Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
[SPINOZA, BARUCH.] Opera posthuma. [40], 614, [32]; [2], 112, [8] pages. 4to, 207x160 mm, contemporary vellum boards, small hole in spine; minor stains on title. Early signature of C. Hasaeus; later Bibliotheca Boytzenburgensis stamps. [Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertsz], 1677

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first edition. "The principal work in the Opera posthuma is Spinoza's Ethics . . . considered the first systematic exposition of pantheism . . . The Opera Posthuma also contains Spinoza's De intellectus emendatione, the unfinished Tractatus politicus, a selection of letters, and the separately paginated Compendium grammatices linguae hebraeae"--Norman 1988. Linde 22.