Opera Posthuma. Five parts in one: Ethica; Tractaus Politicus, Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione; Hebrew Grammar and scientific correspondence

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $4,000

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author

(SPINOZA, BENEDICTUS DE)

printer

J. Rieuwertsz

Place

(Amsterdam

Publication

1677)

Description

FIRST EDITION. WIth engraved portrait of the Author following opening title, lacking from many copies

references

Mehlman 1943 (without portrait); L. Rosenberger, Judaica (1971) fig.64

summary

First edition of Spinoza’s posthumous works, published in the year of his death and edited by his friends Meijer, Jelles and Schuller. Neither author, nor place, nor editor is recorded. This was no superfluous precaution for in 1678 the work was bannned by the States of Holland for blasphemy. The particular portrait of Spinoza not among those found in Rubens (cf. 2302-18)

pp. (1-2), (40), 616, (617-48), 112, (113-20). Trace of minute worm-holes on margins of title, lightly foxed. Contemporary vellum, portion of covers distressed. Thick 4to

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