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DESCARTES, Renatus (1596-1650):
Tractatus de homine, et de formatione foetus. Quorum prior Notis perpetuis Ludovici de La Forge, M.D. illustratur. Bound with: VOSSIUS, Joh(annes) Gerardus (1577-1649): De Philosophia et Philosophorum sectis libri II. 2 books bound together
Amstelodami (Amsterdam), apud Danielem Elzevirium / Hagae-Comitis (Den Haag), Adrianum Vlacq, 1677 / 1657-1658, in-8°, 38 ll., title in red/black with printer's mark + 239 pp., illustrated with 49 engraved illustrations, paper slightly browned, more browing to just a few leaves due to different paper quality. / 4 ll., title-page in red/black with printer's mark + 182 pp. (recte: 178) + 6 ll.; 4 ll., title with printer's mark + 117 pp. + 4 ll., contemporary vellum, with ms. title on spine.
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1) Third Latin and most complete edition of this fundamental work on physiology, with the preface by Claude Clerselier. It is the first Latin edition with the notes by La Forge, which were first added in the first French edition of 1664. The fine woodcuts, mainly anatomical illustrations, were partly based on Descartes' drawings from the manuscript and partly prepared by Louis de La Forge (1632-1666) and Gérard van Gutschoven (fl. 1660). (See Heirs of Hippocrates to the 1664 French edition). 2) posthumous first edition of an important work by Vossius, one of the most learned scholars of his time. This book, in two parts, is dedicated to the Greek philosophers. Hoefer NBG XLVI/460. Image disp.
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