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Renati Des-Cartes tractatus de homine et de formatione foetus : quorum prior notis perpetuis / Ludovici de La Forge, M.D., illustratur.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Elzevier Collection Elz D 1373
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Descartes, René, 1596-1650, author.
Contributor:
Elzevir, Daniel, 1626-1680, printer.
Clerselier, Claude, 1614-1684, editor.
La Forge, Louis de, 1632-1665 or 1666, illustrator.
Elzevier Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
Homme. Latin
Language:
French
Latin
Subjects (All):
Physiology--Early works to 1800.
Physiology.
Embryology, Human--Early works to 1800.
Embryology, Human.
Genre:
Early works
treatises.
privileges (permissions)
Early works.
Physical Description:
[76], 239, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)
Place of Publication:
Amstelodami : Apud Danielem Elseverium, MDCLXXVII [1677]
Notes:
Printer's device on title page.
"Claudii Clerselier praefatio, gallicae editioni praefixa & in latinum conversa" -- leaf a3r.
"Cum privilegio S. Caesarea Majestatis" -- foot of title page ; "Summa privilegii Ceasarei" on title page verso.
Signatures: a-i⁴ k² A-2G⁴
Title page in red and black.
Printed in two columns.
Includes index.
Local Notes:
B1873 A315 1677: Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from Fold the Corner. Binding: full tanned animal skin with blind tooled borders. Red speckled textblock edges. Bookseller's correspondence on file.
Cited in:
Short title catalogue Netherlands, 850672848
Rahir, E. Catalogue d'une collection unique de volumes imprimés par les Elzevier et divers typographes hollandais du XVIIe siècle, 2833
Copinger, H.B. Elzevier Press, D 1373
Constituent Unit:
Container of (manifestation): Tractatus de mente humana.
Other Format:
Online version: Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Homme. Latin. Renati Des-Cartes tractatus de homine et de formatione foetus.
OCLC:
1057730985
Bound With:
Bound with: Tractatus de mente humana.

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