Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CUMBERLAND, RICHARD. De legibus naturae disquisitio philosophica . . . quinetiam elementa philosophiae Hobbianae . . . considerantur & refutantur. [66], 421, [1] pages, including initial license leaf. 4to, 191x149 mm, modern 1/2 calf; scored inscriptions on title, scattered mostly minor stains and corrections in ink in early hand. Signatures of John Lewis, Rector of Sandringham, dated 1699; Gilman Wall dated 1716; and James Tweedie dated 1880. London: E. Flesher for Nathaniel Hooke, 1672

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first edition of an influential work on natural law written in reaction to the ideas of Thomas Hobbes. Wing C7580.