DESCARTES (René). Opera Philosophica. Edition ultima. Blavia - Lot 173

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DESCARTES (René). Opera Philosophica. Edition ultima. Blavia - Lot 173
DESCARTES (René). Opera Philosophica. Edition ultima. Blaviana, Amsterdam, 1692. In-4°. General frontispiece, Principia philosophiæ. [36], 222 pp. Front. gr. on c. and wood in text. [Missing the first 52 pages of the Principia, which begins on p. 53]. Specimina philosophiæ. Seu Dissertatio de Methodo recte regendæ rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandæ : Dioptrice et Meteora. [16], 248 pp. Wood in text. Passiones animæ. [24], 92, [4] pp. saddle leather over wood, 4 ribbed spine, title in ink, cold-stamped bevelled boards and edges, ties (contemporary binding). Collective edition from the presses of Blaeu in Leiden, for which a general false title has been printed and a frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Frans Van Schooten has been added. Reprinted "page for page from the last Elzevirian editions of 1664, 1672 and 1677", each part described separately has the same pagination as these editions. Ex-libris ms. "P. Landfridus Heinrich", Landfridus HEINRICH (1721-1773), German theologian, Benedictine; HEIDER , speech therapist. Lacks pp. 1-52 of the Principia corresponding to the first two parts (of Human Knowledge and Material Things) and the beginning of part 3 (of the Visible World, I-XIII). The Discourse on Method and other treatises are complete.
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