Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 22,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
[SPINOZA, BARUCH.] Tractatus theologico-politicus. [12], 233, [1] pages. 4to, contemporary Dutch vellum boards with blind-stamped arabesque centerpiece on covers, rebacked, endpapers renewed, covers slightly warped; small stain in blank outer margin of title and next 2 leaves, blank corner off E1, faint dampstaining in upper outer corners toward end; uncut and largely unopened; marbled board slipcase. Hamburg: Henricus Künraht, 1670

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first edition, with "Künraht" in the title imprint and page 104 misnumbered 304. "An extension to political thought of his ethical views . . . the Tractatus contains the first clear statement of the independence of each other of philosophy and religion, in that speculation and precepts of conduct cannot collide"--Printing and the Mind of Man 153. Bamberger T.1; Linde 3.