DESCARTES (René). - Lot 28

DESCARTES (René). Discours de la méthode Pour bien conduire sa raison, & chercher la vérité dans les sciences. Plus dioptrics. Et les météores. Qui sont des essais de cete (sic) Methode. Jouxte la copie imprimée à Leyde, Paris: Henry Le Gras, 1658. - In-4, 197x150: 78 pp, (1 f.), 294 pp, (13 ff.). Hardback parchment, smooth spine, speckled edges (contemporary binding). Tchémerzine, II, 778. - Guibert, 17. Second French edition, the first published in France, of this famous work by Descartes. The original appeared in Leiden in 1637. The edition includes numerous woodcuts and diagrams in the text and on full pages from the original edition, illustrating the two treatises that follow the discourse. Headcap torn off, boards slightly curled and showing soiling and stains. Initials B.C. in ink on first board. The flyleaves are missing, except for the first. Light staining in the margins of a few leaves.