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PIERRE GASSENDI (1592-1655)
Opera Omnia. Lyons: Laurent Anisson and Jean Baptiste Devenet, 1658. 6 vols (423 x 270mm). Engraved plate by Jean Lensant, woodcut vignette to title pages, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials throughout, illustrations in the text. (Lacking engraved frontispiece, occasional light dust soiling to margins, without final blank in vols I-II and IV-VI, vol. III lacking final 3 blanks.) Early nineteenth-century half vellum, blue boards, spine in 7 compartments, with red and green morocco labels, these lettered in gilt, red edges (vellum darkened in places, damage to lower corner vol. VI with some loss). Provenance: the Athenaeum, with the club's emblem stamped in gilt to the bottom panel of spines.
FIRST EDITION of the works of the French philosopher and physicist Pierre Gassendi, who published the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. Despite holding office in the Church in south-east France, he spent much of his time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of free-thinking intellectuals. He was also an active observational scientist; the lunar crater Gassendi is named after him. Brunet II, 1499.
Opera Omnia. Lyons: Laurent Anisson and Jean Baptiste Devenet, 1658. 6 vols (423 x 270mm). Engraved plate by Jean Lensant, woodcut vignette to title pages, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials throughout, illustrations in the text. (Lacking engraved frontispiece, occasional light dust soiling to margins, without final blank in vols I-II and IV-VI, vol. III lacking final 3 blanks.) Early nineteenth-century half vellum, blue boards, spine in 7 compartments, with red and green morocco labels, these lettered in gilt, red edges (vellum darkened in places, damage to lower corner vol. VI with some loss). Provenance: the Athenaeum, with the club's emblem stamped in gilt to the bottom panel of spines.
FIRST EDITION of the works of the French philosopher and physicist Pierre Gassendi, who published the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. Despite holding office in the Church in south-east France, he spent much of his time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of free-thinking intellectuals. He was also an active observational scientist; the lunar crater Gassendi is named after him. Brunet II, 1499.