Hobbes, T. Opera Philosophica, quae Latinè scripsit.

Hobbes, T. Opera Philosophica, quae Latinè scripsit. Amst., J. Blaeu, 1668, 8 parts in 2 vols., woodcut printer's mark, engr. fold. frontisp. portrait by W. FAITHORNE, 30 fold. plates, contemp. unif. calf. - Both vols. w. sm. stamp on first title/ htitle "Demontigny de L Acad'Sc. M." First vol. wormhole in lower (mainly blank) margin throughout; occas. yellowed/ sl. browned; hinges broken. Joints of both vols. split(ting); binding worn. = Title-p. in first volume: Macdonald-Hargreaves 105 but htitles in our copy do not correspond with their description. Each part w. separate htitle: 1. Problemata Physica. (4),44 (=56)p. (A4-F2). 2. Examinatio et Emendatio Mathematicae Hodiernae, Qualis explicatur in libris Johannis Walisii Geometriae Professoris Saviliani in Academia Oxoniensi. Distrubuta in sex Dailogos. 146p. (2A4-2T1). 3. Elementorum Philosophiae sectio prima de corpore. (8),261p. (3A4-4L3). 4. Elementorum philosophiae sectio secunda de homine. 86p. (2A4-2L3). 5. Elementorum Philosophiae sectio tertia de Cive. (16),174p. (3A4-4A3). 6. Dialogus Physicus de Natura Aeris Conjectura sumpta ab Experimentis nuper Londini habitis in Collegio Greshamensi. Item de duplicatione cubi. 42p. (a4-f1). 7. De Principiis et ratiocinatione geometratum, Ubi ostenditur incertitudinem falsitatemque non minorem inesse scriptis erorum, quam scriptis Physicorum & Ethicorum, Contra fastum Professorum Geometriae. 64p. (aa4-hh4). 8. Leviathan, sive De Materia, Forma, & Potestate Civitatis ecclesiasticae et civilis. (4),365,(14)p. (3a4-5c2). The rare first edition of the collected works by Thomas Hobbes with the first Latin edition of the Levitathan which differs considerably from the English: it is the Latin version in which Hobbes really expressed his opinions. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXXVII.