Renati Des-Cartes opera philosophica.

Works. Selections. Latin. 1677

Opera philosophica

[Amstelodami] : [apud Danielem Elsevirium], [1677-1678]

16 unnumbered pages, 191 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 164, 88 pages, 36 unnumbered pages, 222 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 248 pages, 24 unnumbered pages, 92 pages, 4 unnumbered pages [i.e. 1,102] pages : illustrations, portrait ; 21 x 16 cm (4to)

Editio ultima, nunc demum hac editione diligenter recognita, & mendis expurgata.

NUC pre-1956 ND 0192268 (vol. 140, p. 225)

Rahir, Edouard. Catalogue d'une collection unique de volumes imprimés par les Elzevier, M19, M21

Title from half title. Publication information from added special title pages.

Title vignettes: Elsevier device (Minerva). Cf: Rahir.

A collection of separate works, each with special t.-p. and separate paging, with the addition of 2 preliminary leaves (general half-title, with list of contents on verso, and "Typographus ad lectorem," with portrait on verso).

Engraved portrait of René Descartes signed "Franciscus a Schooten, Pr. Mass. ad vivum delineavit et fecit, Anno 1644".

"The Epistola ad Voetium has special half-title and separate paging. cf. Willems, p. 255, no. 1008, note; p. 392, no. 1530; p. 397, no. 1545"--Cf. NUC pre-1956.

Signatures: pi³ *⁴ **² A-2A⁴; a-v⁴ x²; aa-ll⁴; *-****⁴ *****² A-2E⁴ (-2E4); *-**⁴ a-2h⁴; *-***⁴ A-M⁴.

Copy 1. Complete. 18th century manuscript autograph on t.p. of part I: 'Ex libris Caroli Pauli Zimmerman U.j.D. Cancellarij'.

Copy 2. Contains final 3 parts only. Bookplate of Rowland Hunt Esq., Boreatton House, Salop.

Meditationes de prima philosophia, in quibus Dei existentia, & animæ humanæ à corpore distinctio, demonstrantur. His adjunctæ sunt variæ objectiones doctorum virorum in istas de Deo & anima demonstrationes; cum responsionibus auctoris. Editio ultima ... 1678 -- Appendix, continens objectiones quintas & septimas in Renati Des-Cartes Meditationes de prima philosophia, cum ejusdem ad illas responsionibus, & duabus epistolis, una ad patrem Dinet ... altera ad celeberrimum virum d. Gisbertum Voetium. 1678 -- ... Principia philosophiæ. Ultimo editio ... 1677 -- ... Specimen philosophiæ: seu, Dissertatio de methodo rectè regendæ rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandæ: Dioptrice, et Meteora ... Ultima editio ... 1677 -- Passiones animæ ... 1677.