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DIGBY, Kenelm (1603-65). Two treatises, in the one of which, the nature of bodies; in the other, the nature of mans soule; is looked into: in the way of discovery,of the immortality of reasonable soules. Paris: Gilles Blaizot, 1644.
2 (415 x 280mm). Woodcut title ornament, head- and tailpieces, historiated initial. (Lower corners of first quire frayed, two strengthened or renewed, some light browning, minor marginal worming at end, light dampstain at inner margin of final quires, two neat internal marginal tears.) Contemporary English calf (rebacked, corners repaired). Provenance: Constantia Dupplin (early signature on front flyleaf); Haskell F. Norman (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of Digby's chief philosophical work, whose publication marked the introduction of Gassendian and Cartesian atomism into England. His aim was to prove the immortality of the rational soul and its distinction from the material body. In the first treatise Digby provides the first important defence of Harvey's theory of circulation in English. The work also contains 'the fullest early account in English of teaching the deaf to lip-read', a practice Digby had first observed at the Spanish court and on which he had reported to Prince Charles. A VERY LARGE COPY. Duveen, pp. 171-72; NLM/Krivatsy 3256; Thorndike VII, pp. 498-502; Wing D-1448; Norman 639.
2 (415 x 280mm). Woodcut title ornament, head- and tailpieces, historiated initial. (Lower corners of first quire frayed, two strengthened or renewed, some light browning, minor marginal worming at end, light dampstain at inner margin of final quires, two neat internal marginal tears.) Contemporary English calf (rebacked, corners repaired). Provenance: Constantia Dupplin (early signature on front flyleaf); Haskell F. Norman (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of Digby's chief philosophical work, whose publication marked the introduction of Gassendian and Cartesian atomism into England. His aim was to prove the immortality of the rational soul and its distinction from the material body. In the first treatise Digby provides the first important defence of Harvey's theory of circulation in English. The work also contains 'the fullest early account in English of teaching the deaf to lip-read', a practice Digby had first observed at the Spanish court and on which he had reported to Prince Charles. A VERY LARGE COPY. Duveen, pp. 171-72; NLM/Krivatsy 3256; Thorndike VII, pp. 498-502; Wing D-1448; Norman 639.
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