first edition Full contemporary calf; modern drop down box.
1637 · Leiden
by Descartes, Rene
Leiden: Jan Maire, 1637. First Edition.. Full contemporary calf; modern drop down box.. Good; binding worn; outer margins of first few and last few leaves with a diminishing brown (the result of offset from the cover "turn-ins" or crude dentelle) stain "framing" the page; free endpapers excised.. 4to, [2], 3 - 78, [2 - divisional title], 1 - 413, [35 - index, privilege] pp. There are illustrations throughout the text.
A fundamental book in the history of science and philosophy. This copy from the Pulleyn [Pullein] family in England with the signature and statement of Octavian Pulleyn jeune on the inside surface of the rear board. The statement is dated in Feb. of 1662 by Pulleyn Jr., it is difficult to decipher but appears to be a pledge for the value of this book. Both Pulleyn Sr. and Jr. were printers for the Royal Society. Pulleyn Sr. was the printer for the first edition of Harvey's Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium. By 1670 John Collins (a mathematician and editor for Newton) remarked in correspondence that Pulleyn Jr. was "insolvent" in trade. The binding is a simple English blind stamped calf of the period; unfortunately the worse for wear. Guibert #1; Horblit #24; PMM #129; for Pulleyn, see Plomer II, pp. 149-150. (Inventory #: 12029)
A fundamental book in the history of science and philosophy. This copy from the Pulleyn [Pullein] family in England with the signature and statement of Octavian Pulleyn jeune on the inside surface of the rear board. The statement is dated in Feb. of 1662 by Pulleyn Jr., it is difficult to decipher but appears to be a pledge for the value of this book. Both Pulleyn Sr. and Jr. were printers for the Royal Society. Pulleyn Sr. was the printer for the first edition of Harvey's Exercitationes de Generatione Animalium. By 1670 John Collins (a mathematician and editor for Newton) remarked in correspondence that Pulleyn Jr. was "insolvent" in trade. The binding is a simple English blind stamped calf of the period; unfortunately the worse for wear. Guibert #1; Horblit #24; PMM #129; for Pulleyn, see Plomer II, pp. 149-150. (Inventory #: 12029)
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