HOBBES, Thomas - Opera Philosophica, quae Latinè scripsit. ( - Lot 308

HOBBES, Thomas - Opera Philosophica, quae Latinè scripsit. (Tome II). Contains: Leviathan, sive De Materia, Forma, & Potestate Civitatis ecclesiasticae et civilis, with a faux-title. Amsterdam, Johann Blaeu, 1668. In-4, (2) ff, 365 (15) pp, some light angular spotting, contemporary granulated brown calf, spine ribbed and ornamented, lower cuff missing, small tear to upper cuff, corners dull. MAC DONALD & HARGREAVES no. 104. First Latin edition of Leviathan, with variants suggesting that it was partly written before the English edition, and an appendix on religious questions in which Hobbes protests his orthodoxy. This first collective edition (volume II) also contains, after the title and table: Elementorum Philosophiae sectio tertia de Cive. (8) ff, 174 pp, clear angular wetness and browned leaves --Dialogus Physicus de Natura Aeris Conjectura sumpta ab Experimentis nuper Londini habitis in Collegio Greshamensi. Item de duplicatione cubi. 42 pp. with browned leaves -- De Principiis et ratiocinatione geometratum, Ubi ostenditur incertitudinem falsitatemque non minorem inesse scriptis erorum, quam scriptis Physicorum & Ethicorum, Contra fastum Professorum Geometriae. 64 pp. with 4 plates (3 of which are folded), some light angular wetness and browned leaves.