Pardies (Ignace Gaston) & Montanari (Geminiano, transl.) Dell'anima delle bestie, e sue funzioni…, second edition in Italian, small woodcut device on title, lacking H11-12 (blank leaves), light age yellowing, contemporary vellum over boards, ink title to spine, soiled and rubbed, 8vo, Andrea Poletti, Venice, 1694. *** Italian translation of Pardies’ most famous work, the ‘Discourse de la connaissance des bestes’, an argument against the Cartesian mechanistic view of animals. The Italian version had first appeared in 1684 and saw several editions in the following decades.
Pardies (Ignace Gaston) & Montanari (Geminiano, transl.) Dell'anima delle bestie, e sue funzioni…, second edition in Italian, small woodcut device on title, lacking H11-12 (blank leaves), light age yellowing, contemporary vellum over boards, ink title to spine, soiled and rubbed, 8vo, Andrea Poletti, Venice, 1694. *** Italian translation of Pardies’ most famous work, the ‘Discourse de la connaissance des bestes’, an argument against the Cartesian mechanistic view of animals. The Italian version had first appeared in 1684 and saw several editions in the following decades.
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