Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, & chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus la dioptrique. Et les météores. Qui sont des essais de cete Methode. Jouxte la copie imprimée à Leyde.

DESCARTES, Rene

Verlag: Henry Le Gras, Paris, 1658

Beschreibung

4to (197 x 148 mm). 78; [2], 294, [26] pp., woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, half-titles for "La dioptrique" and "Les météores" (the former outside pagination), woodcut text illustrations and diagrams throughout (some full page). Signatures: a4 (b-k)4 (A-Z)4 (Aa-Rr)4. Bound in contemporary untouched rigid full vellum with yapp edges, spine hand-lettered and initials "B.C." on upper board, sprinkled edges, original endpapers (boards slightly bent outwards, vellum soiled and spotted, head of spine slightly damaged with cap gone). Text with even light browning throughout, occasional very minor spotting; minor pale dampstaing to fore-margin of a few leaves at beginning; a few ink marginals and text markings, rear free endpaper torn off, light dust-soiling of final text page. A very good+ copy in untouched binding. ---- RARE SECOND EDITION in French and the first published in France, of this famous work by Descartes. The original appeared in Leiden in 1637. The edition includes numerous woodcuts and diagrams in the text and on full pages from the original edition, illustrating the two treatises that follow the discourse. References: Tchémerzine, II, 778; Guibert, 17 - Visit our website to see more images! Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003887

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa...

Verlag: Henry Le Gras, Paris

Erscheinungsdatum: 1658

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 2nd Edition