Shelfmark
Gc.8.13(01)
Author
Uniform title
[Voyage du monde de Descartes. Latin]
Title
Iter per mundum Cartesii..
Publication, distribution, etc.
Amstelaedami, : Apud Abrahamum Wolfgang., M D C XCIV. [1694]
Physical description
[24], 307, [5] p. : ill. ; 16 cm. (12mo)
Note
Published anonymously. By Gabriel Daniel.
Note
Translation of: Voyage du monde de Descartes.
Note
Refutation of Descartes' theory of vortices.
Note
Signatures: *¹² A-N¹² (N11-N12 blank).
Note
Title page vignette.
Provenance
Bookplates inside front and back covers recording donation by Edward Waddington in 1731.
Binding
18th century Cambridge-style blind-panelled and sprinkled calf binding; gilt fillet along board edges; spine with four raised bands; traces of spine label.
Copy-specific note
Bound with copy of: Daniel, Gabriel. Novae difficultates a peripatetico propositae auctori Itineris per mundum Cartesii circa cognitionem Brutorum. Amsterdam: A. Wolfgang, 1694 (q.v.).
Copy-specific note
Previous Eton shelfmark: Dl.4.4.
Subject
Subject
Science Early works to 1800.
Subject
Astronomy Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Wolfgang, Abraham, fl. 1658 - 1694 printer.
Added entry--name
Waddington, Edward, 1670 or 71 - 1731 former owner.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Amsterdam.
Language code
lat fre
Identifier
B53142