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Auction 50 · Lot 344
(SPINOZA, BENEDICTUS DE).
- Estimate
- $3,000–$5,000
- Hammer price
- $3,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Description
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. Latin interspersed with Hebrew. Printer's device on title. Latin marginalium on p.114. pp. (12), 233, (1 blank). Hamburg: Henri Künraht, 1670.
* BOUND WITH: BREDENBURG, JOHANNES. Enervatio Tractatus Theologico-Politici [rebuttal of Spinoza's work]. Printer's device on title. pp. (6), 100. Rotterdam: Isaac Naar, 1675
summary
Seeking to prevent controversy, the Tractatus was published anonymously in Amsterdam, but with a false "Hamburg" imprint. The Tractatus is the first European work of Bible criticism. Due to its’ frontal attack on revealed religion, it was banned everywhere, earning for its author great notoriety
Trace wormed. Contemporary vellum. 4to
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