Renati Des-Cartes Tractatus de homine, et de formatione foetus / Quorum prior notis perpetuis Ludovici de la Forge, M.D., illustratur.

  • Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Date:
MDCLXXVII [1677]
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About this work

Also known as

Homme. Latin

Publication/Creation

Amstelodami : Apud Danielem Elseverium, MDCLXXVII [1677]

Physical description

38 unnumbered leaves 239 pages : illustrations, diagrams, woodcuts ; (4to)

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Notes

Title vignette: Elsevier device (Minerva, Rohir 19)
"Claudii Clerselier præfatio, gallicæ editioni præfixa, & in latinum conversa": prelim. leaves 3-35.
Copy 1. Binding: 17th century speckled calf, gold-tooled spine in compartments, gold-tooled board edges, text-block edges speckled red.
Copy 2. Bound in 18th century marbled wrappers. Bookplate and stamp of Greenock Medical & Chirurgical Association.
Copy 3. T.p. mutilated. 19th cent. autograph at head of title page: W. Cater Jr.

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in “The Brain in Art & Science” at Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany, 28 January – 28 June 2022
Exhibited in “Human Brains: It Begins with an Idea” at Fondazione Prada, Ca' Corner Della Regina, Venice, 23 April - 27 November 2022

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  • Copy 2

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    EPB/B/20203/2

  • Copy 1

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    EPB/B/20203/1

  • Copy 3

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    EPB/B/20203/3

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