![]() It was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, though all Hobbes' works had previously been condemned in toto, and it still remains a model of vigorous exposition, unsurpassed in the language" (Pforzheimer). Its importance may be gauged by the long list of assailants it aroused. ![]() "This book produced a fermentation in English thought not surpassed until the advent of Darwinism. Small folio (7-1/2 by 11 inches), early full calf rebacked, burgundy morocco spine label, raised bands.įirst edition, first issue of one of the most controversial and important tracts ever written in political philosophy-"a model of vigorous exposition, unsurpassed in the language"-and a major influence on the framers of the American Constitution. Leviathan, or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill. ![]() "A POWERFUL INFLUENCE ON THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION": FIRST EDITION OF HOBBES' LANDMARK LEVIATHAN, 1651 ![]()
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