Oeuvres de Descartes, publiées par Victor Cousin.

DESCARTES (René).

Oeuvres de Descartes, publiées par Victor Cousin.

Eleven volumes. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece portrait to Vol. 1, with forty-six folding engraved plates throughout. With the half titles. Contemporary quarter blue-green morocco with marbled paper covered boards, spines ruled gilt in compartments, gilt arms supralibros on all covers, marbled endpapers, marbled edges (later armorial bookplate in Volume 1 only, occasional foxing but generally clean; rubbed and with light wear at edges and corners, minor loss to one headcap, a very good set). Paris, F.G. Levrault, 1824.

£500.00

DESCARTES (René).

Oeuvres de Descartes, publiées par Victor Cousin.

The first appearance of Victor Cousin’s Works edition, which contains the first French translations of a number of Descartes’s texts, along with extracts from his unpublished manuscripts. ‘Cousin launched the modern French Descartes revival with his enthusiastic but hasty edition of the philosopher’s works, which served for nearly 80 years’ (Gregor Sebba, Bibliographia Cartesiana: A Critical Guide to the Descartes Literature, 1800–1960).

Provenance: arms supralibros of the politician Guillaume Pavée de Vendeuvre (1779-1870); and armorial bookplate of Baron A. de Turckheim.

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Oeuvres de Descartes, publiées par Victor Cousin.

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