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.

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.

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

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