Lot 596
R. Descartes, Opera. Bd. I-IX in 3 vols. Amsterdam: Blaeu 1682-98.
Estimate
€ 1.200
Starting Price
€ 800
Lot:
596
Category:
History, cultural history and miscellaneous
Artist:
René Descartes
Descartes, René: Opera omnia. Novem tomis comprehensa. Quorum catalogum opposita continet pagina. Mischaufl. aus verschied. Ausgagen, t. mit Beibindungen. Bde. I - IX in 3 vols. Amsterdam: Blaeu 1682-98. 20,4 x 16 cm. With 2 illustrated frontispieces and numerous text illustrations. Half-leather binding with back label.
(Heavily rubbed, with the back label almost illegible. Stains in places from damp, age and wear. Minor repaired damage to the edges.)
Volume One:
Part I: ‘Meditationes de prima Philosophia’. To which are appended various objections by learned men … with the author’s replies. The latest edition, more comprehensive and more accurately corrected than previous ones. Amsterdam: Blaeu 1698. With an engraved portrait on the frontispiece. – Guibert 67.15. With the appendices: Appendix, containing the fifth and seventh objections to René Descartes’ Meditations …” and “Epistle of René Descartes to the most celebrated gentleman, Dr Gisbert Voet”. – Part II: Principia Philosophiae. Latest edition, collated with the best … Amsterdam 1692. – Guibert 136, 21. - With the appendices: 1) Specimina Philosophiae. Or a dissertation on the Method …, Dioptrics and Meteorology … Latest edition … Amsterdam 1692. – Guibert 112, 10. 2) Passiones animae. Amsterdam 1692. – Guibert 170, 21. - Part III: Tractatus de Homine, et de formatione foetus. Amsterdam 1686. - Guibert 206, 10.
Second volume:
Parts IV–VI: Epistolae, some written by the author in Latin, others translated from French. In which philosophical questions of all kinds are discussed … 3 parts in 1 vol. Amsterdam 1682–83. – Guibert 91, 10 ff.
Volume Three:
Parts VII–VIII: Geometria, published in French in 1637; but subsequently published together with the notes of Florimond de Beaune … through the efforts and diligence of Francis à Schooten … Amsterdam 1683. – Guibert 33,5. (Bound together with: Bartholin, Rasmus: "Principia Matheseos universalis, seu introductio ad geometriae methodum Renati Descartes". Third edition. Amsterdam: Blaeu 1683.) - Vol. IX: 1) Posthumous treatises on physics and mathematics. 6 vols. Amsterdam 1701. – Guibert pp. 221–222. – 2) Musicae compendium. Amsterdam 1683. – Guibert 186, 6.
(Heavily rubbed, with the back label almost illegible. Stains in places from damp, age and wear. Minor repaired damage to the edges.)
Volume One:
Part I: ‘Meditationes de prima Philosophia’. To which are appended various objections by learned men … with the author’s replies. The latest edition, more comprehensive and more accurately corrected than previous ones. Amsterdam: Blaeu 1698. With an engraved portrait on the frontispiece. – Guibert 67.15. With the appendices: Appendix, containing the fifth and seventh objections to René Descartes’ Meditations …” and “Epistle of René Descartes to the most celebrated gentleman, Dr Gisbert Voet”. – Part II: Principia Philosophiae. Latest edition, collated with the best … Amsterdam 1692. – Guibert 136, 21. - With the appendices: 1) Specimina Philosophiae. Or a dissertation on the Method …, Dioptrics and Meteorology … Latest edition … Amsterdam 1692. – Guibert 112, 10. 2) Passiones animae. Amsterdam 1692. – Guibert 170, 21. - Part III: Tractatus de Homine, et de formatione foetus. Amsterdam 1686. - Guibert 206, 10.
Second volume:
Parts IV–VI: Epistolae, some written by the author in Latin, others translated from French. In which philosophical questions of all kinds are discussed … 3 parts in 1 vol. Amsterdam 1682–83. – Guibert 91, 10 ff.
Volume Three:
Parts VII–VIII: Geometria, published in French in 1637; but subsequently published together with the notes of Florimond de Beaune … through the efforts and diligence of Francis à Schooten … Amsterdam 1683. – Guibert 33,5. (Bound together with: Bartholin, Rasmus: "Principia Matheseos universalis, seu introductio ad geometriae methodum Renati Descartes". Third edition. Amsterdam: Blaeu 1683.) - Vol. IX: 1) Posthumous treatises on physics and mathematics. 6 vols. Amsterdam 1701. – Guibert pp. 221–222. – 2) Musicae compendium. Amsterdam 1683. – Guibert 186, 6.