Author: DESCARTES
Title: De Homine figuris et latimitate donatus a Florentinio Schuyl, [CONVOLUTE. Bound after:] Opera Philosophica (Daniel Elzevir, 1664, including engraved portrait)
Description: Leiden, Ex officina Hackiana, 1664. 4to. [40], 121 (actually 123 pp.), [1] pp. And 10 plates. With many illustrations in the text. With the 3 overslips:. A few wormholes in the margin. A convolute with some minor flaws, on the whole a very good copy.. Modern blindstamped leather. More pictures will be sent on request 1] De Homine: Descartes' famous book on the human body. Written in the early 1630's, Descartes withheld publication as a result of the condemnation of Galileo in 1633. The work was translated from a copy of his French manuscript, to which was the excellent introduction by Schuyl was added. Second Latin edition. Guibert, p. 199. 2] Contents of the Opera Philosophica: 1) Principia Philosophiae. 2) Specimina Philosophiae seu Dissertatio de Methodo [...] investigandae: Dioptricae et Meteora [...]. 3) Passiones Animae. 4) Meditationes de Prima Philosophia (1663). [With]: {Appendix continens Objectiones quintas & septimas in Renati Descartes Meditationes de Prima Philosophia [...], altera ad celeberrimum virum D. Gisbertum Voetium (1663). 2 leaves, incl. engr. portrait. 16 lvs, 222 pp.; 8 lvs, 248 pp.; 12 lvs, 92 pp., 2 lvs. 8 lvs, 191,164,88 pp. First title: A little piece at left corner has been cut out and repaired. Owner's inscriptions in three different old hands, some waterstaining at the top See Guibert p. 230. Willems 1339 and 1304.

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