Live Auction 10266The Boeder Library: Fine Books from the Collection of the late Professor Heribert Boeder
DESCARTES, René (1596-1650). Geometria … cum notis Florimondi de Beaune ... Editio tertia. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1683. 2 vols. Title in red and black, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author (Marginal worming near gutter in vol. I, heavier at beginning.) – Epistolae. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1682-1683. 3 vols. (Lacking quire Ddd in vol. II, apparently never bound in.) -- Principia Philosophiae. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1685. (Marginal tear to E1.) -- Tractatus de Homine et de formation foetus. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1686. Title in red and black.-- Meditationes De Prima Philosophia. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1685. Half-Title, engraved portrait frontispiece. Together 5 works in 8 volumes, 4° (194 x 150mm). Woodcut title-devices, tailpieces, initials and diagrams throughout. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines with red morocco gilt labels, speckled edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Marquess of Tweeddale (engraved armorial bookplates).
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DESCARTES, René (1596-1650). Geometria … cum notis Florimondi de Beaune ... Editio tertia. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1683. 2 vols. Title in red and black, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author (Marginal worming near gutter in vol. I, heavier at beginning.) – Epistolae. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1682-1683. 3 vols. (Lacking quire Ddd in vol. II, apparently never bound in.) -- Principia Philosophiae. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1685. (Marginal tear to E1.) -- Tractatus de Homine et de formation foetus. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1686. Title in red and black.-- Meditationes De Prima Philosophia. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1685. Half-Title, engraved portrait frontispiece. Together 5 works in 8 volumes, 4° (194 x 150mm). Woodcut title-devices, tailpieces, initials and diagrams throughout. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines with red morocco gilt labels, speckled edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Marquess of Tweeddale (engraved armorial bookplates).

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DESCARTES, René (1596-1650). Geometria … cum notis Florimondi de Beaune ... Editio tertia. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1683. 2 vols. Title in red and black, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author (Marginal worming near gutter in vol. I, heavier at beginning.) – Epistolae. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1682-1683. 3 vols. (Lacking quire Ddd in vol. II, apparently never bound in.) -- Principia Philosophiae. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1685. (Marginal tear to E1.) -- Tractatus de Homine et de formation foetus. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1686. Title in red and black.-- Meditationes De Prima Philosophia. Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1685. Half-Title, engraved portrait frontispiece. Together 5 works in 8 volumes, 4° (194 x 150mm). Woodcut title-devices, tailpieces, initials and diagrams throughout. Uniformly bound in contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines with red morocco gilt labels, speckled edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Marquess of Tweeddale (engraved armorial bookplates).

Guibert p.33 no.5 (Geometria), p.64 no.13 (Meditationes), p.91 no. 11 (Epistolae), p.136 no. 20 (Principia), p.206 no.10 (Tractatus), Wellcome II, 453 (Tractatus, Epistolae).