Renati Des-Cartes Opera philosophica. Editio ultima, nunc demum hac editione diligenter recognita, & mendis expurgata
René Descartes (1596-1650)
Category
Books
Date
1677
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3187783
Summary
Bibliographic description
[40], 222; [16], 248; [24], 92, [4] p. : ill. (woodcuts), port. ; 4to. Running number: 4195. Provenance: manuscript former shelfmark: "K.2.11". Manuscript codes on general half-title. Binding: seventeenth-century blind-tooled sprinkled calf; double fillet border; single panel of triple fillets, with cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; blind fillets on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
René Descartes (1596-1650), author Henri Desmarets (d.1715), editor Frans van Schooten (1615-1660), engraver (printmaker)