75/3335 [Spinoza, B. de]. Bayle, (P.J.). Het leven van B. de Spinoza. Nevens een Kort betoog van de waarheit des Christelyken godsdiensts en twee verhandelingen, I. Van de ziel. II. Van Gods wezentlykheid. Door den Heere Jacquelot. Dutch transl. F. Halma. Utr., W. Broedelet, 1711, (188),464,(13)p., contemp. vellum, sm 8vo.

- Partly (vaguely) waterst. in (blank) margins, occas. touching text; title-p. loose; lacks pastedowns. Frontcover and spine dam.

= Second edition (first 1698) of one of the best old sources. The first part is a translation of Bayle's article on Spinoza in his "Dictionnaire historique", in which Bayle "credits Spinoza with having been the first to systematize atheism" (cat. H. Aug. Bibl. 93).