Sale 2457 - Early Printed Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 17, 2017

99 ● DESCARTES, RENÉ. Meditationes de prima philosophia . . . editio ultima prioribus auctior & emendatior. [12], 191, [1]; 164; 88 pages. 4to, 195x149 mm, modern vellum boards with leather lettering piece, covers slightly warped; opening leaves dampwrinkled, occasional dampstaining. Amsterdam: apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios, 1663 [200/300] Seventh edition of Descartes’s principal work on metaphysics, originally published in 1641. Guibert, page 57;Willems 1304. 100 ● 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 [250/350] Complete per VD17, but without the 3-part Knoch edition of Descartes’s correspondence in Latin called for by Guibert, page 233. 101 ● DIOGENES LAERTIUS. De vita, & moribus philosophorum libri decem. Latin translation by AmbrogioTraversari. Printer’s woodcut device on last page. [20], 391, [1] pages. 4to, 201x133 mm, 18th-century vellum-backed marbled boards, spine darkened and discolored, cover edges worn through; title and last leaf soiled, dampstain in lower margin of title and next leaf, scattered marginal pencil markings, upper outer corner torn off front free endpaper. Basel:Valentin Curio, (1 September ) 1524 [1,000/1,500] The first history of early Greek philosophy, written in the 3rd century A.D., first published in Traversari’s translation circa 1472, and in the original Greek in 1533. Hoffmann I, 568. 101 103