DESCARTES (René). L'Homme de René Descartes, et la formation du fœtus, Avec les Remarques de Louis de La Forge. A quoy l'on a ajouté Le Monde ou traité de la lumière du mesme Autheur. Paris : Théodore Girard, 1677. - In-4, 246 x 184 : (32 ff.), 511 pp., (4 ff.). Brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, speckled edges (period binding). "Tchémerzine, II, p. 799. Second edition in French, dedicated to Colbert, published by Claude Clerselier (1614-1684), author of the epistle, preface and translation. L'Homme is an unfinished text written by Descartes in the 1630s, first published in Latin in 1662 and in French in 1664. It is divided into two treatises, each comprising 5 parts: De la Machine de son Corps. - Comment se meut la Machine de son Corps. - Of the external senses of this Machine; & how they relate to others. - De la structure du cerveau de cette Machine, & comment les Esprits s'y distribuent, pour causer ses mouvements & ses sentimens, and for the second treatise, entitled De la formation du Fœtus: Préface. - Du mouvement du Cœur & du Sang. - Nutrition. - Parts formed in the semen. - The formation of solid parts. The edition contains Louis de La Forge's remarks, followed by the "Version de la préface Que Monsieur Schuyl a mis au devant de la Version Latine qu'il a faite du Traité de l'Homme" and a corrected version of Le Monde ou traité de la lumière. The illustrations include over 50 woodcuts in the text, based on drawings by Descartes himself, Louis de la Forge and Gérard van Gutschoven. Binding skilfully restored. Light spotting."