Lettres de Mr Descartes
Subtitle: où sont traittées les plus belles questions de la morale, physique, medecine, et des mathematiques
Contributors: Clerselier, Claude, 1614-1684
Publisher: Chez Charles Angot, ruë S. Iacques, à la Ville de Leyden
Published: 1657
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Correspondence; Medicine; Early works to 1800; Mathematics; Physics; Conduct of life; Refraction; Geometry
Other titles: Lettres de Monsieur Descartes :
Work titles: Correspondence
Notes: Volume 2 was published in 1659 and volume 3 in 1667, each with a variant subtitle (v. 2: "Où sont expliquées plusieurs belles difficultez touchant ses autres ouvrages"; v. 3: "Où il répond à plusieurs difficultez qui luy ont esté proposées sur la dioptrique, la geometrie, & sur plusieurs autres sujets").

Edited by Claude Clerselier.

Title vignettes; head-pieces; initials.

"Avec Privilege Dv Roy."

Errata notes on final leaf of Vols. 1 and 2.

Two, or more, states of the title page exist for Volume I. (1657): "Chez Charles Angot, ruë S. Iacques, à la ville de Leyden" pasted over "Chez Henry Le Gras ... ."

Title page of Health Sciences Library copy of vol. 1 has "Chez Charles Angot ...," pasted over "Chez Henry Le Gras..."

John G. Curtis Library.