SPINOZA, Baruch (1632-1677). Opera posthuma [ Compendium grammatices linguae hebraeae ]. [Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertsz,] 1677. [ Bound with :] – Tractatus theologico-politicus . Hamburg: H. Künraht, 1670 [but Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertz, 1672]. 2 works in one volume, 4° (197 x 148mm). Titles with woodcut devices, a few woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. (Lacks, as often, the engraved frontispiece portrait to the first work, occasional light spotting and soiling.) Contemporary calf, red sprinkled edges (rebacked). Provenance : Lord Kennet of the Dene (bookplate) FIRST EDITION of Spinoza's Opera posthuma , bound with the second edition of Spinoza’s controversial Tractatus , a ‘crystal-clear exposition of the theory of natural right … defend[ing] with eloquence the liberty of thought and speech in speculative matters, and … contain[ing] the first clear statement of the independence of each other of philosophy and religion' (PMM 153). Bamberger’s bibliographic investigations of the Tractatus have shown how careful Spinoza and the publisher, Rieuwertsz, were to cloak themselves in anonymity, given the accusations of heresy and the constant surveillance of Spinoza by the Spanish Inquisition and others. First work: Norman 1988; second work: Bamberger T.2A.
SPINOZA, Baruch (1632-1677). Opera posthuma [ Compendium grammatices linguae hebraeae ]. [Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertsz,] 1677. [ Bound with :] – Tractatus theologico-politicus . Hamburg: H. Künraht, 1670 [but Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertz, 1672]. 2 works in one volume, 4° (197 x 148mm). Titles with woodcut devices, a few woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text. (Lacks, as often, the engraved frontispiece portrait to the first work, occasional light spotting and soiling.) Contemporary calf, red sprinkled edges (rebacked). Provenance : Lord Kennet of the Dene (bookplate) FIRST EDITION of Spinoza's Opera posthuma , bound with the second edition of Spinoza’s controversial Tractatus , a ‘crystal-clear exposition of the theory of natural right … defend[ing] with eloquence the liberty of thought and speech in speculative matters, and … contain[ing] the first clear statement of the independence of each other of philosophy and religion' (PMM 153). Bamberger’s bibliographic investigations of the Tractatus have shown how careful Spinoza and the publisher, Rieuwertsz, were to cloak themselves in anonymity, given the accusations of heresy and the constant surveillance of Spinoza by the Spanish Inquisition and others. First work: Norman 1988; second work: Bamberger T.2A.
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