Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an Moses Mendelssohn [polemic]

AUCTION 17 | Tuesday, November 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic and Ceremonial Art From Various Owners

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JACOBI, F(riedrich) H(einrich)

Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an Moses Mendelssohn [polemic]

Second edition. With fine engraved frontispiece portrait of Spinoza; and fine engraved roundelle portraits of Mendelssohn, Lessing and Jacobi on title and verso of final leaf all executed by E. C. THelott pp. (4),440. Few light dampstains in places. Recent vellum-backed boards. 8vo V. A. Linde 344

Breslau: C. Lowe 1789

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $400

Following Moses Mendelssohn’s “Morgengedanken über Gott und Schöpfung” in which he attacked the ideas of Benedictus (Baruch) Spinoza, Jacobi published several polemical works in defence of the great philosopher. The Mendelssohn-Jacobi controversy produced a number of polemical writings by the two adversaries. The correspondence between them led to the rediscovery of Spinoza’s ideas by the Romantic School