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Hobbes, Thomas
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
- Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill. London: [by Roger Norton and Richard Cotes] for Andrew Crooke, 1651 [but John Redmayne and Christoffel Cunradus before 1670]
- paper, ink, leather
Folio (295 x 195 mm). Engraved title, folding table, title-page with the bear and foliage device. Contemporary calf; very skilfully rebacked.
Literature
Wing H2247; PMM 138
Catalogue Note
The pirated edition of one of the great political landmarks, a book that Pepys was offering 24s for and selling for 30s "it being a book the Bishop will not let be printed again."