Buy this book on-line HOBBES, Thomas : LEVIATHAN, OR THE MATTER, FORME, AND POWER OF A COMMONWEALTH ECCLESIAS
HOBBES, Thomas. LEVIATHAN, OR THE MATTER, FORME, & POWER OF A COMMON- WEALTH ECCLESIASTICALL AND CIVILL. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651. First edition, first issue (with typographical "head" ornament on title-page: winged head with scrolls, flowers, and tassels). Engraved title-page with an elaborate allegorical illustration. Folio in fours: [-]1,A-Ddd4; 201 leaves plus a folding table. 10 15/16 x 7 ? inches. Pagination: [1] f., [6], 1-248,247-256,261-396. Folding table inserted between pp. 40-41. No printers' corrections of errata, although three of the first four are neatly corrected by hand. Contemporary ink notes in margins of pages 39 and 197. Handsomely rebound in full calf. Hobbes, one of the most original and controversial political thinkers of his time, has stimulated philosophers from Spinoza to John Stuart Mill. In this work, his most famous, and one of the great books of western political philosophy, he decribes the State as a great artificial monster made up of individual men and the individual's duty to the State. (PMM 138; Kress 831; Pforzheimer 491.) Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of HOBBES, Thomas : LEVIATHAN, OR THE MATTER, FORME, AND POWER OF A COMMONWEALTH ECCLESIAS. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including antiquarian books, out of print books, livres rares, collectables and first editions. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |