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Seller: Los Papeles del Sitio, Valencina de la Concepción, SEV, Spain
MRA (Andreu, Grupo Roche), Barcelona, 1994. 22x16 cm. 190+LXXVII págs. Piel con dorados. Cinta de registro. Buen estado. // Introducción de Juan García Font // Edición facsímil, con numerosos grabados, de la publicada en 1686 en Amsterdam (Ex Tipographia Blaviana). Se acompaña también de versión española, traducida del latín por Ana Gómez Rabal //.
Published by MRA Creacion y Realización Editorial.S.L., Barcelona., 1994
Seller: TU LIBRO DE OCASION, Aviles, ASTUR, Spain
Book
Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Como Nuevo.
Published by PH Heitz, Strasbourg France
Seller: Librairie musicale Thierry Legros, Ham-sur-Heure, Belgium
Book
Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Pas de jaquette. Ouvrage en latin de René Descartes avec une introduction en français signée G B. Réédition non datée (probablement années 1980) . in8, ex-libris au dos du premier plat. très bon exemplaire.
Published by Andreu., Barcelona., 1994
Seller: angeles sancha libros, Logroño, RIOJA, Spain
22 x 16. Piel ed. Cinta tpo. lectura. 290 págs.
Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy Bien.
Published by typographia BLAVIANA, AMSTELDAMI(Amsterdam), 1682
Seller: la petite boutique de bea, Tonnay-charente, France
Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Seconde partie.In 8. 404 pages + index nombreuses vignettes sur bois dans le texte.
Published by Blaviana, Amstelodami, 1692., 1692
Seller: Serge Paratte, Livres anciens & modernes, Chernex, Switzerland
155 X 200 mm. relié cartonnage d'attente. Edition comprenant 3 parties, comportant 1 portrait gravé en frontispice et des figures in et hors texte. 20 ff. n. ch., 222 pp.; 8 ff. n. ch., 248 pp.; 12 ff. n. ch., 92 pp., 2 ff. d'index; 7 ff. n. ch., 191 pp.; 164 pp.; 88 pp. Notre exemplaire a été retiré de sa reliure et revêtu d'un cartonnage d'attente. Reliure défraîchie.
Seller: Librairie Diogène SARL, Lyon, France
Amstelodami, Apud Danielem Elsevirium, 1677, 3 textes reliés en 1 volume in-8 de 160x210 mm environ, (2) ff., 1 faux titre avec une table au dos, 1 frontispice avec "Typographus ad lectorum" au dos, (4) ff. (titre, epistola dedicat.), (14) ff. (epistola auctoris, index), 222 pp., (8) ff. (titre, index), 248 pp., (11) ff. (titre, ad lectorem, epistola, responsio), 92 pp., 2 ff.(index), (2) ff., reliure plein vélin d'époque, enrichi d'un portrait en frontispice gravé, de nombreuses figures dans le texte, de lettrines et culs-de-lampe. Ex-libris contrecollé sur le premier contreplat et tampon sur la page de titre, rousseurs, petite mouillure sur la page de faux-titre, départ de fente sur mors, sinon bon état.
Published by Knochii., Francofurti., 1692
Seller: Libreria M. T. Cicerone, Roma, RM, Italy
3 voll., in 8°, m. pelle, cc.nn. 4 + pp. 340 + 2 cc.nn. (1° vol.) + cc.nn. 2 + pp. 351 + 2 cc.nn. (2° vol.) + cc.nn. 8 + pp. 374, i volumi sono arricchiti da numerose piccole inc. schematiche nel t. Front. fig. Antip. del primo vol. con ricca inc. raffigurante l'autore. Mende ai dorsi.
Published by Friderici Knochii, Madrid, 1695
Seller: Librería Pérez Galdós, Madrid, Spain
Latín. Introducción a la Geometría. Contiene además el "Musicae compendium". Plena piel.
Published by ex typ. Blaviana, Amstelodami, 1692
Seller: Libreria M. T. Cicerone, Roma, RM, Italy
4 voll., in 8°, m. pelle. 1° vol., Principia philosophiae, cc.nn. 20 + pp. 222. 2° vol.,Specima philosophiae, cc.nn. 8+pp. 248. 3° vol., Meditationes De Prima Philosophia, cc.nn. 8 + pp. 248. 4° vol., Appendix continens objectiones quintas et septimas, pp. 164 + 88 di Epistola Descartes ad Gisbertum Voetium. I primi due voll. dell'opera sono dotati di innumerevoli ricche e pregevoli inc., diverse delle quali a tutta p. Lettere in o. ai d. Antip. del 1° vol. fig. con inc. a tutta p., raffigurante il ritratto dell'autore. Front. figurati. I d. presentano la mancanza di lembi del rivestimento in pelle.
Published by Ex Tyographia Blaviana, E-033, 1698
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Vellum. Condition: Good. Vellum. 8vo. Square. Ex Tyographia Blaviana. 1698. Editio Ultimo. Three volumes (see photos of title pages bound as one volume). 191 pgs, 164 pgs, 88 pgs. Text in Latin. Frontispiece. Bound in 17th century vellum with raised bands present to the spine. Tape repair presen to the spine (not sure this is really needed). Boards splayed. Vellum rubbed and worn with darkening to the spine. No ownership marks present. Text is free of marks but there is a stain present to the fore-edge. Front hinge weak but still attached to the binding, text block tight and solid. Meditations on First Philosophy (subtitled In which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated) is a philosophical treatise by René Descartes first published in 1641 (in Latin). The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief in things that are not absolutely certain, and then tries to establish what can be known for sure. He wrote the meditations as if he had meditated for six days: each meditation refers to the last one as "yesterday" (In fact, Descartes began work on the Meditations in 1639) One of the most influential philosophical texts ever written, it is widely read to this day. E-33; Opera Philosophica; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Sigla Books, Calgary, AB, Canada
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. AMSTELODAMI Apud DANIELEM ELSEVIRIUM, 1677. Final Elzevir edition of the Opera, being in fact a reimpression of the text published in 1656, 1664, and 1672. [40], 248, [16], 222, [24], 92, [4]pp. Collates with Willems 1530 and Guibert. Engraved frontis-portrait and three titlepages, each with a woodcut printer's device. Numerous engravings in text (including a number of full-page illustrations), and woodcut decorated initials. Small 4to. 20.5 X 16.5cm. The Principia is a summation of Descartes' natural philosophy, dedicated to Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia and intended to counteract the influence of Scholasticism. Dioptrice and Meteora (ready for publication in 1629 and 1633, respectively) were revised to appear in 1637 with the now-famous preface Discourse on Method, unique in 17th-century philosophy as an account of its own engendering, including explanation of the roles played by the Cogito and dualism in the Cartesian system. Passions of the Soul, the last completed work (1649) in Descartes' lifetime, is a treatise on the will and the emotions. Original British calf with fillets and dentelles in blind to boards, rebacked early with matching calf, raised bands, and gilt-ruled title-label on spine, the whole worn but quite sound. New endpapers (at time of rebacking), all original blank leaves and tissue guards present. Marbled edges. A binding error results in a part of Principia being transposed with a part of Meteora, but both sections are complete. Text unusually clean. From the library of Peter Cary, son of British novelist Joyce Cary, with his name in pencil on front free endpaper, and with "E Libris Glover Moore 1755" on the title. Nice copy of important continental work bound in England shortly after publication.
Published by Amstelodami. Ex Typographia Blaviana, 1692
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Renati Descartes Specimina Philosophiae seu Dissertatio de Methedo Recte regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: Dioptrice, et Meteora. Ex Gallico translata, & ab Auctore perlecta, variisque in locis emendata. Ultima Editio cum optima collata, diligenter recognita, & mentis expurgata. Amstelodami. Ex Typographia Blaviana, MDCXCII [1692]. Sumptibus Societatis. Hardcover, limp vellum. Bound in full vellum with handwritten title on the spine. 7 leaves (13 pages) of preliminary index. Then pages numbered 1-248. The section on Dioptrices, which starts on page 49, has 77 charts, diagrams and illustrations, several of which are full-page engravings. There are 46 more in the section on Meteora. Binding tight. Pages are wrinkled from age and potentially from centuries-old exposure to moisture. There are some insect holes and some occassional marginal watermark, but little or no foxing. The main flaw is that wrinkling of the pages that is quite common in books of this age, but which does not seem to have a proper name in the bibliographic business. Text is in Latin. The first work reprinted here is Descartes Discourse on Method, which contains his most famous single phrase, cogito, ergo sum which appears on pages 20-21. Descartes s work on sight, lenses, and weather accompany the Method, and were meant to show how the system works. All were originally written in the 1630 s and 1640 s but Descartes did not rush to publication because he was wary of running into trouble (as Galileo was) with the Church. The full ramifications of the Discourse on Method, in particular, would have not sat well with the authorities, at that time. Book measures 6.5 x 8 inches. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it s an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book.
Published by Apud Danielem Elsevirium [Elzevier], 1677
Seller: Fold the Corner Books, Milford, SURRE, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Tractatus de Homine [bound with] Tractatus de mente humana. Renati Descartes [René DESCARTES] Tractatus de Homine, et de Formatione Foetus. Quorum prior Notis perpetuis Ludovici de la Forge, M.D. illustratur. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Danielem Elsevirium [Elzevier], 1677 [bound with] LA FORGE, Ludovico de [Louis la FORGE] Tractatus de mente humana, ejus facultatibus & functionibus, nec non de ejusdem unione cum corpore; secundum principia Renati Descartes. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Danielem Elsevirium [Elzevier], 1669 Small 4to., contemporary calf, ruled in blind to upper and lower boards; four raised bands to spine; edges speckled red; first title printed in red and black, second in black, both with woodcut printer s devices; woodcut initials, head and tail pieces throughout; numerous illustrations and diagrams, including the human heart, eyes, and brain; pp. [title], [lxx], [vi, index]; 239, [i]; [title], [xxxiii], [ii, index], 224, [ii] (p. 67 misnumbered 45); the binding rather rubbed all over, with some patches showing through to boards, chipping, and loss of leather, particularly to the outer edge of lower board; spine split at foot, with a couple of small holes, upper hinge weak but holding; some light browning to the paste-downs; internally a very clean example; lacking the ffep only; some passages underlined in pencil; a few numbers written in pink pencil to titles, and p. 191. A fascinating combination of two works, the first being the first Elzevir edition of Descartes Tracatus. First published in Latin in 1662, it appeared in French two years later, with a supplement by La Forge and containing a chapter on the formation of the foetus. Here, it is pleasingly found together with the first Latin edition of La Forge s comments on the subject. Withheld from the public while Descartes was alive for fear of censure by the Catholic church, the Tractatus expounds upon the author s Cartesian principles, explored in his 1637 Discourse on Method. Through an examination of both sheep and human brains, Descartes claimed that the body was a material machine, directed by a rational soul found in the brain, or more specifically, the pineal gland. De Homine, Grolier claims, is the first work in the history of science and medicine to construct a unified system of human physiology that presents man as a purely material and mechanical being: man as machine de terre. In conceptualizing man as a machine, Descartes helped emancipate the study of human physiology from religious and cultural constraints and validated a clinical and experimental approach to anatomy and physiology" (Grolier). He further extended his theory to vision, explaining how the retina and optic nerve interacted with the pineal gland to create depth perception. Despite the intricacies of his diagrams, however, his theories were quickly discredited by trained anatomists such as Thomas Bartholin and Nicholas Steno, who argued that the pineal gland s mass was too small to have any direct command over the rest of the brain. Written in the 1630s, it is likely that the present work was intended to form, along with the Dioptrique (the Optics) and the Meteors (the Meteorology), part of the larger work, Le Monde (The World), publication of which he abandoned after the condemnation of Galileo in 1633 (like Galileo, Descartes accepted Copernican heliocentricism). Following Descartes's death the text was edited by Claude Clerselier, a disciple of Cartesian philosophy who prepared several of Descartes's works for publication. The French philosopher Louis La Forge was a friend of Descartes and one of the most able interpreters of Cartesianism. This, his Treatise on the Human Mind expounds a doctrine of occasionalism, which argues that created substances cannot be efficient causes of events. Instead, all events are taken to be caused directly by God. [Guibert 202:6; Krivatsy 3123; Wellcome II, p.453; Willems 1531; cf. G&M 574 (1662 edition)] [Krivatsy 6554].
Published by Excudebat J.F. [James Flesher] pro Jona Hart., 1664
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. Rebound with new end sheets: brown leather spine, marbled paper over boards, red morocco spine label, gilt titles and rules. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 1664 Hard Cover. [viii], 230 pp. Last text page misnumbered 216. Descartes's fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, bound together with a work by one of the Utrecht Cartesians, Lambert van Velthuysen. This is the first British printing of the Meditations, though it does not include Descartes's 'Objections and Replies' as many editions do. Velthuysen was connected by marriage to Descartes's friend Henry Regnier, and corresponded with scientists and philosophers such as von Leeuenhoek, Spinoza, and Leibniz. The work included here shows the influence of Thomas Hobbes - unsurprising, given that Velthuysen is credited with translating Leviathan into Dutch. John Locke may have met Velthuysen while in Utrecht in 1684/85, and had eight titles by Velthuysen in his personal library, including the Rheims edition of the present title. Bound into this volume are two plates not called for in either work, which may be taken from the Hart printing of Principia Philosophia, which was published the same year. Wolf 736, Wing D1133a.
Published by Danielem Elsevirium, 2020
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition thus, fine condition. Opera Philosophiae ultima editio cum optima collata, diligenter recognita, & mendis expurgata Special Collection by Renati Descartes. Published by Danielem Elsevirium in 2020. Hardcover. 3 parts in 1 volume, small 4to. With a wood engraved portrait of Rene Descartes as frontispiece, woodcut printer's mark (rept. thrice) and numerous (part full-page) woodcut text ills. This selection from the Works of Descartes contains: Principia philosophia¦; Dissertatio de Methodo; Passiones Animae & Meditationes de prima philosophia. Ref: Willems 1350; Berghman 376; Rahir 1660; Copinger 1372. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Published by Ludovicum Elzevirium, Amstelodami (Amsterdam), 1656
Book First Edition
Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. DESCARTES, René (1596-1650). Principia philosophiae. Amsterdam: Louis Elzevir, 1644. 4o (192 x 153 mm).p (24) 310. Printer's woodcut device on title, numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams, some full-page. FIRST EDITION OF DESCARTES' SYSTEM OF PHYSICS, in which he developed his theory of vortices. Based in part on his then unpublished work Le monde, which treated the creation and function of the universe in completely mechanistic terms, Descartes' Principia provides a systematic statement of his metaphysics and natural philosophy. In 1644, Descartes published Principia Philosophiae, a philosophical guidebook that expands on his methods Specimina Philosophiae includes three Descartes essays published in 1637 - "Methode," "La Dioptrique," and "Meteores." In Passiones Animae (1649), Descartes' final book. Contemporary brown calf with sides ruled in blind, five raised bands to spine, and red leather label lettered in gilt to spine. This is an edition of 1656 Rebacked.
Published by Elizeum Weyerstraeten, Amsterdam, 1664
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
leather. Condition: Very good copy. Illustrated (illustrator). 4th ed. edition. 8vo, Includes the following separately paginated books: (1) Philosophiae sev Dissertatio de Methodo, Recte regendae rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandae: Dioptrice et Meteora, (Ex Gallico translata & ab Auctore perlecta, variisque in locis emendata. Nunc denno hac Editione diligenter recognita & mendis expurgata) (196 pp.), (2) Dissertatio de Methodo recte utendi ratione, Et veritatem in scientiis investigandi (216 pp.), (3) Passiones Animae (Gallice ab ipso conscriptae, nunc autem in exterorum gratium Latina civitate donatae ab H.D.M. I.V.L.) (18 pp.) & (4) Passiones Sive Affectus Animae (in three parts with indices) (83 pp. + indices).