Shelfmark
Gb.4.08
Author
Title
Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, & chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus La dioptrique. et Les météores. Qui sont des essais de cete [sic] méthode.
Varying form of title
Other title: Discovrs de la methode
Varying form of title
Added title page title: La dioptrique
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Les météores
Publication, distribution, etc.
A Paris, : Chez Henry le Gras, au troisiesme pilier de la grande Salle, à L. Couronnée., M. DC. LVIII. [1658]
Physical description
78, [2], 294, [26] p. : ill. ; 4to.
Note
Woodcut device on t.p.; initials.
Note
Below t.p. device is printed: 'Iouxte la copie imprimée à Leyde'.
Note
First published in Leiden, 1637.
Note
Includes half-title pages for La dioptrique and Les météores.
Provenance
Booklabel of Nicholas Mann, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
17th century French sprinkled calf; gold tooled decorative roll on board edges; modern rebacking, with portions of original gold tooled spine reattached; red sprinkled edges; five raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Db.5.20.
Subject
Science Methodology.
Subject
Refraction Early works to 1800.
Subject
Meteors Early work to 1800.
Subject
Geometry Early work to 1800.
Added entry--name
Le Gras, Henry, active 1633 - 1661 printer.
Added entry--name
Mann, Nicholas, ? - -1753 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
fre
Identifier
B31305