[Political philosophy. Hobbes] Leviathan: Of van de Stoffe, Gedaente ende Magt

van de Kerckelycke ende Wereltlycke Regeeringe. Thomas Hobbes van Malmesbury. Amsterdam, Jacobus Wagenaar, 1667. Small 8vo, leather binding covered with paper, illus. frontispiece (with date 1672) by C.K., title with woodcut vignette, 1667. Portrait of the author in copper engraving by C.K. verso folding table, 744,(12) pp. + Blad-Wyser. Spine with minor dam., shabby binding, lacks front endpapers, text complete, somewhat stained, bookblock tightly bound.

Standard work. The book Leviathan lays the foundation of modern western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. Here in the first Dutch translation. Cf. the KVK (Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog) copy of the former Royal Library at Berlin, which also lists the publication date 1667 with frontispiece date 1672. Rare.