René DESCARTES. Homme (L') et la formation du... Lot 41 2

René DESCARTES. Homme (L') et la formation du fœtus, With remarks by Louis de La Forge. To which has been added Le Monde ou Traité de la Lumière by the same author. Second edition, revised and corrected? Paris, Charles Angot, 1677; in-4; full dark havane calf, gilded and decorated ribbed spine,(period binding); (64), 511, (7) pp. 52 woodcut figures for L'Homme and 32 for Traité de la Lumière. The Preface occupies pages [9 to 64]; L'Homme pages 1 to 154; Remarques de Louis de La Forge, docteur en Médecine, sur le Traité de l'Homme de René Descartes, et sur les figures par lui inventées, pp. 155 to 368; Version de la Préface que Monsieur Schuyl a mis au devant de la version latine[...], pp. 369 to 404; Le Monde, ou Traité de la lumière, pp.405 to 511. Second edition, partly original, decorated with anatomical and geometrical figures devised by the author. First collective edition considered the best of these "Posthumous Treatises", given by Descartes' brother-in-law, Claude CLERSELIER. A very good copy, with minor, but not serious, corner defects.