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[4], 365pp, [15]. Later full vellum, contrasting red calf lettering-piece, all edges red. Extremities discoloured and lightly rubbed. Later paper repair to verso of front blank fly-leaf, early manuscript note to recto: 'Leviathan / Thomae Hobbesii / Malmesburiensis / Theomachi / pernicies juvenium, morum corruptela, / ingenioisima subtillissima omnis / religionis eversio diabolica. / Diaboli stercus. / Parve nec invideo, per me, liber, ibis in igneis / hei mihi quo domino, non licet ire tuo.', short tear to leaf L2 (not affecting text), later manuscript notes to p.103 and p.106. The first separate Latin edition of the Leviathan. Hobbes prepared the translation himself, editing the text and including three apologetic dialogues in place of the original 'Review and Conclusion'. His translation first appeared in Opera philosophica quae Latine scripsit omnia, published by Blaeu in 1668. Size: Quarto.

Leviathan is a book written by Thomas Hobbes which concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory.