Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill. London, Andrew Crooke, 1651. Fol. Kupfertit. , 3 Bll., 394 (falsch 396) SS., 1 gef. Tab. Mod. kastanienbraun Maroquin mit etwas Rücken- u. Deckelblindpr., Rsch. u. Innenkantenverg., in passendem Hmaroquin-Schuber.
Macdonald/Hargreaves 42; PMM 138; Wing 2 H 2246; Wither to Prior 454; vgl. Humpert 12969 u. Kress 830f. - Erste Ausgabe. - Es erschienen zwei spätere, ebenfalls 1651 datierte Ausgaben. Von diesen unterscheidet sich vorliegender Erstdruck durch die Orthographie des Drucktitels ("Ecclesiasticall and Civill" mit je zwei "l"), die Titelvignette (geflügelter Kopf) und die Paginierung, die von 248 zurück auf 247 springt und von 256 vor auf 261. "Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) ... was born in the year of the Armada. His long life spanned one of the most momentous periods of English history, and he was one of its most conspicuous figures, at once celebrated and abhorred... it was not until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he fled to Paris and became tutor to the Prince of Wales, that he embarked on his greatest work. Leviathan is the product of those troubled times... Though Hobbes' ideas have never appealed to proponents of the individual rights of men..., the fundamental nature of his speculation has stimulated philosophers from Spinoza to the school of Bentham, who reinstated him in his position as the most original political philosopher of his time" (PMM). Vollständiges Exemplar, jedoch gewaschen, Ränder spröde und mit zahlreichen kleinen Ausbesserungen (beim Kupfertitel rechts unten minimaler Bildverlust), die Falttabelle etwas knitterig und mit größeren Reparaturen (Buchstabenverlust), Drucktitel mit verblaßtem altem Besitzvermerk, Einbandrücken ebenfalls leicht verblaßt. A complete copy of the first printing of the first edition, with "head" ornament on letterpress title-page and other distinguishing features called for by Macdonald/Hargreaves, washed, edges brittle and with repairs, minor loss of image to engraved title-page, major repairs to folding table entailing minor loss of text, faded old owner's entry to letterpress title-page; modern brown morocco binding (spine somewhat faded) in matching slipcase.
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill. London, Andrew Crooke, 1651. Fol. Kupfertit. , 3 Bll., 394 (falsch 396) SS., 1 gef. Tab. Mod. kastanienbraun Maroquin mit etwas Rücken- u. Deckelblindpr., Rsch. u. Innenkantenverg., in passendem Hmaroquin-Schuber.
Macdonald/Hargreaves 42; PMM 138; Wing 2 H 2246; Wither to Prior 454; vgl. Humpert 12969 u. Kress 830f. - Erste Ausgabe. - Es erschienen zwei spätere, ebenfalls 1651 datierte Ausgaben. Von diesen unterscheidet sich vorliegender Erstdruck durch die Orthographie des Drucktitels ("Ecclesiasticall and Civill" mit je zwei "l"), die Titelvignette (geflügelter Kopf) und die Paginierung, die von 248 zurück auf 247 springt und von 256 vor auf 261. "Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) ... was born in the year of the Armada. His long life spanned one of the most momentous periods of English history, and he was one of its most conspicuous figures, at once celebrated and abhorred... it was not until the outbreak of the Civil War, when he fled to Paris and became tutor to the Prince of Wales, that he embarked on his greatest work. Leviathan is the product of those troubled times... Though Hobbes' ideas have never appealed to proponents of the individual rights of men..., the fundamental nature of his speculation has stimulated philosophers from Spinoza to the school of Bentham, who reinstated him in his position as the most original political philosopher of his time" (PMM). Vollständiges Exemplar, jedoch gewaschen, Ränder spröde und mit zahlreichen kleinen Ausbesserungen (beim Kupfertitel rechts unten minimaler Bildverlust), die Falttabelle etwas knitterig und mit größeren Reparaturen (Buchstabenverlust), Drucktitel mit verblaßtem altem Besitzvermerk, Einbandrücken ebenfalls leicht verblaßt. A complete copy of the first printing of the first edition, with "head" ornament on letterpress title-page and other distinguishing features called for by Macdonald/Hargreaves, washed, edges brittle and with repairs, minor loss of image to engraved title-page, major repairs to folding table entailing minor loss of text, faded old owner's entry to letterpress title-page; modern brown morocco binding (spine somewhat faded) in matching slipcase.
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