Renati Des-Cartes meditationes de prima philosophia : in quibus Dei exsistentia, & animae humanae à corpore distinctio, demonstrantur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Contributor:

Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, printer.

Stevens and Sons Ltd., bookseller.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Meditationes de prima philosophia

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics--Early works to 1800.

Metaphysics.

Philosophy--Early works to 1800.

Philosophy.

God--Proof--Early works to 1800.

God.

Mind and body--Early works to 1800.

Mind and body.

God--Proof.

Penn Provenance:

Fernberger, Samuel Weiller, 1887-1956 (bookplate) (donor) (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Norwood, J. W. (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 319 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 48 pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Petri Gassendi Disquisitio metaphysica

Disquisitio metaphysica

Fingerprint:

e,l- s-us e,o, Cude (3) 1644 (R)

Place of Publication:

Amsterodami : apud Iohannem Blaev, MDCXLIV [1644]

Notes:

Signatures: *⁴ 2*⁴ A-2R⁴, ³A⁴ b-f⁴.

Intended by the publisher to seve as an appendix to: Petri Gassendi Disquisitio metaphysica. Amsterodami: apud Iohannem Blaev, 1644 -- Trigonometrie canoniqve... / Iean Baptiste Morin. Paris: chez Iean Libert, 1633, a critique of the Meditationes, with separate t.p. Cf. publisher's note on verso of t.p.

Zodiac device on both t.p.; tail-pieces; initials.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound with Meditationes de prima philosophia preceding Disquisitio metaphysica. Cf. publisher's note on verso of t.p.

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full parchment; author and brief title stamped in gilt on a red leather label on spine; all edges speckled blue.

Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate of Samuel Weiller Fernberger ("Sans esprit rien") on front pastedown; with a stamp in blue ink on front free endpaper that reads "University of Pennsylvania Libraries S.W. Fernberger Collection of Psychology".

Culture Class Collection has an inscription at head of front pastedown that reads "J.W. Norwood, 1883".

Culture Class Collection has the bookseller's label at head of front pastedown of "Stevens & Sons, 119 Chancery Lane, London."

OCLC:

54477693