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L ^d. Bolingbroke’s Philosophical works. 5. v. 8 ^vo.

1815 Catalogue, page 57. no. 101, as above.

SAINT-JOHN, Henry, viscount bolingbroke.

The Philosophical Works of the late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. In Five volumes. Published by David Mallet, Esq. Volume I [-V]. London: Printed in the year mdccliv . [1754.]

B1355 .A2

First Edition. 8vo. vol. I, 182 leaves; vol. II, 208 leaves; vol. III, 216 leaves; vol. IV, 202 leaves; vol. V, 192 leaves; in this copy vol. III and IV have half-titles.

Lowndes I, 232.

Rebound in half brown morocco by the Library of Congress in 1903. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T in all volumes.

Of Bolingbroke, Jefferson wrote from Monticello on January 19, 1821, to Francis Eppes who had asked his opinion of Bolingbroke and Thomas Paine: “ L ^d. Bolingbroke’s, on the other hand, is a style of the highest order: the lofty, rythmical, full-flowing eloquence of Cicero. periods of just measure, their numbers proportioned, their close full and round. his conceptions too are bold and strong, his diction copious, polished and commanding as his subject. his writings are certainly the finest samples in the English language of the eloquence proper for the senate. his political tracts are safe reading for the most timid religionist, his philosophical, for those who are not afraid to trust their reason with discussions of right and wrong . . . ”

Henry Saint-John, Viscount Bolingbroke, 1678-1751, English statesman and philosopher.

Francis Eppes, 1801-1881, grandson of Thomas Jefferson, was the son of Maria Jefferson and John Wayles Eppes.

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Spinosae tractatus theologico-politicus. p. 4 ^to.

1815 Catalogue, page 59. no. 94, as above.

[SPINOZA, Benedict de.]

Tractatus theologico-politicus continens Dissertationes aliquot . . . Hamburgi: apud Henricum Künrath, cl ɔ l ɔ ɔLxx . [1670.]

B3985 .A3

First Edition. 4to. 134 leaves including the last blank, portrait frontispiece (backed).

Not in Barbier.

Van der Aa, XVII, 926.

Old calf; initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. A long manuscript note in French written on the inside cover.

Jefferson ordered a copy of “ Theologie Politique de Spinosa” from Froullé in a letter dated from Philadelphia, October 10, 1792.

Benedict de Spinoza [Baruch Spinoza], 1632-1677, Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish ancestry. This work, one of the first documents in the modern science of biblical criticism, was immediately condemned and placed upon the Index.

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J. 30

Spinosae opera posthuma. p. 4 ^to.

1815 Catalogue, page 59. no. 95, as above.

[SPINOZA, Benedict de.]

B. D. S. Opera posthuma, quorum series post Præfationem exhibetur c I ɔ I ɔ clxxvII . [ Amsterdam, 1677.]

B3955 .A18

First Edition. 4to. 404 leaves, woodcuts.

Barbier IV, 1163.

Van der Aa XVII, 926.

Old calf, gilt back, r.e.; with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T.

On the title the name Spinosae is completed in ink after the printed initial S; and is also written Cura Jarrig Jellis.

The Opera were edited after Spinoza’s death by Jellis, whose Dutch preface was translated into Latin by L. Meyer.

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