Oct 17, 2017 - Sale 2457

Sale 2457 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
DESCARTES, RENÉ. Opera philosophica . . . His accessit nova hac editione Tractatus de homine et formatione foetus. 7 plates with 8 subjects; numerous text illustrations. [96], [8], 384; [32], 168; [16], 200; [24], 74, [6]; [36], 188 pages, including engraved frontispiece portrait. 5 parts in one volume. 4to, 201x166 mm, contemporary vellum boards, somewhat discolored, spine darkened, rear cover blistered in lower outer corner; occasional light browning, scattered mostly marginal foxing and minor stains, blank upper margin of portrait and blank lower margin of general title cropped. Frankfurt am Main: Friedrich Knoch, 1692

Additional Details

Complete per VD17, but without the 3-part Knoch edition of Descartes's correspondence in Latin called for by Guibert, page 233.