Bogoslovsko-Politicheskii Traktat.

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Lot 155

(SPINOZA, BENEDICTUS DE).

Bogoslovsko-Politicheskii Traktat.

Translated by Mikhail Lopatkin from Latin into Russian, with occasional use of Hebrew. pp. (4), iv, 440, iv, (2). Ex-library, touch foxed. Contemporary boards, retaining original printed upper cover, variously worn. Thick 4to.

Kazan: 1906

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

First Russian translation of Spinoza’s Theological-Political Tractate. See Fanny K. Berg, The Spinoza Collection in the Hebrew Union College Library, in: Studies in Bibliography and Booklore, Vol. 1, no. 4 (December, 1954) p. 175. Unknown to Rosenfeld, Hebrew Gazeteer, who notes the first appearance of Hebrew in this capital city of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan to be a full twelve years later.