SPINOZA - TRACTATUS
[Spinoza] Réflexions curieuses d'un esprit désintéressé..., Cologne, Claude Emmanuel, 1678 / Traitté des ceremonies superstitieuses des juifs tant anciens que modernes. Amsterdam, Jacob Smith, 1678, 15 f. n. c. title included), 551 p. c., 29 pp. n. c. of table, 1 f. n. c. of errata, 30 pp. c. with separate pagination for the "Remarques curieuses et nécessaires", in one vol. in 12°, old full brown calf binding, five-nerved spine decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, red morocco title-piece, red edges, gilt fillets on the edges.
A sumptuous copy of the first edition of Gabriel de Saint Glain's French translation of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-politicus, which appeared without an author's name and is presented here with two of the three title pages, which can be found either singly or together. The "curious remarks" at the end of the volume are from the first edition: they are annotations that the author made on his copy of the Tractatus (Van der Linde 11 - 12; Kingma - Offenberg 19).
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SPINOZA - TRACTATUS [Spinoza] Réflexions curieuses d'un esprit désintéressé..., Cologne, Claude Emmanuel, 1678 / Traitté des ceremonies superstitieuses des juifs tant anciens que modernes. Amsterdam, Jacob Smith, 1678, 15 f. n. c. title included), 551 p. c., 29 pp. n. c. of table, 1 f. n. c. of errata, 30 pp. c. with separate pagination for the "Remarques curieuses et nécessaires", in one vol. in 12°, old full brown calf binding, five-nerved spine decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, red morocco title-piece, red edges, gilt fillets on the edges. A sumptuous copy of the first edition of Gabriel de Saint Glain's French translation of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-politicus, which appeared without an author's name and is presented here with two of the three title pages, which can be found either singly or together. The "curious remarks" at the end of the volume are from the first edition: they are annotations that the author made on his copy of the Tractatus (Van der Linde 11 - 12; Kingma - Offenberg 19).

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SPINOZA - TRACTATUS [Spinoza] Réflexions curieuses d'un esprit désintéressé..., Cologne, Claude Emmanuel, 1678 / Traitté des ceremonies superstitieuses des juifs tant anciens que modernes. Amsterdam, Jacob Smith, 1678, 15 f. n. c. title included), 551 p. c., 29 pp. n. c. of table, 1 f. n. c. of errata, 30 pp. c. with separate pagination for the "Remarques curieuses et nécessaires", in one vol. in 12°, old full brown calf binding, five-nerved spine decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, red morocco title-piece, red edges, gilt fillets on the edges. A sumptuous copy of the first edition of Gabriel de Saint Glain's French translation of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-politicus, which appeared without an author's name and is presented here with two of the three title pages, which can be found either singly or together. The "curious remarks" at the end of the volume are from the first edition: they are annotations that the author made on his copy of the Tractatus (Van der Linde 11 - 12; Kingma - Offenberg 19).
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