Renati Des-Cartes Opera philosophica
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Type of record: Book
Title: Renati Des-Cartes Opera philosophica
Other titles: Opera philosophica; Principia philosophiae; Passions de l'âme; Discours de la méthode
Classmark: BC For C17/18 DES
Creator(s): Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Additional creator(s): Courcelles, Etienne de (1586-1659) (Other); H. D. M (1725) (Other)
Publisher: [Apud D. Elzevirium]
Publication city: [Amstelodami]
Date(s): [anno 1664]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 222 pages, 9 leaves, 248 pages, 12 leaves, 92 pages, 2 leaves including diagrams, frontispiece (port.)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/296302
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991003565489705181
Description
Each part has special t.-p., that for part 3 with imprint: Amstelodami, Apud L. & D. Elzevirios, anno 1664.
Title vignettes: printer's marks (part 1-2, Rahihr M. 19; part 3, Rahir M. 16).
Portrait of the author signed: Franciscus à Schooten... ad vivum delineavit et fecit. Anno 1644.
First leaf after p. 222 blank.
"Specimina philosophiæ" translated by Étienne de Coucelles.--cf. Brunet, II, 610.
A preliminary leaf with 'Typographus ad lectorem' on recto and a portrait of Descartes on verso, misbound following the Epistola dedicatoria.
Contents list on verso of general half-title page: Meditationes de prima philosophia -- Principia philosophiæ.--Specimina philosophiæ: sev Dissertatio de methodo rectè regendæ rationis, & ab auctore perlecta, variisque in locis emendata.--Passiones animæ... Latina civitate donatæ. Ab H.D.M.
Indexed in: Brunet II, 609.
Additional description
The first work in the contents list, 'Meditationes de prima philosophia' is lacking in this copy. Signatures of Andr. Hensen inside front cover, of J. [?] Brandt on recto of 1st flyleaf and verso of the 2nd, and of W.C. Lake, 1836, on recto of 2nd flyleaf
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