[SPINOZA, Baruch de (1632-1677)]. Tractatus theologico-politicus continens dissertationes aliquot. Hamburg: H. Künrath [Amsterdam], 1670. Woodcut decoration on title. [Bound with:] Renati Des Cartes Principiorum philosophiae pars I, & II, more geometrico demonstratae. Amsterdam: J. Riewerts, 1663. Woodcut diagram on title. 2 works in one volume, 4° (200 x 150mm). (Light browning and spotting throughout). Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine (covers lightly soiled). Provenance: Much contemporary marginalia in the Tractatus in a small hand; notes in a slightly later hand on an endpaper at the end; C. W. (initials and motto in an 18th-century hand). FIRST EDITIONS. '[Spinoza] defends with eloquence the liberty of thought and speech in speculative matters, and the Tractatus contains the first clear statement of the independence of each other of philosophy and religion, in that speculation and precepts of conduct cannot collide. Spinoza, to whom any controversy was abhorrent, did not publish the Tractatus until 1670, and then anonymously with a bogus imprint', PMM 153.