Universal Classics Library/Improvement of the Understanding, Ethics and Correspondence of Benedict de Spinoza

Spinoza, Baruch

Verlag: M. Walter Dunne, 1901

Beschreibung

Green cloth with pasted paperlabel to slightly darkened spine. Minor wear head and heel of spine, corners very slightly rubbed. Titles have faded completely from label . Top edge gilt. Lovely rough cut edge. The vast majority of the pages have never been cut. Sadly, this book has been remainder marked with a red marker, top and bottom outside edges. Does not effect text. Lovely two-color title pages. Illustrated with beautiful photogravures on Japan vellum, etchings hand painted India-plate reproductions,with labeled tissue guard. Full color frontis of Spinoza Instructing D'Acosta. Impressive and elaborate gilt, red, blue and rose numbered cerificate, signed by the Editorial Director. Text is clean and tight, no marks, lightly and evenly tanned. Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin. One of the foremost exponents of 17th-century Rationalism and one of the early and seminal thinkers of the Enlightenment. Introduction by Frank Sewall. Translated from the Latin by R.H.M. Elwes. Other books in this series may be available. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers J1211BC

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Universal Classics Library/Improvement of ...

Verlag: M. Walter Dunne

Erscheinungsdatum: 1901

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket