Renati Descartes Epistolae, . partim ab auctore Latino sermone conscriptae, partim ex Gallico translatae. In quibus omnis generis quaestiones philosophicae tractantur, & explicantur plurimae difficultates quae in reliquis ejus operibus occurrunt. ...
René Descartes (1596-1650)
Category
Books
Date
1668
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3093234
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],368,[4],404,[4]p., XIV folded leaves of plates . ill.. . 4to.. Former shelfmarks: Ii/4 (in pencil), Ii.8.11 (pencil). manuscript Tittenhanger library code on rear pastedown: "(57:)".. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "Tittenhanger Library" [i.e. from the library at Tittenhanger in Hertfordshire formed by Thomas Pope Blount, grandfather of the wife of Charles Yorke (1722-1770)]. manuscript inscription in hand of Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1649-1697) on front fly-leaf: "Nobilis Cartesius, philosophorum hoc aevo Coryphaeus, omni laude dignus propter acumen & solertiam, & heroicos contaus in promovendo philosophio studio".. Binding: Seventeenth-century blind-panelled sprinkled calf binding; gilt roll on board edges; blind fillets and gilt title label on spine.
Makers and roles
René Descartes (1596-1650) Johannes de Raei (1618-1702)