The Abraham Wolf Collection of Spinoza includes a partial reconstruction of titles from Spinoza's library. There are all original editions of his works and those of many of his contemporaries. There is a collection of first and important editions of Descartes, as well as works about him. The Spinoza and Descartes collections are among the most comprehensive extant.


[J. M. Lucas]. La vie de feu Monsieur de Spinosa. With: L'esprit de Spinosa. ca. 1688. 193 pages total.

Holograph manuscript bound in full leather in modern morocco case. The catalog accompanying this collection gives a history of the manuscript and author. The strongest evidence seems to attribute it to Lucas, exiled from France for publishing things offensive to Louis XIV. The Dept. also has one of the only two known copies of the book suppressed immediately after it was printed in 1719.
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