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DESCARTES, RENÉ. Les Passions de l'Ame. [48], 272, [14] (of [16]) pages; lacking final blank. 12mo, 130x70 mm, early 19th-century green straight-grain morocco gilt by Simier, stamp-signed at foot of spine; occasional light toning. Leiden: Louis Elsevier, 1650
first elzevier duodecimo edition of the last work published in the author's lifetime, "an attempt to explain the relation of the body to the soul in order to provide a mechanical or physiological framework for desires and emotions" (DLB). Guibert, page 156; Tchemerzine (1977) II, 792; Willems 1104 (this edition); Garrison-Morton 4965; Norman 62; Rieber & Gach 130 (all citing the 1649 original edition).
