Lot n° 369
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CUREAU DE LA CHAMBRE, Marin - The Characters of the Passions - Lot 369
CUREAU DE LA CHAMBRE, Marin - The Characters of the Passions. Volume III. Où il est traitté de la nature et des effets de la Haine - Volume IV. Where the nature and effects of Pain are discussed. Last volume. Où il est traitté de la nature, des causes et des effects des Larmes, de la Crainte, du Désespoir. Paris, P. Rocolet, Jacques d'Allin, 1659-1659-1662. 3 vols. in-4, (4) ff, 301 pp, (1) f. (Advis au lecteur du traité sur la douleur); (1) f., 336 pp, (1) f., damp stains on lower margin and sometimes text, some light spotting; (3) ff, 544 pp. and (1) f., some yellowing and light spotting, contemporary granulated stockings, ribbed spine decorated with gilt thread, rubbed and spotted, two corners dull.
First edition of volumes III, IV and V (last). Volumes I and II appeared in 1640 and 1645. Best-known work by Cureau de la Chambre (1594-1669) physician to Louis XIII and Louis XIV, and one of the fifteen founding members of the Académie des Sciences (1666). It describes the physiological manifestations of soul movements.
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