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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; lacks the pineal gland flap on plate 7. [36], 121 [i. e., 123], [1] pages. 4to, contemporary calf gilt, spine ends cracked at top and bottom; contents lightly toned with occasional marginal foxing; speckled edges. Macclesfield Library embossed stamps and bookplate. Leiden: Petrus Leffen & Franciscus Moyardus, 1662
first edition of the first European textbook of physiology. "Descartes wrote De homine as a physiological appendix to Discours sur la Méthode (1637), but suppressed it after the condemnation of Galileo in 1633, fearing that his mechanistic view of the human body might be considered heretical. It was first published in this Latin translation by Schuyl, with the original French version appearing two years later"--Norman 627. Garrison-Morton 574; Guibert, pages 196-97.
