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Title
Elemens philosophiques du citoyen. Traicté politique, où les fondemens de la societé civile sont descouverts par Thomas Hobbes, et traduicts en françois par un de ses amis.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1958
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc6h441374d
Publisher
Amsterdam : Jean Blaeu, 1649.
Language
French
Date Created
1649
Format
Book
Extent
[62], 246, 144 pages ; 8⁰.
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 inscribed on title page: Monasterii Sancti Benigni Divionens. Catalog. inscript. 1735. (Benedictine monastery of Saint-Bénigne Abbey, Dijon.)
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Dedicatory epistle by the translator, Samuel Sorbière.
Added t.-p. engr.: Les fondemens de la politique.
First edition of the 1649 French translation; cf. H. MacDonald and M. Hargreaves, Thomas Hobbes, no. 32.
With portrait of Hobbes before first page of dedication to Duke of Devonshire.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 19th cent. calf; marbled endpapers.

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File Count
481

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Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
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