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

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: $1,100

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author

(SPINOZA, BENEDICTUS DE).

printer

Gatsuk

Place

Moscow

Publication

1892

Description

FIRST RUSSIAN EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of Spinoza. Translation by N.A. Ivantcov.

references

According to Worldcat, only two copies found: National Library of Israel, Jerusalem and Russian State Library, Moscow.

summary

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.

pp. 4, (iv), 384, (4). Ex-library, light wear, pencil markings. Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, worn. 8vo.

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