Live auction - Lot 1028
[Philosophy]
Opera philosophica [5th corr. ed.].
Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevier, 1670-1672
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
4to. Front. portrait + 4 separate works (no general printed title present; toned, lower half dampstained, occ. spotting).
Cont. overl. vellum (front cover soiled), spine on 3 raised bands titled in ink, red sp. edges. Good copy.
“5th ed. of the Opera at Elzeviers, the seventh in all” (Van Otegem). It consists of an engr. front. portrait, with a Latin poem by Constantijn Huygens jr., followed by 1. Meditationes de prima philosophia (1670), [12]-191-[1], 164, 88 pp. - 2. Principia philosophiae (1672), [36]-222 pp. - 3. Specimina philosophiae (1672), [16]-248 pp. - 4. Passiones animae (1672), [24]-92-[4] pp. Some woodcut marks. Ref. Van Otegem 698-700 (ext. descr.). - Willems 1469 (& 1430). - Guibert 231. - STCN. Prov. Libr. stamps.