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1661PHO-2108S.l., S.e., 1661, in-12 (133x75mm), 1f.-233pp.-4ff-51pp., vélin époque, tranches bleues, début de fentes, rousseurs et brunissures, petits accrocs aux plats.
1678WRCLIT82195A Cologne: Chez Emanuel 1678 second imprint: A Amsterdam: Chez Jacob Smith 1678. 32531292errata30pp. 12mo. Contemporary stiff vellum. spine lettered in gilt. Small shelf-label shadow in middle of spine early ink note on verso of second title referring to the two title leaves offset a bit opposite and with faint bleed-through to recto first signature exhibits variations in lower edge trim size from leaf to leaf but a very good crisp copy. First edition in French of Spinoza's TRACTATUS THEOLOGICO-POLITICUS 1670 translated by Gabriel de Saint Glain. Spinoza wrote a 30pp. addenda of "Remarques" in anticipation of the publication of this translation and the book was published with two variant titles and different imprints on two separate title leaves -- both are present in this copy. The book had been officially banned in 1674 by the State of Holland. "Spinoza's thought a fusion of Cartesian rationalism and Hebraic tradition in which he grew up is a solitary but crystal-clear exposition of the theory of natural right. He defends with eloquence the liberty of thought and speech in speculative matters and 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. Spinoza to whom any controversy was abhorrent did not publish the Tractatus until 1670 and then anonymously with a bogus imprint" - PMM. PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 153 Latin edition. Chez Jacob Smith hardcover books
1687370031687 In-4 (232 x 185 mm), plein vélin ivoire rigide de l'époque, dos titré à la plume, (16), 364, (14) p. Goudae, Justum ab Hoeve [Gouda, Justus van der Hoeve], 1687.
167822856A Cologne, chez Claude Emmanuel, 1678 ; in-12, vélin ivoire rigide, titre manuscrit au dos (reliure de l'époque ; [2] titre, [12] préface, [4] Table des Chapitres, 531, [29] Table, [2] Fautes, blanc, 30 pp. Remarques qui sont les annotations manuscrites de Spinoza sur son exemplaire en latin paru en 1670.
1678ABC_50006Amsterdam: Jacob Smith = Israel de Paull for Jan Rieuwertsz. Sr. 1678. Contemporary mottled calf gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold gold-tooled board edges marbled endpapers. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on title page ornament E in the description of Van de Ven. First French edition of Spinoza's famous Tractatus Theologico-Politicus 1670 printed by Israel de Paull for Jan Riewertsz. Sr. in Amsterdam but appearing with the false imprint of "Hamburg Henricus Künrath". The original Latin edition is one of two works by Spinoza that originally appeared during his lifetime the other work is his Principia philosophiae cartesianae 1663. The present French translation was published only a year after Spinoza's death in 1677 and was still so controversial that it was published without mentioning the author's name and with false imprints. Three issues of the first French edition are known all three dated 1678 but with different titles and false imprints: 1: Reflexions curieuses d'un esprit des-interressé sur les matieres les plus importantes au salut Leiden Pierre Warnaer 1678; 2: La clef du santuaire Cologne Claude Emanuel 1678; and 3: the present work Traitté des ceremonies superstitieuses des juifs. In chapter 5 pp. 200-255 of Van de Vens bibliography of Spinoza's works the complicated printing history of the French translation is covered in detail; our issue has the number X3. The translation presumably launched by Spinozas Amsterdam publisher Jan Rieuwertsz Sr. is commonly attributed to a French Hugenot Gabriel Lord of Saint Glain 1620-1684 who had been a zealous Protestant before he came to know Spinoza. He grew into one of his disciples and one of his greatest admirers. He settled in The Hague about the same time when Spinoza moved to that same city where they could have met each other.What makes this edition of the French translation extra important also for the general Spinoza bibliography is that it contains at the end the 31 "Adnotationes ad Tractatum theologico-politicus" here called "Remarques curieuses et necessaires pour lIntelligence de ce livre" pp. 1-30: notes clarifying obscurities in Spinozas book. The majority of these Adnotationes were composed by Spinoza himself some were arguably made by others. The precise sources for these notes which were unpublished until this French translation are unknown. In the autumn of 1675 Spinoza was planning - as he wrote to his correspondent H. Oldenburg in London - a new edition of his Tractatus together with his Adnotationes marginal notes to explain passages easily to be misinterpreted by critical readers written in the margins of his copy of the first edition now lost. But there are more copies known and lost with a varying number of notes 31-39. If Saint Glain was indeed the translator of the Tractatus this would indicate that he must have gotten hold of either Spinozas holograph or an apograph of the notes whether or not written in de margins of a copy of the first Latin edition probably through Jan Rieuwertsz who was after the death of Spinoza in the possession of his written legacy. It may even be speculated that Rieuwertsz himself did ask and commission Saint Glain to translate the Tractatus into French and to append the still unpublished Adnotationes in French.With a manuscript inscription initials on the verso of the first flyleaf a crossed out manuscript owner's inscription of Abraham Couet du Vivier 1646-1719 Hugenot pastor and author in The Hague at the head of the title page with the manuscript additions of the Latin title and "par Benedict. Spinosa" around the printed title in the same hand. The binding shows clear signs of wear the front hinge is weakened the corners of the boards are slightly damaged the marbled endpapers are slightly rubbed and frayed slight browning throughout. Otherwise in good condition.l Akkerman F. Introduction to his translation into Dutch 1997; Kingma/Offenberg p. 15; STCN 840787480; USTC 1561976; Van der Linde p. 12; Ven J.M.M. van de Printing Spinoza Leiden Brill 2022 Chapter 5 pp. 200-255 nr. X3; cf. STCN 843272147 other issues of this ed. Jacob Smith [= (Israel de Paull for) Jan Rieuwertsz. Sr.], unknown
16742110210037N.P.: Amsterdam : Jan Rieuwertsz 1674. 3rd. Hardcover. Good. The Origins of Secular Thought: Moral Philosophy Unbound from Religion Octavo 162 x 102 mm. 2 parts in one volume. Bound in contemporary sheep with gilt spine. Rebacked and restored with new spine label. Scattered spotting. Collated: 22 334 4; 16 182 19 pages including blanks Z3-4. 18th-century signatures of George Wycherley and Alexander Hatton of St. John's College Cambridge on front free endpaper. <br> Van der Linde states that the text block was printed in 1673 while the title page was printed in 1674. No publisher is listed because the work was banned in Holland this edition was intended for distribution in England. This work was censored for its dangerous ideas arguing for a philosophical interpretation of scripture. "Spinoza's thought a fusion of cartesian rationalism and the Hebraic tradition in which he grew up is a solitary but crystal-clear exposition of the theory of natural right. It is also the forerunner of modern Biblical criticism." - Printing and the Mind of Man 153 1670 original edition; Bamberger T3.E this edition. N.P.: [Amsterdam] : [Jan Rieuwertsz] hardcover
16631005<p>First Edition of Spinoza's First Book – Explicating Descartes</p><p>SPINOZA Benedict. Renati Des Cartes Principiorum Philosophiæ Pars I & II More Geometrico demonstratæ per Benedictum de Spinoza per Amstelodamensem . Accesserunt Eiusdem Cogitata Metaphysica Rene Descartes' Principles of Philosophy Parts I & II Demonstrated According to the Geometric Method by Benedict de Spinoza of Amsterdam. the same followed by Metaphysical Thoughts Johannem Riewerts Amstelodami Amsterdam 1663. 1 blank leaf TP i-vii = Præfatio viii = Ad Librum ix-xiv = Index 1-90 91 = half-title 93-140 blank leaf; Small Quarto. First Edition in original paper wrappers Kingma-Offenberg 1.</p><p>This Spinoza's first work is the only one published during his lifetime that identified him as the author and had the correct information on the printer-publisher. Spinoza's next two works Tractatus Theologico-Politicus & Opera posthuma were very much his own radical thought rather than a reworking of Descartes ideas as here and so were necessarily published anonymously listing false information about the printer-publisher on the title page. The radical nature of Spinoza's thought and the dangers of publishing such materials in this time and place are brilliantly explained in Jonathan Israel's Radical Enlightenment Oxford 2001. Here Spinoza presents an exposition of Cartesian philosophy but he has recast it using his own geometrical method of reasoning and presentation. The origins of this work are interesting and clearly explained by the author himself in a letter to his friend Oldenburg written shortly after the book's publication: "Some of my friends asked me to make them a copy of a treatise containing a precise account of the Second Part of Descartes' Principia Philosophiæ 1644 demonstrated in the geometric style and of the main points treated in metaphysics. Previously I had dictated this to a certain young man to whom I did not want to teach my own opinions openly. They asked me to prepare the First Part also by the same method as soon as I could. Not to disappoint my friends I immediately undertook to do this and finished it in two weeks. I delivered it to my friends who in the end asked me to let them publish the whole work. They easily won my agreement on the condition that one of them Lodewijk Meyer in my presence would provide it with a more elegant Latin style and add a short preface warning readers that I did not acknowledge all the opinions contained in this treatise as my own since I had written many things in it which were the opposite of what I held and illustrating this by one or two examples. One of my friends to whose care the publishing of this little book has been entrusted has promised to do all this and that is why I stayed for a while in Amsterdam" Nadler Spinoza A Life 205. This rather straightforward – though completely reformatted – exposition of Descartes is followed by the Cogita Metaphysica 91-140 – with its own half-title page which is written from the Cartesian perspective defending for instance the freedom of the will but with some serious foreshadowing of Spinoza's later doctrines.</p><p>CONDITION: Very good in original brown paper wrappers most of backstrip lacking with wear to extremities. Woodcut illustr. to title-page and several woodcut mathematical and physical illustrations throughout. Annotations to both free end-paper. Some minor brownspotting and even light browning to leaves. A very nice and attractive copy of Spinoza's first book housed in a custom cloth archival box.</p> Johannem Riewerts paperback
16776323Amsterdam: Jan Rieuwertsz 1677. Very Good/First edition of Spinoza's most influential philosophical work "Ethics" in which the philosopher bridged the Cartesian duality of body and spirit by maintaining that the universe including God constitutes a unified infinite and all-inclusive "Substance" of which corporeality and spirituality were merely attributes -- a unity expressed in the controversial phrase "Deus sive Natura" God or Nature. Ethics is thus considered the first systematic exposition of pantheism the philosophy in which God is identified with the entire universe' Norman. Contents also include first printings of his correspondence some of which deals with optics the telescope and his views on Descartes and a simple Hebrew grammar composed at the request of friends. Quarto 21 cm; 40 614 34 112 8 pages. Woodcut device on title page; tail-pieces; initials. Woodcut diagrams and illustrations in text. Text mostly in Latin some translated from Dutch and some in Hebrew. Contents: I. Ethica more geometrico demonstrata -- II. Politica -- III. De emendatione intellectus -- IV. Epistolae & ad eas responsiones -- V. Compendium grammatices linguae Hebraeae. Full golden brown calf tooled in blind with border rules and panel rules enclosing small tooled fleurons larger vegetal ornaments at corners of panel extending out toward the edges. Subtly rebacked. Speckled edges. Old ownership inscription on title page of "T. Lynford" possibly Thomas Lynford d. 1724 a British divine once canon of Westminster Abbey. Title page slightly browned at edges but otherwise an unmarred copy in excellent condition! Reference: Norman 1988; see also PMM 153 "The 'Opera posthuma' . have served then and since . to immortalize his name." Jan Rieuwertsz unknown books
169329710Amsterdam: N.p.: Henricus Koenraad' i.e. Jan Rieuwiertsz jun. 1693. First edition in Dutch of TRACTATUS THEOLOGICO-POLITICUS the THEOLOGICAL-POLITICAL TREATISE. 8vo 16 x 20cm handsomely bound in full vellum with leather bands spine lettered in manuscript. xxviii 360 pp. A very fine and handsome copy of this very scarce first edition printing the text-block very fresh and clean a strong impression of the text the binding as pristine. FIRST ISSUE FIRST PRINTING OF THE VERY RARE DUTCH EDITION WHICH SPINOZA DID NOT WANT PUBLISHED OUT OF FEAR OF RETRIBUTION. QUITE ELUSIVE AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD. Baruch Spinoza is unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time -- and certainly perhaps the most radical of the early modern period. His thought combines a commitment to Cartesian metaphysical and epistemological principles with elements from ancient Stoicism and medieval Jewish rationalism into a nonetheless highly original system. His extremely naturalistic views on God the world the human being and knowledge serve to ground a moral philosophy centered on the control of the passions leading to virtue and happiness. They also lay the foundations for a strongly democratic political thought and a deep critique of the pretensions of Scripture and sectarian religion. Of all the philosophers of the seventeenth-century perhaps none have more relevance today than Spinoza.<br> Spinoza's aim in TRACTATUS THEOLOGICO-POLITICUS which he completed and published anonymously in 1670 was to prove that the stability and security of society is not undermined but rather enhanced by freedom of thought meaning primarily the freedom to philosophize. As is clear from the text he concluded that the primary threat to this freedom emanated from the clergy whom he accused of playing upon the fears and superstitions of people in order to maintain power. His solution was to divest the clergy of all political power even to placing authority over the practice of religion into the hands of the sovereign. The sovereign Spinoza argued should extend broad liberties within this domain requiring adherence to no more than a minimal creed that was neutral with respect to competing sects and the meaning of which was open to a variety of interpretations. This he hoped would allow philosophers the freedom to do their work unencumbered by the constraints of sectarianism. <br> As was to be expected the work was met with a firestorm of criticism. It was condemned as a work of evil and its author was accused of having nefarious intentions in writing it. Even some of Spinoza's closest friends were deeply unsettled by it. Though he had assiduously tried to avoid it Spinoza found himself embroiled in heated religious controversy and saddled with a reputation for atheism something he greatly resented. <br> Shortly after the publication Spinoza moved to the Hague where he was to live out his remaining years. Besides having to deal with fallout from this treatise he witnessed a political revolution that culminated in the murder by an angry Orangist-Calvinists mob of the Grand Pensionary of Holland Jan De Witt as well as his brother Cornelius. Spinoza admired De Witt for his liberal policies and was horrified by the murder. With the ascent of the Orangist-Calvinist faction he felt his own situation to be tenuous.<br> In the words of PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN ".The TRACTATUS THEOLOGICO-POLITICUS constituted an extension to political thought of his ethical views. Man is moved to the knowledge and love of God; the love of God involves the love of our fellow men. Man in order to obtain security surrenders part of his right of independent action to the State. But the State exists to give liberty not to enslave; justice wisdom and toleration are essential to the sovereign power. <br> Baruch Spinoza 1632-1677 scion of a leading Jewish family in Europe's most cosmopolitan city of the seventeenth century Amsterdam provided the intellectual architecture for a philosophic structure which would level current assumptions and conclusions. For his endeavors Spinoza was excommunicated by his own community and his name Baruch-Benedict which means blessed became anathema both in the community he left and the larger community he never entered. During his lifetime Spinoza's works were published anonymously and even his posthumously published Opera contains neither place nor date of publication. His rise to a central position in the drama of humankind's search for truth came slowly but inexorably as human reason came to be more and more relied upon over the ideas promulgated by an adherence to divine dogma. It is said that Thomas Jefferson would have been one of the first Americans to have accepted Spinoza as his spiritual kin. N.p.: Henricus Koenraad' (i.e. Jan Rieuwiertsz jun.) hardcover
167042820837<p>Contemporary vellum hand-lettered spine edges sprinkled blue. A fine copy.</p><p><strong>First edition of this landmark of 17th-century thought the Theological-Political Treatise.</strong></p><p>This is the rare first edition readily identified by the misspelled "Künraht" imprint and the mis-numbering of page 104 as 304. "Although there is only one genuine first edition the other quarto editions also pretend that they were printed in the year 1670. … The reason for this is that the work was highly controversial: although formally banned only in 1674 it was considered illegal from its publication and there were attempts to have it repressed from the very start. So the Amsterdam publisher Jan Rieuwertsz had to be careful. He did not reveal his identity on the title page which carries a fictitious imprint: Henricus Künrath in Hamburg and when there was a demand for reprints it was important to make the book look like copies left over from the original 1670 issue rather than newly printed ones" Melamed and Rosenthal.</p><p>Baruch Spinoza is a giant of 17th-century thought and a key figure of the Enlightenment. "He made significant contributions in virtually every area of philosophy and his writings reveal the influence of such divergent sources as Stoicism Jewish Rationalism Machiavelli Hobbes Descartes and a variety of heterodox religious thinkers … He is usually counted along with Descartes and Leibniz as one of the three major Rationalists. … Spinoza has remained an enormously controversial figure. For many he is the harbinger of enlightened modernity who calls us to live by the guidance of reason. For others he is the enemy of the traditions that sustain us and the denier of what is noble within us" IEP.</p><p>"Spinoza's thought a fusion of Cartesian rationalism and the Hebraic tradition in which he grew up is a solitary but crystal clear exposition of the theory of natural right. He defends with eloquence the liberty of thought and speech in speculative matters and the Tractatus contains the first clear statement of the independence of each other of philosophy and religion" PMM. Spinoza held that "Man is moved to the knowledge and love of God; the love of God involves the love of our fellow men. Man in order to obtain security surrenders part of his right of independent action to the State. But the State exists to give liberty not to enslave; justice wisdom and toleration are essential to the sovereign power" Printing and the Mind of Man 153.</p><p>Spinoza's<em> Tractatus Theologico-Politicus</em> was a notorious book in its own time both for what it attacked and for what it advocated. Spinoza scrutinized religious teachings and Scripture to argue that they were mere products of the human mind. At the same time he "believed that the political model of the ancient Hebrews could be imitated in certain key respects. … Unlike Hobbes whose social contract theory justified absolute monarchy Spinoza argued that democracy was a preferred form of government. And finally he thought that the state would be better off if it granted limited religious toleration and the freedom to philosophize" Melamed and Rosenthal eds. <em>Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: A Critical Guide</em>.</p><p>The author's concerns about political repercussions delayed publication of the book for years. It finally appeared anonymously in 1670 with a false imprint. The <em>Tractatus</em> was soon placed on the Index of Prohibited Books and was interdicted in Holland. Leibniz rejected its scandalous arguments while Hobbes is said to have declared "I durst not write so boldly." Spinoza has come to be embraced by many seemingly irreconcilable "-isms" including liberalism Marxist materialism conservatism and Zionism.</p><p><strong>The first printing of the <em>Tractatus</em> is rarely found in this excellent condition. This true first edition has become a rare book in a period binding.</strong></p> Heinrich Künraht [i.e. Amsterdam: Rieuwertsz] hardcover
