Thomas Hobbes. Line engraving.

Thomas Hobbes. Line engraving after R. Vaughan, 1651.

Thomas Hobbes. Etching by W. Hollar, 1665, after J. B. Gaspers (Jaspers).

Thomas Hobbes. Line engraving by W. Humphrys, 1839.

Thomas Hobbes. Line engraving by W. Faithorne, 1668.

Twenty portraits of famous men. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Fame, with a lamp, hovering among clouds over the earth: around her are seven portraits of philosophers in ovals. Engraving by T. Millow, 1804, after R. Smirke.

Homer; Thomas Hobbes; and warriors from Greece and Troy; representing Hobbes's translation of the works of Homer. Line engraving, 1677.

Thomas Hobbes. Stipple engraving by J. Posselwhite after J.B. Gaspers (Jaspers).

Advice from the shades-below . Or; a letter from Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, to his brother B---n H---dly. In imitation of Mr. Brown's Letters from the dead to the living.

De legibus naturæ disquisitio philosophica , in qua earum forma, summa capita, ordo, promulgatio, & obligatio è rerum natura investigantur; quinetiam elementa philosophiæ Hobbianæ, cum moralis tum civilis, considerantur & refutantur. Authore Ricardo Cumberland, S. T. B. apud Cantabrigienses.

Time and the science of the soul in early modern philosophy / by Michael Edwards.

Hobbes / [R.S. Peters].

27 unnumbered pages, 243 pages, 1 unnumbered page

A discourse concerning the nature of man : both in his natural and political capacity, both as he is a rational creature and member of a civil society : with an examination of Mr. Hobbs's opinions relating hereunto / by Ja. Lowde.

The plague of Athens, : which hapened [sic] in the second year of the Peloponnesian war / First described in Greek, by Thucydides; then in Latin by Lucretius. Since attempted in English by the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Rochester.

The plague of Athens, which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian Warre : first described in Greek by Thucydides, then in Latin by Lucretius / now attempted in English, by Tho. Sprat.

lxxiv, 519 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm.

Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes ; edited by Richard Tuck.

Critique du De mundo de Thomas White / Thomas Hobbes ; introduction, texte critique et notes par Jean Jacquot et Harold Whitmore Jones.

[Thomas Hobbes correspondence].

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Advice from the shades-below . Or; a letter from Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, to his brother B---n H---dly. In imitation of Mr. Brown's Letters from the dead to the living.

The plague of Athens, which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian Warre : first described in Greek by Thucydides, then in Latin by Lucretius / now attempted in English, by Tho. Sprat.

Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes ; edited by Richard Tuck.

Critique du De mundo de Thomas White / Thomas Hobbes ; introduction, texte critique et notes par Jean Jacquot et Harold Whitmore Jones.

[Thomas Hobbes correspondence].

Advice from the shades-below . Or; a letter from Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, to his brother B---n H---dly. In imitation of Mr. Brown's Letters from the dead to the living.

De legibus naturæ disquisitio philosophica , in qua earum forma, summa capita, ordo, promulgatio, & obligatio è rerum natura investigantur; quinetiam elementa philosophiæ Hobbianæ, cum moralis tum civilis, considerantur & refutantur. Authore Ricardo Cumberland, S. T. B. apud Cantabrigienses.

Time and the science of the soul in early modern philosophy / by Michael Edwards.

Hobbes / [R.S. Peters].

A discourse concerning the nature of man : both in his natural and political capacity, both as he is a rational creature and member of a civil society : with an examination of Mr. Hobbs's opinions relating hereunto / by Ja. Lowde.

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Thomas Hobbes

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Images by Thomas Hobbes

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Advice from the shades-below . Or; a letter from Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, to his brother B---n H---dly. In imitation of Mr. Brown's Letters from the dead to the living.

The plague of Athens, which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian Warre : first described in Greek by Thucydides, then in Latin by Lucretius / now attempted in English, by Tho. Sprat.

Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes ; edited by Richard Tuck.

Critique du De mundo de Thomas White / Thomas Hobbes ; introduction, texte critique et notes par Jean Jacquot et Harold Whitmore Jones.

[Thomas Hobbes correspondence].

Advice from the shades-below . Or; a letter from Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, to his brother B---n H---dly. In imitation of Mr. Brown's Letters from the dead to the living.

De legibus naturæ disquisitio philosophica , in qua earum forma, summa capita, ordo, promulgatio, & obligatio è rerum natura investigantur; quinetiam elementa philosophiæ Hobbianæ, cum moralis tum civilis, considerantur & refutantur. Authore Ricardo Cumberland, S. T. B. apud Cantabrigienses.

Time and the science of the soul in early modern philosophy / by Michael Edwards.

Hobbes / [R.S. Peters].

A discourse concerning the nature of man : both in his natural and political capacity, both as he is a rational creature and member of a civil society : with an examination of Mr. Hobbs's opinions relating hereunto / by Ja. Lowde.

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