MEDICINE DESCARTES RENÉ Les Passions de lAme 1650

Sale 2438 - Lot 135

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DESCARTES, RENÉ. Les Passions de l'Ame. [48], 286, [2] pages, including blanks 3*8 and S8. 8vo, 149x98 mm, disbound; contents dampwrinkled with marginal toning, title soiled with small piece missing from blank outer margin. Paris: Antoine de Sommaville, 1650

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first paris edition; issue with Sommaville imprint. "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 153 (this edition); Garrison-Morton 4965; Norman 62; Rieber & Gach 130 (all citing the 1649 Amsterdam original edition).