DESCARTES, RENÉ. (CARTESIUS). Passiones animae... Gallice ab ipso conscriptae, nunc autem in exterorum gratiam Latina civitate donatae ab H. D. M. I. V. L. [Henri des Marets]. Amsterdam, L. and D. Elzevir, 1654; DESCARTES. Meditationes de prima philosphoia in qubus dei existentia, & animae humanae à corpore distinctio, demonstrantur... Editio ultima... Amsterdam, L. Elzervir, 1654 [with] Appendix, continens obiectiones qvitas & septimas in ... Meditationes de primâ philosophiâ.. Amsterdam L. Elzevir, 1654.
Small 4to, c. 200x159 mm. (binding). (24), 92, (4, index); (12), 191; 164, 86 pp.
Titles with printer's device in woodcut (Athena).
Contemporary paper boards, heavily worn and soiled, lacking spine partly loose in binding.
First work with some dampstaining, some repairs and tears to inside of the upper part of text, also some worming; Meditationes with one leaf with hole with minor text loss, some staining; some slight marginal staining atthe end. All titles with signature of De Verlhac (?).

Willems 1196; 1174. Third edition for the first work, the first edition was published in Amsterdam 1650; Meditationes in second Elzevier edition in quarto format. Contains as Part II the appendix to the Meditationes, edited by Gilbert Voetius, as well as the Epistola as Part III.

Provenance: Collection of John Ingels (1925–2016) and thereafter by descent to the current owner. He acquired an extensive collection of ancient script fragments, manuscripts, and books.