Morus, Thomas. De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula utopia, libri duo. Scriptum vere aureum, nec minus salutare, quam festinum, quod ex Erasmi Roterrodami, Guilielmi Budaei, aliorumque magnorum virorum recommendationibus, quae epistolis praefixis continu, liquidum dubitantibus enadet. 299 S. With woodcut printer mark. 14 x 9.5 cm. Modern cardboard tape. Hanau, Hans Jakob Henne for Peter Kopf, 1613. VD17 3:315416N. Cf. Ziegenfuß II, 174. – Rare Hanau print by Thomus Morus (1478-1535) famous state novel Utopia, which he developed in accordance with Plato's dialogues Timaios and Politeia the ideal of a state without private property. – A little brownish and isolated with small moisture margins, few old underlinings.