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DESCARTES, Ren (1596-1650). L'homme ... et un traitt de la formation du foetus ... avec les remarques de Louys de la Forge. Edited by Claude Clerselier (1614-1684), Louis de la Forge (fl. 1632-1666), and Grard van Gutschoven. Paris: Charles Angot, 1664.
4o (234 x 174 mm). Printer's woodcut device title-page, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. (A few slight marginal repairs, a few leaves with gutter margins stained.) Later vellum. Provenance: Louis Pierre Gratiolet (1815-1865), well-known French neurophysiologist (small ink stamp on title-page: "P. Gratiolet"); Jacobi Florentii Demory (library stamps on title-page verso).
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, and the first to contain Descartes' "De homine figuris," an attempt to explain reproductive generation in mechanistic physiological terms. This edition was also the first to contain the extensive commentary by Louis de la Forge. Guibert, pp. 198-99; Tchemerzine II, p. 799; Heirs of Hippocrates 469; NLM Krivatsy 3117; Wellcome II, p.453; Norman 628.
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FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, and the first to contain Descartes' "De homine figuris," an attempt to explain reproductive generation in mechanistic physiological terms. This edition was also the first to contain the extensive commentary by Louis de la Forge. Guibert, pp. 198-99; Tchemerzine II, p. 799; Heirs of Hippocrates 469; NLM Krivatsy 3117; Wellcome II, p.453; Norman 628.