Oct 09, 2003 - Sale 1979

Sale 1979 - Lot 94

Price Realized: $ 489
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
DESCARTES, RENÉ. De homine figuris et Latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl. 10 engraved plates, the first depicting the heart, with 2 lift-up flaps; numerous full-page and text engravings and woodcuts. [36] (of [40]), 121 [i. e., 123], [1] pages; lacks last 2 preliminary leaves. 4to, contemporary sheep, worn, top of spine damaged, front joint cracked, cords intact. David P. Wheatland bookplate. Leiden: Officina Hackiana, 1664

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Second edition of the first European textbook of physiology, originally published in 1662. Garrison-Morton 574 (original edition); Guibert, pages 199-200; Krivatsy 3121 (this edition).