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First complete edition of the <\/span>Lettres<\/span><\/i> (volume I in 3rd issue with some pagination errors corrected; volume II in 2nd issue with the addition of \u2018Tome Second\u2019 on the title; volume III in first edition) as described by Guibert.<\/p>\n This first complete edition brings together a large number of letters, most of them scientific (and sometimes with replies), notably to Morin and Mersenne. Some of the letters deal with questions of geometry, optics or medicine and are illustrated with engravings or diagrams.<\/p>\n [Together with, in identical binding:]<\/strong><\/p>\n DESCARTES, Ren\u00e9.<\/strong> L’Homme et un trait\u00e9 de la formation du foetus. Avec les remarques de Louis de La Forge. Paris, Jacques le Gras, 1664<\/i>. 4to, 35 nn.l, 448 pp., 4 nn.l.<\/p>\n Guibert, 198:3.<\/i><\/p>\n First French edition.<\/span><\/p>\n Decorated with woodcuts “imagin\u00e9es par Descartes” (Guibert).<\/p>\n Provenance<\/p>\n A copy bearing the arms of Jeanne Guyon (1676-1736) and Louis Nicolas Fouquet (1653-1707), viscount of Vaux, son of the famous magistrate and businessman Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680).<\/p>\n Other provenance: La Hamonais (bookplate) <\/p>\n Pleasant copy despite small stains on the binding and a few passages underlined in pencil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 3 volumes, 4to (222 x 158 mm) of 15 unn.l., 663 pp. for the volume I ; 12 unn.l., 564 pp., 1 nn.l. (privil\u00e8ge) for the volume II ; 12 ff.n.ch., 646 pp. for the volume III. Blond calf, spine gilt with raised bands, caisson at head and tail with the twin arms of Louis Nicolas Fouquet and Jeanne Guyon, speckled edges (contemporary binding<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":77289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[550],"product_tag":[1270,1267,1450,1331,1330,1271,610],"class_list":{"0":"post-77302","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-science","7":"product_tag-armoured","8":"product_tag-binding","9":"product_tag-first-edition","10":"product_tag-geometry","11":"product_tag-mathematics","12":"product_tag-medicine","13":"product_tag-optical","14":"pa_auteur-descartes-rene-2","15":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","17":"first","18":"instock","19":"shipping-taxable","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Ren\u00e9 DESCARTES","chapeau":"The Fouquet-Guyon copy","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Henry Le Gras, 1657-1667","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n