Sale 553 - Rare Books & Manuscripts with Early Medical Works from the George Bray Collection (At Oakland, Sunday, 8:00 am) (#553) 02/08/2015 8:00 AM PST CLOSED!

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Lot 94 of 196:
Spinoza's Works 1st English edition  

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Lot closed - unsold
Estimate:
$300 - $500

Title:
The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza

Author:
Spinoza, Baruch

Place:
London

Publisher:
George Bell and Sons

Date:
1883-1884

Description:

2 volumes. [12], [v]-xxxiii, [4], 387; xxii, [2], 420 pp. + ads at front ad rear of each volume. 18.5x11.5 cm (7¼x4½"), original blindstamped cloth, spines tooled in gilt.

The first edition in English of Spinoza's collected works, with many of them in their first translation into English.


Lot Amendments
Vol. II text block completely detached from cover.

Condition:
Spines sunned a touch, darkening to free endpapers (which are advertisement pages), hinges of Vol. I neatly split at endpapers; Vol. II text block completely detached from cover. Still scarce.


 
Item number:
256307
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