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Gassendi, Opera omnia. 4 Bde.
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Gassendi, P. Opera omnia. 6 in 4 Bdn. Lyon, Anisson & Devenet, 1658. Fol. (35,5:24,5 cm). Mit 1 gest. Porträt, 1 Kupfertaf. (Epitaph), 1 ganzs. Textkupf. u. vielen schemat. Textholzschn. Ldr. d. Zt., etwas bestoßen, Gelenke teilw. eingerissen.
Houzeau-L. 3404 (mit Verzeichnis der astronomischen Schriften); Krivatsy 4572; Poggendorff I, 849; DSB V, 289; Hirsch-H. II, 693. - Erste Gesamtausgabe. "Einer der bedeutendsten Physiker seiner Zeit" (H.-H.). "Gassendi's 'Opera omnia' was published in six volumes by his friends in Lyons (1658), according to a plan he had established himself. The first two volumes contain the 'Syntagma'; the third, a series of scientific works; the fourth, the astronomical lectures and observations; the fifth, the 'Lives of Astronomers' and Epicurean works, as well as the 'Life of Peiresc'; and the sixth, the Latin correspondence he had selected to preserve" (DSB). - Etwas gebräunt u. stockfleckig; Titel mit Namenszug; Bd. 3 teilw. wasserrandig.
6 vols. bound in 4. First collected edition (for contents see above), with engraved portrait, 1 plate, 1 full-page engraving and numerous woodcut diagrams in text. - Some browning and foxing; ownership inscription to titles; partly waterstained to vol. 3. Contemporary calf, partly worn, tear to joints.
