Renatus des Cartes de homine / figuris et latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl, inclytae urbis sylvae-ducis senatore, & ibidem philosophiae professore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Contributor:

Schuyl, Florentius, 1619-1669.

Officina Hackiana, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Physiology--Early works to 1800.

Physiology.

Penn Provenance:

Smyth, Carroll (bookplate) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861-1944 (bookplate) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages, 121, that is, 123 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

De homine

Fingerprint:

roa- u,re i-e- tust (3) 1664 (R)

Place of Publication:

Lugduni Batavorum : Ex officinâ Hackiana, [1664]

Notes:

Signatures: a-d⁴ e² [dagger]² A-P⁴ Q².

Date from inprint in apostrophic form.

Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Errors in pagination: p. 56 misnumbered as 46; pp. 111-112 repeated in sequence.

One of the plates has movable flaps which can be raised to show the viscera beneath.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has the Interpretis epistola ad amicum ([dagger] gathering) bound after e gathering, Culture Class Collection copy 2 has it bound at end.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 bound in full parchment; boards blind-tooled with double line fillet borders; four raised bands on spine; author and brief title stamped in gilt on a parchment label in second spine panel; all edges stained green.

Culture Class Collection 1 copy has a bookplate on front pastedown that reads "Library of the University of Pennsylvania gift of Mr. Carroll Smyth".

Culture Class Collection copy 1 bound with: Descartes, René. Renati Des-Cartes opera philosophica. Amstelodami : apud Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios, MDCLXIII [1663-1664].

Culture Class Collection copy 2 bound in full parchment; brief title stamped in gilt on a maroon leather label on spine; all edges speckled blue.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has the bookplate of Charles W. Burr, M.D. on front pastedown, and a University of Pennsylvania bookplate on front free endpaper that reads "Presented by Charles W. Burr, M.D."

OCLC:

181877746