DESCARTES (René). Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison & chercher la vérité dans les sciences, plus la Dioptrique, les Météores, la Méchanique, la Musique, qui sont des essais de cette méthode. Paris, Charles Angot, 1668. 2 parts in one volume in-4, granite calf, ornate spine, red speckled edges (Binding of the period).
Third edition of the Discours de la méthode, first edition of the Méchanique, and first edition in French of the Musique.
Numerous woodcut diagrams in the text, and musical staves for the Music.
Joints, nerves and spine rebacked, old caissons reapplied. Some quires foxed.
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