Etika, dokazannaia v geometricheskom poriadke i razdelennaia na piat’ chastei.

AUCTION 61 | Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects

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Lot 219

(SPINOZA, BENEDICTUS DE).

Etika, dokazannaia v geometricheskom poriadke i razdelennaia na piat’ chastei.

<<FIRST RUSSIAN EDITION.>> Frontispiece portrait of Spinoza. Translation by N.A. Ivantcov. pp. 4, (iv), 384, (4). Ex-library, light wear, pencil markings. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, worn. 8vo. According to Worldcat, only two copies found: National Library of Israel, Jerusalem and Russian State Library, Moscow.

Moscow: Gatsuk 1892

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

First Russian translation of Spinoza’s Ethica (1677). According to “The Spinoza Collection in the Hebrew Union College Library,” the first Russian translation of Ethica was issued in St. Petersburg, in 1894. The present translation is two years earlier. See Fanny K. Berg, Studies in Bibliography and Booklore, Vol. 1, No. 4 (December, 1954), p. 172.