Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438
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Sale 2438 - Lot 183

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[SPINOZA, BARUCH.] Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. [22], 334, [4]; [16], 182, [19] pages, including blanks Z3-4; lacks ²A1 (title to second part?). 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 162x102 mm, contemporary sheep gilt, worn, spine ends chipped, joints cracked, cords intact; contents toned with occasional soiling, scattered rust spots. 18th-century signatures of George Wycherley and Alexander Hatton of St. John's College, Cambridge, on front free endpaper; another owner's bibliographical notes on front endleaf. Np, 1674
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Third edition, issue for distribution in England, with cancel title openly identifying the contents of the book; 3 other issues were published in Holland with decoy title pages to evade censorship. This edition also reprints the 1666 Philosophia S. Scripturae interpres by Spinoza's friend and editor Lodewijk Meijer, a controversial work arguing for the philosophical interpretation of scripture. Printing and the Mind of Man 153 (1670 original edition); Bamberger T3.E (this edition).