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[DESCARTES, René (1596-1650), subject]. [DANIEL, Gabriel (1649-1728)]. Voiage du Monde de Descartes. Paris: Simon Be'nard, 1691. 12mo. Illustrated throughout with intertextual woodcuts. [xvi], 1-308 pp. Bound in contemporary full calf, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, four raised bands, brown gilt morocco lettering label, gilt board edges (front joint cracked, binding worn at edges, some soiling, boards with repairs near spine headcap, front hinge reinforced, rear hinge starting, some toning, foxing in text, a few text leaves trimmed a bit close at top). Good. With the armorial bookplate of Henry, Duke of Kent, dated 1733, on the fp. SECOND EDITION OF THIS IMAGINARY VOYAGE AROUND DESCARTES' VISION OF THE UNIVERSE, SATIRIZING CARTESIAN PHILOSOPHY. "One of the earliest interplanetaries of all, based on the theories of Descartes; Spirit voyages to the Moon, peopled by those passed on from their lives on Earth, and then to a cosmos operated on Cartesian principles. Most of the latter part of the book is in the form of an illustrated dissertation." (Locke, Voyages in Space.)
