Opera Posthuma. The Complete Works of Baruch Spinoza. [Amsterdam]: [Jan Rieuwertsz], 1677. Latin and some Hebrew. First edition.
First edition of the complete works of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, published a short time after his death. The volume contains the compositions: Ethica, Tractatus Politicus [Political Treatise], Tractatus De Emendatione Intellectus [Essay on the Improvement of the Understanding], Epistolae… Et auctoris responsiones [Epistles…] and Compendium Grammatices Linguae Hebraeae [Hebrew grammar]. The text is accompanied by several diagrams and illustrations (woodcuts).
[40], 614, [34], 112, [8] pp, 20.5 cm. Without the frontispiece engraving (missing in most copies). Good condition. Foxing and slight defects. On a number of leaves are some ancient handwritten marks and inscriptions. Title page torn on margins and professionally restored. Bound in a new vellum binding.