; Hebrew Grammar and scientific correspondence

AUCTION 7 | Tuesday, June 22nd, 1999 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 578

(SPINOZA, BENEDICTUS DE)

Opera Posthuma. Five parts in one: Ethica; Tractaus Politicus, Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione; Hebrew Grammar and scientific correspondence

FIRST EDITION. WIth engraved portrait of the Author following opening title, lacking from many copies pp. (1-2), (40), 616, (617-48), 112, (113-20). Trace of minute worm-holes on margins of title, lightly foxed. Contemporary vellum, portion of covers distressed. Thick 4to Mehlman 1943 (without portrait); L. Rosenberger, Judaica (1971) fig.64

(Amsterdam: J. Rieuwertsz 1677)

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

First edition of Spinoza’s posthumous works, published in the year of his death and edited by his friends Meijer, Jelles and Schuller. Neither author, nor place, nor editor is recorded. This was no superfluous precaution for in 1678 the work was bannned by the States of Holland for blasphemy. The particular portrait of Spinoza not among those found in Rubens (cf. 2302-18)