Lot 190
Spinoza (Baruch) Opera posthuma, Quorum series post Praefationem exhibetur, first edition, [Amsterdam], [Jan Rieuwertsz], 1677.
Hammer Price: £6,000
Description
Spinoza (Baruch) Opera posthuma, Quorum series post Praefationem exhibetur, 2 parts in 1, first edition, general title with woodcut ornament, second part with half-title, a few woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, woodcut decorative initials, 3pp. errata at end, as often without the portrait frontispiece, later pencil underlining, occasional spotting and light staining, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, spine in compartments and with later gilt and red leather label, joints just starting, but holding firm, rubbed, particularly the joints, [Caillet 10309; Norman 1988; PMM 153; Van der Linde 22], small 4to, [Amsterdam], [Jan Rieuwertsz], 1677.
⁂ First edition of Spinoza's posthumous works, which 'have served, then and since, with the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, to immortalize his name' (PMM).
Description
Spinoza (Baruch) Opera posthuma, Quorum series post Praefationem exhibetur, 2 parts in 1, first edition, general title with woodcut ornament, second part with half-title, a few woodcut illustrations and diagrams in text, woodcut decorative initials, 3pp. errata at end, as often without the portrait frontispiece, later pencil underlining, occasional spotting and light staining, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, spine in compartments and with later gilt and red leather label, joints just starting, but holding firm, rubbed, particularly the joints, [Caillet 10309; Norman 1988; PMM 153; Van der Linde 22], small 4to, [Amsterdam], [Jan Rieuwertsz], 1677.
⁂ First edition of Spinoza's posthumous works, which 'have served, then and since, with the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, to immortalize his name' (PMM).