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Auction archive: Lot number 78

HOBBES, THOMAS. LEVIATHAN. LONDON, 1651. FIRST EDITION.

Estimate
US$6,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$6,000
Auction archive: Lot number 78

HOBBES, THOMAS. LEVIATHAN. LONDON, 1651. FIRST EDITION.

Estimate
US$6,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$6,000
Beschreibung:

Hobbes, Thomas LEVIATHAN, OR THE MATTER, FORME, & POWER OF A COMMON-WEALTH ECCLESIATICALL AND CIVILL. LONDON: PRINTED FOR ANDREW CROOKE, AT THE GREEN DRAGON IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, 1651 Folio (275 x 178 mm). Engraved allegorical title, letterpress title with woodcut "head" ornament, and 1 folding letterpress table. Dampstained and soiled, marginal wormholes to second half of text, contemporary autograph note titled "Spinoza & Hobbes" laid down to front paste-down, contemporary notation to engraved title. Contemporary calf; re-backed with modern calf, corners bumped, some stains and wear to covers.

Auction archive: Lot number 78
Auction:
Datum:
6 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
Beschreibung:

Hobbes, Thomas LEVIATHAN, OR THE MATTER, FORME, & POWER OF A COMMON-WEALTH ECCLESIATICALL AND CIVILL. LONDON: PRINTED FOR ANDREW CROOKE, AT THE GREEN DRAGON IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, 1651 Folio (275 x 178 mm). Engraved allegorical title, letterpress title with woodcut "head" ornament, and 1 folding letterpress table. Dampstained and soiled, marginal wormholes to second half of text, contemporary autograph note titled "Spinoza & Hobbes" laid down to front paste-down, contemporary notation to engraved title. Contemporary calf; re-backed with modern calf, corners bumped, some stains and wear to covers.

Auction archive: Lot number 78
Auction:
Datum:
6 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
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