(SPINOZA, BENEDICTUS DE)

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 38

(SPINOZA, BENEDICTUS DE)

Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. Latin interspersed with Hebrew. Floriated initials. pp. (22), 334. [Oko, Spinoza, p. 31]. (Amsterdam? 1674). * Bound with: Meyer, Ludovicus. Philosophia S. Scripturae Interpres. Second edition. pp. (16, of 18), 182, (20). Title page wanting Lightly browned. Modern calf, gilt. 8vo

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

The Tractatus is the first European work of Bible criticism. Due to its frontal attack on revealed religion, it was universally banned, earning for its author great notoriety. The second work was for many years erroneously atttributed to Spinoza, when it fact it was written by a prominent member of his circle. It argues that the Bible is in many places doubtful and that only through philosophical reasoning can it be interpreted