SPINOZA, Baruch (1732-1677)
Zwey Abhandlungen über die Kultur des menschlichen Verstandes und über die Aristokratie und Demokratie. Herausgegeben und mit einer Vorrede begleitet von S.H.Ewald. Leipzig, in der von Schönfeldschen Handlung 1785. Small 8vo. XVI,96,242,IV,243-246,V-VIII,247-248,257-263p., some errors in pagination and somewhat disorderly bound, but complete. Contemp. calf, gilt back with red label, decorated endpapers, little rubbed, upper cover somewhat dented. Browned. (#32740) First German edition of De intellectus emendatione and Tractatus politicus, translated from the Latin of the Opera posthuma. Translated by Schack Hermann Ewald (1745-1824), a court clerk and freemason from Gotha who also translated the Tractatus theologico-politicus and Ethica into German, published 1787-93 as Spinoza's Philosophische Schriften. *Kingma & Offenberg 27. Van der Linde 29. Spinoza-Bibliografie 6631. Not in Wolf or Spinozahuis. Aangeboden (10.05.22) door Antiquariaat Matthijs de Jongh (Zuthphen, Nederland) - € 1500 |