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DESCARTES, René (1596-1650). L'homme...et la formation du foetus. avec les remarques de Louis De la Forge. A quoy l'on a ajouté Le monde ou traité de la lumiere du mesme autheur. Paris: Charles Angot, 1677. 4º (244 x 172mm). Woodcut title-vignette and numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams. Contemporary French calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments (spine with a few minor repairs).
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DESCARTES, René (1596-1650). L'homme...et la formation du foetus. avec les remarques de Louis De la Forge. A quoy l'on a ajouté Le monde ou traité de la lumiere du mesme autheur. Paris: Charles Angot, 1677. 4º (244 x 172mm). Woodcut title-vignette and numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams. Contemporary French calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments (spine with a few minor repairs).

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DESCARTES, René (1596-1650). L'homme...et la formation du foetus. avec les remarques de Louis De la Forge. A quoy l'on a ajouté Le monde ou traité de la lumiere du mesme autheur. Paris: Charles Angot, 1677. 4º (244 x 172mm). Woodcut title-vignette and numerous woodcut illustrations and diagrams. Contemporary French calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments (spine with a few minor repairs).

Second edition in French, dedicated to Colbert, and the second to contain his De homine figuris, an attempt to explain reproductive generation in mechanistic physiological terms. Tchemerzine 4, 309; this edition not in Wellcome.
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