J. A. Kalb. Theologisch-politische Abhandlungen von Spinoza. Freye Uebersetzung und mit Anmerkungen begleitet.

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(SPINOZA, BENEDICTUS DE).

J. A. Kalb. Theologisch-politische Abhandlungen von Spinoza. Freye Uebersetzung und mit Anmerkungen begleitet.

<<FIRST AMERICAN EDITIOn.>> pp. 2, [iii]-xlviii, 432. Ex-library, touch browned. Contemporary boards. 8vo.

Philadelphia: Kiderlen & Stollmeyer 1838

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

Translation of Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. Previous German editions (published in Germany): 1805, 1806, 1826 and later. <<This is the first Spinoza work printed in America. >> Interestingly, produced in German rather than in the English language. See Fanny K. Berg (The Spinoza Collection in the Hebrew Union College Library, in: Studies in Bibliography and Booklore, Vol. 1, No. 4 p. 169.