Les characteres des passions / par le sr. de La Chambre ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

La Chambre, Marin Cureau de, 1594-1669.

Contributor:

Elzevier Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Early works to 1850.

Emotions.

Penn Provenance:

Wiens, Harald (bookplate)

Physical Description:

5 volumes ; 14 cm (12mo)

Place of Publication:

A Amsterdam : Chez Antoine Michel [that is, Louis and Daniel Elzevier], l'an 1658 [that is, 1662]-1663.

Contents:

Vol. 1. Les characteres des passions

v. 2. Les characteres des passions, volume II, ou il est traitté de la nature et des effets des passions courageuses

v. 3. Les characteres de la haines

v. 4. Les characteres de la douleur

v. 5. Les characters des passions, dernier volume, où il est traitté de la nature des causes & des effects des larmes, de la crainte, du desespoir.

Notes:

False imprint: actually printed by Louis and Daniel Elzevier of Amsterdam. The title vignettes, head- and tail-pieces are those of L. & D. Elzevier. Cf. Willems and Rahir.

One of two Elzevier editions printed in 1662-1663. This one with floral head-piece (Rahir, p. 434, no. 64) in v. 2. Cf. Willems.

Vol. 1-2: [24], 599, [1] p.; v. 3-4: [8], 397, [1] p.; v. 5: 323, [1] p.

Issued in five parts. General engraved t.p., dated 1658, actually reprinted in 1662. Vols. 3 and 4 dated 1662. Vol. 5 dated 1663.

Vols. 2 and 4 have half-titles only.

Local Notes:

Library's copy bound in 4 v.: vols. 1 and 2 bound separately; vols. 3 and 4 bound in 1 vol.; v. 5 bound separately.

Bookseller's description pasted on preliminary free endpaper of vol. 1.

Cited in:

Copinger, H.B. Elzevier Press, 2697

Willems, A. Elzevier, 1233n

Berghman, G. Impressions Elzeviriennes, 425

Rahir, E. Elzevier, 1265

OCLC:

33482053