BAILLET Adrien La Vie de Monsieur Descartes.

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Paris, Daniel Horthemels, 1691

2 volumes, 4to (251 x184 mm) engraved portrait, 4 nn.ll., LXII, 396 pp., 8 nn.ll. for volume I;1 nn.l., 602 pp., pp. 397 to 417, 1 engraved plate for volume II. Modern stiff vellum, bound in style.

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2500,00 

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First edition.

First, and best, biography of Descartes, written by the theologist and writer Adrien Baillet (1649-1706), librarian to the celebrated bibliophile François de Lamoignon.

Good copy wit the table of contents of volume I bound in at the end of volume II.

 

Provenance : de La Roche (old signature) – Jean Cassinet (book plate).

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